skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carbon taxes have to be astronomical to actually affect market behavior. Better to take direct control and titrate down carbon fuels while ramping other methods.

The market can't do it except by perhaps a happy accident, an accident that would be resisted by the established players. Look for the big oil companies to buy up green startups and kneecap them to keep the oil money flowing. Consumables are much more profitable than capital purchases like solar panels, ask the printer makers about their ink.
Technical debt is code that makes everybody waste time (eg. because of its complexity), or that creates problems in production (eg. performance issues) BUT that you cannot easily replace because it is too tightly knit to the rest of the architecture, or it would be very long/risky. So you have to live with and pay its dividends every year.

The most frustrating thing for me is that you cannot throw it away and start from scratch (if you want to keep your users). You have to bite the bullet and find ways to make that ugly/smelly code go away in very small increments. This process can take years.
Yup, also note in there - "You will have $0 bill in first 12 months if your S3 storage is below 5GB, CloudFront traffic stays below 50GB/Month and API Gateway requests are less than 1 million a month, or you get 666 user sessions a month compared to the 1,000 user sessions I picked while running these calculations."
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> I've got enough funds to work on the idea for a year or so by myself, so I've got some time and a nominal amount of money at my disposal.

And you want to spend your precious time and money on a patent? One that most likely will be worthless in court since you want to do it without a lawyer? Maybe the answers you heard are correct. A year goes by very fast.
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> In Germany a court just ruled that a three year old can go alone to the bath room and their parents don't have to check on them. The child set the bath room under water and someone wanted the parents to be liable.

Seems like the alternative is to declare the 3yo liable for the damage, which is absurd. Water like that can cause a lot of damage; it's not like they tipped over a glass on the table.
The EU just fined Google alone $5b. So clearly using past numbers is not an indication of their current or future intentions.
Getting an error on the geolocation service in Google maps at the bottom and everything appears to be in Uruguay. Not sure if Uruguay is the base for this.

Cool idea though. I'd actually use this, but for the inverse...to find where people aren't.
I am happy if someone claims that something politically isn't possible in the US. (Gun control may be a good example) I can't claim otherwise, my issue is when instead of arguing that, someone claims that a measure wouldn't have the same outcome in the US or technically isn't possible in the US without any evidence of such.

It shifts the blame from the current politics which is something people can engage with to "reasons out of anyone's control", which just helps maintain status quo.
If we're going to start firing people, first on my chopping block would be IT staff who implement security theater policies which go against NIST recommendations (like forced rotation of passwords every x days) and create security hygiene problems as side effects.
Apple Pay support is coming to eBay Marketplace, along with loans for sellers
You just reminded me how much I hated the trolleys when I grew up in Vancouver.

I don't want them to come back. One of the key advantages of buses is that they're flexible and could react to shock loads. Moving people in bulk should be done with grade-independent rail, like the Skytrain.
In a number of poorer regions in developing countries I've been too people don't have the capability or perhaps knowledge to properly dispose of garbage so it ends up on the side of the road, which eventually makes its way into rivers and the ocean.
>What benefit do you get from seeing people in person?

Yea, IDK, social ques maybe? Are you really arguing that there is no difference talking to friends in person vs on the internet or phone?

The short version is, your digital friends, aren't real people. You can hang up on them, or not answer when you don't feel like. The second you put your controller or phone down, they disappear and wait to be pulled back into your existence. Real people you can't manage like that, so you have to use different methods of interaction.
The power in corporations will pretty much always lie with profit centers (i.e. sales) over cost centers (i.e. security). I'd doubt that almost any company will be able to overcome that. Better to focus on mitigation of risks than fight political battles that you're not going to win as an infosec team IMHO.
In most EU countries, price fixing of books are not only legal, but mandated by law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_price_agreement
No,

It would hopefully be cheaper to follow the law. If not I'll vote for higher fines :)
> You could not see the shore because it was completely covered in a layer of garbage. It was like living on top of a landfill.

I've seen the same thing in many different parts of the world. The coastlines are an absolute mess, but then again so is the interior. Garbage is just everywhere in the developing world, strewn about with no concern no matter where you are.
Cool you liked it - I recently had a similar experience replacing from JQuery froms with it.

