skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't this approach put the cart before the horse? The GDPR contains a lot of aspirational language, but European data protection authorities haven't yet articulated clear, binding common standards in this area. In the linked article, Max acknowledges this ("Others said that they want a clear ruling by the authorities, before they start complying.")

There's also the reality that different DPAs have different interpretations of what the GDPR requires. In the linked article, Max also acknowledges this: "We need clear pan-European rules. Right now, a German company feels that the French authorities’ interpretation of the GDPR only applies to France, even though they operate under the same law within the same European market."

This may be an unpopular take, but Noyb is essentially harassing hundreds of companies with his organization's particular interpretation of the GDPR. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to first push authorities to develop common, clear, technically detailed, and legally binding interpretations of the GDPR, rather than going after companies to take action in what is still a grey area? It's not even clear at this point that the changes Noyb is pushing for are either legally required or, on the flipside, legally sufficient.
There seems to be an ethos in tech that says if you can do something to prevent this evil in society you are obliged to do it. No consideration for underlying principles, and no distinction between what are values and what are principles. You compromise values all the time. Principles are steadfast.
I think this is more the fault of manufacturers than end users.

Routers should be secure by default, and it should be hard to do something that will make it insecure. The router manufacturers are the supposed experts when it comes to networking, expecting every consumer to even know the risks of exposing their router admin interface to the world is not a reasonable assumption.
Easiest, most practical, 90% good enough: Get your IP address, grab your phone on mobile network and go to http://your.ip.address
> Want to install a program that needs a different library version than is already installed?

You can install libthing.1.1.so and libthing.1.2.so and link mybinary to v1.1 if you need it?
> 90k likes because TikTok hates fat people: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdosn9PW/

I dunno: this bad posture video is some BS. It seems to be teaching just a different bad posture. People might be liking it, and TikTok might not be discriminating against it (which at least is positive), but that is no indication that the content is of any quality.
> Are we seeing apex Facebook?

One can only wish.

Except for the fact that it's being replaced by something worse.
Mostly cause he’s gone...
Delighted the son of bitch is resigning. Next time vote in a much nicer democrat!
I'm not related to Fathom. I submitted the post because I found it interesting :-)
I spoke to Freeman Dyson at a book signing he did after a talk about Project Orion (at the wonderfully named 'festival of inappropriate technology'). I asked him about the environmental impact. He said (from memory) that most big engineering projects (dams, bridges etc) kill people, but nuclear pulse probably shouldn't be used in the atmosphere. And wasn't worth using if you weren't going to use it in the atmosphere.
> Salaries are >$7Bn

Corporate salaries??
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That still needs work though, it messed up the "Make every fifth line bold" pretty bad. Still, it showed it could adapt to a new API pretty well.
Thanks, I didn't but it looks interesting, I'll research it later.
>Another thing Tik Tok does is get rid of people who are obese, queer, or otherwise the target of harassment.

As a user: nice.
The app collects orders of magnitude more private information, permanent device identifiers, phone numbers as a requirement of service.
Frequently 120+.
Will they give it away for free in parking lots to anyone who shows up?
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Ask HN: How to you keep track of industry trends and insights?
As a product manager, one of the biggest challenges I have is having reliable insights about the tech industry trends, especially in the developer space.

What approaches do you use to keep ahead of what's happening (other than being on HN), what the community/customers are looking for, and what emerging trends there are?
So, almost all cow milk sold in supermarkets is ultra-processed by this definition: centrifuged, reconstituted in measured ratios of liquids and solids, and pasteurized. Likewise, non-dairy milk like soy milk, which additionally has gelling agents added to control mouthfeel.

That's a heck of a broad definition!
Because they’re not taxis. When I call a real taxi company to pick me up at 4:30 in the morning for my flight, they’re going to be there. When I call Uber, who knows? My experiences were not good. I went back to taxis.
I'm personally not that much against query builders, but I dislike things that try to hide the database. Any datastructure that transparently performs database queries as you access items in it goes swiftly in my "nope" pile. A reasonable exception can be made for streaming iterators in a statically typed context, though that has its own issues.

I especially dislike "load" methods on objects since they hide what is potentially a very expensive operation behind something that looks cheap and is easy to call in a loop; what I want is to query data first and then load it into objects if needed rather than create objects for querying data.
simple solution == flat-as-possible org structure?
13.37 ETH at that, even more amusing.
Probably a bit to counteract the bitterness they were trying to avoid with the sugar
What's fun about stolen videos with a selfie introduction, happy dances and lipsync? Does tiktok offer anything else?

