skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excerpt of summary paragraph for the lazy:

> Recently, Datatilsynet (the Danish Data Protection Authority) issued a ruling emphasizing the importance of conducting proper due diligence before implementing cloud services. We agree due diligence is an important step for customers since privacy assessments and outcomes can vary significantly based on the way customers have configured their system. Although this ruling is limited to Helsingør Municipality, it may be of interest to other Danish controllers. To be clear, the ruling does not apply to Google directly or to other customers, nor does it prohibit use of Google Workspace for Education or Chromebooks in Denmark.
What’s mind blowing is Banks could easily move deposit entries from one ledger to another using traceable, signed, encrypted, reproducible, auditable, public ledgers… instead of a central authority….. ah crap now I’m advocating for block chain.
The ruling is "the first in a series of cases regarding the use of Chromebooks and the G-suite for education". So likely this is just the beginning.

There have been two rulings regarding this particular municipality. First, they were investigated due to a data breach (personally-identifiable information was shared between G-suite and Youtube). This breach lead Datatilsynet (the Danish Data Protection Agency) to investigate the municipality and conclude they hadn't done their due diligence in investigating privacy implication of the setup.

This forced the municipality to perform a through investigation of the privacy issues. Their findings in turn lead Datatilsynet to ban further use of G-suite an Chromebooks (in the municipality) because they found more serious issues, for example they couldn't guarantee private information was not shared with unsafe countries.

The choice of software and hardware is decided by each municipality, so there will be no nationwide ban as such. But underlying privacy problems will be the same for other municipalities which use the same software.
Agree with most of your stuff, but just want to reply to your last sentence.

Valve doesn't care about VR. Last week Steam VR Fest is a proof.

Games that literally have basic functionality broken and are on the way to be completely shut off (due to servers being unavailable soon) were still discounted and promoted on page 1. While new indie games doing innovative stuff were left to rot on page 60. Nothing changed in the algorithm compared to previous year, promoting the same set of games once again.

On top of that, SteamVR unity plugin that arguably at some point powered most of VR games haven't been updated in years with any new functionality.
> but it'd be quite a big endeavor to scale a facility that large.

Plus you'd have to find a place that:
- is politically stable
- is under the rule of law
- has low corruption
- has lots of sunlight

The Sahara desert only fits one of these constraints.
I think many people feel the same as you, including me.

The other day I was shopping for a camera lens, and instinctively I went to Amazon first, I found the lens but it was not shipped with Prime, so I went to look for it at B&H and Adorama. The difference to me is that if something says "Prime" then it's in stock and ready to ship, otherwise it will take over a week. B&H and Adorama both have their stuff in stock and are ready to ship the same or next day, so I know I'd receive it within 2-4 days.

Now compare that to the option between waiting almost a week for something from Amazon without prime or picking it up the same day from a local store as you had mentioned. Prime is definitely an incentive for me to even look at Amazon, let alone shop.
Unless things have changed recently, hobbyists can sign up for a license for OpenVMS. However a condition of the license is that you can't use a hobbyist license for commercial purposes.
Shopify to lay off 10% of workers in broad shake-up
Not very many people start with a 250k starting comp. Typically about 1/5th to 1/3rd of that.
If your sole metric is price, there is some very cheap takeout out there. And, yes, it may well be as cheap or cheaper than meals in the supermarket freezer section.

But while some planning and a little work is needed, stick to cheaper proteins (chicken/pork), vegetables, and things like rice/beans and home cooking, even for one, can be pretty inexpensive and doesn't need to mean eating the same leftover stew for a week.

I do think a lot of "cooking at home is too expensive" is actually "I don't want to cook at home and would rather just get takeout."

ADDED: And especially if you relax the cost constraint a little bit, there are a ton of meals I can make from unprocessed or minimally processed frozen food in about 15 minutes from freezer to table. Less than $10 for a meal is trivial--and can be significantly less than that.
Why not? It’s a valid way to make money for some of us.
[dupe]

Like the 4th post about this news from almost 2 weeks ago
I think to the OP's point, if you are truly engaged in your work (and assuming your work carries healthcare benefits), it becomes a somewhat moot point to optimize for healthcare costs at some future age. I think your point on losing healthcare is predicated on the idea that you want to work less in the future (presumably in some job that doesn't carry those benefits).

I think part of the issue is that society in general (and tech in particular) are extremely productivity-focused which trains you to be future-biased in your thinking. Everything becomes about preparing for the next milestone rather than, as the OP advocated, optimizing for the present period of time.
Likewise. I see only potential for enormous hassle reduction if my employer (a bank, currently) can treat its entire compute infrastructure as a honking big cryptographically assured parallel universe.
But that was due to misconfiguration. For example the kids could access and comment on youtube videos with their school accounts and when it did that the comments was posted with their full name and school/class name.
In practice, the files can be viewed just fine in any standard-compliant viewer without any awareness of custom tags.

