skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this might be a misquote. DNF is a registered association/charity which is providing network services for universities and research facilities (originally German, but spreading across Europe and beyond). They are the ISP of most German Universities, and more relevant to the topic they operate Eduroam, a wifi where any student or staff member can access their internet using their login credentials (username/password login via WPA 2 Enterprise). It's really handy because even if you are at another university you can still access the wifi, and any misuse (==people getting sued for torrenting) is easy to track.

As such it stands to reason that they set rules for how credentials used to authenticate to their wifi are handled. And basically always those are the credentials for your university account.

tl;dr: almost certainly not a law, but rules most Universities have to abide to if they want to keep their ISP and wifi.
Implementations where there's only an "Accept" option are not following law, though.

The user must opt-in of their own volition, must be able to reject the tracking cookies (or any kind of tracking) and must be able to opt-out later as well.

Btw: Functional cookies (colours, session, login, cart, language) don't need consent, just disclosure (and it doesn't have to be an ugly cookie bar).
If they broke your window they’d probably crawl through it.
I gotta say, this is really unfortunate. I’m in Vancouver too and I’ve been using Evo/Car2Go since I got here. I am really gonna miss the little Smart cars.

Evo now doesn’t face major competition, which I worry about. I like their service, but it definitely seems like they’ll jack up the price.
American Southeast?
>It’s really funny to watch N. Americans buy BMWs with substantially larger engines than Germans, even though N.A. speed limits will top out at ~100 or ~110km/h.

That's not why Americans like big engines. American driving styles resemble drag racing: they like to take off from stop lights, even though their ultimate speed isn't as high as on German autobahns.
I've heard a well timed press of the escape key during "page load" interrupts something to do with "java script"?
There is a point in there I think you're missing. That is Google is an advertising company. Isn't it hypocritical to have an issue with Cliqz for being an advertising company while being OK with Chrome which is from an advertising company (Google)?

If posts from Google and Chrome are OK for hacker news then why not from others with similar business models?

I'm not attempting to say that Cliqz has an OK model. I'm suggesting self examination and consistency.
>Arrow is designed to serve as a shared foundation for SQL execution engines, data analysis systems, storage systems, and more – think Pandas, Spark, Parquet, etc. Engineers across the community are working together to establish Arrow as a standard for columnar in-memory processing.

I like to think I'm fairly techy for a non-programmer but I have no idea what that means. That might be part of their problem if that is the description in their wikipedia entry.
Worth noting, there is a HUGE difference in quality and jankiness of those games, sometimes irrespective of engine
Short-lived light sources discovered in the sky
Suggested readings:

"The Culting of Brands"
- https://www.amazon.com/Culting-Brands-Turn-Customers-Believe...

Blueprint for Revolution (as mentioned in Adam Grant's Originals)
- https://www.amazon.com/Blueprint-Revolution-Nonviolent-Techn...

Tribes by Seth Godin
-https://www.amazon.com/Tribes-We-Need-You-Lead/dp/1491514736

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
- https://www.amazon.com/True-Believer-Thoughts-Nature-Movemen...

I've read the first three. The fourth is on my short list. The common theme? Start in a tight niche and establish a core of "fanatics". With a niche and a core your odds of traction and sustainability drop off.

If it helps, use any major religion as a reference point. That is, Christianity wasn't always the dominate (?) force it is today. But it started very small and tight.

A community isn't much different. Perhaps less extreme (?), but the same basic elements remain.
25 to 28 is when the myelination of the brain finishes.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...

>Further myelination of subcortical and cortical tracts continues in the posterior to anterior direction well into the third decade of life, consistent with the time course of maturation of cognitive functions in children and adolescents.

Mish Shoykhet, Robert S.B. Clark, in Pediatric Critical Care (Fourth Edition), 2011
Ask HN: Would you be interested in a transparent and open source VPN service?
I had this idea last night of creating a transparent and completely open source vpn service. It would have all the source code available to review online for the backend, vpn box configuration, audit log of reboots, signed binaries, reproducible builds, etc. It would run as transparently as possible. It also opens up the platform to be steered by customer needs via issue tracking, PRs, etc.

How interested would you be in such a service? Would you be willing to pay a slight premium over blackbox VPN services?
Expanding on your comment about vowels, I don't think it's fair to say that music is completely arbitrary in the same way as, say, language. Whereas for language we can be pretty confident in saying that it really is truly arbitrary, e.g. see the birth and development of Nicaraguan Sign Language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language

To put this another way, two hypothetical languages developed in complete isolation from each other would be completely different. Two musical traditions developed in complete isolation would be different, but not completely different. There is still an underlying theory that unifies them to some extent. This is why music theory exists as a useful topic of study, even if it is not sufficient for writing aesthetically pleasing music. Whereas I know of no equivalent for linguistics: linguistics is truly a descriptive field, it can only describe what exists, not predict what properties a new language can/should have.
Well, you can regard that as rollover if you want. But if you do, you're regarding the second day's $120B loan as the same as the first day's $120B loan, not as an additional $120B loan. That is, even if you regard it as rolled over, it's still only $120B total, not $120B * N days.

