skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> either advertise at the risk of it being some garbage traffic, or not advertise at all. And for obvious reasons, the latter is what people choose to do.

Do you mean "the former"? 'Cause, you know, there are still ads.
Earth's 'technosphere' now weighs 30T tons, research finds (2016)
Why are there so many of these non-news articles from the nytimes lately?

"You don’t want a child prodigy"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20003367

The latest.

"The Surprising Benefits of Relentlessly Auditing Your Life"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20009838

More importantly, who keeps boosting it to the frontpage. This isn't news. It's mostly pseudoscientific "self-help" style nonsense.

What's the difference between these nytimes articles and the neverending "Coffee is good for you" followed by "Coffee is bad for you" garbage. Or the relentless "Wine is good for you" followed by "Wine is bad for you" garbage. It's nonsense that doesn't inform or get you anywhere. It worthless and useless fluff purely to make them money.
Under the implementation of GDPR, or under derived local rules? Because as far as I understand, humans working on a filing cabinet full of paper can be just as much "data processing" under GDPR as a computer reading a database. If the scheduling person knows "Mr X is sick and needs a replacement scheduled", an algorithm in their place can know that too.

It's certainly something where extra care is required though, and it's easy to see how people in charge go with a rather safe than sorry approach, and extending it into ML poses additional questions.
The major benefit that GDPR has brought (at least in our company, and I suspect in other companies as well), is an increased emphasis on not storing user data that is not needed. The idea that user data is useful, but it’s also a liability.

This likely will lead to certain private data that companies would otherwise have saved, because why not, not being saved anymore, which would reduce the damage caused by a breach, which will never show up in numbers and stats.
The right to be forgotten is the equivalent of the right to no punishment without the law. The deeds must be interpreted and judged by a court, not by a public, basing their opinion on newspaper publications. When someone is denied a job because there were some news about him in Google from many years ago, it's a form of extrajudicial punishment, which is illegal, and must be prevented.
Add to your list to research corporate structures because LLCs are not always the best choice. A lot of people assume LLC is right for them based on advice from friends, but it’s something to think through.
That would depend on the transmit power, but in short, you wouldn't want to be outside the vehicle for a long time when the transmitter is on. A typical x-ray machine emits about twenty watts of x-ray power when in use with a typical shutter speed of 1/10 to 1/2 of a second. There's no data about how much power NASA is using in this experiment or how much a production model transmitter would use, but ground-to-ISS transmission over FM can be done with a 25-watt transmitter.

Now, the x-ray transmitter wouldn't be focused the right way to send maximum radiation into an astronaut and it would have a reduced duty cycle because it's not just a simple x-ray flashlight, but giving it an hour-long bear hug while it's in use would be a very bad idea.

Of course the most relevant point is that the vast majority of spaceships don't have humans on them.
Like morse code trying to tell us something.
> I have never read a single book on negotiations. I can always tell when someone else has.

My dad used to talk about negotiations from later in his career and I think he would have more or less agreed with the sentiment. I remember him talking about being tickled when someone would come in taking a particular tack, and you could more or less tell them "yeah, sure book x chapter y, how about we just talk?" and then everybody had a chuckle and got down to business. I'm sure it was more of a vibe he picked up than any particular incident. The idea reminds me of the Gervais Principle's[1] idea that different subgroups within an organization speak different languages to each other.

In support of reading books, I think there's a difference between being familiar with what everybody else has probably read vs working directly out of a playbook.

Edit:

The first link is the start of the blog series. The one about languages groups speak is [2].

[1]: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

[2]: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/11/the-gervais-principle-...
Not to mention that avoiding GRPR, laws that shouldn't need to have been written in the first place, is like walking around with a big sign 'we are evil and not to be trusted'. Because if you are to be trusted, a simple cursory check would simply affirm you are already within the GDPR.

We work in the b2b in the financial sector and part of our contracts in Europe is that all of the data is hosted in infrastructure that complies with the GDPR. That could be Google or Amazon, but not Slack or any SV startup.
> even though we are not any kind of data collection company

Are you collecting data on your customers? If you are, then one of the things your company does is data collection, even if that's not what's in your business plan.
Talking about the Weather
In four letters: HTML
Um no, because gtk/gnome devs have explicitly stated that Adwaita is the one true gtk theme. The name "Adwaita" reflects it. In GTK3+, the concept of themes does not exist. This is why you need 3rd party tools to change them. This is why 3rd party themes break stuff that this article complains about.
Signed up for Azlo just recently after keeping money in my personal, no big deal just makes taxes a little harder.

