skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep that in mind the next time you encounter a US based newspaper that puts up a GDPR error page instead of serving the news article you requested. The EU asserts it can penalize a US based company a percentage of its worldwide revenue (not EU derived revenue) for GDPR violations.

I'm not saying it's right, I am saying that these are the logical, practical responses to the way different jurisdictions expect their laws and regulations to be honored, respected, and applied.
Well then: lucky coincidence.
Thinking a little more, I guess I would actually expect it to look a bit more like

save myNote as C1
save myPlayable = myNote for 1b
do
play myPlayable
save myNote as myNote + 1
while (myNote < C2)

(That is, the dot notation looked out of place given your language.)
I used to work for a company in NYS that used a section of a converted mall for office space. God, that was the worst office space I've ever been in -- the floors moved a ton when you moved your chair, echoed when you walked around, the temperatures were absolutely all over the place depending on how close you were to a heater/cooling vent, and worst of all... malls don't really have windows.

Working in a converted mall might as well be working in a prison, for all I can tell. The walkway through the middle was kind of nice (and the food court still functioned as a cafeteria, so you could walk fully indoors during cold winter/hot summer days to get a coffee or lunch)... but I think I'd still rather be able to see the outdoors from my desk.
If the community wouldn't continuously bork desktop efforts searching for the ultimate twm like experience, juggling xterms.
I would recommend looking at Design of Experiments methodology using Pairwise or Fractional Factorial methods combined with some form of automation.

https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/automated-combinatorial-testi...
the windows 10 search bar is really good for finding local stuff. it's unfortunate that they decided to use it as another vector for pushing bing and edge. if it would allow me to use the search engine and browser of my choice for web results, it could be an extremely powerful feature. it's definitely a value add for me, but it's frustrating to think about how much was left on the table.
No it isn't. The ID.3 problems are real, VW are working on software updates to fix the problems and have emailed the owners to provide instructions for work arounds.
Rackspace did a similar thing in San Antonio. There are many photos of the transition here: https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/slideshow/Photos-show...
Danes can deduct around 25% of paid interests (and "contribution fees" on mortgages). A little more for paid interests below DKK 50000 yearly and a little less for paid interests above DKK 50000.

A typical home can sell for DKK 4M. With a 20 year 0% interest and 80% of the 4M mortgaged (the maximum allowed), the "contribution fee" would be set at 0,75%.

That would amount to interests (0%) and "contribution fee" (0.75%) yearly around DKK 24000 (1st year) of which 25% = DKK 6000 will be deductible.

To put that into perspective:

A. An average "medium level" worker will have an average income of DKK 466,660/year[1] and pay DKK 159,212 in taxes, leaving a post-taxes income of DKK 307,448.

B. An unemployed will receive DKK 225,894/year and pay DKK 58,952 in taxes, leaving a post-taxes income of DKK 166.942

So in reality the mortgage tax deduction does not amount to much. With those low interest rates it is around DKK 6000 or DKK 500/month for a typical family.

Compare DKK 6000/year or DKK 500/month to:
- a pair of Levi's: DKK 660
- a 4G/5G plan with 50GB/month: DKK 160/month
- iPhone 12: DKK 7000

[1] https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/arbejde-indkomst-og-fo...
If they are not paying you, they are not customers. If a proposed project might solve an important problem, potential customers will speculatively pay for its development...it's an investment in the same way as paying for an in-house development attempt.

Moreover, they won't care about your website or blog posts. They will care about trying to solve their problem.

"But what if they don't want to pay until it is built?"

Two things. First they don't trust you. Second they don't want to pay. If you build an MVP, that doesn't mean they will trust you. And it does not mean they will want to pay you.

Asking for money is the best way to validate your idea. It is possible that an MVP will make all the difference. But often it won't because people are polite and they are paid to talk to people like you as part of their job because sometimes moonshots pay off.

The core problem is that you are undercapitalized. This is not just your problem. It is a problem for any business that invests in your technology. And the primary investment is not money but time and energy to incorporate it into their processes. Broke (financially) doesn't sell. Good luck.
As I said several comments ago:

>It is relatively standard for propositions to include some ways for the legislature to amend the law. It isn't a full legal requirement, but it is common.
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What Microsoft should be doing with this "Windows is back" initiative is comprehensively rethinking everything below the launcher and window management level. The visual presentation could follow the very same "fluent" system or whatever it is Microsoft is calling its current design language, but all the stuff from Control Panel to mounting network shares would be harmonized with the same UI metaphors and mental models.

What Microsoft almost certainly will do is yet another pass at launchers and window widgets, leaving its three-decades-deep sediment of system functionality largely untouched.
Yup they're not a big software company if you arbitrarily constrain the definition of software company.