Sincerely, the no fun guy
Descartes considered animals to be little better than automata and given his high social position and intellectual achievements, and the convenience of this argument for his co-religionists, it stuck. Even today (and right here on HN), any sort of conjecture on the inner life of animals tends to bring out a few finger-waggers condemning 'athropmorphism.'

https://philosophynow.org/issues/108/Descartes_versus_Cudwor...
Tiktok is fun, I have tremendous problems with it being so closely tied to the CCP...but you can't deny that it's a good app/service.
Management isn't explaining why they would like to restrict "tech workers" to software engineers, leaving out data scientists, et. al. All this article quotes is management's disappointment that this was brought to light. Yes, we know whatever answer is given is going to be bullshit, but at least pretend to try.
> Taxi licenses are an artificially constrained resource, which keeps prices high

This is only true for some markets where there is a monopoly or a medallion system. Not all markets are like that, not even all markets Uber operate in. Some of the biggest are though.
It sucks that OpenAI has no competition right now. They have every right to control their technology however they like. But it's a shame that they're being so stifling with that right, killing really fun stuff like you demonstrated.

But that monopoly won't last, and I think it's more than likely that competition will crop up within the next year. There's definitely a lot of secret sauce to getting a 175B parameter model trained and working the way OpenAI has. The people working there are geniuses. But it can still be reproduced, and will. Once competition arrives I'm hoping we'll see these shackles disappear and see the price drop as well. Meanwhile the open source alternatives will get better. We already have open source 6B models. A 60B model shouldn't be far off, and is likely to give us 90% of GPT-3.
It is really sad to stand by and watch Elastic cause it's own, totally preventable death-by-irrelevance. They keep going down this path, apparently blind to even the next bend.

I have a lot of respect for Shay Banon, the original creator of Elasticsearch. Very smart fellow, and extremely helpful in the support forum back in the early days.

Nowadays, I've already moved on to OpenSearch.
Maybe societies of scholars reject empirical input.

I've seen such.

The "religious institution" becomes all about authoritative literature.

Consuming it, digesting it, debating it. Who's read the books. Who hasn't read enough books. Who's the top certified holy-book-interpreter.

An airtight power hierarchy.

Real experience just threatens the bubble.
> maybe it’s just the artist wasn’t the greatest

This seems likely, especially given that Eve's thighs are larger than her torso in the painting.
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Try this for mark/jump : https://gist.github.com/harel/25569bda00f7260923fdbc38e256f5...

It's not "mine" but I adopted it years ago and cannot live without it.

I don't know about detecting soft-splits, but tilix has a really nice split pane setup.
So it's the car companies fault if I crash my car?

They should limit vehicle speed to 5mph so I don't hurt myself or others.

I have used many of these routers. Admin access on the wan port is blocked by default and must be enabled by the user.
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> People writing smart contracts should be the ones coming from a firmware/embedded writing background, not "webdevs". Right now DeFi smart contracts look like the 90s web: Tons of "Defaced" website every week. Of course now there's a stronger incentive given that monetary value is involved.

This is an overly broad statement that doesn't accurately represent the entire space. There are a good number of projects with very experienced developers that use rigorous testing, multiple audits, etc. There are also teams that yolo smart contracts with very little testing. Assuming every project in the space is the latter is quite inaccurate.
>What shows can I watch on TikTok?

Many people don't watch shows on TV, they just channel hop to avoid ads and numb their brain after a day at work, consuming short stretches of content at a time.

In that regard, TikTok is indeed very much like TV.
First, it is wrong for you to assume "the technology" actually brings any systemic efficiency gains.
I haven't bought a consumer router in well over a decade that isn't secure by default. Universally they all prohibit accessing the router via the WAN interface, and have reasonable firewall defaults. Many these days even include a randomized unique password for every router, stuck to the side of the device with a sticker.

These routers were put on the internet on purpose, by people that seem to know what they are doing (universities and businesses), and none seem to have default credentials. Seems reasonable to me.
manually overriding this configuration usually demonstrates a sufficient enough understanding that the default credentials have likely also been changed

I don't think that's a reasonable assumption at all -- the router should ensure that the admin cred has been set to a (reasonably secure) password. Just because someone read on a web page that they should enable remote admin doesn't mean that they understand the risk.

