skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly this. In a pay-to-play legal system this person would only be risking more by litigating.

I get that we have our ideals here, but our legal system does not necessarily lead to justice - especially when asymmetric imbalances are in play.

IANAL but I would not lawyer up against a huge corporation like this and expect to keep my money.
Few things better in life than a Chimichanga covered in Christmas.
Finally a way to use flutter without having to actually write code in dart. I suspect a lot of people will be interested in this.
This begs the question of if you have a picture of a woman breast feeding is this going to be considered child exploitation?

The world is very complicated and our ML models aren't great at dealing with OOD or infrequent samples. Mistakes are going to happen, and this is okay, but we need to ensure that we have mechanisms that can quickly remedy these mistakes. There are countless people who have had far less recourse because their stories did not make international headlines. Your ability to go viral shouldn't highly correlate with your ability to solve mistakes.
The EFF is hardly a "large organization". But yes, some amount of organization is necessary for political change. Fundamentally, an individual in a democracy pays into a system and cannot change the entire system at their behest.
Stack Overflow is not actually a Q&A site. It is a repository. It is designed so that if you search for a question, you find a good question with one or more good answers. In order to perform this mission, duplicates are removed and a baseline quality is expected.

SO has been around for a long time. The likelihood that you have run into a new issue is quite low at this point. The biggest downvote avalanches come from people trying to close the many, many duplicates posted by people who don't put in the effort to search for similar questions. That being said, I have seen this being abused before as well. It is a real problem. There should be some sort of appeal for closing that comes with consequences for either the OP or the people who voted to close.

When you do find a new problem, it is likely complex and demands effort to understand. You are expected to put in at least as much effort into presenting this question as someone will put forth trying to understand it. People are far more likely to upvote questions where it is obvious that the OP put real effort into solving the issue before asking the question. This includes making your question readable. Formatting counts.
> And you think that complaining about tech companies[...] is a more rational strategy to achieve the outcomes you want?

No, I don't. I was pointing out that your claim that individuals can effect political change is broadly incorrect. That doesn't imply that the alternative (direct petitioning of companies) is effective.

Attempting political change probably _is_ a more rational strategy than petitioning tech companies. As an individual, neither seems powerful.

> Let's be intellectually honest here; the only actual threat to tracking ads as a business is governmental legislation

No disagreement here!

> I wholesale reject the argument that privacy is a niche complaint and you're powerless to create change in the government.

To be clear, these are two separate claims. Privacy might or might not be a niche complaint - I feel that it is (given how little my non-technical friends care about it), but I'm purely working off anecdata, and I concede that GDPR (and the slew of other Privacy regulations following in its wake) are datapoints that contradict me. The other claim - that individuals are powerless to effect political change - remains undisproven to me. In particular, I reject the position that _individual_ privacy advocates were responsible for GDPR. It's large groups like the EFF (as a sibling commenter pointed out) that cause governments to take notice, not individuals.
I just made it clear from the beginning that that was what I was looking for. They had no issue with it.
It does feel like 5 days in a 4-day grind sometimes, but at least I get the time to indie hack.
Wasn't enclosure basically a British (English?) issue? This post oddly zooms from an observation about one relatively small country and then tries to make a sweeping claim about the global north and global south.

What do you mean when you say "actual wellbeing"?
Tbh, half of my life I handled them on a financial platform which couldn’t care less of the subj list or standards. It has just ‘wall date’ like yyyy-mm-dd and ‘wall time’ strictly in 00:00:00-23:59:59 range, without a timezone. Two separate types. Never encountered of even heard of any time-related bug there.

I find this simplified date/time very useful, unless you have to manage “continuous and/or real” time somehow. 99% of applications are okay with it, because they’re facing users with exactly the same mental model. Also, albeit not correct scientifically, it reflects many developers’ mental model as well. This is much better than a model that just doesn’t match, which is a world of pain. Someone adds 86400 but it’s the same day, good luck debugging it.

I don’t think this is a cryptographic-level issue.
SQLite also has some weird (non-standard?) behavior when aggregating. If you forget to include a GROUP BY, SQLite will just pick a random value from the non-aggregate columns. For example:

SELECT col1, COUNT(1) FROM table1;

happily returns a single row of data.

I struggle to understand why that is preferable to throwing an error?
The US is at great risk of becoming an authoritarian, single-party dystopia in the coming years.

(Yes, I mean the Republicans.)
Advocating for blindly making things "safer" with no regard for tradeoffs is like littering in the park. If a few people do it it's no big deal. When everyone does it you wind with bloated cars we can't see out of loaded full of tech that drives up cost, or a trashed park. Thanks for doing your part.

And as the other guy mentioned, TPMS doesn't help you when the spec for the pressure is what's wrong.
I know this kind of reply may trigger a harsh response from HN mods, but this really needs to be said.