I could argue Google is not a big software company (as in lots of people working with mismatching socks and propeller hats).

But that would be just as stupid.
I thought I'd get away with a common sense interpretation of what I'm getting at, but I should have known better.
> Sell oil, buy electric cars. Is this the definition of hypocrisy?

In what way? It's not like Norway is responsible for the worlds dependence on oil, or that they've ever claimed that they're saving the world. They haven't said that others should stop using oil/gasoline right now either. They're just trying their best to help develop alternatives.

If you have oil, what's the third alternative? Should Norway just not have extracted any of its oil ever? Is that realistic to expect? Would it even have helped in any way, or would it just be offset by increased production in the middle east?

It's a huge discussion around this in Norway btw. The green party wants to cut all oil production by 2035. Obviously it's not very popular, although the green party has been growing quite well recently. The main argument against it is that cutting oil/gas production will easily be offset by other nations, most of which have worse CO2/methane pollution from their oil/gas production, and cutting gas to Germany could increase coal usage. It has been a big focus on that in Norway, to the point that Equinor is building a wind power plant to supply oil rigs with cleaner electricity rather than burning gas in inefficient power plants on the oil rigs. Of course, a lot of people are saying that this is green washing. Personally I'm ambivalent. Cutting production early would send a very strong signal, and could perhaps push other countries to cut oil/gas use, but at least building those off-shore wind power plants will help reduce cost of off-shore wind.

Norway is not the "good guy" here, but then nobody is. Everyone that has cheap/easy access to oil reserves has developed them. Expecting anybody to do otherwise is naive. Everyone in the world is hopelessly dependent on oil. We're all product of the circumstances of the 20th century, and all we can do is to try to do the best we can going forward.
I didn't downvote, but your wording is a bit weird:

> still part of the EU

It seems that you might be implying that leaving the EU is something natural/desirable/inevitable for Ireland
There were so many "slippery slope" jokes when Alex Jones et al were deplatformed, but it really does look like they were warming up for censorship to go mainstream.

Why would we let the status quo decide what's good? The status quo always protects the status quo.
You make a good point, I'm surprised to see it downvoted.

It's always a risk to put IP in a bucket you may lose access to just because of politics.
Probably they said to the US government. "What's the point of blocking iranian developers if we can look into their code?"
No, the equivalent of this in the sports world would be fining a team some thousands of dollars for drug abuse instead of banning the offending players.
And today $SWI is still just barely under their IPO price, and not even at an all-time low.
I see the do-calculus as being causality as applied to a graph. It then gives you a bunch of correlations to test.

The other example of "things applied to graphs" is graphical models aka Bayesian networks => Bayesian statistics.
The Lost Art of BBSing (April 2000)
Sinofsky....
> The article feels like a lot of unfortunate self-flagellation for being 'morally incompetent'

That's an acceptable thing to do for catharsis, but not so much fun when your diary entry lands on hacker news.

The problem is that the person reading the blog (like me), reads it in our own voice and the division between "working to cure cancer" vs "curing cancer" seems to be one of consequence not intention or effort (merely "wanting to" is weird).

Because being congratulated for trying-so-hard sucks, when you know you are failing instead. So much harder on your ego to tell people "I can't do this", while they're patting your back for almost doing it. Or maybe, I read it like that because as a parent of a newborn + working from home, I'm going through this somewhat.

I read the "morally incompetent" as just short hand for "not being honest about current state of mind".

But y'know what, that sort of honesty can kill things because everyone who succeeded knows the dark times where everything seems hopeless until something out of your control drops in to give you a push forward. To broadcast "I don't have it in me" usually prevents such serendipity.
> has access to everything else

Everything else _that's on my computer_.

The person with access to my camera has access to observe the environment my computer is in. My WFH setup is in my bedroom - I don't want to be paranoid that my company (or a random IT employee at my company) can use my computer as an incognito candid camera at a whim by remotely activating it and suppressing any visible indications that it's activated.

Manual shutters ensure that you definitively know if it's even _capable_ of viewing/recording you. Automated shutters at least can provide re-assurance at a glance if it's active (or capable of being activated) at that point in time. An indicator light that may or may not be capable of being manually suppressed means you have no reassurance at all about whether you're being visually observed any time your laptop is open and powered on, which can be stressful.

I can shut it and turn it off at night when I'm not working to provide reassurance that it can't record me when I'm not working, but my room is a shared space where there are plenty of things that happen in it while I _am_ working that I wouldn't want captured, such as my SO in bed behind me if I start work before she gets up, or her coming in to change during the day or get dressed after a bath/shower.

