skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to disagree with that. I'd wager that even if with a hypothetical perfect GDPR, you'd still have the major advertisers fighting it tooth and nail.

Because when "you're the not the customer, you're the product" applies, then the GDPR does effectively undermine the business model. Targeted advertising appears to be immensely profitable; raising boundaries on how you process subject's data, and how/to what extent you profile them, cuts into those profits.

The GDPR recognized the protection of PII as a fundamental right. The way I read the argument I quoted, the problem is not that e.g. Facebook would like to comply with the GDPR but cannot do so for e.g. imprecise implementation details. The problem is the GDPR significantly impairs Facebook's ability to generate revenue. And to that end, it appears that Facebook is indeed "openly ignoring" the GDPR to some extent, at least from what I recall from the ongoing complaints by NOYB and others.

[To clarify, I don't disagree with your particular argument; on the contrary, the flaws you pointed out are evident. I just don't think that is was the argument being made here.]
It’s been a while since I played Titanfall, but I remember it as mostly ground-based FPS. This video gives you an impression of Tribes 2 fights: https://youtu.be/Kj6K_d6Zsuw

There were also other roles you can’t see in the video (at least in the first minutes): there was an invisibility shield that allowed you to infiltrate enemy bases. You could set up sensors to make invisible opponents visible, deploy small turrets and radars. You could spend all game just repairing things like turrets, radars and inventory stations, and that was an important role in CTF. And there were vehicles that needed pilots, you could control turrets…
> Also all data that might be deanonymized by some means is personal data.

One question I've always had with this is whether it counts as personal data if it can only be de-anonymized by combining it with other data. So Company A manages some subset of a person's data.Company B manages a different subset (different app or whatever). Individually it is completely anonymous but if you combine them, it's trivial to de-anonymize.

Is this covered by GDPR? Both companies? What if one company dissolves and that data set is deleted?

Obviously a contrived example but an interesting thought experiment, I think.
> The computerized "knowledge at your fingertips" is a common slogan of computer-age propaganda, but it's probably true that a greater fraction of that "knowledge" is in fact garbage and overall may just be a marginal improvement.

IMO the Web has done a terrible job of realizing all the wonderful knowledge-spreading and educational purposes it was supposed to.

What it has done is make it so idle, trivial thoughts that would hardly have reached the level of consciousness before, become an itch until I find out the answer—because now I can find out the answer ("who was that one actor in that one show"). And it's great at answering those kinds of questions.

It's 2022 and in tons of fields you'll still run out of material on the Web as soon as you go past the barest surface of a topic, and have to go track down some books (which may have no digitized version, so I mean actual books). I have niche reference books from decades ago that are exactly the kind of thing that an online catalog-of-knowledge ought to be good at, but what's on the web is far less complete than them. That kind of thing.

All that, plus it's so crammed full of spammy shit that using it is like trying to track down a poorly-marked Little Free Library box on the Vegas strip.

Physical libraries with inter-library loan remain much more valuable overall—and university libraries, especially—which is kind of pathetic.

The most valuable sites on the Web are probably piracy websites like Library Genesis, and they still can't deliver everything you can get on dead trees. But they come the closest.
In the US, cash discounts have been explicitly allowed since around 2010 (via the Durbin amendment to the Dodd-Frank law). Merchant agreements were updated to reflect these possibilities. (Visa's is under 1.5.4.14 Discount Offer – US Region and US Territories, 5.6.2.1 Convenience Fees – AP, CEMEA, and US Regions, 1.5.5.2 Surcharges [and possibly others].)

Accepting, handling, counting, accounting for, and securing cash (against insider and outsider threats) is not without cost either.
I would like a Kerbal Space Program esque aircraft design + fly game.

We already have very sophisticated dynamical models for how airplanes fly (which are deftly integrated into flight simulators) but no way of designing custom airframes.

I'm thinking that you design an aircraft: choose wing cross section shape, taper, sweep, position, control surfaces, etc. You could choose materials (ok maybe no aeroelastic stuff, just weight and failure from stress).

Then you can fly it around for fun in a realistic simulator, combat with other players, or some other mission (range? transportation aircraft? etc.)
Ok, so the NSA could have replaced the phone numbers we sent each other, which means that we can't be sure that the NSA isn't intercepting our file transfer later, which is the exact same issue we would face had we using HTTPS to transfer the file, except we did a lot more work (e.g. exchanged numbers, texted file hashes, compared check sums, etc.).

btw, citation needed that the NSA is able to decrypt https traffic.
wow, thank you for recommending this - the graphics are not quite what I'm after, but the concept definitely is - albeit the tiny humans seem a bit too large to live in mouseholes
If a newspaper were to simply present the facts and let the reader come to their own conclusion, that might be viewed as dangerous.
sysadmin skills will definitely help if you install kubernetes (for example, on a bare metal cluster.) Operating / managing k8s is definitely its own world though. FYI, I do run k8s at home, in my home lab.
Games which present you with a text box and ask you to write in a language to solve a problem feel too much like being tricked into eating your vegetables. That's not saying that programming games can't work, but thinking about it as programming can get in the way. Dijkstra's famous quote is that computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, and games are proof of that.

