skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. To use WhatsApp you have to let them copy all the contacts from the phone to their servers, and they do it all the time.

Pity that e.g. Apple doesn't implement some special configuration for the privacy conscious users, which would allow me to: "give to the app1 only contacts a, b, c" and "give to the app2 only contacts e, f, g." At the moment all the apps that I use and which insist on access to the contacts get all the contacts you ever stored on your mobile phone. The apps should also not get my notes to the contacts, the birthdays of the contacts etc. Ideally Whatsapp should get only phone numbers, and only these that I want to give.

In Android, Google should (it it hasn't) also implement this as a security feature, the benefit for them is: limit the access of the user's contacts to their competitors, by those users who'd use the feature (I don't use Android, is there something like that?).

Anyway, by using WhatsApp, since lats year you give Facebook all the phone contacts which they will store and match even if you didn't want to give these to Facebook for Facebook.com or whatever.

"“Privacy is incredibly important to WhatsApp. It’s why we collect very little data, and encrypt every message,” a spokeswoman for WhatsApp said."

When "a little" is all your contacts in the phone, it's more than a little for Facebook.
I think the point that the GP post is making (which I agree with) is not to complain about the burden of complying with local regs, but to point out that consumers in the EU are going to miss out if small companies don't offer their services there due to regulatory concerns.

> I cannot see how that could be a problem.

This is a cost/benefit calculation, but not an easy one. In general a given set of regulations will have both costs to the consumer such as reduced choice and increased prices (due to regulatory costs being passed through), and benefits such as better protection of personal information in this case.

Now, the fact that users in the EU seem to currently be supportive of these regulations suggests that they are willing to pay that cost to get that benefit. And that's their decision!

But consider the scenario where this trend carries on, and startups are increasingly not able to get a toehold due to incredibly high compliance costs. That could stifle the economic development in the EU, and lead to further concentration of power as only large companies can afford to pay the lawyer bills to meet the regulations.
I honestly think this is just going with the easy solution. Doing interviews correctly is hard and time consuming, so the easiest thing is just to do what everyvody else is doing, and that's some form of algorithm problem on a whiteboard.
>the equivalent of millions of dollars in your pocket

Not really. Bitcoin is totally useless in most places especially outside of the developed world, you depend on the ability to find someone to trade you spendable money if you hope to make practical use of those "millions".

> What makes bitcoin valuable is that it’s gold without any of the downsides of gold.

Bitcoin has pretty much all the downsides that gold has, the main one being that despite its value its generally not accepted as a form of payment for goods and services, but even if you intend to barter, gold is much more practical because the transaction can be executed in real-time, offline, and isn't hindered by network congestion or limited access to computers/electricity/internet/technical-literacy etc etc. If are living in Puerto Rico the day before Irma hits, are you better off with 1kg of gold coins or 2 bitcoins?
>Ingroup favoritism raises a key question—at our core, do we want Us to do “well” by maximizing absolute levels of well being, or merely “better than,” by maximizing the gap between Us and Them?

Universal individualism and distrust is great when there are no attackers but it needs to be hardened against cooperative attacks somehow.

Also, does universal individualism necessarily bring the best results? Seems like there might be a number of people over which universal individualism becomes infeasible.
The Robust Beauty of Improper Linear Models in Decision Making [pdf]
Pretty much every altcoin parent mentioned has outperformed Bitcoin YTD
I've read about various aquaponics systems in the past.

My main concern would be regarding pathogenic bacteria from the fish getting into the growing plants. Some plants won't have an issue like that, but I was under the impression that other plants like lettuce don't do a good job of filtering microorganisms out of their water supply.

This is related to those news reports about contaminated water and lettuce crops from the past decade.
Skepticism and narcissism
Analogies break down as easily as they are helpful. On average, they help mathematical intuition less than expected.
(Check Bose-Einstein thought experiments and the mathematics they spawned for an example.)

QM went into blind math side way past any analogies. Yet it is currently matching observations which is as good as it gets with true.
And the website provided in the link shows 4.42 transactions per second. Which at the current ~220k pending transactions, that's ~14hrs.

Edit: after refreshing the page it still had about 220k pending transactions but was doing ~11.34 transactions per second. Equating to ~5hrs.

