skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Case in point, Elasticsearch and Terraform.
In fact Norway has typically been faster to apply EU regulations as part of its EEA membership than most actual EU countries....
Believe it or not this is completely legal in the US.

The way it works is that company insiders can’t freely sell or buy stock, instead they have to submit a form (Form 4) to the SEC on which they report the sale, almost always based on a prior setup plan (called Rule 10b5-1 plan) that can’t be changed and automatically effectuates. These forms get published.

The CEO’s Form 4 can be found here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1810806/000181080623...
It shows the plan to sell shares was created in May this year.

The other executives also sold shares, which can be found under “Ownership Disclosures” here: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=0001810806

This is of course silly because the CEO can just plan something detrimental for September all the way back in April (which the fuckery with the terms suggests happens), create a plan in May to sell shares in September just before the announcement is made and make sure that the drop in stock price doesn’t affect his wallet.

But in the good old US of A that all considered above board.
The fines are paid to the Data Protection Authority in Norway. You can read their own press here: https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/ The kind of tit-for-tat you’re insinuating rarely happens, if ever. I would expect the fines to enter the state’s finances the same way other a fine for speeding does.

Echoing other comments about how Norway and Denmark are separate countries.
Wait until you mention you're from an African country... :)

"Oh, yeah! I've been to Africa!"
Almost the same currency name anyways.
That’s interesting
FYI – it seems like the Community Edition lacks a Linux toolchain, and the ability to compile for Linux.
Illegal Mopeds and Fake Names: Migrants Scrape by in Underground Economy
Metas profit for 2022 was 23 billion. Assuming 3 billion users that’s like $8 per user per year of profit. Thats actually quite insane how much value they extract out of each of us.
Java DependencyDownloader: Resolve and DL dependencies without Maven (2015)
A meta aspect of this is going unspoken: the stories and characters in the Fables comics are (mostly) pulled from the public domain.

Snow White, The Three Little Pigs, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and Peter Piper are all characters walking around and with jobs in the Fable Universe.

I see Bill putting his work back into the public domain as a kind of "thank you" to the original creators.
Pretty lame contrived example; easy to make a case for inlining when your functions are 5 lines long. In any case, think I'll go on ignoring dogmatic coding advice.
According to your link the big three are 4 out of the top 5 brands being sold. Ford and GM being #2 and #3 respectively.

And by model[0], they make up 8 of the top 25, 5 of the top 10 with the F150 being the #1 selling vehicle.

Not everyone lives on the coasts. While the Japanese brands are very common here too (and I personally prefer them) my work parking lot probably has Ford trucks as the most used vehicle.

The auto industry needs to pivot to survive the next few decades for sure but some sliver of profits going to the workers is only reasonable. My hypothetical was Ford having to fund a high raise for all UAW workers when they would in reality not need to.
GDPR fines can be straight global revenue (up to 4%) based, so such fines are no joke
Has someone coined "the greater bad" yet? If not I'm calling dibs.
You say that, but with respect, "the relevant authorities" doesn't add
what I'm looking for.

> I'm not sure where the confusion comes from?

There is no confusion, there's a lack of concrete factual
knowledge. That's different.

Who exactly takes that money? When and how? And how does that
translate into a win for the victims?
Godot is MIT licensed though, there's very little we can do to screw our users if we wanted to, which we do not :)
The FTC and other such agencies won’t do shit because corporations are the highest authority in the US.

Every once in a while they’ll pick a “sacrificial lamb” for a slap on the wrist and call it a day.
>But for us, it is a question of whether we make the transition smoothly or catastrophically, and that depends largely on us cleaning up how our organizations & groups operate today.

It seems unlikely that we can muster the will to do said 'cleaning up'.
Yes, a few years back there was another german youtuber who also had some promo ad for hetzner. Though the amount of ads is pretty limited compared to others like Linode.
That’s mind blowing actually
Documents are in Subversion hosted on a local home Debian server which is also NAS.