It does by default it provide access to native JS data structures, but you don't have to use them e.g. there are persistent structures as well. https://pursuit.purescript.org/packages/purescript-ordered-c... though I don't quite understand the comment that persistent data structures are "slower" than native structures; I thought usually, it's the other way around.
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The rest of the thread has gone over the drugs aspect - I have to disagree entirely with

> I actually don’t care for the term “bot” because it implies some sort of AI

A bot is just a regular user account dedicated to and controlled by a non-human. Script, AI, IFTTT, whatever. It's a bot.
You'd think that but in FL at least, there is ~6 potholes on my route to work every day that have been left there for months.
I think the point is that disposable plastics are not an issue if they end up in landfills.
I am really not familiar with how the the legal system works outside of the common law world. As far as I'm aware, Canada and England work very similarly with pleas reducing sentencing, the vast majority of cases not going to trial, and a cash bail system. Which country would you say does it right?
Interesting. That’s a testable hypothesis. If after controlling for income there is a difference in sentencing between races, then that’s evidence to reject the hypothesis that there is no racial disparity.

I believe I once read something that makes me believe that we should indeed believe there is racial disparity but I can’t find it now. Pity.
A simple google search yields:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...

https://www.dw.com/en/almost-all-plastic-in-the-ocean-comes-...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas...
Lots of supposedly known senders that are actually hostile actors, some account takeovers, and there are many external facing people who expect to receive word docs from unknown people.

Accounts payable, for example, gets lots of these things as an expected part of the workflow, as does legal, and various parts of management.

PDFs have had problems of their own.

Many of the people that you most want to secure are the same people who need to be exposed to the outside world. CEO and CFO HAVE to deal with random people, as it's the job, but they are the most dangerous. If someone needs a 5 step verification process that takes days to communicate with your CEO, then you are not going to get may new clients or investors.
> No, but AMD would (I have no clue if they do) release a cheaper product and therefore get the biggest market share.

And how many AMD cards have you seen being used for DL? Hint: 0

> The problem is not about Samsung setting a high price. It's about all three companies setting that high price, seemingly together.

Parent is implying collusion and fixing on the sole basis of prices being above historical means, that's not price fixing.

Also, you're describing price fixing, not providing an evidence that it is possibly taking place. I work in Azure, so I know quite a bit about the current pricing environment around semis. It isn't as much as fixing as is the sudden explosive demand for their products.

* Take a look at the historical earnings for these companies, they were barely scraping by a couple years ago (Micron was under >$10B debt which was more than 50% of their market cap at the time). You can't justify capex on growing supply when you don't even have money to cover debt.

* Look at the trend of DRAM attach rates and software requirements for memory, nowdays everyone is happy running an entire instance of chrome for their communication, editor and what not; Deep Learning and data economy have taken off in the past few years which is requiring records amount of both logic and memory chips.

The current prices are a function of demand and supply. I do see them heading slightly lower on better margins due to lower debt and better yields on more mature processes (possibly even 1Y nm process node this year) but we'll be here for a while without any price fixing.
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This on the money. Newfoundland, for instance, spends a lot of money on roads in some areas, because the road markings are completely scraped off by snowplowing every winter. Whereas Arizona and the Southwest are great for long-term preservation, which is why they put the Airplane Graveyard there.
"So let's hope it's correctly attributed and not some criminals with nothing to lose."

This indeed. We can only hope it's the pros!
Your test suite should essentially be your requirements. If it's out of date, it's the first thing you should update. Adding features or changing your requirements without updating your tests is the essence of tech debt: you're delivering features quickly at the expense of future work and brittleness.

I agree it's pretty common though. I've also seen huge test suites of only unit tests, no integration tests. As a result, you have no assurance that your refactors work because changing the inner workings fundamentally requires you to change the unit tests too, and nothing checks the top-level interface.
Awful. This needs to be voted up.
>>> What kind of parent does their kid's homework?!

I did, in a particularly subtle way, until I realized it and stopped. I never physically performed the homework task, but I prodded my kids to get it done. As it turns out, the homework was so easy, that literally the only challenge was motivation. By supplying them with the motivation, I was effectively doing the work.

Nowadays, if asked for help, I go into teacher mode, and start asking them questions or providing a gentle nudge towards figuring out something themselves. They know that asking me for help will generally make their task harder, rather than easier. ;-)

>>> Here's an idea. Why not have "how to be a parent" classes taught in high school or college?

