skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While many laws are somewhat ambiguous, usually the intent is reasonably clear, and there are courts to decide cases where there is a disagreement about interpretation. The GDPR doesn't have either that clarity of intent or that independent, impartial form of adjudication.

We didn't hire a consultant. Those guys were charging thousands per day, and no business our size has that kind of money to spend. We did take real legal advice from a real lawyer, but the main cost was our time understanding the new rules and updating things to be seen to be compliant. I am irritated that a lot of my own time, as a founder and at that time lead technical person for a business, was wasted on a bureaucratic exercise, and likewise for other key people. That hurt us, and once again, it benefitted no-one. Not our customers. Not our staff. Not our suppliers. Literally no-one was better off because, for example, we rewrote our documents to provide information in some new format that was specified by the GDPR.

Personal irritation aside, even if you just took the cost to us and scaled it by the number of businesses in the country to estimate the economic impact, that would mean billions in lost productivity as a result of the new rules. And that's clearly an underestimate, as the costs were running into millions for a lot of large organisations. A law that is going to cause that kind of economic hit should be justified by a greater benefit to society in some way, but I just don't see that "massive impact" you mentioned. There have been a few incremental changes here and there, but there hasn't been a big change in culture.

The attitude at bigger organisations is still often about how they can tick the required boxes while continuing to do what they want with the data. Just look at Facebook's resistance to even disclosing what personal data it has and how it's been using it, for example, despite data subjects having a clear right to that information under the GDPR.

Tracking is still going on everywhere, and if anything it's getting worse as the technological capabilities increase. Ironically, it's recent actions by Apple, not the GDPR, that have started to make some significant improvements in this area for users on their platform.

Small organisations are still often ignorant of their obligations under the GDPR and not compliant anyway. Governments are still encroaching further into individual privacy all the time. Individual privacy hasn't been improved at all in these kinds of situations.

This will be my last comment on this thread, because HN tends to downvote any comments critical of the GDPR, even if based on direct personal experience of implementing it, and that doesn't encourage open and constructive discussion. But I hope the above helps to explain why I have reached a different conclusion about these issues to you.
>does anyone know if there's any caveats to "recycling" a laptop's motherboard?

The biggest caveat in re-using old compute hardware IMO is power consumption, power-efficiency has been one consistent improvement in every new generation of computer chips. So, a new Raspberry Pi is almost always as capable as your old hardware for HTPC but more power efficient.

Except maybe say extremely high quality video, say 8K 10 bit video.

>Unfortunately, it possible that my attempt to fix a dead fan is what busted the header.

You can try passive heatsink or passing the fan thermal management to separate unit altogether like Corsair Commandar(I haven't tried it).

You can also use your hardware for only GPGPU applications & HW accel on GPU to reduce load on CPU e.g. Separate stream encoding machine.
I see I’m not the only one who jumped straight to “lithium fire” upon reading the headline.
Its aluminum die casting. This is the product that is produced there:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0173/8204/7844/articles/1_...
I really like this! It has a wonderful balance of strength and warmth. Small question: the lower left part of the bowl on lower case b seems to get a bit thin. At least on my phone it almost looks like there is a missing pixel. Is this something you've looked at?
I thought this would be a true crossword -- i.e., it'd have /words/ to solve for ... :/

Really neat puzzle though!
From Niqab to N95
Good point, not a tent. It’s much closer to a carport.
Craig Anderton's Brief History of MIDI
>They cant exist without moderation and censorship either.

