skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EU is not a foreign entity, it's made up of the governments of the members(some elected some appointed by the locally elected). So when you leave EU, you end up to live with the entity that tried to introduce it in first place.

If they didn't wanted that, they could have blocked it. However, leaving EU might actually help the government to have a better localised excuse. For example, maybe child abuse is not a big thing in your country but immigration is a hot topic? Then you can have "break the encryption to stop the human smugglers" campaign.
You might be surprised. Check out Vapor [1] and Soto [2], which are built on Apple's SwiftNIO (non-blocking I/O) [3]. It's actually a very nice ecosystem. All the tools are in place to build web servers, Lambdas, etc.

[1] https://vapor.codes

[2] https://github.com/soto-project/soto

[3] https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
The hasql-th[0] package implements an sql parser to give better error messages, here's an example:

Consider the following broken statement:

select 1 from a where b >= 3 && b < 4

It is incorrect, because it uses && instead of and. But here's what Postgres' original parser says about it:

ERROR: syntax error at or near "<"
LINE 1: select 1 from a where b >= 3 && b < 4;
^

Here's what "hasql-th" says:

|

2 | select 1 from a where b >= 3 && b < 4;
| ^
unexpected '&'

0: https://github.com/nikita-volkov/hasql-th#error-example-1
Study first to link weed killer Roundup to convulsions in animals
An ad maybe, it's clearly written by a company that has a note keeping app and they mention their app a few times.

But I don't see how this is clickbait. The title asks if your notes should be encrypted, and the article does a pretty good job at explaining different kinds of encryption, what the company uses and why, seems like the opposite of clickbait to me.
I don’t doubt that people are using Spotify to launder money, but I really don’t think this is particular method is a viable approach. It would be a much better business model if you could buy off iTunes or something, where are you know that most of the money is actually going to the recipient.
Show HN: Stylemapper – A better way to style React components
I have never been 100% happy with the way React applications were styled, and I tried lots of options. Recently I started using TailwindCSS, which is great, but there were still a few things I didn't like:
- It's ugly with CSS classnames all over your component code
- There is lots of boilerplate for custom components, especially if you are using Typescript and variants
So I wrote a little utility that takes care of all the reservations I had. I would love to hear your feedback!
How do I pass my programming language as parameter to it?
If your KRs are the uptimes of your simple microservices, you're not in an OKR culture.
Anyone remember that Java applet in the nineties where there was some 2D wireframe "animal" moving in a rectangle and there was, IIRC, a tiny circle at each joint and you grab it and move it and it'd move the thing around / distort it. It was the first "serious" Java in the Browser I remember. It was all black & white. Maybe some HNer (not an HNer back then obviously) wrote it back in the days?
In some cases, yes, and in others, no.
Taking down a more public side to it (tornado.cash) has the effect of restraining the type of users that will now use it. Instead of privacy zealots (10%), money launderers (20%) and random users (70%) (numbers mostly pulled out of my ass for demonstration purposes), by making it only accessible to a much more select audience, you'll basically lose most of the random users. And believe me, if the US Treasury sanctioned it because 20% of the money going through was laundering (and the other 80% making it much harder to trace), when 66% of your traffic becomes money laundering, not only will they sanction harder, but they will also start going after actual people.

Touching the tornado cash contract is a poison pill right now.
Honestly, can you really trust anything about major social media sites any more?

Has Twitter ever been in the news for properly making even a thousand people successful from scratch really ever in the product's life?

They have pipelines of exploitation for everyone that gets "discovered" into contractual nightmare deals, they require tons of free labor and costly hurdles just to become notable and visible on the platform, they extort people promoting their independent work for ad money, they don't protect anyone's privacy, they are VERY MANIPULATIVE in multiple (psychological) ways, they offer very little support or fairness when accounts are compromised, hijacked, or stolen, and they impose a stranglehold on information through lobbies and suppression of independent art and music.

Social media took over the Internet after they wooed everyone into the ideal that they would operate fairly. Now that they have captured full attention, they have turned on users and they offer very little to anyone who doesn't pay, and can't offer reliable security to anyone. There are some serious "God Complexes" going on with having access to the personal data these systems harvest ON EVERYONE in conjunction with mobile devices.

I really hate to say it would actually probably make me feel better if most of the large data monitoring sites/apps went away rather than stayed in place, because they make almost every aspect of the Internet work against us all.

Twitter has had several opportunities to fix how it operates. The platform also generates tons in annual revenue to fix how it operates. Twitter has lots of employees that could fix how it operates. Twitter has also had numerous security breaches, and it regularly causes tons of stress for users. Twitter continues to focus on only pleasing it's sponsors, investors, and execs year after year and repeatedly stretching the promises it was built upon.

