skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Arguably this part of GDPR failed miserably.

I'd definitely argue against that. For a hot minute they were truly terrible, with occasionally hundreds of tickboxes (Looking at you Techcrunch). Now 80% of sites I go to seem to use the same provider, which has a primary "Accept all", but rejecting all is usually a matter of clicking 3-4 radio buttons and a secondary "Confirm choices" button.

That's still pretty damned dark pattern-y, no doubt, but it's light years better than my previous options of either accepting or accepting.
That's fair, but my browser has permission to access my data for all websites, and uBlock Origin probably has my best interests in mind more so than Google Chrome.
Please, The ONLY time Intel offered ECC as standard on its products was during brief 486 period when all chipsets the offered were considered highend and their chipset market share was in single digits.

ECC was standard on first IBM PC 5150, on PS/2 line, on pretty much all 286 clones etc.

Intel market segmentation shenanigans started around 1995 with Pentium line, with ECC absent from all consumer oriented product lines.
It referred to person who does computations by hand and/or abacus.
That sounds like the market for reversing widespread adult male hair loss is where the wishful thinking is.
Were you working for the same bank 14 years ago? That would be an impressive sort of consistency. I think maybe not, however, because if you had been there your two-sentence synopsis wouldn't be quite so muddled. Did your bank hold assets the book values of which decreased in response to the events of 2007-8, or did its liabilities increase unexpectedly for the same reason? In that case, your bank was hurt directly. Otherwise, it wasn't hurt. Has anyone ever had to be "forced" to purchase anything for "pennies on the dollar"? Usually we are eager to purchase at 90% discounts. It's almost as if the story your bank tells its new employees is modeled after the story we all got. IME, when bankers don't make sense, they're lying.

Over most of USA history, both parties active at any particular time serve the interests of capital. There are occasional exceptions (e.g. FDR), but now is not such an exception. It's silly to emphasize the difference between parties, but if we must do so the past two decades in which control of Congress and the presidency has passed back and forth are something of an anomaly. Before Bush the Lesser, the last time Republicans were in any sense "dominant" was under Hoover. The Democrats held the House for twenty consecutive Congressional sessions.

If the stories you've been told, about your bank or about the USA political system or about anything else, don't make sense, then consider the possibility that those stories simply aren't true.
Eh, it’s not really that insane. All you get with this service is essentially a VPN tunnel to Amazon. There’s no risk to your network unless you believe your device is compromised. So technically it’s worse just because it’s more surface area for an attacker but that’s pretty minor by far usual standards.
Yes, you’re right, my comments about coffee were obviously health advice and I definitely appreciate you becoming my fact check stalker. Go on.
I use Stylus and this stylesheet: https://userstyles.org/styles/22794/a-dark-hacker-news

Works great for me. I use dark themes via Stylus for most of the common websites I visit like HN, GitHub, StackOverflow, etc. All other websites that cause me to squint I just toggle Dark Reader: https://darkreader.org/
I mean do you get compensated for the bandwidth your iPhone uses to participate in the FindMy network?
As a european who got dental care in two countries: I never heard of freezing at the dentist! What do they freeze exactly? How does it relate to anestesia?

Medical care seems to have a lot of weird country-specific traditions, e.g. in Hungary it's apparently common to fill small kids' healthy teeth if the groves are too deep so they're simpler to clean and they don't get cavities.

I had never heard of such a thing before moving here, and I genuinely can't tell if it's a brilliant innovation or an insane post-soviet tradition that needs to go away.
You can flip this around though. If the math and theory wasn't relevant to real world computers, we wouldn't consider it part of computer science. It's just be some abstract mathematics.
I would consider what you described to be "algorithms" (or "complexity theory"), a particular sub-area of computer science. There are quite a few other areas of CS.

The ACM organizes a number of SIGs (Special Interest Groups), each with their own (often several) conferences [1]. Some of the more well-known SIGs include SIGPLAN (Programming Languages), SIGGRAPH (Computer Graphics), and SIGLOG (Logic and Computation). What you described probably falls best under SIGACT (Algorithms and Computation Theory).

> the mathematics behind counting.

Traditionally, this is combinatorics, not any particular part of computer science. Complexity theory concerns itself with specifically counting the amount of resources used by a formal process.

[1] https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/alphabetical-lis...
Why it breaks the KISS principle?
I realized this back in 1997 when dejanews started up. From then on I never posted with my real name, and never will.

I only have a very limited internet presence with my real name and never post any of my opinions on it.
I agree that age is a huge improvement over PGP, and the rightful heir to its throne.

