skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing to see Tibia on HN and hear these stories and refresh my memory. I almost lost touch with that part of my childhood.

I loved how brutal Tibia was. One day I was just hanging out in front of the bank (which was also the main market place), looking what others had to sell. A very high player with incredible walking speed arrived from the East. He was blocked by a a few players (it's always busy in Thais as it's the main centre). Within a split second he blast a magic spell at the person in front of him, who died instantly. Chaos ensued, and the high level player continued on his way to the West (it looked like he was in a hurry). Then everyone flocked to the dead person and started throwing around its body and gear. (If someone accesses the dead body, but someone else moves it, the dialog window that shows the body's content is closed). When someone would die, this ritual would continue until the body was far away from multiple people as long as it took for someone to finish looting the body.

I was standing one square away from the dead person, and really felt grateful it wasn't me. Poor guy lost his gear and had to level up again just because someone needed to get through...

It's just one of many many experiences I had, many of which rushed adrenaline through my veins.
Good article. We need more of these. GDPR and integrating with 3rd party services can be quite a legal minefield.

I would like to see an article regarding Google Recaptcha. I am currently considering Recaptcha during a login process as a means of protecting against credential stuffing and password brute forcing. But I do not know if this counts as "legitimate interest" as defined by GDPR. And if it doesn't, there really isn't any way to ask for consent in this case, because "denying" consent sidesteps the entire security measure...
> Fujitsu should take no blame at all. Their software is crap. But so is everyone's. That's software. We know and accept that in the industry.

Really!?

Let's see what the inquiry brings up, shall we?
Show HN: Have you ever wanted to reserve a retweet?
Small price to pay. Sometimes we have to accept some losses for freedom.
Titanic sounds good. We should also call it an unexplodable space ship.
So now the unbanked need an entire shadow economy to exist in their country to take part!? Plus all the accoutrements to access crypto.
The point in your first paragraph is plausible.

I doubt the example in your second paragraph is remotely plausible. But I can see how someone might come up with a better example.

Btw, violating a patent isn't illegal in the criminal sense of murder being illegal. As far as I know patents are more about civil liability, and you'd have to sue Facebook for damages, don't you?

That would make doing business quite a lot more expensive for Facebook, of course. But wouldn't ban what they are doing outright.
That's the problem with government:

1) the justice system will not easily go against any government organization (because government has decreed that individual government workers carry responsibility "by default" for what the government does, unless the employee can prove the government maliciously caused the mistake (just causing the mistake, for example with bad info, is not enough), as opposed to the private sector, where businesses are "by default" responsible for mistakes, unless the business can prove an employee to be malicious)
This means in a lot of cases judges have a choice when the government causes damage: destroy an employee's career AND giving them a very large fine, to be paid personally, or do nothing. Going after the individual is so unfair this is rarely done. That is probably exactly the intention.

2) government organizations, all of them, have legislative power to some extent (sometimes only over their own internal procedures. However, generally, it goes further. For example, the NHS can refuse care to an individual at their own judgement. Private MD's, by contrast, cannot refuse "basic" care, and can certainly not make that judgement themselves)

3) the justice system will only move against it's own people with extreme reluctance. Certainly mistakes won't be punished (they do this while repeating "how much responsibility they need to shoulder" at every turn. Asking how much responsibility it really is if there's no personal or even organizational consequences when they screw up is not appreciated. They have about the same level of responsibility as the player does in GTA5)

So, you don't do business with local governments as a consultant ("other" governmental organizations, from National Government over ATC to NAVO offices, are fine)
> Im thinking about making my own solution too using sqlite!

Me too. I see no problem in querying it and manipulating data. I don't really care about syncing. What I consider the most interesting and problematic are rendering the actual graph and the data, especially an anesthetic and interactive way. Because what I do NOT want to do is another browser/electron-based tool. I am only interested in desktop-native development but I have never seen components relevant to this subject. Apparently they are yet to be developed.
In terms of the 72 issue I guess it turns a general purpose skill (division) into a specific one (investment calculation). So to do it you brush up on division and unlock other skills, like I guess angles 360/6 and so on (which comes in useful at times)
Yet it seems the vast majority of apps include ads.
>So instead he needs a tool to remind him of that "friend" he needs to contact, because pretending to care is beneficial. One might some day need them.

You've basically described every single family relationship ever.

You don't like catching up with them, and they don't like catching up with you, but you do it anyway because one day you might need a kidney or a ticket out of Warsaw.
> He'd miss contacting them.

I keep fond memories of nearly all people I know. I'd help them on the spot and have a pleasent conversarion if they contacted me.

Yet I never miss contacting people I know.
"Most significant" .. in the UK.

