skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I understand (as mentioned, IANAL) having the database itself is lawful, as they're compiling it to comply with a legal requirement, but under GDPR, that still wouldn't stop from having to comply with GDPR and the rights (including knowing if a subject is in the database):

http://lexindicium.com/2018/03/19/data-mining-and-gdpr-compl...

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

Right to:

information about the processing of your personal data;

obtain access to the personal data held about you;

ask for incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete personal data to be corrected;

request that personal data be erased when it’s no longer needed or if processing it is unlawful;

object to the processing of your personal data for marketing purposes or on grounds relating to your particular situation;

request the restriction of the processing of your personal data in specific cases;

receive your personal data in a machine-readable format and send it to another controller (‘data portability’);

request that decisions based on automated processing concerning you or significantly affecting you and based on your personal data are made by natural persons, not only by computers. You also have the right in this case to express your point of view and to contest the decision.

In particular, the clauses about access to personal data and to have decisions being made by a natural person seem relevant here.
It isn't a column. It's where the mixed content and other flags are (The vertical strip of 3 dots).

You can use the "*" scope and enable "Forbid web workers".

Be warned that this will break Google's captcha.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19242191.
“Why are you trying to force everyone to invest in gold for some reason, instead of whatever they want, through a neutral medium of exchange?”

We are working with wildly different definitions of “forcing” — the market (millions of people acting voluntarily over thousands of years) settled on gold at the world’s medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account (aka money). Governments using coercion made it illegal to transact with gold as money.

Explain how this is me “forcing” people to invest in gold?

The history is exactly opposite of your claim, governments have forced people to use fiat. If it were otherwise, it would be legal to use gold as money, which it is not.
In regards to the Anderson Cooper thing: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anderson-cooper-hurricane/.

He also did an on-air segment with the full footage: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/1....

Not to say that CNN is not often wrong, but this is a meme that isn't true.
U.S. Wage Growth Is 'Higher Than We Think,' Fed Researchers Say
Seems like generating power to feed to a heat pump would still be more efficient, despite electrical losses, considering that good heat pumps can be 3x more efficient than friction/resistive heating.
Agreed. There's a huge difference between mathematical beauty in theoretical physics and in economics, the latter not really being on the radar in modern math. The author is conflating mathematical beauty with the "fancy math" effect of being able to easily publish papers in fields that aren't very mathematical just by having equations as part of the analysis. It's not like economists have found some amazingly beautiful theory (by modern math standards), they just use math to promote/legitimize their work.
Steam-powered spacecraft could jump-start asteroid exploration
Part of the problem is that, especially with an illness with as complicated a treatment process as many cancers, there's no way to even estimate the expenses. Even once you get treatment, the expenses might not be accessible until the bill comes in and you find out what your insurance company will pay for.

After that, there's a sunk cost issue: once you've dropped (N*your current net worth) on treatment, what's the harm in continuing?
Traefik is deployed for layer-7 ingress.
Whatever flaws PulseAudio has had configurability and lack of features was so far as I know not really one of its flaws.
My point isn't about whether sustained 100 hr weeks are sustainable, it's about whether 100 hr weeks introduce a level of risk that is dangerous for what they're working on. It's not a question of motivation, it's a question of physiology. Either they're working sleep deprived, or they're getting less than two waking hours off work per day. Either of those would contribute quite a bit to a mental state that is more likely to make errors.
What kind of value are you looking to achieve?

My strategy started by being kind on Twitter in my target community. Those interactions led me to target conferences to attend, and from there I aimed to build content with people (side projects on GitHub or podcasts) which have added up to something of value. I now feel good about my extended network without being internet famous to really any degree, which works for me. What's your goal?
Granted I don't have hard data on the "ph" fact, the source is pretty credible in my opinion. The fact appeared in an article written for the British Council, co-authored by Martha Peraki, a Linguistics PhD recipient from American University.

