skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be curious of a detailed analysis of the cost of GDPR to EU consumers. There are websites that shut down or no longer servicing European customers because of the concerns around GDPR.
Why not just use Anki? It's mature, and plenty of decks exist for language learning. I've been using it for ~4 years or so now and nothing else has really come close in terms of features or stability.
I‘d rather solve Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3.
I think they're okay with eating their own laptop sales, at least if they're being eaten by iPad Pros. A 13" M1 MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD costs $1899; the same CPU, RAM and SSD in an iPad Pro costs $1799 -- which will easily cross over $2000 if you want to add a trackpad and keyboard to it.

This isn't to say that they don't like vendor lock-in, of course. If you do buy both an iPad and a MacBook they'll be happy to take your money. :) But I think they're positioning the Pro as a genuine laptop alternative -- just not for developers. (Or speaking from personal experience, technical writers.)
The one political faction deciding anything the other side says is hate speech has already happened. Okay, so the censored party decided to leave the censoring platforms because they don’t like what they’re doing. Oh wait, the most major alternative social platform is shut down by their hosting provider and the two App Store providers with monopolies and the providers claim it’s a hate speech service. Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, etc. use their monopolistic market positioning and financial leverage to crush any and all competition and that’s where we are today.
> but, yes, ok you can ban "hate speech," and presumably illegal speech, like repulsive pornography.

Why do you think it's a given that anti-censorship common-carrier regulation would have an exception for "hate speech"? There's no constitutional precedent for that. There are specific categories of speech that the government may restriction --- slander and obscenity, for example --- and so-called "hate speech" isn't on the list. The United States has a very strong protections for free speech, even speech that offends people. Social media can, will, and must be legally required to carry everyone's speech, even when that speech is offensive.

Social media is exactly like a railroad. It's infrastructure marketed to the general public as an important part of participating in society. Unelected and unaccountable individuals in Bay Area meeting rooms do not get to unilaterally decide how the rest of the world may speak.
Edit: sorry made some blunder. You are Brian, just saw on your profile.
I feel the need to mention that Curtis Yarvin owns "a few thousand" Urbit stars [0]. If your goal is to make Urbit succeed, you'll end up making him very powerful and wealthy in the process.

[0] https://urbit.org/blog/a-founders-farewell/
Good idea! To prove you are a human, mine three Bitcoin.
Notorious tycoon William Sharon left SF's children a still-popular landmark
Facebook, they're refusing the right to access your data: https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/

And Google for the whole Doubleclick Ad Exchange, they're sharing lots of user details with hundreds of bidders on every pageview that has ads. As well as storing all of that information in Google Cloud as part of their Ads Data Hub product. All without permission.
There is no technical reason sending files should be difficult, the problem is entirely political. A file transfer service that works too well immediately becomes a hotbed of porn, warez, rips, etc... Then it gets sued and/or shut down by the authorities. So all file services have to suck in specific ways to discourage abuse. The trick is to find the one that sucks in ways that aren't as much of an issue for your use case.
Yep, a monthly full drive read or even better a scrub with verification of the filesystem's checksums is great. It's not often enough to seriously impact performance in production or meaningfully increase the rate of read disturb errors, but it will allow the SSD to catch data degradation before it becomes a real problem, and to refresh any data that starts showing elevated error rates (or take other measures like start adjusting read voltage thresholds for that block). I don't actually have a cron job set up for it, but I tend to scrub my SSD array every month or two when checking on free space and SMART logs.
You hear horror stories of students/hobbyists playing around with AWS Lambda or some other service and ending up with huge bills. Maybe they get resolved but I certainly don't want to deal with the panic of misconfiguring some setting and losing a chunk of my savings. I'll use this stuff at work if needed but it certainly cools me on playing around with it in my spare time, which is how I best learn new tech.
I'd like to see a list of Galaxy owners. Shouldn't that be public info? who's routing my data? who am I giving my money to?
It may surprise you, but Google was not the villain here:

https://www.cnet.com/news/apache-web-software-overrides-ie10...
and that's exactly what this is trying to address
I don't see any direct comment about bar ends and ergonomics.

Going from a road bike to a mountain bike is hard because you get basically ONE body position with a flat bar.

On my road bike I constantly change positions - on the center of the bar, on the hoods, on the drops, etc. This lets my back and shoulders move around and not get stiff.

On a mountain bike with a flat bar, it kills my back and shoulders the more time spent riding. You're stuck in one position.

You can alleviate it a little bit by moving around on the saddle or standing up, but not too much.

