skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a good suggestion here, but I have to point out that that does not fully address OP's stated concern about the use of text analysis techniques to figure out who wrote what, even if the username is different.

(It does probably make those techniques more difficult since it would mix comments together from multiple authors under the "deleted" username, but it doesn't fully remove the danger.)
You need one, but the word 'need' is too strong. If that's the case what other word would you use?
It doesn’t have to be n² if one unit has to control the others. If a single unit requires base load + 10% per unit you could be in trouble at 7-8 units. That’s more than sufficient for most sales.

If anything maybe they should have a special power wall for large installations, with a beefier CPU and sturdier components.

It’s not uncommon in tech and even to an extent automotive for the premium model to stay one hardware revision ahead of the consumer unit and after a few recalls iron out the reliability problems, after the R&D is paid off on whales, bring it down market and introduce something new at the high end.

That’s both technologically sound and plays on baser behaviors of the well to do (namely, classism). If normal people have the same thing I have then it’s time to sell it so I can feel special again.
I have become the thing I hoped to destroy. Sorry!
That would be an interesting thing to test! My first instinct is that the comparison operation (when denominators differ) would be more expensive.

In general some approaches should be better than others depending on how inserts are distributed — I think my approach is optimal when inserts are made at random (I haven’t proved this), but in practice it may be common for a bunch of things to be inserted in sequence for some applications. In those cases, there are more space-optimal approaches.
sudo iptables --append INPUT --source 123.123.123.123 --jump DROP
It looks like in US labour can vote either for corporations or for importing ever more cheap labour.

Some in Europe were labour was manipulated to vote for migration-friendly parties. Although now this seems to be changing with growing economically left but anti-immigration so-called „right wing“ parties.
It seems you've posted this in the wrong thread.
> textures that repeat themselves.

Use this one weird trick to fix that.[1]

The theory: [2]

This can be done in the GPU, so you only need one copy of the repeating texture in VRAM. It's good for semi-random patterns such as dirt, gravel, water, grass, asphalt, forest floors, etc. Not good for regular patterns such as bricks and tiles.

[1] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/20206840/174149327...

[2] https://jcgt.org/published/0011/03/05/
Black Friday Deals Website from Open Source GitHub Repository
Hi,
My name is Dobroslav and this is my first time posting here :D

I created a Black Friday Deals website, which uses data from GitHub repository created by Tony Dinh https://github.com/trungdq88/Awesome-Black-Friday-Cyber-Mond....

You can search and filter deals quite easily. Took me few hours to make. It scrapes GitHub Readme file and uses it to render website with Next.js
I know the consequences of violating GDPR.

My question was, how would EU fine a company in the US? They have no jurisdiction there. The same way (referring to sibling comments) Cameroon has no power to fine anyone outside Cameroon.

The companies in your article all have presence in the EU.
It has nothing to do with more or less important. The EU does not obligate HN to follow European laws when serving users in America or in India. It is only the serving of European users that's under European jurisdiction. HN is free to choose not to follow GDPR, in which case it will not be allowed to serve users in the EU. I guess Peru and India can have similar laws, and if they somehow do conflict -- say, the Indian law says something about what HN should do in Europe -- then it's up to HN to choose which jurisdictions it wants to serve. When a website chooses to serve certain users, it chooses to place those transactions under certain jurisdictions.
They list some of their activities on their web site [0, google translated], but alcohol and sharing beds is not mentioned.

[0] https://www-cubik--partners-com.translate.goog/rejoignez-nou...
Sorry, what does "gnome physics" mean?
You could be fined by the Republic of Congo or China. But, I would delete those emails and sleep just fine.
You could probably use techniques like this to rig an early warning system on enemy territory, but there are of course better options.
Counteranecdata: a nontrivial number of people I talk to have been leaving Twitter because their feeds are suddenly filled with MAGA ragebait and coded bigotry, which is the absolute straw for them.

2020 was the height of Trumpism, so it's possible that it really is calmer even so, or it might be more calm for new accounts for some reason? I'm certainly not planning to sharecrop on the Elmo plantation to find out personally.
I still don't get the specific objection here. The USA argues for its own interests, and is inconsistent, at best, on persuing principles in the rest of the world. Yes this is selfish and annoying. But what does that have to do with the decision at hand?
I thought Stallman control most popular developer tools - emacs, gcc and gpl.
I did and I can't delete it
Because Bezos wasn't even remotely as attention seeking as Musk is.

You're asking why someone seeking attention got attention. Which.. shouldn't really be surprising, should it?
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/us/living-alone-aging.htm...
Robert Lustig has been giving the same presentation for over a decade showing statistics that people who stop eating sugar can reverse their type 2 diabetes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
I would think this is true though admittedly I think 95% of people just want their comments deleted so co-workers/friends can't stumble upon a semi-political hot take from a few years ago. Not because there is anything illegal or even career ruining.
https://archive.ph/SxVta
They must follow the law of countries they make business in.

