skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: user defrost provided some good looking context comment exactly of the form I was looking for, thanks. The specifics of the available technology matters when assessing these claims.

For some reason I'm actually skeptical it has actually been found. A cynical reading is they scanned all the places people were ever likely to intentionally stop on that road and found nothing. So harm is just very unlikely, but leaving the item unaccounted for was just really, really bad press. I want to hear more about the sensitivity of this scanning device, particularly when used at this speed, and from someone knowledgeable in the field.
> 1. The core concept in GDPR, personal data, is defined sloppily: "data relating to an identifiable natural person". It doesn't work because "relating to" is a hand-wave. Your name is obviously personal data, but (according to mainstream legal interpretation) so are IP addresses, despite the fact that people do not have IP addresses, network interfaces do.

No, it's not, unless you have logs or database records that links the IP address to a person (such as a login from that IP). And I bet you do, that's why it bothers you.

> 2. Personal data is not defined in terms of the context in which it appears, which is crucially important. If I have the text "John Smith" in a database in a column called "name" and it actually relates to a person called "John Smith", that's clearly personal data. But what if someone uses my platform to spin up a VM with the hostname "johnsmith" - is that personal data? According to my lawyers, the answer is "maybe". I know lawyers have a tendency to be like that, but the law itself shouldn't leave the question open.

Users can leave data that identifies them in various places. Sometimes they do it intentionally, sometimes not. It's your job to warn them and obtain consent.

3. The construction of the law is poorly thought-out and leads to silly contradictions, e.g. if you have someone's personal data and you are told to stop processing it, you must stop processing it. But storage, erasure and transmission are all classed as processing, and it's logically impossible not to do at least one of these things.

In this case, removing data is a legal obligation you have. Processing data (by deleting it) to obey law is one of the exceptions in GDPR (art.6/1./c, and also art.17/3./b).
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
Interactive stereogram is a new for me. Great example of a animated one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUO5al57-1s
My understanding of counterculture is that it 'counters'. I.e. it inherently searches to change or influence the dominant culture.

Your examples do show that we are (thankfully) not a monoculture. But they place themselves outside of our culture, instead trying to influence.

A good example of counter culture is BLM, Extinction Rebellion or Occupy Wallstreet.

Only thing: those are movements, not cultures. And they are, IMHO, generally ephemeral.
> People get ruled mentally unfit to stand trial because they can't string sentences together or have the sort of verifiable mental health condition that'll see them institutionalised anyway, not because they're running round breaking other rules

Also, they'll likely be away for longer in the end and mental asylums for the criminals are really not that great of a place to be, either.
> Because social media services are now the promoters of mainstream culture, that culture is effectively fueled and guarded by metric-driven algorithms

And political and cultural biases, that's something not really mentioned enough when talking about algorithmic goals.
I read this article immediately after reading Corey Doctorow's The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok [0]. It's a useful juxtaposition if you're interested in thinking about how Artifact is likely to develop if it gains traction.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
Bring them to Austin, TX, we aren't afraid of technology. I would take a bet anytime that on average these are far more safe and less apt to wreck than the average driver here; drivers here are awful.
Spark makes it easy to wrap SQL in functions that are easy to test. I am the author of the popular Scala Spark (spark-fast-tests) and PySpark (chispa) testing libraries. Some additional tips to speed up Spark tests (can speed up tests between 70-90%):

* reuse the same Spark session throughout the test suite

* Set shuffle partitions to 2 (instead of default which is 200)

* Use dependency injection to avoid disk I/O in the test suite

* Use fast DataFrame equality when possible. assertSmallDataFrameEquality is 4x faster than assertLargeDataFrameEquality. Some benchmarks here: https://github.com/MrPowers/spark-fast-tests#why-is-this-lib...

* Use column equality to test column functions. Don't compare DataFrames unless you're testing custom DataFrame transformations. See the spark-style-guide for definitions for these terms: https://github.com/MrPowers/spark-style-guide/blob/main/PYSP...

Spark is an underrated tool for testing SQL. Spark makes it really easy to abstract SQL into unit testable chunks. Configuring your tests properly takes some knowledge, but you can make the tests run relatively quickly.
Taping a nail to your jacket doesn’t make you Punk.
I suppose it is counter-culture in a universe where people dismiss it as being hedonism.

And while hedonism may be a side-effect in some situations, even that comes from eschewing the standards of wider society. I'd argue that is the definition of counter-culture.
The house of lords doesn’t actually have any meaningful role when actual decisions are being made.

And the supreme court justices have to be approved by the senate. Of course you do have a point about them serving for life.
> Is Arianespace purely civilian, or partially funded by military?

Depends what you mean by _funded_, but certainly a lot of its customers are military or military-adjacent. Also, these days (it's had a _really_ complex ownership history), it's owned by a joint venture between Airbus and Safran, both of which are, amongst other things, defence contractors.