Factorio is often given as an example of managing complexity, as another response said. TIS-100 has the aesthetics of assembly programming but the substance is actually a game that teaches hardware parallelism. Even something as simple as having students act out the 'dining philosophers' problem can be thought of as a game.
Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act
I wanted to try it but for some reason it doesn't accept Lex Fridman's channel as a valid URL: https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfridman
Fair, I'm just curious exactly how it would happen if they had less insight into who was voting for what. Would they have to donate to 51 of the candidates in the Senate? Or to both parties? But if the parties can't see who of their members voted for which bill or even proposed different things in committee, then how would the party leaders bully and intimidate members to follow the party line?

How do you imagine the money would flow if there were more secrecy in the Congressional process? If you were a lobbyist (or more accurately, a rich person who pays lobbyists), how would you do it?
CATL's Sodium-Ion Battery
Like GTA but with the ability to really do real life scenarios and not scripted stories. This mixed with a solid multiplayer mode then we would be at secondlife/GTA mix and people wouldn’t leave home anymore.
In tech, the consulting industry is full of "job half done poorly". Consultants overpromise and underdeliver. They take the money and run. Yes, it somewhat works. If you have a bug, no one can help you because their code is a giant ball of spaghetti that requires a Rosetta Stone to decipher. Which they will not give you without you paying more money. Within five years, you are likely to ditch that train wreck and hire a bunch of new consultants to rewrite what will probably be another slow burning dumpster fire.
Strategies in the news (cloud, smartphones, Starlink, etc.)
Try Outer Wilds. Without spoiling too much (don't get spoiled on it!) it's pretty close to that.
I can recommend these apps on Android (both are open source and have many features).

Aegis Auth - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beemdevelo...

andOTP - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.shadowice....
The NYT is wrong about all kinds of stuff. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that they engage in quite a bit of data/mis-info. Whether purposely or via sloppy reporting, the effect is the same.
> something which can be done by other means, so cookies aren't needed

How does one actually do that? Embed a session id in every request/response?
I feel like a lot of people have forgotten that before the iPhone, touchscreens were widely regarded as a terrible interface only suitable for niche applications like kiosks. There were good reasons for that, and latency and lack of tactile feedback were high on the list. Touchscreens have proved effective in situations where you need a highly-flexible interface in a small space, but an awful lot of devices (like appliances) have more space and don't need the flexibility, so they end up taking all of the downsides with none of the benefits.

A lot of designers (or marketers) seem to be trying to copy the look and feel of Apple devices without understanding the factors that led to their design.
Roy: A Life Well Lived from Rick and Morty could be a trip
https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Roy:_A_Life_Well_Lived
Almost 400 comments, and noone seems to be getting to the crux of the issue:

This is about mortality, legacy, and humanity's fundamental inability to effectively deal with death.

The "junk" is memories. A lifetime of memories of people important to us - important to them - a record of their accomplishments. It was the best they could do. Not everyone gets a library wing, a mausoleum, or a wikipedia page. But for a brief moment maybe you have your stuff - and stuff triggers memories that your life actually happened and had meaning.

And then you're gone, and it all becomes a useless burden.

Yes, it's frustrating. But it's more existential than that. When you clean out your parents' junk, you have to confront with the reality that in some years someone else will be cleaning out yours. And the memories you're making of the rich and powerful experiences you had will also disappear into the aether.

That is disturbing and upsetting to most humans. I'm impressed so many commenters here can be completely detached from it.
Credit reporting exists nearly everywhere. Regulations vary by region, but the general collecting and reporting of credit information is legal most places.

Many of the places where people think they don't have a "credit score" are just places where credit worthiness is quantified differently, or local regulations don't have the same transparency requirements that exist in the US.
Noticed all these recommended permissions in that doc page:

"ec2:PurchaseReservedInstancesOffering",
"rds:PurchaseReservedDBInstancesOffering",
"elasticache:PurchaseReservedCacheNodesOffering",
"es:PurchaseReservedInstanceOffering",
"redshift:PurchaseReservedNodeOffering",

Curious about plans for those services other than EC2 given that they don't currently seem to have Reserved Instance Marketplaces

Also curious about any plans for other services with general reservations like CloudFront
What gave you the impression recessions only happen once in a lifetime?

More like once in a decade, and recent ones are substantially smaller than in previous centuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...
Damn you, I just got out of a crippling factorio addiction ...
I second this. Once you learn a few rules, every modern game turns into a slideshow of backgrounds for the same puzzle.
A detective game that actually makes you feel like a detective. That means gathering clues, using deduction, and making accusations.