The conflicts are a well known trouble. Between EU and US for example there is an ongoing dispute between US PATRIOT Act and GDPR, where (simplified) US say they got access to all data and GDPR forbids that. Different treaties which tried to allow some "safe harbor" between the regulations have been invalidated by courts so all operations crossing the atlantic is in a legally questionable state ...

Now for HN the question is if they target EU customers. There is no need for them to actively block Europeans, but the line is unclear. It'd be clear if they were selling swag with prices listed in € or would show europe-specific ads. In case of doubt it's the decision by a court.

Decision by a court then is the other dimension. A European court probably has a hard time to reach anybody for a fine or some other consequences. Companies like Facebook avoided that for a long while, but since they got stronger in their European ad business they are formally reachable by European courts in their subsidiary in Ireland. If a judge is really desperate they might try going via a European subsidiary to a company they invested in and put out arrest warrants against the managers in case they ever touch European ground ... but most judges will probably try to avoid that amount of work involved.
I was a pentester. In ye olde pre-Covid days of 2016, it was important (at least to this manager) for pentesters to be available at precisely 9am for client engagements.

I actually didn’t know I had narcolepsy when I got the job. The discovery happened on the job. It was pretty comical. He was putting increased pressure on me to make sure I was there at exactly 9 (rather than leaving at ~8pm or later like I usually did). So I remembered a coworker from my first job being miraculously cured by a CPAP machine. I suggest “let’s try out a sleep study, I bet I can get this taken care of.” So I do that and they couldn’t even wake me up for the 3rd check. (There’s three checks during a sleep study, and I was apparently the heaviest sleeper they’ve seen.)

They were like “So it turns out you have narcolepsy” and I told my manager “so it turns out I have narcolepsy” and he was like “so it turns out I can sidestep disability laws. Gimme two months, I’ll speedrun your notice.”

It was an interesting experience being booted out with no severance and no notice. It’s just one of the many reasons I simply don’t believe any manager when they go on about family values or protecting employees. Even if they have good intentions, they still answer to the person one step above them.

From an employee POV the optimal strategy is to treat everything professionally. When times get tough, be professional. It sounds trite, but if you do your best and try to do a good job, then you’ve done all you can, and you can be satisfied with the outcome. Even if it’s not in your favor.

Was super relieved to be out of that situation. Though not so relieved when the electricity was almost shut off. Luckily my wife got a job within a mouse’s breadth of losing the apartment.
The problem still remains: HN’s “API” is incredibly simple and people have full datasets downloaded locally for every comment. In this case, the OP is already out of luck if he’s looking for anonymity against a hostile entity.
"doesn’t let users delete their own data"

I consider my HN comments to be contributions to the HN community. I received some benefit in return for those comments, e.g. responses that improve my thinking.

I may retain copyright over those comments, but by posting them on a public forum I've given that forum licence to publish them.
node operators can implement their own throttling - sure - but how many bitcoin node operators are doing that to deflect a p2p ddos attack? even if some are, most aren't - and finality in the network could potentially suffer as a result of a massively scaled botnet attack.

edit: interesting child comment here. not pushing a patch just leaves the bulk of the network vulnerable to being ddos'd by a botnet - potentially resulting in severely lagged finality at best. ip throttling can/should be implemented by being baked into bitcoind.
Amazon gets a ton of criticism for how it treats warehouse, delivery, and tech employees, as well as how it mixes inventory and treats 3rd party vendors. You can't hardly have a thread here on HN without all these topics coming up.

> no one cried when Bezos was buying WaPo. Bezos was buying WaPo.

Most people couldn't tell you what's changed about the WaPo, many probably don't even know Bezos is the owner. There's certainly been nothing like the public and obvious turmoil going on at Twitter.

And in spite of that, here are plenty of people who expressed concern about Bezos's ownership not only at time of purchase but on an ongoing basis.
I think this exactly it: the rules on their own are simple but their implications are far reaching and hard to recognize ahead of time until you practice writing code.
We tried that with some lights we in our bushes thinking it'd be fine to just keep them off, they're not even visible unless you were on our porch with your nose against the bushes looking for them. HOA ended up fining us anyways, nosy fucks.
Peter Drucker in "The Effective Executive" has a chapter that makes this point, "know thy time".
I think more companies should sign up for this. It would really help the employees. Others might say it's just one added day to the days of rest you have. But an additional day can go a long way.
I'd be happy with a browser extension that replaces all the paywalled links on HN with archive links.
Guess you make websites. Those doing numerical modelling use chemistry, physics and/or mechanical engineering along with calculus and probability. The quants use a bunch of this as well. These might be niche markets to the HN audience but there’s a whole lot of cpu spent on aircraft or auto design (fluid dynamics or finite element analysis), drug design (chemistry or physics) and other type of econometric modeling.
Interesting. I'm more concerned with the stylometry showing accounts which don't belong to me saying things that I might not agree with and have never said being accidentally mistaken for one of my own accounts.
If you took all the sentences out of all of the books in a library, and mixed the sentences together under one fake author name, I think it would be impossible to correctly attribute 99.99+% of the sentences to a correct author.