That actually is a big deal.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/personal-liability-p...

Commingling assets. Small business owners may be more likely than their larger counterparts to commingle their personal assets with those of the corporation or LLC. For example, some small business owners divert corporate assets for their own personal use by writing a check from the company account to make a payment on a personal mortgage -- or by depositing a check made payable to the corporation into the owner's personal bank account. This is called "commingling of assets." To avoid trouble, the corporation should maintain its own bank account and the owner should never use the company account for personal use or deposit checks payable to the company in a personal account.
"These doctors are unfit to treat patients" could very well be libel then? That (based on the article) seems to have been the core of the decision.
> Sorry, do you have an example of a "large media group" "selectively editing" a video

You don't have to look too far to see large media groups selectively editing videos, or at least choosing to not display portions of video that exonerate someone. Nicholas Sandmann, the MAGA-hat wearing teen, was said to be part of a group confronting a Native American protester. When you look at the full video, it was the Native American who was confrontational. He walked over into the middle of the group rather than the group confronting him.
Flat Earthers, and the Rise of Science Denial in America
The Copenhagen Catalog: Principles for a new direction in tech
Angular 8 RC.5 – Release Candidate shipped with features and breaking change
Personally, I'm totally fine with that lost investment. Especially since it's likely to be temporary.
A new koan?
Well in brief 'stop reading and start doing'. Now think about all the ways you can 'practice' at negotiation. You can start by trying to buy things that you don't even want to buy. Go in and play games with a car dealer when you don't need a car. As impractical as it sounds try to negotiate for a job that you don't want. Do it over and over and over again. Don't want to put in that effort? Well it's like anything else you have to. You would expect to be good at tennis or playing piano without practice. Now you have to enjoy doing this. Most people don't. I guess because they don't have good results or positive feedback. And learn to read people's facial emotions and also how they reply to emails or how their voice sounds over the phone. That is a large part of the game. Reading people whatever way you can. Also importantly recognize the situations where the game is not one you will win because your adversary is a gambler and will not fall for the typical games or doesn't care if they lose.
Plasma Stealth
Five good reasons to review our operational level processes
Yes. But what if the same can be said for those who don't recommend? I read a lot. Most of the time it's time well spent. But I don't recommend everything I read either.
That seems like an opinion to me, not a false statement...

IANAL, but I think you could definitely make the argument that it's either true, or not possible to prove one way or the other.
Color me surprised, scammy business are losing millions and exiting the EU. I'm totally happy about the outcome.

Though there is still a lot of abuse and dark patterns going on, I believe most of them should make it as easy to "opt all in" as "opt all out" for the cookies for instance.
Most of the resources in manned space flight are devoted to not killing the astronauts. Just sending robots is way cheaper and you can do a ton more projects for the same amount of money. Landing a robot on a comet is way more interesting than the 130th trip to a space station that’s only 200 miles away from earth (a person can bicycle that far in a day). And going to Mars is impossible for less than hundreds of billions of dollars, if it’s possible at all.

Sending people into space was a stunt, like climbing to the top of Everest. Having done it a few times there’s no point in doing it again. People say, oh you learn so much from it, but that would be true for trying to live on the bottom of the ocean or in treehouses or whatever. Romantic nonsense is fine but manned spacedlight is expensive and requires a ton of talented engineering that could be better used elsewhere.
I Cheated on My Microsoft Interview
Completely agree; this is a difference of degree, not kind. Quoting myself[0]:

> As soon as you have something as apparently simple as named procedures, you're really writing a DSL, albeit very coarsely, for your business problem.

[0]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18770192
Software business of what? There are multiple ways to do research and analysis and it varies for every section in software business.

Can you be specific?

Like whether you want to run some sort of SAAS business or web / mobile development company etc., or anything other?
It's not quite a simple solution, but Redmine has always been my go to for keeping up on personal projects. There is the fact that it requires you to setup a server somewhere to reside, but it comes with so many plugins and third party applications that make it fully configurable to meet the most complex needs.

https://www.redmine.org/

https://www.redmine.org/plugins

http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/thirdpartytools
For a solo operator an LLC is probably always the best choice. LLCs can elect to file taxes as S-Corps (your accountant is going to do this for you when you get to the point where your taxes are complicated enough). Sole proprietorships have all the downsides of an LLC and none of the potential upsides. C-Corps are complicated and are useful primarily when you have investors; if you take investment from an actual fund, they're going to want to rip up and re-do your corporate structure anyways.
Having a metered plan helped tremendously (and saves me money).

