skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you that this isn't ideal, but as a choice between the simplest options, I think GDPR was at least an improvement. The prior status quo was 'you can bury it in the ToS in a basement across town' and led to a market where new entrants couldn't compete on more privacy friendly terms.

I'd guess that even now, just allowing a simple 'pay money or <smooth lawyery wording for happiness that incidentally eliminates privacy>' choice would just lead to the same issues again. But it's absolutely like a code smell that tells me there's a more nuanced option somewhere that could be better. However, I'm glad they didn't let perfect be the enemy of good in this case.
> I envision a future where children will be assigned a friendly AI as a lifemate that will grow up alongside them, having all of the knowledge of the world at its fingertips to teach and coparent the child into its adulthood and throughout its life.

I'm reminded of Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age, or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age

> The protagonist in the story is Nell, a thete (or person without a tribe; equivalent to the lowest working class) living in the Leased Territories, a lowland slum built on the artificial, diamondoid island of New Chusan, located offshore from the mouth of the Yangtze River, northwest of Shanghai. When she is four, Nell's older brother Harv gives her a stolen copy of a highly sophisticated interactive book, Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: a Propædeutic Enchiridion, in which is told the tale of Princess Nell and her various friends, kin, associates, etc., commissioned by the wealthy Neo-Victorian "Equity Lord" Alexander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw for his granddaughter, Elizabeth. The story follows Nell's development under the tutelage of the Primer, and to a lesser degree, the lives of Elizabeth Finkle-McGraw and Fiona Hackworth, Neo-Victorian girls who receive other copies. The Primer is intended to steer its reader intellectually toward a more interesting life, as defined by Lord Finkle-McGraw, and growing up to be an effective member of society. The most important quality to achieving an interesting life is deemed to be a subversive attitude towards the status quo. The Primer is designed to react to its owner's environment and teach them what they need to know to survive and develop.
But don't you need 4 keystrokes for the common alternative, {} enclosed template expressions? Same as french, nordic, and probably lots of other european intl layouts.

(Or even better against the {{ }} ones requiring 6)
It did indeed make life better but thats because we never considered the externalities, then we would realized we erred too hard on the side of environmental exploitation. What takes millions of years of give and take to produce is squandered in a fortnight.

In biology, balanced relationships, mutually symbiotic relationships take orders of magnitude longer to evolve than parasitic relationships. We do not have a balanced relationship with this planet, we have a parasitic one. We are speaking the same things when you say that whenever we have failed was because of mismanagement, in other words being to parasitic to our hosts. To not mismanage something would be to understand all the latent variables affecting the system before we act. We never do that, we act, then only react after the system is so obviously affected by our actions.
It might be desirable for many to preserve this classical web search functionality but the underlying documents that support such a system will inevitably trend towards being AI-generated content one way or another unless it's meticulously curated.

Personally, 95% of my Google searches are looking for an answer, not a specific document. If there were an all knowing AI that could answer all my questions accurately I'd almost never use classical document search.
He makes the people around him feel like children again, so amazed by the magic. Incredible talent. The closest analogue I can find is Tommy Cooper, who had the same kind of act making you think that he really just can't do it only to come away with your mind utterly blown by how he totally owned you and wondering how far back it all started.
Yes one of the purposes of the GDPR is to make it so such a service does not exist.
From the viewpoint of the organization, remote works far better for Rust. The less errors need to be found, the better. For local the argument is the same, but the matter is of less urgency. Shorter feedback loops allow errors to be corrected sooner, local normally has the advantage there.
Wow. There's no way that should be legal. I hope somebody sues so a judge can rule on it.
GDP is a horrible way to think about actual international trade, because western GDP is pumped up by services, IP (and monumentally expensive machines that are mainly IP wrapped in steel). Meanwhile China exports actual stuff. In a real "embargo China" situation, China and their sphere of influence could easily replace Europe and the US while the opposite is not true.
I unironically enjoy non-targeted ads. Every time I see one that has nothing to do with my interests, I know that my meticulously tuned home network and browser settings are working.
Hot tip is to add custom CSS with something like the below, made it a so much better experience for me

html {
margin-left: 20vw;
margin-right: 20vw;
}
The “boomer” memes aren’t meant to be taken literally. “Ackshually”-ing them is about as boomer as it gets.
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She woke up at a normal hour and saw an email from 3 AM. "Woke up to find a notification on her phone", not "woken up by a notification on her phone".
I read it as “woke up at <some arbitrary, unspecified time> to an email which was sent at 3:16AM.”
Quote was shared to me by the president of a defense contractor where I worked as a contractor on a project to surface (excuse the pun) that SGML document.
I don't think linux has anything to do with it.

