skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expected that they might have went behind a few high-profile cases, for the show, and an entire group of smaller non-compliers would simply continue their business as usual.

I often wondered if flagging smaller websites not respecting the GDPR to the relevant watchdogs would have any effect at all, or that it was just a waste of time because small-fish complaints would go straight to the bin.

I stand corrected, and will not hesitate to do so going forward.
50% of the reason Kubernetes is getting so popular, devops people need k8 experience to move up in their careers and therefor your company is now using k8.
Sad news! I've been an Affinity customer for many years; I like it much better than Adobe. Canvas branding is underwhelming, and there is no doubt in my mind that Affinity will change to be at the level of what Canvas represents: a web app.
eh... was hoping for something along the lines of Executive Orders[1]. disappointed

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Orders
> On the other hand you are overlooking fundamentals where Affinity is so much better than Adobe - stability, speed, connection between the software.

I think others would argue on that last point that Adobe is more than halfway there since Creative Suite and has plans to finish the job with Adobe Express, though we’ll see if they come to fruition.

> It seems biggest issue Affinity has are networking effects/inertia of the industry unvilling to change.

This I agree with, 100%. And now Affinity will have a third struggle in that they are poised to go subscription and lose the pricing model advantage too. Even if they don’t change the pricing model, eventually you’ll need a Canva account to use the apps, ongoing annual support fees, and so on.
Intel CEO Gelsinger proposes a fab tour for Elon Musk
Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis (2021)
China's Queqiao-2 relay satellite enters lunar orbit – SpaceNews
"The screw, 1¢. Knowing which screw to turn how much, $999.99."

On a purely personal level I still haven't found a better model than this. (That speaks poorly of me, not well of the model.)
Our basic low-dimensional parametric model landed No1 at the SKU level at the M5, see my lecture https://www.lokad.com/tv/2022/1/5/no1-at-the-sku-level-in-th... (more references at the bottom)
At this point it's pretty clear that when Elon Musk talks about "free speech" he means the freedom to spread right-wing speech without consequence. I honestly believe a lot of what he's doing is, in his mind, liberating the site from the "woke mind virus" he believes turned his daughter trans. Most of the rest is boredom, because I also don't believe he really cares about the platform. He didn't even really want it, but he's stuck with it, so he's mostly just screwing around.

If you interrogate Musk's action from the point of view of the bored, redpilled sociopath behind the mask of a brilliant entrepreneur playboy genius engineer, a lot of his decisions make sense.
EU quizzes Microsoft rivals about O365 and Entra ID links
wow, that is a great hack
This was submitted four days ago. But the comments and submission are less than six hours old? I also remember reading these comments. Got some major deja vu (spelling).
Mortality risk, aka "risk of dying," still at 100% for everyone.

Many people care about reducing the risk of dying in the next X months or years, but saying that walking or anything else reduces that risks assumes knowing how long that person would have lived in the control group. Since that proves impossible, this study compares similar individuals, some of whom walked and some of whom didn't, or walked less.
My bad. I got some numbers in the article mixed up.
Same here, except my collection is about an order of magnitude smaller. Seems absolutely dystopian to me to have to maintain a continuous relationship with some company to re-watch your favorite movies.

Unless your collection gets as big as yours you don't really need to maintain a server - a harddrive full of media files works pretty well.

> Blu-rays really aren't being produced anymore.

Wait what - since when?
Oops, that's true! I should have dug harder. Thanks for pointing that out.
this would solve so many problems! emails are perfect for that.
Audio software will typically allow you to configure a soft takeover, where you must move the fader or knob until it matches the software value, and only then does it take over, to eliminate these surprises.

Rotary encoders are just not as good for controlling volume as faders.
>What happens if you change the levels through software and your faders do not move?

Wouldn't your software changes are overwritten by the absolute values from the Deej? That wouldn't be a surprise.