Back when email arrived with a "You've got mail!" AOL chats were not moderated. I assure you they existed. All you needed was the ignore button. People are perfectly capable of deciding who to talk to on their own. Current UX seems designed to make you think you need moderators, but that is not a requirement.
Interview Preparation Advice for Machine Learning Engineering Position
I will be interviewing next month for a machine learning engineering position at a prestigious Silicon Valley company's ML group. I am wondering how I should study for this interview. I have been told by my recruiter to expect LeetCode-style questions, but I've also been told to expect machine learning-based coding questions. I know how to prepare for traditional algorithm-style LeetCode interviews, but I'm wondering how I should prepare for the machine learning coding questions. Unfortunately machine learning is a very broad field. I have taken graduate-level coursework in machine learning and have taken Andrew Ng's Coursera deep learning course sequence, but it's been a while since I've implemented machine learning algorithms. What is the best advice regarding how to prepare?
No. The system when originally started had more people than seats so they had an online reservation system. You had to reserve to get a seat, but you didn't have to actually pay to reserve (until some point later?). There is some info about it here but I guess they temporarily stopped doing reservations: https://www.kitsaptransit.com/fast-ferry-reservations

If I recall you had to provide name, address, phone number, and email address.
Azure Kinect DK[1] & Intel L515[2] are both strong contenders for 3D imaging. Azure Kinect DevKit uses a Time-of-Flight depth sensing good to 5m in low res mode, includes a 12MB rgb camera that can do 2160p30, accelerometer/gyroscope, and 7 microphone array. The L515 is a lidar unit that samples faster & extends to 9m, & includes a 1080p30 rgb camera.

If the goal is generating point cloud, the Azure Kinect's better rgb sensor could be good to have, where-as lidar's advantage- higher throughput depth sampling (faster or higher res)- isn't going to mean as much, probably? Additionally, the accelerometer/gyroscope on the Kinect could potentially be quite useful for registration (figuring out how the camera is pointed).

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kinect-dk/

[2] https://www.intelrealsense.com/lidar-camera-l515/
You can pair two HomePods to play stereo sound, although you’re right it wasn’t an option from the get-go.
Downloading rarely makes sense for a full restore, but is perfect for smaller restores or tests. Even if it didn't blow away your quota they only keep the packaged restores around for 7 days and I've found that difficult to restore a large amount of data with home Internet.

To restore it to a drive all you pay out of pocket is return shipping of the drive. The one time I had to use it I was slightly over the 30 days (I was waiting on a repair before I could restore the data) and it wasn't an issue.
Agree. The blockchain is the tape; amazing! I'm a bit late to the party, but have invested a reasonable amount into it recently. I'm on the side of ETH 2.0 and massive scalability and lower gas prices(even though I currently mine liquidity) so the true potential of smart contracts and DeFi can be realized.

The Ethereum docs are pretty great if you want to learn more: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/ .
There is something wrong with the weights or maybe the hinting, at least on the web version. Rendering on windows is thin and spotty at the 300 weight used on the page text, and changing it to 400 makes it semi-bold instead of normal weight.

Great design though.
Since synergy is currently asking money for their main product, I've changed to fork called barrier ( https://github.com/debauchee/barrier ).

But +1 for the recommendation, so easy to set up and it works so well it feels like magic when using for first time.
There is a substantial difference between buying a product from a company and running one in terms of the relationships the individuals have with government involvement and the impact on directing the company to support said governments agenda.
Really, he was convicted of that? Because to the best of my knowledge all those charges were dropped.
https://www.dailydot.com/crime/silk-road-murder-charges-ross...
Having searched, i found this article, which is far better written: https://www.vox.com/2021/3/8/22319503/supreme-courts-evangel...

It seems like, yes, his first amendment right were violated. While I may not like religion, he certainly should be allowed to hand out pamphlets as long as he's not being agressive about it.
https://archive.is/Vof4s
Ask HN: Anyone else feel that online bachelor degrees area scam?
Just to get things out of the way. I’m not talking about your unaccredited or barely accredited for-profits. Most people here are probably familiar with those.

But I’ve been looking at getting my bachelors who’s working and almost anything I can find targeted to working professionals feels off. I’m talking about offerings from what are generally considered respectable, good state schools.

I’ve noticed in my state particularly that many of the schools offering these sort of programs don’t really offer many “useful” degrees. On occasion I’ll see a decent CS program, so let me be clear. I know there are some good asynchronous, online programs, but they seem to be the minority.

