skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the laws are in place now, but appear to be toothless

Currently the country's regulators (such as ICO in the UK) are swamped with GDPR complaints and are prioritising the most egregious cases. I imagine cookies are a way down the list.

In terms of reporting, you tell the company itself first, if you don't get satisfaction you report to your own European country's regulator, or that where the company is based.
Because you would leave them alone with the impressions of the day - just because you only show them bad content for 3 hours, doesn't mean that they will automatically create a counter-balance in the free 5 hours.

I force them to watch the bad side of humanity, so I also "force" them to watch the good side of it.

It should be subtile, of course.
If Spotify was $50 or $75 a month a lot more people would not be paying and do things illegally. Can’t blame just fragmentation.
Units are centilitres, so why not just say centilitres?

If the intent is to communicate to the public, this is not an effective way to do it.
I somewhat agree. Yes, the back isn't that noticeable when actually using it. But its noticeable now. Even to the point where people I know who loves their iPhones say that its "ugly".

Apple is not known to make "ugly" devices. Their devices are practical and engineered thoughtfully.

Having the camera in the top left corner as opposed to the center seems like a mistake to me. Especially since they are promoting the camera to be a significant upgrade. Put it front and center!

Apple's history on device (at least with Jobs) always was have a fully functional revolutionary machine that was easy to use and beautiful inside and out. They've been that way since the Macintosh. The look was much user-friendly and approachable. They even signed the inside of the box as if they are presenting a piece of art. Even the font-face they introduced was to promote artistry in the technical world.

My point is, the iPhone 11 is an amazing device, but the look of their biggest new feature, the cameras, does not fit well with their history of artistic prowess. Steve Jobs would have never OKed this design placement.
Yes, I understand that wealth is not income, but in Ukraine there are plenty of oligarchs worth multi-billion sums. Dividing that wealth over whole Ukraine population is definitely more than 40$ per person.

Though probably that's where rampant corruptions comes in and I will just guess that rich oligarchs "on paper" have little to no official wealth in Ukraine (have no clue how wealth is calculated country-wise if it's international)?
Sure. Why not. Small sites can find another business model if they fail at being able to make deals with advertisers.

If ads are the only way to "make money on the internet" then we've created a monster whose only sustenance is advertising and it is its time to lay down and rest eternally.

If that means a third of the internet no longer exists... even sites I have at one time enjoyed, then so be it.
i opted for the “conscious sedition” approach. IV meds and those 45 minutes went by reeeeal fast.

It’s more common to go with the novacaine local approach, and general anesthesia is very rare — normally when you have severely impacted or abcessed teeth and they need to cut into your jawbone and the like.
>about 5% to 10% of our parliament is the Green Party

Was curious about this. It represents about 6-12% of the vote. Australian green party regularly gets 10-15% of the vote but only ends up with one seat in parliament. Whereas the entirely pointless and self servingly corrupt national party gets 6% of the vote and 16 seats.

New Zealand has a different voting system. [0] tldr: if you want democratic outcomes, you need democratic processes.

The beautiful thing about multi party systems is you can elect both the party that cares about farmers, and the party that cares about the environment and have them work out some compromises.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_New_Zeal...
French high court rules that Steam can’t ban users from reselling digital games
Vets Face Unique Issues That Make Suicide One of Profession's Big Worries
This is no different than the manipulation that happened with LIBOR. Back then the media was quick to point out that the manipulated interest rate impacted pension funds, mortgages, and everything in between.

The fed is doing the same thing by stepping in and manipulating the overnight rate. Without the fed doing this, banks would have to plan ahead and make sure they have sufficient liquidity. This means maybe offering better interest rates to earn customer deposits.

