skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GDPR specifies otherwise than your interpretation, logical as yours may be from a technical standpoint.

The site operator chose an optional way to embed fonts in a way that divulges PII to a non-GDPR destination. As there is no legal or technical requirement to embed Google Fonts, the site operator is therefore liable.

If use of Google Fonts was mandatory for the web to function, then the site operator would not have been found liable. It is not: they can be mirrored locally, or simply not used, and the web as viewed from the user’s perspective will continue to function just fine. (IANYL, etc.)
>let's make this product less powerful" isn't a common modding activity.

Actually it is for 'consumer' LEDs products, like a top 1. Undervolting GPUs and laptop CPUs is rather common too.
Simpler way: use real financial instruments. Traditional financial systems have had solutions for errors like this for centuries.
Someone must be lobbying for it. I would like to be in the room when the Senate panel discusses things like this.

Let us let businesses pay for MCOs with pre tax dollars. But not individuals, that would be undesirable….why?

Let us let businesses select retirement fund options for employees, and then let employees save $21k to $50k per year of pre tax money if they invest in their employer’s retirement savings options (401k).

Let us only let individuals save $6k pre tax in their own retirement account, without the meddling of employers. Let us go one step further and phase this benefit out if one employee works for an employer with 401k and the other does not.

As of 2020, let us let employees pay for student loans with pre tax money if they pay through their employer. But not students who pay themselves.

Let us pay for public transit with pre tax money, but only if via employer.

And so on and so forth. You see TONS of laws that explicitly give an upper hand to employees of well funded employers, effectively giving a competitive disadvantage to employees of poorer employers (small businesses, immigrants) and simultaneously incentivizing those who do work for well funded employers to not seek other options, such as starting their own small business.
We had two: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
Maybe it's time to bring back "Weaponized" Comic Sans: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00025.htm...
Exactly - The 512K expansions were by far the most common expansion. I did play games on my Amiga, but far more of my time was spent doing other things with it.
I hope you weren't involved in helping someone launder money.
It's a shame that the Americans don't have a culture of putting luminaries (other than presidents obviously) on their bank notes; it's a wonderful and far-reaching way of celebrating a person's contribution to the culture. Even so, Ritchie might be considered a little niche for such an accolade, but it's a nice thought experiment nevertheless.
Ideally you'd teach python to build a c compiler. ;)

That said do people know more about the innards of Java ? It shield you from a lot of details too. From memory layout, to polymorphic calls.
A perfect example of how the world is so complex it’s very difficult to know what to do, at the citizen level. It’s like we need leaders we can trust to do the right thing after looking at the appropriate research. However, our faith in those leaders is at an all-time low.
I'm saying he's wrong. People bleed differently. He has no idea how often his guesses are right, and even when they are, it's not due to the blood. He hasn't even considered how to take actual data.

I know that because it would not have escaped the notice of so many scientists taking actual data. There is no chance of him being correct. So he's either stupid or lying. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt by saying he's stupid.
They are pretty useful for a number of data structures, and Rust uses them heavily in the standard library.

I'm not aware of as many uses of field by field initialization of a struct but there is an example similar to this blog in the docs[1] (without the alignment considerations.)

That said my read has been the complexity is accidental as a result of language decisions to improve safe rust. MaybeUnit was only defined 3 years ago when it was discovered that mem::uninitialized /zeroed resulted in undefined behavior when used with bools. [2][3]

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/union.MaybeUninit.html#ini...

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53491

[3] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.uninitialized.html
My insurance did this for my kid’s eczema. Except the $5 one was an immune suppressant. For my toddler. For eczema. During a pandemic.

The only sane response to that is “okay, I won’t give my kid either of those; we’ll just stick with OTC lotions”. Which is exactly what they intended.
> keep Russia from invading Germany, there’s zero risk of that.

Granted that 1945-1990 was somewhat of an anomaly, it was a recent and important one...
EUvsDisinfo contains both Russian propaganda and EU vision. Just search for your «facts» there. (They have Russian translation).

When Russian outlets and TV channels will present both RF and Western points of view, I will watch them, but currently I prefer to read EUvsDisinfo.

> a website which quite aggressively translates the official Western stance

«Aggressively»? It's not a TV channel in each major country and a show at prime time at major channels in RF, with 9 zeroes in budget. It's just a site with few guys.

> For reference, I do know both Russian and Ukrainian (the latter to an extent of being able to understand news), so I built my opinion based on Ukrainian media and social networks.

