skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so even accepting a page view from an EU citizen and writing the IP to an Apache log file could subject them to it.

You better inform yourself before making incorrect assertions

But it does get tiring, really
That isn't how these things work, not even in China. You don't just ban companies. You create an environment were public opinion, the legal framework and government investment favors your own companies. The Toyota "braking scandal", Apple litigation against Samsung, automotive bailouts and trade tariffs are all part of that.
And, unfortunately, it is a destructive process going from elf to hex, as I've discovered a few times. Intel HEX is just the data at what addresses so one looses the section info and metadata from an elf.

I'm always happen to see when a uC vendor IDE keeps the elfs and the programmer takes elfs.
> "The raw energy density of liquid ammonia is 11.5 MJ/L, which is about a third that of diesel."

Yes, but that's assuming you'd burn it, I suppose (not a chemist). In this case, you're extracting H atoms using a different process, and I imagine that this wouldn't utilize the full raw energy density of ammonia.
CC got rid of their non-attribution v1.0 licences in 2004, so since then there has been three options for people wanting to release art without requiring attribution:

- CC-By but include an extra note allowing people to omit attribution. This is hassle and may not be legally ok.

- CC0. This comes with other affordances you may not want

- Use some slightly inappropriate code licence like MIT
Let me continue that for you:

- or when you apply illegal tariffs n steel, cars and whatnot

- when you apply sanctions to a country respecting the commitments it signed

and so forth ...
There's a short video showing the theme, and other features mentioned, as linked in the blog post ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvoCpnwGNFU
Seems be to be some serious revisionist history going on...

Just because it’s not a link on the internet doesn’t mean it isn’t true.

It was pretty much common knowledge when I was in school. I only knew a few pre-meds, but it certainly came up as a discussion topic more than once.
A $50 ticket is not going to deter bill gates from speeding.

Of course. But I don't think we can sensibly, or ethically, charge him an amount that would. How much would deter him to the same degree? $1m probably wouldn't cut it either.

Instead, surely we should either accept that and charge everyone the same absolute amount or find other more equitable ways of deterring him. License points, driving bans, community service, prison time, anything that isn't just taking obscene amounts of money simply because the guy has worked smart and earns more.
It's been this bad in NYC since at least when I moved here (1997).
If every emerging technology were scrapped early on due to lack of tooling, we'd have no mature technologies.
> not presume you need all parts to have C-like speed (you don’t).

Why not? If you can, if it's easy, not error-prone, you feel comfortable with it? Performance gain is something every user will appreciate.
> Germany's birth rate is 1.5

> It seems to be inversely correlated with first world living status and education more than anything.

Well, at least for Germany I can provide some anecdata: either you're on welfare and have the state fund your life including kids or you're rich. The middle class and especially the young (20-30y) population in the major cities simply often cannot afford kids, not with the exploded rents and the trend to unpaid (!) internships, year-limited contracts, "gig work" and other things making my generation's life a living hell. I'm 27 and lucky to have landed an unlimited employment contract. The whole situation reminds me more and more of the setting of Idiocracy, and that without the US president in that movie being obviously inspirational for the current real world one.

In addition the young population that fled the rural areas (due to e.g. job availability, the lack of public transport, any form of Internet faster than ISDN, ...) but left their parents/grandparents behind cannot rely on them to help with bringing up a child, further lowering the birth rate.

For Italy, the situation is even worse - depending on the source and demographic target, up to 70-80% of young people still live with their parents because they cannot afford their own home (https://www.thelocal.it/20161024/two-thirds-of-italian-mille...). Hard enough to... uh, get going with your partner when your parents are next room, much less actually wanting to raise a child.
Articles like this make me want to switch from engineering to marketing - there's so much innovation and potential for creative solutions in this field that not may people are actually aware of.

By the way, what's Facebook Quick Promotion that they mention? Is this a special kind of ad on Facebook?
(I think) I'm a fan of getting rid of subsidized loans for education.

It has only made the cost of education go up rather than make college affordable.

But on the flip side, what can be expected from people with no ability to afford college at the new price?

Ive been told over and over that my personal situation working full time on the midnight shift and going to college is 'unrealistic' for everyone to do.

So whats the solution? Get rid of the loans until college cut the cost? What happens to the first few years of lower and middle class kids who cant afford to go to college?
Well, honestly, I think most HN readers go to the comments before the actual article.

I know I do.

The whole value of this website is that we got 1000 of experts in their fields, ready to give you their insight.
> If only a fraction of their visitors come from the EU then it may not be worth it to deal with the GDPR.

