skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can in detail ask about ALL personal data that was used as an input for this decision, information about the ¨automated decision-making¨ (algorithm), and all personal data that resulted out of this process. https://gdpr.eu/article-15-right-of-access/

That is only true in specific cases of processing, as detailed by article 22: "a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her".

In the case of a domain name used for email I think you could legitimately argue that the decision "significantly affected" you, but it's kind of undefined so far what the bar is for this criterion.
That's actually a feature and not a bug, a little activation energy is a great way to filter out people you probably can't convert to signups.

But you still need a demo video at the very least
Turing Machines and Continuous Surface Programs
I find it much easier and faster to stage or unstage files (or parts of files) with a UI.
according this roughly 50% of European population had phone including seniors and children, so it pretty much confirms what I said that all adults except old people had phone including plenty of teenagers, Americas way behind Europe, but I guess US avg would be much higher than South America

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Regional-and-global-cell...
I felt like I was reading a Rolex advertisement
In my opinion Elden Ring demonstrates how making a Soulsborne game more mainstream actually makes it less like a Soulsborne game.

It’s so player friendly and lacks most of the hard lessons previous titles teach.
Maybe this is just a sign of working in a technical field for too long, but my mind always jumps to counterexamples first. So I was surprised they didn't even acknowledge the existence of blind musicians.
Yup, been there. Have a look to see if cloudflare will do what you need within the free plan. You just point it at the bucket, add a rule for the redirect and all the tls is handled for you. It’s pretty painless. Feel free to ping me if you want to run through the steps.
Ideally this would allow lab testing of your drugs. For example, a group of friends could buy 10 MDMA pills but can’t know if one or all of them are potentially fatal.

They could crush up and thoroughly mix the 10 MDMA pills, send 10% to a local lab to get the purity and amount confirmed by a local chemist. Then they know the remaining 9 doses are non fatal (and how much to take for a specific dose of MDMA).
Two thirds of Americans (European numbers are similar, higher if anything) drink coffee every day, which is, not to put too fine a point on it, an addiction. I'm one of them for sure.

It's easier to just give people their fix, and there's a long history of this, paid coffee breaks were an early concession unions demanded during industrialization.
HN needs censorship, so nothing to see here
Lambda/Cloud Functions are starting to converge on this idea. It will eventually get streamlined and ergonomic enough that it appears you're executing an expensive or async function locally, except you aren't.
Twitter actually introduced a premium version called Twitter blue that adds a reader mode meant for reading long threads.

But the Twitter thread is really it’s own format, and when done well with photos and graphics punctuating the tweets it becomes something more than just a chopped up article. Kamil Galeev’s threads on Russia and Ukraine are a great example of really taking advantage of the format. Here’s a nice example:

https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1501360272442896388
Hah, I found playing in my band with a mask on made us really suck on improv sections. I never realized how much we relied upon it.
I was interviewing for a platform engineer role for a company that from the outside their application doesn't seem too complex. Through the interview process, I find out that you cannot run much of their app locally to develop against and their staging environment does not reflect their production enviroment well. I asked them how they develop their new features if they cannot run the whole app locally and if they intorduce many bugs without testing locally. They response was along the lines that they hired good engineers that could understand all the complexity before deploying new features.

I believe having a solid development environment where you can develop and test the whole stack is key to making reliable software. Is this common at other companies that you cannot run the whole app locally to develop and test against?
CS/EE, so yeah, the blight affects all areas, even the ones you'd
imagine were "safer".
Theft/fraud/etc only applies to individuals. When big companies do it it's business as usual.
It was a great point, though. And, my pedantry aside, having your car - which bring all the benefits of an EV - be a decent electrical backup system and replace a standalone inverter generator (at least $1k, and you'd have to buy appropriate extension cords, anyway) or a whole-home standby (at least $15k) is an exciting prospect and great solution for a really large number of US households.
I agree with your take. It's definitely a problem with the current game format. I have thought through some different alternatives, but not a fan of any of them up to this point.
> “Supposed” by whom?

It’s fundamentally what a market is.

It’s like me saying a sorting algorithm is supposed to produce a sorted set, and you saying ‘“Supposed” by whom?’
I bought an eMate on a whim about 20 years ago and absolutely love it. I do a similar thing and have a play once in a while. Occasionally I’ll use it as a distraction-free writing device, but the batteries need replacing for it to be truly useful. Will get round to it one of these days.

I can’t help but think it would make a really good Raspberry Pi casemod, but it feels like sacrilege to gut a working device.