Heuristically, the "rule" passes the eyeball test: philosophy, physical, photo, phrase, philanthropy, phobia, phage, phalange, phalanx, phallic, phase, pharmacy, phantom, phenomenon, phone, photons, photosynthesis, physician, physique, phytoplankton, so on and so forth

The overwhelming majority of these words are greek transliterations https://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-that-start-with-ph

(in fact I am having a hard time finding even one word that isn't -- i think "phreak" is the only one I can find)
Maybe it was a pharma exec?
Qt is well maintained and got a lot of new modern parts, like a well integrated web view widget with the full blown WebKit engine, QML/a JavaScript engine, of course support for mobile platforms and for instance a novel more pythonic Python binding.
IANAL. Speculation follows.

It's a Federal district judge. I don't think this decision means anything yet. The Selective Service can certainly appeal this to the circuit court, and if they lose there, to the Supreme Court.

But the Selective Service might not want to appeal it. (My analysis of their motivations: Twice as many people if we need them. But twice as much paperwork even if we don't.) They might just carry this out. At that point, somebody (outside the Southern District of Texas) is going to sue to stop this, and this decision won't be binding precedent. That appeal can also go all the way to the Supreme Court.

I suspect that someone on each side will keep suing until the Supreme Court finally rules on this. I suspect that will be five to ten years.
Better idea:

To move Chrome development to some non-commercial "free world" institution. Like UN for example.

That's the only option to have a) security first and b) free browser.

No other options for free browser. Web client stack is so complex that to finance its development it should be a company that gets income from each browser instance installed. How they do that is a rhetoric question I think.
Wow! Your textbook looks phenomenal. Eyeballing the table of contents and a few chapters, this arrangement of material looks exactly like what I'm advocating throughout this thread. Gaussian elimination and systems of linear equations before vector spaces, a coverage of fields in tandem with vector spaces, some treatment of sets and functions in appendices, generous usage of matrices to supplement theory...

And you include solutions for your exercises? This is fantastic! Do you have any plans to write something like this for functional analysis?
It’s odd your comment is in gray. In my experience, Windows 10 (Pro) works fine, as long as you don’t go looking for crazy (cause you’ll find it of course).

It’s like those people running custom Linux kernels complaining about IO latency on their standard laptop running Firefox. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Maybe because FF started optimizing for asm.js earlier? Just an ignorant guess.
“I just run my own VPN from a $5/month DigitalOcean droplet”

Good call IMHO. That’s what I would do as well if I felt the need to use a VPN.
Yea, that difference isn't relevant here, and your second sentence is not an example of the first. We know the encryption works but nothing about blockchain/bitcoin incentivizes anyone to operate predictably.

Humans are soft, irrational and messy in interactions. This isn't compatible with the perfectly technical math-based operations of bitcoin as a currency, and that's after they choose to trust it in the first place.
Let your engineers choose the license: A guide
Effects of Psilocybin on Empathy, Creative Thinking, and Subjective Well-Being
That’s odd but the updates are pretty easy to disable. Or at least choose when they happen.
I am the boy referenced in this letter, and while my first reaction was that I wished my private correspondence with Betyltah had not been shared with the world, I am admittedly surprised how close the article comes to interpreting what happened between her and me.
"Error Could not access the resources needed to display output. This is probably because third-party cookies are not allowed by your browser. SecurityError: The operation is insecure."

You know what doesn't throw errors whenever I just try to look at it? Products like Jupyter notebooks - stuff not made by google. I believe Colab is a using dark patterns to discourage blocking 3rd party cookies by subtly breaking what should render as a simple non interactive webpage to passive viewers.

To me, at least, Google and their dark patterns are considered harmful.
Rediscovered Paintings and an Art-World Feud
Yeah that is a pain in the ass. I don't understand why macOS updates take so long. My guess is it also updates the recovery partition as well?

