skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stock up on movies, and books? I mean that's pretty much the daily life of most people on this planet right now. Go to work, come home, engage in entertainment / sex. Beyond that, they can't really expect to be able to go outside and walk in the park. I think everyone is overestimating how much free time these guys will have. It's not the equivalent of sitting in a prison cell without mission responsibilities(experiments, chores, food).
> they usually don't want it in their face.

We don't have a basis for talking about motives. I'd say people are scared and uncomfortable with what seems foreign to them.

> Given the opportunity to do something in person, most people crumble and go about their lives as usual. It's a very rare person that takes action.

Many people give money to those asking for it. Many will say that they are overwhelmed and feel like they can't help everyone (tip: don't let the great be enemy of the good: don't worry about helping everyone; if you can, help someone). Many have their own problems and reasons.

I can't remember speaking to someone who says they just don't care.
How can you stand the ads and other limitations in the non-paid version?
People in this thread saw the title "GDPR Hall of Shame", possibly read it. Now they are trying to discuss stuff relating to "General Data Protection Regulation". My wild guess is people who are commenting on this thread care.
No it's not more safe than C, it's just more convenient.

http://c2lang.org/site/introduction/changes_from_c/
The problem is the number of dependencies and the number of people you are (implicitly) trusting by using those dependencies. It's an overwhelming engineering burden for those industries that are required to do that type of 3rd-party software auditing.

When I use Java, I can trust - at an organizational level - large blocks of 3rd-party code (e.g. Spring, Java SDK) and may even be able to get them to assume some liability via agreement if their repositories for their libraries are breached and malicious code is injected. Additionally, because those libraries do so much, I require many fewer other 3rd party libraries that I'm required to audit.

When I use JavaScript, I don't necessarily get those advantages. (NodeJS on the server side has an SDK, so this point does not apply there, so this is mostly directed at browser UI development.) Sure, we may use a framework like Angular, but I don't necessarily have confidence that Google has audited the 600+ transitive dependencies that the Angular team has pulled in. Because of this, I don't think that Google is prepared to assume liability in the face of malicious software injection, which means (in industries requiring audits) that we need to track down each one of those 600+ transitive dependencies and audit each one of them.
Why do my chrome use so many memory and cpu (up to 17G memory)?
Honorable mention to jq. Also get comfy with Unix pipes and streams.

e.g. testing in CI a JSON file is properly formatted:

jq . < $f | diff -u $f -
Betteridge's law of headlines:

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist, although the principle is much older. As with similar "laws", it is intended to be humorous rather than the literal truth.
Thanks for the tip. I tried to check safe-c. But, it only had a compiler for Windows. Its documentation has screenshots of setting it up on Windows but no mention of Linux? Is it just Windows only?
Did you read the article? All of that is in like the first paragraph.
Finance does seem to have some intractable cultural problems, but I don't think it's unreasonable for asset managers to require a certain level of net worth before they can give you personalized attention.

Granted, this article is written not for the wealthy or the bankers, but as fantasy material for the huddled masses :)
That regulation didn't work so well 10 years ago. Regulation is for us, not the big dogs.
:-(

Not so sure it's really obsolete, because connections are often spotty and local data can provide some initial information while waiting for the servers.

Github?
> Why does Tesla get to tell me what to do with my car?

My guess:

Because they think it's their car, even after they sold it to you. And, because, more to the point, they expect that (contrary to their claims) that retaining that control and exploiting it is the only way they will be able to be profitable with the cars.
Exactly. 3 million and you’re set for life on interest alone.
I'd love an RSS feed of this site :)
Not a hard confirm, but I stood there marveling at the pneumatic ceiling fans in an Amish bakery once. Each one had a little oscillating engine and some plumbing for the compressed air.
People are so quick at forgetting that there would be no 3D in Google Maps if Apple didn't release it with iOS 6. When using transit, Apple maps tells me the exact exit # to go to my destination. In a city with transit, I found Apple map to be far superior than Google which is remarkable.

Edit : my point is that it is a bit childish to state that one is better than the other. We need both in order to all have a better map experience. Som in some cases, it is better to use one and in some cases better to use the other.
Oh, it's perfectly fine to have as many sub-processors as they want. But default opt-in is non-compliant; if I understand the regulation correctly, the user has to manually opt into every processor. An opt-out dark pattern is specifically prohibited in GDPR.
I'm interested in how you think weather or traffic (for example) would work. Would you download all weather and traffic for every location/road on earth? That's quite a lot of data.
it's 3.2G now, and can be up to 17G... any guy knows?

