skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if you don't remember it ever happening, what did the laws curb again? I'm talking about the effectiveness of adding laws... going from 0 to 0 demonstrates no effectiveness much less the effectiveness required to overcome the societal cost of compliance.

The laws might have curbed what would have happened if they didn't exist - and did end up happening in places without it, like the US. Remember that the Data Protection Directive is from 1995, before companies were so connected and exposed, so a lack of such breaches before it passed is not very indicative of its lack of effectiveness. But a comparison with other countries might be.

embedded big business cultural differences

Maybe, but law shapes culture too, so that's hard to separate. As an European myself, I'm kind of skeptical that our business people would intrinsically care much more about data protection when their money is on the line.
https://panopticlick.eff.org/ eff has a tool that can show you what weird things your browser is doing to identify you
The article covers all that.

Warburg missed the freedom, and excitement, of the German markets in the 20s and 30s. So created an instrument, Eurobonds, in the 1960s to escape the carefully constructed international limitations of Bretton Woods. Add further desire to be outside the system from the US not being a neutral arbiter of the postwar international currency. That led to the inspiration for Eurobonds: the Eurodollar market.

Thus course was set on the race to the bottom. The US came off the Gold Standard, Bretton Woods was deconstructed and most national regulations that responded to the depression and war were repealed along the way.

That Warburg managed to get away with something so artificially constructed to evade laws is, to say the least, disappointing.
Exactly. Additionally, methadone increases cardiac mortality by increasing the QT interval, so the drug with better efficacy and safety profile should fully replace it.

Buprenorphine is good. And someone can’t get on it if they’re too addicted to opiates because as a partial agonist it can precipitate accelerated withdrawal, which acts as a protective mechanism, I imagine.
I would disagree that buprenorphine is safer than oxycodone or pharmacologially pure heroin. Buprenorphine has more dangerous potential side effects than either of them, meaning it would be safer to use heroin or oxycodone. Also, the reduced risk of overdose isn't because of the drug, it's because the user isn't dosing it themselves.
Use the --profile option
"Google calls the feature "Identity consistency between browser and cookie jar" and a Chrome representative on the official Google Chrome Help Forum confirmed that this is the intended behavior.

>This is an intended behaviour if you are using the same Google Account for your Gmail and Chrome. If yes, you'll be signed out of Chrome when you signed out of Gmail account.

...

Good news is that it is possible currently to disable the feature. Doing to breaks the link between the Google Account in Chrome that is used to sync data and Google accounts on Internet sites.

Note: Google may remove experimental flags like the one described below at any time. As long as it turns up when you run the steps below it is supported.

Here is what you need to do:

1. Load chrome://flags/#account-consistency in the browser's address bar. Google Chrome should display the flag Identity consistency between browser and cookie jar at the top.

2. Set the flag to disabled with a click on the menu and selecting disabled from the context menu.

3. Restart the Chrome browser.

Chrome breaks the link between the Google account in Chrome used to sync data and Google accounts that you sign in using the browser on Google sites."

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/08/disable-the-sign-out-link-...
Not that simple. It's not just about managing a few meters, but managing a few meters increase in worst case. E.g for London a few meters is a minor problem in normal situations, but a few meters in worst case situations have potentially dramatic impact on costs to upgrade the Thames Barrier, and will have dramatic impact in terms of how large areas downstream of London will get flooded if the Thames Barrier needs to be closed.

A lot of cities face issues with follow on effects like that.

It won't be 'the end of the world' if its just a few meters, but it is still enough that cities like London face multi billion flood defence upgrades, and towns housing hundreds of thousands will face increased flood risks as a consequence of anything done to upgrade the defences.

And you're severely underestimating the direct damage. Many of the highest population density areas in the world are at risk,and many of the areas at worst risk are also among the poorest, like Bangladesh.

As for extreme weather, yes indications are that we're heading for more overall extreme weather, not just changes.
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Excellent list! But you should probably add AirTable ;)
F.M. Busby was pretty good.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._M._Busby
That reminds me of a story which I read in Ray Bradbury's collection, _The Illustrated Man_.

The captain of a rocketship (that's the word used) is obsessed with finding a supposed miracle-worker. They land on a planet where the locals tell them of a man who healed a child's broken arm with just a touch. The captain demands evidence and is presented with a painting of the child with a cast around his arm. The captain derides the painting, saying that it could be fake, whereupon his next-in-command points out "Photography is an unknown art on this world."

That's right. They have faster-than-light space travel, but image manipulation is unthinkable.
Here is the crux of the matter (in mathematical terms):
"university admitted about 7,000 students this year, up from 5,300 last year, according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel."

