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Like intellectual property and some other issues, I have often felt that the appearance in public discourse of arguments for two very opposite, extreme positions is a signal that something is really wrong with the current situation.

That is, I suspect the reason we're having this argument is that border enforcement is getting too extreme, with too many burdens and moral problems that people are compelled to start asking whether borders are even necessary at all.

Even small cities have borders in a sense, but those borders only are visible or enforced in ways that are usually invisible to the average citizen in the US.

I've worried as I've become older that the younger generation will have not known what it was like to live in a US society where border enforcement and airport security was close to nonexistent. When there was no Department of Homeland security, and, as Samantha Bee has recently pointed out, no ICE.

Now, in retrospect, would I want to return to a society with no airline security? Probably not, but I do think the pendulum has swung much too far in the opposite direction, and I worry younger generations will just take for granted that the increasing authoritarianism in the world is the only way to live.

Ironically, international travel is one of the best ways to realize that many cherished assumptions that your society has about the right way to do things may be false. Reality permits far more flexibility than societies generally allow, and when it doesn't, societies tend to ignore it anyway.
Not really true. You need an FAA certificate.

Most drone pilots aren't acting within the law. Bad news for them in a commercial situation is that mishaps will be a personal liability issue.
> positioned to win groceries

Retail grocery sales != meal kits. In one instance, you simply procure the product and sell it on, and the other you procure, kit and sell via online. Huge difference.

> Key parameters to compete here are quality, selection and price. Walmart could offer good quality via help of external chefs, if they get critical mass they could offer enough selection,

Have you ever actually stepped into a Walmart? Walmart does not compete on any of those parameters, except for price.

> to buying fresh, restaurant quality, heat-and-eat meals.

Except this is not what is happening. Those companies have ridiculously high churn rates, which means the trend is fairly benign to certain sectors of the market (mainly large cities).
It doesn't appear that there is any consensus that he is a "self-titled chauvinistic pig". And frankly, I'd trust him to babysit my kids before I'd trust most of his detractors. If anything, his handling of the situation makes him even more admirable.
For commercial drone ops you need to be certified by the FAA. It’s a quick multiple choice test, so not exactly onerous, but you can’t just buy a drone and start flying for money.
Credit cards will advance you cash that you can use for whatever you want.
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I thought FPGAs were limited to either cases where you need some custom hardware _now_ or where demand is low because, if demand is high enough and you can wait, custom ASICs are cheaper, lower power, and faster.

What has changed here? Are FPGAs faster now or are many more people experimenting, creating sufficient demand for custom hardware at short notice?
> A nation doesn't have collective rights to do anything; the individual citizens have rights. And if a minority of citizens wants to welcome and employ immigrants in their home or town, there is a burden on the majority provide the same kind of overwhelming justification we require for other restrictions on rights (free-speech, taking of property, etc.)

This statement seems rather odd to me, I wonder if I am misunderstanding, or my perception of reality is wrong (and has been for basically me entire adult life).

To loosely paraphrase, it kind of sounds like you're stating that borders are (not just should be, but are) open by default, and any restrictions on that must meet a very strict level of justification.

If this a just yet another theory of "how things should be" well that's fine (and I beg to vigorously differ, as I suspect many others would), but it sounds like you think this is the way it is now.
Nobody reads T&Cs. Company directors know that. Lawyers know that. They are rarely written in plain language and they obfuscate what the deal really consists of. Facebook/Google could easily write on their landing pages "We provide this service in exchange for use of your personal information". People who agree to that would be giving real, informed consent. Any of us that talk to non-geek, non-SV human beings know that most people don't understand the deal they're making when they sign up to these services, instead seeing Google/FB as some kind of supercool charities that make stuff for free just to be nice. Thankfully that's starting to change.

Pretending that clicking 'accept' under a page of legalese constitutes consent in any meaningful way is disingenuous and as a society we need to grow past it.
Plain GDPR Processor Addendum
Guy earned $225,000 last year- sounds like he is willingly not paying back. Amazing how some people get away with that!
And? He has cost of living expenses. I'm impressed he's able to pay $1600/mo.
By all means go and try to get to the root cause if there is one. However taking your example with the blood pressure let me tell you another story of mine.

So I had been diagnosed with a constantly high blood pressure and prescribed medication. It was a good thing because I have for first time in many years realized what normal blood pressure feels like. And it felt good!

My doctor is a good one though and she told me that the medication is not a solution to my problem as there is no clinical reason to it. I had to find a way to control my blood pressure without the pills.

And I have found the solution - a power nap. I just have to have some 15-60 minutes siesta after 4 hours of work. The thing is, nobody and nothing was forcing me to have a high blood pressure, it was me myself. See?

