skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Interesting that AA frames it as TPG's app stealing confidential customer data, while it is the customer who set up the app and willingly provided their credentials in the first place.

They think the data belongs to them. They think they own the consumers and all the data they generate. To them, it's their consumer data, something they abuse to get consumers to log in and look at ads, and they'll be damned if they let some random software have access to it no matter what the user wants.

GDPR makes it clear that personal data belongs to the person, these companies are just middle men who are temporarily processing it. Cases like this perfectly illustrate why such a change in perspective is necessary. Access to this data is a privilege and it can be revoked.
What percentage of your portfolio did you sell?
Let's say feature updates make sense to pay for, bug fixes don't.
> approximately 4 × 10−4 of all pixels would be lost over the course of a year. However, simply counting pixels affected by satellite streaks does not capture the entirety of the problem, for example resources that are required to identify satellite streaks and mask them out or the chance of missing a first detection of an object

It looks like the main problem is not the amount of data lost but amount of extra manual work this situation causes. I assume Starlink tracks and knows where their satellites are, so why don't they just provide data feed to trusted third parties who might be affected by their satellites? That way researchers could automatically classify these trails.
>Monitors are bigger than ever with huge resolutions, and yet UIs are being dumbed down to
>uselessness and alienating an increasing number of users.

This! so much this!

Never have we had so much screen real estate, yet UI designers seem to want to compress the actioanable items into as small a space as possible, with the stated goal of providing as much 'content' space as possible. The result is swathes of pointless unused whitespace, or overly large fonts to fill up the space if anybody uses the app maximized.

Currently on Chrome, the tabs occupy what was once the Title bar (why ??!), same on Office apps where the save and search functions take space on the Title bar. Please, I'm an MDI guy, I hardly ever maximize application, and since the monitor(s) is so large, I like to have an easy to click Title bar to select my focus app, or to move the window somewhere. I've been doing this since the GEM days, and that's how I like it!
I think you can retroactively declare that it was
If you are going to use CBD medically, you should be buying the pure CBD isolate.

https://www.crescentcanna.com/product/cbd-isolate-powder/
Look into delivery, maybe?
That is impressive. I wish I was like you.

I drink coffee up to 2130. And I sleep like a baby from 0000.
I usually prefer tiling WMs but among the more modern Linux desktops Gnome is my favorite. It does all I need in a polished way. At least since the performance improvements, initially Gnome 3 was just too sluggish.
> I see and hear of GDPR violations everywhere (here in the UK, pre and post Brexit). Despite the threat of legal action, companies still ignore (too small to care) or are ignorant of the rules.

It was wild west before GDPR, it takes time for companies and attitudes to adjust. And that adjustment is ongoing. Every fine helps; it results in increasing compliance. Give it a few years, wild west won't be so wild anymore. I'm sure you'll still find lots of smaller companies that didn't get the memo but the likelihood that your daily activities involve entities that violate your privacy left and right is getting lower and lower.

> The annoying cookie banners where everyone just clicks "accept all" because no one wants to go through a list of checkboxes. This is classic EU strategy to problems

Annoying banners are not EU strategy, they are strategy by companies who want to violate your rights and annoy you until you consent. The regulators are aware of this problem and I believe it's being worked on.

The DSA proposal discussed in the article includes additional regulation against dark patterns and there's this little bit: > In order to avoid fatiguing recipients who refuse to consent, terminal equipment settings that signal an objection to processing of personal data should be respected.

I have no idea if it's going to work out but this would make something like Do Not Track legally binding. I very much support this bit, because I hate annoying consent nags as much as you do..
If you can use your horoscope to predict things with a 95+% accuracy, I am fine with it. You can even do cafeomancia if you want.
wow, that is very badass.
> it's really hard to operate a predictably sustainable (i.e. profitable) business [... with other providers]. Fly just gives us compute at the edge for a predictable price per unit of actual compute resources as opposed to requests, and gives us freedom to serve as much traffic as we can min-max onto those resources, like we could with traditional cloud compute

The praise on the subject of predictability is interesting, given perennial concerns about uncapped vs capped usage charges (with any cloud provider), but esp. in light of past Fly-specific comments that "putting work into features specifically to minimize how much people spend seems like a good way to fail a company".

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24699221>
As long as the ‘under penalty of perjury’ phrase is not enforced, this will keep happening.
I've found that a daily regimen of lion's mane plus bacopa and for just one month did wonders at restoring my memory and clarity after quitting weed a while back. This was before I was officially diagnosed as ADHD, I had tried for the longest to avoid getting on stimulants, but at a certain point, my career and my life was falling apart due to my inability to control my impulses.
Yes I did not parse that correctly. Thanks.
Human customer service and technology: Striking the right balance
I did read the study, and while it clearly spells out that effect wane after one week in many cases, it remains completely vague on any persistence of long term effects under abstinence.

