skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the way Brian Eno phrased not exactly this idea, but something tangential, which follows in full:

> “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
Do *not* implement your own cryptography. There are a lot of nuances.

This is a very dangerous article. The basic RSA algorithm is quite simple to implement, although the most difficult part isn't done in this article -- multi-precision multiplication is the difficult part in my experience.

However, using this implementation cryptographically is very bad. A cryptographically good implementation needs to consider a lot more than just the basic algorithm. Is the implementation constant time? Does it including blinding? How is it padded? These are just the basics, they are plenty more subtleties. Then people want it fast.

RSA should not be used to encrypt plaintext. Simplistically: symmetric cryptographic algorithms are first used and then RSA is used to encrypt the key.
I mean one can spot an elephant from space, but a crow? :) I was talking in a high-tech context, of course there are pretty intelligent species besides us, but they don’t build lit up megastructures.
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That's pretty much what Schrems-II said, yes. This is really not a very surprising finding with that background.
> It just doesn’t make sense for them.

It does though. As least for me. Better support on Windows and Linux would increase the number swift developers which would the in turn result in more and better open source libraries.

For Apple this could mean that their own open source libraries could get better, they have more tools/libraries to choose from, or simply that they have a greater pool of talent for hiring.

Looking at Go (and Rust) I think this is somewhat shown. There are a lot of different factors, but I think the development tools of Go is the #1 reason why it is basically the only "new" language in a long time that gained a large enough popularity to become mainstream - as in you actually find jobs developing in Go. Which is in some ways sad. It seems like Swift could be the very good fit for backend/serverless development.

I guess the real question is how much effort would it take to get the development tools like editor support to the next level?
> This consideration is key, even when Akamai servers are hosted in the EU.

Is the fix as easy as that Akamai creating a subsidiary in the EU?

I am in the EU and use AWS a lot, but I am not a customer of Amazon Inc. Instead, it sees this on the bill as who is the seller: "Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, 38 avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg".
Have the EU cookie regulations actually bring any measurable improvement to anything at all? The only effect I see is that now I have to go through hundreds of cookie related popups that include contracts, ToS and pages of legalese that will never be understood or even read by anyone.

I was building a simple website for my team recently and the biggest problem I had was ensuring the compliance of cookies - I had to spend days reading through all kinds of laws and regulations only to eventually end up going through a "Cookie Policy Generator" which produced a 10-page legal text that I dont understand. Apparently I'm not the only one since there are a lot of business that offer "cookie policy management" as a service for companies. Here is the generator if anyone wants to try it out for themselves: https://www.activemind.de/datenschutz/generatoren/datenschut...
This looks like a temporary injunction only and doesn't by itself establish any precedent. IANAL, but my understanding is that the court usually only evaluates whether that claim of harm is plausible and whether the burden put on the other party is too big to be justified when the final ruling is in their favor. The merits of the main arguments in the case aren't considered - that's what the main trial is for.
> Lectures are proved to be a bad way to learn things.

This may be, but studies also show that you should review the material before the lecture so that you can engage the lecturer.

I can count on a single hand and not use all the fingers the number of students I have taught who always reviewed the material before I lectured on it. Unsurprisingly, those students absolutely sailed through my class with very high grades.

So, what should I, as a college lecturer, do about this?

Everybody claims they want "active learning", but there are two parties to that bargain.
Says the cryptocurrency advocate.
I'm all for this, but, um, how?
In Germany -at least the cities I'm familiar with- everyone places their cans and bottles next to the trash-can.
German bottles often have "pfand gehört daneben" (Deposits belong next to it) printed on them[0]. And some cities even placed special holders alongside the trashcans[1].

Like with many things, Germans have made deposit collection into an efficient job.

[0] https://kaiserkiwi.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fritz-kola-...
[1] https://www.linksfraktion-hannover.de/fileadmin/fraktionhann...
> to give the collectors a living wage.

Why would this be a goal?
> because vaccines can kick up immune and inflammatory responses and make their conditions worse

This is what I am really worried about. If my immune system is poked even so slightly, I get symptoms although not as bad as I imagine I would get after the vaccines. I already have mobility issues. I do not want to be wheelchair-bound, even though that is a very likely outcome anyways.
As I get older I remember more about what the grey breads I learned from would say "everything in tech is a cycle. What we have now will be replaced with something new which was which will be replaced with something old reimagined."

If you stay in IT long enough you may see this cycle repeat 3 or 4 times
Hooray! It's proven safe and effective and has been used throughout the world, especially during lockdowns.

Reversing the temporary allowance would be pointless and just kowtowing to religious minorities and extremists at the expense of wider reproductive health.

