skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this probably includes base salary, stocks, and bonuses.

I don't think it includes health insurance and 401k.
And emission of methane and other hydrocarbons from thawing permafrost. Plus changes in global ocean currents.
Plus emissions of sulphide and nitride into atmosphere.

The answer is all of the above and they feed into each other. The main question that remains is whether we should try to attack CO2 or methane emissions first. Which will be more cost effective and more attainable in short term.
It's a country tld, those tend to stay around.
> You can generate a key for each user on creation and have their data encrypted with it. The problem is NOT that.

This is still debatable, because what if in near future your encryption turns out to be weak and all the personal data become readable again? Things like this... This law was really not thought through.
There is a feedback mechanism between civilization and a societies willingness to commit to code. There is nothing automatic here. People can reap the benefits if they commit, but they don't always commit. We tend to associate the early civilizations with great monuments, but they key difference between early societies and advanced ones is the willingness to commit to process. In different ways, this is a point made by the Legalist tradition in China, the Executionist movement in Poland during the 1400s and 1500s, and then the "liberal" tradition during the Enlightenment in Europe during the 1700s. And it is no coincidence that these periods coincide with the peak of Chinese civilization, and then the peak of Poland's great Commonwealth, and then later the peak of Europe's success.

Regarding Poland:

"A purely political reformist movement had come into existence at the beginning of the 1500s. In spirit it was very close to the Reformation, since it placed the accent not on innovation but on stricter observance of the law, on weeding out malpractice and corruption. It was known as “the movement for the execution of laws”, or simply as the “executionist” movement. One of its first preoccupations was that the law itself should be codified and published in clear form, and as a result much groundwork was done in the first half of the 1500s, culminating in legal reforms passed in 1578 which fixed the legal system for the next two hundred years [[ till the death of Poland ]]"

http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/poland-was-shockingly...
"Fake" or rather misleading news!

So:

Geologists for a long time assumed the carbonates found with igneous rocks resulted from CO2 reacting with these igneous rocks were formed very very long ago.

A scientists uses carbon dating and discovers that the carbon in these carbonates was in fact formed relatively recently.

This should prompt 2 questions, but seemingly only prompted the first:

1) If unreacted pyroxenes and olivine in these rocks can capture CO2 to form carbonates relatively fast on geological timescales, can we help this natural process speed up?

Answer: yes, but unclear at what energetic cost, and unclear what to do with these carbonates afterwards.

2) WHERE do the carbonates end up, if the carbonates from older carbon are mysteriously MISSING???

Answer: reacting back to CO2 upon rainfall, or by erosion and weather ended up in seas and lakes!

One does not need rocks to create cabronates: simply expose water with CO2 and CO2 will both absorb as (CO2)_gas and also react with water to form carbonic acid H2CO3:

(H2O)l + (CO2)g <=> (H2CO3)l

If we take the resulting say magnesiumcarbonate from the rock that has captured CO2, and put it in water, it will first dissociate like all salts (metal, non-metal compounds) resulting in free mobile Magnesium ions and free mobile carbonate ions. You might as well just let CO2 in the air react with the sea acidifying it...

They pretend the carbonate form is a sink where we can dump our CO2, while in fact this very interpretation is inconsistent with the original discovery that the carbon in these carbonates is young. If it was truely stable the carbonates would predominantly contain old carbon.

So unless they have a plan to store these carbonates and protect it from rainfall, and prevent it from flowing into bigger bodies of water, I see no solution, only excuses to appear green such that banks can invest "green money" into these mining companies again, or perhaps to get "green subsidies" or perhaps to escape carbon taxes...
> In its proxy, Alphabet asked shareholders to vote against an investor proposal seeking a management review of potential abuses of Google’s digital platforms, such as Russian interference in U.S. elections.

I feel like this is the most interesting part of the article, even if it's not relevant to the main content.
There are some quotes from his emails here which show he was clearly trying to profit and counterfeit the CDs to make them look exactly like the originals.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/04/27/the-fac...
The moon makes up 1e-5 of the visible sky hemisphere. That means there is one star per 11 moon-areas. That seems very low to me. I'd have guessed the ratio was closer to 1:1. I'll check next time I'm out at night!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_angle#Sun_and_Moon
Project Management Reporting Template
I thought we were talking about hobby projects here? If you are shipping things, collecting payment info, you should be taking things seriously.
Until we invent (or accidentally stumble upon) an artificial mind with volition and a sense of self, AI will continue to be an increasingly powerful, increasingly self-directed set of optimizers. We'll continue to use AI in more and more for the ultimate goal of, well, optimizing. Optimizing what exactly? Energy efficiency. Check. Materials. Check. Drug discovery. Check. Financial transactions. Business rules. Capacity planning. Cryptocurrencies. Stock market. Ad placement and targeting. Predicting consumer behavior. Wait...

