skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL This is why the GDPR requires that the default or most obvious option should be the one that denies use of personal data.

Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act [...] Silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity should not therefore constitute consent. [...]

So, all those websites that have preticked boxes where you share data unless you untick them are in violation of the GDPR (unless the personal data is required for the site to function). So are websites that only present an 'accept/ok' option, since processing personal data is typically not necessary to retrieve the page:

When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.

Websites that are designed to let unattentive users consent to data by e.g. clicking the most visible button are probably in violation as well, since it is not a clear affirmative act.
> I have an informal testing measure for how well remote and local team members maintain a distributed culture – jokes. Jokes with a team are common and tend to be impulsive. If that type of non-critical, impulsive communication has moved to Slack it often means that the culture is effectively distributed.

I think that is very insightful. Jokes are a very human, casual interaction that is easy to measure, and gives a lot of insight into how well people get along and start to actually mesh as a group.
I rarely ever see them while in the USA, or using a USA VPN.
Cryptographic tags can help protect a supply chain
A neat enough article, but surprised it didn't talk about an electronic watchdog: basically pulsing a gpio pin to trigger a recharge of a cap which holds a transistor active for a second or so, and that transistor drives eg a relay. An alternate method uses a gpio to reset a 555 timer. This will allow machinery to cut off when the embedded circuit stops looping. That is, any attached machinery would have a guaranteed NO (normally open) circuit and can only be engaged when all the watchdogs are working properly.

Some mcu pins also go into an unknown state (neither guaranteed high nor low), so resetting a cpu can have bad consequences if it's driving big machinery, if not designed correctly.

One project I had a pc sending software watchdog pings to several independent devices and each of those had an actual hardware watchdog (as opposed to the cpu resetting one in the article). I used the watchdog to physically control the power to contactors: no watchdog = no power = nothing activates.

The system controlled firing of gas burners and fans etc, but the design was very safe, heaps of redundancy and was guaranteed to fail into a safe mode at any instant.
That's the basic version without locales though, which is what the original subject is about; you need the locales to format a date in a certain locale. With locales it's 67.8K gzipped, over 500KB uncompressed - that's half a MB of Javascript you're asking your browsers to interpret as well.
Yup, 1366x768 is the most popular desktop resolution, although 1920x1080 is closing the gap:

https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/w...
This is probably the case in a lot if instances, however, it's not always the true. I think there is a lot of value to be gained for existing programmers who wish to dip their toes into something new before fully committing or refresh their skills after some time away.

I say this because it's helped me do both of these things. When MongoDB came out and I was looking to start a new personal project that looked like it could benefit from a nosql db, I bought a cheap course and was able to quickly see that boring old MySQL was more suitable. There was also the time when I needed to get back into Android development after a couple of years of doing only iOS and back-end work. For $10 I was able to quickly get up to speed on what had changed and identify what I needed to do deeper reading on.

All that said, I have trouble seeing how they will be able to make this investment worthwhile for their backers in the long-run.
But we're not intuitively familiar with what happens when those stars get really big and start being black holes and exhibiting relativity. Fortunately, like waves, we can manage the maths.
Most sites use geolocation by IP address.
What's a non-sexual moment equivalent of an orgasm?
> every startup has a magenta theme

Don’t be ridiculous. Many of them have orange and gray, orange and lime, or orange and purple!
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Science-fiction idea: will it ever be possible to test the double-slit experiment with individual neutrino? There would be multiple issues for that: the detector, the production of individual neutrinos, the isolation from perturbations and external neutrinos, the material of the slits... More seriously, it has been done with individual atoms, photons, individual electrons, but has this been tested also already with other elementary particles like gluons, bosons, muons, taus ? And another science-fiction idea: the double-slit experiment with the Higgs boson, primordial black holes or quantum monopoles...
Thank you.

GitBook's default theme is great. I think the biggest difference is that the toc is displayed on the left side and can be displayed persistently. I will improve the default theme.
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In practice I agree; I was trying to be generous and find a situation where it wasn’t entirely silly. I don’t believe the UK government has thought this thought, or indeed know what it has already agreed to in the withdrawal agreement.
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This is classic misrepresentation of European law by a Eurosceptic.

