skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on the amount of downvotes that you received, I would say, yes, you're right.
Why on earth would you melt down? Been a dev for over 20 years and sure some days are a bit hard, but meltdown?
Best guess, you own the code, you own the product, and people keep breaking it.

I work for a great company, and we have a prime directive.

~"We believe that our coworkers have done the best they could, given the knowledge they had at the time and the situation."

So suggestion:
Give your team more credit.
Quit working where you work.
Yeah. Ovh is in the US as well. Basically, given that the US is such a huge market, any provider is going to grow till they are in that market.
Relevant "Fuck RSA", or why you don't want to use this in the real world.

https://youtu.be/lElHzac8DDI

(That being said, I think it's still interesting to do this to understand RSA, but please don't roll out your own crypto).
“a feeling of extreme insecurity in the individuals, and the necessity to produce the unusual or face extinction”. That sounds a bit like Adam Ulam on the desperate itch to get out of the Carpathians: Ulam grew up in Poland, and became a good friend of Von Neumann's.

Also, wasn't the Martian thing originally a joke of Gamow's?
120 sessions. I did not develop enough agency to react to the fact we did not have a plan or a goal during the last 100.
> just the coolest format in music ever

Historic retrospective:

Ahoy - "Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw
Forests have been pleasantly growing in europe in the last 2 decades, even with all the deforestation going on(though to be said it's still way lower compared to the previous industrial periods).Yes part of it is due to climate change, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily a bad thing(mainly because you cannot fit more trees in places already occupied, whereas the more you go to the arctic region, the more free estate there is,assuming the soil is good).We need these forests more than ever to clean our air and provide necessary oxygen for growing populations.
There is not really a EU cookie regulation. I guess you think about GDPR. Then yes improving privacy is an improvement, at least from my point of view.

About your strugglings, cookie compliance is extremely simple if you plan to not track your users. Technical cookies for sessions and application states are allowed without requesting user consent. So just respect your users.
It must be fully acceptable. There is zero legal distinction between foreign-owned companies and local ones. This is not China.

Of course then the infrastructure and control must be fully separated, which might be why MSFT did the deal you're talking about.
It doesn't help that public is too sensitive about this subject. Government can't scrutinize companies like Pfizer enough if they are worried about public reaction. And I'm not too surprised if some companies rush since a lot of money is on the table.

To be fair, this is the best effort we have ever had to develop a vaccine. So I don't think it's fair to blame these companies if their vaccine wasn't effective on new variants as they initially promised. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't thoroughly scrutinize them.
It depends a lot on you module. My laptop now has very spotty wifi (at some point it refuses to work and I have to restart the services).
Depends on where you live :)
Car's emissions cut in USA from 2008 to 2017 saved 8k lifes and $270B
Sorry if reply is shorter than I would like due to hand, but the dynamic aspects I have encountered have been solved by case when as mentioned, boolean expressions on parameters (where $1 is true or id = $2), or in the worst cast just not caring about DRY in this scenario. Also I use json_agg etc for ORM-like mapping to arrays and objects. I do some other tricks too like bypassing a bunch of redundant and slow parsing steps by sending the result in certain queries back to app server as a single text column that is in JSON (this is via wrapping queroes, not manually) so it can send that to the client. No db driver parsing, converting to objects, back to JSON, etc etc.
Image Synthesis Sector Has Adopted a Flawed Metric, Research Claims
Good. For the first time, the courts have actually reacted to the death of Privacy Shield and its replacements. These crappy "consent managers" shouldn't exist in the first place, but here we are.

The only viable solution would be for the EU and USA to come to an agreement that guarantees privacy for citizens of either jurisdiction. So far, nothing of the sort has been accomplished because the US does not like to give up their power over US companies; I can't say I wouldn't do the same in their position.
"Legitimate interest" is a grounds for data processing under GDPR.

Someone seemed to cotton on to the (incorrect, per my understanding) notion that it was applicable to placement of cookies. That's covered by the ePrivacy Directive (and national implementing laws), and they don't make any provision for "legitimate interest".

Nonetheless, regulators move slowly, and companies want cookies. Having this gives them two bites at the same cherry (in their eyes), and enforcement is a long way off, and unlikely to scale.

While not EU any more, the UK ICO guidance is really clear on their implementation of the ePrivacy Directive - https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/guidance-...

