skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the sci-fi future such as star trek, you often see systems being reprogrammed by swapping crystals around or something like that. I used to think it was really stupid, but as I deal with trying to build complicated systems I find myself wishing I could build something like that to set up systems and have them just work.

Interestingly, 90's industrial automation sort of feels like it was trying to build systems like that. The control cabinets are filled with simple, discrete, computational blocks that control valves and actuators based on sensor inputs.

Getting back to the sci-fi, I realized that the crystal swapping could just be the high level interface to all the complex code below. They really wouldn't need to do anything except light up when they are detected correctly, but still control complex code hiding below the surface... Maybe written on demand by AI that reads the crystals as prompts.

I don't know where this is all heading, but maybe someday swapping databases will be as complicated as changing a lightbulb.
Let's assume that's the case. Then without having witnessed the propaganda, I'd not have proper context to what you just told me. I'd have to go with somebody (you) claiming what had been the propaganda back in the day. And that sounds pretty unbelievable, so it's good that I witnessed it, then I can appreciate the point that you are making.

Either way, better to have had open eyes and ears than not.
"Keep everything" is vague though. "Everything relevant to the transaction", certainly, as you've mentioned, that's already required by law. "Everything" as in "all user data including data they may have uploaded" will certainly not fly, even though it might help with defending against chargebacks.

Logs are a very difficult issue in my experience. If you really want to be compliant, your logs will not contain any PII and you'll have compliance people check the infrastructure to make sure there's nothing going in.

Granted, a normal developer will typically not care about this, and once they're working on large enough projects where it becomes a thing, they'll also have sat through hours upon hours of lawyers telling them what not to do.
Show HN: async – Async/Await Lib in Golang
async is a ES7-style async/await implementation lib based on Goroutine + Channel in Golang. It now contains 4 APIs: Async, Await, All, Race.

Relative article -> https://hackernoon.com/u/sun0day
Technically US companies are allowed in China as long as they follow the local regulations (which probably involves following Chinese National Security Letters etc). What OP proposes and the EU is doing is to allow anyone in the market as long as they follow strong privacy laws. Existing apps can defend themselves in court and only get banned after a sentence from a judge.
If they "create an oppressive, centralized, and corrupt authoritarian regime", then they were never socialists to begin with, contrary to what a considerable number of people have been conditioned to believe such that they may continue to be endlessly exploited.
Green's Function Number
The problem is that their investors are chasing a return - they don't care specifically about start-ups, only that they can beat safer assets like T-bills, high grade corporate bonds, SPY, etc. Cheap credit is what fueled this start-up boom and bought us the Juicero, 21 Inc, etc. Now rates are rising and that era is over. I'm sure VCs still believe in their portfolios / thesis.
That is one of the reasons big scale RO is impractical for desalination compared to upcoming redox tech. Not only is it slow, energy intensive, but also you'd always be running at reduced capacity.

In indistrial usage, a lot of the salt is removed before hitting RO filter.

That said, it exists right now and is well tested.
Sounds awesome. Thanks for the inspiration.
Ugh. My parents' neighborhood is finally emerging from years of legal action for the right to play pickleball on their pickleball courts.

They live in a planned community filled with retirees (many of them former lawyers) with absolutely nothing else to do with their day than plot and scheme over ways to obstruct their able-bodied neighbors who want to get some exercise. It's the perfect sport for them (neighbor-fighting, not pickleball).

The fight is so vicious because the stakes are so small. For years, my folks would just drive past the empty courts on the way out of the development to the neighborhood a few miles away with fewer retired lawyers.
(Non-American too.)

China may not have been proven to use TikTok data specifically, but their track record about human rights and privacy is what it is.

> I'm not really sure what the People's Liberation Army will do with all my cat videos anyway...

Ah, the old "nothing to hide" argument.
In elder days, there were many systems with 6-bit and 7-bit bytes. It took a while to standardize on 8 bits.

So no, it's not a contraction of "by eight". It's just a different spelling for "bite", as a pun on "a bite of bits".
You can dodge that; go to the "Explore by sectors" a bit further down, pick any. Now you can search without having to hand over an email address. But yeah, the first time I hit that "search here.. but only after you provide an email", I bounced.
Who bans you? Instagram? Reddit?
> They could simply show addictive videos to school-aged children to reduce their time available to study or interact with other children to make them less intelligent or less socially prepared.

This is what every US social media company has been trying to do forever, except they didn't focus on schoolkids, they focused on everyone. It's called "maximizing engagement".
Oh I do hope not. As Dr Johnson said, "when a man is tired of mocking Microsoft, he is tired of life".
Why does something have to be portrayed as spooky and magical. If it works it works, then it’s our job to explain clearly why.

That quote seems strange.