I've searched for the words day, week, month and year and there is absolutely no clear cut result to the end of persistency of THC/CBD effects.

What the study does clarify though is that the cohorts in most studies were small and that more research is needed for more tangible results.

The one positive advise, well hidden, is to counsel youth about unhealthy usage patterns, i.e. chronic canabis abuse.

A lot of fluff around no solid findings.

Which is a statement in and by itself.
Such a misleading post linking to opinion pieces... you know very well that the first one was just ASKING why some high traffic streets in Stockholm had to be closed, with some people obviously trying to blame the recent prioritization changes but that by no means being unequivocaly the cause (IMO it was just more snow than the system was prepared to handle).

Here is how it currently works in Stockholm: https://trafik.stockholm/gator-torg/sno-halka/sa-fungerar-sn...

Translating the main part:

In the snow removal work, we prioritize high-capacity methods of transport, that is:

* walk
* bike
* public transport.

"High capacity" here may be misleading... in Stockholm, most people move around by foot or bycicle... that's why "walk" and "bike" are the first items listed. Just like it was shown in the video.
LOL. Unfortunately, we still are not in any position to do anything about any detected asteroid.
>Is it a dialect or a separate (although closely related) language to English?

As I see it, Scots and Standard English are two dialects of the same language.

>If these countries had not undergone unification in the 19th century would Duolingo be offering courses in Venetian and Bavarian?

Tuscan and High German became the standard with the Renaissance and the printing press, centuries before nationalism.

Different areas of Italy in particular had different literary vernaculars over time. One's that's particularly amusing to me is Franco-Venetian [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Italian
> However, I admit that I missed myself and should've called out that the spec, while stable, is still a draft - that's a mistake on my part.

As is never mentioning the fact that WebUSB is considered harmful by both Safari and Firefox, and hiding it behind "oh, I do hope other browsers will implement it". They won't, you are perfectly aware of it, and the reasons why they won't.
Musk offers to send Starlink terminals to Tonga to help restore internet access
Seems a little silly. Streaks are small and a tiny part of an image. So long as the satellites don’t block a constant part of the sky, if they block < 1% of the frame you can probably just ignore the problem entirely. Assume that by chance anything missed on photo n will be captured on n + 1.

I’m assuming it’s totally fine to delay asteroid detection by one search with regards to whatever we can do about asteroids.
Major issues? The article is very vague about what exactly this guy's problem was, but we can get a hint from the mention of Damore's memo and that the problems included:

"preventing staff from asking unfiltered questions at all-hands meetings, policing virtual spaces where workers convene, monitoring and enforcing content rules for email lists and taking down posts on internal boards"

"a culture where bosses felt empowered to put results ahead of comity"

“Since the Damore memo, Google has tried to tamp down on outrage and to get individuals less preoccupied to address societal issues,”

"Shaw said his new manager suggested he didn’t deserve his paycheck because he wrote an inconsistent amount of code."

This is all code for: they asked me to focus on my job instead of social justice activism.

Also, the way the article primarily cites people who have self-admitted mental health issues is rather telling. Why couldn't they find people who are without psychological issues to build their story around?

I actually used to work in Google SRE and know some of the people mentioned in this article. The idea that department is full of racist sociopaths is absurd and frankly slanderous. All this says far more about Bloomberg, the type of stories they want to write and the sort of people the company is struggling to rid itself of than anything else.
I wonder what happens to a Jew who sneaks to SA. Pretending Saudis are better is nuts.
Seen from another view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDCMjmQr4Eo

I saw this one first and dismissed it as trolling, until seeing the other view. Now I don't know what to think, but it is quite a coincidence..
the problem with caffeine is, that once you are clean of it, you quickly get hooked on it again (due to socializing).
Every meeting revolves around drinking coffee or tea or cola.
These prions sound horrible, less defensible against than viruses, and at the same time much simpler in form than viruses so much more common (easier to appear).

What is the reason that we can thank for prion diseases not being much more common?
Endocannabinoids have been known for a while, but how Endocannabinoids are made in the human body is a newer discovery (~2016).

What should be being broadcast is how important Omega 3 is for increasing CB1R and CB2R activity to reduce inflammation and disease. This has everything to do with COVID and learning to live with SARS2 without people dropping dead or having to stay home from work. This is something everyone can do now, without waiting for legalization, working about dosing, or giving money to yet another 3rd party.

Why is there so little talk about Omega 3 and lowering COVID complications?

Because people are trained by the media everyday that drugs are the answer to everything and diet does not matter.

