skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true unfortunately. It has a blanket exception for anything remotely government related (meaning government itself and anyone the government authorizes), and in fact guarantees far more and wider access to your most sensitive data, not less. And it allows the government to authorize whoever they please to not just keep more data about you, tighter and more closely linked together, but to keep this from you, and to prevent you from doing anything about it. Which, since the process now exists, they have prodigiously used.

Insurance? Private doctor? Youth services? Family (or any other) court? Pharmacy (in most of Europe)? Police (even in the most trivial of cases, and without judicial approval, and of course without verification or recourse)

Worse than that: the exception goes further than merely keeping data as well. Insurance company wants to change/add to your medical record? Immediately? Doctor? Court? Police? All can change your medical file, both adding and deleting (sometimes limited to what they added themselves). YOU want to change it? Not possible!

Weird since insurance company access to your data, and "the right to be forgotten" was one of the main selling points of this legislation, but since insurance companies are semi-government in almost all of Europe these days, a lot of them fall into the blanket exception.

And of course, you yourself ... cannot access this data. You cannot see it (sorry "you can, unless there's a reason not to let you see it", wanna bet there's always a reason?). For particular parts (espectially names, for example which doctor put something there about you are kept secret from you). Thankfully these institutions hate eachother, so there is some protection left because if anyone wants this data, they have to file requests in 5 different places. But there is no more legal protection against this happening.

It is now far easier, in the Netherlands, to get a serious crime stricken off your judicial record than, say, getting a doctor or pharmacist's claim that you falsely came in for a heart problem out of your medical file, say to threaten or attack them for painkillers, or even just getting the name of which doctor put that there (and of course such misleading information can kill you if you ever really do have a heart problem, and god help you if you need pain killers or ...)

GPDR protects you from Amazon offering you gift ideas for your kids' birthday if you object to that. You want a mental health stay 40 years ago to not be used in a family court case against you? THAT it makes MUCH easier. Faking such a thing and using it in a court case against you, that, too, it makes a lot easier.
It doesn't change every iteration, it is declared anew for every iteration.
If we want to go on about naïve economics, why aren't there more low-cost competitors arising? If there's more money being pumped into the system, new players should arise to take it up.

Creating a new college isn't easy, but it's been almost 40 years. There's more than simple supply and demand at work here.

The problem is that there's a prestige factor at work, and prestige goods don't follow plain economics. Employers are demanding four-year degrees, prefer private schools to public schools, and treat online degrees as second-rate. And maybe they are on average, but not all of them, and there are a lot of smart people who don't want to get mired in a lifetime of debt.

If the guaranteed loans push up prices for fancier sheepskins, let 'em. The problem is on the other end. The loans make it possible for poor people to get degrees, and we're denigrating them so much that people pay more for degrees that aren't necessarily any better.

Naïve economics is doing us a disservice here, as usual. But even by naïve economics, there is more than just the supply to look at. You can take advantage of the bargains it creates on the demand side (students).
Sure, but YC has definitely diluted its brand over the years. I don't think most people hold it in the same regard as they did a decade ago. I certainly don't.

I get why they do it. It's an easy way to make more money. But the average YC founder today is nothing like the average YC founder a decade ago. They will argue otherwise, but I disagree based on personal experience. And everybody knows YC was really started by pg (I am fully aware of the entire history), and he hasn't been actively involved for years.
Western liberal democracy is collapsing because the right wing reactionaries were right about diversity destroying society, but their mistake was attempting to focus on things like racial and religious diversity. Diversity of ideas is not sustainable.

Now we can see multiple “factions” each with different ideas about the direction to take society with many of these ideas being excluding of or outright hostile to a different faction. So the solution? You have to kill them before they kill you (not in a literal sense, or at least not yet). Some of these factions will band with others (see right-libertarians typically siding with reactionaries and the progressive adoption of various leftist ideas) though it will be interesting to see what happens there when whichever group comes out on top.
There are people explicitly saying that no, it's not OK to be white - that if you're white you are automatically racist, and automatically guilty for what happened in the past. White Fragility is an example.

