skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is to manage potential external liabilities. A business doesn't want any sort of liability they have automatically costing them if they can avoid it. They're more than happy to have anything that profits them automatically generate revenue, but if something could potentially lose them thousands or millions, they want to make sure there's a human-in-the-loop from management to check off. Not meeting SLAs or service outages are a good way to cost them money.

Few companies really respect their engineering teams/divisions in any sensible form from my experience, though I'm biased (even in heavy R&D environments). You're simply a means to an ends.

I understand your point though (and identify with it), but I find any mechanism/option that provides a way of containing potentially damaging information is going to be pushed by management over the option to release damaging information that a responsible engineer may want to disclose.

You're in a culture where admitting fault or liability is like pulling teeth and ripping finger nails off. It shouldn't be IMHO (we should own up to our mistakes and be reasonably forgiven), but that's unfortunately not the culture we have.
The American self hate / leftist meme ("America is only great because it robs other people") is fascinating. There are very good arguments against it.

I wouldn't assume the opposite and become a boastful patriot either, but maybe the big leaps taken in the past were so good that people got lazy. You didn't need to innovate or only innovate for money (which isn't nearly as effective a motivator as being annihilated by Germans or ICBMs). There is also the argument of low hanging fruits, but I find that it's easy to undervalue the inventions of things you already know very well.

There is no grand narrative anymore. Things are just chugging along. Covid is a new narrative and voilá: mRNA vaccine.
So far, you are ahead in these Olympics of pedantry.
Idk. The very presence of this is a test for confidence that nobody has asked for in the first place
If we remove cash in Europe (EU), we would immediately get negative interest rates. Cash is also far more flexible. I pay most of my stuff digitally, but I will certainly keep my cash. It is a universal language and I am not dependent on shitty payment processors.

Also drugs, blackjack, hookers, betting... the sins of life require subtle channels. Not saying I do anything of this, but to disregard certain necessities is hopelessly naive.

In my country you wouldn't even be able to give 20$ to a workless friend on social security because the state would immediately freeze the money or substract it from the next payment.

"But I like to pay with my phone and it is so practical, I don't use any cash anymore." - yeah, you do that, buddy, right now it is a really good idea to do so.
When you read biographies from the early 20th century like Edison's (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/820) you get a sense of how quickly innovation moved. And, how far ahead the USA was, of everyone else.

Also when you read these biographies you realize that science education has never really been appreciated in the USA or England. These countries do occasionally spit out great innovators, but not because of the educational system. It's because people in the USA are free to peruse what they want, and the USA has lots of capital.
What about wordpress. It’s weird,it’s somewhat clunky, but it’s easy to set up and put content out.

It’s got plugins for everything which is a blessing and a curse.

The problem is you require a theme to start and choosing one makes is hard.
There's nothing wrong with solving legal, cultural, and regulatory problems with technical solutions. It happens all the time.

British colonists solved the legal, cultural, and regulatory problem of unfair taxation with the technical solution of firearms.

The legal, cultural, and regulatory problem of a literate elite dominating culture was very satisfyingly solved by the technical solution of the printing press.

Technology is socially disruptive. Governments and corporations are more than willing to take advantage of this, with CCTV, Great Firewalls, adtech. But they aren't omnipotent - why should we give up on fighting back?
Companies like Google or Microsoft aren't big enough? Google's Chrome and Microsoft Office alone I would wager are more than big or popular enough to get special treatment

Adobe is smaller by contrast but I'd speculate has a much deeper relationship with Apple as well
Calls for 'right to repair' electronics laws grow louder across Europe
I think the challenge will be persuading courts that actions that users are paid to undertake in public and contractually agreed to reassign relevant image rights to are [i] 'personal data' under the intended meaning of GDPR and that [ii] something they didn't have informed consent about the possibility third parties might have access to when signing those contracts. Proving actual instances of harm suffered from the dissemination of unfavourable statistics is also going to be tricky (even though there are undoubtedly players that have lost out). It's plausible the net effect of increased statistics on player salaries is positive; certainly they haven't gone down on average.

Since most player contracts are frequently renegotiated and most clubs use third party databases and generate revenue from betting companies (so if necessary they'd all end up with clauses permitting this data use), the long term effects of a favourable stretch of the definition of 'personal data' are more likely to have chilling implications for people collating activity/performance metrics or compiling biographies of other types of public figure anyway...
Hmm checkin.app or strive.app better find a new name.
In other news France faces power cuts and electricity rationing as shortage threatens [1] (despite announcing the contrary last June).

[1] https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1362163/france-electric...
The link to Dan Abramov's Things I Don’t Know as of 2018[1] was really eye opening.

