skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GDPR Article 15 says that you (as data subject) have the right to obtain access to personal data being processed by the controller.

This can certainly apply to certain types of messages about you but is also limited to the personal data about you. In other words the controller can and usually even must redact the messages.

The usual GDPR limitation apply, especially the request can be denied if it is unfounded or excessive.

So, while in practice you most likely would not get anything useful out of such a request, I don't think the quote from the original article is as far fetched as you and sibling comments make it sound.
When the assessed damages are way out of proportion, that's in the realm of "making an example", i.e. punishment.
This article seems very light on equations and calculations, and would be greatly enhanced by including them.
And now we do have Hetzner replying here (and on reddit), and it sounds like they did indeed communicate the termination well in advance (but for whatever reason the OP didn't notice it at the time).

None of this is to say that Hetzner responded in an ideal manner, and whatever reasons exist for the termination are still not known, but it seems likely at least some of the OP's criticisms of the process are not valid.

Of course now it's too late as many will never come back to review this thread. As often happens on hn when somebody complains about something, the pitchforks come out before there is enough information to really understand the situation fully.
Sometimes ya gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette
Isn’t teal a named blue color?
We're on our third BEV, after several ICEs. After the first week of driving a BEV it was clear that I'd never buy an ICE again.

Out on a farm or similar I can understand, but as a city dweller with the ability to charge at home, there's just so many upsides and very few downsides.
What election did elon musk win?
Why is this impressive? 6:20 human takes over and cuts to a new clip.
Not clear what's new about this or why it keeps getting posted, then saw this:

Netlify is forcing Starter team plan users to move to the new Free Plan

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42384168
Defamation is free speech now?
No, it's not. It's more like an online bookstore mailing you a copy of a book for free. The only catch is that they also sent a book full of ads and directions that say: after every page of the book, look at an ad. Then, when I receive these, I don't even take the ad book out of the package, read the actual book, and send them both back.

You can imagine why Amazon never decided to go with this business model.
I'm not a heavy Twitter/X user but it definitely got more updates after Musk bought it.
You may have seen it, but they did respond after you wrote this (both here and on reddit):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42375229
> A. Why wouldn’t they? By definition, they are right-wing.

You can be right-wing but still be in support of democracy and decency. That's the crucial issue to be had with Musk and Thiel - both for example are vocally opposed to the free press, with Elon having auto-reply poop emoji on press enquiries and Thiel outright bankrupting Gawker in revenge for outing him as gay via financing Hogan's lawsuit (not that I support that kind of tabloid journalism, but since it wasn't wrong it doesn't warrant tanking the entire medium).

There's many people who manage to be conservative or right-wing but still value the constitution and its principles and are willing to put country before party and people.
> How about Visa/MC monopoly taking three pennies from every damn transaction

If they were, who do you think would be paying for your 1-3 pennies of cashback/rewards points on every said transaction? The bulk of card payment fees goes to the issuers as interchange, not to Visa/MC or the acquiring bank or payment service provider.

That's not to say that the competitive landscape in that space doesn't leave anything to be desired, but nothing will get improved by misstating the problem.
> There was no public auction of InfoWars. That alone is a stain on the whole process. The objective of a bankruptcy court is not to institute some arbitrary meta-ethical standard. It is to deliver maximum cash to the creditors in a fair manner.

Again, maximimum value not cash.
> A vastly overrated impact, to almost non-existence by now.

Absurd take...

Some examples:

Brazil's democracy was put on hold during the whole period of growth post WW2, it has social impacts to this day both in wasteful investments done through 20+ years of dictatorship saddling the country with debt and disinvestment being paid to this day by current generations: lack of education, bad infrastructure, a fragile democracy since only 2 generations of voters have lived completely under it.

The whole Middle East has sectarian violence caused by the borders drawn from colonial powers in control of regions up to the 1960s. The same is true for African civil wars ringing out to this day, nations (aka tribes) split into 2-3 countries to be more easily controlled by different colonial powers.

To this day the USA meddles directly with governments south of it, the doctrine of strong-arming what the USA considers its backyard is still strong, American influence in South American politics is everywhere.

> and all that shit usually blamed at the west, turns out to be just murderous local land empires, blaming all the things they do to gain power on western influence or history, but actually doing the same thing they did before the west rolled up

As I mentioned, colonial powers drew borders to divide-and-conquer nations who are now fighting each other from all the bad blood caused by these divisions, do you actually really believe some 4-5 decades would be enough to erase all the infighting encouraged by colonial powers to keep the locals weak and scattered?