I guess, you're already banned from pro-Ukrainian social circles, because I see no guys like you anymore in FB. Which is a bit sad, because I like to argue with them to better understand our enemy. Where I can meet people like you on FB or YouTube?
Just to point out it's index trackers you're recommending. The "ETF" part is just a method of purchasing an index tracker. There are other ways. ETFs are also available that invest in all kinds of garbage and are not necessarily index trackers.
And, it made me wonder if it was an octal representation of something.
I have seen real proof of this. The only reason "regular" people buy Android is to save money, but it becomes a support issue for their children and grandchildren. I've made sure my entire family is on iPhone. My mom could never figure out the bottom three buttons on Android. iOS makes more sense to her.
would it be possible to come up with a universal measure of ageing for cars?

Not universal or at least not easily or affordably. I can test each critical component and get a pretty good idea how much stress that component has been exposed to. Maybe the same could be done with mammals and we just test the critical components to get some numbers then apply a rough estimate of a score. Then perhaps a formula can be applied to the set of scores from all the critical components to assign a health score. I am considering the concept perfect is the enemy of good in this case.
> That is something you can and always could disable. I would however not want someone with a buggy system in some of my networks which makes this choice have side-effects in some scenarios.

Could you expand on this? Why wouldn't you want a machine that's not running spectre mitigations on your network?
Best case scenario, though, you win an Emmy
For you maybe. For me it is a great addition. If you dont like it use font ligatures.
They aren’t necessarily advocating learning C so that they can write lots of production code in C. They are advocating learning C to better understand lower layers of programming.

The basics of C are easy and illustrative. And given that the main Python interpreter is written in C, can be helpful to know.
Perhaps it's time to coin (sorry) a new phrase:

"Any sufficiently advanced smart contract system is indistinguishable from Magic the Gathering (tm)."
hahaha yeah you can claim a different definition of "crypto" depending on whether you're talking to an anarchist or an institutionalist.
Can't say much of it resonates with me, but good luck!
If you make a game for a given platform, it makes sense to target the most common configuration, which in this case was 512k (not 512M btw). Even though RAM expansions eventually became popular, I guess publishers would be hesitant to put a "requires 1M+" sticker on their boxes. But man, 512k seemed like a blessing in those early days, too...
As far as I can tell, no one has argued that transaction validation for this specific smart contract should be built into wallets. You're arguing with a straw man.

The point I see made instead is that the smart contract should not be coded to behave as it does. If a financial product at a retail bank set a pile of cash on fire when you used it incorrectly, regulators would swoop in and make the industry add some safety features, even if that safety came at the cost of convenience.
At least in that case someone actually got the money. In this case there was a valid transaction to a valid address that no one owns and no one can access.
I agree with everything you said, and feel exactly the same way; except my university switched from C to Java mid-way my attendance... so it probably just goes to show something or the other :->
That's true, I was more getting at the Mad Money sort of analysis that is entertainment masquerading as financial advice, but it's fair to say that it never reaches the level of crap that's on TikTok.
I’ve seen some of that as well. After a very large refactoring is done it is initially claimed a success by the lead but to only slowly dawn on the rest of the team that the codebase is not better, just more complicated without any significant gains. Mess is still there, it’s just a unfamiliar one.
Questions to the lead of the refactoring project cannot be answered as they are long gone some other place.
Low-cost insurance is an interesting idea that might actually work to smooth over some of the hard edges of "code is law".

It ought to be possible to craft an insurance policy that would pay out the $500k (or equivalent WETH/ETH) in cases like the one in this article, where the transparency of the ledger clearly shows that the tokens are unrecoverable.

As insurance companies are notorious for declining to pay out, the clear evidence trail would be helpful to allow the insuree to take the claim to a regular court for a human decision on its validity.
I know. That’s my point. Religiously following pep8 is absurd.
Jameson Lopp has a ton of resources on the topic (bitcoin centric, but lots of it translates immediately to other cryptos):

https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/security.html
Yeah, the retirement one is very telling, isn't it. Probably a strategic advantage for large companies that already have the bureaucratic infrastructure to administer complex benefits.

And if they want to grift their employees by giving them bad fund options because of some kickback the fund provider gives them, they can.
There's an absurdity about our time in that we have data, data analysis, extreme communication yet the efficiency and refinement of policies are still limited by the same bottlenecks.
Most people have horrible sleep hygiene.

They drink caffeine into the afternoon, ingest alcohol before bed and sleep in a warm, barely darkened room with ambient street/building noise. On top of that they spend the hour before bed staring at a brightly lit screen.

If you want to sleep properly try:

- Doing some steady state cardio after 1pm

- Getting your room as dark as possible

- Getting your room as quiet as possible (or using a noisy fan to drown out external sounds)

- Getting your room as cool as possible (64-67F)

- Move the phone across the room and do not look at it 90 mins before bed

- Avoid alcohol when possible

Some people have genuine sleep disorders, but most people don't do the basic stuff to ensure a proper sleep environment.
Would you learn how to fly a plane to better understand how a car works? The answer is no of course. You learn more of Python and its internal workings to understand Python better.
How is it possible to take a screenshot and be so blurry?
FTR: I'm not affiliated with nic.cz, even though I worked there 10+ years ago.
I believe human trials are due to start on this soon if they didn't already. I will try to find the papers. In the mean time here [1] are the human cells.

[1] - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221112471...
> Imagine trying to learn Rust without experience with C. Oh man.

I don't think it's that bad - primarily because error messages are way more helpful, but also because it'll error about things that C would just choke on at runtime.

(I learnt/continue to learn Rust with only 'university C', fwiw.)
Would you really like it solved by tech the way other problems were "solved" by tech?

Do you really want a couple of large tech companies to control your ability to get hired for most jobs with no customer service and automated bans at their discretion?
We were not better off 15 years ago. We were just blissfully unaware of the problem of large-scale PII collection that was already metastasizing in the shadows.

Imagine a kind of decision square. Rows are "consciously" and "unconsciously", Columns are PII collection, and privacy (no PII collection) .

This gives us a list of 4 possible scenarios (from least to most desirable).
1. unconscious privacy, 2. unconscious PII collection , 3. conscious PII collection, 4. conscious privacy

In detail (least to most desirable situation)

Box 1: Early internet everyone had unconscious privacy. No one was collecting PII, and no one was aware of it.

Box 2: Early 21st century, people started collecting PII at an ever increasing (and frankly alarming) rate. You may have encountered tall tales where people got sent baby advertisements before they themselves even knew they were pregnant.

Box 3: The goal of the GDPR, shine a light on the situation and make everyone conscious that there is a problem; and unveil the extent.

Box 4 (future): fix the underlying problem.

GDPR already addresses box 4 a little bit. Just by shining a light on these practices, some of the slightly shady bits at the edges are already solved.

Now that the situation is visible and known, we can take further political steps at mitigation.
Okay.
In this case, the thing you’d be building is the documentation (and your own expertise). Does that interest you???
Yes! Or at least a language that gives you access to manual memory allocations.

I learned python, JavaScript, and Java before C, and it wasn’t until I learned about manual allocations, pass-by-value, and pointers that the garbage collected languages made sense. It had never really clicked why all object params are references in those languages until I learned C and C++

Now, I don’t think it’s essential, but learning more about how computers and memory operate doesn’t hurt!
Monotropism: A Unified Theory of Autism
> the US did not declare their invasion of Iraq to be a war.

That's a purely domestic issue within US law. The full-scale invasion of another country constitutes "war" for the purposes of international law.

The Iraq War is one of the clearest examples of an illegal war of aggression in modern times.

The US faced no serious threat from Iraq. Even if one were to believe all the claims about WMD (which were made in bad faith), Iraq would still not be an imminent threat to the US. Defensive wars have to be in response to an imminent, concrete threat, like an enemy force massing on the border. The mere fact that a hostile country possesses weapons does not justify a pre-emptive strike. If it did, the ban on aggressive war would be meaningless.

Of course, as is now known from leaked memos, the entire WMD issue was viewed by the Bush administration as a convenient pretext for invading Iraq.[0] Many people (myself included) already saw through the WMD propaganda back in 2002-2003, despite it being relentlessly hyped by major media (from the New York Times on down). I personally was surprised, however, by just how cynical the WMD claims of the Bush administration later turned out to be: for every claim they confidently made in public, they knew the evidence was thin to non-existent.

If the invasion of Iraq - a non-defensive war, sold using a dishonest media campaign, waged without UNSC authorization by the world's most powerful country against a comparatively tiny country - isn't an illegal war of aggression, then nothing is.

0. Downing Street Memo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_memo
You forgot to add “If you don’t like it, you’re free to create your own blockchain”.
> Trouble is consumer protection law is decades behind where it ought to be.

Potentially, but on the other hand, card disputes are a thing and I'm baffled as to how little people know about them or have misunderstandings such as them only being available for credit cards (the law may give you extra protections there, but the standard Visa/Mastercard dispute rules apply equally regardless of whether it's debit or credit).

Just like Uber and similar Silicon Valley scum gets away with this because they have a monopoly and can do as they please, so do the card networks - and the card networks are on your side in this case, so use that to your advantage.
How do lobbying and price gouging make someone plant a seed in their field?
keys are small, so you can just write them on paper or other material.
That sounds interesting. Could you link some sources where I can read more about Ritchie's design decision for C and Unix?
One in five to ten for delivering positive business results in a short period of time. AKA these are good managers. They're able to have good results because of themselves. Under promise over deliver. Set lower expectations.

One in fifty, achieve the above but are able to produce teams that regardless of their manager in the future would produce good results at minimum. Great managers don't seem to just focus on the business but also leveling up each individual on the team.

I think plenty of individuals have had mediocre managers and they would describe them as good.

Working with "the best" ICs reshape your perspective of what is a great ICs. Just like managers. Much earlier in my career I used to believe that great ICs were one in 20, then it became fifty and now, two hundred.
Speaking of genetics, screening for the genetic profile of variable liver enzymes for known mutations and their associated drug interactions could actually save on the shotgun approach to dispensing medicines.

The problem is, you won't be able to hammer down the health of the patient to the lowest cost option, only the most effective.
If you real with trading, options and swaps without understanding them - yes, very much so
I think you should learn nim programming language against C. Yes, because nim can exporting C code when you write python syntax like nim language. Not all of them, also you can port as javascript and C++. Just try it out. Easy to learn, better way to write C and absolutely worth.
well this is uncivilized... what's your venmo, assuming something that came in would be directed towards a working phone?

stealthedit: you're a CS student? Awesome.
I wonder if it is just because we spend more time sedentary instead of up and moving. I know I sleep awesome if I have an intense day of renovation work or yard work or whatever. I looked for some research and this study has farmers sleeping much better than desk workers:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363513/

This study is interesting as it looks at elderly and finds that opposite. Elderly that were blue collar workers sleep worse than those that were white collar workers. It could be that the blue collar workers are no longer getting as much exercise and sleep crappy - or just that their bodies are screwed up after so many years of hard work.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8796375/
A friend just finished a beginning Scheme + Java class, and asked me: How are languages like C++, golang, Rust, Lisp, Scala, and Python different.

Any pointers to a good video on the topic? "Overview/Survey of features in programming languages"? Thanks.
When you do anything with personal data in the EU you have to have a legal basis.

There are 6 and only 6 possible legal basis: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/

But most businesses will be choosing from:

- the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;

- processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;

- processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;

- processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.

You can do basically anything with things like IP addresses as long as you have valid consent from the client i.e. they need to actually know, or at at least be able to learn, what you are doing with their data and decide that it is ok. So, no guessing here, just be transparent, and assume no consent by default.

In case of ISP they have to process your personal data because it is necessary for the performance of a contract of providing the internet service. Also, no guessing here.

The legitimate interest clause is a "catch all" clause for anything that legislator did not think about, so it is very vague by design. You do not want to choose this as a legal basis for data processing if you do not want to deal with legal uncertainty. But if you do choose it, you should have strong arguments that you really need this legal basis.

If similar companies to yours are able to do exactly the same thing in a way that is less impactful on privacy then you can expect that courts will not grant you a legitimate interest.

You can also do legal tests do determine whether you have a legitimate interest:

- The purpose test (identify the legitimate interest);

- The necessity test (consider if the processing is necessary); and

- The balancing test (consider the individual’s interests).

See more detail here: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

Also, based on my observation if you are not doing anything really egregious and you are willing to cooperate with data protection agencies (DPA) you do not have to worry about anything. If DPA decides you are doing something wrong they will tell you about it. And if you just adjust, like start to host fonts on your servers, they will let it slide or give you a small slap on the wrists. The really high fines are reserved for malicious conduct or gross incompetence with actual harm already done to people.
Interoperating with C libraries can often force you into this sort of thing.
Agreed this is all nonsensical
Just that it is possible to explain something with simpler language doesn't mean it is always desirable to. Somehow a standard of comprehensbility is leveled at philosophy that no other field is expected to meet. There are very few people complaining about the unreadability of quantum equations in fundamental physics or the jargon of theoretical mathematics. We appreciate why this is necessary for those fields, that there is a difference between science research and science communication. Yet for philosophy, especially that which criticises the current order, this is somehow seen as discrediting.
Paper backups are the best option for this. Private keys are simple enough that a whole wallet can be printed to a single piece of paper using an OCR-friendly font.