"It's OK to be white" isn't just a dogwhistle. (It may be that, but it isn't just that.) It's an explicit rejection of that kind of "all whites are guilty racists" baloney.
Eh, the problem with practicing amateur spycraft is that then you look like a spy if anyone notices.

Sure, maybe they're extremely unlikely to find an SD card in your shoe -- extremely! -- but if someone does find an SD card in your shoe, they're going to want to know why.

Just leave it in your pocket and dump it in the X-ray bin with the rest of your pocket trash. It's unlikely anyone will notice, and if they do, you're just a tourist with an SD card for your camera. Maybe they throw it away, maybe they copy it, but it's unlikely to end with you spending four hours being questioned about why it was in your shoe.
That’s true, they didn’t mention blackouts in this particular video, but that’s one of the reasons they have been doing this for more than a year.

There are a lot of articles in Russian on this subject.

In English: https://www.rferl.org/a/bitcoin-blackouts-russian-cryptocurr...
edit: Misread the article and grabbed the first name I saw. This edit fixes the reference:

"The seminar entitled 'Facing Racism' , given by Robin DiAngelo , was presented through LinkedIn Education publicly, although not free of charge. The company admitted that, in effect, it invited its workers to take the course, but they clarify that it was not mandator"

I would assume that Robin DiAngelo would be on the left.
> They wanted to _clarify_ it with the true fundamental principle.

I don't think that's an honest portrayal of the actual actions that took place or their motivations. In the context of disproportionate black deaths, mischaracterizing focusing on that specific issue:

1) does not inspire any positive change itself,

2) prevents positive change by demonizing those who are bringing awareness to and proposing solutions to the problem.

Rarely do you see the "all lives matter" crowd calling for increased police accountability; in fact, given their close association with Blue Lives Matter, I believe those who throw the slogan around tend to fight for quite the opposite.
I'm not sure how ad-hominem personal attacks suddenly became the primary way of debate.

Attack the speaker and undermine his credibility instead of arguing about what he has to say. I see it time after time in online and offline discussions.

Which kind of illustrates his point.
Fridays Are for Deep Thinking
How much access do kids have to books and a teacher right now if they don't have internet access?

Our library has contactless pickup, so you can still get books. But only provided you first go the library website over the internet and reserve them.

Our library has a Kindle lending library, provided of course that you access the library website to check them out and download the book to your ~$100 Kindle device over the internet.
They're a German-based company and, yes, they've always been bigger in Europe than in the US (relative to the market as a whole).
I'm looking forward to https://rockylinux.org/

By the same author of CentOS and promises to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise.
Maybe Amazon should stop selling religious books like the Bible, while they are at it?

If they are going to start censoring which books they sell, they might as well start with the one that has caused the most deaths throughout human history...

/s
It seems to me like their goal with FitBit is data acquisition. They already have a massive amount of location and purchase information from millions if not billions of people around the planet from Android, Google Search, and YouTube. If they can get information on health status too, they can probably further improve their advertising system to improve ad relevancy. They can use that information to make targeted investments. Plus that data would be worth an incredible amount to insurers and three-letter security agencies.
Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to spying concern
Circa 2001/2002, I had a lot of fun learning SUSE Linux where we had CDs of the OS that we could install. I remember being able to do a partition on my Windows (98/XP) and installing SuSE Linux on it. Fun times.
Socialism, liberalism, and progressivism are all different ideas.

Leftism tries to combine these ideas into a coherent political ideology. Liberalism (the part about individual rights) is a check on the abuses of socialism, and progressivism is supposed to make it all work (experts in control making good decisions).

I'm not a Leftist, but I can acknowledge that it's a coherent ideology.

