skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are they even making things up here? If you read through the entire thing they have a very valid case against Discord, ranging from the UX being confusing (i.e. "data protection by default") to actually storing the data they are not allowed to (i.e. illegally).

If you operate in a jurisdiction you operate by that jurisdictions laws. Do you think European companies don't have to abide by US laws when operating in the US?
For some of the pulsed fusion concepts like helion and zap, they're either very close to technical viability or to finding an unknown (at least by outsiders) deal breaker.

I'm much more sceptical on the economic viability. If it's past the edge of possibility with known materials now, there's no reason to think your reactor would suddenly last decades because you made a series kf incremental improvements from needing 10x the energy in as out to sorta do it once to 0.95x
Well that's disappointing.

Surely they're going to show some kind of proof that what he said is false, right? Because Mick did his homework and provided a LOT of dated receipts that disprove what Marty said in his reddit post.
There is a lot of development happening in the area of APL-insipred programming languages.

I've spent far too much time working on an APL dialect that allows you to combine APL with imperative structures at the same time. I really need to document it better though. https://aplwiki.com/wiki/KAP

Then there is April, which is a very neat version of APL that is implemented in Common Lisp. It allows you to miss Lisp arrays with APL arrays, giving you the best of both worlds. It's very functional even now: https://github.com/phantomics/april

And of course, BQN is a new language that takes a lot of the good ideas from APL but also changes a lot of the symbols. It's a very nice language: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/
i bother with it very rarely. readline is more than enough.
I'm an EU citizen and support the GDPR. But it's only a question of time before the US will interpet these fines as an undeclared trade war and make up the legal framework to do retaliatory strikes against EU tech companies.

Borders and tariffs will be the long-term future of the Internet.
I think GDPR being a weapon to attack companies is a good thing.

I've always thought that the bad aspect of GDPR is that it's General. We have in Slovenia a strict law about privacy and personal data protection. Companies with Slovene customers had to implement country specific notices and contracts, but GDPR made that easier. Especially for companies.

That's how I viewed it; as a legislation that allows companies to harvest user data easily and that's the main point why I was against it.

This comment sort of opened my mind a bit, now the same central legislation can also be used for the benefit of the people, since a legislation enforcement agency does not have to know so much regulation to defend user data. Though on the other hand, the GDPR is pretty long, much longer than slovenian law (we didn't implement GDPR yet, SI is currently paying fees for not implementing it).

Note: Big AFAIK -- law is really not something I understand, please correct me or add your opinion.
Which international governments? Why would the US agree to impose an EU fine, and under what legal basis?
I read somewhere that Fedora ships a new power management component called Power Profiles Daemon, I suspect it and TLP conflict.
You could probably get it working on any keyboard with Autohotkey on Windows

Ahk can override keyboard button presses with just about anything and you can use a layer key as a modifier
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(surname)
How will this standard be enforced for products operating outdoors?
The more difficult part about Finnish is that it exists in a state of diglossia. The spoken language is not written, and the written language is not spoken (apart from formal settings, such as the news and such).
they publicly defamed him on reddit two years ago, with claim that mick has already shown to be demonstratably false. this is even more doubling down. They've been trying to wear him down literally for years, all of this now is gordon putting some sunshine on bethesda's stunningly unethical behaviour.
I think it’s fair (if biased) to say that Meta’s incompetence is no excuse to break the law.
Santa's Data – This Holiday's Tech Gifts Are Creepier Than Ever
> I would argue 400 million is still low

Low, but not so low that it makes wage conspiracies worth it.
They'd block all the same apps, and some extra for the racket money. So no, current situation is not worse.
If I accept money from a Chinese guy, that doesn't make me subject to Chinese law.
I also agree on implementing measures to reduce wealth inequality, such as higher marginal income/marginal sales/wealth/estate taxes.

