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I wish Apple would make a sort of Raspberry Pi like board with an A series chip, ethernet, HDMI, GPIO, SD Card, etc... for $50-$100 that runs Linux.

I would also like a flying unicorn.

Seriously, a high power SBC at a reasonable price point would be insanely useful for projects like portable MAME cabinets, video transcoders, scene displays, etc... I love the Pi but it's so old tech, especially the video cores, that it's annoyingly limited for some applications. Worse, the competitors with faster cpus often have worse video acceleration support, making them worse for this than the underpowered Pi.
Vast difference between those examples, not least of which is that there are concrete rules around automotive safety to easily calculate the cost of implementation and verify compliance.

GDPR is full of vague terms and is global regulation based on principle rather than actual hard rules, which will increase costs and come nowhere near accomplishing the objectives it claims to do.
Not a direct answer but some of the things I'm most proud of that will probably affect lives of people not born yet:

Convinced my boss to give the Polish woman who cleaned at the site I worked at a position as IT consultant (in Norway). She married a long time friend of mine a couple of years later (but I luckily had no influence on that except helping her getting her a job worth staying in Norway for.)

Helped one man who did a great job to but lacked formal education to keep his job by leaving a well paid job at the same team very voluntarily (although not as big a sacrifice as it might sound. I found the job extremely boring.)

Recently I also helped my neighbor to get a 50% pay rise.

In between I've made software to simplify life for people organizing work in non profits. (Stupid web page connected to a sms api. Almost had to chase them away from it as better options emerged and I got more and more afraid of getting hacked and leaking a whole lot of data on the Internet.)
What don't you like about the exceptions? The code and the documentation would both be simpler without them. They are there because the end result is closer to what a human would do in those situations.

And the two exceptions you mentioned are ones you will also have to make if you want to stay PEP 8 compliant (pycodestyle's E203 is invalid inside slices) and you want your code to execute on Python pre-3.6 (where you can't add trailing commas to calls and signatures containing args and *kwargs).
We're headed to the end of the current interglacial, returning to a drastically cooler climate.

The last interglacial (the Eemian [1]) lasted 15k years and was warmer than what we experience today; sea level at peak was probably 6 to 9 m (20 to 30 feet) higher than today; Scandinavia was an island. Then the glaciation returned for 100k years with mile-thick ice sheets covering huge parts of Europe and North America, until the current interglacial got going almost 12,000 years ago. [2]

"The axial tilt varies between 22.1° and 24.5°, over a cycle of about 41,000 years. The current tilt is 23.44°, roughly halfway between its extreme values. The tilt last reached its maximum in 8,700 BCE. It is now in the decreasing phase of its cycle, and will reach its minimum around the year 11,800 CE. ... decreasing tilt may encourage the onset of an ice age ..." [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eemian

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_glacial_period

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles#Axial_tilt...
EDIT: Now I've read it.

This and the Joel on Software piece both have their heads in the write place...which is putting a lot more time into estimating by actually diving in and planning your tasks with more detail.

It's the trade off of investing a lot more time in your estimating process to say that you had more accurate estimates. If you can afford to pull that time from somewhere in your organization, I'm sure it does produce more accurate estimates.

The value proposition boils down to how often you're going to do that? Are you going to spend 8 hours every sprint to dive into estimates to try to make them more accurate? If you're making a decision between multiple projects, the time investment to decide which path to travel down the road will make more sense.

Allocating the time every 2 weeks on the path you're currently travelling though? Is the value still there in that situation any more than re-evaluating the weight of a story when it's being worked?

This is where I steer clear of hours. Formula's like that also disregard things like turnover on teams, learning curve between different team members, on boarding time, experience differences, etc. The time trade off is rarely there.
You are obviously not a developer. Writing code on an iPad is just never going to work.
Reading the first article I was left with the impression that the author's team switched to Kotlin just for the sake of switching to Kotlin, tried their darndest to write it like it was Java, and then was just upset that it wasn't Java.
The keyword here is "large scale behavior tracking". Let's not elide over that.
88 column wrap? Yeah - no thanks.
> the EU does not lord over the US, their laws do not rule the US. This is legally how GDPR actually works

The number of people who have lost sight of this is unbelievable. It actually seems especially rampant on HN, which is kind of surprising, to be honest.
7nm is not going to be unique to Apple. TSMC has said that they have 50 customers using their new 7nm tech this year. That most likely includes Qualcomm whose Snapdragon chips power most Android phones.
The simple truth is: No one really knows.