I would wager that the discoveries at Narwala Gabarnmang are among the most important - to the rest of the human species - of all the pre-historic art currently under the gaze of the archeologists eye ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabarnmung
haha I totally forgot about that.

Also I learned how others laugh in other languages

huehuehuehuehue
ahuahuahuahua
kekekekkee
kkkkkk
jajajajajaja
Look, it's great you can handle your friends with ease.

It's really great your life didn't mess you up to a point where contacting people you would normally call friends induces anxiety.

Really, congratulations to your great and happy life.

Others have to rely on shitty tricks like these.

What are YOUR weaknesses then?
What can YOU not handle without the help of technology?
Please share so somebody can make fun of you too :D

OP: thanks for posting.
The order flow is usually public. If a broker were to intercept a client order in flight to pocket the difference, it would be called front running and it is illegal in most places.

Crypto is not regulated, so the order book could be completely fictional and there would be no recourse.
Well there are enough normal ATMs in most of the world that just wandering to the nearest bank is quite simple. There are quite a lot of countries without a single Bitcoin ATM let alone them being widely locatable where you happen to be.
I recall a recent HN post that showed that in terms of bytes of data, iphones send more to Apple than android phones to Google.
Is it more important than the 37,000 year old art found in Narwala Gabarnmung, and which has ties to sites in Turkey?

I'd wager a hard no.
It's the fastest way to write an app with a GUI and you can easily make a Windows executable with only an 8MB overhead (with freewrap).
For me "oryx" does sound like "are-ricks," but "our-ox" is basically indistinguishable from "are-rocks." Only the one slight vowel sound of difference.
> According to one interview I heard, part of the problem is that the level of compensation that's actually required in this case is enough to render the Post Office insolvent.

Yes. And some families cannot be made whole; people killed themselves over this.

(Just as they did over false prosecutions from "erroneous transfers" due to technical card fraud, which a researcher once alleged in The Register was propagated by the IT staff of a British bank)
In keynesian economics the desire to hoard is known as liquidity preference because you want things you hoard to be immediately accessible i.e. liquid and require compensation to cease keeping something immediately available.

Most physical objects deteriorate over time which makes gold inspired money an exceptionally poor way to keep track of things because the things that deteriorate disappaer but the gold that represents the things that deteriorated did not.
So people hold onto gold or money without limit as it does not capture the full cost of deterioration leading to an imminent crisis in an economy that is not growing because the ponzi scheme has been exposed.
There might not be a personal consequence directly attached to Amazon employment, but this certainly has impact from a career standpoint.

Mentioning the manager could inhibit him from further employment elsewhere, because once the HR Depts of other companies' start to gather background information on him, they'll think he's a whiner fingerpointer. You cannot exclude a person from employment just for that, but they'll find another reason to not hire him.

It doesn't drive change at Amazon, but it saves him unnecessary risk.
Well, Canadian NGOs can legally receive donations globally. It's not a political party or a candidate, but an NGO.

e.g. would Americans donating to Amnesty International in Canada be considered an act of political interference? Seems like a stretch. People donate to charities of their choosing globally all the time, in fact, quite often to NGOs/charities that disagee with their local governments on quite a few things.

What is the CSIS act, and it's "political protest protections"? Seems really weird, you'd expect the fundamental right to protest in a democracy would be constitutionally enshrined, rather than "protected" under some law. This right is presumed, and the constitution simply recognizes its existence, but maybe in monarchies this is different, and rights are bestowed on the subjects by the monarch?

It seems to me, that if you need a law to "protect" the right to protest, you might be living in a country that isn't quite a democracy.
"Some losses". You're essentially advocating for ending all moderation on the internet. No more forums, no more IRC networks, no more facebook groups or subreddits either. I guess that'll also kill or heavily cripple much of multiplayer gaming.

I guess everybody needs to learn to be okay with spam too?

What's the big win here? You can already run your own censorship-free sites without forcing your shit down everybody elses throats. Turns out, most people don't want that.
That OECD study is really tricky as it only goes to mean income. The interesting bit would be to really rich and there I am not sure Scandinavia would score so well.
Well, that is how a basic orderbook works.

But US markets have some special Reg-NMS rules that glue together things across exchanges. Being from Europe I'm not so familiar with it, but I understand it causes some interesting games to be played.

If you want to actually understand how the market works, there's a fair bit more reading to do.
This comment comes across as arrogant. It's a privilege to have the spare time and energy to act on all of your intentions. You could apply the same argument to keeping to-do lists, storing people's phone numbers in your phone book, using facebook or having a birthday calendar etc.

