skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with cookie banners is not their intrusive ubiquity: it's that they keep going against the spirit of the law, which was to make any "non essential" (whatever that means) data collection opt-in.

If that were functioning, whereby the two buttons presented to you were a "Continue without cookies" and "I want to opt in", the annoyance would be worth it. But as it stands, most sites just _pretend_ their tracking is opt-in through an "I agree" button, with "I don't agree" generally leading to a mess of check boxes in front of partners the general public has no idea about.

I do hope regulators end up cracking on this...
> There’s no longer any guarantee that, we as creators of Plausible, will be able to help out with your self-hosting issues [...] be prepared to troubleshoot your issues, read our documentation or get community support in the forum.

This is sane, and how most other open source applications or tools work. Don't see any reason why this one should be different.
When free software isn't practically superior (2015)
What is the logic that is holding your reasoning together? A lot of "hustling" culture actually ephasizes good habits including hardcore sleep scheduling, good nutrition and excercise?
Pais at least claims to have experimental evidence of a new physical effect. I've only got a background in undergraduate physics, but I'd say his description of his theory gives off huge kook vibes. I don't really care about that: plenty of non-kook theories are still not reflected in reality, and if he has found an actual physical effect, then his kookiness becomes brilliance. Or maybe not, but even if his theories are wildly off-base, if he has observed a new phenomenon, that's pretty big.

Of course, I suspect even his claim of observing a new phenomenon is a scam (a scam that he might have conned himself into believing), but someone should be able to reproduce it.
$10 billion. That's the price of a nuclear plant...
In that case your point would have been clearer if you said "the name 'Mae West'" instead of referring to the subject of the post.
In some things it's often a trade off of expected network speed vs cpu power. On very limited network speed connections such as a last mile ISP connection in a developing nation, where speeds might be under 5Mbps downstream, xz has some advantages in lower transfer times.

Often times persons on very limited bandwidth connections (even a Hughesnet or Viasat consumer grade satellite link in a very rural area of the USA) will have more than sufficient CPU to decompress xz in a reasonable amount of time. Such as a five year old core i5 desktop computer.

In environments where it can be expected that the bulk of users are on very fast broadband connections, zstd and slightly larger file sizes have an advantage.
Good notes has been amazing :)
The purpose of the U.S. patent system is the public dispersion of new knowledge. You publicly disclose how your invention works, and in return you get a limited monopoly on its production.

You don’t need a patent system to incentivize research, people and companies can just treat new inventions as trade secrets and never tell anyone how they work. Plenty of tech companies already do this. Google has not filed patents disclosing exactly how their search system works, for example.

The U.S. military has an additional tool to protect knowledge: classification. Again, there is no patent on public file for a functioning hydrogen fusion bomb.

So why would the Navy file a patent on something? It is plausible that their goal in doing so was to disclose its existence.
It's a lot more complicated behind the scenes than it probably looks like up front. For example, one reason why a good-seeming article might be killed is if the site is banned because of past abuses. But for cases like that, vouching is good.

Beyond that I'd need to see specific links to say anything meaningful.
Interactive Brokers was offering near-zero commissions already.
That's my point is that it's so concentrated it takes very little to completely disrupt the entire industry. The question to me is are the increased costs of diversification worth the risk of temporary (or maybe permanent) disruptions to manufacturing.

Then again, when I studied political science and economics there was a common belief/theory that this sort of increased interdependency between countries (globalization) would decrease the likelihood of war and increase opportunities for democracy. So maybe it's a good thing.
Are you familiar with EquityZen and Forge? If you're accredited, they can make it feasible to invest in a number of private companies. Companies can make that difficult by exercising their ROFR consistently, but many don't.
I think most in crypto are and if not ought be of the mindset that if you yourself do not possess the coins keys you do not own them and are therefore disinterested in robin-hood cash app etc.
All great points. One thing that twitter does is that it lets users know when they are being reported unfairly, which at least alarms them of what's going on: https://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/1328460455380193286 (apparently it's german law)
exactly just more propaganda to push the so called "pandemic" even though many countries are set to have less deaths this year than previous years.

How can that be if there is a net new virus and emergency?
> The result of subtraction is defined to be a number.

A diff shows the difference between two commits (i.e. snapshots). Perhaps a better math analogy: one point can be subtracted from another to give a vector.

> It's not clearly (to me) defined which parts of the files are considered to part of the diff and which parts are to be excluded.

You're right that it's not precisely defined in that way, but there's a good reason for this.