Edit 2: Again refreshing it went to 24.61 (2.5 hrs). Another refresh went to 11.56 (5hrs). So there are some clear stability issues. But your max of 7transactions/second comes into question, or this site.
Stellar is very similar to Ripple
If anything, I believe that Dynamicland and "books not apps" attitude can only complement each other.
I found this the other day. Seems interesting:
https://teleport.org/welcome
Growing up I was taught (in Western Europe) to wash lettuce and other leafy veg in salted water to kill bacteria, or possibly insects or insect eggs. I always understood that it was the salt acting as a disinfectant, not any iodine additive. I'm now questioning whether this was ever necessary.
Now try Google's sweetheart project https://www.ampproject.org/ or any amp-powered site. They contain this gem of a boilerplate hiding page content for 8 seconds or until whatever script is finally loaded that overrides it:

body {
animation: -amp-start 8s steps(1,end) 0s 1 normal both;
}
@keyframes -amp-start {
from { visibility: hidden; }
to { visibility: visible; }
}
> we aren't building coal or nuclear because there are outrageous political risks

This is a one sided way of putting it. The people who build coal plants in Australia say that they've stopped doing it because of climate change. The plants need to run for decades to pay off the cost of construction. The business people expect that, whoever is in charge of Australia, power plants will have to stop burning coal before then.

The people who build nuclear plants say that there aren't enough Australians to buy their electricity, so anyone who tried to sell nuclear power in Australia would lose money. Again, regardless of the politics.
Not so disappointing if this becomes the Rosetta stone of khipus.
Amazon Linux 2 – Modern, Stable, and Enterprise-Friendly
Your smartphone is putting a unique fingerprint on every photo
> More generally, this is an example of "all regulation bad" thinking

"any regulation good" is a fallacy as well, and just because data protection is a good thing, not all regulations claiming to achieve that are good, too.

And the GDPR is an especially bad and totally overblown regulation. I'd be totally fine with not being allowed to do bad things, since I'm not doing that anyway. I don't sell customer data, I don't collect PII from obscure third parties, I delete what I'm supposed to and I don't store what I should not.

Unfortunately, just not doing anything wrong does not help me at all, because GDPR requires basically everyone to be able to _prove_ , which -if possible at all- would take ages to implement properly. Sure, Google and Facebook can afford to spend a few man-years on this, and they can also afford a bunch of lawyers in case some obscure bureaucratic EU entity finds that they followed a wrong interpretation of the vague and unclear requirements in this directive.

As the sole developer for a small SaaS, I cannot afford that luxury. I can either write code, which earns me money, or I can write pages of pages of process documentation instead, which earns me nothing and does not even guarantee I won't be fined anyway, since who knows what obscure requirement may be hidden in those 201 pages of undecipherable legalese.

So my only realistic option is to do what most smaller businesses will do: Ignore the GDRP, and hope they won't come for me first. They probably won't, since they can't go after everyone at once. Sure, there's a rest risk, but hey, one can get cancer too. At least, if you get GDRP instead, you won't be dead, just broke.
When a contingency happens (loss of equipment such as a generator), units respond pretty much immediately due to governor response in the unit itself (good ole' inertia). Most RTO/ISOs in the USA (I know AEMO is in Australia) have a very large amount of power already ready to go if a unit trips offline. Using batteries to help with this is being worked on. They already exist, but new market rules are being drafted in order to allow them to be taken advantage of and properly compensated. The term is stored energy resource. Google that term in conjunction with ISO-NE, PJM, MISO, SPP, NYISO, CAISO...etc.
> This will likely feed into the “planned obsolescence” narrative.

well, non-replaceable battery and all...
You can't just expect your own decision to change the market. There are of course network effects and eventually you have to make a choice if you want to support all clients and thus all people or if you don't want to do that then you have to make choices.

The point is that there are many networks and there is lots of competition on every level and as a costumer you have the choice how to organise your live.

> I didn't define any monopoly at all, I'm merely pointing out that there's something to be said about keeping it simple and "centralized" with certain things.

I agree, if the market is relativly free and a dominant player emerges, it is usually an efficent result, even if many people are not very happy.

That is why many free-market economist don't agree with the idea that anti-trust law is needed to prevent the centralisation that marx proclaimed and many modern progressive economists defend in new ways.

So I'm quite ok with one player, like Whatsapp, dominating for a time. For myself however, I dislike centralisation in fundamental infrastructure, so I make the personal choice to also have Signal, Matrix and many other chats. Depending on what group of friends I use a different app.

So we need to be carful with what are your personal choices and interest, and what are our acceptable market outcomes. Many people have a much to narrow view about how the market outcome 'should' look based on their assumtion of cost (typical example is transportation threw centralised nodes that many people think 'make no sense').
http://jsnice.org works well, though misses many oportunities of restoring variable names based on property names which cannot be minified.
Off topic, but too fun not to mention: An ounce of gold weighs more than an ounce of feathers. This is because an ounce of gold is a troy ounce (1/12 of a pound), and an ounce of feathers is an avoirdupois ounce (1/16 of a pound).

As a native from a country that uses the metric system, this sentence is both amusing and saddening.
> 's possibly _also_ a political swipe, but I fail to see how it's false - North Korea has certainly acted poorly (e.g. the kidnap of thousands).