If only a fraction of their users come from the EU they don't need to deal with GDPR, they're exempt from it.
I’m not a junior developer. By the time I started my first job, I had already been a hobbyist for ten years - since 6th grade and had a degree.

By the time I started working, it was “just a job” and 20 years later, it still is. I study and “do well”, because I am highly motivated to stay employed and stay employable at market rates.
I described some of the issues small businesses are faced with in this comment on an earlier article about GDPR:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17099878
>Would it be cheaper to produce hydrogen (and thus ammonia) using other processes?

No. The one and only thing coming close to be more economical is the nuclear sulphur-iodine process.

But by the time we get to 4G reactors, we will already be in a very different world. Bruteforce electrolysis might be something normal by then just because of its convenience.

A dark horse here is the direct production method being recently discovered in Japan.

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-ammonia-on-demand-alternative-... - looks almost too good to be true
I have your similar opinion. I was an iPhone user from the original iPhone to the 4s. I wanted a large phone, and wanted to experience Android so moved to an HTC One X. It was okay, but it didn't have the vanilla Android experience so I went to the Nexus 5 and even had a Nexus 7. I was satisfied with those, mainly because the price matched the performance/build quality/random issues I had.

An OS update caused my Nexus 7 to take minutes to open apps (I think it was eventually fixed), and my Nexus 5 kept having a random google process spin out of control and drain the battery to zero in minutes. I decided to take another look at the iPhone, and switched back. It also didn't help that Google dropped the budget line and moved towards flagship pricing.

I doubt I'll switch again since functionality is roughly equivalent between the two, and the iPhone I think is the better of the two wrt privacy. Is the iPhoneX perfect? No, but it's easily the best phone I've ever used.

BTW, I have developed and released both Android and iOS apps. Be happy you even have Android Studio now. For all the complaints about Xcode, the overall experience is a pleasure compared to developing for Android. I don't know what it is like now, but debugging in iOS was easy compared to just even getting the emulator running on the Android side. The iOS frameworks also provide so much functionality. I don't program native mobile apps at all anymore. I do miss it though.
EDIT: Since OP was apparently talking about pre-conviction jailing, my comment was non-responsive to his point, and likely yours as well.
Yes you can turn it off. Its kind of annoying if you're not a contributor
Once we have autonomous vehicles, we can spare the attention to admire the windshield instead of looking at traffic and road signs. We should throw in some good movies, too.
Same in Ontario, Canada. They heavily subsidized green energy sources and then laid the debt on the publicly owned power utility which passed on the cost to ratepayers, leading to the highest power rates in North America and a utility that is still heavily dependent on legacy nuclear and hydro to provide grid stability.
There's really no reason a company wouldn't crowdfund, it's free capital.

Investors or a bank loan will demand creditworthiness, interest payments, penalties for late repayment, and if you can't make the promised product or customers don't buy it, they can bankrupt your company.

With crowdfunding you have none of those obligations. No credit check, no interest, and you can deliver a late, low quality product, or nothing whatsoever, and the only cost is to your reputation.
Most of these articles I read about AWS Lambda (they rarely mention API Gatweway because it's expensive) sound like paid marketing.

I've seen just API Gateway costing more than entire infrastructure costs of similarly sized websites.

If you can properly saturate EC2 it will be significantly less expensive than Lambda but with lambda you have to pay API GW and the vendor lock-in price.

I've started flagging these submissions.
Sir, I was at Google before and after the China pullout. You have no idea. All governments, to some degree, will of course side with local companies (tax incentives, etc.), but China is in a league of its own.

https://searchengineland.com/did-dalai-lama-award-cause-chin...

Just one of many examples.
This sounds like/is bad economics.

Educated populace in video game history isnt value added like an engineering degree.

You can educate yourself in anything, but society only values education in a few value-added sectors.
Took this guy $177 to register a Delaware corporation called Stripe Inc and get Comodo to issue him an EV certificate that looks exactly like the real payment gateway. After Comodo revoked his cert, GoDaddy gave him one.

https://stripe.ian.sh/

EV certificates tell you that a site is owned by a company with a particular name, not that it is the company you actually want. There's a reason browser vendors are de-emphasising EV: it isn't very useful.
And still people vote for async-await because “true light threads are hard to implement at low level”. This generator-based madness has to end, but few seem to understand what hassle it brings to their coding and what an alternative could be. I don’t get it.
I've found I'm effective in Python simply because after 10 years I've learned by heart the most common APIs but would love to pick up one or more languages and it seems like Anki would be good approach, but I'd like to hear how you split up a language on to flash cards? do you make flashcards for every element of the API (module, type, class, method, function, etc)? Compiler flags, command line args etc?
Perhaps that person does have better problem skills, but who knows if someone also derived it faster within the time frame

Perhaps that person also makes a habit of not preparing & just winging it (Which is fine until it's not)
A decent camera makes it more easy though.

