skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure EU countries cannot in fact (in general) demand personal data of anyone from EU companies without due process. If you can find law to the contrary, let me know.
> New investors strengthen the investor syndicate which makes the company more resilient. New investors bring new ideas, new experiences, and new sources of funding to the business.

uh, citation needed? Investors aren't meant to be there to bring 'ideas and experiences', and adding new ones to a company that isn't doing well feels like it would just add more tension and disagreement when what is probably needed is a laser vision that hopefully the founding team should be providing..
So, do we blindly ignore common sense and instinct, handing it over to supposed experts that have been wrong repeatedly about very fundamental concepts like diet and education? So many accepted practices promoted by experts have been and are just wrong. New information is gathered and past certainty becomes present doubt.

Of course, blindly ignoring information because it is outside of your understanding is equally incorrect. There is no easy solution to this issue, but generous skepticism is wise, especially when someone purports to be expert and certain about something.
The unfortunate truth of PG's claim is that: Odds are you are not the right sort of person. You're not at the leading edge. The field isn't so much changing as spinning in place. Sorry.

But he carefully doesn't say that, and the majority of most of his essays are designed to inspire the belief that you are the right sort of person, etc.
> The only way around this is to crop the input video quite heavily

I mean that sounds a lot easier than making deep fakes work well with profile data surely?
There is no tit for tat, we european citizens don't want our personal data to be accessible to the US government and their respective secret agencies.

The US government will not back up from their policy and so we do neither but since we otherwise enjoy a great partnership and alliance, we take this issue pretty "dry and emotionless", trust me, there are no hard feelings or ill intentions.
IMO that could be good, I would welcome more competition in the payment processor space.
The Case Against Unit Tests
The more complex the data and the more complex the test code, the harder it is to have a clear reliable unit test.

How do you ensure the tests themselves are accurate? Adding test cases as you encounter errors from newly revealed edge cases means the test didn’t work initially. Unit testing the unit tests is circular logic. You can manually test the unit test, same as you could manually test the code itself.

Typically, unit tests are so simple that bugs are few and easy to spot so this is a non issue, but that same argument can also be made for when the code itself does not need unit tests under the same circumstances.
Specificity: Brain's Superpower (2019)
Non-resident accounts exist (though they are generally more expensive), and several countries don't even require any proof of residence (i.e. you can open a bank account while on a tourist visa)
I never understood why we don't have more indie browsers. Individual developers love implementing their own take on anything: from the most simple projects to crazy ones like booting Linux from JavaScript or entire operating systems. Why are those talented individuals not implementing their own browsers?
The warrant is due process.
Oh, wow -- I love Nina Teicholz! I came across this talk by her a few years ago and it made a massive impression on me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2UnOryQiIY&t=29s
Of the "traditional" banks First Direct generally have quite a good reputation. I've used them for a while and they've been fine. Customer service is good on the occasions I use it and the product's been reliable.

That said I'd be surprised to see a bank like Monzo just fold without warning. It's possible that one or more of the "challenger" banks won't last a long time, but the outcome there will most likely be them getting bought by someone else.
No, they shouldn't, unless their constituents actually think it's a real issue. Republicans don't all have to run on repudiating Sandy Hook trutherism, either. The Republican party nominated an actual Nazi --- a guy who stands on streetcorners in a uniform handing out fliers, like, a non-rhetorical Nazi --- for an Illinois congressional seat, and I make fun of people who try to paint the GOP with that, too.
I'm sure industrial policy and thus economics had no factor in those laws being written.
> "what to show people who use the word "dog" a lot, in order to maximize revenue"

That sounds almost nice, until you realize you can substitute "dog" for other words like "qanon", "chemtrails", etc., and the long hand of Facebook reaches a significant part of the Internet even when you're not visiting Facebook.
OK but not wanting our personal records to be arbitrarily sized by the US government is very reasonable. Your government made a law that lets it spy on us... that's your problem.
Just make it so anyone with an internet connection can transfer any amount anywhere else, online, without any transaction fees, within seconds.

There, there's your fucking fintech. I don't know what everyone else is doing.
They mean the WWW, which is really what the Internet has always been about. And yes, it was invented in Europe.
Show HN: I grew my startup to 100.000 visitors /m with no time for marketing
Welp. It worked on the school-issued Chromebooks and my friend's Macbook Air but not on iPads or iPhones, so guess I have to test it on more Apple stuff :/
Both IKEA and Sonos have been decent in terms of support of older hardware, so I wouldn't be too wary of that. But, companies rarely feel incentivised to maintain older products these days.
Devices running on high density flash will not be reliable long term. None of these devices have ECC to reduce the probability of catastrophic failure from accumulated bit flips.
Simply the CLOUD Act [1] which is incompatible with GDPR. No problem transferring to a third country [2] as long as you can uphold GDPR.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

[2]: https://www.imy.se/en/organisations/data-protection/this-app...
> so don't base your secops around this.

