skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets imagine the EU making a law that has nothing about cookies, but instead focus on personal data and when it may be collected and when it may not be collected. The law may not even need to mention cookies except as one of many examples, like a radio frequency identification tag. The focus of the law can instead be about why someone is collecting personal data, and what the purpose is.

The law could say something like: If you are collecting data in order to create an profile of a person, and the person did not ask you to do a job which require such profiling, then you must ask for permission.

Nothing about cookies, nothing about a popup, just intention and consent. And here come the surprise. That is current GDPR. It mention cookies exactly once, as part of an non-exhausted example list of identifiers which is commonly used in order to profile people. Cookies has the same importance in GDPR as profiling a person based on what screen resolution your device has, and you may notice that there are no screen-resolution-accept-banners anywhere.
I wonder if there's an inverse relationship between the level of pressure on scientists to publish, tweet, blog and demonstrate the social relevance of their work, and groundbreaking advances in fundamental physics.
This is the state of science in a lot fields unfortunately. Many reviewers skim the paper, put in a thinly veiled complaint about why their own paper was not cited, and don't bother with the code.

The code itself is always usually a mess: no readme, no license, random binaries, and a 'pipeline' which is simply a bunch of perl and python scripts cobbler together from snippets found on the web.

People publish, then move onto the next project. There is no maintenance.
Nordic Semi seems to been handling it somewhat decently now, by acknowledging the flaw officially.

https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/pdf/in_133_v1.0.pdf
In fact, the Objective-Smalltalk site (http://objective.st) is served by an Objective-Smalltalk web server, with the incoming URLs converted the PIs and then dispatched via nested Storage Combinators. ( https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3359591.3359729).

:-)
How wide spread was this then? It seems like in the late 70s and 80s a lot of children (as in less than 15) learned programming young but this has dropped off in the 00s with the general rise of helicopter parenting and infantilization[0], and even with things like arduinos and such it seems like kids pick it up in class but then move on to other things. You certainly don't have young people actually end up developing actual things apart from the exceptions.

[0] this is my hypothesis around this in general tbh.
You can stop Facebook scraping your site via robots.txt, so the control is at the publisher. If FB crawler is blocked then it can't scrape anything and only the link is posted.
That's a noble practice but I think everyone should stick at what he does best, for a better overall efficiency.
As long as you make your paper easily available, as another commenter said, another person can make it more comprehensible for the general public.

One of the causes of the slowdown (even if marginal) of science and research in general is the administrative and social media overlays that were added to them.
The moment you delegate your security or stability concerns to a third party, all bets are off. Period. Package maintainers, RedHat, whoever.

Maybe the patch fixes a vulnerability, maybe it creates one. Maybe the company pushing security is really pushing mindshares of ecosystems for subscription revenue and industry influence.

Build from source; keep your packages as minimal as possible; keep your permissions as granular and restricted as you can manage; and pray to your gods of choice.

I can't understand why people are so anxious to embrace so much unneeded complexity. Things that "just work" always just work until they just don't.
Because drag and dropping blocks is the same difficulty as writing it down just with more steps.

The difficulty isn't in writing the code, but specifying exactly what you want to do.
IPNS has been working for a few years already. Both the dnslink and actual IPNS. However an instance of the IPFS daemon can only serve a single IPNS address.

The real problem with IPFS is that hosting a node requires a lot of bandwidth. I regularly tried to self-host an IPFSite but it makes make internet access literally unusable. So I abandoned that idea for good and now I use a free external service for that.
While title is ragebait for sure, Google intent to eliminate URL and replace it with "something better" was clearly stated more than year ago. This article tells us they didn't give up on their efforts.
I'm not arguing for or against the list being fake, but just because there's a video doesn't mean it's real or relevant.

For example, the other day there was a video being posted around of alleged police brutality, where an officer was using force to arrest some woman. The video was 1) from 2018 2) conveniently trimmed to exclude the first part where the woman was resisting arrest.

There are plenty of people trying to push a narrative right now, so just be very critical of the information presented to you.

Source: https://downtownbellevue.com/2020/06/05/video-surfaces-belle...
For fun I put this into OpenAI's new API:

Alice: Bob, Can you translate "Eat my shorts" into latin for me?

This is what it replied without any training:

Bob: As it happens, yes, I can.

Alice: Great.

Bob: Ego sum vestrum braccas comedisse shortus.

Alice: Exactly what I was looking for.

Google translate says "Ego sum vestrum braccas comedisse shortus" means "
I have eaten your pants shorts."
Maybe this can set an example for the rest of the nation, then.

