skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To reiterate, you cannot, ever drive based on any map, regardless of how many smartphones collected that map's data. You might use a map for navigation, but even then you'll have to deal with closed roads or changed traffic flow that isn't yet on the map. You cannot use maps for driving.
Thank you for the detailed comment. It was exactly what I was looking for. And I agree with you. I find it frustrating and inefficient if I'm just presented with the theory without any applications.

I also believe that to really understand and get an intuition for a concept, you need to see it applied, preferably in different contexts.
What they do has nothing to do with payroll.

They just handle cross currency transfers. Very far removed from payroll.
Many aspects of this talk (around the lessons to learn from Agile and failed Agile) can be applied more broadly to most functions and industries, not just software development.
Where do you live? Not the US, surely. I don't recognize the America you're describing at all. Christianity is probably one of the most tolerant religions on the planet. Christians regularly turn the other cheek and love to "live and let live". They only get aggressive when people try to interfere with their ability to practice their religion.

If you haven't noticed, there's a war against christianity in the US. Nativity scenes being shut down. Not being able to pray in school. The constant attacks from popular culture and the media. Atheists tend to be especially vocal about the fact that they shouldn't have to see, think or hear anything even tangentially related to Christianity (although they have no problem with Islam. Go figure.) Christians see this as an attack on their ability to practice their religion.
If they could I believe they would. They rather not be reliant on whoever is providing their speak recognition.
Apple's stance has been completely consistent. They comply with the law while making their ethical beliefs and stance as a company clear where they disagree with it.

What do you suggest Apple should do instead of comply with the law? Require it's employees to incriminate themselves?
What's fact and fiction about working as a British spy?
Rather a trivial observation, isn't it? This is surely true for any president in any scenario given 300+ million people having diverse views.
businesses don't seem to have a choice

Sure they do. There are plenty of smart, prudent retirement plans for companies to offer to their employees that don't involve crippling liabilities down the road. Defined contribution pensions, tax free retirement accounts, dollar-for-dollar matching (up to a limit) etc.

Defined benefit pensions were a bad idea born of a "I'll be retired before then so let's kick the can down the road" mentality.
Still true, heroin or not.
In many countries, it is illegal to under-fund your pension scheme for a significant length of time which avoids this problem. At any given time you can close the scheme and switch people to DB without a massive liability overhang that you need to close.

Eddie Lampert whined extensively about how hard the pension problem was making things for him. In a sense that is trivially true - extensive liabilities make it harder to run a profitable company - but it wouldn't have been an issue if they had been properly funding their pension liability all-along.
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Those numbers are definitely inflated, even at current stage Direct Air Capture Technology is already at well below 1000 Dollar per metric tonne with an outlook to end up below 100 Dollar per tonne in ~20 years. [0]
Not saying that DAC is the ideal approach but I find those numbers you mentioned to be very inplausible.

[0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/cost-plunges-capturi...
It's sad how the introduction of a new class of devices "smartphones" brought along with it a surveillance software platform in the form of Android. Where it is clear that the only incentive for google to develop it is exfiltration of as much personal data as they can. In contrast in the case of Apple you have a customer relationship with the company that sold you the device and they have an incentive to keep you as a customer without having a need to extract as much advertisement revenue as they can.
Ask HN: What is my carbon/green gas footprint?
I've been trying to find a google calculator that would tell me what is my carbon and green gas footprint, but I failed to find one that is accurate and extensive.

- I work from home

- I live in a small one bed flat with my gf (50m^2), no aircon and efficient district heating

- use trams/bikes/electric scooters

- drive 10k miles a year (27 miles per gallon equals 10.5 liters per 100 kilometers)

- eat beef once a month.

- 16 flights a year (2,5h flights on average)

- I buy very little stuff (no TV or any other electronic apart from macbook, phone and a screen)

- my location has a CO2 production of 7.5 tonnes per capita
In the US, pension means defined benefit pension plan, which are under the control of the company, not the pensioners. The people benefiting from the pension don’t have any say (or knowledge) properly funding them or investing the funds, and don’t know if they are being taken for a ride.

In my opinion, 401k with low fee target date funds are probably better all around.
Toyota has some 150 bn USD in cash reserves.
Agile is the ONE TRUE WAY to not follow a ONE TRUE WAY.
I like removing superfluous punctuation, but if parentheses are removed from method signatures than they should also be removed from invocations, which in turn comes with its own set of readability issues. I'm not a fan of the $ operator in Haskell, for example.
I'm German and I find that funny.

