skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They kinda are but most EU companies just avoid it by not really collecting your data to begin with beyond what they need for service operation.

At least in my experience, when I deal with a service in the EU, their privacy policy fits on a few A4s, with the important bits frontloaded and written in an easily understandable way. Even most banks don't really hide what they collect on you and they explain why they collect it.

It's only foreign companies that tend to insist on massive privacy policies that border on being incomprehensible and use them to skirt the law. Seriously, just look at Googles privacy page for example - it's a single giant page that mostly just restates over and over "Google may collect info about you". It's unclear what the data is being used for, it's extremely reliant on other pages to detail what's being used and your average person has probably lost the plot by now.

It's difficult to put it in any other way, but foreign companies are the ones who think they can get away with breaking the law and make it as difficult as possible to trace what they're doing with your data. European companies just tend to actually follow the law. That's why all the landmark cases are against foreign tech giants.
> Then why not have Congress investigate his claims and send him to prison if he was lying?

Because Congress is neither the investigatory institution for things that may result in prison nor the entity that makes determinations of guilt in such cases, Constitutionally?
I loved the original Riot.js for the simplicity and readability of the code it let you write. Excited to see this focus on keeping things simple, small, and performant!
Saudi armed forces are rather inept and poorly led - best at slaughtering folks who can't fight back - the state would collapse overnight if Iran made a move across the strait.

It's only the US security guarantees and the oil that is stopping this from happening.
That's a recipe for an unhappy life IMHO. If I stopped using every service/product/business that did things I didn't approve of I'd be compiling my own linux distro (kill me) and probably growing all my food (of course where are you going to morally get some of the seeds you need?).

This kind of black/white thinking is harmful. Plex "just works" for the family I share it with, I have zero interest in being 24/7 tech support so I don't use things like Jellyfin. If this UI/UX improves enough then I might consider it but everyone I've shared my Plex with has been able to use it without peppering me with 100 questions. I seriously doubt the same would be true for Jellyfin.
> But I don't see why anyone should spend any significant resources (let alone the public at large) going by the words of someone who is payed to hide things from the public.

If there is a conspiracy inside the DoD to hide reverse-engineering projects from congressional oversight, as Grusch claims, then there is a good chance that no investigations will actually be performed without significant pressure from the public.

That is why public engagement is important. Public apathy enables corruption.
Thanks for letting us know. We missed putting the price up there. I'll fix that soon.

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I have multiple anecdotes of incredibly narcissistic people that refuse to believe some conspiracies are totally plausible, and that pretty much everything is as it seems, and as we are told. While there may be some pattern to it, I'd be incorrect if I were to apply it personally.
The page has some devices that are known to work with this software listed: https://github.com/barracuda-fsh/pyobd#prerequisites
Well I wouldn't entirely disagree - I should clarify that congressional projects like the SLS are wasteful nonsense. The parts of NASA that I think are under-resourced are planetary science, advanced propulsion etc. Research, in other words.
Where? I said how stupid do you think the judicial system is?
So what do you do and what do you charge for it?
Wow I'm really surprised I missed that!

Google sure gets a ton of flack (and deservedly so) for unceremoniously axing beloved products that don't quite bring Google-scale revenue, but this sunset sounds beyond incredibly respectful to their users and really shines a positive light on them. The controller thing is such an unnecessary but trust-promoting thing to do!
My approach is to look at contents as data-first with tools on the top. A few simple patterns of file systems manage this. Right now, I use Dropbox[1] as a primary container, with a family’s Google Workspace[2] account to augment when it needs spreadsheets, documents, forms, etc. I use Insync[3] to convert and back up a copy in open formats for all documents from Google Workspace.

I have been doing this for quite a while for our family, but I have extended slowly to immediate relatives while we helped them out with technology-related tasks. I haven’t reached the stage of complexities with the files and folder hierarchy that might break cloud providers[4].

Our family has a complete offline copy of everything, including backups of the photos, videos, and others. Everything is still in the works, and I recently started digitizing some old pictures from the in-laws. I stumbled upon some of their photos from around India’s independence and played with the colorization and animation thingy (that popped up a few months back). It became a craze, and their super large family gathered for a presentation, making many elders cry with tears of joy and disbelief.

My most significant achievements, compliments, and moments of pride have been that almost all of the new generations in the family choose to study computer engineering or computer-related. And so far, the best one is the niece commenting, “When I grow up, I want to marry a boy who is as technical as aunty’s husband.”

I have copies of the commercial ones (companies set up, wound down) since their inception. I also try to stick to plain-text, and as open formats as possible.

