skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like it supposed to be a Scandinavian language, most likely Norwegian or Danish. It could be interpreted as Swedish as well, in which case the correct corresponding Swedish sentence would be "och en till javanissen". A "nisse" is in Swedish something like a gnome, so "javanissen" would be "the Java gnome". The full translation would then be something like "and one for the Java gnome".

I'm not sure if there's any deeper meaning to the joke. I didn't think much of it until I read the subsequent paragraph of the text and figured out what was meant by "og én til javanissen".
I wonder how many US colleges will go under if many students dont return after the covid vaccine appears. Many were already hurting from a small GenZ cohort, competition from well-paying non-degree opportunities (now dubious), and current administration strangulation of immigrant scholars.
If I said that, it's an observation. If the chief of police said that, it's an implied threat. This is because I don't have the power to initiate shootings, while the chief of police does. There is a power differential, and statements can be viewed in the context of the person making them.

This is why phrases like "we should nuke them from orbit", which might be calls to violence if made by a head of state, are generally seen as satire, because there's no chance of me actually nuking someone from orbit. Context matters.
Are you actually kidding me?

Do you know who else decided to shoot rioters? Iran, Syria, China.

Are you saying this is what we've come to? In that case, more power to these rioters to rid us of this disgusting state.
That’s a false equivalence. The difference with your truck argument is that this air vehicle is specifically designed to monitor and shoot missiles at targets (“extrajudicial killings” is the phrase used). A truck carrying a missile launcher is different because trucks weren’t created will the express purpose of carrying missile launchers.
I actually link to [0] in my text in the end when I say we should 'rethink education'. :) I did not know of the full talk, and I am very grateful for your link [1]!
The government doesn't appear to be breaking any laws though.
Female amputee's limbs from male donor change skin colour and size after surgery
Here is a very recent (likely put out due to this as it's not a full opinion) ruling on the topic: https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/05/27/facebook-twitter-a...

"Freedom Watch's First Amendment claim fails because it does not adequately allege that the Platforms can violate the First Amendment. In general, the First Amendment 'prohibits only governmental abridgment of speech,'" the court wrote, citing a previous opinion issued by the D.C. Court of Appeals. The judges went on to say that "'a private entity who provides a forum for speech is not transformed by that fact alone into a state actor.'"
This is true in theory. In practice, as has been seen with Covid PPE, the price "gouging" threshold is sometimes set below the cost of production (due to fixed startup capital costs), preventing production. This paradox is severe for products with low marginal cost but high fixed cost, which is most things nowadays thanks to modern economy of scale.

Price laws are per unit, but peoduction costs are amortized across a whole production lifetime, and the difference between "X units per month for 10 years" is quite different from "10X units per month for 1 month" is substantial.
yeah, apples software has the same flaws as everybody elses ( especially safari )
GDPR is poorly designed. It deliberately uses super vauge and imprecise wording. That is bad enough when operating in a common-law legal system where that is the norm. It is inexcusable in the Civil Law system that much of Europe operates in.

Consider you offer the ability to users to voluntarily submit reviews of restaurants. One reviewer complained that person seated at table next to them was excessively noisy, and that upon asking the waitstaff to do something about it, they did nothing.

It is actually entirely plausible for a company like Facebook to have enough information to be able to determine exactly who that other person is, given that review. For example if say both posted images of their receipts to Instagram. Why would they do that? Beats me, but plenty of people do things like that. Under a wide but not at all implausible reading of the personal information definition in the GDPR, that review qualifies as personal data of the person at the other table. The definition of personal data is "any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person". And that review does include information about a natural person, and we have shown that the person is theoretically identifiable by Facebook.

This means if that other person asks for all their personal info from the site, technically that review should be included. But most likely even Facebook does not yet have the ability to automatically identify this other individual. However, the regulation does not specify any applicable exception, so if you fail to turn over that data (despite having no way of knowing that review pertains to this specific individual), the supervisory authority could still legally fine you.

Would you ever be fined for that? No of course not. Strictly speaking nothing in the wording of the regulation would prevent them from doing so. But obviously they have so many bigger concerns, and are unlikely to bother interpreting things so widely.

After all, there is not a single large company that operates in Europe that is fully compliant with the GDPR if interpreted widely. There quite simply cannot be, since the costs of actually identifying everything that could count as personal data under a wide interpretation and ensuring the company can always look up 100% of it without ever missing any would bankrupt every such large company.

And that is only touching on one little aspect of the GDPR, and one that is unlikely to actually be a major deal. Much worse is how vague the "legitimate interests" reason for processing is. That is the reason that many companies are relying on for much of their processing, and nobody can say with any certainly what cases are included in that, and what are not.