My 300 EUR camera can focus on the eye, and my 1.8f lens will make the background blurry. All I add is rule of the third. The camera will also measure the exposure according to the face.

And suddenly I made a photo that other people find aesthetically pleasing.

It's going to be interesting ones artificial blur / bokeh and AI compositions are mainstream.
Correctamoodo. In my recent experience, building a docker image and deploying to ec2 has been 100 times less painful than using lambda. And I can move it all off AWS and run it on a fridge in a matter of hours if I need to.
How does it "make sense"? Are you implying that the local company will behave more ethically? Baidu is also a mega corporation, that will surely allow the government access to your data at a whim.
Right now, it is merely stifling competition leaving the users without choice.
That's why you should activate the debug features I mentioned. It will write in the console when you are calling an async thingy without getting the result from it.
The Magic Leap One mixed reality headset is shipping today for $2,295
Has anyone heard of implementing an architecture where you have normal server backend architecture, while using serverless to handle traffic spikes and any failover? If you properly modularize your backend codebase, it shouldn't be excessively costly to duplicate it across a serverless architecture and in some sort of node instance.

My biggest issue with serverless is the high cost at scale, which could be mitigated with this type of architecture. Are there any other benefits or concerns regarding something like this?
Now I want to see the picture!
without fine-tuning. How do you handle database connection pooling? yes, lambda can scale as a function, but not as a wrapper around database (yet)
I've been looking say more than usual resumes and interviewing candidates. I would now not interview a candidate for an intermediate position who only has Microsoft experience. This is a proxy for operating in a corporate environment with little exposure to a narrow range of responsibility. Having too few languages/tech also indicates a lack of curiosity/passion.

That's not to say you can't be an excellent programmer but less likely a well rounded software engineer, if that makes sense. The opposite can also be true, those of that dabble in everything with no depth or appreciation of each.
Fair point, as long as it’s someone else’s time and dime to mature these arguably fad technologies of questionable value.

Until then, it’s not a mature technology, it should not be sold as such, and you take significant risk in implementing with it.
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It's bad, but bad intentionally. I haven't noticed it being buggy like snap chat. They just went out of their way to break features the browser gives you for free.
I was in the past 48hours browsing for one of their KB's and this overreaction on their behalf and the whole concept of "cloud" keyboards, has made me reflect and decide not to give them my dollars.
Star employees won't help you if the management is clueless.
The site has as broken certificate
Magic Leap One Creator Edition: a flawed glimpse of mixed reality
> if you want to pass more than 6 arguments

Isn't the number of arguments already determined by the nature of the syscall? Are you talking about a situation where one creates new syscalls?
It is not in the style of a blog, but I put this together a few years ago to teach people how async programming works. It includes a handful of examples on generators, Coroutines, how to make use of the socket libs non blocking functionality, and how to tie them together to get the yield syntax folks are used to.

It doesn’t use any asyncio parts of python but is just meant to show what’s happening under the hood.

https://github.com/ltavag/async_presentation?files=1
Thanks! The site is still fully functional, I haven’t spent much time promoting it yet, though. I still plan on keeping it up indefinitely and would be thrilled if it got some new users.

Fun fact: the site has a Rick roll feature https://splindid.com?app=welcome
> All major economies have a close government-corporate structure because every major economy modeled themselves after the most successful economy in the world - the US economy.

You make it sound like a US invention, but it's way older. I'd be more interested in learning of a counterexample. Which significant government didn't have too-close ties with its industries?
How would that even make a difference?
Why?

The most creative people I know are engineers.

My friend who studied music is a tutor making $15/hr.

He isnt writing, I know this, he does his job, goes home, end of the day as far as society outside netflix is concerned.

While this engineer is constantly playing and learning music theory, recording, and soon to be releasing content.

This could merely be personality traits, but the methodical nature of engineering may make it beneficial outside physics.
The only reason power costs go less than zero is the contracts that the green (primarily wind) generators have that guarantee a minimum price for their power regardless of time of supply.