That, I believe, is SilasX's point about quick expiry. The total amount doesn't accumulate. That's true, whether the loans are rolled over or not.
There's not much to add to this. It's true.
Antikythera device easier to build than this guitar, much?
Mind-reading bosses can tell when you are bored
Plus in most cases they are not using it directly themselves. They are several hops away in the chain, using a part that may contain the wrong type of cobalt.
We're rapidly going back to that, even in the US. In my state, I am shown a printed paper copy of my vote through a window, and actually watch it go into the submitted ballots box. I'm sure a digital record is used as well, but it's nice to know that the printed copy is there in case of a close race or dispute.
It can be adapted to privlege escalations, but it doesn't do it on it's own. You have to give it a stub to check after running the syscalls to check if the permissions are intact.
> Cookies save me from having to log into every site every time I want to use a service

GDPR allows that, and you don't need consent, only disclosure, and you don't need an ugly cookie-bar.
> Recaptcha can make you cycle through a half-dozen different images

That's when I just leave. If I'm feeling nice, I'll drop the site owner a note explaining why, but usually not.

Nobody's site is that great.
Lightweight indeed. That article seemed so promising, and then it was just arbitrarily limited by its data (as the author admits but doesn't do anything to fix).

That topic has so much missed potential. He admits he left off Venice, but what about Aachen/Aix-la-Chapelle, a historical town if there ever was one. Most of his examples are just different languages changing spelling to fit their conventions (eg Italian names ending in -o). But it totally overlooks pronunciation (Paris is totally different in French and English). It would be much more interesting to understand why cities sound different in different languages, for example London in English and Londres in French--why did they add they add the r sound to that word?
Higher pay?

Also, what happens when nationalized health care is implemented, since employers will stop offering medical insurance in many cases?
'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson to Get HBO Series
If it's a "correct" maze with exactly one way to get from any one square to any other square (as Eller's mazes are), then it doesn't matter where your entry and exit points are -- there's always one solution for any entry/exit pair you choose.
Hi,
I found this on our Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/svblxyz/status/1206948966442708992. The link on the tweet goes to the university website and it's from here that I got all the information for the story. I also found this link on the uni's website that gave me additional information - https://www.uni-giessen.de/nachrichten.html (I translated both pages).
I hope this helps.
My intention is to make rent seeking less attractive as an investment. Once residential units are bought it tends to become permanent, over time a higher and higher % of space is for rent. The other choice is to mandate equity via rent. Of some one buys a house and pays 10% down. Then rents it, the tenant pays the rent which pays the mortgage, but the tenant gets no equity. Grant equity as a % of mortgage paid during his tenure - if he moves the land lord owes him money. This will make people buy out right = more taxes etc.
This seems like a good reason to flag it.
He practically invented the field.
> the co-founders of the opioid epidemic

Do you have more info on this?
Well, yes. Do you think laws around making anti-compete clauses illegal shouldn't exist?

No, at a certain level, if you are a highly compensated employee, you should be able to negotiate that you won't compete with your employer for x months after you leave the company in exchange for a certain amount of money.

Do you reject the notion of the minimum wage?

I reject the concept of a "livable wage". It's not the market's responsibility to provide a "livable wage" since that varies based on your situation -- a teenager staying at home vs a single mom with three kids. The "safety net" is the responsibility of government. That was the original thought behind the Earned Income Tax Credit, disability, etc.

Do you think we shouldn't have required unemployment insurance payments?

No, I should be able to negotiate that I want to be a 1099 employee (and I have) and know that I won't get UI in exchange for a higher hourly rate to allow me to "self insure".

Do you think we should allow companies to force workers to sign contracts banning union membership?

What I do outside of company's time is none of their business. However, if they pay me enough in exchange for me not being in a union (which I wouldn’t want anyway), sure I’ll take the money. If I don’t want the government coming in between negotiations between myself and my potential employer, why in the heck would I want a union?

Free will is great isn't it?
> I remember hearing as a kid that worms cut in half would
> regenerate into two worms however as an adult I'm sure I
> was taught this isn't actually the case at all.

