skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I saw this subject I thought it was about living in an airport terminal, like Mehran Karimi Nasseri did in Paris for 18 years.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/mehran-karimi-nasseri
Bubbles don't just happen in finance. They happen in biology.
It is saying that I MAY not have to appoint a DPO, depending on various criteria... but then when you go to look at what that criteria is, it merely tells you:

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What does ‘regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale’ mean?

There are two key elements to this condition requiring you to appoint a DPO. Although the UK GDPR does not define ‘regular and systematic monitoring’ or ‘large scale’, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) provided some guidance on these terms in its guidelines on DPOs. WP29 has been replaced by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) which has endorsed these guidelines. Although these guidelines relate to the EU version of the GDPR, they are also a useful resource for understanding the requirements of the UK GDPR.

‘Regular and systematic’ monitoring of data subjects includes all forms of tracking and profiling, both online and offline. An example of this is for the purposes of behavioural advertising.

When determining if processing is on a large scale, the guidelines say you should take the following factors into consideration:

the numbers of data subjects concerned;
the volume of personal data being processed;
the range of different data items being processed;
the geographical extent of the activity; and
the duration or permanence of the processing activity.

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So neither does this page, nor the law (according to this page itself) or any other guidance I have found, define what "a large scale" means. It gives some really squishy criteria, and then leaves it up to the DPA to fine whoever they want to, because they refuse to define anything in concrete terms. No one except commenters on Hacker News can possibly know whether or not they are in compliance.
It's easier to update software on a single server then hundreds or millions of desktops.
I'm pretty sure 50ms latency between click and feedback is imperceptible to most humans. That's 3 frames at 60fps.

I don't know what superhuman perception you have, but I'm personally good with anything up to 100ms.

The alternative is Jira where we're talking something like 5000ms to load an issue.
I really do wonder where China might even have got this idea from.
Isn’t the Chinese government trying to curtail capital outflow?
Huh, how big does your website have to be in order for your bugs to be patched this way?
And it was linked right there in the first paragraphs of the article!
These theories just dont' even try to prove that the brain creates consciousness. They just assume it's the case.
Right, but the point being it'll likely be at least a decade before a nuclear power plant started today actually gets completed anyway. And that's for one. Replacing any significant portion of the grid with nuclear would also take many years, most likely decades.
Possibly the same estimated 1B crabs that disappeared from Twitter when the Elon Musk deal was announced.
That's what the CIA had planned [1], obviously that goes against the interest of Taiwanese, both for their industry and for their security

Glad to see Taiwanese advocating for peace and not wanting to let the US destroy them

The link in that article is down, here [2]

[1] - https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/taiwan-should-ado...

[2] - http://web.archive.org/web/20220107073316/https://ssi.armywa...
A lot of lag, but has a lot of promise. Neat!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. Love the projects (RapidPay) in your profile too.
A quick check of Windows 11 notepad reveals that it is still creating child windows. Text editor is of class RichEditD2DPT, status bar is msctls_statusbar32, menu bar is Windows.UI.Composition.DesktopWindowContentBridge.

As long as they are actual win32 Windows, then you can still interact with them using the system's API functions.

Other fun fact, Direct3D has interfaces inside of GDI32.DLL, look at all the D3DKMT functions there.
Hmm does anyone know if there is a site/community/service that keeps track of backports fixing CVEs for different Linux distros?
The last I read into Germany's plan to be "100%" renewable, it was using other countries in Europe to provide the base load using their hydro and nuclear. Which is great so long as they have excess to provide Germany I suppose.

There does not seem to be nearly enough construction of pumped storage or battery to cover the unevenness of German wind power. In fact, their prices have gone negative repeatedly in the past, which is not in fact a good thing. (OMG help, we'll pay anyone to take this power before the grid blows up!)
Hanoi feels more novel to Americans than Ho Chi Minh, which feels like a fairly generic city. At least that's how I felt visiting the two.

Another thing you have to remember is that there are a lot of southern Vietnamese in the US, who brought their food with them. The average American has experienced more of south Vietnam than north without ever having visited.

Seeing the difference between a city that I perceived to be kind of emulating western culture (Ho Chi Minh), versus Hanoi, which has a culturally distinct feel about it, can reasonably lead a person to see a touristy city as a more cultural experience.

