skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I skimmed through that law draft. Translation: They want you to face jail, if you provide an "internet based service", which "accessibility is restricted due to specific, technical precautionary measures", and which "purpose is to allow or encourage specific illegal actions".

They refer in particular to the Tor network and its abuse by serious crime, but how I read this law, you could apply it for all kind of things. For instance if somebody runs an encrypted IRC channel or email service. This is yet another attack on freedom in Germany thanks to the Christian Democratic Union.

EDIT: The original law draft can be found here:

https://www.bundesrat.de/SharedDocs/TO/975/erl/10.pdf?__blob...
If you were to say how much you get paid, you would in general say you make x an hour. You wouldn't say "Well, after taxes, rent, food, gas, insurance, etc, I make x-y an hour."
Not only do you still have to hassle with Apple's clunky provisioning profiles, it only lasts for a week and you're almost guaranteed to get an error message because you reached the device limit with as much as one device.
No, no, it is an understanding of how to recurse just right. Not an understanding of the concept of recursion in general.

Basically, recursion plus memoization is almost the same in terms of power and approach as dynamic programming.
> reading Shakespeare

This is pretty funny considering the connotation of Shakespeare's works at the time.

Something similar with video games in more recent times. Playing NES games has a slightly high-brow -- or at least higher-status -- connotation, compared to when the games were new. Now they're retro, which means playing them or similar games is more serious or something. Whereas back in their heyday, they were seen as almost entirely the domain of nerdy little boys, a silly thing for silly children.
I’m not their boss, but who says I can’t criticize it if it doesn’t meet my and others’ needs? If you observe all the discussions here on HN, you’d see that most of the criticisms and disagreements that people have with someone or some company relates to priorities not matching. Signal is not getting some special mistreatment here. In my other comments I have mentioned (that I have been) focusing on selling Signal to the average user. That doesn’t work well because of such issues (I have also listed other issues with Signal in some other comments here).

If Signal wants to become more popular, then it should also look at what average users need right now (the deal breakers) when prioritizing requirements and features. As I said in another comment, Signal seems focused on investigative journalists, dissidents and activists. Nothing wrong with that at all, but it reflects poorly on people who comment on HN recommending that everybody should use Signal.
Your premise is mistaken. Sri Lanka's murder rate is lower than that in the US, but that doesn't make it low by international standards. I doubt that Buddhism has much to do with it. For example, both Israel and Jordan have much lower murder rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
Rare virus outbreak leaves a US Navy warship quarantined for over 2 months
The problem with Santa is other parents. If you have that one child that doesn't believe in santa, and they gleefully inform all the other children at the daycare/school that santa is a lie, then you can imagine the blowback from parents of other children.
https://www.bestvalueschools.com/most-affordable-universitie...
I was a fan of rust when it first started. i wrote some consensus algorithms and metrics packages in rust. i also hosted a rust podcast. I now believe Rust has failed. Mostly because of the arrogance of organizations like the rust community and the inability to form stronger relationships with companies like apple. I now think that people should focus on swift and soon it will have the same native code support and a borrow checker. I think we all learned a lot but it’s time to realize people still don’t understand why not go and swift. C programmers continue to prefer c and more and more people are shifting back from rust to c++. rust will never provide enough
This article has a cynicism that feels born of a ton of experience. I’ve only gone as far as a couple different colored lights (Hue and LIFX). And I think I might be replacing most of them with dumb bulbs when I move to a new place in a couple months. They’re just not worth the hassle.
I've been amazed at how well my kids' teachers establish social norms in their classrooms, early in the school year. A single adult can be very effective at establishing an environment that promotes positive social interaction and behavior.
> Fukushima did massive contamination of inhabitable land

Have you seen the dose rates in the area recently and compared them to the higher end of natural background in inhabited areas on Earth? If not I recommend you do. It's very reasonable to evacuate an area during a massive nuclear accident. When the dose rate goes down, it's very reasonable to go back. Here's a handy reference: [1]. The main point is that global warming gets rid of even more inhabitable land by pushing people out of cities en masse.

> No wonder nuclear advocates love to focus on it as if it's the only alternative.

Nuclear is safer than almost every other energy source. More people fall of their roofs installing solar panels per TWh than people die from nuclear accidents. Hydro has killed people by the 100,000 as well. Shoot, even wind kills people with ice-throw [2].

> That said, do you know anyone who died from coal?

A few hundred thousand per year, but no I don't actually know any of those people. Do you know anyone who has died from nuclear power, which kills 6 orders of magnitude fewer people?

