skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unintentionally, yes. One day I realized I just knew them. The code generator used to hardcode the opcodes, but I have since slowly migrated to use mnemonics, and the opcodes have faded somewhat in my mind.

Of course, I mean the 16 bit opcodes. The SIMD ones, no freakin' way!

It's like the Wizard of Oz. I know most of the dialog, though I never made any attempt to memorize it. A friend of mine knows all the dialog for all the Star Trek TOS episodes. He just realized one day he knew it.
I agree with all above, and I'll go on a slight tangent.

I dislike the "genius" and "gifted" labels because in the long run they're excuses why you're not one. "It's ok that he got a better salary - he's a genius!". With a "nature" argument, you don't have to think about the "nurture" argument - your actual skill. Then you can give up without being ashamed.

99% of the people you'll actually meet are averages with interests and luck to manifest their skills in the right way. And on the other hand, I've attended local Mensa chapter meetings to see first-hand that "geniuses" can in 99% of cases be just ordinary people with some special interests on which they may or may not capitalize.

So - always value contextual knowledge, skill and effort, and encourage yourself and other people to develop. Because otherwise you just like to play the lottery and complain how the numbers are too random to your liking.
Let's look at the arguments from the other side:
If you don't use all those online platforms, do you need to complain about their dark patterns? They don't affect you then.
As a customer of your small business, will you trust your online small business? If yes, why? I would think, exactly because those regulations force the online small business to comply. If not, maybe because said online small business is not trustworthy...
> But Apple is picking for me, that’s for sure.

No, they're giving you the option.

> Now, with the option to opt-out of tracking at the point-of-use, consumers won’t have to sift through their phone’s settings to protect their privacy.
Continuous Bernoulli distribution-simulator and test statistic
Europe is a continent.
The law applies to any service targeted at EU citizens. It does not apply to services that any EU citizen happens to be using even though they're primarily intended for citizens of other countries.

A "local" Bavarian news site hosted in the US would be in scope, but a local Nebraskan news site hosted in the US wouldn't.

Edit: Recital 23: Applicable to processors not established in the Union if data subjects within the Union are targeted: https://gdpr.eu/Recital-23-Applicable-to-processors-not-esta...

In order to determine whether such a controller or processor is offering goods or services to data subjects who are in the Union, it should be ascertained whether it is apparent that the controller or processor envisages offering services to data subjects in one or more Member States in the Union.

Whereas the mere accessibility of the controller’s, processor’s or an intermediary’s website in the Union, of an email address or of other contact details, or the use of a language generally used in the third country where the controller is established, is insufficient to ascertain such intention, factors such as the use of a language or a currency generally used in one or more Member States with the possibility of ordering goods and services in that other language, or the mentioning of customers or users who are in the Union, may make it apparent that the controller envisages offering goods or services to data subjects in the Union.
> But Apple is picking for me, that’s for sure.

Literally _the opposite_ is happening:

> Now, with the option to opt-out of tracking at the point-of-use, consumers won’t have to sift through their phone’s settings to protect their privacy.

On most devices these settings are buried so deep that almost no one knows that they exist. Android used to go as far as only allow you to _reset_ your token, instead of removing it completely, IIRC.
Nonsense. There are plenty of things you are not allowed to say, and nobody is using them as "loopholes". False advertising is a crime already, for one.
"... His death came from medical complications related to an accident in the lab, after he dropped a monitor on his foot."

That's tragic, but come on... if you were in decent health a frigging monitor on your foot isn't going to kill you.

In my short 47 years I've known a professor of CS to die at 52 while running. I've known a computer friend to die at 32 from colon cancer. Steve Jobs at 52 from pancreatic cancer.

The computer world is not that big, so there should not be so many of these outcomes.

Programmers seriously need to focus a bit on health. I've been studying how not to die for the past year, since my own father allowed his prostate cancer to go from lamb to lion. Maybe I'll write an ebook & call it "how not to die".
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> If Google and Facebook would be locally home grown [...] it would be safe to assume the EU would let many of the current things slide.

These laws are not designed to hit only Google and Facebook they are hitting tech in general, including local companies. If the EU were to have any locally home grown tech companies to speak of, it would be safe to assume the EU would let many of the current things slide.

I can only assume the EU gave up completely on its own businesses to ever be able to compete with any US tech company. These regulations upon regulations increasing the bar of entry continuously practically guarantee that there won't ever be a competitor to any US tech company coming out of the EU.
And I don't want to diminish the skills of Zoom engineers, but when Google and Facebook (WA) can't offer more than 32 / 8, which tradeoff is Zoom doing to be able to offer E2EE calls with 1000 people?

