skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in Oregon, where all the beaches are public. Later I discovered that some people in different places owned beaches, which blew my mind. How can you own a beach?

I then wondered why I felt that way about beaches, but not about other lands.
Ransomware attack forces Dallas to shut down courts, disrupts some 911 services
Said something about this once: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31069802
> systematic pedophilia

Worth noting that the rates of pedophilia among public schoolteachers is actually higher. Actually, many, many times more likely.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/has-media-ignored-sex-abuse-in-...
> "we are now serving over 10 thousand trips per week to public riders, not including employees. With this latest expansion, we intend for those numbers to accelerate rapidly to 10 times that scale by next summer"

they've been pretty cautious on predictions after the AV hype boom and bust a couple years ago. 10x in a year is an ambitious goal.
Well I think I meant something in between. You don't need to be from old money to get a property in Monaco and much less in other places in EU - I got several, and I started literally from 0. And you definitely don't need to be from old money to rent an apartment in Monaco for half a year. A senior software engineer (contractor) could afford it and would profit from the operation if they live in Scandinavia/Germany/Austria/France.

I have a good enough tax regime where I live in Central Europe - for 2022 I paid 8% including income tax, health and social insurance. But I'd definitely consider doing this if it was over 20%.
I agree. Many of the core language concepts from Erlang you can get from Self and Prolog, but experiencing the OTP is something different that I think you only get from the Erlang family.
There's no conspiracy here.

It's that they bought a particular iot hardware package from some company like Yardi or Realpage for half a million, installed that in every apartment, and since they're using the management software from those same companies they have little ability (or frankly, desire) to exempt the one jackass who demands that from that lease clause, when they don't even know how to turn off the facial recognition for the one customer.

You talk as if it's part of some sinister plan, when it's really someone making $19/hr at the front office who is bad at the software that their business uses to manage said business. Besides, everyone complains when they have to dig their phone out of their pocket every time they want to open up a gate or door to the building, when it could just unlock itself when it sees them coming (it's not as if there are going to be many apartment buildings relying on brass keys here in 10 years).

This is apathy, trends, and convenience. Nothing more.
I like it here. I like other places too but I like it here more. And, I think it’s worth staying and advocating for change that would mean other people who like it here could stay too if they wanted.
We should have the same requirement for people voting in elections.
I’ve been here for a few years. It’s been great as a software engineer that’s single and able to afford rent. But I’d never join the housing rat race. I could stick around at Google and make enough to afford some place. But I’d rather just live somewhere else.
They're implying that the Google brand has such a terrible reputation in terms of privacy that anything touched by it - even if it's just the name - is not trustworthy in many people's eyes. And privacy violations can't be reversed, by the time you have tangible evidence it's too late.

At this point Google is mainly known as online tracking company which loves to cancel projects, and they put a lot of effort into building this image to a point an observer can get the impression it's not an accident.
Unsurprising, because while it may bother the oldies in Congress (well the ones that weren't on Epstein's island), post puberty, all human beings engage in sexual behaviors up and to intercourse. In the age of social media, where everyone (presumably) over 13 is online and posting constant photos with their phone it should be completely unsurprising that much of this content is generates by the kiddos themselves.

It's especially absurd in some jurisdictions where it is explicitly legal for two teenagers to engage in intercourse, but if they share a photo of tits with each other other they've committed a federal crime. The fact we consider a photo criminal, when both parties are above the age of consent for one another, is a new level of absurdity, and things like the EARN IT act just make this situation worse.

I have a teenage daughter. I don't particularly relish the idea of her taking and sharing nude photos because I know that the Internet is forever and it will eventually get out and cause her harm. Nonetheless, there is very little I can do to stop it short of blocking her from using technology altogether. What I would like even less is if the company I buy her phone from decides to be a busybody and reports her to the feds for taking a nude photo of herself and then she ends up with a felony record and registered as a sex offender for the rest of her life for getting a bit too spicy in text messages with her boyfriend.

I don't understand how anyone could classify this as CSAM.
Shopify cuts 20% of its workforce; shares surge 26% on earnings beat
Gambling is such a sick thing in general. An occasional play is fine, but that isn't where the money is made.

Like alcohol, the industry is fuel by addicts.

I want to believe in some freedom utopia, but the human brain is manipulated. I don't have a solution outside of education. Warning people how the brain can be manipulated.
Or better still the fediverse/activitypub.
I'm sure there's a survey of Switch emulator users you can cite to support this claim, right?
> “Affordability is not miraculously better, but, on the other hand, other places outside California are now equally unaffordable,” he said.

