skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't feel the same way. I feel that "ship" feels like a larger scaled "deliver", while "sell" feels more focused on the transaction rather than the product.

The evocation of image of frantic developers churning away might be coming from your previous experience working at or reading about that shipping culture. Unfortunately, I am exposed to that chaotic shipping culture too. I feel this disastrous shipping stories is everywhere, enhanced by the nature of software development that gets more social each day.

At the end, it is the bad practices that leads to bad shipments that we must resolve. I'm comfortable to keep the original meaning and feel of the word "ship" to separate the bad practices from it and acknowledge them as problems -- the first step of a problem resolution.
>new information commissioner to focus not just on privacy but on the use of data for ‘economic and social goals’.

Congratulations Britons, your data's back on sale.
I am old enough to remember what Panic claimed to be the first ever emoji domain in 2011 [0]. But a quick look at the relevant wikipedia entry sets the record straight [1].

[0]: https://panic.com/blog/the-worlds-first-emoji-domain/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji_domain
Tech investors don't care about climate change
I edited my comment some, so I not sure quite what it is I misunderstood.

I'm pretty sure I did know that as checked the Supreme Court decision while working on my comment, and it says https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf

> Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd., is a Colorado bakery owned and operated by Jack Phillips, an expert baker and devout Christian. In 2012 he told a same-sex couple that he would not create a cake for their wedding celebration because of his religious opposition to same-sex marriages—marriages that Colorado did not then recognize—but that he would sell them other baked goods, e.g., birthday cakes.

In my comment I removed text where I quoted from the decision, as there's no way that decision can be discussed in the sort of off-handed way that jpxw brought it up.

Also, I didn't realize there were multiple relevant cake maker lawsuits, so perhaps jpxw could be more specific, as the Supreme Court decision doesn't seems to have a direct bearing on the topic, leaving the underlying issue in confusion.
The US use of the word 'liberal' is already ambiguous, and is generally orthogonal to 'conservative' (e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism ).

Some interesting dimensions might be:

- liberal vs authoritarian

- conservative vs progressive

- nationalist vs globalist

- individual vs collective
No system is completely sane but some are better than others at keeping out the loonies :-)

European ones are decent.
Researchers find trapdoor in SwissVote election system (2019)
> continuing it only to support the company

there's no need to do that - a company would be supported if their products/services are worthy of paying for. To "support" by deliberately paying money, but not use their service is just folly. They aren't a charity, and they certainly don't think of you as highly as you would of them by doing so.
In 2019, an elderly Italian immigrant living in Newcastle, England, got into his Jaguar to make his annual trip to Rome to visit relatives.

He had made the journey by car several times before, but that year was the first time that he tried to use his new satellite navigation system. When he stopped for fuel, the satnav stopped giving him directions, so he asked someone in the petrol station for help.

Unfortunately, the helpful passer-by had misunderstood and entered the small Bavarian village of Rom, 1000 miles north of Rome, as the destination. The driver noticed that the roads he was following were unfamiliar, but assumed that the satnav had mapped out a better route.

To make matters worse, when he arrived in Rom and got out of the car to try to figure out what had gone wrong, he didn't apply the handbrake properly. The car rolled backwards, injuring him as he was dragged along the road by the door, before colliding with the village sign (and being written off as a total loss).
My initials are J.R. In the US, when these are printed after my surname, a lot of people think I'm <surname> Junior.
I have mixed feelings about this.

On the one hand, I think GDPR is a great step towards stopping companies hoarding your data and holding you hostage to it. On the other, main GDPR change is those awful 'hand over data / pretend you're not' dialogue boxes. When I'm feeling strong, I look for the 'reject / object / blah' box, but often I don't find it in me to resist anymore.

So maybe it's not awful they're reshaping GDPR.
I can honestly say that I think it made little to no difference, across the board. The requirements etc have not been fulfilled by most companies, why bother.
What did you use for programming games?