Why not link to the actual source? http://curia.europa.eu/juris/celex.jsf?celex=62010CJ0411&lan... Perhaps because the judgement clearly says sensible things like:

> In addition, according to the sixth recital in the preamble to that protocol, the Charter reaffirms the rights, freedoms and principles recognised in the Union and makes those rights more visible, but does not create new rights or principles.

Additionally, let's consider the alleged opt out, Protocol (No 30), itself. Its Preamble literally says:

> the aforementioned Article 6 [TEU] requires the Charter to be applied and interpreted by the courts of Poland and of the United Kingdom strictly in accordance with the explanations referred to in that Article

In summary, the UK and Poland signed a legal document. They then, for political reasons, signed a meaningless political statement saying ‘we don't really like this’. Of course the political statement carries no legal weight compared to the legal document.
I work in the blockchain space (the blockchain I work on doesn't use Merkle trees) and I still don't understand why there is so much hype around Merkle trees. My understanding is that they allow you to quickly check if an element is part of a potentially large set? Isn't this 'fast lookup' problem already solved by database indexing?

Can anyone actually explain this? I don't think I've ever heard a single good explanation yet.

For example, a node can see if a transaction exists by simply fetching it from the database using the transaction ID since there is an index on the ID field? Indexing already provides O(log n) lookup speed. Why do I need a Merkle proof to do this check? Especially if each block contains the hash of the previous block...

What is the use case which Merkle trees solve which is not solved by indexing?

At first, I thought maybe it allows you to verify the validity of a transaction without having the full record of all transactions, but my understanding is that the Merkle Proof still requires multiple transaction IDs to be known by the verifying node; but in order to be able to verify ANY ARBITRARY transaction reliably, the verifying node would end up needing to have a record of all transactions anyway? Because the proof will be different for each transaction... So the aggregated proof of all transactions ends up spanning the entire set... So why not just rely on the original set and just use DB indexing instead??
I think this looks really awesome. Love the design. I would put the comments higher up on the landing page (definitely above the list of features / installation guide etc).
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Depends on how they are opened.

If they aren't opened in FILE_SHARE_DELETE mode, then they will in fact be locked against deletion... because that's exactly what file's current user wanted. Force-deleting a file in this case is not the wisest thing to do.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/n..., Ctrl-F for FILE_SHARE_DELETE
Here's a double-slit diffraction sim I made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4KeWDfpXiw&list=PLpYLorG2XE...

It's purely classical, based on the wave equation however.
It happened a year ago!

On the 28th February 2019 The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019[0] was made.

These Regulations basically patch the GDPR to remove the buts about working with supervisory authorities in the EU, changes the references to supervisory authorities to name the Information Commissioner, confers power on the Secretary of State instead of the Commission and stuff like that.

The substantive provisions of the GDPR remain unchanged. There's what's known as a "Keeling Schedule" (which is essentially a visual diff of the changes) available as well.[1]

[0] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/419/introduction/ma...

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
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You can use a icon just to rappresent fat (like this one https://www.flaticon.com/premium-icon/fat_1951542) and put it next to a person like a emblem in a similar way to this:

https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/2740474/personal_protection...

hope i did convey the idea.

edit: You should probably use a icon like this one https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/830113/character_figure_man... for the person instead the one i linked, since showing only the head instead of the entire body is not very clear (i used that one only for explain the emblem idea)
I see your confusion, from that perspective, you're absolutely right. But the usefulness of Merkle trees isn't in its 'fast lookup', it is rather in its bandwidth efficient way to prove that something remained unaltered.
Yeah, on second thought, I agree with you, but now I can’t remember what Pipedream is even used for, so I guess that’s a different complaint I have about it. But most software doesn’t have a name that indicates exactly what it is, anyways, maybe it doesn’t matter. Sometimes they indicate (Word, Photoshop, GarageBand, Internet Explorer), sometimes they don’t (kubernetes, Logic, Chrome).
I've felt that Udemy courses are a good starting point for understanding a topic in a structured manner. Once you know the basics, you can move to a better, more expensive course.