The abrupt shift to WFH over the past year is likely one of the drivers of it being such a hot trend for business laptops. Many people I know and work with have don't have dedicated home offices, and have similarly resorted to repurposing shared spaces to work from (bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, etc), and likely have similar concerns about maintaining their personal privacy as much as possible.
Thanks for your comment @ml_basics!

> At the moment this is feasible for big tech companies (see e.g. autonomous driving) but I'm interested to see what might happen when tools are developed that make this possible for nimbler organisations

Agreed! We worry that the evolving regulatory frameworks–which are needed but will also inevitably put pressure on all kinds of organizations in the next few years–will make it even harder for those nimbler companies to innovate.
Securing an embargo exemption is probably not something you do as a quick workaround to an issue making the rounds on social media.
https://www.state.gov/ukraine-and-russia-sanctions/

ctrl + f "Crimea", there's some interesting information there. It lists specific companies and explains why.

edit: This is a specific example: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm889
The whole reason we have time zones is so that midday (12:00) happens somewhat close to the middle of the day, and that midnight happens somewhat close to the middle of the night.

I'm not sure what shifting everyone's timezone east accomplishes. My hunch is we'll all adapt by shifting activities/business hours/school hours and then instead of griping that "It's only X o'clock and the sun is already setting" we'll be griping that "It's only X+1 o'clock and the sun is already setting" and people will start proposing "permanent daylight + 1" time.
Unless you have a prover that can answer "is this actually a correct proof", your fitness function is essentially "does this look like a proof"

And if you have a prover that can answer that question, you don't need to train a neural network to give you the answer.

Proving maths demands 100% precision and recall, at which point employing ML doesn't make sense - the point of ML is (horribly simplified) stochastic reasoning, not finding truths.
> Because they have first-party information, neither Google nor Facebook suffer as much from this problem

Maybe not from the problem outlined in the study, but fraudsters certainly create fake high value "profiles" that they use to commit fraud on those networks.

I spoke with an ad fraud researcher recently for a marketing podcast I started and he spoke in detail about this fraud is carried out. IIRC he referred to it as retargeting fraud.
Office 365 does that too - and Twitter by the way... Copying & pasting URL is becoming mostly a tedious rigmarole of opening the link, seeing what it finally resolves to - and only then copying & pasting...
Qt on STM32 Under Embox
Not everyone resident in the EU is an EU citizen, and not every other country allows dual citizenship.
The whole push in the industry is to move everything to cloud, because that delivers better lock-in. The cloud is un-defeatable DRM (as the software is not even local) plus control of your data.
The author casts this in moral terms which is useful in grabbing attention (moral competence vs moral incompetence!), but I'm not sure how those two labels and concepts as he describes them are any different than the neither-moral-nor-immoral standard management practice of trying to focus oneself and others on outcomes rather than effort.

I am not sure "moral" is truly the right word for what the author is discussing... morality is not just about the outcome, it's about what you are aiming for. If you aim for the wrong thing, that is a moral failure, moral incompetence if you will. But that is not what the author is talking about. True, it is good to be effective and obtain a desired outcome, particularly one that you or others think is good, but I'd point out that this "moral competence" and what another early poster mentioned, "effective altruism", are not that dissimilar from earlier concepts and discussions of ... "wisdom".
I've been a professional web dev for 20 years so just being organized is probably the #1 factor.

As far as specific tools, we use several to manage our client network, here are a few:

ManageWP

WordPress/Jetpack

WPEngine

We prefer clients host within our network, but also have 50+ that are hosted elsewhere.
I have an anecdote about Iranian internet access: years ago (2006 maybe) Google came out with a way to determine the top search terms by country. For the US and most countries it was what you would expect: porn, sports, movie and music stars.

Now for Iran it was control theory, FPGA design, chemical engineering, etc.. I suspect only weapons designers had internet access. Maybe universities, but no porn? Not likely..

So Google trends no longer shows porn or Iran.
> The big shift that's taken place is that custody banks now have a path towards SEC approval. Nothing with a retirement assets could touch crypto because of custody restrictions based on ERISA. This rule announcement changed the entire sector.

Can you go into more detail about explaining this please?
The only ones you have to blame for that, are the companies to show you those annoying popups. They have no obligation whatsoever to show that to anyone outside the EU.

Start complaining to those companies and stop pointing your finger in the wrong direction.
Or you could say that the act of tying eligibility for registering a domain to citizenship was the problem.