For example I looked at one school I know is pretty good, particularly for a few subjects. But what online offerings do they have? Well, on one hand, the humanities and social science degrees that HN decries. While these aren’t particularly useful, they’re at least “real” subjects.

But these otherwise legitimate schools seem to be trying to sell even worse degrees. Do you really need to pay out 10s of thousands of dollars for an “IT” degree, where you can get a job much cheaper. Or restaurant management, golf management, various “business” degrees, “industry education” degrees. A lot of these seem like careers you could bootstrap without the extreme costs of college, yet they seem to be the majority of options from these schools.
Also DAT. (F the RIAA.)

In production, ADAT using S-VHS tapes.
Doug Crockford's Seif Project – how to save the web (2016) [video]
> I don't think that's a good basis for criticism.

I think it is if considering that she is one of the loudest voices talking negatively about the FCC - I'm personally not convinced either way, but when she is publishing slightly snarky things like this (http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/12/well-actually-10-ph...) it just seems like there's a personal vendetta of sorts going on. I'm not saying she's wrong but rather that it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Most /r/physics threads where she is mentioned have fairly good dialectics about her
see also: https://hackertyper.net/
Wooooah...

That's some great precedent there for 2nd Amendment folks if SCOTUS'll ever grant certiorari for a case. Tack on some nominal damage, and you leave one less out for the authorities to wiggle out of having precedent set.
Money used to represent the value backed up by gold in bank storage. Nowadays its just a paper, so indeed its easy to create new money.
once, a joy of the internet was that no one knew, and few cared, what color your skin was, who you loved or how, or whether or not you were a dog.
The categories were made for man, not man for the categories (as a wise man once said). If you can improve your lot without hurting someone else you should do it. The name of the problem doesn't matter if you have a solution available.
Any harrowing experience can cause PTSD. Usually time makes the feeling fade and understanding what specifically caused the stress during trying circumstances and avoiding or controlling those situations prevents them from occurring again.

I suggest you slow down and write cause, effect and solution for everything that seems to be circling repeatedly in your mind when your mind wanders. I also suggest taking a hike or few.

Healthy living, effective analysis, and time is a fix for most problems.
Discord is not equivalent. Discord is blatantly in with the current culture, including the prohibitive elements. They remove channels left and right, and monetize every bit that they can. Not a problem I've had on IRC, even on big ones like Rizon.
What does it matter what he was convicted of? He still did it.
The privacy issue was that the 3rd party that provided the ferry reservation system (https://www.kitsaptransit.com/fast-ferry-reservations -- temporarily suspended) had a privacy policy allowing them to sell/share/give any information entered into the reservation system with any other 3rd party for any reason (marketing, advertising, analytics, whatever). I would link the privacy policy but their reservation system is no longer active due to COVID I guess?

I looked it up in my email and I also found that later on they switched to requiring a social media (facebook, google, something else?) account in order to reserve a spot on the taxpayer funded, government-run ferry. I actually quoted part of the privacy policy in my (unanswered) email to kitsap transit:

Sharing Information

We may disclose information collected from and about you as follows;

...
With our marketing partners, advertisers, or other third parties who may send you information about their own products and;
...
The workload on Photoshop should be a mix of CPU with GPU acceleration. And possibly NPU with M1.

So the reference to GPU was even with a discrete GPU doing whatever acceleration Adobe has done for Nvidia, the M1 is still faster. And doing so with a Power Usage that is far less than its competitor. Of course if we only focus on "GPU" category than the results as listed is quite clear.

Which leads me to believe the NPU and CPU may have played a big part of it.
Yup. See: ETH Classic.
Where do the crypto folks hang out?
Native language probably helps (or hinders) too. In French it’s common to cram 3-4 different information belonging to various level of concerns in a single sentence so I didn’t bat an either at processing the quote.
Hennessy and Patterson is the book you need.
Is the code review process roughly on par with the github experience? I can't find many examples of a PR with inline comments, etc.
You can have all of the porn, meanwhile...
Die cast? Just like Matchbox!
JavaScript Garbage Collection
I remember learning the eye diagram and thinking that it didn’t make sense. Part of my family is Syrian and I don’t think anyone has the same eye color. My mom is hazel/green, I’m dark red/brown, my kids are blue/grey, and their mom has green/grey eyes.