There's only 2 exceptions to the strict requirement for consent - to communicate the data to the user, and to deliver functionality directly requested (i.e. shopping basket, login session). But enough people try to claim "legitimate interest" that others think it's OK...
I could watch my work meetings at infinite speed, and the information density would still be zero.
I'm in SH, our vaccination site has a big warning that you'll only be able to register 5 months after your last shot. Now I'm at my (boostered) parents over Christmas, so I'll just wait till next year and get it then, it's not as if I'm particularly exposed with no contact to anyone outside the family.
I don't tell people I run Gentoo. I just tell them I don't run systemd.
What's the logic behind it, other than "one upping" those people or parodying the people that use '0'?
I'm going to (re)start sailing. Last time it made things worse though - some of the least professional people I've seen in my life make a living as sailing instructors. I hope I'll find a more organised situation in the new club.
I’m just not sure how they’re shipping broken phones. They can’t be making many but there’s no QA?
should be able to guess who is doing it. And if the legal infrastructure is there, it can be quite easy for whistleblower to expose that.

This is the reason why user who care about their privacy ought to use only web page that works with No Javascript
A loophole folks have found to get "human support" from Facebook/Meta is to purchase an Oculus Quest. [1] I hope this helps!

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/4/22609603/facebook-account-...
I assumed it was a joke about how the installer contains both the firmware and the software necessary to connect to wifi, but the base install doesn't. So Arch support locations are flooded with "I use Arch btw but can't connect to my WiFi help plz."
> don't give a shit about anything except convenience

Yeah what i m saying is people should invest in tech that makes the "right" way more convenient
The thing I don't get about US though......people keep pointing out that US States are as big if not bigger than most European countries - and over there companies somehow manage to create completely unique packaging for every country, distribute their product and keep stock of what's where. Why not in the US? If this sort of thing is enough of an issue, why not make sure that each state gets different barcode, or slightly different label or whatever, to make sure the bottles are not returnable between state lines?

Germany pays a lot more for cans and bottles than Poland does, but you can't return Polish bottles and cans in German stores because the barcodes and labels are different - you can cross the border without any issue, but there is no way to exploit the economic imbalance in recyclables returns.
> One significant aspect of the new decision is it seems to prohibit data processing even when the personal data is stored in the EU and never leaves the EU.

I don't get why the article is so whiny about the court holding the US companies liable for the permissions the US government gave itself.

The US has assumed jurisdiction and is trying / has succeeded ("legally") to kidnap people extraterritorially for decades now - Kim Dotcom, Julian Assange, Alexandra Elbakyan, a whole lot of Russian hackers that had been fake-invited to security conferences or job interviews: none of them has committed crimes on US soil or in an US territory, and yet the US is still trying to get people deported to the US so that they can be tried by the regime. The US government heaps piles of dung upon sovereignty of other countries. The US mega-corporations ignore tax laws wherever they can while destroying local markets with price dumping only affordable because of immense amounts of pension fund money being poured into venture capital. US advertising giants act like European legislation doesn't even affect them. The US threatened to sanction a German harbor for providing services to ships building North Stream 2 (not that I like that project very much, quite to the contrary, but nevertheless it is a disturbing overreach!).

The EU is now beginning to assume the US and any entities based in it cannot be trusted for all of these reasons (even if no one says it in the open), and suddenly all the tech companies cry and complain. All I have to say is, the US is at fault here. You made your bed, now sleep in it. Or redirect some of the lobbying budget to campaigns of politicians willing to end the madness.
Yup that is me. I do what I like doing though, I don't yell at people or care what they do. I use lots of new things too like JSON web tokens, JSON SQL functions, vscode, new JavaScript/html/css features, etc.
> 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.

As a (EU) user, I hate all cookie management popups. And those aren't brought by evil US companies. They a forced by dumb law that tries to "protect" me. This law specifically mentions that I need to be nagged for every single new domain I visit (dozens per day) and specifically mentions that having a single setting I can tweak is not OK.

The amount of thought that has gone in the law to ensure that people are nagged on every. single. page. they. visit. and. that. there. is. no. way. to. shortcut. this. boring. and. useless. process. is maddening...
How did you first find out that your account was suspended? Did you provide your bank card to Facebook to verify your account? What are the verbatim messages you have received from Facebook?
Having a bad future outlook is the biggest one I'd say, if you feel confident you can land any fun job you want in the future then you can chose a job you actually like. Can be hard to do in the middle of being stressed out though. Linkedin and actually politely responding to the people there helps, I like self employed consultancies but it's not everyones cup or tea nor the least stressful option but at least I know if I'm not happy in a role I'll just fly away and do something else.
Yeah. Would be nice if there was a git hosting tor hidden service.
> if doing something causes problems, don’t repeat it.
I've quit most of it but e.g. I cannot quit driving.
It's also not new with this decision, since it just applies what Schrems-II found.
I agree that there is a widespread feeling that legal protections are missing reality (wirklichkeitsfremd).

