skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mass and speed are proportional (are they? For sake of tve argument, mass begets gravity begets accelleration). But the masses don't want massive bulks of data. They want quick information. Like, your new phone can show 4k vids whatever, and some even care that that's due to advances in nano materials and quantum optics, but to most, the physical side is uninteresting and something inherently theoretical like black holes, LIGO or LHC is only really mass compatible if broken down to show the kind of action, i.e. research, that is happens on this very planet - time travel, ripples in the fabric of space, or theosophy (god particle), respectively.

The whole quantum mechanics philosophy crossover is a huge messy confusion as a result of this (many worlds shroedingers cat) - and that even affects even many physicists.
Both.

The cost to providing a minimal EU only view (using the inverse of the current "should I block" function) that complies with the GDPR should be near 0.

The benefit, both in terms of advertising revenue, and network affects driving more non-EU viewers, should be high.

It's not plausible to me that an accurate cost-benefit analysis says "don't publish to the EU".

Separately, as journalists I expect them to be willing to spend some amount of effort (and it shouldn't take much) to report as widely as possible, even if a strict cost-benefit analysis suggests they shouldn't.

The fact that they aren't willing to do this brings their motivation, and thus their integrity, into question.
K8S was the second thing I tried (after randomly trying hashicorp/vault). It took about a minute to load on my Toshiba CB30, but it actually worked! Rotated at 0.3 FPS though.
GDPR discussion aside, this seems like an example of something I've been thinking about: why are we (societally etc) okay with ads that have basically nothing to do with the product?
This made me laugh a lot.. it seems like the icon for Fallout Shelter was changed to look more like the others. They wrote in the patch notes:

"Vault-Tec has noticed many overseers prefer game icons with faces screaming to the right. In an effort to raise your enjoyment and thoughtlessly blend in with the crowd, we’ve updated for a limited time. You’re welcome!"

(this is from a Reddit comment)
you should put these together as a blog post
Also less of a sentence than purposely infecting others with aids in California.
Please do not conflate GPS with navigation. There is a massive set of problems you can solve with high fidelity GPS Data (Uber knows it is a driver in a car, verifies it with another GPS entity (rider app reports GPS also), etc). There is not that much overlap between great GPS data and great maps - no amount of great GPS data will give you a good basemap. Please let me know if I am not making sense, I am more than happy to provide examples / explain further!
there are couple things come to mind in that context - that story of Iran MITM-ing HTTPS using a small CA they either hacked and/or acquired and Siemens spying software/hardware at Iran's telcos.
I'm not GP, but it looks like the more burdensome things are on pages 26-33, and they are too lengthy to post here. I can see compliance costing significant sums that would be out of reach to a typical startup.
Last night of the SFRTs
I think it would be a pretty horrible thing if all these once free internet services suddenly cost money. Nobody seems to be thinking about the significant amount of people who wouldn't be able to afford monthly subscriptions to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. even if it did all add up to "only" $15/month. Poor people should not be priced out of the online spaces where modern discourse happens. Single mothers should not be priced out of getting to post baby pictures on Facebook. I think it's indicative of living in bubbles that nobody else seems to be giving this consideration any weight.
I fail to see how "we" are forgetting. I also fail to see how "something similar could strike again" is news, since it's a recurrent -scary- topic every flu season.

The 1918 flu outbreak is regularly in the news, especially when the flu season is about to start, and there have been some serious worries about a possible similar nasty flu version in the last past years.

Just last week, I read an article in a magazine about it. Among other things, it explained that the origin of the flu was probably not Spain, but they were "scapegoated" because nobody wanted to be held "responsible" for it.
I don't know her personally, but I've followed her for a while and I've never heard her mention anything of the sort. Also, the author didn't mention anything about her work with augmented reality, I guess it didn't fit the narrative. To be fair though, I only read the first 1/4 and skimmed the rest b/c I couldn't stand the robot uprising slant. Can't she just like cool old tech without being a cyberpunk pepper?

If you're interested, she has done some excellent interviews on the amp hour podcast.
The episode referencing her semiconductor making experiments:
https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-52-carnassial-chip-chemi...
All episodes:
https://theamphour.com/?s=jeri

(edit: copy/paste error)
That's cool, yeah. Must've seen some interesting coding practices in that code base
As long as it's non-transferable.
Thing is, C and C++ aren't the only language with those capabilities, e.g. CPU for data processing.

What to live on the danger zone and disable bounds checking on e.g. Turbo Pascal?