Do you mean that you're sure that you weren't taught it, or that you're sure that it isn't the case in reality. Because the latter is easily answered by reading the article in question:

> In an early experiment, McConnell trained the worms à la
> Pavlov by pairing an electric shock with flashing lights.
> Eventually, the worms recoiled to the light alone. Then
> something interesting happened when he cut the worms in
> half. The head of one half of the worm grew a tail and,
> understandably, retained the memory of its training.
> Surprisingly, however, the tail, which grew a head and a
> brain, also retained the memory of its training. If a
> headless worm can regrow a memory, then where is the memory
> stored, McConnell wondered. And, if a memory can
> regenerate, could he transfer it?
The problem is that those get stacked with defense hawks not civil liberty activists and you're back to square one.
Thankfully things can be factually accurate and still misleading. Kids mow lawns for a trivial cost when compared to professional landscapers. As such rampant child labor is undercutting and driving down wages for working professionals.
I've bought my last two vehicles used-- a 350z and g37 coupe. The 350z came with the previous owner's Home and Work addresses programmed into the GPS.

The g37 came with five different phones paired to it, and it had downloaded the contact info of all of those phones, as per the relevant Bluetooth standard.

Also, I found a registration card belonging to someone from Cupertino behind the glove box while servicing the air filter.

I guess my point is, this stuff happens even with old, dumb cars (the 350z).
Tell your deletionist editors that.
The reason is that this is mostly true for how many unions got started. Fighting for rights like restrooms, safer working conditions, reasonable breaks, etc.

That's not to say many haven't grown into something more contentious, but the narrative I isn't unearned.
Now imagine the German Wikipedia, were Exclusionists are 200 times stronger than the Inclusionists, relative to the English Wikipedia.
100 is defined as an "average" IQ, yet I suspect everyone on this site is quite a bit above that, likely in the 110-120 range and skewed heavily upwards, and have not actually interacted constantly on a long term with someone who has a ~100 IQ, much less a ~92 IQ.
The British Isles form a big protection block for the country from the worst weather coming form the ocean.

Also, if the sea level rise is caused by ice melting on the North Pole the rises will be countered considerably by the earth's crust rising due to the mass being removed from it.

Sea level rises are scary - and are part of the reason I don't live in Amsterdam / Utrecht / Rotterdam - but that shouldn't be the thing to scare us.

Food shortages and the wars this will fuel will be a problem long before the sea causes the dykes to fail (and my assumption is that said dykes are part of what makes The Netherlands almost impossible to defend).
The "bozo agenda" is a great point about early tech hires. I bumped into a few over the years and they can totally kill your dev team and young business.
You're being downvoted but I've had the same experience as well. They bias interviews that are supposed to be performance based.

Resumes are a carefully crafted signal paper targeted at getting past an algorithm, recruiter, and into an interview. They're chock full of brand names (both education and company) and keywords. There's also unconcious bias based on the person's last name, locations that they've lived in the past, and so on.

I've found the best thing to do is skim their past job roles, to set expectations for where you can start with the level of difficulty in questions.
Civilization and strategy games' progress delusion
I had an onsite recently that told me were were going to be building something that had to interact with a postgres database.

I built out the entire backend prior and took copious notes because getting stuck looking up things like “how do I initialize a postgresdb” (something I do maybe once a year, if ever) would eat up time.

I think I did pretty well at that onsite because of the fact that I prepped before hand and they didn’t seem to mind that.

It’s weird to me because in general most engineers are rarely if ever creating an entire stack from scratch and it can be very easy to want to do such a thing methodically and with best practices in mind.

How would I enable hot code reloading? How do I set up PostGres so I’m not just connecting as super user which is obviously a security risk? Etc etc.

To be able to do these tasks under pressure with an engineers mindset is tough and you either have to really drill down and focus and stress that in a real setting you wouldn’t be connecting as superuser but for the sake of time in this particular toy exercise you will be.

Being able to prep was essential, and even so, I still stumbled here and there with unfamiliar syntax.

Interviewing is not a solved problem.
Perhaps I misunderstood what you meant.

A patient has no obligation to adhere to HIPAA rules for their own PHI, if that is what you meant.

In my medical work, a patient directed request is one where a patient has authorized the transfer or release of their PHI. That transfer/release is absolutely covered by HIPAA.

However, if you are a covered entity as defined by HIPAA, you are required to be compliant to the privacy and security rules set forth in HIPAA for PHI data.
ZFC was created to avoid the paradoxes inherent in Cantor's set theory work.
Joel also had a community going already with the "business of software" forum (imo the spiritual predecessor of HN, patio11 was very well know there) and the comments sections of Jeff's blog was a great place for discussion too.

They also had a really good podcast going as they were developing it.