The global cannabidiol market size was valued at $2.8 billion in 2020 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 21.2% from 2021 to 2028. Do you think these people want you to know that the same anti-inflammatory action can be achieved by lowering Omega 6 and increasing Omega 3 in your diet?
Prions are terrifying
SkyLifter is an eVTOL air crane
> In all the questions there is the implicit assumption that the grammar of a language is based on a set of rules that can be reproduced and reapplied. This is hardly the case with natural languages, which, rather than sets of rules, are more like vast sets of exceptions to very few rules.

Even if the exceptions outnumber the rules, each rule applies in a much larger number of cases, so each case is more likely to follow the rule rather than being an exception.

And linguistics as a field is really about the regularity of languages. When exceptions are studied, it is to discover the underlying rules that e.g. cause exceptions to arise or to disappear.

As a competition, the IOL additionally has the constraint that it should be solvable in a reasonable timeframe, so rather than making people wade through mountains of incomplete and contradictory data, you get carefully selected problems that require less effort to solve.
Those streaks are what, 0.0000001% of the sky? Probably less?

It’s like if there were just a few thousand cars and boats on the entirety of planet earth, evenly spaced out across the land and sea. And then someone pipes up to complain about the heavy traffic, or the constant sound of horn honking.
First checkout-free store in the history of ALDI
I suspect most of the piracy in those apps was among people who were never the target market. Someone who wants to make funny cat pictures, or even edit photos they took with their $300 point-and-shoot camera isn't going to pay $400 for Photoshop.

Professionals who make their living using Photoshop usually don't have much trouble with the cost, whether paid monthly, or occasionally when a new version has a feature they care about.

Being able to bring in some more casual customers with a lower initial cost is just a bonus.
Agreed that Linux directory structure is kind of a mess. The extent to which it's a mess varies from distribution to distribution, though. For example, on Arch, /bin, /sbin, and /usr/sbin are all just symlinks to /usr/bin.
The Bash CEO is not a Bezos, Musk, Steve Jobs combo by accident.
I’d think Hobbes is better known for his ideas on sovereignty, rather than pop culture views on barbarism and civilization.
A "Proficient in HTML" title might be more funny to the HN crowd.
I find it interesting - for me, the existence of an olympiad for a subject is a kind of immediate proof that there's plenty of room for a particular kind of problem-solving in it (which you don't necessarily get ready-to-hand in all fields of knowledge/research).
Smoking is an acquired taste. As is alcohol. We learn to like things that make us feel good, and learn to dislike things that make us feel bad (poisonous or spoiled).
Dont worry about it, my PS5 has been collecting dust since a year since there are very few relevant games to play anyway.
> We don't know that though, do we?

We can reasonably conclude the internet was not created to spy on citizens, it was created for military connectivity. One could suggest the World Wide Web was created for espionage, but that again requires several leaps with respect to its early creators, most of whom have shown a lifelong dedication to a vision of human freedom that far exceeds the population’s central tendency.

Was the rollout of the WWW and internet to the masses motivated, in part, by domestic surveillance desires? Sure. Almost no question about it. But was that a guiding aim? No, at least not in America, not until the project was well underway.
That did Prussia a whole lot of good in 1918.
You are right, and wrong. Yes we will need a kubernetes-like orchestrator to manage WASM instances. But what the author means in general is that WASM will change the game entirely, such that the industry's recent affair with Kubernetes will become irrelevant. And I agree.
A Cookbook for Startup Accelerators
I find it interesting how opposite my view is of yours. I see earth as flourishing with 100k+ people lifting themselves out of extreme poverty, daily, for the last 25 years. I see violence on the decline for decades. I see new discovery happening at an insane rate that gives me hope. I see people identifying issues and the world responding, maybe not perfectly or even effectively, but there's certainly huge movement with real problems across the board. People are more connected to information than ever and as a whole I see progress dominating and the future looks incredibly bright.
I also came here to complain about this use of the word "rape". If you titled this article "The Tragic Rape of Charles Bukowski's Poetry", then it would be used solely as the original meaning. The current title is specifically designed to invoke the idea of a sexual assault - what if the title used the word "Corpse" instead of "Ghost"?
> I mean why would someone who cares anything at all about how software looks even glance at Windows if they had any choice?

If they're building software for Windows??? Duh, WTF else are they supposed to look at? "Hey, my mockups of our Windows-only software look great on my Mac, so what's the problem?" is about the stupidest thing that designer could possibly say.

And if what they're designing is not just software for Windows, but Windows itself, it's ten times worse. Which is what's under discussion here.

> Imagine taking someone who is so passionate about UX that they made a career out of it, making them use their worst nightmare as their daily driver, and then giving them zero institutional power to fix any of it because of the n-dev years problem.