It's not that I cannot be offended by stupid stereotyping and attacks on Germans (Erik Naggum had some really vile posts in that regard), but the above is not even on my top ten list of things bothering me today.

Number one is cooking quinces to death, because I just wanted to blanch them a bit and forgot to turn the stove lower), so still pretty inconsequential.
I don't believe that people are generally against the collection and use of personal information, per se. To me, the problem lies in a couple key areas, which coincide pretty well with Cook's statement:

1) No opt-out. Some companies and institutions are decent about this, but the overwhelming majority of companies who are collecting information about me I've never heard of and couldn't name. I'm not asked if tracking, etc. is okay, OR am presented with some dense glacier of legalese when my only interest is to read some article.

2) No transparency. Who has what information about me and how are they using it? I haven't the foggiest clue, if I'm being honest about it, and I'm a relatively technologically sophisticated and aware user.

3) No deletes. Even when a company offers to "delete your data", how can this be verified complete? It is difficult for me to trust a company or institution's word on this having so insidiously collected the data in the first place. Now, before you take issue with "insidiously", consider the information asymmetry present when an average person (non-lawyer/engineer superstar hybrid) signs up for FB or Gmail. There is definitely a sense in which it is clear that you aren't getting something for nothing, but at 16 that didn't occur to me, and now the damage is done.

4) What, precisely, is this data going to be used for? Creepy ads are one thing, and have been pervasive enough long enough that I think many folks see they as normal now. I don't like the advertising economy, and take steps to shield myself and my family from it to the degree that is possible within our inconvenience tolerances, but the scary thing about this data goes beyond shitty frothing-mouth marketing efforts. When the advertisers are done with it (hah!) it is still there, waiting to be exploited in a political, judicial, or military effort of some kind. Google "Sesame Credit" for info on China's bone-chilling weaponization of social media. And yes, I know, China isn't a beacon of human rights, that isn't the point. I suspect that if China can do this out in the open, there are closed doors in DC behind which a more subtle, similar effort is at least an on-again/off-again discussion.

So no, I can't agree with you that "whatever hypothetical problem that could result from such collection of data could be solved more efficiently in a different way". I work at a 2nd tier retailer whose "Customer 360 Experience" is a surveillance program a lesser nation state would be envious of (I was very surprised to learn how much collection efforts have evolved for in brick and mortar stores). Once the data is collected, it's damned near impossible to "uncollect". Genies don't like to go back into their bottles.
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Is this really true though?

Has Tim Cook ever criticized the Chinese government or does he only ever speak on these issues when it comes to the US?
Also my first response, 'is this just marketing?'.

'Buy apple products, we care about your data. We will help protect it. Encrypt it. Not share it. And block others form trying to get your data'

But are Apple as benevolent as they say? Do you trust such a gigantic corporation? Are they colluding with governments instead of just advertisers?
Mozilla is matching all donations to the Tor Project
If they court customers with privacy over a voice assistant, consider me wooed.
What do you suggest Apple should do instead of comply with the law? Require it's employees to incriminate themselves?

I'm not the GP but I've seen this exact form of complaint many times. I think the usual response is "stop doing business in China." I don't know how that's supposed to work, though, since Chinese companies make all of Apple's hardware.
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Or not deal with countries that don't match their ethical beliefs. You know, actually taking a stand instead of empty words.
Technically,the PBGC charges insurance premiums to the pension plans it insured (non taxpayer funded ones). Realistically, ther is no way the PBGC is sufficient to act as a backstop, so it is up to the federal US government to determine how much to pitch in when shit hits the fan.
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Why not both? Scientists have said we're already screwed if we can't capture CO2 so it needs to be done at some point.
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When I hit a paywall, I walk away, or pay up, because that's the ethical thing to do - I do expect no tracking though, when I do pay up. Reasonable ads (fast, 1st party served) would be ok, tracking is really not.

But... bots (google, etc) are allowed to get through.
I understand the reasons, but then, is it really a paywall?
To be honest, I won't bother with cookies and other tricks: logged in, allowed, logged out, walk away.

In the end, I agree: don't bypass paywalls, the whole adblocking argument becomes invalid, if we do. Some publishers are trying to find a new way of income, and bypassing that invalidates the efforts.