There have been calls to abolish the police. If Seattle can do it, maybe Atlanta and Minneapolis too.

I think that's the right answer: this should be a local decision and each community should decide the level of policing it wants (including none at all).
Talking about cars: first car was most economical one, second one consumed more because of catalytic converter. Third one is a car for fun not for commuting with massive fuel consumption.

Old FX-8350 was available for this one shot Linux project. Normally virtual machine is ok. I had lots of thoughts what I do with good old hardware when upgrading to Ryzen, I delayed it for more than a year. Luckily it was solved this fortunate way and I do not need throw working things away.
Most of what a good police force should be doing isn't adversarial. The police should be trained like peacekeepers.
Weather Underground is one: https://www.wunderground.com/pws/overview
They do, they mention it in the third paragraph of the introduction.
This feels a bit like the tide pod challenge. It isn't necessarily RH's fault that a group of bored teenagers have decided to spend their spare time lying on the internet about options trading. It starts with a small group of trolls thinking it would be funny to bullshit about something and before you know it you've got a community that's a wonderful mix of people in on the joke and people actually burning their life savings (and more) on complex financial instruments without even the bare understanding of their mathematical properties.

Tide never advertised their laundry detergent as edible, but they still had to deal with it and come out and actually advertise that you shouldn't eat tide pods. Similarly, I think, with Robinhood I think they actually have a responsibility to actually inform their customers the real risks associated with what they're doing.
In the course of one thread, there's now a series of sequential arguments from several different commenters progressing from:

"A lot of these videos don't show anything wrong", to

"Well, here's at least two videos that show nothing wrong", to

"Okay, the video looks bad, but the full context probably justifies it", to

"Sure it was wrong, but keep in mind that in a stressful situation everybody makes mistakes".

I'm eager to see how these arguments continue to evolve once comments move away from isolated video clips and into the territory of police departments lying about video footage[0], or 57 other officers resigning in protest over basic disciplinary actions[1].

[0]: https://www.newsweek.com/buffalo-mayor-acknowledges-mistake-...

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/us/buffalo-police-suspension-...
Architects have designed a Martian city for the desert outside Dubai
> When I hear about slavery, I think about the poor people that did not have any freedom, not about black people. There have been african slaves in africa, asian slaves in asia, european slaves in europe and native american slaves in native american civilizations for thousands of years.

Yes, slavery has been around for a long time in many countries, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve our terminology.

> Forbidding vocabulary like this only reduces the quality of debates on the long term and does not make anything better. That is how dictatorships works.

This vocabulary hasn't been forbidden. The word is still used, it's just not used re Github.

That said, I consider Github's proposed change to be virtue signaling. Was anybody actually upset at this, or are changes being made just because they can be?

Update: Let me know who disagrees with what. I've disagreed with points made on both sides, so maybe that guarantees ire?
Depends on whether you switch them on and off to follow load. Newer chips/systems have better idle characteristics so if the system is always on,its probably worth it to upgrade for that reason alone.
But India and Brazil still don't have great social mobility. Most studies in that area are still pretty young and it's too early to say if that can increase social mobility in the long term.
It is a fun quiz.

However, since it's random, why do you have to stick to the daily regeneration? Could it be regenerated per request or is it somehow managed manually?
Actually, content-based addresses is really critical for decentralized web stuff - since you can't trust a single source to name data, and instead want many different parties to participate in the same global address space in a secure and trustless manner. Check out the dweb primer for why working with a base-layer built on content addressing is so powerful: https://flyingzumwalt.gitbooks.io/decentralized-web-primer/a...

IPNS is used by many groups to create a mutable layer over IPFS (it recently got much faster in our 0.5.0 release in April), but you can also use tools like Textile, OrbitDB, or other mutable databases built on IPFS.
Just in case they get sued.

..while their ads preference dialogue has pre-checked options which is clear violation of GDPR...
MIT’s tiny brain chip could bring supercomputer smarts to mobile devices
How is posting a link considered stealing content?
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Not really very obscure. It's an incredibly popular show and I would be willing to bed that at minimum 50% of coworkers would understand the reference.

I don't think it's very difficult to use context to understand what's being said by the commenter.
I'm totally with you on this. I think it has to do with how I remember and retain information as I learn. I subconsciously use contextual, visual cues to remember where some piece of info was to refer back to ("that one figure in the middle of a page in the section with a giant blue block of text"). For some reason, I completely lose this when learning via digital textbooks. I think it may have to do with the need to zoom in to really read anything properly.
They always added whatever new stuff mostly to the single product, unlike Google.
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EU requires consent notice for non-essential cookies only. So mostly for advertising purposes.
The imbalance of power
> Because speculative trading is a zero sum game, it creates no wealth. And no, this isn't wheat farmers hedging bad weather.

