skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really impressed by this article. I don't see much of a performance improvements in desktop CPUs, so I don't expect them in mobile CPUs as well. They were catching desktop CPUs until recently, but now they are playing on even field, so I doubt that it would be 25% in single-thread. Sure, they could drop more cores, but that's it and only for specific workloads. Also I'm not even sure that I need that performance in my phone, I don't play games or run Idea there. Battery life speculations are very unconvincing as well. CPU is only part of battery drain, another parts are display and, most importantly, radio chips. So if my CPU eats 10% of my battery, those 25% improvements will be 2.5% which is not that impressive. They have terrible batter anyway, I have no idea how they managed to make a phone which turns off at -30C. How am I supposed to use it at winter?
Then I stand corrected. Thank you for being patient.
There are plenty of C-to-HDL languages (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8988629/can-you-program-...) and there's some interesting tidbits about them in this SO link.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

A java programmer complaining about another language being verbose is hilarious.
Drum & Bass without vocals. I've put a lot of time, thought, and experimentation into this; nothing else comes close to keeping me as focused and highly productive.

Some examples:

Monrroe
https://youtu.be/TmENer4RPhw
https://youtu.be/41OKIznqMCg
https://youtu.be/IKbadsY2MSs

Mix
https://youtu.be/LYgNN8lDQ5s

You're thinking, "but it all sounds the same!" That's the point. It keeps you moving forward without breaking your stride.

For longer, less mentally demanding tasks this kind of stuff works great, too:
https://youtu.be/VNP0-Tb9big
Can't see any contact on your profile, feel free to ping me on pat@codepact.com.
I built https://dndemail.com because I wanted do not disturb functionality for my email. I like to only check email 2x a day, but I would find that my workflows would often require me to visit my email (to look up an old email or send a new email). I would get distracted by new emails in my inbox.

DNDEmail keeps my inbox empty -- my new messages are only delivered on the 2x day schedule. It helps me stay focused even when I have to go into my email.

On the weekends, I keep my email off entirely.

It is also in the chrome webstore: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/do-not-disturb-for...
going from a world of fixed costs and variable income to a tar pit of proportional costs everywhere: tuition proportional to future earnings, SAAS software, monthly fee at the bank, hard to break leases (eating a part of the increase in salary you will make by moving).
>> What does this have to do with my post?

You falsely claim that Go arenas are prohibited.

Show that there is a widely-used third-party Go library that provides arenas, which could be used to implement Go binary-trees programs, to support your claim.
> It announces "I'm using VPN", nothing more.

That is false, and it's important that VPN users are not mislead about it: Anyone with visibility into your network traffic, including your employer, your ISP, and government, knows exactly the address of the VPN you are using; they will know the address belongs to Pornhub's VPN. If you want to mitigate that risk (imperfectly), use Tor. And if you try to use both Tor and a VPN, make sure you know what you are doing or you could get it very wrong.

> What is a "Christian country"? It's a country founded on predominately christian ideals.

Most advanced countries actively eschew support of any specific religion, are overwhelmingly secular, and are founded on Enlightenment ideals such as individual liberty (including freedom of religion), limited government, and on reason and science as opposed to religion. This isn't the Middle Ages.

And certainly Christianity doesn't embrace pornography! I don't see religious leaders of any stripe advocating for it. Let's drop the absurd, hateful Christian nationalism - nationalism has a really bad track record, and is a convenient excuse to abuse and exclude others, including Muslims. For a religion founded on the compassion and love of the Gospels, it's ironic that the nationalists are the most judgmental, prejudiced, and abusive toward others - but the reality is that it's true of all nationalists.

> there is at least one that springs to mind instantly when you think "banned pornography".

I think of the UK, and almost every business' HR policy.
How in the heck is "blocking all European users" a cute work around?

The laws apply to European people. What if a site just doesn't want any of these people to be customers?

The EU can't force you to accept it's users.

If anything, the business should sue the EU customers who accessed their website without permission. You are breaking the rules as a EU citzens by doing so.
Smart move. That technique was used in the Poly2 project among others:

https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/assets/pdf/bibtex_archive/0125...

http://projects.cerias.purdue.edu/poly2/

Ever since I saw eCos OS, I wanted every OS to come with both the ability and a GUI tool to just check off all the features I want, compile kernel with just those features, and create installer for that kernel. Current tech in repos should even let one create that configuration automatically based on what packages they wanted or have already installed in a sample system (eg bare metal or VM). Could also use program analysis where features are dropped if they're not called and/or info from security policies like SELinux for further constraints.
GDPR really isn't that much more than the previous DPA which was in place 20 years without problem. Businesses and startups were still formed.

