skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how does giving me the ability to instruct a social network to delete my information (and a law to enforce that instruction) infringe on the network's first amendment rights?

There is a difference between the right to deletion and the right to be forgotten. Right to deletion is "I gave you these data, these data are mine, please delete them." Right to be forgotten means "you have these data, they concern me, please delete them".

Say you tweet something. That tweet, under current law, is Twitter's. Let's say a right to deletion is enacted. Now, you can require Twitter to delete the tweet from its records. This is great!

Now say that while the tweet was up, a newspaper quoted it. Now, when someone searches your name, that article comes up. A right to be forgotten means you can require search engines de-list that article from your search results.

Rights to deletion don't necessarily interfere with the First Amendment because they concern your first-party data. Rights to be forgotten, by dealing with third-party data, often public, published data, are more problematic.
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The company is from Germany, possibly a single-person company.

He/she's not a native speaker, might not have access to a native speaker for proofreading and a spell checker wouldn't pick up frontier vs barrier.
The bill [1] is currently ambiguous....

A bill written by a bunch of clueless lawmakers to legislate technology - there couldn’t possibly be any unintended consequences.
I agree. But this is the government, they are definitely going to be loathe to accede to that request.

This is a "take what we can get" type of step.
> Is that the effect you think the calibration is having?

I have no idea. All I know (or at least I'm pretty sure of) is that you have to re-calibrate every time you lose coherence, otherwise it would not be calibration, it would be a one-time process that would be considered part of the construction of the QC.

> where did you see that?

Nowhere. I inferred it. It's possible that I'm wrong, but I'll give you long odds against. I have a pretty good understanding of how QCs work.
It is indeed arguable that the data item relating two people is owned by both and necessitates consent for republishing. Export though ... it's still 'mine' even if shared ... I don't know, this bit is a little sticky.
Easy thing would be to go see a dermatologist if you have access to one. They can give you recommendations.
Yeah. We don't have enough data for a solid proof. On the other hand, WWI and its sequel were really sobering for Europe.
For God's sake can the US government stop meddling in this kind of garbage. The republic is collapsing around us and we're supposed to be conserned about being able to port our facebook posts over to twitter. WHO CARES
Thank you :) Totally agree, I feel like embedding in Go doesn't get enough credit considering how pleasant it is to use.
I use a blog, personally. It doesn't capture everything, but I do try to capture the big things.
Realtime video effect live-previews
Not sure if shredded. The author detected no significant bias in blind auditions due to gender. This may or may not mean that blind auditions are more effective in equalizing opportunities - are fair.
This is an area that I'm keenly interested in. I desperately want to capture more information about my life both for posterity but also as a power-assist tool for my normal work/life.

I have noticed that many of the solutions here do not really translate well into cell phone use. Most of my life is not spent in front of my own computer. Even though I spend a lot of time at a work computer, it is heavily restricted (defense industry) and thus can't be used for personal projects. Anything I use has to work with my cellphone as a 1st class capture interface.

In my case, I recently decided that I since I am a heavy user of wikipedia, I should just use mediawiki. I'm used to it and it is well supported. The syntax isn't great but it has great API support. They have a decent cell phone interface, though I find that it isn't fast enough for taking notes. So I take quick notes in Evernote and move them into the wiki when I'm at my home PC.

It's working okay so far. I need to put more effort into my workflow. I want to have an automated infrastructure for capturing my various data from social networks, email, calendars, things like that.

Side note: I can't believe we are coasting into the year 2020 and copy/paste is still so friggin bad on my cell phone. Android has had copy/paste from text entry fields for a long time, but I still can't copy text out of most apps. WHY??? Case in point: YouTube descriptions and comments.
yadm. It's a very thin wrapper around git with a couple of quality of life improvements (like being able to have encrypted files + the ability to execute a bootstrap script on the first pull of your dotfiles).
They are different kinds of websites.
> A bill written by a bunch of clueless lawmakers to legislate technology

This has been Silicon Valley's party line for why we can't be regulated by governments, and should instead be left to self regulate. While I agree with that for start-ups, it's patently failed with Big Tech.
Come off it.

> I'm open to hearing this developer's criticism of Apple

You're clearly not.

And while it's common not being open to considering something because something ticks you off as not credible, the effort to which you seem to have gotten to point out some typos is -- in the best interpretation -- puzzling.

Even a stickler for misspellings would just have commented "This is so badly written I can't take it seriously". There's something else going on.
A command line tool that makes machine learning with Keras easier
My one-person business is teaching Salesforce online.

A decade ago, I made a living selling Snuggies online via affiliate marketing.