Even farmers hedging bad weather isn't what it used to be:

http://nategabriel.com/egblog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/6-2...
Probably not, but for history purposes it would be a pity.
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> not as long as people don't introduce Rust into the base system

If your base system uses Firefox or ripgrep, Rust is already there.
On desktop you can usually long-press the back button to get a list of the recent history and jump back two steps to avoid getting stuck.
Even if I try to imagine an Australian perspective, demanding Google and Facebook pay the newspapers 10% of revenue seems pretty bizarre.

It would seem better to just charge a 10% tax on advertising, put that in the general fund, and then subsidise newspapers however you see fit, which may or may not amount to the same AUD but can more easily change over time.
There needs to be a psychology study done with cops to understand why they act the way they do. I believe there's an underlying problem in how they are trained or something else because police brutality is kind of a global phenomenon. When someone kills or severely hurts the people they are supposed to protect, it seems like there's something else going on. I've been in a few protests and I can easily say that I have never seen more hatred in someone's eyes other than the cops that were beating up people.
I agree that people should be happy. My daughter living in an area where she can't walk at home in the evening is not happy. Not being able to heat your home because you can't afford a decent place with good windows is not happy. Having the other people decide what you can or cannot do because you are not solvent is not happy.

She can happily take over as managing partner of my firm if she wants and cash out or use that expensive school education to get a top job and learn to FIRE early; she has options.
>I've never seen an example of riots breaking out in a city before police instigate violence with rubber bullets and tear gas.

LA Riots in 1992. Police pulled out to avoid conflict and it resulted in looting and burning for days until the National Guard showed up.
Pay and qualification go a long way to achieve quality in teaching. To get excellent people to become teachers, you need to pay them at least similar amounts as they could get elsewhere and give them some guarantees that their job is safe. Changing back from being a teacher to the industry can be hard so the easiest way to get bright people to become excellent teachers is by educating them as teachers and promising them a secure job with good pay. That makes getting rid of bad teachers harder but that's subjective anyway. Sure, some teachers might be awful but most way to test this focus purely on academic outcomes which don't incentivize teachers to help poor students with little prospects.
For those that do not feel brave enough to build a weather station from scratch you can buy a 'Watson W-8681' Weather Station and hook up a Raspberry Pi to it to collect all the data.

Jim Easterbrook (ex-BBC engineer) has a really good write up on the process, and also shares his python code:

http://www.jim-easterbrook.me.uk/weather/

I don't know Jim, but I have done the same following his instructions.
The entire article is full of this kind of humor; you like it or you do not.
If the police officer is suffering from PTSD, a mental illness, and it originated at work, the police department as their employer should look into other options first before firing the unfit officer.

Treatment combined with appropriate work should be the first option. Treatment combined with sick leave should obviously be the second.
If recent history with AMP has shown anything, it is that yes, we need to bring our pitchforks every time.

And also precisely because of AMP, this might be a very dangerous step towards blurring the lines between original and AMP pages.
> It's been very much not secondary to the PR effort behind it.

I disagree, have not seen container mentioned in PR materials for flatpak even once. I actually was not sure they were using that for sandboxing, I just knew they did some manner of sandboxing as it was making things break in some cases.
This seems to be a fundamental economics issue: Things are only valued when they are sold. It's much more profitable for companies to sell me the same thing over and over again every couple years, than to sell me something repairable that will last for decades. Most measures, like GDP, don't capture the inefficiency of this, because they don't capture the value of the things in my house that don't need to be replaced, they only capture the value of the new stuff I buy when the old crap breaks. I think this has many detrimental side effects: There's the opportunity cost, because the money I spend on planned obsolescence could have been spent on other products that added more value for me and the world. It wastes natural resources with more stuff ending up in landfills and CO2 ending up in the atmosphere to manufacture and ship the replacements. And finally it helps reinforce the need to work stressful jobs to have enough money to keep buying these things that keep breaking - it's harder to have 'enough' money. How do we as a society encourage products that last?
Does this enable using PoW to run something like Ethereum VM/contracts?
I'm just not sure how else it's supposed to work. The law says, "Can't track without consent." How else could that be put into place other than popups informing you of the use of cookies and asking for consent? I'm not trying to be a smart-ass, if someone has a better idea I'd be all for it.
> at minimum 50% of coworkers would understand the reference

Quick spot check in my company's Slack channel -- One person in our team of 12 knew what the reference met.
Well first, what makes you so sure they don’t have more assets than liabilities? The filed for chapter 11 (restructuring) not chapter 7 (liquidation).