But I disagree on mischaracterizing someone’s actions to paint them in a bad light to advance a political cause.
> A generic Snapdragon ARM SoC, say, would deliver notably less performance in this specific scenario that is critically important to Mac users.

In some senses it's even more important for Snapdragon - Google doesn't yet ship a native Windows ARM build of Chrome. So for MacBook competitors using Windows on Snapdragon, you either have to use Edge or the emulated x86_64 Chrome.
The private farmer is operating on thin margins. They are ecologists to be sure; their soil is their life.

But no, not just to get some enviro-theatre stamp, they'll pay $0 for that.

And there's a lot of FUD about ag chemicals. Check rivers - the chemical problems are downstream from cities, where an urban dweller can dump as much whatever on their lawn as they like (and they do). While ag is restricted and regulated.
the point im trying to make is they both hopelessly anti-democracy.

they all love lobbying (= anti-democracy to me: the deeper pockets have more influence) there in washington
Also concerns around privacy and similar things which first started to be treated more seriously when it came prepackaged with an Amazon app.

To my knowledge right now they are just that, concerns, no absolute proof, but why risk it when there are so many other distros where those concerns don't exist?

Also theres the whole snap controversy, yeh sadly Ubuntu's issues go beyond stability
Far too much of Mac OS’s UI is click-happy, minimally functional garbage (or if allegedly functional, hides a lot of good things). And for reasons I can’t grasp, many keyboard shortcuts take 3-4 keys even though Mac has four specialty keys (Ctrl, Alt, Apple, and the #-like key).

I remember a Gartner article warning that Mac users will prefer the OS for nonobjective reasons, and that IT leaders just need to learn to accept it. I’ve finally had a Mac for a year, and I can’t agree more on the nonobjective part. It’s not good.
My entire point was, that the Estonian E-Residency is only worth it, if you are willing to relocate to Estonia. If you want to spend more than 183 days per year in some other country, then the Estonian E-Residency is not the right choice.
Or just ban putting those kinds of investments into IRAs. "ground-floor access to a unicorn startup". Nobody that actually needs an IRA to fund a retirement has those kinds of vehicles in them (the vast majority don't have access to such if they wanted to), only really wealthy people using IRAs for a purpose they weren't intended for.
Elon Musk's letter to all Twitter employees
From: Elon Musk
To: Team [at Twitter]
Subject: A Fork in the Road
Date: Nov. 16, 2022 [time stamp removed]

Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.

Twitter will also be much more engineering-driven. Design and product management will still be very important and report to me, but those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway.

At its heart, Twitter is a software and servers company, so l think this makes sense.

If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below:

[Link removed]

Anyone who has not done so by 5pm ET tomorrow (Thursday) will receive three months of severance.

Whatever decision you make, thank you for your efforts to make Twitter successful.

Elon
The @ on Q is a keyboard layout standard adopted my some languages. At least it's not Apple's design decision.

I'm Icelandic and a programmer. I work with US Ansi layout keyboards. Working with Icelandic ISO layout is horrible when programming. All the "programming" keys are strewn all over the keyboard and hidden under the option layer. I think they did this to make space for the special letters in the Icelandic language. On the other hand in the US Ansi layout the "programming" keys are close to the home row.

Couple of examples, but you can find more if you want to:
{} is easily accessible on the US Ansi, but Icelandic ISO it's under option+7 and option+0.
; is right under your pinky on the home row on the US Ansi, but shift+, on the Icelandic ISO layout.

The @ is also on Q on the Icelandic keyboards. Which is absolutely insane, because quitting applications in macOS you do cmd+Q and on windows I think it is ctrl+Q. On windows you have to do alt-gr+Q to get the @ symbol. But on macOS you can do both option+Q or option+2. I use the option+2. I'm not pressing that Q with a modifier combo, unless I intend on quitting something.
Preferring async communication and advising people to prepare before attending scheduled meetings is what I was suggesting, yeah.