And it should warn that exposing the admin interface to the internet may make the router more vulnerable to remote exploits - basically the same type warning that browsers show for a bad SSL cert should be shown for insecure router configs - tell the user that it's insecure and is a really bad idea before they do it.
TikTok feels like YouTube in it's very beginning, when it was cool and consisted mostly of "sunny" content.
I'm asking the first question. I agree with you that even if the answer to the first question is, "yes, Uber can be profitable", the answer to the second question (can it generate a positive return for its investors) is in doubt. It's possible for a company to be a losing investment and yet still end up as a profitable business operationally.

I don't think "For sure, turn down spending and turn up the prices" is something that the people arguing "Uber can never be profitable" would agree with. They're arguing that this can't work, and therefore Uber is destined to go out of business once the investment billions dry up. I'm just asking why that is so, given that the taxi market is a thing, and that a lot of people like Uber better than taxis.
As the site explains, this data is recorded in OpenStreetMaps. There are numerous mobile apps available for contributing to OSM from a smartphone[0].

[0]https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/Mobile
How do you know this router doesn't already do that?

You're making some wild assumptions here.

Even your basic free Comcast router comes with sane defaults, and tons of warnings for every configuration change.

Here's the user manual for the TP-Link AC2300 - The Archer C7 found in the google results this post links to:

https://static.tp-link.com/2019/201912/20191231/7106508598_A...

Step 2 forces the default password to be changed. There is no way around that step.

None of your assumptions are true here.
Bit of sleuthing shows that the photo is claimed to be taken on "April 29, 2021" http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-04/29/c_139915543.htm

Meanwhile Getty has the satellite picture dated as "April 15, 2021" https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/maxar-closeup-...

So they are likely showing same event, Maxar is pretty good at getting images of current events as they happen. Don't know what sort of deal they have with Google to show them on Maps though.
We already know that Apple will publicly fight Government demands to break device encryption.

They have already proven that.
I tried to do something similar with https://github.com/justinvanwinkle/Norm about 10 years ago. It hasn't generated a lot of interest, but I find it quite useful to construct queries without having to learn the minutia of an ORM library, or even a SQL generation library.

Probably one of the best parts of Norm, and a big part of why I wrote it, is that it doesn't require you to have a hardcoded copy of the databases schema in your code, it just works like SQL.

I put quite a bit of effort into making bulk inserts efficient, as well as making sure rows could be streamed from the database while buffering as few as possible in memory on the client.

I still maintain and update for my own use. Feel free to make suggestions or request features.
If we ever get a Weapons of mass destruction capable of reaching the capitols of Europe episode again, I would wager FB and YT will start to block content which questions that narrative ( or fairytale rather ).
This is definitely something I believe in wholeheartedly. Game development is an important part of my life and I will be dogfooding Bevy for my own projects, as well as building official "template projects" for various game genres. I probably should have included this in "The Next Year of Bevy" section as I agree that dogfooding is critical when building an engine. And we are at the point in our maturity where this needs to happen.
Assessments of what gets a sci-fi or a fantasy book classed as "great" vary widely, it seems. I find recommendations by people I don't know well, for those genres especially, to be entirely useless. May as well throw a dart.
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Sharing this with my team, thank you for sharing
Given the sprawl in the Phoenix metro area, this is utterly unsuitable for families who need to shuttle kids to school. Arizona has flexible school choice and people aren't tied to their neighborhood school.
We don't need damn widget. All we need is every web site to respect the standard do-not-track flag. And this can only work if the flag is off by default so only those who actually care set it.

Things like Google Analytics should also check and respect the flag. Requiring every webmaster to ask every visitor if they don't mind Google Analytics being injected is nonsensical.

We should also exclude remembering a user which has signed in from the tracking definition. It's absurd to warn the user about cookies when they sign in.

I also don't want classic (no-choice) cookie warning banners, regardless to whether I am tracked or not. Almost everybody already knows cookies are always there (and we can just introduce a browser extension indicating cookies usage for those who don't). The banners serve no purpose other than annoying people.
Wouldn't most supermarket bread flour by itself meet the definition of ultra-processed, because it is bleached and enriched with micronutrients in a way that almost no consumer can do in the kitchen?
Reminds one of the Polish, (but globally applicable) pre war joke, re-made during the communist era:
"How could you allow your warehouse to burn down, empty!?"
I think you are generalising and exagerating a bit. As it happens, I had a colleague and an acquaitance who both worked as a taxi drivers in Chicago and knew each other. They weren't bankers, nor farmers' kids. Their parents were middle class teachers and accountants. Reality is more boring and mundane than you might imagine.
> Where's the evidence that TT has been successfully used for nefarious purposes on a similar scale?

I don't need to see a particular bomb blow up to know it'll be dangerous when detonated.
What are the best options for a Linux laptop these days?