Game Maker's Toolkit has a really good video on why it's difficult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwV_mA2cv_0

Return of the Obra Dinn and Her Story are the best I've played so far, each excelling at different things.
I don't think it's really about the touchscreen. I think very few manufacturers, if any, are putting very much thought into this. Apple Carplay, for example, is just a jumbo, uber-simplified version of ipadOS/iOS. In my car it has a great, high resolution 10" touchscreen but a very lackluster experience. It's pretty damning if even Apple, a tech company at heart, is doing it poorly. It doesn't autoplay audio, store memory of what you were doing when last connected, or have any available preferences. "Car" is right there in the name but nowhere to be found in the experience based on everything drivers have expected from vehicles for the better part of a century.
> As for why to make things like signed overflow undefined vs implementation defined, we could argue about it. If you've got a link to something more than speculation about that choice, I'd like to read it. My opinion shouldn't be terribly valuable to anyone.

I'm (slowly) working on a "In Defense of UB" blog post, and I'm going to see if I can track down some old C committee members who might be able to offer more than speculation here. But I can't guarantee it, this is about discussions that happened well over 3 decades ago, and there's a good chance that recollections of details from that time are imperfect or just plain missing.
huh? Progress requires innovation, the two are tightly linked
This article strangely undersells the advantages of low tech. It's true that they're not better for everything, but they have advantages well beyond the basic things mentioned.

A tactile button has far fewer accuracy issues with positioning: if you can feel the button, you won't start pressing 2/3 off and then get further and further off until you're triggering something else, as happens all the time on touchscreens.

A knob provides a richer communication path between your brain and the device. With touchscreens, you can basically just poke and swipe, with some unintuitive nuances like long press or multi-fingered gestures. With a knob, you're using separate muscles and so can associate muscle memory based on the size, texture, and granularity of "click" feedback as you turn. We also have the ability to finely modulate the rate of twisting something—compare that to tapping frantically on a touchscreen left/right icon to control a quantity.

Knobs don't share space in our muscle memory with buttons. To some extent, different knobs and different buttons are distinguishable too.

Physical sliders are good for fine-grained control, but are also good at just smashing them all the way to min or max. When I try that on a touchscreen control, it might not make it all the way to the extreme, or my angle is wrong (no physical constraint to keep my hand/finger in place!) and it doesn't register at all because I veered off of the control.

Even when I'm looking at the screen already, using a directional pad means I'll always gradually get further and further off until it stops registering. Either because my attention is on a different part of the screen, or because my fingers are in the way of seeing the displayed pad. Not a problem with a physical stick or knob.
Japan tries–again–to revitalize its research
There is a cost associated with collective bargaining as well as benefits. While most of these costs (though not all) are carried by the employer to the benefit of the employee; I don't think dismissing these concerns by calling them "common anti-union talking points" improves the honest discussion that should be had by people considering collective bargaining.
It's absurd we in the US allow Tiktok as a Chinese company to operate their service while they chase Uber and Airbnb and others out of their country.

“when goods (and services) don’t cross borders, soldiers will”
I wish there was a game that was hosted on an enormous and powerful server. Imagine a game that is designed to run on terabytes of memory, even more storage and a whole bank of GPUs. Basically a game that takes full advantage of a super computer, played remotely. You could have unprecedented detail, full physics and ray tracing, maps as large as planets with full detail and no loading times. Fully destructible environments.
My Useless Contribution to the GNU C Sine Function
Note that a benchmark in the README refers to zstd 1.1.1 and brotli 0.5.2, which are very old (the current versions are zstd 1.5.2 and brotli 1.0.9). The same author maintains lzbench [1] which is more current than the README. It shows that Lizard heavily trades off compression speed and ratio for decompression speed; zstd at the default setting (-3) is expected to be on par with Lizard -45 in terms of ratio, but Lizard would be >10x slower to compress while only ~3x faster to decompress.

[1] https://github.com/inikep/lzbench
Inside Java: Replacing Finalizers with Cleaners
The main advantage of the modern GUI is when you need to perform wildly different tasks on them. Physical controls may not be appropriate to every task. This was the pitch when Jobs unveiled the iPhone, and it makes sense.

However, if you have a device with a single function, there's no need for that. Your physical controls will always match the device's function. Use those.
If it is "definitely not true" as you claim, surely someone has done an analysis and published data on electrical, flooring, structural strength, etc. Lets see some of that. Data is easier to discuss than opinions.
I think Paradox's games would be up your alley, with the upcoming Victoria 3 probably being the best fit due to its focus on economic details and sociopolitical dynamics.
Here's a part of the flow I'm talking about; for context it's a debit card that rewards users with stock as they use it. The entire flow is SwiftUI (though the top of the pack ripping is PNG sequences so we did cheat a bit).

https://streamable.com/56pha0

(shameless plug; check us out at https://www.withapollo.com we're YCS21, just launched last week, and are hiring an iOS engineer!)
Democrats urge Google to limit geo tracking to protect people seeking abortions
Hitting critical mass was definitely the weakness for Savage.

