skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Do you use any tools to display metrics within your organization?
If there is ever going to be an EU version of a GoFundMe for a statue for Schrems I'm in. It's one thing to have good privacy laws, it's quite another to get them enforced. As public service comes this a fantastic job for all of us.
Thanks so much for these links.

Just watched the first one and it was great.

Looking forward to the rest.
Curious on why are you not in the US then?

> you typically pay for things anyway (dental care)

Ah yes, dental care. The thing that's literelly not included in healthcare in most places.

> I would rather commute from a suburb and have a house with a garden.

Literally nothing prevents you from doing that in Europe. Houses might be smaller depending on the country, but this exists.
maybe, but why would it rank higher than offers mentioning Vue.js in the title and multiple times in the description?
But this is only viable for very large companies.
Off doesn't only pair with on. You may be at work, or off work, but not on work.

Another case where off is unpaired: "off-kilter".
Nice, although this will not build unless you already have javafx in your classpath. The only use of javafx seems to be javafx.util.Pair. Source version 1.5 is also deprecated if your Java version isn't ancient.
i do not use grammarly. been using languagetool in my libreoffice/kde neon but someday it works, someday it does not work. other than that, when it works it just works as advertised.
New flood maps show US damage rising 26% in next 30 years due to climate change
I thought handshake was pretty cool when they handed out millions of dollars to free-software project (although that was a little fishy). But i think this video presentation does a fair job of explaining the problems (or imo non-problems) they try to solve with Handshake (auctions for names) and the actual problem GNS tries to solve (crypto-secure resolution without enumeration/amplification).

Handshake is focused on fixing something that isn't broken to introduce auctions instead of first-come-first-served in the DNS world. I personally don't see any interest in that, but i also don't see much wrong, except of course my clever names are going to be outbid by people with more money :'(.
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The title sounds to a general impact ("..Paves the Way to EU-Based Cloud Services").

But on closer read, it seems to partially apply to SaaS/PaaS cloud services, which hold data outside EU.

Google also provides IaaS/PaaS cloud offering based within EU as well [0].

[0]: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations#europe
Yep, you’re spot on with this. Even with a geo-wall AWS or Microsoft are still US based companies that have to comply with a FISA order. I work for a SaaS and we’re continuously questioned by our customers about this but we can’t do much as everything we have is architected around one particular US based cloud provider. We tried HYOK/BYOK/EU entity, so both security and legal controls which are insufficient today.
What can I do with raspberry pi that I don't use anymore. I have a few spare RPI1b+ and 0W
I'm currently experimenting with a Thermos (and it must be a Thermos, in my experience this is a brand worth paying the premium for) of tea/coffee by the bed, made just before sleeping.

The minimally cognitive task of sitting up, unscrewing and pouring from the flask is enough to blow away the cobwebs, and the instant reward is enough to encourage me to start.

It doesn't need to be a caffinated drink, but it does seem to make the motivation stronger.
Just regular Tetley black tea.
Analytics and fonts shouldn't be too hard. What about Captcha?
I know the 'kibibytes' thing but never encountered it in a real-world context (e.g. like "the C64 had 64 kibibytes of RAM").
I would not expect customer service representatives to be knowledgeable about the workings of the system, especially the lower level ones.

If you opened FaceTime app, and chose video or audio call your contact, then I see no technical reason how ATT would even know where the data for your FaceTime audio/video call is going. ATT should have no information other than you are using FaceTime, and if you are on decent WiFi, I do not see why ATT would even have that if the iPhone did not need to send the data over ATT’s network.

The only way I can think of a glitch occurring is if you opened the Phone app in iOS, then placed a phone call to a South African phone number, and then switched that phone call into a FaceTime but subsequently pressing the Facetime option while in the phone call, and for whatever reason ATT did not get the message to drop the phone call and kept it running simultaneously with Facetime. That is the only way I can think of that ATT would know who or where you called at all.
The scientific method exists for a reason, and the "experimentally verifying against reality" part is what makes it better than "fact" "checking".
And of course a very easy to exploit bug that has been around for like 12 years hasn't gone public a few days ago because LPEs DO NOT EXIST IN LINUX.

I mean, it's quite obvious, exploitable bugs do not exist in Linux because back in the day Ken, Dennis, Brian, Doug and Joe agreed that they were not part of the Unix philosophy so they left them for windows to implement. /s

Aside from the stupid joke, what OP is saying is absolutely right, if you care about security keep your things properly isolated, keep a (whichever OS you trust but hopefully linux or a bsd) as main box and then a windows or macos computer isolated (best case scenario using a vlan capable switch, or a dedicated pi that acts as a firewall just for that box).
Incentives are pretty much always to push out software as fast as possible.