But bar ends help with this shortcoming.
> Furthermore, I think that if you look at the comparison of malware prevalence on Android and iOS

iOS exploits are cheaper than Android exploits because iOS exploits are so plentiful[1][2].

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/14/zerodium_ios_flaws/

[2] http://zerodium.com/program.html
1. Every single web site that uses dark patterns that make not saying yes impractical. Start with the ones that required more than 3 clicks, then clarify that "the request must be clear, concise and not unnecessarily disruptive" means "equally sized, equally highlighted buttons for 'accept all' and 'reject all'".

2. Every single company that knowingly processed data based on such invalid consent.

3. Every single website and company that processed data for advertising based on "legitimate interest"
Although hardly anyone uses yahoo mail anymore, they actually have this feature built in. Basically email aliases.
And now your new post about this research [1] has been flagged, it's quite strange.

[1] https://project-evidence.github.io/
I'm a road biker and not a mountain biker but I do have bar ends on my urban bikes and bar ends are great for control and leverage, at least for me. But I don't get that. How is it any more likely to catch a bar end on a branch than it would be for wider, riser bars?
Getting a maximum fine not only means that your handling of personal data was especially egregious but that you probably didn't cooperate in any ways with the relevant DPA and refused to rectify the problem.

I.e the maximum fine is highly unlikely for anyone to get, and if you get it you have done some very bad things.
Look if the site has an option to use the noscript recaptcha (you might be able to force it to appear by blocking scripts). That one's much easier: as long as you get it right it lets you through, and you always have to select three squares (none of that "keep clicking until there's no more matching" garbage).
Or force websites to obey the Do-Not-Track HTTP header.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
Edit: no worries, I just added it there a minute ago, didn't realize I'd left that box blank.

I'm Brian Warner.
The trouble with anything designed to prevent computers from understanding something, while allowing humans to understand it, is accessibility.
Hi there. We have the option to export everything to CSV whenever you want. Happy to point you to it if you want to reach out. Peter at Kiter.app
Simulation is a great thing. I use this wrapper, even in my most trivial shell scripts:

pretend=${scriptname_pretend:-false}
run() { echo "$@"; $pretend || "$@"; }

Sure, this doesn't give copy/paste re-usable output, but it's really just a quick and dirty sanity check when things start getting complicated.
Maldives suspends all ties with Israel, showing solidarity to Palestine
Magic wormhole isn’t strictly peer to peer nor uses WebRTC as the traffic is routed through a relay server. This was my motivation to build one of these hundreds file sharing tools [0]. My aim was to build a truly decentralised file sharing CLI as basically a drop-in replacement for croc/magic-wormhole - so it seems relevant to mention it here. It’s based on libp2p and comes with its own trade offs.

lotharrr (the author of magic-wormhole) gave kind and valuable feedback when I posted it on HN [1].

[0] https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26127923
That does remind me of another thing I keep locally- fanedits. I've got a waifu2x upscaled version of a very popular Nick cartoon that exceeds the quality available on DVD.
This video (and their others) seems heavily inspired by Olivier Gondry's music video for Tiga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-v-rBCFuAk
I know that's only anecdotal and no evidence at all, but the only time I encountered a website that is not serving European users anymore was a link here on HN.

I think most users didn't even notice and for the people who do and are really bothered, there are workarounds such as VPNs
Great idea. We are working on brining more visual options and seeing which are most useful. The Sankey is wonderful to show the probability elements at play here which went into our thinking for the Battery.
That's are my thoughts, mostly, but in the end libraries are the killer feature of successful programming languages. I have got used to it and I'm more proficient now at data analysis tasks using R than Python/pandas thanks to tidyverse+ggplot.

The object system mess though... I have no words.
Well seeing as a lot of sites use dark patterns to confuse users into accepting more liberal tracking, I'm not sure I would agree that this would lead to more data collected
I do not think it is clear at all, even today. What is completely clear though is that corporate media and academia went to great lengths to protect bat/wet-market origins theory and went completely inquisitional on anyone who raised doubts. This is not how media or science supposed to work unless we live in China or USSR
I’m assuming this means private school? Considering only 10% of K-12 students attend private school, it already skews the numbers.

If you talk about how expensive it is to own a 6k sq.ft. home, that can be true as well but both seem to speak towards lifestyle inflation rather than the norm.
If you could sue people for real money when they violate said header it might be taken more seriously pretty quickly.
I’m curious about the two fans:

> Each fan blows inward across the logic board, where the heatsink draws heat away from the M1 with a copper heat pipe and two short heatsinks

And the heat from where can go out if above there aren’t holes/vents? It uses all the metal case to dissipate the heat? These M1 Macs run always cold but is a curious thing to blow hot air inside the case without an exit point.
If you search for just "bar end", you will get a bunch of different things from different domains. If you image search "bar end mountain bike" in order to narrow the domain, you'll get pictures of nothing but the thing the article is talking about.

