skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Optimally, it's obtaining a sufficient plot of bare land and building a roughly self-sufficient complex thereon (home, barn, workshop, garden, orchard, fuel/power, pond, robust kitchen, storage, and/or etc). One may buy a property already with any degree thereof, focus on operational near-self-sufficiency.

This is particularly ingrained in American culture as we're a very few generations away from such lifestyle being normal during expansion across an undeveloped continent.
If you, a GDPR-bound business, are silently serving, embedding, or otherwise using resources served by US businesses without explicit opt-in approval, then you absolutely could be violating GDPR, specifically for example if the user’s IP becomes known to the US-operated resources.

This would theoretically apply whether using AWS hosting (even in EU availability zones), Stripe or PayPal cart checkouts, or any other platform owned and/or operated by a US business or its subsidiaries. It isn’t relevant where those US-owned data or servers are hosted.

This unfortunate situation could be corrected by the US signing a new treaty or other law that ensures that the US governments, law enforcement, and courts cannot compel US business to violate GDPR.

(I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice.)
> It’s news, but is it big?

As someone who has been working almost exclusively on Node.js applications for years now, this is big.

Front-end developers have, for years, enjoyed this wrapper around the clunky XHR API. It is simple, intuitive, and it comes _free_ in the browser environment (and was easily shimmable before it was standard). Additionally, the depreciation of the popular request[0] a while ago, there has been a gap in The Right Way to do http requests without going into the low-level API that ‘http(s)’ provides. Fetch is promised-based (enabling seamless async/await) and, most importantly, standardized.

Basically, fetch provides a meaningful abstraction atop each platforms’ implementation of http-request-doing further unifying server-side and client-side patterns and idioms.

[0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/request
I'm working on Nap[1], a fast, file-based framework for defining and running HTTP integration tests via the CLI.

The ultimate goal is to embed Nap into the SDLC--tests that are defined during development and then run during CI/CD. I'm closing in on a V1 release of the CLI tool, at which point I'll be looking to start expanding on the feature-set and add a UI.

I could use contributors who are comfortable building something Postman-esque as e.g. a VSCode plugin that could take advantage of the file-based nature of my project and make it more approachable for the masses.

[1]: https://github.com/davesheldon/nap
I expect you already know about this, but Secure EcmaScript is a similar project: https://medium.com/agoric/ses-securing-javascript-in-the-rea...

Similarly the older Caja project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_project
disabling JS on the original site avoids all the things. more vagaries than suggested are available.
Hi taf2, yeah, now that you've pointed it out, I kinda understand it. I wrote the code in Ubuntu's text editor. I was in a rush to get my job done in time.

However, now that you've pointed it out, I fixed it. Credit for this formatting goes to you :)
A shame that Blackberry did not opt in to something like this: https://lotnet.com/how-we-protect-members/

https://lotnet.com/members/
I came to say something similar.

I had a horrible experience with a manager after having generally good experiences (as did my spouse around the same time at a different organization). I realized later that the thing that was most problematic for me (and my spouse) was that I truly to this day do not believe the manager was acting in good faith.

I'm not saying that there are good or bad managers for other reasons, but I think just having someone who really truly wants everyone to succeed (as opposed to being motivated by selfish or ideological reasons) can go a long way.
yes. plenty. north america, europe, china - to name three examples.

The larger your grid, the more reliably you can source renewables. It's not cheap to install the necessary high frequency inter-connectors but it is still waaaay cheaper than nuclear (see a different thread where i posted a link on an MIT study).

Edit: also, you still need a lot of storage (probably 12-48 hours worth) but i posted another link showing how that's also way cheaper than nuclear.
I work on ways to write programs that help outsiders understand their big picture (rather than insiders understand incoming contributions).

The goal: you (any programmer) should be able to use an open-source program, get an idea for a simple tweak, open it up, orient yourself, and make the change you visualized -- all in a single afternoon.

More details: http://akkartik.name/about

What I have so far: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva

Lately I'm spending a lot of time thinking about the sandboxing model. I'm giving a talk about it at FOSDEM this weekend: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lastmilesandboxing

As a concrete stress test, consider a file browser like Midnight Commander (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30137864). How would you craft policies for a file browser that give it just the permissions it needs to scan directories and open files, but prevent malicious code that creeps into it from scanning directories or opening files?
I'm worried about Linux phone operating systems at this point. They seem ripe for this sort of trolling.
None will ever match the legendary group coming out of Murray Hill between the 60s and 70s.
I'm working on a repository of open source hardware designs over at postdrc.com.

I always like to take a pulse check on which components and configurations other people are using for different hardware functional blocks (think 3v linear regulator, logic level shifter, etc.).