You see, it will all end up in the same place. AI is a way to make money. AI is just optimizing economics, but optimizing economics on steroids. Eventually, the company with the best AI is going to have the best advantage in all business interactions and planning. The first to master-level AI is going to end up with essentially all the money in the end.

Don't you think the big players know this? Of course. AI will be employed in exactly the same way as every other piece of tech in recent history: to make obscene amounts of money.

Don't be surprised when making money screws consumers over. It's just business. No hard feelings, right? Thankfully, the AI is incapable of feeling.

The ultimate AI is the one you can give one command to: MAKE MONEY!
Why doesnt that happen enough in current unionizes jobs ?
This sounds very tabloidy, but this actually seems like an interesting and useful application, especially given the recent high-profile incidents where train drivers in the American north-east nodded off and caused crashes.

> Deayea, a technology company in Shanghai, said its brain monitoring devices were worn regularly by train drivers working on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail line, one of the busiest of its kind in the world.

> The sensors, built in the brim of the driver’s hat, could measure various types of brain activities, including fatigue and attention loss with an accuracy of more than 90 per cent, according to the company’s website.

> If the driver dozed off, for instance, the cap would trigger an alarm in the cabin to wake him up.
Samsung, Micron, Hynix sued for alleged DRAM price fixing
Can we please not upvote articles from tabloid websites? The article is breif, shallow and has a glaring typo in it. This is not journalism. They simply reprinted some quotes. Zero research, zero value added to the conversation. Zero editing. The topic is interesting, but I wish a more legitimate source was linked. Why are we rewarding shoddy work with ad exposures?
So, Russian historian _translates_ Eisehnower's words into his own narrative? Color me surprised.
> Are you going to either 1) completely disable logging on your webserver or 2) ask for consent just to use a default Apache/Nginx logging configuration? The law makes no technical sense.

3) Change your webserver not to store IPs or to delete them relatively quickly?

The default Apache/Nginx configurations aren't suitable for production in many other ways but most distributions ship them with log rotation enabled which would prevent this from being a problem in the default install.
I'm from Namecheap. .PW is $78.80 for 10 years. .UK is $56.90 for 10 years. https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results.aspx?...
Please, I work for a "small" business and the management have been going on about it for months.

If you run a business and were not aware of GDPR then you incompetent or employ people who are feeding you bad information.

Seems like these businesses who are not "aware" of it are exactly the type that would have other bad practices that will leak personal data of their customers.
> I can't tell you the number of websites I've seen that don't let you delete accounts properly.

So? Why should you be able to delete an account?

> That don't let you edit your real name (even if you get married or you legally change it!).

This seems like an issue for the company and one they should fix for their own good, not yours.

> That don't allow you any insight into where your email address ends up after you sign up with it.

I also don't have control over who my friends give my email or phone number out to, or if they sign up for facebook and facebook slurps that data (even if facebook becomes 100% truly gdpr compliant which I doubt they will even if they claim it). Why should I be able to control what other people do with something I gave them? If they breach my trust, maybe I should look elsewhere.
Certificate Transparency logging now mandatory
The Scylla DB I/O scheduler: better latencies under any circumstance
According to 'the defendant' that value is all of the money he got from Bob Wolff over a couple of Years not only from the discs. The discs returned a lot less. Though of course that might be a lie, I wouldn't know.
The trouble is, nobody is equipped for this large scale of interventions. Cool technical solutions will be required, such as genetic adaptation, building nanostructures with internal climate systems, artificial islands etc.
And power sources and/or ethical changes to run all of this.
Wow, racial slurs. I'm sure that can trigger some kind of trauma on them
This is wrong. It isn't (usually) about inlining. It's about avoiding system dependencies and complicated builds, which makes it an ugly hack to work around the sad state of C/C++ system dependency/package management.
Of course. Get-Content puts every line of text into the pipeline as a .Net String object with a few additional attributes added on, including ReadCount which is the line number. For example:

Get-Content -Path TEXT.TXT | %{"$($_.ReadCount) $($_.Length) $($_.ToUpper())" }

For each line of text, this will print the line number, the length of the string, and the string converted into upper case.

PowerShell is very wordy, but very powerful.
Electronics-recycling innovator going to prison for Microsoft infringement
China's Challenge to Democracy
A new survey shows how many families are on the edge financially
.trade domains are super cheap. I think i paid $8 for 5 years.
> Another potential violation would be asking a users age(like asking their birthday), but not needing their age for the operation of the service.