Surround the critical performance code path with {$R-} and {$R+}, while enjoying safe bounds checking everywhere else.
wgerard, you rule, Thanks for the detailed feedback! I fixed a few things this morning, mainly being able to delete expenses and typos for now.
Chrome stores them in sqlite as well. AFAIK on windows if running as the same user you just need to call CryptUnprotectData. No password needed.

http://raidersec.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-browsers-store-you...
But now that she's on the internet the robots will know to find her after the uprising.
The plain language of the law says that your interpretation is not correct. The criminal provisions apply to companies with over $1 billion in revenue or those those that have 1M or more users. That would expose a much larger range of independent developers to decades in prison.
> The fact that one cannot be bothered to serve their bytes, at basically marginal network cost (and some fixed one-time investment) to hundreds of millions of potential additional readers shows bad business judgement and poor leadership.

The LA Times makes money from subscriptions. How many EU citizens do you think would purchase LA Times subscriptions if the site complied with the GDPR?
Seems a funny thing to moralise over. Is it a problem?
Nobody wants to pay upfront. This is antithetical to what customers prefer.
eg crashing it can take the task bar down too

The taskbar is managed by Explorer.
Using 'Googled' Images Can Result in License Demands and Legal Threats
More Confusing Science of the Embassy “Sonic Attack”
Thanks :)

You're right, I forgot to mention it. But it's there! As someone with a background in motion recognition I thought it'd be a great addition, even if the use cases aren't clear yet. Ends up being less than a dollar extra to the BOM.

Regarding contact info - we're just holding onto it in a spreadsheet until our next production run is ready, then we'll e-mail to confirm interest, and then ship out the units to the address.

Pretty much anyone is qualified as long as they are either with some existing organization and have a project idea, or they're a developer/academic and can describe their project briefly. Basically we just don't want to give them out to anyone who doesn't show any intent to use it.
There are people like that, but they tend not to amass enough capital to make any major impact because it's very hard to make money ethically. Also, they're not looking for recognition so they engage in very little self-promotion.
They’re a local paper. They cover 100% of their market already.
> are the chief executive officer, the chief privacy officer, and the chief information security officer.

So what you are saying is companies should make sure not to have the latter two positions?

A CEO gets paid enough they can handle the risk, but the other two positions don't make nearly enough to exist in the face of risk like this.
Show HN: L2 – An untyped, unsafe, and unhygienic programming language
The Tyranny of the Top Five Journals
The usual excuse for advertising being morally acceptable is that it informs potential customers about the product. If it has nothing to do with the product then its only possible purpose is deception.
> To make money?

The fact that they aren't doing it is a god signal that those users aren't worth the cost.

You can't pass regulation and then complain that companies don't want to do business with you.

So why should they?
Could you be specific about any of the "burdensome" requirements? You don't need to post all of them; I've read the same draft you have.
That seems to be an entirely incorrect interpretation. Any app with more than 1 million users would fall under this law. You're simply reading it wrong, as the OP of this thread initially did. Any entity with personal information - as that term is (very broadly) defined in this document - on more than 1 million or more users is fully exposed to its civil and criminal penalties. This includes developers that just get lucky and get 1 million or more installs, and who have no way to pay for compliance.
A boycott of a country with a government and military killing unarmed protesters and carrying out other human rights violations?

I don't know that this exchange is going places right now... For something positive, I appreciate all you all are doing with the Great Slate.
What do they do when some EU citizen decides to sue to be forgotten for some misdeed?

A big newspaper has a target on its back for GDPR trouble, and they have enough trouble already. Blocking access is the pragmatic answer — most other organizations are just ignoring it.
Especially if you want to support Unicode the idea of "case-insensitive" becomes an absurdly complex mess, and I believe it's even lead to some security vulnerabilities (filename filtering, for example, now requires special Unicode-aware comparison.) It's good that it stays out of the filesystem.
It's well known that acts of God cause much less long term stress in people than acts of people.

The flu was an act of God, and people easily moved on, unlike the other deaths mentioned there.
'cause that wouldn't be hacking ;))

kidding aside, this could be run from a USB key, automatically, in a very stealthy way. so yeah, worse.
> it seems like none of the "modern" web frameworks fit such a simple use case

Why is that? To me it looks like Django or Ruby On Rails would fit the bill perfectly.

The only things you'd need to do by yourself is the searching & filtering (possibly integrate with ElasticSearch since conventional databases aren't really good at search, especially not full-text search where you want a certain fuzziness to account for typos).

Authentication comes for free thanks to the framework, and Django even gives you the admin-side for free so you have a basic CRUD interface for adding/deleting products.
I confirm: the syntax is limited. There are only a few keywords and langage constructs. The power is in the number of functions made available, or the ones you create for yourself.
Mods, please change link to this source.
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We're back to square one. If it's outside the program you've already lost precision.
That is not quite accurate. There was a war in progress at the time and news media was heavily censored. Spain was a neutral and did not censor their press. The Spanish press reported the early ravages of the illness while this news was censored in other countries; by the time it could no longer be hidden by the war powers it was already associated with Spain because that is where it was first reported. It was not about scapegoating or blame, just a consequence of how the public learned about the disease.
It's not a native application. It's an Electron app. By the way it doesn't ask for an elevated permission.
Internet tax
> what are they doing that is likely to be in violation of some (relatively mundane, tbf) privacy regulations.