So obviously the best the companies can due is attempt to follow the spirit of the regulation rather than the letter. But of course, if you do that, you cannot be entirely sure the regulators will agree with you.
If you're not familiar with the phrase, "sword rattling" is something you do when you're trying to avoid conflict. If you want to attack someone, you just do it.
He has been charged with murder and manslaughter.
You say "nobody's interested". That of course is "patently false". For one, pwdisswordfish2 is apparently interested. The author and other users of the software he/she says she uses are obviously interested. There are numerous projects that aim to use overlays. The overlay idea was used by one company that sold multiple times, ultimately to Microsoft for billions of dollars. The HN readers who upvoted the comment describing small overlays are presumably interested in seeing the idea presented in a comment.

The stated purpose of this forum is intellectual curiosity. There is nothing in bobthepanda's comments that is directed at that stated purpose. Why is he/she arguing about email usage when the quoted sentence refers to setting up websites? This looks like more of the "straw man" argument technique.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
I think there is a distinction between just creating content on a platform, vs. actively recommending content and surfacing it to people not already explicitly following the person.

The latter is a type of tacit endorsement that to me, falls under the guise of "publishing", even if it's done in an automated fashion.
This used to be the case but was fixed earlier this year. You can now disable images in the Gmail iOS app: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?co=GENIE.Platf...
I don't think this needs to be settled ahead of time. If we shut off the tap of infinite student debt funding I guarantee the universities will magically discover what administrators and departments are dispensable quicker than you can imagine.
The issue is there is no transparency about what is happening with the data that is being collected.
Don’t get kicked out: a tale of rootkits and other backdoors (2019)
Military theorists disagree.
In your opinion what got censored in this case?
Do you think that telling someone to "shut up and listen for five minutes" is an effective way to communicate your message? How would you respond to such a lead-in?
For the tips screen (May 5 update), can you elaborate on what the app store team made you change about it?
Not sure what you mean. Free speech as a concept apples to them as well. Free speech as a law however does not force them to keep content up.
How to make a free web app safe liability-wise?
I want to provide a free web application to researchers to conduct their behavioral experiments online during the Corona pandemic (many labs are closed for the foreseeable future). It runs the experiments and stores the collected data (from the participants) in a database and file system. It's all set up from the technical side (jatos.org) but since I'm a programmer I have no clue about law and regulations. I do not expect any trouble (researchers are usually rather kind) but I wonder what is the minimal stuff I should put into my app to make it safe liability-wise? I searched around but couldn't find anything but long EULA like agreement that seem to me too much for this temporary free web app.
Aha! Thank you, that helps explain the title and the Where's Wally. Because of the tweets around it I missed the sarcasm of the Wally one :)

Not sure if this helps, but to me the tweet analysis seemed a bit shallow. I know there's not much room in a tweet, but it was making each analysis remind me of the South Park episode with the business empire of the Underpants Gnomes (Step 1: Collect Underpants, Step 2, Step 3: Profit!).

I think if you had submitted a link to a blog post rather than a tweet, and the blog post had more depth explaining everything that happened with Lego, I wouldn't have thought of it as weird spam.

I like the idea of analysing business events from over 30+ years ago though, and I wish you good luck with the newsletter! And especially trying to write it in a second language - I've tried learning foreign languages but I'd never be able to write a regular business newsletter in them!
There's plenty of "speech" criminalized in the US: many crimes are just matters of conspiring to X, or fradulently X... which may have been conducted entirely in speech.

The relevant kind of speech for "free expression" is that which seeks to express an idea/opinion/belief of the speaker.

That isn't criminalised in the UK as far as I'm aware, and would fall under the EHCR protections in any case which are in UK law as the human rights act.
> Last I checked Facebook and friends still exist.

Last I checked there are studies that suggest the current social-media solutions have a negative effect on mental health, and those effects are likely because of the platforms' efforts to drive up "engagement" levels. Regarding the ads, I have first-hand experience of my non-technical friends falling for outright scams (requiring a chargeback), dubious snake-oil being advertised or malware on major online ad networks (not an issue anymore thanks to an ad blocker).

> Many europeans lost access to various publishing sites (another win for the big guys)

This doesn't seem to significantly impact me or anyone in my network. If this was a big problem we'd notice it and/or a EU-based, compliant competitor will step in to fill the void.

> Collectively who knows how many millions went to lawyers to reverse engineer the vague GDPR standards

Somewhat agreed but this seems to be a side-effect of companies trying to lawyer their way out of the law, and the reason this works is because of the lack of enforcement. If it was enforced it would be a clear message that these efforts don't work and should be stopped.
Thank you, it helps a lot!
Did the police burn down and destroy $1B of property?
> should we not allow trucks on the road?