My career has had more pivots than Kobe Bryant.
Writing a multithreaded CSS engine and shipping it in Firefox :)
> Facebook already has a data export feature.

No it doesn't. It doesn't have the phone numbers or email addresses for the vast majority of people, even the ones who have their email address and phone number in their profile.
Common Instagram Advertising Mistakes and How to Avoid It
I think we'd be better off with a bunch of small private colleges going under. The weaker yet still expensive and shrinking enrollment private colleges are dying slowly. They are just soaking up resources that could go other places.

One example is Cottey College, a small college in Missouri that is trying to get one of my relatives to go there. Down to below 300 students and shrinking fast.
no, not exactly. the euclidean norm can be defined to fulfill a couple basic properties or equations (like composibility, or schwarz' inequality, but I don't recall exactly), and it's pure coincidence, if you will, that the norm is equal to the root mean square. That's not circular reasoning.

The name euclidean norm implies that the geometric angle (no pun intended) was the motivation, but what's really central is a question of epistemology. There's not much of a point to prescribe a certain approach over another, without a good argument.
> It is applied by the various regulating agencies

I was making a broad statement about rule making processes in the Europe (EU and member states) versus Europe. That said,
GDPR is independently interpreted by each of the EU's member states. It is a complain-investigate regime that does not bind one member state to the other's precedents. That's a lot of leeway for regulatory variance.
The TFA is literally "How to not" as in "how to avoid" not "How not to" which would be "Here's the wrong way to do it"
It's called resume driven development, and the reason it's done is because it helps those who do it get jobs
How did you gather teslas to have something to sell on the website initially?
> I'm very confused on how the extra $100 would meaningfully affect the project in either time or BOM.
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That one change was the tip of a very large iceberg. They easily added somewhere in the order of $50K+ to the total cost of the system. I could have installed triple the power generation capacity for that money.

BTW, I did the bulk of the work on this installation myself (with the help of my kids here and there). No general contractor involved. Had there been a contractor on the job the cost would have been far greater.

Before someone jumps in and says "You probably screwed-up the design" (after all, this is HN). I designed the entire system, hired a civil engineering firm to review the design and calculations as well as provide stamped blueprints and calculations (you can't get a permit unless you have this).

I also consulted with the same plan checkers throughout the design process (before hiring the civil engineering firm) as well as with my suppliers and buddies who had built similar systems.

I only hired the civil engineering firm one the plan checkers told me verbally that all looked good and I should move forward, hire the engineering firm and submit the drawings and calculations for official approval and issuance of permit. I got verbal "All is good" from the structural, electrical, planing/zoning and fire plan checkers.

Three days after I submitted everything for approval the very same plan checker who told me all looked good rejected the very same plans he and I had discussed during weekly meetings for about two months. Things got surreal from there.

I spoke to multiple contractors from different trades during my many visits to the plan check office. I did not find one who did not have horror stories --multiple horror stories-- about dealing with these people.

Anyhow, it's a somewhat distant memory now.
> The gap between a quantum computer will increase exponentially as the number of qubits is increased. This is fact, assuming quantum mechanics is correct.

I agree, but then there is no need to prove quantum supremacy after all. This entire business is about whether quantum mechanics is correct or not.
Here's where law gets complex. Who took the photo? They hold the copyright. Who's in the photo? They have some [limited?] publicity rights. Perhaps those in the photo would need to consent to have the photo republished, which is not, IMO, technically enforceable, but only legally enforceable when someone hires a lawyer/files suit.
extensions are one lump sum offer away from becoming malware

e: immaigne people down-voting facts https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/-particle-chr...
In his interviews he really doesn't draw attention away from the interviewee. You're right about him having a strong personality but it's obvious to me that he tries very hard to never outshine the person he's interviewing.
These calculations of 2.5 day and 1000 years, they're calculations based on specific parameters, right? Could they just prove it on a smaller version of the problem instead? Can they do a version of the problem which takes maybe 1m on with IBMs algorithm and 1 year with Google's?
i wonder what caused them to limit their platforms so much.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of new versions of libraries, especially CSS/JS?
It is a bit easier to keep track on the server side, but how do you keep track on the client side of things? Say if there is a new version of bootstrap CSS or jQuery, do you use any trick (other than manually checking)?
It looks very cool. I like the "free with attribution" to "premium" model you're using.

As an aside, I really don't understand the other people in this thread linking to competitors. It feels a bit rude on a Show HN.

"Here is all this hard work I did"
"Great, I love X competitor"
Email being an open standard doesnt give more people access to my email. It gives more people the ability to communicate with me if I so choose.