If you're the one guy who takes twice as long to write code, even if it works really well and needs little maintenance, you'll be the one who doesn't get bonus / gets laid off.
But we don't say 'soda' (for the same usage). (And 'call CC on them' seems an unlikely phrasing to me, though you're correct that (a department of) the county council would probably be the port of call.)
They release app just to provide minimum features. Sometimes they have better UX on webapp than mobile app.

I think people should create a ticket and ask for support. If nobody reports, they don't know there is a demand for a particular feature or fix.

I saw a page talking about Microsoft updating Team to make it less bloated [1]. I think they have higher priority for popular product.

[1]: https://tomtalks.blog/microsoft-teams-2-0-will-use-half-the-...
A simple example would be

auto pi = 3.14;
double result = 2 * pi;
printf("the circumference of the unit circle is %g\n", result);

When interpreted as C89 program, this computes the value 6. Compiled with a C++ compiler it computes 6.28. This is exactly due to that both languages have an auto keyword, but they mean different things.

This situation is perhaps not so likely to occur in real usage, but I think it could and should have been avoided.
> If they did illegal things they would not be able to operate in EU

The arm of the law might not catch everything, and when it does work, sometimes it works slowly.

Companies like Uber and AirBnb got ahead by skirting the law, and had to change their products in some European countries (like Spain) because lawmakers eventually saw what they were doing. AirBnb are now required to ask for tax ID, and Uber had add artificial delays in order to fit within the law that existed. But when they initially launched, they didn't do these things, it was only after pressure that they changed.
>Literally nothing prevents you from doing that in Europe.

Except, you know, money. In DE/AT houses are insanely expresive relative to net pay.
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The claims around "scalable" and "self-healing" are very vague indeed.

Yggdrasil is just an overlay over the existing Internet, not a replacement, which removes a lot of its usefulness.

Perhaps this means, in theory, that if you switch between multiple ISPs (e.g. phone + ADSL) or have dynamic IPv4 address, the IPv6 connectivity over Yggdrasil will stay the same.
"The Rainbow has 5 colors"
> Should we assume that Google is on top of this and will "publish a fix" in order to become compliant?

Powerful as though they may be, I don't know if Google is powerful enough to fix the US laws. I think the problem here is that if US laws do not guarantee privacy protections for people abroad, then it doesn't matter what a US company does. They can't publish a fix.

The only surefire fix may very well be to stop using services run by companies in a hostile regime.

Yes, it's quite the shock. I'm not going to do anything because everything I run is already fully hosted in Europe by European companies.
Of relevance, the adjective "clean": https://www.steveonstuff.com/2022/01/27/no-such-thing-as-cle...
In other countries as well.
Over 17%, right now. It's been as high as 20%.
Hmm thinking about it...a ZFS-filesystem on a file could solve ~all the problems with the exception of a good performing dedup and shrinking the file/device.

But really good article, quite interesting tar-history.
I think the main reason is low initial cost of investment. It's just easy and cheap (in terms of money/effort) to create a website, so people make lots of them for whatever far-fetched ideas they have. They don't intent to build a website for decades to come, because they don't know if they'll even continue to maintain it in six months' time - so they naturally gravitate towards the cheapest/easiest/most ephemeral solutions that get the job done for now. At scale, it results in the web resembling a shantytown.
Why not engineer a 128-base (2 bits per base) bitcoin private key into a virus, like the common cold?

Then people could sneeze Bitcoin at one another.

And the mice would be better off too...
That's been my experience. I believe That's a universal truth when it comes to working in groups. You can't do what you think is best. You have to do what the group decides, or what the person in the leadership structure above you says. I'd be very curious to hear about company structures that don't have a top-down leadership/authority scheme.
There have been quite a few social networks in Europe, some of which were more or less direct copies of Facebook at the time. Their decline started around the time Facebook became popular in there. There have been european streaming services years before Netflix was available there and there still are some, mostly owned by TV corporations. I think a lot of european startups focused to much on their starting country, probably lacking the funding to expand beyond their starting country. Their decline then is usually linked to an american competitor entering the european market, having outgrown their local market and having better funding they tend to provide a more rounded service. The only counterexample I can think of is Spotify as they seem to have never really focused on just one country.
Do you mind talking about what's in your nootropic stack?
> In some EU countries jobseeker's allowance, as the name suggests, is paid to you as long as you prove you're looking for employment, not to boot-strap your side hustle as you please, unfortunately.

True, but some have awesome provisions for business creation. For instance in France you can get all of the money you would have received as job seeekers' allowance ( allocation chômage) as startup capital for your own business.
I would be happy to try it, if it was available on the LG content store...
Of course $20 doesn't get you a bug fix, it costs a few orders of magnitude more to actually implement it.

For an open source project, consider what it would cost to hire a contractor to implement the fix and get it to a state where the fix would be accepted by the project.
Which is a fucking ridiculous situation when you think about it.