Incidentally, if anyone has any broken eMates I’d be interested…
Not sure it's really a defense of Oracle to say that they'd been treating their own technical staff badly, and couldn't treat Sun's any different.
Around 1963 I offered a ride on my new Lambretta scooter to a good looking girl. She looked at it and saw the manufacture's name, Innocenti. Without hesitation she said, "that's Italian". "Inno" means no and "centi" means sense. Anyone who would ride on that thing doesn't have any sense.

And she was right!

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More doesn’t account for nutritional deficiency. If zinc is missing in a foodstuff, it requires supplementing with other foodstuffs, not eating more of the same foodstuffs.
I too host my sites manually. What happens when your site that's hosted on the VPS gets noticed by a trigger happy skiddie? What happens when they start eating up all your bandwidth? Your VPS provider will be more than happy to null route you.

For the websites you own, you registered your domain with someone right? What happens when that company decides to have some AI decide if you are doing something illegal?

Until today I "never had" any of these issues as well, the main issue here is we have to rely on large companies (or small companies for that matter tbh) to do "the right thing", and we don't have many options to solve it. I got super lucky some folks browsing HN decided to get my post some attention.
Recording data in the field, a well crafted spreadsheet taking the place of a clipboard and pages of paper. Works like a charm.
There is a large cage here. The weathering suggests that it may have been here for a long time.

There is a large sign next to the cage.

There is a stick on the ground.

> read sign

The sign says, DO NOT POKE THE BEAR

> get stick

You pick up the stick.

> poke bear with stick

Despite your better judgement, you poke the bear with the stick. The bear rouses from its sleep.

> poke bear with stick

With a terrible roar, the bear turns on you. Reaching through the bars, it tears your arm off.

There is an arm laying here, holding a stick.
Last I remember looking into it is the hard 90 degree offset is for wind resistance in open water.
But that's exactly what the article states. It doesn't say they left because of the soda; it says it was a wake up call that made them realize it was no longer the company they liked and which they helped build.
I genuinely don't like this, in part because it is so good.

Society continues cramming unnecessary, yet surprisingly useful features into bigger and bigger cars. With each feature, it brings people 1 step closer to thinking that they actually need what is effectively a murder tank in their house.

In the US, power outages are a once every few years kind of thing. Most truck uses are similarly once a year sort of uses. These trucks are by and large purchased by rich people in suburbs, who never so much as use 1% of the features they offer. Yet, people end up solo-driving these same over-bloated tanks for their commute and ferrying around a couple of people.

It makes the roads riskier (already biggest contributor of youth death), increases road wear by 4x (weight squared) and leads to the general inefficiencies that come with car-centric design.

Note: This doesn't apply to those in rural areas.
What you mention as “the fun part” does sound pretty interesting. Sounds like you’re contracting/consulting? Any advice on finding assignments in the field? (For someone with a DS + non-civil engineering background)
Also, biofuel.
Curated list of KeePass-related projects
> When I started my PhD in physics our group leader told us repeatedly not to talk to people from MIT or Caltech about our work too early, because there will be a postdoc who will do what will take you about 3 years in the space of 6 months.

Because of smarts, or because of their access to resources?
> If you search images of Tableau Prep, that's more along the lines of what I had in mind.

Ah! I think this is a visualization of what does happen with DataStation panels too. Eventually I'd like to have better support for understanding the dependency graph like this but for now that's just been a nice idea to have sometime in the future.

> Although Tableau supports Python and R, it's not nearly as well integrated as what you've done with DataStation. In general, it's more geared towards Excel power user types, rather than programmers.

Yeah it was definitely my impression it was not geared toward programmers as much (though I know many programmers or data scientists use it).
I strongly disagree. I would quite happy to invest a venture like if I was confident it would help us make a transition to renewable energy faster, even if the ROI was significantly worse on average than S&P. My concern is how do I know that buying solar panels with them will actually help to increase the percent of renewable energy being supplied by the grid. I don't want to just help some commercial investor who has built out a solar project recover the capital they've put into it unless they'll guarantee they are going to put that capital back into building more renewable generation.
And I'd argue they wouldn't be as successful as they are if they weren't a rejection of something players sense in most other games, even if they don't consciously notice the systems helping them.

Kind of like the Matrix.
An open source text editor that isn’t as “bloated” as VSCode? Sounds like … all of them, really, try Emacs or vim or nano or vi and maybe you’ll find something you like. But if what you want is “VSCode with all the features I use and none of the ones I don’t,” you’ll probably have to make it yourself (or at least be more specific).
Given current gas prices, EV's are already cheap.

At $7.25 a gallon over the lifetime of the vehicle, you're going to pay more than the sticker price of the car in fuel for a good majority of vehicles.