I took that to mean it runs on Linux.
In this case “whatever they can to turn a buck” = “showing you ads targeted to 20 year old males because you said in your profile that you’re a 20 year old male”.
> The unfortunate second-order effect of the death of globalization that no one likes to talk about is the rising cost of all kinds of goods and products

These aren’t second-order effects or some kind of dirty secret. Anyone with a high school education in econ understands that buying American is more expensive. What is a far more interesting question is why we are now willing to pay that cost, and how we got here. It’s worth noting that this is largely a counter-current movement within the semi conductor industry, since a lot of industries post-Covid are actually more global, more remote, and less local than ever before. Would be interesting to touch on this.

This pseudo-conspiratorial thinking, that somehow the increased costs of domestic production are a secret the “elites” are trying to “hide,” is just a convenient way to make a very basic observation seem clever and insightful.
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Texas is a pretty messed up governance model in general. Whenever you see this kind of incompetence, it always a political issue, as the DMV is a revenue generator. If there's friction involved in paying taxes, it's due to the some stupid political problem.

RealID is a huge driver of increased demand for those services. Not only the bullshit around voter suppression and casual racism, but fundamentally areas with more immigrants and more complex documentation needs will take longer to service. Richer areas have a lower demand for services, but county clerks, etc, usually get a piece of the action.
This is what I mean by "moving as fast as they can without having to admit they were wrong". That speed is not zero. It is still not a popular opinion. The occasional trial balloon is part of the process.

"If you're serious about the segment where people publicly admit their mistakes and that they were "obviously stupid" then best of luck."

Of course that's obviously satirical. CNN does not run actual news segments with that name or anything like it. I picked it that way on purpose, for that effect.
Thanks for letting me know. Revved the file name. Should work now.
I feel like groupthink could be a good thing in the old context where you were part of a community and discussing these things was something you did in the checkout line at the market and people would either nod, or give you odd stares or be like WTF, now that everything is online though, every opinion can find like minded people to champion it, and bad idea-makers are emboldened to take a bad idea and make it a meme and it grows and builds momentum. QAnon is a good example of this.

When you had a smaller pool of people and their political/religious backgrounds were more wide and open you'd be more thoughtful about what you say, and discussions were more academic less political, but now it seems everyone has a motive behind what they say or do and everything is about being grouped under socialist, neoliberal, capitalist, patriot, nationalist, ring-wing nutjob, extremist, etc...

My point is the problem is online echo chambers, if we had a way to build larger but similar wide-view communication platforms maybe we'd have less politicization but then people probably wouldn't use it because that's what they're seeking an outlet for their political idealogies.
How do you see ads if you've tuned your browser settings?
“I like this” != “this is art”. The fact that an image you may have found looks good to you without context is orthogonal to whether it is art.

(If you are certain that at least a human has produced such an image, you could speculate about and attempt to empathize with that unknown human’s internal state of mind—lifting the image to the level of art—but as of recently you’d have to rule out that an unthinking black box has produced it.)

You may be inspired by it to create art—but since art is fundamentally a way of communication, when there is no self to communicate there’s no art.
If you find this topic interesting you might also like the following talk

ElixirConf 2019 - High Performance String Processing Scripts in Elixir - Johanna Larsson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y83p_VsvRFA
Didn’t downvote you, but i assume that yes, most people here are able to understand that human life is complex, and that we should congratulate people whenever they’re doing something good.

Most people are, fortunately, also able to distinguish between a soldier, his army policy, and the regime ruling over that army at a given time.
It's predictable. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was signed into law in mid-2016 and came into effect in mid-2018.

That is two years to designate data controllers, processors, and a data protection officer, to ask for the customer's permission to collect personally identifiable data and implement secure storage.

I was working on a SaaS where personal data was the main kind of data we stored. It took two sprints and two audits to achieve GDPR compliance. It is now 2023, and Meta is still not compliant. No one can explain this away with "unpredictable".
Some observant HN users simply past prior HN links into recent posts on the same topic.

That, of course, is not a solution given the nature of how HN us used: see a cool page, drop it in HN - without looking first to see if it's already there.

There are, of course, technical solutions to the problem.
It's just in place replacement for ring buffer, but without taking up all that extra space for multiply buffers for different producers-consumers.
I hit that a couple of weeks ago after some 30+ years. I forgot how it was.
And the per client per directory file entry cache. It doesn't play nice with systems with producers that create files and consumers that look for them.
By the way, Amazon's EFS is based on NFS.
> To say globalization is dead is to say our elites were grotesquely, systematically, and with great consequences to all, wrong.

dead != wrong

I would also argue that it isn't dead but it is in a decline because of some disturbing moves toward nationalism and fascism all over the world over the last five years
"He didn't pay for that Picasso, he just paid for some canvas and paint!"

99.9% of people don't care about the technicalities of how NFT's work, they buy them because they are valuable to them and everyone else believes they are valuable.