However most people complaining about PGP's UI go on to explain that this is why you should use Telegram or WhatsApp. That line of reasoning is just bogus.
On my desktop Chrome, I use "HN Enhance" extension. It works pretty good.

Reading the comments here, a lot of people use various extensions to achieve dark mode, so maybe it is time that HN implements this natively.
What are your favourite Telegram Channels?
Telegram has over 500 million users worldwide and has lots of channels. They serve as a "broadcast" medium.

Which are your favorite channels?

Mine is The Curious Loop https://t.me/thecuriousloop|

Please share your suggestions here.
Nuclear fuel will last us for 4B years (2020)
It used to be called Data Processing. I guess that confused people? Information Services was used for people who didn't know what data was. Before the GUI it was a lot harder.
Amazon can do the latter as well. Sidewalk is not an open wi-fi hotspot.
Well, first you run on loans then you attempt monetization, and if that fails, then you shutter your windows.
Sites like Quizlet get used routinely to cheat on mandatory military training. Copying/pasting the exact text of a test question into a Google search usually turns up quite a few hits of the answers.

I'm only familiar with this being used for really mundane training, so OPSEC and FOUO[1] info being posted is surprising.

[1]: For Official Use Only, which was recently changed to CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information).
Yes, but the definition of "computer" in this context is much more expansive than the hunks of silicon we're using to converse right now. The Turing machine was meant to capture the basic set of actions any human could in principle perform, made amenable for formal inquiry and algorithmic specification.

In particular, the computer programs we typically develop are designed to automate some process that a human would have otherwise done. We can study those processes -- and spaces of such processes -- independently of the executive agent that ultimately performs those processes.
In Windows you make everyone speak COM, or the improved version UWP.
(r)age

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21895671

https://github.com/str4d/rage
FDA regulation of supplements: This is not the final word on NAC
Why does everyone think this Amazon essentially handing out your Wi-Fi password? It’s Amazon’s FindMy network but slightly more general purpose where the pings can carry a data payload and are directed to a lambda.
The point of the tweet was to show that’s it’s funny how Ford solved this problem.

They could have done it all complicated with two displays, one with a circle punched out and the other one a small circle, but they opted to mimic human touch with a simple mechanical dial that simulated “touch” on the screen. Handle the rest with software.
... and nevertheless it takes a lot of time to realize that it is not about computers.

But I agree, the European phrases are more honest to the content.
Au contraire, moving such a large code base off electron would be MASSIVE (a rewrite of most of the client code) and not worth it considering people just deal with it nowadays.
In the quantities we're talking about - it's unlikely. If we're going to take a small amount of alcohol seriously, then lets also consider the effects of re-breathing your own carbon dioxide due to a mask covered in moisture from your own breath. As carbon dioxide pollution increases, people's rational decision making capabilities also decrease.

I would suggest people are agitated for a few reasons:

1. They are being forced to wear masks. There can be a whole list of legitimate reasons you may not want to wear one, including preference.

2. They are being put into close proximity with people that may or may not have COVID. They've been told for an entire year that there is this super killer virus and for the large majority of people, it's simply the flu.

3. People are generally worse off than they were a year ago. They have significantly less income, the flights cost more (due to COVID measures) and their money is now worth less due to inflation.

To make matters worse, if you're an alcoholic, stressed or scared of flying, you can no longer have a small drink either. And that's not to mention that drinking a shot of spirit for example would actually have the effect of killing COVID in your throat.
Oh no, the engineers had a bad day! (6 people died)
7zip encrypted archives, the "create protected archive" should be accessible with right click on most platforms (I use the CLI version and I only have a vague memory about the UI)
I hate this quotation and find it not only false but sad. It feels as if a physicist would say "physics is not about mass, energy and matter, it is about ODE and PDE."

And yes, astronomy is pretty much about looking at the shadows of sticks under the sun; and this includes more complex "sticks" like telescopes.
This "biting hurts" sounds little ominous. Have they X-rayed your roots? I had recently two root canals and the doctor told they have been infected for half a century, but healed on their own. The reason they were infected was I a stopped chewing Xylitol-gum. And the reason I stopped chewing was I my teeth started cracking because of old age. Root canals are not big thing nowadays, painless and fast.
Seeing as the Danish "CS" degree deliberately[1] wasn't named "Computer Science", but "Datalogi"[2] (which translates rather directly to "Datalogy"), and since it happened in the sixties, I somehow assumed this article would end up mentioning Peter Naur in some way.