From an ameri-centric point of view, HCM is inundated with a kind of unpleasant or generic tourism (eat at these places, eat on a boat, go to this market, go to this tower, go to these museums, go to these "palaces," climb into vietnamese tunnels) compared to Hanoi where a lot of the tourism is related to both food and how beautiful the country is. It's kind of the difference between "this food is objectively good" and "this food is new and interesting."
This makes me very jealous!

I'm a developer on a web media player and remember that we had at some point an issue with picture in picture mode: We had a feature that lowered the video bitrate to the minimum when the page that contained the video element was not showing for some amount of time.

That made total sense... until the Picture in Picture mode was added to browsers, where you would see a very-low quality after watching your content in that mode in another page long enough (~1 minute).

The sad thing is that because I was (still am) developing an open-source player and because the API documentation described clearly the aforementioned implementation, I had to deprecate that option and re-create a new one (with a better API documentation, talking more about the intent than the implementation!) instead, which would have the right exceptions for picture in picture mode.

Seeing that part made me remember this anecdote, we should just have asked for quirks :p
On functional piping, this has been in the pipeline with a few competing proposals for a while (I prefer the F#-like version myself). Will be surprised if/when it actually makes it in.
Ask HN: What's your programmable mouse profile(s) (if any)?
Do you stick to primarily using the keyboard instead? Do you use special hotkeys/profiles/buttons/etc on it?

Are you an 'old-school' mouse user, and don't even bother with the fancy stuff?

For those that do get a mouse with extra buttons - what do you program them to? Do you use different profiles for terminals vs. ides?
Even if batteries increase now, they will drop more in the future as production capacity ramps up. Same thing happens again and again for every other tech curve, for example solar. A price drop suddenly makes an entirely new application class cost feasible, and there's a non-linearity in the demand function, and demand explodes.

We are currently at one of those non-linear increases in demand. Additionally, we are experiencing massive supply chain bill whip effects across the entire economy.

Increasing extraction is happening and will continue to happen. But also take into account that a lot of the price drops come from needing to use fewer input materials.

Rare earths are not relevant for current battery technologies. Further, there are plenty of other sources of rare earths that will open up as we need more in the future.
Interesting that functions that might normally have dedicated specialized circuits or processors are all handled in the software that this processor runs.

> To reduce the parts count, every hardware function is essentially software-defined: video, audio and I/O are all handled by software. Video at the pixel level. Audio at the sample level, in 4 channels. Even the applications themselves are running in a non-existent 16-bit processor (aka interpreter).

Reminds me of what I read about the Xerox PARC Alto. They got a lot done with a minimal set of chips. (A bit-slice CPU I think?)

> Alto’s CPU was an extremely revolutionary microcode processor that employed microcode rather than hardware for most I/O activities. The microcode machine featured 16 tasks, one of which performed the standard instruction set and the others for display, memory refresh, disk, network, and other I/O functions.

(see https://history-computer.com/xerox-alto-guide/)
Well this whole thread is regarding whether or not someone ought to vote for a non-conservative government. So the first thing you could do to avoid such a situation is vote to elect individuals who are true to their word and argue against policies that would rob you of all your wealth through taxation and inflation. Another step you might take is to promote a vision of society where we limit the government to a certain degree so that it does not acquire so much power that it can simply rob individual citizens without recourse.

Further, this particular question is whether the government legally ought to be able to tax without limits. You seem to be conflating that with if the government is able to tax without limits.
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HSBC is operating in a mostly distinct part of the same industry. HSBC doesn't hire waiters to carry suitcases full of money.
If true, it reminds me of the reputation that Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore computers, had in the 80s of screwing over his suppliers to the point they would no longer do business with him.
I have had that for a year at least. The only way to use Reddit for me is Apollo on iOS.
Can't leave any room for ambiguity!

Apple-style function/method naming may be verbose but at least the names usually have good explanatory value and aren't just meaningless verbosity.
I don't think it's possible to do that with Amazon :/
Load shifting is definitely a thing, and it could become much more of a thing if we rolled out smart appliances and power meters that could automatically react to grid conditions in real time. You do have to carefully match generation and load, but that doesn't always have to be on the generation side, it can be on the load side.
Where they burn books, they will too in the end burn people.

But these are paintings, not books, so no worries.
Awesome product! What are you using to convert natural language into sql?
I wonder how much light is blocked by this stuff floating around? Seems like there are parallel efforts to make atmospheric dust while this is already up there.
How do I vote for similar politicians in the USA? We need nuclear, and we need it yesterday.
I use it, and it's decent. And more in the vein of "it's not google" though I do slightly prefer the chrome dev tools to the modifications that Edge has made. I don't like a lot of the "helpers" for shopping though. And definitely don't like the article wall with ads that are really hard to block/script out.
Hi all, I made this. Surprised by the sudden interest. It has been live but unchanged for 6 months.

