skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is technically not correct. GDPR only covers personal data with several important caveats. So you can't be walking around and claiming that it's all personal data and it all has to be deleted. The law doesn't work this way. This is a silly example, but nonetheless - you can't ask police to delete your criminal records. Nor can you request your bank to delete all transaction records from your bank account - even if you are leaving the bank.
One problem is I need to be an expert to decipher what the experts are saying (and who is an expert, and which experts to listen to).

So instead I rely on various secondary and tertiary sources to help me make sense of the world, which opens up the possibility that my sources are wrong or even manipulative. But how would I ever know? I'm not an expert.
It's not strange. Sets have high margins and their logistics can be optimized to hell and back. Loose pieces are low-margin and awkward to deal with. It's the same reason you cannot buy Coca-Cola, or milk, on tap from a supermarket.

Capitalism gonna capital.
Yes, I disagree with that definition of slur, the bar is too low if that's all it takes. In my opinion a history of oppression is what matters and if we go by how twitter uses a word, "Karen" and "Boomer" would be slurs too.
That's why he said "better". Have you used both

A. python with type hints

and

B. Typescript, or a statically typed language such as Rust/Java

? I'm guessing not.
The USSR was fighting for its existence in a war of extermination. Sacrificing lives was not really a choice but rather one of the rare advantages they could press.

Smaller Eastern European countries had even more appalling losses, not because of their disregard for human life, but because of their enemies' appetite for murder.

Stalingrad was a worthwhile strategic objective, if I'm not mistaken. Keeping the Wehrmacht engaged also gave the Soviets an opportunity to stage the massive pincer that broke the Wehrmacht's back and damn near knocked its allies out of the war
I agree, most top conferences nowadays publish reviews openly, and address this issue I think. Also it is easier said than done, this is so endemic in so many different academic settings, not just in the US, but also in Europe.
Quantum data link established between two distant Chinese cities
This is what websites were like in the 90s if you were on something faster than 56k.
I agree that wants clarifying, as Just-in-Time might also refer to just-in-time manufacturing.
I use Authy and 1Password for that.
Well, you could mix it from blue and red. But if there are no subjects that are actually violet I presume you lack the incentive to incorporate this color. Violet cloths result in violet subjects etc.

The observation of lack of violet before 19th century is interesting no matter which pedestrian explanation is the most correct one.
The Dunedin study found that intelligence is a weak predictor for life success[0].

From my brief search (they have a LOT of publications) I couldn't find any publications from them on family wealth as a predictor.

[0]: https://dunedinstudy.otago.ac.nz/files/1571970023782.pdf
Had to use DOORS for years, now we try Sphinx Needs [0] and like Docs-As-Code in combination with your favorite git workflow very much.

[0] https://pypi.org/project/sphinxcontrib-needs/
Nowadays there are even few LEGO physical products that actually embrace free building.

Most LEGO products are directed building toward one (or a few) models. Even the yellow boxes in the Classic theme (many different bricks).

Free building is just frightening to most customers.
> a random website could have a form hat asks for your bank data so then Apple should protect grandma and whitelist websites and review all updates to those websites.

This argument is extremely flawed.

Apps can do malicious things without or with little interaction. Apple in this case is enforcing a few policies that it couldn't with sideloading, like apps that want permissions they don't need in exchange for functioning.

Websites don't get automated access to anything of the sort.
Checkout my demo video of an AI app that reads for you.It's called VIIO
But I thought the local cops were always notified of test exercises. /s
ink seems like a genuine product for making things more competitive instead of less but Visa/Mastercard/Amex are very famous for keeping the system closed down to benefit their own profits.

https://www.acesetm.win/
> However, there is no need to trust the firmware, because the trust is provided by hardware and not by firmware.

No, the trust is provided by the firmware. That's what runs in the root domain. Monitor firmware. It's right there in the article. The Root domain is the ultimate trust level.

> And there are certificates that allow to check if the components are trustworthy.

Unless there are very specific hardware-backed attestation features baked into the chips - none of which has been mentioned, and which also relies on the inability to compromise the system through hardware mechanisms, and a bug-free monitor, which is an entire difficult to solve problem - then those certificates only allow you to check that the certificate owner has, at one point, provided key material to be used by the system, not that the software running on it continues to be what was intended.

You break into the monitor, you steal the attestation keys, and then you get to keep "proving" your "trustworthiness" to everyone else. This is how on-line DRM is broken every time.
I'm using Notion for almost everything (Wiki-style knowledge base, task/requirement management, note taking, gannt-style timeline).

