skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually they're not, some of the Yandex products are actually better and pretty innovative (ignoring the political stuff). Maps and Go are especially good. Ditto with Russian banking apps, they put American bank apps to shame.
Here are the URLs for those who disable Javascript (from https://github.com/PostHog/isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com)

https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=DSB_(Austria_-_2021-0.586...

https://www.cnil.fr/en/use-google-analytics-and-data-transfe...

https://www.gpdp.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/d...

https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-eu-us-data-transfers-google-...

NOYB is the primary source tracking these cases and generally was also responsible for filing the complaints that led to them. All the details are available from NOYB's GDPRhub wiki, https://gdprhub.eu. GDPRhub attempts to provide information on all the European DPAs including how to file complaints. At the least it provides contact info for all the DPAs and English translations of DPA decisions.

As stated in 13 Jan 2022 announcement on noyb.eu, these decisions are generally the result of the "Max Schrems II" decision. After that decision, Schrems filed 101 complaints to DPAs, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

Note that the "legality" of Google Fonts, under the default configuration, is also in question. Arguably use of Google Fonts is even more widespread than use of Google Analytics.
Ah the syllogism of thieves perverse projection: I want it. You have it. Therefore stealing it "back" is justified.
There's... a bit more background than that. Russian activity to fracture the country and outright threats of resolving the situation with military force, date back years before Georgia sought NATO membership, and indeed, before the '03 pro-western shift in their government. Which, gee, I wonder why they might have decided they want allies opposed to Russia.
The problem is we need to listen to people who understand how to make things actually happen. Politicians push electric cars without understanding the strain that will put on the grid as it currently sits. They push banning coal and NG power plans without making sure there are alternatives available (just wind and/or solar is not sufficient by themselves). All we hear is "we need electric cars to avoid climate change"...without addressing the huge amounts of other changes that are needed.
I mean, you try training this thing without a warehouse full of GPUs… to me, the algorithm is just as interesting as the model. Perhaps more so.
Dueling over Dual_EC_DRGB: Consequences of Corrupting a Standardization Process
This kind of verification is what the other commenter was referring to, but it is very foundational and disconnected from current day-to-day ML aspects. If you're interested in practical, empirical AI safety research, see here for example: http://aisafety.stanford.edu/

They also explain the area of overlap with formal verification in their white paper.
DALL-E Mini: How much energy does it consume?
Everybody is currently playing around with this image creation tool. I am afraid, it eats a lot of energy. Does anybody know how much?
Safe enough. You can use `std.testing.allocator` and it will report leaks etc in your test cases.

What rust does sounds like a good idea in theory. In practice it rejects too many valid programs, over-complicates the language, and makes me feel like a circus animal being trained to jump through hoops. Zigs solution is hands down better for actually getting work done, plus it's so dead simple to use arena allocation and fixed buffers that you're likely allocating a lot less in the first place.

Rust tries to make allocation implicit, leaving you confused when it detects an error. Zig makes memory management explicit but gives you amazing tools to deal with it - I have a much clearer mental model in my head of what goes on.

Full disclaimer, I'm pretty bad at systems programming. Zig is the only one I've used where I didn't feel like memory management was a massive headache.
I see this being downvoted, but images are copyrighted. Using an image for illustrative purposes is not fair use, is it? Therefore the articles can't just share the same images.
I think you can still use ordinary functions to string things together as well. I also don't like the abuse of context managers in this way.
> I think some of the push back is from domains where Rust isn't uniquely suited. Eg, You see a lot of complexity in Rust for server backends; eg async and traits. So, someone not used to Rust may see these, and assume Rust is overly complex. In these domains, there are alternatives that can stand toe-to-toe with it. In lower-level domains, it's not clear there are.

The big win for rust in these domains is startup time, memory usage, and distributable size.

It may be that these things outweigh the easier programming of go or java.

Now if you have a big long running server with lots of hardware at your disposal then rust doesn't make a whole lot of sense. However, if want something like an aws lambda or rapid up/down scaling based on load, rust might start to look a lot more tempting.
That’s a different argument entirely.

I’m not arguing against Heller. I’m saying the amendment exists because an armed populace was needed for national security, not overthrowing the government.
> Russia can't sustain waging wars if they don't have an economy and disgruntled population.

Russia can wage wars on natural resource selling alone, it only needs to keep the gas and oil flowing through the infrastructure. All those private companies' activities the government sees mostly as a distraction, it doesn't give a damn about them (until they get in the way). They don't matter much.

It's very much unlike the Western economies where the private companies drive the economy. Russia is more like a giant oil and gas pipe with military industrial complex around that.