Realistically, _any_ large aerospace venture is going to involve, at a minimum, working with defence contractors; that's just how the industry is.
That may be so, but SF in particular did decriminalize A LOT of things. Most notable is theft under $950, for example, where is not hard to find videos and news items, e.g:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplift...
That's not what the article is about. The article is about creative content, and how YouTube content is aesthetically all the same. Jordan Peterson videos have the same stupid thumbnails as all other clickbait.

People have said it in the thread, but counter-culture is really defined retrospectively. You look at the movements that existed on the periphery but later inspired the mainstream. Velvet Underground wasn't selling millions of records, but everyone who started a band listened to them. Lou Reed is pretty indier than thou.
He is smart enough to see that barring a miracle, he's heading to prison. He's naive if he thinks that all the bizarre actions he's taken after the collapse (interviews, tweet threads, substack posts, messaging a witness, you name it) will in any way help him, rather than help sink him.

I don't know what this says about his intelligence overall. My guess is that he's an above-average intelligence guy who is in denial about how his future is outside his control, so he is frantically floundering in a futile attempt to regain control. I think I'd probably feel the same way in that situation, however I'd probably listen to people on my side (lawyers, parents ... or lawyer-parents) if they told me "shut up, stop talking, you're making everything worse"
Ya. My noob understanding of these things is that there is no culture without counterculture. Because we can only understand things, like culture, identity, and self, in contrast to other things.

From Gioia's OC:

> A sense of sameness pervades the creative world ...

aka "Kids these days..."

I've been hearing this exact same criticism for as long as I remember.

One observation (McLuhan? Warhol?), using the example of da Vinci's Mona Lisa, which made some sense to me:

Modern tech makes reproduction trivial. So any original content quickly becomes ubiquitous. Separating content from original creator. Thereby mooting any of original intention or meaning or esthetic or whatever.

In other words, everything popular becomes banal.

My example, from the 90s era new age fads, I always thought of the yin-yang symbol showing up every where. Especially as tattoos. Oh so original.

Further, I think this also helps explain the disappointment about "selling out". It's a rare thing for a creator to become popular, not wear out their welcome, and retain their original fan base.
I wonder how Intel employees getting stock options would feel about having the price drop another 50%.
“Literally” has been abused for emphasis for centuries, apparently:

… yet the wretch, absorbed in his victuals, and naturally of an unutterable dullness, did not make a single remark during dinner, whereas I literally blazed with wit. - William Makepeace Thackeray, Punch, 30 Oct. 1847
This reads like a bad computer translation or the ramblings of a poorly trained chat bot.
I love that i clicked this and read:

>Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
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Edit: https://web.archive.org/web/20230130001322/https://www.wired...
>> Stealth simply isn't as important as one would think so long as you're not running missions into enemy territory.

??? Stealth has myriad applications in defensive engagements. Dont like being killed by radar-guided missiles? Stealth helps.
google:
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noun: counterculture; plural noun: countercultures; noun: counter-culture; plural noun: counter-cultures
a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm.
"the idealists of the 60s counterculture"
Which country is this from? I don't feel it fits where I live at all.
Heh. Funny story.

I'm an older (60) programmer. Have over 35 years' experience in software.

As a result, my approach tends to be fairly ... heterogenous ...

In today's tech scene, that makes me "counterculture." Judging from some of the reactions that I get, you'd think I was a punker at a royal wedding.
Those eye watering 270mg coffees must be a shock for anyone used to Starbucks.

Above 400mg typical adults can start feeling unwell. >500mg (2x Pret filter coffees) and most will have a bad time.
Concisely put: It's redistribution of wealth.

Rather than public transport and commuting, folks will spend elsewhere.

Rather than office real estate, companies will spend / invest elsewhere.

Some will benefit, others will have to adapt to survive.
Are those numbers still accurate? F-35 was a lot more expensive early on and a lot of number comparisons are stuck on those early production numbers rather than later ones.
Ask HN: What are some modern, language agnostic CLI to manage multiple Git repos
I have used git repo (which is made popular by the android open source project) and I have also used git submodule to some limited extent. I find git submodule unnecessarily complex. git-repo, on the other hand, seems to be a bit dated. The original version for AOSP is written in Python and can be sluggish. There’s a re-written version in Golang by a team in Alibaba but it is not at feature parity compared to the original one. What do you use for your day-to-day multi-repo management and what would you recommend?
An appalling percentage of them are actual aristocrats. The broader segment seems to consist of relatives, aristocratic bastards, their broader 'gentleman' circles and so on. Basically what constituted the elite in Britain in the past ~300 years.