To stick to the general. Who pays for education and promotion of alternatives against industries spending billions? Either it's coming out of tax or a regulation is required to force educational messages and disclaimers. If neither it just seems a way to assert the status quo as any interested party or user rights group that does get a little visibility will be immediately advertised against by those with a financial interest but far deeper pockets.

Regulation might not be perfect, but seems to be the only viable way left to limit the problems that come with unrestricted commerce.
Right, and that’s why Avail is nothing like that. Kind of the opposite when it gets down to it...

Cheesy, closed languages like C forgot that exponentiation was even a thing, or complex numbers. If you shift over to using C++’s “clevernesses”, you still don’t get exponentiation, because the traditional caret symbol is already used for exclusive-or, which has no sensible ASCII punctuation.

As for someone’s distant comment that Lisp has been used to create languages for years... sure, if the language you wanted was parenthesized lists with keywords inside the left parenthesis. Which is just Lisp with a few more operations and macros. Yuck.
I'm confused - are you saying that "borders should be open" is a claim that is widely accepted as self evidently true, or the opposite?

It seems clear to me that the vast majority of people believe that the global status quo of closed borders is correct, or else there wouldn't have been a huge wave of anti-immigration leaders elected globally.
You aren't a data subject if you're outside the EU. If you're in the US, data will be happily collected on you irrespective of GDPR.
Blocking 500 million geolocated people is crazy. That's not the spirit of the law.

No crazier than thinking you have to comply if you have no connection to the EU.
I recall reading that some schools are starting to offer this sort of cost guarantee.
For SAFE Network, this is handled, I believe. Other networks that implement PARSEC will need to address it in some similar way.

In the case of SAFE, you can generate as many nodes as you want, but they must be valid nodes (doing the work that the network asks of them) for a long time before being promoted to a status that allows them to participate in consensus of a section. Any misbehavior on their part results in demotion or failure to be promoted. So each node would need to be a legitimate contributor to the network, with all that that entails, before being promoted to a status where their later misbehavior would matter. You would be creating real nodes, that used real bandwidth and real CPU resources and did real work that benefits the network, in order to infiltrate your evil nodes into the network. So, not an insubstantial cost to you.

Your nodes will be assigned into sections randomly, so it will be very difficult for you to manage to get multiple nodes with voting status, into a single section, and staggeringly difficult to get enough such that your nodes constitute 1/3rd of that section. Of course, exactly how difficult depends on network size (number of sections).

Finally, even once a node is assigned into a particular section, it will be reassigned to another random section at some interval, further decreasing your ability to take over a particular section.
Heroku vs. AWS – Why Costs and Scale Are Secondary
I'm the author of the post. My most stupid post is in HN! crazy! I just wanted to be sarcastic and make some laughs about people blocking all traffic from Europe, which is crazy!

It's a Friday afternoon blog post to show how cool my product is with Cloudflare Workers and having fun at the same time!
I wonder if side-channel attacks are possible on fluidics.
Similarities between iOS and macOS don't have much to do with it.

The reason the Android emulator is slow is that it is actually emulating an ARM CPU.

The iOS simulator, on the other hand, is running an iOS natively built for x86, and Xcode targets the x86 architecture when you build your app for the simulator.
> I don't agree with every detail--double quotes as default is going to be hard for me to adjust to--but the things I don't agree with aren't as important to me as being able to set it and forget it and stop debating it every so often.

That's the key part for me, too: Black offers the freedom of not needing to waste time talking about things which really don't matter. No more wasting time on code review where the real issues are obscured by sloppy whitespace, idiosyncratic formatting preferences, etc.

I also had a preference for single quotes but … every file in every project I work on is consistent as soon as I hit save and I certainly don't care enough not to let that outweigh a minor aesthetic point.
The challenge from AI: is “human” always better?
Another Keto person here. I'm eating as much as I want, with no fasting, but strictly keto foods (no carbs).

I lost 10lb my first month (didn't need to lose much), but more importantly for me, my blood pressure is way down from borderline hypertensive 130/90 to 114/77 yesterday. The conventional wisdom is you control 10% of your BP with lifestyle. Low salt and exercise did not touch it, but Keto with the same exercise knocked it down in less than a month.
You are right.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/technology/andy-rubin-and...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/11/29/andy-rubin-ta...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15807131
Artificial faces in the service of privacy protection
> There are 6.5 billion non-Europeans, there's plenty of market outside of Europe.

The world doesn't have uniform GDP per capita. Potential European customers have more money to spend than most of those other potential customers. If you're looking for a new market, Europe is a juicy one.
Also, GDPR applies to more than just citizens of the EU. The language doesn't even say citizens. Data subject could be someone in the EU on vacation for two week. Even me a heathen US citizen! O_o
Walmart's model is based around footprint, and separately, low prices -- and the two competitive advantages don't really overlap.