"The university is years away from building a planned 3,000 campus housing unit, but thousands of local residents have already signed a petition to stop the development"

So they planned on having 3000 more housing units (staff, students and additional personnel), they didn't get it. There is your shortage. The plan was flawed because it didn't account for the fact that local residents might not go along with it.

Pinning this on the tech industry is another example how lazy politicians push their problems on tech industry because it's a popular target.
i'm curious whether you experience chronic pain yourself. opioids are a dangerous class of drugs, and the decision to use them is based on weighing the severity of a person's pain against the inherent risks of using the drugs. in a certain sense, i find it quite inhumane that this decision can only be made by someone who has no accurate way of knowing how much pain the patient feels.
"Included 22W bright full spectrum circling fluorescent bulb provides vivid glare-free natural daylight effect"

LED and Fluorescent are very different things.

Anecdotally, fluorescent lights annoy me, but warm LED lights are great.

You may want to replace the fluorescent light that comes with the lamp with a warm LED light.

https://www.google.com/search?ei=PjaUW62rOcHa9AOq97HwDA&q=re...
It’s also not even simile, since the “like” here signals lazy approximation, not comparison.
Your talking about just multiple logins like Google allows right?

I still have to switch back and forth and would rather keep both open.
For some reason they don’t allow me to do it online. Probably because they were the ones providing my data to whoever is using it.
No, I don't think they should, if what they're selling is what they claim to be selling. If it's laced with fentanyl or some other adulterant, that's another story (regardless of whether they were aware it was adulterated or not).
Yes, craigslist.org accidentally killed local news. Craig Newmark is aware of this and is in engaged in philanthropic counter-efforts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17936761

I doubt it's a coincidence. There's a common pattern where a popular new topic/thing on HN generates a few reposts and posts of old articles about the popular new topic/thing.
I like Pinboard and think it’s a great service.

Personally, I don’t like services for software. I like this model where I pay for my own hosting (which I do already) and run OSS software for free. To me, the DIY model is suitable and sustainable for user level programmers.
> Newspapers overlap with 100% of the era when democracy has been the norm in the West. Studies have shown that people who read newspapers, as opposed to watch news on television, remember more details about political events. So it is newspapers, specifically, which need to be saved.

It sounds like it's "remembering more details about political events" that you really want to save. Are you sure newspapers are the only way to accomplish that?
I know that one of my colleagues got tenure solely because they had an issue with teacher retention in the math department. They weren't recommended for rehire after their first year, even from the person who supervised them, who was a friend. But, the school was struggling to fill the math spot that it already had open, and so they, of course, didn't do anything to her. This was repeated several years. In fact, I think they've had to hire a math teacher each of the past 5/6 years due to various things.
Ask HN: What does a “web content developer” do on a daily basis?
I saw the term used here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11293323

It said the "web content developers" didn't know JS, only HTML and CSS. I'm curious: What do "web content developers" do where they can get by without JS?
You can write your own custom intersection shaders to support other types of geometry but they will run using the regular compute hardware rather than with the dedicated hardware for the ray triangle intersection. I believe they will still benefit from the bvh traversal hardware.
Buprenorphine also increases cardiac mortality by increasing the QT interval. Buprenorphine is used over methadone mostly because its a partial agonist of the mu-opioid receptor which basically limits how high you can get.
They massively overadmitted, yes, but that wasn't the plan at all. Correctly identifying the matriculation rate is extremely difficult when most students are applying to 10-20 colleges, and of course only attending one. The obvious recourse would be to rescind admission for thousands of students, but the ill will generated by such an action would be extreme, as all the matriculants would have already lost the opportunity to attend the other colleges they were accepted to.
That's true.

Conservation of energy is not a physical law. It's a consequence of mathematical theorem called Noether's theorem. All systems with certain differentiable symmetries have a corresponding conservation laws.

In a system that is not time translation invariant, energy don't have to be conserved. Expansion of universe breaks the time symmetry.
I use posteo (https://posteo.de/en)
I uninstalled it a while ago, but mainly because I was tired of all the annoying notifications, and to stop wasting time.

Only thing I miss is being able to upload pictures from the phone's camera, but not nearly enough to install it again. Especially now with all the privacy concerns that have been exposed.

In fact I've severely restricted my time on FB in general lately, even if I have people that I care a lot about in different countries. On the bright side I've been taking more on the phone with them, which is better anyway.
Mild sociopathy is arguably a net-help to the person possessing it, not a net-hindrance to the person possessing it. And on the other end, I've experienced first hand how guilt and anxiety can cripple a mind.

Ergo ...

> I don't really want to be a sociopath

... why do you harbor such self-sabotaging feelings?

EDIT: counterarguments are more persuasive than downvotes.
> people of your ilk

I think the conclusion can be drawn even without the rest of the comment. There will always be some bigot dying a little inside seeing the world is evolving and they're left behind.