[1] https://overreacted.io/things-i-dont-know-as-of-2018/
A waste of 11 years of life
It might be a good idea to figure out how to teach something like that before making a school for it. How would you teach different feelings and emotions?

I find one of the fundamental ones is pain. It's not an emotion, but it's not that easy to classify what is actually painful and what isn't. Holding a phone in my hand isn't painful, but at some point I managed to do it so much that it did become painful. I don't know how to describe the pain, but I know that I am apprehensive of holding a phone in my hand for extended periods of time.

Another one is stress. People might not know they are stressed, but they are. They just can't recognize what stress is.

What I'm getting at is that a lot of things aren't taught explicitly. We don't even know how to teach some of that, because we don't have a good classification system for the feeling/emotion.
How does Tor resolve .onion domains?
Hey there!
I've looked up many resources on the onion routing but couldn't find an explanation on how the tor router knows which server to ping with a huge hash and a .onion TLD.

Since I've read that tor does not use a DNS like we know it from the clear web but "through a proxy" like Wikipedia says in their Tor article how is routing possible and how does the network know which server to register with which hash in their systems?
How come no one did this before lol
The GDPR primarily focuses on the intent of the person processing or collecting the data rather than whether the activity you engaged in was private or public, although it does take into account reasonable expectations around privacy as well. I suppose it focuses on that because it's more flexible to enforce.
Ask HN: Tips for building web-app permissoned access
Hi all, I have an inch of knowledge in front end programming (self taught), and as part of a project, I'm looking to develop 'permissoned access' for a web app I've been building. What I mean by that is allowing users to create accounts and storing the relevant data for those users securely for when they return to view it. Do you have any resources, tips, or advice on where to start in building this? Thanks
"We only use the constructs that are fast and efficient, and we avoid all the garbage."

Is there any open source project that one can study to understand how to code like this?
I’m curious how you were able to remake the game with the same physics. How was that process?
A great read. Too bad the images no longer load on the page. I would love to see what these books looked like.
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Hmm, but what if it acts unethically? What if Grimm's right and it has a hand in the death of quite a few people. Is that censorship? Or asking to take responsibility for flaws in the machine?
I'm not certain what your point is here. You can buy veterinarian training equipment online, but so what?
Yes, the Medicare price would rise somewhat as it would no longer be subsidized by other insurers and the uninsured.
As someone who's studied the topic quite heavily, here's my issue with no-holds-barred legalization (I consider "legal" to mean "can manufacture and distribute" in this regard, like tobacco). Drugs that couple very tightly to the VTA (brain's behavior-reward circuit) actually can lead to lasting changes after few or single exposures. This is amplified by rapid absorption routes - injection, insufflation and inhalation. The main players here are heroin (DEA sched 1), meth (2), cocaine (2), GHB/Xyrem (3), some benzos (4), tobacco (legal), and analogs therein. It's hard to have a casual habit with these drugs, as they manipulate the brain's behavioral calculus itself.

Note that the DEA schedules are all over the board. The current schedule system has barely any correlation with harm (see work by David Nutt).
But we are also in a weird place where access to two of the most destructive drugs in real measurable effects - alcohol and tobacco - are legal.

At bare minimum we need to overhaul the schedule system, legalize drugs with low/moderate addiction potential (weed, psychedelics, ketamine, phenethylamines, the Shulginoids), and legalize everything in personal possession quantities, and for scientific/medical research.

High-addiction drugs should probably be medically gated in some way.
Totally agree, it can be a game-changer if you invest in it. Thanks for reading my post :)
A company in Europe is still subject to US pressure on their own government, even if the company itself doesn't do business in the US.

The US prevented ASML from selling their EUV machines in China by pressuring the Dutch government not to renew ASML's export license, presumably by threatening more than just ASML's access to American suppliers and customers. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asml-holding-usa-china-in...
Until we can describe and fully understand how clouds of particles can become conscious and self aware and what truly happened and will happen to the universe before it’s beginning and after its end, we understand nothing of the grand pattern other than that there is one.
Hard to compare since the "27 markets in Europe" didn't all exist in 1900 either.
A new CoCom is needed against China
The Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom) was established by the Western Bloc in the first five years after the end of World War II, during the Cold War, to put an embargo on Comecon countries.
I think the author confuses what the past and future look like.

I think progress, at slow-mo pace of living through it, always feels slow and stagnant. We like to put placemarkers on "progress" - Columbus lands in America, Constantinople falls, etc. but in reality these are just the big event of a very slow transition. When you read about history of science, chains of developments are usually separated by decades, and only seem like a tight chain because (a) they are long time ago, and (b) they are conveniently filtered from the stuff that ends up being dead ends.

