skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"To be fair"? How does that qualifier change anything? The consumer can still make choices unfettered about using $brand of their choice when baking a cake. Unfettered, operative word here.

A better comparison would be walking to the checkout line with $brand_A sugar and watching the clerk put down $brand_B and start the motions of scanning the barcode forcing you to make the active move of stopping them to say "no, I know what brand I picked out, get out of my way and let me buy $brand_A"

Simply suggesting a what works best on the side of a box can't reasonably be compared to actively halting an operation deliberately initiated by the user.
I think you might find that US media firms are the ones lobbying for this in the first place. I don't think this is an anti-US regulation at heart.

Btw, there are plenty of steps after the EU parliament before this becomes law.
Hasn't this been addressed by products like AliveCor's kardia line for a while now? I'd prefer the form factor of a phone-paired device over a watch in a multi-patient environment.
> Do these politicians really not understand the awful implications of these filtering systems for free speech and fair use?

They do, and free speech and fair use are important issues to them.
> This new Copyright Directive seems to be an accident in the opposite direction, with Axel Voss as rapporteur.

It's not an accident. Look who will profit from the link tax the most... the Axel Springer Verlag, owner of many large publications in Germany, especially the tabloid BILD. The boss of ASV is Friede Springer... who happens to be good friends with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Axel Voss is in the same party (CDU). Now add in that for a very long time the BILD was considered to be the "inofficial voice" of the CDU/CSU (the refugee influx changed that a bit, as BILD heavily went down the racist route and attacking Merkel's refugee politics but still, the paper is leaning heavily conservative).

Sascha Lobo, German journalist for SPIEGEL, has outlined the entire stuff here (in German, though): http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/leistungsschutzre...
Why is this downvoted? Seems obviously true. For the vast majority of people, for any product with speakers in it, even literally music systems, the least of their concerns is the quality of the actual speakers.

There might be a quality line below which people would notice and care but once you've passed it, they stop caring. Usually the top concern is looks, in this case it's probably the functionality of the assistant.
There is a great startup waiting to be founded that does interactive art therapy online for mood and behavioral augmentation ;)

Summary of Twenty-First Century Great Conversations in Art, Neuroscience and Related Therapeutics

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0142...
That happened long ago. Low power cores - done. Specialized coprocessors - more and more of them (from VPU to AI and whatnot). Universal coprocessors - Apple has FPGA on board since iPhone 7 (iCE5LP4K).
What are the effects? Do you happen to have data and some kind of comparison?
I think there's sufficient blame around for everyone to go home with a prize.

Trade our shitty copyright for your shitty healthcare. :)
Not only, but the overuse of "Product X is the best $thing we have ever made", while hearing also "and we completely redesigned it" pretty much every year creates the overall impression that they keep getting things wrong.
No it doesn't. It teaches you after about 20 times, that all sites are equally bad and now I can just safely ignore these popup notices.

It promotes apathy.
> CSS Paint API

That's been in Chrome for, like, less than a year - hardly a "long time". And the implementation leaked history spectacularly [0]. Rushing features out the door isn't necessarily something to be proud of.

[0] https://www.spinda.net/papers/smith-2018-revisited.pdf (see section 3.1)
My comment wasn't even about Tesla or Musk, it's about the "news" in general. There is very little factual about it.
> Hindsight is 2020

Until right now, it never occurred to me to read this as a year. Would be a great campaign slogan.
The fact that it can pick up on A. Fibb, but likely track and save strips of SVT can at least get the user to a medical evaluation with a licensed physician. It's a big deal, as a medicine resident, this could be a game change for a large segment of the population.
Prediction noted.

Per AR, I suppose hololens doesn't count? It sure felt like a step in the right direction when I used it.

Honestly, the least cool thing MSFT makes is Sharepoint. They need to just abandon that line of thinking, and think of something else. Compared to the rest of new MSFT, that whole product needs a drastic upgrade, not just the Teams UI. They missed an opportunity in workplace tech when they bought Yammer and Skype and just sat on them. Maybe they'll get another shot.
Creating and maintaining an open source project is an act of generosity. Making demands on open source maintainers and "shaming" them into political actions in no way creates a welcoming culture, quite the contrary.

If you don't like the code, fork it if you must but don't harass the creator of the thing you get to use for free.
While someone else replied, I feel it's worth putting this more strongly: this is categorically untrue. Chapter 7 provides for "the sale of a debtor's nonexempt property and the distribution of proceeds to creditors."

http://www.uscourts.gov/services-forms/bankruptcy/bankruptcy...

