skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think i recall reading a RAND study or similar that calculated the most cost effective megadeath per dollar, and it turning out to be equipping a very large number of people (paid minimum wage) with a stout piece of 2x4 wood, and instructing them to hit communists over the head until ordered to stop. i think they may have made some simplifying assumptions about the delivery mechanism to get the 2x4 weilders and the communists in the same location, which is an obvious requirement for this to be effective, but it's better than hydrogen bombs if killing communists and saving dollars are all you care about #amirite
Men start ‘violating’ AI chatbots
The EU is on a roll today with some really drastic changes in such a short span.
If I'm understanding this correctly there is nothing google can actually do. The problem is the US Cloud Act as the linked article mentions, which is in direct violation of article 44 of GDPR.
That’s not true. That’s a very human-centric way to view things. If no humans exist things would still happen. If there was no life anywhere things would still happen.
I would not trust bellingcat, as per the article below they are very shady.

https://declassifieduk.org/cia-sidekick-gives-2-6m-to-uk-med...
Satire is meant to be funny.
https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-eu-us-data-transfers-google-...
Would they really throw the golden egg out with the bathwater though - even if the egg's not shining quite as bright anymore because targeting isn't as accurate? Seems like an overly risky move that stock holders shouldn't allow.
What does it mean these days to be a “European website” (or a “Canadian website”, etc)? The server is located in Europe? The domain name is owned by a company registered in Europe? What if a CDN serves the site from another location? What if the site is served in an iframe on a site in another location?
The thing that’s unique about this airport is that it has parallel runways, which is very common, but the R runways (right side on approach) do not have right traffic. They also have a left traffic pattern. So two planes taking off at the same time will both make a left turn. Very unusual and very dangerous if you happen to have that situation.
Subnautica in VR is broken beyond playability without mods. I've tried it and I would disagree with any suggestion that VR enhances the experience of the game.
Please remember me for how long OVH was down when they lost an entire "DC"? And how much customer data did they lose?
Well, is Adsense GDPR compliant?
I've pointed out that "safe spaces" are a rebranding of "separate but equal", armchair academics often defend it with a strawman argument of the word racist: where convenient, they drop the colloquial overly broad misuse of the term for a technical academic-only definition that includes a power dynamic necessary for exclusion to be racist. Since the beneficiaries of the safe space are not the "power majority" it therefore invalidates any criticism of their exclusionary and toxic behaviors, by that definition.

The reason its a strawman argument is that it misses that the federal government prohibits "race-based discrimination", for like 50 years, and never uses the term racist or racism so the definition is clearer than the standard people invented.
> Therefore, the data of European citizens may not be transferred across the Atlantic.

That is different from the headline. GA is still legal; the judgement is that it remains illegal to transfer PII from the EU to the US. That's not new; that's GDPR. This judgement is just upholding GDPR.

It's just data traders grumbling about a law they don't like in a place they don't live in.
Can’t this be solved by providing zero-knowledge encrypted services? Won’t work in all cases. But could work in some.
> Can you think of a good alternative other than outlawing Microsoft 365?

The US withrawing the CLOUD Act.
The other way around: the GDPR was the precursor to this lawsuit, this is the implementation of the directive by a local court which found that, indeed, using GA violates the GDPR.
> for CLOUD Act to not apply

If there is oversight from the US (i.e. it is still the owner), this is not possible.
What I found was that the bottleneck was often my home firewall. Plenty of bandwidth inside, plenty to the cable modem…but using a Cisco or Palo SOHO firewall of hand capability was more than I wanted to spend…sure I could have set up a VM environment and run a virtual firewall…but I didn’t really want to. I’d done that in the past and talking the wife through a safe VM environment cycle when away from home and something went wrong was…harder than telling her to power cycle a netgear product.
This article just pushed WebGL to the top of my to-learn list!