Every single digital item anyone has ever bought, from Ebooks, to in-game items, to movies, is just a pointer to some bytes on a disk.
> Nobody is talking about it because it is still politically incorrect in our overall culture [1] to admit that globalization is collapsing.

True. It's been collapsing since at least 2015. The political upheavals in the US and the UK were backlashes against globalization. Since then, both countries have moved way from the late 20th century global vision that developed in the post WW2 era.

For a while, in the US, there was the narrative that this was purely about Trump, but Biden is walking in the same direction re trade. It's a big change and it seems like it will endure across many administrations.
I mean, if you have perfect bloodwork and a marvel movie body probably not necessary but otherwise yes. Heart disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, colon cancer rates are rising amongst everyone, even thin people. These drugs positively impact indicators of these things in everyone. Longevity makers have been betting on metformin for a long time and these drugs are like a supercharged metformin
You are very much appreciated, for your well-informed comments on this topic and many others on HN. Most HN readers don't reply to comments they appreciate, only the ones they disagree with. And many don't understand about upvoting, or don't bother.
Do you think the proprietary alternatives have less problems?
A more apt analogy would be if you removed the existing window without having ordered a new one or found a contractor to install it.
Except politicians will have to come out as supporting a ban on the most popular apps that tens of millions people use every day. Which outside of HN circles would probably be unpopular (see how the proposed Tiktok ban was received in America). And have sites ever even been blocked for GDPR violations before / in which member states would mandating ISPs block sites on that basis even be allowed?
Even now you refuse to engage on my original position. My original position was that leaving out the very real issue of rape when it comes to incest could be construed as trying to move the overton window. Maybe I shouldn't have used the word most, but instead, at least 1/3 of all reported child abuse is done by family. This stat should easily backup my original position that incest and rape are intrinsically linked. You cannot ignore this when discussing incest on the internet.
I went back and forth on downvoting. I rarely ever do and don't think it's appropriate in this case since you certainly, uhm, sparked a lively discussion.

What I would say is you take a, let's say, free-market aligned source, and present what I'm assuming (it's behind a paywall) amounts to an opinion piece and make a bold statement "It is the lack of a predictable regulatory landscape in Europe that keeps them from being a hotbed of technological innovation[...]" as if it's a statement of fact.

I could equally say "It's the lack of a common language spoken by over 300 million people that holds Europe back" or "It's the lack of technical sophistication in the US, a country that still relies on the paper check and has no open banking APIs, that supports a diverse market of companies. For example Plaid could only launch in the US and become a unicorn there because such a questionable business model only makes sense there" if we're in the making statements of opinion sound like immutable facts line of work.

What I will say is that, as an erstwhile European it brings me great joy to see the EU causing so many headaches for international tech companies in the name of consumer protection. Just my opinion.
[ tangent warning ] Big fan of Maggie Appleton and her illustrations of technical topics. Her work on digital gardens and other interesting topics are super inspirational and interesting.

Other fun links:

https://maggieappleton.com/bidirectionals

https://maggieappleton.com/tools-for-thought

https://maggieappleton.com/metaphors-web
Kudos to Automattic and Matt Mullenweg for keeping it running 10 years after its acquisition!
This is orthogonal to the GP's post, which was asking "why can't people choose whether they want to pay for things with privacy" (paraphrased).

The solving of information asymmetry is a necessary precondition to that choice, but after you've solved it, why shouldn't you have that choice?
So does this somehow burn fat or does it just lower your appetite? There are many others drugs that lower appetite, and yet we still have an obesity crisis. Why would this one solve it?
Agreed, but the terminology doesn’t seems to be the point. It makes some decent arguments about “on-demand” learning not being great for learning theoretical things.
I've been saying this for years.

I just don't understand it. A car that can drive ~40 miles on pure electric that has an ICE for longer trips would satisfy the needs of everyone. For like 90+% of people, it would mean never using gas for their commute while also eliminating range anxiety.

I'm especially surprised about the lack of plug-in hybrids for semi trucks. I'd think having a little extra electronic torque would help considerably when accelerating. It doesn't need to go 0-60 in 20 seconds while carrying 80K lbs like the Tesla Semi claims, but certainly having extra power could be useful in some scenarios. Heck, just having regen braking would be a game changer when going down hills. No noise from a Jake Brake, and no worries about burning up brake pads.
I doubt it was a matter of reducing the BOM cost but rather a junior engineer updating an old product. Good move to push them, however. Far too many usb-c devices don't work properly.
The planet could use more thorns like Max Schrems & NOYB at large
California Atmospheric River Storm Brings Flooding Rain,High Winds,Snow
Juan has a great book on his card system that I think Dani is using for this routine (or at least a modification of it). Years ago I spent some time learning it and I think it's one of those things that only gets more impressive when you understand the methodology. It takes so much practice to present a routine as casually as Dani does in this.
Yeah good clarification sorry, the price cap is the compelled part, not the original loan decision
> unpredictability

The EU regulators have been remarkably consistent in their rulings. The GDPR is quite clear that tracking for advertising purposes requires explicit consent and an opt-out. Meta's case has always been relying on a very generous interpretation of the 'contractual necessity' clause of article 6.

