skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>PII

The phrase "personally identifying information" does not occur anywhere in the text of GDPR. The term used throughout is "personal data", which is defined differently.

>It's not about wether you can determine the person's name, mail address or whatever, it's wether this combination of data is or can be unique to a single person.

Uniqueness is irrelevant unless there is sufficient identifying data to associate that data with an identifiable natural person. Unless you have some means of ultimately figuring out "this data belongs to Joe Bloggs of 123 Any Street", then it isn't personal data.

Art. 4 (1):

‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/

Pseudonymous data falls within the scope of GDPR if other information could be used to associate that data with an identifiable natural person. Truly anonymous data is exempt - you might know a lot about person X, but that's only personal data if you can figure out that Person X is actually Joe Bloggs. It really isn't clear to me that Google are in breach in this instance; it's highly plausible that they are, Brave's allegations certainly warrant investigation, but the law is relatively complex and it's also somewhat plausible that Google are sailing very close to the wind while just barely remaining in compliance.

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-26/

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-30/
> If you're still doing mutable programming for some god-forsaken reason

I believe one such "god-forsaken reason" was given to us by the title of the link...

> JavaScript Array.push is 945x faster than Array.concat
Believe it or not, there have been several attempts to bring that kind of application management simplicity to Linux: ROX AppDirs, GNUStep's AppBundle implementation, Klik, and AppImage to name a few.

They have all been rejected by the community at large, sadly.
It's built on Bubble.is
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First I wrote everything down that it needed to do, then designed almost everything in Sketch.

After that, I build it all in Bubble

The version that is live now took about 8 days, idea to working beta.
So that the masses can't have it, but anybody making over say $100K year (or $1M year) it's a non issue ("yeah, burger went from $5 to $20, still hardly a dent to my finances").
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Or just include external donation links in the readme?
>By what metric is a culture pure?

By the degree to which it has uniquely evolved in relative isolation.

>How can information be pure?

By the degree to which the combination of information that defines a particular culture is unique. Again, if we model culture as a linear combination of cultural traits, purity may be measured as, for example, euclidean distance between clusters, reflecting unique developments that occur as a function of isolation. As an extreme case, compare an undiscovered tribe in the Amazon, or the Amish, to a cosmopolitan population like residents of New York City.
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I'm sure its for backwards compatibility but hot damn is that one hell of a footgun. Even with that in place would you ever feel confident returning an id that didn't fit in a double knowing the sheer amount of code that definitely didn't handle that case?
He said the Great Barrier reef will profit from climate change and not die off because of it, is that the issue you mean?

Sooo - if it's true, great, one problem less! Regardless, there are still many other problems caused by climate change that he did not dispute and that we still have to fight. So the best course forward is still to reduce emissions, and keep an eye on the reef to see what's true.

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Googling around I found the statement that

“Dr Ridd was not sacked because of his scientific views. Dr Ridd was never gagged or silenced about his scientific views, a matter which was admitted during the court hearing.” [0]

(But if that's true or not.. hard to say from here. The court recordings would have evidence.)

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/16/james-co...
The idea of "editing" stuff instead of creating new versions of them.

Whilst mutable programming is faster on write, it is much more difficult to figure out if something has changed, so any function that needs to only do work when stuff has changed (e.g. a React component), it is much much better to use immutable style programming because you only have to see if the memory address has changed as opposed to deeply compare current and previous objects.
The video is set to play back at a funky speed, playing at 1.5x speed is much more natural.
I know how to use them just fine, thanks. Anything that cannot be viewed/compared in version control or tested easily is trash. You cannot easily collaborate on complex IB or storyboards.
Congrats to the Dependabot team!

I've had the pleasure of reaching out to Dependabot a few times when I've had issues or problems and you guys have always been super responsive and quick to fix any bugs!

Congrats again on joining Github! And excited to see whats next for Dependabot!
Honestly you won't even find one fossil fuel company that will admit it. It's not human nature to do this. The data shows this both among people and corporations.

You are correct, regulation is the only path forward. The problem is, when you give too much freedom to a capitalistic society, the major capitalists aka corporations seem to take control. The corporations in turn take their power and influence the very regulatory bodies that are suppose to keep them in check.
You're right. But that isn't because it's impossible to write a working tax law, but because the EU hasn't managed to agree on passing one without someone insisting on loopholes.

(The people who decided to expand the EU to 28 members without overhauling its decision-making processes, which were designed for a community of 5 members with a much more limited scope, must have been on drugs.)