If it's a high-threat context I don't think live video should be relied on regardless of deep fakes. Bribing or coercing the person is always an alternative when the stakes are high.
No, a merchant can't discriminate by sub-cards within a network - that's a great way to get kicked out of the network and never be able to charge a visa again.

The network may disallow the behavior but networks are slow to regulate and in theory are consumer focused.
It doesn't sound like fraud if an opt-out service renewal stops being opt-out (or if you effectively opt-out using an agent).
I really don't understand the mentality of engineers - or businesspeople! - who block certain browsers. Not supporting a browser with low marketshare, while sad, is at least understandable, but going out of your way to prevent people from using your website who otherwise might have had a perfectly good experience is ridiculous. At worst, just put a banner at the top that says "your browser is not supported, if the site looks broken try Chrome."
In the (not recommended) post frank herbert dune novels they actually have water variants of sand worms that get evolved and create ultraspice
It is however, a lower bound on whether it is the case that something is a reasonably forseeable/precedented area of research.

After all, if the artist can imagine and build a story around it, there'll be an engineer somewhere who'll go "Ah, what the hell, I could do that."

*By Golblum/Finnagle's Law, it is guaranteed said Engineer will not contemplate whether they should before implementing it, and distributing it to the world.

This another example of why we can't have nice things.
If the payment doesn't go through, the company should just stop providing the service. eg the gym cancels your membership
Not only is Nina Teicholz a well-established journalist, but she is the author of this book, which made a huge splash and has 2,000+ Amazon Reviews: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Fat-Surprise-Butter-Healthy/dp/14...
The US parent company was given access to the EU data. That's the problem here.

> A included clauses in the offer that stated, among other things, that it will not access, use, or disclose customer data to any third party, except as necessary to maintain or provide the Services, or as necessary to comply with the law or a valid and binding order of a governmental body.

Of course giving a US company control over EU data at a whim means that it's a transfer to the US. The court made the only reasonable decision.
It’s not about that. Even if the US copied German law verbatim Germany would just find some other excuse to harm the US. They can’t compete so they unfairly try to prop up their own companies via regulatory means.
My wife bought a Roomba a few years ago. The thing is noisy, and as it bumps around the room like a blind man it frequently gets stuck in a corner or under a chair, or ingests a shoelace from a shoe that someone took off near the front door and then calls for help.

I don't vacuum every day, but do it often enough with a standard canister vac. It takes a few minutes per room, and then it's done. I can also use the vacuum to get cobwebs out of the wall corners and along the ceiling. I can use it to get dust off of other surfaces. I can use it to vacuum out my car. It's a really nice vacuum, quiet, with a powerful suction, HEPA filter, and it cost less than all but the lowest-tier Roomba.
I think this kind of affirms the general opinion that Germany and many traditionally powerful European countries is doing poorly when it comes to modern tech. What went wrong with Germany and Europe? They used to be the front runners in tech once upon a time.
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The front trunnion is the only thing anyone would have trouble with, IMO. It has to attach tightly to the barrel and withstand the explosion from firing.

Somewhere on the internet is a forum post where someone took a shovel and made all the necessary parts for a functional AK. The receiver and rails were cut up from the metal shovel part, the handle was used as a stock. He used the trunnion, barrel, and trigger group from an existing AK. The later of which could easily be CNCed or even 3D printed at this point.
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/PcKBQ
Bill Gates Advertises for the Wall Street Journal
Saving the source alone hardly solves anything, the comment you're replying to highlights the real problem : The Stack. Everything from the compiler\VM to the OS to the instruction set architecture and everything in between. You have to save and store all of that.

You need a format other than text, text is extraordinarily inefficient and lossy at anything that is not declarative factual information. There has to be artifacts.
Well let's say you wrote C++ where most of your data is in a super union of float, string,*, bool, int, map*, etc, with gobs of repetitive dynamic dispatch whenever you touch one of those unions. That wouldn't mean your code is being interpreted, would it?
No this is a lose for the auto-renewing model since you pay ahead for the term typically instead of in-arrears.

Which is good in my book. Being forced into auto-renewing subscriptions is nonsense and takes advantage of consumers.
For whatever reason, until I started reading the article, the first thing that came to my mind was "why did axios (the http library) sell?"
I guess they just don't really understand how Ethereum works? The minute whoever controls those addresses transfers the ETH out to some other addresses (a cheap/trivial operation) the sanctions are obsolete.