I think the resistance here is that what you're saying comes across entitled. It sounds like you're trying to put the onus on anyone who writes an article ever to try and cater to your needs, on the off chance that a fairly technical article they write on their highly topical biking blog might, in some black swan event, end up on the front page of Hacker News and attract your attention.

This article is under no more obligation to explain what a bar end is than an article about SOLID design is to define the term "object." Heck, if I did something like that every time I used those terms here on Hacker News, people wouldn't think I'm being helpful, they'd think I'm insulting their intelligence.
That’s fair, but this isn’t an ordinary liar. If a known con artist is raving about his new youth serum, after being caught lying thousands and thousands of times in the last 4 years, it’s not inappropriate for the press to respond with “this known con artist has no evidence to support his claims” after a short glance - they are so busy dealing with the other 1000 recent lies that they don’t have time to investigate everything this person says in depth. The magnitude of the lies and manipulation was unheard of.

The fact is, you need to hear the story from somebody credible before it becomes worth investigating, otherwise we would still have journalists trying to uncover the alleged thousands of murders by immigrants kept secret by bizarre conspiracies (which, again, lacks evidence) - the claims have to come from somebody capable of basic truth telling.
I've only anecdotally ran across half a dozen local US news sites that claim how their EU visitors are very important (clearly they're not) and also a Japanese lyrics site.
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I use this addon to hide the opt-ins: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

>In most cases, it just blocks or hides cookie related pop-ups. When it's needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what's easier to do). It doesn't delete cookies.
There's a lot of survivorship bias in that kind of thinking. They called Galileo mad, but they also called simultaneous five dimensional time cube guy mad.
This may be splitting hairs, but `std::array` is how the language provides bells and whistles (via the STL). You can see here (1) it's a transparent wrapper around a raw array.

(1) https://github.com/microsoft/STL/blob/62137922ab168f8e23ec1a...
I have a Magic Wormhole client for Android that I wrote for the occasional sensitive file transfer to and from my phone[0]. I was planning on adding iOS support as well, but Apple's general hostility toward open source apps discouraged me enough to not want to work on that.

[0]: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile
The 3DO port had each song played by a band:

- http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Doom_(3DO)

- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2880E9A7DFF6C25
Thee are also flat bar gravel bikes like the Salsa Journeyman flat bar or the Marin DSX.
So you are against the ability to speak unlimitedly? And who is to say your judgments are superior or that this individual’s public policy is necessarily inferior?

People who have the ability to move things tend to move more things. I don’t see this as explicitly wrong, but natural. On the other hand, efforts to give masses of people disproportionate political rights have led to more murder in the last century than any in civilized record. And I would include American imperialism in that judgment.
New Propulsion System Inspired by Dying Stars Can Reach a Hypersonic Mach 17
Sort of off topic, but I wonder if that idea was part of the inspiration for the origin story of Godzilla, or if it's just a coincidence.
The fines are based on your revenue and the impact. So they do differentiate between Epic Games and you.

And for me as a user, it sucks if your side project leaks my credit card and SSN, because I'll be dealing with the identity theft and fraud. If you're not competent enough to keep them safe, then use a vendor that is or don't process then at all.
Freedom of association is an expensive thing to get sued over. Hopefully the state is ready to blow taxpayer dollars on the inevitable loss trying to defend this.
Alright. I mean on an individual level, I and I'm sure a large majority of people would take a single booster for improved safety from the variants that took this evolutionary path. All for like $20 (cost of a shot).
http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/dr-ev...
> There's no way to create an empty file"

Depends on what you mean by easy. There's 2 (two) things you need to do to make this easier:

1. Enable New Terminal Tab at Folder service in Finder (goto Finder/Services/Services Preferences.../Files and Folders).

2. Make sure the Path Bar is visible in Finder (it's on the View Menu)

Now right-click the path in the Path Bar where you want to create the folder, select and click the New Terminal Tab at Folder and then touch whatever empty file you want created. Close the terminal window/tab.

Done!

I rarely need to create a new, empty file - but when I do this is how I do it!
They should fine organizations for providing a worse experience while people choose what settings to accept

Basically I see a quick experience for accepting everything, and a degraded experience for not clicking that but getting a list of what to accept or denying all
The dmg is just one drag.