I haven't dug through the code for the app, so I don't know if it monitors the levels in software and immediately corrects them with the hardware values, if it loops at a specific interval, or only triggers on significant hardware value change.

But if not monitored, I can't imagine it would be an insurmountable task to add.
In-App Browsers: The erosion of user choice you haven't heard of
This is Hacker News. Best we can do is millionaires tweaked out on Red Bull and adderall.
What happened in your area?

In mine (academic) they fired Mavis, Kevin and Colin (a week before
his retirement party) and moved the lot into "the cloud". What was
once the "campus network" vanished and became a wholly managed outpost
of Microsoft.
Sorry, but yes I am using macOS for work. I use homebrew as xcode is the issue here, not python or macOS. There are solutions to your problem, you just seem resistant to using them.
Sounds like bad product management as much as bad engineering. I mean, the outcome — a bloated product — is bad for everyone: the users in the first place, the engineers building the product, but also the PM who can't conceivably be proud of shipping a bad product.
It is ironic that photographers should distain AI. Photography at first took over the role of simple representation once the preserve of painters. But they soon leaned to tweak and turn their pictures into something "better", though they created for themselves limits as to how far they could decently go.

Expressionism was partly a release for painters to do what they wanted when photography took on their traditional role. Now photographers are facing a new expressionism and not liking it.
Which you steered there because you wanted to be nitpicky about the biodiversity issue, where what I originally said was that civilization is likely to collapse because we can't seem to address the climate, biodiversity and energy problems.

But hey, thanks for steering it in an ad hominem direction.
I don't think they can. User's contact list is such a sweet low hanging fruit.

I tried searching for anonymous chat app few years ago and the only thing I found was GG. Semi modern reincarnation of Polish chat app from times of ICQ.

It uses random numbers as your identifier.
Oh no no no no shit no
Ah, that's a possibility I didn't take into account. I thought they were being more forthcoming than other news outlets, but didn't consider that it might be a "regional" perk.
Usually, a harbor pilot guides the vessel when entering and leaving the harbor.

The pilot is a former captain with a lot of local experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_pilot

[Edit: The association of Maryland Pilots even has the bridge on their homepage https://www.mdpilots.com/]

Did the pilot screw up? Was the pilot ignore? Did the captain take over? Was there a technical fault that disabled steering?

There could be a lot of possible reasons for this incident.
This is more like:

- Doctor, it hurts when I hit my head on the wall

- Then don't hit your head on the wall

You have solutions available, use them
Is inverting the colors in a photo ever the right choice? People come out looking really strange.
What is the gist of the algorithm? I'm not proficient at reading Go. Is it perhaps doing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAR which is indeed SIMD?
Thanks! So why are huge—ass container ships allowed to navigate underneath fragile public bridges with single points of failure? The not unlikely worst case is that the ship is out of control for some reason…
Most comments seem to be from Affinity customers. I've been a customer for many years. They have incredible software, and it's extremely sad because past acquisitions seem to destroy the applications people like and support, not the other way around. Canva looks like McDonalds.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39824191
Perhaps, but in my experience, this is often what happens when you have too many cooks.

People like to build corporate empires by having more subordinates. Those subordinates need to justify their existence somehow. Bloated, inefficient software is one of the unfortunate outcomes.
> If the ship is large enough and comfortable enough, it can be a better lifestyle than many people live today.

Surely if it is comfortable enough, nobody is even remotely considering sending poor people there, right?

Then again: what about improving life on Earth instead? Because if you look out there, it's great (at least in those places that humans have not completely destroyed).
>A perfectly uniform waveform is still not useful for communications...

It is if you encode information by switching it on and off in standard patterns. These uniform waveforms--or "continuous wave" (CW)--allow very simple devices with very little RF power to be used to communicate with Morse Code.
FCP X’s simple timeline which chains clips together making edits easy, though some would call this an anti-feature.

After Effects simplicity compared to the hellscape that can be node-based VG work. I mean, the programmer in me loves nodes, I even used MaxMSP frequently… and Origami. But the simplicity of After Effects is really nice and it has like every plugin in existence.