You wrote that all countries are interested in money. To an extent that is of course true, and it also applies to Ireland.
https://snapkit.io/

Makes life easy.
Around here is all The North Face over Patagonia.
I think this is Instagram's fault, there have been lots of times where I absentmindedly leave the Instagram app for the home screen and tap on Instagram again a second later and the app reloads. My hunch is that it earns them another chance to show ads.
> but the adoption rate (like for GH itself) will be clearly different.

How many individuals have a paid GH account vs a free one?

Now how many of those are willing to donate to a project/person but hasn't already done so?
Exactly the same argument could have been put forth back in the days when 40-hour workweek and 2-days weekend were introduced. Somehow we managed.
Is this GitHub's version of a GitCoin competitor?
Pricing in externalities are the only good economic argument for tariffs I'm aware of...

Carbon tax + tariffs in proportion to the lack of carbon taxes would be the most logical way of setting up a market-based solution to climate change.
I agree with your entire post, with one exception. I think you would be shocked at the world-wide potential audience for live streamed basket weaving. See: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-chinese-f...
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And many climate scientists are in fact physicists.
> I don't think using a text editor is limiting, using an IDE certainly is.

I agree. nonetheless, most developers use IDEs. This in turn means that a developer is unlikely to use only simple editors.

Maybe actually read the comment chain you're responding to?
what does that even mean?

like others said, it doesn't do the video processing itself, which is why they are able to make the battery life so long and the size of the device so small. and that's why it doesn't need or can't have an hdmi port. it makes perfect sense to offload that to another device that most everyone already has.

what does "raw data for use with opengl" mean? the integration into unity should provide the ability to implement rather extensive video sequencing ideas. there are a few people i follow on twitter that i have seen do rather complicated stuff, and that's because unity is rather nice.

i am just curious what your use cases are to want these extra features that you can't already do with the instrument, and what that has to do with it being a "proprietary" device.
The general way to set an environment variable is in /etc/profile or ~/.{bash_,,z}profile.

PAM uses /etc/environment, and systemd would prefer to have you set up default environment variables in /etc/systemd/system.conf. You can even pass them directly to Linux from your bootloader (unrecognized arguments on the kernel command line in the form foo=bar become environment variables), but the profiles are the generally accepted way of doing it.
For something smaller and lower power consumption, you might check out the Arietta board: https://www.acmesystems.it/arietta

It's about half the size of the Pi Zero, and can enter an ultra-low-power mode consuming only ~5 mA (and resume in 160 ms).
It hurts me imaging the amount of paper required to clear something like this.
The possible models where change C fits are unlimited.
Code describes only behaviour but it's hard to guess intent.
So unless languages won't be just specification languages (as close to describing intent as possible) then I doubt it's possible.

Anyway already part od programming work is deciding what you really want. Maybe that's where machines might help - with discoverability.

I actually think that more likely is some CRUD maker as an expert system? (you put what you vaguely need, answer questions and it comes with solution), doesn't need ML.
It's a shame we all still go around with the first iPhones in our pockets for sure :)
...okay, bud. I don't think I'm the one acting like a zealot right now.
The problem is less with me seeing personalized ads, and more with the ad-server and/or the website getting my PII, and anyone who sees my screen or sniffs my traffic acquiring PII by observing which ads I get.
I don't think not passing the GDPR or not trying to improve the EU's image would have prevented the copyright directive.
all I'm against is punishing people for genuine disagreement of thought.

I'll down vote you for the straw man. You have no idea why parent is being down voted, but a top runner on my list of guesses is that "scientists want to disagree, but they don't for fear of speaking up" is a pretty weak argument.
There's a timeline out there where WindowMaker/GNUStep became the dominant desktop for Linux too.

In many ways, I think the state of modern personal computing is evidence we are, in fact, in the darkest possible timeline for it.
I doubt they're very hard to come by but they'll be expensive. I've had shirts tailored in Asia but I admittedly don't bother with tailored clothing on a day to day basis.
>Right, but then the US should have a higher life expectancy in exchange for the cost.

For plenty of maladies the US has the best care as measured by things like five year cancer survival rates for particular cancers.

>Instead it gets the same and only after correcting for murders and car accidents.

If the point is to use life expectancy to compare quality of medical care, then you have to remove causes of death that don't involve treatment. E.g. if I'm a 35 year old person in good health sitting on the steps with my homies and someone drives by and shoots me in the head and I die, how is that a failing of medical care? It should be done from all countries.