The killer-feature for me is the clean design. If I look at your Excel sheet, it could take me a minute to start understanding what the doc is about. Notion makes so much easier on the eyes and easy to ingest.
"Hard Boiled Wonderland" was the first book of his that I read. It's one of those rare books that while reading it, I find its bizarre concepts leaking into my concept of reality.

Other books that have done that for me include Julian Jaynes' "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" (Conversations continued in my head with the distinct voices of the people I had been speaking to!) and Dave Hutchinson's "Fractured Europe Sequence" series (Wandering through Vondelpark I keep expecting to turn a corner and emerge into another dimension!).

I have to read "Hard Boiled Wonderland" again because I can't remember what it leaked into my reality! :)
Did you watch it? I think he has a few valid points
This is really cool. I'm looking to build a body scanner so I can import a 3d model of my body. I can then use this model in Marvelous Designer to make shirts and pants and other clothes that will literally fit perfectly to my body.

I'm thinking of a platform on which you stand, with a rotating arm under it which holds the arduino which then scans up and down, the arduino relays the distance and both angles to a processor which turns the data into a point cloud and then into a 3d model.
The way people aligned to academic gender and racism ideas justify discharging other tells me a lot about the quality of said ideas. It happens in other faculties too, but not nearly that often and that decisive.

You have to convince others of your ideas at some point...
Paying a ransom marks you as will-pay. The price will keep rising till they find your limit.

The data is already leaked, let your users know what was leaked and recover from there.

See also: 80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27552611
Yeah, but if you haven’t yet found something that works, then do the opposite. Do many many things at the same time.
Something I don't fully understand is why single-use plastics are still in use. Every once in a while, a replacement is advertised, but still not used.

The reasons I can think of are:

1. cost - this could be an very simple reason;

2. conflictual requirement - the supposition that chemical indestructibility is what makes plastic at the same time necessary but problematic.

Is there any other factor/complexity I'm missing?
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X is buying Y is not the same thing as Y is joining X. It's almost like these founders are embarrassed about what was probably their plan all along.
> While there were indeed recorded imported Chinese cases in west coast, US's epidemic mostly started off the east coast.

This seems like a distinction without a difference since both coasts got the virus ultimately from the same country.
if you re-examine some famous virus history books like The Coming Plaque from the 1990s you realize that the escape form labs theory is not new but recycled propaganda. It happen with Ebola and several others and it was on both sides of the cold war with the CIA and KGB pursuing distributing those theories.

We have to find some way to subtract the political infighting from the public health motive to find the origins of this virus outbreak.
What DB backend does Alpas use?
Apple makes premium devices. If Google did this inside their Play Services, you'd have a point, because that is the affordable (and, outside the US, mainstream) choice, but people explicitly buy Apple.
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This isn't a "personal freedom" thing for me.

I'm talking as someone who was denied medical treatment for 7 years because the first specialist I saw assumed, based on my age, that I was trying to scam them for a prescription.

Those years were basically lost, and that wouldn't have happened if there wasn't so many people seeking phony diagnoses.
Yeah. I don't see them either. There are probably very well-organized people out there with a crack habit. The ones I see are the dead-eyed fuckups on the street spreading misery to themselves and their surroundings.

But it cuts both ways. There's a phrase "high-functioning alcoholic", meaning someone who still holds down a job, wears respectable clothes and all that. I grew up with a drunk: "high-functioning alcoholic" just means the worms are well concealed inside the can.
LEGO wants so much to control its brand image that it doesn't want to risk to allow content inappropriate for kids.

So self hosting LEGO-branded games open to the world will never happen.
I'm seeing a big banner saying ""When your trial is over, your account will be limited to Always Free resources."" which is pretty reassuring.
For requirements gathering, if i had full control I’d probably use use cases at a level of formality appropriate to the need in plain text, markdown, or asciidoc for behavioral requirements, some text->diagram solutions (mermaidjs covers a lot, fir instance) for DFDs and ERDs, ans gantt charts, and git for version management of the whole thing.
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There are like a hundred Warhammer 40k games now. I haven't played tabletop myself, but Sanctus Reach looks like a pretty direct copy of the rules to PC, similar to the Battletech and Blood Bowl games.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/502370/Warhammer_40000_Sa...
Some people don't enjoy work, period either. That doesn't mean that having a job should be illegal.
How to Maximize the ROI of HR
The thing I find amusing/terrifying is that people are now claiming the moral high ground over how it was handled originally (context be damned), while still using it as a political stick to beat people with - one key point here is the distinction between political and partisan disputes.
One of the best things about Leo was the tree-view outline where nodes could be 'cloned', giving multiple ways to drill down to the same info.