Those graphics were lovely, and makes me realize how underutilized this stuff is in the modern web.
https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/01/17/hunga-tonga-volcano-tri...: “a ground-based lightning detection system recorded nearly 400,000 strikes with 200,000 occurring in a one-hour period.”

Lightning causes EMPs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning#Transient_currents_d...) , so there were EMPs. I think/guess each one was a lot less powerful than that of a nuclear explosion, though.
Not correct. You are not free to share PII with Google (or anyone in the USA).
Even Google is not too big to fail and cutting off 40% of your income stream isn't a very wise thing to do for any executive that wants to hold on to the pluche.
Cat Cat6a is a pain to retrofit as it's stiffer and thicker than Cat6 in most cases. It's also more expensive (less so than before, but the delta is still there)

If each run is <55m then Cat6 can still do 10Gbps.
The White House Is Worried About Open Source Software Security
An optimistic take would be that this forces European companies to think through their analytics/ad needs again, perhaps resulting in less invasive solutions and thus fewer popups/banners and improved privacy.

At least that is what I'm hoping for, however unrealistic it might be.
You showed them!
Nginx JavaScript in Your Web Server Configuration
Probably O2 is a problem because it will oxidize gallium as well.
Ah, come on. That’s what any reasonably similar sized company does all the time. It’s what shareholders demand (not that i think that makes it any better). But always singling out Microsoft for a decades-old stereotype is just getting old.
I agree, if you had to get a team together with the sole purpose of crushing people's spirit and grinding people down with opinions while appearing to be somewhat wellmeaning, the guardian would be a stellar example of that.
This is a good thing. It means Europe will be forced to invest in improving open office, pay for development etc.
DDG uses Bing for most of its searches though, so this is not exactly a good comparison :)
>Well, compared to the quality of Telegram clients, XMPP is nothing.

PSI-plus >>>>>> Any TG client. And I use Nekogram on the phone.

Heck, I could play games and share ideas on a whiteboard with TKabber long ago.
If you can afford it, YouTube Premium is an incredible ad-free experience. I subscribed a couple years ago and can’t imagine ever canceling it. Plus it includes YouTube Music and if you aren’t locked into Spotify/Apple Music, you can just switch to that for your streaming music needs.
I'd rather have my money spent in allowing a fiscal and investment frame so we don't have to think of this top-down approach to everything everytime.
"the people who devote so much of their time to ethical and moral purity, and searching out failings in others, probably do not have the time to develop the technical competence required to comment on the underlying data and science used to draw the immoral conclusions."

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here but I can assure you that ethics and morals underpin societies, without them they would fall apart.

It's hard to see how you can come to the conclusion that one cannot hold both moral views and still be a good scientist or technical person.

Some of the greatest scientists have held extremely moral values and they've commented on them widely in public. Take Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard for instace. They were great scientists and they held very strong moral principles - specially over the Atom bomb.

On the other hand, one of their colleagues, an equally brilliant scientist, Edward Teller, one of the developers of the hydrogen bomb, thought little of morals and by many accounts was a rather despicable person. (BTW, he also shafted his equally famous colleague Robert Oppenheimer who never fully recovered from Teller's slander.)

Another despicable bastard was the brilliant chemists, Fritz Haber. He got the Nobel prize for the fixation of nitrogen (production of ammonia) for fertilizer which went on to provide food for millions. However, Haber had SFA morals, he went on to develop chemical weapons in WWI and the day after his wife, also a chemist, shot herself out of desperation for what he had done, he went off to the Western Front to install those diabolical weapons.

Lesson: don't generalize.
Ring Fit Adventure or Just Dance is a very Wii-like experience.

Other games use Switch controllers in a very similar way to wiimotes.