In US rural areas, they're often the only supermarket around, as "dollar"-style general stores don't sell fresh food, and local grocers have slightly higher prices, smaller stores, less product variety, and don't sell apparel and electronics. Walmart forms a single destination that draws customers from miles away, around which other services can coalesce.

Meanwhile, in urban and suburban areas, Walmart draws on demographics who are interested in low prices, while managing to avoid the quality and selection issues afflicting some low-end grocers. Shoppers with more disposable income usually opt for midrange or high-end grocers instead, to avoid some aspects of Walmart (e.g. large average basket sizes resulting in long waits for checkout, crowded parking lots, lack of focus on mood and presentation) because they can afford nicer stores.

Rural delivery is harder to execute, because population densities are lower. Therefore it's unlikely that rural America will be where Amazon's grocery ambitions make the most headway. But in urban areas, where Walmart's customer base is largely captive by income, Amazon stands to make more money by competing against mid-to-high-end chains first.
Perhaps. But wouldn’t you prefer that COBOL become a mere dialect of Avail?
OK, so let's say that hypothetically I run a small business in the US. I just sell access to software (that lives on my server in the US) instead of burgers. An EU visitor comes to my server in my country and buys something. Why should I care about their laws any more than the burger shop owner should?
> Considered this before, but it doesnt work. IIRC, the law applies to euro citizens both living in country and abroad.

No. The law applies to people physically in the EU, not blanket to EU citizens. An American in Paris is protected by GDPR laws - a German living in NYC is not.
It's not anywhere near as difficult, time intensive, or expensive as a pilot's license.
Have you tought starting going a gym. Getting more muscle definitely helps.
> There are many, many, many way to place very light and focused restrictions on immigration that would achieve such ends

In theory.

> makes it very clear that no one respects freedom of movement across national borders in the same way they respect freedom of speech of freedom of movement across city borders

I can certainly agree with you on that, I am an extremely strong supporter of free speech, and I not only don't respect free movement across borders, I'm very strongly opposed to it.

It sounds like you are working from a master list of universal human rights that I'm not aware of?
What you stated is the definition of a race to the bottom, because there are so many players that have recently gone into that market.
Lol at everyone that continues to purchase Apple's garbage....honestly I had a guy tell me the other day he hates iphones...but buys them anyway....he couldn't even say why....
No you don't. I got a commercial drone pilot license a year or two ago and all I needed to do was take a test. Anyone can do this.
I love this archive. The choice of music is excellent and also the design of the site is really pleasant. I've spent hours in different genres.
Right and pilots of commercial aircraft do not make 2000 per day.
I don't mind the dynamic. It's an expression of the community's values and biases. If I find those values & biases disagreeable, I'll move on. In that way, it's useful to me.
I just tried this on a Django project, and it formatted all the migration files as well. Is there a way to exclude certain directories when formatting a whole project?
In case it wasn't clear, my point was that the percentage is not the indicator of monopoly or non-monopoly. I'm not arguing that you should agree Walmart is a monopoly.

That said, your experience and you having other purchasing options isn't the only criteria, as @s3r3nity pointed out. Being on Hacker News probably means you're not in the lower 50% of the US population socioeconomically.

Being a massive business is precisely one way Walmart might be considered a monopoly. They're not a dominant national brand, they are the single largest global brand on the planet by revenue. The fact that if Walmart closed tomorrow, it would have a significant negative impact on the US economy is alone enough to warrant asking the question. When a company is "too big to fail" that automatically puts it in the potential monopoly category.

Also, there have been anti-trust cases against Walmart, some of which Walmart has settled. So it's really not super clear cut that Walmart isn't a monopoly.
But it's a quote from the article:

> “It’s apparent that a lot of this industry is a race to the bottom,” said Trench,

Bloomberg didn't say this, so can it really be a click bait headline?
I don't see how the fact that this guy is making a lot of money now is relevant. The ultra high cost of education creates a huge gap between people who are born into rich families and can afford a $1M price tag and ones who aren't and would need to pay loans for decades after they finish school. (That is if like this guy, they are lucky enough and can land a good paying job, which isn't always the case)
You misunderstand the GDPR if you think you carry its protection around when you visit non-European locales.
Ask any pilot for American Eagle how much they make... I now work for the travel industry and so get to see lots of articles on how the pilots are underpaid.

