skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GDPR applies to:

1. a company or entity which processes personal data as part of the activities of one of its branches established in the EU, regardless of where the data is processed; or

2. a company established outside the EU and is offering goods/services (paid or for free) or is monitoring the behaviour of individuals in the EU.
Seattle delivered rail infrastructure on time and under budget, and now it has a ridership in the millions. People want trains. People use trains. Build more goddamn trains.
I don't spit out bones either. Unlike melon seeds, I don't eat them. But, I use fork and knife to separate meat from bone. Or hold it gently in hand if impossible otherwise.

Spitting bones is disgusting. Also, seeds in melon don't bother you at all.
Wasn't this the point of the blue checkmark originally?
So what if it is exactly that? If pedals opens those regulated markets which Honda has surely researched, then all the better.
My microwave has a picture of a cup with a spoon in it, this stops superheating.
Her profile on Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@kathygriffin (14k followers for now).
> Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended

> My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk

So Babylon Bee and The Onion is secure as long as they don't pretend to be actual news like the rest of the media. Excellent. :)
> However, the poster I responded to did not make that distinction.

Because it was implicit - we are discussing circumcision of infants, not circumcision of adult males with phimosis.

> Given what I've read, I'm convinced that many of these anti-circumcision posts are motivated by animus — whether of genital surgery in its entirety or the religious elements associated with it

Of course it's motivated by animus - mutilation of infants is disgusting. It should not be done, unless explicitly needed in individual cases due to medical issues, just like any other kind of amputation. Speculation of religious hatred is completely uncalled for.

> Instead, each case must be assessed on its own merits. Unfortunately, I rarely see my particular position shared by anyone else.

Yes, and the first step is to stop mutilating children in general just for the sake of mutilating children in general.
Blackberry/RIM also saw no problem that the iPhone was solving. Sometimes markets are created with a product everyone didn't know they needed/wanted, even the first Sony Walkman.

I'm reserving judgement until I experience first-hand what it's like to share a virtual space with someone I care about when we're physically hundreds/thousands of kms apart with real-time facial expressions on a photorealistic model of their face.
No, they're suggesting that BSD changes less. If you learn FreeBSD, and you learn, let's say Ubuntu, and then you keep using them for a decade, the stated position is that FreeBSD would require you to learn fewer new things than ex. Ubuntu over the same timespan.
The parent comment is making a really good point (in a roundabout way):

It is just another variation of "timing the stock market". Even if you're correct you can end up losing so much money on the upside that long-term you lose compared to people who buy into a bull market.

Depending on the exact circumstances of when you bought, your mortgage rate, how much prices fall, how long you can hold, and how much prices recover you can still end up losing by not having bought during the run-up.

Here's a made up bay area example:

A house sells for $2m in 2014. Due to rising prices over 8-10 years you end up buying for $3m at 2.5% interest in 2021. The market then tanks by 30%. That puts the house back at $2.1m. Over the following 5 years the market recovers somewhat and the house is worth $2.8m in 2026.

A naive view says "see! it was correct not to buy in 2021! waiting was the correct choice."

But that's not the whole story.

Buying in 2021 means you did not pay $5k/mo rent from 2021-2026. That's $270k. Not all of that will go to principle but some will. And you're 5 years ahead of the mortgage payoff schedule compared to not buying.

Speaking of time value of money... buying in 2021 means you got 2.5-3% interest on your 30 year mortgage. Depending on how things play out buying in 2026 might end up with 4-6% on the same mortgage:

2021 Purchase @2.5%: total interest paid $1.26m
2026 Purchase @4%: total interest paid $2.15m
2026 Purchase @6%: total interest paid $3.47m

In this scenario buying in 2021 ends up with the bank paying _you_ to take the mortgage since inflation is up. If you assume inflation says around 2-2.5% after that you more or less borrow the money for free.

Buying in 2026 costs you around $1m-$2.2m over the life of the loan.

In this example even accounting for the market dropping 30% _and_ not fully recovering it still made more sense to buy in 2021. Remember this is just one example with a lot of assumptions. I'm not saying this is what will happen. I'm merely pointing out that you can predict prices are inflated, wait for them to fall, and end up losing compared to a "sucker" who bought at the peak.
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No, there is another option: this person is here to potentially learn what they were overlooking, from a thought-out debate with others who have a different viewpoint. That would be more constructive than pontificating or looking for sympathy, which was rather uncharitable of you to assume as the only options.
I dunno about that.

Japanese Sci-Fi / Anime tradition has weird things with regards to near-future dates. Such as the end of the world in 2000 (1st impact) then 2012 (Evangelion). Or British Mechas take over Japan to call it Area 11 (Code Geass), Or Sword Art Online happening in 2022.