> exception of VK, there isn't really any step-in competition to Yandex

If we talk about city services (taxi, delivery, online shopping) there are lots of other players. Search/mail/social — then yeah, apart from VK not many. And VK is in fact state-owned. Yandex is not. So if Yandex leaves the scene, the only game in town would be state-owned. This only reinforces the evil regime.

> That's why part of my suggestion is to burn the equipment/infrastructure and delete the code.

It's pretty unrealistic. You can do it in small company, easy. In a huge decentralized company I don't know how one could even pull that off. There simply isn't a way to "delete all the code", nor a single place you could burn all the servers. It just doesn't have a kill switch. And the moment you try that, the government swoops in and goodbye the company.

> And the only thing stopping them now from doing that is that Yandex is not nationalized. Yeah, sure.

If Yandex gets nationalized, the government will replace the management and the uncooperative employees. Most of them would just leave the day it happens. It won't be Yandex anymore of course. That is essentially the same as killing the company, but worse, as the remnants could still be used for evil.
> It just turns out the market price for this service is $0

You can't come to this conclusion until you prevent Google from using the acquired data to improve their ad service.
Global civilization is intimately interconnected. Any serious upset would wipe out the industries most dependent upon it. The first to go would be everything high-tech -- chips, aircraft, cars. New car manufacturies like in the 20th century might be got up from the scraps. But mass starvation would ensue, leading to huge wars that probably would quickly turn nuclear.

The most likely proximate causes of collapse would be ocean ecosystem collapse caused by acidification, eliminating the current protein source billions of people depend on, or mass migration from newly uninhabitable areas. We see hints of both already.
Which part of "shall not be infringed" is unclear? States cannot make laws overriding the constitution's bill of rights.
If you wanna see some stolen lives you should really look at all the people from the economically repressed regions of Russia that make up the majority of the soldiers they are throwing in the Ukrainian meat grinder.

Russia cares little about its own people, and have had active intelligence campaigns to influence the Wests opinion on the war, luckily it’s not going very well.
Seems to me, should this become a trend, others (ahem) will innovate (yup!) to make it work again, or for something else to work, and the cycle continues.
Hey this is great to hear @ews (BrainTool dev here). FWIW WRT this conversation, my long term hope for BrainTool is to generate a thriving ecosystem of shared curated topic trees, each one a little summary of a corner of the internet.
>It has nothing to do with opting out.

It does. The original code compiled because the borrow is computed using `unsafe`. That `unsafe` is the opt-out.

>Zig, Rust and no language saves you when you write incorrect unsafe code. My original point is disqualifying c tools is misleading and everything suffers from incorrect unsafe code

And the other people's point is that if one language defaults to writing unsafe code and the other language requires opting out of safety to write unsafe code, then the second language has merit over the first.
A for profit weapons industry and a for profit health care industry create other problems such as more war and more sick and indebted citizens.
You must not have a pool :)
This article completely ignores the known "why".

There are multiple factors in sleep that would have an influence on weight.

1) when you are sleep deprived, or don't get enough sleep, you have increased insulin resistence, which is related to increased fat stores [1]

2) reduced sleep causes you to crave sugary and fatty foods as a source [2]

The idea from the article that sleep gained over x years would result in a * b reduction in weight is ludicrous. It doesn't work that way.

I work in the sleep space as the founder of https://soundmind.co we're focused on improving Sleep Performance, the neurological function of sleep. Our DeepWave auditory stimulation is focused on some of the brains mechanisms that are associated with the insulin resistance mentioned above (https://soundmind.co/research).

Happy to answer any questions.

[1]https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2018.00077....

[2]https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/getting-more-slee....
Yeah the word "sell" and "buy" is false advertising right there, it's very ingrained that buying and selling imply absolute ownership, all the way down to chattel slavery, where "buy" and "sell" are insulting. Very very ingrained.
in that case, it's pretty simple. the snowden leaks elucidated the government's desire to create a surveillance state with the help of corporations, not that a surveillance state would be a net-good for society.
Zig keeps overflow checks in the main release mode (ReleaseSafe), Rust defines ints as naturally wrapping in release. This means that Rust is not a strict superset of Zig in terms of safety, if you want to go down that route.

I personally am not interested at all in abstract discussions about sets of errors. Reality is much more complicated, each error needs to be evaluated with regards to the probability of causing it and the associated cost. Both things vary wildly depending on the project at hand.
Increased demand for power to charge cars will drive demand for build-out of clean generating capacity.

Decreased use of petrol-powered cars makes voters less sensitive to gas prices, thus desperately needed carbon taxes, and more interested in cheaper, thus renewable, electrical generation.

The current US president is lately hustling eliminating tax on gasoline, instead, in an almost certainly doomed bid to fend off loss of majority in the upcoming congressional election. A big gas tax with monthly cash payouts to people with average and below incomes (i.e. most voters) would go over better.
Zoom out.

