skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like our approach to anonymity is similar.

Eppie’s addressees are pseudo-anonymous. That is a user keeps their anonymity as long as they don’t use same address for different correspondents and don’t allow an address to be associated with other services in a Public Registry.

At this stage of development, we are not planning to build our own anonymous network, but Eppie will allow users to utilize existing technologies, like Tor and I2P, or configure a proxy server to anonymize their Eppie traffic.

Here are the main features:

Creating an account in a decentralized network.

Full support for classic email + Proton Mail.

Decentralized messages.

Migration of the old mailbox to web3.

Built-in identity manager.

Ability to use Ethereum addresses.

We are also preparing a website update.

You can read more on features here: https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/10/0x8de918f0163b2021839...
An academic institution I’m affiliated with is now discussing whether to sign this declaration, and I’d be interested in reading people’s thoughts about it.

Here are some excerpts:

“The signatories of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment support the adoption of the following practices in research assessment. ...

1. Do not use journal-based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research articles, to assess an individual scientist’s contributions, or in hiring, promotion, or funding decisions. ...

2. Be explicit about the criteria used in evaluating the scientific productivity of grant applicants and clearly highlight, especially for early-stage investigators, that the scientific content of a paper is much more important than publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which it was published.

3. For the purposes of research assessment, consider the value and impact of all research outputs (including datasets and software) in addition to research publications ...

4. Be explicit about the criteria used to reach hiring, tenure, and promotion decisions, clearly highlighting, especially for early-stage investigators, that the scientific content of a paper is much more important than publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which it was published. ... ”

According to the site, “23,845 individuals and organizations in 164 countries have signed DORA to date.”
and taxes...
> But if you have an application where you can check the correctness of what they come up with, you are golden.

You're glossing over a shocking about of information here. The problems we'd like to use AI for are hard to find correct answers for. If we knew how to do this, we wouldn't need the AI.
NPR's recent Planet Money episode on the topic: [0].

[0] Europe gets more vacations than the U.S. Here are some reasons why. https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194467863/europe-vacation-ho...
> Capitalists generate capital

Capitalists acquire capital and, in a capitalist system, acquire power over others through doing so.

Laborers generate capital (among other forms of value), but capitalists, by virtue of the power they exercise within capitalism, capture what labor generates.
It looks like you can sandbox builds with guix, and this appears to be the default. But I can only find a single configuration line here https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Miscellaneous-Servi... (ctrl+f sandbox)

It's based off Nix sandboxing https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_package_manager#Sandboxing

> When sandbox builds are enabled, Nix will setup an isolated environment for each build process. It is used to remove further hidden dependencies set by the build environment to improve reproducibility. This includes access to the network during the build outside of fetch* functions and files outside the Nix store. Depending on the operating system access to other resources are blocked as well (ex. inter process communication is isolated on Linux); see nix.conf section in the Nix manual for details.

> Sandboxing is enabled by default on Linux, and disabled by default on macOS. In pull requests for Nixpkgs people are asked to test builds with sandboxing enabled (see Tested using sandboxing in the pull request template) because in official Hydra builds sandboxing is also used.

> To configure Nix for sandboxing, set sandbox = true in /etc/nix/nix.conf; to configure NixOS for sandboxing set nix.useSandbox = true; in configuration.nix. The nix.useSandbox option is true by default since NixOS 17.09.

This appears to use namespaces etc (basically containers) rather than a VM but I think it may be secure. Their goal is to aid reproducibility but if the network isolation actually works, then at least the build will be secure.

Note that an infected source may either run malware during build, or embed malware in the compiled binary (or both). When running the binary you're not protected at all by this sandboxing, unless you use something like Qubes (which is quite heavyweight)
Really just an in joke to myself because I have a friend who calls his paddy. I’ve also got a laptop called ‘urgh’ and a MacBook Pro 13 from about 2016 - the first one with the Touch Bar/strip (given as a freebie) that is called ‘shite’ because its still the worst Mac I’ve ever owned. It’s clunky, riddled with latency, and unresponsive to quite an extreme degree, and I think it’s because of some kind of hardware deficiency with the touch strip being introduced. I’d work on Paddy over Shite any day of the week.
can an AI build an entire functioning backend with tests, DBs, queues, ..?

can an AI debug/profile/.. entire distributed backend, find what's wrong and add at least one integration test so it won't happen again?

can an AI setup all the devops pipelines, setup monitoring and alerting?

can management trust what an AI spits and put it in prod?

if the answer is no to one or more to the above, then my job is secure.

the better question..

am I using the latest GPTs to do my work and save a lot of time and get more things done? hell yes
It has been shown that you need around 14 days of interrupted rest to recover from stress etc.

