skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first sentence is not correct. The EU has established that various forms of contract (eg: employment contracts) do not allow for consent to be given freely - and as your tailor is rich, I'm assuming that you'll be comfortable with the less ambiguous French wording: '[le] consentement [...] doit être donné librement'.

However, I do agree 'unnecessary' is an odd choice of word from the EU here, as 'consent' is the only legal basis for data processing which does not include the word 'necessary' in the actual regulation.

> I have never been clear about the basis for claiming that consent is not freely given if it is linked to accessing the service.

The basis for this is Article 7.4.

As an example, if I walk in to a restaurant, it would be 'unnecessary' to require me to provide a name before serving me. They can still require it, and they can refuse to serve me if I don't.

HOWEVER, if I do provide my name they cannot claim that I have consented to doing so (and therefore, they must have another legitimate basis for processing my personal data - a good recent example might be a track and trace scheme, where they have a legitimate basis to process personal data as it is in the vital interests of both myself and other patrons).

However, it would not be unnecessary to require me to provide a name before reserving a table, as the name would be necessary to identify me as the person who reserved the table, and so they can rely on consent as a basis for processing my personal data here.

Moving back to Facebook:

It is necessary for Facebook to process some personal data in order to provide the service of allowing me to communicate with my friends - for example, my name, my friends' network graph, maybe my email address, information that I upload to the site, etc. As a result, this personal data can be processed under the basis of consent.

It is not necessary for Facebook to share that information with advertisers, so they cannot use consent as a basis for processing this data, and they must have another legitimate basis for doing so (and they may well do, I would imagine they could build a pretty solid case either for performance of a contract or legitimate business interests).

This means that either: Facebook agree that they are processing this data based on consent, in which case consent can be withdrawn or refused for specific purposes (which is not possible), or they cannot rely on consent as a basis. It is important which legal basis is used for processing personal data as the paperwork and thresholds for passing PIAs vary.
When a self driving system has been running for 5 years in production capacity then I’ll consider it working.

It’s not just about whether it’ll work on day one but about how sustainable the development model is. We rarely if ever manage to produce software without bugs and edge cases. Adding AI to the mix has a somewhat unknown outcome at the moment. I’ve seen some laughable outcomes on simpler models in the finance sector.
Then let's have negative air pressure duct under highway to collect co2 and feed industries :)
https://www.caa.co.uk/Consumers/Unmanned-aircraft/Recreation... seems to suggest that's fine as long as you meet all the other criteria.
It’s a shocking almost perfect correlation, and it’s intensifying. The suburbs are starting to turn blue, especially around large cities, leaving the Republican Party an almost pure rural party.
Sorry, you're suggesting there's the same level of technical talent in ATX as in the Bay?
Do you mean you don't know how it could deal with Ransomware? Or that there's no possible way local setups could could deal with Ransomware because you aren't aware of it?

Ransomware attack vectors are often clicking malicious websites, emails, or software opening stuff that is risky.

Keeping you access point patches system patched and browser up to date is a big line of defence, with or without cloud backups. Those identities can be as easily hacked if the weak spot is our computer.. Using browser and email plug-ins to increase security and safety can be helpful too.

One can run pihole locally at home as well and filter out a great deal of trackers that can get hacked.

It's also relatively easy to setup multiple vlans on your local network to separate your devices.

Having multiple current backups of your computer, physically and locallu is also an important defence against ransomware.
I don't know what criteria is being used to claim Texas is American's most diverse city but simple checking the census data shows that is provably false.

ALSO, WTF is up with the whole mixing in Hispanic in such a strange way in the census? Seems super fishy like someone wanted to paint a certain kind of picture but if they just plainly list ethnicities they don't get to make the story they want to tell.
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The assumptions behind stories like this always do a lot more work then the polls themselves.
Drumpf shoulda frauded harder for sure. Relentlessly shilling for Israel and not getting control of the alphabet spooks was his undoing
If someone is going to judge you publicly you can declaw their attack by highlighting your own flaw.

As a kid the small ones get picked on. You can just own your stature.

During these covid times people try to shame you to not to travel. Instead of making explanations of why it’s “okay” or “safe” I just say I like to travel. They can’t argue against that and it is empowering.

I also think it helps keep friendship alive, because you don’t argue the facts; you state your preferences.
In a way, “cancel culture” is a label used to vilify the last vestiges of shame as a useful force for curtailing abhorrent behavior.
1 ton of atmospheric CO2 released in 2020 is exactly the same as 1 ton of atmospheric CO2 left over from coal fires in 1020. There is vastly more CO2 from fossil fuel entering the atmosphere today, but it’s only a difference in quantity.