Problem solved.
Europe
Big place, many country - which part?
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> Russia and China are concerned with their borders and it's trivial to verify my assessment Is correct.

Russia is invading a neighboring country, and from talking to Lithuanians, the Russia people seem rather keen on returning to the "good old days" of the Soviet Empire.
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They might honestly have to if the model was trained on data they are not legally entitled to. But that’s a risk they knew going in.
I am starting to see value in fixing a language when you hit 1.0. No more language changes at that point. If you want to change something, it has to be in a library.
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The ideal is having the right checks and balances in place. Power tends to corrupt. Having government owning all the land is problematic, but so is allowing individuals to own all the land. As the article implies, in the US, individuals have gained a bit too much power, IMHO. Locations with water access or places with unique geographical characteristics should not be controlled by individuals who we can't trust will do the right thing. Americans' freedom to traverse the land has been eroded. It is no wonder why we live more in our virtual spaces where we are more free to roam.
You'll want to fact check this, but I find GPT4 is OK at this kinda stuff.

If you've been asked to remove data in accordance to a gdpr request, is it best effort or do you have to strictly comply with the request?
ChatGPT
I am not a lawyer, but I can offer some general information about GDPR and data removal requests. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a legal framework that sets guidelines for the collection, processing, and storage of personal data of individuals within the European Union (EU). Under GDPR, individuals have the "right to be forgotten," also known as the "right to erasure." This means that they can request the deletion of their personal data under specific circumstances.

When a data controller (the organization that determines the purposes and means of processing personal data) receives a valid GDPR request to remove personal data, they are generally required to strictly comply with the request. However, there are some exceptions, and the extent of the obligation may depend on the specific circumstances surrounding the request.

The GDPR requires data controllers to respond to data removal requests without undue delay, and in any event within one month of receipt of the request. This period may be extended by two further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of requests.

It's important to remember that GDPR compliance is not solely about "best effort." Organizations are expected to take reasonable and appropriate measures to ensure compliance with the regulation. This includes having processes in place to handle requests and promptly remove personal data where required. Failure to comply with GDPR can result in significant fines and penalties.

However, it's also essential to consider that there are circumstances under which a data controller may not be required to comply with a data removal request. These exceptions can include situations where the processing of personal data is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, compliance with a legal obligation, or for reasons of public interest.

In any case, it's crucial to consult with legal counsel or a data protection officer to better understand your organization's specific obligations under GDPR and ensure proper compliance.
Agreed, this take is totally backwards. It is the news companies that benefit from having their material on Facebook/Google/etc. The news could disappear from those platforms and they'd be fine.

The real problem seems to be that monetizing news content to the point that it can support large, effective organizations has become quite difficult: print ads are basically dead, inserting ads into online content doesn't seem to be working that well, and getting people to pay you directly (i.e., subscriptions) is more of a challenge than ever.

Smaller boutique outlets like podcasts or email newsletters (chiefly Substack) have been effective in some cases, but that's not the kind of thing that can fund foreign bureaus or longform investigative journalism.
> Here's the thing, local news produces cookie cutter stories and just swaps out the basic facts and injects a little of the mainstream narrative into everything. There really isn't any value in it, which is why they are dying in the first place.

Does your "local news" not cover your local area at all? I highly doubt that.

If it does cover your local area at all, there is historical value to it. It doesn't matter if the stories are cookie cutter or not.
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> How would you change the wording to make this clearer in a way that does not strike you as dishonest?

"Includes enough searches for X% of current Kagi users"
I filled out a google docs form to opt out once, which is it?
I understand your frustration. I recently switched from gitlab to gitea[1] because the feature set is pretty damn close to github and has much more sane UI in comparison to gitlab

[1] https://gitea.io
Stock is up 26%, just bonkers.
Many things that C++ added on top of C aren't actually improvements (I guess the most charitable thing that can be said about C++ is that it identifies and weeds out all the stupid ideas before they can make it into C).
No, you have the right to boycott a service if you don't like it, not take it for free. Apart from that, I doubt Nintendo engages in the practices you mention.
Google, Meta, and others, used to (not sure if this is ongoing) fetch news from several outlets and post the headlines and summaries on their own websites, without paying for it. Essentially, they would treat them as creators, but would pay them nothing.

Because people usually don't stop to read articles in full, this would also not drive any traffic to the original publishers' websites.
> They'd say, "Send us X," and I would reply, "What do you mean exactly by X?" and they'd reply with, "Send us Y". A black box.