It is the same with a macOS clean install though. Windows 10 takes like 4-5 minutes to do the copying files stuff on an NVMe SSD then another 2 minutes for the "setting up devices" but you can be in the post-install setup bit in under 10 minutes on a decent machine. macOS takes like 30 minutes and the drives in the MacBook Pro are stupidly fast so I just don't understand wtf it is doing.
India has nearly 250 SU-30’s which at least they have a chance who in the world would’ve ordered Mig 21’s to scramble against western jets after seeing how Soviet and Arab pilots faired in them against the Israelis in Mirages, F4s and F15/16s between 1967 and 1981?
How do you prevent abuse of this tool?
Yes, totally agreed. I have given Firefox a try several times over the past year, but always came back to Chrome because of Dev Tools.
Sure, maybe for a random target. Maybe for a targeted attack the criminal knows more money is coming in and doesn't want to tip his hand yet. Who knows... that's the point of not speculating.
Shouldn't we see if GDPR actually starts preventing these leaks before declaring it a success? I'd imagine it being a 'success' is a predicate on it being useful right?

Not just punishing the small percentage who get 'caught' while doing nothing to actually help the problem - ala the drug war. And for everyone who thinks it's just big evil companies who get punished, one of the first GDPR fines was $4k against an Austrian small business owner whose video surveillance around his building was deemed too broad it violated peoples privacy.

I'm not declaring GDPR a failure by any means but all policy must be judged on a long-term full-picture basis. Not simply on "good intentions" of the bill + a few high visibility wins early on, then moving on as if the world is a better place.
One of the main benefits of the water brake system is the storage of heat. With a sufficiently large insulated tank, you can retain head for days to weeks when the wind subsides. The water brake gives you a little more insurance compared to electricity generation for an off-grid solution.
I know of a company, called Security Innovation, that tried this in 2002. It went very badly at times. They added training and pen testing, and today they bring in just $20 million per year.

They opened an office in Seattle to fuzz for Microsoft. As soon as they proved that they could succeed, Microsoft hired away all the people, leaving the company with a lease for an empty office.

Generally, companies don't trust outsiders and/or don't see a need. You're up against internal politics too. People within the company don't want to compete with you and don't want to be embarrassed by you.
My guess is HN users are more likely to have company issued machines with fairly aggressive update policies, making this pain point all the more obvious to them.
Note that this announcement is about Shockwave, not Flash. Here is an article about the difference between the two: https://medium.com/@nosamu/the-difference-between-flash-and-...
While Shockwave Player will be discontinued on April 9, Flash Player will be discontinued at the end of 2020: https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms vs. Harry Potter (2014)
It is nice to see people working on making software smaller!

It leaves me wondering though, what is Kubernetes doing with all of these resources? When I saw "lightweight" in the title I expected 5.12MB of RAM, not 512MB.
I’ve twice lost my WSL Ubuntu installation after an update. Poof, just gone after the reboot. Has anyone else experienced this? (Win 10 Home)
Ask HN: Delivery guy is a chemist with 2 teenage kids. Can this happen to me?
As I was schlepping boxes with a man 15 years my senior from curbside up to my unit for a $25 tip, we were talking about how back at UofA he developed a 5 carbon ring synthesis method that uses free radicals to protect functional groups. He told me of his kids one finished grade 12 math in grade 10. How is this possible, in fact common, that the lowest paid people in society often have advanced degrees? I'm terrified that I'm going to end up the same way.
Read the second paragraph of the article and find out!
totally agree. There's one thing that safari has and (afaik) noone else: you can visually inspect all canvas elements on the site even if they are offscreen
AFAIK ProtonVPN’s offering is based on OpenVPN and I just don’t see the benefit of using that protocol when a more modern alternative is available (i.e. Wireguard). The fact that ProtonVPN is located in Switzerland is not a selling point that matters to me, YMMV.
This is an often under-appreciated part of planning: ask people what frustrates them, and they will tell you.