I just always assumed that the understanding of eye color was biased towards White, European people.
Can you elaborate on this a bit more? Doesn’t ETH on some level have to change hands for work to get done?
"The study, published today in Science Advances, involved the genetic analysis of almost 195,000 people across Europe and Asia."

Not to provoke or cause undue consternation, but:

sigh
Sia already solved that problem https://sia.tech
I'm positive about Bitcoin valuation over the long term.

I'm negative about Bitcoins utility.

I'm very, very positive on the utility of systems like EVM and their valuation over the long term.

I'm still negative about mainstream adoption of direct usage. It's complicated and too easy to make unrecoverable mistakes.

I believe a lot of the criticism on HN is valid and deserved within certain contexts. Some contexts, like block chain VMs, don't come up much here at all.
ipfs saicoin internxt, lots of distributed decentralized storage options
Red team/blue team stuff I'd wager. Not enough nuance, gotta take the whole package.
A little too ironic
You are right I think. No idea why you're getting downvoted.
Your comment chain has taken a bit of a strange turn, but a suitable SELinux policy would work for that, which would be straightforward… ish.

Alternatively, if you're only concerned about other privileged ports, with a systemd socket unit, you could have systemd do the binding and pass your unprivileged process the socket, so that your process no longer needs the privileged-bind capability at any time; that'd probably be the easiest way if you're willing to modify the application code a bit. If you don't like systemd, you could have another helper program do it.

Or you could put your process in its own network namespace which has a filtered bridging or routing configuration between it and whichever namespace has the ‘real’ connectivity, which is complex and awkward but allows your process to ‘think’ it has full access, which might help if the code would otherwise balk.

Or you could use various other userspace sandboxing frameworks that let you install a BPF syscall filter, which I like a lot in theory but don't currently have personal experience with.
I thought fiat currency didn’t matter anymore.

Were they paid in Sprinter Vans, real estate, NFTs, ETH, BTC, Teslas, Fentanyl?
Walnuts inactivate free T by upping SHBG. Better look at what lowers/raises T.
I unironically love this browser and use it on my arch setup, but it uses QtWebEngine (based on Chromium) which doesn't support chrome extensions. As someone who uses lastpass for everything, it's a bit frustrating. I've had to learn how to use the lastpass CLI for everything.

If QuteBrowser supported chrome extensions it would be the perfect browser.
Great idea. Love it!
(I got this attribution fixed upstream: https://github.com/Jimbly/regex-crossword/pull/7.)
You could sit the whole thing in front of a normal desk fan until you can get a usb one, if everything else seems functional.
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and cryptocurrency spawn a generation of people who worship Austrian economics. This ETH upgrade is making ETH even more deflationary. People are obsessed with price and want to pump the numbers. These wars are not doing anything to advance adoption and bring freedom to people. Crypto builders are pumping the coins under the banners of freedom and decentralization.

The problem with crypto is volatility. The whole market moves in one direction or another, usually with Bitcoin. Scarcity is not the only thing that makes up the economy. We need also need inflation. Stop engaging in these ideological wars. Let's fix the problem and drive adoption.

https://bitflate.org/post/2020/04/26/we-need-inflationary-cr...
Internet Archive is not immune to collapse of civilization. In fact, such kind of service would probably be the first to be abandoned in case of war or serious disaster. It also requires electricity and I don’t think that organization have it’s own power generation capable of running in autarky for centuries.
OIDC for Desktop Applications
There are 1000 year old books that discuss these types of topics?
You should at least make the effort of detailing the enormous educational, medical, infrastructural resources (not to mention subsidies) that mainland France directs to these places.

