skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose we fundamentally disagree on a few things here so I won't go into a discussion about the motivation of this law (which I as a EU citizen support). I do however want to leave a note on this quote here:

> All the framing as "nefarious" is propaganda, consumers choose freely the option they value the most.

Customers cannot choose freely. I'm a customer and I cannot chose certain products because they do not exist. Companies I never engage with are tracking my activities through tracking pixels and other things and because I never establish a business relationship with them, I cannot avoid that. This bill now forces a company I might do business with not do business with companies that do not permit me to get rid of my data.

I think this a good development because it finally makes certain backroom deals visible.
I'm probably somewhat of an outlier with respect to mindfulness as a hacker—I'm currently in a full-time residential monastic training program. One way I've heard it put is that a monastery is a place where it's permissible to arrange your entire life around something besides the ordinary things people are allowed to and assumed to live for, like work or a family. Say you really like knitting, then you can say, "I'm going to put knitting at the center, and sacrifice anything in my life that can be sacrificed for the sake of knitting. I'm going to live for knitting, and if it comes down to it, I'll also die for knitting." So, we're doing that, except instead of knitting it's meditating with the end goal of classical enlightenment in service to all living things.

I also worked for a year and a half on the C++ SDK for Muse, which is an EEG headband designed for meditation training. I'm still a big fan of them, and recommend them to people looking for apps for this stuff. I don't Muse much these days, but that's not because of any flaw with their program. It's actually quite good in this line of work to create something that people stop depending on eventually.

In terms of techniques, these days I mostly practice a sort of focus on the breath in the belly, and during non-practice periods I generally practice merging with the task at hand, using the act of, say, writing an email as my focus space. But I also have worked with a lot of other techniques for a few days or a few months.

I second the recommendation for The Mind Illuminated. It's a fantastic book. I'd also add Shinzen Young's The Science of Enlightenment.

My main recommendation, though, is to do what I'm doing: join a community that's devoted to practice. There's a depth and rigor that comes from that sort of accountability that I haven't been able to find any other way. Of course you could decide to commit to an extended period of training—say a year or more—but it's generally not necessary. It's also good to come for a few weeks or a few days, or even to come by for lunch some time. There are lots of places that are good—maybe you have a local Zen center or Shambhala center. There are also lots of good secular meetups, like Consciousness Explorers Club in Toronto.

In case you're interested in visiting me at my place of training, we have a website: https://www.monasticacademy.com/ and you should also feel welcome to email us: info AT monastic DOT academy. We welcome guests, and one of our specialties is in creating space to practice integrating mindfulness into your existing work and life. So we operate as a sort of coworking space, with free wifi and unlimited coffee.
Now they just need a modern (XAML, QML) cross-platform UI story and they can eat Qt and Electrons lunch.
I don't have any operations in the EU. I don't collect revenue directly from EU residents using my services. I have no presence in Europe, but some Europeans do use my website (it's a free Internet).

What's the EU going to do? They have no jurisdiction over me.
Well, nobody sane then if I'm allowed the Scotsman! People also defend all kinds of dangerous constructs or practices blaming other programmers for not being good enough to use them even though statistically even the best programmers suffer from problems derived from them (e.g. buffer overflows, or in the case of threads race conditions, starvation, etc.).

And since we're particularly talking about adding threads to Javascript, here's the opinion of the creator of Javascript itself on threads:

You must be this tall to hack on threaded systems, and that
means most programmers should run away crying. But they
don’t. Instead, as with most other sharp tools, the
temptation is to show how big one is by picking up the
nearest ST code and jamming it into a MT embedding, or
tempting race-condition fate otherwise. Occasionally the
results are infamous, but too often, with only virtual
fingers and limbs lost, no one learns.

Threads violate abstractions six ways to Sunday. Mainly by
creating race conditions, deadlock hazards, and pessimistic
locking overhead. And still they don’t scale up to handle
the megacore teraflop future.

https://brendaneich.com/2007/02/threads-suck/

Also, are you the author of TFA? That sure speaks to your skills, but that doesn't mean standard definitions (e.g. on concurrency) or traditional consensus (e.g. on threads being messy) don't apply.
If the report is really "false and misleading" it's probably illegal. But I'm not sure why Abbott would be doing a recall if that were the case.
Oklahoma isn't working. Can anyone fix this failing American state?
Actually, very often they don't... Porsche shares, if you wish, are the representation of the public perception of value of their cars, service network, brand, cash in the bank, etc. They are the quantifiable proxy of those values. Cryptocurrencies do not proxy anything. So, the only way to measure their value is by "what people are willing to pay". And that doesn't have to be bad, a-priroi. Its just different thing. So, the cap of crypto _is_ nr of coins time price per coin, where ppc changes heavilly over time. So the "market cap" of crypto is not constant - it changes very rapidly over time. <crypto_name_here> could have a cap in billions today and zero next Thursday. Hence, there isn't much sense in trying to define/measure it.
As I understand it, this is for domains provided by their users. The rate limits would not be problematic unless the domain uses Let's Encrypt for a lot of other subdomains.