I can't say I want to see this whale fail, but I won't miss it if it does.
I mean when I was 11 I was driving a 250bhp eight tonne four wheel drive tractor around the place and bombing around fields in a semi-scrap Renault 4 with little-to-no supervision, and I turned out to be a pretty okay driver.
The ocean is a harsh and very variable place. I have see a video of a ship refueling while underway with a tanker, you could do something similar but you need a way to recharge the electric tanker.
Especially because in the US we already do this and the sky hasn’t fallen. Storage providers and hosting services already scan for it and popular chat apps block sending matching images client side.

Like everyone saying this is the spiral to dystopia has to contend with the fact that we’re already apparently living in one.
When buying a car I found that white/black/charcoal were the standard options and all the fun colours were only available in the sport and premium packages, so the cost difference was much more than a few hundred dollars. Of course you could have it painted after purchase but most people won't bother to.
Does it mean it costed the US of potential opportunities? I don't think it made any difference in the US. But it surely helped in his home country.

While we are at it, what do you think of current visa issue in the USA? For a long time, I thought it was difficult only to people of Asian countries to migrate to US, but turns out it is equally difficult for any other nations.

In the long term, does it make a difference in US if it doesn't bring talent across the world? Of course, there are a lot of talent and there is always someone willing to move to US. So it shouldn't be an issue, should it?
We can agree that inconsistency is bad, but Andrew Tate is most definitely in the banworthy category.

Instead of asking why someone was "immediately guilty as charged", one should maybe ask why it takes a coordinated effort to get social media giants to act on toxic people that are very clearly violating their terms of service. All while YouTube keeps banning LGBTQ creators from recommendations (not even just demonetization) for using words like "lesbian" in video titles. Why does HN rarely get upset about those cases?
One of Apple's cultural touchstones has been that it can focus; that it knows when to say "no", even to could-be-great ideas that genuinely excite them ([1] example of Jony Ive retelling how Steve Jobs taught him this).

There's little evidence of this discipline when it comes to Swift: got a great idea? got people excited? Breaking change? In it goes!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oksetv3i90
I was wondering the same thing. A web search did turn up something to lead me to believe that brake fluid is hydrophilic, though. Also, hydrophilic is a new word for me.

https://www.repairsmith.com/blog/brake-fade/
What if an AI is observing?
For me personally, the niche subreddits beat the popular ones any day of the week.

To name a few:

- AskAnAmerican - Interesting to get American and non-American perspectives on things, for good and bad.

- corgi - Self-explanatory.

- Eldenring

- ExperiencedDevs

- news - It's a popular subreddit and therefore filled with lots of crap, but I like to get a birds eye view of what's happening.

- ShitPostCrusaders - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure shitposts

- dadswhodidnotwantpets

- EatSandwiches

- Mid_Century - Furniture and art

- oldmaps - I love antique maps.

- vexillology - I also love flags.

- specializedtools

- UnresolvedMysteries

- WTFaucet - Strange faucets.

- taskmaster - Dedicated to the British panel show
Good question.

During the 2000 and 2008 crises, there were massive layoffs, which impacted contractors just as they did employees.

In 2008, I contracted via an IT outsourcing company, and every week there was another announcement about a batch of colleagues being laid off. The firm's clients were canceling projects, and having consultants on the bench is very expensive.

Who knows what this will look like, though. If it ends up being like 2008 and clients start canceling projects, then yeah, it will get tough.

Not sure if I can give any generic insights on how to handle the down market as a contractor. A strategy that will work for you depends on your existing skills, niche, and network. As well as your appetite for risk.

If my appetite for risk were low, I would stick to my corporate "whale client" and ride out the recession on whatever boring project they've been running. I've done this during COVID.

But, a recession might also be a great opportunity to try something new. If what you do can translate into reduced costs for your clients (e.g., you know how to bring AWS costs down significantly), that type of expertise is very valuable when CFOs are slashing budgets).
Yeah sadly all the old heads that tell me stories of putting think tanks together so that consumers owned their metadata, all the excitement of activism by those few super nerds end up telling it to me from their mansions bought by creating SaaS services or whatever.

I'd say the 90s hacktivists for the most part took the golden handcuffs and left the rest of humanity out to dry. We need like 1000 more Pavel Durovs,
I don't know if the performance is terrible in general, or if the demo site is getting crushed by HN traffic at the moment.

If it's the former, then this is completely useless. If the latter, then I suppose it COULD have some use cases for internal tools and dashboards, in small to mid line-of-business shops that don't have many front-end developers on staff (i.e. basically a competitor to .NET's Blazor).