The false statement is not that NK is acting badly, but that they are largely unchecked. The U.S. maintains a large military presence and major alliance in S. Korea for the purpose of checking NK. They arm SK and Japan and train with them, specifically to check NK. They pass end enforce domestic and international sanctions, intercept NK ships, spy on NK, and infiltrate and sabotage NK's military programs. The claim that NK is largely unchecked is absurd.
I think if you just naively did that, you would risk the funds being spent twice if both transactions are included in the block (unlikely, but possible).

There is an implementation of essentially the same concept that you are describing called "replace by fee". I haven't seen it implemented in any wallet software, but apparently it's in Bitcoin Core.

I think the tricky part is getting nodes to relay transactions that can look like double spending.
is there a non-paywall link?
You'll notice the entire Bitcoin community has changed tone. It used to be "this is the currency of the future, down with cash/Visa!" but now you hear "Bitcoin is not a currency, it's a store of value".

The wild price swings, slow transactions, high fees, and loq merchant acceptance make it complete garbage as a currency. But as a store of value, none of those arguments apply. It only has to compete with gold bars, which are crappy in their own ways.
What you're saying is true -- but at the same time it is a bit awkward that there are things you need to work on for interviews only. For instance, I have never had to use linked lists in an actual dev job (~6y experience), but they come up so often in interviews that you just have to practice things like loop detection
You can replace the batteries at both Apple stores and independent retailers. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/iphone-battery-replacement-diy-o...

The issue IMO, is it's not obvious that the battery needs to be replaced and when. It's not holding charge > new battery is far more obvious than it's slow > new battery. Most people probably prefer a slow phone than one without charge however Apple should have some indication of what's going on.
You might be interested in this web-based/mobile/PC game about gerrymandering from this year:
https://chequered.ink/districts-game/
I have Family Mobile (TMobile MVNO) and have never had service in a Target. My wife has AT&T and never has service either. This is in multiple Target's in the Central Florida area.
The data is just way too spread between too many companies. Someone will screw up somewhen for sure. Not sure how to solve this. Make it illegal to store data and instead only allow access with permission for specific purposes?
> My SLA for responding to slack is 2 hours

You have a slack SLA?! How is that even measured, does slack have some kind of reporting tool?
My sincere thanks for this Doreen. Maybe I need to brew and consider the perspective from which I perceive the concept.
Maybe not human food - it may contain a neurotoxin. So not good for long-term consumption. Let the fish/chickens digest it first!
Scale.bythebay.io: Adriaan Moors, Scala 2.13
Bitcoin goes up and down by 10% several times per day.
I used to be a 100,000+ / year flyer as a consultant, plus I spent four years in college in the midwest. I'm a white, straight, male, but most of the country scares me to the point I have no desire to go outside the pacific northwest any longer. I've never been treated so badly by TSA as I was in Columbus, and I'm somewhat disappointed in myself that I did not file a lawsuit. To think that anywhere in the midwest or the southeast could become a prosperous center of innovation? Good effing luck with that. Oh sure, there are pockets where this bank or that manufacturer will settle for a tax deal or cheaper labour, but there's a big difference between that and the west coast culture that enables breakthrough science and engineering.
At this point the only reasonable conclusion is that all of your bio/demo, employment, residential history, medical history, insurance claims history, credit history, etc is exposed. These things are no longer valid for identity verification.
I feel like more transparency would have been welcomed, but aside from that this is a "no win" situation, since you have to pick a winner:

- Do you degrade performance but leave screen-on time relatively unchanged?

- Do you degrade screen-on time but leave performance relatively unchanged?

Most Android devices seem to do the opposite (lose screen-on time, but keep performance relatively unchanged). Different people will have a different perspective on what the "right" strategy is for this, but I think we can all agree that better transparency and maybe even leaving it to the consumer to make the choice would be welcome.

PS - "Planned obsolescence" only applies if Apple was doing this artificially. It seems like if they didn't degrade performance you'd lose screen-on time instead, so you'd still likely replace the handset and perhaps even sooner (since core services e.g. calling, texting, etc, work even with lower performance but not on a phone out of juice).
Ripple relies on a set of hardcoded trusted nodes to validate all the transactions. This makes it very interesting to banks, since they can just set up their own set of nodes and use the Ripple protocol for transaction settlement between them. It's less appealing to people who're attracted to cryptocurrency as an alternative to trusting banks.
I have a Nexus 6P and its battery is going bad. It just shuts down when it reaches 20-30%. Kind of annoying because I never know quite how much battery life I actually have remaining.
Mined? Its applied commercially as anhydrous ammonia, which is produced from air and electricity.
I worked on Android power perf (frequency scaling in particular) for the last 18 months and I'm not aware of any linkage with the battery state, except for the Battery Saver mode. So yeah same perf, just shorter life. There could be something in vendor Android builds I don't know about, but it isn't there in AOSP and almost certainly isn't in Pixel/Nexus.
Go-diff-image: diff tool for images
I imagine most users would prefer their iphone to stay on for a reasonable period over being super zippy. And like the other commenters said, replacing the battery will fix the problem.
Nope, that is definitely not it. It might have been a smaller, AFAIR french startup. The (english) demos were all weather related.
Hey founder of interviewing.io here (saw we were mentioned and figured I'd jump in).