Are you not phased at all by the inaneness of it?
Printing small arms on the fly would be a sure fire way to lose a campaign. You can't 3D print your ammo. There's also a lot of stuff like springs you can't 3D print. So any disruption in any supplies you can't print, including electricity, leaves you with no weapons.

It's a far inferior model to taking completed weapons with you. You can build a million units in a factory on another continent and hand them out in safety. They can be built to whatever tolerances are appropriate using whatever exotic materials you want. They won't be limited to materials that can be 3D printed. Your ammo used also won't be limited to ammo that can be safely used in 3D printed parts.
Hey America - stop spying on our our citizens or we will stop buying your tech.

Seriously.

We talk about this cloud stuff like it is rocket science. It is not. It is a box in a basement. We are capable of doing that ourselves.

And no. It ain’t cool for NSA to sniff around some German governmental software, even though you are the good guys and on our side.
> "effectively infinite,"

This is what I have been thinking. If whatever you can remember is bigger than all experiences and lessons you could remember, then your memory is effectively infinite. I don't know if having a continuous effectively infinite memory is good or bad. As someone who play the classical guitar, having a better memory would do wonders for me.
I tried doing this on my own laptop a few weeks ago using Hugging Face diffusers - https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers

Here's the code:

from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline
ldm = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(
"CompVis/ldm-text2im-large-256"
)
output = ldm(
["a painting of a raccoon reading a book"],
num_inference_steps=50,
eta=0.3,
guidance_scale=6
)
output["sample"][0].save("image.png")

This took 5m25s to run on my laptop (no GPU configured) and produced a recognisable image of a Raccoon reading a book. I tweeted the resulting image here: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1550143524179288064
Julia's package manager has basically never failed on me.
While there are certainly cases where European laws are crafted to help keep American companies out, this is not really one of them. It appears to me that the western European institutions have genuine concerns about American companies and three-letter agencies accessing their citizens' data, and by the way they are not paranoid to be concerned.

End result is almost certain to be more cloud providers in Europe, but I'm not sure they're wrong to want that.
Lol. Holy crap. I've been out of the AK making game for too long and didn't know about this. I'll have to look it up.
Note the copyright implications, too - these outlets claim copyright on every word, including the copypasta, and never distinguish what they actually do own copyright too; and don't.
From the article: "The size of your house is a pretty good proxy for your wealth."

Amazon already has your address - so they already can get detailed maps of your house, tax records, likely income, and on and on, from other records. They can link to all your public data (Linked In, FB, Zillow, whatever else is for sale) to build massive profiles of you, your purchase history, your neighbor's purchase history, and so on).

This purchase is more likely to get more robot expertise, patents, and capability as they want to automate more of their entire pipeline of moving goods. That is where the big money is. Saving a few percent on a several hundred billion pipeline via automation is massive.
if money is fungible, how come it can be dirty xor clean?
Not a “proper” reference but according to Wikipedia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_dat...):

> The CRDT concept was formally defined in 2011 by Marc Shapiro, Nuno Preguiça, Carlos Baquero and Marek Zawirski.

Now, that’s not to say the gp wasn’t referring to using some of the CRDT concepts before they were defined collectively under that banner.
> I don't care if the upper bound is "effectively infinite," that's not what the proof claimed.

Very interesting. Do you typically process all claims as literally as you just did for this one, notably when you're interacting with people outside of the Internet? In which case, do most people react positively to your behaviour, or do they get annoyed because "you know what I meant"?
> Will "turning sideways to spot a deepfake" be a valid test in 5 years? Prolly no, so don't base your secops around this.

couldn't the same thing be said about passwords, 2FA with SMS or asymmetric cryptography?

meanwhile real IDs have been easy to replicate for decades, but are still good enough for the job.
A great time to finally consider self-hosting.
for your average hobbyist who doesn't actually have to worry about camouflage of anything, do something like wrap bright orange hockey grip tape around any magazine body that contains .300 blackout. And some totally other color on 556.
> The ultimate problem stopping replay

For me it's time. If I know in advance the game will take 10 hours to finish then no matter how much variety it has, I'm not gonna play it again.
Look, I know we won't agree that booting the guy who created JavaScript for political reasons had anything to do with the further decline of Firefox, but can we at least agree that your best business strategy after that decision isn't going to be marketing yourselves as some sort of privacy crusaders?
David Dunning: Why incompetent people think they're amazing
Keep rocking.

I have no beef with US companies doing business here as such, but as long as they're supporting espionage and sabotage by handing crucial data to the NSA and CIA they should simply not be allowed to operate here.
> Digital consumer networks were established here long before the U.S

Really? In some places in Europe, people were starting to get excited about dial-up BBSes in the mid nineties, a decade after they were on their way out in North America.