I really can't believe someone thinks the issues of colonialism can't have echoes way past the end of the colonial age...
> The carrying power of a 10-11 gram
> bat is indeed amazing, some 15-18 grams; the incendiary bomb was in this
> range (17.5 grams). Bats can carry such loads for miles. And bats with
> dummy bombs released in housed areas dragged the loads into sites highly
> favorable for fire-starting. W e released bats successfully at various altitudes
> both from the B-2 S and from an open Attack Bomber, in which flying was
> great fun.

omg

> Then,
> suddenly, X-ray was cancelled. I never learned the reason, but can make a
> guess. The bats would be vectors for bombs, but they would be vectors also
> for germs. Our side might be accused of initiating biological warfare.

oh yeah because being accused of doing something horrible while doing something horrible would be horrible.
Are downvoted comments really removed ?

I thought they just became collapsed by default and greyed-out.

And that only flagged comments get actually removed.
When using C, this can return anything (or crash of oracle function returns an invalid pointer, or rewrite its own code if the code section is writable). So if you get rid of "abstract machine", nothing changes - the program can return anything or crash.
but if we launder it through law talking then it cannot be questioned.
I mean that I wrote I have stock options, as before to rejoin. This was an important disclaimer and disclosure to provide transparently the situation.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/warren-hawley-health-ins...
In general, one could argue disasters and conflicts affect the macroeconomic ecosystem in positive ways due to upticks in consumption... even if terrible on a personal level for living standards.

It is absurd, but sycophantic idealism starts to sound really funny when you dig into the numbers. =3
If it brought you joy, then you made my day <3 Indeed Solitaire is, like chess or go, a timeless game.

It’s also a good way to spend the time, like when you are commuting.
Keep in mind that https://FreeSolitaire.win works offline (after the 1st visit, using a service worker: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...) ;-)
I find the idea of a Boltzmman brain ridiculous.
It is impossible for a random interactions of particles form such complexity.
I find Lee Cronin's assembly index a great argument against this.
Complex things such as living organisms, and brains, contain as integral part of themselves time. Not just time, as in infinite time, but evolutionary time.
Wow, this is so much nicer. Appreciate the write up, I found it difficult to find any decent documentation around this.
> Visa/MC monopoly taking three pennies from every damn transaction for three decades now

Three pennies for every dollar!
The full version is also a stub. The stubbiness of it is because they weren't able to talk to anyone. The moment the organizers realized they were an Economist writer they got thrown out.
Which industry are you referring to?
Whatsapp Business. $0.03-0.06 per conversation / authentication (multiple messages within 24hs) depending if it's transactional or marketing.

SMS providers are unreliable and expensive, it's eating their business.
Fusion is the energy of the future – and it always will be.
And probably a backup generator with a big propane tank is a better solution.

I've thought about it over the years and if I was regularly away for long periods in the winter I'd probably have spent the money. As it is, I cross my fingers and generally try not to have long periods away from my house in the winter.
This case is odd. I haven't heard a single lawyer saying that a conversation talking about someone undoubtedly qualify as protected data, so I'm more inclined to believe that Farage was already in possession of those emails (or made aware of them) and the bank thought that trying to hide them would make things worse?
Your comment on hackernews arguing that hackernews comments don’t sound like Reddit comments sounds exactly like a comment I would expect to read on Reddit.
As has been noted in other threads on this page: free speech doesn't mean you can say whatever you want without consequence. It specifically does NOT mean you cannot get sued for saying something that demonstrably causes immense harm to someone.
That's a bit extreme.

While QM and QC theory is well-established, there has been very few experiments that confirm that quantum computing actually works as theorized. There are quantum computers that are "working", but some of them (esp. the older ones) are just the kind of "quantum computers show that 15 = 3 * 15 (with high probability)". From what I read on Scott Aaronson's blog, very few of those experiments show "quantum supremacy" (i.e. classical computing physically cannot compute the results in reasonable time). This is why the Google Willow thing is considered a breakthrough.

So basically empirical "proof" that quantum computing actually works as predicted in theory is rather recent stuff.
The result of oracle can point to anything if you write it as return (int *)rand();

Note that rand() returns 32-bit value so you have to call it twice and merge the results to obtain a 64-bit pointer.
All of the above — "typical american businessmen" isn't an answer to any question
I'm not sure what to say. Your arguments are extremely hypothetical and there's no evidence of the claimed badness today.

I don't find them convincing - why is it bad that someone paying for exclusive access to data gets exclusive access to that data? There are so many exclusive data vendors in financial markets, this one seems relatively low value
It's complicated - it went to the bidder that would result in the two largest debtors being the happiest with the outcome but that bidder didn't bid the most money in a regular manner.

The structure of the bid was quite complex but essentially the largest debtor agreed to enlarge the share the second largest debtor would receive by supplementing it from their own share due to the awards in the two court cases being so drastically different (basically the largest debtor decided to decrease their own share in that specific bid to supplement the second largest debtor) - this bid was the one that the primary debtor prefers and would award a lot more value to the secondary debtor than the bid that was, on paper, larger.