There's also that weird Eden of the East anime that took place in 2010 (when the anime was released in 2009), that predicted that cell phones can do everything in the next year.

Sometimes, its more fun to imagine near-future Sci-Fi. I'd honestly put something like "Stargate SG-1" (from the 90s) akin to this style of SciFi. I don't think anyone was saying we'd have faster-than-light travel figured out from ancient alien artifacts in the 90s (despite the show taking place in the 90s).
Yea I just swallow them. They are softer the the ones from grapes and don't have bothering taste. It also seems like awful amount of work to remove them.
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My genuinely overkill for my needs private health insurance as someone living in Australia where theres a public health care system that looks after everyone... costs less than half your pre-obamacare insurance, factoring in the exchange rate.

I cant fathom why the majority of Americans are ok with their weird sociopathic Job = Health Insurance based system. While not as nearly unanimous as the metric system, well funded Public Health Care to a level where most people don't need health insurance to cover an emergency hospital visit for say a broken leg... is basically what everyone else around the world in other countries considers a normal and good thing...

In essence... You were already getting ripped off, now you're getting ripped off even more.

In England, Australia, Germany, France, Canada, etc, etc, etc... The treatment for your child would likely have cost you nothing, or nearly nothing. The fact it cost you over $10,000 is not entirely the Obama's fault, it's the collective fault of nearly a century of American citizens who have accepted the status quo and not pressed for any sort of change prior to Obama promising to change it single handedly, since that worked about as well as most people watching from other developed countries with modern socially supported public health care expected it to... it was a best case train wreck because of health care industry self interested lobbying efforts from pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, hospital management companies, all the companies... not because it was a bad idea to stop the fright train that is employer provided health care in the USA. They just managed to convince them to stop the metaphorical train in such a way they could profit even more, and thus cost everyone including the government even more money...
This is exactly what the gp comment was saying though, isn't it?

Apple doesn't care about their users, except insofar as keeping users happy can make Apple money.

In cases where keeping users happy can't make Apple money, they don't care about their users.
Well I’m not paying for ram. Obviously everything is subjective but iOS is better than android, better camera, better eco system, better privacy and security, better battery life over time, better lifetime support, etc etc etc.

iPhone runs well on 3gb, 4gb, 6gb. It’s far more optimised than android.

The same cannot be said for android. Over time lack of ram cripples it.
Also Messenger.
"vats" are supposed to mean big vessels. tumblers, glasses, dishes and trays "mean small", just small nitpickings
Well how do you know on Mastodon?

I think the actual account is: https://mstdn.social/@stunning_and_brave
A cheap phone would work for that. But they are noticeably laggy and kind of grotty to use, especially once you’ve used something nicer. Kind of like going back to an ancient PC.
Why is WhatsApp special? iMessages is used a lot outside US.

Why is there a “messenger war”? Like what’s the end game? Why do you want people using your free messages product? Data? But e2e encryption and privacy are primary features… I don’t get it
I'm recalling a week ago when he said comedy was allowed on twitter again, and also the claims that they would not be censoring people.
>So why would have hundreds of millions (at that time) WhatsApp users migrated to a worst messaging app?

Higher quality images/video. Whenever we are at a wedding or whatnot, the fastest and easiest way to share high quality pics/video is to iMessage it.
I don't know. Didn't seem so bad, aside from Jason Calacanis' gobble gobble.
Yes, and teachers can grade some assignments electronically with a click. But generally speaking admin work has not kept up with the productivity of manufacturing positions.

In fact given that the numbers of admin staff per student and per graduate has increased, you could credibly argue admin productivity has declined.
The obvious question is, "Why are verified profiles allowed to change their account display name in the first place?" Which seems to be getting addressed[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589401231545741312
Mastodon: Whalebird Can Change Accounts
Those are used only by new users the first time they use the app. They are regularly blocked, or retired (because maintainer decided so), it does not affect the network because they have nothing special. New ips are added to the list. You could become one of those simply by letting your computer online 24/7.
We'll have increasingly more incentive if birthrates (and thus the size of the workforce) continues to shrink. Moreover, robots of all sorts will probably have come down in price which is one of the stumbling blocks mentioned in the article.
Oh please, actually notable conservatives and right wingers with impersonation risk have never had much trouble getting verified. All journalists from Fox News, Newsmax, etc were verified as were all GOP politicians.

Those complaining about not being verified were invariably non-notable internet famous personalities, and I saw many of those complaints from people on the left too. Not everything was political bias, some people just were far less notable than they thought they were.

That you consider this to be about ‘fanatical lefties’ and ‘false flags’ shows you’re way too far down the rabbit hole and you’ve lost all perspective. Step back from the culture war nonsense and maybe spend a bit of time offline to touch grass.
Its sad that censorship decisions are treated differently in the US media based on political affiliation.