You are lying through your teeth.

The plain facts, in no particular order:

1. Imran Khan's party had much larger support in 2013 elections, and that support was suppressed via election rigging. Its impossible to really say wether he would won an outright majority then (probably not), but who knows

2. In 2018, there was massive rigging to ensure that Imran Khan would NOT win an outright parliamentary majority. This was admitted to, PLAIN AS DAY, by one of the crooks who is currently "defence minister" (what a joke). He openly and plainly admitted that he was losing during the count in his constiuency, he picked up the phone and complained to the army chief, and lo and behold - the remaining count miracoulusly went in his favour.

Multiple other examples like this. THE ONLY REASON that the previous opposition were complaining about rigging is because, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, they were handicapped in rigging in their own favour,in their own localities.

3. Imran Khan was extremely unpopular with the public?

Complete hogwash. BEFORE HE EVEN MENTIONED THE US INVOLVEMENT, he held a number of political rallies, in the last week of his premiership. One such rally resulted in A MILLION PEOPLE coming to Islamabad.

A MILLION NEW CELL PHONE NUMBERS were registered in the Islamabad area by telco's during that weekend

So there goes your entire narrative that you were trying to falsely push.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Falsehoods Programmers Believe Considered Harmful

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3735928559
very painfully.

Gmail being one of the worst. I've been using my own domain + fastmail for years and from time to time I still find stuff tied to my old Gmail account. Right now I have forwarding set, but if it got disabled overnight I would still run into issues.

All the rest I can survive without, but that took some doing. And I started years ago.
The author explains why it's on GH.

> I’ve worked with this code as a researcher and I use it to teach my classes, so it’s important to me that it stays easily-accessible on a major site like GitHub. (This is not the only copy, in fact it’s a fork of someone else’s.)
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You’re 100% right.

Democracies are going to collapse in a lot of places because the people in these places never really wanted democracy or even cared much for it. They were just handed it down because the people the colonizers left in charge were born and bred within the colonizer’s own political systems.
When I start at a new company, it's always interesting to see how they handle dates and times. 1) Company A stores timestamps in a mysql database, no timezone, but implicitly on US pacific time. The system timezones are all on pacific. Many weird bugs around DST transitions. 2) Company B stores timestamps in a database as Unix timestamps (ints) Tons of code converting back and forth between ints. Code was a mess. 3) Company C stores them as postgres timestamp with timezone, which was always UTC in production. Code was reasonably sane.
Undefined behavior on obviously incorrect input is always a bug. Incorrect input should give you an error.
That's good to hear, because the code itself should be considered free speech
> The "cost" of a company using info about me to run more efficient ad auctions is totally worth the benefit of having highly accurate maps with up to date business info with stuff like hours and direct links to their website/contact info.

This is a perfect example of the "subjective statement that applies on a case-by-case basis" that I was referring to.
I didn't criticize the price of it.

If I had to say one thing it would be have the purchase of the items through the apple website and normal apple account. Not that strange third party thing. Just hook it into the apple eco-system like all of their other stuff.

Imagine if they did the apple trade-in program or returns this way or applecare this way, created a whole new obtuse website to use.

Also I don't appreciate the swearing and I don't have 2nd thoughts.
We haven't been able to process any new payments for the past 4 hours due to this issue which seems to be causing many others issues - see https://twitter.com/stripestatus/status/1561780140270501888
Cute.

I typically use an array of Git commands per hour of working. I consult the manual or a how-to maybe once every other week. Re-cloning a repo happens less than once a year for me. Can't remember the last time I had to do that.

And it's not just me. I see the same for the people I work with.

Of course, for many people, learning Git is not worth the effort. But that doesn't mean people who handle it fluently don't exist.
I wonder where computing would be if something like this had come out in the 80s instead of now?
The case law on compelled decryption is less clear-cut than you're describing. (Possible exceptions include: biometric, as opposed to password/passcode, encryption; and the government being able to prove that the defendant knows the password.) Moreover, even when the government can't obtain the decryption key from the defendant, cracking the encryption is not the only possibility. They could also seize the device while it is running, with the decryption key and/or decrypted data already in memory. That was done in the arrest of Ross Ulbricht, for example.

Also, this is entirely different from your original claim, because it has nothing to do with where the encrypted data is stored. If you store encrypted data in the cloud, then the fifth amendment provides you with the same degree of protection from disclosing the decryption key as it would for locally-stored encrypted data.
This is a really not that much of a problem unless you have a compact sedan. I have 4 kids. You can fit 3 car seats in the back/middle row of many cars. They make narrow seats for this purpose.