I'm guessing they're using a wildcard certificate for the temporary hostname.
There is also mono aot as possible alternative.
New America's Response to the New York Times
Ah, but you are paying for the items you listed. Presumably the core of your cover is hidden in your taxes?
You're right that it would be catastrophic using current tech, but I was only thinking in terms of feasibility.
And?

I don't understand what the logical connection is to the article. Sperms whales are not the only example of odontocetes (toothed whales). Orcas hunt seals, bottlenose dolphins hunt fish...
It's hard to tell though. It may well be a single person who was inspired by multiple people's work and ideas. I like to compare works of single individual work is with how amazing Lord of the Rings is. I'm impressed it took a single person to write the whole thing.
I have read it, I don't need you to explain it to me (it's a 10-page memo, of which only 2 speak about the science of sex differences; maybe you haven't read the other 8), and it's good that you're stopping because your insistence on debating a topic that you clearly know absolutely nothing about and have no real interest in (like Damore himself) is truly mind-boggling.

It reminds me of the famous LambdaConf incident, where the organizer "struggled" with a decision and decided to "rigorously" reason about it, so he "studied" the issue by mere contemplation, trying to deduce the answer from first principles, without opening a single book or consulting a single expert, as if ethics and jurisprudence weren't subject studied by some of the greatest minds in history for, oh, at least a couple of millennia.

I guess that such is the strength of ideology that even people who like to think of themselves as rigorous and studious, all of a sudden forget to consult real research, and instead convince themselves that quiet contemplation in their Aristotelian minds would suffice to get at the Truth, which just so happens to correspond with their gut feelz.
No, Apple doesn't do that.
Can't view the page. It blocks me because of ad blocker.
Levels is a digital nomad who has consistently posted in-depth articles about his businesses and codebases for years. People like him and his travel lifestyle the same way we like Patrick.
If Europeans use your website and don't pay for it that's fair game largely. The details are a bit more complicated.
I know what he said and I watched the debate. I'm aware of what his intent was, I just question the efficacy.
It works for me with Firefox and uBlock Origin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
That's even better. The more the better.
Most prefer what they're familiar with.

Don't they just. Convincing people who grew up eating ketchup that it's revolting is almost impossible.
Same (ish) here. I switched to Runbox and also use HERE Maps. Very happy so far.
quite a lot of perfectly legal behavior, that would not be called misconduct by a prosecutor or investigator, can still be on shaky ethical grounds for various reasons.

surely Google does not visit the white house just because they enjoy the breakfast buffet. they're lobbying for their business interests. this isn't necessarily unethical at all, but when you look at the pattern of campaign contributions and think tank funding (and various other kinds of pulling of influence levers) you start to find the grey area.

I probably wouldn't go so far as to call it bribery, but it's not a clear cut thing. I'm nearly certain that is why the poster said "depending on your definition of bribery". He/she was (in my interpretation) intending to discuss that grey area. Shutting down that discussion by throwing the dictionary at him/her is both rude and unhelpful. There might really be an interesting discussion of ethical grey areas in political lobbying activities to be had, but not if you're gonna shut it down with that kind of reactionary literalism.
I think that breaks the model. Make them reusable carts, but each one should hold one image. If you want to take a new image you have to erase an old one.
Joi: validate input and define database schemas in JavaScript
Yeah seriously, that's really cool.... and on that note what headphones does he actually use?!
Surfactants don't need much to do their work. A spray bottle with diluted soap would probably start the process of sinking the raft.
I hope so, but given that 3.18 was released almost three years ago I am not holding my breath.
Free speech is not a "negative right". There are definitely burdens placed on others to maintain it. Who is going to stop the government from telling you to keep your mouth shut, and then threatening you with violence if you open it? That is the reality in many places. Those who speak up often pay a heavy cost without some sort of protection. Even in places where forms of free speech are accepted, the cost to maintain it is high.

Perhaps the libertarian concept of free speech is the "ability to talk to oneself in an empty room", which is pathetic.
Did they have to license the name?
Classic post! This post is like a gentle gateway to the world of Bayesian statistics -- check out Cameron Davidson Pilon's free book if you want to go deeper.
I said destroying a platform for open discourse, not what you quoted, and I'll stand by what I said. After a certain noise threshold is reached the platform becomes unusable. I've seen this happen on other sites, sometimes purposefully as a way to influence public opinion but shutting down certain topics.
There's a few projects working in this direction, one of the coolest being Avalonia (IMO, at least). It's still in "alpha", although I heard a beta was not far off.

https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
> Companies I never engage with are tracking my activities through tracking pixels and other things and because I never establish a business relationship with them, I cannot avoid that.