Hopefully the UK follows suit, although it's looking unlikely at this point.
ARP-Scanner a lightweight IP scanner
The comment you were responding to already has that as an assumption and is saying that they don't do those things not because they can't but because they don't have ambition to do them, so the fact that they don't isn't a measure of intelligence.
Yes. I am not the fittest person, but I lift weights and read books. Both have definitely helped keep me sane over the past 2 years. I don't have a family and don't intend to though, so I have a lot more free time and less general stress levels.
I particularly miss the feeling of being in control: with text I can skip scan, reread and so on with just an eye motion.

The first time I encountered the concept of a 3xer was in the context of political radicalization, people infusing their mind with YouTube self-radicalization content on 3x (or higher) every day. My mind conjured up images of Malcolm McDowell in that A Clockwork Orange scene, only that it's self-inflicted and with content aiming at the exact opposite.
Brilliant! The most personally useful thing I have seen on HN in ages. And very nicely written too.
Tracking can not be solved by this, today many ad companies get subdomains on the websites they track on, so they are technically not "third-party"
This a great read, don't miss it! It served as a major source of information for my attempt to retro-emulate Computer Space on the PDP-1 [1] and for a comprehensive description of the game for yet another project [2].

Everyone interested in early arcade video games should have a closer look at "The Textbook of Video Game Logic; Volume 1" by Arkush, William (Kush N' Stuff Amusement Electronics, Inc., Campbell, CA, 1976), a PDF copy [3] of which is linked in the article!

[1] "Ironic Computer Space Simulator" for the DEC PDP-1 (online emulation): https://www.masswerk.at/icss/

[2] A description of Computer Space: https://www.masswerk.at/rc2017/04/02.html

[3] The Textbook of Video Game Logic; Volume 1: http://www.tokensonly.com/images/resources/manuals/video-gam...
As long as we are clear, that the businesses who can (and absolutely will) find the narrowest way around any legislation and continue to work in the slimmest legal margins are FANG and increasingly not your local businesses, cool.

Everything tech and privacy is pretty easy looking from the HN ivory tower. Meanwhile half the world runs WP installations that date back to 2016 and can't change a paragraph on their "about us" page without contacting "the web guy".
Semiconductor CapEx to Hit $152B in 2021
I've had fish sausages from a street food vendor when visiting Greifswald, Germany a few years back and they were delicious! But these were "artisanal" rather than industrially produced to be the cheapest source of protein.
I also taught at commercial courses and in a university, trying to apply active learning, but it didn't go well, so I haven't an answer to this problem either.
Ask HN: How can a non-techie mom regain access to her FB account?
I’m a mom of two young daughters and I have used my Facebook account mostly for work, and to communicate with my family, some of whom are now deceased. I have never pushed or broken Facebook’s rules or uploaded obscene images.

On Monday my account was suspended because someone broke into my account and uploaded prohibited images and then also used my associated bank card to make a fraudulent purchase of £200.

I had 2FA enabled so I have no idea how someone managed to access my account. I am not a techie.

My bank has refunded the £200.

Facebook won’t even tell me what I am supposed to have done nor will they unsuspend my account.

The most I have got is that 27 of my posts go against the community standards on nudity or sexual activity - which is nonsense because I am just a mom using FB to connect with family and friends. I am not a porn star and I don’t upload such images.

I am so upset because I have so many memories on the account with my Grandma and Grandad (both deceased), photos and videos of my two young daughters growing up, as well as many others.

I sent my ID to FB and have not heard anything more. I feel scared that I have sent my ID to someone that has somehow hacked my account, used my bank card, and now knows more about me than before.

I feel violated because of this and now Facebook won’t even listen to me.

I am sure that a human at Facebook would be able to look and see that I didn’t do this. If they checked the IP addresses used if they just used common sense to see what has happened.

Please, I am desperate, does anyone have any advice on what I can do next?
I hate every new technology listed in this article. I recently removed all of my SQL-in-programming-language code (orm, strings of SQL) etc, and just wrote actual SQL in files with .sql at the end and load them at run-time. I am now, when my finger heels, going to do the same for the React. I hate React. I have been using it for years and I have never enjoyed it. I feel like everything made after the boomer technology just sucks. I am going to write html, css and JavaScript, and as intended, not fake JavaScript (React), not mangled css, etc. I noticed when setting out on this journey that vscode and I am assuming others, have little support for these things, which is hilarious. vscode can't even detect unclosed meta tags in html, yet can detect a million React syntax errors.
Still, even if not linked through purchase, the device will communicate back to a number controlled by you, fairly directly. A lot of obvious and hard-to-mask effort to emulate something that's provided as a COTS package with far harder tracking back to you.