Spewing out some hate for a couple of other bigots is not that much of a big deal. But today's "Speaker's Corner" has an audience of (tens of) millions. And the bigot doesn't stand up in front of anyone, they do it from afar, in anonymous comments, in podcasts, from behind a mask. If you can't understand how much of a difference that makes than maybe you belong to that age and not this one.

And there's one thing your ilk doesn't understand: you're free to make that hate speech. You shouldn't be free of the consequences. Which is why I said it should be punished, not censored. If it's censored then people might mistakenly take those bigots for worthwhile human beings :).

You'd understand the power of hate speech better if enough voices called for violence against bigoted sexagenarians or something like that.

Oh, one other popular thing in the '70s was KKK which you obviously fully support because it happened so it must be right.

Draw your own conclusions.
How many "beautiful young people" want to have sex with 50 year old professors? If you think I'm crass stating it like that, then why did you have to bring up "beautiful young people" as some argument?

I'm actually tired of this discussion. My entire point is it's a red herring that distracts from the issues around housing.
Honestly, I think the only thing that sticks out to me is that JavaScript treats addition and catenation as the same thing, and, humbly, I don't think they are. Maybe some folks here more intimately familiar with good type handling can give their two cents.

But, I've enjoyed dynamic typing in languages where values had types and variables didn't, and because there wasn't any consolidation of addition and catenation, everything was fine. Also type coercion seems to be a pain point in JavaScript for some, whereas explicit type conversion through function calls in other languages seems to remove these issues, in my experience.

And TypeScript seems to bring a lot of powerful concepts to developers who enjoy the benefits of strict typing, which is great.

But, languages that continually expand their grammar complexity and usage conventions feel harder to master to me. Now and again I come back to Lua's reference manual and learn something new that I don't see other developers in that space recognize, and that's the simplest practical scripting language I know. It's complex syntax in Backus-Naur form is one section of the reference manual.

ECMAScript literally has multiple chapters to explain its grammar. I just don't understand how you can truly master that. At least, you certainly would not know all of the edge cases with the language.
The question isn't "what splits could you make", but "what concrete benefits and downsides are there from making the splits".

Splitting AWS off basically has no impact since they are already run as pretty separate entities and AWS already sells to external customers.

Your example of Amazon Logistics also already exists, it is called Fulfillment By Amazon.

Amazon the website also lists plenty of things from other merchants, so again, is already provides services to other players.

Maybe there is some subsidization going on here that forcing Amazon to ensure everyone is treated equally and doing proper accounting would expose, but everything we know about Amazon is that they already do this internally, which isn't surprising since every business unit in every large company needs to show how they benefit the company and "charging" internal customers the external price is an easy way to show value.

As far as I can tell, the only piece of this that isn't available to external parties is the data on consumer habits.... but people have been complaining about fast followers long before Amazon, and you can usually make a good estimate about the market just by looking at the volume of reviews.

I mean, there are cases, e.g. Diapers.com where Amazon has clearly abused its market power, but that seems like a thing we could handle directly with laws declaring that large companies cannot sell products below cost, with proper accounting for all of the fulfilment/etc services they use.
> Buprenorphine has more dangerous potential side effects than either of them

genuinely curious, what are these?

> the reduced risk of overdose isn't because of the drug

it is significantly harder to overdose on buprenorphine, especially in formulations that contain naloxone.
I really respect & enjoyed your post. I've been experimenting with similar ideas but in my case I've used multiple RNN & CNN trained for different aspects of the music. For example train one NN just to identify compatibility between bass lines and rhythms. One NN to generate chord progressions. One RNN to generate melodies on top of the chords etc. check it out:

http://treblemaker.ai/

https://github.com/shiehn/TrebleMakerDocker
I say the graduate degree programs are highly variable. I'm currently in one for a MAT, and it's really just mostly busywork that's useless. My classes are either all geared towards elementary/middle school or, the one that is on secondary schools, the teacher hasn't taught in a public school for about a decade, and has never taught in the state that most of us are based in, or in a rural area.

I'm sure there are some good ones, yes. I feel like the in-person one near me here would be better, since they can tailor to our needs, but it's also much more expensive. And still doesn't deal with the fact that a lot of the professors aren't in the classroom, or are in more privileged schools. It's the same issue I have with a lot of the professional development stuff you see, too.
(2017) Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record
There is a great difference between people with a computer science background who try to generate art with programs and artist who try to use algorithms to generate art. There are many people of the first kind, but a few of the second kind. I advice you to study the works of people of the first kind, before you present your algorithms as art. For example, have a look at http://www.pstruycken.nl/EnWorkaImgList.html with work s of one such artist. (It is only about halfway the page that the first works made with computer programs appear.) Take notice of his colour use.
Parent comment I was originally responding to opens with:

> This is more the fault of NIMBYs and supply&demand-denialists...

