skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this quite troubling security-wise. There is no transparency around the implementation. Is it cloud based service? Is item managed locally by the Greek government? Who undertook the project, what are the measures they took for avoiding counterfeiting.

I would avoid using it.
It requires getting consent and sending the value of a query parameter that was appended to the ad link the user clicked (GCLID for Google, FBCLID for Meta, etc) with some random (but now pseudonymous, because Google/Facebook/etc can link the session ID to the click ID to a user account) session ID and then sending that same session ID when the user converts/does the thing you want.

If you get consent, you can also set a longer-lived cookie to determine if a user converts in a future visit.

> And even then, advertising without tracking worked just fine without internet.

There is even now a form of online advertising without any tracking (except in the most opt-in form of a discount code) which is sponsorships of videos, podcasts, articles, etc.

However, for search and display ads, which drives a huge amount of traffic to EU businesses, there's no effective way to run ads without conversion tracking. Obviously you can just throw money at Google/Facebook, but without conversion tracking, the average return on advertising spend will be 1-10% of what it would be otherwise and you will pay for a lot of junk traffic.

It's not unusual for B2C companies in the EU to make 80%+ of their online revenue from forms of ads that require conversion tracking, so it's impossible to expect businesses to refrain from online advertising unless all their competitors are required to also.

This all relies on getting consent as a lawful basis for processing, and is currently acceptable under the GDPR except that the major networks are all US companies who could be compelled to transfer the data to US authorities.

Even now, it is much more likely that a US CLOUD carve-out or other work-around for an adequacy decision with the US will be made than the CNIL interpretation will be followed to its logical conclusion, which is that EU businesses process personal data with any US-controlled vendor, even if it occurs in the EU.
As I read this kind of stuff, I can't help but feel guilty of how our profession is so cavalier in being an allied of capital against labor.
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Early GNOME was GNOME 1.x. It was not great.

GNOME 2 was not early. It was the 2nd version, it fixed the issues, it was very widely used, and it still exists today in the form of MATE.
If anything that was an under-reaction.
So like, if someone harassed me, I have to remove that person from contacts and thus not have ability to identify that person?

That is absurd too.
>how do you know what the common options even are?

This might sound crazy, but bear with me: have about simply using the software you write?
Nice try, but no. If you create ridiculous hurdles, people won't use it.

Meanwhile, the opt in button for this is simple, clear and easy.
I for one disagree with the article. Naming fallacies is shortcuts, useful in keeping the discussion focused on topic. If we had to explain why attacking the proponent instead of the argument is not disproving the argument every time someone uses ad-hominem any discussion would have to be so much longer.

In my experience, it is mostly the people who fall for logical fallacies that complain when the opponent is calling them out.
Yep, nude.
Labor doesn't want to be laboring. It's better in the long term to remove the need for labor than to have people trapped in labor but "ally" with them. We get to enjoy being programmers instead of farm laborers because previous generations succeeded in using capital to win against labor.
Wow, most of them are about such a negative matters...
Electric cars are the problem but maybe also the solution, since they can be configured to feed power back into the grid at peak times (and peak spikes is the limiting factor)
Would you argue that the French socialist party is socialist for example? What do you claim “socialism” means?
I don't think so..... 2-3 whistles from a pressure cooker is enough to make them really soft
I'm in Italy on the beach right now and I'm stunned because I did not see yet a nipple. I didn't know they were prude. On the beach in France I would see nipples everyday.
Some competitors in hyper-competitive markets already do this, and analytics services are already pretty good at filtering it out.
And I don’t mind counting in 1000s or in 1024s depending on situation, but that -bi- just sounds so stupid. Kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, pebi… bruh. Like childish mockery.

Binary kilobyte could be fine.
These 2 comments are such keepers. Thanks both of you.
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I think that is wildly misrepresentative.

I covered the differences in my 2013 (ish) article which I linked at the end of my blogpost. I don't think you've read it, from what you're saying. I suggest that you do.

Win7 revamped the taskbar specifically to make it look more like a dock, but it wasn't like that before (which I suspect you haven't used) and there are salient differences between docks and taskbars.
I appreciate you applied all those hacks to make it work though! Even though I do not have any disabilities I will definitely be using this. I do have an Android tablet and it will definitely be useful on that size!

Hopefully it gets picked up by both of them and they hire you to make it without any hacks :)
Scientists discover dormant black hole that emits no detectable light
> More disconcerting, it seems that anyone who posts about this issue on reddit gets downvoted and teamed up against by established Reddit accounts, that I have to imagine are owned by Stripe. These account have some established reddit history on them, mainly talking about coding in PERL. It's a little sus.