It's easier said than done, you might say. But I have done it and now I'm telling you about it. And it's not easy to convince you :-)
The Osmosian Order is alive and well.

https://osmosianplainenglishprogramming.blog/

And we're about to release Español Llano, the Spanish version of Plain English. This new compiler compiles Spanish and English. Or both, even in the same sentence. Kind of like a bi-lingual human.
Sounds like something Asus would make... https://youtu.be/Z2ANnpHnUrc
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There are 6.5 billion non-Europeans, there's plenty of market outside of Europe.
Most people don't pay more than $300 for their phone. The average selling price for Android phones worldwide is around $230. In the US it may be higher because all of the major carriers offer payment plans.
HN Meta: How does downvoting affect you?
I've been reading a lot of articles this morning where comments have clearly been downvoted despite providing value to the conversation.

I'm getting tired of this and wondering if others share this sentiment. If there was a good alternative to HN, I would have immediately left due to the dynamic this promotes.

To be able to downvote a comment, you need sufficient karma to do so. At the time of writing this is 500? I'm not sure. As a result, if you're not posting agreeable contributions, you'll never be able to downvote, which is primarily used on HN now for demoting anything other than favorable thought. Additionally, talking about this is actively discouraged in the community.
It doesn't. It just checks that somebody is connecting from an IP address geolocated in Europe.

I tried to be sarcastic, but I think my English is not good enough :-)
"These queries reveal that Github, the New York Times, and Medium are the sources the Hacker News community trusts the most."

I agree it says something about how HN regards the NYT; but isn't saying Github or Medium are "sources the community trusts" like saying paper is a source someone trusts because they get their knowledge from books?
I would love this. They could also push swift with it, so I'm surprised they haven't done this already.
What you are saying is true. However I am trying to understand who will be the big winner in the AI era.

Google will survive for sure, the question is if they will be able to become as big as they are on the advertising business also in the AI one.
See, that's not what GDPR does. Maybe In your alternative-facts GDPR, your case may have a point. I don't see why I should argue over a hypothetical GDPR, let's focus on the reality.

About the burger thing, we do not need to assume things here, we can examine the reality and the reality is that McDonald's complies with the EU regulations when doing business in the EU, local American burger shops that don't do business in the EU do not comply with the EU regulations. I hear that you have some amazing burgers in the USA, will definitely try few local shops!
You are wrong and spreading disinformation.
Ah, I saw that the Dell XPS came with Linux and had a touch screen, and I was kind of wondering about that. I guess I'll have to try Linux with a touchscreen again.

My Surface Pro 1 is the only computer I have with a touchscreen right now, and it has enough other driver issues (the wifi and the Wacom drivers suck) that I probably won't be trying again on that.
Not true in the US. The FAA wants to make sure you interact safely with the manned airspace system, as a user of the system. So they require various certs depending on weight of the UAS and what you want to do with it.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/part_107/
Make it a real argument, not a straw-man. WF has their most expensive pasture-raised eggs at under $8/dozen while also selling cheaper varieties at closer to $3/dozen or $4/dozen, and even their cheaper varieties are not from the truly grotesque worst-case factory farms that the cheapest eggs elsewhere come from. There might be something to debate here, but it's definitely not insane.

There do exist upscale over-priced places way more expensive than WF which are closer to your straw-man.
Is that the professional opinion of IndieHive LLC as well?
Even an email isn't required. It's optional to allow resetting password.

They have no real name policy and carry no advertising or even GA. The little JS they have is harmless. Looks like they have no personal data unless I elect to type it all out in a message.

Looks like HN is compliant as is.
My high school friend who knows him professionally claims he spends a lot of time putting skiing videos on Instagram and even has sponsors. Maybe he should hit them up.
The device could still be software-updated then sold, or sold outside the EU. Nobody is saying that it must be landfilled.
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I agree that would be nice, but wouldn't the college/university forecast the estimated cost of tuition over the next 4 years, and factor in an estimated inflation amount? Then they would evenly divide the result. I guess my point is, I don't think it would save the student any money. But I could be wrong, what do you think?
Click bait title coming from Bloomberg. They know what free market competition is.
Long-running doesn't imply with side effects.
I'm honestly surprised there are only 101 people in this sort of situation. And this guy, frankly, doesn't seem to be doing that bad. Big debt, but controlled such that he seems to otherwise have a nice home, happy family, good business, etc.
> The range of inputs to a function in Scala are Some[T], None, and null

null is not a legitimate value in Scala. There is no reason to ever use it in a legitimate program; in a situation where you would use null in Kotlin, you use None in Scala. The languages are exactly equivalent (except that Kotlin has confusing inconsistent behaviour when you start nesting possibly-absent types, particularly in the presence of generics), people just get confused because they fixate on the literal source string "null" (and Kotlin marketing encourages this confusion). If you really can't stop yourself from typing n-u-l-l for some reason, use wartremover.