How do you determine the exact position in a cycle of 400000 years?
When you get big, you abandon the edge. That's just how it works.
My dad had a hero one in the early 80s. He taught 3rd grade me how to key in programs using the HEX pad on its head. Fun times!
Yes. I remove about a dozen modules. If I can leave out code I do not use, then future vulns around that code won't apply to me. The code is still present even if it is not enabled in the configuration.

I also compile it for other reasons, including getting the latest version and applying all the libc hardening options and using the latest pcre. I do this for about a dozen internet facing daemons. It takes about 9 minutes for all my packages to compile.
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Since when is Vevo a quality seal? I see that mark plastered over 320p videos all the time. I figured it was just the "the ad money is now going to the record company" logo.
Sure enough! But we don't discuss important things in the kitchen from now on.
Sorry, I probably need to re-word that. I didn't mean to suggest it that way.

It was more of a reflection of being unwilling to ask team members for help and just depending on Google/SO for answers if you're stuck. I'll re-evaluate the wording there and get it corrected.
As "the computer guy" at my office, I was tasked with printing a football pick 'em pool sheet each week of the NFL season (no way we could get everyone to use an app). Built something that fit our needs and assumed others would use it, as well: http://footballpickempool.net

Another fun one that I love sharing with people: http://donetemperature.com. I love to grill, and I am a stickler for doneness of the meat, for both safety and preference. I found myself always relying on a web search each time, and the top results are all for random food blogs, and the info I needed was always buried somewhere in a massive recipe post.
When graphic design looks the same everywhere, illustration becomes a differentiating factor. Great to see illustration taking this direction again.
If you plan on doing business with EU entities at any point in the future there could be risk
Right, but it seems Americans (and probably everyone outside the EU) are being redirected like the parent. I was, which is a shame since I’d love to see that version of the site. It’s almost like a good unintended consequence of the regulation.
Indian Govt to monitor individual social media users to gauge public opinion
MegaCLI (lsi hw raid control) sees your tc and raised you a few million awful flags.
Have a look at Talos II, it's using POWER9 with completely open firmware
Have you looked at raspberry pi clones built around FPGAs?
Can you explain to me the point of this comment? I'm too dense.
SEE ALSO: ip-link(8)

You have to read the manual too ;)
Yes US government has forbidden the export of Xeon and Xeon Phi to China's supercomputing centers. It prompted the construction of Sunway TaihuLight, which uses Chinese own CPUs.
Maybe Linux distros should look into using BSD's ifconfig as their upstream.
using black is the no cognitive load in my book.
I don't know :)

I worked on prettier myself because I wanted to solve formatting for the language I was involved in. It turned out that the prettier infrastructure was actually really good for other languages so we used it for CSS, Markdown, GraphQL... and added support for a plugin system for other people to build printers for their own language. patrick91 (not working at Facebook) is working on a python formatter using the prettier infrastructure.

Independently, ambv (working at Facebook) started black which is written in Python. He's part of the Python core team and the Python infrastructure team at Facebook so it made sense for him to drive adoption of black within Facebook.

One interesting thing I realized is that communities are built around programming languages and it's really hard to influence another community from the outside. So my bet would be that black has the most chance of succeeding within the Python community.
I would say the "shouting at eachother" vibe comes more from the snarkiness of this post's content. I enjoyed it, but I understand that might not be everyone's cup of tea.
I had no idea that Vevo wasn’t just a subsection of YouTube anyway, the equivalent of Twitter’s blue tick
Russia’s government blocked us so we focus on English market. What do you think?
A while ago there was an article about creating a "wasteland" of unprofittability around your core business so to become the monopolist and extract the highest margin out of the industry.

The position of Intel/Nvidia is then quite simple, they will open source any model, dataset, toolkit, library, etc that makes use of their hardware. Training new AI will become simpler and simpler and they will extract high margin from selling the hardware.

What about Google instead? They have the data and the engineering knowledge to make complex AI works, however it seems quite unlikely that they will be able to drive the price of AI hardware down. Moreover they are charging quite a lot for the use of their custom TPU.

From this analysis it seems like Google is bound to fail in the long term in the AI race.

Am I wrong? Why?
It worked for iPhone.
The biggest area of regulations are food safety, health care, mining and transportation. There is a large theme for why does exist and rather established history on how things were before it.

And while all those has their share of monopolies, I do not see how the current data handlers on the web before GDPR is better. Google is massive. Facebook is massive. The number of online news papers that hold 90% of the market are few. Talking about how regulations is going to increase monopolies where its already monopolized seems strange.
Much more info is available elsewhere. It seems like this is the 'deregulate X' for all X formula applied to commercial space flight.