The idea is that if you can get all vehicles onto the electrical grid, then you can transition these vehicles almost instantly to use better and better sources of energy as technology evolves. This is because you can change the composition of the electrical grid (it can be powered by wind, water, solar, nuclear, etc). It makes the energy source fungible as the grid becomes the delivery mechanism.

Once vehicles are hooked up to this electrical infrastructure, we gain a lot of leverage as a society to move collectively in a better direction.

With ICE, there is only 1 viable fuel source - gasoline. Once an ICE car is built, you cannot transition it to be powered by anything else.

Squabbling about carbon break-even points of individual car purchases is missing the forest for the trees IMO.
Linear algebra stuff makes it to the front page more often than other types of math I think, so I don't know that people are more interested homotopy. Although homotopy is probably overrepresented compared to its usefulness to the average HN reader.
Good point about the heat, that can indeed be dangerous if you’re not used to/trained to ride in those conditions. The same is. kt true for cold conditions where it’s really just clothing and tires.

What you can do in hot conditions is ride an ebike.
OpenSSF Funds Python and Eclipse Foundations and Acquires SOS.dev
Time to get off my arse and write a self hosted privacy oriented analytics tool. Whatever happened to awstats. The question is - how to monetise on it?
> Your own example demonstrates that the EV version is better than the ICE version

Better doesn't make it worth it.

There are all sorts of tradeoffs involved . Governments are asking their citizens a lot in terms of sacrifice. If it doesn't move the needle significantly it means tons of quality of life lost given the scale of this experiment.

Exactly like COVID lockdowns. Were they worth it? It's still contentious. Given the scale of the costs of lockdowns "contentious" won't cut it. It should be more like "thank God we did it". The feeling should be at the equivalent of when the Cuban Missile Crisis ended. I don't know about you but I most certanely don't feel that.

I feel the contentious nature of lockdowns but endured the certain and ample consequences of all of that.
I didn't say it was. I said that advocates of decentralization need to consider its existence; there's abundant empirical evidence for why.
My daily notes and TODOs are all now in Workflowy. It's not really a journal, just a bunch of bullet points with tasks or random links. The closest to a journal I have is my blog, which I write in markdown and store in a private GitLab repo.
Anaconda Acquires PythonAnywhere to Expand Python Team
Refiners can be adapted to process more sour blends when a longer term issue is seen or it can be routed through a 3rd party who can supply the service.

If that wasn't the case you wouldn't see contracts for off grades just written up as a static per barrel cost to TI or Brent. Of course it isn't frictionless though.
> It's not a license. It's a purchase of an item that becomes your own possession, and a law that covers what you can do as far as resale (also applies to books).

So once I sell it, if it's still on my hard-drive am I allowed to listen to it in your world?

And if I have it but am not allowed to listen to it, what is that lack of playing-permission called if not 'not owning a license'?

> It's not a license because it cannot be revoked by whoever sold it to you.

Licences can be irrevocable, so this isn't a necessary property of a licence.
The Django CMS fellowship program
It is also solved in theory via neccesity defense although not universal in practice. The real world is full of wrinkles.
And as a result our first post-WWII new and first General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG, TL;DR: barrels are in field quick change consumables) was the awful M60.

Now replaced by a couple of Belgium Fabrique Nationale (FN) models, they're a generally very competent company. Last time I checked they had the contract to make machine gun barrels and ran three hammer forges for this and other guns.
Man different CEO, they got the sales (wrong word in this case, see my other comment about selling) in charge of the company. Clearly. I highly doubt John Deere--the man named John, last name Deere, the actual living breathing human--would have stood behind like tractor on a cloud.

Tractors on the cloud.

Castles in the sky.
That's a big distortion of the article. You left out the first line of the paragraph "When using the average global energy supply...". That is calculating the CO2 from coal and gas plants to generate the electricity.

The very next paragraph says that when recharging on renewables, "the breakeven is just over 30,000 miles (48,280 km)". That's under three years for most people. We are not there yet, but great progress is being made.
Appreciating Python's match-case by parsing Python code – Python Morsels
European companies are not allowed to share PII with American companies. That goes for companies with a headquarters in the USA or subsidiaries that may be forced to share data thanks to laws like the US Cloud Act.

Previously, the EU exempted the USA through an "adequacy decision". That was later deemed illegal under EU law as American laws could not guarantee the privacy of EU citizens to the extend the GDPR prescribes. Then the EU tried again, and again such a decision was also overturned in court. The EU is working on another attempt at letting the USA track PII of EU users, but until they do that again (probably for another few years) it's illegal to share PII with American companies in almost all situations.

This is the third time a data processing agency has declared the use of Google Analytics illegal so it shouldn't really come as a surprise to those following tech news.