There's an updated launcher. It's not finished yet, but it is nicer for exploring single-player community-made games: https://minetest.dustlabs.io/ez/

I'm not actively working on this, as I have concluded it is not (yet) possible to create a good web experience. There are problems with storage, network, keyboard side effects (e.g. Ctrl, W), concurrency, and performance that need to be addressed by browser vendors. I highly recommend installing the native Minetest!
Does lacrosse teach those things better than other team sports?
Redesigning the Banana (2020)
Depends how you count. I believe it was 1500 directly attributed, and about 3000 excess deaths. I don't think I said anything hyperbolic or inaccurate.
You're likely in the giant country that is the USA, with large swathes of lightly populated land. Germany isn't that.
I think the main problem with trying to program Java in a text editor is the fact that we need to import every single package separately, or even worse: every class seperately.

Doing Java programming in, say, Emacs would be fine if it weren't for import hell.
I seriously enjoyed mine and didn't understand what the fuzz was about. Sure - it might have had less memory than people expected - but in the end the game performance for the price point mattered for me. And that was great. I got a card which delivered great performance at that point in time (certainly similar to what a 4080 12GB is for todays generation of games) for less than 350€.
"It's completely unprofessional." is about what their reaction was.
Interesting that this is posted to HN now, because I recently ran into some YouTube brokenness caused by an old WebKit quirk.

"Site-specific hacks break native video controls in YouTube embeds" https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245612

So many hours spent debugging this...
Make your QEMU 10 times faster with this one weird trick
> I don't understand how you believe the future is "very unlikely to include nuclear".

China aggressively pushed nuclear over the past 20 years and they still haven't caught up with France in terms of generating capacity.

Almost 10 years ago wind power in China overtook nuclear in terms of GWh delivered and things stayed that way.

Unless there's some kind of breakthrough, nuclear will remain this safe, stable, clean but really slow to build and expensive energy source.
So why did they invite you to the interview in the first place if you are not diverse enough?
We do, and yet I've never heard any of the 'nuclear is the greenest technology' crowd give credit (qua political capital) for bringing this project to fruition. Why aren't nuclear advocates loudly praising the state/federal/business decision-makers that delivered here?
A huge rollercoaster of a novel, crammed with sizzling gypsies!
Not to mention that a quarter of the world's wheat come from Russia and Ukraine - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/17/infographic-russia-... ...
Sweden is a small player in the EU but hopefully this will drive more countries away from Germany's dystopian madness
As an aside, may I ask what people's opinion of running docker containers in prod is? The joke "But it works on my local--" "Then ship your local".
> On a serious note, Earth is in trouble.

Earth is not in trouble. It has survived worse extinction events just fine.

We, along with all current living species, are the ones in trouble.
But why soup?
Are you sure those aren't just Amazon ads? They generated $31B in ad revenue last year.
It doesn't require back of the napkin calculations, there has been plenty of studies that showed that full renewable is possible even without storage (not counting current hydro). Storage just means less overprovisioning.

What this does require is significant investment in grid infrastructure which has been criminally neglected in years.
Keep technical cofounders enabled to continue leading in that role while offloading as much of the types of responsibilities that impact that.
To be clear, I'm just asking for extreme draw distances, higher resolution shadows, and full quality textures. If that would require significant engineering, I stand corrected! I can certainly see how install size would be a concern with textures.

I find it difficult to return to games such as Assassin's Creed II because of their muddy textures and low draw distances. These issues feel like something that could have been avoided with just a tad more forward thinking!

There are also games like Quantum Break which (at least at launch, not sure if it was ever fixed) included mandatory upsampling which the user couldn't disable. The reason given was that the game wasn't designed to be playable at native resolution, and no current hardware would be able to run it that way.
To the degree I have a difference of opinion, it is around the idealization of planning and packing light.

I believe the most excellent choices are best made on the ground and the expedition is a great way to explore.

The airport genericizes travel. It removes distance and vastness and remoteness.

Flying gives you an MP3 - and that may be good enough - but it is not the band playing live in someone’s living room.

Getting there puts the flyer among travelers very much similar dealing with very much the same things at the same time. Airport food, flight delays, seat pitch, luggage limitations, etc., etc.

Traveling light as virtue is heavy baggage exchanged for a 61 key synth and a worn tea kettle.