The European laws are not some random thing we made up because we are lazy. It is to ensure workers are well rested and ready for a new working year. Hence in long term it will also benefit employers.

Some personal anecdata: I notice an immediate difference when I come back after a long vacation. The first 2-3 months I work at top efficiency, get probably done twice as much as I would do any other month.
A contract is based on the exchange of value. The value coming from the customer/passenger is the dollars for the plane ticket. Nothing more or less. There is no value in warming a seat for the last (or any) leg of the flight. Therefore, that cannot be regarded as a contractual obligation.
Not sure the signal is strong enough.
Supported. It is survivorship bias.
I do sometimes learn something through reading that stuff that makes my life a little easier. But it won't make me more successfull. Pretty sur about that.
Did you work for display panel driver manufacturers or an industry dealing with similar PHY's or are you applying assumptions about unrelated hardware from an unrelated field?

If a panel driver manufacturer messed up the standard MIPI DSI and eDP interfaces for a bog standard smartphone panel, they would not have a business. Conformance is easy to validate due to the very limited scope. On the other end, Apple likely sources a third party IP block (as is standard in the industry) for their SoCs, and have little to do with over what goes on the wire.

If the display was a dud for other reasons and the software update overlap was coincidental, then sure Apple is without blame - this could happen with an original screen too.
That's perhaps true at tech wage levels. I think it's less true as you move down the ladder, where things like American health costs, college costs, etc, eat into things.
> Human expertise will always be necessary.

I reckon this will prove to be untrue.
Create a Large Language Model from Scratch with Python – Tutorial [video]
Just want to be pedantic and point out there is no such thing as a Canadian that is a dual citizen with China. China does not allow dual citizenship.
Did anyone try this https://getutm.app, is it possible to install it on a non-jailbroken iPad Pro M2?
Taxes and levies don't seem to be that different, overall you always seem to pay about 50 % of gross income in developed countries.
> Here in Germany, I get 30 vacation days

Does this include public holidays? Or do you have public holidays?
Americans with higher incomes likely have very good vacation policies.

I get 25 days per year.
You might enjoy Kitboga using that to mess with tech support scammers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0peLpovDB8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxWFdFhHd9U
The government isn't a hivemind, it's a "city" unto itself with different factions with different interests. Only when one awakens to this reality can one see what is going on is not necessarily a malicious, cynical conspiracy by design but ambivalent neglect by Tragedy of the Commons for the most part. Except for campaign financing pulling the strings of the political class at the top, that adds a good 90% of the corruption.
This is demonstration of W3C Ethical Web Principles 6.11 and 6.12

https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/
These days my parents based in Asia use the two iPads I gifted them almost exclusively. They watch YouTube videos, Netflix, Facetime the kids and browse the web on them. The only time my dad boots up my old college MacBook is when he has to do important document editing - never more than once every month. To my surprise, he's even using the iPadOS Files app extensively. We're just not the target market.
Public Holidays come on top of that, pretty standard across Europe, public holidays don't count for vacation days.
How hard would it be to make bash be the only dependency (and not require tcpserver)?

Iirc bash has some built-in support for networking but perhaps it's only for clients?
When Europeans talk about vacation days, public holidays are never included.
For Germany: "Free" as in waiting for months to get an appointment with a specialist? "Pension fund" as in gigantic ponzi scheme that requires 30% of the state‘s yearly budget, with no party having any kind of plan how to save the system? "Strong social system" as in being taken advantage of with the world‘s second highest taxes?

Sure, I’d rather be super poor in Europe than in the US. But anybody above the poorest, anybody that can and wants to work for a living, I’d much rather try to find my luck in America.
What's the point of having money if you don't have the time to spend it?
Reaching 50 years old, never got this American complaint about our salaries.

The whole package is what matters.

We work to live, not live to work.
I pay a month worth of salary per year in France and I pay the same in Louisiana. 1/12

But in France you get something out of your taxes
The whole software signing certificate industry is broken and won't save anyone from hackers. What's the point of certificate when "verification" is just bureaucratic process which does not verify anything, especially if you are not from anglophone country. How does certificate provider want to verify that company in Eastern Europe exists? By some scanned piece of paper which they don't understand because it is written in language they never heard of and robocall which is just sequence of numbers? If you want a certificate for signing, you will get it.
The US might have higher disposable income but there are less benefits to go with that.

I'll stick with the health care, education, paid vacation and sick leave, lower crime rates, lower incarceration rates, zero school shootings, etc.
Yes, they actually do.

The question about "VIP healthcare" pops up all the time on certain subreddits and the physicians who comment usually say "it's not worth it at all".
So would a law that makes illegal to respect it + actual enforcement of said law be the missing approach here?
Not really.