The whole point of "DevOps" is to promote things like continuous delivery. Smooth, automated deployments. You can't tell me that "we need to deploy a change, that requires a migration be applied to the stored data, and must prevent user access while this occurs" is not somewhat common.
What are the chances of these being an artifact of the observation equipment?

Just like you can have all kinds of optical aberrations, does the same go for radio based observations?

For instance, isn't it odd that most of them happen to lie in the vertical direction of this particular observatory across many lightyears of distance?
Um...

https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/
It’s people who code for money not passion and borderline nefarious product managers.
>and about 5% of the bad stuff makes it (and then is quickly flagged to death).

I would say some really good stuff makes it among that flagged to death stuff that unfortunately is not among the things that HN does well.
If the customers are still buying it, it can't be that bad can it. Yeah I'm a bit sarcastic too, but I'm convinced the reasoning is similar - if it kinda works throw it at people and move to building the next shiny facade. Quality is simply not directly translatable to money, so we're living with this half-baked everything. And I'm not blaming the developers, they produce exactly what they're asked and fix only the bugs they're assigned.
I do it every day via fzf on the terminal.

That's arguably much better than this because it has full fuzzy searching functionality.
I also miss the freedom of using websites where I don't need to login. Try to scroll down the Twitter page and get deadlocked in to registering an account to see anything more.
I remember a Republican senator sent the FBI to a person's home (to threaten him) because of his negative tweets about a public company's finances and its CEO, who was the senator's friend.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sen-johnny-isakson-called-fbi-o...

That CEO is now in jail because the tweets were 100% accurate but the Senator was never punished.
Given all the issues surrounding utf-8 and visually similar characters, I’m surprised by the bare sentence:

The labels in a name are separated using the character "." (dot).

Any mention of what happens with other dot-like codepoints?
The biggest missing feature on Masked Email by Fastmail is they don't remove trackers, as far as I know.

Masked Email gives you more privacy (the identity behind the receiver is unknown) and with data breaches, there's is no login data leaked.

Duck's Email Protection does also remove trackers from the forwarded mails. So senders can't trace back whether you have opened the mail. I hope they also remove click trackers, but I am unsure how they would implement that technology with the referral codes in the URL.
I know lots of people claim that Coke Zero tastes "basically" the same as normal Coke, but to me it was literally the most disgusting soda I have ever tastes. Far worse than even Coke light for some reason.
One might think that all these extra regulations benefits only the giants and curbs any newcomers.
Ah, I was hesitant to even picture spinning my own thing up because of the commonly discussed hurdles. If there's a significant difference in ease between receiving and sending, I could live with that. Sounds super fun actually.
> So it's effectively Host Identity Protocol?

The software is essentially a 'node', doing the routing. Whenever it starts it reads the config file to see if there is a private key in there. If no, it will generate a new one for you and that is your identity on the network.

> Just perhaps with something other than IPsec underneath?

That is correct, it uses standard, but not ipsec, encryption based on public key cryptography. A host that saves its private key will thus forever have the same IP address and if it runs services you connect to them using the encryption to its public key.

A node that is configured to connect to the wider yggdrasil public network will thus be reachable on a single IP with an identity that is based on public key cryptography, even if the machine is moving from network to network or even another continent.
They do so much stupid stuff in the crossword (REBUS, missing letters, un-ordered phrases)

Those are the meta game puzzles which generally happen on Wed or Thu. They can be frustrating, but the “aha!” moment, when you discover what’s going on, is the point. Those puzzles are the ones that set NYT crosswords as the gold standard and show off the creativity of the puzzle makers. Of course YMMV.
But would you be allowed to do that?

Minor renames and similar fixes would be fine, but at work I'd get in hot water sooner or later if I added (more) random fixes to my pull requests.

While this is not the case all the time, a very good reason is that some times one persons bug might very well be another persons feature.
> Tests just require differentiation and checking equality.

Is that not implemented yet? I was wondering how a result with such an obviously incommensurate functional form could be produced.
If you don't have the money or space what you can do is just have 2 hard drives, one fully encrypted running whichever OS you want and one with windows.
Unplugging the secure one when booting into the insecure one would be ideal but not required.
In this case you'd still be vulnerable to certain EFI based attacks but at least you'd be safe from most common crooks.

I mean, seriously, running stuff with wine is OK if your expectatives are aligned with reality which is, you're running stuff there.
If you complain about wine but then are completely fine with the typical 'curl XXX | bash" well, yeah, you're SoL but other than that some degree of separation is good.
Does a junior developer understand the core abstraction of a given project written in any language? Chances are the answer is no. Haskell just expresses that inside the language, while other languages tend to rely on design patterns, or just simply distributing the logic between many parts, which are arguably more error prone.