1. https://www.dropbox.com/

2. https://workspace.google.com

3. https://www.insynchq.com

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507148
My apologies, yeah, starting to moderate the content.
Yeah, the style and worldbuilding seems fine, which is no surprise from a BGS game.

Neither is the janky feeling of the engine.

Yet some of the magic is not there...
What's the privacy issue?

I mean, it doesn't impact my privacy if a GPS-tracked van drives past my home.
The EU's behavior during the Greek debt crisis was pretty evil.

Imagine if a US state were in serious debt, and the US federal response were to slash Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare benefits to the state. The EU view was that Greece should get out of debt by massively slashing government spending, including on virtually all social services, which sent the country spiralling into a Great-Depression-level economic collapse. That made repaying the debt even more difficult, which necessitated even deeper cuts, which made the economy collapse even further, and so on for years. Greece endured years of 20+% unemployment, and GDP/capita has fallen to the level it was 20 years ago.
Nova? Whoa! I will try this!

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Are you sure this data is accurate? By the site you reference, r/nottheonion has ~30 comments a day: https://subredditstats.com/r/nottheonion

But if I actually visit the subreddit, I see many posts from within the last 24 hours with 300+ comments each. Is it possible subredditstats.com had some kind of regression in its counting around that time? It could be related to the API changes.
"It's OK, come back [at a significantly reduced salary]"
I went back to check and this is what the book says, verbatim:

"Every function in this program was just two, or three, or four lines long. Each was transparently obvious. Each told a story. And each led you to the next in a compelling order. That’s how short your functions should be!"

So I think it's fair to say the book advocates for functions 2-4 lines long.

And about comments, from the book:

"So when you find yourself in a position where you need to write a comment, think it through and see whether there isn’t some way to turn the tables and express yourself in code. Every time you express yourself in code, you should pat yourself on the back. Every time you write a comment, you should grimace and feel the failure of your ability of expression"

"Some comments are necessary or beneficial. We’ll look at a few that I consider worthy of the bits they consume. Keep in mind, however, that the only truly good comment is the comment you found a way not to write."

With opinionated sentences like these, it's not hard to see how one would read the book and adopt a "no comment" mindset.
I had to deal with issues with the Saturn app for teenagers at work, and then I learned he had done some consulting for them. Dude's got the magic touch!
There's already a 100 share limit per server, but it doesn't matter. People just create more Plex servers and continue to sell access.
I wish more retailers would start doing this.
The problem with that is the same as with current copyright law. It's easy for lobbyists to get simple changes like changing "10 years" to "70 years". Or resold once to resold twice, because what's good for the economy one time must certainly be double good if we do it twice.

I lean toward making copyright non-transferable. The author keeps it for X years. They are free to license it if someone else can do better at making money from it. The problem with this seems to be group works like movies. Not sure how that would work.
There are already well over one or two Godot devs working on the engine. The community funding is already enough that it supports multiple full time devs salaries. If the current devs quit, this funding would be used to hire new devs. At this point, I think the Godot community is already well over the tipping point where it will continue no matter what the original devs decide to do.
Looking for Art in the James Webb Telescope
My apologies. Went to sleep and woke up to those new characters, changed the photos right away.
the US military just proved it can get satellites into space super fast
Fines do increase in case of continued noncompliance.
> This is naked Russian propaganda masquerading as enlightened discourse.

OSCE via Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/osce-reports-surge-numb...

Unless Reuters is "naked Russian propaganda" now, there was definitely an uptick in kinetic activity in the Donbas, with most of it falling on the Separatist side of the line of control.
The Idiocy of Measuring Developer Productivity
Even the contrived example in the post can be factored differently (and better imo). How do we know those 9 scopes are appropriate?
There is one "small" twist: they were probably firing/letting go all the people that didn't want return to the office and now are starting again to hire people that will go to the office.

It sucks big time, and it's what more or less happening at my company as well (I'm fully remote, hoping to get fired and get a juicy compensation for that)
Why can't robots check the box that says 'I'm not a robot'? [video]
Apologies, I should have seen that coming and implemented some moderation.
> How do you tell employees not to engage in monopolistic behavior?

the article says employees were instructed to avoid the word "bundling", were they instructed to avoid the action as well?
It is a perfect analogy. These fines are unreal - these are not small fines.

This company changed it and stopped it, and they still imposed a 2.5% revenue fine for a first offense!!
> Cryptocurrency content ages like milk.