I think what has happened is the platform has opened up to more non-Nintendo games and diluted the focus on movement that was in a lot of games for Wii/WiiU. Motion control has gone mainstream too, all controllers have tilt sensitivity, so that doesn't seem as big a thing. Maybe your right that people choose to use stick controls in preference to macro-movements of controllers.
Techradar lies to your face for marketing commissions
In case anyone had doubt about how shady the Techradar cartell is:

This article called "Best EU hosting providers" lists mostly US American companies like Bluehost, Hostgator and Godaddy.

https://www.techradar.com/best/eu-web-hosting

Quality of service aside, which I've seen several people here dispute with Godaddy for instance.

Why do they list these specific providers for "Best EU providers"? Because they always list the same ones, based on how high the affiliate comissions are.

Give Techradar a wide berth if you don't like disinformation.
Will this lead to non-US/ICANN managed .com/.net etc TLDs? Or a new TLDs?
Right but the article is quite contradictory of "mindfulness" for example.

> We can do the same by giving ourselves permission to feel uncomfortable things such as sadness or anxiety, giving them time and space to occur, rather than always chasing them away with busyness, booze or digital distraction.

and

> Mindfulness is not a mental health panacea – despite new Nice guidance suggesting that mindfulness should be recommended before medication for depression. Instead, be more mindless. “You don’t want to be mindful every single second,” says Biswas-Diener, who also studies mindfulness.

Is it for or against mindfulness? I can't tell.
Quantum entanglement boosts accuracy of industrial quality inspections
At some point, the scammers have to kill the golden goose...credit ratings are only useful to the extent that they're trustworthy.
That's because the motion controls largely didn't work for that kind of thing outside of a few gimmicky titles. Their use in the Switch is far more natural and integrated, so of course it doesn't feel like a gimmick.
Computer Scientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty
I’m guessing this does not include UK based websites these days?

What about people viewing from the EU?

All very confusing.
As someone 'on the ground' I see things moving in a much more uniform direction than where they were in the past, the differences are not large enough to make a fuss about. The thing to note is that the GDPR is a minimum set, local law is free to exceed the GDPR.
> Just don't upload that CSV containing all of your customers to Microsoft, that shouldn't be too hard.

Have you ever worked in a large organization?
What Does Empathetic Leadership Look Like in the Remote World?
That you have to thank the traditional WinDev vs DevDiv political wars.

As usual the .NET product (XNA), got replaced by a C++ one (DirectXTK).

https://walbourn.github.io/welcome/

They acknowledged they should have behaved better, years later with the new management adding support for MonoGame on the XBox,

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2016/03/14/letter-chris-charla-i...
What about?

> 5. Premium and wholesale services: Provide opt-in paid premium services for enhanced security (e.g. ad hoc filtering, monitoring, 24x7 support), tailored to specific sectorial needs (e.g. cloud, finance, health, transport), as well as wholesale resolution services for other digital service providers, including ISPs and cloud service providers.
From wikipedia, "Ga2O3 is an intermediate in the purification of gallium."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium(III)_oxide

So we'd turn the gallium oxide back into gallium the same way we did in the first place, when we made the gallium. I'm guessing we can also come up with chemical reactions for the other two.

However, you're right that gallium production is quite low. It's a byproduct of zinc production from bauxite, and we get only a few hundred tons per year. Wikipedia doesn't say what the potential might be if we gallium were the main product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium#Production_and_availab...
Are you sure additional acidity won't murder deep sea creatures that will decompose emiting methane?
Yes, and failing that goal he didn't particularly care about sacrificing his own people. If he had had the capability to nuke London, Paris, Moscow or Amsterdam during the withdrawal he would have certainly done so.
Yes it is, but you have to pay for it
https://nextcloud.com/trial/
There are countless variations on that. I've always been partial to this one:

Y es que en el mundo traidor
nada hay verdad ni mentira;
todo es según el color
del cristal con que se mira

which roughly translates to: "and it's that in this treacherous world, there is truth nor lie; everything has the color of the glass(es) through which we look", from Ramón de Campoamor, a 19th century Spanish poet.
A brief screening chat with a principal engineer. A follow-up chat with the CEO. Then a day of one-on-one interviews with each principal engineer.