Typically my Leo file would be organised both by project and topic, and at the top cloned nodes of my current priorities.
Because single use plastics are transformatively essentially for the entire modern way of life? Until we acknowledge that reality any solution will only sound hypocritical and be ineffective in the end.

The only real solution I see for plastic waste is just to incinerate it and try to build carbon capture plants to undo that fire.
Leaked UN draft report warns of accelerating climate devastation
No. The python type-checking experience is OK but nowhere near as good as Typescript, let alone a real statically-typed language such as Rust or Java.
This sounds to me exactly like a nice-sounding in the short-term but ultimately unsustainable system to me. That some of the most anti-socialist places in the world are ex-territories of the soviet union doesn't give me much confidence in the soviet way there.
Ask HN: How to stay motivated on solo work?
Although I enjoy my own project more than my day job I often find myself less motivated than in work. With work, I know I'm getting a paycheck simply for getting tasks (sometimes meaningless ones) done - there's loads of small wins along the way in work and obviously I worry less about the big picture as I'm less in control.

Has anyone else experienced/overcome this as an entrepreneur?
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The boot was from ROM and I remember them starting up pretty quickly, however there were also network options which might have slowed something down.

I'm almost certainly remembering this wrong, but I believe these machines supported EcoNET with 10 base-T ethernet being available later with an addon podule. At my high school we did network authentication to log on and then also had access to our private folder which was also a network share, as well as some of the applications / boot scripts being on a network drive. The 3020's were surprisingly slow if you used the TCP/IP stack. I have fond memories of waiting for someone to start a game (Aarknoid iirc) and then sending flood pings to their IP causing the system to slow down to about 2fps. Fun times. I don't remember this being a problem on the A4000 or any of the RISC-PC range.

If you're based in the UK and need an Acorn nostalgia hit, then the Wakefield Acorn Users Group still has monthly meetings.

I also have very vivid memories of getting an x86 addon card (probably a 486) for one of our early RISC machines and being able to run Windows 95 within a window from the Acorn desktop; mind blowing in the late 90's.

TLDR: I remember the 3020 booting quickly, but the network services were slooooow.
This sounds like a non-starter to me. Alternative established video services already exist and struggle.

IF you could take on YT it sounds like you'd need to disrupt it (according to the original definition of disruption).

In other words for this case find an under- or un-served market niche where the features of your product matters and can compete and win and then expand _somehow_ from there.

If I understand correctly Vimeo differentiates itself by offering features that matter to more premium video creators.

Who cares enough about decentralized uncensorable video distribution to use an alternative non-YT product?

What do they need or want?

What business model can work when offering a service to them?

These are the business issues.

On a technical side, fully distributed video storage and streaming sounds like it has a hefty set of technical challenges.
If you think these things don't overlap you're ideologically blind.

From the introduction in your first link:

Through reviewing the existing studies, theories, and data behind the World Happiness Report, we find that the most prominent explanations include factors related to the quality of institutions, such as reliable and _extensive welfare benefits_, low corruption, and well-functioning democracy and state institutions.

Under Welfare state generosity:

In a longitudinal study of 18 industrial countries from 1971-2002, Pacek and Radcliff examine welfare state generosity by using an index capturing the extent of emancipation from market dependency in terms of pensions, income maintenance for the ill or disabled, and unemployment benefits, finding that welfare state generosity exerts a positive and significant impact on life satisfaction.[21]
That's the beauty of pipewire. You can see the pulse/alsa applications in jack interfaces and jack apps in pulse interfaces.
I immediately checked the announcement for the word "journey".

BINGO!
From memory, his nephew had passed in a similar way to the person in the flight. It may be the same case. I don't think he was running away from paying a settlement, I think he was running away from the guilt he felt that he had facilitated his own nephew's death. It was immediately after that that his downhill spiral began.

Wired suggesting it was a financial move is just lowbrow journalism.
> And that ignores issues like the Conquistadors coming back from the new world with literally tons of gold / silver and royally messing up the gold / silver coinage economy.

Which was preceded by the exact opposite problem in Europe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bullion_Famine
I don't think that passes the smell test. What study would you cite to support that assertion?

You could ask whether there is a study to assert parent poster's assertion, too. All I could say is that the burden of proof seems to fall on you with your statement, but most would take parent's at face value.
Abit incoherent.
I am building something out of wood and needed to get an idea of how stress would concentrate. This app is exactly what I was looking for, and I've enjoyed messing around with it. Worth a look if you need something for simple CAD stress testing. Would love to be able to use it in the browser instead of the phone.

$5 to install
The big problem in the requirements field is the ghastly tooling.