Why should they even bother spending resources understanding those regulations?

The decision is pretty straightforward for them. Don't like it? Go complain with the regulators.
> On the Internet, nobody cares where you are located.

The EU cares.
Sorry, but I can't understand why should I use this app instead of saving notes in a source code?
This is a good point, and still is the primary challenge I face when working. Programming in most jobs that I experienced (and most programming jobs in general, from what I gather) isn't that hard - gluing libs together, churning out CRUD, working around bugs of the libs you glued together, and occasionally writing something that actually uses some of the undergrad-level knowledge. But the logistics are still a PITA. Where do you deploy code? How do you deploy code? Where are the dependencies stored and when/how they update? Why that $&!@ Maven config broke, and how come none of the seniors in the team, including the boss himself, know how it works? These days, I can't feel comfortable around the project unless I know the answers to those questions. The codebase itself is much easier.
To me, it's the end game for consumerism. The products themselves just get in the way -- the feeling is what you really want to have.

It's not new, I think. Just perhaps a little more blatant, and for more companies, than previously.
No, I think you're confused. Having 1MM users makes you a "Covered Entity" in this draft. But "Covered Entities" aren't required to file data protection reports to the FTC until they make $1B in revenue or have 50MM users.† And, again: the "decades of imprisonment" 'downandout is talking about refers only to the crime of deliberately misreporting those data protection reports. It is not the case that any failure to comply with this law has prison time attached.

Happy to be wrong about this; if I am, please offer a cite.

† Sec 5. (a) (1)
No. I responded to this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18377585
I just tried it on Windows 10, and the error message is:

This file name is reserved for use by Windows. Choose another name and try again.

So at least that has been fixed.
Bizzard manipulating dislikes for damage control in YouTube [video]
There are natural burials available in most states in the continental US, and if I can arrange it for myself, I will (once you are married, it is no longer a one person decision).

I'm not a purist, and think a rough-hewn headstone makes sense to me, but I can't imagine that a natural burial somewhere many miles outside of town would be a contamination risk.
If an advert doesn’t mention the product it seems very hard to say that it’s deveiving you about what the product will do, doesn’t it?
Also, this bit:

(->> justice-league
(map #(:vehicles %))
(filter #(not (nil? %)))
(flatten))

can be simplified to just `(mapcat :vehicles justice-league)`
Currently the price we all collectively pay for these “free” services is a decrease in the sanity of public discourse. Is that really a better option?
I use outline.com to get past these attempts to block the EU:

https://outline.com/BF9AaC

It almost always works. As does archive.is, if you want to see more of the page's original layout.
less explosive req'd
Subscriptions is the end-result. To get there you need many things: brand, reputation, good crawling, incoming links from authoritative sites. All of these are predicated on the idea of a global Internet.

If webmasters in Europe stop linking to you, Americans traveling in EU lose your trust, and EU-hosted search engine crawlers figure you don't exist, then you start to have some problems.

A good businessman is able to change its assumptions when the world around him changes. In 1980, it might have made sense to limit your newspaper audience in the area where you lived. In 2010+, due to the Internet, the main cost of a newspaper consists in the work performed by the writer to produce the actual content. When the world around you gives you basically free infrastructure to send those bytes to another continent against a one-time investment of assessing and fixing your site for compliance, you just don't say no.
The iconic "1984" Apple ad was about as abstract as anything on today's screens. It did tell users about the product, indirectly, by telling them about the values of the Apple brand and company.

And I'd much prefer to watch that than the harrowing "Head-On: Apply directly to the forehead" commercial.
A password manager doesn't protect your cookies. Most authentication cookies aren't bound to an IP address.

If someone is running arbitrary code on your machine, they can probably use a keylogger to steal master passwords or do other nefarious things.
I would say it can be because it makes ads manipulative. Think for example of the Axe ads that try to tell people that the deodorant will turn them into attractive romantic partners, I don't think that's very likely.

Advertisement in a good sense increases the information a consumer has about a product, and would help a consumer make a more accurate choice. Advertisement that just plays to the lizard part of our brains accomplishes the opposite.

The entire advertisement industry is basically a hundreds of billions dollar experiment on how to reshape human attention. If a group of scientists or a government would run an experiment of that size on the human cognition, people would probably be very concerned.
Why More People Are Choosing Unique Children's Names
the worst worldview test i've ever seen
> Separately, as journalists I expect them to be willing to spend some amount of effort (and it shouldn't take much) to report as widely as possible, even if a strict cost-benefit analysis suggests they shouldn't.