When you take Leftism and take away liberalism and progressivism, you are left with rebels that have no solution to anything. Like BLM and antifa which are always recruiting to attack a mysterious "system" rather than making serious proposals. (It's always easier to get people to agree on a problem than a solution.) If they were to win, it would look more like Venezuela or Cuba than Denmark or Sweden.
> does anyone use google flights instead of travelocity

Yes, absolutely. I don't even know what Travelocity is :)

What surprises me is that people still use Expedia.

Agreed, this is probably satire.
I think hanging your hat on 'well produce will just make more' if the market shifts towards that is a bit fragile.

Generally farmers have been really good at increasing output across the board... often driving prices way down.

Probably a good idea diet wise, but generally not a tried I'd expect would save many farms for long. We've seen increases in other types of farming boom and bust time and again after flooding the market with product.
Scipy, Numpy, and R all work on an M1 Mac if compiled to do so.
Counter-point: authoritarian regimes.

The general consensus in such countries is that the laws are terrible and oppressive, the the brutal enforcement largely ensures compliance.
After 10 years of a movement that culminated in protests in 2000 cities in all 50 states and 5 territories that had supermajority support in polls, the people who are still ignorant enough, feigned or otherwise, to say BLM means Black Lives Only Matter are numerically and politically insignificant.

No movement has ever changed anything by seeking to get 100% of everyone on board, least of all those most uninformed, hostile, and acting in bad faith.
In a way, the pet->cattle transition "killed the Linux distro". Yes they're still important but commoditized

In a way it's a bit sad. The Linux desktop never was and we got Android instead

The king is dead, long live the king
The case looks great, like an ASUS Chromebox...which I always thought looked nice.
What the OP seems to be saying is that the emergency abort system actually operates on a “lysine deficiency” basis: if the signal is no longer received, the self-destruct system goes BOOM.

I suppose this classifies as “fail-safe”, though if there’s folks riding on the tip of this large sharp shard with the explosive force of a small nuclear weapon I’d be rather concerned about radio transient interference and things like that.
const isn't actually a constant as you probably know it. It's just that the reference is constant, not that the value is constant. Besides the point, but I guess good to clarify.

And yeah, you can use let/const, doesn't really matter except for performance optimizations, which depends on browsers and what patches they deployed that day anyways. Effectively, the difference is +-0.

`let` you usually use to signal that the variable will change in the future, within the scope. `const` usually signals the opposite. As the variable defined as a `const` here does not change within that scope (each loop is it's own scope), I think it's appropriate to use a `const` here.
Nyepi (Day of Silence) is tomorrow here in Bali. There will be no radio, tv, cellular data, and the airport will be closed for the day. I kinda like the idea of one Silent Day a year. So if you reply to this comment I won't reply :-)
American Rescue Plan Act: Health Coverage Provisions Explained [pdf]
I have redundant pi holes and NTP servers running. One of them is GPS/PPS trained with chrony for some truly accurate network time.

I have another pi with a SCART hat and 180 GB of ROMs driving my BVM.

I have a 0w modulating its clock with Daftendirekt at 7am every morning for a pirate FM radio alarm clock.

If I had more impulse purchasing power I’m sure I would like to experiment with octoprint on my CR10S-Pro.

There are lots of things you can do with Pis. My use cases are far from the most fun or clever. You just have match them to your interests :)
Only desktop OS:es have menu bars though.
The value is constant for each iteration: they don't want formInput to change on line 43, for example.
I'm arguing substantively with you. The argument is about the trustworthiness of someone else. The concept of the ad hominem fallacy does not mean it is impossible to discuss someone else's credibility.

Perhaps we've had our wires crossed, and you think I'm arguing "because Pinker says campus culture is corrupted, campus culture must be fine, because Pinker is corrupted". That is not my argument.

A good resource on this is the "Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy" post, and I recommend it to you heartily.
Because Russia was just focusing on the arms race, nothing else. China does in fact get people out of poverty and is making serious efforts to make education as accessible as possible.