I also saw an article here on HN about the seniority pyramid scheme (which I can't find now).

http://www.askthepilot.com/pilot-shortage/

Salaries have traditionally started out as low as $20,000 a year (in some cases even lower), and have topped out at under six figures.
The user's manual & technical manual have VOCOL documentation. I've only skimmed it, though.

http://www.robotu.com/Gemini_files/User_Manual.pdf starting on page 55

http://www.robotu.com/Gemini_files/Tech_Reference.pdf starting on page 47

I suspect roms/VOCREM.BIN in the 'software' package is actually the compiled VOCOL code, but I haven't disassembled it to find out yet.
I came out of the article with the same question. I was almost jumping up from my desk with excitement through the first 3/4 of the article, but then the conclusion felt a bit lacking when it never directly addressed the estimation problem...
In many civil law systems, there are limits to contracts. Sometimes these limits are codified, sometimes they're not. Let's take Dutch law here as an example, because well that's what my degree is in. The Dutch civil code has a list of so-called 'black' and 'gray' clauses in terms and conditions; the black ones are always void, the grey ones sometimes (obviously grossly simplifying here, I'm not going to type a paper on a phone). Many catch-all statements are either black or grey, especially when they are designed to absolve one party from their legal obligations. Nobody is saying anything about requiring you to allow EU citizens. What I'm saying is the GP's plan is an obvious scheme to avoid one's legal obligations, and will be treated as such - and hence won't be a defense or obstacle when an authority goes after a non-compliant processor.

Hence my comment up thread - the law is not a closed system you can program like a code wars game, where if you're clever enough a judge will say 'oh you outsmarted me here because your logic is internally perfectly consistent, have a good day sir'.
In practice fining companies for getting hacked just boils down to a tax, as no company wants to be hacked, and the primary bottleneck to making software more secure is crap tools, crap platforms, poor training and inability to hire people who deeply understand security.

Hacking is not a problem you can solve by passing a regulation that says "don't get hacked".
Or lawsuits.
It's one of those blogs that are implemented as a web app that reads the content with JavaScript, because HTML is not enough...

The text is a JSON at https://zsmb.co:8443/public/articledetails/url/on-from-java-...

Btw, that 8443 port is probably blocked by firewalls in many enterprise networks. They usually allow only ports 80 and 443.
I didn't downvote it (don't have enough karma's yet), but see my reply above. avar is wrong because he has no idea how patent litigation works in this country and made false assertions (eg, punitive damage).

Further, the main issue here is not whether companies like Samsung should get away with patent infringement, but whether Apple's frivolous design patents deserve most of the infringed devices' revenue/profit. Apple had previously managed to disgorge Samsung's entire profit based on a 19th century old, estoeric design patent law that rewards entire profit on infringement. This law was introduced when most consumer goods were single-component and sales/profit were driven largely by one single design pattern (eg, carpets, furniture).

Enter the 20th century. Most electronics devices we use today have highly technical and multiple-components (over 120+K active patents in a smartphone device for instance). And our legal system over the the past three, four decades has evolved and developed various frameworks to limit the damage award to the intrinsic/additional value a specific patent brings to an infringed product. SCOTUS agreed with this, reversed the lower courts decisions and sent the case back to the lower courts to re-define what the proper damage ought to be. But it looks like Judge Koh screwed up on the procedural (jury instruction) again.
Bye Spotify: can this new streaming service [Resonate] help listeners play fair?
R.O.B., mentioned at the conclusion of the article.
James Cameron.
Anyone who's interested in this might find the field of cognitive narratology interesting as well, he's a nice resource: http://wikis.sub.uni-hamburg.de/lhn/index.php/Cognitive_Narr...
Essential cancels its next smartphone, future of the company in doubt
Set Up a GDPR Cookie Consent Form Using Google Tag Manager
Yeah, so 16% of his income is a pretty sizable chunk for something like loan payback, considering most people making around that are paying probably 30% for rent or mortgage, and then there are car payments or transit costs, kids, life expenses...

The purpose of a student loan is to finance an education, not to enslave a person trying to better themselves and lock up all their income just to satisfy greedy banks.

One of my coworkers (younger fellow, 28-29 or something) has a six digit loan and pays 700-something a month, which is around 20% of what he most likely makes. He doesn't have any kids though, so he can afford to overpay like that, for now.

student loans are a shark industry in america, idc what anybody says. Preying on the people in society attempting to be the most productive, it's awful. That the guy in tfa has a medium-to-high income shouldn't really matter. The student loan should be a tool of utility for the learner, not a tool of profit maximization for the bank.
$2k/day is cheap for professional video and still photography drone or no drone. Not every project needs it. Not every project has that kind of budget. Not every potential client sees value in high quality professional work even when there is money in the budget and benefit to the project.