The main point is that global warming is the serious threat and we should throw all serious low-carbon energy sources at it. Nuclear is the only large-scale operational low-carbon source that can run through daily and seasonal weather shifts, so it should play a large role. Wind and solar are needed as well, at about 20x their current deployment.

[1] https://xkcd.com/radiation/
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...
My problem is I become relentless about making the software do what I want it to do.

If I know something should work, and I can’t get it to work, I’ll work on it for days weeks and even months.

I hate to say it but sometimes the thing I’m trying to do isn’t even important, it’s just that I MUST make it work.
Where does is say that?
Do stfu.
For gamergate's own view:

https://medium.com/@KingFrostFive/gamergate-august-2014-revi...

To be clear: This is not an endorsement. This is provided only because of the stark contrast with the wikipedia article depiction.
List of employers on my CV speaks for my approach to debugging.
Classical music in film and tv more commonly signals erudition, not simply villainy. When there is a class conflict involved In film, the higher class characters are more commonly the villains, and an appreciation for classical music signals their remoteness.

Philadelphia uses Hanks’ appreciation for opera to signal his class status, not villainy. Silence of the Lambs uses music and food same way.

Making the direct hop to villainy is too simplistic, and pointing fingers at Clockwork Orange is absurd. That film’s synthesized classical music is used to draw a parallel between the commodification of violence and the commodification of culture more broadly.
I grew up in a house where a sibling played brass but (though I did play an instrument) I lacked any sort of "classical" training. I never much enjoyed symphonies but strangely enough did enjoy (parts of) the ones that I'd heard my sister practicing because it was interesting to hear everything else fill in around it and finally appreciate the context.
Clarification. What is the steam tax you speak of? I understand when people use the term 'Apple tax' (for example), they're referring to a premium price on a premium product and the follow up premier prices that come with it. But as far as Steam's prices go - assuming the term is used in relation to the price of the products - I don't see any particular inflation over the price of games in a brick and mortar store. In fact, even comparing Steam prices to GOG or the Humble store, I don't think I've ever encountered any discrepancy in prices that points to a "steam tax".
Imagine if hitler had loved pepermint drops. His favourite- and nobody would sell those anymore. Everybody with a lack of bad breath would be under immediate racism-facism suspicion.
Wriggle out of this one Wrigglys.
> No. Valid argument.

Nope, still entirely invalid. Switching from combustion to electric in vehicles decouples emissions from energy consumption in transportation, which is step 1. From that point on, it's generally up to the larger players e.g. governing bodies, energy suppliers, etc. to make the switch -- but not entirely so. There's already enough funding/incentives on the table to encourage people to not just decouple emissions from transport, but to eliminate emissions entirely eg by powering via their own renewable energy setup. Prices have dropped by more than 60% in five years down to just over 3 dollars a watt, and if that trend maintains itself, we'll be under a buck fifty in the next five. The only way that trend keeps going is if everyone, large players and small, have access and incentive to keep buying and drive costs down.

But none of those trends sustain themselves if the necessary energy decoupling doesn't take place, and that's what electric cars are aiming to do in transportation.
>If the language, architecture, religion, sphere of influence, culture & laws were all completely different why wouldn’t you distinguish it?

Because it was a single, continuous political entity. Why would any of those aspects have any relevance as to whether the political entity of Rome persisted?

>We distinguish between the Roman Republic vs Roman Empire and in lots of ways they had much more in common than the Byzantine.

Because there was a break in the political entity, though even this is a anachronistic division since Augustus and the emperors of the "Principate" took pains to maintain the appearance of the continuation of the Republic. But the reality was, at least, that the nature of the Roman state had changed into a new and different one.
It's not free to build a platform, but I believe the cost has already been paid by the users when they buy their device.

No reason to have users pay twice, when they buy their device and when they try to use services on the device they already have.
I Spent a Week Calling People Out on Their B.S (2017)
pre grad here:
2015:13/hr general purpose it intern (wpf & sql dev, help desk)
2016:15/hr sysadmin intern (wrote bash scripts all day)
2017:15/hr college help desk
2018:25/hr intern (Python, Angular)
Not sure why hand counting is so difficult. In the UK we hand count elections. It is just a matter of sorting ballot papers into a pile for each candidate. This pile can then be easily checked to make sure that no vote has been mis-recorded.
Sussman get's paid more than the amount of the bribes used by the wealthy to get their kids into colleges
I agree with the general thesis, but this:

> Maybe millennials are repelled by classical music not for coherent reasons but by a vague sense of mistrust, nourished for decades by movies and media.