But I'd argue that the roots of Germany's focus on privacy are not only rooted in protection against the state. Yes, constitutional fundamental rights are protections against the state (Abwehrrechte), but the legal interpretation established by the supreme court also draws on an ideal-typical perception of citizens as informed, rational and responsible people (mündige Bürger), who - through education, intelligence, moral values, dedication and pro-social behavior - create and sustain society.

Such self-determined citizens cannot exist in the face of overbearing, and especially invisible or intractable (!) external coercion. That's also the root of informed consent, of course. So in this sense, privacy protections are a safeguard against dumbing down citizens, and I think the general intent is indeed valid.
Actually it's pretty explicitly only about transferring data to providers which are under authoritan legislations.
The point isn’t to be thinking about the future, but instead using it as a thought experiment to deeply examine the present. It’s a useful tool as it allows us to understand that as clearly as we feel something may not be wrong, we could be waaaaay of the mark. In this case they are saying that of how we treat animals today, which I agree with: how we treat animals today is indeed nothing short of an agonizing genocide with no end in sight, not to mention how it ruins the planet for us and the millions of other species we are neighbors with.

The problem isn’t in the future. The problem is here with us today. You just need to see that.
Yes, hence my example of clinical trialists.

Observationally... when NN's enter a field like this, they seem to grow in use, not shrink. There's an uncomfortable epistemological, and arguably Darwinian, counterpoint to rejecting blackboxes or mathematically unprincipled methods, particularly when their objective results are superior. So for many people who claim NN's can't be used, that's often from a subjective methodology preference, and modern history seems to be on the side of NNs. I dislike that's true of a leading method, but that's where a lot of modern modeling is.
Being boring and serious, but ... there is massive selection bias here. It only takes a tiny handful of evangelists to create a stereotype because nobody ever has any contact with the large silent bulk of the people installing Arch.

Even as satire, there isn't a point to make. The people being satirised are rare both in absolute terms and in the arch community.
I'd love for all videos to have a "linked transcript" enabling the user to text search the transcript, then quickly seek the video to a particular statement.

That way, I'd be able to skim read and "dip into" long lecture-style videos to extract targeted information.

Since YouTube has captions on most videos, the data is available but I don't know of any apps that do this.
Evil sites will use localStorage or some third party API and continue tracking you.

I am sure people here will find at least 20 solutions on the problem on "how can a group of evil websites track a user across if cookies do not work but JS is On", the solution would involve something like drop this lines in your html page and the js code there will connect to some server and store some fingerprint there, Google might decide to give your browser a fingerprint to help with their ad business.
Augment Text Data with Language Models
The context is that the economist wrote a piece on "most powerful people in crypto", so isn't it a bit weird that people assume these people to be cryptographers? Economist, crypto?
Heh. You’re absolutely right, I misspelt the domain. Point being, sometimes you have different domains that belong to the same entity and you need to bridge them; this seems strange to small companies, but happens quite often in enterprise.
IANAL but I don't think this holds in competition law and even less in constitutional law (of course).
No idea where these instability memes come from. On my laptop the wifi worked pretty much out of the box.
I love this. It’s so wonderful to be confronted so clearly with the realization that so many of us are nestled deeply and comfortably in The Wrong Side of History.

Here’s to changing that, one day at a time.
Is anyone else getting a certificate error?

also.. tangentially
I have been experimenting with directly exposing photo paper with my phone screen, and pulling it away in a fraction of a second. Do any android devs out there know if it would be feasible for me to whip up an app that flashed the screen including backlight on and off to show an image for a fraction of a second at a specific brightness?
They also grind very selectively.

The fundamental hope that democracy is based upon is that they will eventually (in finite time) grind all problems, even if not right away.
As Google Maps Street View showed back then [0], the public at large cares exactly as much about privacy as the media tells them to care about.

[0] a huge amount of misinformation going on, making people think there would be live cameras showing them on street view. At least to me, it felt like manufactured outrage by people who didn't understand what was going on (neither the instigators, nor the outraged).

edit: It was mainstream enough that there were articles about it: "Webforscher Humer glaubt, die deutsche Skepsis basiere auf falschen Vorstellungen zu Street View. Viele Menschen würden davon ausgehen, dass Google Live-Bilder übertragen wolle" - https://www.onlinekosten.de/news/webexperte-deutsche-versteh...

I remember more from the local press back then. But it's hard to find sources about it now.
This is what I do when learning math and it works really well.