So many things are dropped in from a birds' eye view without actually asking people what their problems are, and then people are shocked when it doesn't solve anything.
There certainly is a danger of monopolization with chrome garnering an overwhelming majority of user share. However, I'm yet to see the negative in testing with chrome and shipping (assuming you're only using W3C APIs), as most of the time, chrome is fully compliant with W3C, and other browsers simply aren't. Apple is the worst, most guilty of the others, that purposefully cripples iOS Safari to goad users and developers towards the app store. Microsoft probably intended to be fully W3C compliant with Edge, but for whatever reason, they always lagged. And with Mozilla/Firefox, it's always an obtuse, unreasonable argument when they don't comply, they claim it to be in the best interest of the open web, but it is usually a philosophical, more than technical opposition.
Apart from Gauss elimination, I think eigenvalues, eigenvectors, scalar product, orthogonal subspaces, and the relation to statistics are important. Statistics associated with SVD, principal components and other topics are a main source of insights. Also Fourier basis is an important concept far beyond Gauss elimination.
The Cloud is just another Sun
Let me put it this way. If he goes on twitter and lies, then he can get in massive trouble but I don't think this agreement applies. This specific agreement is about him releasing actual information.

I don't consider lies to be "material information".

So in this case he was quoting public info, and he was misleading.

The agreement only cares about the first half of that sentence, and there are reasonable arguments in either direction about whether a quote of public info violates the agreement.

Then we come to the "misleading" part. Maybe he gets in trouble but I think using the agreement for that is barking up the wrong tree. Also people should expect tweets to have sloppy phrasing.
I think it got killed by politics.
True, good idea.
Of course it won’t. During the draft, mostly the poor and minorities get drafted. The decision makers don’t care about the people who get drafted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/vietnam-draft.htm...
Pachyderm Raised $10M and Is Looking for a Enterprise UI Designer
http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/linenoise

I've tried to keep it decoupled from TXR internals, and to abstract it from the OS a bit, so there is a considerable "struct lino_os" interface now.

There is a dependency on a "config.h" which provides some HAVE_* constants.

There is a user guide to the REPL in the TXR Lisp manual; that provides context for some of new interfaces, like what is the lino_set_atom_cb function for.

http://nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-025AAA27
Yeah it's not like they couldn't have the best of both worlds. It's like they heard the backlash over the wild battle system and threw out the whole lot instead of considering which parts really work.
I love my Subaru BRZ!

I want a Tesla Roadster for my next car, but that $200k price tag is hard to swallow. If they could produce a $120k model with a 300 mile range and 0-60 in around 3 seconds rather than a 620 mile range with 0-60 in 1.9 seconds, I'd buy it.

But really if anybody else came up with a small, sporty, EV coupe, I'd consider it. The Model S P100D is a quick car, but way too big. Even the smaller Model 3 is bigger than what I'd like.
I vaguely remember all of those things as separate phases.
- Moving away from IE, I fell in love with Opera (lots of built-in features), most others with Firefox
- Chrome comes in, it's Google, it's lightweight, people try it and like it
- Chrome gets really fast, it appeals to even more people
- Meanwhile, Firefox has enough extension power to replace Opera for me (who can live with the tabs BELOW address bar or without mouse gestures?)
- Chrome implements the aforementioned technical stuff (separate processes, etc.), appealing to power users (this may have happened before speed improvements or at the same time)
- Chrome finally gets extensions and I start using it personally, but it's impossible to be a web dev without Firefox+Firebug. (IE6 still sucks, but combined with Visual Studio, feels superb for JS debugging)
- Chrome's dev tools gradually get better at everything. I start living in Chrome.

... years later ...

- A year ago I often used Firefox for its great Canvas debugger. They broke it. I've since forgotten about Firefox.

... 2019 ...

- Microsoft is trying to drive people away from IE, hoping for Edge adoption. I don't care for Firefox. Opera is almost Chrome with extensions. Edge sounds like it wants to be Chrome. Chrome won on most battlefronts. I don't like that fact, because of the "free from corporate greed" reasons mentioned, but it's going to be hard to change the status quo.
> I've somewhat tried using tools like Everything [0] but never given them more than a few tries before uninstalling. Maybe I should do it again.