I'm kind of fond of cheese.
Man, 86, accused of assuming dead brother’s identity in 1965 is convicted
Full Title: "Man, 86, accused of assuming dead brother’s identity in 1965 is convicted of several charges"

Interesting thing to note:

"The facial recognition technology is used by the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles to ensure no one obtains multiple credentials or credentials under someone else’s name"
cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.
Sorry, I read your previous comment too quickly and thought it was about Jellyfin... Now that I'm fully awake I agree with your statement.
If you listen to some of the experts (professional scientists) about the matter, their language gets very iffy very quickly. Especially when they says things like "dark energy driving the expansion of the universe at a faster rate". The implication is that "dark energy" is causing an increase in motion without generating waste energy.

What I find amusing though is the down vote. People don't seem to see the incongruity of the statements being made by these professional scientists and when something is sarcastically pointed out they just don't get it. In many ways, I think people have lost a sense of human about these matters and take themselves far too seriously.

As for dark energy/dark matter being a patch, I would wholeheartedly agree. I suspect that we will see more and more anomalies appear to cause either more additions or a fundamental change to occur in how we describe the universe as we see it.

It is fun to watch what is currently happening over very different fields of scientific investigation. I am thankful that I do not have to ascribe to any particular view as retirement, so to speak, allows me to read up and consider whatever fields take my interest at any point in time.
> Abortion or guns aren't 'hot button issues'. They're at their core about self determination and Americans deeply and ideologically disagree on them. Firearm politics is as old as the nation, in a sense even older. They can't be done away with by just making some process better, as if factions and divisions are just some sort of hallucination caused by wrong mechanisms.

I truly believe that most people wouldn't give a shit about either of these issues if they weren't being told to give a shit about these issues. These issues are signals for political tribes and most people are far less ideological than they think they are. The monkey parts of their brains are being manipulated for reasons as arbitrary as the religious wars of the 16th century.
Ask HN: Why don't developers support open source maintainers?
As developers, we may unintentionally consume other developers' time by using their libraries without giving back. I believe that if we heavily rely on a specific library, we should consider donating even as little as one dollar. Just imagine the positive impact on open-source maintainers' earnings, as they truly deserve our support
The calculator/computation app Kalkyl that we’ve developed for iOS and iPadOS fully supports dimensional analysis and validation in expressions.

See e.g https://kalkyl.io/
That's why everyone who has time should be publishing Fables projects this week. Let DC try to sue everyone.
I wonder if they account for wood pulp, non meat and meat fillers too.
What exactly is insane about giving the citizens control over their own data and about making it more difficult for companies to monetize that data?

I don't think that the fine is ridiculous high, by the way. I think it's too low.
Oh, tiger moth - nice! I have been working on my Lepidoptera for a while always love seeing those and sphinx moths are so cool. I'm up to six species of sphinx moths, the tessa sphinx is my favorite:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/176100012

Also that cottonwood dagger - whoah! I checked out your lifelist, you've found a lot of really interesting insect species, I'm in Austin and the differences are pretty dramatic and quite interesting. You can see my insect life list here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/steven_bach?view=tree&...
If anything you'd probably drastically increase your salary if boomeranging. Inflation has been no joke these last years, and getting a new job usually outperforms a promotion by a large margin.
That is not from your device.
> You can nudge tyrants into becoming milder and perhaps transitioning power sometimes in the future

That's incredibly rare to happen. Most dictators leave office by death or being forced into exile.
I'm an SRE and I've seen it firsthand at multiple companies.
The users aren’t the ones paying and the apps do seem to be gone

Apollo, Sync for Reddit, BaconReader etc
Something one should consider is that while math is surprisingly applicable, and as you correctly picked up I was making a reference to the "Unreasonable Effectiveness" quote, it is never exact.

Newton's laws are enough for us to fling rockets and robots to Mars, but they are not good enough for us to create our GPS system. And Relativity is amazingly good, but still not good enough to model black holes, dark matter, and dark energy. The breadth of equations in Quantum Mechanics are also supremely successful, and yet they don't work well in the realm of Relativity. The Standard Model doesn't know what dark matter or dark energy is.

So yes, all of this math we have is Unreasonably Effective. But it's still a model, and a model that is not 100% correct. We have gaps in our models and as we figure out better and better approximations for them we move to them.

In my first post I made a small comment about those who are Platonist "mistaking the map for the territory". This is a logical fallacy where one is confusing/conflating the semantics (in this case mathematics) with what it represents, reality.

Math, and by extension logic and any other model, or heuristic, that we use to make our way through this world is the map, it is amazingly effective. Just because a map is not the territory does not mean it's not useful.
The point is that if you're a game company. You have a way to legally make modifications to the engine even if Epic goes belly up.
No car does that streaming from your phone (except for airplay… which makes my point)
They were being warned about speech that is associated with a specific prohibited behavior in an effort to not find the company having to defend against that prohibited behavior at a later date. It's asinine to try to use preemptive training against prohibited behavior as an example of said behavior. It's worse to use it as some kind of evidence of conspiratorial behavior.