You’re not telling the whole truth, here.
Late reply, but gdb wouldn’t be used in nand2tetris. Their online grading system accepts only a couple of high level languages. I used Python to write the assembler and compilers.

What I was trying to say in my previous comment was that one would not want to be a raw beginner when starting nand2tetris. One would need to be thoroughly familiar with basic Python data structures. I used lists, dicts, and a class I wrote to handle the AST nodes.

I’d recommend nand2tetris before taking a full compiler course.

We’re agreed that low level understanding is very helpful. And, it’s interesting.
I think that's a bit unfair. There's nothing wrong with a bit of missionnary work and spreading the Word, regardlesd of faith as long as it stays just that. Further, it's a bit disingenuous to accuse or rhetorically couple someone to outright hate speech without proof.

I mean, what? We should censor speech because they may say something we don't like? That's madness, one, and two, antithetical to the mission of the institution as a public University. There should be penalties for incompetent Administrators who overstep or abuse their authority by unilaterally attemptimg to abolish a fundamental civil right.
Interesting read. What could you do with the copyright to UNIX?
Precious Days
I did this for my younger sister's first computer. We didn't have a lot of expendable cash, so I took my old laptop, stripped the motherblard out, mounted it on a makeshift open-air rig, and hooked it up to a second-hand monitor (laptop screen was irreparably broken). Served her well for three years or so.
I can’t tell if this is a joke but Waterloo is the Stanford of Canada and is on par with the top American CS undergrads
Perhaps it's harsh, but it's true, and it's always been true. Employment has never existed in some pocket universe entirely separate from society or its consequences.

And many of the same people most vocally complaining about cancel culture belong to the political axis that opposes universal income and social safety nets, labor rights and protections for special classes, and if the "twitter mob" came after progressives, feminists or LGBT people wouldn't lift so much as a finger in protest. So it's difficult in that case to have sympathy with people who want to have their cake but refuse to eat it.
You could just getting a 5v fan with a USB connector and plugging it into a USB port.
Perhaps ZeroNet and similar decentralized options aren't available in prison.
You do understand that this PITA is to offset a larger PITA right? It's a good economic choice.
I've sort of dumbified 2 smart TVs by coupling them with cheap small computers with ethernet or WiFI in and HDMI out. I don't know absolutely that the TV's are not spying on us, but I can get to the internet going around the TVs not through them.
this seems like a garbage comment bud
What's the fun in that? :-P

Thanks though. I tried again on my laptop and got it - was a bit easier with a larger display than on my phone.
Does BlueJeans/Zoom/meet not auto dial?
This is the result of the principal-agent problem, which is inherent to insurance itself.
Long Covid: How Bungle Reporting on a Thorny Topic
Having recently been affected by the end of an Intent-based networking startup, I can tell you it is a very emotional thing. I feel like part of me has died and my belief in the industry’s future state shaken. I learned that many people I had trusted were complicit in the failure and that hurts as well. We had money but a complete lack of leadership. I saw people that I felt were true believers like me change overnight.

It was hard to accept the fact that your friends/coworkers will sell you out so quickly, and that no matter how bright the future looks, a stupid founder can ruin the whole thing in an instant.
Having reread it, I'm going with pretentious but occasionally insightful. Like me, I guess.
It's the same problem in non-capitalist systems that decide this by selecting what is covered or not.
John Muir in Native America
I hope you've moved away from LastPass (like many of us) following their recent changes to their pricing and free tier.

Would recommend BitWarden as an alternative.
Without paywall: https://outline.com/yT6Pqt
Recent developments - RethinkDB is back and is being backed by the Linux Foundation
Everything is organized around coins and projects. For example if you are into eth core then you are in eth magicians https://ethereum-magicians.org

The most popular crypto mediums are telegram and discord. Twitter is the social media of choice. Reddit has some decent subreddits but it isn’t the primary place.

This community is based on trust. Trust is earned through contributing code, knowledge, effort, etc. If you join in the bull market, stick around through the bear to show you are serious. Etc.