I too am a little suspicious of anyone who codes in PERL
[Article author here]

This was a feature in Win95, even in beta in 1994 or so.
Some people are activists; most people are not.

Activists are willing to invest orders of magnitude more time, energy, and discomfort into winning. They are willing to break most social norms to have their narrative become the default. They're willing to suppress facts that would support alternate narratives. They're willing to put their thumb on the scale when inconvenient facts are unavoidable. Et cetera.

Non-activists are not willing to do any of those things.

It's not about right or wrong, it's about activism: who engages in it and how much.

But sure, let's let the activists win—or force everyone to become activists to "compete". I'm sure that'll make the world a better place.

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Or we could ban activism since it is fundamentally anti-social bullying behavior. Maybe make a "code of conduct" that prohibits it. Just spitballing here…

It's pretty simple to identify activists mechanically (and at scale): they are in the fat part of the power law for contributions. Simply limit people's ability to contribute and et voilà !, the activism problem has been vastly reduced, if not eliminated. Non-activists now have a chance.
> They would literally have to remove thousands of tonnes of carbon from the air every year and put it back in the ground. That is not possible.

They don't need to remove it from the air, that's kind of the last resort, though some people do think that'll be part of the answer eventually and are investigating ways to do it. The simplest and cheapest option to reach their goal will generally be to avoid emitting carbon in the first place.

So yes, building wind farms is a good thing, as is running an EV charging network. Lots of things they can do to make money as a business that don't involve greenhouse gas emissions. Lots of ways they can save money as a business, which as a side effect reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Carbon credits are a boring, sensible answer that economist like, it's basically equivalent to a carbon tax. It literally pays people to do the right thing, and charges them if they don't. It's one of the policies that enabled Tesla and EVs generally to succeed and get to the point where they are better than what we had before.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/tesla-electric-vehicle-regul...
> I think most people aren’t highly motivated to do that.

But they were in the past? I don't know but I wonder why this might have changed.
> The average American watches 5 hours of TV each day

That's an overestimate, it's probably closer to 3 hours per day [1]. Also, if you exclude the elderly (like +55), it probably becomes significantly less.

> people feel that violence is everywhere

It really is though. Right now, there's a war going on in Europe. Curtailing it wouldn't make it go away.

> Research on the effects of viewing violence found a desensitizing effect, especially for children.

Like the vast majority of social sciences, that area is full of low-quality studies.

[1]:"In the 2013–17 period, the U.S. civilian noninstitutional population ages 15 and older spent an average of 2 hours 46 minutes per day watching TV." (https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-7/television-capturing-a...)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32238991
Yes. You’re ticked off a list, so that you can’t vote twice, and that helps spot anyone who does attempt to impersonate another voter.

It’s not 100% foolproof, but it turns out voter fraud by impersonation is very rare, so it’s good enough.

When you think in terms of “make sure every vote we count was legitimate”, then “not completely foolproof” becomes a solid argument for voter ID.

Instead, if you take a wider view and think in terms of “getting the best quality estimate of the will of the voting population”, the argument against requiring ID (in the US at least) is that it would distort the results of the election far more than a tiny amount of undetected impersonation fraud does.

This will vary by country. In the US, there are barriers to getting ID for some groups (you need to go in person during business hours, pay and wait an unknown amount of time, and this needs to happen weeks ahead of election days; this is a barrier to someone without transport juggling multiple jobs and childcare, for instance.)

Other countries see the trade off differently, or use different fraud prevention approaches. For example, I know India uses indelible ink stains on fingers to prevent multiple voting, and in the UK, there is no ID requirement (yet) but the ballots are serialised and the secrecy of the ballot can be broken to investigate fraud allegations. Neither of these approaches would be culturally acceptable in the US.
Hm, it's very strange argument regarding src directory. Article they refers to mentioned main issue with package in root is: it's possible to miss submodules in final released py-package. But src doesn't prevent this. You also can run your tests. But without proper packages option or find_packages in setup.py one gets a broken package.
When you "scroll" on smart phones, the scroll speed is calculated a bit like a physical simulation with an instantaneous acceleration (second order) by a "flick" on the screen and then set to slowly decrease the scroll speed (first order).
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Because, as I have cited in about a dozen links up and down this comments page now, MS threatened to sue between 2004-2007, then companies started to settle or work on something different.
> The university departments i'm aware of still don't allow citing wikipedia and explicitly cover it as bad style.

It's worth noting that Wikipedia is not special in this regard — those same departments probably also consider it bad style to cite Britannica (and, if they don't, they should).