Sentences 1+2 together easily sound like a good chunk of a full day (considering breaks). As in, just from that description: "I don't know how long these 'brief' chats will take - sometimes they go on for hours and hours. And how many principal engineers? 2, 3, 4? I guess I'll find out when it all happens. So to be on the safe side, and considering time gaps, I'm going to essentially have to block of most of my day to talk with these people."

And then sentence 3 is another full day, by your own acknowledgement. Which won't be just any day, either:

"We will grill you on your core competencies, we’ll look at your github if you have one, and we will crawl all through those github repos that belong to you, we’ll look at projects you’ve created and worked on, both personal and professional, and we’ll ask penetrating questions about your past work."

So that's 2 days. Plus whatever other overhead before/after. What I'm trying to get at here is that - taken all factors together - some companies seem to have a cavalier attitude about accessing the candidate's time. I don't think that's your intention here. But it's something to be aware of.

So to be more charitable: you could do well to explicitly "timebox" the request for the candidate's time. Like this, for example:

"Round 1 (2 hours max) will consist of introductory chats with 2-3 principal engineers, and then with our CEO. Round 2, scheduled for another day, or spread over 2 days if that's easier for your, will consist of three 60-90 minute sessions again with the engineers, in which <blah, blah> but hopefully taking no more than 5 hours max."

The point is you should convey the impression that you understand that the candidate's time is extremely valuable to them (which of course it is). And not the opposite impression (as so many companies do), that the candidate's time is essentially "on tap".
> I'm not familiar enough with the law in the US to understand whether the US authorities can compel an EU subsidiary of a US company to transfer data out of the EU, but if so...

They can. If I remember correctly Microsoft refused FBI request for some data that was stored in Ireland so the Cloud Act was created.
Hetzner is the best hosting provider for dedicated servers (if you care about price). Gridscale is pretty good. The original Skype was a very solid product. Spotify still owns the digital music market.
I don’t think we need a concept of intellectual property at all to talk about why fraudulent behavior is wrong/harmful.
Im not a legal scholar in any way, but perhaps a solution would be a fully independent Microsoft EU that licenses Microsoft US tech for deployment/use within Europe?
Remember that you can support his organisation – NOYB – financially, if you want to see more of this sort of thing: https://support.noyb.eu/join
That's not true. Transfer to third countries is legal, as long as you _properly_ inform people of the risks that it poses, and it's completely voluntary:

> finally, if a transfer of personal data is envisaged to a third country that isn’t the subject of an Adequacy Decision and if appropriate safeguards are absent, a transfer can be made based on a number of derogations for specific situations for example, where an individual has explicitly consented to the proposed transfer after having been provided with all necessary information about the risks associated with the transfer.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
There's something terribly jarring about the phrase:

> Associate Professor McLemore

It's embarrassing that someone with the special kind of bold stupidity that Monica McLemore displays is credentialed in anything. It certainly does no favors to the credibility of Nursing as a field.
I am not aware of an automatic and immediate adoption of an EU member state's rulings for the whole EU. Headline seems wrong, but maybe what it means to say is that such an adoption is 100% sure?
There are managed hosts serving NextCloud though
how is it different from fastapi?
https://www.onlyoffice.com/saas.aspx - very decent compatibility with Office and speed; is a European company; much of the functionality is open source.
There is no better alternative for Windows and console game development, except C++ Builder and Delphi.

Even Google now ships VS plugins for Android game development and Stadia.
The problem is that most people just dont read cookie banners and just click "Accept all"
Interesting how after so many and great improvements on Audio and Video stacks, but the Smart Card and Certificate Management stack is pretty not existing/not working.

Hope it will improve someday on this direction as well
it is not so easy for Google. The US side will always demand stuff from them. At least for having the ability.