There are some good detailed analyses of the arrangement out there that would give you a much better understanding than I can communicate second-hand - I'd suggest the overview by LegalEagle[1], personally.

1. https://youtu.be/GmDNz7irGgw
I have done keto for a while but have no appetite for it anymore, it's also nigh impossible since I became a vegetarian >10 years ago.

I'm not talking about myself but in general, even though it can also apply to myself (my willpower is not absolutely under my control) but the same advice about discipline and resisting peer pressure is given to obese people as losing weight is quite simple, it doesn't mean doing the simple thing is easy.
Asynchronous LLM Function Calling
A lot of that seems covered in the article about the First Indochina War which is linked to in the first sentence of the article on the Vietnam War.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War

Do you perhaps consider them part of the same longer war? It's hard to break continuous history into neat article chunks.
I have no problem with successful people running our government. I'm dealing with people in my local government right now and they clearly are not in the PayPal Mafia. I think government was their fallback option and they are some of the dumbest people I've ever interacted with.
It depends on your CPU microarchitectural details, on the complexity and size of your binary executable and the workload of your binary.

So there's no universal answer to your question but it could very well be "much".
I tried it and it the whole experience was very clunky.

The worst part is it doesn't have zero downtime deploys. Requests to the old version are killed when a new version of a site becomes active.

None of this is related to PHP though.
It looks like the reporter did as much reporting as they could do before being thrown out.
> If they were, who do you think would be paying for your 1-3 pennies of cashback/rewards points on every said transaction? The bulk of card payment fees goes to the issuers as interchange, not to Visa/MC or the acquiring bank or payment service provider.

Visa/MC and everyone else along the chain makes insane amounts of money even on relative pittances, simply because of the market size they corner.

That's particularly obscene in Europe - we already have SEPA Direct Debit and Instant Payment, we could rework national schemes like Girocard (that worked under the precursor scheme of SEPA DD) to work with it, but instead we add VISA and MC's debit card schemes to the payment flow for no reason at all.
Register allocation is one of the most basic optimizations that a compiler can do. Some modern cpus can alias stack memory with internal registers, but it is still not as fast as not spilling at all.

You can enjoy -O0 today and the compiler will happily allocate stack slots for all your variables and keep them up to date (which is useful for debugging). But the difference between -O0 and -O3 is orders of magnitude on many programs.
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, as mentioned in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42382673), I should do something about the cards design, which is currently too rough.
I think it's important for non-americans to understand "we" didn't really vote them into office. there were two choices put up that most of us didn't want... only about half of eligible voters are even registered to be allowed to vote... and those registered voters "chose" Trump 50.1 to 49.9.

then on Election Day the biggest google search was “is Joe Biden not running for reelection ?”

this is the freedumb that the right-wing thinktanks have been planning for decades
Look up "nuclear verdicts". The unreasonably large dollar amount is intentional and not meant to reflect the real value of harm caused.
Problem A detected.

What about Problem B? Problem A is not bad, because problem B is bad too.
Let 's talk about other things of A.
Who says that only the color is the distinguishing feature?

And if you are thinking about colorblind people when mentioning color perception, then either let them rely on other aspects (ex: shape) or don't allow colorblind people to operate the machine. I know it is not very inclusive, but if colorblindness make it more likely for the operator to kill everyone, then it is for the best (I am mostly thinking about commercial airline pilots here).

And I don't find too much color distracting. Bad use of color is, but signage often use the whole rainbow with great success. For example, metro systems all over the world assign each line a dedicated color, making for quite colorful maps, and it works, that's why they all do it.
>A transfer will be fraudulent if made with actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud any creditor.

If they get it less, later, or more chaotically, or if that was the intent it is.
The problem with social media for me is that I stay in touch with my friends there. I mean there are some people I don't know irl but following each other over 10 years, and I like to see / share what's new with our lives.
Also, as a remote worker, the only way to communicate and create a professional network for me is also social media.
I believe I can handle a couple of minutes every day to read about my friends and people I respect. The "algorithm" that shows me all those somehow interesting but not useful stuff, which leads me over consuming content, is the real problem. I need tostay away from that, not completely social media but I'm not sure if there is a such way..

Your goals for 2025 seems inspiring! I recently created a reading list for myself and I'm actually really excited for all those new stuff to learn
That's because Elon Musk hate is very popular at the moment and thus this headline sells.

Usually the Economist does better to job.
Because hue is scientifically defined and objective. That lets us sidestep all the linguistic stuff so we have something meaningfully perceptual to ground the conversation.