But for all practical matter, they can better write a single isolated case because it has to abide by stricter typing rules, instead of only conventions that supposed to he upheld.
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You should support Noyb then, the no-profit he works for! https://noyb.eu/en

I am not affiliated, but I am a massive supporter of them and is one of the donations I am happier to give
And then the demand for "how do we make this measurable", and it gets measured with inane shit like linter warnings, or maybe something that makes sense like bug reports but then the incentive is to start clamping down on marking things as not a bug rather than improving the software.
Variety in the context of technical document is wrong by default. You are not supposed to use variety of terms, you are supposed to pick one and stick with it.
I find that the experience of writing (La)TeX depends a lot on what you are using to write it. For me, Emacs' AuC-TeX [1] is nearly perfect: it has shortcuts and autocompletion for almost all the environment names and commands, inline preview, BibTeX searches (via RefTeX), and a number of other minor features that make it easy to write LaTeX. Honestly, I wish that other text-writing modes (like markdown-mode) would implement the interface and functionality of AuC-TeX and not the other way round.

As for the syntax: I love Markdown for writing very simple text content, but as soon as you need to do something just a little more complicated it becomes awkward (e.g., table entries that span multiple paragraphs) and some task are simply impossible (e.g. referencing a list item by label value, the way you do it with TeX's `\label` and `\ref`). The programmability of TeX-based systems is actually a great thing that lets you write shorter documents and push many aesthetics decisions to a `.sty` file (e.g., you can at any time change your mind on how `\vector{u}` should be rendered).

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/
I don't think we're close to the limits yet of how many kilowatts we can pack into a defined weight/volume.

For example, one could imagine a motor having many 'onion layers' from outside to inside, where half of the layers are stationary, and half move. Magnetic fields between the layers cause the torque. By making many smaller layers, magnetic flux paths are shorter, and therefore less metal is needed for a given pulling force, and hence less space.

Current motors have just two layers (rotor and stator), but in future motors with 10+ layers, total power in a given space will be very high - the only limit really will be cost and difficulty of manufacture, especially of complex bearing sets required to keep all the layers concentric.

Eventually, motors will become small and light enough that they get integrated into wheels, and suddenly car design will be dramatically simplified.
Came here to mention that advert. Just superb.
time to market

growing faster than competition

distribution networks

growth hypothesis > value hypothesis

Sufficiently Strong Optimization Destroys All Value
Terrible for privacy.

Not to mention they will phase out normal stamps. Seems like they will surveil anything they get their hands on.
If you decide to defer "what is true?" to your tribe; you're still making the decision of "is this true or not", just adding in "what does the tribe think?" as another factor. As we cannot communicate perfectly, it's actually "What do I think the tribe thinks?" and even less likely to be a useful input.

We keep doing that, then blaming the tribe for our misconceptions.
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This means US government should pass laws to protect EU citizens data, if they feel generous they could apply it to every person regardless of his citizenship,
I think that was just his asshole-businessman side trying to save company from a PR disaster and billions in lost sales.
I'm not sure this is true. I think there is an ROI on quality, but the incentives are set up not to value it. The problem is that "quality" - even "performance" - is quite a nebulous, holistic property of the project as a whole. It doesn't fit neatly into a bullet-point of features which all link back to predefined OKRs for the product management team. It's also a nightmare to measure.

One thing I've been banging on about at web teams I work with is to measure the relationship between time to first contentful paint against propensity to buy/click/watch/spend time-on-site/do whatever the relevant value metric is. For the analytics tooling that teams usually have in place, that's crossing two completely disconnected toolsets: you've got the behavioural analytics tools, which are typically owned by someone else in the business, and then you've got the technical observability tools, which are usually owned by the development team, and marrying the two up can be astonishingly hard to make happen.
This. Many moons ago I used to play on PC and had an extra SSD with Windows exclusively for that purpose. 4-5 years ago I decided to buy a XBOX and man, I've been so happy since then: Turn on and play, no having to mess with graphics configuration, no installations, no graphic card updates etc. I have to mention that I am casual gamer. Perhaps for a person who is really into gaming a PC provides more flexibility but that's not for me. PC for working and console for gaming.
I know more tablet owners who do at least half of their work on their tablet, than I know tablet owners that only use tablets for entertainment/“consumption”. Some examples: (1) a VP of Engineering, (2) a designer/creative software engineer, (3) a teacher, (4) a documentary film maker.

> There's no sending your diagram to a pc for meaningful usage

This is two taps on iPad in most apps: tap share, then tap the Airdrop icon for your laptop or other device.

> integrating your note with your actual knowledgebase

Notion, Quip, Google Docs, Coda, Microsoft Office all run fine on iPad.
Job seekers allowance is not meant to support immigrants forever without actually seeking a job. That's abusing the system, especially if you're from a wealthy country and never paid into the system in the first place.