I wrote games for the Apple ][ in basic and created some with The Arcade Machine, but my Apple Machine Language book was largely unread, due to my impatience.

Someone at the time that did have the patience was Jordan M., who wrote Karateka[1], which I thought was pronounced “kah-RAH-tic-a” but is “CARE-ah-TAKE-ah”[2], and please don’t ask me to change. The making of that game was one of the greatest things in the recent history of humanity, at least in my limited experience.

[1]- https://www.amazon.com/Making-Karateka-Jordan-Mechner-ebook/...

[2]- https://youtu.be/QDaFte42odA
A friend of a friend worked in the tourist office at the airport in Rodez, France. Apparently a significant part of her job was dealing with British tourists who thought they had booked flights to the Greek island of Rhodes.
Departure.

Part of winning strategically is understanding that only 'sufficient' tactical engagements must be won.

Getting annihilated does not advance the cause.
AKA a draft furnace.
At the risk of having too hot of a take. What Amazon and other corporations are doing is the equivalent of ideological bikeshedding, inflaming different subcultures to fight amongst each other in order to ignore the elephant in the room. Mainly the fact that the elites have too much power. This is a blatant bait for the alt right movement to tear itself to pieces with the leftist movement which incidentally is playing in the corporations hands by suppressing all dissent via cancel culture (that is also sanctioned by corporations, as long as it doesnt touch their bottom line)
Of course it's the worst kind of rotten spaghetti. But yes, this is normal when projects are 10 years old, super large, and have been touched by 200, 300 or more developers.

There's only two ways to avoid it: having very small, very cohesive, teams, or using tools and methodologies that avoid this.
YIPPEE.

Does this mean no more of those stupid little popups every time I see a site? HOORAY.

Does it mean less absurd bureaucracy and non-jobs? GREAT.

As for data privacy... does anyone seriously think that Facebook was stopped from collecting data due to GDPR?
Without speaking for your wife, but speaking for myself and my parents, its NOT that we had any trouble wrapping our head around it, just that meat by itself didn't taste that good. Even in the US it is common to add other ingredients, like cheese, tomatoes, onions and tomato sauce and mustard to the burger. Otherwise you're just eating cheap meat and bread, and there's nothing noble about that IMO.

Even at fancier places which ground up better cuts of meat and bake their own bread, there are condiments added to the burger, both in the patty and after it is cooked.
Automated Category Theory Reasoning with Metatheory.jl and Egraphs
Thanks for taking the time to give a detailed recommendation. Setting up Doom right now!
Because the UK is only borderline a free society.

It's like asking why does the king of Saudi Arabia need to have the power to jail his subjects for no reason? Why does Putin need to have the right to jail or kill political opponents?

The UK doesn't give you right to remain silent (your silence will be used against you), you are compelled to bear witness against yourself (you must surrender passwords), and there are super-injunctions where you are gagged and not even allowed to discuss the legal issue with your lawyer.

This is the country that sent government thugs to force journalists to physically destroy their own laptops and hard drives.

With religious clergy overtly and explicitly being part of government power (in house of lords).

Hell, it's super recent that government power in house of lords stopped being inherited.

Imagine if the US senate was staffed solely by inherited power. Not just in the style of Bust Sr/GWB, but actually inherited. It's not the same, since the US senate is more powerful than the house of lords, but "it's complicated".

So your confusion here may come from the fact that you look at the UK as "like the US, but they talk weird", where it's a couple of step closer to "Like Saudi Arabia, but part of political power is elected".

Obviously Saudi Arabia is much further away along this spectrum, but I hope you see my point anyway. You seem to be saying "how can a free society do this?", where the answer is "because it's not that free, your assumption is flawed".
Apparently in several cities the staff of the Slovakian and Slovenian embassies meet regularly to exchange wrongly addressed mail.
Let's not forget who brought us the wonderful law: Theresa May, as home secretary. Architect of the Windrush scandal, for which she took 0 responsibility.

