skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies have to, see Article 3. GDPR triggers whenever the processing is done by a company located in the EU or targeting users located in the EU.

Google probably does not as they surely don't do processing of non-EU user's data within their EU subsidiaries.
Dedicated Frank Zappa fans might.
This is a great comment, and an example of why discussion of ivermectin should not be CENSORED but instead debated. These would be good questions to ask the creators of any videos on the topic and from what I can see, the most popular creators would probably be open to the discussion.
Whether children were wrongly placed is not a matter of whether there's a reason at all, but a matter of whether the kids are better off like this.

This has been researched and the answer is largely no.

I would also like to point out those kids are repeating what social workers tell them to avoid trouble. At least half of it isn't true.

I want to repeat what I said before. It isn't because home situations are great. It's just how bad youth services are.
Lots of others have debunked this here. Yet with all this conspiracy stuff there’s a big elephant in the room that no one seems to ever talk about: Covid is a global virus. The FDA can block and approve whatever treatments in the US, but it has no authority in Brazil or Thailand. If all these conspiracy drugs worked well yet the FDA blocked it for some malicious intent, the rest of the world would approve and use it. Particularly since these conspiracy drugs have all been around forever, are generics, and exist globally. Yet we aren’t seeing this emerging despite massive world wide deaths.
It gives me peace of mind knowing that hospitals require all of their physicians to quickly solve p-chem problems during whiteboard interviews.
That's really bad design then.

Any design worth its salt should incorporate a thermal soft-fuse at the heater element that cuts power off if the printhead ever goes above the maximum temperature that any filament can handle.

Pure software interlocks are not sufficient. One might think people would have learned a lesson, nearly half a decade after Therac-25.
It might not brick the hardware, but it can get it to a state that makes it seem bricked to a non-expert user.

I think the fear would be that non-expert users would try to flash their custom firmware, run into issues, then try to get warranty relief claiming there is a hardware problem.

There would be no easy way for Prusa to tell whether the boot issue is actually a hardware problem covered by the warranty or a firmware issue caused by bad firmware being flashed.

They don't want to sign themselves up for having to assist users recovering from flashing their firmware.
I've often thought that a 60% majority should be required to pass new laws, and 50% to repeal them.
The Child Tax Credit Non-Filer Tool Is a Mess
> Python is slow. Like, really slow. On average, you’ll need about 2–10 times longer to complete a task with Python than with any other language.

This doesn't seem true in my experience.

First off, I'm glad the author phrased it as time "you'll need ... to complete a task," because in many cases that's a more important measure than any benchmark of the code itself. Given some data and a question about the data, I can almost certainly answer the question faster in a Python REPL or notebook than in any language which needs to be compiled. Sure, it might take ten seconds instead of one to do the math, but it takes much more than nine seconds to write a complete program in a standalone editor and compile it and run the output and look at it.

Second, for tasks that are I/O-heavy and not computation-heavy, the fact that Python is interpreted doesn't really matter. If you're making a request to an API that takes 300 ms to respond, it hardly matters if processing the response takes 1 ms or 10.

Finally, as the author mentions, there are several compiled Python extensions like NumPy.

> Python tried to transition to static scoping, but messed it up. Usually, inner scopes — for example functions within functions — would be able to see and change outer scopes. In Python, inner scopes can only see outer scopes, but not change them.

This is not true:

>>> def a():
... result = []
... def f(x):
... result.append(x ** 2)
... for i in range(10):
... f(i)
... return result
...
>>> a()
[0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81]

It is ever so slightly more complicated if you want to use the regular assignment operator: you need to write a "nonlocal" statement, which has been around since Python 3.0 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3104/), released in 2008.

>>> def a():
... x = 0
... def f():
... nonlocal x
... x = 1
... f()
... return x
...
>>> a()
1
How would you not be in control? It's files on your drive, you can always tinker around with the software regardless of how it's installed.

Their payment system doesn't even support multiple cards saved at the same time, but having a checkout and using a CDN is ecommerce basics that any hobbyist can setup. That's a very low bar for UX.
YouTube Plans to Make iOS Users Watch YouTube Videos Without Using YouTube App
To get the full picture:

Rationale behind the Safari 15 design
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10029/
I don’t understand the analogy, sorry
You initially took issue with the claim about "worst drought in 1,200 years" (in the US), but focused on how we didn't know about temperature that far in the past, and how this kind of claim is irresponsible.
I tried to refocus that drought severity isn't obviously about temperature at all (even during cool periods there can be severe droughts).
Now you're zooming out to the whole global climate change phenomenon.