Is my computer infected something?
Perl5 and perl6 are very different languages - however after perl5 there was nobody left to listen... (Disclaimer: I got used to perl5 and I still think it's quite reasonable)
Most US immigrant visas (h-1b etc) are conditional on not becoming "a burden to the state" so you would be deported if you tried to claim unemployment etc.
MariaDB TX 3.0 Delivers First Open Source Database as Alternative to Oracle
RDD probably stands for 'Resumee driven developemnt'. so yes, the parent agrees.
I'm against poorly coded and untested dependencies.

It's not an easy problem to solve when nearly every dependency has it's own dependencies.

Don't like their API for traversing XML?

I don't know about other frameworks but there are a ton of options for parsing XML in .Net. Just because there is something included doesn't mean you have to use it.

What we are really talking about is all the little stuff like array-flatten, a dependency in express as an example. Have you audited that package, are you sure it's written to a good standard, is the developer slipping in something you don't expect? It's unlikely you would want an alternative in .Net because the solution there is robust and well thought through.
How would that even make sense? A country enacts some arbitrary rule such as "You are not allowed to provide access to social media for its citizens." How do you possibly enforce that for citizens visiting or living in the US? (Short of demanding all users to verify their citizenship to access the site.)
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Perl simply isn’t worth it. In all the decades of programming, I’ve yet to run into a problem which could only be solved in Perl because it couldn’t be done in AWK.

And I would hereby like to remind you that every computing problem is fundamentally an input-output problem, and because of this intrinsic property, it is possible to reduce all problems in computing to input-processing-output.

Which is exactly the kind of problem AWK is designed to address.

And AWK doesn’t work with lines, it works on records, for which the fathers of the language cleverly chose the default of ‘\n’, which is reconfigurable.
have not saved you giving consent

What do you mean? That they had a form like this:

Enter your email: ______
Check to receive newsletters: [_]

But did not save if the checkbox was ticked?

Since them sending this mail and me doing nothing does not create consent, why do they send it? How did they get the idea to do so? The emails all look pretty similar.
I don't know why you would want window snapping. It doesn't provide any benefit
Exercise, books, chess, learn a language, I can think of plenty of stuff to do. People in prison sometimes enjoy the opportunity they have to focus on self improvement without the stress of having to make money for food/shelter.

Surely being on a craft in deep space is not that much different to being on a nuclear sub for months and months on end, smaller I guess.
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What if EU citizens who are visiting US make purchases from your site?
The government official isn't the police, but even more so, I'm not talking about the government official, but the random public who attends. I can say they aren't allowed on my property at which point it is a crime for them to be there.
Care to elaborate? Do you have privacy concerns?
What is you're requirements for:

* Viable?
* Product?

My requirements are:

Viable: Someone will use it.
Product: Someone will pay me.
> ... but in 120 years we haven't been able to make it work for cars...

Ok, but has anyone worked on the problem in the past 120 years?
Well nobody calculates the cost of their vacation based on pre-tax income. And someone making $250k in NYC is doing much worse off than someone making $200k within a few hours drive of major NYC airports. I just picked NYC because there are a lot of one-way flights to London.
The Significance of Courageous Leadership in the Office
It does mean you can request it. It doesn't necessarily mean they have to delete said data. The Right to Erasure is not absolute, if the data controller can state an 'overriding legitimate interest' for the preservation of the data.

I don't have a good idea idea how legitimate a credit agency's legitimate interest really is. I might set aside some popcorn for seeing how this particular issue gets resolved.
> This one neat trick can develop life, the void HATES it!
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4838

"Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture

This document describes an architecture for delay-tolerant and
disruption-tolerant networks, and is an evolution of the architecture
originally designed for the Interplanetary Internet, a communication
system envisioned to provide Internet-like services across
interplanetary distances in support of deep space exploration."
So if Trump isn't banned from using that website, where is the difference from this case?
Maybe some parts of management, but my impression is that it's also mostly communicated like that internally. I based my comment on conversations I had with people working at the car companies (Audi, BMW, VW and Mercedes), and all expressed that view in slight variations.
That's < 1 yrs worth of an SV engineer's rate (after overhead). Roughly half.
I noticed that the link to the 32-bit DOS extender that DMC uses is dead. Do you or anyone know of a legal way to obtain it?
Good luck with that. I'm sure investors will definitely be very supportive....
It is functional but has many issues. Water/condensation in the lines is a big deal in winter. Running pipes in walls makes leak detection difficult. They are all also very very loud.
Well looking at the form the other operations (map, reduce, filter, etc..) are they usually describe what is being done to the source as a way to describe the output. As opposed to just describing the outcome. That being said there are some weird ones like "some" or "every". Regardless though some other well known FP languages use flatten so it lowers the barrier to entry on the API for people familiar with them.
So you're proposing distributed radix tree?
Don't despair! Each new generation starts hopeful, and goes through its own hype-bust cycles. It is human to dream, and businesses have evolved to sell hope accordingly.