With the major banks still calling 0.05% “high yield”, I don’t think it’s appropriate for the fed to continue to enable their incompetence. Furthermore, the banks hold a significant inventory of foreclosed homes on their books. They’ve been sitting on them for years. It’s time they sell that resource to people who need them.
If you have Android I recommend Blockada. You won't see ads in any app https://blokada.org/

I still use Firefox with uBO and enjoy being able to hide all those annoying headers, footers and overlays.
I’m against continued involvement in Afghanistan, for financial and practical reasons. That said, many folks have trouble wrapping their heads around all this because they’re moral relativists. The problem with terrorism is not merely the mechanics of asymmetric warfare. Civilians dying is bad and we should avoid it, but it’s obviously not morally dispositive since we do it too. If a foreign power occupied America, Americans would do the exact same thing. In fact, that’s what Americans did during the Revolution. You can’t hope to make sense of the issue unless you morally analyze the ends for which people are fighting. Islamic State is wrong and must be stamped out because the end for which they’re fighting is wrong. Americans fighting the British to establish a Republic, by contrast, is right.
The art and craft of test-driven development
I tend to avoid doing a Select followed straight by a Max when you can just pass the select function directly into the max. Also multiline lambda expressions feel ugly but that's probably just me! This is what I would do these days:

string pad(this string e, int padLength) => new String(' ', padLength) + e;
var input = new string[] { "abc", "ab", "abcdef", "abcdefgh" };
var maxLength = input.Max(e => e.Length);
var output = input.Select(e => e.pad((maxLength - e.Length) / 2));
I’ve never heard of it increasing exponentially. Also with very high voltage AC we can actually transmit quite far.
Why do you think they're not tracking drug related deaths?

https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics...
Texas outlaws political deepfakes and California could follow
I like to imagine the reaction if it happened here.

Imagine that, say, China blew up 30 Americans in the US with a missile. And their reaction was, “sorry, my bad, I thought they were terrorists.”

Can you imagine the response? I think we’d have a nuclear war before the end of the day.
The cost of installation is why I don’t have solar. While I agree 25 year life is a limitation on adopting better panel technology, it’s hard to justify the installation costs at shorter intervals.
In the article:

> Zhabinskiy is keen to emphasize that the AI used to generate these images was trained using data shot in-house, rather than using stock media or scraping photographs from the internet. “Such an approach requires thousands of hours of labor, but in the end, it will certainly be worth it!” exclaims an Icons8 blog post.
> Would you hire a web-application developer who didnt know how to setup a web-server or load-balance his app?

My company does this all the time.

In fact, in the absence of our step-by-step guides, I would estimate that maybe 5% of the development team could successfully configure their local web server on their own.
I, for one, am not in the least terrified to be a member of the Cult of Kthulhlbernetes, and welcome our Old Internet Gods, waiting in the deep shadows of the cosmic data center, until that fateful day when the machines finally rise to the surface and replace our tongues with YAML parsers. May they devour our souls and privacy first! Apiivihr, apiivihr, apiivihr!!!
Likewise. Unfortunately, some services such as YouTube TV don't work on chromium. Also if you're not on linux, updating is a pain (you must do it manually iirc)
England and Wales have also seena significant rise in drug related death, without moving to MUP for alcohol.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
Some day our robotic overlords will thank us for preparing the world for them.
Pardon my ignorance, but aren't suppressors illegal?
Maybe you are motivated by fear of failure/rejection?
As far as we know those planets are devoid of life. Whereas the earth has been teaming with life for billions of years. During that time the earth has gone through thousands of extinction events with 6 mass extinctions (when upwards of 90% of all life went extinct).

Our success (humans/mammals) is the result of one of those extinctions. So yeah, life has a strong foot hold on earth and it will continue to do so long after we're gone.
I make public commitments that would be hard or damaging to myself to get out of. Basically committing to a deadline with real consequences.

(Example if I am interested in a side project, I promise to speak at a local meetup about my work)
I agree. I've never encountered a site that didn't work in FF.

But I have seen sites that don't work in Safari.
Bringing up Culture War ideas like this in unrelated topics is a good way to derail them
I use Chrome almost exclusively at work, Firefox on my gaming computer, and Safari on my personal MacBook. Other than extensions on Safari and minor differences in keyboard shortcuts, I don't really notice the differences.
A while ago I uninstalled uBO/PrivacyBadger and switched to using a combination of NextDNS [0] and Brave for daily driving (Firefox for work because FF containers) and the adblocking + browsing experience has been nothing short of stellar.