In theory, in the US this could be driven by COPPA, but I havn't seen a birthday asked for that reason in a long time. It also wouldn't be a reason to store it, only to ask and process ephemerally. I believe it's also common in the US for alcohol-related websites to ask age, although that could be misguided, it is common. Again, not a reason to store, but to ask.
Spotify, CityMapper, Revolut, and while technically not a startup, I think OpenStreetMap should count as well.
He disputes the emails claiming they are made up and tampered with insinuating his partner in selling these CDs has implicated him to get a lesser sentence.

Obviously someone in this whole mess is lying or grossly misinformed, the problem is figuring out who.

He said he had IT-experts testify in court that the emails had been tampered with, I assume one could look into that in some kind of public record over the case?
> Then you have a legitimate reason for keeping some of the data (book keeping, shipping) and not for others. Delete the data you can, keep what you must.

Will regulators agree with what I "must" keep?
Look at the massive fight about Obama care and that is really nothing compared to UBI.
No, putting the name and email you give it, if you give it one, is by design.
Your success isn’t down to free will – luck determines everything
In the USA perhaps.

OP is from India, where median wage is ~$2 a day.

Saving $5 would equate to 2.5 days effort per domain.
There's irony. Asking for GitHub is 10x worse than algorithmic questions. I just went through the interview process at big companies, with all the resources out there it's easy to get good at these types of questions.

During my professional time I write software to make money. During my free time I write software to make money. As an aging software engineer algorithmic questions just screen for how much time you're willing to put into an interviewing. GitHub screens for how much of a sucker you are.
I know, but there are still countries that stop offering them for free, keep them online or start charging.
Why not? PRs ghostwrite things for CEOs all of the time, speechwriters have written some of the greatest talks by the most famous people of all time.

I don't understand the notion that these kinds of work can never be the product of a PR.
I Googled it, and the results were about evenly split on whether "et al." primarily stands for "et alii" (masculine) or "et alia" (neuter). But they agree that it can stand for either of those, as well as "et aliae" (feminine). In Latin, neuter nouns don't generally refer to people, so whether neuter is supposedly the primary meaning or just an option, it seems to mandate that the phrase can be used for things. On the other hand, the converse isn't true: neuter nouns don't refer to people, but masculine and feminine nouns frequently refer to things. In fact, the neuter gender only accounts for a relatively small fraction of Latin nouns. Thus, even "et alii" or "et aliae" would often be the correct choice in Latin for lists of things, depending on the type of thing. (Of course, there's no Latin word for "compiler", so there's no way to say which would be most appropriate in this particular case, unless you refer to the Vatican's book of Latin neologisms or something.) The word itself just means "other", with nothing inherently limiting it to describing people. In English, substantive adjectives (adjectives without nouns) do tend to default to people unless a noun has been specified: thus it's natural to say "compilers including Clang, GCC, and others", but not just "Clang, GCC, and others". But Latin likes to use substantive adjectives much more liberally. Especially in the neuter, I'm pretty sure "alia" is perfectly good by itself where in English you'd need to say "other things".

Anyway, you could argue that the use of "et al." in English has a restriction that doesn't come from the original Latin. Many of the Google results I found do claim that there's a convention of using "etc." for things and "et al." for people, although that seems to conflict with the idea that "et al." primarily stands for "et alia". But they mostly don't claim that that convention is a hard rule. And I don't think it makes much sense to establish one, considering the original meaning.

[edit: reworded for clarity]
Is your name short for Pavlov?
BLeak: Automatically detect memory leaks in web applications
> If you believe people have a right to privacy, then you believe they have a right to decide who gets to know what information about them.

That's not even remotely true. A right to privacy does not mean I get to control the actions of others.
I agree with most of what you said.

(with the caveat that unless you're an expert yourself, common sense and appeal to authority are about all you have)

> Freeman Dyson has not done sufficient research to reach the conclusion that he has

Out of curiosity, which conclusion is particular are you talking about? Let's be specific—the strawmen have received enough beating today already.
Aí winters happened because of the hype and that people ultimately realize AGI (not even talking about the Singularity) is not as easily achievable as hyped. So interest dies.
I would say the real story here is the absolute giveaway this deal is to Foxconn.

The subsidy given to a giant corporation is now past $4 billion, to a company with revenue in the range of $140 billion. Specific exemptions are being cut to allow the company to not produce an environmental impact statement for any emissions or pollutants discharged. It's clear Scott Walker and co want to set a precedent for future deals.

This sort of corporate coziness between a mega corporation and a state not only is unfair to other businesses not getting the tax deal, but unfair to the citizens who had these regulations enacted.