I've tried a bunch of stuff too, and even bought one (Listary), but from a muscle memory perspective, nothing beats hitting the Windows key with my pinky. I guess I could remap the Windows key, but I think that would have too many negative side effects.

I was on Mac as my daily driver for about a decade (but have no desire to go back), and Spotlight worked great as a launcher.
I'm curious (genuine curiosity, not meant sarcastic), why is Firefox only now switching to CoreAnimation? AFAIK CoreAnimation has been around since Leopard which makes it nearly 12 year old, which is positively ancient in the tech world.

Also, coincidentally, do you know what exactly causes the H264 problem on macOS? I've tried to track it down in bugzilla to no success, but I am 100% sure it is a bug. The energy impact for playing a H264 YouTube video in Safari has an energy impact of ~25. Firefox used to be ~60, but these days its ~180 (!)

> In the meantime, setting gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque to true in about:config helps battery life significantly, at the cost of rounded corners and vibrancy.

Thanks for this! :)
We ditched our gas and have an air to water heat pump, costed around €6000 ex subsidies (I live in Amsterdam so not the coldest weather, we also have solar thermal and PV).

However air to water heat pumps are also applicable in cold climates. If you're interested here is an example datasheet[1] of an air to water heat pump (2018) (using Celsius here):

Mitsubishi PUHZ-SHW112YAA Guaranteed operating range (outdoor): Heating: -28 to +21
Domestic hot water: -28 to +35

On page 108 you can find the actual co-efficient of performance (COP) for different outside temperatures and inside water heating temperatures. As an example: at -10 and an water temperature for heating at 25 you still get a COP of 3+. That means that 100% electricity moves 300% of heat into your house.

[1]: https://www.mitsubishi-les.info/database/servicemanual/files...
So this whole article was, roughly speaking, like attempting to interpret the meaning of a scrap of paper used in a game of Pictionary, given only that piece of paper?
Foreign countries had lack of men too.
VS Code Extension: Hue – Bringing your development experience to a new level
I wouldn't use a VC-backed, for-profit company for anything privacy related. Selling users out behind the scenes to advertisers and TLA's is an easy way to get money. Better to get hosting in a jurisdiction without police-state-style activities, with privacy protections, and/or from a nonprofit or public-benefit organization incentivized to look after users. A for-profit, non-VC company with long history of steady, honest business is also a decent option if you can't find/afford/use safer jurisdictions. Prgmr.com is an example of the last one from what I've observed.
We all start somewhere! One of the beauties of math is it’s hierarchical structure. Once you figure out where you’re at, it’s just a matter of progressing further up the hierarchy of abstraction (spoken by someone who has only made it to Calculus in the hierarchy)
I feel a bit bad for saying this, but I don't think the interactive visualizations here really contribute very much. Yes, you can move the vectors, but the point is already made by the static picture.

Similarly, you can already traverse, not only a single math book in a non-linear order, but any number of different books and other sources concurrently, and this is how everyone I know of already learns. Many textbooks already have a dependency graph in the beginning showing how you can read the chapters! So every person is already traversing their own personalized "adventure graph" for linear algebra and will be throughout their entire education. It is rather the idea of a totalizing tech solution that will be perfect for everyone that smacks of central planning.
Whenever I read anything about wind turbines I'm reminded of this article. It's a shame the photos are missing at the moment. Maybe Jacques is around somewhere and can restore them.

https://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-build-a-windmill/
Coinhive Cryptojacking Service Will Shut Down Next Week
> Marketing does not only include direct-to-consumer advertising.

The other flavor bribes doctors to overprescribe - it is much worse.
Facebook to release first-party cookie option for ads, pull Safari analytics
Twitter and Starbucks mobile apps are PWAs.

Houdini allows for low level control of CSS rendering, basically it allows for creating CSS classes with our own paint methods, and in the process having lower level JavaScript concurrency using less resources than workers.