Organise your statements and requirements. Store them in git. Run a simple HTTP server to share with colleagues.
Blogging as a By-Product
> Websites don't get automated access to anything of the sort.

There used to be websites you just accessed and got your iPhone jailbroken via safari exploits.

So argument is not flawed, its spot on.
Nice analogy, except for one essential part: French and Dutch immigrants did not have a history of blocking foreign investigations and covering up unwelcome information.

The Chinese have largely themselves to blame for the current suspicions against them. If they had been transparent from the start, the speculations would have been far fewer.
I've worked in a place that didn't do code reviews. The argument here was that you're supposed to think about every case and ask questions even for what seems to be a trivial matter. That was the "official" explanation, the reality was that the boss was dumb enough to claim that "we don't have time and the client doesn't pay us for code reviews". This has continously lead to more bugs and comments like "what is this, why is this code here, who did it this way, it makes no sense". It also turned deployment into a nightmare since there always had to be at least two people on standby in case some piece of code starts wrecking havoc in production.
I have managed to successfully convince the people working there to change the approach by forgetting a WHERE clausule in an SQL script which has caused havoc in the production system and forced several people to work at night and on the weekend. No one has caught it in testing because the change - despite the severity - was tested by a very inexperienced person and the testing environment has almost no data in the database so no one noticed the problem at this stage.
I don't feel bad at all about this because the change was big and I actually asked for review (even though we had no such process) and I was ignored. It also wasn't the first time something like this was happening at that company, it was like that for years. The havoc could be even worse if I made a similar mistake somewhere else in the script, it would take weeks to clean up the mess and it would no doubt cause a huge financial loss for the client.
There were some people who actually quit that company over the lack of such oversight and so did I. I think it's an important failsafe mechanism, no less valuable than unit tests for example.
We already have multiple bioplastics better than PLA, which are not so expensive.

Cellophane for example is "only" few times more expensive than PE (which is borderline free,) but that's more than enough to sway the industry.
YouTube’s rules are used to silence human rights activists
... Didn't masks exist before covid19?

Or, rather, there are other industries, there will always be germaphobes, there are cultures where wearing masks for simple issues la cold / coughs is a lot more common, not every country is america la some countries still have mask restrictions, some don't have a proper roll-out of vaccines, etc

- - -

edit: and the article addresses this, so why even have it in the title?
I resent Google's policy on insisting using their payments gateway, but this criticism is unfair: Google Play console has message about enrolment to this program on the most visible place they have, with a very noticeable red tint, so it is impossible to miss whenever you log into that console.
For me, the intuition stops at tree and graph. Anything more complicated (probability, matrix, etc.), I need a reference every time I work with.
In production never ever use ufw or firewalld. Learn a few rules in iptables and that all or create a simple script.
The problem with ufw or firewalld(not only with this 2) they add so many rules in iptables, that a human can do very easy mistakes or the rules are not on your control.
How does this improve on taking a video with your phone and feeding it to one of the OpenSource 3D reconstruction packages (such as e.g. MeshRoom [1])?

[1] https://alicevision.org/#meshroom
Not sure what cake we're talking about here but a pound of cheddar has roughly 1800 calories. A slice of cake is worth about 4 or 5 thick slices of cheese if you're trying to compare calorically.
Hm. Thank you. And good point. Designing for other coders to work with your code is very different than designing for only a client, and your future self. Too many options or unnecessary hooks in an API is a pain when you just want to do something clear with it. Not enough options can render a platform unsuitable. In some ways this is a classic problem - if you run a shoe store, do you put out one beautiful shoe that everyone tries to fit into, or too many shoes to choose from. But in software, the feet change shape. So the more opinionated something is, the more it runs up against an unforeseen future (I'm thinking about Actionscript, JQuery, D3...) Maybe a good balance would be to design an opinion into the software, but with alternate futures in mind, to try to foresee breaking changes... this can be opinionated, but still leave options open in case requirements change..? But yes, it's harder if you're building an ecosystem.

TL;DR I still think writing more options is better as a rigorous thought process, if not as actual code. If you must, hide them from the API consumer, but have them in the arsenal. (In itself, that's an opinion).
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Pretty much every source agrees that Covid was first detected in Wuhan in December 2019. Do you have any proof that it was detected earlier?
Isn‘t it a bit disingenuous to reduce this to a discussion about security & privacy? If apps would only get rejected for these reasons I think a lot less people would have a problem with the AppStore. There is so much bs your app can get rejected for that is simply there to safeguard Apples control/income and cripple competitors.
Multiple Vulnerabilities Affecting 128 Dell Models [pdf]