Thank you so much for talking about this. I will never work for, nor be a customer of, a company that operates this way. Their culture is obviously one where the leadership have not impressed a need to have clear and continuous communication around business-critical processes. There'll be many more problems related to this.
No one likes this kind of pedantry. Everyone knows they mean that it is infeasible, not impossible. If you actually think it's feasible, now that's an interesting discussion.
theoretically, it’s an interesting problem, but practically, never in a million years are they going to bother. at best they’ll remove your info from their datasets and you can hope it hasn’t been processed yet
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It doesn't have to grow. But it definitely shows that people don't want to stay there.
If your name is John Smith and you want your pii removed the filter can't just handle any occurrence of J Smith, it needs to be scoped to a particular Smith and to do that the context of the prompt is helpful/needed.
> But none of these tools have ever really been expanded out or utilized to the same degree that the DOM has been utilized.

I think you got the history backwards: the DOM was never designed to hold rich applications, controls and containers like a GUI toolkit does. HTML got forms (later, with HTML4), then organically grew more diverse and specialized controls (without ever reaching parity with most GUI toolkits in this area), never quite figuring-out containers nor behaviour inheritance (unlike in object oriented programming and the "Widget" model), while JS got steadily tamed and reshaped into a general-purpose language. I don't disagree with the assertion that "DOM has been utilized in extreme ways", I just don't think that it's a positive thing, simply because what we ended-up with is something extremely ad-hoc, inefficient and counter-productive (but as the saying goes, "when all you have is a hammer…"). What made the Web a successful platform is the "URL as deployment process", not that it's a great tech (neither on the producing nor consuming side).

> If you look at the documentation for most of the tools you link, they're primarily billed as debugging aids. They're also not something that the OS itself treats as an first-class feature.

Which is totally different than web browser's DOM appearing under "developer tools", or is it? Also, this ability to hook onto the DOM and play with things in the console disappears with packaged electron apps, which turn-out to be often less "introspectable" in practice than their native counterparts. Even on the "normal" web, this ability becomes a rarity as more and more pages get minified and bound to heavy SPA frameworks.

> my (possibly incorrect) take on it is that it's basically copying the web (which to be clear, is a good thing). GTK outright uses CSS now.

And it's not the only one, JavaFX and QML (Declarative Qt) can be built from XML and styled using CSS-like rules. Microsoft has had many attempts at declarative UI based on XML (XAML, UWP, …). XUL was Netscape solution to building applications with HTML at a time HTML wasn't ready (which lasted well into recent history, with 2018 IIRC being when Mozilla could finally go without it). Though let's not conflate everything: Web implies DOM, but CSS/XML doesn't, and defining documents and UIs in a SGML is much older than HTML itself.
It's all organizations. Data collection cannot be a stipulation to receive full service. It must be completely optional and opt-in.
Is that bad? If you're turning AC into DC you're gonna have to rectify it somehow.
I guess even a psychopath might leave a tip at a restaurant. Things rarely are 100% bad but those nuances should also not distract from the big picture.
Don’t collectives of people still need to decide how property rights work and how they’re enforced?
Old Rag is a fairly unique hike for the area. The upper part of the hike is an exposed rock scramble with good views. The hike, in total, is long enough to be challenging, but not really technical or dangerous. And it's close enough to DC (<2 hours) that weekends were a madhouse, especially during COVID.

The remained of the park, and all the surrounding areas, are first-come, either free or with minimal permit/entrance fees.
Or they remove them from the dataset in batches every X months and retrain. You have a few months to comply to gdpr requests
Let’s not equal widespread abuse to no abuse at all.
No (serious) person uses it for the quantum scale either. Same problem, just other end of the scale. The very idea of "motion" doesn't even apply to quantum particles.
> How often do you see "Christians" hatefully use the F word referring to men who have sex with men?

Plenty of times, unfortunately. You might not see it often— are you openly, publicly gay? Do you hold your boyfriend or husbands hand in public? Are you seen going to and leaving a queer bar on the regular? Have you tried to adopt a child with your same-sex significant other, or are seen in public or going to a public school with your adopted child? If you’re not the target of homophobia it makes sense to not experience very much of it.
It sounds like half the slots can't match the preferences of a substantial fraction of potential users?
https://archive.ph/X9fqZ
This is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I'm guessing this is where we'll wind up in the long term.
Sounds really exciting. If you can carry out your ambitions, and avoid all the pitfalls of licensing and community building, this might be the next big thing in the field of data science.

Do you have an ambitioned release date? Maybe in 2024?
I’m sure this proposed move along with the economic discontinuation of the API cements Twitter’s position as the place people want to go for their information.

Because when NPR isn’t NPR and my local government no longer sends out transit alerts via Twitter, that means I’ll spend more time on the platform. Right?