YMMV.
We certainly aren't talking about compiling. Compilation is repeatable. A port is done once.
What is Germanys dystopian madness?
I guess my comment was more about the general build quality of US cars from the 70s. I have worked on some and it seemed they were just thrown together without any thought or care.
In this incoming cold war, expect the Chinese to attract support by setting up tax havens the IRS can’t touch

Already seen with Russian oligarchs sending their yachts to HK

The US shall, of course, return the favour
I believe "these units" refer only to the nuclear reactors, not to the plant as a whole. The plant will likely need ongoing replacements, and more, newer reactors can be added over time. The same plant/real estate could serve as a power plant for many times that amount of time.

It is also quite feasible to move the spent fuel and any other radioactive material to another location... there are politics involved, but the physics are pretty straight forward.
I worked for a few years in fintech (NYC) after I left SF (more than a decade working at FAANGs).

I'd say your experience as a full stack software developer is basically irrelevant. At the end of the day, for a typical non-leadership engineering role, the hiring decision is not going to be based on your previous work experience. They are looking for strong algorithmic fundamentals and the ability to think outside the box (I've interviewed for both in the past).
You could convert the examples to JSON and it'd still work. Kubernetes supports multiple serialization formats. You could also use your favorite programming language with the k8s SDK to use structs/objects
Free Your Technical Aesthetic from the 1970s (2010)
> Meh, our ability to change the earth grows every year sooner or later we'll fix it.

You are talking about geoengineering.

It would be way better not to have to do such things in the first place. This is like "meh, sooner or later we'll be able to grow entire organs, you can keep smoking". Sure. But is that day coming soon enough? And what are the drawbacks of such a large intervention?

Besides, species are going extinct every day. We can't get them back.
> Zaporizhzhia NPP (largest in Europe) has 6 950 MWe reactors.

It's not 6950, but 5700. And 5700 is the total output (950x6 reactors).

1250 is among the most powerful reactor in the world. I think the most powerful is the EPR (French tech), but this has been delayed, and delayed, and ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)
This is pretty much the first time that it is possible to have 2+ main jobs.

It has always been common to have a main job and a side gig, a main job and moonlighting in hospitality or service industry.

Just get your deliverables in, use separate company laptops. The incentives for overachieving are non-existent, oh wow a 5% bonus/raise dangled in front of you for even more responsibility versus an entire parallel salary and compensation package at the expected contribution level.
Citation needed. It really depends on the geological time scale you're talking about. Geoscientists are still in debate of whether the Anthropocene should be added as it's epoch - yes, humans have had an impact, but it's hard to concretely state that the impact will be noticeable enough that another species would demarcate our existence as such.
Relying on coal on for 30%+ of their electricity
Considering they are hiring so many new IRS agents I just might be on board the China Trust Truck.
> it was the only way they could think of to allow an arbitrary block of ciphertext to be decrypted without decrypting the prior blocks (i.e. they needed random access as opposed to decrypting the entire ciphertext every time).

CBC mode does support that, though (decryption is parallelizable, but not encryption).
Is this something that's been studied seriously? A quick google attempt doesn't find anything.
Most people agree the best rates are obtained if the transaction is done in local currency with the network providing the conversion. However, some ATMs and credit card terminals give the option to either send the transaction to the network in local currency, or the cardholders currency. If you choose to let the terminal submit in your currency, you're going to get that conversion rate instead.

I don't understand the advice here either. It's not hard (at least as someone in the US) to find a card offering no foreign transaction fees, and I thought everyone agreed that the card network conversion rates are about the best you're going to find as traveller.

ATM fees can sometimes be unavoidable, but sometimes even finding a functional ATM was a blessing, so ...
Overfishing? Remember sardines and Cannery Row in Monterey? Today it doesn't look much better, it seems:

https://www.montereyherald.com/2020/11/03/the-sardine-war-hi...
CZ binance spam on every Twitter comment
Anyone else notice this?

looks like this https://twitter.com/UneduColombia/status/1580953742903369728

It's out of control. Every twitter account is being spammed with this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=BHNNF&v=zG5GDblxNAE

https://cztrust.net/btc/

How is this shit allowed to be spammed on twitter constantly. Isn't anyone aware of this problem or does no one care.

a lot of $ coming in . Very lucrative scam

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1CZ1DVhxFdFNo84iB9ucHqUtT46pk98BRc
Are the economics of nuclear power somehow more favorable in Sweden? That seems to be the major issue elsewhere from what I understand.