I did intermittent fasting before and it helped me to loose 33 pounds in two months while maintaining low physical activity.

But that comes along with the proper diet to achieve maximum results in shorter time.

In general, significant calories past 10 PM lead to sleep issues. You get an energy boost, the digestive system is busy. So why would you feel sleepy.
In addition to public holidays.

Depending on the state there are ten to thirteen public holidays (but some invariably fall on the weekend).
The Python dictionary dispatch pattern
Indeed; not something I was aware of, my knowledge of neurology being essentially void.

Thanks!
It depends greatly on the job. I have a fairly typical tech job in the US and have about a month of paid time off in total. Most white collar work is roughly the same, unless the company is managed by assholes.

Retail, service industry, and blue collar work is very different, though. Time off is not always guaranteed, and sick days are not always paid.
Meanwhile, Americans don't know how bad they have it and are far more productive for more hours for less money. Perhaps Americans should unionize smartly more and insist on collective bargaining for workplace safety, proper healthcare, and livable wages to start?

Most Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck and don't have much hope for their future. They feel like they're going to work until they drop without a plan or the resources to grow old with a shred of dignity.
How long is that long term because there aren't that many great European companies.
“iPhones and iPads are not simpler or less distracting than a typewriter”

Yeah, my point. Please read my comment before negating it as matter of course.

Beethoven’s ears breaking is a slightly different issue than technological limitations - his technology of ink on paper was still the same. He wasn’t playing each orchestral part one by one when he wrote his symphonies, he just couldn’t hear his main composing instrument any more, but had obviously internalised the skill of hearing it all in his head long before he lost the ability to hear it outside of his head upon playback, sadly.

Nujabes didn’t pioneer lo-fi.
We're building a web development environment for iPadOS/iOS that hopes to address some of the shortcomings developing iPad-only (and iPhone, but...)

Free to download, developer-tools browser built-in (Inspect Browser), Git and PHP available as an in-app purchase. Glad to answer any questions!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/webforge-ide/id6450872424
For some might not be the case when talking about the health insurance...
This is true. I used to think that having a life outside your job was normal. But that was before I became friends with Asian expats.
Can you share a transcript where it saved you an hour? I’m trying to better understand how I might apply it to my work.

So far it’s only been useful to me when working with a tool I don’t really know. But most of my work I know the tools fairly well.
i had trouble using archive.is because the article redirected to a deleted url
Exactly.

I live in a big European city. You basically don't need a car - pretty much anything within the city is reachable in about 30min, and public transit is comfy.

Also, I have a public transit ticket that allows me to travel the entire country for a year, which only cost about 1000€.

Yes, salaries are lower, but I also don't have to save anything to get my kids through university, or keep emergency funds for health issues.

Also, I can't just get fired without cause. And if I do get laid off, I have 3 months of grace period, plus potentially years of unemployment money.

Also, the government even pays for certain courses so I can find employment again.

The social system in Europe is amazing.
somebody already submitted the page to waybackmachine, but they have a save page now here https://web.archive.org/save/
You can have private medical insurance or retirement funds on top of that. One does not exclude the other. In fact, most employers offer that as part of your benefits

What you refer to is basically lowest level safety net.
It’s a light and fast read for improving the common knowledge of “non-hackers”. It still has value, but probably not in HN circles.
what's wrong with the other 34%?
Depends on the country. I officially get 33 days off at work, which includes public holidays; if I wanted to, I could probably negotiate to have those become part of my standard PTO, especially if it meant they had someone who could reliably run support during public holidays.
A huge percentage of US workers don’t get paid time off at all.
So you make it learn. It collects everything humans say and matches it to the situation, replaying human conversation as needed.
In Germany it is actually mandated by law that you take two consecutive weeks of vacation in a year!
What type of job?
Are the salaries really lower because people take more holiday or pay taxes?

Also, vacation days are not always used for fancy instagram post holiday. As random as life is, there are non-medical emergencies that one needs to attend to occasionally. Being able to see family is another one. Not everyone has their parents located within 1 hour driving distance.

My personal preference is to work as contractor and charge only for the days when I work. It takes away the feeling that the employer (or client) has a full control of your life and can dictate whether you will take 4 or 5 days off within a year or try to guilt trip you into working over weekends for no proper reason.
I have an idea how to implement automatic packaging but requires operating system be changed. It would enable seamless uninstall.

You tag every resource, file and API calls or change with an unfabricatable correlation identifier or cause that can be traced back to origin.

I once used checkinstall to create debian packages.

Creating a package is just a recording, no manual labour.

You can follow the chain of causality to an executable. If you delete the executable, you are left with orphans which you might want to delete.
> Spoken like a person who never even touched it even on a small project.