Don’t get me wrong, I use DaVinci with the quick editor and have considered buying other gear to make it work better, but… it’s really kinda a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-color-grading app. There’s a lot still to wish for.
It is worth observing that this bridge seems to have 2 pylons and one of them collapsed. The failure seems comprehensible after that - you can see in the video how the balances came apart, there is nothing to hold the left side up so it falls and then remainder of the bridge tried to rotate around the remaining pylon and failed.
It will be interesting to see, whether Affinity will switch to subscriptions in the service. Officially "it's not planned".
"Your honor, i didn't do it. It was my car" /s
The Øresundsbron is a bridge and a tunnel, and although it's not required most ships choose to cross over the tunnel rather than under the bridge.

I was curious about Zealand's other connection, the Great Belt Fixed Link:

> The West Bridge has been struck by sea traffic twice. While the link was still under construction on 14 September 1993, the ferry M/F Romsø drifted off course in bad weather and hit the West Bridge. At 19:17 on 3 March 2005, the 3,500-ton freighter MV Karen Danielsen crashed into the West Bridge 800 metres from Funen. All traffic across the bridge was halted, effectively cutting Denmark in two. The bridge was re-opened shortly after midnight, after the freighter was pulled free and inspectors had found no structural damage to the bridge.

> The East Bridge has so far been in the clear, although on 16 May 2001, the bridge was closed for 10 minutes as the Cambodian 27,000-ton bulk carrier Bella was heading straight for one of the anchorage structures. The ship was deflected by a swift response from the navy.

In Danish [2], but it looks like there's someone always monitoring the sea traffic, and able to close the bridge at very short notice — I assume with the red flashing lights which are used to close motorways in emergencies.

> The eastern end through the Great Belt is international water, and therefore even the largest ships must be able to sail under the bridge. The 254 meter high pylons are therefore dimensioned so that they should be able to withstand the approach of tankers of 250,000 tonnes dead weight (DWT) at a speed of 10 knots. Artificial islands protect the anchor blocks as well as the three outermost piers on the Zealand side and the two outermost ones on the Sprogø side.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Belt_Bridge

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20090116051425/http://ing.dk/art...
Discussion in user forum :
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/201413-aff...
There are elegant ways for handling actuator/software mismatch for actuators with finite travel, like pots and faders.

Most schemes involve scaling the available fader travel to the "available" software travel.

Ex: Fader at 40%, software at 60%. Fader motion "up" between 40-100 moves software "up" between 60-100. Fader motion "down" between 40-0 moves software "down" between 60-0.

There are various other schemes, including multiple regimes and nonlinearity. Programmable synthesizers have dealt with this for many years. See pp13-14 of this manual for an example: https://www.davesmithinstruments.com/wp-content/uploads/2015...
> Canva’s business model is subscription, are there any plans to change how Affinity is sold?

Answer: Do not worry, your existing software won’t be affected. New updates after a token few V2 updates though…

Honestly, expect the worst here. Even if they don’t announce as such, it is most definitely in the minds of every executive walking around there.
Why do we need to check utf-8 validity fast?

If you have invalid utf-8, go fix whatever code it is that is producing invalid utf-8...
You can specify different dependencies in pyproject.toml and then use --extra with pip-compile to pull them in. I do this with dev and test sections for example. Constraints seem like they work like you'd expect here. pip-compile also has the -c flag if you want to use that.

I guess I don't know what you mean by OS stuff, but maybe this works for that too?
I loved that affinity hadn't jumped on the subscription bandwagon, I hope that they maintain their philosophy.
The Online Degradation of Women and Girls That We Meet with a Shrug
Also search for YOLO prunning
I agree.

As a researcher you may have to learn how to carefully dig up skulls, raise rats, handle lasers, remember not to accidentally syringe yourself with viruses etc.

