skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing that a banner "by scrolling down you opt in to something" means according to GDPR is that the people who wrote that banner are liars.

Quoting GDPR definitions (Art 4.12), '‘consent’ of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes [..]'.

If the site owner wants to assert that the user provided consent, it's up to them to demonstrate that they fulfilled all these criteria. If they assert that a particular action (e.g. scrolling in this case) indicates consent, then they have the burden of proof to convince the regulator or the court that the action was unambiguous, that it's clear that reasonable people would only take that action with the intent to opt-in, and not because of some unrelated reason such as wanting to read the content below. The legality of various opt-in 'dark patterns' has been tested in EU courts already before GDPR, and it's not considered legally valid if it systematically misrepresents the actual user intent and wishes.

The appropriateness of any technical measure can be trivially tested with a user survey - get 100 random people to use the site for 5 minutes, and after the "opt in" action is completed, ask them whether they know that they "opted in", whether they know to what they opted in, and whether they really intended to opt in or not - and if not, then your method for "collecting consent" does not work and the things you recorded - actions, clicks, even physical signatures in a 'meatspace' setting - do not give you any legal permission whatsoever, they're meaningless.

The one thing they can do with that banner and scrolling is to cover their information requirements, where they have the right to do some thing even if the user disagrees (much less opts in), but they are required to notify the users that they are doing that thing. But there it makes all sense that the user can choose to delete that banner if they want to, it's like the notifications in supermarkets that they have cameras - they're required to display them, but the users don't need to read them if they don't care.
The trailer ends with "Only in Theaters". What does this mean? Did Warner Bros decide to wait it out until theaters open again, or this was just an oversight ?
Then they can move further out. Your desire to not live near denser housing does not trump other's dire need for affordable housing.

If you're so concerned about carbon footprint reduction, you should be fighting as hard as you can to ban SFH policies and for pro-density policies, since land-use and long commutes are such massive contributors of climate change.
Facebook wants its AR glasses to give wearers superhearing
In the context of learning some valuable already revered wisdom I don't think you'll find much of it.

Now in a general sense there will be a lot of things you didn't expect in any book. So tons of information but not the kind you're looking for.

The most interesting thing people who read Marx bring up is how he's been mischaracterized or had some ideas misattributed to him. Which doesn't interest me all that much.
I have the option of any laptop I want at my job and I picked a nice windows laptop over a MacBook Pro and regularly get made fun of for it - whatever, could care less. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but choosing tech for fashion doesn’t describe me at all. I actually quite dislike much of modern apple and their practices and wish I could do everything that I want with my hardware.

My problem is that Apple’s mobile silicon is better (for me) than anything I can get running android. The A13 alone keeps me buying Apple mobile hardware, there’s no real competition at the high end for performance.
Don’t judge until the end
Jaymie is a long time fan of the platform, with articles going back to 2013.
That whole bullet point reads as follows:

> You (or your company) must be based in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, or Singapore, because once the pilot ends, we can only accept payment from these countries. (If you’re interested in participating but live outside these regions, please sign up to join the waitlist. We’re currently looking into how we can expand to more countries.)

Specifically note the last sentence.
That's always true though - what you're saying is "I don't like that some entities are more powerful than other entities".

Even at much smaller scale, you may need someone more than they need you, and they will negotiate like it - for legal and commercial terms.

Also, terms of service are usually negotiable - presuming you're worth negotiating with. GE has no problem negotiating with Google - you as an individual might have to take what their standard is.
I think it's telling about our society, that the only public support that was available to the mother of this 13 year old kid was the police. There were no first responders for a mental health crisis. We have pawned off our mental health treatment to our police and prisons and they don't have the tools or training to deal with stuff like this.

Maybe someday we'll have something a little better. Sweden seems to be trying to get a handle on this.

https://apolitical.co/en/solution_article/worlds-first-menta....
Isn't it a bit early to say that? As I understand it, there is still so much we don't understand about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. I am not sure whether the other strategies were better either, I think it would be a little premature to vindicate any strategy.

I am merely speculating here, maybe due to the situation, Swedes had generally been more careful than their neighbours (i.e. Denmark, Norway and Finland), because their situation remained worse and worsened for longer, and they might be seeing a downturn in cases a few months later than neighbouring countries. Again, just speculating, but I also feel vindicating their strategy at this stage is doing exactly the same.
No, it looks just like every other cookie cutter apple app..
It doesn't surprise me that Murakami's works are well-regarded internationally. His characters always read as highly cosmopolitan: they name-drop popular American bands, they drink famous European liquor, they quote Plato, Aristotle, etc. I'm more surprised that he's well-regarded domestically, because the Japanese traditionally do not seem to regard well artists that they perceive as not being "Japanese" enough (see: Akira Kurosawa).
>What actually happened was Apple un-approved Epic's license, which had a cascading effect because Unreal Engine was signed under the same license, and so software dependent on Unreal Engine became no longer signed and thus was not going to be allowed on the App Store.