Because we don't know what it consists of.
If you're suggestion that EU companies don't lobby for preferential treatment and against foreign (see: US) competitors then you're either lying or delusional, as for US regulator they don't have the economical nor the political incentive to go after US firms contrary to EU regulators.
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Rowing the same distance in a boat, on dry land, would also "work". But not necessarily in an optimal or convenient way. Just like a touchscreen.
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China is adding a lot of electric buses. I remember seeing this story a few months ago that gives it perspective:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/04/china-is-adding-a-lon...
There's been a website for months or years that does this, right?
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You don’t seem to know what the word “protectionism” means. Tax incentives are not protectionism.
Well coordinated? Nah, it was a 10 year old policy that was enacted back when Think was the height of electric cars. This allowed all electric cars to travel in bus lanes and pay no tolls.

Something that blew up when the rich people got a new gull winged toy...
Future-friendly error-handling can indeed be tricky. I ran into this trying to make a lasting email-sending API. I was hesitant to depend on the API's specific exception types, and so considered mapping them to more general categories, yet still giving details for troubleshooting.

// pseudo-code
err = new Error(hasError=false); // innocent until proven guilty
try {
sendEmail(...);
catch (e in excptn1, excptn6, excptn7) // dummy names
err.hasError=true;
err.recipientProblem=true;
err.errorType = e;
catch (e in excptn2, excptn4, excptn9)
err.hasError=true;
err.contentProblem=true;
err.errorType = e;
catch (else)
err.hasError=true;
err.errorType = e;
}
...
return(err);

One could make an emumerable list of error categories, but in this case I wasn't even sure they were mutually exclusive because it still sends to the rest if one recipient is bad.
Considering the current lessons are "if you don't use frequently changed garbage passwords with a mix of cased characters, numbers, and special characters you aren't secure" and "...but we'll allow you to reset the lockout because you can never remember your password using this self-service reset guarded by unchanging common answers to facebook quizzes", I'd say the solutions is ( Find the right thing to teach > teach it > expect it).
Communications on the internet are different than physical communications. So different in my view as to not really have a useful comparison point.

If I tell a joke, people will chuckle and it'll be on their mind for 10 seconds, and then it's gone. All I need to do to make sure no one is overhearing it is to do a quick look over my shoulder. And if someone does leak it, I'll know which 6 people it might be and I can confront them.

If I write that same joke down online, it's there forever, anyone can grab the joke any amount of time later, strip out all surrounding context, report me and have me fired from my director gig.

Our social systems were developed with the understanding that communications would persist for a minute at most. This does not translate well to online systems.
The article isn't just about having some elecric busses in some cities. We also had some solar panels in USA but we weren't investing in them in the same way to increase their usage and ramp up their production.

It's about the Chinese government investing in electric vehicles to make them cheaper long term and increase their viability and usage.
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Yep, when I'm interviewing a developer, if they try to bullshit an answer I instantly lose trust in them. How can I trust their work if, when they don't know something, they just try to BS their way through? Far more healthy to admit they don't understand and seek help / guidance from those who might. Humility is an important developer trait.
The method used to calculate the fines is the same for every company. You can review it here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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I'm sure they have a simple form to fill out, but it does not prevent the state from coming back and claiming they are owed $X in additional income taxes - prove that you do not.

This 'audit' has been happening in states with lots of mobile high earners (CA and NYS) for awhile. Other states are catching on, and now doing the same.
I'm a lawyer...I've practice both as a public defender and in civil litigation. You're technically correct about everything you've cited but still completely wrong about your conclusion.

Lawyers are professionals, and while you will get a few bad apples who play politics, the overwhelming majority of them will have no problem representing both sides--as long as it's in different cases. (Professional has a specific legal meaning in the US, meaning at a very high level that lawyers have ethical obligations to their clients.)
It's legitimate to fine US companies breaking antitrust laws. If that happens to supplement tax revenue that's an extra benefit.
But the trolleys are already in place in many places around the world...?
Plastic recycling isn't. It's just a scheme to move the waste somewhere else (China) and make Westerners feel good about not having to change their wasteful lifestyles.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17368168
I have do not disturb turned on always, but my contacts are exempt, so for people I know it will ring. If I get a call from a non contact they can leave a voicemail. But most of the time it's a robocall. Not having to deal with my phone ringing all the time has been a big improvement.
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> I'm also annoyed at the junior dev that doesn't take time to understand a system, and shouts that it needs to be re-written.

That's something that your senior devs should be correcting through training and mentoring. Junior means he doesn't know any better, after all.

Speaking as a senior dev, one great method to impart this wisdom is to let the junior dev try and do it and see for himself what happens.
Mexico’s historical foreign policy has been based on the principles of non-intervention, peaceful resolution of disputes and self-determination of all nations.

