skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeez, what a mess. To extend the McDonald’s analogy, when McDonald’s is serving its American customers, it doesn’t heed European laws about beef and potatoes. Because those laws are irrelevant to them, they have no bearing on McDonald’s making money (again in the context of serving their American customers). McDonald’s is never going to check what Brussels says about dairy before they make a milkshake in Spokane. Sorry.

My friend, that couple of sentences you’re so wound up about means more or less exactly what you’ve said at the end. Businesses aren’t in the business of giving a shit about things that don’t affect their business. You’re upset that they don’t word it more bluntly? Really?

Actions have consequences is my response. Sorry you all didn’t get the consequences you wanted. But it’s very frustrating the childish way people on HN approach these issues. Zero material analysis or thinking, always pointedly naive idealism of this type: “well you SAID you care about Europeans”- come on.

I’m begging you all to take the next step and think through the actual forces at play, instead of banging on with the churlishness.

The way this works is very simple- law is introduced, business figures out the easiest way to deal with it and get back to what they were doing, rinse and repeat.

Maybe the European search engines do a better job at this. You could give them a try.
Most likely it's complicated, inconvenient and time consuming. The big thing modern medicine seems to have solved is that popping a pill or taking an injection has a lower barrier to entry in terms of skill and knowledge than other approaches.

If you care enough to learn other approaches, it's sometimes* possible to get superior results compared to the "plug and play" medical answer.

* (I actually want to say "often" but I don't really want to argue it. "Sometimes" seems less likely to get me dragged into pointless drama.)
What Vietnam is doing with Israeli phone-hacking tech
Note that the list might be outdated - they mentioned GoodRead's API which is deprecated (they no longer accept new developers to signup). I know this because I was recently researching on creating a book recommendation hobby project.
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And I think this is the responsibilty of the parents not of the government. What might be the responsibility of the government would be to equip parents with the skillset and knowledge to keep thwir kids safe.

Also the dangers of the web should be apoken about in school. Digital literacy and all that.
I like the effort, but we could solve the problem better by attacking it from the other end. Stop ordering people to eat a high carb diet, and demand for insulin will dissolve.
My point is literally that you need to think harder about causation vs. correlation here.

Criminality might correlate with ethnicity. Assuming this means causality is the thing that is racist.
Give me practical example of this? What and how you did
Look at this 5 years old video that explains the economy of game cheating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI7V60r7Jco
Ugh, "exponential" used by people who mean "logistic"
According to the link above they do. Full-flow means to have two pre-burners one going fuel rich while other going oxygen rich. Though I'm not a rocket scientist and I'd be grateful if proven wrong.
Google Maps suggests ‘potentially fatal’ routes up Ben Nevis, say critics
I like talking about this so I hope you indulge me, did you base your design on any specific research or works on procrastination? It would be interesting what the state of the art has to say about the causes of procrastination and potential solutions.
Outside of businesses it doesn't matter at all. You'll use DoH to escape local garbage. A variation on Happy Eyeballs will automatically try to do QUIC unless that doesn't work in which case you get TLS.

At work, obviously IT group policy, "security" middle boxes and so on will insist on whatever set of nonsense is just barely enough to keep the Marketing Director's twitter working how she likes it, and the Sales Director's Candy Crush on his work phone. Can't help you really on that.
Quite a lot of dismissive comments here but the patent actually sounds very promising. I'm not familiar with the state of the art in the space but according to the patent the conventional approach involves acid leaching lithium rich clay.

Tesla's approach involves exchanging lithium cations from the clay using a sodium chloride brine solution, mechanical agitation, and heat.

The end result is a lithium rich brine that can be processed using conventional approaches and doesn't involve consuming large amounts of acid. Brine is also a lot easier to manage from an environmental perspective than strong mineral acids.
> It’s regrettable that browser vendors, even generally responsible ones like Mozilla, feel an incentive to do this.

The 'supercookie' problem they mention does seem to warrant the effort though, even for these 3rd level hosts.

Can't recall which TLD it was under but there was a fairly high profile example of this a few years back.
Those were my first thoughts as well!
Well, that's one way to view it.

OP is going to make those videos, because OP (+ co-founder) spent the past few years scouring procrastination books, studies, etc to find something that could be helpful in everyday life.

I found what helped me, started talking to others 1-on-1, found out what helped them, and put it into a book, and then a course (videos + code). That's the qualification. It's not like I have a degree in procrastination, though some people claim to have such a thing.

Not sure where the scam part is. By all means, don't buy anything, or read any of the 50 articles on various procrastination causes on our blog. Probably not for you.