And a good 'bad guy' too, the site with a dash (experts-exchange).
I am very disappointed about their departure, especially after all of the nonsense promises related to their merger with BMW's ReachNow. I asked their Twitter account re. used cars and they gave me conflicting information: one said that the Mercedes are leased from the parent company and sent back while the other (more recently) said that I should check local auction houses since that's where they dispose of them.
None of this seems likely. It's like moving out of San Francisco because an earth quake might happen. Even if a freak hurricane arrives (it shouldn't since the waters aren't tropical, but whatever lets say this somehow changed in the next 50 years), even if, you'd have weeks to evacuate people, so casualties shouldn't be too high. Infrastructure would be damaged yes, but doesn't seem to me like something that devastates the country. The water will eventually be pumped out. And btw what do the once in 10000 years storm defense are preparing for if not just that?
Consider that car sharing, when run by one of the car manufacturers like BMW, DB or VW might be a way to tune financials (overproduce and dump) and their fleet mileage numbers by producing more small cars.

If one of these reasons goes away it might become much less attractive to them.
> the health issues have nothing inherently to do with THC

Daily smoker here and I think I'd disagree slightly. We've been hearing for decades that "today's weed" is stronger than the 60's or whatever. But my understanding is that modern extraction techniques made this something of a reality now that oil is so widespread; I've been continually shocked to discover the number of people I meet who own vape pens. Most of them use it responsibly, but the stories this summer described people who vaped hash oil all day long. Even if the cartridges weren't tainted, my guess is that this is qualitatively different than smoking flower all day long.

Still not even same ballpark as the opiate explosion after I graduated high school.
without cameras in the stalls the uncomfortable toilets will be vandalized and intentionally broken until they are replaced
> A minimum wage is anti-market.

A minimum wage is essentially a subsidy for certain poor people which comes mostly at the expense of different poor people. It's a very silly and inefficient alternative to better policies to help the poor, like a UBI.

> So is paid time off

This is also basically useless (but not as actively harmful as a minimum wage), because not long after it's passed, the value of the benefit gets priced into wages. If people wanted lower wages in exchange for paid time off then there was nothing preventing them from negotiating it to begin with.

> parental leave

Almost the same as paid time off, except that it's a cross-subsidy in favor of new parents, so you couldn't negotiate it in exchange for the same wage reduction in a free market, since you get the benefit (and wouldn't negotiate for it unless you intend to use it), but the wage reduction is spread across everybody and not just you.

Notice that you could get the same cross-subsidy with less distortion by having the government pay your salary during parental leave rather than the employer, because then the cost wouldn't fall disproportionately on employers of parents. That would also require the government to do a more accurate accounting of the cost of the program rather than passing an unfunded mandate.

> anti-discrimination protections

This one's the weird one, because in theory it's a useless requirement since discrimination is irrational and money-losing so nobody should want to do it anyway. But that was a different story when you had white people refusing to patronize employers with black employees or then women, so the original reason this got passed was in the nature of antitrust, which is pro-market. It's debatable whether we still actually need it anymore but it probably doesn't do a lot of harm since (unlike e.g. minimum wage) it isn't prohibiting anything anybody has any good reason to do to begin with.
So saturated fats good, unsaturated fats bad?

Last I checked it was unsaturated fats good, saturated fats bad, trans fats literally Hitler.
Doc Gets New Heart, Loses Residency in 5 Weeks
+1
Pricing of the book should be easy, worth its weight in gold.
Google (search), Microsoft (OS, especially early on), Dreamworks (rendering, animation), Oracle (database, early on before OSS database got good).

It's the exception, not the rule though.
> , which was never academic outside of a cadre of upper class dog-eat-dog New Yorkers

Can you explain what you mean by this?
This seems like a bit of a misconception in the article. The university website [1] states:

> For security reasons and in accordance with the legal requirements of the German National Research and Education Network (DFN), there is no alternative to this procedure.

I'd assume the DFN requires all users to be personally identifiable for liability reasons. Although requiring all users to show up in person is still a bit odd. I just received a letter with a one time password by regular old mail back when I entered university.

[1] https://www.uni-giessen.de - English version of the second article is available by scrolling down a bit.
Could putting pebbles on beaches help solve climate change?
> The app, it turns out, is the easy part.

I dunno, I don't know anything about self-driving cars, but when the people making self-driving car SaaS say the software part is difficult I tend to be inclined to believe them.

Even if these sorts of entrepreneurship cliches are true in most cases, I don't think it's a good idea to use them to write people off without doing any critical thinking.
I'm afraid this doesn't have enough corporatocracy or dystopia, but thank you.
Ha! The number of letters has nothing to do with it, as evidenced by maaaany other languages that are phonetic with no more letters.
Read up the Sackler family and Purdue pharmaceutical.