And second, even if their liabilities exceed their (physical) assets, creditors are very reluctant to actually liquidate larger businesses. I don’t know exactly why but just looking historically, creditors tend to be much more willing to take a haircut and keep at least parts of the business operational than to demand their full pound of flesh...
I think you are very much misinformed on the subject.

You're not sending unencrypted streams to Jitsi, as it uses hop-by-hop encryption, meaning you send an encrypted stream to the server where it gets decrypted and re-encrypted for the rest of the participants. At no point you are sending "plaintext" data. What you might have heard is that Jitsi will be introducing end-to-end encryption, but it doesn't mean it doesn't have encryption at the moment.[1]

I think it's a misnomer to say WebRTC end to end encrypted by default.

If you cannot guarantee end to end encryption during the negotiation phase, you cannot trust that the party you're encrypting for/receiving encrypted content from is the actual party you are expecting to communicate with, hence the need to independently verify over a trusted channel whether the fingerprint in the SDP offer/answer matches.

After the negotiation is complete, the streams will indeed be encrypted, but if the offer/answer SDP has been tampered with by the signaling server, which is under the control of a rogue/compelled provider, and another DTLS certificate has been inserted, the encryption is useless as far as complete communication security is concerned.

[1] https://jitsi.org/blog/e2ee/
He said:

> those who didn't work

He didn't say "those who wouldn't work".

People that receive money from government programs include the disabled, aged, carers, students, those seeking work who can work, and those not seeking work who can work.
I'm willing to compromise on how treatment/employment is handled, especially if the problem originated at work, but I assume we're still in agreement that the officer shouldn't be on the street making arrests?
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I'm pretty sure "build from source" is out of reach for most people (from a technical ability standpoint), and for those who could do that, most have better things to do with their time.

If your threat model includes intentionally malicious packages from Red Hat, Debian, or whomever, ok, but understand that you're a miniscule fraction of a percent of the user base. And you'd better be auditing the source that you compile as well.
You just need to find the right digital device for you. I much prefer reading on my iPad Pro 12.9 inch to dead tree form. The only disadvantage is that I cannot have 2 books open at the same time easily :-)
“What you post on the web lasts forever” is a warning, not a promise.
>I would really hate to be learning Swift now. I started using it around the v2 release and I think it had nice syntax & was relatively small and opinionated.

But the Swift team / Apple doesn't seems to be aware of it. ( At least a few internal Apple devs completely reject Swift for their project.) That is why I think Chris Lattner trying to make Swift scale from Javascript down to C was wrong from the start. And Swift will be like C# on Windows.
> If the parameters and switches are overly verbose too, they can't help you there.

There are parameter aliases too, proxy vars and you can shorten their name to unique subset which gets you as far as you can get anywhere

> Either way, you have successfully convinced me to give Powershell a try one more time once I get some free time to experiment.

Thats good to know :) Do it right, and you wont regret it, I can promise that.
What are the numbers? Ten times as many black people die from black-on-black homocide as police killings?

Even if it were just twice as many- I think it would be reasonable to wonder, if you were being utilitarian, what approach would save the most lives.

An uncharitable reading of your comment might interpret that fighting racism is so relatively important it's worth sacrifing some net black lives for it.
Nah, just replace it with the community_scribe_of_appropriate_self_hatred. It can be aliased to 'scribe' if it helps, though it loses some of it's power.
I had that too until I installed Zotero, its zotfile extension, and a PDF reader that lets you highlight selections and add notes.

Zotero then has "right click -> extract notes", and you get the stuff you highlighted in a new document, with links back into the PDF.

That has completely turned around the experience of reading PDF textbooks for me, it's such a neat feature.
A bit unrelated to this.

For showing the weather forecast I have this by my door. https://fluffyelephant.com/2015/12/reuse-my-ebook-reader/

A quick glance in the morning and I know if I should bring an umbrella or not.
> As long as you make your paper easily available, as another commenter said, another person can make it more comprehensible for the general public.

I'm not sure you appreciate how hard this might be for someone who is not closely connected to a project.

The people who can do that reliably will have: a) the academic chops on a similar level of a peer reviewer b) social media skills. a) puts them back in the bracket of people you don't want to 'slow down'.
Don't throw all police officers into one bucket.

You have some outliers that are violent and the rest just does their job - keeping the city more safe.

Also don't assume all cases of police officer shooting a person are cases of police brutality - this is for court to prove.
Maybe you should stop brain washing your daughter with these lies. Have you considered showing her the bible?
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> So Flatpaks also install under /var? That's horrible

Why?