skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the blocked content is just divine retribution for the abhorrent cookie consent buttons we all have to press 20 times a day now.
Fun fact: the "learning curve" was initially meant as having time on the x-axis and knowledge on the y-axis.

Thus your expression "an absolute wall" would mean that you immediately grasp everything there is to know.

But since the meaning since has unintentionally shifted and the original meaning is universally ignored, we all understand you.
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Coincidentally, the more I think about publishing to HN, the more nervous I get about my own data trail.
Not mine.*

*With apologies to The Life of Brian
Invasion of the remote workers! 'Digital nomads' are ruining tropical paradises
Kanri PetNanny
It's time to cozy up your house for your little friend. Here is Smart PetNanny to fulfill your cat's instinct to lounge and play. A smell-free breathable carpet will give a warm experience to your pet with its softness. The capsule includes a switchable lighting system which is controlled via app. Also, PetNanny will entertain your furry with an interesting game so when you leave them home alone they'll never get bored.
There is much needed cooler inside the capsule for hot weather and a heating system for winter or fall.
It also mostly assumes that the undeveloped world won't eat the developed world.

Societal collapse in for example India or Brazil would make things awkward real fast for a large chunk of the world
A fun song by Acapella Science featuring the discovery of insulin [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7X5jGt8lY
Obviously. But let them be honest about it.
Exactly 1, for large values of 2.
Exactly this. Every time I read about GDPR compliance, it feels like a very well-designed set of guidelines that are easy to follow ... IF you aren't stalking users. The complaints about it have the same tone as the Guild of Assassins complaining that laws against murder are really hard to comply with in their industry. Of course they are, and that's the point.

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Hypothetical conversation with a Malicious Advertising Website:

MAW: Can I stalk my users without telling them?

GDPR: No, you must have consent to track users.

MAW: So I can assume I have consent because they're using my site?

GDPR: No, the consent must be explicit.

MAW: Got it, I'll put it somewhere in the fine print of the terms of service.

GDPR: Uninformed consent doesn't count. Fine print doesn't count as informing users.

MAW: Okay, so I'll have a banner with an obvious "accept" button and several hidden steps to opt out.

GDPR: Nope, it must be just as easy to retract permission as to grant it. If it's a single step to accept, then it must be a single step to reject.

MAW: In that case I'll have the "reject" button kick them off the site.

GDPR: Consent must be freely given, and having a service be conditional on consent is coercion. Consent to track may only be given as a gift, and not as an exchange.

MAW: WAAAH!! This is so hard!!

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Hypothetical conversation with a Non-Malicious Website:

NMW: I don't track any information about visitors to this site, and only serve non-targeted advertisements.

GDPR: Sounds good, go right ahead.

NMW: Say, I want to make a "To-Do List" site. Do I need to warn users that I'm going to remember the to-do items for them?

GDPR: Nope, no issue there. That's necessary for the service to function.

NMW: Huh, this is really simple.
> Hydrogen fuel cells are a fine technology, but it has no momentum. It has a chance to win long-distance trucking, but I doubt it will be the future of personal transportation.

Yeah I'm betting on anything bigger than van will become hydrogen, anything that needs long distance or perhaps remote environments will be hydrogen based. Smaller city based vehicles likely to be battery based
I’m the opposite: I grew up in Europe but live in the States. There’s a ton of European websites and content I can’t access from here.

While this may suck for you personally I don’t think American companies (especially local news companies) should have to comply with invasive and expensive European privacy laws. Especially after forcing the entire world to adopt useless and annoying cookie walls. If you really want to access those articles you can use a VPN like the rest of the world does when they are accessing geo restricted content. GDPR has never really been a reasonable law to begin with.
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Teslas philosophy is that self driving is useless if it can't handle every road and route out there, while Waymo who already has a ride hailing service, relies on pre-mapped routes and databases.

Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Waymo requires huge databases and a constant network connection. But it's good enough to be used in real-life without a backup driver, in certain select locations that is. If there's a road construction somewhere, don't expect the Waymo car to handle it unless they update their database.

Tesla on the other hand attempts to solve the problem with minimal database use, where most of the info coming from road markings and traffic signs. A much harder problem.
Do you have any source I could read to see how it works in Italy? I live in central Europe (Slovakia) and insulin is also "free" here (if you are diabetic and have a prescription), but it´s not "paid by the government", it´s paid by the compulsory insurance everyone is paying (for me, it´s about 5% off of my net salary).

I 100% agree to your second point. I found some data to compare: Humalog from Eli Lilly Netherlands costs 19,42 € per 10 ml vial in Slovakia [1] and $296.29 in the US [2]. Yep, that´s ~13 times as much (I ignore exchange rates, but it´s in the same ballpark). This is not saying much though, due to salary difference. Average monthly salary in Slovakia is 1133 € , while in the US it is $4692.5.