In reality, life expectancy rocketed over the past 60 years, especially so in poorer countries, progress in quantum mechanics, uses of space, democracy, access to education, have developed tremendously. It just feels like boring improvism, but isn't so different from the past.

A total aside, but I find it sooo funny when the author starts off with "the world is stagnating", and then swiftly moves on to "America is great again", completely ignoring the remaining 95% of the world by population.

EDIT: also meant to say, the author writes about exciting developments just around the corner. I think his list would be equally long at any time in the last 20 years. Exciting uses of internet, hydrogen, nuclear fusion of course almost there, rise of dotcoms. Above I describe what the past looks like, this is what the future looks like, always.
It’s fun to read about this.

I get the sense that they knew they were on a new frontier and excitedly building new things, just because it was cool.

Reminds me of early web2.0, and the recent javascript cambrian explosion. It’s cool to realise that the humble cli, something I use all the time, was just like that one day too.
"Fun fact: I believe Berkshire Hathaway's website is a frontpage site from back in the day."

Sillier than that even. From https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html

<meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document">

<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15">

Some other pages on the site:

<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Adobe PageMill 2.0 Win">

<meta NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Microsoft FrontPage 3.0">

Seems like they tried all the cool WYSIWYG tools.
France required identifying plates as early as 1783 for horse carriages in various form and then made it standardized as of August 14, 1893. Germany followed in 1896, to keep track of its growing vehicles. First state in USA, New York, required registrations as of April 25, 1901. And Britain required them as of January 1, 1904.
What part of it is a lie? It's only a lie if you have been indoctrinated by EPA because of hegemonial car politics in the US favouring gas.

Diesel still is more efficient than electro taking the whole supply chain into account. The lack of efficiency of e-vehicles is only justified if you have a "I do not care about efficiency" power source = the sun. And even in that case its questionable if the required ressources to produce, distribute and refurbish batteries will ever outcompete the production ressource requirements of carbon fuel.

Not to speak about that you can pour every diesel in every car, this is not true for car batteries.
I hit this yesterday and I was very annoyed by it.

- The npm install fails on Windows if you don't have Visual Studio 2017+ installed. How is this acceptable for a utility that will mostly do some simple text-mangling?

- Mozilla is the birthplace of Rust. Why do I have to install Node to get a pretty simple utility like this? This should be a basic Rust executable you can just drop anywhere, no installation required.

- the very first line of `npm install web-ext` is a warning that some library is obsolete and should not be used. It's promptly followed by tons of similar ones. Again, how is this acceptable in 2020 for something so basic?

In the end I just dropped it.

Web-ext is not doing machine-learning billion-pageview-crunching rocket-launching stuff. It's a utility to roll up a few text files. The fact that it was built with Node seems yet another sign that Mozilla is dominated by SFBA cargo-cultism.
>Not once did it tell me that I'm a robot

Right, unfortunately you've completely misunderstood the point of Friendly Captcha, a question which is answered right there on its main page.

>>How does FriendlyCaptcha tell apart bots from humans?

>>It doesn't, FriendlyCaptcha adds a small cost and complexity for spammers that becomes large at scale.
They should switch the density per mm^2 instead.
That sounds like an awful experience and I’m sorry your wife had to go through that.

I just wanted to add that when my wife gave birth in the UK on the NHS last year she had an amazing experience and the level of support before during and after was incredible.

In general all my experiences with the nhs have been positive. In comparison the only other country I have experience with is Hong Kong where I had a dr laugh in my face when I enquired about a genetic condition I may have inherited.

The nhs is far from perfect and could use improvement. I think it’s just that most other countries are even worse.
Yes, I quite agree that the prospect of success appears remote. They would have an arguable case for negligence regarding data inaccuracy though, so I wouldn't be surprised if they submit that as an additional claim and abandon the GDPR claim if that seems likely to fail.
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Having mandatory quotas is a terrible idea, as they undermine them people they are aimed to help.

It's interesting how people always claim there are too few women in high paying intellectual jobs, rather than low paying manual jobs. When have you ever heard that there are too few female miners, highway maintenance workers etc?
There is a nice write-up on FreeBSD for Linux users you can take a look at http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
Perhaps a better term than "close to...space exploration" would be "having a syntactic language." Humans of 10k years ago certainly had that, as probably did humans at least 4x that long ago. I think that's a pre-requisite for developing any kind of civilization that will develop technology.