There is virtually no question that the Supercharger network will be bought by someone in the event of Tesla going under -- another car company, or another company that already operates a charging network, or even a new company formed to run the network. The new owner would almost certainly open it up to non-Tesla customers if that's at all possible, too. I don't think this is just true of this network, either; I have little doubt that all of Tesla will be bought if they collapse, although they might be broken up and bought piecemeal.

If I was forced to make a prediction for Tesla's fate, though, this wouldn't be it. I think it's most likely that Tesla will be bought in total by another carmaker within four years, and it will continue as a semi-independent brand for years past that, with its technology being diffused through the rest of their new owner's properties -- and vice-versa.
That doesn't address things at all, as the top comment and subsequent ones immediately point out. The entire foundational point of a polity is precisely that it defines the law within its own jurisdiction. No country, not even the USA, is powerful enough to actually act as a world government right now, which means that it is completely legally fine and in some cases morally correct to blow off laws of other polities so long as one remains careful to remain out of their power. The EU can demand others do anything they like in the same way any random person on the street could but whether that actually means anything is purely a matter of power.
Introducing the React Profiler
>In the future, once all the easy to extract oil is gone

It's already gone. That's why we've resorted to fracking.
The article mentions that GCC is still remaining a supported compiler and that there are automated builds in their CI to ensure that it stays working.
Article 11 point 2(a) also mentions hyperlinking, at least in the version linked from the EU press release (http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...).
How Does Google Make Money? It's Not Just Advertising
I take pleasure in knowing that on another timeline the US is a truly great nation that has managed to completely remove its dependency on fossil fuels, and is now switching its focus to helping poorer nations do the same.

It’s just a shame we are all stuck on this timeline...good for them though!
That sounds an awful lot like the classic game of Boggle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggle
Try working in an enterprise. I click links from emails to Jira/Confluence/Sharepoint all the time from Outlook. Do I want to use any of these tools? No, but I and tens of thousands of other employees have to on a daily basis in my workplace.
> However, what an experience it must be to work with Elon Musk.

Can you elaborate? I am not following you?
> So why do penniless immigrants keep coming here? Do they know something poor people in America don't, or are they simply misinformed?

My ancestors came here because life in the "Old Country" was so bad that braving the crossing of the Atlantic in cattle class on a ship, coming through Ellis Island, finding out that working in New York wasn't much better, and finally landing in the steel mills and coal mines of Western Pennsylvania was a step UP--but not by much.

Those same ancestors also stood in front of bullets from Pinkertons because that was preferable to allowing their working conditions to continue.

The fact that immigrants move is generally a sign of how shitty the place they are leaving is, not necessarily a sign of how good their destination is.
> `.foo` means `['foo']`

Ruby does the same, except that it's `[:'foo']` because Ruby has two string types because fuck you.
Developer Edition builds are based on their current Beta version (Fx63 at this point) and this change just landed on Nightly, which is tracking Fx64.
If there is no service then GDPR acts as a higher precedent. EU would have to change their law that users are not allowed to store XYZ content on their own harddrives.

So yes, P2P/decentralization is a perfectly legal alternative for the time being.
Show HN: Drome v0.3.0 – JavaScript task runner. No dependencies, no plugins
Wrong on several points. First, HomePod is fundamentally a speaker; the "smart" functionality is decidedly secondary. Second, no, HomePod did not come out "years after" Airport was discontinued; it was a few months. Third, calling Apple Watch mere "jewelry" is silliness; it's a very impressive product by any standard.

Amazon's digital assistant does things that Siri is not even trying to do and which can only work if you are willing to invade user privacy in ways that Apple is fundamentally opposed to. These products are not really on the same playing field.

How precisely has Dell "innovated" in fundamental ways in the laptop space? They haven't; that's a baseless claim. Dell still can't make a decent trackpad.
Yes, you could have different possible production rules for a given symbol and sample from them according to some distribution.
You could also just randomly perturb/fuzz a given iteration of the system.

A deterministic system is nice, however, because you can make changes to the production rules and rendering without having to worry about as many possible outcomes (introducing stochastic production rules increases the number of possible outputs combinatorically).
This is not too much of a problem if you're just making cool fractals for fun, but if you're doing procedural generation with L-systems then you have to keep an eye out for degenerate cases.
For example, if you're generating foliage this way, you might get plants that grow into the ground or in weird non-biological patterns.
But this has only passed the EU parliament, that is a long way from becoming a regulation.
I'm not sure it's entirely impossible to be a small player.

Let's say, a small player allows their users to make a copyright statement with the "proof of original content" (not necessarily 100% valid, just something like "I, Max Mustermann, confirm that this work is my original content produced on 13.09 in Berlin..."), possibly, automatically. This statement will identify copyright holder of the content and mark it valid, since copyright holder himself uploaded the content. This may (but not necessarily will) mean that other filters/copyright checks may not be executed, because the platform allows the participation only of original content creators.