Thus, an average Slovak can pay for 580 ml of insulin monthly (I´ll note here, they doesn´t have to pay, it´s covered by insurance), while an American can only get 158 ml of the same brand, same product insulin.

On top of that is the manufacture price is up to $6.16 per vial. [5]

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
[2] https://www.drugs.com/price-guide/humalog#
[3]https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=sk&tl=en&u=htt...
[4]https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000
[5]https://www.singlecare.com/blog/insulin-prices/
Tesla is going to start shipping their Semi next year. I think you’re gonna lose that bet as I’m pretty sure a Semi is a tad bigger than a family vehicle. Granted, they’re developing a new “mega charger” for it, but still. The higher torque allows them to pull the same loads up higher grades faster. Just because they might not (yet) be the best for longhaul trucking doesn’t mean they won’t be amazing for medium to shorter range heavy freight.
I feel like greed is what drives technological progress and that you can not have the one without the other
> If you ignore the fact that only those whose families are at least comfortable financially can afford to take the risk necessary to get into a position where they can begin exploiting other workers.

There's some inertia, of course, it's easier for children for reach people to become successful, but even poor people can become rich, and become often. A lot of rich people in the US are children of immigrants which didn't have safety net.

This guy for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamath_Palihapitiya but many many more.

> Globally, the vast majority of capital is owned by people who grew up rich.

So we are no longer talking about free market economy?
The importance of Henryk Grossman, theorist of capitalist breakdown
How cost effective were microprocessors in the 60s?
Weird. I test-drove a Tesla a couple years ago and it seemed pretty real to me.

Can you point to a previous implementation of lithium extraction using table salt?
It's always probabilistic, but With the current North American heatwave, the idea that it is "unrelated to global warming" has been calculated as being unlikely to the point of being "virtually impossible"

https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-americ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/climate/climate-change-he...
This is what your politicians asked for.
That "you are important for us and we care deeply about you and your pet iguana" it's the bread and butter of corporate America's PR - it has it's versions on other parts of the World too.
For me, the existence of a usable screen and keyboard is far more important than raw specs. (Maybe it's fine if you're the type of developer who always brings your HHKB and secondary portable monitor with you...)
Except the GDPR doesn't work as sold.
Many sites show cookie consent when they don't have to.

You don't have to show cookie consent when you use cookies purely for "technical stuff" - e.g cookie based authentication.

>Operational cookies

>There are some cookies that we have to include in order for certain web pages to function. For this reason, they do not require your consent. In particular:

>authentication cookies

>technical cookies required by certain IT systems

https://ec.europa.eu/info/cookies_en
Just turn up every day and do a little bit of work on one topic.
That would make sense in the richest/tier1 cities, I don't think the rest could afford good enough public transit though.
Because nuclear depends on a lot of cultural and societal factors to be safe. As Asimov once said:

> The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Nuclear can be safe but look at the failures of the USSR on Chernobyl to see how it depends completely on a country's culture and willingness to pay for this safety. Or even Fukushima, in a country very risk-averse and rich, corners were still cut even with the responsible engineer calling out that the sea walls were too low.

Should we trust governments around the world that each single one of them will keep their nuclear power plants safe for the foreseeable future until we can move away from it (let's say 50-100 years)?

I'm on the camp that no, we can't.
The vast majority of "local" news sites are in fact owned by just a handful of media conglomerates.
GDPR applies whenever you're providing services to EU citizens, regardless of where you have operations. If you want those people to read your stuff, it applies to you.

And before you say that's crazy, look at US tax laws.
Looking at inner cities, where most cars are, I don't see the opportunity to put enough charger stations in for everybody. Most cars are parked on the street. It works now at comparatively low penetration, but I can't imagine it work close when almost every car needs charging.

If you have to drive to a dedicated spot to do all your charging, all the time, >30 min for charging is /long/. Filling up a car is what, 5 min? And it lasts longer. Don't see this scaling, and people will not like it.

How much power can you realistically get to an European inner-city parking garage without major infrastructure changes? Comparing the timeline for all-electric to the timeline of major construction projects in Germany, I'm not optimistic....

I think we need a "fluid"-refillable e-car. Hydrogen is an option, or maybe build a battery with a replaceable fluid as the energy store. But we might be in a trap: Right now, battery cars are clearly better -- better availability, range, price, choice. And now, charging is not a big problem in most areas, with dedicated spots for charging, it is sometimes easier to park than a gas car! But at some point, these spots will be saturated, and I don't see the capacity ramp up fast up with demand. (Same for green energy production, at least in Germany, without nuclear as an option). Part of that is "not in my neighborhood" initiatives against ugly charging ports running along every street, against construction for more cables, transformer stations etc.