Anyhow, a great day to you too!
I'm still sceptical of batteries being the future of transportation. I believe Hydrogen is a much safer bet. It seems like battery production and materials is not getting much cheaper and only getting more expensive. The equivalent combustion engine cars versus a battery powered car is a lot cheaper
You mentioned the tick rate of the scheduler? What is it? Every second, every minute, etc?
Cloud comp destiny: operating as a single global computer, enabled by serverless
It's likely just a blanket term to avoid saying 'the evil (Satanist) left'

No idea why people are so fucking afraid of being handled more humanly by their governments. Which is what most modern communist parties in Europe are trying to do.
Really curious about DIGI. fed up with Orange and I want to try DIGI, 1gbs down + 2 unlimited data mobile lines for <50 EUR is really good value IMHO.
Is it stable? How fast was the install¿? I've had everything from 48hs with ONO to 2 weeks delay with Orange
I also found 3. is a self-reinforcing downward spiral (postponed work piling up creating more anxiety, etc.). This one is important to break early on.
"Time and time again humans have displayed that the impossible may in fact be nothing more than a lack of imagination. "

Sure, but there is still no working Perpetuum Mobile, despite many freaks are working on it.

And I mean, who knows, maybe one of them accidently invents cold fusion in that approach, but most of the time, youthful optimism can be very blinding for reality. (And I mean not the reality of old cynics, who failed to achieve their dreams and conclude that since they could not make it work, why should the young and dumb ones succed, who lack experience and skills)
But actual reality, with physical boundaries of time and matter.

But nothing was impossible with this project, it was just lots of work, so congratulations.
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We use increasingly sophisticated models to make the same mistake they made 130 years ago when they projected the increase of horse manure.
Lol, I read that as "helloworld".

I need a coffee.
Yep, that works.

Problem is, some people aren't willing to commit to that level, so more of a baby steps approach is relevant.
Agreed, I was thrown off a bit too. I believe by public they mean published and advertised for public use. Often I believe API's aren't intended to be used by any users, so usage and whatnot isn't documented. The API's here appear to be available to anyone who can make an account.
How many vials per day or month does a typical diabetic person need?
You can add the 2 kernel packages to the ignored packages list of pacman and update them manually if needed. Pacman will warn you that it ignored a package update including the currently installed and new package version.

You will not get security and bug fixes but that's what's bothering you, I think.
In his later years (and as dementia was beginning to set in) my dad spontaneously decided to start building acoustic guitars in all sorts of shapes and sizes, trying out various weird ideas he had. He hugely enjoyed it and it's left behind some interesting heirlooms and a legacy that he otherwise never expected to leave. A piano is at a different scale (pun intended) but if you have a modicum of practicality, you can build something like that with enough time.
I always read this as:

"Our European visitors are important to us BUT vacuuming all your data and selling to multiple bidders is importanter"

You wanna be obnoxious? Sure, go ahead, but I'll dislike your site more (and I have adblock so I have no qualms in accepting). Wanna pretend you're compliant by having an obvious non-compliant "solution" and think that will shield your responsibility? Now I'll just hate you and will probably bounce off your site
So should the whole world obey every diktat that comes from the EU? Whether GDPR is good or bad, it's an EU law, not an international or American one.
I'm puzzled as to how Tesla managed to get a patent (granted) on this. Maybe it's for a very specific implementation of the extraction process using table salt, but I'd swear this is not a new phenomenon. Nor can phenomenons themselves patented, only specific implementations (which can get practically hairy very quickly, hence the mess the patent system currently is).

Sounds to me like yet another attempt, with enough spin to turn a planet, to again try "prove" how Tesla will be a game changer, by presenting something that's rather mediocre and mundane (at best) on closer inspection.

Simply put, in all these years (ever since his PayPal days) I have not seen a single thing come from Elon Musk that didn't turn out to involve some kind of clever fraud, business trickery, or downright deception on closer inspection. But apparently a substantial part of today's (global) society just loves to be fooled, rather than pay attention and actually understand things. I guess it's similar to what they say about governments .. we all get the ones we (collectively) deserve.
You can be thin and have diabetes 2 too. There is strong correlation (as in weight is massive risk factor), but in fact thin people can get it too.
> Nevertheless, C++ is basically unbeatable generally.

If your only measurement is "how many different distinct features are specified by the language", then, well, yes ... C++ is unbeatable for the number of different ways to do one thing.

If the measurement is instead "how much effort is needed to know enough C++ to move from team to team?", then the outlook is bleak for C++. Because the language itself is so huge, everyone uses a different 80% of it.

C++ is hard to use, because to use any of it, you basically have to know all of it, which is a rather large surface area to cover.

Is there another language that requires as much language-knowledge as C++? I can't think of one.
[3] (from OP) directly contradicts this, though I am also very confused why real numbers are somehow unorderable, while the integers are not. https://jaydaigle.net/blog/what-is-the-axiom-of-choice/#fn:3
This:

> McDonald’s is never going to check what Brussels says about dairy before they make a milkshake in Spokane. Sorry.

conflicts with this:

> law is introduced, business figures out the easiest way to deal with it and get back to what they were doing, rinse and repeat.