What's incredible is that this is an aristocracy that is consciously kept alive and in power, with this aristocratic class vigilantly protecting their class consciousness and power. The below, very insightful description of this by a Brit is taken from a Quora post, an answer to a question "Why does the British ruling class hates Yuri Gagarin, Russians and other nations":

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British guy here. Etonians and the British upper class in general have an innate sense of superiority-it’s taught to them at school and the notion is pervasive throughout our whole society. Mr Finnegan is absolutely correct when he states that any contradiction of this is anathema to them. So although the whole society is rigged in their favour they still think that their achievements, wealth and money are all self earned. The idea that a bunch of Russian yokels could lead armies to defeat the Nazis or take humans into the cosmos-Yuri’s parents were peasants-shows this lie for what it is. I read a book recently by Rutger Bregner. In it he discusses an experiment where two people played games of monopoly but one was given specific advantages which essentially guaranteed them to win. What the scientists found was that after a while the people who were given the advantageous rules actual started to believe they were better at playing the game even though they were fully aware that the game was rigged in there favour!

So when people tremble at the possibility of wealthy people leaving the country due to some policy which disadvantages them in favour of the majority-I say good let them go there are plenty of people from the working class with more talent willing to what they do under fairer circumstances.

(Marcus McNary)
how not to ruin your own business - openai
China does not have such control. But to your question -

> If they do, why ever actually invade?

The power of the CCP surfs on top of a mythology. When ethnic Chinese people run successful, free, democratic countries it undermines that mythology.

Consider how the CCP have trashed Hong Kong, which had limited democratic freedoms only.

In the west, economic considerations are high on our motives. For the CCP, the central viewpoint is about pursuit and consolidation of political power. Economic considerations are all considered in the light of power priorities.

There is a trap that westerners fall into of regarding live-and-let-live as the natural order of things. It is not, it is a set of values. The CCP come at the world from a different mindset.
I don’t understand how one capsule of that size could fall off a truck without coming with a lot of other stuff too. What was the cargo configuration of this transport?
If a person stops in the middle of a road, other people talk to that person, and typically learn what's going on and can help work on resolving it. Are they having a heart attack? Do they need people to push the car? Are they having a road rage incident? Are they a jerk who needs to run into a store and picked the wrong place to stop temporarily to do it? Even if the situation can't be solved, the ability to communicate (or the implication of not being able to communicate) gives predictable, human-friendly feedback which can be shared with emergency services and other people.
But Russia could just (via intermediaries) start a bunch of companies abroad, and let them order the chips.

Don't forget that exporters still have a strong incentive to sell stuff.
XournalPP
Well, I'm using Linux for 20 years and macOS for 16 years at this point. I prefer Linux desktops and Mac Notebooks, due to hardware quality, and having an alternative OS in my life, so I can port features between them while developing something (i.e. The code I develop contains best features of both OSes where appropriate).

I'm also using KDE close to 15 years at this point, since 3.5.x and I'd prefer it over anything tiling or floating because of the feature set and power it brings.

So, why someone would want to use macOS? It's not only XCode and Final Cut (I prefer Eclipse on all platforms). Omnigraffle for example. A tool which can draw diagrams and technical diagrams, Dia can't come close, or any other alternative I tried.

Same for MindNode. More powerful mind mapping solutions exist on Linux, but MindNode works like an extension of your brain. I can create gigantic maps in minutes, limited by my typing speed.

Another example is Scan Thing. It's mostly an implementation thing, but that thing works so well for extracting text and images. Well, while we're talking about text, we can talk about Prizmo, which can correct the curves of camera scanned images and then OCR them, so PDF Pen Pro, which is a power tool for editing PDFs.

There also fun novelty tools like Monodraw which I use to draw ASCII diagrams for my code, and leave it as a comment inside my codebases.

Is Linux side gloom, then? Of course not. Kid3 is irreplaceable, so Gwenview, and macOS has no equivalent of it. Many of the other tools I use on macOS are built-ins for Linux systems and work much better than their macOS counterparts by leaps and bounds. Darktable is a powerhouse for photo post-processing, and while macOS alternatives exist, they're not as good as Darktable for my use cases.

So both sides have very good applications, macOS has hardware advantage on mobile side. The main reason I keep macOS on the mobile side because it's a POSIX compliant UNIX at the core, so it can work with Linux systems reasonably well, and yes I like the hardware and having another reference point to see where the world is headed. Living in echo chambers is not good, IMHO.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34574163

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34551688

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34607673
I initially read "brexit". Ironically, the title still made some sense.
Except Finland wasn't part of NATO nor had plans to join NATO when this deal was negotiated.
You can't have non-standard opinions anymore. All opinions are now politics. If I say I like guns people instantly categorize me as Right-Wing-Nut or Alt-Right-Nut. If you express any kind of differing opinion publicly you will be associated with everything and anything the person hates.