Just because a social network were build on open standards doesnt automatically invalidate a persons/platforms ability to permission their data.
My life as an immigrant developer, therefore cheaper, hired to fix the shit of the elite quitters :D

Sometime I catch them a few weeks before they quit and I get to ask why they developed a low level http server in java interpreting controller code written in javascript that nobody understand but them. "It's much more efficient than using php or nodejs or higher level java" "you benchmarked ?" "I have to go do more knowledge transfer, bye"...

I dont know what I'd do if they were allowed by the company to do Go or Rust :D Guess I'd redo their wheel reinvention in the majority language of the team... increasing the overall constant migration I see again and again...
It takes a very wise man to realize something that sounds like the obvious answer won't make you happy.
How Facebook Bought a Police Force
I thought the title was making a joke, but then I read the article and IMO the actual article title of "How to not RiiR" is much more indicative of it's content than the HN title of "How Not to RiiR"
Pretty surprising. I don't use Google maps though, but it works fine with all the websites I go daily.
I personally don't understand avro, are there tools to write the schemas easier? The json format is very difficult to read and it just seems so clunky compared to protobuf.
How so? Why do you assume I don't know what I am doing?
Interesting.

Now if only the images with code actually had the snippets in code form I would be able to share the blog post to other people.
No, it is just that the word is used differently in common practice.

If "literally" can now include figuratively, then "monopoly" can include oligopoly.
how much time do you spend maybe talking to people who are constant clients? or is there little interaction?
So do I and I don't pay for it, and I can sign my apps. What's different in your case?
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My first thought was how much energy they are squandering.

Guessing the glass roof to collect sunlight in the day.

Seems like merely rolling out mirrored mylar (horizontal) curtains at night would be worth it in energy cost savings alone, and of course create the benefit of minimizing light pollution.
FWIW I've found Clojure has pretty decent support in a few editors. I know Cursive is quite popular, but I've also used both VS Code and Atom to some extent, and they have nice features.

Somebody else could probably speak more to it than me, since I do primarily use Emacs, but I definitely don't introduce my friends to Clojure with it.
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Ask HN: Failed one-person online businesses?
I saw this very interesting question a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072
But what are one-person online businesses that didn't make it? Why did they fail?
the basic OS install is rarely what you would consider a "good state" (unless you have superficial use cases, maybe). That being said, I'm surprised people don't use recovery points/custom windows Install images more. (especially in a business environment when installing multiple computers)

They can save you a lot of pain.
If you are using GitHub: Dependabot helps a lot.
Copy and paste on Android worked well before iOS, both in ability and timing. I remember being confused my wife couldn't copy and paste with her iPhone when I had a password manager. Copy and paste on iOS took way, way too long. It's interesting how you're claiming you were doing things that didn't exist for the device.
Another reason I'd prefer things to be rewritten in Rust rather than using bindings is that calling out to external build systems introduces its own set of problems. I've run into the most problems with C-based dependencies (slower builds, OOM errors, confusion over static vs dynamic linking, etc) than any pure-Rust dependency.
Why do any SW/QA engineer routinely accept to work night and WE? Of course this is gonna be non productive and produce only buggy crap. I expect any reasonable person to understand that, and only very naive and/or junior people to not.

So just don't. What is your employer going to do? Fire you? Good, you don't want to work there anyway. And especially if you work at Apple, it is going to be easy to find a new job.

Refuse to ship crap. Refuse to work in insane conditions. If you don't it is not your employer's fault. It is yours. (I'm saying that in the context of highly qualified jobs, like engineering -- it does not apply to other situations where the employer has all the power and people are easily replaceable and sometimes have a hard time to find a job.)
idk, people seem to commute by bike even in the winter in Anchorage, AK... It isn't like there is a fresh dump of 6" powder every day. Most places, you get a dump of snow, it's sloppy for a day or two, then back to packed down snow and ice.

When faced with something like that, I usually just switch to the bus for a day
Thhis isnt even about theft, but that people give their permission willy nilly to bad actors. Thats not a solvable problem
yeah, no.

i've never heard him say anything like this. i've also watched the entire Firaz episode.
Civil unrest that gets expressed via stable democratic institutions is just fine. My concern is wars and violent revolutions, which (hopefully) are on their way out.

I dream of a day when wage labor is looked back on as almost as oppressive and horrible as chattel slavery. We're a long way from that, though. The technology is almost here, but the political will is not.