Everyone needs to be at the same level of organization and agree upon what topics are and aren't relevant for each meeting. This is the flip side of work from home culture. You have to have your shit together. No excuses.
Good. More borders and tariffs (AND TAXATION, let me add) are definitely needed. Internet should contribute to a greater good, not enable transnational companies, tax evasion and data thief.
A reminder that Z-library is still available through Tor:
http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52...
I doubt it took just two people to handle the entire project.
Basically, if you do business in the EU (have customers there) then you'll be held accountable.
Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/elon-musk-fire-emplo...
The convention on Windows has always been that Alt+F4 or the X button (or the Close action in the Window Menu) will close the currently focused window (this even works for dialog boxes in Win32 apps!). There is also a softer convention that apps exit when their main/last window is closed, but this has never been a strong convention, and Chat apps in particular have been exiting/minimizing to systray when their windows are closed for decades at this point.

However, keeping an active voice session open with no window open is definitely outside the norm - most apps with audio chat that I know have to audio chat strictly tied to a window.
How about we keep the blockchain as far away from LibreOffice as possible. Those Venn diagrams do not overlap. Maybe instead, put some effort into making the LibreOffice experience and interoperability world-class.

This is entirely about credibility smuggling and attempting to force-feed crypto into spaces it has no business in.
You just hold them a foot or two away from the window and move it a lot.
It's still not a great idea because it's going to take like 30 minutes to defrost your windshield, but in a situation where there's a frozen tarp locking you out of the car, it'll do
just don't use water. or do, but post the video.
It's happened dozens of times in my country - I've lost schoolmates (not personal friends) in bus bombings.
I think in the Discord model it makes more sense because it's based off of how online gamers flow (basically open a voice chat and stay on there for hours on end).
> yeah, social justice is political only in USA

You’re shifting your goal posts. You said “social justice is an objective of US as a whole” and hence “not a political view.” That’s false.

> Even Iran ratified one treaty more than US

Which shows the difference. Ratification, in America, is not performative. Those treaties can become the basis for lawsuits against the U.S. in U.S. courts. If you’re arguing women have a better time in Iran, or civic and political rights are better protected in Russia, because they ratified those chapters, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
Buy them an expensive professional adult tool of some sort. Like a $1000 microscope, a Moog synthesizer, a FLIR camera, a Stratocaster guitar and Fender amp, a high power computer, an automated milling machine, a good 3D printer, a Black Magic Design Pocket video camera and Macbook, a pottery wheel and kiln, a bulldozer, etc. Something they can grow into and which will be rewarding and improve their life for a very long time. Safety is a concern (especially with bulldozers and kilns!) however providing oversight will make it a shared activity.
Search Is Overfitted Create; Create Is Underfitted Search
That's the enviro-theatre anyway.

Folks in the midwest largely use no-till single-application processes. Which prevents weeds from even starting.
Is this true of helion (ie. Does the plasma density more than compensate for duty cycle and small reaction volume)? They publish some of their stats, but I wasn't willing to put in the effort to turn it into an actual power density figure.
The EU can certainly claim any absurd jurisdiction they like, but how are they planning to enforce this? Ultimately it seems the primary thing they can do is censor Discord from EU internet.
You can download a copy of Dyalog for free, if availability is the issue.

If it's licensing/a desire to use open-source software, perhaps taking a look at its close relatives of J, or BQN, would be reasonable?

* Dyalog https://www.dyalog.com/download-zone.htm
* J https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation/J903/Zip...
* BQN https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/index.html

All of the languages and implementations have their differences, but they are all driving toward the same ultimate goals.
Sensationalist heading. The guns are not robotic, only remote controlled and they "only fire sponge-tipped bullets and tear gas".
In America there are people with legit ADHD, but for the rest: you need the diagnosis to get the meds, and you need the meds to get jobs.
So ignore it and move past it. By clicking on the thread and posting this, you've actively chosen to spend more time thinking about something that you're "tired of hearing about", and that just doesn't make sense.
Weirdly enough, Alt+Spacebar, then clicking close only closes the window (minimizing to the tray), but just hitting Alt+F4 kills the process.
Are Ubuntu GUI bugs Hacker News worthy really?
I hate this use of "no BS" or "brutally honest" being applied to people who lie way more than normal just because they aren't trying to be pleasant or politically correct.