I tend to eschew Twitter/Reddit and focus on podcasts, or binge a little Wikipedia waiting for the train.
Who changes the titles of HN posts?

I'm just curious... the blog post has the title "DSLs for non-programmers are a hoax" and this HN post originally had the same title. At some point it got changed; I've seen this happen before. Is this HN editorial intervention, or did the OP make the change?

Just curious...
> and you could more or less tell them "yeah, sure book x chapter y, how about we just talk?" and then everybody had a chuckle and got down to business

Well my particular tack is never never never tell someone you know what their game is let them play their game. And never back them into a corner. People (I have found) go against their own interests if only for pride reasons. (I am sure that is in some book somewhere buried ..)
GDPR enforcement is through the corresponding data protection offices of the different countries and fines issued by them (now if you don't pay the fines and completely ignore the offices that might be an issue that's escalated)

Some people are making it sound like the EU Cyber police is going to hack your services or parachute and kick their way into your office in SV because a user in Slovenia didn't get their data portability request on time, which is not what is going to happen.
Could just use opencv and check for your face.
I have an interesting question about GDPR and all legal compliance efforts. When GDPR was first announced, I studied it in-depth because I'm the CTO of a company involved in first-party content analytics, and I wanted to ensure we complied.

In addition to making changes internally and technically to ensure compliance, I also prepared a long Google Slide presentation that basically summarized my technical understanding of GDPR, after receiving the advice of several privacy attorneys. The information in this slidedeck was presented to my whole company, as a way to further ensure compliance -- to make sure my employees understood the policy at least as well as I did, since I had spent countless hours discussing the implications of the law -- as well as reading the raw text, which is excellently published/annotated by Algolia here: https://gdpr.algolia.com/gdpr-article-1

My inclination was to publish this deck I had painstakingly prepared publicly, because certainly it would be valuable to others. I publish a lot of stuff publicly on our blog, for example: https://blog.parse.ly/post/author/andrew-montalenti/ -- with the only goal being to share information with the community.

But then, one of my attorneys advised me against this. Basically, the concern was that if I publish something publicly about my understanding of GDPR, and it contains an error of understanding (after all, IANAL), then I could be held accountable for that. That felt really crappy to me -- after all, I'm just doing the best I can, and it seems like there's a lot of misinformation about GDPR out there on the web. Does anyone know anything much about this? To what degree can a company executive get him or herself in trouble for publishing a document that summarizes his or her own understanding of the effect of regulation, if the executive's company is potentially affected by said regulation?
The old 5-pin DIN hardware doesn't have anything like the bandwidth needed for MIDI 2.0. In fact it can struggle with MIDI 1.0.
The more I learn about what happens to the electronic waste we produce, it impacts my buying habits. I've been considering replacing my 2012 Macbook Air with a new Macbook, but maybe I should just keep using it as long as is absolutely possible. I mean, it still works even if it is a bit sluggish.

What would really be better was if I could upgrade it. That would help minimize waste. The screen works perfectly fine, but I'd have to buy a whole new screen (and everything) just to upgrade it.

Maybe I won't buy Apple anymore. Maybe I'll find a laptop that lets me upgrade components and run Linux instead. (Any suggestions?)

I'm not going to personally have a material impact on the solution, but I can change my habits, and maybe convince others to change theirs. If more people knew what happens to their waste, maybe they'd change their habits too.
It's not easy to export tickets right now, but I'm working on improving that. There's an API, so it's similar in capability to exporting tickets from GitHub, but I want to do better. I've put in about half the work necessary to file tickets without an account, the rest is just some database changes and should be live in the next few weeks.
Lying to the Compiler
New Bullets Wireless earphones show up, could launch with the OnePlus 6T
So the illegal part here is the lack of protections for the environment and workers, which is valid, but there's no reason for "recycled" to be in scare quotes; the process described is literally recycling. Unregulated recycling that's bad for the environment, but it's still breaking down waste into useful raw materials, so it still counts.

EDIT: Another objection to the framing here:

> “American people should address this issue. You have to fix your own problems. Don’t dump waste into Thailand — or any developing country.”