(EDIT: treating bots differently is wrong on so many levels. I changed the User Agent of my miniflux RSS reader to "miniflux-legacy (Googlebot for Tumblr)" from "Miniflux (https://miniflux.net)" because otherwise Tumblr shows GDPR cookie consent interstitial for RSS feeds. There really, really shouldn't be a separate version for bots.)
You can get paid in the form of a free OS for your smartphone? Or free use of a video streaming platform?
I agree completely in that high quality journalism requires the appropriate wage, and I detest advertising. However, playing devil's advocate, the flip side of pay walls is that you essentially remove/hide quality journalism from being used in the the argument against the poor quality, free to publish 'news' that is often referred to as 'fake news'. Just a thought.
The difference between God and Donald Trump is that God doesn't believe he is Donald Trump.
I'm personally for speed limits and adherence to them, but not capping speeds at the speed limits (and I'm not talking about 150 MPH caps that you find in UK/EU) has edge cases that could be argued like overtaking.
I hope Google will at least analyze the idea of privacy, analyze what data they collect and if all of it needs to be collected or kept, when someone suggests let's collect everything there(and in other companies) should be some debate there before is implemented.
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> How hard is that Arkansas guy laughing who was sleeping on top of 6 brown recluses?

I get the point and I second the sentiment and intent of the article. But then again that Arkansas guy must be very brave nonetheless when he isn't worried about six brown recluses living next to him while sleeping - considering that the spider definitely is venomous and a bite can trigger necrosis.
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I like Tim Cook, I think his heart is in the right place and as much as a corporation can, Apple generally does the right thing.

I was having lunch with several lawyers at my company a few weeks ago. One of them was talking strongly about quality devices and Apple’s strong privacy stance. He literally said that we as a society should be grateful for having Apple.
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This ^. There are plenty of ways to build products that don’t require you to prey on your users just so you can have a lot more analytical profiling.
Actually the real problem is differential in speed.

So a car going 80 in a 60 hitting a car going 30 in a 60 is worse than a car going 80 in a 60 hitting a car going 60.

Now I'd rather everyone stay within a narrow limit and not go over the 'limit'.

Differential kills.
Or we could pay for journalism that the world badly needs.
I'd rather just have access to the information I want.
I don't understand the point of bypassing, the creators need to make money, if you can afford it, subscribe, if not, use another website. it's that simple
Ask HN: Are there dangers from too much carbon sequestration?
There is a popular thread where HN itself is looking to fund carbon sequestration on a massive scale to stop global warming. The idea is that if global warming goes too far it will take our planet out of equilibrium and become irreversible, so we should actively remove carbon from the atmosphere. The first suggestion was genetically engineering phytoplankton to store carbon in a form that would be less available. In a situation like that, once done we could not undo that. My question is, would there be anything bad that would happen if we had basically runaway carbon sequestration?
I would kill for a Linux phone, but until that happens I would settle for a phone that comes with root access (or at least allows technically capable users to get it) and let's me control my own data and device from the bare metal up. Because even if Apple has less incentive to exfiltrate data, I don't want to have to trust any company to do the right thing or to keep doing it.
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You can assume they have to cooperate with the US government at least, that's what Snowden risked his life for to share with us. The question you have to ask yourself is whether you care about that. I can see a near future internal conflict / civil war happening in the US though, in which case having the government - potentially your adversary - know everything about you is a bad thing.
And the fortune it cost. My Amiga based local BBS had a pile of them and most online fellows had one while I couldn't even afford a Zyxel but had to connect through a terrible 2400bps unknown name one. Thankfully it had at least Zmodem which was almost new then. Good ol' times...
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Ask HN: Is OVH support not answering 7 days for you?
I opened a support ticket at OVH on Oct 17 and until now (Oct 24) have no response. I opened antoher ticket on Oct 19 that is also unanswered. Is it just me or is the OVH support desk on a holiday ?
That rules out the US as well you know.
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"Imagine" isn't data. I wouldn't be so sure.

Rubber necking causes a lot more traffic...

Side note: Stop speeding please. You're endangering other people.
A limited subset of functionality should already be possible, especially if they can have the speech recognition trained specifically to the user.
Hi Apple. Please:

• add VPN on/off to control center

• allow per-app VPN via Apple Configurator, without enterprise MDM

• once the above two are available, we can use Tor, IDS, DPI or pihole on a per-application basis, to reduce data harvesting

• bonus1: allow the open-source iOS MDM community OR the iOS Shortcuts community to make it easy for novice users to have one-click install of "privacy-plus configurations"

• bonus2: provide open-source code for on-device, silicon-enabled voice recognition using Neural Engine. In the meantime, allow anonymous (no iCloud login) use of Siri via Tor on a per-application basis
As I said, I'm talking about "any land thats suitable to be a forest but is not already a forest". These large uninhabited areas in Canada, Alaska and Siberia don't have such land - if any spot there is suitable for trees, then trees already have filled that area for hundreds of years (I mean, these areas already have massive forests), and in the areas where trees aren't growing naturally, it's for a reason, planting won't make a difference.