If you move the top line of a file to the bottom, should the diff tool show you that one line was deleted and one new line was added (i.e. that one line having been moved), or should it show all the other lines in the file as having been deleted and re-added in a different place? Both are valid interpretations of the difference between the two snapshots, but of course a real-life diff tool will show the former, as that's what's helpful to the user.
Salvatore Pais = nation’s savior?
Is Interactive Brokers not considered a retail broker?
We're building email verification and social login at the moment and would love to have it ready in time for you. When do you plan to launch your product by?
It can really depend. It’s certainly possible to write code in Julia that is slower than corresponding Matlab or Python code.

Generally, naive Julia code shouldn’t be any slower than Matlab or Python, but it can happen. The Julia Discourse forum has many posts from people surprised to find their code running slower in Julia, but the community is also incredibly helpful so these posts almost always result in some rather simple modifications to the code that makes it handily outperform Matlab or Python implementations.
To be clear, git has a horrible interface and is the leakiest abstraction. But I don't think that the snapshot-diff distinction is one of those leaks.
Of course not. He's from Ellezelles. It's 30 miles from Flanders.
I actually spent a bit of time searching for a letter she sent with an ultimatum to her management. I've seen this referenced multiple places as "the email that got a Google researcher fired": https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...

But that doesn't seem right. That looks more like a different type of letter, sent to a wider audience than just Timnit to her manager(s).

I've seen referenced that there was a timeframe for when she was going to quit that she mentioned. I see no such reference in that letter.

Maybe there's a real copy of the letter floating around. My guess is that people pretend that they've seen "the letter" but only read this other one I referenced above.

I'm happy to be proved wrong, though. I have no dog in this fight except to understand the truth of the situation. If you've seen a different letter than shows her ultimatum and time frame, please share.
ASLR doesn’t do anything to prevent buffer overflows; it makes it harder to exploit them.

That doesn’t mean it makes it impossible, and even if it did, the buffer overflow itself still is a bug.
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In a world of lies, deception, half-truths, fabrications, and hypocrisy, it would be simply naive to put any faith into a random internet comment. What could your ulterior motives be for posting this?
Is venmo a “hobby currency” then?
Does it have spring-boot integration?
> A snapshot is the aggregate of all previous changes. I don't see what could be broken by copying the snapshot.

If you copy the snapshot, you lose all the intermediate commits you're rebasing onto, because they're not in the snapshot you're rebasing.

> The snapshot before the rebase is exactly the same as the snapshot after the rebase.

Which is exactly what you do not want.

> The contents of the predecessor doesn't matter, since a snapshot contains the entire state of the tree.

Which, again, is exactly what you do not want:

a - b - c - d
\ e - f

If I rebase `d` onto `f`, I want the changes performed by `e` and `f` as well as those performed by `d`. If I just copy over the `d` snapshot to d', I get the exact same state I had at `d` with a different history, losing the changes performed in e and f, thus reverting them.

That's why when you rebase a commit, not only does the commit id change (makes sense, different parent) the tree also changes, which also makes sense because the content changes.
> Isn't that the point of a conceptual model?

Probably, but my understanding of the conceptual model is full of holes. There are many scenarios to which I don't know how cherry-pick would react. Maybe I should just try them.

"applying the diffs onto other commits" is all well and good for simple scenarios where there are not multiple interpretations of changes. But for other scenarios, it requires one to know what's actually in a diff, which I don't know. In fact, different git clients present diffs differently. Is that evidence that diffs aren't a real thing? I don't know.
What does JAMstack means?
Is this just me or is this an oxymoron having a public announcement for a confidential submission.
Arguably it would be much, much harder if you had formal separation.

Kim Dotcom had servers in the US - in fact, nearly their entire server fleet if not entirely was in Virginia, vendors in the US, collected payment for illegal downloads and uploads in the US, in USD. Their primary domain was a .com, which is owned by Verisign, a US company.

This would likely not be the case if you were running on a ccTLD in your own country, hosted in your own country, at least.
until with have AlphaGenome (they'just beaten some protein folding problem by a laarge margin).

(I didn't look in the specifics of the problem so it may be completely wrong, but, you know, these days ...)
Don't think this is any longer the case. MindGeek being the company behind most of the large porn brands has been known for years.
I don’t understand your point. You’re asking whether they’re trying to work a loophole or a clever hack, and I said that I don’t think they are and that I think it’s credible because they don’t have profit motives that would drive them to take that legal risk.
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Haha came to say the same thing.

File this revelation under the no shit category.
Nope. Apple (& many others) buy hardware companies all the time. The tech (or at least some of it) behind AirPods was an acquisition if I recall correctly.