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

As President Juárez said:"Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace"

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benito_Juárez

Mexico’s new president AMLO thinks Juárez was the country’s best president, so I doubt we’ll see policy change in this admin.

In the past he has publicly refused to say that Castro or Chavez were dictators - doing so would interfere in Cuba or Venezuela’s right of self-determination.

BTW, his political opponents claim he will turn México into Venezuela.

Edit:spelling
Protectionism? AMD reported the Intel case, Sun and Novell the Media player one. Philips are from the Netherlands. Ireland were judged to be providing illegal state aid. You might not like anti-trust laws but most places have them in some form or another, US included. They should probably be invoked rather more than they are.

I don't see how any of that relates to the startup scene. European VC isn't the same as SV. Europe has multiple countries and languages so is far harder to grow with the ease you might in the US.
Have both Acer and Asus. Can confirm. Acer is trash. Asus is as good as any I've used.

This thread has people hailing Dell and HP as quality laptops. In other threads, there is no end to the troubles people have with Dell XPS. HP has a poor reputation as far as I remember, without remembering any specifics, except that they had overheating issues at one time.

I guess the difference is probably between business and consumer laptops, where the former tends to be Dell or HP? Except Acer, as noted, because Acer is trash. Don't buy Acer.
Same with Vancouver PD, who openly said they have far more important things to do than bust people for smoking weed or even the grey-area medical marijuana stores with their own in-house homeopaths writing prescriptions. Even in terms of drugs, PDs care far more about trafficking, importation and production than they care about the possession and use.
I mean... yeah!
Respectfully, I'm a little confused here.

Your previous comment said:

> If company A improves their margins and can sell for a lower price, then company B has to either improve their margins, differentiate somehow or stop selling the product.

This comment implies that companies A and B are in direct competition.

The case you're now describing is a supplier/customer relationship. What we're talking about here is a Company C (Asus) having stores A and B as retail distribution customers.

Store A decides to undercut Store B's price. Store B says to Asus, I can't compete with those prices. So Asus has two options now.

-It can allow Store A to continue selling at whatever price it wants. Long term, this likely removes Store B as an Asus customer. Store A becomes a more and more important customer to Asus, and is able to demand additional wholesale price decreases in the future.

-Company C tells Store A, you need to maintain X price, so that both Store A and Store B can continue to sell our products.

Now imagine that Store A is a giant retailer like Amazon. If your interest is in protecting consumers and ensuring the long term competitiveness of the market, how do you achieve that by allowing the better funded player to sell at a cost that Store B can't match?

Further, Store A is notorious for low wages, and the health costs its workers incur in the physical nature of the job are socialized losses borne by the broader state. Store B may be "inefficient", but it pays its workers a better wage, spends in its local economy etc.

Lastly, we're talking about pretty commoditized markets here. If Asus's "price fixing" leads to higher priced mediocre laptops, consumers have hundreds of other options.

I appreciate you engaging in this discussion with me.

EDIT: Not to mention, unless Asus has some kind of wild brand loyalty in Europe that I'm unaware of, Store B is free to find a different laptop supplier if it finds Asus's terms unacceptable.

This doesn't change the fact however, that the antitrust considerations remain because Store A can likely beat Store B's prices on EVERY product.
Then again, "I'm too hot" can be solved on an individual level, even if the solution is bulky (thermoregulating vests are a real thing). "It is too humid" is not a problem you can even start solving other indoor climate control and never going outside.
Related:

> The research found, on average, children were playing outside for just over four hours a week

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/27/children...
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A quick solution that solves many cases is to also use HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), and declare it for at least a year. Then once the user visits the site (say from home) and gets the HSTS header, later visits in that time will always use HTTPS. This solves the problem in many cases.

The best solution is to get your site into the HSTS preload list. You can do that here: https://hstspreload.org/ - this adds the site to the Chrome list, and most other major browsers (Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE 11 and Edge) have an HSTS preload list based on the Chrome list. Once that happens and the browser updates, users will always use https, even if they ask for http.
Ok, got it. So even the best quality slo-mo interpolation would create tbr soap opera effect.

I should have googled that first. :-)
I believe thats why modularization was invented?
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The entire Silicon Valley boom, through today, is under 'high-investment'

> The cities (and state for that matter) were built from the ground up by the people, for the people. "High-investment" government only came much later.

Democratic government is "by the people, for the people";. That was Abraham Lincoln's original quote: "government of the people, by the people, for the people". It's the people making decisions and investing in their community, fairly and democratically, instead of an aristocracy / oligarchy of a few wealthy people making the decisions.
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