NextDNS takes the load off outside the network perimeter and concatenates all the many lists and trackers in one dashboard. I'm free to use other gentler add-ons in the browser if I so desire, rather than have the DOM split apart and my local machine do all the heavy lifting.

The best thing about using DNS-level blocking is that it's an elegant solution across all my devices, especially when paired with a VPN that enforces those resolvers.

[0] https://nextdns.io
I don't know, children are crazy. They will say all kind of stuff. I bet some kid did say they didn't want a phone. Another cried because they got a phone the wrong color. And a third asked for a hundred phones to throw at turtles. Yet we don't hear of those two latter kids.

The very stupidest ideas are filtered out by parents "no you aren't getting 100 phones to throw". And the merely mundane ideas are filtered out by newspapers "a kid wanting a green phone isn't newsworthy".
Increased sedentary behaviour alters metabolism and body composition (2018)
I have kids and live in a rural U.S. town. I fear "normal" things such as drugs, school/gun violence, sex predators, etc. This... this is next level. I couldn't even fathom what it would be like if missiles rained from the sky at faster-than-sound speeds - from another country no less. You could say: "There aren't terrorists in rural U.S. towns," but I'd argue that isn't the case anymore with all the mass shootings, racial hatred, and so on. The world is in such a sad state.
If anyone is interested in a proof, I think this works:

The slowest car will with probability 1 be the first car in its own clump. The second slowest car will be the first car in a clump if it is in front of the slowest car. This happens with a probability of 1/2. The third slowest car will form a clump without the second and first slowest cars if it is in front of both of them, which will happen with probability 1/3. The fastest car will only form its own clump if it's the first car, which will happen with probability 1/n.

So the total number of clumps will be 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + ... + 1/n
The double standard is easy to understand. The Taliban is evil, and we think that we are not.
Ok, take brain injuries in American Football. Do you think the sports bodies have a responsibility to ensure their sport is safe to practice? After all, deliberately smashing someone on the head, with force and in circumstances known to reliably cause injury, is really assault.

What job do the football associations have that is more important, in the broader context, than this? It could destroy the sport.

Ideally a sporting body should set things up so that they don't have to spend much time on this, but it's a serious responsibility.

The NRA spends an inordinate amount of it's time trying to avoid legal restrictions on their member's activities. They spend huge resources on it. To me, that's a sign that they are not doing their job very well at all, or taking their responsibilities seriously as members of society. It's their problem to solve.

This is not something people who don't want to own guns should have to worry about. The fact that they have to is a clear abrogation of responsibility on the part of those that do.
I don't think I've encountered that yet, though I could see how someone living in a 4k would could overlooked us 1080plebs. It's like when the world switched from 640x480 to 800x600 and then to 1024x768.

I'm more curious though if what you're experiencing might also be sites designed for high res phones. Most phones these days are 1080p or better.
No, this is advanced undergrad economics or at the most it is in the first year of grad school.
She talks about mum influencers essentially using their kids for fame in the article but is doing the same thing herself. My point is the mum doesn’t see the kids point of view.
> England doesn't have this policy

...yet, but it's probably coming.

We know that pricing works to change behaviour. We see this with tobacco, plastic bags, sugary drinks, alcohol.

It works, and it works really well.