The REALLY interesting thing here is that this product isn't licensed per-server, or per-CPU, but rather "per 8GB block of RAM"! Look, I love Java. It's helped me build a great career, build a future for my family, and I really do believe that it's the best developer experience out there for the server-side. However, the idea of licensing a Java-based product by its memory usage makes me laugh out loud.
I think it perfectly illustrate and reinforce the article.

A supposedly passionate teacher which left the field since he could.

And at the same time it mainly read as an anecdote to allow you to hate teachers after all 30% of them are : "Never have I met such a cantankerous downtrodden passive aggressive bunch of backstabbing political jobsworths" as if it justify ignoring all the grievance of the article. Which perfectly cycle back to "Almost nobody respects teachers".
Computers vs. TV: Which is less likely to promote dementia?
The silliness of letting kids ride powerful e-bikes unsupervised as been well debated already. I'll just add that speed (20mph or about 32km/h) would actually classify that e-bike as a motorcycle on the other side of the pond (the limit for e-bike electric assist on roads is 25km/h, or about 15mph).

> My main complaint about the RadWagon is that it doesn’t have hydraulic disc brakes, instead using a less effective mechanical version, which don’t have the stopping power that their more complicated counterparts do

That part is bollocks. Sure, mechanical disk brakes are inferior to hydraulic brakes, but despite having less stopping power, properly maintained mechanical disk brakes can easily lock your wheels in any situation, including with road tires on dry asphalt (where you have the most grip). Note that I talk about first-hand experience.

The limit to the stopping power for any disk brakes is generally going to be your tires, not the actual brake.
That explains why some people apologize for things they said would never apologize…

Thing is, now that it’s possible for Twitter, Twitter can never brush off this suspicions again.

We’re literally not sure, by using Twitter, that we see the speech of that person.
This is working for me (just tested). Can you share one that isn’t please? I can investigate.
What’s not safe about them? I thought that absorption refrigerators were developed to be safer than existing refrigerators, before non-toxic working fluids were discovered.

Einstein-Szilárd fridge. Yes, that Einstein and that Szilárd.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator
So add some color to your home?

> I can't stand it.

So don't do it. This isn't even a mole hill.
Maybe the answer will be sodium batteries: https://www.altris.se/

Sodium is pretty abundant and much more easily accessible than lithium.
I already have a bike. I don't understand how an e-bike could replace my car.
I think it's also important to recognize how much of a "check the box" security control encryption at rest has become for many vendors/GRC teams. A lot of times, the encryption at rest control only has the capability to prevent somebody from physically detaching the disk and trying to mount it with their own machine and access the data that way. In a world where many companies now run their workloads on public cloud providers who keep their hardware in distributed cages in secure datacenters, this isn't the security control many assume it is.

If you're trying to prevent an actor who has gained a foothold on a box/network from seeing plaintext data that is actually in use by the actual production system at that very moment, you're looking for a much stronger type of control - probably some sort of client-side encryption or obfuscation/tokenization
Code is law the algorithm is always right 90% of the time.
I'm sure ease of use would decrease if they introduce E2EE
Man, just imagine how many pending updates you would have after 4,000 years.
But hang on… why did the parents buy them an e-bike if they didn’t want them to go where an e-bike could take them?

Parents buy their kids dirt bikes to do jumps they couldn’t normally do, but they don’t sue Kawasaki because they broke their arm.

I understand there are nuances to this, but there has to be some form of responsibility on the parents for buying their kids and knowingly letting them ride a bike that they knew had an engine in it.

Disclaimer, I’m only addressing the part about the bike having an engine and that supposedly being a problem. Not any of their other arguments.
Q. I asked; >Trouble_007 24 days ago Alternatives to virgin wood pulp

I wonder who will develop a bio-engineered bacteria to produce a better alternative?

Toilet paper (a.k.a.) Toilet tissue or Bathroom tissue : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper
>F. that, the only viable solution I see for my country is an exit from the EU

I don't think non-EU Eastern European countries have such a stellar track record with respect to privacy...
"If even one child is protected, then it was all worth it"
Worth noting that extensions may separately send telemetry, that do not have to adhere to the main VSCode telemetry configuration settings.
> Also, Vulkan is a waste of time for anyone who isn't a large studio. No one wants to write this stuff. The most common argument is "You only write it once." No, you don't.

this is really intersting. its not my area of much knowledge but i'm really curious why that is? what are the issues exactly?
Nothing. It's just bullshit naviety because apparently they haven't locked some aspect of the Mac yet, like they did with the iDevices, and so we are supposed to believe that this magnanimity from Apple is in "support" of other OS.
Exactly, starting price for an electric cargo bike is 3k€ (https://www.babboe.nl/babboe-big-e) and better models go for 6-7k€ (https://www.butchersandbicycles.com/mk1e-vario).
I do not know. .NET created with Blazor a modern Applet tech stack based on WebAssembly and HTML.

