skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he had millions, he wouldn't have lost a security order (where the judge believes that you don't have sufficient assets to cover the other side's legal costs if you lose, you have to give the court security over some assets/funds to hold in escrow).
How exactly would you do that? EU institutions are notoriously unaccountable.

Besides, EU bodies just make the rules. They don't need to provide actionable alternatives or even have to comply with those rules themselves.
Apple turns the legislative contempt up to 11
Sago palms are poisonous. I do not know why they are listed as food. All parts of it are poisonous for both humans and animals.
Microsoft Deal Wipes $20B Off Sony's Market Value in a Day
SciAm used to fill that niche; serious science, by serious scientists or good science journalists, explained for, and entertaining, the everyman.

What I'm seeing now is not serious or good or science.
What’s the value in making parents feel bad about their choices? Who cares about the utility?? Why can’t we just be kind to people in the thick of it?? God, have some fucking compassion…

Do you want me to judge every aspect of your parenting? Do my thoroughly unqualified opinions help in any way??
Ooh, is this a good way to sandbox execs like ImageMagick or stuff like that?
You want to double check your math there?
For what little it's worth from a random internet person, I agree with you 100%. I do it the same way as you, with the database stored on Dropbox, and an offline key file. I just can't make myself trust an online service for this stuff, as irrational as that may be.

Even if KeePass turned out to have some expoloitable vulnerabilities, it's still running solely on my machine, and I don't allow it to connect to the internet at all. I suppose yes, if someone breaks into my computer I could be in trouble, but if they can do that, they can just steal my session cookies anyway, password manager or not.
For what it's worth, the EU is not a government. There will still be 27 countries implementing it - like browser vendors implementing a spec - and, again much like browser vendors, they won't be doing it in a well-coordinated fashion. It will be rife with <blink>s.

(Also, just for future reference, it's _the_ EU. Americans have a habit of doing this, also with the UK, and I don't understand it at all because your country is _the_ US.)
Cool! How does it handle סופית letters like ך /ח? Like totally separate letters?

For the non-Hebrew speakers, Hebrew has some letters that change form when placed at the end of the word. The Hebrew keyboard has these forms in their own key, but colloquially they're the same letter.
All ISPs in my country run their own recursive resolvers (with IPs resolving to my country). How "big" a resolver is does not matter at all - it's not a social network; the resolver either works or it doesn't work.

Some of the root servers are also in the EU, so there is zero dependence on the USA for resolving european ccTLDs.
> forcing people to use inferior products is bad

This is poor reasoning because it is missing context.
Inducement of massive algea blooms is extremely cost effective, can store massive amounts of carbon very quickly, and horrendously damaging to large lake, and ocean ecosystems, where you can use them.
There are two problems, the first is that its only effective as storage if you make it damaging enough to ensure mostly anoxic decomposition, so the damage is required. Its reusable though, so if you waste a huge lake, there is no reason not to do this over and over again. The second problem is that if you do it in oceans, then ensuring it sinks to the bottom, becomes key, though this is straightforward if you do it on a scale to solve global warming in a single sweep. Though you would sacrifice an ocean and everyone living nearby for decades. The one time someone tried it, it was a far more massive success than anticipated, but also killed the fishing and tourism industry on several nearby, and not so nearby islands, for several years.

A slower variant is to build artificial floating reefs, increasing the amount of marine snow. That improves the ecosystem, but requires significant investment.
It is listed on the sale page: https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/diablo_ii_resurrect...

> Internet connection, Battle.net® desktop app and Battle.net® Account required to play.
"Bad" here is "makes your wrists and carpal tunnels hurt", not "slows you down and causes tons of errors".

Thankfully, this article glosses over the terrible paper, "Fable of the Keys" by Leibowitz and Margolis, because the author couldn't find a copy. That's because this "classic" of ergonomics was published in "The Journal of Law and Economics", not any human-computer interface, or any other kind of kind of human interface journal. It's not a good paper from most standpoints, consisting mainly of a literature review, and a critique of Dvorak's (the human) experimental methods. The authors also appear to have started with a conclusion, and worked backwards to the article. Not recommended.
I don't understand the downvotes. The idea of turning excess oxigen into CO2 which I replied to is plainly stupid just because of this proportion. How much coal (and oxygen) would we use up to bring down CO2 levels to 0.03?
Update: must read piece by Stanford's Amy Zegart in this morning's Politico. How the Cuban Missile Crisis would have played out in our world of open source intel ;)

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/19/nuclear-sl...
So far I get the impression that judges are mildly amused by him, at least the one in Florida, otherwise they would commit him to an asylum or dismiss his cases outright
It's 280 now, but the point is the same: The system has been engineered from the ground up to create an environment that ENcourages insipid repetition, and actively DIScourages insightful discourse. I fear this will somehow get worse with Jack's departure.
This is exactly where I ended up recently. I went from noisy and power hungry Cisco/Juniper 10G switches to a silent Ubiquiti GigE switch with PoE and haven’t been happier.