Ideally the increased revenue would be hypothecated to alcohol treatment, but hypothecation is a tricky topic for some reason in the UK.
We need to require at least some minimal standard. A common-sense starting point would be literacy...
As a Python developer, I always fell that I am talking to aliens when I have a conversation with Java developers. I've already built several large systems in Python/Django and nobody in our field talks about these patterns. We tend to follow more broad and philosophical principles like DRY, "we are all consenting adults" or the "Python Zen".
Vscode Setup for Web Development: Settings and Extensions
In uBlock Origin settings > My filters, paste the following rules to turn YouTube in just a search bar + video player:

youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype='home']
youtube.com##ytd-watch-next-secondary-results-renderer
youtube.com##app-drawer
youtube.com##ytd-item-section-renderer.ytd-comments
youtube.com##ytd-guide-renderer
youtube.com##ytd-mini-guide-renderer
youtube.com##ytd-topbar-menu-button-renderer
youtube.com###buttons.ytd-masthead
youtube.com##yt-icon-button
youtube.com##.ytp-endscreen-content

Note this is only accurate at the time of writing, only works partially on mobile, and may break some edge cases I don't use :)

[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax
Some YouTube channels already embed advertising straight into their videos. That's nontracking, nonpersonalized content I can live with.

If I can't block normal YouTube ads, I mute the sound and avert my eyes for the duration of the advert. I don't do that for embedded static advertising.
I've never found any that don't work, but Firefox supports fewer "standards", so you can end up with a somewhat degraded experience on some sites. My own company's product, for example, has some janky bits on browsers other than Chrome. The performance is only a little bit behind on most benchmarks, but isn't anywhere near as fast for certain kinds of animation. It can be noticeable on sites that run a lot of animation. Like, say, sites with ads. Possibly only if you're using an older or less powerful computer. Which isn't how we of the orange header bar like to roll, but also isn't a terribly uncommon thing to do out there in the wider world.

(Scare quotes around "standards" because calling Chrome-only things standard nowadays seems a bit like calling AcitveX a standard 20 years ago.)
If you mean this[0], then it sounds like the plants when offline _during_, but not necessarily _due to_ the heatwave.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/31/what-h...
As someone who develops machine-learning models as job, I can say that there are snippets from Kaggle kernels that run in minutes, and outperform months of manual effort by a business analyst.

Winners have often developed really interesting feature engineering strategies for a domain, as well as very well organised tuning and stacking systems.

Maybe a lot of difference between 1st and 5th percentile is luck, but top end of Kaggle is a really valuable insight into building effective models, even if you might want to simplify implimentation a bit in the commercial world.
Both of those are illegal, and may get the site fined.
My friends in IM told me I was stupid for not "building an email list" for my high traffic website.

Still see no good reason to do it.
This seems like a stretch. What does gender or race have to do with the grievance?
Is it not a bit soon to be drawing conclusions? Also there are so many other factors involved. I'm a scotsman and I'm personally not a fan of this law, nor the 10am-10pm licensing laws. They're blunt instruments that fail to tackle the root causes. I'm not saying they don't work or that they're not relatively easy to implement but I wouldn't be surprised if we soon see an increase in deaths from other drugs.
Subjective Theory of Value
Rayiner’s posts tend to be some of the more interesting and well thought out posts I see on HN.

I don’t always agree with his:her conclusions and I’m sure sometimes he/she is wrong, but the content is generally better than 95% of posts on HN.
The site doesn’t differentiate between terrorists and civilians killed, so I don’t get the point? It’s not like Pakistan is running low on terrorists or the state intelligence service ISI isn’t sponsoring their activities.
Your statistical analysis proves with an uncertainty of 100% that nobody cares about Seinfeld, the Office or Friends.
I'm guessing the camera isn't used for aircraft separation since nearly everything has ADS/B now.
It's a minimum price per centilitre of pure alcohol.
shell is the only portable language. It works on all Linuces, BSDs, and even on WSL. Anyone with a tiny bit of sysadmin experience knows sh.

Python is far too much overhead for something as simple as firing shell (!!) commands and dumping new files in a tar archive.

And also, shell is extensible in the most simple way: you just write a program name, and boom, it runs.

Shell is simple, stable (remember the debacle of Python 2->3?), safe (no pointers, etc.), readable (compiling can even introduce issues), and dangerous only if you do it seriously wrong[0].

The only remark I have regarding code quality is that the word splitting warning is disabled for the entirety of kiss: I would have disabled it on a per-occurence basis.