Developers using Unreal Engine certainly do not sign their app with Epic's credentials.
> It’s the hazards of building your business on another company’s foundation.

This is one of those mindkill kind of lines someone posts in all such threads.

Yes, everything in the world depends on something else. Do you also say this when companies rely on utility companies for their electricity and water? Or must I buy an island and set things up from scratch before I am allowed to start a lemonade stand? Or maybe move to a different planet entirely just to be sure?
Cool tech. Out of curiosity have you considered using this technology as a backup source for hospitals and other critical infrastructure? Maybe via dedicated access tunnels underground in a city or a rooftop antenna in a more rural area?

Not sure if this is as big a problem in NZ but in Canada beavers and squirrels can and do shutdown sections of the grid - as can falling trees and large frozen branches in the winter. I can see a rural hospital benefitting from a redundant dedicated power source.
That and the higher bitrate! e.g. youtube
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Sony is a fucking joke when it comes to software (no matter if cameras or phones). For what it's worth they're so small IDC doesn't even list them on the market share diagram: https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/vendor

Huawei is not going to eat anyone's market so soon, not with Google having cut them off from Android.
A Man Who Lived in an Airport for 18 Years
This sounds like a good idea. I was lucky to get my Weather Extension listed as a recommended extension. There is extra work involved and the code reviews are strict. I plan on submitting my Link Shortener extension to see if I can get it promoted.
the test sre non sense ...they amplify 40 times .. just to find something
I wouldn't worry that it's your failure, you're just not into it.

I loved Windup Bird Chronicle. I struggled with 1Q84. I find the same thing in every creative field (art, film, lit, games); a favourite author/artist/director/company will release something I think is a real stinker while everyone else praises it, and vice versa.

Of course it can help to build up a vocab/grammar/approach to appreciate particular works or what something is referencing, but there are too many fish you'll never even see to be worrying about one author. Just hunt down the stuff you like and don't be afraid to give up halfway through if you're not enjoying it. It sounds like you've already figured that part out.
Basically, the article is saying that they've achieved herd immunity. Is that correct? As soon as a month ago I believe the consensus was that they were far away from it, with the total percentage that have antibodies somewhere around 15%.

They also have significantly more deaths per capita than all but 3 EU countries (Italy, Spain and Belgium.) That said, I definitely don't think a country's deaths per capita necessarily indicate doing something totally wrong. Belgium, for example, has the 2nd worst number of deaths per capita - literally ten times more than many other EU countries - but they weren't materially different than their neighbors in their strategy, and indeed seemed to lock down harder...
Apparently it takes around 1 V100 GPU hour per proof. Wonder if something like this might make it into developer tooling eventually.

Writing down some nontrivial invariant like 'no deadlocks are possible' and getting the result some time later seems like it could be useful. In program verification 99% of proofs can be quickly (and decidably) be dispatched with an smt solver, the last 1% is probably quantifier instantiation which a language modle might tackle.
Yes, and that is the textbook definition of retaliation.

This is the same concept as tenant rights. Just because you are renting someone's house doesn't give them complete control over your life. A landlord can't randomly barge into your house (even if technically belongs to them) and sell your stuff.

And before someone comments "But there is no tenancy here", well it's an analogy and it's the same idea. The reason tenant rights exist is because we recognize that having a place to live in is a basic existential need for an individual and therefore we place restrictions on what landlords can get away it, despite the fact that being a landlord is far from a monopoly.

Something similar needs to happen for these bottlenecking platforms that are basically existential requirements for a lot of companies. Also applies to payment processors btw.
This is incredibly cool. Plenty of food for thought. I think people would miss seeing UML type diagrams, especially for a large intricate schema.

This is what we've currently got: http://data.crossref.org/reports/help/schema_doc/4.3.7/4.3.7...
Thank you very much for explaining.

I also am pro human rights. Very much so. And yet I think that BLM does it all wrong, and all that will come out of their protests are more police, more government, more bigotry against the blacks, and more slums.

I suspect that there are a lot of people like myself.
if they asked their advanced users to pitch in $10/mo to keep at least some of that talent and to ween off google revenue, i doubt any of us would have had issues. but they did the most absurd thing possible :(
Well, other than having ten times as many deaths as the other Nordic countries: https://www.statista.com/topics/6123/coronavirus-covid-19-in...