Source: I wrote the DICOM viewer & anonymizer for Radiopaedia (okay, most of the heavy lifting is done by cornerstone.js).
> How do you think governments raise funds for your roads, utilities, and military?

My military? The one that hasn't maintained a defensive posture since 1946? The one that, instead of defending me, goes out of its way to murder civilians in sovereign nations? The one that engages in not-congressionally-declared wars on completely fabricated pretexts? You raise this as a good thing?

Utilities: I don't know where you live, but where I live, private electric utility companies pay for their own infrastructure, or, where there is a public utility, they are paid by bonds secured by future water/sewer fees, not taxes.

Roads, fine, I have no problem with these, but again, they are paid largely by use and gasoline taxes, not income tax.

Furthermore: sales and use taxes are great, and I fully support them. Even luxury taxes are fine - you want to stick it to the rich, go for it, set a 60% sales tax on Maseratis and such. Income tax, however, is an absolute tyranny. Disincentivizing value creation is literally the worst idea in modern governance. In a world of 400+ PPM CO2, disincentivizing consumption is what we need the most.
I think this has more to do with the breakdown of family. My family growing up (and now as the parent) ensure we sit down and eat together for breakfast and dinner. Home cooked from scratch 3-4 times a week fresh and left overs the other nights. I eat totally different foods than my parents cooked, but the community is key. My Wife and I got really good at making a few dishes from various cultures (Greek, Mexican, Irish, French). It wasn’t our culture matters, it’s the idea of making and sharing a meal.
I worked a few years in banking. This wasn't said as a joke, it was simply true.
A Sextortion Victim Hacked Back and Put Her Attacker in Jail
For those who like to experiment a little, I can recommend firing up a jupyter notebook and explore the image data using pydicom and plotting it via matplotlib (or whatever plotting lib you fancy). For most CT and MRI data you will have a volume/voxels available and its pretty fun to slice'n dice your way through it by using list slices. Also all other data is available to inspect.
Indeed, the USB/Thunderbolt controller was the last bastion of Intel chips inside these products that replaced with in-house rolled versions.

How well they are compliant wise or ability wise, I could not say. That would be a deep-dive testing review I've not seen. Maybe there are some limitations over the Intel offering, maybe not. Though it be interesting how they do compare.
> The reality is that we can't sustain a civilisation of 8billion people without fossil fuels. We should do what we can to find alternatives that are less pollutant and have higher energy density but for now that means fusion, thorium and traditional fission.

This is just a failure to understand how much sunlight there is and how fast solar panels are getting cheaper.
I don't think you read either the article or my post.
It's similar on Windows. Part of the problem is that access to DICOM images is a major barrier. OsiriX happened because OS X didn't have a viewer. The "eFilm Workstation" crowd moved to OsiriX. It's complex but eFilm used to be pretty good but they couldn't add features and fix bugs fast enough. And then they couldn't make high DPI work. In the mean time, OsiriX was very nice looking and adaptable for radiologists who like to tinker. Radiologists can be extremely picky and demanding about UI and efficiency and OsiriX served that well. Not to mention that OSX brought all the linux research packages. So, they all just bought Macs and left eFilm behind for OsiriX particularly after it obtained FDA/EC clearance.
Denim - from old trouser legs - is another good and long-lasting material for binding books. Back in the days of tractor-fed 9-pin dot matrix printers I made a number of books this way using a home-made book press, a bottle of PVA wood glue and strips of denim. These books still survive after some 35 years, the denim/PVA glue combination keeps up well without cracking or tearing.
It will also ensure that competitors in that space have a hard time, because people are now conditioned to use these exact products instead of alternatives. Nothing is harder to break than habits.
Personally I find it hard to believe that there's a company so good that it's worth leaving 50% of your salary on the table. Like if you have high autonomy and you're curing cancer or building rocket ships I can see it. But for the 99.9% of other jobs there are equivalents. Why leave all that money on the table?
In theory, yes. In practice it is not realistic to implement a plausible-deniable hardware backdoor targeting all CPUs being manufactured while keeping the schematics and tapeout open.

While the same CPUs are even fabbed in different locations around the world.

While also going undetected for years and while none of the engineers involved blows the whistle.

In short no, you can get away with a targeted attack but nothing so massive.
For booklets, see 360 degree staplers.

You’re welcome.
Where are the Children of Kali when you need them?
Woah, watch your language. Serious breach of rules here.
Loans have defaults, and retail banks have significant running costs
> you can disable secure boot.