Encyclopaedias are meant to be starting points for research, not the ultimate destination. Editors, both of Wikipedia and otherwise, are not expected to be subject matter experts, which is why the guidance on Wikipedia is that you're not even supposed to use primary sources as reference, but rather secondary sources[0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research...
Ask HN: Any Recommendation for Vim Beginner
I do too that is apart from the hairstyles :)
How so?

1) The stretch in the comment I replied to was referring to calling the area below the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul as belonging to Eurasia. I simply pointed out there is no stretch in there, since it does objectively belong to Eurasia, which unlike Middle-East is far of a more settled geographical definition.

2) In my other comment you are probably referring to, I simply pointed out that the definition of "Middle East" is not set in stone, and it might include the area in question. You can double check, if you don't believe me. I never came up with my own definition of it, and I definitely would not have tossed Indonesia in there.
James Web Space Telescope takes image of youngest galaxy ever discovered
> Gerry Adams (obvs)

Ah now, Gerry was never a member of the IRA ;)

> Michelle O'Neill had no personal involvement, but her father was in the Provisional IRA. It's not uncommon for republican families to split duties in that way.

Sins of the father, eh?

> I would need to consider the pre-1973 history in better depth, but I would agree that I wish there was better accommodation with the nationalist community in the predominantly unionist state, if it would've helped avoid what happened. But consider that the unionist attitudes were driven by fear of the other side too, this would've affected their decisions. The Northern state was intended as a compromise for Unionists, who looked South and saw their population in the ROI drop from 15% to around 1%.

I'm definitely not disputing that at all, the Free State was a deeply hostile place to Protestants post-independence, for a bunch of reasons, most of which are pretty bad. Like, almost every village/town in the Republic has decaying Protestant churches, which shows you how much changed when partition happened.

That being said, there were real civil rights issues for Catholics in the North and that's the context for how Provisional SF/IRA got started.

> en with that said, I can never sympathise with people who bombed, intimidated and targeted civilians in the way that the various IRAs did. There is no cause for pride or celebration here, even if one accepts it as necessary. I don't see mournful regret when I see Sinn Fein members reflect on the names of those tied to that aspect of the past.

Neither do I. Do I possibly understand what drove some of those people? Yes. Do I agree with their actions? Hell no, in fact a hundred times no. Not in my name (speaking as a citizen of the Republic). I've felt this way for a really long time, back in the 1990s when stuff was still happening.

That being said, it definitely wasn't one-sided, and remember that SF were not the only organisation killing people for no good reasons, and indeed any state sponsored violence would typically not even be counted in the "terrorism" figures.

>The level of violence and its many knock on effects took a tremendous toll on the unionist population, and we cannot forget who was responsible.

The violence fucked up everyone, that's what violence does. Like both sides suffered a whole bunch of trauma, and should Catholics never forget the UVF/UDA et al? Should they never forget the irredentist Paisley who shut down the original power-sharing plans which could have prevented thousands of deaths?

Like, ultimately it needs to end, and hanging onto grudges rarely works out well for anyone.
Well, if living in a small town is an option, I suppose Germany and Canada also have those and they would have similar pros and cons a small city in Brazil?

Most brazilans, even from these states, would give a kidney to live in Canada or Germany. Even if only for living a safer place where you can walk at night with your phone etc.
Even on the receiving end, I could imagine someone sending dick pics or whatever after having already befriended the child, and already being in their contact list. Better would be a “ignore for future messages from this person” button, but keep the warning for the first time.
BP also has a net zero plan for 2050:

https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/sustainability/gettin...

They also keep raising the ambitions of their goals over time. Basically, big corporations don't want to be the only one doing this, because their competitors would screw them. But if they all do it, then it's in everyone's benefit, you just need some system to make sure that the other corporations aren't cheating.
I guess you have no much experience with python and how easy to get 100% coverage in it.
You saying that if rewritten in Rust Chromium will compile much faster?
Launch HN is indeed a thing.

Next time you want to locate a Launch HN post, scroll to the footer of HN then click on “Lists” which should take you to https://news.ycombinator.com/lists.

While on that page, click on “launches” which should take you to https://news.ycombinator.com/launches.
Maybe they shouldnt write these articles on Wikipedia then? Make your own website or wiki and nobody is going to delete it.
What a surprising question!

To me, knowing how computers work is just something I thought every programmer would just know as fundamental knowledge (note bytes don't always have 8 bits, but it's the most common).

I guess there is not an absolute need to know this if it doesn't affect business logic type programming or UIs, although I think I might think a person was not very well educated or curious if they didn't know that.
Pineapple pizza gets a bad reputation because it is usually prepared with absolutely no cognition of food flavor interaction. You cannot just put sweet on top of sweet on top of sweet and expect to serve it in a sizing as big as a main course without people complaining about it.
You joke but I feel like the whole PKM thing has grown a lot because of people like me, with poor memory for some kinds of facts (not movies though).
Snap: Journey of a Snap on Snapchat Using AWS
Stadia Maps Time Zone APIs
A First Course in Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers (2018) [pdf]
Our CI pipelines invoke pre-commit. That way it's trivial to run the exact same tools locally as would be run in CI.