I don't think my phone would be able to receive 1000 different video streams simultaneously for instance.
I've tried a couple of times with no success. Maybe my CV is not good enough to catch their eyes.
> I believe the practice is changing where each device will have entirely unique credentials (something that's relatively easy to do these days).

Not so easy at all. I still see cheapest netdevs with same hardcoded, or random MAC addresses.

Cheapest devices are made with exactly zero per-device interactions/customisation. They are made to fly out from highly automated manufacturing lines like bullets from a machine gun.
It’s hard to become an European unified Internet market because of the language barriers.
More accurately they are selling because they cannot hold (by mandate) too much weight into a single asset. So if they really like an asset they will take their maximum position and sell as it goes up even though they would like to hold on to it.
GDPR has largely been a bureaucratic exercise and came down to train people to mindlessly click agree on the pop ups. Meanwhile giants that routinely violate privacy continue untouched. GDPR also doesn't seem to have provisions against retaliation. If you use important service that violates privacy you are likely to get your account deleted if you keep complaining.
If what you describe could be achieved in a privacy respecting fashion and on device (using opt-in instead of opt-out) why not (for instance let the server send 50 add propositions with a one time token and ip obfuscation and let the on device IA choose).

What actually happen is that I got vaccum cleaner adds all over youtube & friend for weeks AFTER I ordered one online from a (so far) trusted brick and mortar shop.

This is both creepily invasive and very inefficient targeted add.
The article states the request to Norway happened in the early summer of 2018, presumably a few months before Khashoggi was murdered.
It would be interesting to ask someone to taste-test hydroponic tomatoes vs soil tomatoes. My guess is no one can tell the difference, and in fact hydroponic probably tastes better. So yes, genetics only define a potential in a pedantic definition but those genes only need light, CO2, nitrogen, phosphorus, and trace metals to affect life.

As for the wine argument, I really can't tell the difference between two buck chuck and a $250 bottle of wine and I'd venture a guess that neither can most people (ok, maybe two buck chuck is a little too low on the quality pole). As for molecular content, I'm sure the grapes that go into a choice pinot noir would sustain life just as efficiently as the red grapes in my grocery store.
Huge legal departments fight for years with each other representing every other huge company. So it's not like a law degree solves problems (and some could argue a law degree helps create new sorts of problems)
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Building character: How a cast of characters can help you learn a language
Google's Blob Opera Experiement
Eric left behind an unusually large wake of friends and people who loved him. I'm a little surprised how much it hurts to lose him.
Not the parent commenter but the only product I spend any money on whatsoever anymore is Benzedrex so beyond that any product being delivered to me is entirely at the expense of whatever company is involved in it's dissemination.
> As a European citizen, I'm tired of having to close hundreds of popups a day which purposefully use dark patterns to make it harder to unselect everything and just close and make it easy to accept everything in one click.

The popups is the tiny, visible part of the GDPR. The rest of the iceberg that is the GDPR is that those sites already had to think about how they handle your data.

I hope the popups thing will be resolved by clarification and some stiff example-making fines. Hopefully those examples make it clear that no kind of "optional" tracking can be included via a prominent "Accept and continue" button and that all such default actions must lead to zero tracking/third party ad cookies being used. Once sites realize that almost no one will make an effort and actively enable tracking, these things will disapppear (as will a lot of the sites that can't find alternative revenue - this is a good thing)
Nice project! Yes they are indeed cheaper. It's really up to your taste. The device I'm using is already in a casing and comes with a sophisticated software that can render any modern HTML5 on the device with full JS support.
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Yeah, the first question I ask is usually :

"Describe me what you did."

Which allows one to judge whether they are truly stuck or just need to plug at it some more... not to mention all those times when they realize the mistake they made while explaining the problem to you !
Author book discussion here[0].

[0] https://www.c-span.org/video/?506898-1/the-hype-machine
'New variant' of coronavirus identified in England
> The Archer VR1600V software is licensed under the GPL. This can be used to compel TPG to release the source behind their modifications, if anyone wants to use the legal system to chase TPG for information.

I doubt many of the modifications done for them fall outside of flicking random config switches on/off and making sure the factory config will provision properly.

Most of the source drops I see from embedded hardware manufacturers aren't usable out of the box for one reason or the other anyway. Open source devs won't touch a lot of Broadcom hardware just because the driver situation is an unabated nightmare.

