skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A lot of the indieweb sites don't bother collecting information about their users so they don't need to show information pop-ups nor worry about GDPR.

Not true.

I've spent far too much time with expensive lawyers going through the painful details of GDPR compliance and edge cases. If you keep logs at all, anywhere, then technically you could be at risk of crossing the GDPR. Don't assume that you're free and clear because you haven't gone out of your way to add any analytics.
Wait, they criminalized it? I thought it was just fines for shitty behavior. Fines for shitty behavior I can get behind. "We were used to getting away with it" is a poor excuse that gets poorer every day. But yeah, making it criminal is too far too fast. Assuming they've actually done that.

EDIT: they haven't, "shadowgovt" just overstated the comparison. No, I do not believe that getting away scot-free with shitty behavior today entitles anyone to get away scot-free with shitty behavior tomorrow.
So, destroy a country for one man? Good guys americans!

> When in recent history did the UK surround a city of another country and starve it to death whilst deliberately shelling civilians?

Yugoslavia, 1999... civil buildings were actual targets, not just "accidents"... from tobacco factories, to public television, bridges, etc. Also cluster bombed a city... If you count the "mistakes", also a passenger train, bus, group of escaping refugees, hospitals, schools, etc. Oh, and let's not forget the chinese embassy.

And USA is also currently occupying syria.
> He was upset that FB has content only in one direction, anti-Russia.

Where did you get that? The entirety of the post I saw was:

> Facebook allowing targeted calls for violence to one side of a conflict only had a lot to do with this decision.

Can you point to the part where they get upset, or otherwise makes a value judgment at all?
That experience, of retiring in 5 years, is not the norm. At all. It does happen, and it makes good stories to tell, and people in SV get it often enough that it can seem common. But it is not the typical story of a coder in the rest of the USA.

I have no idea where OP lives, or where they intend to live, but banking on hitting that story is exactly what I am arguing against. Because there is zero guarantee for any specific person to live that path.
That sounds good in theory until the company that does this is swamped by very strong applicants that have no intention in taking the job.

The right balance is equality: I spend an hour, you spend an hour. Rapid CV filtering and coding quiz, then 30 minutes Skype interview to verify claimed abilities: coding, technologies etc. This will filter out 90% of applications and give you a pool of "real candidates" that you should treat with utmost respect.

After this, if you need a 2 day coding test with production data, than you should call the candidate on site and pair them with one of your engineers full time for those 2 days.
I subscribe to the New Yorker and it's one of the best places in the English language to find good writing.

However I made my comment because I thought this story was unusually well written. Given the very vague subject line I felt that comment was useful info for the casual HN reader who usually starts by clicking on the comment thread.
The point is that these "Lawyers of Soviets Law" have been unemployed for 30 years enjoying 1000 euro unemployed benefits. They need to be listed ASAP and deported.

And Finland is joining NATO.
I guess you're right, plus a number of far-right phenomena in the EU that were also partly caused and sponsored by Russian campaigns such as the AfD, Pegida, Front National, Lega Nord, etc. I should have said "are failing now."
Identity is necessary if you want to predictably trigger `useEffect` callbacks.

Example: if you're not using a smart intermediate layer like `react-query`, you can unintentionally trigger loading states and re-fetches if you're not closely watching dependency array identities
Americans were acting like morons after 9/11. I don't see an analogous motivating event here for Russia.
Thank you.

>The radius should be adjustable

Yes I will be working on an adjustable radius (I made it 20% smaller yesterday btw) and difficulty modes.

>Compete with friends (Can make it viral)

You can compete with friends. Click "Learn more" to figure out how to do that. I will also be looking into a "share score" functionality as well as leaderboards maybe.

>Don't know how it calculates the point

I'm aware of an issue in how the distance is measured and will fix it. Sometimes there can also be a discrepancy between the data and the rendered map.