I disagree that you need to be vertically integrated to make that kind of claim. Figure out the niche market you are targeting that is underserved by the big entities today (eg smart speakers, headphones, deep learning in mobile phones, flexible chips, etc) and why your HW solution is better.

The more challenging situation is if your solution has a higher switching/training cost. If suddenly optimizing your chip requires a lot of training be up front with that and the training materials for SW devs will need to be top notch. If your chip has integration challenges with existing external components simplify them or make sure it’s a training thing for the HW engineers integrating your component.

Just as with SW the harder part is figuring out how to position your solution to be an easy yes. The parts that make HW difficult as a business is that prototyping and manufacturing require much larger lead times generally so all your costs go up (meaning you need deep deep pockets to bring it to market and patient partners).

Like don’t do what Mill CPU did. If your solution means “all SW ever needs to be rewritten” that’s a non starter of a business unless you’re targeting a small niche where that’s not prohibitive (eg military applications with 20 year duty cycles). Generally you want easy ways to make migration possible. So in the mill example, if they can’t focus on just the compiler to make their CPU perform well, they’re DOA. This pivot of “we also need to write our own OS” tells me they’re not going to be successful. Not because they’re technical claims are incorrect (they may be) but because the market they’re going after (or at least that they said) was the “x86” general compute market which is dominated by existing OSes. why not fix the parts of Linux that are a problem for Mill?). Their approach is fundamentally incoherent and misdirected IMO.
The government's hands don't all talk to each other, especially when there's classified data involved. Duplication of effort is unavoidable. It's very plausible that a military organization would keep a basically civilian organization in the dark on this.
And only a few hundred years ago jaw size supposedly started shrinking leading to increased sleep disordered breathing, at least that's what some researchers claim.

Also, hunter-gatherer societies may get less sleep than the recommended. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-many...
And the San and Tsimane may not have a word for insomnia because they have bigger airways?
I have found discipline to be better.
Thank you MH15! Its clearly top of the list for many people and it will be out before you need to build auth for your next project :)
Perhaps I'm having a Mandela Effect moment, but hasn't "trickle down" been debunked before this study...repeatedly? Not just "no shit", but actual studies and stuff? Regardless, Will Rogers is credited with the phrase "trickle down" to refer to supply-side economics, so it has gone on longer than 50 years. Mr. Rogers also did not mean the turn of phrase to be complimentary.
Ok I see. I actually misunderstood what rebase actually did. So I guess it's a good thing then that I've never used it. Thanks for your persistence.
Precisely... We're only discussing this because the Navy CTO got personally involved with the USPTO. This involvement apparently led to the review process being bypassed/relaxed.

Based on the insanity (why try to patent this?), I suspect the author is a kook who convinced non-experts (e.g., patent attorney) to create this patent application, with no effective internal peer review. The author's colleagues and managers either lack the specialization in the field to call B.S., or decided to stay out of it because a patent application is not worth the drama.

The oddity here is still the involvement of the CTO. Who I assume is far detached from the actual research, lacks the expertise to review, and trusted the author's claims.
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Coinbase by itself is horrible, always buggy, goes down when you need it most.
Coinbase and most exchanges will most likely get replaced by a freemium exchange one day.
Easier UI and much lower transaction costs.
Sure, but you somehow have to weight the size and/or importance of the project as well. If you count in all the not-updated-in-the-past-5-years 50-line projects on github, yes you might find that hobbyist coders are behind the largest number of FOSS projects, but that's a rather silly conclusion.
> As a US citizen I honestly couldn't care less if the content of my website is criminal in Iran or Saudi Arabia.

Doesn't need to be criminal, inconvenient is enough. Jamal Khashoggi's family should know.
The ROI calculations for a nuclear power plant are very different though, in terms of the dollars per gigawatt-hour that will be sold to the grid over many years, for the total expected life span of the power plant.

Usually because they're built with some extreme form of government subsidy, or the fully loaded cost of a nuclear power plant is not taken into account in the $/GWh, such as eventual storage and disposal of nuclear waste at a government-run, government-funded facility.
> You also have to know what's not in the head of an absolute beginner. Then you need to fill the gaps with background material. Not too much or your audience will tune out. Not too little or you'll lose your audience in a puff of confusion. There needs to be just enough instant gratification to keep the reader with you.

Couldn't agree more.

I've spent probably a year incrementally revising a "getting started with Ruby" resource for a local software development program. [0]

I ended up with a 45 minute (!!!) walk-through of how to run a test file of string manipulation exercises. [1] I treasure each of the ~500 views it's got.