I'm not for or against regulations; I think that you can only have a reasonable about particular regulations, and then the analysis is more complex than 'for or against' (tighten this, loosen that, fund this, accelerate this other thing, etc.). It would be great to hear an analysis of the costs and benefits of the specific changes; I'm afraid the only voices are on one side; this change as announced is all about one group's interests, big business; how will it affect others - public interest, taxpayers, science, military, small business, NASA research, astronauts, the use of space in other countries and among partners, etc.?

Here's some much better info than the parent link, though still basically only a detailed rehash of the announcement with no other points of view or analysis:

https://www.space.com/40692-president-trump-private-spacefli...

A lot of background from a few days ago, also all one-dimensional unfortunately:

https://www.complianceweek.com/news/news-article/spaceregula...

And a timely money quote:

"Right now, we don't let self driving cars go everywhere although we do allow it in a lot of places," Ketcham said. "Eventually, that technology will mature (to a point) that no one will notice. And the same is true in space flight."

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/640565002
If you wouldn’t mind, please post a screenshot where you think an example is supposed to be displayed but isn’t. Or mail it to “mark” at the same address as the website.
If you're in Palatka, then I'm not far from you. If you want to meet up for coffee or a meal or something, my contact info is in my profile.
Forget fears of automation, your job is probably bullshit anyway
Manual data deletion without an automated process sounds like a recipe for disaster.
I read it as: the author was a Kotlin skeptic whose team wanted to use Kotlin, so was trying to find out whether they could use Kotlin for the sake of their team while still writing Java-like code themselves. Given how Kotlin pushers have been marketing it as close to Java with easier Java interop than other JVM languages (falsely if you ask me), that seems like a reasonable approach on the original author's part.
Snark aside, that doesn't dispute the thesis that regulations tend to favor incumbents.

Some regulations are good. Some regulations are bad. Some regulations are smart. Some regulations are dumb. Reasonable people can disagree on the quality or intelligence of a given regulation, or its impact on a given industry, but that doesn't change that most regulations do tend to make products more expensive to manufacture and by proxy, more expensive to buy.

In Europe, if you want to sell eggs, you're required not to wash them or get them wet, because doing so erodes the natural coating that protects them from diseases. This is a regulation implemented to prevent salmonella.

In America, if you want to sell eggs, you're required to wash them in water at least 90 degrees, to make sure that they're clean, then rinse them with a chemically infused spray, then because you've got them wet, they need to be thoroughly dried to prevent bacterial growth. Further, because you've now washed and dried them, removing the natural protective coating, they need to be refrigerated in transit, at the store, and at home.

Both regulations are imposed to defend against Salmonella, and both are apparently quite effective, but the American regulations in play require the purchase of (conservatively) thousands of dollars in washing, sanitizing and drying equipment, and at least a partnership with a refrigerated trucking company. If you're selling the eggs in California, there's the additional requirement that the eggs were laid by free-range hens, which of course increases the amount of land required to raise the chickens upon, which of course makes it harder to prevent and protect the hens against predators.

Like I said, reasonable people can disagree on any given regulation, but it's hard to make the claim that egg regulations in America are more effective than those in Europe, or that the American regulatory environment doesn't make it the egg business a more capital intensive affair.
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> Refined sugars are basically fructose

sucrose (white refined sugar) is half fructose, half glucose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose

High Fructose Corn Syrup has a variable amount of fructose, but is usually similar to cane sugar because it is used as a substitute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup
I didn't even know these existed! From a googling I can only find hats/daughter boards for existing raspberry pis. Is that what you mean or are there ones that are all in one?
Air bags were 'installed before they were required' because auto manufactures in the US were given a 7 year period to add them, not out of competition based on safety. This only after a decade of the auto industry fighting to keep those safety features from being required, exactly because the auto makers were worried about profits and not consumer safety.

"A Federal agency today abandoned the longdisputed requirement that automobile manufacturers install automatic crash protection, such as airbags or ''passive'' safety belts.

The action by the agency, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, drew immediate protest from safety groups and praise from the automobile industry."

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/24/us/airbag-regulation-on-c...
Yes, this is basically 16:8 (16 hrs without food, 8 hr window for meals)
WebDav never replaced SMB/CIFS/NFS and is mostly implemented by few websites.

It's unreliable; a tangle of half-implemented standards and incompatible clients, and it's uninteresting as a file system that lacks basic features, like locking, server-side search, etc...
I'm fine with ceding control right up until the formatter does something I don't like for no good reason. For languages like Rust, where there is a single format convention that is closely tied to the language (via rstfmt), I am okay with this kind of forced standard. For something like Python, C++, or Java where there isn't a single "winner" for format guidelines, there's virtually no chance that I would embrace something like this.
>The requirement to hire a DPO is not a new thing, by the way - many countries in the EU already required this. This is true for many provisions in the GDPR - in Germany, for example, very little changes from the way it used to be, their data protection law was strict to begin with.