For instance, I bought a course on mixing vocals in Ableton. I've watched dozens of YouTube videos on this topic and know enough, but none of my learning has been in a structured fashion. The Udemy course compiled all these lessons in a way that's better paced and structured.

Given that it was less than $10 compared to the hundreds of dollars higher-tier courses charge, I find it good enough value.
There's a lot of localization involved in these feelings as well. In Europe, the 90s were broadly seen as similarly upbeat as the 80s but perhaps a little less synthetic. In the UK, for example, europop, the Spice Girls, bubblegum dance (like the Venga Boys), jingly-jangly Britpop, etc. are more commonly associated with the 90s than grunge, alt rock, or punk revival as were more popular in the US. (When "retro" stations are playing "90s music" in the UK, they're not usually playing the Smashing Pumpkins or Dave Matthews Band, alas, but banal 90s pop.)
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This is a reasonable question to ask, although it's also a terribly wrong assumption.

First the ship has already sailed for most of Asia, where the fertility rate is already below 2 or near 2, and the billions extra are just from people getting older. China's population for instance is already expected to decrease from 2030-2035. Asking from these countries to reduce their population is equivalent to asking them to reduce their life expectancy.

In central Africa, the fertility rate is still very high, indeed. But now, remember we are talking about splitting carbon emissions? They already don't emit any carbon. Reducing the fertility rate would still be a good idea, for other reasons (they will be the most impacted by climate change-related disasters for instance).
And yet IRL it doesn't happen.

Halifax never paid the price for badly handling their data after all.
The author is not saying to stop using email. He wants you to stop pretending it can be secured. If people think that "works as intended" means their email communication privacy is secured, and their personal safety depends on it, then those people are in danger.

Basically, he argues you can't trust encrypted email for any content you would not also be fine to send over an TLS secured wire.
> I'm sorry, but the will of the people is never "wrong"

The city I live in has gold-coloured plaques on the ground outside random homes memorialising all those who died because the people elected a dictator.

Democracy is “least bad”, not “incapable of fault”.
In icon sets, variations in stroke thickness is a bad idea, without changing the context. People who can't evaluate design issues would simply categorise the product as "something's off here", or "I don't trust this". Your iconography has an impact at a deeper level.
You could do this on classic MacOS - you could copy an image and paste it into the icon box in a files' properties. So yes, you could disguise your video games / hacking tools / illicit images as perfectly respectable ClarisWorks documents.
Merkle trees allow for verification; I don't think they are particularly beneficial for lookup? For example, this paper is about a better way to verify the integrity of a "sparse Merkle multiproof".
That (the interaction with a single slit) would explain difraction but not the interference pattern (which appears when there are two slits).
> and messages can potentially be decrypted without access to private key

This is about e-fail, right? As far as I know this has been migrated and it worked in the first place only because of html messages. In addition to that it was not really the fault of gpg but rather the fault of badly implemented programs (because they did not check the mdc tag).

> Archived messages will leak

This is a bold assumption

> An e2e channel needs to have a way to inform receivers that messages should be deleted after some time

Surely the sender could mention this in the message.

> 4. Private keys eventually leak, therefore it is important that when it happens, the system makes it hard to decrypt old messages (by combining it with ephemeral keys).

This is a big usability trade-off. I avoid using wire because it takes ages (as in hours) to decrypt messages if I have not used it for a while.
Here's a JSBeeb talk by Godbolt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WuRq-Wmw5o .
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It always amazed me that deleting a remote directory with thousands of files can be so much slower than remoting into the server, and deleting the directory. I don't want to recursively list the remote files and then delete them one by one. I just want to remove the directory from the remote filesystem!

Can a tool solve that problem? (I guess powershell remote scripts could?)
Only if the Data Subject, Data Controller or Data Processor are in the EU.

If none are then the GDPR does not apply
Partners in crime - this alone negates the Oracle POV...
>it's only a matter of time before the network effect kicks in.

Can you quantify that? XMPP has been around forever and the biggest chat messengers are proprietary. IRC has been around forever, but Slack and Teams are what's actually being used.