If the story of Twitter was fictional, critics would be complaining about their inability to suspend disbelief as they read the story.
I was thinking of https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gl-openshift/gitlab-runner-ope... - apparantly that has been fixed, a variety of other problems at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gl-openshift/gitlab-runner-ope... prevent installing any upgrades.
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I did it multiple times here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35094410
AD company furious about government regulation removing data access that AD revenue depends on.
I was also surprised. Australia has a long tradition to community choirs. Most cultures do, in fact.

If people are destroying the last copy of something, copyright was probably involved. That is what copyright does; stops people creating copies of things. Otherwise there'll be some eccentric acting as an archivist - look how hard the content creators have to fight to stop their work being publicly recorded on the internet. The system is designed to stop the sort of people who do that, which absolutely includes library archivists. They'll be in the crosshairs of some lobbyist.
That's totally fair, at the discretion of the individual. I'm happy to see people given the choice.
This story reads as merely attempting to cover for Mandiant's reputation. They are "the ones on speed dial" for customers and seem to be trying to salvage. Definitely a rare glimpse into the deep state, how many other companies have contacts at the NSA?
Elixir Solves a Difficult Security Problem
I do not believe this is limited to the EU. Anecdotally a grocery store clerk was venting to me here in the U.S. that everyone was paying in cash.
You win. Worst take of the day.
Just as a tear I opened Facebook at looked at the ads (I usually skip them subconsciously). They are actually quite specific to me. For example there is one for a cooking gadget (I love cooking and trying new techniques), one for a children’s art kit (I might buy this), one for jigsaw puzzles (one of my hobbies), and one for productivity software (I might check it out).

That’s just the first four I saw and I’d say that’s actually phenomenal targeting. It’s some very niche things that apply to me quite well.
I am kind of surprised there isn't a media company with a twitter clone.

We're your one stop shopping for information. Want to know what Jones bought today? Here's a picture they uploaded (to their feed or w/e)! Want to know what the weather is? Here's an account for NYC weather!

It's a bit risky slotting ads next to random people's content but you'll know which feeds are very commercialable. The weather feed is always going to be SFW, etc. Plus you can always use unfilled ads slots with ads for your own content (just focus on ads for the lower tier-content to avoid associating Greys Anatomy with some beheading video).
It’s pretty subjective of a publication to speculate on the spokeperson’s emotional state, and projecting their assumption onto the entire corporation seems pretty silly to me. But I’m sure it sells more clicks…
I wish there were a way, though maybe not at the hardware level, to get these bulbs to go dimmer. In many circumstances, especially at night when avoiding glare off windows, just enough light to prevent tripping over things post eye adjustment would be ideal. But the lowest setting is far brighter than that.
I'm sorry, but this is pretty much what I'm referring to regarding lack of nuance.

It's not all garbage, and the build quality these days is actually as good as any other car I've had. But FSD is vaporware, and Elon is an actual troll manifest.

Like most things in life, the cars are not 100% gold or 100% shit.
See, that's a long article I would have just skipped a year ago. Now, we get to play with its content and it's fun :

Joe: So, it was late 2019 when we stumbled upon the breach at the think tank.

Donald: And what did you find, Joe?

Joe: Another digital security breach, nothing special. But then we found a second group of hackers, more skilled, going after specific executives, policy wonks, and IT staff.

Donald: Damn, that's some precision targeting right there.

Joe: Yeah, we kicked them out, but they kept coming back. We found out they had planted a backdoor three years earlier, and we never even knew.

Donald: Three years?! They were playing the long game, huh?

Joe: You could say that. And in June 2020, they came back. We spent days trying to figure out how they slipped in.

Donald: And how did they do it?

Joe: They zeroed in on a server running SolarWinds software. And that's when the Department of Justice called us.

Donald: Those hackers were clever.

Joe: You're damn right they were. They had gained access to the firm’s multifactor authentication system and were conducting counterintelligence against one of their biggest foes.

Donald: Who was that?

Joe: Mandiant.

Donald: And did Mandiant catch them?

Joe: Yeah, they did. But here's the thing, Don. Mandiant had investigated an intrusion on a server running the same SolarWinds software months earlier.

Donald: No way.

Joe: Yeah, way. And they didn't recognize the similarity between the two cases.

Donald: Why not?

Joe: Internal secrecy, man. And SolarWinds was the source of the hack.

Donald: That's what caused all the anger, huh?

Joe: You got it. And the US government won't say what the hackers did inside its networks. People are saying they don't want to admit their failures.
Most believe ChatGPT didn't just catch up but overtook...a while back.
Surprisingly similar to the results of humans in split brain studies, the brain seems to provide and accept pretty nonsensical explanations for behavior.
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