skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at all the hours we get to spend on making voice apps that make phone calls when both sides having access to quickly update the ledger is already a thing: calendars

So instead of debating solutions to local needs with neighbors, we fetishize juicing Googles stock price and enabling them to build things that mathematicians already figured out the theory and limits to years ago

This is nonsense.

It’s one thing to theorize the Higgs and build an LHC

It’s another to build chat bots with our time so we can avoid menial scheduling.

Feed people misdirection about how the economy needs this cause we’re all too dumb to figure out our own lives (translation: elites lose power if we do that) and you keep getting these stupid generational pyramid schemes: we buy in now on some vague promise of a future payout we’ll not be around to collect on

Corporate is the church now. Love it or be ostricized.
>all the subtleties in memory management and resource accounting), and anybody who thinks that the choice of language simplifies those things a lot is likely to be very disappointed

Those are exactly two of the things that Rust and many languages with complex type systems tackle and very successfully help out with:

Instead of having to get it right every time and having to pay special attention in the edge cases, you define it well and then let the compiler help you catch misuses.
In greasemonkey or tampermonkey:

if (window.location.host.indexOf('old') === -1) {

window.location.host = window.location.host.replace('www', 'old');

}
> It is impossible to sell raw-milk cheese in the United States

No, it's not, but it is legally imposible to import them, and trade them in interstate commerce (many—I think still a majority—of states allow raw milk and raw milk products, though the FDA prohibits most directly and sets standards which effectively prohibit the rest in interstate commerce, including foreign imports.)

Not that that really changes the point you are illustrating.
A collection of Lisp / Scheme books and online resources
This article focuses on ease of use i.e. avoiding the nastiness of RDBMS entities as in-memory data structure. But the main reason most of us used ORM is because of its portability between different databases. In the on-premise deployment era, each customer was a Oracle/MSSQL/MySQL shop and ORMs magically solved this problem by letting us write once and run on any database. Today, this portability problem still exists between different cloud vendors' NoSQL databases, even if it solves the mapping problem.
>Trade and reducing poverty or hunger are not at odds.

This is a statement that is not necessarily true on its face.

When the country's currency is gradually inflated away to worthlessness [1] and economic prospects are limited for non-landowning classes of people, trade and reducing poverty can indeed be at odds. You need only look at history [2] to see the real effect imperialist export policies can have on a population.

1. https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=ETB&view=10Y
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
1. Accept that you don't currently know. Things might change.

2. Per (1), this might not be true. You don't know the meaning now, but things might change.

3. Personally, I plan to (I hope) check out once things get too bad.

I second p0d's mention of Ecclesiastes. Beyond that, "life is but a dream".
It absolutely does not give companies an edge. If you are a small company, the fine itself could cripple you before you even factor in the legal time, money and effort
Charmeau is taking the approach of complaining about 'unfair competition' from other businesses rather than addressing the potential for his own company to start differentiating itself and actually competing with SpaceX. Good luck with that terrible viewpoint.
.NET’s entity framework (combined with Linq in C#) is pretty amazing — if it’s not better than ActiveRecord, it’s at least a strong contender.
I think the parent comment was talking about video poker and slots, rather than the games without literally hardcoded success rates.
Nucleolus = ProteinFactoryFactory
Freedom from Facebook campaign advocates breaking the company up
> Any country that pretend to develop and keep some independence need to prioritize a minimum of food production. That's a strategic need.

To turn this back to software, I am strongly reminded of Joel Spolsky’s discussion of when and what to outsource:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-...

“If it’s a core business function — do it yourself, no matter what.”
The title is somewhat misleading. I don't think there is such a consensus among the medical community as to the leading cause of childhood leukemia. He has a theory.
I'm interested in it so I click on mostly GDPR articles, I think about other things but those are outside of the hacker news article scope for the time being
How many people do you know who died in their mid-twenties of obesity? Of these, how many spent their last years engaged in behavior that alienated them from their friends and family, or turned to crime, because of their obesity? Do you see a lot of discarded needles from diabetes testing kits in the park? The two things aren't comparable.
Since there seem to be a lot of knowledgable folks in these threads, I have a question about GDPR's impact on decentralized or federated social networks like Diaspora[1]. On these networks, users can create a profile on any server, and be connected with users on any other server via a federation protocol[2].

All the ideals of user control and data portability are there and central to the Diaspora project; but technically, the underlying protocol involves passing users' posts and comments from one server to another. This seems like it would fall afoul of guidelines against passing data to third parties, and the same technical constraint seems to be fundamental to other federated services like Friendica[3] and Mastodon[4]. I'm really curious how the GDPR would affect services like this, especially as someone who's quit Facebook and is looking at decentralized networks as an alternative.