I have not seen the explanation in terms of Hopf algebras but if the translation makes it unwieldy that seems like it’s not a very good language to use to describe it, Most of these umbral calculations seem pretty clean.
Yup. It’s not that an echo chamber is inevitable; for me, finding something interesting that’s not represented among my social graph is more likely to be viral/marketable/attractive than something circulating among the most-active 5%. TikTok doesn’t need that graph on an individual’s scale.
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> they just shut down non-paying accounts to cut costs if they don't foresee them converting into paying customers any time soon

Talk about a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Does that only cull nulls, or also zeroes, falses and empty strings?
A unit that is consistently 8 bits is properly an "octet", as found in many RFCs. Bytes can and do (or rather did) have any number of bits in them.
You do not need that many database developers, it's a myth. Facebook has 2 dedicated database engineers managing it. I work in United Nations, there is only 1 dedicated database developer in 1000+ team.

If you have a well designed database system. You do not need that many database engineers.
> these companies were on the downward trend and headed for tough times.

Exactly why you need a good CEO at the top to understand that the landscape has changed with a new competitor but Nokia and RIM failed to adapt.
I stand corrected that many manufacturers (than I remembered) had cheat program like VW/Bosh, but is it all manufacturers? Volvo and Mazda?
Network protocol specifications generally talk of "octets" rather than "bytes" for this exact reason.
No, I'm referring to the money spent on cleanup and rebuilding, not X lives lost reducing the denominator in GDP per capita.

Disasters are great for GDP as a metric on a medium term scale. Not so much for people or wellbeing. This is basic econ stuff.
Clojure crowdsources "examples" (to good effect, IMO). For example: https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/assoc-in
Would you like to post the URLs of the most important climate job boards, please?
> I always find it amazing that applicants only have 10 minutes to present themselves.

Consider this as a strong sign that YC is looks for companies that are an "easy sell" to VCs (the same holds for products that such companies produce). You can easily guess why they want that ...
Sufficiently big companies have a union and more financial buffer to weather downturns.
OK the problem seems to be compiling xv6 then, it simply won't compile without a specially built compiler flags
Mental agility used to be a synonym for IQ. But it's a function of quality, not age. Or IQ.

Good people make difficult things simple. Poor people make simple things difficult and overcomplicated.

It's a two quadrant problem with good and smart being the ideal, and poor and not smart being the worst.

Poor and smart can be extremely toxic - unnecessary complexity that's hard for everyone else to understand. IME often also comes with personality issues.

Good and not smart can be workable with good guidance.
Apparently Oracle cares enough to down your comment. I get that they gotta keep their lawyers busy but sockpuppetry is kind of a low blow even for them ;)
"...if governments would abandon the goal of aggregate economic growth across all sectors..."

You've obviously thought about this topic quite deeply - have you heard any realistic proposals on how to achieven this? I have yet to hear any, and until I do I'll be devoting my energy to changes that have at least some chance of being enacted, like a carbon tax.
What's the tangible benefit of reading a history book? What's the tangible benefit of learning about quantum physics, evolution theory or the history of the French Revolution?

My iPhone works anyway, the grocery store sells chicken anyway, and the latte at Starbucks won't taste any different.

None of that directly changes by you learning more things. But it makes you a more well-rounded educated person, equipped to make better decisions impacting your own life and possibly society as a whole. And, frankly, to make sth out of you that's more than a monkey living merely to survive and procreate.
What Makes the Commodore Amiga a Great Computer [video]
1 superpower vs 2 superpowers both of questionable morality doesn't make a difference.

Don't forget we talk about 6.5 billions humans that US already treats as sub-humans as in being entitled to less basic human rights than US citizens. If US wants rest of the world to actually give a damn lets start with this simple issue.

Till then no, I don't care much if also chinese have my browsing data.
This isn't a list of paradoxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes
Thanks to EU,

now we have to confirm consent banners before going into any website.
Yet. But maybe that says more about esp32 than about RTEMS?
> YT on a clean slate is horrendous

It makes me worry about the future of humanity, as the clean slate is what is popular in your location.

> open mouthed dweebs on a rainbow background for thumbnails

Dont forget to add a large amount of money to the title my $$$$250,000 computer.

But it f'ing works - I am really not sure what is wrong with people. Oh and now I get 2 ads every single video, its barely worth it ...
> 1.This works for the USA only.

I'm pretty sure the splash image is London, UK. Very confusing!
I am in a similar position like OP and find it quite hard not only to find offerings, but also to understand if the projects have some real impact or are just propaganda green-washing activities or even plain climate budget hijacking by dinosaur companies.

Look, even in this thread people are seriously (?) recommending working on Bitcoin for climate change - in a similar but mostly not so obvious way you can find "green jobs" that in fact are not green jobs at all.

Even "green minister" nowadays is no guarantee for doing the right thing.