This creates an incentive for them to keep producing electricity beyond what people are currently willing to pay for it.

These minimums have been required to fund the capital expenditures to build the plants and have generally been funded by government subsidies.

Coal plants have a different incentive structure - they are very hard to bring online/offline quickly ("base load"). Natural gas plants are _relatively_ easy to spin up/down.

I expect this will resolve itself in changes to energy storage and contracts as the technologies involved become more pervasive.
I’m struck by how many of these sites are for news and newspapers.
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> We had a huge electric kettle, which we used to produce district heating water.

...and you thought you were heating with renewable energy. You were not. Much of the "surplus" power on the grid comes from coal plants (especially in Denmark!) that can't throttle down, so someone burns coal, converts the heat to electricity at an efficiency of 40% or so, and you turn it back into heat.
Actually it could be and it is sometimes abused. You don't need to proof that you are the copyright holder to submit the request. Companies tend to err on the side of removing things to make sure they don't become liable for copyright violation.
Germany, like Japan, is infamous for placing very high demands on mothers[1]. It's not just career advancement in Japan, or rather that's a consequence. Japanese mothers are socially expected to cooks their kids' lunches every day and sew them their backpacks for instance.

[1]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10216510/The-...
In Australia SMS is still widely used because of IM fragmentation. A proprietary IM platform will never take over and we will stay in the current mess until one of the open source standards become well used.
all of those other things you listed are already in place and cost people time & dignity (which enough money can offset the cost of)

It needs to sting for everyone, not just the poor.

Do you reject higher tax brackets for the wealthy under that same line of reasoning?

Surely wealth is an important factor in deciding what people owe to society
I live in a suburb and the biggest problem I see isn't drivers, it is pedestrians. They do not use cross walks. If there is not a cross walk directly outside the shop they are leaving, they just cross the road whenever they feel like it.

Pedestrians also just stand and talk in the middle of street. It blows my mind. I have lived around the US and this is a distinctly NY thing.

And they also have the weird habit of doing their run...in the middle of the road. Even if there is an empty sidewalk with no crossings, people will just do their run in the road like they're a car.

Drivers are also to blame but there would be even fewer if pedestrians were held to some standards of road safety. Police don't even need to give tickets, just scare pedestrians into using common courtesy.
> FaaS allows me to completely eliminate web server junk from my brain.

Sure, but that "junk" is key to making things scale. Prototype on whatever you want, but if you have to leave the prototype phase you have to care about/get involved in that layer.
Nice, evidence and fact based opinions!
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I am a bit more curious on the benchmarking using an interrupt versus using a syscall.

Looking at Zircon source they are using syscall instead of an interrupt and with a micro kernel performance is going to be a big deal to be able to be competitive with the Linux kernel.
Lybia had started doing exactly that, in 2009/2010: http://helioscsp.com/libya-unveils-project-to-supply-solar-p...

In 2011, France and the US forced a regime-change that resulted in civil war and de-facto partition of the country. I would expect most of that investment has been destroyed by now, and the security situation is unlikely to be stable enough to restart this sort of grand plan for at least a decade.

In the meantime, Morocco (faithful French ally, an absolute monarchy with extremist-Islam undertones) started its own effort, which is now considered to be the largest solar-panel plant in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouarzazate_Solar_Power_Station
I browse with Javascript disabled by default, so I didn't know they were doing this. Why does the Document Foundation need to track me? Is LibreOffice itself doing something sneaky that I don't know about? I'd expect this kind of behavior from Facebook or Google, not a Free Software charitable foundation. Seeing that pop-up when I enabled Javascript made me think less of the Document Foundation. If they have a legitimate need for tracking, e.g. user logins for a forum, they can present the warning at the time the user interacts with it.
Since there are already hydrogen fuel cars available from reputable manufacturers who (I assume) would be hesitant to add a fairly complicated component into their production vehicles, it might be easiest to transport liquid ammonia to car fill stations at which point it would be converted to hydrogen before going into the cars.
Not really. Google, Facebook, and Apple aren’t focusing on everything.

But music is definitely something that Apple has been focused on since 2001.
This happened to the SickRage project a while ago when a developer was not happy about the project being forked. The repositories were down for some time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sickrage/comments/6oep02/false_dmca...
All bagels are leavened (real bagels with yeast, whether commercial or sourdough, but I'd be surprised if even 1% of bad bagels are made with non-yeast leavening). The difference between an airy bagel and a tough bagel is the type of flour (high gluten) and the cooking process (boiled then baked).