TL;DR: this was possible previously, for fairly determined and advanced users; now it's available to anyone on a whim.
As an European that had to deal with GDPR for his own projects this is really no surprise imo. Good that a court rules on this.
So how does this compare to all the other boosters?
Not only that, but when she graduates, she might not be able to get a well-paying job and subsequently find a home. She may well be living below the level of a factory worker from the 60s.
I am not making myself clear enough: some use the statement "we have to live with covid" to mean "let covid cull the weak and the old, people die all the time anyway, vaccines and masks are only needed for the weak and the old so we shouldn't make them mandatory" and others to mean "covid is here to stay so are vaccines, masking and ventilation, etc.".

> Have we ever imposed measures that limit the freedom of movement of the entire population, or subsects of it that have a higher infection rates per capita, such as drug users, prostitutes or homosexuals, as many countries have done?

That's not the point. The point is that AIDS has changed some things that we haven't come back to yet. One of the most prominent one is condom usage. This change doesn't need to be proved/sanctified by laws to happen and yet it exists (but I'll add that some people have been sentenced to years in prison for not revealing their HIV/AIDS status when having sex with their partner).

So: what does it mean to "live with covid" ?
Made me grin. I guess this indicative that the advocacy is working.
Isn't tether going to implode pretty much any year now? I'm relatively uninformed, but people keep saying they're playing with fire. Animats did a nice breakdown of this within the last several months. (Boy, corona time is weird.)
Why would you ignore relevant factors, i.e contrails? Some scientific studies contribute up to 2/3 of a planes climate impact on those. E.g https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01032-7
> If littering is equivalent to throwing money, you simply won't do it.

I have learnt that when organising events at work (sponsored by workplace), you have to charge people. Any amount like €5, its two cups of coffee but turn-up rate is in high 90% of people that paid upfront. Without charging any money its 50-60%

The number of people that sign up were pretty similar, so I hazard a guess that risk aversion was at play.

Its a powerful tool even if you know about it.
This disallows EU websites from using those US cookie management popups that users universally hate. You know, the ones where you have to un-tick 20 items by hand and then some more on the hidden "legitimate interest" page.

Instead, EU websites will now be forced to buy their cookie management from EU providers who adhere to EU privacy laws. So in effect, they are merely putting more of the spirit of the GDPR into laws.

And for US providers, they can always open up a local EU subsidy, implement the relevant regulations, and then sell their service to EU customers again. So this is specifically to allow people to circumvent the EU rules by using "I'm an US provider" as an excuse.

Also, I like how they called out that transmitting the visitor's IP and referrer URL to a US service might enable them to build a profile which would be legal under US law and illegal under EU law. That's why they now block the transfer of the visitor's information out of the EU in the first place.
The cookie-banner simply means that there's no enough competitive advantage in improved UX over tracking the user.

We don't see many websites who opt out out of the "track the users all across the web" scheme in order to remove the cookie banners altogether.

On the other hand, thanks to the banner everyone has become aware that the are being tracked. This is good because it brings people into the discussion, so that when EU says "stop tracking" people are not puzzled about what tracking those Eurocrats are talking about. How people are supposed to know if they should support the actions of their government if they don't know what's happening behind the scenes?
“The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.”
If opening the 80/443 port is such a nuissance in your setup, I would not bother with hosting from home and I'd just drop the website folder in Netlify Drop (https://app.netlify.com/drop)

That's what I did for the first few iterations of https://lunar.fyi and it really helped with giving people the right information fast while I could keep spending time on the real work (developing the Lunar app)

But if hosting from home is what matters the most, there is an easier way nowadays using Caddy (https://caddyserver.com) and ngrok (https://ngrok.com).

For example, I just hosted this website (https://af62-2a02-2f0e-d00f-e100-f513-b43-fbc1-cf5d.ngrok.io) using the following commands:

caddy file-server -listen 0.0.0.0:6001
ngrok http localhost:6001

If you want to go the extra mile and have a nice custom domain, Freenom provides you with a 1-year free domain for the following TLDs:

.gq .tk .ml .cf. ga

For example, I just registered geokon.gq for 1 month and forwarded it to the ngrok endpoint: http://geokon.gq/
I wish they would lay off on making phones thinner. They have become unusable without a case.

The casing should simply be built in so the cool coloring, texture or material the phone offers can actually be seen
There is legitimate business concern. Amazon can collect my home address without consent (i.e. I type in my address but don't need to tick any consent checkbox; see [1]) and even pass it to DHL but without consent they can only use it to deliver me the package, not train ML models in the future. If you have a feature that needs data and the user understands the need AND the user themselves want to use the feature (excluding the legal acrobatics like FB claiming that users sign up to watch ads), you don't need consent (unless the data is biometric, which is another chapter in GDPR).