You can find guidance or good advice online for all of your questions.

> No cookies... so no language preferences. That is a profile cookie.

This is one of the examples of “strictly necessary” cookies, which do not require consent. See section 3.6 here: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...

> Right to erasure. What about invoices and orders? When can it be anonymous and when is it old enough to anonymize.

Invoices should typically fall under the “legal obligation” legal basis (article 6(1)c). See for how long the law requires you to keep them. In my country, it's 10 years.

>Do I get away with replacing personal data random data?

Yes, see WP216.

>Do I replace references to real people with 'anonymous person'? Will my sql constraints still work?

How do you do when someone deletes their account?

>When I restore data from backup and someone has been anonymized in the meantime, what mechanism will be used to anonymize the user after restore?

It's up to you to decide.

>Right to data portability. How much of the database and in what format?

The same as for a DSAR. As for the format, it's up to you to decide, provided it is a commonly used format.
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I'm assuming it includes public holidays.

For context UK can commonly have 20 to 30 working days and that won't count public holidays (which depend on the country, and should be around 9-11 days which includes new year's, xmas).
Sadly, you'll be waiting in America too if you're in SF. It's actually really poor customer service till you get the doctors.
Why Terraform and not, say, Nomad? Just wondering :)
> The European laws are not some random thing we made up because we are lazy.

In the case of the UK, much of the working hours, weekends, time off for bank holidays etc were hard-won agreements and rights from the Industrial Revolution era to the 20th century. The UK led the charge with many of these things too

I wish more people understood this. We had basically slave labour, workhouses, horrific factories etc
The ipynb links in the README are broken
That is blowing my mind 2 weeks is generally considers standard for white collar work in the US, but companies that have unlimited PTO have a higher tolerance in my experience. I take off 5 weeks a year. I found that taking off a week a quarter and then whatever random emergency days was just right for me. It's why once I experienced unlimited PTO I never went back.
Other than the expensive healthcare one thing that really brings down American quality of life is the long working hours and lack of vacation.

Americans should also stop focusing on bullshit stats like "working two jobs or more". The percentage of Danish people who work two jobs or more is roughly the same as in the US. The real problem are the long working hours and lack of vacation in the US.
I think actually more newsworthy here is that only 66% of Americans want extended holidays haha
A smaller but still significant percentage of these still receive an allotment of "sick days", and if they exceed them (or have a job without them) just get fired.
…and in turn “geometric algebra” is the physicist’s name for a subset of the even more general mathematicians Clifford algebra (which of course is a subspace of the tensor algebra over the underlying vector space…)
I have an Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo as my main home and travel computer. I am upgrading my Samsung Ultra Note 20 to a Samsung Fold 5. I can work off of my Note now, and leave the Asus laptop at the place I am staying. I spent 6 months in Saudi Arabia working this way. You can run MS 365 and Dex on the phone. I use the Note to annotate photos in the field and to annotate during Zoom calls. I've typed proposals, spreadsheets, and more just on the phone. Because I do CAD, physics sims, and rendering, I can't lose the laptop, but for everything else, I could get away with the phone. I think the Fold 5 will make it even more capable for what I use it for. I still have a 2015 iPad Pro, a 2011 27 in. iMac, but I've left the Apple ecosystem for a while now. Android, Windows, and Linux for me mainly in that order.
> "Pension fund" as in gigantic ponzi scheme that requires 30% of the state‘s yearly budget

Why is that a problem? At macro scale you can't really save money. As long as the pension payouts are somewhat balanced to pay ins each year it is kinda fine.
Free healthcare is not a given even in well-off EU countries. Besides a 'strong social system' (too vague given the dozen ways each country's system is leaking), the remaining points can be done by anyone who has the income to spare.

>automatic payments into pension fund

This is trivial to do if you spend a few hours researching. It's your money they are putting in at the end of the day, but now it's inaccessible to you until you're old. God forbid if you are an exceptional case (e.g. moving outside the EU), since the systems are getting more rigid by the day to save on labor costs.

>as high as US salaries are, they arent that much higher compared to European salaries when you factor all this in

Depends entirely on your job. High-skilled workers are higher at the end of the day. It's almost entirely a cultural/mentality issue for high-skilled workers, who have the money to take months off but are trained to be workaholics. The same way most Europeans are trained to do this '1 month off 11 months on with Xmas and a few random days free' dance, without realizing they can take off more if they have the money for it.

It's primarily to the benefit of low-skilled workers, who are guaranteed a better minimum in most of the EU rather than being at the mercy of the 'free market' in the US. And even that is debatable and case-by-case.
I’m concerned about the 21% who don’t want a better quality of life. What’s going on with them?