Meanwhile an installer flow seems to be more of a gauntlet you have to get through. For macos it is several mostly standardized pages, for windows it is more annoying, complete with dark patterns.
If it's so bad, why is it so comfy?

Maybe it's just because it's so much effort to get into it that it acts as a filter (like the old web) and the UI design is great.
Have you seen the Surface Neo? It's a larger version of the Duo that runs Windows 10(X). Although 10X is canceled for now and development is paused on the Neo.
Most people would pay $20 for improved effectiveness against newer variants, I would presume.
> They had documents about me before I was even born

Can you elaborate?
Would it really be that difficult for a big company like Google or Facebook to operate from a fleet of floating data centers in international waters utilizing dedicated satellites for connectivity? If you denounce your citizenship and do not declare a new nationality you are only bound by maritime law.
So, like, the same type of hate speech Trump spouted all over Twitter before his ban?
The DOOM Captcha is just using html/css/js so it's easy for bots to crack with simple DOM querying/manipulation in an automated browser. But what if canvas was used instead?

> A minigame with extremely vague description that you have to react to quickly to pass.

I dont know how advanced current bots are at breaking captchas these days but if you're using a canvas then they would have to use some kind of image/video processing and recognition and then also know the rules of the game. Just curious if using canvas would make things harder for bots. Maybe it's already been done, I have no idea
The tobacco industry made a lot of money back in the day. That's not the same as adding value to society.
I can get fined between 0 and €20 million at any moment because I am an individual and have no means to fully understand GDPR nor hire a DPO for my stupid personal websites. I make no money in ads or otherwise, but I am still treated like Epic Games if I collect sign up emails or logs. I only still run this stuff now because I’ve been running it for over a decade. I can tell you right now I am hesitant to run websites anymore.

If you don’t understand how “ambiguous threat of a fine” isn’t calmed by “it hasn’t happened yet,” I can’t help you. What if my site was politically controversial? Should I trust all EU governments to act responsibly and not take advantage of their power ever?
I'm against GMO because 99% of the time it means I'm eating the pesticides that the plant was engineered to resist.
Aye. And in my age cohort noone really emigrates unless they are really compelled by circumstances.

But now it appears we're getting some pushback from the EU. Less than I hoped (so far), but more than I feared.
>Like money, but every bit of democratic control and negotiability is removed.

My understanding is that most cryptocurrencies intend to be extremely democratic. More democratic than all previously existing currencies, even. (Whether those ideas are feasible or those goals are being achieved is another matter.)

I'm not sure where Yarvin stands on cryptocurrencies. He's indeed very anti-democracy and pro-monarchy, but that's exactly why I think the attempted connection doesn't work. I don't think it's fair or accurate to tie him or his ideology to the general concept of cryptocurrencies or their advocates.

I'd wager the vast majority of advocates probably strongly disagree with him on most things. I think they would largely consider themselves democracy maximalists, even.

Also, no need to add "fun fact"; Yarvin's involvement is by far the most well-known thing about this odd project. If you ask anyone what Urbit is, their answer is very likely either going to be "what?" or "that inscrutable thing that neo-reactionary blogger made". It usually takes up about 95%+ of any Urbit discussion anywhere online.

>An immutable publication record and undeniable cryptographic identity is another idea which is dystopic to me.

Why? Also, there are some cryptocurrencies that don't have either of those things. And for the ones that do, "cryptographic identity" just means "a public key", like a PGP key; not necessarily your real personal information.

>In more benign form you find it in IPFS etc.

Why the need for the equivocative qualifier? What's potentially unethical about the core idea of IPFS or those general categories of ideas? (Perhaps beyond the sorts of illicit activities any sort of decentralized technology, like Tor, can enable.)

I'm not a big cryptocurrency supporter and recognize ~99.9% of it is Ponzi schemes and other varying degrees of hot air - and there are certainly a lot of highly pessimistic ideas I disagree with that are common among the community (e.g. that central banks are malevolent or that the US dollar is likely to collapse in the not-too-distant future) - but it's unfortunate how these things seem to always reduce to two radical poles that are pretty much equivalently ideologically closed-minded.

(I'm certainly pulling a https://xkcd.com/774/, with zero qualms. I 100% agree with the character on the left, in this context.)
Curious, can you login with 26 characters and your MFA seed to bypass MFA entirely?
Can you show me one example where there was a "life-destroying" fine?

Not "a big company was fined an amount of money that would be life destroying if I had to pay it for a personal project", because revenue/economic means are a key factor in GDPR fine calculation.
FWIW I 100% agree with you about touch controls in cars. I even considered drawing a parallel between the two but thought my post was already long enough.
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