Running the tools locally is basically about tightening the development loop. Many of the commonly used tools (e.g. black, isort etc.) actually make the changes to the files so you'll never even commit failing versions. Do you really want to push changes to some remote CI system only to be told it's failed some boring QA check? There's nothing at all stopping you from doing that. Pre-commit is completely optional for each developer. I would just recommend it for sanity reasons.
What’s the Deal with Water Bottles?
That's really sad, because it's a good idea, trucking has a massive labor crisis for all the reasons they detailed (only paid for hauling, not waiting, combined with the race to the bottom in transport pricing where independent truckers and trucking firms both are cutting their own throats to win contracts).
This actress begs to differ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Burke
Starshade deploying:

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/1015/flower-power-nasa...

"The "petals" of the "sunflower" shape of the starshade are designed to eliminate the diffraction that is the central feature of an Aragoscope."

"The starshade is a spacecraft designed by Webster Cash, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy. The proposed spacecraft was designed to work in tandem with space telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope, which did not use it, or a new 4-meter telescope."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Worlds_Mission
> Not by third parties, because ISPs won't give out identifying information to those.

lol
StopAlop: Dpkg Ancestor (1993)
M-x story-mode.

When you are together with a significant other, sometimes you video call them, and sometimes they're in the bathroom, or shower, when they answer (what are they supposed to do, not answer a call from their beloved?). And during these calls they tease eachother, shift the camera in a non conventional angle, private parts exposed. Or they send naughty pictures to eachother, starting small scale, maybe escalating a bit.

All of this is normal, natural, playfully, I would even say: innocent fun. Nobody plans for it, maybe not even asking each other to do it, it naturally evolves with the relationship, partners doing it out of their own free will. Adults do it, teenagers do it. Again, it's normal!

Whenever this happes through a system that is not fully E2E encrypted, those pictures/videos get stored, analysed, accessed by employees, or even 3rd party contractors that label them for text to speech ML purposes.

My advice, use Signal (since it's always e2e encrypted) to avoid the creepy 3rd party eyes, and carry on with your life.

As for the presented "nudity filter" and it's functionality... you can't stop a determined teenager from doing what they aim to do. Assume they're smarter and more tech savy than you are, and this will just be a barrier they will find a way to overcome. Better to keep them safe (give them Signal e2e encrypted) rather than giving them prohibition (this never worked, and it most likely never will).
It is generally not of interest if you buy something or not.

For other readers it would be interesting to read evidence about the original article being wrong / right or more details that helps to better understand the situation.
Oldest DNA from domesticated American horse lends credence to shipwreck folklore
One could argue that those are two different questions. E.g. what would look nice on itself vs what would look good in your kitchen or might be more timeless
Video game media probably always was corrupt and incestuous in their hype cycle. But at least back in those days people writing were on some level passionate for it.

Now it seems that it is the place where wannabe journalist end up when they can not get work anywhere else. And thus try to insert what they want to signal in their writings. And most of the time not care about medium itself.
As an European I agree. I am a bit afraid of this new feature since I might not agree with Apple what falls into the category of sensitive content and what I would consider as ok. In fact there is a big cultural difference. For me personally a nipple or even a fully exposed breast is not a problem (we even have that on public TV), whereas explicit shots of genitals I would agree fall into a category which should be censored.
App developed in Japan to automatically delete children's nude selfies
How are these calculated?
Post doesn't make sense. It clearly states that you only be sure that package is working by actually installing it into clean virtualenv and testing it there. `src` or any other layout doesn't matter.
yeah but still the simpsons today are something else entirely than the simpsons 20 years ago. It's not that they had 10 bad years and now, suddenly, are good and similar like before. It's simply not true. And it wouldn't even make sense (what would have to happen for that to become true?).
This is related to non-hermetic build graph, so the builds have system-provided dependency in GCC, and to make the build sane requires that they are in sync.
The word 'stuporous' is definitely ripe for going viral.
Search HN. A new Vim learning tool and/or article comes up every week. Those should help.
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Physical travel will probably be limited in future due to peak oil, climate change, and pandemic related policies (whether all true or not is left as an exercise for the reader). The next best thing to vacationing in Greece is metaversing in a virtual, uncrowded Greece with all dirt, viruses and greedy cab drivers scrubbed out. Better than staring at four walls during lockdown or no driving days.