And no, as far as anyone has been able to determine, neither birds, whales, dolphins nor apes have anything like a syntactic language, or even our vocabulary.
Dang I really liked working with the streams package in Java STL.

I've been burned by Java specifics before but overall found it fun to dev on. Why don't you like it?
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The problem with this argument is that it only works for a small minority of tech people.

What the vast majority of people want is something that is easy, safe and does what they want.

Until a free(as in libertarian) system pops up that can do those three things its not going to be going concern.

I have an iphone, why? not because its cool, its because its easy.

I am fairly certain that an app from the store isn't going to steal my stuff, and is going to work as advertised (assuming the rating system is accurate)

Having had an opensource phone (of sorts) I much prefer the apple walled garden....
I second these recommendations. I've been using khal and khard (plus `todoman` for to-do list management). They're all nice tools that work well in my CLI-focused workflow. And `vdirsyncer` is a key component, that syncs to my other computers and phone, via a NextCloud instance.
Only because the state is throwing money at it like crazy. No taxes on EVs. Subsidies to the tune of 10000€. Per private purchase. There are certain types of lower end EV (like Renault Zoe) that can be purchased effectively for nearly free right now.
Bit off-topic perhaps, but he SUV popularity remains baffling to me especially in this age. That's maybe because I'm looking from the wrong angle or I'm just wrong when it comes to physics. In general I see a pretty big car with a rather big front with flat parts and a high wheelbase. So in comparision with a more 'normal' one that means the user pays extra per mile because of the additional weight and wind resistance?
So what makes that extra cost worth it, why does this type of car thrive so well? Is it just looks (I think they're ugly but that's irrelevant)? Is it the 'everyone has one' effect? Does it handle better perhaps? More on-topic: will the energy problem come into play when transitioning these cars into the EV-space?

edit to clarify, seeing the comments regarding hard to reach areas etc, where an SUV does something useful: I'm talking standard Western European countries here with mild climate, hardly any snow, i.e. no use for 4WD or so.
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The fact that this is an ideological screed as opposed to a thoughtful piece comes through almost immediately. (E.g. blaming the regulatory state for failing to impose mask restrictions, which in the US at least, was a result of the current administration going out of their way to dismantle the apparatus setup to handle pandemics).

That would be ok if there were some numbers or data presented to show that the great stagnation was indeed coming to an end. Unfortunately it’s simply a collection of dubious anecdotes that really don’t mean much in the bigger picture. Anyone could collect a similar collection of anecdotes which were less dubious than what the author has picked from almost any time period during the “great stagnation”.
This is industry revolution happening before your eyes.

Excluding smartphones/tablets, X86 has been the defacto computer architecture of personal computers. Microsoft tried an ARM processor but the tradeoffs were evident and it was considered half baked, leading to poor reviews.

For quite some time in our industry the main limitation has been clock speeds, nowadays the main limitation is temperature control.

Apple launched an ARM chipset that remains as cool as 50C when intel reaches 95C, this will forever change the industry of personal computing.

That's why people are raving about it.
Thanks for the reply.

I have a product in the trading/investing space. What is your plan to get your product in front of potential customers? I find this the hardest part of building/launching a product.
No power cut so far https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix/la-consommation-delectric...
It might happen if the temperature drops below average for several days, we're not there yet.
Discord has an interesting engineering blog post on moving from Go to Rust due to performance issues causes by the Go GC.

https://link.medium.com/ZS6jwQCkJbb
Because equality only goes one way!
You perhaps have specific points you wish to criticize? Or do you just prefer a different conclusion?
In most cases no but after the Swiss franc crash event back in 2015, some brokers went bankrupt because the drop was so fierce and there was no liquidity available at some point to close the trades. Many traders suffered from negative account balances. Events like these happen rarely and they are called as "black swan".

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-snb-brokers-idUSKBN...
> .NET was slower than the JVM before .NET Core but nowadays it's faster.

Nope .NET is still slower than molasses in comparison to most JVM implementations.
Electric beats diesel even on the current UK grid mix which still heavily relies on natural gas. This is far from "not caring about efficiency". It just turns out a centralized big turbine plus electrical distribution is more efficient than ICE in every vehicle.
Isn't it mostly due to the fact that half of France France warms itself using electricity ?
The "launch with 100 free members" strategy worked extremely well to avoid the classic "chicken and egg" problem. It's hard to quantify, but it set the tone for the community with friendly, intelligent, and experienced people.

As a new member, that led to an amazing first-time user experience where I got high-quality answers to every question I posted.

And now I'm motivated to help out other members just as the first members helped me.

Launch revenue is great, but it won't survive unless it gets this right ^^
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