An eye for simplicity and a good set of BS detectors are not easy skills to learn. There's a whole spectrum between being a guinea-pig for the latest fad, and living like an Amish.

Having worked in the ML industry for a decade, the idea of buying anything "AI-driven' where a simple mechanical / manual option exists leaves me shuddering. Never mind autopilots and other "mission critical" systems: The first thing I did after buying our home was to rip out all the "smart home" features, and replace them by manual thermometers and switches. Year after year, I feel sorry hearing our neighbours moan about their "smart homes".
StumbleUpon was one of the first web services I came across that actually provided a new and exciting way to traverse the internet. I'll never forget the sense of discovery and wonder and amusement it provided, my only other sources for cool and interesting content were things my friends would share with me or sites I would find via an article/web page.

StumbleUpon took me out of my "filter bubble" if you will and introduced me to corners of the web I would have possibly never discovered on my own. It will be missed.
How Frequency Response Affects the “Sound” of Microphones
VR headsets should be pretty decent by then, so a virtual walk in the park might be doable. Either on the treadmill or flying around trees in zero G.
Ask HN: What custom made software do you use in your company?
Are you working for a company (or owning a company) which uses custom made software?
What is it and what do you use it for?
What are the maintenance costs?
I would curious, where can I buy this system ? Anyone one know resellers ?
At $$$ listed, I would buy cheapest system in a heartbeat.
H-1B is a temporary (nonimmigrant!) visa category.
I'm pretty sure that no European court would accept that. I doubt most users (and most judges) even know how to delete cookies. I don't even know how to do that on my phone (not sure if that's possible?). And not allowing users with mobile browsers to withdraw consent is definitely a violation.
Why Proof-of-work isn’t suitable for small cryptocurrencies
I was quite excited by compressed air storage when Lightsail came into the picture almost 5-7 years ago. Sadly, they could not make the economics work and ended up pivoting into a company that sells carbon fibre tanks for high-pressure storage.

As someone who follows the energy space closely, Lithium ion batteries now have so much momentum and $$$ pumped into them via R&D work, it's going to be hard for competing energy storage technologies to catch up. Flywheel and hydrogen fuel-cell also often come up but I think we're at a point now where batteries are going to take off simply because of their wide area of applicability. With that economy of scale costs will drive down and even more research and $$$ will flow.
That's an interesting statute. The problem is it can be interpreted in many ways. Your interpretation is how some may see it, however there are others as well.

For instance:

> by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity

First off, this isn't purely personal nor household activity. I serve others, not myself.

> and thus with no connection to a professional or commercial activity.

If the goal of the community is to help people develop professional skills (writing, for instance), couldn't that have a connection to professional activity? Also, I use this website as an example on my resume to bolster my own professional competence as a coder. That could qualify.

As always, laws are words that generally end up with the best paid lawyer's interpretations winning in court. It's a roll of the dice, that statute is not clear at all.

We're still debating the meaning of nearly all statutes in the US constitution 242 years later. Some in the legal community have declared "consensus" by case law, but even those end up getting changed and overturned all the time.
Maybe we could start with a definition of consciousness that allows us to check whether something is conscious or not.
The problem is your "smart enough agent" and how to obtain one.

There is something in the middle between your pairs of eyes and your decision making that makes you understand what is actually going on around you: perception/cognition.

If this was so simple as you put it (and in particular just by throwing algorithms and processing power at it), several problems would be trivial by now and we all already would have our personal digital assistants... I mean the real deal.

Well knowing I sound like "dismissive grampa" right now, and yes, we have come far and it is impressive, but I sometimes feel like us nerds/hackers/software guys tend to considerably underestimate most problems, and as consequence the intelligence and efforts of those that came before us.
It's worth mentioning that counting machines are way older than computers and the Census used to be done with "dumb" punched car munchers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine
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How is bitcoin a commodity? I think you give it too much credit to elevate it to that status.
I struggled to answer this without derogatory sarcasm.

I agree, an MVP is not a business. I would not expect that a business would be built in a few weeks or even months. My personal experience with businesses is that they take years.

But we're not talking about building a business. You do not launch an MVP and call it a business.