She probably envisioned the Home office doing mass denial of visas based on a lookup of applicant names with IP addresses deemed to be related to terrorist activity.
That was actually true, not an actual April Fool's day.
That's not a settled issue. The usual way this is circumvented is using an Open Source shim driver to wrap the binary blob. The shim satisfies the GPL license on the kernel. In theory the binary blob would be a violation of the GPL license on the shim, but since the shim was written by the vendor of the blob, they just don't sue themselves so the shim acts as a licensing fire break.

It can be argued that the blob and the shim are the same work from the perspective of the kernel license (likely IMHO). Until it's tested in court that's a matter of opinion though.
From what I understand about the US, it is mainly to get better credit rating. This is apparently the most important social score in American society...

Note to Americans: In European countries this tends not to be a thing afaik. Privacy is taken more seriously, so there is no central & privatized system to query for credit. However, to rent an apartment, get a loan or get a new job here in Switzerland it's often required to provide something like a credit register extract from the local government office. That register will get notified when someone isn't paying bills, usually after the third notification ~2 months after a bill was issued (notifying the register is costing fees, so businesses try to avoid it as much as possible). After a couple of years, entries get deleted. This way there is an attempt of balancing privacy, social mobility and the interest of businesses to collect their revenue.
And this comment an even smaller jewel within HN.
> Concur, everybody's favorite corporate flight booking engine

Ah yes

But the coincidence between NS and NSW is just way too unlucky

I'm happy I know a bit about booking codes and how airlines work to be able to look through the user interface for what might be wrong.
"...culture secretary Oliver Dowden said he would use the appointment of a new information commissioner to focus not just on privacy but on the use of data for ‘economic and social goals’.

...Dowden said that under the regime ‘too many businesses and organisations are reluctant to use data – either because they don’t understand the rules or are afraid of inadvertently breaking them’."

However this would only be in relation to UK data. If they want to do business with EU citizens, then businesses have to comply with GDPR.

Seems pretty myopic.
For those curious about the book the Amazon reviews are still available in Google's cache https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gtR71X...
Yeah I get you.

For home/end:

Ctrl+A/Ctrl+E for all shells, ^/$ otherwise
Lol they probably would have been caught sooner if they used PGP
“your hand jerked and you tapped c twice. Process killed”

I don’t see how that can happen. If you tap c twice, you either copy twice (copying keeps text selected), which is harmless, or, if you release the control key between the taps, type a c, which doesn’t kill the process.

The accidental deselect, on the other hand, can indeed be problematic.
I somewhat miss the days when the corruption was at least somewhat veiled.

No-no of course we don't want to sell your data for profit, that would be ridiculous.
Clearly it is just our corporate sponsors who will be doing it for us!
This article is so full of vague information and flat-out wrong information, I recommend reading another one.

It reads like it's written by someone who skimmed three other news articles without really comprehending what's going on, then wrote whatever.

Police never "shut down" Sky ECC, especially not prior to the raid.
It might be that puppeteer is more pleasant to use for testing than other activities, like for example automated scraping in which it seems more annoying than using something like scrapy.
I honestly get giggles from how unprepared they are culturally for what becoming America-like will do to them.

Does anyone else?

American-like but with no negotiating leverage and having burned all the bridges to the other economic unions.
If you work in enterprise it absolutely has made a big difference.
This won't be a change aiming to improve your web browsing user experience. It will likely be a change to reduce your rights and legal protections.
How can the jet length to be determined? In my very limited understanding jet is a continuous stream of particles/radiation. Doesn't it continue forever, unless the flow hits some barrier?
I wonder if we will now see a situation where British companies will be forced to move their cloud out of GB, to i.e. Ireland if they want to do business with the rest of Europe ?