In 1994 I was doing contract work in Vancouver on a website with paying subscribers.
I'm European and I'll happily admit there is no EU alternative to AWS, GCP, Azure. The breadth of services _on_, and the amount of engineers able to work _with_ these platforms is incredible and can't be beat by the likes of Hetzner and OVH. We are so behind that we won't catch up. The arrogance is warranted in this case.

I like privacy, but the business person in me is very frustrated by these GDPR rulings as they make the life of European startups even harder than it already is.
Amazon Roomba acquisition ‘most dangerous In companies history
How do you refactor code and ensure you haven't broken something? How do you jump into a new project and make changes without breaking something?

It isn't about ensuring tests are accurate, it isn't about 100% coverage.

It is about being able to make changes to a running system over time and know that you're not breaking something 10 levels deep.
I ate no plant-based calories at all for the entirety of 2021 and I ended the year in fantastic shape. Then I relaxed my rule in 2022 and now I'm 20 pounds heavier and don't feel quite as good physically. So I'm just going to resume the strict version of my diet, which seems to work so well for me: 90% beef, 10% eggs and fish -- with no fiber or plant-based calories of any kind.
This goes to the question of why anything other than basic arithmetic is compulsory. The famous 10th-grader's whine "what are we going to use this for", which infuriated my own 10th-grade Algebra 2 teacher, and even made me roll my eyes at the time, is actually a fair question when algebra is taught as abstractly as it typically is.

I think you've explained exactly why here -- because the emphasis on abstract manipulation presupposes that this is useful for something that we need to get on to. But that's just false for almost all students. And yet they're required to take the class to get a diploma.

My vote would be to treat any math beyond basic arithmetic as a liberal art, and do a lot less of it in compulsory curricula, but spend a lot more time on deep understanding. This would benefit everyone. The current approach pretends that everyone in the class is going to be a certain kind of engineer or scientist some day.
£4.4 billion in Feb, so about 6bn USD. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1118161/customer-loans-a...
No good. Money doesn't move instantly, and you need someone to handle disputes.

Some reading:

https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/the-alchemy-of-deposits/

https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/no-payments-are-final/
Yeah, I know this hypothesis. I have a bunch of allergic issues (atopic eczema, hay fever), and I’ve been contemplating some kind of helminth therapy, but I’m too much of a coward to actually do it…
Well, what's stopping you from e.g. lugging the groceries back on a bike instead and going twice a week to carry less each time, earning you a gym membership out of the deal from the cardio? That's the sort of thinking we have to get past. This, "well I use a car for xyz so I need it for all things I do in life" It's fine to have access to a car when you need a vehicle of that caliber, but most car trips aren't that. Most car trips people take are less than 3 mile; 30% are less than 1 mile:

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1230-marc...

All of those could certainly be replaced with something more sensible. How many times have you hopped into the car to go to the store and grab one thing? Probably a lot in your life. With car culture, we basically have a mindset of using a big axe for every cutting job, even those where a butter knife would do.
Not unless you think every company that returns money to shareholders is out of ideas - at which point - if you're never going to get money back, why invest in the first place?
I think it usually works the other way around: "one day I'll be rich, so ..."
This IKEA wi-fi/Sonos bookshelf speaker has a stereo DAC (per the article), but I would assume it's designated as a mono Sonos output device in terms of software, so only one channel (left) is probably active.
probably not cuz I'd imagine they want lossless compression (given as they don't understand the data well enough to do meaningfull (lossless) compression)
> Non-Reason #1: They want to sell your home information to the police state. Come on people, your local government already knows the layout of your home, you have to tell them that when you build it!

Amazon is not the state and gathering information on your home improves their chances to win in the smart home. Having access to your home network also helps.

The Roomba can also improve over time. If Amazon sees the Roomba is successful, then it will be considered more deeply for its strategic value. Given Amazon's willingness to fork over Ring data to police without a warrant, they don't have high credibility in my eyes for what they are or aren't willing to do to achieve any kind of advantage.
While this article is specifically regarding the 0.100 release of SecureStore for rust, SecureStore itself is a language-agnostic open protocol for a plain-text, git-versioned alternative to storing secrets as environment variables (which is inherently insecure and prone to leakage) or via network-accessible secret management servers (which are a really heavy dependency, incur a fairly significant devops cost, and are overkill for most companies’ needs). SecureStore implementations are available for other languages, and the protocol was designed from the ground up to be portable, git-friendly, and easy to use.

SecureStore vaults unify the way passwords are stored and retrieved in-development and in-production and make spinning up development environments really easy (since the secrets are actually cloned alongside the code when you just check out the repo, you just need to know the password or be given a single decryption key). The git versioning makes sure that your secrets are committed at the same time as the code that uses them, and the usage of separate vaults for production and dev use means you can separate who has access to what.