The term "NIMBY" is used IMO to caricature and demonize people who have done nothing worse than own their own homes and desire some control over their neighborhoods, towns, and cities. Land use is hard enough to figure out without painting our neighbors with a pejorative brush.

> the actual housing policies of many cities in the bay area, which are extremely against adding new housing

I agree.

> most commonly characterized as NIMBY

That's the idea I am decrying. Please don't do that.

> It looks like you view this term to be offensive, I didn't realize.

I do. Worse, it's actively working against mutual comprehension and effective political solutions. We have the technology: "Four-story Berkeley building built in four days" https://sf.curbed.com/2018/8/6/17656118/fast-apartment-resid...

The solution we need is political and getting mass cohesion at the level required takes positive uplifting values, not name calling and caricatures.

> My key point was about the ratio of jobs to housing. It may not be desirable or realistic to expand the overall population of the area past a certain amount. But I think it is realistic to zone/approve enough housing, to match the amount of jobs that are zoned/approved (through office space). Overall, the bay area has been adding much more jobs than housing, and I think this is a major factor in the housing problem aside from wages. And the result of this is that more and more of people's paycheck goes to housing, they have to commute long distances, etc.

Yes, absolutely! It's been easier and more profitable for developers to build skyscrapers and office buildings for decades, so that's what we've got.

I'm not denying that there are folks who don't look much farther than their own backyards when it comes to their votes on land use issues. I'm saying that, in order to make any real progress, we have to understand each other and work together.

> Rather than opposing housing when there is a shortage, I'd rather see more effort put into opposing new office space instead, and when housing has caught up cities could facilitate a public dialogue about what residents want with regards to growth etc.

Legend has it that SimCity was developed to explore the ideas of Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language. I think we should play a giant, realistic simulation of the city, region, state, biome, nation, continent, globe, all together in a MMORPG.

By the time we have hammered out what we want the future to look like the robots will be able to build it for us in a twinkling. I estimate ~30 +/- 15 years if the weather remains (relatively) stable.
> That the rich get richer is just math, not a value statement.

The actual statement is "The gap between the rich and poor is widening".

Of course the rich will be rich. That's a tautology.

They don't have to be rich at the expense of the rest of society, which is where we're at now.
You can have them open in different chrome windows simultaneously. I keep one widow with my personal login and another with my work account and it works fine.
I'd love to see a writeup of that too. I read the original papers when they came out, and have wanted to do an implementation ever since.
The problem is the need to subsidize student housing due to high real estate costs, not professors. If professors don't want to move, we're subsidizing them through student housing subsidization. Apologies if I didn't make that thought clear.
The contributing guidelines page at https://github.com/davisonio/awesome-irc/blob/master/CONTRIB... gives a 404.

Wanted to mention mattermost.com/.org as a Slack alternative in the Group Communication/Chat Tools section.
I just took an 8 hour overnight Megabus last week and had a horrible time sleeping, ruined my entire next day. I was really struck by the thought that it's so strange we haven't found a solution to this yet - how hard can it be to just put beds on buses? It's such a simple step towards more sustainable long-distance travel. What a pleasure to see that this is possibly a near-future reality :)
Luckily we still have some semblance of "rule of law" rather than "rule of mob", else vindictive people would throw medicine (among other industries) back into the Stone Age.
Approach compliance like security -- it'll never be 100%. Except with HIPAA compliance, your goal is both to prevent data leaks as well as document to cover yourself legally.

Ignorance is no excuse, so it's important to take the recommended precautions. I would suggest hiring a 3rd party auditor with some sort of certifications -- that'll be an important CYA.

In general, you want to have written protocols and documented auditing for the following (plus some general concepts):

* Encrypt at rest, in transit

* Who has access? What is the policy for granting/revoking access? Is there an audit trail to see who accessed what, in the event of a breach?

* What data / systems are considered PHI/PII?

* How do you train employees about HIPAA?

Most of this is documenting processes and then showing that you review the logs every 3/6/whatever timeframe.

A more complete list: https://www.hipaajournal.com/what-is-a-hipaa-violation/
Can people affiliated with UCSC comment on this? I'm not aware if UCSC really has a leg up in terms of prestige compared to the big ones (Berkley, Santa Barbara, San Fransisco, LA...)
Oh, well my calculations are off by 25% then and my point kinda invalid.

Never heard about a distincion between a developer and programmer. Seems to be a distinct BLS category.
What would be the biggest reason one would fail a coding interview?
Would it be thr lack of technical knowledge or preparation thereof? Being terrible at explaining your code? Bad coding? Or maybe just pure statistics? I just want to know thoughts from HN reader