[1] https://diasporafoundation.org
[2] https://diaspora.github.io/diaspora_federation/
[3] https://friendi.ca
[4] https://joinmastodon.org
Your knowledge of the advertising world is roughly 20 years behind the state of the art.
It sounds like Charmeau is willing to blame anything and everything to avoid the reality that SpaceX is bringing a new economy to the space launch industry. Instead of marketing Ariane as a boutique, reliable launch vehicle for valuable payloads like JWT, it seem like Charmeau wants to blame everyone but himself for Ariane's financial uncertainty.

If I were on the board, I'd ask for his resignation and start looking for a more visionary leader to guide Ariane.
Lisp as an idea or language family was around in the 60s, Common Lisp not so much.

Common Lisp The Language was published in 1984, CLtL2 in 1990, and the ANSI standard in 1994. I believe the hyperspec (which is not the spec) was published in 1996 or so.

CL is neither as ahead of its time or of another, past time as you might think.
> No internal documents from Japan’s surveillance agency have ever been publicly disclosed before.

It makes me kinda sad that somewhere in a nondescript office building someone has to wipe the "No documents leaked since 67 years" counter off some whiteboard.
Eh, you can have all the attitude you want, but I'm watching my mother wither away with dementia (she's 81). There's nothing attitude-wise that is involved there.

It's just luck whether you can still do coding at 40,50,60,70+. You WILL reach an age where you will not be mentally capable of doing all the things you want to do whether that is coding or driving a car. Maybe science and modern medicine can save us, but it's too late for my poor mother.
Don't knock adaptive cruise control until you try it. It is significantly better than plain-vanilla cruise control. I've found that when I use it, I tend to stop caring about if I'm driving "too slow" -- it makes me a less aggressive driver.
Opa – An open-source, general-purpose policy engine
I've never heard of "infogalactic." What makes it immune from these kinds of problems that Wikipedia has?
Come for the pasties. Stay for the Lithium brines!
Profile of Stephanie Kelton and modern monetary theory
I suspect adults learn languages a lot faster than kids, when we spend the same amount of time being exposed & practicing.

All the polyglots say you have to be willing to mess up a lot and work to shed your fear of feeling stupid. In fact, try to seek it out because that's the primary way you get feedback & learn.
>Actually I believe that for a country rich in cash crop potential, some form of communism might actually be not so bad

The international community / western marketplace obliterates any country that dares expropriate / nationalize the lands of the (white colonialist) landholding class.

Just look at how the West has cut off Cuba and Venezuela.
And when you go back to the same restaurant, you wonder why your the last person in the restaurant to get your food.
When I last used it (maybe 5 years ago), Entity Framework would generate positively awful, bloated SQL queries for complex nested includes. Maybe that's improved now?

ActiveRecord always did the right thing, and whenever I looked at the generated SQL I was pleased.
Saint-Omer was heavily active in the wool and clothing trade at the end of the 12th century, it also was situated closer to the coast at this time. Sometimes, sadly, i have had to omit some locations in order to not clutt the map too much. Maybe i should look over the Calais region again. The port from France to England was probably in the Wissant region, as the Via Francigena went through here. I did not have a source of what city/port existed here at the time, some sources cites Sombre as an existing port. Calais existed during this time frame, but the extent to which it was used have been hard for me to establish. Saint-Omer was the only trading settlement i really had any good claims putting on the map.
DFJ defended them to the very end though, even today I think. Hard to make the claim they fell for the Theranos lies when the project had nothing to audit or do due diligence on, because they're still falling for them now.
One answer is that even though there may be no ultimate, cosmic meaning, your life can be meaningful in the short term. Today, even. It is possible to make the days of others a bit brighter, and that can be very gratifying.
> Europeans value safety more than innovation and vice versa.

This is quite funny considering you are writing this on the WWW, which runs on top of the TCP/IP stack. The WWW came out of CERN, the TCP/IP stack came out of DARPA. The web is at its roots a pretty global affair.

This is not about 'stifling competition', this is about privacy.
One challenge is that everyone's reading is different. What reading will regulators have? And what reading will they have in 6 months vs now?

For example in this article it is assumed that everyone needs a data protection officer - the only question is whether you want someone full-time, or you want to share one with several other companies. However when I read https://gdpr-info.eu/art-37-gdpr/ it seems that most companies don't fall under 1.a or 1.c.

The question mark is 1.b, the core activities of the controller or the processor consist of processing operations which, by virtue of their nature, their scope and/or their purposes, require regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale. If you're just recording transactions, clearly you are not monitoring them. If you're running a data broker, clearly you are monitoring them. If you're running queries against your transactional data to decide who to send a marketing email to..is that monitoring? "Find all people who put something into a cart yesterday and then didn't complete the transaction." I don't think of that query as monitoring, but I can see how someone else might.
> There are virtually no publicly traded African companies.