The thing is, even though the GB decides to ditch GDPR, they're still bound by it if they want to do business with the rest of Europe, just like the US is bound by it.
It is worth remembering that linked lists were invented back in the dawn of computing.

This was when systems... often didn't even have cache memory at all. Accessing different RAM values took the same amount of time, and sometimes with a single clock cycle. Fast! So jumping around a (large, for the time) linked list in heap memory wasn't nearly as slow as something comparable today, relative to other data structures.
The GDPR sets a pretty straight border for this.

No active (this does NOT include "by using this site you accept...") approval = no permission to collect data and give it to third parties.

That's the law. But we'll still need some hard work and hefty fines to make everyone obey it.
Restaurant Indian food is not representative of what people eat everyday. It is too rich and too spicy to eat everyday. Yes of course some people eat it every day, just like some people order pizza every day or eat 3 meals at McDonald's. I hardly think Indian food is the only food that has high calorie content. How much saturated fat and carbs are in a regular McDonald's meal or a Starbucks frappe?
They're using Tornado!

Anyone from Netflix would like to chime in on why it was chosen?
"culture fit" is just code for "we don't like you". Sure, the candidate being arrogant, condecending or an asshole fits the bill, but prejudice on the part of the interviewer definitely would too.

> It’s only racist if you say it because the person is black.

Its racist if they DO it because the person is black. Its the actions that matter, not what they publicly say. Of course it would be nice if people publicly stated when they were going to commit crimes, but the world isn't full of bond villians who announce precisely what they are going to do before doing it.
I helped build a GDPR compliant system for container shipping crew personnel details that included passport photos and other sensitive details. GDPR was actually helpful in that it asks you to treat personal data as if it’s as important as credit card data. We did this and consequently if you had a a database dump or backup you’d be really hard pushed to extract any crew information from it and getting at passport copies was even more difficult. I think it’s a very well thought through spec and eventually those companies ignoring it will get burned one way or another.

Edit: removed needlessly aggressive "That is a lie" opening gambit.
Facebook and google takeout only exist because of gdpr.

Right to delete (not just deactivate) your account only exists due to gdpr.

Right to opt out at all only exists because of gdpr, and many companies do actually stick to it.

That many don't follow the spirit of the regulation is not really the fault of the regulation. Thing is its not been tested much in the courts yet, but the cases have really started last year so hopefully more enforcement incoming.
This feels like one of those things where Post-Brexit-Britain simply HAS to do something different. Just for the sake of it. Sovereignty and all that. The fact that many online businesses will probably still cater to EU citizens and will therefore still follow GDPR rules doesn't matter. Those companies will end up with two slightly different sets of rules and it will just be annoying.
> and the local grocery stores were Alpha Beta, Vons, and Ralphs,

Well talk about making it easier for outsiders

(though to be fair Publix does not sound like a supermarket neither)
I work in an large euroepan enterprise and our GDPR compliance is... absymal. And we're not even investing that much into becoming more compliant. My impression is that the board is in a state of denial, as doing GDPR properly would probably cost us billions.
I guess Facebook can use the additional profit they'll make on UK citizens to pay for fines they incur in the EU

https://www.decisionmarketing.co.uk/news/facebook-sets-aside...
Unlike Formula 1, millions of kids play the game and want to play it like the pros. Constantly changing the rules is feasible for the NHL. Goalies probably get new equipment every year anyway. But you can’t expect goalies in the recreational setting to do that. Probably the only people who would like that are the pad manufacturers. You’re also forgetting that the main aspect of goalie pads is protection and there’s a natural increase in protection as shooting power increases with stick technology. That being said, the hockey world needs to rip the bandaid off and simply make the goalie pads 6 inches narrower (3 off each) if they want more goals.
what I meant to say is with macro lenses the FOV is narrow because of the high magnification, and with VR you typically want (very) wide angle lenses.