Is it not possible to talk about droughts in the American west as an independent topic? Reasons why it may be important to discuss and understand:

- hydro power is regionally important, and empty reservoirs will create problems there

- agriculture is a huge part of the economy

- a bunch of people live in areas that will be affected by wildfire smoke ... again

These are happening as part of a larger phenomenon of global warming, but even if that weren't the case, severe droughts happen and can be hugely impactful, and it can be both responsible and important to communicate the key understanding that we may experience a drought event that is unlike any since large populations existed in the region, and therefore may meaningfully disrupt life for millions.
Still an Indian school run by federal government in Salem Oregon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemawa_Indian_School
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I hope so, the millennial generation was already struggling with buying a home before COVID.

We need another market correction to tamper off speculators and allow millennials to owe a home; after all, they are the future (and a better investment overall).
The word “awesome” is also filtered out of HN titles, presumably because it’s frequently used as a meaningless intensifier, but at the expense of its meaningful use here.
While I agree with you in principle that engineering management is actually pretty far down the ladder in terms of real value to a business (the top and bottom layers of the org structure are usually far more important in what the company will end up doing than the middle), there does need to exist such an abstraction (in sufficiently large companies) for a plethora of reasons, many of them quite obvious.

However, that's not why I chose to reply to your comment.

> HR nonsense like personnel management, hiring and firing.

Hiring and firing is right up there in terms of factors that decide the fate of a company. It absolutely cannot be considered 'nonsense', at least if you want the company to be around for a while.
I have seen people pointing out the low price of the horse formulations on Twitter without the obvious caveat that dosage will definitely make the poison in this case.
You could eat less meat, pasture raised or not.
>They get paid to say what the defense attorney wants them to say or the plaintiff attorney wants them to say.

Having done this sort of work... Sort of. We were picked in part because we had already publicly written about a case in a way that supported one side's position. (Obviously the side that reached out to us.) There was nothing in our report I didn't personally agree with.

I'd add that my understanding is that, while some people do a relatively large amount of expert witness work--we did not--the preference is that expert witnesses don't do this as a full-time gig where it becomes a matter of supporting what whoever paying them wants.
US law does not apply to a business in the Czech Republic.

But even if it was in the US, what you are citing mostly applies to things like cars that you can put aftermarket parts on. They could just say that modifying the firmware is "[using] a product for something other than its intended purpose" and the FTC will just look at you and shrug.
Ford acquires Electriphi as it prepares to woo EV fleet customers
Saving money is not the only reason to pirate content.

Some things aren’t available in my region and never will be (as they are 20+ years old).

Some things are presented via a crap app, in dubious formats or with truely horrible DRM. I pirate plenty of shows that I have legal access to or own.
This is a great idea but just so developers know, you can do some great stuff with google sheets, I made one with google sheets and the built-in request object via google sheet scripting to do REST requests for data and found that to be super useful. You can then tie it in to calculations and totals etc. using spreadsheet functionality...but this is nice for a quick summary with little effort.
Some drugs are developed with a particular mechanism in mind: a known protein target, a known binding site, and a molecule designed to match. For these, scientists have a good shot at knowing what's going on. Even then, a doctor might not know - they don't need to.

Other drugs are developed by a more random method - for example, take every druglike chemical you have on the shelf and put it in a vial with COVID-19. In that case, scientists will try to find the mechanism afterwards, but they might never know for sure.
More than 20 a month, annually? Fixed purchase.
You can make a legal argument that an archaic law suddenly being punitively enforced is a dead letter.
For the vast majority of people, yes.
Who are the scientists that instructed YouTube to take down the "Bret Weinstein and Pierre Kory" video?
Sounds like what Deepl is doing. Surprisingly accurate between some languages, and the translation changes depending on context. But it needs way more human input/corrections before it can be near perfect.
Some people in the Parallax Propeller community have been hard at work on a high quality emulation. First gen is SIDCOG, and a second one, running at some 400khz is in development.
In other languages we create types for just about anything, and like you say, it's strange that we don't do this more in C.
Archaeologists recreated three common kinds of Paleolithic cave lighting
What are the chances this is a bug in the driver or some low level service?
Well, today I bought an app from the play store. From my laptop.

I could never download it on the smartphone. Once I got into the smartphone play store the app was still listed with a price without an install button. Trying to buy it again ends up in an error "you already own this app". Then back to the buying button.

I know I should always buy from the phone and not from the desktop, the free app rarely installs automatically.

Fortunately I could get a refund instantaneously. Unlike the app I just bought. Bought and owned but prevented from installing.
> like the Brazilian fried guinea pigs.

It should be Peruvian. I’m Brazilian and never heard about this dish here.
> Videogames are no less useful than Bitcoin. Like, if all videogames disappeared tomorrow, humanity would fundamentally be all right.