Niceness and truth are orthogonal. For some reason a lot of people conflate being an asshole with being honest.

The people who take pride in "saying it like they see it", which should be an admirable quality, seem to say the most obvious lies.
Elon Musk gives Europe’s digital watchdogs their biggest test yet
cost of diet coke, steak, and internet please, if someone's HNing from Estonia here.
>the way people like this get hundreds of MM in IRAs is by buying early stage stakes that aren't generally available to the public at "pennies per share". Banning these from IRAs would be one way to end this sort of thing).

They are pennies per share because they are huge gambles worth approximately nothing right now. Anyone can make their own LLC and contribute the max equity into their IRA right now. It just does not make sense for most since it will probably perform worse than buying SP500.
I think, de facto, nothing will happen. But if you start to evade taxes on your foreigner paying costumers, and you avoid local regulations, then you expose yourself to a risk.
What about using like a Wacom drawing tablet in order to interact with APL?

I've never tried any of the Iverson-verse languages but the non-ascii inputs seem daunting and cumbersome.
Is `B5: =_A6_=0` intentional or should it be A5?
>> You can definitely create and make a form, ala previous generation of web apps.

> You don't need web components to create a simple form.

Yes, we agree. I am saying anything more complex than forms requires web component tech that isn't popular or liked by developers.
Mozilla - @mozilla - 23h

They see you when you're sleeping @amazon

They know when you're awake @fitbit

They know if you've been bad or good @facebook

So be good and check out our #privacynotincluded guide, for goodness sake!

Privacy Not Included : https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/
OhGr
1) eBay, that's the one place where I get a lot of old bits when needed... Secondly would be the vendor table as t local Vintage Computer event which would be a lot less than eBay prices but only available at specific times and places through the year.
Other than that be diligent, check out craigslist, thrift shops, boot sales/flea markets, look for used electronics parts places, used games stores, other resellers (Habitat for Humanity Re-Stores) etc. Let your acquaintances know you collect old computers. Know what you are looking at and your results will widely vary.

2) Network, I guess, restoring computers like on the videos is a laborious process if they were in business to make a living doing such the labor costs would be significant. You might get some help from people for one aspect or another// If you are willing to pay a bit you could find professional restoration.
Amorphis wrote some songs/albums allegedly based on the Kalevala
The world starts caring when the Olympics or World Cup come to a country. I hadn’t even heard about Qatar prior to them hosting the World Cup.
> In fish, it just works and you barely need to search for anything.

I keep having to google the location of my configuration file. It's ~/.config/fish/config.fish. I think, if it's not in ~/.local.

The whole function thing is also not the easiest to understand, although I love that it hot reloads and is global across all instances and so on, along with all sorts of other things.

Overall fish is one of my favorite shells but it's not 100% intuitive at first.
This is pretty cool, seeing the Kalevala on HN. This book was in my childhood home all the time because of Finnish ancestry on my mother’s side and the fact that Eino Friberg [1] was my great uncle who wrote the 1988/1989 English translation. I have only browsed the contents of the book though. This reminded me that I should really take a look at it again!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eino_Friberg
> I am using a Stream Deck for that.

Something like the DuckyPad[0,1] might work for that as well. I haven't tried using mine for APL or anything like that, but it's been great for use as a "Zoom meeting control", numpad, and MacOS shortcut pad.