Taking inspiration from dribbble and tailwindcomponents applied to open source electronics.

Let me know if you're interested in taking it for a test drive or helping with development. Technology stack is: Nextjs frontend, Strapi backend, AWS tools.
I would love to collaborate on stock trading algorithms. I love the inherent beauty in a well designed trading algorithm and the output is like generative art. I have excellent leetcode skills (have spent significant time grinding as a hobby) am a crack mathematician in addition. And I like making money of course.
Here is the original hit piece leading to RMS' cancellation, which includes a full copy of the "offending" email: https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...

The media then twisted that into "Famed Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Described Epstein Victims As 'Entirely Willing'" [0], which is not something that RMS claimed in that email. To this day there has been no redactin, apology or anything else to atone for this deliberate character assasination - but sure, keep blaming the victim.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-scient...
I have simply gotten. comfortable with older cars.
My users would like to be informed when they receive messages/notifications from my platform's PWA, so there's that.
At $600m and most the way to being expired, I don’t think it makes economic sense to only target small players. A patent troll could also find novel ways in which a court might view these patents as applicable that Google and Apple missed.
Same as Apple's reasoning for their other, er, opportunistic hesitance when it comes to interoperability: "Every time we add friction to the boundary of our ecosystem, it drives people to operate exclusively within our ecosystem".

There's a reason people without iPhones show up a different color in iMessage too (and that group chats with Android users frequently don't function [carrier dependent]), and it has nothing to do with technical constraints.
Florian is commenting on the reddit post[1]. Sounds very drama free for them (the singular them.. not the plural... sigh).

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/sh7erp/changes_in_the...
That sounds really deranged.
Reserve Bank of India will develop crypto coin
The horizon is ~3 miles away. The volcano is 40 miles away from Tonga. The ash plume would be visible, but not the eruption; any close-in monitoring equipment would a) be destroyed and b) probably not be live streaming, but collecting to an SD card.
I'm used to that from math, but I wonder if math books have many urls as citations. I guess I haven't read any modern ones but I wouldn't expect it, so do modern electronics books have urls as citations?
Yeah. What's your point?
You probably know, but "cheap hydrogen" is produced from natural gas... lol.
Don't most browsers remember your zoom when you revisit a website?
This page is an advertisement for uMatrix. I am seeing a perfectly readable, very elegant webpage in 37 kB of total network transfer. (It really is nice: the syntax highlighting is tasteful).

Permitting: 1p CSS; denying: everything else, including fonts (in uBlock).
Everyone has seen those Grammarly ads haha. Nice to hear your thoughts elb2020
Did you try Google Keep? It does exactly what you ask for: sharing a simple todo list with another person.
Reflections on Science Fiction as Philosophy, Plus Zombie Robots
It has been popular for a long time. Internet has made concept exposure & social networking easier. My parents did it as hobby and crisis management; two generations further back my relatives were living it in earnest as norm for immigrants and descendants.
From the article:

Diet Coke mythology
You can’t discuss diet sodas for very long before someone brings up the old saw the diet sodas cause weight gain. The theory was that the sweetness induces hunger and you eat more actual food to satisfy it.

In 2008 Fowler and Williams[5] published a paper noting a correlation between obesity and diet soda consumption. A correlation, not causation. But in 2009, Chen and Appel [6] monitored 810 adults for 18 months, recording their beverage intake. They found weight gain from sugar sweetened beverages and but no weight gain from artificially sweetened beverages.

Finally, in 2012, Maersk and Belza [7] compared satiety scores for milk, sugar sweetened beverages and artificially sweetened beverages, and found no evidence that artificially sweetened beverages increased appetite or energy intake, concluding that “diet colas had effects similar to water.”

Regarding unfounded rumors that artificially sweetened beverages had some neurological effect, a panel of 10 experts examined all the current literature [8] and concluded:

The data from the extensive investigations into the possibility of neurotoxic effects of aspartame, in general, do not support the hypothesis that aspartame in the human diet will affect nervous system function, learning or behavior. Epidemiological studies on aspartame include several case-control studies and one well-conducted prospective epidemiological study with a large cohort, in which the consumption of aspartame was measured. The studies provide no evidence to support an association between aspartame and cancer in any tissue. The weight of existing evidence is that aspartame is safe at current levels of consumption as a nonnutritive sweetener.

So aspartame is safe before and after it degrades into the component amino acids, but for the best taste, you should check each package’s expiration date.
Great, now I want the same for Rust <-> C++
I think that somehow each Bluetooth device has its own kinks.

With my QuietComfort 35 sometimes the A2DP profile is not negotiated and it falls back to HSP/HFP which sounds like a landline in the 90s. Then you have to disconnect/reconnect it and hope it works this time.