Perhaps not ones designed for carrying ballistic missiles.

Though this still isn't a perfect comparison because it ignores the fact that drone usage can be targeted to individuals, which is a factor that makes it more dangerous in our context of homeland operations.
> But even if we go by business metrics, a collapse of democracy would probably be bad for their businesses.

But the ride the will be extremely profitable and business have shown to care more about short term than long term. Some examples are Nestle guzzling ground water during droughts, Johnson's baby powder with talc, the entire oil gas and coal industry, Pacific gas and electric company, etc.
> There is no objective "ethically correct" anything.

That's correct. Luckily, objectivity is not necessary.
In my mind it is memorized as duck.com, its what I type when need to load their homepage directly and its the domain I tell people if it comes up in conversation.

Duck.com seems nicer to me but shortening askjeeves.com to ask.com didn't seem to matter, so what do I know.
The high-road leads to where we actually want to be.

I was thinking about what you said in the other thread about trolls, and I think you're off-base. Trolls aren't zen master ego busters, they're the self-hating jerks they seem to be. The "zen master ego buster" story is just another layer of the ego trip.
No, they are being murdered, how would you respond? We can't possibly understand the anger these people feel. If an innocent man is murdered by police, and they riot as a result, we need to start listening.

As for the domestic terrorists, they were all out and about the city. Either way, a group of people with guns you watch, how could you know where they'd go next, or what they'd do. And the core fact is, if those white people were pepper sprayed by cops in the same fashion, they'd be rioting too.

Edit: I should emphasize that I don't condone torching random businesses, what I am saying is that as a white person, thats not my opinion to have in this discussion since its anger boiled over. Some people just had enough, and I don't blame them. We don't get to decide their form of outrage.
They literally burned down a police precinct though, so I'm afraid you're incorrect.

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/29/protesters-take-mi...
Surely, you aren't comparing mass murder, likely an international crime, to spray painting a building or stealing a TV?

Property != people. People > property. Period. Nothing else to consider.

Additionally, it's fairly common for security forces to instigate criminal behavior during protests in order to justify the extreme measures they use to suppress those protests.
Which was a terrible thing to because it harms the community and their own cause as it makes them look like thugs and villains.

And there have indeed been many taking advantage of the situation to steak and cause chaos for chaos' sake.
> CNN is a publisher. They are responsible for anything that gets posted on their website, and can get sued accordingly.

This isn't true though. CNN/NYTimes/etc can't be sued for 3rd party comments on their site. CNN is also allowed to filter what comments make it on their site. These are not opposing ideas.
Except there's simply no way (short of the US falling into a total dystopian future) that someone is going to launch a missile on the Mall of America this week from this drone. Again - let's be realistic here.
Sorry I diverged a bit. You're right: DoH servers can still see when a box is online and possible keep logs/timestamps of requests. I would trust a DoH server more than a standard DNS server simply because it would be catastrophic for a DoH server's reputation if they were found to be handing over logs to third parties. Cloudflare keeps logs for 24 hours then deletes: but there's still that time window of a day to worry about :/

BTW: You can nuke NTP requests by doing:

sudo ufw deny out to any port 123
This is great, thanks. I'm always behind on Matt's daily email and this will help me catch up. I do wish he would guest on more podcasts!
This could be explained by the difference between fixed costs and marginal costs, and the fact that in person students paying higher fees subsidize part of the fixed costs.
I follow a similar procedure, with one more step:

1) If I never signed up goes immediately to SPAM.

2) If I did signed up I make the effort of going through their unsubscribe procedure.

3.1) If I still get e-mails after (2), I file a request for my personal data under the GDPR (EU citizen here).

3.2) Once I got that, I use the GDPR to delete all of the data associated with my account / e-mail address.

4) If I still get e-mails after (3), it goes to SPAM.

With step 3, I hope that I can make them notice their bad behaviour. My goal is to drive up the costs of that behaviour (so they get incentivised to change it). Also, I'm generally interested in the personal data that a service has associated with me.
Pointing a gun at someone is a threat even if you say it's unloaded. The US government should not be threatening its citizens.

> The government could in theory drive a ballistic missile launcher hidden in an 18-wheeler into any major US city - should we not allow trucks on the road?