One more option (assuming that the national law will take amendment 149 into account) is to implement a filter as an API call to the server designated by the right holder and expect the claim/"no infringement" response with some reasonable timeout (1 sec) and detailed response in extended time frame (10 min). It's a cheap "now it's your problem" solution, that might actually be allowed.
They'll just block payments to those sites. You know, from the advertisers - the actual customers of the platform. No one cares what people use for free. This is about money.
Note that Article 2 point 4(b) appears to entirely excludes from Article 13 rules organizations that are "small" or "micro," which, unless I am mistaken, means organizations that have less than 50 employees and €10m turnover or balance sheet value.
funny how people see things differently

I thought it was complete crap.
Why isn't Google more clear on the life expectancy of its products? Because it would hurt adoption numbers.
The pharmacist likely has a contract with the PBM that bars them from discussing cash prices with people who are covered by insurance. If the PBM finds out the pharmacy is circumventing them, they can void their contract which will likely put the pharmacy out of business. It's likely that the pharmacy also got screwed by this transaction as the amounts that PBMs clawback are significant for most generic drugs.

At our medical clinic, doctors review first line and second line drugs whenever they are prescribing. Along with this they discuss the cash prices based off of goodrx.com, but we're looking into commercial drug databases as well for more detailed pricing. (if you're looking for an open source project to start, create a drug interaction database as all of them are commercial and ludicrously expensive)

About a quarter of prescriptions are cheaper if you pay in cash rather than use insurance. If I were in your shoes, I would have taken the prescription to another pharmacy and asked for their cash price.
So in your comment further up, you're implying that Bloomberg et al have some kind of ulterior motives for writing articles about Tesla's shortcomings and are decrying them for it, but you're also willing to take full stock in information directly from Tesla without questioning it?

You might be right that these authors have some kind of bias against Tesla, but it is a 100% certainty that Tesla has a bias for itself. It seems hypocritical to distrust independent news organizations but then blindly trust Tesla.
Is there a government department that has been given a mandate for making money from prisoners by making them miserable?
This is pretty frustrating.
Funny, it's Lua that feels like a chore to me, because most things take around twice as many lines of code than in Python. (Though some of those lines are just 'end'.) I want to like Lua more because it's so much simpler and faster, but it could've come closer in expressiveness and catching errors.
You're correct, smaller features will improve performance. What I'm saying is that it is becoming so expensive and difficult to get high yield on smaller feature size that from a product generation to product generation other performance features (like the ones I mentioned before) will be the main factor to improved performance.

You can see this with Intel right now: CannonLake (10nm) has been delayed due to yield issues but KabyLake, Coffee Lake & Whiskey Lake (14nm) are all improvements over the original 14nm product (Skylake).
The UK hasn't had it's say yet. MEPs from the UK can vote how they like, but the European Parliament is but one stage in the process. National governments go next...
It's amazing how many of the languages that feel recent today actually came out in the 90s: Python, JavaScript, Lua, Haskell, Java from the top of my head. Python is only five years younger (1990) than C++ (1985).

I guess it shows how much time you need to invest until a language is mature enough to enter common use, unless it's backed by a large entity like Microsoft (C#), Google (Go) or Mozilla (Rust).
Once there's no company that can prevent people from tinkering with their cars (by threatening to sue/end your ability to be hireable in the industry), someone will probably figure out how to get a custom firmware running on it.
That's not quite 'one global world' we were told about a decade ago.
I wrote several thousand words on the topic a few months (email me for the link).

The gist is: you can make an image easy for developers, or you can make it performant in production, but you cannot have both.

Ease of development typically leads to kitchen-sink images or squashed images, but production performance requires careful attention to the ordering and content of layers.
They won't laugh at the lack of revenue from European advertisers. No one cares what people use for free. This is about money.
I love and miss this sort of actual hacker news. I wish we had more of these here in HN.
Great advice, and it does resonate. FWIW I'm certainly not a "no comments" guy. I just like to check myself to see if there is a better way to accomplish what I was going to do with a comment.
> unlock, start, and drive just fine.

With the key card?
Dioralyte sachets are gaining traction in the UK, they work quite well.
One could argue that shale producer profits would be limited by efforts to restrain additional pipeline deployments.
You know. Ever since Trump got elected, I've had the persistent feeling that my luck finally ran out and I'm now in a crazy "what if..." timeline, and the main canon timeline has left me behind.
Any country that's not actually trying to arrest you or otherwise detain you and where your residence and travel documents have expired will happily put you in touch with a US Consulate and have you shipped home. Edward Snowden (just as a really extreme example) can probably be on plane to the US in 24 hours, should he choose to, revoked passport and all.