Thanks for the feedback!
Well, atleast the americans left them vehicles and weapons, so the talibans didn't have such a rough re-start there.
No one is stopping Christians from preserving their lifestyle. No one. None. Zero.

What they are doing is not being held hostage to same said Christians from force-feeding it to everyone else. If you like it, fine. Have a biblically awesome life.

"This dystopia where what’s essentially filmed prostitution finds its way into almost all spaces in society, including children’s lives, is what the very powerful liberal wants." As opposed to the Handsmaid Tale/Stepford/Leviathan-like dystopia every Abrahamic hardliner wants.

Yeah, Hard pass on evangelical claptrap.
GDPR is about far more than just cookies.

Once you get into it, the GDPR is extraordinarily vague. It obviously wasn't written by engineers or even people with domain experience. You can easily interpret common server-side logging operations as GDPR violations if you're not careful.
"Financing Available" for a set of wheels, incredible.
Yeah, that was my first thought too, but the card was already expired, and a scammer would probably have known that immediately without testing (since they presumably need the expiry date as well as the card number to charge anything).

I've had mini-charges like these from other cloud providers, too, but then I could confirm the reason for it (some sort of storage I'd missed while deleting the instances).
Perhaps Orwell couldn't envision the technological capability that would allow monitoring of the entire population. Plus he hadn't seen the soft revolutions that occurred in the former Soviet Block, driven by masses of common people. In the 40's, with the exception of Germany and Italy, authoritarian regimes were seemingly invincible.
MIT doesn't offer scholarships to anyone. It only offers need-based aid.
Like syria, you're occupying now?
> please highlight which problems it doesnt avoid

>> UX Consistency

Check

>> Widgets & MSN

Check

>> Unnecessary Cosmetic Changes

If we're strictly talking about OP's grievances, current LTSC doesn't have them but next LTSC based on Windows 11 will.

>> Customization Lock-In

Same as above

>> Telemetry & Microsoft Account

LTSC provides one extra level of telemetry setting but even set to that level it's still chock full of telemetry.
I know anecdotes are not the singular of data, but I knew plenty of people whose young lives mirrored the OPs. My family had two couch-surfing classmates (at different times).

Neglectful parents are common.
The satellites are made in the USA, by, ironically, Airbus Space and Defence (who's largest shareholders are the French and German governments). OneWeb have said they will move manufacturing to the UK, but this was stated in a Select Committee meeting, so could well be simply blowing smoke up the collective 'arrises of their investors.
Go to MIT. Definitely contact their office.

Congratulations- this is no small feat. I hope you feel very proud of yourself.
One of my favourite talks has a demonstration of FizzBuzz in Sonic Pi. It still blows me away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6avJHaC3C2U - whole talk is worth a watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6avJHaC3C2U#t=42m25s - timestamp
> He was upset that FB has content only in one direction, anti-Russia.

What makes you think the OP is upset? It seems like a neutral argument to me. Did the OP edit their post?
Man, every time I read an Atlas Obscura article I enjoy it. Fortunately, I just discovered they have an RSS feed (despite all the rumours that RSS is dead) so it's now in my reader!
I'll have to look into that further. I wasn't aware of there being discrepancies between her book and the sources she used. I wonder if it's related to some of the newer translations being constantly updated. For example, the NKJV has been revised since it was originally printed. Here's a short example showing it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD_r3_aCvsw

Another book similar to Riplinger's is "Corruptions in the New King James Bible" by Jack Mundey. The writing style is a little enthusiastic, but the author compares several editions of various bibles, showing where and how they changed over time. Both Mundey and Riplinger draw the conclusion that the NKJV and NIV are deliberately changed to mislead people, and therefore are Satanic, though neither one makes any point about the KJV's edits themselves, such as the name of God or translations of "Hell" as I've mentioned earlier.
Please respect the HN guidelines: this response makes clear that you were not asking a question, but fishing for debate. Let's be better.
I'm with you on thought #2. Regarding your first thought, however: if you want control over when `useEffect` callbacks fire, identity isn't just an optimization, it's a necessity. For example (used in another comment): if you're not using a smart intermediate layer like `react-query`, you can unintentionally trigger loading states and re-fetches if you're not closely watching dependency array identities
People often talking about the strength of armed forced in terms of how much money was spent on them, but money does not guarantee quality. Russia shows that you can have a big but useless military. Ukraine shows how you can do a lot with a little. It's possible to sink massive amounts of money into useless weapon systems, not to mention the corruption around their procurement.