Try having a child and see how close your ability to execute is with your principles!
Does anybody know what happens when the bid is not equal to but higher than the ask? What is the price that will be used? Or will this not lead to a transaction at all?
d/o/0

One of the compromises you have to make to get 7 segment writing system is that you won't always have capital and lower case options. Rather, some letters can only be written lower case, some only upper case, some both, and some sort of both but one of the cases conflicts with a different glyph (eg lowercase l and i). Eliminating case entirely and just having one symbol per letter is fine since capitalization isn't encoding much anyway. Another compromise/hack you can do is accept 1337 5p3ak as de jure spelling. So the number and letter characters are literally the same, and reading them as one or the other depends on context (or perhaps a special "this is a number" glyph like "#").

I admit some of the transpositions into a pure 7 seg alphabet feel like shoes that are slightly too tight. But we can break them in with time!
Ask and Italian: https://alchetron.com/Chianina
The reality check is that people who do proactively contact others need to put effort into it. And if you are not willing to reciprocate, eventually they figure out it is not fair to them. They tend to eventually gravitate toward those that do put effort into it too.
I believe this results in paying the bid.
Huh, fascinating difference between people. Personally, the fact that my friends use a calendar event to remember my birthday and some of them have an earlier event to remember to plan something for me makes me happy. They precommitted to this act of caring and built it into their workflow so it wouldn’t be missed! I love it.

People are so different in our attitudes to life. It reminds me of the Calendly snafu from earlier.
Example to clarify:

Buyer tells the trader to buy for (up to) 140. Seller wants to sell for (at least) 120. Trader gives 120 to seller, gets 140 from buyer, gets to keep 20 for himself.
Ads in print have always been a better experience than ads in most other media.

Newspapers typically get / got most of their revenue from ads, more than from subscription or selling papers.

An example I heard a few years ago (don't quote me on the actual numbers): the Economist makes about 10 dollars on ads for every issue they sell. Almost no one would opt to buy a version of the print Economist that costs 10 dollars more to avoid the ads.

In contrast, broadcast TV makes about 20 cents on one viewer watching for an hour. Quite a few people would be willing to pay 20 cents to skip ads for an hour.

In that sense of (hypothetical) willingness to pay, ads in print are more economically efficient than ads in broadcast TV.
One curious thing I observed about the winter Olympics is the domination of tiny Norway in medal rankings. They were at the top of the table in 2018 games and are currently at the top as well. It's insane how a country of 5 million is able to do it, ahead of russia, china, usa, canada etc. It's not like these countries don't get snow or don't have enough money. I wonder what's the real reason. Lack of interest? Lack of winter sports culture?
I think the alternative to having a social life "dictated by a machine" (a machine which, in this case, encodes the intentions of its programmer) is to have a social life dictated by chance and by other's intentions - coincidences on public transport, social media posts ranked by a black box, the noisy patterns of our recollection, etc... what is so 'authentic' about sacrificing one's attention to these forces, which may only align accidentally with our priorities?

I've kept a spreadsheet for about 5 years of people I know from my hometown, from uni, past jobs, in other countries, family of friends, etc... ranked roughly by how frequently to contact them, and it has been so helpful and fun for me (and them!) to use it. This might not be helpful for everyone, depending on what you care about and the size of your network, but it seems more "sad" to me that people let chance and social media control their patterns of interaction.
> Does Tcl have a grammar? There is a distinction and it is not irrelevant; you will run into the consequences of it.

Aren't syntax and grammar synonymous? Or, if not exactly the same thing, essentially two sides of the same coin?

In my mind, a syntax is a set of well-formed formulas, a proper subset of the Kleene star of the language's alphabet. And a grammar is basically the same thing. I suppose, beyond being a mere set of WFFs, both are also a mapping from formulas to some kind of tree structure; if we can give the set of WFFs a recursive definition, then a tree structure falls out of it naturally. But, Tcl obviously has a WFF-set and a tree structure. (Although, there are also different levels of WFF-sets – the set of all syntactically/grammatically valid C programs is a proper superset of the set of all semantically valid C programs – a C program which calls an undefined function might be said to be syntactically but not semantically valid – and surely the same point holds for Tcl as well.)

> Markdown has syntax -- but no official grammar.

If Markdown has "no official grammar", it is because there is not one thing called Markdown, there are many. It is many sets of well-formed formulas, which are very disjoint. I suppose almost every language is many rather than one, because every implementation of a language adds a slightly different set of non-standard extensions; but in languages such as C, those differences are confined to relatively narrow areas (such as pragmas, attributes, reserved names, etc); in languages such as Markdown, the syntactic differences between different implementations will be much more extensive, so much so that we are really talking about a family of related languages (flavours as they say), rather than a single one.

> So is Tcl. So the definition of Tcl is "what the Tcl interpreter can parse".

The core syntax of Tcl is reasonably fixed. An independent implementation can be written to accept exactly the same core syntax as the reference implementation does, without any great effort.