What is the evidence that an open standard for social use-cases can actually drive use?
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It’s called “price discovery”. Consider it a form of pricing A/B testing.
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I’m fond of the deterministic Bohmian interpretation myself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_wave_theory. And there’s nothing particularly obscure about it...
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I'd just use heroku and pay a bit more(or nothing if no users?), use plugins for what you've mentioned etc.

The cost of running is marginal and if I'm lucky enough to get a lot of users, I can easily switch to anything.

There is a lot of dev cost to wire up everything you've mentioned. Serverless is very devtime-wise consuming, it's state of art tooling is still slow as fuck if you compare writing an app using Rails/Django/etc.

IMHO dev time is what hurts more running a startup, this is what I would try to reduce
And the really funny thing is that the browser you are running this on includes ICU4C which does everything and does it better and is only about 20Mb in size.
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This might be helpful to imagine what it is useful for in a real robot localization: https://veterobot.com/demos.html . Video for Unit3 nicely illustrates how fast (just in several steps) particles grouped up around real location. It is done with just four ultrasound range finders.
Interesting, though I don’t personally find that useful. I’d rather use a service that finds music I may like based on what I listen to - regardless of origin - than one where I am the curator and must actively search/browse for new artists.

It’s refreshing to hear non-musicians actually use SoundCloud to listen to music, though.
> I hate to break it to you but France and Germany both have intelligence agencies that operate in the same way as GCHQ, both are allied with the NSA (although not to the same extent), and all of these governments care equally little about the matter.

I’m aware. The point is that a court that can override a government is the only way a private person like me could possibly limit such an agency to the strictly necessary — and even then only when their excess gets leaked, because the courts obviously can’t know about it before then.
Have you ever seen "PhotonicInduction"? He did a lot of very dangerous and borderline insane stuff with electricity like running up a 20KW bulb in his house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT5_-A0m8_U (or, more famously, chucking a cinder block into a washing machine)
As a general rule icons take up less horizontal space than actual words describing what they do, which is why designers prefer to use icons.
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And yet in most countries people are able to find substantial amounts of time for education in the first ~18 years of their lives.

There's time for voter education, that's currently not being used.

As to malicious media, I hesitate to advocate censorship before I can come up with an unambiguous, simple test of what qualifies.
FYI builtin command "RMDIR /Q/S foldername" is fast, at least much faster then using windows file explorer.
That's not strategic, that's tactical.

Strategic is mocking them to prevent their stupid ideas from spreading. (Public shaming creates a resistance at scale.)

Tactical is breaking from the general strategy to help at an atomic unit (i.e. one person).
Cancelled because the planes aren’t available.

Meanwhile companies like IaG are buying more 737-Max, knowing full well their customers will base their purchase on the cheapest hit on skyscanner.
Yes, you are submitting because you have to, hence nobody is losing sleep over dealing with it in an appropriate way. You wouldn't submit if you didn't have to.
> the only way Britain will be materially worse off is if the EU was giving Britain a free ride before Brexit

Isn’t that the point of the club? To give all of the members a free ride with each other? In a well-defined way that doesn’t hurt each member but still a free ride?
Why did we ditch XMPP again?
Pioneer really worked great for us. I think there are 2 reasons:

(a) The reality of starting up is that nobody cares about what you do. This can make things hard to explain to people around you. Pioneer provides feedback and recognition even people outside of the startup bubble understand. “See, there must be something to it - some people get what we do.”

(b) Pioneer helps to track things over time. Starting up is a lot about hacking things together and iterating: Finding a good idea. Building an MVP. Getting in front of first customers (..). Having the log of my tournament submissions is a great way to collect what worked and what didn't.

..I think you shouldn’t play pioneer with an entitlement to win. It is foremost a free feedback tool. As well remember, you only see a small subset of the other players. I really enjoy reading about other projects during the weekly voting. There must be soo many cool teams out there!
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If you consider PGP something that mostly works, and Signal the fringe contrarian view

We're talking about email here, so yeah, the number of encrypted emails I've received with PGP is non-zero and through Signal is zero.
No, that is Bert.