What's important is that the data is PII and that it's going to a place that can't guarantee privacy to an acceptable standard. Business advantage is irrelevant. The intelligence the data provides is also irrelevant. European privacy laws serve people, not businesses.
The site you've been spamming is returning 'Error 500' error codes
Those have got glial cells to help support the parts far from the nucleus. Plus they're in a cooperative multicellar environment, not off by their lonesome.
... and? A car lasts a hell of a lot longer than 68,300 miles.
Enterprise apps are “fine” for BYOD; they’re far better than invasive MDM.
This metaphor is really not appropriate. We are really just talking about the definitions for 'Sale' and 'License' in a contract which we haven't been given access to read.

NFT's don't solve this, unless we are talking about making licenses transferrable, but the author seems pretty clear that any form of license isn't acceptable in their eyes.
These are even bigger (20cm/8in): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophyophorea
You're assuming that the body absorbs calories the same way, even under different circumstances, such as various caloric intakes. This isn't always true.

People too often assume that bodies are like cars, and that food is like gasoline. This is not true. Our bodies are far more complex (and interesting) than mechanical machines. The food we eat is also far more complex (and interesting) than gasoline as well.
I guess being long and thin they don't violate the square/cube laws that normally keep bacteria from getting too big given that they have to use their outer walls rather than mitochondria to respirate. Still very impressive.
What you described is the read only web. I think we’re 2 internet versions past this. 4 according to Twitter.
Thanks for the explanation. I would consider that type of logic error more or less impossible to defend at the language level, but I can see how analysis tools can be helpful.
Ask HN: Thread about doing nothing at FAANG
there was a post sometime in the last 2 years I think where some new kid was hired and was lamenting about how little gets done at his new job. And then all the commenters were giving their experience of do nothing jobs at FAANG. Anyone still have a link? I can't seem to find it.
Looking at bitcoin like a game, which a ponzi scheme basically is, it is fair across the board for all people who have access to a computer and occasionally the internet. But yes it's not fair in that the largest holders of the coin can somewhat move the dial to their liking. I personally don't see that as a scam but more of a gaming a system according to its rules. The solution is more adoption to democratize the playing more evenly across that board. Until then, ride the waves.
Since every web page is now essentially an application anyway, I'm surprised that no one has tried distributing smalltalk-like executable images. With an wasm interpreter for "legacy" web-browser users.
App Store Review’s automated scanning is quite trivial to get around, most iOS developers can either attest to doing so themselves or knowing someone who has done this.
As a Crypto Winter Descends, Celebrities Quietly Delete Their NFT Profiles
My friend who is a (really smart) SWE in Canada said that compared to his own country, he could live here on a fast food salary, smoke weed, make music and still have a better life than his home country.

We forget that a job where you get free food and a low wage for simple work is (historically speaking) extremely luxurious.
This is really cool stuff. Does anyone have a good comparison between Privacy Pass and Anon-Pass (https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/317.pdf)? Is one better for subscriptions than the other?
> Forcing people to do things they don't want or enjoy _is_ dystopian, and definitely unhealthy

What exactly is this comment based on? All of the research says the opposite of this. Forcing one's self to do things one doesn't like makes you a resilient and capable person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha1ZbJIW1f8.
Florida nabs largest Python ever found in state
Plan 9 also more or less does away with the concept of $PATH in the first place; just union-mount (with `bind`) whatever you want onto `/bin` and call it a day. Yet another thing that would've been great for Unix-likes to pull in (I think some Linuxen can technically do it, but with some limitations).
Pinboard is phenomenal. I used to keep all my links in Simplenote but Pinboard is far superior for a number of the reasons listed here already. I may only search through it for something once a week but I find I tag things much more thoroughly in Pinboard than anything else I've used.
So they do that because they're doing it for free. Otherwise they couldn't be generous with their work--those licenses are about permitting the generous intent.
> Somehow, restrictions against US firms are praised

By whom?

> if US imposes restrictions that is condemned (e.g. TikTok).

By whom?
Maciej has a 'random' bookmarklet you can drag to your browser toolbar. See https://pinboard.in/howto/
The fact that all the ways are horrible is indeed why I was so surprised to (mis)read tailscale as having such capabilities... I'm happy I misunderstood.
15 years ago Google Analytics was cool. But ar some point Google ditched the "Don't be evil" culture and tried to get as much out of Google Analytics for themselves, that it became unethical.

As long as they haven't died ...
They often do it. One that causes great annoyance to me is that when a calendar alarm goes off, you no longer have the ability to pause it to an arbitrary period before the event. Why it was removed, I have no idea.

Yes, they kill entire apps as well - usually the professional ones like Aperture. At this point I would say that it would be folly to let a business depend on any Apple software.
OK but what if my non-mining non-economic node accepts a block? Doesn't that add a vote for that block? As opposed to a block rejection isn't a no vote; it's nothing.