We provide engineers with free, live (and anonymous) interview practice. If you do well, you get fast-tracked at top companies.

I also agree with the lack of interaction being a problem. I've always thought about this in the context of value symmetry. If you are expecting people to put time into a coding assignment, you have to give them something useful back... especially in a market where good engineers are the ones who are scarce, not jobs.
That's not nearly enough to support running a store.
Invested. Check out Plasma
The smugness is unbearable.
https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/7kqkd6/scalebythebay...
Ta-Nehisi Coates Deletes Twitter Account
Yes. By its own training data, and context from the image. E.g. from this very thread: “Google” is going to be Google :)
"in parts of the world that are getting wetter, for instance, the cactus won’t thrive."

They certainly thrive in northern Florida.
Shhh, don't tell them!
You know, in the context of a conversation about California vs. the world that's enlightening. When a midwestern state passed a law against gay marriage they were probably doing it with a heavily gerrymandered legislature.

When California did it, they did it with a popular referendum.
Forking bitcoin doesn't create more bitcoins. It creates something else that is not bitcoins any longer that will not be accepted anywhere.
That's why I use Litecoin. Transactions fee are one of the lowest in all of crypto and it's transactions speeds are acceptable. Always within a couple of minutes.
Good to know about the possible neurotoxin. Any suggestions for further information on the topic?
What is the web standard about delaying scripts deliberately encoded into the page?

Why downvote and no explanation? I want to know if I missed something.
Ripple is a pre mined token that has central control. It's not really comparable to Bitcoin.
The horse is out of the barn. We need to make the data itself worthless. There's no getting it back.
> Gold is exchangeable virtually in any country and any culture regardless of how technologically advanced that society is.

Your other arguments are not bad (well, it varies), but this one is very weak. You do know that a lot of 3rd world citizens now have access to cell phones? Technology is pervasive nowadays.
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It's kind of inherent to the "everyone validates all the transactions" model, unfortunately. You can increase the exact number of transactions a little at the expense of making transaction validation more expensive for everyone, but it still won't get you to Visa scale. That's why the Bitcoin developers are so keen on off-chain transactions in the form of the Lightning Network.

Unfortunately, it gets even worse if you want any kind of anonymity - all the techniques for that lead to much bigger, much more computationally expensive transactions.
Yet, all other transactions won't stop for these 200,000 transactions. There are constantly more transactions, so the wait exceeds three hours...
>the Tesla big battery responded four seconds ahead of the generator contracted at that time to provide FCAS (frequency control and ancillary services), the Gladstone coal generator in Queensland.

I find it curious that a coal plant would be contracted with keeping the frequency stable when both hydro-storage and gas power plants provide better response times than coal. Is it normal in Australia that coal plants do grid stabilisation?
Maybe you are misunderstanding me. Maybe I was not clear.

With state I'm 'the government' not 'state government' in case this was not clear.

I was just trying to say why on federal level does not try to fix these issues on a higher level. My point was that neither sees it as a important enough issue, not to mention complicated because of all the different levels.
You're looking at income tax only. Illinois has other taxes that are very high. In particular, their property taxes are the highest in the nation (along with New Jersey). As I'm unfortunately discovering, as I'm looking to buy my first home here.

This article asserts that Illinois has the highest overall tax burden in the nation: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-has-highest-overall-...

Also this article shows Effective total state and local taxes in 2017. Illinois ranks the highest at $8,011 median per household, while California ranks almost at the bottom, at $4,774:
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-states-to-be-a-taxpayer...
Well, the whole notion of $ is sort of tied to a particular living situation, as in: your nationality and exactly where you live, e.g. the US, inflation, etc.

That's to say: you can't extrapolate $2/hr without having extensive knowledge of those countries.
In fact gold does not compare favorably to US equity markets as far as saving your money goes. An investment in an S&P500 index fund in late 2007 (right before the crash) would be worth more today than an investment in gold. An investment in the Dow Jones index in 1900 would be worth about six times as much as an equivalent investment in gold (assuming you held for 117 years, and not counting dividends).

Granted, people in unstable countries may have difficulty investing in the US stock market.