Good for those countries? I'm not going to be happy with the idea of hiring some idiot to sit around and do nothing all day.
Unduly onerous to say you're not allowed to access the site if you're in the EU?

So the EU regulators can say my TOS have to allow EU citizens to access my site and my site must follow the GDPR.

That seems unlikely, and the fact that there's so much ambiguity around this is why so many websites are opting to block the EU rather than dealing with it.
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That's not a closeup of the hips, that's the entire body of it. I think you're being thrown off by the weird angle of the shot - the hips are in the top right, not the bottom left. This shows the legs tucked forward with the knees against the rib cage.
Not sure what you mean. This article also confirms that the issue remains controversial.
I have a profitable, bootstrapped SaaS business. It's not based on ads or selling data. I don't even have a freemium plan. Only a limited free trial after which you have to start paying. It's a trivial application that stores mostly already public data. Only email is required to login so that I can send password reset and other such communication.

I've been talking to a very well known giant corporation for months. The VP and director love my product and want to start using it right away for their department. But their legal team is scared shitless with 4% fines in GDPR. They are putting some draconian clauses, (various ISO certifications and such) in the contract that I, as a small company, cannot comply. That's their interpretation of GDPR. It doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong.

The VP and Director are really nice people and I've developed very good rapport with them. But I'm afraid their patience will run out soon and they'll go back to using spreadsheets. A lose-lose situation.

This is the side-effect of GDPR.

I'm all up for GDPR. I have uBlock, have blackholed all Facebook domains, etc. But don't assume that GDPR doesn't affect normal business transactions. Anyone who says, "Oh, how hard could it be?" has no idea what they are talking about.
Fred Meyer, Smiths, King Soopers, City Market -- all great stores. The other neat thing about them is that even backwoods towns now have self checkout (not every single location yet but close). I would have to say they are just about the best grocery store conglomerate out there.
The author touches on this indirectly a couple of times, but I think the main realization this gives me is that we tend to conflate two things when doing software project management:

* Getting the project done well and on time.

* Evaluating the performance of invidual programmers.

This is probably a natural thing to do because one measure of "good programmer" is "gets projects done well and on time", but I think directly mixing those two goals together interferes with both.

If you have any experience, you've certainly been put in a situation where the project went poorly through no fault of your own. I shipped "Superman Returns: The Videogame". Every developer knew the game was going to suck. Conversely, you've probably known (or been) someone who coasted through a successful project without contributing much of value.

So that argues that project outcome is a poor individual performance measure.

Worse, when people know project outcome is tied to their performance review, it puts pervese incentives into play. It encourages even well-meaning people to over-estimate tasks, bury technical debt where it won't be seen, point fingers when projects go poorly, choose conservative projects to work on, etc.

Perhaps a way out is for the organization to very clearly and explicitly separate these two concepts. Repeatedly acknowledge that you can do good work on projects that go poorly and vice verse. Do not take project outcome into account in performance reviews.

That still leaves the question of how do you evaluate performance then? Peer review is one approach — everyone on the team probably knows who does and doesn't carry their weight. Unfortunately, this can lead to nasty biases. People whose gender/culture/whatever lines up with the majority of the team are likely to get rated higher because we like people similar to ourselves. People that are more outgoing, outspoken, or charismatic will get unfairly better reviews — a particular problem in programming where some of the best people lack those attributes. It might trigger nasty competitive behavior with cabals forming and other stuff like that.

I don't know if those problems are worse than the status quo of using project outcome for performance evaluation too. It's difficult.
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Is that a bigger offence than „losing over 1400 migrant children” under an official governmental US programme, „some returned to child traffickers”? https://eu.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2018...
I think he/she was suggesting macbooks would move to iOS/ARM and macbook pros would stay macOS/Intel, at least in the near future.
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For me I don't really care whether ads are targeted or untargeted. It's the data collection they use to target the ads that's the real concern. I suspect that's true for most people but for some reason these discussions are typically framed as targeted vs untargeted, which IMO misses the point.

That said, I also really don't like seeing ads at all.
Apologies, I misread your comment.
I wouldn’t say they should take their word for it. They should hear the argument and decide if it is reasonable and supported by the data.
Holding the data or not is irrelevant, the tricky part is compliance.

If the GDPR applies to you, you need to hire a DPO based in Europe, as well as having a EU contact that will be responsible for any fees that you incur.

If you did business in the EU but no longer does, do you now have to hire a DPO in the EU and have a local contact responsible for any liabilities?

Managing the data is the easy part.