[1]: http://www.naur.com/comp/c4-3.html
[2]: http://www.naur.com/comp/c4-4.html
Dark reader works unreasonably well.it has done more than any other project to restore some degree of visual consistency to our computer screens in the age of web apps.
> I don't want to give random people with random apps any amount of arbitrary bandwidth

It uses a maximum of 500 megabyte per month.

Regarding payload type registration – it seems like it would be pretty difficult to monitor that, given that payloads are encrypted.

That actually seems more like a feature than a problem to me: If my IP address does not show up in any logs and I can't even see what's being transmitted, I really doubt there would be any liability for the user here.
NFT’s aren’t a harmless digital fad – they’re a disaster for our planet
Phabricator has been a huge part of my career. Having spent the past 11ish years maintaining phabricator installs this really hit me hard. Fwiw phabricator is very stable and maintainable code. I would be happy to work with anyone who is interested in collaborating on a community maintained fork.
They don’t because all you can do with it is talk to AWS.
Wow this feels like a blast from the past. There used to be a service that did exactly this (little help chats with "AI" generated voices), in the mid 2000s but instead of having human avatars they were animated. Seeing the woman speak immediately unlocked a memory in my kid brain.
Something is clearly happening server-side, not client-side. The original post cites two weeks since this began, and I confirm. Surely we have not all contracted this problem in this time?
For me the problem is that I use ssh way more often, so it’s easier to remember all the commands. I need to encrypt/decrypt something with GPG only a few times a year, and every time I struggle remembering the commands to do so.
GPG is broken and insecure‽
I’ve been using it for years - the first time I went to the dentist after having used it for a while was the first time I’ve ever had a dentist be so positive about the condition of my teeth.
Southwest doesn't have that option. They can only ban passengers from their own airline.

If the FBI is involved (interfering with a crew member's duties is a federal crime), they can add her to the no fly list via TSA if warranted. And I think all of these people that act up should be, or in the case of psychiatric reasons, should be required to fly with a caretaker.

I am not sure why my other comment was downvoted to oblivion. ONE airline banning a passenger is NOT the same as being added to the no fly list. Period.
years ago, i took classes from dan mauldin, the editor of the Birkhäuser edition of the scottish book. our local scottish cafe was jim's diner. great hash browns.
> But don't think for a second that the US won't force a diplomat's plane to land even outside their jurisdiction just because they believe an enemy of the state is on it. It's all about interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
That sounds fun! What did it do?
This brings me to "Flatland" by Edwin Abbott Abbott published the very same year.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
> Generally if you know that a product can do something is going to happen pre-purchase you can't claim damages from that thing happening, and it's no secret that the smart functionality of the device keep it up-to-date.

Making its own wifi network is not keeping it up to date. There's no reason for it to control it's own wifi network having to do with the keeping it up to date, that is a red herring.

If 'keeping things up to date' includes any predatory feature they can conceive of, then it's sort of meaningless.

>Quite literally, yes, assuming you're in the United States and you check the box that specifies the terms of data collection.

Terms they could update at any time to add any data, so are meaningless. Maybe I agreed to the terms of data collection before they updated the terms of data collection to new data collection. Now it's taking pictures of you sitting on the couch and selling them on onlyfans that's ok under the new terms that you agreed to forever by signing the previous terms that say they can change the terms whenever they want, and add 'features' like selling your pictures under the auspices of 'keeping your device up to date'.

That's the problem with one sided 'contracts' that don't have any consideration. They're vile and they're actively damaging. When attached to expensive physical goods it's almost certainly directly damaging.

>I'm not trying to be witty, i'm showing why devices might create their own wifi network and 'direct play' is just the name used on some TVs for wi-fi direct.

Again, it doesn't matter. I don't want it, it wasn't part of the TV when I bought it, I have no interest in a wifi network someone else controls attached to devices in my home or in my family's home, and it can't be disabled.

Adding this 'feature' has made the TV completely not ok with me. 'Keeping the device up to date' does not include make a wifi network broadcasting in my home against my wishes and outside of my control. That's some kind of dark corporate animal farm speak.
my understanding is that we're basically not supposed to live long enough to care, evolution didn't have time to overcorrect for abundance of sugar and people living into old age.
React re-rendering logic requires one to think plenty deep.
Quite a lot of postwar US research lead can be attributed to that being where people survived. The thriving pre war intellectualism of Poland, Hungary and so on was largely obliterated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists) : those who escaped.
Harry Reid, an Interrogator and the Singer from Blink-182 Took UFOs Mainstream
Same here. It's definitely not as intelligent as extensions on desktop browser, but it's suitable in a pinch.
There are other ways besides spaces to control access in a fine grained way by using projects as access control lists and policies on the areas you want to restrict.
The big problem now seems to be thought policing by employers. Sometimes because they fear mobs, online or offine, coming after them.