Lectures alone don't give you a deep understanding and a solid theoretical grasp of the concepts and their manipulations, books alone are very dense and often lack the intuition and human explanations of the concepts.
But if you go book then lecture you get a double whammy of thick theory followed by an exposition of the intuition behind it and suddenly everything clicks together.

I imagine it's obvious to many, but I only realized it recently.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03672-3

Best I could find says 40x better protection which isn’t the same comparison in above article.
> CZ predicts 80% of people will accept crypto payments within five to ten years.

That's a very specific prediction. I'm going to predict that this will not happen. In fact if it's 1% I would be surprised. The reasons are that the systems simply couldn't support such a transaction rate, and it's far too volatile to be used a currency. (And anyway how many businesses accept gold as payment? Approximately none)
Code Review as a Service
Interested to know if anyone has used this service or similar and what the quality is like.
And behind every nag is a company whose employees decided they'd rather you have the nag experience than not use tracking cookies or respect Do Not Track settings.
You are thinking like a software engineer that an illegal practice should be completely impossible to do, but socially it always sufficed to just put a reasonably high penalty on something and fine offenders regularly.
no problem, just do it 8-)
Wouldn't it be better to put SQL statements in stored procedures rather than dynamically loaded text files?
I'm always amazed by my countrymen chest-pounding themselves about their alledged cultural resilience against the surveilance state.

Not only did none of us live during the Nazi-Era, but most of us that lived at least during the Stasi-Era (in the West) are routinely falling short of living up to their own moral standards.

They champion getting rid off tax-privacy, they champion getting rid off non-digital currency, they champion blocking social-networks because of "foreign desinformation" (i.e. domestic opposition), they take no offense that a think-tank owned for-profit media-conglomerate does the domestic deletion and blocking of social media accounts (Bertelsmann > Arvato -> FB/Twitter/…).

And most hilariously, progressive luminaries like Daniel Cohn-Bendit or Volker Beck – which during the 1980s gained political traction by "fighting" against having A NATIONAL CENSUS AT ALL – are nowadays championing throwing out medical-data privacy alltogether and having to hand out your unlocked phone to the police at their whim.

(Needless to say how cultural chest-pounding thouse luminaries were in the 1980s)
> making people think there would be live cameras showing them on street view

that was in no way a mainstream "idea" about it.
The source for that graph says Human Mortality Database and World Mortality Dataset.
The HMD does not list Africa as one of the countries it covers and the WMD states they had no pre-2020 data available from South Africa so only offer a projection.

Is there a clear source dataset that can be referenced here?
adding to your metaphor, US is afraid that China that has been both a bully and a weaker bullied child, now has grown up almost to the point where they can be the biggest bully around. The same applies to Iran with their nuclear program.

EU itself is not really a bully, but most EU members are, and always were.

So Isn't it's a smart thing to do for EU to make other bullies to fight each other?
sounds like vaccine marketing is crossing into the "25% more nuts and 8g protein per serving" territory. I suppose that regular consumer isnt ready to evaluate all the aspects of the difference between say 20-fold and 37-fold antibody levels beside the "bigger is better" (is it? does high antibody levels come for free? i remember a study where methotrexate treatment to kill B-cells which were of high levels after flu cured Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for example).
Reinfection in 41 days?
Well, I would say that in your thought experiment it's actually the culture that could produce a substantial difference in cognition, whereas the langauge is merely a consequence of that culture.

For example, there are some Australian langauges if I remember correctly where instead of words for left, right, ahead, behind (relative positioning) they use words for something similar to north/south/east/west (absolute positioning) - as in, "give me that cup to your northeast". This of course requires a habit of keeping track of your absolute positioning at all times.

However, you will not gain this ability or habit just by learning the langauge. In fact, your langauge can even express that same thing today. Instead, you will be unable to naturally use their langauge unless and until you get into the habit of keeping track of your absolute positioning.

Similarly, the people growing up in this culture may not easily learn what we mean by left and right, but they would not gain the ability to understand these concepts merely by learning English - instead, they would naturally speak English while avoiding left/right references, or simply make more mistakes than someone growing in a culture where relative positioning is the preferred form of communication.
I understand your argument and I agree that all of this is excessive and maybe spiraling out of control. However the core of the case is "I'm German, that web site is Danish, my personal data have no reason to be in the reach of the US government." By the way, Germany and Denmark share a land border. I think it's difficult to argue that even with the cloud it's not easy to explain why to access a Danish university from Germany one couldn't use an EU only set of technology providers. Of course using Akamai (a well known company) is easier than researching, assessing and using some relatively unknown European solution. I'm European, I'd have to Google (ironically) for one.