10G was cool but I can’t recall a single instance where I really wish I had it back.
So they think people will put on a headset in order to shop.

Versus me picking up my phone and ordering something within a minute. Or texting someone a simple message.

What VR and metaverse miss is that they haven’t solved the asynchronous problem.
That statement at all doesn't say anything, because what does "choose unimpeded" mean?

That is at the core of this discussion, and why what then follows is a wall of text to set up compatibilism vs. incompatibilism and determinism vs indeterminism, including addressing the issue that many of the proponents of various variants would interpret "choose unimpeded" in entirely different ways.

You'll see that the page itself introduces a number of different interpretations, and you'd struggle to get most people to agree with those definitions.

E.g. many compatibilist views "work around" the determinism issue by separating our internal view of our ability to choose with the physical reality of the choices. In that case I'd agree that that kind of "soft" free will is possible, but it's also meaningless. E.g. a murderer may have exercised such "soft" free will, but that does not create any moral responsibility for their action if determinism meant they had no actual control anyway.

As such, while that kind of "free will" is reasonable to say it exists, it is not the kind of free will usually debated, because it doesn't actually address the important question of whether or not we actually have the ability to make a genuinely free choice. E.g. if we were to rewind time, could we choose differently? On the basis of what?

With the added caveat that merely another outcome in line with e.g. probabilistic effects from quantum effects are not a choice - so let's say we repeat the experiment many times: can you introduce a bias that is inconsistent with randomness; when you start diving into this you start quickly seeing that even trying to define a way of determining if something meaningfully is a "choice" gets at the core of the issue.

So let's restate it:

If we can agree that a an "unimpeded choice" is a decision that is something other than a pure deterministic or probabilistic effect caused by the preceding physical state, then how can you restate that in a way that makes its existence or nonexistence testable?

Because without that it's just woo.
Ah, the ol' double-free bug!
Wahoo, strava, intervals.icu, hrv4t, kubios, elitehrv, ..I'm better than I was, excuse I know where I was.
That's pretty much equivalent to just using materialized WITH clauses, no? Those act as an optimization barrier and are materialized in order before the query is run.
Use firejail, it's a "one click" solution with prepackaged profiles.

https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/

It uses the same kernel knobs as systemd does, but is more user-friendly and has more features.

I use it for every application that handles data received from other machines: books, images, documents, whatever.
An opinion is something that can be represented as a proposition about the world. It's the non-factive superclass of a fact: i.e. the structure of a fact, but not requiring/entailing the property of truth. Hatred is not an opinion, it's an emotion.

For more information, have a look at this fantastic Buzzfeed article: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ludwigwittgenstein/fantastic-ways-t...
Yet, you keep satisfying your urge to cast judgment on an internet stranger?? What’s the difference? How are you helping?? What utility does angry expert parent bregma provide to this thread or to the other parent’s life??
4°C warming by 2100 “can't be ruled out”
This is pretty similar to hardware made by Radical Software and Accolade for professional development back in the day. Also the EA dev hardware was similar but more advanced since it contained additional hardware for capturing the bus like a logic analyzer might. For the Accolade version it was very similar to this design. I worked on the debugger and it was a lot of fun. At the time we used the Lattice C compiler and I supported C source level debugging including watches that could use a C like parser.
HashiCorp Vault solves a different problem. Password managers target the end user password management problem, whereas HashiCorp Vault targets the bootstrapping problem for servers/services.
It does seem sometimes that a lot of folks use C for philosophical rather than practical reasons.

That being said, I love seeing a push for simple stacks like this.
I wish blocking AutoModerator worked. Having a stickied comment at the top of every thread is not particularly useful.
Just another anecdote but HN is the actually only place I've seen it mentioned personally
> I believe Valve has employees working on these projects too

Very few, actually. Most of the actual work on these projects is contracted out. You can view the git logs, not many @valvesoftware.com addresses.
The ingredients were always there; we're a nation founded by Puritans. What's supposed to save us is a robust system of checks and balances, coupled with strong protection of individual rights.
Mine's detecting 20 at the moment, and using 14 of those. This varies slightly from minute to minute. Many GPS apps display this data.
It got you knowledge and consent. Cookie popups are malicious compliance by shady sites and vendors, especially those that "you can't even simply answer no to". Blame them, not the EU for bringing them to light ( like you'd blame Coca-Cola for the amount of sugar in their sugary drinks and not the regulator that made them show it front and center).
Apple, Google plead with lawmakers not to regulate app stores, search
Thank you. There's no organized opposition yet. The local Democratic Party seems willing to let elections serve their purpose. Seattle has a fair number of self-assessed independents, but so few voters are registered Republicans that the party doesn't really come up.