180 stereo VR is usually shot with two cameras (in portrait) with fisheye lenses, I've worked on a couple of these shoots. The minimum focal distance on these lenses can be pretty small (a couple of cm) so you can get sort of a "semi" macro effect, though not quite the same
I mean this of course means EU data won’t be able to be stored on British servers as I understand it. More barriers to trade, it’s like this government is trying to destroy the economy...
Technology has turned back the clock on productivity
They would need to implement a feature where others can see that someone has made a prediction, and a maximum time for how long the prediction can stay hidden.

EDIT: That is exactly how it works. They write " There is no way to edit or delete a pok after you save it".
Oh please, get off your high horse. Japanese cuisine is anything but sustainable, and has plenty of sauces and every cuisine in the whole world, including your vaunted Italian cuisine, has dishes that hide bad quality food, as other commenters have pointed out.

I feel definite closet racism vibes from this post especially the emphasis on the anecdote with your blonde haired blue eyed Aryan God sous-chef.
Algebraic Metaprogramming in Julia with Metatheory.jl
> You can either have a configuration bit which is like "add_two_to_every_result: true", or you can have "result_post_processing = function(x) {return x + 2;}".

In this case there's an intermediate "increment_result_by: 2" that would be better than either. Once in a while there are use cases that are so undefined that "do whatever you want" makes sense, but usually this is an excuse to not think too much about what the user wants to do, and why.

The benefit of both of the limited solutions over the other is that it's possible to fully test the entire space of configurations. it definitely is possible to let this style of config devolve into spaghetti, but at least there's some hope of untangling it in the future, which is much less possible if you accepted essentially any result transformation some enterprising user had spent a week programming.

If the right solution for configuring your system is a full programming language, consider distributing your system as a library or framework, rather than a system that needs "configuration". If your library is fully tested and someone screws up in their own code, that's a different kind of problem than if someone provides a syntactically correct config that causes your system to fail. Blurring the lines between these kinds of problems is not going to make supporting your (non-programmer) users easier, in most cases.
They get to asset strip the country before anyone realises right?
It gets diffused to the point where it’s no longer distinguishable from the background.
To 99% of internet users, GDPR has meant nothing except extra popups, blocked access to some websites, and an additional regulatory burden.

In some cases bad actors exploited GDPR for fraudulent purposes - eg. requesting a full account deletion in the event of a ban. They can then recreate the same account with the same data.
I've been using a USB Philips ACC2310 Foot Control (https://www.dictation.philips.com/gb/products/transcription-...) with OpenBSD's usbhidctl(1) - https://man.openbsd.org/usbhidctl.1 - for years :^)
I wanted to teach Python to my 10 years old but I know he can't deal with indentation. My next choice is BASIC>
Ask HN: How should I learn Assembly language?
I'm new to assembly language and find it really fascinating.
The cookie boxes are silly and hardly represent informed consent. It should be the browsers job to do this.

I remember it used to be a thing in the netscape navigator days until everyone got sick of it.
The EU as a political union exists a little over a decade, if anything the UK never adapted to it.
TLDR:
Survey of 46 surgeons having conducted gender reassignment surgery in 22,725 patients. Just 62 patients had regret.

And, 91% of all responding surgeons "would require a mental health evaluation prior to detransition."
As far as I can tell the website provides no way to revoke or otherwise hide a prediction once you make it - it will always be revealed at the specified date.

Additionally, the creation screen proclaims:

> There is no way to edit or delete a pok after you save it
Ask HN: How do you handle bad customer support from large tech companies?
There was a time when tweeting about bad customer support from a big tech company would often result in someone reaching out.

Right now I am having a battle trying to get apple to honour their program to replace defective keyboards on their macbook airs. I've tweeted about it multiple times with absolutely no success.

Are there some other ways of getting large companies like that to take customer support issues seriously?
Ah this is the best bit! Because many companies cater for a global audience, us Brits will STILL have to endure the stupid little popups AND we'll have no protection or recourse from privacy invasion! Can't wait! /s