That's not always the case: https://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-c... "Disabling Secure [Boot] MUST NOT be possible on ARM systems."
Six figures isn't that insane for engineers in the US. Especially not for Silicon Valley. And $100k doesn't really go as far as it used to in the US, especially if you have a modest home, car, two dogs, a significant other, and you live somewhat near a city with tech jobs.

I'm making a decent amount over $100k, my wife also makes good money, and yet we're way, way behind on where we're supposed to be in savings for a comfortable retirement at 67 (which is apparently 3x your annual salary at the age of 40), despite me boiling the frog in increasing how much we save for it the past few years (around 20% of my paycheck now, up from 8% a few years ago).
Taiwan population has already been in negative growth since 2020 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/319798/taiwan-population...), not even mention Japan. Sure if everything else can be kept constant when there was no one child policy, there should be more couples that can have children now. But these population eventually will die, and the growth eventually are determined by fertility rate, which has much more to do with culture and development. The more development you have, the less likely people are having children. Confucian societies are less likely to have children than Jewish society. Muslim and mormons are more likely to have children than liberals.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Isha_Institute_of_Inner_Scienc...

Leaving this here.
I'm guessing that the VC premium pays for privileges like lock up and preferred terms.

VC buying - aka VC selling to greater fool LPs, with purported guarantees trails a wake of retail that fuels their vig.

I know nothing concrete about crypto n.b. but I think I can recognize the structured avarice. If my precis is all that's happening I'd convict this kind of VC instantly.
The file format is reasonably cursed (header fields to indicate endian-ness, multiple internal metadata tables, and it's a container format so you can encode the image data using any one of 6-8 codecs - or just include a link to the TCP stream).

I haven't used the network protocol, but having some way to only bring the required pixel data across the network is pretty important - uncompressed CT scans are often hundreds of megabytes and the standard was developed before ethernet was widespread.
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Looking at the way the "frame" is built on these, I'm not sure it would fare well in a crash with even a Fiat 500. It appears to have zero crash safety.
Just to add a footnote to the above: I wasn't aware of https://foosoft.net/projects/anki-connect/ so what I'm thinking about is very doable right now, and probably being done.
I've never been able to enjoy these kinds of games because whenever I play them I just feel like I'm trying to figure out what ideologically dubious and half-informed beliefs and assumptions about urban management the developers baked into the game logic
Reading old journals used to be tedious and embarrassing. It was frustrating to see how many times I had profound, "life changing" realizations, only to discover I've had the same realization over and over again in the years preceding - seemingly never retaining the lessons and ideas.

One thing that helped was building in space for dialogue with myself. Now, I only write original journal entries on the left side of a notebook and leave the right side for future responses. I make a habit of revisiting journal entries from a week, a month, and a year prior, etc, and expounding on the right side of the page with lessons learned later, counter points, and context from an "outside" perspective.

Naturally, this forms a sort of distillation of ideas, refining the concepts most relevant to me at any given moment, and keeping them present in my mind. It promotes a sense of continuity of self, and self-compassion as I'm frequently reminded of my growth and ability to change.
Please read the facts about mountaintop removal.
Yup. You tube: Shatner Rocket Man. Hit go, and have a good time.
> Should need to teach how to think.

The goal of school is not to derail kids’ education by making them wrestle with self hosted sys admin nuances and failures.
PNG coupled with a JSON can do almost anything that DICOM can do. DICOM can also do video and is starting to dabble in waveform data, but MP4 and SVG exist.
If anyone needs a good example of the: 1. click bait title 2. primitive advertisement, all in one place, this article is a great example.

Was Gmail banned in Denmark schools? Obviously not, there is some regulation in one of the counties and it was about chromebook usage because of some privacy concerns. One. County.

Article is written by a company which is a direct competitor of Gmail (they are email service too) and are apparently searching for some topic they can use to get some publicity. Nothing bad in itself, but lies are lame.

And no, nobody is going to switch from Gmail to tutanota, because nobody wants mediocre user interface, be unable to search emails and force others to use some particular service to decrypt emails.

Even with encrypted emails, that's just the beginning of the privacy story. If I am sending encrypted email to Bin Laden or to abortion clinics it does not help much that the content is encrypted.
Detecting Fake 4G Base Stations in Real Time (2020) [pdf]
Indeed. This is to say nothing of the absolute parasitism inherent in the "cashless" society. The Banks/Visa/MC/Stripe/Square hoovering up 2% interchange and other fees for virtually no work is absolutely ludicrous.