... or, you could not accept it. Y'know, "fix your own problems" rather than pointing your finger at big bad America.
I'm not sure what the benefit of an S-Corp is over an LLC these days, because LLCs are simpler and can elect to file taxes as an S-Corp. It might be more straightforward to issue equity to employees as an S? But our legal (Grellas Shah) was emphatic that anything we wanted to do w/r/t/ employee equity compensation was going to be doable in an LLC if we wanted it that way.
Is there a map out there showing their current position? Tried n2yo.com, but as fas as I know it isn't catalogged yet.
All of these points are spot on! I learned some of this the hard way and wish someone told me these things years ago when I went from sole proprietorship to LLC. Spending money on a good Bookkeeper, CPA and accounting software is well worth the money.
I feel this unnecessarily complicates things. If you want to send emails via SES, why not just use something like https://www.sendwithses.com or https://moonmail.io/
I second getting away from embedded land, and moving to a full-capability machine.

I've come full circle to just running an i5 with Linux/nftables (my first router was a k5 with ipfwadm). I already had the i5, and gigabit VPN can use the horsepower.

I wanted to like pfSense, but I didn't want to learn a whole new net stack to debug firewall rules. Not that you have to dig that deep to simply use pfSense, but I ran into some config problem and missed the insight I take for granted on Linux.

Reading the comments on the OP is kind of funny, too: ESR regarding an "old PC" as a router:

> and use what for ports? Even newer ones tend to have only two. That's poor fanout.

The ports you see on an embedded router are actually just a tagged switch. A good CPU has two internal ports connected to that switch, but many have only one. Some switch chips can eg accelerate NAT, but OpenWRT is going to erase that. So embedded router bandwidth is actually quite poor, meanwhile you can essentially stick as many true 1Gb/10Gb ports in a PC router as you desire.
Yes, because that's what it's called :)
Even after watching the video I didn't really get it. One of the comments made it more clear though:

On Earth, the orbits decay because the satellite hits the atmosphere and slows down, losing energy to drag. On the moon, satellites don't lose energy, but their orbits change. The perturbations of the gravity field cause the satellite to be moving faster but lower on one side of the orbit and higher and slower on the other side. Taken far enough, the low side is lower than the mountain the satellite slams into.
> though, the ones who were never planning to do anything bad with your data. Those ones still all had to do a bunch of work and show that same stupid notice

If they're not planning to do anything bad with the data (that is, only use the data for what they need to work with the customer) they don't have to show the notice. It's that simple. RTFR
Hopefully this provides a good intro to LLCs to you https://medium.com/@parissathena/what-the-hell-c-is-an-llc-l...

Pariss is also talking about LLC on Twitter you might want to follow her
Is there a reason you chose to do that rather than use something more standard like OSC or ArtNet?
In this case the mechanism sounds believable to me. There's an ecological niche for flightless rails; going from flightworthy to flightless is presumably an easy step; I expect there'd be pronounced morphological changes associated with adaptation to flightlessness. If the progenitor hasn't changed much, the landlubber adaptations could make the two parallel descendants much more similar to each other than to their parents. Now, whether this is what actually happened I can't say. I have no expertise in the field.
That S-Corp trick, the "reasonable compensation" thing, is an audit flag; there is apparently a whole specialized kind of audit the IRS does for "reasonable compensation" claims (presumably because it's so easy to spot mechanically; your single-member firm made X, you claimed X-n income, X-n>threshold: audit). I wouldn't bother with it.
I agree with you 100%. However, I think one of the aspects of "bad" software that is misunderstood is the increased risk of catastrophic failure. Two applications might have no perceivable difference from the user perspective. But one was built to withstand attack or corruption of the database, and the other was not.
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Good info on starlink: https://wyliodrin.com/post/starlink-the-internet-of-space

6 months ago, so not accurate about the height.
I don't think it's the goal of privacy or the tech that caused the costs to be soo high. Probably more related to the ambiguity of the law.
Seems like evolution would produce mechanisms to foster faster evolution if at all possible. So is there something about DNA that would at a fundamental level prevent saving of previous configurations?
that novel was amazing. I loved the 5000 year jump too. Although I found it difficult to visualize some of the futuristic parts. I think a movie is being made based on the novel.
You can sell every single part of your MacBook Air.

LCD, keyboard, trackpad, SSD logic board, power board, wifi card, etc. Even the screws.

I sold every single component of mine (except the battery which was put into a bin at ikea).

Just follow the ifixit guides and buy one of the% $2 screwdrivers.

It behooves you to do so to keep other units out of the e-waste trade.

% the screwdrivers, you don’t have to buy it from ifixit.
I am not an EU attorney, but typically the risk with publishing something like that is not that you make a mistake, but rather you get it right. The problem arises down the road when your company does something that violates the law. Now your wonderful presentation is used to prove that your company knew it was violating the law, even though the actual circumstances may be a bit more complicated.