For the past 20-something years "experts" have made predictions of how China will catastrophically fail "in the next 5 years" because whatever the latest issue was that we just identified with how China does things wrong. At least you put your predictions 20 years in the future so you don't have to correct them that often. ;-)

And while it's true that China has a lot of internal conflicts and issues, I don't see how any of them should pose a serious threat to their road to success, or rather not more than the issues we have in the west now.

As the article says several times, it's better to prepare, rather than trying to find arguments that the problem will magically solve itself and everything will comfortably stay the way it is.
That figure is amazing.

I interviewed in person at a leading industrial automation company over five years ago. They were looking for someone to work on ARM stuff and I was (naively) proud of the work I'd done with the original Raspberry Pi in school. The hiring manager had never even heard of the Pi...
Python GUI Frameworks
Hah! As I look down near my feet there is a clear plastic bin full of pi's, usb cables, micro hdmi, a picam, a go pro, all kinds of crap I swear I will use and never do.

I do have a pihole running on a pi3 that has been serving dns for my home network for about two years now without so much as a hiccup.
Nope, some smaller shopping mall in Hamburg, Germany.

https://www.eez.de/ but to be honest, https://edeka-volker-klein.de/edeka-elbe directly adjacent is preferrable(for groceries, at least)

:-)
E-Ink Laptop, First Steps
And when the systems/mechanisms for them to oppress their opposition were already put in place in an attempt to limit them from getting that power in the first place.

If you go down the path of "censorship", you better get it right. Otherwise you'll probably be worse off in the end.
you can. North korea is a good example.
Those specific figures come from the sheet "Rail subsidy per passenger mile by Train Operating Company (TOC): DfT franchised train operators: 2015/16"

Note this importantly doesn't include Scotland, Wales, Merseyrail (public) or TFL (public)

Rail subsidy jumped after railtrack was replaced with nationalrail, and the legacy of decades of underfunding in rail under BR was apparent. That underfunding is obviously going to happen under a tory government interested in cutting short term costs. You can see that as of 2015 subsidy per passenger mile was about the same as it was in the 80s and 90s[0]

Rail subsidy is split into two parts

1) Track costs
2) Service costs

Your figures are including major capital expenditure - specifically HS2 and Crossrail, so not really comparable with subsidies in the 70s and 80s when there weren't massive capital programmes and expansion.

I'm less concerned about track maintenence costs or track capital costs -- that's like the government paying for road maintenance or new motorways - it's good. It's the service subsidies that interest me. Basicalyl how much is the taxpayer using to subsidise rail travellers (who tend to have higher income and higher wealth than average), and during the 6 years I have data on, those dropped by £1.4 billion.

Remember that under BR there were competing sectors - intercity, regional railways, network southeast, all of which were shit. Now there are competing franchisees, some of which are shit, but we often get a choice (Virgin vs Chiltern vs London Midland for London-Birmingham, XC vs TFW for Crewe-Bristol, etc. This means more choice and cheaper fares for me, the passenger).

In 2015/16 the franchise "GTR (Thameslink etc)" pays £278m for the privilige of running trains through central London. Meanwhile Northern, which have very few routes that pay their way, get paid £122m from central government. You could argue that Grant Shapps would be better running these services, I'm not convinced.

Effectively Brighton->London commuters are subsidising rural travellers in Yorkshire. You could argue this shouldn't happen, and those commuting into London for high paying jobs should have cheaper fares, at the expense of fewer services in the North. That's a very Thatcherite view, but that's ok, everyone's entitled to a view.

APT predated privitisation by 2 decades so I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. Virgin ordered the class 390s.

It sounds like you don't like the state of the rail industry in Britain in the 80s and 90s, which is reasonable. It's hardly the fault of privitisation didn't start until 1993 and didn't begin operation until about 1997

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_of...
Launch HN: Venu (YC W21) – True-to-Life 3D Virtual Trade Shows
Hey HN,

I'm Jeremy, CEO of Venu (https://venu3d.com), and my team and I have created a virtual 3D trade show platform that feels like you're there in real life.