Photos (hundreds of GBs) are also in Subversion hosted on same server.
Photos are managed/viewed either via Digikam (on both Mac, Linux, Windows) as well as through a generated HTML/js gallery served on the same server.

Home server is backed up via restic to

* local harddrives that are rotated weekly and moved offsite.
* to a rented physical Debian server in a different country
* to a cloud storage provider

Server storage is fully encrypted using LUKS.
Backups are encrypted via restic/ssh.

Various sensitive documents are separately encrypted inside the svn repos via 'age' or similar tools.

This setup has been working for almost two decades.
I have yet to lose any data.

Edit: For documents, we have a personal repo for each family member. Typically, we use a folder structure based on https://johnnydecimal.com/

We also have a repo specifically for receiped in which receipts are just stored as /<year>/<yyyy-mm-dd>-<name>.pdf (or .jpg if it is a scan/photo).

Legal documents like wills, etc. are stored in a safe as well as a physical copy stored at a relative + digital versions stored in the svn repo.
Related:

https://github.com/boredwookie/tools/tree/master/JavaDepende...
I use subtitles all the time and they work really well for me - both embedded and separate files. I'm streaming from an SSD though, maybe that makes a difference?
The same way every other website uses Ad Sense today, but they would be different companies...
I suggest in general, when approaching a conclusion of a field that you find unintuitive or overcomplicated, to try to recognise that thought pattern and swallow your pride. Its an incredibly common reaction of educated people in one area to see another area and be like "wow why are they overcomplicating it so much they must all be blind to the obvious problems" as though literally every new student in that field doesn't ask the same questions they're asking. Heck I do it all the time, most recently when starting learning music theory.

You may feel so certain that they're just too wrapped up in their nonsense that they can't see what you see. But at the very least you will have to learn it the way they learned it if you want to be effective at communicating with them to articulate what you think is wrong and convince people. And in doing so you'll likely realise that far from some unquestioned truth, every conclusion in the field is subject to vigorous debate, and hundreds and thousands of pages and criticisms and rebuttals exist for any conclusion you care about. And for it to get as big as it is such that you, a person hearing about it from outside, there must at least be something interesting and worth examining going on there.

For a prime example, see all the retired engineers who decide that because they can't read a paper on quantum physics with their calculus background, the phsyicists must be overcomplicating it, and bombard them constantly with mail about their own crackpot theories. You don't want to be that person.
What to consider before you try to change the way your voice sounds
Solver for Elements=200 in the Password Game
Currently available at: https://15e5-121-7-185-69.ngrok-free.app/process?password=%3...
https://archive.ph/uMs49
duration? better make that a float, not in int ....
The OP's site address is .uk, very unlikely to be US based.
I mean not go into any business
I think there are a lot of Americans who don’t know that New Mexico is in the US, so…
This blogger obviously wouldn’t get along with Sean Parent of Adobe. It’s old but I have everyone on my team watch this “no raw loops” presentation: https://youtu.be/W2tWOdzgXHA?si=4LKv1-sau60U63op in which he identifies reusable patterns hiding in code (“That’s a rotate!”) I myself was skeptical at first but have found over the years that breaking functions into pieces is the only way to maintain short functions that can be reasoned about in isolation, and as a side effect, surfaces reusable code. If you can’t write functions that easily fit on a page, I posit you don’t actually know what the function is supposed to be doing, and there’s probably a bug. (If you can’t hold the whole function in your head, how can you be sure there isn’t a bug?)
Or the usual MS gain that they have been using for the last 40 years.