Getting cut by Excel seems like part of the job and at least is hopefully less life threatening than possibly blowing yourself up or giving yourself silicosis.

That said the problem with computers is that they're pervasive, they're a moving target and often it's a case of the blind leading the blind when it comes to research. And probably more and more research groups need dedicated computer technician resources who can centralize the required computer knowledge of keeping a research group running.
You can write CSVs in such a way that forces Excel to infer specific data types:

"=""Data Here"""

will always be treated as a string. This is also supported by Sheets, apparently.
Official statement from Affinity (Serif):

https://affinity.serif.com/de/press/newsroom/canva-statement...

Canva’s business model is subscription, are there any plans to change how Affinity is sold?
There are no changes to our current pricing model planned at this time, with all our apps still available as a one-off purchase. Existing Affinity users will be able to continue to use your apps in perpetuity as they were originally purchased – with plenty of free updates to V2 still to look forward to!

Am I the only only reading "no changes ... at this time" with a ", but there are going to be ..."
I'm mostly stating an observation. But even so, that excuse would not hold up for the last decades. Architects still keep going to produce hideous things; and not at all being introspective about it.

Probably has to do with utilitarian and post-modernism; and a general deconstructionism of beauty; which is nice as a philosophy but just not inline with the general experience of a human. On top of that, architectural ego's make it worse.

Let alone Canada & Northern US, they combine it with a terrible city planning strategy, moving most utitilities such as shopping, entertainment & parcs, to a mall only reachable with car. Calgary must the most depressive unlivable city I've ever visited.

Everything produced last decade is either boring and uninspiring for instance:https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2GMG3GJ/new-modern-apartment-block..., or has to be weird and original in the "brand" of the Architect (for instance Rem Koolhaas).
With spinning drives, there was an art to partitioning, where you would lay out your partitions to give some ideal spots on the disk. It probably did not really matter that much. but some people swore that putting your swap partition first was critical to having any sort of performance.
What happens when software is at 0%, your slider is at 100% and you want to raise the volume?
Imagine: If Microsoft pushed so hard for Modern Standby and even THEY cannot get it right, why should you trust any laptop designed for Windows to have proper power management?
I'm not disputing that a competent computer user can do it. From the perspective of "this is what I would do if I was a scientist", you're totally correct.

But when you're writing guidelines for an entire field - as the article describes HGNC doing - you're catering to all researchers in that field: good, bad, and ugly. Plus technicians, editors, admins and anyone else that might handle the files. Given how hidden and unintuitive Excel's behaviour is here, I think what they're doing makes sense.
Who says they are high paid?
No, CUDA's botched gcc implementation segfaulting due to compiler errors during compilation is not a "skill issue".

(Well, a skill issue of whoever is patching gcc on Nvidia's end, I guess.)
A fair proportion of CS is precisely oriented around the fact that computers are not easy in ways that non-CS people don't realise, and provides methods for quantifying and trying to cope with that. I refer you to https://xkcd.com/2030/
That was a really fascinating story! Thanks for sharing.
Not that it matters to anyone else, but having driven across that bridge dozens of times with my kids, this is just shocking. It’s one of the main corridors in the area. Thank god it happened in the middle of the night, though that’ll be no consolation to the families of those who may have died.
If you use firefox mobile, there's a toggle switch under the menu to set "Desktop Version", I have found it prevents these intentional mobile degraded sites.
We notice these type of accidents because they’re so rare. 5k+ people die each year because of large trucks on the road, by comparison, boats and bridges are very safe — that’s why it’s allowed.
Naming collision with the popular VR tool vrdesktop.net
In this blog post, we will explore how to detect and prevent these anti-patterns using pair programming, code reviews, and observability.
I'm talking about the compiler segfaulting, not the end-user code.
I finally set aside my laziness and started a thread on r/vim for the .usv project:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/1bo41wk/entering_and_d...?
The beginning of the end for a one-off license it appears. I don't see why Canva would green-light V3 as a non-subscription service. And that makes me wonder if Canva will be able to compete with the likes of Adobe/Figma/Sketch.