Would not Java be able to do the same and just port the applet API onto a Canvas? Would not that reactivate a whole existing ecosystem?
Well, as a voter, you have a say. So if you do feel taxation is theft, campaign against it.

But you do live in democracy, so you will have to abide by the democratic rule. And if that rule says taxation is a benefit to society, you must continue to pay your taxes.

An alternative would be to leave for a country without taxation.
Emergency care specific private enterprise seems incredibly predatory. I also wonder where the infrastructure and staff for these surge clinics would come from.
> This does suggest the general problem is really that we don't know where to put all these incapable poor health old people.

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.

During the pandemic there was almost unlimited money available for Test and Trace, some for the entirely temporary "Nightingale" hospitals, .. and basically no effort to increase staffing levels or solve the social care issue.
> Whatsapp seems to be best

Lol, trusting a company run by Facebook to keep your data secure.

Signal has a good mix of ease of use and privacy. Then there's Matrix, which may not be that easy to use yet.
"Public transport being bad and crime filled, is not the fault of public transport. Its a symptom of systematic failure to do even the most basic city planning, in fact maybe the historically worst example of city planning I can imagine."

San Francisco is home to some of the most powerful and wealthy tech companies on earth. There is unbelievable, literally unfathomable amounts of money in the city and yet there is a major homeless population that gets treated like shit and swept under the rock.

If the public transit in San Francisco is as full of crime and "dirty homeless" as people say here, that clearly reflects shamefully on the companies and people who have more money than 99.99% of people on earth being incredibly cruel and hoarding it.

I mean.. do rich people have no shame? How are you supposed to have pride about your city and techhub if there clearly people suffering massively right under your feet? What an incredible demonstration of cruelty and violence on that cities part not to use a tiny TINY fraction of its wealth to make sure people have basic support.
> like Germany, with all due respect to the Germans who still care about their privacy

What are you talking about? The german speaking world cares (maybe a bit too much) about privacy. This is why google street view sucks in Germany. NOYB - European Center for Digital Rights is headquartered in Vienna.
This feels like "a couple years" to me too, but games like Gears Of War which epitomised that brown 360/PS3 palette are now pushing 16 years ago!
Taxation is not theft, it's a non-voluntary contribution to live in some location that is attractive for many other humans to live. If you don't want to contribute, you'd need to (a) move to some place where no other humans would want to live, e.g. in the middle of the desert, tundra or rainforest, or (b) arm yourself / raise an army, claim sovereignty over your desired territory and be prepared to fight to defend your territory for the rest of your life.
It's about privacy, free speech is just the legal justification for being able to publish the content
Logical Fallacy: Appeal to Authority

I would trust a rando more than a journalist these days
>You've got to wonder if there's someone with deep pockets trying to influence public opinion on China? Or is it just the same thing as the "local" news channels, where a bunch of YouTubers have been "bought" by a corporation that send them material to read?

These are the least likely options.

The most likely case is that the channels are all copying each other. Even if they were all put out by a couple content farms, it's extremely unlikely that the content farms care about anything else but making money. The only thing they likely care about is that people watch videos like those.

People trying to make easy money is, by far, more common on YouTube.
Deplatforming works. It worked when 8chan got kicked off Cloudflare and it worked when Alex Jones was kicked off YouTube.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/06/133861/cloudflar...

Sure, the likes of Gab, Odysee and BitChute see some traffic, but they will never ever have the same mainstream appeal again that they did before.
> Row row row your boat doesn't mix well with Anthrax

I'm not so sure about that. Have you heard Koяn's Shoots and Ladders?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU2k-U2Ze0o
> As Sir Arthur Eddington explained: “It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character.”

Framing it in this way ("substratum") is perhaps flawed because it assumes a layering up of sorts with an initial unfurling form null. After all, what generates the mental-like substrate? What's at the bottom of the stack? While layers may be an emergent appearance, I'm less convinced that it is the fundamental nature.

What if it is more circular, not layered? Feedback loops with co-dependent unfurling, emergence, and renewal.
If you give everyone a no questions asked 100% subsidy, you're gonna have a lot of people reselling bikes that the government paid for.
Non-pdf version:

https://www.newdualism.org/papers/R.Henry/436029a.html
> If all you have (for both worldview & skills) is a hammer...

All too true. Law school was very eye opening in this regard. I can't count the number of times that other students were baffled by technical aspects related to the internet or cybersecurity. All to often, in response to their ignorance, one student would raise their hand to insist we pass legislation requiring anyone working in the technical field to be subject to the decisions of a committee of legislators or propose some quasi products liability statute to make the workers do exactly what "the public" wanted.