Isn't the Internet meant to be supernational? Do bits have to stop for visa checks at borders?
I imagine it is a question of applicable law. If the EU is not in a position to regulate the people in charge of those domains, I can understand why they would not want to give the impression that they are "EU" domains.
"Quantra is a REST wrapper for QuantLib, the indrustry-leading library for quantitative finance."
hmm why can't i open the dmg? i'm on big sur
I'll take one point from that article as an example of BS:

"Intangible Drilling Costs ($3.5 billion “subsidy” – low estimate is $780 million) - Intangible Drilling Costs are essentially the cost of drilling a new well that have no salvageable value. Currently, most exploration companies are allowed to deduct 100% of the costs in the year they are incurred with the majors able to deduct 70% of the costs immediately with the remaining 30% amortized over 5 years. In what world would money spent that may or may not be recovered be capitalized as an asset?"

Plenty of companies spend plenty of money on R&D every year that goes nowhere. For some reason, the oil & gas industry gets a refund on their exploration but other companies don't. I work in R&D in tech -- should the government fund my complete salary for projects that turn out to not be viable? Sounds great if you're an entrepreneur -- start all the companies you want and get refunded by the government for all of your misses.
Why not? Note that I'm only using it as an estimate of what fraction of people would be expected to suffer serious side effects from a hastily developed vaccine. And it doesn't even need to be an overall worst case estimate, just a reasonable upper bound for the fraction of people who could be expected to suffer serious side effects from the COVID vaccine.

Also note that the swine flu vaccine was not an RNA vaccine, it was an ordinary flu vaccine using, as far as I know, deactivated virus. RNA vaccines are inherently safer.
Just adding on that many SA countries did not have stringent lockdowns like China. My family is in Brazil when they “locked down” recently and nothing was locked down at all.
1) Psilocybin research was, and it probably still is in most of the world, made ILLEGAL by governments. Another causality of the war on drugs, who wrongly imprisoned thousands and caused countless victims so that a few politicians get re-elected.

2) > We have far better cures

So you’re saying there are cures. Great then. Please re-read the gp's question. For 3) as well...
Programming on the go is for toy programs anyway.

For real work there are laptops and desktops.
Speaking of fast responses, your response time on these comments is incredible!
It's possible that I missed that, but I believe the HN poster silently updated the title. The word "executable" does not appear anywhere in the HTML of the target page.

(sigh at how acronyms are the source for endless insider snark.)
Here is a blog post that describes their approach https://towardsdatascience.com/real-time-noise-suppression-u...
Warnings were sent in October, with reminders in December. Afaik, domain owners who’ve had their domains suspended can validate their eligibility again. So I think it is possible to transfer ownership of the domain to someone (or an entity) that is eligible.

Emails (from GoDaddy) seem to have been sent to registrars as early as August 2018 [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25649326
Without competition it's easy to end up in a situation where a monopoly can accrue too much power and exploit their customers or their workforce. With sufficient economic freedom competition can arise naturally. Unfortunately when a company becomes very powerful You will start to see behaviors like rent-seeking, regulatory capture, and cronyism. These artificially raise the barriers to entry for plucky startups. This is more a reflection of poor or corrupt governance than capitalism though.
In my day-to-day work, I operate at a rather low level. Hardware guys + the occasional assembly code. However, my command of Linux / OS-level stuff is far superior over my peers, and I'm able to occasionally write up a shell-script or two in a few hours that replicates something a peer does over a week at a low-level. (Hardware guys don't necessarily know that "Tee" exists, or how to use Unix Domain Sockets or pipes to their fullest extend)

Becoming the best in one field is almost impossible: there is always someone more studied than you. However, becoming "competent" in two or three different fields can lead to a strong advantage.

Yes, you should reach for depth in your field. But you should also reach for breadth when its easy. There are sometimes easy ways to differentiate yourself over your peers.

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I feel like there needs to be a good collection of books that teach the "simplest tricks" of a field.

Ex: Cryptography Engineering is the "simplest" explanation of cryptography. There's not enough math to understand any crypto-algorithm, but by just laying out the names of common algorithms + their common uses, the book teaches the "easiest" bits of crypto to those outside of the field.

Maybe that's the niche for this book? I haven't read it, but if its written clearly enough, it can be used for someone like me to explore a field I don't work in on a day-to-day basis.

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Breadth of study vs depth of study are two different styles of study. They're not necessarily more or less important... they're just two different ways of creating your own niche in your organization.
Seriously, well done GitHub! There aren't many big companies that follow through to do the right thing. Great stuff.
You assume people will be given the choice to get vaccinated.

I believe it will be as "optional" as not having a SSN or a bank account: in theory possible, in practice with so many hurdles that people will relent.

(ex: ban unvaccinated people from plane, train and bus interstate travel using the TSA for controls)
have they considered, you know, charging money for the OS? I would be happy to pay a reasonable yearly subscription fee for a telemetry-free windows install.
I understand it just fine. You are just trying to gin up a controversy where none exists.