skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always find it funny those "leave the EU" posts because it's usually based on 1) thinking the EU is something apart from the constituent states 2) Naively thinking their countries have nothing to do with the latest EU Commission proposals. And of course the ignorance on the process helps those who want to pass more controversial proposals

(as an example see the latest UK "proposals" for the internet)

> didn't know exactly what that Chat Control

Interesting, several discussions about ChatControl were posted semi-recently (just a minor observation)
> 4 people can share a ride

You can easily carry 3 kids or one adult as a passenger on an e-cargo bike. Or even better, each of the 4 people can ride their own bike and the total cost is still less than one car.

> one doesn't get wet

Fenders

> or freezing cold

Jacket

> goods can be easily transported

Most things people need in daily life can be easily carried by bike.
It would be a First Amendment issue if the US Govt told Github "you can't publish Tornado Cash source code."

Green's claim is related.

"Github is a private corporation and has no obligation to host anything." is not true when Github is acting as a US govt agent.

Disclosure, if this gets past the motion to dismiss, will be interesting.
The winter problem can easily be solved with proper clothing. There are lightweight rain trousers you can wear above your normal clothes when it rains or snows, and of course a jacket with good ventilation.

The summers are more or less solved with e-bikes: you spend less energy paddling, while still profiting from airflow. I hear France has a subsidy for them. Unless you're in Spain or Southern Italy I guess, or there's a heatwave going on.
The real reason we’re seeing less color is because we’ve finally reached an enlightened state of taste where we begin to appreciate the unpretentious beauty of true neutrals. By taking away color, we can instead appreciate the beauty of pure shapes and natural lines or textures. Sometimes color can be so overpowering that all you see is a color, and the underlying object becomes harder to appreciate.

I think the new McDonalds looks far better than the gawdy colorful looking one of the past. But I guess if you were a child with poor sense of style you may prefer the latter.
Yeah, like l0pht, @stake, DARPA...
Or worry about tips.
The fine print says it all, and it is restrictive. But, as someone who has lived in France for about 16 years, I have certainly met people that meet the requirements. Do they want to have an e-bike? Maybe. I could see someone trading their vehicle and taking advantage of this but probably get another vehicle within the year. There are plenty of e-bike options in France though, and individual cities also offer interesting refunds.

Also, something else we think about a lot in France is the annual cost:

A car costs about €6,000/year (financing, insurance, repairs, tolls, fuel, etc.)[1].

[1] https://pro.mobicoop.fr/cout-utilisation-voiture/
Two things always stuck out in my mind about Crystalis.

1. The character moves very fast. It makes the entire game feel better.
2. There's a part where you have to beat a guy in a competition by hammering the a button as quickly as you can. Turns out that's a lie, consistent timing is more important than speed. I found this out when I attempted to use a 3rd party controller with turbo functionality and still lost.

I still maintain that game did a lot right that many games even today don't.
Sounds to me like one of the Three Body Problem trilogy by Liu Cixin... It's been a while, but maybe that's in Death's End.
I am waiting for services to give up on purely algorithmic approaches and start exploring recommendations based on other users whose tastes the user likes. Even better if you could have different clusters of selected users for different occasions.
So is data loss prevention or other forms of workplace monitoring
yes, but it would make this law less worse
I feel like Glysophate is equivalent to leaded gasoline. Everyone knows it's bad for everyone but we keep using it. With some near future where we ban it.
This is the actual issue, spending isn't keeping up with the demand. I'd agree that "the Tories are to blame" doesn't capture it, but I don't think they're equipped to deal with the problem. Real terms spending per age adjusted capita appears to have been on a downwards trend [0] since they took power. I think this has gone up since the pandemic, but I think it's likely too little too late and will probably be a short term increase.

I'm also skeptical the IFS have managed to accurately estimate the required increase in funding. They don't go into their workings from what I can see, but I doubt they've accurately included the effect of the lifetime allowance on pensions causing doctors to avoid overtime or the £100k tax bracket where you lose your personal allowance not moving since 2009 which more and more doctors will fall into. I'd imagine they've underestimated it, but would be happy to hear evidence to the contrary.

That's not to say that I think any other party has a solution or is properly holding the Tories to account on this.

I'll admit I haven't thought too hard about the problem, but I think the fairest solution would be to make pensioners pay national insurance on their income. It wouldn't affect the poorest pensioners and since national insurance is no longer ring fenced for pensions/healthcare I'm not sure what the justification for a tax break based on age even is anymore.

As someone who intends to subsist on more in retirement that change would negatively affect me, but I still think it's fair. I know that this would be deeply unpopular though, so I don't hold out much hope of it happening anytime soon.