[0] https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

PS: the most secure open-source OS out there has a package manager written in perl, with priv-sep (https://github.com/openbsd/src/tree/master/usr.sbin/pkg_add).
Yo, u are aware Afghanistan and Taliban two different things, right? Afghanistan didn’t harbor 911 terrorist, Taliban did. Afghanistan doesn’t carry out car bombing, Taliban do. Now while those afghan pine workers do share land with some of the worst scums on earth, they are not anymore guilty for Taliban's action than some random french farmers.
> There comes a time when YOU would strap on a bomb belt. Just imagine that They killed half your family and then goes on telling you they will continue doing it...

I don't think this is quite enough to push people over the ledge. If what killed half my family is someone who does not try to justify his actions morally, someone who I can therefore morally compare to a tiger or bear, I wouldn't strap on a bomb belt. But if the killer tries to tell the world he's eradicating evil, and the world high five with them, ...
I mean that given that the Fed will act if the banks do nothing, and that doing something will make the banks loose money, it is inevitable that the banks will "drag their feet". As you understand, I am not commenting on the moral aspect.
> but now scammers and malware spammers have the floor instead.

That's a non-sequitur and complete nonsense unless you want to suggest that GDPR automatically turns marketers into criminals.

Also, just because it can't solve all of the problems at once doesn't mean it's a bad thing.
I use AdGuard on iOS and you can use very similar block lists as uBlock Origin for macOS does. Besides ads, I block social media on third party sites. This kind of tracking is just outright evil.

I'll give it on macOS a try, because the other day, I noticed that uBlock Origin didn't detect one specific tracking URL, but Firefox did (and it clearly was in the network tab of the Safari developer tools). Now it's clear why: uBO is outdated for Safari.

Anyways, thanks for the port and maintenance all those years when I could use uBO!
I'm also on 1440p and seeing your website with that "huge" font made my instantly happy.

My Firefox is scaled up using layout.css.devPixelsPerPx with a value of 1.2 and even then I've to scale up most websites to at least 120% in order to see anything.
It’s true that you have to measure the same thing, but you also have to measure a useful thing.

If you compare fossil fuels and renewables based on the number of letters in their names, that’s the same thing for both, but it’s not useful.

Comparing explicit monetary subsidies is like that. If you want to include the implicit ones for renewables as well, you definitely should. But giving up and only comparing direct monetary subsidies gives you a woefully incomplete and misleading picture.
Telecommuting Has Changed Real Estate
It's Friday, some levity is acceptable here and there.
And resource sharing these days for SaaS and PaaS either occurs on the hypervisor level or the application level — the (usually Linux) OS is seen as a liability and necessary dependency for the application rather than a secure environment.

Also, current isolation technologies on desktop tend to be a lot less secure than mobile. If you assume Fuchsia, Android, iOS to be the next generation of OSes, then the trend is definitely to "secure by default". Whitelisting permissions instead of everything being allowed out of the box. Even the current generation of Linux containers is more of a bunch of resource management hacks, compared to e.g. hypervisor sandboxing or to a lesser extent, BSD jails.
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If you live in the us, you would most certainly care about inflation...
> the repo "network"

This is actually an optimization done by GitHub. It would take up a lot of space if GitHub copied the entire repo every time someone forked it, so they keep all the commits in the original repo. As a side effect, commits in forks are accessible from the original repo since commits from both repos are stored in the same place.
Managing Your Career in Tech – Part 2: OKRs for Personal Growth
I'm wondering why this hasn't affected the stock market.
echo {1..5}

is even nicer. Or

echo {1..5}{1..5}{1..5}
Thats correct. But Tracking or Profiling is Opt-In too
My teen nephew loves video games but really really doesn't want a cell phone, even though his parents want him to have one. He doesn't want to be bothered all the time. 11-year olds can be quite smart and independent. Don't you remember being 11 or 12? It's a little blurry to me as an adult but I remember the books I read and family vacations and I don't think I was an oblivious dolt :)