In my experience it’s harder to find a good narrow booster than a narrow five-point-harness car seat. The problem is that boosters don’t have their own belts and can block the seat belt path if seat spacing is tight.
Agreed. Maybe if I’m the CTO some day… hah.
I built something along the same lines many years ago, with routing but not geocoding.

https://github.com/stevage/saltymill

Yeah, it's a pain in the arse getting all the bits together. And I wasn't attempting full planet scale.
It takes a lot of time and skill to successfully (and securely!) host email – and if someone thinks that's not true, they are probably skipping steps.

Even a barebones email host is out of reach of most people.
Yeah, if they're doing it well (which I think they are, based on viewing Netflix on a laptop) it shouldn't look bad, but I could see how using the same tone & gamut mapping might make highlights and bright colors look similar across shows.

But if they're not doing it well… We watch Apple TV+ shows on the Apple TV app on a MacBook Air, and it looks objectively too dark compared to our TV (OLED). I think the TV app is Catalyst, or at least shares a lot of code with iOS, and those devices have some HDR headroom. My theory is that app is just assuming the display is HDR, leading to ultra-dark SDR representation. It's kind of crazy, considering they own the whole stack, from silicon to the streaming service.
Kinda.

The values are all reciprocal. While you can't stop down to f/16 because of the fixed aperture, you can increase the shutter speed to compensate.

Assuming ISO 100, so an initial starting shutter speed of 1/100 and a phone with a fixed aperture of f/2, then you need to calculate the difference in exposure between f/16 and f/2, which is six stops. If you compensate by setting your shutter speed to 1/6400 (i.e.: six stops over 1/100) you'll be in line with Sunny 16.

This depends on having manual control of your exposure and a phone with a shutter speed that goes that high, but I think most do.
https://archive.ph/HFLFe
I think this is about proving a point. The point being "code is free speech" and to not let GitHub / Microsoft slide and set a precedent that takes us back 30 years.
I suppose one problem might be selecting an appropriate coolant that doesn't dissolve the salt on contact. Presumably water would, but google says that salt doesn't dissolve in oil so maybe that's an option.

Ideally you wouldn't need to expend energy to keep the coolant cold enough; rather, you'd use the coolant to boil water to run your steam generator.
Users flagged it as well as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32554218. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case I think they probably just thought the comment was off topic, and not in an interesting way.

The key for whether an article is good for HN is not its "adiness" (if I can put it that way) but its interestingness - i.e. does it gratify intellectual curiosity. In this case plenty of users clearly thought it did. It may be true that an article was written as part of a startup's effort to promote its product, but that's not necessarily a bad thing, as long as the content itself is interesting. (Of course, it tends not to be, because content marketing tends to be boring, but that's a different issue.)

The rule in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html about not using HN primarily for promotion is about how people post to HN. In the case of https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=PretzelFisch it seems clear that the user isn't posting to HN primarily to promote anything, and certainly not this particular product.

Still, I'm glad you noticed that rule! It's a relatively recent one and I think it added a lot.
Love the idea of freeing up map data
Yeah.

I think this represents two issues. One: AI is not AI but a litany of conditionals that poorly reflects what we as humans can determine fairly quickly. Unless the process is unquestionably objective and possibly quantitative in its outcome, I just don't feel full automation will be without these events.

Google as a business automates everything. They are over their ski-tips in the amount of "getting it perfect" that is possible and are completely accepting of "close enough". I don't think this thought process is unique in the corporate world and unless revenue is impacted heavily, they will not be incentivized to incur the heavy cost of making the end-user whole. The majority of revenue is ad based meaning B2B. Users are a bucket of data, not the person they are selling to.

It's like complaining that a cattle farmer doesn't treat his cows kind enough...the farmer would think you're nuts despite the masses possibly agreeing.

As it relates to this specific type of content, I'd rather see something bad happen to good people than something good happen to bad. Maybe it's unpopular, and I'd hate to be the person on the receiving end, but unless we can have truly objective AI, I don't think we will be absent of these types of problems. In the meantime there has to be someone in the background fixing these cases and Google has shown clearly with YouTube...unless you are making enough noise they aren't listening.
> I often get strategies and things to think about I wouldn't have come up with myself

Yes. It’s a dialectic. Very powerful for personal reflection.
They died. Mass extinction. We are ruining the earth. It’s almost like all of this technology comes at a cost.
>This is particularly true of Xeon CPUs pulled from retired servers.

Too bad xeon CPUs have different sockets/chipset requirements compared to desktop CPUs, so chances are the best you can do is upgrade from a 2/4 core to a slightly faster 4 core.
CSS evolves and there’s always some new funky selector or effect coming, but the whole point is that you don’t need to follow this year’s latest hotness. If you slap rounded corners and box-shadow (very old by now) you have 90% of what Apple calls design lately. For Windows “metro” you don’t even need rounded corners :)
Cui bono?