Additionally the Great Lakes have a legacy of industrial pollution we're only starting to recover from. It's hard to understate how dead these lakes were and still are in many places. Tributary rivers once regularly caught on fire from pollutants sitting on the surface. Hundreds of thousands of acres surrounding the lakes are contaminated with heavy metals, PCBs, radioactive waste - uninhabitable without extreme treatment. These lakes are 1/5th of the world's fresh water.

This stemmed not just from the era of no pollution regulation, but even during the EPA era, there was an unwillingness for the government to enforce regulations on the big polluters and employers. Of course when the factories close and the full extent of pollution comes to public light, the companies who made the profit often have merged or evaporated beyond responsibility, leaving taxpayers on the hook with poisoned land and water.

Do you think the politicians making this deal will have any incentive to follow up and take action if Foxconn does start exceeding their already relaxed permitted emissions?

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/bro...
I’d imagine you could guess these, not much surprising.

> The five healthy habits were defined as not smoking; having a body mass index between 18.5 and 25; taking at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise a day, having no more than one 150ml glass of wine a day for women, or two for men; and having a diet rich in items such as fruit, vegetables and whole grains and low in red meat, saturated fats and sugar.
In the video, the first girl interviewed is shaking her head "no" while talking. I see that often in people being interviewed like this. It's just extra obvious here. Another typical example is someone being interviewed like "we're investing a lot in this project in our school which is great for the students [shakes head no while saying so]" or e.g. a kickstarter video like "this product is going to revolutionize the ..... [shakes head no while mellow guitar music plays in the background]"

What does the no shake mean? Does it mean what they're telling is not true? Or is there some other reason why people instinctively shake no while talking in interviews?
Not all software is regulated, no one cares about your program you make at home, run or distribute as long as it doesn't do some specific stuff.

Make a calculator App and GDPR doesn't care. Make a calculator App that collects financial info and personal info and sends that info somewhere, then GDPR cares.
Montreal company pioneers carbon-negative concrete
One of the top stories on HN right now.

"Health dangers of sleep deprivation"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16954079

And then we have this. Do journalists get together to troll their readers with clickbait?
Can someone explain what ramifications this has for companies operating in the US that may have "personal" data on EU people? I am curious to know if there will be a new wave of lawyers coming after me for running Twicsy. (FYI, I get requests for removals every day, and I comply with all)
I don’t find this to be a compelling theory. I’m currently reading “James Madison: A Life Reconsidered”, and it strikes me that at the beginning of the Confederacy it was surprisingly difficult to get states to actually comply with treaties or laws made by congress. That they were able to actually get the Constitution ratified is truly amazing.

Fast forward to today, and some of the same problems persists - however the level of respect for procedure seems to be similar.
Documenting Serverless Architectures
No, this has nothing to do with simplifying games. Complex games can be intuitive and build up complexity as the player learns.

Take something like Civilisation. You don't need hours of tutorial to play the game. As the game progresses, it becomes more and more complex, but you start with 2 units, no enemies and no technology. After you build a city, technology is introduced. As you start exploring, enemies are introduced.

If civilisation threw new players into a typical midge scenario, players would need to read manuals and use tutorials and spend quite some time getting an overview of the current state.

Even complex games can start with the player playing a game.
> analysis doesn't require PII and thus it's better from a security perspective not to have access to it there to begin with.

Unless I'm pulling from a raw dump of shipping I've bought, which would contain the address so that it can be cross-checked if there is an issue and I didn't know ahead of time that I wanted to perform this analysis.
Detroit Was Crumbling, Now It's Reviving
pretty sure The Singularity won't manifest itself either this year or this decade.
The purchase order says $28k for 8k disks. It would be funny if he's telling the truth, and the fake PO that he made for an unrelated reason came back to bite him here...
This is incredible work. I would have loved to have attempted this when I was in college. The field seemed so inaccessible, and now it makes me happy to see some homebrewer accomplishing things like this.
> You are employing a DPO if you are compliant.

In the UK the ICO is the governing body, and they say I don't need one. From their guidance linked below

>The GDPR introduces a duty for you to appoint a data protection officer (DPO) if you are a public authority, or if you carry out certain types of processing activities.

I am neither a public authority or carry out those certain types of activity.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
are you a lawyer?
Data about me is my data, and if the government gives me the right to control it, I have that right.

If I share a photo, it’s still my photo, I still own the copyright to it, and as an American I’ve used the DMCA to revoke access to photos when tech companies wouldn’t remove my photo when asked politely. The rest of my data is no different. I own my data and the data about me, not them.

GDPR gives users the controls and governance over their data that should have always existed, but that tech companies gaslighted users into believing doesn’t exist.
Open source image recognition has a ton of ethical problems. Now for a low cost people can set up very sophisticated spying apparatus. I can't wait until neural nets can decipher people moving their lips. You could read people's conversations from a distance, automatically. Get ready to censor yourself all the time