So which is it? If they care about Brussels, then they are willing to go the extra mile. If they don't care, why put up the block anyways?
What is your startup idea? You’ve got a thread on the front page of a website that’s visited by a huge number of angels and VCs. If you’re going to pitch ever, might as well pitch now.

(Also my vote is no. If you’re already technical, just bootstrap the engineering work yourself. Unless time to market is an existential risk, there’s no reason to hire more engineers. If need be find another cofounder or two to split the work.)
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"Our Business is life itself"
~Umbrella Corporation
>their propaganda/PR machine

You mean Elon's tweets?

Because Tesla has, by far, the tiniest "propaganda/PR machine" in their industry. Do you have any idea how much their competitors spend on PR, advertising and lobbying? Also, how much their suppliers and partners (e.g oil and gas) bring to the table?
Tesla did change the game in automotive, creating a viable market for pure electric cars. SpaceX did change the game for space launch providers, proving that it's a viable and profitable business for startups with reasonable funding. Today we have lots of startups in the market competing for different niches, before SpaceX there were only slow moving giants like Boeing and Northrop Grumman.

Of course the press likes to pump up the hype and will subsequently call everything they do game-changing. But it could be justified in this case. This could be game changing for lithium mining. And that's a game we are all somewhat invested in because of how prevalent lithium batteries have become in the last two decades.
> What other conclusion could you come to apart from a CDN breach?

The majority of alerts from security systems and mechanisms are in the end false positives in that the reason is a misconfiguration or some pther non malicious reason. Sad but true.
I would take that bet. In 5, 10 or 20 years electric vehicles will still vastly outnumber hydrogen powered vehicles.
The complaint is about saying "we care" when they clearly don't.

It's perfectly reasonable for US media to block European users rather than deal with GDPR compliance, but why not be honest about it?
Maybe the cost of GDPR compliance just isn't worth the small amount of revenue that they might make from European visitors? US visitors are probably much more 'valuable' in terms of advertisement revenue, and also much more likely to be a subscriber.

And I say this as a European myself. It sucks that I have to jump through hoops to access some sites but I can't really blame them.
Agree with all your points.

>While it took me maybe one or two weeks to become familiar with the syntax of a language and write reasonably idiomatic code, it took months to really grasp the ecosystem and more than a year of work in that language to use it like a native and develop expertise in it

Very true. I am always mystified when people tell me that i should be able to "pick up" a new language in a couple of weeks. I find learning even a so-called "easy" language like Python somewhat "difficult". Unless i read/write a lot of Python code there is no way i can get fluent in it to feel comfortable with it.
There's more on how to harvest, chop, store for the winter, and feed cattle in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucVnbKqvZOw

The end of this video shows feeding the silage to a herd of cows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkLC61rFIxA

No use of barns or hay lofts!

Store the silage in silos or on the ground covered with plastic.

Scale is nicely large: In total for the one farm, to store on the ground, cover an area maybe the size of a football field, 100 yards by 40 yards, maybe 10 feet deep.

All of that is in productivity per person way above what I saw as a child or young adult in visits to US farms.
This can explained by following the reference to the study:

> Two large-scale randomized trials provided definitive estimates of the risk of recurrence after an untreated first unprovoked, seizure. These are the multicenter study from Italy, FIR.S.T (First Seizure Trial Group, 1993) and the European-wide Multicenter Epilepsy and Single Seizure study or MESS, which included both first seizures and newly recognized epilepsy (Marson et al., 2005). Based on 193 patients randomized to deferred treatment only in the event of a second seizure (i.e., initially untreated), the FIR.S.T study reported recurrence risks of 18%, 28%, 41%, and 51% at 3, 6, 12, and 24 months after the initial seizure. In the MESS study, 408 patients with a first unprovoked seizure were randomized to the deferred treatment group. Their risk of recurrence at 6 months, 2, 5, and 8 years after randomization was 26%, 39%, 51%, and 52%. On average, the observational studies, taken as a whole, provide an estimate of the 2-year recurrence risk in the range of 40%, depending on aspects of the study design (Berg & Shinnar, 1991).

> Both of the randomized trials, especially the second, demonstrate a pattern seen in virtually all of the long-term observational studies of first seizures. Specifically, the risk of a recurrence is highest during the period immediately after the initial seizure. The rate, at which first recurrences occur, drops off with increasing time since the first seizure. Across a number of studies with prolonged follow-up periods, 80–90% of individuals who recur do so within 2 years of the initial seizure (Annegers et al., 1986; Hopkins et al., 1988; Boulloche et al., 1989; Hauser et al., 1990; Shinnar et al., 1996).
Oh, it's absolutely possible as long as your brain is flexible enough to appreciate both minimalist and maximalist language design. Same goes for C and Rust.
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I thought this was going to be an instrument made entirely out of marble, and wondered what it could be. I thought maybe a cymbal but settled on it being most likely a flute or recorder of some sort. Which certainly seems like it could be made from marble, but I don't know enough about sculpture to know how plausible that is.