So we could end up with many battery cars and a charging infrastructure which doesn't scale fast enough, and no hydrogen cars, where we could retool the gas infrastructure for filling up and scale quickly.

Hydrogen has the advantage that it is rather cheap and efficient to transport it over large distances. You could do hydrogen production in Africa, for example, and ship it to Europe. Even less danger than oil-tankers. A ship accident is either a big fire, or nothing. No large oil spill. Production could be local to power/far away from people, so social acceptance is better. In-car storage and safe filling up seems to be the problem.
Talking to myself, but ...

I poked around with Logo a couple of years ago. It was invented in 1967. It is a dynamic language, and actually pretty good. I remember thinking that there didn't appear to be any obvious deficiencies in the language.

Dylan is also a powerful language, heavily inspired from Lisp, but "without the toenail clippings." It tried it out, but the compiler seemed a bit flakey at the time, so I didn't pursue it much further.

Then there's Pascal. It's very fast to compile, I think chiefly because, unlike C, syntax isn't context-sensitive. Old Pascal suffered from daftness like strings having to be of pre-defined length. It got me to thinking that this might actually be a strength if you're programming microcontrollers. But anyway, this silly restriction was lifted. Pascal is a language that's very easy to get to grips with. C++ wins out over Pascal for application development because it has resource management, not just pointer management (which pascal doesn't have, either).

There's actually a project called Ultibo, which is a "unikernel" for the Raspberry Pi, written in Pascal. You can compile your own kernel using Lazarus. Getting up to speed was pretty straightforward. To mind it had a fatal flaw, though: it had a pre-emptive scheduler, and thus wasn't particularly useful as an RTOS.

What a lot of this illustrates is that anything that can be invented has been invented. Mostly, anyway. The number of programming languages has exploded over the last decade. What do the do - really do - that hasn't been done before?

Here's an idea ... if you want to create a new language, then take a working Pascal, and add your own ingredients. Its syntax is designed to be easily parseable, so you should have a good basis from which to work.
Read the thread. They can keep their news, but it's _pushed_ to me by Big Tech. Then, the news sources have the nerve to say, "Thanks for coming. Get out!"

It's the 0% APR that virtually nobody qualifies for at the dealership. Don't suggest content I want but can't have.
Imagine if Apple made the Steam Deck with the M-series processors. Would probably have more power with 2x the battery life and 200g less weight.

But you'd be stuck playing p2w RTS games and gachas.
The sociobiology debate was a relatively high-profile and personal debate primarily between Wilson and Lewontin and their supporters.
A good brief overview is given by John Nerst in his review of Segerstråle's "Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate": https://everythingstudies.com/2021/06/23/rereading-defenders...
Lewontin doesn't come out covered in glory.
It is absolutely, in no way whatsoever, even close to a safe assumption.

It is, in fact, what people who are far, far gone into conspiracy theory madness think.

Again, this is not a reasonable thing to think. It is bordering on mental illness.
Forget medieval society, this is like 1980.

When your information was on paper in file cabinets with thousands of other people it wasn't much better than having nothing at all.
Binary representation of the floating-point numbers
It used to be the most common lie was "I have read the EULA".
Nowadays the most common lie is "we care about your privacy" or possibly "we get it, you hate ads".
Lawmakers and voters sometimes act as if regulations are free. They think “wouldn’t it be nice” and pass on the costs to businesses.

They aren’t in fact free.
I have been very grateful for GDPR, because on lots of sites the very first question is "do I care enough about this content to try and click a bunch of buttons?" Nine times out of ten the answer is no and I just close the tab without reading the article, and I genuinely think I'm happier for it. I certainly have more time.
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> If an employee finds themselves working for a company that's hurting society, their primary duty is to stop that harm, not to be circumspect of the investor's profits.

An employee may report the violation of the law to the authorities, but generally employee should not be the authority themself. Especially, when their view on what is harm is very subjective.
Oh, I've mistaken usb-c for thunderbolt, you're right.
PC probably meant "by not making more children", not the thing you assumed.
Bit like one of the premises of NLP - people can acquire phobias after a single traumatic incident. So why can't they release them just as quickly?

Did a weekend with Richard Bandler and saw an arachnophobe end up with having a tarantula walk across her hand - all in a few mins.

I am not sure how much I would trust him, but he has some serious skills.
The EU can still, in theory, sue them because they're serving Europeans. Especially in the beginning many companies became afraid of the possibility so they simply blocked access to see where it goes. Then it probably became clear the European customers are not worth the effort to change back.
But actually it's still illegal what they're doing because the GDPR also states that customers have to be treated neutral regardless of their location, as long as it's not about licensing of course.
Here is a tutorial [1] that shows how to simulate a simple MiniMoog-inspired analog synthesizer in Pure Data [2].