I think that is sufficient.
I agree with the sentiment, but it took so long because it went all the way to the Court of Cassation, the French equivalent of the Supreme Court.
“loss leader” is not explicitly defined. It’s not clear at all if the devices are sold for less than their marginal cost of manufacturing or their total cost of manufacturing (ie including R&D).
EU laws applies within the EU, as well as "what people do with EU citizen data online", which makes sense? If you have EU users, your handing of their data is bound by EU law, in the same way that if you have US users, your handling of their data is bound by US laws. (and yes, if Cameroon laws pertaining to data handling then yeah: you're bound to those laws for your Cameroonian users).

This isn't a matter of "the laws are making our life hard": by accepting user data you, as a service, are consenting to following all applicable laws. You have opted in, now you have obligations. Don't want to deal with GDPR? Ask users where they're from and go "sorry, can't let you create an account, we don't want to have to deal with GDPR".

Even if you pretended HN was a "for US only" website (which it of course very much isn't) you still have at least five state laws to comply with (California, Virginia, Colorado, Utah, and Connecticut), and that number's only going to go up.

If you handle data, the easiest way to deal with this whole "oh my god so many laws" is to know where your user data lives, not sell it on without express consent, and have data deletion built in from day one with a "delete all my data (including my account, obviously)" button that users can click themselves. And presto, without any further involvement from your side (unless you lie, and don't actually delete data) you suddenly comply with all data privacy laws, and users don't even need to fill in official request forms relating to specific laws that you then have to deal with within X days. You just have an FAQ entry going "Q: How do I delete my data? A: Go to your account page and click the "remove my account" button".
Should be lowered now :)
I think VC money needs to be deployed eventually. They made promises to their GPs within a certain timeframe.

So any money held off now needs to be invested in the coming 1-3 years. So I’m not very pessimistic about startup funding. But of course you need to stay alive until then.
Protests Erupt Across China
Not completely. For example, if the analyst has a large corpus from someone's main account to build up a profile, it seems plausible to me that they could identify individual comments under the "deleted" user as being written by the same person using a throwaway account, especially if they have a distinctive writing style.
Not really, we as a community know already that the best way to significantly change a language by keeping full compatibility is to write a preprocessor (CppFront way).

Carbon is DOA as it hacks a compiler, and Circle isn't even in active development (again if it would compile to C++ that would be a better direction).

At the same time putting ideas from Carbon to CppFront is possible (I wish Carbon developers would also think about going the preprocessing direction).
The X-Rite Color Challenge and Hue Test
> an automated approach that doesn’t involve email, which increases the surface area for doxxing.

Under what threat model does it meaningfully increase the surface area? If you're worried about HN admins then I think email is the least of your concerns (I'm pretty sure they can see your IP address), and if you're worried about the general public then your email isn't being leaked to them so it shouldn't matter.
totally agree with grandma : nothing wrong with a second, decaf brew.
my grandma, in the old times, used the burned crust from the home made bread for the morning coffee. peasants could not afford real coffee. it was similar to chicory coffee, not too bad.
Seeing that there are more than 10 thousand US people in that database, which is unlikely to be complete, I do not think that "hardly anyone" is the right term.

Nevertheless, I agree that such people might be a very small part of those who lose weight.

About 15 years ago, I have lost about one third of my initial body weight during almost a year, and then I have kept my desired weight until today, without any kind of medical treatment, either surgical or drug-based.

Nevertheless it was not easy and it required a lot of thought and experiments with the diet, until I have learned how to control my weight, after many years during which I had believed that this is impossible. It also required completely dropping many bad habits, for example drinking commercial juices or eating commercial mixes of yogurt with fruits or eating various kinds of "breakfast cereals" or any other such commercial products containing an excessive amount of sugar. I have never eaten or drunk again any of the products that I have blacklisted, even if they were among those that I had eaten or drunk daily, for many years.