A 2% interchange fee made sense in 1982, when it was expensive to move bits and clear transactions. In 2022, it's pure, gluttonous parasitism.
On what do you base that assumption of a new candidate being necessarily better? They could also be worse and, in most instances, will have a period of sub-productive time when they have to learn the ropes.
Some more info here [0]

0: https://www.techtimes.com/articles/278432/20220725/saudi-ara...
While retail investors did lose money, crypto volumes are dominated by institutions.
As someone who used to work in IT for a VERY large school district, I will agree with you that O365 is way better than the GroupWise/NetWare solution we had running for probably decades.

BUTTTTT....

> i can tell you you are as dumb as you are stupid

This is a terrible way to start a civil discord though.
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Maybe I am too simplistic, but I do not see the evil in the TPM here, but only in the 3rd party policy.

The evil is that the "Trusted" in "Trusted Computing" and "Trusted Platform Module (TPM)" means that one deeply distrusts the user (who might tamper with the system), but instead the trust lies in the computing (trusted computing) or TPM. In other words: Trusted Computing and TPM means a disempowerment of the user.
Eric Lippert taught me that if you see a bug in some tricky code, rewrite the code with a simpler approach, rather than put in a fix which will make the code even trickier and quite possibly create new bugs.

More specifically, if you have a bunch of bugs related to storing data in an inconvenient way, convert the data to a simpler format rather than write a bunch of complex logic around the bad data format.

Article here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ericlippert/b...

As a tangent, this article took me ages to find, even though I remembered the author, most of the details, and the string "SensibleDate". I'm not sure if the lesson is that MS is at fault for moving old content and having a lousy internal search tool, or Google is getting worse because it couldn't find it anyway, or I've gotten worse at finding stuff. But a few years ago I would've been shocked to not quickly find an article where I remembered a few relevant details, and now it seems like the norm.
I think it depends on market conditions. If we do see a recession/depression over the next few years I'm curious to see how many of these "you're leaving money on the table" threads keep popping up on HN...
No you can also take usd out by printing it, which disproportionately screws the poor.
>It would incentivize improving infrastructure

No it wouldn't. The actual usage has a negligible impact on the expenses for infrastructure. Most people barely use any bandwidth anyway. Even on 1 Gbit/s lines the average bandwidth used is in the single digit Mbit/s. And the usage basically doesn't differ if they have a 100Mbit/s or 10Gbit/s connection. Also those countries where data caps are still a thing are generally those with the worst Internet.
>If you want to use general computer, you need to log in. For logging in, you need second factor.

The administrator of my network does not require multi-factor authentication for my logins.

That's probably because I am said administrator.

As for professional settings, if my employer wants me to use a surveillance device and/or an app on said device, they can provide that device to me.

As an alternative, I suppose I could use whatever subsidy is provided by my employer to purchase/use a separate device for such things.

If they choose not to do one of those thing, I guess I won't be logging in and will soon be working elsewhere.

Requiring me to use my personal equipment for work purposes is inappropriate IMHO, and I've yet to hear an argument (other than folks not wanting to carry multiple devices, which is a personal choice) that changes my mind about that.

I'd welcome anyone to make such an argument, mostly to discuss why it's inappropriate, but I'd certainly keep an open mind about it -- perhaps there's an angle(s) I haven't considered.
I'm the author of that article, and it is true. You've linked to the correct law, but you didn't read it fully. Even if we drill down on a single item, like the backup camera you mentioned, then a more careful reading of the law shows the full requirements.

There you can see the reverse camera requirement is as follows:
"(11) Low-speed vehicles shall comply with the rear visibility requirements specified in paragraphs S6.2 of FMVSS No. 111."

Follow that through to the full requirements for backup cameras in FMCSS No. 111 and you'll see that the LSV backup camera requirements are the same as the backup camera requirements for full motor vehicles. That includes that the factory that produces it is registered with the NHTSA. It's not enough for the chinese factory to claim that they meet the camera depth of field requirements, angle of vision requirements, color requirements, etc. They have to be registered with the NHTSA, after which they will be listed in the DOT database for registered manufacturers, as well as produce the product to those specific standards. So yes, there very much is a such thing as a "DOT reverse camera factory." If you consult the DOT's own online database, you'll find all of them listed.
You must’ve been lucky, because using existing formatted spreadsheets and docs with Libreoffice always has and always will be a hit or miss proposition. It’s not LO’s fault, but you are clearly an outlier.
This would be so much more useful on the ever growing pickup trucks in the US. Even a little tighter turning radius would help in parking lots and garages.
I'm not sure they are particularly confident on that given the delays and such, but on the other hand why not aim for the (literal) moon first go and at least have a chance of getting a lot of results from that first launch already?
I think the possibility of a lawsuit is the main reason why feedback is generally not given
Teaching is always propaganda. What matters is what you are propagandizing.

Robert Fulghum figured it out decades ago.

The teacher should were two message buttons on their shirt:

"Trust me; I'm the teacher"

"Question Authority"