Despite this, many/most of the TPG (2nd/3rd largest Australian ISP) customers will have to keep their VR1600V's connected in some form anyway, as they provision the sip credentials to them, and refuse to allow you to use your own voip hardware...
But people these days have to resort to heroic feats just to get by. It used to be that people who went through these kinds of obstacles would become relatively successful. Not anymore, now defying all odds and doing everything right means that you merely get to survive. I haven't had it easy, but obviously some people have had it even harder than me.

I'm sure many fail (through no fault of their own) then end up in a really bad place where there is no escape then end up doing drugs and overdosing.

You might say that doing drugs is a choice but I don't think this is the case; constant stress and risk taking without any payoffs physically destroys the brain and can lead anyone to self-destructive behaviors.
>Unfortunately, as you might imagine, a lot of advertisers, notably Facebook, were not happy with Apple. Facebook, which uses IDFA to track users’ activity across different apps and match them to advertising profiles, says that its advertising partners will be hit hard by this change.

What about Google? Is Google also unhappy?
Japan's space agency finds ample soil, gas from asteroid
[Abstract]
We discussed the simulator and test statistic of continuous Bernoulli distribution which is important to test the pervasive error of variational autoencoders in deep learning. We provided the sufficient statistic, the point estimator, the confidence interval, test statistic, goodness of fit, and one-way test for continuous Bernoulli distribution. Besides, continuous binomial distribution can be derived, so the the confidence interval and the test can be worked under two continuous Bernoulli populations. Continuous trinomial distribution can also be find. Please download the computer software of this book from

https://github.com/meiyulee/continuous_Bernoulli
Is it smart to build an app on someone else’s platform?
Looks like there is some space left for branch name and commit date :)
Great article. Slight shame it fails both the finkbeiner test and its inverse at the same time but ... oh well. Failing both at the same time must be evidence of some form of progress I guess!
> i also find the contrast ratio too high in dark mode

I actually tend to prefer this style of dark mode for messaging or other short-term use apps on an AMOLED display because it's just "off" with no background, but I agree that there really should be another option. Plenty of apps I've seen have Dark and Dark (AMOLED) versions, or similar.
Relevant ads are obviously better than irrelevant ads. But that's not the point here.

What this is about is that the advertisers collect your habits and build a profile based on your behaviour which can be sold to further third parties, among which can be banks, government institutions... which can consequently affect your life.
Migrating a Large Production App from TypeORM to Prisma
The article notes: "So at the moment there are scary headlines everywhere, but still no scientific detail to know how significant this is."
Rabbits surprisingly not being rodents.
The UI could be improved but it is fine IMO. I'm happy that I have a messenger over which I can talk private stuff and be reasonably sure that no one else can listen in. Everything else is secondary for me.

Contact discovery can have a slight time delay, but so far it has worked very well after a while. (I don't use SMS)
The request was a few months prior to Khashoggi's murder, which I presume you're referencing to.

> In the early summer of 2018, Norway received an unusual request from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's government.
You can see a list of apps that share you activity with facebook here (even if you didn't install any facebook app on your phone or didn't use facebook login feature) :

https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/activity_list

(click "Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity" on the right if you're on desktop)
Let's write synchronization primitives (2020)
Good points, but I have to say that even with all that, Netflix app/site is by far the best of the streaming services that I've used. HBO Nordic, Viaplay and YouTube movies have pretty bad UI/UX problems and their streams become borderline unwatchable with subpar internet connections, whereas Netflix has in my experience still been able to push through video in those conditions with good enough quality that I can still enjoy it.
You can test your device browser fingerprint here: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org
Coronavirus Vaccine: With First Dibs, Rich Countries Have ‘Cleared the Shelves’
Ford Mustang Mach-E disappoints in our first drive
No it doesn't. It gives examples of both.
>and nobody is using them as "loopholes"

Yes, they are.
Some economists have tried arguing that advertising adds value to products, but I think it only hinders people from making choices based on the product's merit. It's a distortion of the market.

We wouldn't lose much if advertising would just be forbidden. A traditional definition of it would probably be enough to get rid of most of it. The main problem is that huge sums of money are involved, and almost all media profit from it to some extent, so there's a huge incentive to shut down this conversation.
I try to keep it minimum. But I really want to focus on the stats, so maybe more details about the branch should be interesting to follow.
Local laws and regulation is a bigger issue I think.

Yes EU unifies a lot of things, but also leaves a lot of details up to the individual nations which means things aren't quite as similar as one might imagine.
Who is using false advertising laws as loopholes, then?
Yes, with experience you realize our job shouldn't be about knowing as many different techniques as possible but rather knowing how to manage complexity by using those various techniques.
> We all know though that 90% will opt out or more. Without knowing they are making this very choice.