I believe that most people are not introspective enough to succeed in changing so much their habits by themselves so they need some kind of external help. The main obstacles for weight control are psychological, not physiological, i.e. those who need to control their weight must learn somehow to love to eat food that is different from what they had been eating, because if they will ever revert to their old eating style, then they will certainly also revert to their previous weight.
Paper from CIDR’22, January 9-12, 2022, Chaminade, USA

“This paper describes Mach, a pluggable storage engine we are building specifically to handle high-volume metrics data. Similar to many popular libraries (e.g., Berkeley DB, LevelDB, RocksDB, WiredTiger), Mach provides a simple API to store and retrieve data. Mach’s lean, loosely coordinated architecture aggressively leverages the characteristics of metrics data and observability work- loads, yielding an order-of-magnitude improvement over existing approaches—especially those marketed as ‘time series database systems’ (TSDBs). In fact, our preliminary results show that Mach can achieve nearly 10× higher write throughput and 3× higher read throughput compared to several widely used alternatives.”
Right. You can only imagine the amount of fury that would drive a person to follow through on a thing like this. I mean, kudos to him for his success here against professional depravity, but litigation is awful, and often it’s better to just let the bastards win.
I find the options search to be generally suitable for that case https://search.nixos.org/options
You seem to assume, that one can know what the impact of one's actions will be. That's basically asking for the ability to predict the future.

I don't want to imply that the outcomes don't matter. But at least I prefer living in a justice system where planned murder and fatal accident are not considered as equal offences, although outcomes might be the same.
<<Professionalism is an artificial construct.

Most things are.

Why is it a requirement to join any team at all, which also happens to be an artificial construct?
> What if they conflict

You don't need a hypothetical question for this:

"""The EU–US Privacy Shield was a legal framework for regulating transatlantic exchanges of personal data for commercial purposes between the European Union and the United States.[1] One of its purposes was to enable US companies to more easily receive personal data from EU entities under EU privacy laws meant to protect European Union citizens.[2] The EU–US Privacy Shield went into effect on 12 July 2016 following its approval by the European Commission. It was put in place to replace the International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles, which were declared invalid by the European Court of Justice in October 2015.[3] The ECJ declared the EU–US Privacy Shield invalid on 16 July 2020, in the case known as Schrems II.[4]""" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU–US_Privacy_Shield

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems

Also, Microsoft had a specific problem with legal jurisdiction, because first the FBI then a US court ordered it to hand over data from a server in Ireland that EU/Irish law prohibited it from handing over: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/microsoft-ire... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat...
Hey, glad to see there's more people like that. Do you know of any communities where people share info on how to do it without signing up with a commune? (I am very happy for people who join them, it's just not for me and I don't want to pretend as that would be unfair to those good people.)

I hope that the current climate change legislation will have a happy side effect of easing the draconian zoning laws.
Well, the fact that Twain said it doesn't prove it's absurd nonsense, but it certainly suggests the possibility.
>Notwithstanding, I have avoided virtually all NSFL stuff and don't understand trigger warnings.

How?

Trigger warning = NSFL tag on the post

Allows you to have informed consent to consume content - or nope out of it.

For most people, "NSFL" is stuff like extreme gore.

For survivors, NSFL also includes whatever experience nearly did them in (so, literally NSFL). Hence more words needed.

Did this clear it up?
> [...] until the day you cross a line that you didn’t know existed, [...] And then your account gets nuked and you can’t migrate your posts.

Exactly. This is the critical flaw in Mastodon's design. It does not solve the single biggest flaw in Twitter (or any other typical platform) design, where the platform operator owns the network, and not the author/user.

This is why I won't bother investing my own personal time and effort in joining anyone else's server, given how the current design is implemented.

It's sad that BitTorrent has now existed for 21 years, and still no one has built a social media content distribution network on top of it. I would have done it but I don't have the motivation to do it alone, as it would tilt control away from the platform operators who require that control in order to monetize the platform to make it worth the investment.

:sigh:
The new york times is easily read by disabling all javascript and cookies...
When you open up the joint, bits are left behind in the female half. Then they get pushed in when it's resealed.
Remember: downvoting is for showing that the comment is not following HR rules. One doesn't downvote because one disagrees to a well-presented truthful argument.

No, in that case, one replies: and begins a discussion.

As usual, I stand by my comments, as they are my lived life experience. And, I believe they are quite accurate, and otherwise a thoughtful answer to the OPs question.

Nobody asked, for example WHY was I writing assembly language for 4 years; but I'll tell anyway: I wrote a compiler for a Python-like language called "Simpletran". It pre-dates Python by several decades, but many of the original ideas in the early Pythons are there.
I really miss my QA dept.

I think devs voted to get rid of them because it was often QA and Product ganging up on Dev, but if you’ve never experienced Dev and QA ganging up on Product, you’ve missed out.

Getting rid of QA meant that Product cannot be outvoted except by a walkout. It’s part of why I’m not as loud about DevOps becoming its own business unit. At least it’s 2 against 1 again.
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