Throughout the pandemic, I witnessed people questioning the science behind lockdowns and government overreach being banned, censored, de-patformed from social media sites and the common response in the media being "start your own platform"

"The shoe on the other foot" is such a bad place to find ourselves as a society, it speaks to us being incapable of reconciling our differences for a common good.

Since the 2016 election, the US has gone batshit insane it feels like. It was crazy before, but its incredibly hard to have any sort of a conversation about touchy issues these days without an overwhelming negative, non-critical response in the form of downvotes, aggressive bucketing into political buckets, pariah treatment etc.

I hope, at least on HN, we're able to hold discussions on political topics without such tribalism.
Humans still better at taking orders and making coffee too.
> conservatives views will not be instantly banned by twitter

I see assertions like this a lot. Please show me the person who has been banned from Twitter for advocating for lower taxes or social benefit cuts. Or even, if you want to stretch the definition of “conservatives views”, gun rights and climate denial.
Nowadays they just take EPO
> Was Tolkien right leaning himself, I would be surprised by that but I honestly don’t know.

Yes, but the small-c conservative Catholic sort of right-wing. He would have hated reactionary modernists like Thiel.
Poland is still a stark FB Messenger majority too. SMS second.
Can anyone confirm this to be true, though? It seems everyone is recycling the same Bloomberg news :facepalm:
Why is it crazy? It’s not endemic in China, and even if everybody in China were fully vaccinated, getting to endemic state would result in millions dead. Covid is still dangerous in aggregate, even with a vaccine. There’s 1.4 billion people in China; even a tiny fraction of them dying of Covid would be a huge death toll. And that’s not counting the permanent disabilities resulting from long Covid.

What’s crazy is this idea that just because the rest of the world has given up on stopping Covid, that China should just let it rip. That would be devastating to China, why would they do that? Even if you don’t care about the death and disability, it doesn’t make economic sense. Temporary targeted lockdowns are less damaging to the Chinese economy in both the short and long term than rampant death and disability.
I don’t disagree with this, but it is a form of whataboutism so it doesn’t really undermine the original point that some MSM are also terrible actors. Press in the UK is bad, but I don’t yet see it as this bad.
You know, he was not willing to pay the kid running that account more than $5000 to take it down, so he can spare us the personal safety risk whining and just take commercial first class like us single-digit millionaires if he’s so concerned about it.
Indeed, confirming that he's a smarmy asshole who lacks empathy.
The first season was so fun. Loved peeling back layers of the onion and discovering what was really going on. Season 2 had a few bright spots, but after that it was clear the story had hit a dead end.
It's also automated driverless trains, something that probably be raised when comparing costs.
American, but I'm factoring in holidays, too. That gets you more than another week, and you can stretch them out by strategic use of PTO days.
this is good info. i was thinking about making my own, before i discovered picotorrent. but the lack of ui libraries for go prevented me from moving forward. nowadays, with nuts and others, it might be worth a shot.
Great summary. In my 60s I can tell you that the one thing you didn’t cover is the vast amount of hobbit hair one can have while still being bald. if only I could put my ear, nose, and toe hair to use for good instead of evil…
How to make sure no dynamic memory is used
IMHO often the purpose of these projects isn’t to deliver transportation, it’s to keep people employed in the project.

Not even that, it's a corrupt racket. It's purpose is to make money for powerful people. Sometimes employing people helps but notice "Andrew Cuomo launched a “transformation plan” created by a consulting firm to “simplify a complex and inefficient organization,” the MTA (still) says on its website. The most noteworthy “accomplishment” was hiring six-figure executives who promptly left with golden parachutes; once Cuomo was gone the transformation team was shut down."

The researcher here identifies the symptoms of this but seems to see this more as an accident.

Yeah, that's kind of standard for reports like this. A sophisticated reader can easily discern a steam mass of corrupt interests involved with situations like this but the report writer doesn't like to burn their bridges so they don't connect the dots and X many other apologists merrily misapply Hanlon's razor to the situations as well.
I'm glad I've never used PayPal, and I probably never will. Their decision just seem to go from bad to worse.
Great find. You missed the best part: <<Families with incomes between $75,000 and $150,000 will contribute from 0-10% of their income...>>

That means for income <= 75K, Harvard tuition is free! That is impressive. Their system looks fair in comparison to other US universities. This system looks similar to progressive taxation (higher income pays more taxes).

For readers not familiar with US university system: This will not include "room & board" (housing & food).
> Also, outside of the USA if they piss off Mark Zuckerberg enough they can lose the rest of the world because who would want a phone that doesn't have WhatsApp?