This doesn’t make sense. We’re going from a situation where users are completely blind to what’s going on, to one where they are informed and given a choice - and your framing is that somehow, this makes them less informed?
I totally cringe at your focus on poor/rich. Rich peeps are so much worse for the environment than the poor. Look at what an average Bangladeshi cranks out in CO2-equivalent, water use, landfill contribution and compare that to an average USer.

Sure I get that having many children is a multiplier, but even if that average Bangladeshi couple has 4 they still dont contribute as much to environmental destruction as an average US couple without kids.

My solution would be (as only picking on someone's solution is not nice in a discussion): only tax pollution, scarce resources and stuff that otherwise needs to be disincentivized. Only. So no tax on wholesome behavior like income from labor or housing. And yes: money is a scarce resource (tax the shit out of it over say 5 or 10MM USD). This will rearrange the economy to do good for us all + nature.
> This is what happens when you get incompetent non technical people to regulate on things.

I think GDPR, and the so-called "cookie law" before it, was done pretty competently. The principles are pretty clear: data policies/controllers/etc. have to be explicit and limited; personal data collection requires consent of the people involved; opting into a service implies consent for data required by that service (e.g. cookies for shopping carts, local storage for highscores, etc.); if consent isn't implied, it must be requested explicitly.

Explicit consent is a last resort, and only required when collecting personal data which (a) isn't directly required to provide a service or (b) comes from people who aren't users of your service (i.e. who haven't opted in). Advertising is a good example, since the "users" of an ad network (those opting to use it) are the people buying and selling ad space; people viewing those ads aren't users (they haven't opted in); and advertising isn't required to provide a service (e.g. a news site; it might be indirectly required, for raising revenue, but the site would work just the same with any revenue source).

The fact you're tired of popups shows that GDPR is working; the extent of data collection, surveillance, etc. has been brought to the surface. Your anger is misdirected though: it's not GDPR's fault that so many surveillance organisations are trying to track and target you; quite the opposite!

> make it easy to accept everything in one click

> Is this freedom?

Do you think it would be "freedom" to waive all of your waivable rights, to anyone and everyone who asks, without even knowing they asked? That's what an automated banner-clicker would be doing, since consent popups are not restricted to talking about cookies (just like GDPR isn't about cookies); they can ask for pretty much anything. In fact, I imagine many of them ask for more than they're legally allowed (this happens all the time, e.g. many privacy policies do this, many "warranty void if removed" stickers are not legally enforcable, etc.).

If you'd instead rather tell your browser to accept certain pre-selected terms which you're comfortable with, then you're in luck! There's a standard for that called P3P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P It's not supported by Chrome, but you can enable it in Firefox, as long as you're using version 2 (it was removed in Firefox 3). Then you just need to convince every Web site you visit to implement it. Good luck!
The article is not honest for the way that it presents some of its support arguments it tries to make it seems as if society is solely affected by this technologies in a vacuum or as if polarization in America just happened magically but this is far from the truth when we look at technology like that we can’t do a proper analysis we become parrots of simple platitudes
Is there any problem with it? That's just how the language works. In many of the contexts and on many of the logical levels the body does indeed have agency: the linguistic expression embedded in agency terms and all related expressions are just the most accurate and compressed and useful descriptions of phenomena we are studying. They have all the useful connotations and sub-meanings that help the process of expanding knowledge forward. All I see in those terms is best possible ways to explain the actual found relationships between parts of the immune system, instead of some description of meaningless facts or chemical reactions.

If you insist on being on some imaginary laplace daemon lowest level of interaction with the world, maybe theoretically you could escape the agency component (but even then you have problems with questions like "what makes all particles interact with each other at all"), but nobody lives on that level anyway. Just because in some distant theory it is possible to reduce everything to interaction of some miriad of particles with exactly known states and rules, it doesn't mean that you (or other human or society) can effictively and practically compute anything of value on that level of abstraction. Nobody interacts with life on that level. No useful discussions are had on that level in most of the scientific pursuits.

This is a matter of using the language effectively, not a matter of superstition. I don't see scientists cargo culting the immune system or organs of the body.

Think about it like this: if I'm programming in Python, I'm going to think about variables, scopes and closures, not about high and low voltage levels or number of silicon atoms in my processor. A closure is not an illusion just because there is no transistor that specifically makes it work, a closure is still the most useful term on it's own level of abstraction.

(Recommended reading: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, also known as GEB, a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter)
> I'd rather be able to choose my own poison.

And you are. :) You're free to opt-in to all user tracking.