> Kotlin also uses annotations that exist in libraries--and it understands a lot of them--to turn T! into T or T? directly when it can, which Scala doesn't.

Those annotations are often unchecked and therefore unreliable, in the cases where they're even present at all (which are unlikely to be the cases where you need to interop with Java - popular mainstream libraries have them, but those are precisely the libraries for which there tends to be a native Kotlin/Scala replacement available). In any case, the original article is talking about the case where there aren't such annotations.

> Can you explain how this is so similar to Scala in a way that leaves it up to you to be contemptuous and spit stuff like "nonsense" at people looking to discuss the topic in good faith?

Sorry. I've seen enough bad faith from Kotlin people on this topic (and when talking about Scala generally) that I find myself unable to assume good faith.
I use Apache to run WebDAV at home for my various OmniGroup applications - I like self-hosted cloud/sync services, so I hope OmniGroup continues to support WebDAV for the forseeable future.
Does anyone have a non-paywall link? Fullwsj is not working for me.
Yes, pretty much that.
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But only about 20-25% of the overall market.
I think it's because of a deep cultural divide. EU users who are big fans of the GDPR genuinely admire the law, both its intent and implementation, and also have a very positive view of the government. They believe that regulators will try to help companies comply, and will only fine as a last resort. Whereas in the US, we tend to be fairly skeptical of government. And as a consequence, since EU users think this law is a good thing for user privacy and the world at large, they want to see it applied globally by any means necessary.

But aside from that, I can't understand how EU users are unable or unwilling to separate the intent of this specific law from the broader principle that it represents, and how other countries might misuse this principle.

If any jurisdiction in the world can pass a law no matter how ridiculous that forces any business in the world with a website to comply with, on the chance that a user from that jurisdiction might stumble on that site, AND there's any kind of enforcement mechanism, then the Internet will cease to exist. Either that or become ultra-balkanized, where every user has an identifier that will ONLY give them access to sites which are fully compliant with their jurisdictions.

What if the US to passes a law that Americans are too fat and are no longer allowed to be sold gelato (they're allowed to buy gelato, but no longer allowed to be sold gelato), and then levy a multi-million dollar fine against every gelato shop in Italy where Americans visit on vacation?

That makes as much sense to me as this does.
except that you pretty much need a pilots license to do it
Always wanted one as a kid. I FINALLY got one for my 43'rd birthday. They came out with them again, but no trailer accessory.

http://www.bigtrakxtr.co.uk/
It's pretty refreshing to read posts that admit 'management is difficult' on HN. We can get a bit lost in our bubble of tech work, and forget how important management is to actually accomplishing things.
In the US, commercial drone operation requires an FAA license. By "requires" I mean legally requires. Hobby and Recreational use falls under Section 336. Commercial uses fall under Part 107.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/

Section 107 compliance doesn't add much to the cost of operation and so anyone who really wants drone footage and already has people on location (for example a construction company), can just buy a drone, get an employee licensed and shoot their own footage. The risks are less because insurance is simplified, the schedule more flexible, and nobody has to waste time soliciting bids, negotiating terms, and processing invoices.
My gripe isn't with the importance of what Pearl published-- of course it's important. I just mean the concept of conditioning on how the target or observational outcome varies when you intentionally vary some conditional variables, that concept for use in machine learning is not new at all. Causal models would just be one more take on it, with interconnections and differences and pros and cons compared with what came before. But it's always disingenuously framed like, "ML practitioners never knew about doing this, but it's the only way to truly go further with our models."
Where does Instacart fit into this equation?
> everyone seems to agree

I haven't heard from anyone but big business, who designed the policy, and who are generally the primary beneficiaries of this administration. Have you heard from science? Small business? Public interest groups? Anyone else?
Then these articles should use a range of people who have actual problems rather than a single person (whose name is in the title! can't get more personal than that) who is being an idiot.

You aren't wrong, but this article is worse.
Vevo chose Youtube as a distribution channel. That was both the right and wrong move for them, but in the end it worked out pretty well for consumers, with the wider-scoped/user-driven concept winning over the media site.
I do like Black's line wrapping rules of keeping things on separate lines to minimize diffs. I really hate auto formatting tools that tries to compress lines vertically through binpacking techniques that produce unaligned code.
Kind of a cool concept to think about construction having unit tests. Autonomous drones that check your work continuously. Prevents a problem from being undetected until after the responsible crew has moved on to the next room/floor/site.