Sounds like the exact kind of conspiracy theory he's accusing "the populace" of having.
You could not make a more dishonest selections:

>For example, in the last five years Tesla has had more health and safety violations in their factory than the top ten automakers in the US combined

Because Tesla manufactures all its car in California, which has far stricter rules than other states. If other manufacturers moved their production there, Tesla would rank better than the competition

>Tesla cars have among the worst reliability of any car brand

And yet, Tesla owners keep recommending their cars more than anyone else, because the car is that good. There are many things that might no be "highly reliable" (even important things, like cars) that are so great to use that you'd buy them again against the current alternatives (like a Tesla vs noisy, polluting, gas-guzzling vehicles).

>In 2018, Toyota and Volkswagen each sold over 10 million cars

So what? How many of them are EVs? One could wonder how Nokia's sales were going when the iPhone started becoming mainstream…

>Volkswagen is starting its push into EVs.

They've been starting since 2009.

>Porsche, Audi, VW, Skoda, and SEAT to start

And yet, we just learned (no later than last month) that they are changing all their EV plan because their future models cannot compete with the current Model 3 (source: https://www.manager-magazin.de/premium/audi-bram-schot-will-...)

Two quotes from this article:

>The Porsche and Audi engineers have to change [the Premium Platform Electric program] because Tesla’s Model 3 has gotten better than they thought.

>The e-tron as the first electric Audi is not only late. It does not reach some target values and has become far too expensive with more than two billion euros in development costs. The approximately 600,000 cars sold for the break-even are now regarded as an illusion.

>Volkswagen also wants to license its MEB electric car platform to other manufacturers. They already have one licensee

Oh, you mean the MEB platform that is being holding up until they can come up with something that is on par with Tesla tech and cost? Ah!
Thumbs up for Yakitate Japan, whoever hasn't read / watched it should immediately.
Unfortunately I am not sure a similar thing can be done for programming himself. I mean what would that be like?
"hehe, you'll never managed to win that hackathon, you software use way too much memory! Oh but what are you doing, instantiating your class in your export statement...
Masaka!"
"Sono masaka desu. SINGULUTON desu!"
// main character clicks the compile button 5 second before the deadline, and thanks to his nakama optmisation of the webpack build using cache, it manages to compile in time.
"So you managed to use a little trick to make your memory under the maximum allowed, but you will need more than that to beat me, the Prince of Functional Programming"
// Judge arrives, try the application of the oponents, gives him perfect score as expected,then goes on to the hero. He doesn't even understand the code just by looking at it. But then as he try to open the application, he realises that actually, he implemented the form in WEBU GEE ELU, and he's blown away by the quality of the interface, giving the hero higher than the maximum score."

Scratch that, I would watch the fuck out of that show.

(initially I was gonna say it could be more about the business side i.e silicon valley but damn did that thing write itself)
Barriers, Moats, and Preserving Competition
This one does:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt...
My favorite quote from the article:

"Remember, S in IoT stands for Security."
change to german to english and it will work
lol indeed, latin was obviously pronounced similar to modern spanish/italian
> I could point to a host of 70s and 80s film that had classical music scores, Star Wars, Indiana Jones etc, etc.

Let's not forget Zardoz (1974)!

Weird sci-fi, Sean Connery, and Beethoven's Seventh; what's not to like?
“Why You Should Become a Data Scientist – Magnimind Academy”
Yes, it looks much more like an MPV/minivan to me, crossed with one of those SUV Coupes (think BMW X4).
Not for me but I'm sure there are other who are okay with that lifestyle. To each their own.
I've always suspected that CNN is a work of art...
Respiratory disease kills everyday people from coal emissions left and right by similar mechanisms to smoking. The numbers are huge for asthma and COPD, and large fractions of those are attributed to fossil fuel air pollution. In less developed energy markets, indoor cooking is as bad or worse. In the USA, the Clean Air Act saves lives like crazy but we still are killed by fossil emissions.
The cheapest 5-seat Model Y is $51k, 7-seat is $54k. I bought a 2018 Acura MDX (7 seats) with 3k miles for $42.3k. At $3 per a gallon of premium gasoline and $60 for each oil change, I think I'll spend $11.7k in about 3-4 years. So, the 7-seat Model Y sounds better, doesn't it?
GTA ruined the kids, just watch how they careshare today. They just bash each other on the had. The world is a dangerous place, a mad maxian dessert due to people simply copy pasting behaviour.
Are you really free to do something if it comes with highly unfavorable conditions then?
Often ROI is not realized on the short-term but rather the long tail. Users may not bounce immediately... however whether they stick with a product or not over time, may be a result of how usable it is. Same with if they would recommend it to a colleague or family member over a longer period of time. These things can be harder to quantify and are often omitted in ROI analysis.
"When you implement an algorithm using C++, you can write it down without one second of pause, but you can’t do that in Rust. As the compiler will stop you from borrow checking or something unsafe again and again, you are being distracted constantly by focusing on the language itself instead of the problem you are solving."