Maybe that isn't the best solution, but I really wish we'd start to have real discourse on how we need to restructure our society as the demographic of the country continues to skew older.

[0] https://ifs.org.uk/publications/9186 (figure 5)
After seeing umpteen people at various large corps put a password into an unencrypted note over the years that's then stored on "the cloud", I think encryption should be standard.
I would say that authoritarianism could work two ways: a content platform revoking someone's permission to participate (by choice) or a content platform being forced (by governments) to host content despite rules violations. I think the former is clearly preferable.
>What might the SEC and shareholders do in response?

If shareholders believe this, they can do a variety of things such as sell the stock (smaller holders), or demand answers from leadership that go beyond "Yeah, we're secure" (bigger holders such as Saudi Arabia).
Total aside...

That bike looks like one of those mini circus bikes that clowns ride
Just to be sure, biologists use a number of model organisms which are well understood. C. Elegans is a model organism for studying genetics and neurophysiology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans
It would certainly be helpful of me to point out "this is where you're failing to clear the credibility bar"

I'm sure that your professional advisers (Lawyers, Accountants) could do a far better job than I could, I suggest you also consult them.

I have no reason not to give you the benefit of the doubt.

Would you be so kind as to post the link to your entry on the FCA register?

Equally, would you be so kind as to post the link to your entry on the ICO register?

Finally, could you provide a link where I could download the prospectus for this investment?

Those are some things that you could do to increase trust.

The upside of you actually being on the level outweighs the downside of the more likely case that you're not.

So I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and suggest that you've become over-excited at too early a stage and have not fully thought this through (you're only 31, after all).

I would recommend sitting down with a lawyer and making sure you've got everything in order legally. Right now, you're committing a criminal offence by participating in regulated activities without FCA authority (https://www.gov.uk/registration-with-the-financial-conduct-a...)

Please consider your next steps carefully.
This feels like satire. Do you work in the Ecuadorian tech sector?
Is it really good?
What's the rate of false negatives?
I could build a search engines that searches only one specific text classified as grooming.
I wouldn't find much of the other grooming in chats but if I find a positive it's with a pretty high precision.
AI Image Generators Compared Side-by-Side Reveal Stark Differences
The (false negative) error rate on a parent taking pictures of an unusual growth on their child's naughty bits and texting it to their doctor is 0% - as in, the algorithm correctly identifies this as CSAM every time. Nevertheless, nobody[0] would consider this CSAM, based purely on context that... absolutely will not be available to any of the intermediaries charged with scanning for it. What system does the scanning won't matter, because it's not a question of accuracy; it's a question of missing information.

This isn't even a hypothetical. The case I mentioned above actually happened. Google narc'd on someone who did exactly the thing I mentioned, and they got a police investigation for their trouble. And while the police - armed with exhonorating context - did eventually drop charges, they are still banned from Google for life. Yes, Google was contacted by journalists about this guy and they said they stand by their initial decision to permaban him.

The core danger with any automated scanning system is not the false positive or false negative rate - that is an engineering problem. It will get better. The danger is the amount of legal-but-crime-adjacent activities that will be effectively prosecuted as crimes. I mentioned child telehealth above, but there's other instances of automated prosecution expanding far beyond the letter or spirit of the law. YouTube Content ID is top-of-mind for me; though that has two problems. It both kills fair use, and correctly prosecutes copyright infringements that people expect to fly under the radar.

[0] Child anti-explotation agencies still caution against this because they don't want your kid to get used to getting photographed down there. However, they wouldn't consider this sexual abuse.
Looking at @paraga's response over the incidence, I don't see attacking Mudge Zatko's character does any help here. Does he know it can backfire?

https://twitter.com/donie/status/1562069281545900033
How exactly? In certain sectors like payments, India appears to be ahead of the US by certain years thanks to UPI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
Maybe I'm missing something here but it seems to me there is a basic question here. Do two or more people have a right to privately communicate via a third party?

If the answer is yes, then regardless of the accuracy of the system or the mass nature of the communication network this is objectionable law making.

IMO, it is a fundamental human right to communicate privately.

The only real question is what is the responsibility of a third party. If I give a shipper illicit material are they responsible to inspect it and report it? I'm personally unaware of the law regarding this but I assume your shipper is not required by law to open every package it ships and report upon it. Are they required to do a percentage?

If not than what the state is claiming here is a right by convenience. It happens that digital communication is easier to inspect than crates. Therefore, the state can create an expectation of one third party it does not of another.
Or, you know, we just accept that just as humanity had a beginning it will also have an end. Our species, and the current civilization iteration, are most likely completely inconsequential and nothing more than a blip over the history of the universe.