Wow. I'm speechless - how did you arrive at that (incorrect) conclusion? Not only are there plenty of African stock exchanges[1], a lot of publicly traded companies opt to be (dually or exclusively) listed on foreign bourses.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_stock_exchange...
Java Datalog Engine with Semi-Naive Evaluation and Stratified Negation
No they're entirely separate. The IDs are pure UUIDs with no structure tying them to the desired partition key.
Things are a lot less painful than they used to be.

fetch()/promises/async/await and better browser support.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FormData

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API

Also promises (coupled with async/await) make things a great deal more pleasant and I'm old enough to remember the old days.
That is because you are familiar with services Amazon and Yelp provide. There are a large number of people who do not. They may not know all of the different services (or want to shop around) so a "general" search on Google would be their starting point.
I purposefully didn't use Amazon's wording because it would be confusing to someone who doesn't know about AWS.

An "availability zone" is an isolated data center. A "region" is a group of availability zones that are geographically isolated but somewhat close to each other.

For instance, three availability zones (data centers) that are within 100 miles (making up a distance) would make up a region.
I agree, ActiveRecord is pretty good. My main gripe with it is that bulk inserts are _still_ not a first class operation, which can easily lead to some horrendous N+1 queries if you are not careful. There are multiple great gems to retrofit that though.

It is also a bit overzealous in being database agnostic. For example, MySQL allows for LIMIT clauses on UPDATE and DELETE statements, which is super useful for making sure you don't accidentally create super long running transactions because there were many more rows on the other side of that relation than you expected. However, if you want to use that from ActiveRecord you need to drop down to custom SQL, because not all databases support that SQL pattern.
But you can get hotter girls with M3 :)
> The issue Sam called out about handling the case where someone isn't following the spec. This can be on purpose or by accident. It's not uncommon to find it.

This is a common occurance. So common - in fact - that I think it’s almost always better to either pin everything or nothing and hope the unit test will find any breaking behavior.
We've changed the title to use representative language from the article.
I've never used Pd or any of the others so I'm guessing here.
Could it be the equivalent to an 'lfo input'. The rate at which it controls parameters?
You're shifting goalposts.
They published a video of the manufacturing that showed those CNC machines, injection molding, and robotic assembly.

It's a lot faster to iterate if you have in-house machining and molding; you can get parts made or modified in <day vs weeks with an outside shop. You can also work closer with the machinists to iron out challenges.
You are still stuck in the 'small companies will get fined millions of euros for small infractions' mindset.
How about customer support? Even if a small business has someone else run their cart, and handle order fulfillment, there is still a good chance they deal directly with customer support, which usually includes collecting and storing customer information.

Won't that mean they are still under GDPR and still need to have a designated representative?
Blockchain is also a problem.
Exactly. The biggest pain of car ownership is _buying_ the car in the first place. After that, it's unexpected repairs. Gas, maintenance, and cleaning are very easy. Unlike the author, I've never wanted/needed to do work on my morning commute (or anytime outside the office, really).

If you live or work in a bustling downtown, then car ownership is tougher (but that's one of the reasons I don't work in a city like SF).
It's not really. most people just put an ad tag on their page. It's adtech services that profile the user using their own data and trackers. The process remains the same.
We've repeatedly intervened to make cars and roadways safer, crack down on drunk driving, and the like, so I'm not sure the idea that nobody cares about driving deaths is right.
> Just look at how the West has cut off Cuba

The US cut off Cuba, but even with US retaliatory sanctions much of the rest of the West did not.
I like RATM but this would drive me crazy
The trick with Google's 2FA is to keep a copy of the setup code and/or QR picture somewhere -- preferably printed and in your fire safe.

Personally I've also got it floating around one of my Linux devices with a small program I can run against it to display the codes, which came in handy when I switched phones and forgot to reload the GA app. (Yes, I know that this defeats some of the security of the second factor, with it supposedly being "something you have" that can't be easily reproduced).
That must be far, far beyond "hard". I'm sorry.
Buying things that are not needed harms the persons economy. And gambling practically always a bad deal. Taking medicine that is not needed can be bad for the individual.
Facebook confirms mega-lease that enables Sunnyvale move
In the UK you cannot fly drones near any houses or person (less then 50 meters)

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/drones-are-you-flying-you...
A few hundred years ago, the notion of beauty was significantly chubbier than our current notions. I've heard of this particular example being used as proof that beauty is a social construct. Not sure if there's more to it.
The new principle is "Don't get caught".
> It's true that individuals are all acting rationally

At least one party in the food market isn't acting rationally. The situation where food is produced in Ethiopia for consumption in Europe and food is produced in Europe for consumption in Ethiopia could equivalently be solved by keeping the food in its country of origin and everyone saves on transport costs.