Which is the issue, CO2 produced today will generally still be around in another 1,000 years. Across geologic timescales it’s going to be sequestered, but on human timescales it’s basically permanent. There isn’t a clear transition point where suddenly this ton of CO2 kills of the Great Barrier Reef, it’s a very gradual transition that means coral has a very slightly harder time growing today than it did yesterday.

Not burning a ton of coal in yesterday would have been as useful as not burning a ton of coal tomorrow, the only difference is we can’t go back to yesterday.
Actually I find that the user experience on PWAs and Electron apps is better than that on native desktop apps. Developers have always been challenged in building desktop apps because the available toolkits are generally crusty, limited, and complex. GTK, TK, QT, Windows Forms, don’t compare well against what can be done in the DOM.
Unsafe string interning in Golang for scoped IPv6 addresses
>> The difference between a black hole and a star is that if you fall onto a star, you’re burned to ashes when you get too close.

Well, actually, the difference is that all non-black-hole masses have spacial extent, so if you get 'too close' you are now inside the object and the gravitational attraction decreases if you continue to move closer to the center of the object, since you are now inside the 'newton shell' of some of the mass.

There is no place you can be relative to any non black hole where you can find a gravitational field as strong as what you would find near the event horizon of every black hole (which is always equal to any other black hole, and is basically by definition the strongest gravitational field that can be found anywhere).

Black holes do have stronger gravity than non black holes.
Ah, yeah, that reading does make more sense. Guess I have a raw nerve.
It's alright, I spent half my childhood in Scotland, I already had it a lot but I don't really like it. Prefer a good black pudding supper.
Not all of it is bullshit, but my hope is for people to call out the bad motivations and behaviour, in politics and workplace alike. Force them to discuss real issues rather than tribalism.

The identity politics has exactly the same problem, of losing the universal principles and broader perspectives.
>It seems there is a misconception between infrastructure creation and management.

I'm poking fun at Amazon's position...

"AWS Lambda automatically runs your code without requiring you to provision or manage infrastructure."
That is good, but of course we also need the clean electrical energy generation to power it, and it likely uses much more power than a non clean plant of the same size/production. We need nuclear plants going up now. As cool as solar and wind is, I don't think we can build enough of it fast enough to undo the damage we have done and prevent large scale climate catastrophes.
5 out of 60 is still almost 10%, so it's definitely a topic worth debate. The EC seems to have outlived it's original intent, so we should probably clarify it -- either formalize the process to remove the human uncertainties, or eliminate it altogether in favor of a national popular vote.
Sure you can transport it that way, but in order for it to be lighter than air it cannot be significantly compressed. The compression factor (when liquid) is about 1000...you'd need a zepellin the size of 1000 trucks in order to transport the same quantity as a single truck. That leads to materials costs and aerodynamic efficiency being significant factors. You simply cannot transport hydrogen very efficiently using such methods.
Hmm. I really should find time to get my personal site back online. I took it down a month ago to re-face it and life has intervened.
The CE mark is the commercial manufacturer's confirmation that they follow the EU regulations and have appropriately documented this.

A home-made drone would presumably still need to follow the same relevant regulations.

https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP2003_EU_Drone_Rules_... includes a reference to drones that are "privately-built and less than 250g"
I agree, I come from a SAT background, and I found AlphaFold one of the most interesting results, as it showed ML in an area where traditionally systems like SAT dominated and ML has previously struggled.
Another reason for single-file distribution is the ease of installation and running. If you can run from a single executable with all resources embedded in it, then users have a very easy time of things, they just download the program, then run it.

Apple's ".app" distribution format works just like that, while allowing the developer to have a directory structure for their convenience. App stores solve the problem in other ways, but there is no good app store for the web.
However I, too, would like to see more dogs bear arms.
Where does this happen in Texas public schools? Have you ever been to a populated city like Dallas or Houston? What culture change are you expecting? Texas is already full of liberal elites living in two of the largest cities in America.
Also means that some simple reform in Texas could remove one of the few downsides. Meanwhile California cannot build anything. Everything is either blocked by NIMBYs or like the high speed rail fails due to corruption and incompetence.

I felt like the failure of the rail project from LA to SF was kind of a milestone showing just how dysfunctional the state is. California spent more money not building rail than it costs in many countries to complete a rail line.
Gonna hijack this and share my wish for Elastic in 2021: A Kibana that requires less than 1GB of disk space and doesn't require loading ~50MB of javascript and css.
Confusingly, this page implies that you always need Flyer + Operator ID even for <250g drones.

https://www.caa.co.uk/Consumers/Unmanned-aircraft/Recreation...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/who-official-urges-...
"There are plenty of cheap places in California"

Where in California, the central valley?
Looks quite interesting. I'm curious if market product fit is there, you are trying to sell an app to people who are looking to travel cheaply.