There are differing opinions, but those need to be kept private for fear of retaliation.
I think this is a good point, and you don't deserve to be downvoted for it.

I think some of my examples do try to change wider society, but it is just more subtle and less overt/wholesale. I think there will be activists/evangelicals in any sub-culture.
"back in my times", you had a bunch of different people with a bunch of different outlooks, wishes and views on the world... from anarchist punks to skinheads, peaceful "modern...ier" hippies, "the left", "the right", the what-would-now-be-called "libertarians", from people in schools, to adults at work, to people having kids at 20s, to adult swingers in their 60s... and all of them were represented as somehow 'special' but existing here.

Now it seems that we have a mainstream "culture", which doesnt actually exist, atleast noone identifies by it, then we have a mainstream "counterculture", which considers themselves as "alternative", but (atleast with younger people) is a majority, which occupies themselves by issues such as racism, sexism, trans-, and other -isms and more recently ecology.

It has gone so far, that you have "protests" for equal rights for some of those groups, or other 'mainstrea' issues where people actually in charge of laws are parading next to the "protesters"/"paraders" (in our, slovenian case, our prime minister at a protest for a healthcare reform).

And the rest? Those are invisible. Hippies and anti-war people? Nope.. now we have everyone cheering for more weapons and a longer war in ukraine. People complaining about housing prices... sure, a lot of them... people actually wanting more housing to be built.. a minority. Preppers? Just weirdos... even after quite a few events where prepping actually helped people.

Ok, i might be exaggerating a bit, but there really seems to be a lot of overlap between the current "counterculture" and what is being served from the people/groups/organizations that historically would have been seen as the "bad guys" by those counterculture groups. But again.. stuff like this is talked in "conspiracy circles", and again, shunned by the mainstream counterculture - eg https://i.redd.it/yj3vs93bi7691.jpg
Every month, the whole parliament is moving fron Straßbourg to Bruessel and then back. That is not a sign of an efficient organisation, despite the fact that the numbers could be worse.

"To put it another way, there are 500 national government employees for each one EU worker."

And they simply don't have the same scope at all, so any direct comparison doesn not make much sense.

The actual work is done at the national level. They work on coordination, which is important, but very vague.
Why skeptical? It's easy to find sources of ionising radiation, and it sounds like this capsule was a pretty powerful one for it's size. You can buy a device capable of detecting it for $30 on Amazon - and I'm sure the searchers had far more sophisticated/sensitive equipment at their disposal.

If they really didn't think it was dangerous (or findable) and didn't want bad publicity then they would have just hushed it up in the first place and never gone to the government & press.
That's cool and all, but in 2023 you aren't going to successfully operate jets in those conditions. You'll either fly right above the treetops or get shot down, well, actually the enemy jets with down-looking radar will shoot you down anyway. Even if you manage to keep flying, you won't get much value out of those jets in partisan warfare.

The idea of Sweden being overrun in 3-4 weeks is a bit absurd anyway, perhaps it's just not a reasonable assumption to start building upon.

>Edit: and you say propping up defence industry as if insinuating it's just a boondoggle. When it comes to geopolitics, it's not. It's the only way to have total control of supply chains and constant upgrade of arms.

Well, that's not what I was insinuating. But since you bring it up, the Gripen isn't exactly a great example of "total control of supply chains". That's a big part of why nobody wants to buy it, if you're going to deal with ITAR you might as well buy the F-35.
Responsible statecraft is a well known foreign actor site that's paid to produce anti-American propaganda.

F-35 is quite cheap now.
Audio is all you need?
LLM discourse needs more nuance
The thing is, Russian economy is in shambles. The only major trading partners they have left is China and India... and the West won't ever open up unless Russia at the very least leaves the occupied territories, which leaves the Ukrainians free to focus on regaining Crimea.
It seems lot of people are searching for things to fight against. But, clearly then drop them when they don't get traction and the fight might actually hurt them...
Right, malloc uses mmap instead of sbrk, I'm an idiot. I really ought to read up on up-to-date implementation practices.
But mastodon doesn't hate the mainstream, that's the difference, HN for example obviously isn't mainstream, and for one reason, the UI.

Its made on purpose to stop nontechnical people from joining
Do you believe they faked the commit times on https://github.com/golang/go/issues/53644 , which added the behavior required for the fix six months before the sr.ht announcement?
Than it's a bad one
I think it's a little bit relevant because it still gives a hint of how SAAB performs as a partner, which is very important for such an advanced weapons system, but I'll upvote you.
Had forgotten the frustration of not being able to see these, I wonder if colour blindness is an issue ?
Well, it probably wouldn't be viable without military customers (nor would any private/semi-private large rocket programme). And Arianespace is ultimately a joint venture between Airbus and Safran, both of which are, amongst other things, defence contractors; in that regard it's little different to, say, Boeing.