1. What you said, when we normalize logic, is: videogames are just as useless as bitcoin. If videogames disappeared, humanity would be allright. Same goes for bitcoin.

I wonder if that is exactly waht you were going for.

2. Videogames are not useless. You could start with the fundamental need of humanity for games in general. Yes, if videogames disappeared, we would find other things to replace them with. I wonder if someone would then pop up and say something inane like "BTC is not an ecological disaster - just like Gaelic football [1] is not an ecological disaster."

Secondly, videogames are increasingly found to reduce stress. They are used to treat various patients [2]. They broach the subjects such as "games as new medium" and "games as art". They create vast online communities.

Bitcoin (and blockchains in general) laboriously appends entries to an append-only log using the power-equivalent of several countries at a speed of a paraplegic snail [3]. And in ten years it hasn't found a single niche where the same operations can't be done faster and more efficiently (and are usually already done faster and more efficiently).

[1] I jest, but this is a thing of beauty. Watch the entire video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEAbWrdB9XU

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4688462/

[3] All-time high for bitcoin was 450k transactions per day: https://www.blockchain.com/charts/n-transactions To do this, it requires more power than most countries in the world: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-power-consu...

Since we're speaking about videogames, in 2006 Eve Online had 150 million DB transactions per day. To do that, Eve Online needs something like 6 database servers: https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/tranquility-tech-3

Bitcoin would need the heat death of the universe to handle a comparable load.
Do you have any recommendations? :) I've been trying to find a big town or small city with lots of natural beauty and nice weather. I grew up in Seattle and refuse to live anywhere with more than 90 days of cloudy weather per year. One heuristic I've come up with is small towns that are sustained by natural tourism. They tend to be much more laid back, and people are happier and more social because of it. Whitefish, MO is one example, but unfortunately it's too cold for me. :)
Yes, as a direct to consumer seller located in the EU they have to offer a two year warranty on manufacturing defects.
This is one of those cases where it's helpful, in fact indispensable, to remember that there is exactly one thing we're optimizing for on HN, namely intellectual curiosity: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... The fact that we have a clear guiding principle is my favorite thing about moderating HN because how the hell would one decide these things otherwise.

It seems clear that the community has genuine intellectual curiosity in discussing this topic. It's also a flamewar topic so we need to take the usual care not to end up in a flamewar; that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. This thread doesn't seem to be doing too badly. The OP seems like a substantive enough article to at least provide a basis for a good discussion.
"Strong JavaScript" continues to fail this trust model even with very careful design, leading to (among other things) mitigations in the form of multiple double digit performance hits to all computing. That seems more like an engineering reason to re-evaluate the status quo to me. "Web sites should be allowed to run untrustable executable code because we can manage it" feels far more ideological to me, because it's based on a belief that is becoming increasingly unfounded by the accumulating evidence.
Can someone explain why orf and RedXIII are being heavily downvoted without explanations? Aren't their claims generally (or often) true... sure, not 100%. Please explain why you are downvoting to enhance the discussion.
The story of 300 depicts the Persians in a very negative way lol. They don’t seem at all Zoroastrian in the movie (multiple idols, and weird rituals, no likeness of anything Zoroastrian shows up). It’s a great movie tho!

In reality those Persians were Zoroastrian, at least in name. I say “in name” because the Battle of Thermopylae (i.e. 300) would have been 500-2000 years after the creation of the Zoroastrian religion[0], I’m sure more than a little was altered/forgotten.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire

[0] We don’t have much recorded history that dates back that far and it’s a matter of academic debate when exactly the religion started.
My personal view on myself as an EM is protecting my engineers from distractions (other teams, people, meetings, etc) while getting them the growth the need and the growth they want. I also help prioritize stuff working with PM so there is no confusion or wasted time thinking about what they're working on next.
Cheers, thanks. Not my first Audi, not my first S either, so I know it’s going to be an excellent car (still being fabricated).

IMO you are spot on with the quality remark, especially compared to Teslas. In that aspect Teslas were underwhelming - from the quality of the materials used for the interior, to the infamous door gap issue, to the paint job that causes detailers to charge extra for Teslas, because they require “special handling”.

Apparently they improved the material quality in the 2021 model S, but they then had to shoot themselves in a foot with the yoke and the removal of the gear shifter. These two changes make as much sense as putting driver seat backwards and mounting a TV screen in front of them. Yes, looks dope. Yes, can be done. No, shouldn’t be the default, leave alone the only option.
I would take that as a list of 82 sites to avoid when looking for pirated software.
The only thing that matters as a manager is how you manage people. The rest is window dressing. If your people are unhappy, if you're dealing with attrition, if you can't make a team cohere together, if you can't navigate your space with your peers and org, no amount of agile raci matrices will save you. Pick your head up and look at your people.
My SUV is as fast as a long-range Model X, cheaper than the plaid Model X, and doesn’t require a non-existent charging infrastructure on the long trips I take. Also the body panels aren’t out of alignment and I don’t have falcon wing doors that are still having functional and reliability issues.