Another pair of cheap sports headphones I own just like to pair with everything that is in range if no other device is connected.

And lastly my Sony WF-1000XM3 just never automatically connects to my phone. I always have to manually go into the Bluetooth menu to connect them.

I think there should be some type of conformity certification, not for the implementation of the Bluetooth protocol itself but for how a device has to act in certain scenarios.
I find this article pretty insightful for thinking about algorithms that involve lots of memory: http://www.ilikebigbits.com/2014_04_21_myth_of_ram_1.html
MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
Cumbre Vieja megatsunami please as well.
I don't think people are intentionally pushing talc through their cervix, if that's what you mean. But, pack your vagina with the stuff every day, and I imagine you can have all kinds of problems. If I were to go any further than that about exactly how it works I'd be speculating.
Very nice idea, although the first PDF I tried wasn't available, and the second one seems to be missing a lot:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.00888.pdf (19 pages)

https://ar5iv.org/html/2001.00888 (missing content)

This is no doubt a hard problem ...
Out of couriosity: Does the CLOUD act, FISA and whatever else also cover offshore subsidiaries? E.g. would a german Google GmbH still be subject to the CLOUD act if that legal entity has no relationship with the US?

On the one hand, I can't imagine US surveillance leaving open such a glaring hole, on the other hand I wonder what basis US law could apply to companies of non-US countries.
All good points. And if this is a new entity, it likely isn’t bound by any “you don’t sue us, and we don’t sue you” agreements. It could be new money in play.

Of course it could just be financial engineering, though I suspect that would look more like an asset backed loan.
Everyone could be secretly homophobic by that logic.
SharePoint has version control for Word documents. It's better suited for that than Git.

Also, mailbox full of back and forth emails with successive versions of document in attachments is also a version control system. It just needs better tooling.
I can't speak to grocery stores or doctors, but the idea that you should be abele to fix everything in your home isn't that far fetched.

Perhaps the modern world has made things appear otherwise but even the most average adult has the capability to do basic vehicle maintenance, plumbing, simple electrical work, basic carpentry and so on. In fact even if you do live in an urban area you might be in for a a bit of regret not learning those skills when you call for a contractor or electrician but no one is available for months due to the ongoing labor shortage.
I'm building a new task manager. I'm aiming it to be like HEY of email apps - Kinda opinionated, but hopefully fits workflow for a lot of people.

https://focustask.app

Building this in my free time, and would love to talk to anyone who might be interesting in helping with either coding or with marketing.

My email is vojto at focustask.app
As a percentage, NYC real estate taxes are pretty reasonable. The overall taxes are high because the value of the property has been skyrocketing.

I feel a bit sad for the people who are being taxed out of the neighborhood, but I don't think they would give up the run up in the resale value. They're going to get all of that gain when they sell. ALas, that might not be for awhile.
I've waited years for push notifications to come to iOS Safari. This is wonderful news.
What was the Ted Talk? And what happened to the utopian future it envisioned?
Sorry but I do not care enough about my career to put in this much effort. Recruiters are a dime a dozen these days and it's so much easier to just wait until you need one. Even if it's a bit less optimal.
These vaccines are not experimental. Stop reading antivax trash.
This is anecdotal but drinking any soda causes me to pee harshly while tea has the opposite effect.
Love the idea of automating my linkedin email funnels... I might throw a GPT3 into the mix to spice things up...
I was going to suggest bump up the saturation/blackness of the font so that it's easier to read.
> start with taking legal actions against patent trolls on federal level

How would that work? So you are allowed to acquire legal rights, but if you try to enforce those rights, the federal government will take action against you? Seems like a bizarre and unnecessary trap to set.

If you really want to stop this kind of thing surely the more logical thing to do would just be to say that patent rights are personal, ie, they cannot be sold to third parties. Of course, that would lead to a significant devaluation of intellectual property, which (so the theory goes) would result in less innovation.
Royal Mail adds barcodes to stamps offering digital extras
Revenue can cover it but I prefer to increase margin with some cheaper solution if possible.
The plan is to replace it with electrolyzed Hydrogen
NFTs backed by real fungible property. Own not only the picture of the zucchini, but the zucchini itself, which can be transferred or used independently as an asset.

I am joking of course, but stranger things have happened. You can own a farm, but have conveyable mineral rights, and land use rights, that render the whole of the property unusable by the owner.
Yeah, it's a pain point for me as well. We try to do all of our design work in SI units, use metric screw, etc. The problem is that industry simply isn't aligned this way. Sometimes you end-up with such a mess that you are forced to go back to imperial just for sanity.

