skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think despite the goals of GDPR/cookie law being laudable, it really has turned into a complete trainwreck for the European tech sector IMO.

It's a giant pain for my work for sure. Anything which could potentially have some intersection at some point with European customers has to fully comply with all of these EU privacy regulations.

Usually that means taking an already clunky internal system and adding a bunch of restrictions to it to make it even more clunky. Also banning some useful practices and tooling that me and people like me use for our day-to-day.

Yes, some of this is due to internal dysfunction.
If you read many examples, it would be even better to actually fix the simple causes of their suffering, such as a few hundred dollars per month.

This seems like carte blanche to slowly take away all complex social care programs, and just have the resulting suffering people kill themselves.
> That sounds an attack on the people of India for something a private company is doing.

It's the responsibility of the Indian government to police what happens within its borders. The Indian government has turned blind eye to scammers in their country targeting the US, they're effectively endorsing it.

Why should the US continue to do business with a country that leeches off of the US citizenry?

Historically, the US has done the same thing to Japan, and more recently, China, when their businesses undermine US businesses. Either by not respecting US IP or by running US businesses under through collusion.
The fundamental flaw to the DNT was the lack of any sort of penalty for non-compliance. There was no penalty for individual advertisers from either the government or from industry bodies. There was also no penalty to the advertising industry as a whole in the form of more stringent privacy laws.
This is the cancer that infected big tech. A class of professional managers who provide little to no value but don’t want to leave because the grift is so easy.

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Also green accounts are triggered.
I think the way to do it is how the EU does it, where slack is built in by law (large amounts of compensation for delayed flights). You pay more for each flight in return for predictability, and the race to the bottom is prevented.

Though I'm not sure it would have helped in this case.
Exactly. At one level, the Indian political system is a politician-criminal nexus. The politicians are supported by money flowing in from shady systems, the politicians allow shady systems to run and use the money to win elections. Rinse and repeat.

Then there are some variations of these - e.g. the politician and criminal is the same person or in the same family, the criminal also does some legit work, the criminal does mostly legit work and lot of it is goverment projects or projects running on tax money (which are done badly or subcontracted and money flows back partly as kick-backs).

This cycle is hard to break unless some serious reforms are brought it, but then why would the politicians break the very system which brings them so much power and money.
This is absolutely nuts! a 55 year old considering suicide for poverty?! something which can be solved with another $600/month and the govt allows them to die?! There has to be better ways for society to deal with these issues
Markets are irrational in the short term for sure, but very good allocators of capital long term.

re: Twitter
Price is just the last transaction to clear and the buyers can make that transaction for a million reasons, some of them betting that intrinsically the price doesn't reflect their value of the company. Seems fine to me. Wrong in the short term now looking back, but a million other things may have happened differently (TikTok could have been banned, Musk could have taken over differently, Macro trends could have reversed...etc)
You tackle these things one-obstacle-at-the-time. Telco's are borderline complicit in this today, they don't have to be. Note that in some countries these scams are far more prevalent than in others, they'll go for the low hanging fruit first just like any other business. Make it harder and definitely there will be a response and then you aim to tackle that one. Shipping a SIM box would already be much more work than just changing a number in a database. Require that a phone number is used in the country of origin before you allow it to roam is another step in that process and so on. Rome wasn't built in a day and I'm sure that getting rid of this problem is going to be a series of steps.

But as long as telcos willingly cooperate and allow remote call centers to basically pick any number in the locality of the recipient even though that number is not currently roaming in India they are making things much worse.
>Seems like this practice needs to expand to more industries.

I think you've mistaken this for something immediately increases quarterly gains with no regard to long-term strategy.
I've seen a lot of consternation online regarding this program, with most of it simply presenting the idea of assisted suicide as self-evidently unconscionable. But why think so? Why should someone be forced to continue to live a life they have no interest in, regardless of the reason? This idea that the highest virtue is to continue breathing for as long as possible is probably an ideological holdout from our Christian past, where suffering was virtuous and our fates were in God's hands, not our own. The West has become largely secular, but our Christian forebearers still have immense influence.
> Last week I wanted to watch Harry Potter which I know was on Netflix and/or Prime Video at some point, now it’s not available anywhere.

It's on Peacock Premium and HBO Max.
Yeah this is stupid and blatantly sexist. Used to live by a lot of Muslim immigrants and the boys had no covering but then you have 6yo girls that are covered head to toe.