Microsoft once had the right™ offering: Deutsche Telekom running the Azure data center, so it's the same software etc., but legally fully separated. Didn't get many customers (I don't know what kind of restrictions there were)
I think 1gbps is more limiting now in consumer space than 100 Mbps was back when gigabit started becoming widespread.
http://musicforprogramming.net is fantastic!
I like the PSVR headset design because the screen is not glued to your face it is suspended before your face and the whole thing is supported by your head.
If you haven't touched Reddit in a while - especially if you've been involved in real conversations/work on the same topics in the meantime - it's a bizarre experience to visit various subreddits and see the particular subcultures which have developed. It tends to be very narrow, uninteresting, and annoying. I think most any monolithic community is going to be more or less like this.

It definitely includes hobby subs too. Like, you may find everyone reciting "never do X", even though it's actually correct to do X sometimes, and that's just an oversimplified rule for beginners.

It's why I keep coming back to Twitter, because it only gives me exactly the people I choose to follow, even if I sometimes have to fight the app to keep that default chronological view with no garbage added.
vim with a bunch of external Python scripts and Go Programs plus vimscript bindings to them.

Why:

Endless flexibility, easy to develop and use new features (I essentially write a few lines of python to teach it a new trick). Example: I want to email a part of a source file to a coworker: I simply type

`mail:account:subject:to:addr[,addr...][:cc:addr[,addr...]]

on the line above the code, mark it + the lines I want to send, press <Leader>m and done. a few taps on `u` and the lines are gone again. Or I write issue notes in small md files, these include file links ... cursor over a link, <Leader>r and I jump right to the file, line + cursorposition. Issue file includes external link? `gx` and it opens in the browser.

And since vim integrates seamless with the terminal since version 8, I don't even need a multiplexer anymore :D
I'm not arguing against faster networks, but scenarios like "one fast download makes video streams buffer" can be solved by using better routing algorithms (CAKE for example) instead of making the pipe so wide that it'll never be close to full. One of these is a configuration flag that you can flip today and costs nothing, the other means upgrading infrastructure.
There's [lots of options](https://nextcloud.com/partners/) for using Nextcloud as a managed service.
You don't understand. You can send all your data plus your dirty underwear to Google for them to analyze. What you can't do is send them data of other ppl without their consent.
We definitely do have all of those. For some reason, IT managers prefer to teach themselves the AWS/Azure/GCloud configuration clusterfuck rather than the portable OpenStack configuration clusterfuck, but that's suffering we're all bringing on ourselves.
I'll take that in exchange for better privacy.
Meh, heavily depends on your setup. The lack of good apps on mobile devices that integrate with their respective OS (iOS/android) is a bit of a problem. It's also 3rd party apps (some closed source) and not official ones which is its own problem (-> trust).

Apart from that bitwarden is just wayyy easier, you simply tell the (official) app the URL to your vault and it's basically good to go. You don't have to worry about synchronization one bit. The app is also fairly nice and has all the features you need. Bitwarden also does the browser integration well, unlike keepass where it's a major pia.
we out here saying fuck Europe
maybe use something like goatcounter or selfhost the analytics.
None of them compares to Amazon. The only kinda similar competitor in Europe is... Yandex Cloud.

The reality is that we don't have the same ability of popping companies up and funding them.
How does the consumer know it is zero-knowledge?
> The primary purpose is to promote economic growth by reducing societal costs by deterring crime and fraud (including 'civil' fraud like breaking contracts) in an orderly manner.

Source please. There’s actual studies promoting things like bail reform that use actual data and such. Do you have anything like that, or are you just preaching from your privileged bubble with no idea what it’s like to be on the other side of the justice system?
The Younger Dryas was a climate cooling event around that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas

A minority view holds that the YD was caused by an comet disintegrating and creating a chain of impacts or airbursts across the Northern Hemisphere. A further subset of that minority suggests that those events are the source for flood myths around the world, and speculates that advanced civilizations existed prior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magicians_of_the_Gods
I don't need many, just one on par with the worst of the 3 major US clouds.

I'd even be happy with one that makes it in the top 10.