This is a straw man, the Predator is a weapons platform, nothing is being hidden here.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/influenza-and-pn...
Exceptional first cases pave precedent for unexceptional normalization.
man 3 crypt | fgrep '$'

It's been done before. ;)
Just opening now; this looks amazing. I can't wait to read through it all!

https://simplifier.neocities.org/fluxset.html is very interesting, for example.
The outside officers were also acting on direct orders from the FBI and not SPD or the city mayor in the case of the WTO riots. Having been in said riots where idiots dressed in black started smashing things, thus drawing in the FBI (and there's been numerous accusations over the years that the Black Bloc groups were also under FBI direction). Getting whacked by a baton while I was filming was not fun but I got whacked because the officer missed his actual target who was standing slightly behind me and had been busy throwing bricks and then dodging in behind other people.
Sure. If you mistreat a dog for long enough and then let it loose in a playground it may very well react by mauling random children. Usually the end result is the dog getting euthanized because it’s not capable of living peaceably within society anymore, so I’m not sure that’s really the analogy you want to go with here. I would expect grown adult humans to have better judgment.
I've heard of them but I figured it was a periodic thing to make sure the stores automatic accounting aligns with actual stock to adjust for stolen, damaged, or misplaced product. I didn't think it was for checking expectations.
Would it be any different if it was a police helicopter manned with a guy with a video camera?
That sounds much better, love the idea and it's almost as easy, just need a custom 404 page template.
Not even with nearline, or offline storage with M-DISCs organized in cassette/magazine-systems, handled by robots?

Which are located right around the corner, btw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

Yes, yes, i know, conspiracy theory, also bankrupt!

But funny coincidence, isn't it? :-)
http://help.mail-list.com/m/59114/l/558254-rfc-2369-list-uns...

There's and RFC for List-Unsubscribe headers.
Reminds me when the EU "Fixed" Cookies and now we have these stupid click-through warnings everywhere that have pretty much ruined the user experience. Root cause: people passing laws they have idea what about.
> delivery and tracking pixels confirm the address is real and being used

I use Thunderbird, which doesn't load that stuff.
Fellow HN user, I welcome you with warmth so please don't take what I say offensively, but as a different perspective.

> What happened is awful. It doesn't reflect how genuinely kind people in Minnesota are and how we, collectively feel about what happened and the movement at large. There will always be edge-cases as there is with any situation in any context. But for everyone that I've known, for everyone I've met and encountered with in Minnesota, when I look back at my time spent on either coast I always have found the people in Minnesota to be great.

Characterizing what is happening as an edge case is a huge mistake. People do not spontaneously start protesting with so much anger if it hasn't built up over so long. The police do not act with such impunity against citizens "just in this off case". It needs to be systemic for the reactions to be this strong.

If you haven't experienced this personally, that's great! I will not question your experiences. But please understand that others have not had the same experience. They've had such a bad experience that they're willing to go out in the streets during a pandemic to say "enough is enough". The police have had enough experience to be well prepared with crowd control tools and to use them immediately on peaceful protestors, when they could have de-escalated. People don't burn down a building they consider a symbol of tyranny just because of a single incident; their experience so far has ingrained into them a deep hatred for the police who are meant to protect and serve them.

As others in this thread have said, please try to listen to other perspectives. People experience different realities, and all of them can coexist without having to disprove the other.
More likely re-pricers going crazy.
Police helicopters don't have hellfire missiles as standard optional armament.

Also police helicopters are operated by local/state forces. This is a federal agency which is way out of its jurisdiction.
Well if we can speak with such absolute certainty, I'll go next: there are dozens of undercover and rogue police officers involving themselves in escalating all the bad stuff
> Because that's the equivalent of me giving you my address, dob, SSN, etc just for entering your store

So what? If you don't want to give me those things (ad tracking isn't nearly that bad, btw), then don't enter my store. And likewise, if a consenting adult doesn't mind giving out that info in exchange for entering my store, why prevent them from doing so?

Don't agree to my terms, don't enter my shop. It's as simple as that.
One is purposefully designed to surveil and kill (the Predator drone), while the other has a variety of uses. That’s where I draw the line: what was the purpose of creating it?
> The leader of the United States encouraging law enforcement and the military to shoot American citizens for looting, that's the line.

Is this supposed to be bad? I actually wish that our own PM had done the same. I am sure that the citizens of a lot of countries that live under the rule of criminal syndicates, looters, and highwaymen would agree.

It seems that the US citizens are fine with state mandated violence as long as it does not include them. Nothing happened regarding https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21018041 for example.
There's a reputational issue at stake.

Would you shop at a store where a bottle of soda cost $1 but every hundredth bottle of the same stuff, or on Tuesdays at 4pm, was marked as $5?
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My enjoyment came from learning a new term "contango" [0] which set me off down the rabbit hole. This whole article is a joy from the oil futures to the coffee shop.

[0]https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/contango.asp
Isn't that similar to the idea behind hashcash [1]? I don't know -- was hashcash used anywhere? Or were the ideas there leveraged in stuff like DKIM/SPF?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash