skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sense I get from the way they’re describing it is that they don’t understand how the update system works at all, and are treating it as a black box… It’s a really odd way to talk about one’s own system.
Would be interesting to hear more about this — why did they think the new way would improve the situation? Why was the new solution harder to work with? Why was it hard to understand?
Do you actually understand what happened in this case?

No one sent any currencies into a "shredder", so not sure why you're asking this question?
It's not the only benefit, although it is a nice one. Consider how well creating a port forward rule would work if you're behind CGNAT.
I do front end. It's a waste of time. Pick a common one you like and move on.
Ask HN: Why can't I type in the HN text box?
Recently, when typing in the text entry box for Hacker News, I've noticed that all the keyboad keys will spontaneously stop working for a while. My solution is to type my HN messages in TextEdit instead, where the problem doesn't happen, then cut and paste into HN.

I have a 15' mid-2012 MBP running Catalina (10.15.7) and I have HN open in Chrome 97.0.4692.99.

What could be happening that causes all my keys to stop working only in Chrome?
Definitely. We could call it the “Ministry of Truth”!
Is it strictly necessary to have that many intermediate parties to handle TCP packets with the user's IP?

You can instead peer with the user's ISP, or install a machine into the user's network (something like a amazon echo / google home could work too) which establishes an encrypted tunnel to your main servers. Sure it would be more expensive to do this, but so would hosting your own copy of a font instead of using a CDN like Google Fonts. What's strictly necessary doesn't mean what's necessary in order for you to host the site cheaply.
But User, the Human has the means to command its User Agent, the Browser, to conveniently skip loading whatever they would not like to see, like fonts, executable scripts or ads.
Not sure why this is trending but if you are interested in that case you might also be interested in the gold clause cases from the Great Depression: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Clause_Cases
Anyone feel like trying Amazon alternatives, check out Bookshop and BHphotovideo

https://bookshop.org/

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/

Bookshop's mission is "to financially support local, independent bookstores."

BHphotovideo has all sorts of electronics, including computers and phones.
I was intent on keeping this iPhone on iOS 14 until Apple released a statement that they had buried their plans to introduce what I see as spyware or the precursor to spyware.

Now 14 suddenly isn't an option anymore. Exploits are still found and the only way to patch them seems to be to go to iOS 15.

Luckily the latest Nokia clamshell phones have good mobile broadband support and also support Telegram and Signal it seems. With the price difference between a brand new iPhone and a brand new Nokia clamshell I can also buy a really good camera and then I think I got it sorted mostly.
Not a lawyer as well but I'm not sure about this. Let's use the "jQuery served by a CDN" example here: You can easily argue that using jQuery is necessary for your site to function but there is no real benefit to the user by doing this with a CDN when you could just ship jQuery from your own server. AFAIK the benefit of CDNs is largely nullified nowadays by browsers using a different cache for each primary domain anyways, so you can't even really point out a potential benefit for the user (faster load times) here.
I hear that hijinks ensue when you do that.
Except in this analogy it would be calling dogs human, not animals. Transwoman is not a subset of woman, it is a different thing entirely. Not meant in a pejorative way, just definitionally. That is unless we are just equating gender to personality type, since using this approach makes gender essentially undefinable. It means goth or geek or whatever can be called genders.
It's wonderfully easy to enter advanced electronics nowadays, but has accessibility really kept up with the rate of advancement (electronics getting smaller and more complicated)?
To my knowledge, there are other avenues beside consent under which the GDPR allows data exchange with third parties - in particular if such an exchange is essential for fulfilling the service. The point here was though, that the data exchange was not "essential" because you could simply self-host the fonts or proxy the request through your own servers.

But yes, it would seems to me that this interpretation of the law sort of communicates that third party requests should be a measure of last resort. That would definitely cause a shift in current web dev practices, but I'm not sure it's a bad thing.

> avoid potential liability

I think "potential" liability is an odd criterion. Any law is a risk of potential liability. If the effort to find out if a law actually applies to you is already too much, then I guess anything less than anarcho-capitalism would be unacceptable.
> Some suggested I go to Walmart for $25 insulin, an older type I have no idea how to safely use.

I'm sorry but this erodes my sympathy significantly. Learn about the options that exist if your first choice treatment isnt available. Learn about mitigation when no treatment is available. This is your life, act like its your responsibility already.
I see quite a few web pages in Germany that do not load JavaScript or any other content from YouTube,Twitter, Facebook until you explicitly opt in. Basically, the content is replaced by a placeholder saying “click here to load external content from.” - it’s technically not very hard to do so, and I quite like it. I don’t need to be tracked by any of those entities everywhere I go. Tracking and creating profiles is one of the large problems of Facebook like buttons and similar.

> this could probably be avoided by extending the sites terms.

Reading the judgement, I don’t think so. Consent is required before exposing the IP address and is must be explicitly given. Terms can help in cases where there is a technical requirement, for example “if you want to watch this embedded video, you must consent to this”, but they won’t save you when you just embed.
> Developers looking to try out new tech are increasing noisy about hosted free tiers instead of OSS.

Fixed that for you.

Don't underestimate the silent masses who still depend on doing things "the old fashioned way". The internet can provide us with a very distorted view.
> How many of these billions want or are even capable of understanding what they do when they click the "i accept" button?

I don't see how this is relevant, but:

Again, whether those consent forms are understandable or not depends solely on how websites implement them. The fact they are confusing is purely because website operators want them to be.

These confusing forms are not a requirement of the GDPR. How they look and feel is up to the website hosting them. They go against the spirit and some go against the letter of the law.

The goal of GDPR is letting people answer to the question such as "Can I give your data to company X?". The fact that the internet became a cesspool of privacy violations doesn't change the original intent of the law.

> This approach seems equally ineffective for achieving what this regulation is intended to achieve, to not just to have the users sign away their rights with a click, but give them an understanding of what they give away.

The law already states that rejecting should be as easy as allowing. The fact websites don't make it means they're breaking the law, and I hope they get punished by it.

> I agree that its a big problem that the big browsers do not act in the interest of their users, and that their vendors are in fact disincentivized to do so

We already have a Do-Not-Track header, but websites refused to obey it for more than 10 years, to the point they were removed from browsers.

Solutions were always there. It is websites that chose not to comply.
I also feel sorry for those polar bears, bald kids, and puppies.
>There's no reason they can't be

So if we're saying there is no reason goth or geek or whatever can't be considered gender, then we're just saying that gender is akin to personality type.
What would be your recommendations for the other side of the table?

I'll finish university in November and was starting to get ready for job hunting...

Thank you!
How is the proxy contract tested - wouldn't you need to create a proxy-to-the-proxy contract just in case there is a bug and need to point it to the fixed version?
You wouldn't be doubling your workload. Most of your work applies equally well to both protocols without any additional effort, and even if you can't remove v4 completely you can often ignore it for some things, which saves you some workload.
> While Talent & Jobs helped us get to where we are over the past decade, the talent acquisition space is not one where we have a strong competitive advantage.

Ah, I'd consider the arguably most visited site by software developers would have a strong competitive advantage in advertising jobs for software developers.
I searched youtube today for a particular hardware product. The video I clicked on was 20 minutes long, and by every indicator I could see, the presenter looked like an expert at what they were talking about. Yet by the end of the video (which, thankfully, I watched at 3.25 speed), I hadn't gained a single new piece of information, and my brain hurt from dealing with so much repetition of facile hearsay.

The key to the success of this video (and others) was that the presenter was nothing more than a salesperson, not for the product they were talking about, but for themselves.

They're trying to sell themselves as experts, and if we're not careful, we end up trusting them and paying (with our time).

I got duped, but it's a continual arms race between viewers looking for useful content, and facile content creators trying to game the system by imitating the hallmarks of great content without any substance to back it up.
I've read quite a bit of this book, and situationalism is awesome - though I do find this writing style quite...fatiguing. Part of me can't work out whether it's written like this to fit a huge amount of meaning into one paragraph or whether it's just being flash or whether it's also a postmodernist nod to postmodernism itself (which...isn't all postmodernism?).
If China can mandate Google to do something like that and having Google submit to it, effectively escaping US jurisdiction for this part of the world, why wouldn't it work in the EU applied to a completely different set of goals?
Agree. I have a domain with Gandi and use it for my primary email address as well. For silly websites I used protonmail.
The New Lysenkoism
Sheesh. No good deed goes unpunished, eh? From the link:

>We label irregardless as “nonstandard” rather than “slang.” When a word is nonstandard it means it is “not conforming in pronunciation, grammatical construction, idiom, or word choice to the usage generally characteristic of educated native speakers of a language.” Irregardless is a long way from winning general acceptance as a standard English word. For that reason, it is best to use regardless instead.

Like I said - I really don't care what you do. I'm just trying to be helpful. Use "irregardless" and people will judge you. If you want to die on that hill, be my guest.
https://cantrip.org/swap_if.pdf

It probably depends on a core language accommodation because bitwise-swapping objects, or even primitive elements of objects, with constructors is UB.

Arthur O'Dwyer's P1144 https://wg21.link/p1144 explores that territory too.

Gcc has weird limits on generating CMOV instructions to implement this sort of optimization.
I sure wish the average person could instruct their browser to avoid this happening without their knowledge.
If you're behind CGNAT then generally you won't be able to accept any inbound connections, so even things like a basic webserver aren't doable.
Aren't posts with more comments than points downweighted?
More than you think. Farmers often know how to weld, etc.
I should have said adequate data processing agreements which comply with the GDPR. In practice the simplest way to do this would have third parties handling EU requests within EU boundaries, and not shipping analytics that contain PII outside controlled boundaries.

Some service providers appear to at least be addressing the issue, e.g. see the AWS link. Hetzner in Germany offers similar data processing agreements.

It would not be difficult for Cloudflare and Google to do the same. If you operate a CDN, almost by definition you have no problem hosting within the EU when sending content to users in the EU.
TIL, he never received his PhD because he didn't provide a bound copy of his thesis to the Harvard library. https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies...
This was pretty much done with the original web safe fonts, but fonts have an element of fashion to it and moved on and pretty much all of them are seen as dated by the people who do specifically pick fonts.
Muslims do not need to read article like these to get violent or support ISIS they can read they holy book for all the inspirations for doing violence.
Oh, super simple!

The local bakery down the street just needs to figure out what a reverse proxy is, what a redirect is, and what Nginx is and how set rules for it, and then weigh the pros and cons vs self-hosting assets.

I’m sure that’s easily doable for them, aren’t regulations fun?
> On the phone I just ask the guy what their best deal is in a large cheese and garlic knots and he gives it to me

damn, you're lucky. I remember a few phone calls a decade ago where some brand had a sale on burgers, but they had a policy of waiting for me to dictate the coupon code over the phone... ugh
We don't have offline capabilities yet - it's something we will investigate probably in the later half of this year.

In the meantime you can use something like WatermelonDb: https://nozbe.github.io/WatermelonDB/
Everyone would eventually turn blue and there would be less race pressure and conflict.
We run a few Developer-dedicated job boards[1] with focus on transparency and:

- mandatory salary information (with real brackets and no $1 - $1M)

- our own engineering test (do they have proper CI/CD, write tests, have QAs, etc.)

- full tech stack information

[1] The sites are per country:

- US: https://devitjobs.us

- UK: https://devitjobs.uk

- Netherlands: https://devitjobs.nl

- Switzerland: https://swissdevjobs.ch/

- Germany: https://germantechjobs.de/en/

- Romania: https://devjob.ro/en/

There is also this site (not affiliated) which lists over 70 alternative job boards:

https://stackoverflowjobsalternatives.com/
But putting it the way you did; maybe if we saw a picture of you and if you look like a hunchback smurf then you maybe can say things the way you put them. 'People who attend various hobbies tend to do that to find romantic partners' is a fine way of putting it instead.

But you are right; I find that too, which is why I just go work in bars (I mean; sit and code, not serve beer!) instead of trying to meet people at hobbies (Which, for me, are all nerd/hardware/software things anyway). Even without drinking (which I don't do during working time), it is very easy to meet tons of people. And it works everywhere. The best craft beer bar in my new town (I move often) is open 8 am to 2 am, it's always busy and over 90% of the people just drink coffee there (with 15 beers on draft + more in bottles), the entire day. I work there and when I need a break, I just look around for 5 minutes and someone will make eye contact and start talking. Works everywhere I have been I found (in the US, EU, Asia).
That’s all cool and dandy, but I highly doubt SF Conservancy would pay my bills while riding their high horse.

For every Red Hat out there there are thousands of consultancies that have tried to be true to the copyleft ideals and failed.
You need to manage a chronic condition, either you need a spouse or a child who has a chronic condition or you need one yourself.

Science can help, alloxan destroys the islets of Langerhans, it is used to create diabetic mice. Go ahead, take a dose, lead by example. The Walmart insulin comes up here on this website from time to time, and the overall conclusion is that long-acting insulins prevent blood sugar excursions.
Kibbutzim is an interesting one. My uncle lived on one for a while, he definitely describes them ‘working’ alongside each other.
It's interesting how people like to position China and the USA as being on opposite poles economically and politically and yet they are able to work so closely hand in hand on issues like this.
I find the article written in a circuitous way, that does not clearly lay out the timeline.

This statement about what a prior authorization is is also incorrect:

> They’re essentially requirements that a physician get approval from an insurance company before prescribing a treatment.

Doctors need no approval from anyone to prescribe. A prior authorization is approval from the insurance company that they agree with the treatment option and will pay for it (subject to deductible/copay/oop max).

The theory here is that the end user has no idea what they are getting since they are not knowledgeable about medicine. Doctors could be prescribing unnecessarily expensive medicine or treatment, so the managed care organization (MCO, or insurance company) “manages” the healthcare for the uninformed buyer by having the healthcare professionals employed by the MCO double check things.

In this specific person’s case, it looks like the biggest delay was in getting a doctor’s appointment when he needed both a new MCO and a new doctor. Technically, you can pin this on undersupply of doctors, MCOs tied to employer, MCOs not hiring good people and causing unnecessary delays, incompatible electronic documentation systems that do not talk to each other, and I could go on and on.

Ideally the doctor should be able to see what medications the MCO will cover on their computer while the doctor is seeing the patient so before they even leave the doctor’s office.

Another concern in the long list of concerns is the MCO is not necessarily the one deciding the rules for what treatment/medications to pay for or not. Many, many times it is state government (e.g. Medicaid), federal government (e.g. Medicare/Tricare), or other entity that is actually paying for the healthcare who will hire the MCO and give them the rubric on how much to pay for people’s healthcare/what treatment courses or brands of medications will be covered. This is how poor people (Medicaid) can be restricted access to healthcare by limiting the reimbursement for their healthcare so fewer doctors accept it while older people or members of military get access to better healthcare because their healthcare gets reimbursed at higher prices (Medicare/Tricare).

The system allows for a lot of opacity to allow for a lot of price segmentation while also providing political cover for such decisions due to the complexity of understanding it.
> Leave it up to engineers to expect everyone (else) to be the paragon of virtue rational homo sapiens sapiens with all the wisdom and maturity.

So i guess we are in agreement :D The sales person was neither wise or rational. They were acting on the emotion of a singular thought, selling shit.
> But you can't send the wrong type of currency or send it to a nonexistent address

Of course you can do both things, which is why catastrophic financial ruin is a daily fear when dealing with cryptocurrencies.

https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-find-my-Bitcoin-cash-that-I-...
It was Vitalik’s money. Ethereum is immutable as long as Vitalik doesn’t lose money.
Would it be fair to describe such a regulation as a law that abridges, in any way, the freedom of the press?

If so you will need a massive and bipartisan political effort for it to be so, at least in any US jurisdiction.
This is the reason for my strong dislike of online content moving to video. It's way, way harder to skim a video to see if it's decent quality.

I feel like this is the inevitable result of video content having a lower entry bar than written. And even when writing's bad, it's more immediately obvious.
Hell you can even write Postgres functions in Javascript with PL/V8.
It takes weeks to get comfortable using a different insulin to manage your blood sugars, and the results on older NPH insulin are going to be much worse than a more modern one. Doing that, and damaging your body, just to avoid avoidable bureaucracy is not reasonable. In fact, it's mildly tragic.
Use this one weird trick to make all browser exploitation legal.
Oh no! This makes me sad. I got my first job (what started my whole career) using SO Jobs. It was brand new back in the day (Feb 2012). I was a self-taught kid from an underdeveloped country (Argentina) and had the "audacity" to apply for a job at an American company. It COMPLETELY changed my life (had a salary in US Dollars, learned about startups, started my own company and sold it years after).

I am still very grateful to my first employers, coworkers and, at some extent, grateful to StackOverflow for such a simple and nerd-oriented platform back then.
A German comedian once stated that an esoteric could claim more BS in 5 minutes than a scientist could disprove in one lifetime.

I know there is a YouTube series from renowned lecturers that discuss the same concept, but sadly can't find it right now.

The problem is that any instrument being introduced could be abused for censorship as well.

As much as I would like to have some things in place to counter the amount of BS in social media or on YouTube I fear it would backfire.

I think much would be gained if the platforms dismantled their algorithms optimized for engagement that lead people down a rabbit hole of more extreme content. Because in the end statistically this leads to more ad revenue from more clicks.
So your definition for "valid action" is just that the eth network lets them do it?

They clearly didn't want to burn £500k, and that is now irrecoverable, alongside 260 other people who made the same mistake, on a smart contract that forgoes validation for gas fees.

How is this not invalid?
Sending currency to non-existant addresses is how people encode arbitary data on the bitcoin blockchain, so definitely possible.

Giving a person control over the funds allocated to their smart contract probably opens holes where they can steal the smart contract's money, though obviously creating software that handles money and can't be updated is its own kettle of fish.
I’m glad you think that. Would you volunteer? I don’t think I would. Especially late nights and weekends.

I’d rather do something more fun if I can pick and choose. Maybe race car driver? Or chocolate taster?
There is room for a followup paper on experiments to detect blueberry exoplanets; if only to put an upper bound on the probability of planets spontaneously turning to jam, which fruit they consist of, and if they are spread across the universe.

It could also open up new physics, since it would mean that the law of conservation of mass is displaced by a jarring mass of conserve.