Just guessing but that is going to mess with kids body-image and cause lots of psychological problems in the future.
Every country seems to be having the same issues right now. I think it is the after effects of a once in a century pandemic that health systems were ill-prepared for, and isn’t fully over (huge flu season repercussions if not interacting in the last few years)
My position on euthanasia and (assisted) suicide:

> Those whose lives are diminished or weakened deserve special respect. Sick or handicapped persons should be helped to lead lives as normal as possible.

> Whatever its motives and means, direct euthanasia consists in putting an end to the lives of handicapped, sick, or dying persons. It is morally unacceptable.

> Thus an act or omission which, of itself or by intention, causes death in order to eliminate suffering constitutes a murder gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person and to the respect due to the living God, his Creator. The error of judgment into which one can fall in good faith does not change the nature of this murderous act, which must always be forbidden and excluded.

> Discontinuing medical procedures that are burdensome, dangerous, extraordinary, or disproportionate to the expected outcome can be legitimate; it is the refusal of “over-zealous” treatment. Here one does not will to cause death; one’s inability to impede it is merely accepted. The decisions should be made by the patient if he is competent and able or, if not, by those legally entitled to act for the patient, whose reasonable will and legitimate interests must always be respected.

> Even if death is thought imminent, the ordinary care owed to a sick person cannot be legitimately interrupted. The use of painkillers to alleviate the sufferings of the dying, even at the risk of shortening their days, can be morally in conformity with human dignity if death is not willed as either an end or a means, but only foreseen and tolerated as inevitable. Palliative care is a special form of disinterested charity. As such it should be encouraged.

> Everyone is responsible for his life before God who has given it to him. It is God who remains the sovereign Master of life. We are obliged to accept life gratefully and preserve it for his honor and the salvation of our souls. We are stewards, not owners, of the life God has entrusted to us. It is not ours to dispose of.

> Suicide contradicts the natural inclination of the human being to preserve and perpetuate his life. It is gravely contrary to the just love of self. It likewise offends love of neighbor because it unjustly breaks the ties of solidarity with family, nation, and other human societies to which we continue to have obligations. Suicide is contrary to love for the living God.

> If suicide is committed with the intention of setting an example, especially to the young, it also takes on the gravity of scandal. Voluntary co-operation in suicide is contrary to the moral law.

> Grave psychological disturbances, anguish, or grave fear of hardship, suffering, or torture can diminish the responsibility of the one committing suicide.

> We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives. By ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance. The Church prays for persons who have taken their own lives.

Taken from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraphs 2276-2283
The initial safety trials for the vaccines involved tens of thousands and by the time you had the chance to get the vaccine it had been given to millions of people (with any adverse effects tracked). One of the vaccines was pulled off the market for super rare side effects!

And at the same time, it was obviously, provably known that the vaccine was better than covid. Did you know covid causes myocarditis too? More often than the vaccine does?

If your standard for informed consent is more information that was available for the covid vaccines then I assure you the other health decisions you are making in your life are not meeting that standard. You also aren't the best at evaluating risk. It's very much like being against seatbelt mandates because they sometimes cause injuries in car crashes.

Now it is a separate question of whether the current vaccine policy makes any sense, but its a much less impactful question because the policies from 2021 mostly did the job of protecting people.
Waiting for something like: apply for early MAID, receive 10% bonus to your pension.

I think that given enough time this MAID thing will be commercialized and grossly abused.
Kinda reminds me of how the Genesis/Mega Drive’s audio incorporated both the new Yamaha FM synth chip and the Master System’s TI programmable sound generator. Covered backwards compatibility but they also could both be used at the same time and mixed. See the “Audio” section here: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/mega-drive-genesis...
The US just has large number of people in one country code who mostly speak English, have high incomes, a uniform retail landscape ("go to CVS and get a Google Play card" works everywhere), and an abundance of options for telephony.

It's not like Indian scammers are beholden to EU law but not US law.
The world is much much bigger than you think. It might be shocking but Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX, and even PayPal are irrelevant to the daily lives of the vast population of the planet, and they will be for a long time.
More interesting to me is that this shouldn't be an issue, they should just lose out to the competition organically.

And yet here we are.
The “Epic thread” post could easily be used as Russian propaganda as an endorsement. I tend to think someone with as much power as Elon has some duty to be serious when engaging in potentially dangerous geopolitical issues.
if the refrigerator compressor fails its usually not economically repairable. everything else is fixable.
Calling `setState` while rendering has been a legitimate thing to do since hooks first came out, but _only_ in one specific scenario / usage pattern.

From the original hooks FAQ at time of release:

- https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html#how-do-i-implement-g...

