skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we would both be happy if people were taught financial literacy and responsibility. But to forbid people from trading, for me, reeks too much of the financial elite being scared they'll lose their underclass.
Beyond wondering how they got it, the question is now whether they are another potential reservoir of the virus. This thing is going to be with us forever.
That account is an advertisement account for NFT auctions, not sure how that would convince me that NFT's aren't a scam.

https://www.888innercircle.com/
I don't quite follow. Are you claiming the norm for money managers like investment banks and hedge funds is to lose their customers' money? And those customers don't care?
This is not true for classical logic, because AND can be written using NOT and OR using DeMorgan's law.
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How would you propose to regulate it out of interest? As someone who pretty much lives on investment these days (vanilla stocks, no crypto, no options) with no formal training in the area I'm quite keen to hear why I should have to return to the rat race. I wholeheartedly agree that maxing out credit cards to buy stock/crypto (as someone mentioned earlier) should be regulated however, as that just seems like an absolute ticking timebomb
OP’s point was that the argument in favor of vaccines needs to be made more convincingly. What does that actually mean? How could the information be presented more convincingly?
Original release discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7142987

One of the problems back then was the GPL license.

Since the project has been started and maintained by Tampere University (of Technology) with public money, allowing more free use of the software makes sense to us.
What about the file in the article makes it a "non-ELF binary"? The only thing I can think of is putting junk data in place of bytes the ELF spec designates as "padding" and expects to be 0. Other than that, it seems totally reasonable that putting garbage in place of a section-header offset with no headers, a physical address, and an alignment field wouldn't make it an acceptable ELF.

It's entirely on the Linux kernel to not verify these fields. However, its failure to verify these doesn't make the file not an ELF. It just makes it an ELF with a stupid alignment requirement that Linux happens to ignore.
Still true, but to be fair, Coinbase closed that first day lower. I don’t believe Coinbase has ever reached $381 again. It’s back at the $250 reference, even below that right now by a buck. Still a $55B company with an absolute insane profit margin right now.
> But banning something because you don't like it is nothing short of totalitarian.

Where is the line? I don't like murder. Is banning murder totalitarian? I don't like unfair elections. Is banning election tampering totalitarian?

Every law and rule in all of society exists to prevent something that someone (or lots of people) don't like. We usually draw abstractions on top of these likes and dislikes - things like "rights" and "morals". Everyone has to draw the line somewhere, so deriding someone for drawing that line "because you don't like it" is reductionist and silly.
I think focusing on environment when it comes to cryptocurrencies is not very productive. We waste a lot of energy and if cryptocurrencies could live up to their promise maybe the energy cost is worth it.

The main point against them is that the only use case they have is going around financial regulations. Buy drugs, transfer money to a gambling site, accept a ransom or go around capital flow regulations in your country. There is absolutely zero reason to use it otherwise. Some of those regulations might be unjust or bad but then we should address that. This is even before we enter more imaginative scam attempts based on popular blockchains.
Accessibility isn't the only problem, terminal logs are also screwed up. Try scrolling up when apt is showing its fancy progress bar, you'll realize logs beyond a screenful is simply "eaten". Overall not a fan of the unnecessary TUIzation.
There would be a lot less returns if descriptiong of products were actually accurate. I bought a 4K monitor an amazon, and it was a total mess - the heading said it's 1080p, but listed the right model. The body of the listing showed a different model, listed it as 4K, but had photos of my model.

It then had information about ports that was totally wrong for both models.

So how do I know if I should buy a cable, and which one it should be?

Is a correct description, size, wight, etc. Too much to ask?
Your friend was in an organisation which (a) didn't recruit new members, (b) gave its members total freedom to do whatever they wanted, and (c) gave its members money? And you're calling this organisation a cult?

No offence, but is English your first language? This sounds entirely unrelated to the concept of a cult. I think you're just describing a company, an LLP with a religious focus.
Could you share it please?
And good luck!
It takes an HN village to help get your startup off the ground.
Youre right. If you dont like heroin just stop using it. Its easy and just a personal decision nothing more, right?
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On 'porcelain', the way Git uses that term is a pet peeve of mine. On the one hand, the intended meaning of it is that "porcelain" commands are meant for humans, not for other programs - scripts should use the "plumbing" commands (apparently, it's a toilet analogy). On the other hand, the flag that makes "porcelain" commands write machine-readable output is called... "--porcelain". Implying it does the opposite of what it does.
Can't NFT's be linked with copyright ownership? The whole story about "Charlie bit my finger" NFT suggests that there could be a legal link. If not now, maybe laws could be adapted to support it.

So let's assume the law supports linking NTF's to copyright ownership. What would be the scammy part then?
Interestingly the Dutch have been very keen to capture Tech companies (or at least make it an attractive place for employees).