It teaches the basic building blocks of subtractive synthesis like oscillators, filters, envelope generators and how to combine them into a working synthesizer.

You have to navigate through the tutorial using the sidebar on the left, current page is not highlighted, the page i linked to is called SIMPLE SYNTH...

[1] http://write.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/simple-synth/

[2] https://puredata.info/
The insulin Walmart sells is not the best insulin, and the chemical composition of the insulin is important. Not all insulins are the same, and no everyone reacts the same to all insulin types.

That’s not “a meme”, a bad type of insulin can kill you or send you to the hospital.
I understand it as: if you're taking my data as European citizen, that is protected; even if you're in the US I'm still European.
Then pay.
I've never had problems with srv records for matrix servers, Minecraft servers, email auto configuration etc.
Classic hacker anti-procrast in German: http://frollein-schmidt.de/antiverpeil.html
Why supermarkets are on private equity firms’ shopping lists
> Every now and then, a link to an interesting news article is suggested to me.

If the link looks like something worth the effort, plug it in to archive.is and read the output there. Or try it via outline.com instead. These tend to work for most text-based articles/sites, and archive.is often breezes right through paywalls, too.
The moan is about the language used, not the availability of the site.
And SF isn't even the biggest city in the Bay Area!
Any company that serves EU residents has to comply. If they block users from the EU, they don't have to comply. Fines can be massive (up to 2% global revenue).

Nexstar might not have any European assets, but non-compliance might not be a smart move if they get fined and business executives travel to Europe...
I've never even been to Europe, and I still get them. What are we Americans, chopped liver?
How GDPR is implemented is a total shitshow. It clearly says that it's an OPT-IN, not opt-out and one has to uncheck everything one by one.

We're creating a fucking dystopia just to click on more ads.
Because something that is certainly, but slowly and progressively dangerous is much better than something usually very safe but then catastrophic
> before SpaceX there were only slow moving giants like Boeing and Northrop Grumman.

SpaceX gets all the media attention, but Blue Origin was actually founded before SpaceX.
I mean, data transfer is not totally without costs.

At a few thousand reads per day, a MB or so per read... this is costing up to FIFTY DOLLARS PER YEAR to just... give our content away for free?!
Definitely. I was agreeing with the parent post, while adding a semi-sarcastic reply about everyone having to agree before things start moving.

Community-building might be a possible solution, but how do you pull people away from their screens and get them out on the streets to make new connections and then turn that into a positive force that actually makes a different?
China Is Pulling Ahead in Global Quantum Race
Certain communities such as the Amish have in the past and will in future go to DC and protest. They see it as an attack on their way of life which it is. It is just that there way of life is build on perpetuating the way of life of the Amish.
I respectfully disagree. Once you know the core, say 25%, which I've seen devs with 5 years experience in unrelated language pick up basics in a couple of months of full time practice, and then become pretty good at after a year, then switching between teams that use different parts of the remaining 75% is as painless as anything else. I've seen people struggle way more with differences in web development dev envs than c++ and JavaScript is supposed to be simple! (It is but all the rest of the complexity of work comes along for the ride too no matter the language.)

Of course c++ isn't the right tool for every job and as each decade passed there are more languages that do certain tasks better.
A bunch of Americans lying to us?
It was the 33rd most powerful supercomputer at its time and, according to[0] AFRL director, it cost them 5~10% the cost of a system made with off-the-shelf computer parts.

[0]: https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/399987...
This is globalist nonsense.

Population growth is not a problem.

What will collapse is be socialist societies and countries.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Gestational diabetes is probably the other one I was trying to remember.
Words are free.

Stop saying banned customers are great.

This is my argument.
Most companies (and most individuals, I'd say) want to do what's necessary to not be bothered. It's doubtful these organizations have any great fear of EU regulatory bodies, but if showing a warning (that the user can subsequently bypass) shows they made an effort and staves off 90% of complaints, it'll be worth it.
Drug production is pretty difficult. Pharma companies are high tech clean room manufacturers who operate at very high quality standards and large scale, with a significant amount of embedded knowledge and experience acquired over many years. The incredibly rapid roll out of Covid vaccines for example is testament to that.

Taking this into account, trying to develop sustainable and useful insulin production from scratch is 100% destined for failure, but good luck to them.
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There's been far more press coverage about "Tesla killers" than Tesla's "game-changing tech/products". These killers are now called "Tesla fighters", for some reasons https://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2021/07/mercedes-eqs-tesla-...
Several times I've said that HN should block European IP addresses. Nothing they have to say is relevant in the US.

And pay your own damn defense budgets.
And cost five times as much, wouldn't run a customisable OS, hardware couldn't be upgraded, no ports unless you bought a two extra dongles and included a free game from U2.
I'd pay for a book in this style on mathematical descriptions of cartographic visualisations in general.