Unless you have incredibly expensive electricity in your city, you're probably looking at over $30,000 in savings over the life of the vehicle. Subtract $30K from the price of an EV and those prices look pretty good...
> I feel like there are still too many hands in this particular cookie jar. MFA or no. On average, how many other organizations & human developers are somehow involved in the dependency graph of a modern node.js project?

What does that really matter, though? You could ask the same of _any_ modern application, NodeJS or otherwise: "On average, how many other organizations & human developers are somehow involved in the dependency graph of a modern application?". Look at your web browser alone. You have an open source rendering engine. The JavaScript engine. The underlying libraries used to handle things like SSL, TCP/IP, DNS lookups. It runs on an OS that likely has layers and layers of open source code. Which runs on hardware from various manufacturers with firmware written by many people spread across many organizations.
It is still incredibly popular judging by the amount of "cigarillo" packaging littering in my neighborhood; and based on this joke from "Atlanta"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNXN7jbY7Qk
It's something that's said in a half-joking way here sometimes, that if taxes were hiked on beer there would be a(nother) revolution. I don't know if I agree, but it would certainly be political suicide for any party who took that position - they'd get crucified the next election cycle.

However what I'm talking about is maybe a little different from what you mentioned. A sudden lack of supply in a commodity is something we've had in ČR before, a few years back there was a scandal where a group of guys pushed tainted spirits into the market and the sale of spirits were outright banned for a few weeks. It was kinda weird how little things changed.
I'll leave for sure, but for other reasons than in CS. In CS people leave because they get better salaries and have better job prospects outside academia. In my area, people leave because of lack of career prospects, almost no tenure-track positions, favoritism and corruption. But the decisive reason for me is that our small & poor European country has switched to the new "Pan S" for open science publications. This may seem like a good idea at first, isn't it great that every publication for a funding authority needs to be open access? Well, the problem is that in my area there are at most two good and free open access journals. At most. Every top journal is run by traditional publishers, and funding authorities have explicitly stated they will discourage and limit payment of open access fees. Ironically, the better the journal, the higher the open access fees, and the less it is possible to get funding for them.

As nice as open access sounds in theory, in practice this new "Plan S" policy will mean that bullshitters who game the system and shouldn't even be in academia will win big time and can spit out one crappy publication after another. I've met people in my profession who literally said "Who cares if its false? It's another publication in your CV!" The difference between fringe journals and the top journals is unbelievably high in my discipline, people used to even count bad publications negatively, and a few publications in top journals used to give you a tenure-track position. To give you an idea of the difference, the former have acceptance rates of about 100%, the latter have acceptance rates of less than 5%. Now the top journals won't even count any longer at all in evaluations by our funding authority. There is so much crap published nowadays, they should limit the allowed number of publications/year; instead they are going for the opposite, a large number of publications in fringe and even self-published open access journals. Some of my colleagues are already literally starting their own journals.

I admit that there are many disciplines where open access works better, but not in mine. Maybe "Plan S" will have great and noble effects in 20-30 years from now, but for the generation in-between it's a complete disaster for anyone interested in quality. For me that's the decisive reason to leave.
Emacs users, you have the built-in diary which also integrates with org-agenda. It's perfect for recurring events like birthdays, bills and also provides reminder.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fo...
Wow, that picture down near the end of the story is something to see! "After the fire was extinguished on board the Maersk Honam, the debris was removed by diggers and eventually the entire bow section was cut off and replaced"
I don't think there is anything wrong with that. If you can get good enough grades at JC to prove you should have been admitted in the first place, then good on you, eh?
You can say that about any ESG investment, though.

Matt Levine writes about this sometimes. One possible justification to invest in ESG is that you believe that investments that are relatively good for the environment (or whatever) will beat the stock market. Another justification is that it makes the cost of raising funds cheaper for companies that are good for the environment and more expensive for companies that are worse for the environment.

According to the latter theory, if it's working, you should earn less than the S&P 500. If you're not earning less, you haven't lowered the cost of raising funds.

(On the other hand, if a company is advertising a niche investment to small investors, they probably have a cost of customer acquisition that's going to be cutting even more into investment returns? Isn't their cost of raising funds going to be pretty high?)
This sounds false. Couldn’t you make the same argument about the entire stock market?
>someone higher up notices the cost of a department that has grown from 5 to 20 people, or something similarly eye raising

I don't think the soda cost per person would be different for 20 people though, so it seems a weird thing to raise the eyes about.
> You don’t get to just declare bankruptcy on a whim because the outcome is favourable to you.