I switched back from a Dell XPS 13 9350 running Ubuntu to a Macbook Air M1 quite recently.
It's made by individuals, not TikTok? I'm not really sure if you know what TikTok is after this comment.

Just to clarify, TikTok does not do ad revenue sharing. They have a creator fund, but TikTok creators really make money via brand deals, merch sales and direct donations from fans.
That’s actually the entire point: this should not be standardised. That would make it useless. The purpose of GDPR is that, in principle, you need consent to process personal data. The consent must be specific both in terms of what data is processed, and in terms of why it is processed. The consent must also be explicit (no opt-out or implicit consent by browsing a site) and voluntary (no coerced consent by refusing service for not giving away personal data that is not specifically required for the service you’re asking for). Standardised widgets are exactly the opposite of all that.

In a way it’s very frustrating to see all these nonsense cookie banners that absolutely do not comply with GDPR at all. Why nag visitors with annoying cookie banners when your website is just as “illegal” as when it wouldn’t have a nag screen at all. This is really the worst of both worlds.

Then again, it’s perfectly understandable for companies to comply just a little, as they can then start long arguments with regulators on whether their implementation is compliant or not and whether they are getting valid, specific, express and voluntary consent (rather than just getting fined right away because there’s clearly no consent being asked at all which would make it too easy for the regulator).

So I’m really glad to see someone picking up this battle to actually enforce GDPR and call out the complete joke/smokescreen that most companies have made of it…
I personally prefer something like sqlx, where you just scan rows into structs. That's the tedious part of object-relational mapping, and the part that actually makes sense to automate.

Generally, I think what people call ORMs try to do too much, and there is an impedance mismatch on many levels. Objects and relations don't map; objects are statically-defined at program compilation time, and relations are the result of a dynamic query. I think the reason that ORMs work in dynamic languages is that there isn't a rigid set of objects defined by the program; rather they can come and go during execution. So the problem becomes a problem later -- static analysis, editor tooling, etc.

Lifecycles are also complicated. You can have your ORM return dumb objects that you modify and re-store, or they can be "smart" and updated the database automatically. The "dumb object" approach neglects database transactions (multiple writers could have already modified your cached copy), and the "smart" approach neglects the networked nature of your SQL server (you may need to retry, you may need to time out if the server goes down, etc.) by pretending that some server run by another company is actually your CPU's cache.

Finally, I think it's very optimistic to write an application to support more than one database backend, which seems to be everyone's dream. Many have tried. Few have succeeded. I chalk it up as actually being O(n) work to support n databases. MySQL has some quirk that breaks Postgres's assumptions. Even the humble SQLite is different enough that is hard work to support as a secondary / test-only implementation. (I realized this, I think, when I debugged some code that worked in tests, but not in production. The tests used SQLite and did something like "insert into foo (boolean_value=1); select * from foo where boolean_value='t'". In Postgres, the inserted object is selected. In SQLite, it's not! That, to me, was the end of ever supporting two databases without the explicit requirement to do so. I'd still run my Postgres tests against Postgres and my SQLite tests against SQLite, though.)

All in all, I don't get it. Start a transaction, scan into a struct, mutate the object, write it back to the database. Not much code is required. If your mutation operation is too long to run in a transaction (i.e., it reaches out to the network for something), then you really need a state machine, which you can easily implement in your relational data model.
Amanita muscaria do not have three branches supporting the cap.
One aspect is that we have a lot of data that has PII in it, and we feel safer if we anonymise that locally before sending it into the cloud. Once the data is cleaned up it's actually sent to GCS for consumption in our product). Another aspect is that this data has to be accessible as windows fileshares (i.e. SMB) to our data processing team. The datasets are in the range of several 100's of GB to several TB, each of the team members works on several of those datasets per day. This would strain our uplink too and maybe the bandwidth would be costly as well.
TikTok is the latest social media on its ascent. Perhaps they are impressed by its ability to keep the pigs eating. Or maybe they really like short videos. Hard to say.
In government situations, the space itself is at a premium (not what it costs). If your org has a certain amount of space for use, other orgs will try to steal it from you. The amount of space you control is an indication of how awesome your org is.

There was this one org that had a few floors of a building for their use, but most of the desks sat empty most of the time. This came to the attention of a different org that was hard up for space. That had 2 people per desk at many desks. They got the "space manager" to take a look, but the target org got wind of what was going on and they called everyone to be in during that time. Those floors were overflowing with people when the space manager showed up.
But would you do it for 4?

I thought when people said they had an X hour commute they typically meant that they traveled for X hours to work and X hours from work