I'd like militaries to look a bit more at effectiveness, at having a military that they can actually use, and that is well suited for the kind of missions they're likely to use them for, and not merely at size and money.
Think Bayes

Doing Bayesian Data Analysis

Statistical Rethinking

A more complete coverage of Bayesian statistics is Bayesian Data Analysis by Gelman but it's far less accessible than the others.
Ah, you're doing that thing where you presume your argument is correct. Got it.

Worthless to argue against, since you're not willing to entertain subtleties or nuance, and totally against the spirit of HN, but not much I can do about it except stop replying to you.
That cost should be paid by the companies forcing pop-ups onto users.

Popups in no way GDPR's fault. The law does not mandates them.

Instead, it's a form of malicious compliance. Companies pester visitors with popup banners that are almost always unnecessary.

E.g. GDPR allows essential cookies e.g. a login cookie containing an encrypted token without any popup. If you want to notify users about it for extra safety you can show a little privacy notice on the login form. No need for popups.
My recollection is that a lot more noise was made about 'Freedom fries' in political circles, while most people thought it was ridiculous and ignored it, and went on ordering their French Fries.
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Also: ask for business class upgrade when checking in flights. If they're not sold by now they're never going to be sold, and the €150 extra the airline gets is a good deal for them. It's one of those discounts where everyone wins.

Of course, you need to be prepared that you might not get it.
"Christians in politics have done more good than bad"

Feel free to provide some actual substantive backing of that (correlation v causation is so much fun), otherwise you sound like another Xtian carnie with a very dull ax to grind.
Was it hard? People certainly did make fun of it.
Yeah but the thing is the money doesn't really matter to me.

I remember being at a stall (I think it was in Istanbul) and picking out these beautiful scarves for some people back home.

They probably were marked up 500% from the local price but they were still super cheap, like $5/each. When the guy gave me the final price I rounded up and gave him bills in the local currency (it was probably an extra dollar or two USD) but the guy was just super super happy.

The extra couple of bucks for me was meaningless, but, definitely improved his mood and hopefully improved his life.

Plus, now, each gift came with a story to tell.

On the other hand, I bought a rug while there and did not negotiate enough and when I got home my turkish colleagues laughed at me :(
Batch Downloading with Python
If I'm not mistaken (based on a bunch of philosophy courses I took at Rutgers University a bit over a decade ago), philosophers use "morality" and "ethics" interchangeably - and both terms are, roughly speaking, systems that say what individuals ought to do in situations and in general (and these could be rule based, aka "deontology", or act based aka "act utilitarianism", or virtue based "virtue ethics", etc).

I'm unsure how regular people use "ethics" and "morals", so in any conversation I tend to clarify what I mean by the terms so as to avoid confusion.

My recommendation: utilitarianism is the best ethical framework for life - in every regard. It has a proven track record (advocating for abolition of slavery, women's rights, gay right, animal rights, etc -- all decades or even centuries before these became mainstream).
Adults can believe two things at once: Putin's invasion is bad and a humanitarian catastrophe on a number of dimensions, and that encouraging non-combatant citizens of other countries to engage in illegal activity as a response is also bad and unwise.
it apparently didn't bother you enough, otherwise you would've just do one google search and get rid of the problem entirely
Unfortunately, regardless of any philosophy on morality, it is simply unrealistic to expect the citizens of a nation being invaded - a word applicable here without even the merest qualification - to not call for the violent repulsion of the invader, loudly and in great numbers, regardless of how "good" or "bad" the invader's justification is.