The only source of unpredictability is the apparent collaboration between the Irish regulator and Meta - this is the 4th time in a row they've been overruled. Much like our overruled tax arrangements we're apparently bending over backwards to keep tech multinationals happy for as long as possible.
I keep trying to explain this to my friends in the aquarium and terrarium hobbies.

"I want to build a tiny one. It'll be so cute."

"It's going to crash in 30 seconds if you so much as look at it funny."
Severance requirements are not an entitlement. It'll make hiring harder than it already is.
I'm unfamiliar with the research around GLP1 drugs, but I my past reading about the long-term effects of metformin led me to a similar conclusion. Unfortunately, metformin causes me severe gastrointestinal issues that don't resolve themselves after a few weeks.

There are lots of surprising findings w/r/t pharmaceuticals if you start really digging. Lots of missed opportunity for overall improvement in the human condition that aren't being exploited.
"condensing/summarizing bots" - never heard of these, will have a play around, thanks.
So the solution is to use regulation to stop propaganda, enforce transparency, and allow consumers to make a fully-informed choice.
We use Financial Force managed package. We are now considering migrating to Workday Financials.
...That's exactly GP's point, yes.
Meta is free to charge for the service.

They are not free to require tracking for use of the service.
> - Weakens the nuclear family, which is the foundation of stable civilization, by decoupling sex from responsibility

That sounds like you have a problem with birth control, not prostitution.

> - Exploits women, and then once they have grown old and wrinkled leaves them without support of any kind

Exploitation can be fixed with labor laws. Being unable to continue when you're old applies to tons of non-sex jobs too, and is better fixed by adding support structures than banning the jobs entirely.

> - Can result in a child, which the prostitute is likely not equipped to care for

Pretty rarely. I'm skeptical of that being enough to make a job immoral, but among other things there are many types of prostitution that can't result in a child.
This is a good point.

Something I also enjoy about it is the uniform interface. Each answer is presented the same, there's no parsing layout from different sites, or popup modals to dismiss, or long winded intro to get to the answer you're looking for. Of course you can't quite trust what you're told, so this is a bit moot.
"because I sometimes forget them" is disingenuous. You were commenting on them hoping to forestall downvotes on a flamebait post.
I should probably clarify what I said above.

Ax ante, the expected value of shipping the butterfly keyboards was probably positive, even if there was some chance they would be called out and lose money in the long run.

I'm also willing to assume that "cheaping out" was not part of the original design vision, and that it became a judgement call later in the development process.

What's important is that, in the long run, these incidents don't really hurt the company as long as they don't happen too often, even if this particular incident lost them more than they gained.
Hackers steal $3.5M worth of digital assets from GMX whale
> Kind of like block chain but none of that pesky privacy stuff

What gives you the idea that block chains have privacy?
Presumably some screenshots showing off how crisp the editor looks, font faces, color themes, auto completion working, how things are set up visually, is there a built-in terminal, etc etc, a picture is a thousand words with this kind of thing and IDEs are highly visual
That sounds remarkably similar to how recipes are shared in blogs. There's a huge amount of story, and then at the tail end there's the recipe. It's all for engagement, but I'm never engaged. If I'm looking for a recipe, I want to know the recipe so I can make it. I don't care about what the blogger did last weekend or in college.
Aren't the ideas of "co" and "chief" kind of orthogonal? At that point, you're just Executives. If you form a group of executives, maybe call it a "board"...
> What it does not support is other curves, which I am ok with.

Ed25519 is relatively nice, but I do wish it also supported Ed448, or at least future-proofed the API so that Ed448 support would be possible as a drop-in replacement. Ed25519 is "128-bit" security, while Ed448 is "224-bit" security. Both are ECDH.

128-bit "ought to be enough for anybody", but for the many applications that asymmetric crypto isn't the bottleneck, it's nice to have the option to pick a stronger curve. Why place this arbitrary limit on the standard library API for the (probably) next decade? It feels counterproductive.
Imports from China are vastly more important for regular consumer. Without China there are no phones, no cars can be built, no household appliances and so on. Almost everything you have at home is made in China. That's why people assume China is the world global economy.
Very interesting! Kind of react, but in Go. Fingers crossed for 'Pushup Native' for mobile ;-)
He is what I imagine a wizard would be like.