The secondary problem is being forced off social media for more or less random reasons.
What is the temperature range for food not to burn your mouth?
No, this is wrong/nonsense. I assume you got this from that one YouTube video? The one with the white background and animated black lines, claiming to explain 12 dimensions?

Learn basic linear algebra to get the idea of the dimension of vector space.
Then maybe learn a bit about the box counting dimension or similar for fractals as another related notion (which allows non-integer values).

Speaking about dimensions without doing math is a mistake.
Rest of the tribe is asleep, we’re the ones keeping watch while the stars are out, left to our own thoughts.
Hi gman83! Can we talk in telegram? my telegram @alexmb152
I, too, appreciate HN's reluctance to add new features, and have zealously followed the same approach in maintaining my own tiny corner of the web for two decades.

But dark mode offers such immense retinal relief that a few lines of CSS¹ does not seem too unreasonable, especially since it means not having to trust third party extensions to do the job (though Firefox supports site-specific CSS rules natively: https://superuser.com/a/319322/38084 ).

¹ I arrived at these few lines for my simple site:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
body {background: #222b39;color: #e1dfdc}
input,textarea {background: #333;color: #e1dfdc;border: 1px solid white}}

though HN likely requires a far more skillful and circumspect approach, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199649 .
Most extractions are done without drilling. That's really only necessary when the tooth needs to be sectioned, or if there is a bony impaction. Usually a bit of movement with forceps or elevators is all that's required.

But yeah, sectioning a tooth with chisels sounds pretty bad. I think I would try to avoid that situation. I'm not sure why a dentist would even have an instrument that could be described as a "chisel".
Not able to access it. Asks for login
There are 85 instances of 'redacted' on that page.

I don't think I'd have been as kind.
You really seem to have a beef with this one particular commercial product that I don't have access to.

I've used plenty of other HTTPS proxies and the well-written ones all worked fine. Many are open source. I think you need to direct these comments to whoever is charging you money for this "Zscaler" thing.
Does it though? I feel like the classes in which I had the most camaraderie with others were the mixed-age ones (math, grouped by ability, AP classes, and swim, a mixed bag). Likewise, the significant majority of my friends were first in grades above, and then below me. And it's not as if people of the same age can't bully each other.

Even with younger children I don't think it's as much of an issue for bullying. In fact, if such mentorship programs are voluntary, I'd wager there would be less of a problem; you'd be surprised at how empathic children can be when placed in an older/younger pair. There's also an self-evident dynamic of power there - it's when children are expected to act as peers that squabbles for power most frequently manifest as bullying.
https://archive.is/3XAhy
In Romania the top higher education institution in CS is called "Automatics" emphasizing the applications.
My view is quite unconventional, but I believe, computer science is a branch of mathematics that deals with large but finite structures (so they need an algorithmic description).

Compare with most of "legacy" mathematics, which studies countable structures (so the description can use arbitrary series).

Of course, there are larger sets, but they mostly serve as a theater (just like countable infinity is just a theater of computer science).

Finite sets in the rest of mathematics are sometimes considered uninteresting, but not so in computer science, where only very small sets (roughly of up to 32 elements, all subsets can be easily checked on a typical computer) are considered uninteresting.

Good example is number theory, which philosophically considers all natural numbers, regardless of size, to be equal type of objects. In computer science, the (although fuzzy) magnitude of numbers plays much bigger role.
I know a lot of teachers as well, and almost all of them bemoan how the curriculum they're forced to teach to is structured - especially those in the social sciences.

It's by and large not the teachers that are the problem with schools, it's the system itself.
Nit-pick: It's the US Air Force that guards nuclear weapons, not the Army. So, it's not "soldiers" involved but rather "airmen".

These service members are clearly real chuckleheads though.
yea, some sort of vitessdb equivalent to postgresql would be amazing!
>Costs an extra $6000 or $7000.

I'd find that more painful than the treatment.
Rust's improvement on slice.binary_search_by() caused OOM on Polkadot
... and it was by no means Rust's fault.

Rust's slice.binary_search_by() used to have an implementation equivalent to upper_bound(), and it got improved recently.

The PR of the improvement: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/74024

Polkadot's postmortem: https://polkadot.network/a-polkadot-postmortem-24-05-2021/