Does your app offer some kind of incentive for use. Perhaps utilize data from other users to suggest how much certain city/trip should cost. If you need data for that, it might be a good idea to offer the app for free/freemium. Perhaps for free you can do planning but with premium you get further insight for average cost of a specific trip or even suggestions for trips of various types/cost.
I mean, if you ignore the Electoral College, and Senate seat allocations, sure.
I don't know how many people are simultaneously bilingual rather than learning a second language later on. I'd assume more English speakers are the latter than the former.
The death penalty would've spared him of so many years of suffering in a prison cell. I don't think you want that, do you?

To play devil's advocate, there are two real good reasons for the death penalty:

1. It's the humane thing to do, if we have no choice but to jail someone indefinitely with no hope for redemption.

2. Tax money could be used somewhere else, like improving the lives of the poor and providing mental care services to help people before they get into trouble
> The article was written in 1978 but it references paper: […] 1987

The author used a slingshot maneuver around the sun à la Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
I think a better title for this would be "strategy as a strategy".

What this article really describes is any attempt to find a novel strategy instead of playing a common strategy optimally.
Crimes of passion are rarely rational.
I manage a team of devs but my clients love to use Jira. So I typically use something like Board Genius to sync between Github issues and Jira. This also let's me keep my devs out of Jira so they can just focus on actual work and not worry all the discussions that happen in Jira between my clients and project management.
Racial priority for Covid-19 vaccine distribution poses problems
> The Flash authorship tools were free

Flash MX was a paid tool.
> I also wonder how the IDs will work, are they just written on the drone

Sounds like written, sticker, embossed, etc. is all you need.

"You must display your operator ID on your drones and model aircraft. "
I am an actuary for 20 years and people have been trying to replace Excel for at least 15 of them. But Excel is not going anywhere. I think it will be even more popular with the recent introduced lamda function. Excel formulas will Turing complete and we don’t have to use VBA anymore.
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One learns from everyday experience that men and women have different interests on average, which leads to unequal representation in various careers.
Not exactly,
They can be sorted, by default, only down to a millisecond, but you can use a monotonic generator to have them sorted, even if more than one Ulid is generated within a millisecond.

Other than that, they have 80 bits of randomness, enough to be unique even if millions are generated per second.

https://github.com/ulid/spec
Aside, it’s always a good time to check out “Halt and Catch Fire” — set in 80’s Texas “Silicon Prairie” [1]

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Prairie#Dallas–Fort_...
> Anyway, given these numbers, they are one of the worlds richest research labs, able to deploy enormous computational resources and relying for free on a highly reliable and scalable infrastructure of one of the world's biggest internet companies. Whether the results they present periodically are actually still impressive given all that burn rate, I'll leave it for the reader to decide.

Why would the burn rate make the results unimpressive? The author just made a comparison to MIT, which has a burn rate 3 times as large, and no one questions if their results are impressive or not each year.

It also seems like a cheap criticism of AlphaFold to say it hasn't solved protein folding by citing the NP-hardness of the problem. There's widespread expert consensus that DeepMind made a spectacular advance in the area, and the author characterizes it by saying, "well, they didn't solve an NP-hard problem..."?

The author seems pretty abrasive to be honest. This is a disingenuous "AI Update" for 2020.
> The spiritual successor to Flash <...> is probably more WebAssembly than HTML5

The author's point is that Flash had GUI authoring tools and was "content-first", whereas js and infinitely more so webassembly are programmer-first. It doesn't bother me a bit (am a programmer), but it does bother him.
Live performances?
Congratulations but you’re wrong. This maxed out my CPU.
I started skimming after he dismissed Deepmind’s work with Go. He doesn’t mention AlphaZero, MuZero, or Rebel (AlphaZero-ish for poker), or seem to understand the importance of solving games with ML.

But he does make an interesting point about the business of “AI”, a point made by a VC in a well-written post some time last year — it seems quite hard at the moment for ML to scale in the same way that we’ve grown used to software scaling.

But people were saying similar thing about “the World Wide Web” back in the late 90s, and especially after the bubble. Perhaps there is a ML bubble and it will pop, but this is a good thing. It in no way reflects upon the fundamental value of scaling human tasks with software.

Right now ML works fairly well for making a program that accomplishes some discrete and narrow task that could have conceivably been done with traditional hand-coded software, but at greater levels of accuracy and lower levels of human effort. For example, various forms of speech recognition have existed for ... decades? But ML models are far superior than anything that has been or could be hand-coded.

So this space for innovative businesses built upon ML software is as large as the current space for business built upon OOP and FP software — the method is somewhat irrelevant. What matters is still the difficulty of the problem being solved, and in general, the difficulty of making what people want. This is the hardest problem — making something actually valuable. ML software gives businesses a larger space of solvable problems, but it is not unlimited. It might not yet include self-driving cars.