But I've probably got it kind of backwards. Manufacturing is where unit tests probably come from and we have been slowly adopting them into programming as we realized their value.
What if the US to passes a law that Americans are too fat and are no longer allowed to be sold gelato (they're allowed to buy gelato, but no longer allowed to be sold gelato), and then levy a multi-million dollar fine against every gelato shop in Italy where Americans visit on vacation.

How is that different from the GDPR?
Author here, making a quick correction about the RB5X.

When I wrote the article, I believed it was still produced by the original company. I later learned that while the same company produced the RB5X for about 20 years after its initial release, eventually the name & the remaining stock was sold off, twice.

They kept afloat despite only having produced a handful of bots because the stock of parts was kept in somebody's garage & ever few years when an order came it, the gang got back together to build one.

If you've got an interest in these things & aren't confident about your ability to build one from scratch, the RB5X seems like a good choice: help them clean out their garage. If you are confident in your ability to build one from scratch, I recommend downloading the code, designs, & instructions for the Gemini from Mike Fowler's site -- the Gemini is more capable than even newer robots on the market at a price comparable to what they originally asked for, & the price of components can only have gone down since.
The real robots of the 80s, that did useful work, and liberated an entire class of people from menial domestic labour were the dishwasher, the washing machine, the dryer, and the vacuum cleaner. But, alas, that is not sexy.

Compared to them, these things, and Alexa are toys.
Related, drone rules in the US, https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/
I said I wanted a working GPU.
$50k/month Selling Anxiety Reducing Blankets
Whereas chimps will usually only copy something if they completely see how doing that action will produce this desirable outcome, human infants will copy whole sequences of actions even though they haven’t a clue what the value is of the thing that they’re copying.

You could have quite elaborate and effective medical procedures, for example, and no one has a clue how they work. It could be that rituals also become widespread as a byproduct. If we’re the kind of species that will copy all kinds of causally opaque behaviors, then that would help explain why we get the profusion of ritual behaviors as well as instrumental behaviors that we don’t understand.

Seems like a profound observation.
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I’m familiar with the suburb that Mr. Meru lives in. Moving 20 minutes in any direction would free up substantial capital for him to pay his debts on a 225K salary (particularly because real estate is red hot in Utah at the moment probably also equity to be had on his 750k+ house).
That's great and your choice it shouldn't be the default for everyone. If someone sees the benefit in an algorithm learning what they like then let them pick that option. It's not up to engineers to assume what someone cares about.
It uses its magic crystal ball, while simultaneously consulting a legion of captive demons to determine this and other similarly unknowable information.
How I automated my job search by building a web crawler from scratch
> When home prices go up, rents also go up.

Not if the supply of rental units is increasing. One apartment building can put 100 - 500 units on the market versus perhaps 10 single family houses in that same space.

A good example of this in action right now is Sunnyvale, which has had rising home prices over the last three years but flat rents because the number of rental units coming online has greatly exceeded the available housing inventory.

It would be accurate to say that house rents go up with rising housing prices, but it is not true that all rents go up with rising housing prices. What it does is re-factor the ratio of renters to owners in favor of renters.
It actually isn't clear that it doesn't, as best I can tell. I don't have the text in question in front of me, but one of the questions I've asked and haven't gotten a solid answer on is - who is covered by GDPR? Is it only EU citizens residing in the EU, or EU citizens generally?

If it's the latter, then someone with both US and German citizenship could be covered even if they've never been to the EU.
More like a race to a more appropriate level.

$2K a day is $500K a year. For something that apparently a lot of people can do.
Kanban plus occasional pair programming sounds like a great software development methodology, but it's not project management.

It doesn't provide high-level estimates that management provides, doesn't do budget planning for you etc.

How do you approach these topics with Kanban?
File a complaint with who? There's no EU-wide data privacy regulator. Which specific EU country would have jurisdiction over an interaction which took place in the US?
My wife has $4000,000 med school loans. We are on PSLF and payments are 10% of (adjusted gross income minus 150% fed poverty line). She’s an attending now and we do everything we can to decrease our adjusted gross income. Our payments do not cover interest on the loans. The balance increases each month.

In 8 years, if everything goes according to plan, her loans will be forgiven and be near $600,000. It’d be a lot more cost effective for society to just offer free med school and lower doctors’ wages. But our society has opted for inefficiency. Her large doctor salary is necessary to pay for her schooling but when the loans are paid off her salary won’t decline.