Most VS written programs run on MS operating system and/or Office so they get there money from sellinmg these.
Similarly for the petrol consumption case, once you convert "liters per 100km" to normalized units, you get "square meters". Usually for most cars a value of a few square milimeters. You can intuit this as "sweep the volume of the fuel injector across the distance travelled"; imagine all the petrol used as a very thin cylinder lying along the length of the trip.
at least by name
> EU citizen personal data protection

Sadly, there is no personal data protection. EU has recently agreed to allow data transfer to US [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/big-tech-can-tra...
Yes, and it has never been a bad experience. However, I don't see a use case for new projects. There are many language options nowadays and most have a larger developer pool.
I don't think the Community Edition will have the same impact as for instance Visual Studio CE.
which cat?
Is it actually changing anything though, or are Meta just paying the fine and continuing their merry way?
Not coincidentally, at this time the life expectancy of Russians dropped dramatically.
He explicitly says something like this in his follow up https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/more-about-fables-in-t...
Fixed - sorry about that, brainfarts abound. Hope you are still interested in making contact!
That's fair, but I think there's a huge gap between that and being a serial killer.

We can point to war or to the Stanford prison experiment. People in unusual stressful situations have the potential to be abusive, or to follow abusive orders.

But there's a large gap between that and the kind of trouble that results in serial killers. Soldiers in a war are under terrible living conditions, and commit atrocities in the name of taking it out on the enemy.

But even the soldier does not stoop as low as torturing animals. The enemy, maybe, but not the innocent. Serial killers are completely indifferent to the pain of the innocent. Soldiers only hurt the outgroup, the enemy.

And I think you're being unfair to people living in more primitive societies. There's crime in every society, but you will not make friends anywhere by being antisocial. A small village doesn't survive by people turning against each other. It would simply cease to exist.

My claim is that most people do not have the violent impulses, and don't need to channel them. Some people do. And they benefit from channeling them, because bad outcomes happen much more often to those who don't.

Nature will beat the violence out of people, over generations. You simply survive less in aggregate with a harmful set of instincts. Most people have no need for hard to control violent impulses, and indeed tend to be born without them.
What has less value than pocket change? Because that's what this fine is to Meta or Big Tech in general. And how exactly is Norway pointing the way when other EU states such as Italy, Ireland, France etc have imposed similar fines to Alphabet and/or Meta in the past?
It depends - what is the _benefit_ of not doing anything? Probably more than +30 mil, otherwise they would be doing something.
> So as soon as you have other people take over service delivery, you will inevitably experience a drop in quality. And this will lead to more churn.

IME, this is not correct. Many founders are crap at service delivery; what they're good at is client acquisition. And good developers don't generally make good salesmen. So at the point when they decide to hire real developers, service delivery will improve. The founders can stop monkeying around with code, and focus on selling.
That's easy, Norway has mountains and Fjords and Denmark is flat.
It's getting downvoted because this varies hugely by location. In the UK, the life expectancy is not that different, there are no large predators, so the consensus of cat owners is that cats life richer lives if let out. If you live in the US your cat could be eaten by a mountain lion or coyote.
Thankyou.

The next question is - if we're hoping to seriously talk about the
effectiveness of fines against hostile and uncooperative foreign
companies, how does the Norwegian DPA use that money to further remedy
the harms inflicted on the people?

That's not a lot of money in the scheme of things. but handing it out
amongst everyone doesn't seem useful.

The obvious danger is that the DPA becomes a self-fulfilling entity,
in perpetual growth of power and reach, and quite happy if Meta
continue to transgress.

Shouldn't Europe use this money to invest in its own social networking
infrastructure, thus providing a double-whammy against Meta's
misdeeds?
https://archive.ph/kF3Pj
You're confusing the XHTML/HTML and JavaScript API naming schemes
If I were a DC executive, and if he is not badly misinterpreting their contract, I would be very mad at the lawyer that drafted said contract. So I'm confused. What's going on? How did this happen?

Was the DC contract drafted sloppily to allow this because no-one could imagine the edge case of him throwing away money?

Is he creatively interpreting it ("it doesn't say anywhere that dogs can't play basketball" wouldn't really stand in court, and I'm suspicious about "I am not allowed to authorize anyone else to print fanfics of Fables but I am allowed to authorize everyone else to authorize anyone else to print them)?