The wording of the announcement is basically a forewarning that change is going to come sooner or later. I don't see this as a "charitable acquisition" by Canva.
SMS auth fraud, where malicious users aim to receive auth codes to premium rate numbers, is a huge problem. This pushes that problem on to users.
Dad launches UK wide marketplace for daughter's primary school
Dad creates a new marketplace which promotes reuse by allowing merchants to list their products for rent, for sale and advertise services such as product repair.
And it provides the choice to merchants to donate a percentage of their revenue to local charities such as the nearest school PTA (Parent Teacher Association).
European freelance SWE here. I worked in Japan in your field for a number of years in the past decade. Your idea is utterly crazy. You are making 170K EUR in a low cost european locale=you are in a great position, especially in the current market conditions. Japan is like no.26 on the list of best-paying countries for IT skills. Meaning: Japan does NOT pay. Your expectations are simply unrealistic (and let's not get started on the value of JPY, which is at its lowest in decades), and you will need to be prepeared to take a MASSIVE pay cut. The fact that you are considering moving there with your family without doing the necessary due diligence is worrying, as it adds a whole extra layer of complexity that is not to be underestimated. Japan is welcoming to visitors. It is NOT welcoming to foreigners who come to stay. Japanese companies are also something else, and if you don't have experience with them, I would certainly not jump head-first.
In short: as others have said, if you are interested in the "cultural aspects", travel there, do your freelance work remotely from there, but for the love of all that is good, don't move there with your wife and kids BEFORE you have tested out the waters exentisively. You will thank me later.
Because bridges over harbors are quite common an incidents like this are rare.
> Be careful about the people who rooted for SBF while his ponzi was ongoing: they'll try to explain that nobody lost money...

SBF is trying that claim himself to try and get a reduced sentence because the bankruptcy process is going better than people expected when the shit hit the fan.
Https would be nice, otherwise looks great!
Languages, platforms, and systems that break from the norms of computing
https://imgur.com/a/g15dyXX
This is neat! Is there a list of simple DIY hardware projects somewhere? I have a 3D printer and a bunch of microcontrollers laying around that don't get much use.
> What are the main drivers of the crypto hate here on HN?

> There is so much amazing technology being developed at the moment, which one would think is a main topic on a site for hackers.

The subject of cryptocurrencies transcend technology. It leaks into the realms to finance, economics, and politics - all of these being heavily subjective.

Beyond this, I think there's an exhaustion surrounding the topic. A lot of people have their ideas solidified, and this poison the well for discussion, which becomes stale and uninteresting.

> While the current top post on the frontpage is "Radios, how do they work?".

Eh, I can see how this may sparkle the interest of people here. I have only a vague idea of how a radio works in term of hardware, and a more in depth article explaining its inner workings may make for an interesting read. A lot more than cryptocurrency, for reasons mentioned before.
That's your opinion. Anything to back it up?
It was as misguided then as it is now.
What this post bemoans didn't actually occur, really.

What did happen was that the big framework gave you increasingly more entrypoints into how the application was constructed.

But there always was a way to just go with defaults if you didn't want to adjust anything (at least in Java-Land, which this one specifically calls out for this behavior)

Wherever a framework should give the developers the option to adjust things to such a degree is another question that wasn't raised by this post. It just claims that you needed the increasingly silly factories to construct your application, which isn't true, as they were always optional.
What paper says the opposite? This is what I can find:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08815

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02997
Swing-state voters also like tax hikes on those earning $400,000 and more

$400k isn't "rich". In many California places, it's merely middle class. You can't even buy a house in many parts of Silicon Valley with that salary. A median house in Cupertino is $2.9 million.

If they truly want to tax the "rich", they should go after the billionaires whom the tax code heavily favors.
You must move your slider down, and then up. It becomes reasonably intuitive with a small amount of practice :)