Turns out it's played with marbles instead, which is just as cool.
Cloudfront with a lambda setup can add all the custom headers you want.
3. Talk to them about the bowels of the Internet in a way that makes them not like it. Talk about what they should do when they encounter a thing/situation that is too much for them (close the tab, talk to you about it). They should feel that they already know what is out there without actually having to go through it themselves.

Reminds me about how my parents explained drugs to me. They told me a lot about different substances, why it is bad, why people get addicted them, what it does to them. E.g. my father had a friend who was a alcoholic till he died and he told us the story of how fun it all started and how everything went south for him. Similar things for other drugs, cigarettes, etc. Not for the sake of shocking us, but to rationally and emphatically explain the dangers (and fascinations) involved with the thing.

With all 4 kids this turend out to be a pretty solid strategy
> [Limited resources are] naturally self-correcting in a free-market, because as the resources become scarce their prices goes up hence leading to technological incentives to find alternative sources.

You say that as though it's a theorem. It's not. It's perhaps reasonable when discussing small perturbations of resources, but it's not a magical phenomena that will "just work" in a free market (assuming one even exists) at any scale.

The globe itself is finite and we have only finite time to make corrections to diminishing resources like oil. No one knows how long it will take to adapt, or what the human cost will be on the way to arriving at that adaptation. To make matters far worse, we have global warming to contend with and that's still subject to political whims and not even a concern yet for the "free market".

If you must take "the free market" as axiomatic truth, then consider also that the free market may "decide" that human extinction is the "optimal" outcome regardless of what monopolists and oligarchs say.
This sounds horrible. Isn't the patent is meant to be practically usefull by a proffesional to build the device?
Me too! I actually thought maybe they did that as a way to prove the absurdity of the patent system.
It is a very safe assumption to make that anything you see or hear in media means the exact opposite.
I expected that Tesla got a patent on table salt and that some crazy Tesla fan (not every Tesla fan is crazy, but some are, as it happens with fans almost universally) is actually trying to sell it as a good thing.
Citation needed.

Our current energy needs could be harvested from the sun exclusively. Cover sahara in solar collection and you satisfying energy requirements of all of humanity, several times over.
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Here in Switzerland this is mostly calculated on exactly these factors. If you somehow earn below that, for whatever reason, you can get the difference from the state.
Hydrogen powered cars might be electric ;)
You missed the McDonald's analogy. A burger in every shop in the U.S. will taste the same as any other. It follows the rules of the franchise, just as every site I linked is a cookie cutter website for local news. Each "local" site has nearly the same functionality, look, backend... because they are from the same supplier. It's news franchises serving your local paper and TV station, and it has been for a while.

Certainly, this media conglomerate does not need to care about European visitors, but to claim they do on the "Access Denied" page is quite hypocritical.

I hadn't even mentioned the detail, "while we work to ensure..." This would imply they've been doing anything at all for the past three years.

Also, I'm 15 miles away from a Google office, so I guess I've been using a European search engine all along!
> That's difficult, as technology is here mostly because of greed.

I am not sure if by technology you mean products or ideas. In case of the latter, that does not sound right. Smart driven persons do not have to be greedy in order to devote their live to something.
> Tesla is once again at the forefront of electric car technology. Tesla’s new patent incorporates new techniques that no one has seen before (or even really imagined). Tesla’s new patent involves using table salt to mine lithium for use in its batteries. Although lithium is already in use, this new technology is supposed to make it easier and cheaper to get the lithium necessary for Tesla’s batteries.

Dose anybody else feel like this was written by a bot? The way that the same information is repeated several times and phrases like "Tesla’s new patent" are reused seem very odd.
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I'm not really offended that I can't see all content from Europe, but the idiotic newspeak like "Our European visitors are important to us." is almost offensive. I don't see why they aren't just honest.
Semiconductor manufacturing is already scarily consolidated. This can't be good.
No ... as an introvert there's no limit to how much time I can spend with my best friend. If he's invited others I'll usually politely decline. I'm suggesting that we actually prefer being the center of attention when it involves few people.
> It is obvious that all expressions in the English language can be ordered from smallest to largest and lexicographically, which makes these expressions trivially countable.

You could say the same about just real numbers, which can also be ordered from smallest to largest. This definitely not 'trivially' implies countability.

Edit: I edited my post shortly after posting from "Humor me and count out the first two real numbers".
Over the last decade, the price of cells has dropped 85%. UBS predicts it will drop another ~60% over the coming decade.

See chart at the bottom of the link.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/30/battery-developments-in-the-...