There is a low flat tax rate (30% iirc) for some years (was 5 when I last checked) if you're working in an "in-demand" sector, and tech is one of those sectors.

This is somewhat controversial from what I understand, not all of the Dutch like it, and I understand why: it's not really very fair to give foreigners a tax break and not your own people. But it's interesting nonetheless.
i can confirm that this is not true. talked to an employee. snap hosts on google cloud.
It is so sad to see the US burn like Rome.
lolwut ?

Don't consumer ISPs hand out /64s or /48s ?
Why use this over Chicken Scheme?
Sometimes I wonder if the GDPR will go down in history like, say, the Magna Carta, a legal construct that changes history.
Something nearly every comment overlooks in this is the 700,000+ people in the US that simply have died due to Covid. That is the entire population of a small US city. I would guess a vast majority (i.e. 350k+) held jobs, this may have opened up new opportunities for those in lower skilled/retail that were ready for a move.

Inflation is increasing as well so people need higher pay but I bet a lot of businesses haven't seen inflated prices hit their P&L yet where they can "afford" higher wages. I say "afford" because I believe they can pay higher wages but the capitalism mantra of always higher returns means they won't pay more until they meet that objective for a quarter or two.
I'm loving htmx! as backend developer this just eliminates all the js monstrosity of packaging, dependencies and deployments..
You seem to believe I argue about Germans saving water individually. I don't. Since you seem to have missed that in your rush to accuse me of "non-sequiturs", let me quote it for you:
> And, like everywhere around climate change, the "consumer efforts" are mostly existing to distract from the major sources of problems.

This doesn't change that concern about water usage matters in Germany. And to spell it out for you, lest you miss it again: This is not about usage in private households. This is about commercial water usage. We're in agreement that private household changes have little influence.

That goes for your numbers as well - the 3% usage is specifically personal household usage. That isn't what I'm arguing about.

Also, you might want to correct your assumption that all unused water flows back into the ocean. Evaporation is where ~65% of the annual rain goes. (Hence my objection to "97% of it flows back into the ocean unused". It really doesn't)

And that has implications for the "renewable resource" idea, because that evaporation matters to climate overall. It's not water used by humans right now, but it's not on the table as an exploitable resource without shifting local climate either.

Then there's the fact that seasonal variability matters a lot when you talk about agriculture. The lack of spring/summer rain is a large problem, even if the net amount of rain stayed the same. (It didn't for 12 of the last 13 years, so citing 2021 is especially disingenuous)

If you're interested in annual drought patterns, here's a pretty decent visualization of annual patterns reaching back 7 years https://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=40990
Previous fact check for Dr John Lee https://fullfact.org/health/covid-deaths-winter-2020-talkrad...
obviously I cant rule out that it's not related in some way or the other, but at least not directly.
I'd love to have effective male contraception.

But the previous work on this doesn't make it look like it's the answer:
https://www.parsemus.org/humanhealth/ultrasound-male-contrac...

See the section "Effective contraception in humans remains elusive"
To your point about business decisions, Facebook's recent ban of the Unfollow Everything extension is exemplary of everything that's wrong with ad-driven social media. The problem is not too much choice, but too little:

- I can't easily delete old posts

- I can't easily control who or what I am exposed to

- In some cases, I have no control at all. For example, on the rare occasion I go to FB, the red dot on the video icon is still begging me to watch FB's 4th-rate YouTube full of random terrible videos. There is no way for me to turn this off, to my knowledge.

- Everything is defaulted to the most intrusive, attention-sucking settings. I am never asked if I want something new. It is shoved in my face and then I have to go figure out how to turn it off. As a willful, tech-savvy person I can manage this, but I imagine that many people just go with the flow and get swept into unhealthy patterns by the relentless tide of nudges.

I don't know if it's feasible or desirable to ban a service like FB categorically, but imposing minimal standards of user control could be a step up from where we are now.

And if FB/Twitter/etc can't be profitable when users are in control... well, maybe that tells us everything we need to know about the true human value of today's social media matrix.
What Is AWS Amplify?
There's surely more visible wealth inequality. A peasant villager would never visit the Royal Court, and if they did visit the local manor or landlord they would find one family with fine clothes and plenty of food who also went to Church on Sunday and suffered toothache and pissed in a pot under the bed at night.

They would never have an endless Instagram feed of fashion model people with jetset lifestyles, building on decades of TV shows like "Lifestyles of the rich and famous" or "Keeping up with the Kardashians". Consider how much you have heard about a Hollywood star or Jeff Bezos compared with how much you have heard of Hugh Grosvenor, the world's richest person under 30. Before TV, before newspapers, before most people could read, you'd never have heard of either of them.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Grosvenor,_7th_Duke_of_We... )
I read the underlying research publication, and linked editorial has overhyped the results beyond all reason.