Given all of that, I don't expect opposition from parties.

Individuals, it's harder to predict. There's always going to be someone who wants whatever election method yields the winners (in this case, the general election candidates) they want, regardless of whether they are the most representative or most popular. However, at least around here, it's rare to find people who put their own preferences ahead of representative democracy - let alone being willing to publicly advocate for that. "I want what I want" is a difficult position to push for.
So then game pass doesn’t lose billions. It makes billions since Microsoft does. Using your logic of assigning expenses and profit any where
Yeah, I’ve been a bit surprised at how few of the home tier NASes can get 10G. A bit of a chicken and egg, I guess.

You don’t need to go fully 10G, though, I mainly prioritized my workstation for example, and if you don’t want to splash out for switches, you can do a direct connection on 10G to a computer that needs it, and use the 1G links to the rest of the LAN.
> No, switching creates risks.

Absolutely - but again, that's apparently not why NGINX was dismissed as an option.
> I also dislike needing an app and an internet connection for the most basic functionality with some purchased device.

Yeah, my watch supports setting (and syncing) the time and timezones using bluetooth. But before you can do that, you must agree to the maker's ridiculous privacy policy which includes consenting to sending them all kinds of data that has fuck all to do with setting the time on a watch. Immediately uninstalled. So that feature is dead weight to me unless/until someone reverse engineers the watch.
Can't vouch for any in particular, but they do exist. https://github.com/oz123/awesome-c#string-manipulation
No. Especially for the Native American population. It's important for us to have statistics on those with Native blood, especially since the government was entitled to legally kidnap children from family regardless of home stability as recently as 1978.
If it is already working, and your CAC is essentially $0 for those referrals, do you anticipate seeing a huge amount of growth if you introduced a referral program? One that would be large enough to outweigh the new costs?

Seems like a great thing to have customers loving you enough to be bringing you new leads without any incentivization. Perhaps you could find other ways of thanking your good referrers in a more natural way (even sending them a box of chocolates or a personal outreach from the CEO to offer a one-time consultation session) that might go even further, be more flexible, and keep you from introducing new costs and problems.
Scheduling API for Modern Companies
A startup from Toronto offers a scheduling system for modern enterprises.
Agree with that. Cryptocurrencies are showing first hand the stupidity of burocrats. I'm not against regulation, I am though, against the excess of it, which is what's happening right now. People can't even breed without a burocrat saying "tax that, regulate that, forbid that,...".

But after Covid became crystal clear, freedom is just a buzz word.
And in the spirit of our species, instead of solving the problem we'll probably try to find a way to blow up remote volcanoes.

Volcano Blaster, Sponsored by BP.
No one is worried about cookies, as they are just one and zeros on a computer. It is the personal information being shared with sponsors, social media, analytics, and other vendors or what ever they feel is offering them enough money.

The reason we are in this privacy hell is the confusion between technology, ie cookies, and personal information, ie sensitive information about people and their lives that get traded like commodity goods. It is how technology is used that matters.
There are a number of marine processes which permanently bind carbon, and they do increase with increased CO2 concentration. Problem is that they are overwhelmed by current production. If we reduce CO2 production to zero, the earth will mostly bounce back on its own in a century or two.
Millions? Over what timeline? Or are we assuming that society collapses without police?
A lot of people use self-shaming as a strategy for change. And, from experience, I know it works. But, the toll of it on one's mental heath isn't worth it. At least, for some of us, all that shame adds up and causes issues down the road.
Best No-Code App Builders (Part 1)
Snippet. My gulpfile (when and why I still use Gulp in 2021)
You keep ignoring every one saying that Bethesda acquisition which was Zenimax being acquired was also bought for other things and they got other things as well.
And it is exactly the people of Austria who elected those politicians who enacted the laws which all innovating companies must respect. So apparently the people of Austria DO give a flying monkey about this topic.
> If you mean why not only use nginx

Yes, this is what I meant. I originally wrote a SaaS app that was hosted through Apache and ended up putting NGINX on top of it for the aforementioned reasons. But eventually testing showed that removing Apache just made the whole thing a whole lot more manageable. I have friends with similar anecdotes. Just putting NGINX in front from the get-go would have saved a lot of tech debt.
The job market is great…for mid-level and senior engineers. One thing I’d say is to get a referral for Jr level roles and that will atleast get your resume in front of someone. Also attend virtual hiring events. YC has the Work at a Startup event every once in a while. Take advantage of services like LeetResume for resume writing.

Edit:

https://hackerx.org/ for hiring events and networking
Ask HN: Can E2E comms already be eavesdropped by fake groups?
Suppose WhatsApp were forced to add a law enforcement agency to every single WhatsApp group and 1 to 1 conversation, but not show this in the UI (obviously). To me, this sounds an easy solution for the government to get around end to end encryption.