I talked about the reasoning / behavior for this in my React rendering guide:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-...
OK, but even O(n^3) is still polynomial, not exponential. That matters. There's a reason that P=?NP is a thing.
Thank you going to look into that!
Having to download dependencies is a very Linux desktop problem. On every other platform (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android) it is customary for installers to come with all dependencies. Most programs also statically link non-system libraries.
Indeed, it’s more accurate to say that C was designed around common asm calling conventions of its day, than the other way around.
I think what makes your definition confusing or misleading is the concept of dual sovereignty.

Under the concept of dual sovereignty in a federal system (such as the United States, Russia, Canada, or India), conduct can be legal or illegal under each of the sovereigns independently. At least post-Lochner era there are many laws that are in this scope.

An example that might test your definition would be recreational use of marijuana which is legal in some states but illegal federally. It would be at best misleading to say that "US law permits the recreational use of marijuana" even though it meets your definition.
> The only way to hit the ctrl key ergonomically

I just just use the side of my palm (top of fifth metacarpal) to engage C.

Super comfortable, low effort, no leaving the home row.
It's been a worse year for TSLA than even META, now.
Couldn't there be a collection of software? Hence softwares?
I think there’s a lot of people who have trouble coming to grips with the fact that the “right wing propaganda” of ten years ago is today’s reality. Give credit to the poster, they’re at least acknowledging that such a thing might be possible.
> The fact two fundamental and official mass communication channels are functionally useless is a sign of the rot in our country.

It's a problem everywhere. This is what you get when you let the advertising industry operate unchecked. Scam calls and snail mail spam are just piggybacking on the fact that phone companies and postal services encourage and make money on telemarketing and mass marketing e-mails.

It's going to be hard to solve one without solving the other, as the difference between those scams and typical marketing communication is a matter of degree, not kind.
I think this is an "ought VS is" thing - I know realistically the US could just hit people until they agree, but this is something that would need to be handled by an international governing body. If someone in NY scams someone in CA, CA can't just unilaterally prosecute them, it becomes a federal crime because it's across state lines. Similarly this is between countries and I don't know if we even have international laws for stuff like this, so it may not even be truly illegal. The US could request extradition but I think that's the extent of the legal actions the government could take.
> by someone saying "how do we know this is true", and the answer is, we can't know, therefore we take it on blind faith.

If you're talking about evolution in general, then it makes a large number of predictions about the way things are, that have borne out.

If you're talking about penises scooping out semen, the answer is we can't know, therefore we take it on faith—the answer is we don't know, and so it's one of several hypotheses—none of which are mutually exclusive. Nobody is (or should be, at least) taking it on faith, because nobody should be asserting it as definitely true.
Couldn't this be fixed by restricting international roaming of US SIMs into countries with high rates of call scams?
More info about browser password management in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34149738
In Germany scam calls often come from callcenters in Turkey. There is a huge quantity of people who speak both Turkish and German quite well and a small portion of them who for some reason or other reside in Turkey now participate in scam operations.

Turkey doesn't have much interest in stopping this. One could argue they have quite a few bigger problems, crime related or not, to try and shut down a source of foreign currency. Same as India.
> I think a generally useful framing for these kinds of criminal enterprises is comparison to US wage theft: nearly the same amount is stolen from US workers each year in just the top 10 states[1]. This doesn’t somehow excuse phone fraud, but you don’t see the same kind of grousing for cutting Fortune 500s off of the Internet.

Cutting F500s off the internet would do nothing about wage theft. There is considerable advocacy for strong action to bring wage theft under control, too. So, I’d say this analogy fails its purpose on multiple levels.
> Imo the law should be structured such that people who care can opt out of cookies programmatically, but every day people who don't care don't need to see a pop up on every site. That causes psychic load and makes us hate the internet.

Make it opt-in programatically rather than opt-out and we may agree.
See my extensive post "A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior":

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-...

as well as these other excellent posts on React's internals and implementation:

- When does React render your component?: https://www.zhenghao.io/posts/react-rerender

- A Complete Guide to useEffect: https://overreacted.io/a-complete-guide-to-useeffect/

- Getting Closure on React Hooks: https://www.swyx.io/hooks/

- Didact: Build a Miniature React with Hooks" https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react
Thanks for the great article!

At my current employer we have a company-wide service for aggregating error logs in particular (WARN, ERORR level log rows and stacktraces, if it was an exception) so developers can analyze them for debugging purposes. Also it automatically gathers information about incoming http request (geo, ip address, user agent, etc) and you can easily see a particular segment of errors, and what kind of users getting them.

As I can see you have logs quantitative metric https://community-demo.coroot.com/p/oc1vhnmq/app/default:Dep... but without any detalization (maybe it works this way only for the demo app). I mean, it would be great to be able to inspect each ERROR event separately or to define custom SLO with alert for particular type of errors.