Edit: To reconnect my point to the topic - the weight of millions of simultaneous lamentations under such a real, physical attack is simply heavier than the weight of a content policy of a media designed for people to talk to each other. It would be difficult, both morally and practically, to not make an exception in this case. Content policies can not be immutable, and should not be.
The GDPR does not require websites to inform users that a website sets cookies. There is nothing in the GDPR about cookies.

It's the ePrivacy Directive[0] that deals with cookies (or, rather, "[storing] information or to gain[ing] access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user"). This is a law that pre-dates the GDPR.

If you can't get that right, frankly I question whether anything you write on the subject is correct.

[0] Directive 2002/58/processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A...
The problem is, they can enforce it on you at any time of their choosing should you do something deemed unpopular or troublesome. While the cudgel was intended for FAANG, the dagger still hangs to stab any indie that gets out of line.

Why would I rely on the kindness of government not to enforce a poorly written law?
I wonder to what degree satellite internet is winner-takes-all.

They are competing for customers but, at least last I checked, they weren't putting a ton of bandwidth into orbit (compared to existing land based stuff). Maybe they'll both end up just selling as much as they can produce.
Metal is not half-baked, it's actually quite good! It was started as a project before Vulkan as a whole, and it released a year before Vulkan.

Strategically, why would Apple do their own thing and not pay attention to Khronoscor contribute to the standard? Quite a few reasons, most of it having to do with Khronos politics. The details are not public and might never be. I can imagine Apple was tired of Khronos after the mess that was OpenGL. And in many ways, Vulkan isn't a whole lot better...
It's at least a bit more sensible than Belarus declaring Deutsche Welle extremist 2 weeks back..

https://www.dw.com/en/belarus-classifies-deutsche-welle-as-e...
Do you also read commentaries or study guides? They can help with grokking some of the more difficult parts of the text
Not for hardware. Lots of chips are made in China and only sold in China. It's true that Chinese is harder to learn to read than English, especially if you're from Kazakhstan or other Indo-European-language-speaking countries, but lots of hardware manufacturers just aren't concerned about non-Chinese customers.

Chinese is the command line of the 21st century. (I think it was Naomi Wu who said that.)
One of my oldest remaining memories is telling my mom how dumb I thought it was when I was 8 years old.
Ubuntu Unity the desktop environment Ubuntu abandoned back in 18.04? On X11 with Gnome 3 with Ubuntu 20.04 it does actually support fractional scaling and if IIRC does it in a somewhat similar way to MacOS where it scales up the res*2 then downscales it. For whatever reason either GNOME didn't accept Ubuntu's changes or they didn't submit them upstream so it doesn't work in any other distro for GNOME 3. It actually works pretty well IME. It possible to mimic it with the right call to xrandr in other DEs.
Russians are playing the kosovo playbook.

Minority in a larger country, minority wants to separate into its own country, the main country won't let them, some conflicts and shooting, shelling, killing, and an "outside player" steps in and starts destroying the main country.
This morning I hit the Maptiler free plan limit. I now pay $30/month for it (annoyingly they don't include sales tax in their displayed prices). I think the limit goes a long way though
> It looks ancient but it is powerful

It is powerful because it is ancient.
I actually have no idea what you just said (and you can believe it). But I'll Google "local decryption proxy" and see if that's something feasible I could try with, say, my Powerbook Pismo running macOS 9.2 with no modern browsers. I'm no engineer, so please don't assume everyone here is.
Ah yes, that was from the email that they sent to moderators, not part of the (original) public statement (unless I'm misreading).