Natural Selection worked much better in that regard. About 6v6 was the sweet spot, but it worked alright on lower player counts and was absolute fun chaos at higher counts. It was a fixture at our LANs for many years!

One the best parts of these games though is that new players are always incentivized to contribute and aren't a net drag (in casual play). Sure you might be terrible, but your death still meant less damage on your teammates, and there was always something helpful to do whether it was helping build or repair things or scouting and harassing the enemy.
The more I think about it, the more I believe this is the case. But thank you for the guidance.
I want to play as the AI that helps people survive deep space travel, but I want it rogue like, with tons of builder/resource driven tradeoffs
Venture further into that: grid-template-areas let you visually lay out the elements in the grid, and combined with media queries let you completely rearrange the page as needed.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/grid-templa...
I’ve adopted the “Someday/Maybe”, “Waiting For”, “Next Actions”, and “Weekly (P)Review” portions of GTD, beyond that, all my commitments are in my calendar, as I found a decade ago that my biggest impediment to getting things done was answering ‘When?’
Gravity-oriented shooter where you fight on tiny planets with primitive weapons.

Because the "planets" are so small, gravity and Coriolis forces influence projectiles: hitting the enemy often requires shooting over the horizon, or relying on the planet's rotation so your spear lands in the right place.

Running fast or jumping off a tall structure can put you into low orbit.
Planet sizes range from about the volume of a house to the volume of a skyscraper.
Planet shape influences your tactics - cube planets have less gravity near the corners, spinning ringworlds let you jump from one side to the other, etc.

Super Mario Galaxy plus Fortnite
Credit scores are part of the marketing scheme to make people think they need mortgages. Slight exaggeration but not far from the truth.
Can you mount the nuclear reactor far away from the crew module and reduce the mass of shielding, as in old sci-fi?
A remake of "Big Red Racing" =)
The can't be created, but legislation can certainly protect rights.
yew.rs
I hadn't thought about using Flutter for Web, interesting.

Edit: Flutter Web seems buggy.
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"Paradise Killer" may be of a similar genre. Also perhaps "Deadly Premonition".
Show HN: Ably: Serve webpages from any website on your domain
Most water in California is not used by households. If you make Californians stop showering at all it still wouldn’t solve the problem.

I think pressure control in showers could be useful (?) but is ultimately a you issue (who wants less water pressure when showering?). Showering won’t solve Californias issues. It’ll just piss off the electorate.

I agree with home landscaping though which is something like 50% of household water. It still only accounts for like 5% of total consumption across the state.
This seems to be "Pathologic" in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathologic
> Ok, so the NSA could have replaced the phone numbers we sent each other

What if we're living in a black hole and our universe is a white hole?

> except we did a lot more work

Or we trust the sender to not be malevolent and/or compromised, like Debian did for more than 20 years.

I don't understand why people live like they are surrounded by enemies in enemy territory, given it's not usually the case.

HTTP is perfectly fine, unless you have reason to not use HTTP.

They exists, but it's not always necessary.

Also: 99% of corporate networks install self signed certs and override the certification authority, so traffic is inspectable.

Some mobile network operators do the same things when they sell to customers "secure network" upgrades.

HTTPS is not a panacea.

You simply trust a different set of "authorities" that none of us know or control.
Actually it's the other way around:

In reality most interesting programs accept Turing complete languages - albeit not formally specified :)
Tangentially related, but I can’t help but think what Haiti could be today had they elected Wyclef Jean. Regardless of his abilities as a politician, as an international celebrity, he could’ve brought unity and investment to Haiti.

If you’ll forgive me, I don’t think he could’ve done much worse.
> Also the third parties have a history of pushing clowns even worse than the main parties

My Republican Senator from Wisconsin claimed that mouthwash could kill Covid. There is no worse clown.
I still am not convinced that TikTok is direct competition for Facebook. I see tiktok as more a competitor with YouTube. Furthermore, while Instagram was well positioned as the modern “what’re my friends doing/gonna post some nice photos here”, Zuckerberg move to make it a competitor with tiktok is only damaging the service by changing what it’s about. As I said, Instagram is for sharing photos and keeping in touch with friends. Tiktok is about watching stuff cause you’re bored. There’s room for both if you let them not compete! But I think Instagram is killing the golden goose as it were
Exclusive Russian hackers are linked to new Brexit leak website, Google says
That's not really possible, given that the mere omission of facts, or the placement of facts next to each other influences the conclusion.

Besides which, people think in stories, and presenting just a list of facts isn't going to be read by anyone.