The problem with switching the US to the metric system is that the cost would be truly massive. It would take decades, somewhere in the order of 50 years, for a complete conversion.

There's the obvious, things like every single highway sign would have to be replaced. And then there's everything else, like every single tool that everyone owns in this country would have to be replaced at some point. You would still have to be able to buy and use imperial unit hardware and tools for decades during and likely after the transition. I can't possibly list just how deep and wide such a conversion would have to reach.

And that's assuming everyone goes along for the ride. That said, a 50 year timeline would mean a new generation would grow up using the metric system. Another 25 years after that and we should be OK.

All of that said, the real problem is political. The cost of such a transition would be significant. Politicians will only get behind things they can convert into votes. Going metric isn't one of these things. Spending billions of dollars over five decades isn't something anyone can use to win an election. Most people aren't close enough to the design and manufacturing of goods to understand just how much this system actually hurts us. And so, going metric, in a practical sense, becomes an impossible dream.
It would be useful for trusted browser extensions too, as well as probably Electon apps as well.

I don’t know if chrome apps are still in existence, but if they are the “server side” fetch spec could apply to them too.
I had to "forced upgrade" my 2003 Accord last year to a 2018 Acura RDX SUV (dumb woman on her plowed into me at an intersection). It's a decent vehicle, but it's the base model and doesn't have all the camera shit. For cars like this, I can understand why they started adding 360 cameras: you can't see anything from the driver's seat! My rear view, even if I turn my head, is completely blocked by headrests, and there are huge blindspots on the sides, even with side mirrors that have a section at a different angle.

Merging onto a freeway is scary in this thing, whereas in my 2003 car, there was a 360 view all around me. Like a lot of things, looks have become more important than function, even in something as safety-critical as a car.
Umm hmm... I see so that's your experience. I did come across an instance of endless loops through the tool. My approach is to keep an eye on the kind of suggestions it gives to make sure it doesn't do weird stuff.
Depends where you are. I like things I can grow vertical to maximize harvest per sq ft - okra and beans have been my most forgiving and pest free.
I always just respond with a "whats the salary range?" response, merely for data collection purposes
I think the "some reason" is fairly obvious: if you don't move fast in a competitive area (i.e. where the money is), someone else will and they'll eat your lunch.
> I believe that different subsystems in the car - especially life safety / critical driving systems - should have vastly different controls that force different physical interactions.

Airplane cockpits are designed like this, for obvious reasons.
It's safer because of ohms law. Anything you short it with (whether that be an object that might heat up, or a human) will pass half the current and a quarter of the power.

I've been shocked with 120v on bare skin multiple times.
I have tried email to sms, it doesn't work at my scale.
2 & 4 are so crucial. They represent what 1 & 2 mean. Otherwise you have just put an idea in the ether, floating like Forrest Gump's feather but without truly communicating it to anyone in particular. 2 & 4 are the attempt to connect the idea to something in the other person's mind. To make it resonate with them (think about the physical meaning of that word). Or as another commenter put it, "why is it useful?"

It's always possible that your idea with land with something by accident, but it will be by accident and it may not land with the person you intended it to.

A similar pattern I try to use frequently is this:

1) what it is

2) what it means

3) an example
Can you expand a little on the pitfalls you see concerning the 'abuse of the macro language'? I have an undeniable pipe dream that my hobby language can be essentially a well-defined and explicit thin cover for assembly language primitives. I think your thoughts about the downsides of 'higher-level' idioms/practices when using assemblers would be very on point for me to consider.
Distributed software, which accesses and depends on remote resources, is harder to run than local-only software. I'm working on making it easier to run distributed software for both programmers and end-users.

See the main article describing my current vision: http://catern.com/integration.html

My most significant project in this area: https://github.com/catern/rsyscall

My website in general: http://catern.com/
(happy to collaborate on anything on there)

And my current plans: http://catern.com/plan.html

If you're interested, feel free to contact me using the information on my website.
Funny enough it is easier to launder cash than Bitcoins because shadow banks can help you to launder cash, on the other hand with Bitcoin everything is on chain forever.
A New Type of Camera
I've been doing a variation of this myself over the years, it's gotten me good jobs. Sometimes, I'd simply say I want X salary that is ~20% more than I currently would have thought I was worth. Then sometimes the recruiter would come back and say that is actually possible.
seems it craps out on the monospaced bits of text ?
And certainly being marked down has different connotations from being written up!
But generally speaking, the economic value of someone
is roughly reflected by the best wage that they could
find on the market.

So sex work is the most valuable occupation for most people?

Seems like Parrhesia would agree, as they've decided to make a career of fluffing rich people with oversimplified economic theory.