The non-core syntax is (near-)infinitely flexible, but I could say the same thing about C or Java. In Tcl, I can define (near-)arbitrarily named commands that accept (near-)arbitrarily named arguments; in C/C++/Java/etc I can define (near-)arbitrarily named functions/methods which accept (near-)arbitrarily named arguments, (near-)arbitrarily named structs/classes/etc which have (near-)arbitrarily named fields, etc.

> Tcl's lack of a grammar up against Scheme, Lisp, etc., was a point of some contention.

That claim makes zero sense to me. Tcl and Lisp have core syntaxes based on rather different principles, but both have a grammar, and I don't think there is any sensible way in which you could say that one has more of a grammar than the other.
Europeans can have the luxury of not worrying about investing since many European countries offer livable pensions (for now…the demographic future for this isn’t looking so good).

However, this isn’t as great as it sounds. While the European model for healthcare and education is better, their pension schemes are arguably a much worse deal than what Americans can have.

In Europe, you’re basically paying the government to take your money and invest it in much too conservative, in fact, negative-yielding! bonds right now due to pension fund mandates.

You can’t take the proper amount of risk given your age (in your 20s-40s you should be almost fully allocated to stocks) because the pension fund needs to constantly be paying out money to old people—they can’t risk huge drawdowns.

There’s a surprisingly large amount of middle class Americans who will retire millionaires just because they are able to save for their pension privately and take the proper amount of risk for their age (eg. Target date funds).

Meanwhile, in Europe, governments shelter people from the harsh realities of how financial markets work, but you have to hope and pray that enough people are born in the coming decades to make up for the conservative pension mandates. And you have to pray that the government allows you to retire sometime before you die (in the nordics, retirement ages are constantly being pushed back and pension benefits are shrinking...due to said demographics).

I predict every country will eventually move to a hybrid private/public pension model like the US over the next 40 years. So you'll have to start caring eventually.
> Ruling out prosecuting the developer if it can be proved that they knew, did nothing, colluded in silence, etc., would be insane.

This should also include developers doing code review of the code in topic, but also all related code, all testers/QAs and product owner. There isn't one developer that missed that bug.
What you seem to be looking for exists and it’s called Directus: https://directus.io/ (authentification, permissions, GQL/REST API, admin interface, etc.)

But I would not call Directus a NoCode platform, it’s just a turn-key backend on top of a SQL database (also providing an admin interface).

I am myself a very satisfied user (for the last two months or so; Directus existed for a few years).

Have a look.
You think you're promoting care but you come off as extremely obnoxious and the kind of person I certainly wouldn't want as a friend.
Definitely sun glare, this is a picture taken from a Sun-synchronous orbit.
What exactly is the difference as you perceive it between an analogy and "relativizing" something?

"No. Source: All of medical literature for mRNA"

So if the scientists doing the experiments claim their experiments are A-OK, people being forced into them is OK? Really? That's the distinction you feel makes it not the same as what the Nazis were doing? If the Nazi doctors had said "we think our medical work is actually beneficial" you'd have said, oh OK then. Not a crime.

"They're saying that getting poked by a needle is as bad as being starved to death before being squished into a small chamber and brutally choked to death by gas."

They are NOT saying that and the fact you keep making this nonsensical claim is - again - proving my point to any bystanders who are watching. If you're representative of the average German then the Allies failed because you aren't drawing generalizable lessons from the past. The anti-mandate campaigners are drawing analogies with the Nazi practice of forced medical experimentation on people which you have already agreed was horrific. And that is worth comparing to the Nazis because history teaches us that people willing to take that step may well be willing to take others, which is exactly how we end up with pictures like these:

https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_p...

https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_p...

Do you see the danger now? The guy with the swastika symbol in the first photo has a sign saying "gas the unvaccinated". It should not be a shock that the actual neo-Nazis here aren't the people saying "leave us alone" but rather the ones saying "let's force people to take brand new drugs against their will". The latter was something the Nazis actually did. Making vaccines a matter of free choice wasn't.
I find that the note-taking experience is now good enough [0]. You can start a note easily, write and structure your thought with minimal markup, include links and other material without much friction and save the note on your distributed storage/storage. I think we are close to maximal efficiency for this experience, at least in this note=text paradigm.

However, when you want to search or reorganize, most tools only give you minimal support. Searching by keyword ? Only if you tagged it yourself or there's an exact match in the text (forget about synonyms). Notes in domain A but not domain B ? Filter yourself. Split or aggregate notes ? Copy-paste. No housekeeping alerts/tips for reviewing old content. No sharing and user permissions. Taking notes and organizing them on the go is still very second-class citizen.

I'd still use these tools over everything else, the paradigm is too powerful and enabling to leave it aside. I just feel the complete experience is not as smooth as taking a note.

[0] I use Org-roam but the other systems are functionally the same.