Ultimately, life expectancy is a bad metric to use anyway. It treats it as a score for bureaucrats to maximize. In the US, at least, people have the right to live in ways that will reduce their life span.
That assumes both the cost will remain the same (or a factor), and that children mortality rate will continue to be low, neither or which are a given.

Add a couple climate catastrophes and wars for resources, and we can see the landscape in 2100 or 2200...
I never understood why the murder of a police officer was viewed by some as significantly worse than other murders. In my mind, both are equally horrible.

@barking, your comment made something click. For police, the protection of police officers is by far their highest duty, and then much lower is the protection of the public. From this first principle, I can now see why it follows that the murder of a police officer is viewed as much more important, and why so many more police resources are used to solve that crime.
Me too.

Wind and solar constitute less than 1% of world energy consumption and doesn't have all the other properties and uses that makes oil such a fundamental and necessary ingredient for modern living. Hopefully overtime we will find something that's better, for now it's hard to find as amazing and flexible a resource as oil.

Nuclear would probably win out, then oil and coal
Mona Lisa frown: Machine learning brings old paintings and photos to life
USA and China dominate when it comes to global unicorns
This is such a silly study. What exactly were they trying to prove? Water == wet?

Wealth is power, power gets to your head.
I read "Debt" and I thought it was brilliant and personally very impactful. I've recommended it to many people. I've read a bunch of his summaries/essays on "Bullshit Jobs" and I'm astounded at the stupidity of his arguments, and I honestly have a hard time believing these two things are were written by the same person.

I think it's because "Debt" was primarily an anthropological work, flavoured by his ideology, whereas "Bullshit Jobs" seems to be almost pure ideology. I'm deeply sceptical of all neo-primitivist arguments.

Anyway, here's some things to think about: efficiency is important, but it cannot tell you much by itself - the actual amount of output matters, perhaps much more so. For example, a Hall effect thruster is immensely efficient, about 10-15x more so than a chemical rocket engine, however it's output in Newtons is so low, it is impossible to get to orbit. If you want to get to space, it this efficiency doesn't matter, it's never going to get you there. Likewise, perhaps your first hour of work is immensely efficient, yet your actual output might be so low that having everyone work 1hr/day would lead to stagnation and decline.
> It's a known vendor, and if I'm dropping $20/month on some vague software expense, nobody will care.

If you said the money is going to GitHub, and it's actually going through GitHub, that's lying.

I think it will probably show up differently on credit card statements anyway, so people won't be tempted to do this behind the backs of the accounting department.
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For one thing, you can wear one indoors at your desk without looking like you're wearing a jacket at your desk.
Rich Hickey Q&A (2011)
Who is stealing virtual CPU time?
Humans are prone tribalism, that's a human trait. I feel like your comments here effectively prove that.
Debugging data binding is hard. There could be a tighter coupling and type safety between view model and view. MVVM could be better integrated. The syntax generally could be simplified (MVC did this when they introduced Razor). There is a lot of room for improvement. The foundation is very good but very hard to learn and you need a ton of obscure little tricks.

The .NET 5 doesn’t address any of these. They do a lot of good stuff for server side development but the story for desktop development is bad.
It's unfortunate how widely "virtual memory" is misunderstood to mean "an unlimited dynamic swap file". Why phones don't have unlimited dynamic swap and "why cannot Safari just save what it has downloaded to disk" are effectively the same question, just asked about the browser instead of the kernel. It would wear out the NAND chips on phone-class storage too quickly.
I honestly can't release that. I have a full time software engineering job. I do pretty well for a 37 year old college dropout.
>But saying video is to hard even for Microsoft seems a bit of a stretch.

I actually said the opposite of that. I emphasized that MS had both the technical skill and money to host their own videos and yet they still moved channel9 videos to Youtube. I wanted readers to pause and think about why they did that.

By using Microsoft as an example, I was hoping to break the mental loop of always referring back to "technical issues" as the reason creators choosing Youtube. It's not technical.
Yup! I'm using Python3 on all my systems now - except the Travelpi - I'll update it soon.
From the actual paper:

>Furthermore, all three forms of social class were positively associated with actual rank, indicating that those with relatively high social class did objectively better on the flashcard game relative to their lower-class counterparts

Looking at the table of correlations on page 7 in some cases shows the exact opposite of what the article constantly hints at: that performance was in no way correlated with social/financial class. Glad to see quality reporting as usual. (Edit: Yes, the general effect still exists, just look at the paper. It's still bad reporting)

If you're interested in learning, ignore articles like this and glance over the actual papers instead: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-pspi0000187.p...
This sounds very similar to cap and trade, no? Place a cap on total emissions, and decrease that cap over time. Correspondingly, have pollution permits that are allocated according to this cap. Companies that are especially CO2 efficient can sell their extra pollution allowances. Companies that are not can purchase these pollution allowances. As the cap is set lower and lower every year, the pollution allowances become more valuable, raising the price to pollute, or emit CO2. Over time, using fossil fuels becomes more and more prohibitively expensive, until we eventually transition to a near zero carbon society.
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Good luck!
How expensive would something like this be? Is it something I can casually do with my grown up kids on weekends?
I imagined someone would write a response to this effect, but surely there's a line _somewhere_.