We would like to invite you to experience Venu for yourself by walking around a virtual trade show, check out the exhibit booths, come on stage -- all from your computer! VENU will be open for tours today from 12-2pm PST. Come hang out in our lounge while you eat your lunch. Please follow the download & installation instructions and pop on in!
Download Venu at https://www.venu3d.com/downloads.html - please enter "HN" for event name.

We enable event professionals to host virtual exhibits, fairs, & conferences in a 3D venue, beyond 2D faces on a screen. Venu allows participants to walk through an expo hall as 3D avatars in first person view, have spontaneous conversations and network with others, present on stage to a full audience of avatars, and sell sponsorships.

Our customers like Microsoft, YPO, Global Game Jam, Indie Games Expo, Global Pandemic Coalition, Earth Day Summit, have created expositions, networking, and speaker experiences in Venu for their attendees that keep them coming back for more.

We're a team of passionate creatives who left our software jobs to pursue our dreams to create a virtual world where people can connect and live life beyond what's possible today with virtual reality as the everyday norm.

When I was 14, I was inspired by a TV show called Yu-Gi-Oh that showed me a world of augmented reality holograms and virtual reality, which led me to study at Georgia Tech, join and ship Xbox One at Microsoft, ship HoloLens at Microsoft, start my first startup RoboBear teaching elementary school students college level robotics with robotic teddy bears to pay for rent to start our virtual reality startup today.

We've been through 5 fun and challenging years, being one of the first to innovate in the VR market, developing VR games, hosting conferences in San Francisco, opening VR arcades, developing enterprise apps for clients, developing Venu, overcoming running out of money countless times, to make it to where we are today, and we have so many more exciting challenges to tackle ahead of us.

We would love to hear your feedback. Please send us questions.

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Jeremy
Yes, it says hi and then when you want to upgrade the disk/RAM you can't. And when it breaks you can't fix it and Apple sells you another one for bazillion dollars. And you have to use Metal instead of OpenGL. That's when I say goodbye until they reverse engineer the GPU and port OpenGL to it! :D

Now I didn't even mention the App store tie in and how you need to sign the binaries on Apple hardware and how they poach 30%, but you get the picture.
New perovskite LED emits a circularly polarized glow
ICO pretty much said they were only going to enforce it like previous data protection laws anyway.
There's quite a few pictures in there.
HaD article, primarily links to : Building an E-Ink Laptop
https://alexsoto.dev/building-an-e-ink-laptop.html

Link to HaD for additional links and discussion.
Is this the Movers and Shakas program (reimbursement for moving to Hawaii)? I would love to e-meet you all! I actually moved here before the program existed :) Is there maybe a chat I could join?
> he looks about 20 years older

OTOH, my grandfather, who worked his own farm until he was deep into his 80s, is just about to celebrate 102. Up until a couple years ago he was still taking stairs two at a time, and winning corn shucking contests. Would he have made it so far, or in such good shape, if he had spent his life at a desk?
In a nutshell, Cobol fails to inspire throngs of youngsters to write "toy Cobol" implementations.

It is also relatively rare for new languages cite Cobol as an inspiration for any of their features.

Cobol has a feature whereby dissimilar structures can be assigned. The structure members which have the same names are identified between the structures and the data is moved accordingly. Or something like that. A programming language which has such a thing could claim to have had that inspired by Cobol.

If I ever add that to TXR Lisp, I will be sure to drop a Cobol reference into the documentation.

I might have learned about this via Knuth; I think there is a mention of it in some passage in TAOCP.
even better: find has a -delete:

find $DIR -type f -name .DS_Store -delete +
> Eventually we will have calculated all the necessary derivations and the universe will come to an end.

I'm sorry I didn't understand this. Could you explain?