I’ve addressed this in the above by mentioning when you do it. You have assets < debt and no job therefore no income. No court is going to reject this bankruptcy because you are actually underwater and will in theory take infinite time to repay the amount you owe.
FWIW I also had a recent experience with Cloudflare "Trust & Safety" and it was my first negative Cloudflare experience, unfortunately.

A client-of-a-client had their site reported to CF for malware distribution via Netcraft. I reviewed the site and found nothing unsual-looking. I dug out a month's worth of access logs for the site, carefully filtered them, and then eyeballed all of the tens of thousands of remaining lines, and again, nothing unusual. No sign whatsoever that the site had ever distributed any malware.

There were signs that the site had been probed a number of times by one or a few bad actors, a bit more than just the usual background scanning. Best guess was that, having failed to take the site down through direct means, somebody filed some fraudulent reports against it.

DigitalOcean also received a report on the site, and that's where the difference in handling the issue really became apparent. I sent essentially the same response to both DO and CF. DO sent back a quick, "thanks for taking a look at it, we're not going to take any action at this time, have a nice day" response.

Cloudflare on the other hand pre-emptively took the site down and then took a while to reply at all. When they did, the reply was extremely opaque: "this report has been processed". Like, okay... and?

I had by that time already routed the site off of Cloudflare and had it back online, so the impact was minimal, but now that I know what it's like to deal with this category of issue at Cloudflare, I have to ensure that it's always easy to take anything off of Cloudflare. I love Cloudflare generally, so this is really disappointing.
This is why it's done but still sorta of strange to me that this was the way I was taught by camp instructors - even though we never were going for speed. Feels a bit like learning how to ride a bike with one of those aerodynamic helmets even if you aren't really ready to learn racing technique yet.

https://www.sportsperformancebulletin.com/wp-content/uploads...
Granular instance sizing for Cloud Spanner
At the time it probably was more neccesary. Http wasn't the only game in town.

But don't underestimate the value of branding either.
> For electronica in particular, there was just so much. But there were also so many random niche stations!

Indeed. I remember regularly switching between Massinova and a rebroadcast Polish classical station whose DJ had a nice voice.
Based on how I've seen it mismanaged, the only way I see it working is hiring "provisional VPs". In the same way that you might have hired slow and fired fast in the beginning for competent ICs, you need to do the same with the now executive management skillset that's required to break off and scale whole divisions of the working organization. The other side of that is you need to equip them with the actual subset of the talent they need, and not hold back some employees who were there in the beginning for special considerations.

The ICs have been there for years, knife fighting with the market and the competition, and then someone comes in from some adjacent market or some other vertical entirely, and the expectation is that all the work done to go from zero to one needs to be fit to their agenda, and not the other way around. Everyone who has lived it knows its backwards, and yet I've seen the trigger get pulled on this so slow that it had a measurable effect on the exit.
For the curious, here is the reddit thread and comment that seems to have started it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/uxz68j/what_is_t...

> @Wowimatard

> I remember going to my swedish friends house.

> And while we were playing in his room, his mom yelled that dinner was ready. And check this. He told me to WAIT in his room while they ate.

> That shit was fucking wild.
Words with repeated letters are a great strategy, as long as you know or strongly suspect the letter isn't in the target word, and the letter is rare so eliminating it doesn't eliminate much.
I don't think that's how language detection works, they most likely use the frequencies of n-grams to detect language probability. It's still detected as Greek if you change to "Apoulon vesrreaitais", just because it kind of looks the way Greek words look, not because it resembles any specific word.
You probably are, luxury watch "media" is almost all paid content.
Most probably because the GitHub content will outlive the project homepage, especially when you consider that 4coder is no longer maintained, and thus the source is being made available. Seems logical to me.
You have to follow your instincts in this business
The UX reminded me of [PipeDream](https://pipedream.com/)

The industry around abstractions tools/ui on top DBs is growing. We use Retool very heavily and it does get pricy.

This is a very neat execution and has potential for SAAS or Cloud offering. Like "Bring your own DB" and build your own abstractions.
> Is this common at other companies that you cannot run the whole app locally to develop and test against?

Yes. I work in B2B banking software, so having an "authentic" environment to test against is extraordinarily complex. Even the big vendors in the space seem unable to maintain accurate facsimiles of production with their own decades-old core software, so smaller vendors stand no chance unless they adjust their entire strategy.

What we ultimately had to do was negotiate a way to test in the production environment in such a way that all the activity could be tracked and backed out afterwards. A small group of important customer stakeholders were given access to this pre production environment for purposes of validating things.

This is something that has never sat well with me. But, the way the business works the alternatives are usually worse (if you want to survive long-term, that is). We wasted 18 months waiting for a customer to have a test environment installed before we learned our lesson about how bad those environments are in reality.