People already do get an advantage by working >40 hours, but there are diminishing returns.

You can't realistically work double that for extended periods, and having two distinct 40 hour jobs would be practically impossible.

Not only that, but the "40-hour" work week, and weekends, are something that apply more to labourers, which at least as far as I can see in the UK are almost uniformly struggling to get 40 hours as it stands (zero hour contracts, shift work, part time, ...... etc).
This is the restored/better version of the original 2011 version. The original version is now lost and there was a previous discussion on this on HN here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2638806

Right now, I guess this is the only copy floating around of this interview ...
Immutability is a common part of functional programming approaches. In Javascript, it's especially common in the React+Redux community. Redux expects you will update data immutably, and React works best when you do immutable updates as well.

Here's some good overviews of why and how to do immutable updates in JS:

https://redux.js.org/faq/immutable-data

https://redux.js.org/recipes/structuring-reducers/immutable-...

https://daveceddia.com/react-redux-immutability-guide/
Why would you try to contact someone who's abandoned the project?
Cardano's Formula
I remember someone back then wrote a script to scrape Google Maps data and make it viewable on the GP2X, so you'd have offline portable maps. This was in 2007 or so, before smartphones became mainstream (not that as a student I could have afforded one anyway, or a data plan for that matter).
Am I using stars wrong? I have starred 771 projects on GitHub. To me, a star means anything from "I use this" to "I think this is a cool project". Giving $10 a month to 771 projects would result in about a penny for each project.

I'd rather separate starred from sponsored. If I could select a subset of that 771 and say "split $10 among these projects" then I'd be happy.
I've also worked at multiple companies where they were afraid of open source because the project might be abandoned.

They would happily pay thousands for a closed source dependency because they could guarantee it would be supported.

This could offer a nice medium where a company can be pretty sure that it will stick around (based on funding) and contribute to make sure that it does.
HTTPS has a tangible benefit beyond making the user feel comfortable: it secures the information channel.
Apples and encrypted oranges. There's no actual technical difference between EV and DV for the end user, much unlike https vs http...

Why does my comment have to be spelled out anyway? I'm having a hard time believing you don't know that or haven't realized it.
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I think the comment has been deleted, do you remember what it was?
In my experience at a reasonably large corp ... getting the bureaucracy to spend $20/month is somehow more of a pain than getting it to spend $50,000/month.

For the kind of dollar values most github supporters are working in (probably in the range of less than $1000/year) - a single yearly lump sum would be easier to expense directly on a corporate card rather than getting accounting involved monthly.
I imagine that if we all worked 3-hour-days the price of housing would massively reduce, as rent and purchase prices can only be what the market can pay, and that goes for the land they’re built on too. I doubt this would be a perfect 1-to-1 match to income changes, even if it happened in every country at the same time.
I'm not the other guy, but I honestly don't see an argument for why this is fraud. Is this against the terms? Can you point to a specific line in the terms forbidding this?
Your argument just seems like "this is clearly fraud and you can tell by looking at it"...
I use anything with an HDMI socket, or now that I have an HDMI-VGA adapter, VGA.
I am archiving many links in my desktop browser (about 50 folders with various subfolders and each with a dozen links). The problem is that I would also like to have them available on mobile devices. Sure, most of the time you will not need them again. But with increasing regularity I am remembering that I was reading something interesting somewhere and want to have a look again, but can't find it in the web anymore. Then, you can figure out more easily where you read it when having appropriate and well-structured bookmarks.
Only in JS do people seem okay with constantly mucking with built-ins.
5% is their cut after payment processing, which is another 3% or 5% extra (depending on the size of payment, with smaller payments being more expensive to process).

For a $1 payment, they actually take 20% (10c + 5% + 5%).
I hardly think it's unfair because suits cost money, and the more money you put into the suit the more people can tell. In many tech places people are okay with you wearing the free company t-shirt and khakis. You could look like $50 and be accepted.

That's widening the gate as far as you can.