I feel like lives lost is perhaps the better metric of success.
It wasn’t just the DRM, you had to have a certain amount of “operating system” software bundled with your game for it to run. If you didn’t have the code with your game, it wouldn’t run.
One might thing that the territorial principle based on the users (possibly long term) or companies location applies here.
> When I complained, they ignored me. When I charged back the purchases, they canceled my Apple account.

Do you have a record of that (your emails and their cancellation notice)? Would be very interesting to see how that went down.

> Purchasing the same app more than once on the same device shouldn't even be possible.

It’s not and I don’t think it has ever been.
Interesting approach using multiple locators, might use it in the future. Although in my limited experience I agree that the avg site which usually needs scraping keeps its "interface" mostly unchanged.

I guess a lot of stuff I've needed to scrape are from old CMSes or sites where its viewed as part of a cost center they're unlikely to invest in and just maintain it
Django agrees with you. The async design for Django is predicated on the idea that the vast majority of cases are better handled by threads - but very occasionally it is useful to run an async view for something that's very IO bound (calling other HTTP APIs most likely).

If you watch Andrew's talk from PyCon AU last week he explicitly calls out that sync views are still better for most cases, which is why he invested so much effort in making sure they were not negatively affected by the addition of async: https://youtu.be/ibAmA4QQDhs
Linux 5.0 to Linux 5.9 Kernel Benchmarking Was a Bumpy Ride with New Regressions
That would be tremendous.

Earth is 12700 km in diameter, so such an image would be a bit more than 500px across.

Here is a picture of the Earth that is about 500px in diameter: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3upZx2gxxLpW7MBbnKYQLH.jpg
Screw Theory (2019)
What?

It's really quite absurd to wave away every unreal game disappearing from iOS as acceptable because they were all bad games anyway. It's likely the second most popular engine in the industry, there must be thousands of unreal games released on iOS every year.

Good for the ecosystem? How many people could be, through no fault of their own, locked out of an entire platform because of this?
Should improve reliability, but carriers don't want to talk about that because they would have to admit reliability is not already good.
Microsoft Fluid Framework
It's ironical that Apple itself has become the bad Apple in the ecosystem now.
> I think Epic absolutely needs other major game studios, and major software companies, to join in their protest to effect the desired change.

Would Epic be willing to lead the fight against consoles as well (they charge 30%, too)? Oh, right...
How Much Time Is Spent at Traffic Signals?
Is there much written about the architectural models that enable this kind of customisation. This is highly relevant to my life right now, and I'm struggling to find much to read about how to build a core product that's extensible by third parties. The Apache web server, with its request lifecycle and chained handlers, is my mental model for that. But there must be other models too, and I'd like to see them described in the hopes that one leaps out as a good fit for our product and market.
The disease will not be wiped out by masks and hand washing. Germany and other countries are finding their rates of infection increasing as people leave their bunkers. The model used by most of Europe is not sustainable. People can’t bunker down in their homes forever.

Sweden’s model shows that you can keep your economy open and reasonably manage the disease. People who are going to die are the elderly by enlarge. That is sad. However they would die soon enough due to their age and pre existing issues. Why sacrifice the economy for the elderly’s two years while harming the next generation by poor remote education and harming the current adults due to destroyed economic activity?
Belgium is also reporting any potential death linked to COVID-19 as that. Effectively, almost all excess death in Belgium is reported as COVID-19, leading to a far higher death per capita reporting from Belgium. Other countries usually require a proof that it was COVID-19 before reporting it as such.
3x more people died than in places that did the consensus strategy. And they haven't stopped having more cases either. 4000 more people died than in the other strategy. It will take a long time before that difference disappears, if it ever does, and it's not like those extra years of life are something you can ignore. What exactly has been vindicated?
> Because if the app was permitted to be installed outside of the app store, it would make more money, meaning the app store offers negative utility to some developers. Fortnite is a huge brand outside of iOS. It iOS did not make the success of Fortnite. Epic doesn't need the app store's advertising to succeed, and being forced to go through this bottleneck only hampers them.

It’s the same for Epic on PlayStation, Switch and Xbox.
They often are; many get settled out of court.
>So under this hypothesis, a black hole never reaches a true singularity, but as close to a singularity as physically possible, and then it almost instantaneously bounces back like a taut rubber band that's stretched back as far as it'll go.

Kind of like a graph of 1/x, where everything behaves predictably, but there's that one point that doesn't fit?
Quote from whom? Non USA person here.
I found it out by plugging in an external monitor and Night Shift not working with it. I could believe it is specific to the monitor you have, but judging by Apple support I'm not alone:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251249337

The answer implies that it only works on about four different monitors. I doubt that's true but it seems like a shot in the dark to know which it does and does not work with.