E.g. look at Germany: the poor green Mr. Habeck who is now Minister of Economy must make decisions that are completely opposite of the green political program (because of Putin).

This is a good demonstration why you really need to double check "green" job offers and companies.

It would be great to have a validation service of climate job offers done by people with reputation. If you are living in the inner circles of the climate movement please talk about this idea, thanks!
Clean water and sanitation access in Burundi is rapidly improving thanks to many international aid programmes, so perhaps this invention is not needed there—the country is bordered by freshwater lakes, after all.

Your point still stands, but the $4 wouldn’t be paid by end users: it would likely be covered by these organisations, which would then be able to provide aid for a much larger population.
Don't forget the assumption of guilt unless proven innocent.
> In addition there have been competing products launching within same batch

This could actually be a strategy: look which of these companies "sticks" and convince the other companies to become acqui-hired by this likely winning company.
> How do you expect them to get people to pay for their phones then?

They can pay for the phones up front like almost everywhere else in the world, or they can pay for it in instalments like buying a freezer or car. What has network service got to do with the price of the phone itself?
Yeah I don't get that - if anything Docker would probably make the use case for "one big server" even easier to justify?
Which ignores that it is 4$ per prototype and it works for longer than 1 week already
> these side-effects (psychedelic experiences) are enjoyable for most

I don't know whether the experience of purple sage counts as psychedelic; I tried it once. The visuals are reminiscent of LSD visuals, but richer. But there's no euphoria at all. Combined with extreme couch-lock, I didn't find it enjoyable.
As long as you're living on the coast.

The saltwater piping (and especially pumps if needed) does not build or maintain itself, and this filter is unnecessary for river, well or rain water. It may be useful for salt lakes, but these are likely to go first.

If you really need it for some reason, solar or other distillation is good enough on small scale.
the key to a solid troll, as greg understood, is the believable line it walks.

this example bit you paste is just, i suppose, a comedy. tho even with that i’m sure you could stir up someone, esp if they stopped reading to reply at first impulse
We do support math equations, using KaTeX (apparently it is much faster than MathJax)

https://docusaurus.io/docs/markdown-features/math-equations
First off, I would define that as violence if it came to an extreme. Imprisoning people is to exclude people from everything, including space to move around. Society in general define that as violence. So following this thought experiment we must then enter the philosophical discussion to define what violence is.

Excluding people from everything in modern society causes harm. Starvation, exposure to the environment, psychological harm, atrophy of muscle and body. Excluding people from health care lead to further harm and eventually death. Taken to the extreme and we got murder.

If a majority of people voted to allow murder and violence then the most likely outcome is a civil war, but if in this thought experiment we are talking about only allowing murder and violence towards a single person, the best strategy would be to flee and seek asylum.

If we however limit this thought experiment to an degree which isn't murder and violence, and within the already set limits that government laws has specified (such as the European law of human rights), then if a large percentage of people decided to exclude me from a limited number of things, the best approach would be to political active to make the law even better while at the same time personally avoiding those people. No violence required. Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance is a good model when laws are unjust and need changing.
> "Keep everything" is vague though. "Everything relevant to the transaction", certainly, as you've mentioned, that's already required by law. "Everything" as in "all user data including data they may have uploaded" will certainly not fly, even though it might help with defending against chargebacks.

The last part about helping with chargebacks is the legal exemption that is to be used not to delete the data. You're entitled not to delete data in order to provide a legal defence to future cases.
Hello,

I used to write software for insurance companies, now I convert London Taxis to be all-electric: https://clipper.cab

We raised some pre-seed friends & family money and were supported by innovateUK in a critical part of the project.

The "new" electric London taxis are hybrid only! The exhaust isn't visible, so many people think they are electric which I think is terrible.

Our solution recycles existing vehicles and is truly all-electric.
There is probably enough people who anthropomorphize Oracle and think that Oracle is somehow about something else than making Larry Ellison a shitton of money.
got to support somehow that Fabergé egg habit
I'm not sure I understand your point. I live in Hungary and all my friends who are researchers publish their research in (simple) English by default, because it just makes sense for a much higher impact than publishing in Hungarian. The language is not really a barrier for us for communicating the results.
> The police can and absolutely do arrest, intimidate, harass, and violently assault people for unspecified, fabricated or utterly bullshit reasons, and then release them (because they can't justify those reasons in a court of law, but they have an incredibly broad, completely unaccountable amount of inscrutable discretion that they can use to make your life a living hell.)

And I'd hope you agree that such behavior is bad and shouldn't be tolerated. "Cops are capricious unaccountable douchebags therefore it's okay for tech companies to be capricious unaccountable douchebags" is hardly a convincing argument.
That 40% is an opportunity for a leaner competitor! Which is how YC started out.
> which is very easy to fix

go on amazon and buy another stick of RAM
It appears this is mostly targeting specific hot wallet software that may have some compromised downstream signing library, since the wallets are closed source it is difficult for the community to get to the root of the problem.