Is he reneging on an obligation towards them that they can and will sue him for (or maybe the way the contract dealt with this was saying he can't do this and if he does the contract is void and he pays a small fine, and he doesn't care about the small fine or the contract)?
> What if Godot stops the development?

You can also use the old version. Also others can take it from where they left off, since it’s open source, as it's has been pointed.
Agreed. A plain number as an answer could give you zero points. It is always UNITS UNITS UNITS. 10 what? Kg? Apples? kW?

I remember actually a chemistry test where I did not use units in an important calculation but only in the answer. If I had used units I would have realized that I totally fucked up. I went belly up. :-(

Dimensional analysis was part of my degree but honestly, I remember little.
By market share yes. Yet even at 42% market share they are operating at a loss in 2022.

All carmakers in the US saw around a 10% drop in sales in FY23. The difference is Big 3 carmakers are very US-centric, while other Japanese/Korean/German carmakers have growth markets that they can further leverage or that can cushion bad sales in the US.

The Big 3 simply don't have a strong long term outlook nor enough money to give a raise, as they are not selling enough to break even.

By model isn't a relevant enough number simply because we need to see at the macro-level how a company is actually operating.

An additional issue with the UAW strike is EV/Battery related jobs do NOT fall under the UAW's Union [0].

At the end of the day, this is just low level politicking in a few swing states (Michigan, Pennsylvania) and one former Swing State (Ohio)

[0] - https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/13/biden-labor-ally-th...
I remember other case but may I am writing a big mistake, sorry...the saga gamebooks named Lone Wolf are as something similar to public domain. It is correct?
It's interesting how even before this has taken hold on HN the repo was already basically dead

https://github.com/google/project-gameface/pull/31#issuecomm...

More interesting is not having the "This is not an official Google project so not supported" disclaimer so many repos in their org has.

Shady origins, shoddy maintenance, but the incident will be forgotten as is usually the case. The reality is Google still has huge mindshare and respect among engineers and will likely be immune to damage in these situations.
So apparently I own Fables now. Anyone got a way for me to look at my property?
Chrome is also very resource hungry. Its great, it lives on the principle that if a machine has 16gb of RAM, it'd be stupid not to use it. Some other browsers limit themselves to the minimum but lose performance.

This is best for most people, but not for those with older devices. In that case I usually find Firefox and a mandatory adblock a lot more enjoyable than chrome+ublock. Bonus points if you have a pihole somewhere on your network.
“There's no way for an open source project to change their terms that drastically.”

Like going from GPLv2 to GPLv3 or straight to AGPL, so now you are stuck with an old version forever? Yeah, that would never happen!
Cats are native fauna in some places. If it’s not suitable for a cat to go outdoors where you live, maybe just don’t get a cat in the first place. Same for dogs, children, horses etc.
The lack of birds in the small town where my parents live, and dozens of semi-feral cats roam, is always rather unsettling. Meanwhile the parks in a city two orders of magnitude larger are bustling with activity, since the life expectancy of an outdoor cat here is close to zero.
This was the wake-up call me and my friends needed to stop using this proprietary piece of garbage. I moved to Jellyfin this morning and I was pleasantly surprised that unlike a few years ago, the Swiftfin app now works well on both iOS and tvOS.

This kind of move by Plex only highlights that even though you’re running the server, they still feel they have the right to break your application at any time for reasons they decide. For me that’s completely unacceptable and I won’t spend a cent with them again.
Yeah. It's just a hunch, but I suspect the brain has a tendency to create signal by itself if 'outside' drops below certain levels.

Such self-generated signal may be more annoying than low level external noise.

Over the past summer, it's been mosquito sound for me. There'd be a few, I'd kill 'em, and then sound of the last one would keep 'ringing in my ears' even though I cleared the space of mosquitos.

But hearing is complex. Things like diet, exercize, blood pressure, history of exposure to loud noise, drugs, age etc all play a role.
> By using an open source engine you can be sure that whatever that “next thing” is, the engine won’t keep you from taking advantage of it. Nor would the engine be able to dictate your monetization strategy for you.