But given time, the only theoretical limit to ML’s problem-solving space is the limit of intelligence itself. Research like AlphaZero is one step toward that holy grail of AGI, and deserve more credit than the author gives it.
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It sounds like you think the problem is discovery. There’s some disagreement between browsers as to whether the install button should be supported to make discovery easier, but that’s not a very large hill to climb, and would save us all from having 5 to 10 copies of chrome running at the same time.
Right, making the controls more challenging is taking away attention from economic planning, scouting, harassment and fights. As some famous broodwar player (whoes name I forgot - hah) said: Attention is the only resource. If you by design suck more than half the attention out of the players preemptively there is very little wiggle room for the actual game. In the late[r] game most players need all their attention to manage the economy (at the expense of everything else). The game becomes so fragile without that wiggle room that you cant recover from one unfortunate situation.

Its a classic really, the interface makes you feel dumb.

I'm suppose to be in command. My new trainee marine comes out of the barrack, he is not at all afraid of the hoard of terrifying zerg monsters, he just walks into them not even bothering to return fire. The SCV leaves the mineral line, builds a building, he is truly sophisticated at it! Then when done he just sits there.

>While I would like to be able to make factories assign units to groups

You can already put the factory in the control group, its just really annoying and doesn't do anything useful besides save a control group key.
It seems like this is a precautionary step since commercial space travel is starting to gain traction. That’s just my take.
Look at Texas' 2nd congressional district [0]. Gerrymandered districts are a more defining characteristic for red/blue (as is the electoral college).

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%27s_2nd_congressional_di...
Shopify is using WASM in production [0]

[0] https://shopify.engineering/shopify-webassembly
Adobe produced Flash and the authoring tools. They mostly gave up when Flash's runtime was deemed bad. Turns out, they have an authoring tool for HTML5 that looks a lot like flash: https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html

So, yeah, I'd question why Animate isn't good enough to fill Flash's role.
Seeing gulp being used in the examples for the build step is strange... I wonder why it was chosen. Nothing wrong with it per se but gives me flashbacks to the horrors of my past exposure to it as an inexperienced webdev.
Not quite. First, this doesn't apply to any interfaces that are created by system services like VPN tunnels. Second, you would usually want and need network-online.target, because firewall config often is applied after network-pre only. Third, dynamic stuff like VLAN interfaces also only appear after network-pre and often only after network-online. So no cookies for you. This kind of non-attention to details is actually what makes systemd bad: Everything looks like the authors laptop, if it doesn't, tough luck.
No, I'm not. That AP article directly contradicts what the WHO envoy said

> We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” Dr. David Nabarro said to The Spectator’s Andrew Neil. “The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/who-official-urges-...

Honestly, every news organization is continually contradicting themselves at this point. Hell, the New York Times contradicts their own headlines in the same articles!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmgMu5sefzA
It's important enough. Look at it this way: We can not reach a carbon-neutral society without fixing steel and cement production.
Quick quack suggests CO2 can be converted to carbon fiber. Also looks promising as a feed stock in the chemical and plastics industries. We figured out a use for gasoline, I’m sure we will think of something. Doesn’t hurt for the government to put a thumb on the scale either.
That sounds like just another way of describing a sociopath.
With all of the developments lately, I'm expecting the podcast experience to go downhill.
Code can end up being CPU bound that wasn’t meant to be. For example, having to use on a database driver or some other low level library written in Python can make your web app pretty CPU-bound. The main issue with PyPy is compatibility for me.
What would be the second best way to do cover this use case with minimal effort instead of doing it from scratch? For lets say Amsterdam City Sized cab hailing?
> How does this work for home-made drones? You wouldn't have a CE mark.

I 'home-made' an iPhone app and gave it a CE mark myself.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25583775
I let google translate pronounce it and the tone with which it does so fits perfectly.
The reason for "largely" is that in come sases, non-competes are enforceable. For example, if you buy a company, you can enforce a reasonable non-compete clause for the prior owners.
Autodesk.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/autocad-webassembly/

https://blogs.autodesk.com/autocad/autocad-web-app-google-io...

https://forge.autodesk.com/blog/load-encrypted-model-data-we...

BabylonJS plugins

https://babylonjs.medium.com/marker-tracking-in-babylon-js-c...

Blazor

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor

Uno

https://platform.uno/
It’s handled that way because many Hispanic people don’t consider “Hispanic” to be a race. That is to say, Afro-Latinos and White Hispanic people often don’t consider ourselves multiracial; my racial heritage is independent of the fact that my ancestors happened to be located in Mexico at one point.