Once it deteriorated, workable electric infrastructure should be there.
AWS is amazing, I’ve heard that it represents more than 50% of Amazon’s operating income.
I wonder how much eviction moratoriums are affecting supply. Does anybody have data?
Lippmann Plate
I live in Europe, but past few years I've been working for US-based company, using their VPN a lot. Google wants to associate me with USA instead of my home country, and when I tried to fill support request to correct them their answer was basically "shut up, we know better".

I created another mailbox and am slowly migrating to it. Fuck you Google.
I pirate everything. Honestly, the only things I don't pirate are like 1-2 games a year that me and some friends end up playing together. For software I generally just run whatever FOSS thing I can find, and in the case of movies and music I have never spent a cent on them in my life. I've been pirating since I started using a computer.

The same rich people trying to sell predatory subscriptions and vendor lock-in are the same ones trying to raise my rent and food bill every year, so I have no incentive to give them money for pointless entertainment on top of that.
Be a business in Sweden. Charge customers in USD. Paypal charges a fee for the payment. Then they charge a fee for the currency conversion from the customers’ local currency conversion. Then they use the worst conversion rate for withdrawing money from your account to local bank account (like 5% worse than actual rates). You could get around this by withdrawing the USD to a USD account via Transferwise. They changed (fixed) this by charging a 3% withdrawal fee from USD to USD. So just moving 10000 usd of OUR money to OUR bank account costs 300 USD. That’s AFTER the Paypal transaction fee AND after the conversion fee from customer’s local currency to USD. Thank god for competition, at least we can start moving new customers to Stripe. But dear lord, please stop them
It does suck that the usual 64-bit calling convention limits the size of strict passed by value to 64-bits :/.
You’re probably right, but that won’t happen until we can do all the things we care about on whatever the “one true platform” I don’t think. I believe Apple will always support “power users”, if just because they need to support developers, and their large audience of creatives using their machines.
Case in point: https://twitter.com/tombevanrcp/status/1406069086015168515
No, co2 is bigger by quite a bit. Methane is increasing rapidly which is a big concern because of potential feedback effects.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas
If you prefer to read what this is about: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/06/game-boy-advance-game...
I think you would be the exception. In fact, you may the only person I’ve ever heard express this preference.
> "quiet ride" - I've never once in my life wished that the interior of my vehicle was quieter, this is such a superficial benefit to consider.

It's FAR from superficial. Go for a test drive in a luxury car. You'll notice that you can listening to the radio even at high speeds is much easier, taking calls, same, heck, even talking.

It's one of those things you only notice in reverse: if you've never had it, you don't know what you're missing, but once you've experienced, for sure you're going to hate going back.

Of course, you can get used to everything, some people don't even riding in a horse drawn carriage with solid wheels and no suspension :-p
Perhaps an attempt at connecting anti piracy with racism?

It seems very strange.
Yes to all of that, but it's tangential to the main topic here.
No benefits? It keeps people off the streets and gives them something to do, pointless or not. The net benefit to society is positive, which is why it keeps getting voted for.

I live in a place with a severe homeless problem. I wish these people had pointless government jobs rather than be out begging on the street.
Oh, super! A comprehensive list of pointers to an overwhelming quantity of information (as basic as linking to wikipedia or to slack? seriously?) which probably has some value in terms of cataloging?

Is anyone actually a fan of those `awesome` lists? They get starred and everyone tweets and retweets them but in theory it sounds like something awesome, while actually being pretty dull and quite useless in the long run.

In this case specifically, where engineering management is something intrinsically people focused, oh great, a bunch of links to email providers. This is some prime content spam.
Except it's not a pipe dream. IBM and I think Google showed something like that a few years ago.

And looking at it now, Skype has something:
https://www.skype.com/en/features/skype-translator/

And Qualcomm is trying to integrate it with the hardware, which should reduce lag to an acceptable level:

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2020/03/26/how-snapdragon-...

Privacy advocates will have a field day with this stuff, though.
All the cost savings in the prices of battery packs seem to be eaten up by marketing departments of companies, and in general seem to never propagate to the end consumer.

Tesla's $35,000 car was a lie, but even if it wasn't, for real mass market adoption, it needs to be hitting low-mid $20's range.
The iPhone is so valuable and an unlocked one would have so much unique value that an industry would pop up modding customer phones and also selling modded phones. The average consumer would think “oh yeah don’t buy from Apple buy from these folks” and it would become common for people to have the devices.