Kissinger noted in Diplomacy (1994) that Germany's key role in European history has been main defender of Central Europe against Russia. And ofc, Russia was a major foe in the last wars. To me, there's no way Germany missed the point of Russian moves the past decade.

So assume for a moment that they knew this day was coming.

If they have energy independence, they might also be called to task to play their traditional role and their natural role now as the powerhouse of the EU and NATO, to lead the fight against Russia.

But if they're hobbled by energy dependence, they can shrug and say "sorry, it's simply not a feasible option for us. We're sitting this one out." Which seems to be what they have done.

Add they get cover from their domestic green problems as well. Alles ist gut.
Sorry I misinterpreted what you meant, I wasn't meaning to be glib.
Personal attacks are against the site rules here.
I remember there being a lot less political discussions back then, remember when every non programming thread had a guy referencing the site rules saying it should be removed? I think political discussions reduces the quality of the site, not because they aren't interesting but because it is so easy to farm karma in them that we now have many high karma accounts that aren't experts in some field.
Calling the AfD voter block "outright facists" is not helpful. Yeah, there is sadly plenty of people in there deserving of that description. And yeah, the danger the AfD poses should not be downplayed, nor should the danger of PEGIDA be downplayed.

But study after study, survey after survey has shown that most of the voter block of the AfD are not "outright fascists" but people disillusioned by the establishment parties who then fall prey to the the less extremist public messaging the AfD likes to do. These people aren't fascists', they aren't nazis, and constantly calling them names will certainly not help, but drive them even more towards the AfD.

So please, I implore you to tone down your hyperbole. Where this kind of "basket of deplorables" rhetoric eventually leads we can all watch with horror.
I'm part way through adding support for SCTP to the NetBSD firewall. Have done the basic filtering stuff, still working on doing NAT for it.
>contemplating the uncertainty principle while you wonder how much air you just let out of your tire while trying to check it?

This is just a stupid tax on people unable to discern the difference between theory and practice and if anything life needs more of these taxes.
Sure it's possible to get nice shots at noon, but you're awfully limited when your f-stop begins at 16. Depth of field is important, and some cameras don't even have a 1/8000 second shutter. That's why it makes a lot of sense to go for sunrise and sundown by default.
Radicle – a censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer stack for building software
It's interesting, this is the sort of thing that Angus Deaton suggested when he argued against the EA program in a Rationally Speaking podcast[1]. His premise is that cash transfers to the needy won't work in a country where an oppressive government can just take the cash for themselves. Perhaps this is part of the effect here? (Bribes, taxation, etc.) I'm a bit skeptical that this is a knock-out argument against the GiveDirectly program, but it's definitely something to keep in mind and explore further.

[1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deaths-of-despair-effe...
This is how I envision this should be handled in a better world where corporations aren't allowed to just say "you get what you pay for" as they screw over their customers. (and yes, users of ad-supported products are customers)

If an account is terminated, it is done in a way it can be brought back if the user thinks it was unwarranted.

The user should be told that if they want to contest it, they need to pay a certain amount of money to a third party, to pay for the time of the people who do investigate. ($100?)

Those investigating it are not owned by or controlled in any way by Google. Those investigating it are allowed to rule not only that the account be restored, but that the user is compensated (maybe up to $5000).

If the investigation doesn't go the way the user hoped, they should be able to use the courts and Google should be ready to make all available data available.
This is so cool! As a teenager I helped a buddy build an incredibly dangerous contraption that boiled water using a parabolic reflector and it was a lot of fun!

This actually makes me want to buy one to play with…
> Even the USA Today article says "allegedly".

The headline said Respected developer who was bullied online dies by suicide. My browser found allegedly nowhere in the article. I didn't see anything similar to allegedly when I skimmed it again. Could you point it out?[1]

> And you're right, everyone has already made up their mind based on feelings. That's the cool thing about facts, you don't have to do that.

Not what I said. The cool thing about facts is they shape opinions and actions. I don't think many opinions are shaped by the difference between 2 and 3 deaths.

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/respected-developer-died-suicide-expe...
I think you'd find the books Digital Minimalism and ADHD 2.0 useful. The former talks about how digital maximalism, for lack of a better term, leads to a lot of what you're experiencing. And the latter is written by a world renowned expert in ADHD. My personal takeaways from reading it were: it's a spectrum not binary; it has its pros and cons; there are things you could do to mitigate it; it's not a deficit of attention it's a matter of controlling it.
All NATO members agreed to a 2% minimum within the context of the existing treaty.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_67655.htm

If Germany or any other country is unwilling to meet that treaty obligation then they should simply withdraw from the alliance rather than freeloading on more responsible countries.