If I'm wrong, why am wrong?
Great list. I would also recommend checking out some movies in Bigscreen. It supports 3D movies.
Oh neat! Didn’t know
Where else has been taken over hardest by the woke other than corporate America and geek culture?

This is a perfect fit.
You're on to something.

To make it concrete, let's look at methane, the hydrocarbon with most hydrogen.

One kg of methane contains 0.75 kg of C and 0.25 kg of H. When it burns it realeases 55.6 MJ (per wikipedia [1]). Carbon's energy density is 32.7 MJ/kg, so the 750 g release 24.6 MJ. More importantly, you could in principle split the CO2 for the cost of 24.6 MJ and be left with a net of 31 MJ. Q.E.D.

Well, except in real life nothing is done with 100% efficiency. You can't just use all the 55.6 MJ released by burning CH4, you first convert it to electricity, and the best you get is 63%, so you make 35 MJ of electricity. If you get 70% efficiency in splitting CO2, you get exactly the 24.6 MJ you need. But you don't get that efficiency. But let's just say you get even more than that, let's say you get a whooping 85%. That means you need 30 MJ for the splitting, and you are left with a net of 5 MJ of electricity. Which is another way of saying you increased the cost of electricity you generate by a factor of 6 (=30/5), this ignoring altogether the capital cost associated with the splitting of CO2.

But all is not lost.

If we get back to 1kg CH4 = 0.75 kg C + 0.25 kg H2, burning the CH4 we get 55.6 MJ, burning the C and H2 separately, we get 24.6 MJ + 35.5 MJ = 60.1 MJ, which is 4.5 MJ more. That's a different way of saying you need 4.5 MJ to split CH4 into C and H2. That reaction is called methane pyrolysis [2]. Let's say you manage to deliver this with only 30% efficiency, i.e. for 15 MJ. You are left with 35.5-15=20.5 MJ net energy. If you convert this to electricity you get about 13 MJ, which is not that great. But hydrogen is valuable in itself. If we move towards the hydrogen economy, this method of generating hydrogen may be the winner.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolysis#Methane_pyrolysis_fo...
"lf there is a possible hereditary tendency to acquire xenophobia and nationalist feelings, it is a non sequitur to interpret such a hypothesis as an argument in favour of racist ideology."

Whether they are held in lay or scientific forums, this statement is central to many of the arguments over racism.

The key issue in this sentence is its initial point, which is that we still do not know whether the human race has any hereditary tendency to acquire xenophobia.

We need to determine for certain whether this is in fact true or otherwise. Guessing one way or other not only doesn't help but it also fuels the fires of those on either side of the debate. If we know the answer for certain then it's much easier to set a course to remedy the situation.

If we are to make real progress then I believe it's cucial that we determine the facts and we need to do immediately. In the earlier posts some 14 days ago on SciAm and E.0.Wilson I made the following point:

"As discussion and debate over gene expression has been in the high-stakes category both in the scientific community and across much of humanity for decades it would ultimately make sense to get to the scientific truth of the matter. If it eventuates and we learn for certain that human genes are in fact able to express themselves in ways that the vast majority of us humans now find morally repugnant and that such expression manifests in actual behaviour then as a species we'd be forced to deal with the problem head-on rather than sweep it under the carpet (as we now seem to be doing)."
From the documentation:

> The lack of a common language is the most divisive border.
The first step towards mutual comprehension is a common language.
The first step towards a common language is a common alphabet.
My favourite Wordle thing is still the adversarial one, by the creator of Hatetris:

https://qntm.org/files/wordle/index.html
https://onsched.com/
I’d be more concerned with the chip the adapter uses. While I don’t have experience with their USB-C variants I’ve had good experiences otherwise with Axis.

As far as I can tell they seem to be the “go-to” in the USB-Ethernet game and are well supported on Linux and anything else I’ve used them on.
EU regulator calls 4 ban on proof of work Bitcoin mining 2 save renewable energy
I personally never had those issues. You can certainly test drive Bitwarden for free. Importing from 1Password is rather straight forward.
The real problem is that there is no standardised cookie banner format mandated in EU.

There should be accept all, accept necessary, reject all options.

The cookie banner anti-patters are most infuriating game of gotcha since tiny moving X button on pop-up ads.
Less sharp the further away you are.

In Fiji it sounded like thunder rumbling. In Alaska it was nearly infrasound.
I though the poor were living from social security checks.

Working people trade labor for money. Are you claiming that you cannot make surplus from a salary? It seem you're claiming agreed upon salary is preventing you accumulating capital and the rich are to be blamed somehow.
Show HN: CodeCaptcha - Hide web links behind coding challenges
Hello HN, I made this silly project over the long weekend. It’s pretty basic right now and the captchas are very easy. I plan to add captcha difficulty levels for link creators soon.