Yeah, that might be a fascinating hypothetical to discuss some other time, but this discussion is about the problem of designers "so passionate about UX" that they insist on making stuff look "good" at the cost of usability and consistency being given all the institutional power to break it despite the n-user-years problems this causes. The exact opposite of what you are imagining.
Not true. I prefer paying for upgrades on my own schedule to a subscription any day.
Counterpoint: below a certain price point, no you don’t.
(2021)

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27982991
Somebody has been fined for reporting illegal parking to the city. Yes really, they say he has no legitimate interest in reporting people who park on the sidewalk in a way that's endangering pedestrians.

https://www-mucbook-de.translate.goog/wenn-datenschutz-falsc...
If their primary mission was observation, they would be an incredible astronomical resource. However, I think that given the fuel constraints and SLA they aim to provide, I would be shocked if they used any fuel to orient for extraterrestrial observation.
It would also be a lot more compelling to show number of deals. I get the impression it's deal quantity that slows. Size is held as more of a standard.
Intel i7 1165g7

Anyway, I don't want to waste CPU cycles or battery life on such things.
> because of its more generous license

Gifting an OS to companies that use it to compete against the FLOSS ecosystem. That's a bit of a self-own.
Grandma should get triple vaxed, and if she still gets covid and dies then maybe it was her time.

It’s not about “selfishness” it’s about making realistic trade offs between different segments of society and different aspects of life.
It works, because a few times I was surprised that paid in euro instead dollars.
99.4-99.6% survival rate (1), good sir. Anyone at high risk is free to take extra precautions.

No one is “inflicting violence” by living normally.

(1) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.03.20089854v...
If you like these types of puzzles, I'd suggest getting The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book, which is a very accessible curated collection of ILO problems.
Indeed, seems similar to Sublime, depending on its performance.

So in terms of bloat/complexity, the order of editors seem to be something like this currently:

Notepad > Notepad++ > Sublime/CudaText > Visual Studio Code > Visual Studio (Proper)/XCode/Other full-blown IDEs
Jonathan Blow posted something a while back I thought was interesting: type "frustrating" into Google image search. Notice anything about the results?

https://www.google.com/search?q=frustrating&tbm=isch
+1 On that. Cuda is the only editor that supports my work challenges, that is editing huge ASM.js files (100MB+) without any problem.
Windows 3.x was white, it is Windows 95 that was gray.

Amusingly Win10 was the first time since 3.1 where using the color returned for GetSysColor(COLOR_WINDOW) would give you a "correct" color for the window background :-P.
King Sauds airforce is flying eurofighters sold by Britain
There's only 568km from Tonga to Niue, who still have Internet. I wonder if that's close enough to use a hypothetical Niue base station to bounce Internet off a Starlink to Tonga. Might be a little patchy depending on the exact locations of the satellites at any time.

Edit: Looks like Starlink doesn't have great coverage at this latitude anyway, currently: https://findstarlink.com/#4032402;3
yardie said text file, not binary files. Not sure what text editor doesn't bark at a 10GB binary file. Probably Sublime would be alone in handling it, but don't have it in front of me right now to test.
Great Books Are Still Great
For me: Do it alone. Do the first 5% of the task to get the momentum. Vape it slowly while doing the task. Combine w caffeine. Psych youself up by saying "what if...". Use low temp vape so co2 and physical symptoms don't interfere. Use it to let your curiosity propel you. Use the smallest amount you can to achieve the effect. Try different strains and keep track. Sometimes a body strain can put you in touch with your body, pushing you to stretch/lengthen and that makes you more productive. Sometimes heady strains are too weird, but this varies greatly w indiv. Also exercising on weed can be very effective esp in nature... just dont push yourself past limits and stretch and roll after.
Horoscopes sometimes work.
Not sure if this is a dumb question but is this basically the same as Heroku? What’s the difference?
Human transmissible prions are the most terrifying non-extinction level event I could imagine for humanity.

Prion diseases like mad cow kill within one year after 5-10 years of infection.

The massive wave of death and terror would end society as we know it
> officials decided to bypass the market and, on Monday evening, manually set prices at the maximum of $9,000 per megawatt hour

You're trying to argue that this quote + greedy heartless capitalism -> give up and let the energy grid go dark.

That needs strong evidence. Occam's razor suggests they were genuinely caught off guard and they'll be better prepared next time. $9k/MWh is a very tempting price for someone who can have a generator set up on standby. Some people like making insane revenue. Possibly even some Texans. The price of electricity was basically infinity here.
Your second paragraph answers the first question, I think! As you probably know, more antennas spread further apart dramatically increases the effective antenna size when phased correctly.