And white, gray and black have no hue at all. They're not the same color -- they have no color at all. The hue is indeterminate. (Even if we call them "colors" colloquially.)
Aqua Voice (YC W24) for Desktop
Hey, this is Finn from Aqua Voice. Today we're releasing Aqua Voice for Desktop (https://withaqua.com). Aqua is a voice-driven text editor that lets you dictate using natural language commands.

The desktop experience is the best way to use Aqua yet. It lets you talk easily into any app and comes with:

- Custom dictionary: can have up to 800 words/phrases at a time, no pronunciation tuning required.

- Context Awareness: automatically identifies relevant words and phrases in the active application. This uses system accessibility APIs (not screenshots, like some others) and is heavily processed on device before inference to preserve privacy.

- Command recognition: the system now shows you what it's going to do before it does it. "Deleting…" or "Adding to list…" or "Fixing Spelling…"

We've also spent a ton of time getting better out-of-the-box accuracy. Our core transcription engine is the most accurate real-time system that we know of. We scored 3.2% WER on Librispeech clean, significantly better than the next best real-time system we tested (Google) at 5.5%. We also released a benchmark that tests accuracy & human-friendly formatting which showed that out of the box, Wispr Flow makes 10x as many mistakes as Aqua Voice for emails and technical writing. The full write-up including audio and code is available here (https://withaqua.com/blog/benchmark-nov-2024)

Everyone uses dictation for different reasons - I started in sixth grade (dyslexic) with Dragon Professional and always wanted it to be more than a clunky substitute for the keyboard. Hopefully Aqua Desktop can be that for some of you.

Would love to hear your comments!

-Finn
How about in a case where libel was relentlessly thrown at families over the course of years, on one of the internets largest and most engaged audiences, leading to harassment, threats, and assault? What should the judgment be for that?
Spell check for “cop out” which is a slang idiom “to evade”.
Because accuracy is important when discussing legal terms - he wasn't convicted. Defamation is a civil offense, and not a crime. He lost a lawsuit, he did not become a convict.
No, but generally you should assume a system with near-100% performance within a well-defined ODD doesn't fall off to near-0% performance immediately adjacent to that ODD.

Here's a better example: let's say by law Mercedes has to restrict their cars from exceeding 80mph. They have a car that can reach 80mph in 2 seconds. Is it therefore credible to claim that the car is actually incapable of driving at 81mph?

Or is it more credible to say, "we don't know much about its performance beyond 80mph, but it can probably achieve something outside of that."
On the flip side, this is one of the best times for people who enjoy movies/media. I can purchase near almost any movie to my hearts content. Streaming is super convenient, I don't have to think about how to store the digital media. I don't need the physical media taking up space. Heck I even love to pay for a 24-48hour digital rental. I can spend $3-4 and get a movie to watch instantly. I don't care about DRM. Its of course not all rosy, there is some nostalgia from living in a world of constraints, having to go to the Blockbuster on a Friday to pick out a movie, looking back there was something nice about it, it built a ritual. DRM is not great and you run the risk that the vendor you purchased the media from might go out of business. I will take those and enjoy my near limitless potential library.
They most likely meant "more than 10% of the population own combined". That's a level of wealth inequality last seen in the old medieval fiefdom ages, and more than a few rulers met a premature end...
there is no rational basis for assuming the brain is a "computer" in the same way an intel x86 chip is a "computer" or that the universe is a "computer". Using language in this way without defining terms like what even is a computer is folly.
The second highest bidder was Alex Jones
And that's what the linked article is doing?
Same reason Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison for conspiracy charges and CCE. Unusually harsh for those convictions and a first time offender. The point is, as cliche as it sounds, to send a message.
Well, I don't the intention is to spend more time using the computer. When your work consists of using the computer, it is "rational" to do whatever is possible to minimize the undesirable effects and any harm. Now, if you are suggesting that OP should change his work (or his hobby) then your I don't think your comment is helpful. Regards.
Avocado dance parameter rigging overland gesture.
Did you try telling them in consultant voice that it's "a generally acknowledged software development best practice"? ;)
Banned from PayPal long ago. Is my citizenship at stake now?
Select Dropdown for Polymorphic Associations
But a billion dollars. The order of magnitude isn't 'immense stress to an individual', it's on the order of burning down tens or hundreds of houses.
We stopped explicitly declaring locals with the 'register' keyword circa 40 years ago. Register allocation is a low hanging fruit and one of those things that is definitely best left to a compiler for most code.
By his own admission, Jones spent years spreading malicious lies about these people. Some people have had to go in to hiding because his unhinged followers started tracking these people down.

As soon as you say "I think more gun control might be a good thing to prevent children from being murdered" you get threatened, bullied, and harassed by a lunatic unhinged fringe stoked up by dirty malicious lies. Is this free speech? Of course not.

He has worked for years to shut people up by creating a hostile anger-filled environment where any normal person is afraid to go against him. Alex Jones hates free speech.