We are all going to die eventually, our civilization will fade into nothing and all our thoughts and knowledge will be forgotten forever. So what? It's kinda relieving to be honest.
Yeah that's how most of them work. On some platforms (e.g. Reddit) if you do a full data request you'll see all your deleted comments as it's still there in the database, just hidden from public view.
> What would you suggest that 'state sponsored bicycle sharing' should consist of

Instead of renting an uber&co bikes (companies which use public infrastructure yet pay virtually no local tax) you'd rent state owned bikes, parked on official bike parkings. It could be part of your existing public transportation package &c.

It really doesn't take a genius to see how the current mayhem could be improved on so many levels
I sometimes run into someone who has a lot of trouble speaking English and it is honestly frustrating. If English is their first language then that is a bit of a red flag. However, in cases of developers who speak English as a second or third language, I've often found it often has nothing to do with their intelligence or competence. Some of the fastest learners and most promising people I've worked with started out barely speaking English.

Is it fair to require good communication skills on an interview? I would probably say so. However, you may miss out on some excellent candidates. Best of luck in your hiring!
Nice username :)

It looks like TeaVm is still setting steady releases? It’s certainly bucking industry trends, which concerns me about maintenance.
> If the company wants them in office, they can leave. If enough talented people leave then the company will suffer.

Before people leave, they could at least try to see if management is flexible. Perhaps they like working there and care about the product and the customers and don’t want to leave right away. Perhaps they feel like a case can be made.

If you are passed over for a promotion or the company withholds your bonus or you feel wronged otherwise, you don’t immediately leave your company, do you? Likewise, you may try to work with management or HR to see if what you want is achievable first, before leaving.

> I as an employee do not feel that I should change my employer’s policy, which they’ve had for 40 years, simply because I feel it should be a certain way.

The ability to conduct remote work was not present for forty years, and was not tested until the pandemic. Now that it has been tried, the change back seems negotiable, especially if the company’s bottom line did not suffer during the period of remote work.

Why so much respect for policy that is itself malleable in the hands of management? What if you had personal needs, a young child, a sick parent, and you had to take time away from the office to care for them, would you not ask for an exception? People do and are granted them all of the time. So this is just an example of people asking for that exception collectively, and to them it seems reasonable, because again, the company has literally just applied that policy for the past two years and the bottom line is stronger than ever.

> I cannot fathom that level of entitlement. It just doesn’t register in my brain.

Well, with that sort of mindset we would never have had the eight hour working day, or weekends, so to each their own.
> "anti-GMO people"

There it is. The implication that anyone who isn't unquestionably pro GMOs, is against them, no matter the modification or the company pushing it.

I mean, what kind of an anti-science rube uses "intellectually lazy" arguments, such as "asking a guy who said Roundup is safe to drink to actually drink some".

This, from the guy who conflates RoundUp with it's active ingredient glyphosate. Scientific evidence showing RoundUp is significantly more toxic - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-17537-w- Hmm, that study was easy to find ...

This, on an article which explicitly calls out how little we know of glyphosate's effect on the nervous system.

This, on an article which notes the terrifying fact that 80% of US urine samples, children included, contain glyphosate.

RoundUp is nasty shit. And I'm not anti-science for being worried about glyphosate in my piss.
"But it dawns on me that luck is just the product of all these other qualities."

This is definitely true to an extent. You can expose yourself to good luck by being prepared, putting yourself out there, etc.

But just take a step back, and you can see it's not the whole story. A good chunk of 'luck' is just luck, and another chunk is systemic, inherited, or environmental. Being born in the right country, or the right time, to a moneyed family, being in the right place at the right time when certain events or changes are occurring, by-chance meeting a CEO in the elevator when they're looking for the exact thing your startup provides, having NASA pay you to research something you then turn into a private enterprise, etc, etc.
> With radio, air conditioning, seated on a comfy seat,...

Last year 40,000 people died in car crashes in just the US. Cars are one of the top contributors to climate change and air pollution. The space they take up prevents people who want to walk from being able to.

But yeah, that's all worth it so you can listen to the radio.
Colors are often toxic because they need to have the ability to absorb many wavelengths and reflect or re-emit particular bands. Transition metals have lots of ability for electrons to move between oxidation states, allowing this absorbtion and re-emission, but many form toxic compounds. Similarly, aromatic compounds, especially those containing nitrogen, have this ability. Unfortunately many are toxic, and many of the less toxic ones fade in the light.

That said, toxicity is relative to dose and dose depends on whether these things are free in the environment. A lot of things like cadmium dyes can be effectively trapped and are less toxic than other commonly used chemicals. Long-term, however, such as in a landfill, the story is not as simple.