Another great feature we use a lot is historical data, so you can find patterns of error spikes on months scale and when it has gone after fix.

FYI this error-service I'm talking about is built on top of the ClickHouse, so it's quite responsive regardless of the large volumes of data.

Another thing I want to mention is cron-like workload (or batch jobs, you name it). Is there any support or useful metrics for it?
Lol obviously a good meta point.

I’d also note that Dogen wasn’t trying to sound deep - perhaps unlike Sartre and Zizek.
> Note from Kevin! Bear with me, this is just an automatically generated privacy policy. I will get a real one soon.

> What you probably want to know is if your emails are safe! Yes, they are safe. All emails are encrypted in transit and at rest. However, to use OpenAI we need to decrypt on the server before making an API request. In the future, I would love to run our own LLM completely in house so your emails never get sent to any third party ever.

https://www.emailtriager.com/privacy

I sympathise with the fact that formulating a good privacy policy is difficult.

However, I would like to see a better, more specific privacy policy.

Also curious about the implications of forwarding all emails received from others to EmailTriager and to OpenAI.

I am sure some people will not like the idea that private communication that they write to others are made available to EmailTriager and OpenAI.
There are actually examples downthread of some doing just that - threatening patients that need constant care with torture unless they "voluntarily" apply to the program.
I worked on the medical resident scheduling problem for a while, and there is a giant body of work on all kinds of staff scheduling problems going back to the 1960s at least.

The two classes of solutions that I considered where optimization solvers (see Gurobi Optimization for example), and meta-heuristics (see the book Metahueristics: From Design to Implementation). If I remember correctly, the people at Gurobi started at a previous company which was spun out of an airline, but I might be confused. All the algorithms in both classes of solutions are so nuanced that it can take years to begin to grasp how their strengths and weaknesses interact with your particular scheduling challenge, and how the way you formulate the problem interacts with the ability of the algorithm to solve it.

All that said, the real problem for me was a human one: If you produce a viable schedule X, the organization involved will always want to alter the rules to stretch the available resources to cover more, and simultaneously all the schedule staff will want more flexibility and nuance in expressing their preferences. You, as the author of scheduling software, are caught between them. Neither side is ever happy with the result.

I occasionally daydream about revisiting resident scheduling (I don't recommend it, the people who use your software leave every year, are not business oriented, and don't understand the complexity of the task until they've tried it on their own their first and only attempt). If I did, I would focus less on algorithms, and more on incentives to reconcile the tension between the organization, which wants to cover the most shifts with the fewest people at the cost of flexibility and preferences, and the staff, who want more flexibility and more preferences satisfied. I think that is the core problem at a business level.
Are you familiar with the term 'pre-market' sales? Tesla opened a full $6 lower than the last close because of the pre-market sentiment, and in part this was due to the tweet. How big a fraction is impossible to say but I'm pretty sure that Musk is well aware of the effect of his tweets by now. I don't have access to a terminal but I can look back as far as 4 am on public sources and by then it was clear the stock was going to open much lower.

If you have a better explanation about why it took him a couple of hours to try some damage control I'm all ears.

edit to your edit(s): If you think Musk doesn't have better access than you and I do then that's pretty naive, obviously he is monitoring Tesla's stock price like a hawk and if the sentiment drops he'll be aware of it well before the figures are published.

Just doing sentiment analysis on Twitter would give you a pretty good indication of where the price is headed and guess who happens to have access to the firehose? And that's before we get into personal phone calls from people holding large swaths of Tesla stock as security against dodgy loans.

edit2: too many ninja edits to keep up with...
I’m not suggesting someone has expectations of making it big, but I think this is a great example of a gadget with zero moat. Google et al. will tidy it up and bake it into their email clients. They have an appetite for this kind of UX, given they already have the quick responses to emails.
iPhone alert: there are ten thousand airtags near you
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“Politely respond I read the polite reply in 500 words or more.”
Maybe they should have sent an FBI liaison earlier. Or maybe they should consider appointing an ambassador to India, 2 years into the new administration.
Maybe I missed it, but what I don’t see mentioned in the comments is the biggest change from four years ago: light at the end of the tunnel.

Four years ago Tesla was in the throes of model 3 production and had the potential of huge demand once they got going.

Where are things now? Other automakers have responded with alternatives. Good ones too, you can buy a Hyundai for a similar price and according to consumer reports, better reliability.

What’s on the horizon for Tesla? Trucks and Semis but those aren’t as mass market as model 3, and self driving cars have shown themselves to be… less than feasible.