But yes thank you, that's good to point out
I'm also a native Hindi speaker and I've never in my life used the word which is the correct answer. The game creator should have chosen more popular words.
The funny thing is to fill this gap in a STEM education, all you really need is a single book on the recent history of any poorer country.
> In Australia I can't even get a bloody antibody test to show I've had covid, because doctors are afraid it will be used to "justify" not getting vaccinated

Honest question: What would you use it for? I'm trying to come up with a reason I would want to know whether I ever had covid (I don't think I did but who knows), but I can't think of anything I would do with that information, or any way it would change anything about my current behavior.
Municipal court cases are never news. A municipal court for a district in Russia is just clickbait.
It doesn't particularly matter to the Ukrainians whether they are being killed by one nuclear weapon or several hundred conventional ones. They do care if the Russians have started to successfully deploy conventional arms with high accuracy and no chance of defense. Especially if being not-nuclear-armed means it doesn't cross NATO and EU "red lines".

The fact that it could also be nuclear armed adds a little extra bit of terror, but they could potentially turn around a war that has, by all appearances, been going badly for Russia.

So the fact that they seem to be immune to air defenses is supposed to impress you, yes.
It seems to me that you are looking for permission to turn down MIT. You don’t need permission. It’s your life, and you only get one.

Have you visited either school? Try to visit both if you can. I thought that a comparable institute-of-technology was my dream school. After visiting, it fell down to my last choice, in part because I couldn’t understand a word the lecturer said (thick accent) in the sample class and in part because of the unusual social scene.

If you are sure you want to work for big tech, people here are right that the debt will not be a big problem for you. But if you choose any other path, it might be an issue.

For what it’s worth, I wish I hadn’t worked so hard in undergrad. It did me little good. And my credential from [fancy school] doesn’t stop me from getting rejected plenty. The social network didn’t help me much because I am not very outgoing.

You will have to pass leetcode interviews to work at FAANG no matter which school you attend. Perhaps go to Z and use the time and money saved to practice leetcode. It sounds ridiculous, but maybe it isn’t!

I concede that meeting potential strong cofounders will be easier at MIT, though I wonder how many students want to start companies in a time when FAANG is the easier path to wealth.
Ask HN: Is an AWS certification worth it for learning the basics of dev ops?
For context, I'm a senior software engineer primarily working on the frontend. I'm also a founder of a small company and the only technical person on the team at the moment. I want to (need to!) learn more about dev ops so that I can migrate us off limited tools like Firebase, which are starting to limit us.

Is an AWS cert a reasonable and effective way to do that? How did y'all learn more about dev ops?

I don't want to be an SRE, but I want to be able to build our applications without being locked into very limited and opinionated services.
Not really. The vast majority of the HN community that keeps rejecting cryptocurrencies, blockchain and everything related to them does so on claims that are obsolete, shortsighted and completely ignorant of the progress that has been done in the last years, if not of the ecosystem as a whole, as their opinions comes not from experience but from shoddily written opinion pieces. You can see it in your daily HN frontpaged crypto hate bait thread, such as this one. Only a few handful of comments raise genuine concerns and put enough effort to allow a constructive discussion, the rest is just people venting about how bad crypto is, with no actual insight.
The United States were not the aggressors but the victims (putting it simplistically), much like Ukraine is. In the moment, Americans wanted allies to help them hunt down terrorists who committed, supported and/or funded 9/11. France was not the most willing ally and thus Americans, for better or for worse, became somewhat anti-French. The "Freedom Fries" craze was in-name-only though; it's not like McDs or Burger King literally renamed or stopped serving fries.

> "In a 2005 opinion poll by Gallup, participants were asked if they felt the renaming of French fries and toast was "a silly idea or a sincere expression of patriotism;" 66% answered it was silly, 33% answered it was patriotic, and 1% had no opinion."
Obviously there’s no definition, but I’d say a reasonable baseline is when a user expects a stateful interaction on the stateless medium that is the web. So for example, a multistage checkout process.
I'm not saying Airbus is inferior. I'm saying: if you won't get on an NG, what will you get on? There's no data to indicate that modern Airbus models are unsafe, but there's also no data to indicate that an NG isn't. All Boeing planes didn't suddenly become the MAX after 2019.

I'd be more worried about when/where/who is flying my plane than anything else.