The trick, then, is fulfillment. How do we give our lives meaning, if not through our labor? And how do we fight the brutal addictions of social media and passive consumption in order to achieve individual meaning? I fear a future where we don't have to work, but rather spend all our time sharing memes about how lonely and depressed we are.
At this point, if Facebook wasn’t public and I was Zuckerberg, I’d wind down the company and update the home page to simply read, “I’m leaving it as I found it. Take over. It’s yours.”
I had the same experience trying to write a plugin for Logic Pro early this year. None of the old documentation or examples were relevant, and I never did find anything from Apple that did work. I finally used someone else's framework as a starting point.
Too busy tryna learn to play the damn piano
Based on user's post history, I think you are wrong.
That is ridiculous. Does anyone know if that's the case with GCP / Azure too?
great autocorrect!
> In my state of Texas, for example, there is no personal income

I see. I live in an heavy income tax state, so I think that is why my mind went there initially.

> You don't think corporations should share the burden of feeding, clothing, housing, and healing the nation in which it reaps its profits?

Oh I do, I just don't want those things connected to employment. I am not comfortable with the current coupling of health care and employment, but corporations paying adequate taxes to fund these services offered to all I'm all for.

Thanks for the reasonable conversation, by the way. This thread has helped me learned more and think about different viewpoints on this topic.
I just wish there would be a way to hold these doomsday preachers responsible. In the end they will all shrugg it of with that smirk of 'oh back then we didn't know better'.
I think their API restrictions really started earlier as an effort to push users to their official app.

Granted your points are still very valid / a concern.
I call all those posh sounding "platform security" types being much like "antivirus" makers, trying to sell a non-solution for a problem to technical illiterates.

What they claim sounds impressive to CEOs and such, but everybody in the industry knows that anybody with straight hands can probe a chip, and somebody with ion beam equipment can do pretty much anything he wants with it.

For example, chips from credit cards, said to be "physically impossible" to tamper with, are known to be copied by somebody in Eastern Europe.

If somebody becomes a victim of credit card cloning, proving the bank that it was not you who withdrew money on other side of the globe becomes nearly impossible without going to a court.
True. With current and soon to be tech we can build surveillance much more pervasive than what the book 1984 describes. It feels like it’s almost inevitable for this to happen.
I couldn’t agree more. And on top of that:
How often you have to make an emergency bug fix? why do you need make constant fixes and patches? What do you mean by paid updates? Do you want users to pay for fixing a bug, that you introduced? Do you only test on your end-users?
.. a type checker?
I think they're referring to MacOS app store here. Certain applications might need access outside of the sandbox for certain features to work so a non-app store version would have more functionality than the app store version.
Accusations of shillage are also a violation of the HN guidelines.
Cross compiling to what? Autotools is probably the most portable piece of software out there as far as Unices are concerned.
Rich countries do indeed adapt better to climate change than poor, but the point about GDP is to show that in the future all countries will be rich countries (compared to the present).

If wealthy nations today can adapt to rising sea levels, and today's poor countries will eventually become just as wealthy, why will they be unable to adapt as well?
What that could lead to is a build-up of social network information brokering services, like how PCI compliance forced people to stop storing CC numbers on their own.

I'm okay with that. I worked on so many small e-commerce sites early in my career that just had a "CC" column in their user database, and it was all so sloppy and horrible. None of these would have been a big enough target for serious hacking, but also the security was never so good that an amateur couldn't walk off with 1,000 cards.

Now, payments are all handled by people who treat that data much more seriously. I certainly trust Stripe or Shopify over random web dev X.

If personal data starts being treated with that kind of care -- and the interoperability and exporting is also important -- I think that's only a good thing, even if it means that Google and facebook get a head start on that.
>uses state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms

:eyeroll:

I wish people would stop saying this. It's just cringy. Just say "adapts to you as you use it more" or something similar.

I don't care if it is hot-sexy-ml-algorithm or boring as heck. In fact, I would bet most applications are really boring, well-known algorithms.
get rid of the scrum masters and agile coaches first, please.
Thanks no worries
Started with apps in the early ios and Android days. Made quickly about 300k a year with them. I quit my job as a developer and focused on apps only. They still make roughly 0.5 million a year these days. I bought several real estate in the years after and they give me about 15k monthly in rental income.
I did spend 2 years doing almost nothing except traveling and spending lots of time with my kids. Then I co founded a more serious company where I act as the CTO. We got quite some people working for us so I back in normal work life. Work 4 days a week from 10 to 6. I actually enjoy it more than before.
Being somehow free of constant thinking about money is a really nice thing though.
I can see why small clients want to look like everyone else. Or I would guess look the same as bigger brands. It looks professional. They don't want to stand out in a bad way, so it's safest to go with the already established.