[1] In fact, I try to use a lot of services without consent while providing my personal data. The trick is that I want to ensure it will ONLY be processed for a legitimate business need.
I was very confused reading the article and then looking for "Jerry Whittaker" and finding no information online. Then I saw the date at the beginning: "February 21st, 2167, The New York Daily". To me, worrying about what people will think in ~135 years seems a bit silly. 2167 is about as distant to today as was 1885. Nobody from that time is alive, we had since two world wars, flight, space exploration, computers, the internet, smartphones. While some historical figures are "cancelled" for their opinions, I'm not aware of people stopping to use what they developped because of that. If I contribute in any way to humanity, and in 135 years people want to cancel me but keep using what I've done because it's valuable, that would be fine with me.

In a way, this feels like a derivative of Roko's Basilisk: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rokos-basilisk, Pascal's wager or (my favorite) Pascal's mugging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_mugging. My view on that is that I'm always impressed by how smart people manage to trap themselves by thinking too much about the future.
> So I bought the cheapest possible USB audio card for about $20

That looks like a generic Chinese USB audio card and they are sold for much less where I live (~$1.5). Aliexpress has a ton of them around that price level.
Yes it is. The whole point of that decision is to make sure Akamai cannot says "we're an US entity, so EU privacy laws don't apply to us". That's why they are now forced to create a local subsidy, which will then be forced to follow local laws.
Abortion is a basic thing.
You lead a sysadmin team. DevOps was supposed to bring systems administration and development under the same roof. All of it. It’s a failed movement.
Review of the ZSA Moonlander split keyboard: is it cat proof?
All CSS is hard to parse visually.

Unless you follow very strict development guidelines, you do not really know anything unless you look at the computed styles in a debugging tool.

I think Tailwind does help wrangle some of that cognitive overhead with its naming system.
It would have been easier for you if you had papers in NeuroIPS, ICML, ICLR, or CVPR. The ones you mentioned don’t impress anyone.

A few months ago I made a 180k offer to a guy in England who wanted to be fully remote. He rejected it because he got a better offer. He had two papers (ICML and ICLR).
Yeah, it's super easy, I don't know what OP has any issues with. All he has to do is finish law school and go through the laws and regulations of GDPR, there's only like a hundred of them plus references so it shouldn't take more than a few years maximum.

https://gdpr-info.eu/
FWIW my stance on privacy regulation is that it is severely needed, both for consumers AND for businesses, because data deregulation can only lead to unbreakable monopolies, while fully applied GDPR allows user to resell the private data Google got on them, to the next, newcomer, bidder.

That being said I don't really agree with the premise of your comment. A law that isn't applied shouldn't be considered a law, and saying "you should just have applied the law from the start" isn't always fair. For instance, in France, woman were not allowed to wear trousers until maybe 5 or 10 years ago. French privacy laws 1980s already had a real scope on privacy, but it was barely applied. Applying a 40 years old law out of nowhere would simply be targeted attacks to the current disgraced company.

Now, GDPR is really recent, so I won't put it in the "hasn't been used for so long it's dead" basket. Though I kinda think that the portability part of GDPR will (I'm crossing fingers it will still happen, because I think it's the best part)
The GameHut channel does a lot of similar videos on how old video games squeezed the hardware. Super interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK1aV_mzH3A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRzKAe9UtoU
Am I?

Anyways, the definition of "reactionary" is to hold onto an outdated believe or assumption. Crypto means cryptocurrencies these days. I was just stating the obvious.
Whatever you want to use Cookies for. Analytics probably most of the time.

I don't think small businesses typically run targeted ads on their own websites.
That sounds good. Someone commented that my employer is supposed to consider the contraindication and whatnot, but it really is not the case, at least not as far as the law goes. My employer could consider it, but does not have to. I am going to the dentist and I need a negative PCR test every 48h, and it is expensive. :/
Africa is also the most diverse by far, I'd love to have much more detail on how that intelligence is distributed.
The reviews are compromised. The review analyzers (FakeSpot, ReviewMeta etc) get progressively unreliable and hence compromised. Review sites like the Wire Cutter that were wonderful places to read great long form reviews of products are unfortunately compromised as well.

With so much money in play, the platform will pretend to care as most customers purchase more to replace bad products rather than seeking recourse against sellers. All this I suppose is what keeps big box stores alive.
I don't think any school can educate 300,000 to 3 million students. They might have the money, but it would require a lot more resources, and mist likely sister colleges.
But even so, yes Harvard chooses to keep their acceptance rate low, and that is their prerogative.
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