Notably, lead oxide paint was used because it was bright white. Titanium dioxide is not as good but obviously much safer.
> but the money (still) coming in from Bruxelles is too good to leave aside for pesky political principles

This is a myth. The money Bruxelles “sends” are money lost by customs duties no longer levied by individual states. There are no new money “spent” as such.

As for leaving the eu, speak for yourself. Romania has by and large a favourable view of the eu. Those who usually dislike it are either corrupt politicians or really really dumb people (conspiracy types).

Germany has many faults for the current state of the eu, but as in any democracy, you can vote better representatives for the eu parliament, instead of the bunch Romania sends at the moment. That way your view will be better supported in their debates against mps from that country.
It’s the best cross platform one I could find a few months ago. Its conflict resolution isn’t great.

Looking for a replacement that handles write-write conflicts better.
Watching TV requires no cognitive actions, but I can not tell the same even about the silliest use of a computer.

PS. Let me consider Youtube Kids as TV, no matter of which device this is running.
> Or for that matter someone who isn't an employee at all. Unless they're claiming they have figured out absolutely perfect security such that they can never be hacked or compromised. Or isn't an employee/manager right now, because the thing about companies is that they tend to grow and die, management changes over time, they get bought, etc. That's the human condition, we don't live forever.

Exactly. The perception I have is that when you subscribe to a non-E2EE service, you're not subscribing to a service. You're actually placing a small bet on the service to: always keep all serverside components up-to-date, proactively monitor for vulnerabilities, proactively implement security controls at the company and technology level, always hire the absolute best engineers, etc.

The problem is that every startup and every company always starts like this. Everyone has the best of intentions. Then the tech debt accumulates, the VC funding dries up, and time goes on. When the service is going to shut down, after being acquired, after being sold, or after being successful, will the serverside security still be perfect?

You have two options: don't store anything sensitive in these services, or assume perfection. I definitely won't bet on the latter.
Sykes-Picot agreement is as far as things go in diplomatic speak for a proof for this.

Quite literally the western powers cut up borders in mid east, sitting in rooms in Paris, London and Moscow, people who did this didn't even speak arabic, had no idea about ethnic, cultural, religious, political and social make up's of the lands they were cutting up to divide among each other.
> C has such a bad wrap with the HN crowd...

why?
Which vector search engine is the fastest?
I don’t think any purpose-built McDonalds could be described as ‘iconic’ architecture?
Millenials and GenZ may have no idea who Mudge is. I, however, almost lost my first job out of college at a bank because I ran l0phtcrack against our Windows NT 4 server to see if it could crack passwords. I showed my boss, and he pulled me aside into another room and tore my head off for irresponsibly running this tool against a production server. He said I could have been fired if this got out, but he covered my ass, sent out an email requesting everyone reset their passwords, and let me continue working. I learned a good lesson because even though my intentions were good, and it did expose security issues, it was a bit immature and should have been done in a more controlled manner along with the proper clearances.

Mudge knows the implications of "whistleblowing". He has been a security consultant and even testified to Congress. He's not some noob that doesn't understand security or how systems work together to provide services like disclosure to FTC. The idea that Twitter PR can pooh-pooh away his concerns is shockingly stupid.

I think Twitter is in real trouble here.
This post chronicles the cost of early computing hardware over time, and you're absolutely right about how expensive things used to be: https://simulavr.com/blog/paying-for-productivity/
Because, depending on the country, another government may be elected that will change the course.

I can't elect anyone in the EU commission. Nor did I vote for my country to put the EU treaties above my constitution.
If any of you ever catch me using the word 'space' to mean anything other than actual space, just shoot me in the head.
> It'll be trivial to work around for anyone actually up to no good

I never claimed they were motivated to actually stop these crimes.

If the real ultimate goal is to prevent the spreading of "state secrets" (i.e. journalists exposing government malfeasance), or reduce copyright infringement, or limiting the spread of "disinformation", or banning memes that insult public figures, then the government needn't worry about "hobbyist level homebrew retrocomputers". Most people will continue to use mainstream platforms, and most governments mostly care about controlling most people.

Besides, the next step will be to make ISPs deny service to any machine which doesn't have Secure Boot enabled, and which isn't running an "approved" OS, which checks every executable you run. Suddenly your general purpose computing device isn't very useful any more.
>This has been the case for years: there are plenty of people who should not be discharged home to fend entirely on their own, but there's no social care in place to look after them, so they aren't discharged. This is also technically the responsibility of the local council rather than central government.

Not to mention that local government had has its funding cut to the bone (and beyond, in many cases) over the last 12 years of Conservative government.