The main takeaway from this work is that better data equals better models. The data fusion approach taken by the authors is the most interesting thing about it. The comparisons to baselines is the weakest part of the article. The effort to sell this as a highly significant result is just sad, but is mostly a reflection of the state of academic publishing.
Honestly, that "party time" should not be trivialized. A year of lost mating opportunities is a really big deal to a mammal.
Maybe with some Amendments ... like the US constitutions. There is stuff missing.
Reminds me of when I attended my districts technical career center for 2 years. We had ~3 hours of various IT learning every morning with kids from high schools all over the county before we all went back to our normal schools.

We'd of course run out of stuff to do and start messing around with our newly honed skills. Learning about net send wasn't too bad, we just sent dumb messages to each other. But learning vbscript combined with net send... you could DoS the other machines with a for loop.

One morning I was playing around with the net send script, but accidentally plugged into the schoolwide LAN instead of our local network... every computer in the building got locked down with some idiotic message my 17 year old brain had come up with. IT took a educated guess and came down to our class and I fessed up, thankfully they let me off with a stern talking to and promises to never do it again.
Surely you don't have to degrade your security to a lower UK standard, you can still meet GDPR and make it clear on your website, "Do you conform to GDPR?", "Yes we do. Although the UK have a lower standard of data protection, we still meet the stricter standard"
If only people could be ok with the middle ground of spending some "meeting days" in the office and "individual contributor days" from home.

Probably would make the ICs more happy as well since now you know you can focus as opposed to getting nudged randomly.
That's nice af but AWS is already widely used :/
The visual of determining if something is clean, or just a pile of usable goods going to waste can trigger disgust across the ideological spectrum. Although, I do agree that usage of "problematic" has become annoyingly problematic.
I see a couple of acceptance problems with the device.

First, men a notoriously squeamish when it comes to their testicles. "Heating" without telling the temperature won't fly with many. I guess it doesn't have to be hot as it probably only needs to be warm enough to relax the cremaster muscles. If it has to be uncomfortably hot, I see little chance in the market.

Second, I'd expect the ultrasound to hurt. The epididymis is pretty sensitive to pain.

Third, it will feel like gambling as the female partner doesn't really know whether all sperm is killed or whether she will end up pregnant. And for the male, it will be a leap of faith as well. That should improve if a lot of users report no unwanted pregnancies, but in the beginning...
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If you think there's no prospect of coal consumption going down, then we're headed for global calamity.

Knowing that it's a likely scenario that the world becomes wildly unpredictable, it's not responsible to also build nuclear reactors that require stability and maintenance to be safe.
The UK has ousted its boring technocrats and experts - our politicians and our public have embraced populism.
We will ignore energy policy and GDPR because it's boring and spend our time debating culture wars in broadsheets and tabloids instead.
I wonder how close the wolves have to get to the school before the locals decide that the culling is OK. One end of the spectrum is wolves in the mountains of Idaho, the other is wolves in Boise. The USDA is working towards one side while these students and everyone outraged by this normal act of conservation arguably are working towards the other. What disturbs me is how proud they are of it.
Fear of disappointing others is just about the only thing that actually motivates me to focus, as an ADD person. I did well in school almost solely because I didn't want to let down my teachers. I work now so I don't let down my team.

If I only cared about what I thought, I'd never have the motivation to finish anything
The reasoning is covered in the article.
PSA: That "M3O" is read as "Micro".

(I initially expected that it was "minio" deciding to rebrand to sound more like AWS)

Also, this is not like AWS at all -- this is not IaaS offering, but a single specific microservices framework [0] and a hosting which specializes on apps using that framework.

[0] https://micro.mu/introduction
If the company were to breach GDPR, which regulator would enforce it?

If UK law would require backdoors in a way that conflicts with GDPR, how could they remain compliant?
Why posted on the personal blog instead of the company site?
Armchair psychologist here: Have you tried games? Either physical (e.g. sports) or digital (ideally single player, desktop computer games)? If you have fun, it is much easier to get into a flow state.
This argument has been brought up in the accessibility community multiple times, and it's not as straightforward as you might believe.

The problem with accessibility-focused frontends is that they lack in features. There's a much smaller number of users able to detect bugs and a much smaller number of developers willing to fix them and add new features whenever they appear in the mainstream app. This works pretty well for i.e. accessibility-first Twitter clients, but it probably wouldn't for your local utility company that serves ten or so blind customers, none of whom are programmers.
The problem is that what is addictive to someone is harmless for someone other. You cannot ban everything that makes someone addicted.