EDIT: just tried it again with Catalina. Nope.
The existence of these databases, especially given how insecure they are is, of course, a real national security threat, but the lack of reaction from the government is telling.
You have to define your threat model. The easiest way to not get doxxed is to always use a throwaway account. Don't bother having persistent identities online.
When is this end? After how many deaths do you throw in the towel and admit you fucked up? Is treating you country like a guinea pig really a good leadership idea?

It's like saying let's wait for the company's bankruptcy before we judge the CEO's performance.

We have enough data at this point to see what works and what doesn't but there's no political will to implement since most politicians care more about being reelected rather than making short term unpopular decisions that could save lives long term since most of their Average Joe voters care more about their freedom to go on vacation and not having to wear masks everywhere than stopping the virus.
I would imagine it’s both, but it’s an interesting corner case. How much information about the EU friend is “too much”.
A similarly named technology offered by many email clients is S/MIME.

Does it support end to end encryption with PGP or smime?
>A better model already exists - thread per connection

For that you will need a language with good support for threads, which Python definitely isn't (at least not CPython), so Django doesn't have any other option here.

Native threads are huge improvement over async, but still not as good as green threads, which really are the best option here for 99% of usecases, abstracting whole async thing away.

> Thread per connection has gotten a bad name for performance which is pretty false.

With 64 or more cores being the norm, a thread with 2MB stack per connection requires 128MB just to exist (though I believe OS may offer some magick if you are not actually using it). This is probably 3-4x time what's required for green threads.
No. Most of Sweden’s deaths were due to poor management at the beginning. They shoved the elderly into old folks homes with Covid positive patients.
Sweden and the US will likely have very front loaded death tolls. Other countries will either accept the reality that a vaccine is still far away, or they will yo-yo in and out of lockdown while wreaking economic carnage.
Yeah, the current positive test rate is relatively low because much we already had 6k deaths (approximately 5x the death rate of our neighbours Norway, Denmark and Finland per capita, iirc) and loads of infected people at risk for chronical diseases. So yes - there is some level of herd immunity already (although mostly in Stockholm/Uppsala/Linköping/Göteborg).

We also do a lot less less tests than our neighbouring countries. Denmark in particular is really good at getting testing done, which is also a reason why they are seeing a spike in their results the past few weeks.
Is there a list of shortcuts somewhere? All I see is the choice for Default, Apple Mail, or Gmail. And only about half of the Gmail shortcuts I tried seem to work.
On the other hand, it looks like they're only slightly ahead of the U.S. in death rate and behind the UK, so... I'm not totally sure what that tells us, to be honest.
On youtube, you can click on the ... and click the "open transcript" link to access an auto generated transcript. Haven't checked the transcript of this video, but in general they've become quite good over the years.
11th worst mortality without lockdown? that is a win for me.
I have a few questions:

As mentioned in a top-level comment, this could be incredibly dangerous, depending on the properties of the microwave generator. Can you say what the maximum level of power density experienced outside of the laser boundaries will be? Can you give attenuation figures?

The Powerco project is listed as "a few kilowatts." What range of distances do you intend to test?

How do you expect weather to affect efficiency? Have you tested the transmission in a driving rain? Or will you turn off the system in inclement weather?
Friend of mine mentioned one place that used to be protected BLM land. To get there you needed to drive down a 10 mile dirt road. Usually there would be 0 to 2 cars/trucks parked there. It was handed over to the park service to 'protect it' now there is a paved road, a parking lot with pit toilets and two dozen cars and trucks.

This sort of thing is why I'm totally opposed to giving the park service more stuff. Park Service should stick to managing Public monuments and the half dozen national parks that serve as sacrifice areas that draw tourists way from everything else.
> It's ironic that the solution would lie in the hands of common people (change their consumption, become active), but prefer to blame rich people, left and right. Billionaires don't drive billions of cars or eat billions of beef steaks, the "average Joe's" do.

it's mostly a collective action problem. while I certainly can (and do) choose to limit my meat consumption, I need a car to get to work. there are no buses that go from my home to the office, and there are very few jobs within walking/biking distance of my home that match my skillset. I do commute in a small, fuel-efficient hatchback, but this exposes me to increased risk of death or serious injury in an accident with the much heavier vehicles that other drivers typically choose in my area. the increased driving enjoyment of the lighter vehicle makes it worth the risk for me, but I can't really fault people who choose the safer (ie heavier and less efficient) vehicles for themselves and their families.
IME it's rarely (if ever) pushback from incumbents that kills a small ISP. Generally it's all the same kinds of things that any other business struggles with - making your product something people actually want, letting people know it's available, finding the right employees, etc.