We really ought to separate the fact that "open" does not always mean "free" here. Especially given that it is fairly straight-forward to change licenses on a whim.

Imagine you wake up one day and suddenly the company/OSS maintainers put out a dual-license on the project. You now have to pay $0.20 per install after your app has made $200,000 over the past year. Now you're still using open source, but still legally held to the terms of that license.

Licenses tend to be permissive enough that if such thing were to happen or other factors(discontinued development/support/etc), community forks can be created(which has its own set of problems).
I'm afraid not. Its not as simple as that. We have a heavy competition in automobile industry but when it comes to gaming industry, it is(I mean was) mostly unreal or unity despite decades of technological advancement. The reason for this is because using a game engine to make games is no where as simple as driving a vehicle. It takes a lot of skill, knowledge(sometimes things are engine specific only to make things even more annoying) and the time to attain both of them with the engine they are working on to make good games.

You are grossly underestimating the complexity involved in game engines. It is not like a web app where devs don't have to worry about constraints like memory or frame rate and chill. Things need to happen in real time. A delay of even half a millisecond is not acceptable. And these "Things" involve changing of 3d objects' position w.r.t player's movement, calculating zero or tens or hundreds of NPC AI characters' position and finalizing their animation state, calculating the lighting on all the objects and a lot more. All this just to finally render and present one frame. Yes, hardware has gotten better over the years and memory constraints might not seem like an issue but that is not the case for games. Improved hardware only helps with improving the overall quality of the game. Game now will be able to afford to look better and do more things than games from 2003 and that's it. Games still need heavy optimizations.

Thanks for the better hardware, making 2D games now is neither expensive nor hard. So, Godot being more friendly than unity for making 2D games is quite possible to happen. But that is not the case when it come to comparing Godot with unreal. Unreal is already at a league of its own. I don't think Godot can integrate something like nanite or lumen inside its engine anytime soon. In the past few years, only unreal has been introducing ground breaking computer graphics tech inside a game engine. Unity is having a hard time to even keep up with unreal's tech like meta human. It doesn't matter how many google, amazon or apple contribute to godot, it'd be a big surprise if Godot is at least able to hold its ground against O3DE IMHO.
This isn't a user privacy breach. Recommending posts is a core functionality of social media. People understand that the site learns your interest. It's not a privacy breach if TikTok learns you like watching piano videos. Nor is it a privacy breach if X learns you like to see posts from artists.
Great name - can't tell if this a joke or not but I love it
It's better that it "malfunction" and fall up by mistake than not falling off when needed.

If it do falls off (by mistake or because the quick release did its intended job), at least you now have a good starting point where to go search for the cat. Assuming it doesn't fall off the very first day, you might also have a good idea or sense of in which area the cats normally goes strolling due to the tracking feature.
They made a blogpost after their last drama touting how transparent they are going to be forward and how saintly they’ll be and how, in an effort to support these goals they’re making a GitHub repo where you can track changes made to the ToS.

So yeah, a fucking blog post telling people that they’re pulling the plug on the repo is the least they could do.

Anything short of that is doing it “silently”, especially considering that the old ToS stated that you can choose to stay on the old ToS if a newer one is detrimental to your interest and the new one removes that.
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It’s not as “simple” as gp suggests, nor is it “the right thing”. We really don’t know what psychological and qol differences there are between the two… we’ve never been able to ask the cats. There are trade-offs, life expectancy being only one dimension of it. And in both cases (like the play you mention) there are mitigations to the downsides.

Source: I’ve had both indoor and outdoor cats, including cats that transitioned to outdoor after being raised indoor.
Lost one outdoor cat tragically in middle of his lifespan. But his equally-outdoor brother lived to 19, and all the outdoor cats hands down seemed happier on average (less lethargic, less neurotic, less obsessive, less overeating).
And this is exactly my point.