When you have a market niche - then sooner or later it will be filled. It does not make much sense to blame "concrete companies" - because once you close them they will be replaced by others. You need to make laws that would close the niche of providing the 'particular types of services that are problematic' entirely. And making those laws is difficult - because forbidding something always limits the freedom. There are lots of people here who believe that drugs should be legal.

And it is internet and smartphones that created these market niches putting us into that awkward position. It is also practical to focus talk on them - because there are concrete advice on how to configure your (or your children) smartphone (or internet connection) to make it less addictive. It is something that can be done without any collective action problems.
The title is misleading. This project isn't open source, rather "source available". I get that the underlying packages from github.com/micro/* are FOSS, but m3o isn't: https://github.com/m3o/m3o/blob/8a533e3ab/LICENSE

Also, the title could be prefixed with a Show HN.
> Is no where free of it?

No, everything in life is political in some way or another.
"that's nothing like a cult" describes situation that is clearly fraud and actually nothing like a cult
So it's not misinterpreted, these are not insults, these are issues the people I know manage which are the effect of over exercised neuroticism in their personalities, a trait I personally leverage to do things like write, code, make music, be funny, creative, etc. see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5428182/

When it becomes overemphasized, you get the issues I mentioned above.
I was thinking the same but maybe if they're UK based they can't legally guarantee a certain level of data protection. Customer trust could be eroded even if you tell them you'll follow the GDPR standards.
In the past men used to take really warm baths to temporarily become infertile, i assume this uses the same process

In related news: "coso" is used in italian to mean d.
What taxes are you talking about? Vennootschapsbelasting? I believe it is a reduced rate for all businesses below a certain revenue.
AI learns to detect major intersections in satellite images
Everything we do, every place we choose to work, incorporate or just live is subject to rules. These rules are largely decided by politics. As a consequence, politics have always been here, visible or not.
From TFA:

> Whatever we say to our customers about how Cronofy approaches data privacy and controls, corresponding enforcement will not follow. (...) We can make our protestations about ISO certifications, data management controls, segmented data hosting. However, prospective customers won’t necessarily get that far because we’ll be discounted based on our location. I don’t blame them. Data protection is fraught and complicated. Why even entertain the risk of going with a provider from outside the EU.
It's also very expensive and has considerable vendor lock-in. Open source alternatives are always welcome.
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I feel that it empowers me as a Backend developer and makes me productive on both the BE and the FE.

For one it adds a simple set of primitives I need to learn on top of HTML (a basic tech to know), so no large JS frameworks or patterns to learn.

Secondly, it's really fast with regards to development speed, application speed and just getting up to speed in general. A basic MVC framework (such as Django but others also) is all you need in addition to the primitives I talked about above. With modern frameworks such as Vue or React, I need a backend with basically the Model and Controller part and then a different framework for the View part.
> not all of the Dutch like it

I guess a majority will be opposed if you'd ask plainly. The main effect is that companies save on their payroll.
Laravel abstracted the PHP language enough that there are "Laravel developers" who cannot work without a framework. Now, these gems are going to do the same thing with HTML and Javascript!

These tools are contributing to the lowering of code quality standards, regardless of their intentions or the rigidity of their coding standards. They're good tools once you understand how they work, but most of its users use it precisely so they don't have to.
Welcome Cronofy, hope you find your bearings here quickly! (the landscape can be a bit flat, but almost everyone speaks English so that should help. Try a "stroopwafel" ASAP)
PlaidCTF 2020 had an interesting challenge, where you had to write a minimal 64bit shared object file which had to spawn a shell when preloaded to any (dynamically linked) program. There are write-ups describing how people did it: https://ctftime.org/task/11305

Naturally, the files from that challenge were bigger than the minimal ELF file presented here, because dynamic linking requires more sections.
> We've done it in the past, and because of that we enjoy physically safe food, toys, medicine, appliances.

Everybody wants safety. But nobody wants their smartphone taken away. It's an unpopular move. That's why it doesn't happen.

Anyway, I think that we should take away the incentive of social media companies to be so addictive by banning ads on these platforms.
Agreed; especially surrounding the current NFT craze, I notice a lot of people I wouldn't expect to fall into it suddenly have weird monkey profile pictures (or some other thing that is totally different than the pictures they've had for years), and they start posting only about their particular flavor of crypto incessantly.
Backdoors for a calendar app no one's heard of? No offence, but bigger fish to fry. And why would the company breach GDPR if it's making such a fuss about sticking to it?
The 30% rule: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/inkomstenbelasting/...
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Right? Say if you know there will be a 2% chance to have a 1% increase over the yearly average at LocationX on Thursday…what can you do? Add police and first responders? Reroute traffic? Tell people to stay home? I feel like nothing that can be done will be able to solve the problem but just move it somewhere else
I think he means the 30% ruling: https://www.expatica.com/nl/finance/taxes/the-dutch-30-rulin...