But maybe the Ethiopian "food" was just something like coffee beans which can't really feed a population, in which case there also isn't any problem with exporting them.
How Britain’s First Mission to China Went Wrong
Web development books on Humble Bundle
Redesign and fix your database. 9 times out of 10 it's poorly designed DB and queries. 145GB means nothing How many rows? Can you partition? Can you use smaller datatypes? Are you read heavy or write heavy? Are your indexes designed accordingly? Have you split your DB into OLTP and OLTA DBs? Do you have lots of triggers? Are you having the database doing lots of work which you can outsource to the CPU? Did you actually tune your DB parameters? Is the hardware scaled out max vertically? 145Gb is nothing.
The A303 tunnel under Stonehenge should eliminate one significant bottleneck, at least. As well as bury the ugly, noisy road that spoils our world heritage site!

https://highwaysengland.citizenspace.com/cip/a303-stonehenge...
That money is the worker's earned salary. Once they earned it, it was no longer "your tax dollars" "funding unions".
> and they have to have a designated representative in the Union.

Can you point to which bit of GDPR says this please?
My hypothesis is that the people who get majorly affected by blue light at night, are that way because they’re not getting a strong-enough pulse of blue light in the morning for their circadian clock to calibrate itself by. It latches onto whatever signal it can find, and thus begins to think that “sunrise” happens at 9AM when you sit down at your blue-light-emitting monitor, rather than at 6AM when blue light starts coming down from the sky.

Or, shorter: maybe it’s because you have large east-facing exposure in your house.
No-code solutions help developers help themselves
> as if the concept of "old prices" has any reality in the world going forward

So.. you're saying that the answer to my second questions is "no"? If loyalty programs routinely distort pricing that much, then the opt-out I suggested doesn't exist.

> Prices will continue to change and the idea of what they would have been becomes nothing more than a counter-factual speculation.

Still, I don't think we have to speculate. When loyalty cards first came out, there were some chains that slow to implement or, for whatever reason, decided their implementation needed cancelling and ended up trumpeting their failure in their ads as a feature to consumers "no card needed for discount!". How'd the pricing work out then?

> You didn't consider for a tiny second that my complaint was about the way the system works

That's a pretty huge counter-factual speculation (to use your words), considering I was merely asking questions. In point of fact, I did consider it.

> affects people overall

OK. So, if I understand correctly, you're worried about WF jumping on the loyalty bandwagon because of the implications for society/other-people, not for yourself. In that case, no opt-out strategy would be good enough, be it paying the non-discounted price or some version of 867-5309. That's fair.
Many years ago the world figured out that "Medical school is a requirement for a doctor career" [1].

Somehow our ancestors did not have the brilliant idea to just put a fine to any hospital that breaches medical protocols and send patients to death.

The first web browser was released in 1993. Any computer science professional born before 1970 had not seen a web browser as a student (because it did not exist).

25 years after 1993 the EU decided that a law that regulates the profession with fines (GDPR) is enough.

Good luck EU!

[1] https://www.learnhowtobecome.org/doctor/
This is a slightly tangential issue to pinning. With MVS and vgo you cannot set a maximum version. When the resolver walks the tree it doesn't know when a version is too new and could break things. Even if it pins it could pin an incompatible version.

Maximum version information is not communicated.

Note, I'm the posts author.
I assume the author doing these under the Administrator account or had admin privilege.
I guess because you have to do a ton of scrolling to go from one of the first tabs to the last.

Of course, if you don't have scrolling tabs then the tabs get so small that it's basically impossible to find what you want.

I solved this dilemma by hiding my FireFox tabs and using Tree Style Tabs. I find it really helps with keeping tabs organized and I can keep a lot open without worrying. I removed the scrollbar and close buttons, and made the tabs smaller, to further save on screen real estate.
I'm not sure what it's like in other countries, but in the Netherlands, patients have to die in a hospital to be eligible for an organ transplant (not for tissue transplants), so I don't think car accidents are a major source.
I finally launched my Menubar app after 1yr of doubt and it's a hit
Striking teachers show that cutting education to fix it is a neoliberal myth
That's one of the reasons my children don't exist.
Excellent racing tires have coefficient of friction > 1. That is, a 2-ton car can have more than 2-tons of force applied from the tires.

But most consumer tires have coefficient of friction of less than 1. ~.9 for higher end stuff, but it could be as low as ~.5 or so. Which mean 2-tons of car will lead to LESS than 2-tons of acceleration / deceleration / turning force.

In effect, "more weight is more advantage" is only true if you have a coefficient of friction greater than 1.
They really need to up their game for enterprise customers paying 4-5 figures for their service...
> Wakamiya bought her first computer, then moved on to a Microsoft PC, and later a Mac and iPhones.

So what was her first computer?? :) The article says she bought her first computer after retiring from a 43-year career, which would be around 1997 (year 2018 - age 82 + 18 years + 43 years).