In the US, Facebook admitted that they saw billions in revenue shortfalls because of Apple’s new prompt that makes user tracking opt in.

Besides, Facebook has already lost 70% of its value. Right now, Facebook is worth 240 billion. Apple is worth 2.2 trillion. Facebook is not exactly operating from a position of strength to throw away its most affluent customers.
> European enough

That’s a modern perception though. The Byzantine Empire was considered to be the centre of Christendom will into the Crusade period.

> that the next structure of such massive complexity would only be built a 1000ish years after it.

Climate change and plague were the primary reasons why urban populations collapsed. Even if little technology was lost (not necessarily true) there was simply no need or resources to build a new monumental structures throughout Europe when you could have just reused the buildings constructed by the Romans.
Which Fediverse Server Run on Green Electricity?
I have seen people walking from Delhi to Bihar, not exactly 10 Km.
So his commitment to free speech absolutism has lasted an entire week! That's honestly longer than I expected. He's gonna need thicker skin if he's going to be extremely online all the time during this rebuild of the company.
WhatsApp has a way better interface to quickly share photos at the same original resolutions (or very close to them). I'm now forced to use iMessage because WhatsApp has stopped working on my older phone, and it comparatively sucks at that.
Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content fame had his account suspended for the same thing.
https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4911
The pictorial had me for a minute. Deeper red means closer to full which is a positive thing.
> That just goes to show the lack of design foresight.

You have a skewed perspective of growing up with ubiquitous computing and cheap ICs. This was very much not the case in the early 70s when CDs were designed. Trying to simultaneously design for high fidelity audio and a then completely theoretical demand for data storage would have made no sense and would be unjustifiable scope creep.
The spiral groove of a CD is objectively better for a low cost linear playback device - even though it is obviously worse for random data access (though modern DSP mitigated this 15 years later). Engineering is about trade offs.

There’s no binary best effort vs dead sure - it’s a matter of degree, unlike the mistaken GP post, CDDA and CDROM both use RS error detection and correction, just the former has less of it - a CDDA (Redbook) can store about 15% more audio than would be possible with the equivalent WAVE files on a CDROM - at the expense of some redundancy, but it still has very robust error correction - otherwise every little tiny piece of dust would cause a skip. And for audio playback - trying to fill in a best guess is the right thing to do - rather than just making the thing spit the disk out with a failure.
An idiosyncrasy I have about TIL posts is that I think they should focus on what you were able to got done/progress with.

TIL posts that truly have been learned that day, or recently, often contain subtle errors explicitly or implicitly. Which isn’t a problem in and of itself but in a when such posts get used as the basis of someone else’s TIL post these errors often get compounded.

As an example I find almost any TIL style post about a text editor to be like this. To give a contrast Chris Siebenmann‘s blog [1] does give focus to what was done. Also the author is reasonably good about making corrections in edits or follow up posts.

[1] https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/
“Telescoping can” wave energy device beats test predictions by 20%
If spaces had half-width, then the Duo could still use spaces for alignment, though monospaced text would need to be run through a filter.
Been thinking about it a bit. Isn't the key thing about those interactions that you're all at work? You're tending your cows, Robin is running a carpentry business, that couple is running a shop, etc. (I forgot the names of everyone, sorry; been years since I binged on SDV).

Closest analogue to this in modern life is... your co-workers in the office. That chat you have with Maru on the way to sell your wheat in the store is equivalent to that chat you had with Frank from accounting on the way to give your report to the manager upstairs.

Therein, perhaps, lied the magic of countryside/pre-industrial socialization: everyone was always working, but always next to each other. The whole village was the office/plant.
I've had a mixed experience. I've had people call me a mass murderer and a fascist because I identify myself as a communist. (Not a Tankie, fuck tankies.)

But I've also had some great discussions here with people who listen, trade book recommendations, and at least try to learn before writing me off.

A lot more of the former these days, unfortunately.
Important note for anyone that doesn't already know, migrant in this context refers to internal migration from far off home towns as opposed to "immigrant" in the context of temporary farm labour migrant workers migrating in from another country where such work forms part of their visa arrangements (Australia's migrant worker visas, pick some fruit, do some backpacking) or is part of seasonal regional migration over the border such as parts of the USA where Mexican workers legally migrate on short temporary work visas during farm's harvest seasons.
I found proper account name in Google cache of her Twitter profile (in bio):

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IVCAOs... (archived: https://archive.is/MdSyK)
I inclined to believe this is all non-sense. Did ever someone hear a difference or compare hashes and got sometimes an error and sometimes not?
It's still cheaper to exploit human laborers to pick those simple objects.

There will be a reckoning once capitalism runs out of people to exploit.