If you want to convert not-woodland into woodland, then that limits you to farmland or pastures - because there's no such thing as "unused natural potential woodland", any potential woodland that's not used and left alone becomes actual woodland; any potential woodland that's not woodland only became that way when we cut down the trees and cleared the land because we wanted to use it otherwise.
Usually it's an object whose details aren't even bothered to be explained. All you know is that people want it, and their conflict drives the story. I can't remember Indiana Jones that well, but I suspect we know too much about why the artifacts are desirable for them to be classic MacGuffins.
To a pedestrian?
That would mean they pivot from a hardware company to an advertising company; I don't see that happening myself.
This is just another one of those issues where a scientifically illiterate magazine/paper picks up some article to confuse people even more. It's just pop science, you can't rely on single studies, a lot of studies suck in terms of how they're designed.

One example where this is wrong:
It's been clearly established that enough long distance running, like marathons, is cardiotoxic
I find it a little easier to decide what the Applicative instance "should" do by starting with

pair :: f a -> f b -> f (a, b)

from which you can derive the rest using pure and fmap
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As a non-speeder, cyclists here in the U.S. almost never obey the rules of the road.
>You can get paid in the form of a free OS for your smartphone?

I paid full price for my phone, there was no warning or contract for me selling my data. I also do not remember a clear EULA about me selling or paying with my data, usually this EULAs are emphasizing that data is collected to give us better services not that is sold/shared with third parties.
It may be the incentive, it may have been the incentive. But it's not the only possible incentive.

Before they were public Google did a lot of stuff that was seemingly just "because we can". Give geeks a metric-shit-ton of money and that'sb what you get.

This line sounds like the "businesses aren't allowed to do things that don't maximise profits" myth.
The first word of the law is "wirksame", which means "effective".

It's very easy to argue that this protection that is trivial to circumvent is not "wirksam".
> asynchronicity and parallelism (threads) are two entirely different concepts

They are. However, in the browser resources (such as scripts) will be loaded using multiple threads. Javascript will be executed on one thread at a time, but this execution will switch to another context at the appropriate breakpoints.

Javascript in the browser is a multithreaded cooperatively multitasking system.
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Both the widow and the recluse are quite timid. Widow bites are generally not dangerous unless you're elderly, very young, or immunocompromised. They'll swell and be red for a while, but it's not life-threatening. Get near a widow, poke it, and it cowers in fear.

The recluse's bite isn't itself dangerous - it's the necrotic bacteria that they carry that can get into your bite, which IIRC happens in about 20-25% of bites. If they bite at all - they're more likely to run away terrified than bite, but it's definitely something to be worried about.

However, if you find them, do not kill them because they are cannibals. If other recluses smell a dead one, they'll come to eat it. A recluse infestation is a very difficult job for exterminators for this reason.

I was more worried about the (biting!) gnats in GA. And the snakes. And the mosquitoes.
The kilogram will get a better definition this year if nothing holds it up (atleast, redefining it based on the planck's constant is planned for the 2018 meeting according to WP).
Seeing as Google pays Apple $12bn to be the default search engine on iOS devices I’m tempted to call hypocrisy here...

http://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-eng...
Why sell cars that can go faster
than $MaxSpeedInYourCountry ???

Politicians today have three choices:

(1) Set and enforce low speed limits, large numbers of drivers make low-impact complaints.

(2) Set and enforce high speed limits, small numbers of parents of dead children make high-impact complaints.

(3) Set low speed limits but don't enforce them. Anti-speed campaigners and road users are both satisfied.

In my country, politicians tend to go for (3). A switch to (1) would not be without its costs.
I've been in a project like that for a while and it was actually pretty good, we got stuff done on a regular and predictable cadence.
Exactly. And the eventloop that is available to a C++ application will differ completely depending on framework/platform. The only thing common to all platforms is that a thread is most likely to be the wrong way to do this.
I wasn't saying it applied. Just what's expected from a large international company relied on by so many.
They don't have the dataset needed to train the speech recognition engine, nor do they seem to be willing to deploy some of that $250b in cash to hire engineers smart enough to make a model which only needs the local user's input for training.
I believe the "hey Siri" wake up works locally. For the rest that seems complicated as many of the questions you ask Siri requires Siri to fetch something online to find the response
If you think putting children in cages and having open borders is the only two positions you can hold, you're delusional.

Bernie wants a stronger social system in the U.S. If you want universal healthcare, you can't have open borders. But you also don't have to put children in cages. You consider each case, provide asylum if they're in danger, deport if not etc.