Your passport is not your citizenship status. It's the latter that grants you rights and those rights are very difficult to lose. And you can be repatriated with an expired passport (or no passport).
No it doesn't, any taxi or private hire vehicle (PHV), allows you to not pay the congestion charge. I know a lot of people that have registered their vehicle as a PHV to get out of it (costs around £200 a year).
There’s no such thing as a license to possess a work. Your license is to possess a copy of the work and you can back-up that copy. But you have no license to make a fresh copy of the work from elsewhere.

While the bits may be fungible, their origin is not - and that is what matters.
I concur, I don't know how I would have managed without it these last 4 years. Done instead of archive just makes so much more sense and it's the simple UI that really stands out as the best feature. Tried the new gmail just now and it's just not as good unfortunately, so much clutter. I'll be sticking with Inbox until the last day. What a shame.
Unfortunately that's only 12% methyl salicylate. The people I know/knew that use Bengay regularly only use the higher strength versions at 30% methyl salicylate.

That said, I do find the UK to be substantially better than the Netherlands for buying a lot of things, despite being only about a hundred miles away. I wish there was an easy way to get products from the UK to the Netherlands - that would make a lot of things easier. There's stuff like Borderlinx but the prices are very high for such a short distance.
Do you do -march=native?
They are clearly still worth a bucket of money (and still make a lot of money), I was more speaking towards technology, market capture, buzz worthy. From where they were when Ballmer took over to where they are now they are a relatively second tier company. They are playing catch up and no one looks forward to using their products.
What terrible puzzles.

First, the article needs to specify that these puzzles should be done in C.

Second, none of the answers to "Print all numbers between 1 to N without using semicolon" -- the only one I clicked on -- are done without a semicolon.

Third, why are these the "top 25 programming puzzles commonly asked in a technical interviews [sic]"? He just makes that claim, without proof. (The author should have just said, "These are the programming puzzles I use in my technical interviews.")
We're going to need a ton more spots, it only works now because almost no one has an EV and those that do are self selected to people who can charge at home. Somewhat ironically, EVs currently work best when you live in the suburbs and commute into the city. If you live in the city you likely won't have a garage where you can charge. Even if you drive to work and your work has parking and your work parking has EV spots at best there will only be a handful.
The innovations that Steve Jobs is known for were new products, with new value propositions, that undermined existing products and left the market scrambling to figure things out.

Of the products that you list, ONLY the Apple Watch tries to create a new value proposition. And Apple steadfastly refuses to release specific sales numbers because it is not enough to matter relative to its smartphone market.

As for the rest, when I compare my iPhone X versus my wife's Google Pixel, it is clear which product has more innovation going on, and it isn't the more expensive Apple device. When I compare my iPhone X versus my old iPhone 8, it is clear that it is an improved device, but it isn't a new value proposition.

This is a problem for Apple. And the reason why it is a problem is that in every market it is positioned as a premium product. As long as it is a premium product with a relatively static value proposition, it is just a question of time until competitors deliver a good enough product at a better enough value that people switch. And the switching is going only one way.

Let's make that concrete. Annual iPhone sales hit 231 million in 2015. They dropped slightly and have held steady since. See https://www.statista.com/statistics/276306/global-apple-ipho... for a graphic. As a share of the market, iPhones went from a bit over 20% to under 15%, and show no signs that this will turn around. Again, see https://www.statista.com/statistics/266136/global-market-sha... for a graphic.

So Apple is doing great and probably has quite a few good years ahead. But the long-term trends aren't in its favor.
I second the online therapy route. My wife is a psychiatrist and she did this with a few of her clients when we relocated and still wanted to keep seeing her. Some continue to see her well over a year later.
> These are the same politicians that brought us the law that forces every website to ask EU visitors permission to store cookies with a big fat modal dialog

No it doesn't. For example

https://news.ycombinator.com/

Does not have any such dialog
> Europe lost the internet.

That is a bit much, it is not close to becoming a regulation yet. True, the EU Parliament could have stopped this regulation. However now it moves on to the national governments to be argued over.
You're wrong on literally every point -- especially bar placement and stance width -- and I don't buy into your false dichotomy about "living in fear". It's a simple matter of risk vs. reward. Squats are complex and high-risk. If you can achieve the same results with simpler, safer exercises, it would be stupid not to.
Except it was supported by both Labour and the Conservatives, so we apparently would be more than happy to introduce the law for ourselves should the EU not have.

I am hugely pro-european but things like this make me despair.
Eh? It had a peak in 2008 but stayed at $25 the whole time.