You can easily avoid being tracked by using an adblocker. Other websites only track you because they are business partners of the tracking companies, which provide a lot of value in terms of analytics for the business - free of charge.

> I think this a good development because it finally makes certain backroom deals visible.

As a German, I'd like to have more transparency into the backroom deals that are done in Berlin and Brussels.

But this won't happen unfortunately, and they'll try to regulate IT to death to the benefit of local corporations who failed again and again providing the consumer with as valuable producs as their US counterparts.
Yeah, I'm not sure what these people are talking about.

I lived quite well as a single male working in Manhattan proper with a sub six-figure salary; living in Hoboken, and commuting maybe 15-20 mins everyday on the PATH. This was around 2013-14. And I lived like a king in my opinion... was able to save money, build my credit, eat out wherever, never pay attention to price tags when shopping, and take trips/vacations, etc.

Maybe things have changed.
Cogent.

I think money talks -- in journalism and in traditional elections.

I agree to disagree with you.
For certain pieces I certainly can make really good arguments.

For example, I can certainly argue that YouTube is a problem.

Google effectively uses search to subsidize YouTube. This chokes off any competitor to YouTube as they simply cannot afford the bandwidth costs (YouTube was hemorrhaging money when Google bought it).

If you forced YouTube to stand on its own, you might actually get some competition to it.
Google stores many of those settings as cookies, which means your opt-out only applies to one browser on one device for a limited time.
A couple of specific scenarios:

Visit turbotax.com to file a tax return, it asks for your bank account before you fill out the tax information. But it's not required, unless you're reporting interest earnings on that account.

On turbotax.com, after you fill out the tax form you have a refund of overpaid taxes. The site asks for your bank account in order to arrange for the refund to be deposited, or instead they can arrange for you to receive a paper check and you don't have to give your bank account.
I was talking about Intel i9s, which don't.

Ryzen CPUs support ECC if mobo does, but were not formally validated for that.

Threadripper and Epyc both support ECC and have been validated.
Presumably the single government-run insurance system is in a much stronger negotiation position with the healthcare providers, forcing healthcare providers to operate more efficiently.
Very likely because in this case what you gain by succeeding is a lot less than what you lose if you don't.
Congratulations!

Curious to know - do you need any type of FDA or import-export license to ship things in US from a foreign country?
You're falling in to the same trap I think Bill Nye fell into. There are not always precisely two equally valid opinions. Forcing debate to fit the assumption that exactly two perspectives are equally valid perpetuates the creation of baseless theories for the purpose of debate itself. See: cable news.
These days I personally am just fine writing in modern JS. Destructuring, lambda syntax, and object literals almost make it a tie with Clojure's terse syntax.

So isn't there anything you wish you had or missed from Clojure? Not even the JVM?
> Google is removing people that have views that differ from the progressive narrative.

Good for them. If you don't like the culture nobody's holding you there at gunpoint and forcing you to work. This isn't China under Mao. It's a free market economy.

> The Google incident can be interpreted as a warning that progressive politicians would remove citizens that express differing opinions if they could.

A private company is not the government. First amendment is still intact and nobody is suggesting otherwise. Save your panic for actual threats.

You really need to open your filter bubble.
Any idea when you'll get the stats article done? :D
Yes. It is $50. Private insurance company. One of the largest in the world.
It is literally changing the subject. Even supposing the new topic is more important, and priorities were misallocated, the topic is still being changed.
Assuming you are referring to the name Oreo read this. https://android.stackexchange.com/q/181818

EDTI: Fixed so they didn't pay as stated above but I guess it is technically still licensed.
Do you actually believe it will delete anything? You're wrong. NSA would still get the data, and so would Google for marketing purposes. It's just to calm privacy-aware, but not techsavvy users.
Yep, but it isn't quite the same. Mono AOT still requires Mono to run the executable, it just doesn't use the JIT engine (when passing in --aot=full command line when executing your program). It doesn't create a native executable.
‘Lean’ freight startup Gurucargo aims to eliminate middleman from forwarding
I wouldn't trust Google in anything, especially opt-outs.
I think that a lof of people fell in love after this made front-page : https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/algorithmic-fit...
Really nice schedule. I think the thread is about scores. Once debt free I would prefer to get more private time than trashing my life for 6 figures in somebody's sweat shop projects - the more than I can eat.
On the economic numbers, at least on an accounting basis, Illinois and Connecticut are also failing states, and are in imminent risk of bankruptcy.
The other way around this is containers or caching filesystems.
I think they wanted to get the skier in the scene
So you're saying that the measurement of student mastery has no noise floor?
Uber (in the past) made hired car rides fundamentally cheaper than everything before it by bullying local monopolies into bankruptcy. I know your post is evaluating Uber's future, not past, but past successes may color our judgment of their future potential.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/15/uber-lyft-take-down-not-just...
Gillette razor model?
AMP in one picture
I realise I'm a little late to the game, but rights were explained to me once as: An item to which a group has access, that the ruling authority cannot block.