Storing value on closed source hot wallets is generally not a good idea.
Do you believe that the human production of carbon and its release into the atmosphere is not affecting the planetary climate?
What makes MkDocs easier to use than Docusaurus for a non-dev user exactly?

The only thing I can see is that maybe you are more familiar with Python than Node.js? Otherwise using Docusaurus or MkDocs are both equally easy IMHO

You can get a Docusaurus site online in 1 minute, and publish your first doc edit in 2 minutes. See demo video: https://twitter.com/leeerob/status/1554211061284364290

You can even try it in your browser right now: https://docusaurus.new
RenTech is also a bit different than Jane Street. While smart people no doubt work at Jane Street, some very serious brains have worked at RenTech and contributed to Medallion, people like Elwyn Berlekamp.
It's quite funny, you're saying I'm making it more complex than it is while everyone else is saying I'm oversimplifying it.

Also, my understanding of the Amazon issue which I mentioned was they set the cookie before you accepted or rejected therefore the cookie was always set. Considering this is probably the most common mistake when it comes to cookie banners it seems fair to mention.
Is Walking a Good Enough Exercise?
Stable systems don't break because something went wrong, they break because everything went wrong.
I am starting to find PHP bearable as soon as they are starting to follow Python language and precepts (like libs for humans, code readability instead of shorthands,...)
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And you'd be wrong! It appears to be from San Francisco (unless we are talking a different picture ?)

https://www.housedigest.com/874861/the-iconic-san-francisco-...
Thanks for the remark. I updated the links at the bottom to make navigation easier; I hope it helps.
thanks :) glad I was able to convince you to give it a try
The latest douchebaggery from entrepreneubros since crypto.

Climatetech is a scheme to sound good to investors.
The request can also be sent to slack as data processor. Most people don't actually know who is controller or processor and thus a processor has to relay the request to the controller who has to decide if the request is legit.
Nope, storage space was always measured in binary as well, except in ads. It's network stuff that's consistently decimal.

Windows, in particular, still uses binary units for file and disk sizes pretty much everywhere (Explorer, Disk Management, all command-line tools etc). MacOS uses decimal, but it only switched sometime around 2015. I'm not sure what the story is with Linux DEs, but CLI tools usually default to binary.
You meant "unfalsifiable" ?

Which those models are _not_. They have been projecting, for a while now, an increase in mean global temperature, and an increase in the frequency of extreme climate events. (Which very generous margins, though.)

It could very much _not_ be observed (read the thermometers. Count the heat waves frequency. Compare.)

My general understanding is that the observation seem to match the projections, but IANA climatologist, so I have to trust other people [1]

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-m...

Also, the science of greenhouse effect is robust enough, much more so than the short term dynamics of an exponentially spreading unknown virus - so mistrusting all models because of the COVID ones seems a bit unfair.

Knowing all models are wrong, and some are usefull, I'm now going to leave you to doub, and go enjoy my fourth heatwave of the year.
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> I've had multiple legal teams tell me that once they pay for something you need to keep everything.

Pay for Google Drive, delete some old pictures, "error cannot delete pictures since you purchased more space".
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
Except for those sites that don't track you.

Try opening this website in a private session. Or GitHub.
Whatever about relying on legal advice for your own retention policy, it seems unwise to make sweeping generalisations packaged as guidance on GDPR For Developers By Example.

For one thing, as with any legislation, simplifying it to a limited number of examples is guaranteed to lead to error by omission. I'm sure that you've noticed that when legal firms post guidance about the GDPR (and in private correspondence like you would have received in your own conversations with lawyers), they are never as definitive or absolute in their advice as this blog post is.

>And on deleting logs, the law literally says archival reasons.

Where in the Regulation are you referring to? Are you referring to archiving in the public interest?

> But also, there is a technical feasibility exception too.

There is no technical feasibility ("disproportionate effort"/"impossibility") exemption for the right to deletion. Whether a company can use such an argument as a successful defence has not yet been litigated.

> The legitmate interest for knowing what went on in your system for logs doesn't isn't just for helping the user. Knowing why there was a traffic spike, what happened in the past, etc is important to know how properly handle your business, this is a legitmate need for a company. Again, lawyers told me this.

To rely on the legitimate interest basis, you need to demonstrate that the processing is necessary to fulfil that interest and that it is balanced against the data subject’s interests, rights, and freedoms. It may be a valid basis, but it's certainly not definitive.

All in all, I feel that it may be better from all involved if you refrain from giving advice on the GDPR. I'm sure your lawyers will thank you.
Bah, the sheer audacity of that tweet! Patently lying through his teeth.

This reminded me I should donate to lichess.