[0] https://github.com/dekuNukem/duckyPad/

[1] https://www.tindie.com/products/dekuNukem/duckypad-do-it-all...
That's most of my life and I've always associated X with end process. Maybe I'm the odd one out.
Agreed, I've moved to only commenting WHY the function exists. The what can be stepped through. The why gives insight into intent, purpose and origin.
Because you want the superyacht? Or at least the status that comes with it?
£1 million isn't some staggering or offensive sum, IMO. As a retirement account, that will throw off £40K/yr with a 4% chance of failure (going broke) in 30 years or maybe £60K with 10% of going broke in 15 years and a 40% chance in 30 years.

£1 million is a completely reasonable retirement savings balance to target (and is lower than my family's own target), especially if you lived your life and want to retire in the most populated urban center in the UK.
In Europe everybody is insured. I don't think I've ever even _seen_ an invoice from a hospital.
It is much harder to rewrite an existing product since you have to retain compatibility. If the old version of the app was crap then presumably the persistent data structures are also crap, but you can't discard them. So you end up building a compatibility layer or migration process, but in the end you have to support the same general data model as the old version.
Nope. It's a country/language choice. Not an Apple choice.
Nothing is free, still need significant infrastructure to produce hydrogen at scale. It’s not like hydrogen is the only thing that wants cheap electricity and building infrastructure that’s very rarely used get’s expensive in the same way batteries sitting around for most of the year unused is expensive, so let’s assuming you can capture 1/2 of a surplus.

If the surplus is 24% for 3 months and you can capture 1/8th of it that’s only 3% for 3 months which is quite a bit of energy but is only useful if the deficit is actually 3% and nobody want’s to build a grid that close to failure simply because weather can make a larger difference than 3%. Which means you don’t get to used your equipment to generate electricity every year.

Don’t get me wrong hydrogen works in preparation for black swan events, but seasonal demand is much better dealt with by saving hydroelectric power for much of the year.
Ask HN: are there any joyful Corporate Directory apps?
At my ~200 person startup, we have a need to provide employees with a set of functionality that I would group under the heading of "corporate directory". This includes a profile page per person with data sourced from:

- HR systems: picture, team allocation, office location, work phone number, manager, ...
- User-provided data: "about me", dietary requirements, out-of-office / availability indicator, ...

There would also be rollup pages with metadata for each team, office location, etc.

Ideally there would also be the possibility to add custom plugins (e.g. gamifying activities like interviewing by displaying achievements on a profile page).

This kind of corporate directory functionality is often seen as a bolt-on to an HR information system. They typically bring along a simple tabular viewing app that invariably have a terrible UX, and never support data integrations with other systems. There doesn't appear to be meaningful interest from established players to invest in this domain, despite it being a great source of grassroots vendor lock-in if they can build something beautiful.

One option we have is to devote some of our internal development efforts to build such an app. In a ~200 person company, the opportunity cost of development and ongoing maintenance probably isn't worthwhile.

Do you have recommendations for a corporate directory app a company could deploy, either OSS or commercial?
I remember it from watching some weird black and white movie as a kid on some communist TV station. There was a long haired old man chanting "Kalevala show yourself" over and over again (all foreign stuff was subtitled for us). Nothing else stuck :-)

(Edit: it's possible it was Sampo, even though that seems to be in color. We just didn't have color TVs back then).
It’s like the affection I feel for C++ after I’ve re-learned one of its umpteen quirks for the umpteenth time.
Taking off your shoes once (maybe twice) a year vs putting on a mask multiple times every day.

I’m not surprised more people actually objected to the latter.
The amount of the fine is explained in the bulletin you are commenting upon:

"The amount of the fine was decided regarding the breaches identified, the number of people concerned, but also taking into account the efforts made by the company throughout the procedure to reach compliance and the fact that its business model is not based on the exploitation of personal data."

So evidently there was a dialog with the company during which they remedied much of the fault. Isn't that exactly the sort of approach you'd want from a regulator?
If the Chinese guy is based in China, and he is paying with his hard earned Renminbi yes, you are subject to Chinese law.
I don't see that at all, but OTOH I run i3 so maybe it's more an issue with their gnome setup?