It's like if I tell you "It's not ok to murder people" or "We do not murder people" in an email and then a prosecutor uses that email to say I was conspiring to commit murder. If you have a predisposition to think I'm the murderous type, sure you can read it as me trying to obscure what I'm doing. Or you could look at it as me trying to communicate that we don't freaking murder people. Choosing to read it as conspiratorial, without other evidence, says a lot about you and not the group you are accusing.

At the end of the day I do think Google is too big for it's own good and perhaps they hit legal definitions of illegal monopolistic behavior. I do not thing this training is evidence of that fact and should, in fact, be evidence to the contrary.
Maybe next year they can pay someone to update the UI. It's a mess compared to Word.
I've only been into cat discourse for a few months but in my experience it's almost a guarantee that someone will make the "humans are the real invasive species" argument to defend letting their cat out
> but I doubt its ET visiting us in an FTL tractor

I have no idea whether there are aliens, or whether they are visiting, or how they could be doing it. A little over a century ago we had no idea that matter bended spacetime, so who knows what we will know about FTL in another century.

> Besides, the visiting methodology of these aliens wouldn't match their alleged level of advancement (unless they evolved beyond what we on Earth call common sense), if you think about it

How so? It's always good to understand whst other people think.
True, but there are other humans that have taken upon themselves to integrate into a pack of chimps and film their daily lives up close.
Apple to Issue iPhone 12 Software Update in France to Address Radiation Concerns
The problem is, that making a 3D engine is extremely tough, and most 3D engines are completely proprietary as a result. There are plenty of 3D libraries that make 3D game development for small games easy, but when you compare a Python library next to a system that includes a 3D engine, a level editor, a file management system, and the ability to easily compile for different systems, its no contest for game companies. A fully-fledged development environment scales better for these multi-million dollar projects than a singular library.

It's why in the 90s every game was mostly built on an engine specifically designed for that game, and in the 2000s they switched to prebuilt game engines. Saves a lot of time AND money.
So, they are at 7 and want to go through 3 process nodes in 2 years? Good luck, no one ever pulled that off.
Between stuff like this and the prototype NBA basketball, seems like fabrication techniques are getting us slowly to the point that inflatable-anything of all sorts will be things of the past, no?
Hmmm, yeah, sounds like actually doing that would cost them much more than what they could possibly gain from it...
'On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog' Web's Most Iconic Cartoon for Sale
So I think before we can get outraged we need to know what areas got laid off and what areas they are hiring for, rebalancing your workforce isn't necessarily a bad thing, although the way they handled it might've been done poorly.

I mean you can't exactly take Linda whose been in HR for 10 years or Frank whose a team lead in accounting and suddenly turn them into Sr. ML engineers.
I have lived from my VFX freelance work for 4 years and worked soley with Blender for the 3D and much of the 2D part.

Blender has some parts where it is the best (the tracker for example easily beats all commercial trackers I have ever used) and other parts where it doesn't shine as much (e.g. fluid simulation — which is a non-issue because it integrates well with other tools).

I have been coming from 3dsMax and Maya and never have been looking back. Blender also has been getting so much in the past 5 years it feels ridiculous and makes you wonder what the likes of Adobe and Xo are doing with all their money.
The formula is to lay off senior people who are at the higher end of the paygrade salary range and hire similarly experienced people at the lower end of the salary range. They can shave off ~50k for every such position. It sucks and it happens a lot when you are older.
Just because you may be right when others may be wrong is not a valid reason to disrespect other people.

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Downvoted and flagged.
It's always annoying when article headlines mix figures. Why use 3k people on one hand and 10% on the other. Make them consistent. lol
What would you propose?

TikTok is a massive corporation. They were either negligent or purposefully broke the law.
Pro and Pro Max already backordered into October in US and China. Supply or demand?
It's what everyone should be doing in order to support Willingham. DC can't sue everyone.
Well, it's fairly obvious if you are reading the tea leaves that they never intended to move on from Lightning, but the EU forced their hand. There's no rational logic otherwise for delaying the move so long.

Also, it takes 1-3 years to design a chip. Apple's probably finished with the A18 design at this moment and working on A19. They might, honestly, even be nearly finished with A19 and talking about A20. When the A16 was designed, the idea of being forced to move to USB-C was probably not a consideration, and they were probably still hoping that the wireless accessories / MagSafe system would take off even though it clearly hasn't by now. Which is stupid on their part but as an investor, I wouldn't want them to waste a billion or so for the sake of undoing the past to give USB 3 on iPhone 15s.
Wages don't need to track inflation. It's been going the opposite way.