> The fact that they aren't willing to do this brings their motivation, and thus their integrity, into question.

Newspapers are businesses. If they don't make enough money they will have to close down, and then nobody gets to read their journalism anymore. So cost-benefit analyses cannot be avoided.
where do you think profit comes from? The excess value generated by employees is extracted by the owners of the business.
Doesn't Clojure have reader macros? The whole point of lisps is that you can extend them.
Can you please clarify or define what you meant by "in production"?
This is from last day of GEnie’s Science Fiction RoundTable. The service was shut down in 1999: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEnie

I had no connection to the community but found reading this oddly fascinating. An online community’s last few hours is a really interesting storytelling device
Flappy Bird might have a million customers but he could opt to not collect information on those users. If Apple/Google had the information that is their issue, not that of the app developer.
I am sympathetic to the BDS movement! I'm just saying, you're suggesting that commercial entities could use commercial coercion against Electric Intifada, which is itself an organization that enthusiastically seeks to use commercial coercion against supporters of Israel.

Like, I think, most people, I'm a believer in boycotts. You bring the pressure you have to bear on the causes you believe in, and the most potent pressure most people have at their disposal is commercial. It's also itself a straightforward application of free speech. But, then, that's effectively what's happening to Gab, too. It's (again) not clear to me why anyone who is OK with boycotting would be up in arms about it --- excepting people who are sympathetic to Gab's mission. Let me be clear that there's no subtext that you're one of those people!
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How do lead generation companies work?
The not-programming situation you described is a very typical experience. I'm delighted when I can work for a period of time just "programming", i.e. not trying to solve hard build/dev-environment problems that are blockers, but at the same time unrelated to the actual problem I'm solving. Unfortunately, in some tech, like web and mobile, in my experience, you'll spend a lot of time doing that, which is sad, considering how many people work in that industry and how many work-hours (work-years, -decades?) that makes up.
> - pointers are type checked, not sure what you mean here

They weren't here with Borland. Maybe it was one of the many optional compiler switches, so I'll take that back.

> No macros is plus, the large majority at ISO C++ is creating safer alternatives for each use case

That's just wrong. Learn how to use the tool and use it when it makes sense. There are a LOT of situations where the easiest for maintainability by far is to abstract at the syntactic level. The Rust guys acknowledge this as well. Even the Haskell compiler (GHC) has a C-style preprocessor built-in. For example, I use macros for data definitions, to create identifiers, to create strings from identifiers, to automatically insert additional function call arguments like size information or source code location...

> that extra mile

You mean 100x - 1000x in speed?

> Thing is, for 99% of most applications that is largely unnecessary.

Your initial comment was explicitly about performance. And I disagree that 99% of applications should accept a 100x - 1000x decrease in speed (and harder maintenance by far, if you ask me!) (corollary: less purity and joy in programming, by far), or even a 10x for that matter, just to get some more safety. I mean, safety is nice and all, but it's not all the reasons why I'm doing this. YMMV.

EDIT: I now understand that you mean "99% of most applications", while I read it "99% of (or most) applications". I disagree with the implicit statement that you should write 99% in a "safe" language and the rest in a systems language. It is well known that you can never easily know where the bottleneck is or where the next will be. And it is well known that it is very laborious to accomodate multiple languages, or incompatible code styles, in a single project. (I've also heard some negative stories about integrated scripting languages, for example from the games industry, but I don't work there...)

And in the end, speed is actually not the primary reason why I prefer C...
One of the screenshots doesn’t resize properly down to mobile. FYI.
When you want to learn and use the simple abstractions that are just the other side of complexity that generalize the problem you are working on and its solution, what do you do? Do you hope for one?
> rational thought seldom results in a position that unfairly favors one group over another

This strikes me as so absurd, I can't fully wrap my head around it. Instead, I'll just give counter examples.

In politics, rational thought often favors the majority over the minority. Almost everyone ends up as the unfavored minority for a few issues.

Rational thought is also incredibly subjective. A Marxist's reason is wildly different from a capitalist's, and there is no objective or rational way to say who is correct. It boils down to morality.
huge middle finger the americans traveling abroad demographic? daffaq?

I want to see a PO justify resources for that epic. lol
Can I know your tech stack?
IRL peer influence is really hard to manufacture.

Now, don't get me wrong. Selling cigarettes or other things through influencers, social network ad campaigns and social network campaigns work for some products. Elections ? I'd like to see the numbers and I'd be happy (and scared) to change my opinion.
The comments in these links are downright tame compared to r/diablo right now, while the stakes are way higher. The decisions of tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Apple have real, tangible impacts on our careers.

Diablo is just a goddamn video game.