I spent probably 25 hours making, editing, and writing about that video.

I think this video is the single most impactful thing I've ever made, in the last 10 years I've spent making things. I treasure the DMs I've gotten in Slack, from students who have found the video extremely helpful, encouraging, etc.

[0]: https://github.com/turingschool/ruby-exercises
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeAkLxr5diE&feature=youtu.be
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For what it's worth regarding working at cross-purposes, most people anywhere tend to generally think of U.S. government agencies as these very focused monolithic hives filled with people who are mostly all on the same page.

But same as you described the discrepancy between different agencies' priorities, in reality, they're all largely fragmented as individual entities as well. With little fiefdoms here, little fiefdoms there, budget battles, pet projects, clawing of funds, burrowing. Agencies are held together by two things - a dusty org chart that's drifted far away from reality long ago, and procedural stuff like budgeting and delegation of authority that just has to be observed.

Between duplicative functions performed by competing departments and counterproductive internal priorities that reflect the coteries they come from, IMO, not that dissimilar from larger established private companies.
Reminds me of when I was working at the exact same kind of startup and then AWS Cognito got SAML support. I'm not exactly sure what that startup's business model actually was or what yours could be, they got acquihired and enough to pay back the VCs though.

Auth really didn't get better since then?
This kind of sucks. Sometimes I use Code Search to try to find things that are particularly obscure, such as usages of new or obscure APIs, or what have you. No matter what the rule is, not indexing all of Github breaks this.

I suppose I take it for granted that ridiculously huge search indices are a solved problem, but it turns out they aren’t.
https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/
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Using docker just forces you to solve the problem instead of continuing to put it off.

You don't need docker to automate your fresh install process.
I would say that it depends on the sophistication of the user.

I work for a crypto company and this is our belief. Users hold their own keys and must sign their own transactions. Of course that means that things like limit orders can't be done (easily) and it means all trades have more latency and more costs (due to fees for sending transactions vs. db entry).

However, we've found it difficult to get market traction as a lot of people seem to prefer the ease of custodial wallets.
I think generally people are using the term in reference to https://jamstack.org/

I consider it pre-rendering javascript on the server and serving sites that are mostly html with javascript coming in on the browser to take over interactivity.
You need to be careful with this message. A lot of people are not capable of responsibly managing their own keys. There are countless stories of fresh faces taking this message to heart and then finding they've lost their stash a year later.

You do gain a higher degree of financial sovereignty by managing your own keys, and it's definitely an important option to have and fight for. Just be cognizant that you also gain a lot of responsibility, too. For some people, storing at a site like Coinbase will continue to be a safer option.
> 3. The data subject shall have the right to withdraw his or her consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Prior to giving consent, the data subject shall be informed thereof. It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.

This if from article 7 of the GDPR [0]. Clearly the situation described involves a much harder time withdrawing consent than giving it - which goes against the law.

I may have misunderstood what you meant but how is this being laser focused on cookies? This articles applies beyond the Internet anyway.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
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Wait can I really invest in stripe and buy shares before they go public using EquityZen? Is this correct?
I think you're omitting an important detail here. He told the police officer (a woman) "should I use your tits for weighting now?" after she confiscated his scale.
He got drunk and then went to the police office or municipality and set himself on fire, perhaps out of frustration or humiliation. That's why you don't hear much about him since the first few months of the uprising, and maybe that's why the activists glossed over it.
Creative selection sounds like a perfect name for this phenomenon. GP's comment reminded me of working with genetic algorithms in school. Maintaining enough diversity and avoiding local maxima was a huge part of the process. Added that book to my reading list; thanks.
Thats worth a lot! Would you mind sharing your email ID or ping me on: advait at supertokens [dot] io? I'll drop you an email as soon as we have it built
Excellent post, with deep rich thoughts and citations, thank you for taking the time to write it all up! Especially your summaries and comparisons of points not explicitly stated in the links, they're gold. It rings true with what I learned working on TomTom Home based on xulrunner, and looking into the python/PyGTK/xulrunner/javascript integration stuff for the OLPC, used by the "Browse" activity.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Browse
what about identifiable information like ip addresses?
The s-1 should have all that information.
I saw the title and immediately I thought “yesss Github is finally fixing its terrible code search”….Instead they’re making it worse.

To be clear Github search has been very useful, just extremely sensitive and finicky
Not sure if serious...

you think this contraption holds a candle to its VR counterpart?
So this was a tax swindle all along then.