Examples of this can be speech, in the US, the government does not grant speech, but rather they do not block access to it (within limits as defined by the SC). Also, the right the bear arms, it's something again that is inherently the citizens but the government does not block access.

In the case of Internet, it being a right is different to it being a utility. As a right the government would be obligated to not block people from accessing it (again SC caveat) but has no obligation to provide it.

I will caveat by saying that also disallowed are underhanded methods of blocking access to rights or blocked rights as a side effect (whether intentional or not). So the government and citizenry has to ensure that rights are being preserved by evaluating new and existing laws and adjust course as needed (either via redrafting legislation or via the SC)

Of course, the above definition assumes the existence of a state, but I think that's fair. In a true anarchy we have all freedoms but of course the risks that go with that. The establishment of a state necessitates the blocking of some "freedoms" but depending on the government we retain some, which are then known as rights.
What platforms are we talking about? Anything actually used by consumers or business or is it all just stuff that has esoteric support by hobbyists and those creating custom and reviving super old stuff.

I would imagine that if someone's platform doesn't support C11 at this point it pretty much hasn't been updated in 7 years and pretty much can't custom build GCC. I mean I know how to build GCC on a Sega Dreamcast so it has to be more esoteric than that.

Also, not supporting C11 probably also means not supporting lots of other things that modern applications might want like Vulkan, IPv6 or multiple threads.
Sure it does, how do you think Xamarin creates native executables for Apple devices?
Often there are government programs available for retraining if your job is lost to outsourcing or automation or similar. People who train into a new job will likely make more money, have a better quality of life, and better long-term career prospects.

So 200 people are put out of work in a factory town, but the 10 people the plant still needs are much better off. The rest of the workers are expected to take advantage of the resources available to them, and find something better.

There is still a large net job loss, but other jobs crop up elsewhere in the economy, and the general quality of jobs throughout the nation is improved. Often people don't take advantage of retraining programs, however, which leads to enormously depressed areas which used to be centered around a few large employers.

But it's not usually because of laziness or unwillingness to change gears. Many people simply balk at leaving their home community, and when everyone is suddenly out of work, there aren't openings in many industries that they might retrain into. Still, that's like staying in a village after the well dries up; sort of pointless and making life much harder on yourself than it needs to be. Automation is not a bad thing, but it requires a dynamic country where people are willing to move and train into jobs. Today's America is stagnant and stationary, a problem which would probably solve itself if these decrepit factory towns weren't so successful at garnering subsidies to maintain their lifestyles. Just look at coal country...
I don't even use Google, I use my own searx instance instead. Completely unpersonalized, and completely private. And I feel that it's better this way, cause privacy does matter.
So.. Facebook is okay then if they move their data centers? For average users, I mean. They don't pay a cent to access facebook.com. I'm pretty sure that's not the intent of this legislation.
I agree about presidents. If modern presidents were capable of thinking, they wouldn't need think tanks - Without think tanks, companies would have very little control over politicians.
I think so, and the same can probably be accomplished with headless Chrome.
Yeah i'm working on a replacement for this service, this is absolutely unacceptable to us.
Thanks for your explanation :)

One thing I still don't understand though:

> This is because `stdint.h` isn't 100% compatible with _every_ platform Linux supports. This gets in hair brained definitions of pointers lengths on some obscure platforms. For example SPARC64's `long`, `long long`, `void` , and `uint64_t` aren't all the same size (`long long` is `uint64_t`, while void\ and `long` are `uint32_t`, but in kernel land `voidx` is `uint64_t`).

In these cases, you just defined the variably-lengthed types (void* ) using the fixed-length types (uint64_t). This would just demonstrate that the fixed-length types are absolute, and IMO then good candidates to base absolute-sized types on. And yet that's still not good enough?

A bit of googling brings up the book Linux Device Drivers 3rd Ed (2005)[1], in which chap11 specifically addresses the topic of types. It argues against the usage of standard C types (int, long, etc) specifically because of their size variability. That's all well and good, but it doesn't make any mention of stdint.h!

A hypothesis comes up: maybe stdtint.h is meant to be a user-space header exposed by the system/compiler, and the kernel, having to be entirely bootstrapped, can't even depend on that? So it just redefines the types for itself? With the side-effect of exposing those to userspace at the API?

[1] https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
Wasn't there some sort of classical math problem that this illustrates somehow? surface tension, math theory, etc? (my memory for this sort of thing isn't great)
My favorite statistic is that 24.5 trillion gallons of water is 75 million acre-feet, or slightly more water than all California agriculture uses in 2 years.