I was specifically talking about proving a business case for a solution that could turn into a business. This is precisely what the things we call 'MVPs' are mean't to be for.
Ask HN: How do you go about taking notes when interviewing candidates?
For instance, do you take notes? On what? About what?
I mean, I won’t claim it’s easy, but my Subaru can do it without breaking a sweat.
What the parent said was still useful I think to people who might not know this particular trope throughout the industry.
Serious question: If the conditions are just that bad, why even bother to work for them? There seems to be some sort of equilibrium to me where if it gets bad enough, no one will simply want to do this job, and choose to take some other low paying job (e.g. retail, fast food, etc.).
A Ridiculously Simple Recipe for Starting Up Your UX Career
"Working class" means a very specific thing - "the social group consisting of people who are employed for wages, especially in manual or industrial work."

> When used non-academically in the United States, however, it often refers to a section of society dependent on physical labor, especially when compensated with an hourly wage.[0]

Your definition is much closer to the Marxist definition which is basically "anyone who trades time for money" which describes the vast majority of the world.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_class#Definitions
Bach at the Burger King: How institutions are using music to repel loiterers
So... what did the author learn from the book? To me this seems like a collection of examples of programatically (or not) generated stuff.

As a curiosity this is fine but I was hoping for more depth.
Ask HN: Why aren't distro updates delivered https?
Why don't CentOS/Fedora/Ubuntu deliver all package updates over https, and encourage third-party package providers to do the same?

I understand SSL/TLS reduces the risk of data tampering and reduces the risk of snooping what data is downloaded.

Though risk data tampering may also be reduced through the validation of cryptographically signed packages as many distros do, it would seem there remains a residual risk of exposing to the network which updates a system has downloaded. Is there reason this isn't of concern?
One could argue that "Aww shucks! Ya know, we're jus' a Small Mom'n'Pop Business™! We're too small to have any darned idea what all that data we're collectin' is!" is no longer a valid excuse. No more valid than "We're too small to worry about worker safety!" or "We're too small to know what's in the waste we're dumping out back!"
Hydrocodone is deliberately weak, to the point where it's hard to get high from it. It's like comparing the pleasant burn of a sip of whiskey to getting hammered drunk. It's not really representative of a true opiate high experience.
>I wonder if there are any google/amazon marketing people on this thread.

What a convenient way to call other people shills without actually providing evidence.
Republicans never cared about unions and democrats only care about race, gender, or environmental movements now, so yeah. Nobody in government cares.
It's less about the number of "dependencies" and more about the raw amount of code you need to audit.

If you are capable of auditing 1 100k loc package, why aren't you capable of auditing 100 1k loc packages?

Once you have audited a specific version, you can either vendor your dependencies (which I always encourage), or at the very least can lock all transitive deps down which both npm and yarn do by default now.

If you vendor your deps, upgrades/changes are as easy to audit as a single project as you can get a diff of what changed right there in your own system.

Now I'll agree that auditing any large amount of code is extremely difficult, but it's not a problem you can solve by switching to another ecosystem, at best you'll just move most of the code outside the realm you decided you need to audit.
By far, it are those who oppose JS code versioning breaking the web.

The number of breaking changes since nineties is high hundredth already. Just each time they were opting to "break just few percents of websites, after careful considerations"
Yep. Teenagers who commit benign hacks for fun get more time than murderers. People's lives get ruined for effectively the digital form of trespass. It's pretty fucked up.
I'm always surprised there aren't more kits like what you would find in Blue Apron/Plated/Home Chef/etc in grocery stores.

I would buy A LOT more, and probably even overpay because of convenience if I could walk into my local Harris Teeter/Krogers/Food Lion and just pick up a 3 meal/2 person box with most of what I need.
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Security troops on US nuclear missile base took LSD
This concept was excitingly dramatized (and lovingly parodied) in Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep", a 90s sci-fi classic

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep
What Apple is doing now is similar to what Microsoft did in the 90s regarding Internet Explorer. Yes, you can use other apps, but much of the common ways to integrate into the OS are purposely disabled for non-Apple apps for obvious anti-competitive purposes; for Google maps, you can't set it as your default maps app (which means Apple Maps is constantly opening in contexts where you obviously want Google Maps), there is no CarPlay integration, can't use it properly with Siri, etc.

I guess they can get away with it because iOS isn't a monopoly, but I think it's a dumb move on their part.
>I m not missing that part, because it hasn't happened yet.

I'm glad I don't live in a world where people refuse to prepare for court cases until the actual injury has happened. Many legal groups have built plans and arguments for potential injuries, either to test if their clients can do some behavior, or to have a proactive case against the government if the government takes some action. For example, many times when the ACLU challenges a law in court, they were planning for it long before the law actually passed. They can't engage in the actual challenge until there are injuries, but they sure can discuss it and plan for it.

In this particular instance, I'm not trying to launch an actual court case, so the court rules of when you have standing for a court case don't apply.