Yeah...

On my last C++ project, one very productive co-worker kept disabling -Wall, etc., because "nobody has got time for that." I periodically fired up valgrind and chased down assorted memory issues.

So, yeah...
How about news broadcasting then? The weather report?
So the government decides that it's better that they waste away in prison and they shouldn't have any chance of improving themselves at all?
Well, no, if they're required to harass the "consenters" equally to the "nonconsenters", then that (a) removes the motivation for users to fake consent just to get away from the harassment; and (b) motivates the site developer to choose an amount of popups that's actually appropriate for the UX they want, since that'll affect all users all the time.

If a site doesn't wants to cover itself all the time with a popup regarding cookies, then they're not allowed to cover itself all the time for users who never consent to tracking.
I have hard time studying in general, especially math. It's hard to sit down and focus for any significant amount of time. But friends and family noticing the anxiety would do very little for me. Then again, I am a grown man and maybe understanding the plight of the kids will help us not put pressure on them.

But people could also be experiencing this for any subject. I don't see why this is limited to math.
Why does “math anxiety” get such special attention? What about “foreign language class anxiety” or “essay-writing anxiety” or “being forced to read old books I don’t care about” anxiety? Is it because journalists tend to like those activities and be scared of math?
Original link (German): https://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2019-03/tor-netzwerk...
Isn't that just the classic graph coloring problem though? A tree is just a type of graph.
Snapchat to launch gaming platform next month: Cheddar
Morningstar Web Services API Client
It is hard to think about program architecture. Most languages don't make you think about it at all, they just let you jam code together however you want and give you the tools to make it work.

That was the biggest shock I had moving to Rust: I couldn't just do what I wanted, I had to figure out how to do what Rust wanted. But I also wanted to learn how to design systems better, so the fact that Rust makes me think deeper about it is an advantage for me. In an OO language, I'd just lazily cobble things together. The code would work, but I would learn nothing.

And some people would rather do things that way. It is very hard to break habits, and Rust basically forces you to do that.
Spec out a car. Go through the options and in the summary page it says:

"Your Model Y
Production is expected to begin late next year"
My boy just started spending some time with the older group in the last two weeks so the actual group change in a week is not too brutal.

He went from being a bit lazy and not really trying to walk (he did stand up by holding on to things, and shuffled sideways) nor really say actual words, to trying to say a couple new words, standing up in place and trotting around the house all the time.

I did 2 years in elementary teaching back in uni, one thing that stuck to my mind is that imitation is one of the main learning strategies in childhood, up to high school age where discovering their own individuality takes over a bit.
This is my favorite (and the most unexpected) Hacker News comment of all time.

Thank you.
In transit planning the walk shed for transit extends from one mile (that seems to be very optimistic high density east coast planning) to a quarter mile (more realistic in California’s cities) away from the station. By that same metric there should be plenty of parking spaces within a quarter mile of where you’re trying to dine. There’s also likely the parking space you have at home, and the space you have at work (assuming that like most Americans your job offers free parking).
The base model will start at 39k, it is just not yet available.
XCode may cost you 0$, but you have to buy a Mac to use it. And those things are >0$ in most cases.
I've heard the argument about this is that Spotify has a free tier, and free listens pay out less.
Any apple laptop video out for the past 15 years?
The 'our users' bit is actually one of the most annoying bits. As if anyone that uses iOS is under Apple's control as to what they are or aren't allowed to do or be exposed to. It reveals a lot about how they view their position in the relationship. Between them and users. As if when I download an app or game, Apple is bestowing me to the app developer.
Where I am (Manhattan) its truck noise. Trucks are the absolute worst in terms of noise pollution and emissions. Most modern cars/taxis around here are some sort of hybrid which shuts the engine when stopped, yet trucks are still in the stone age. And to top it off, there's really no political willpower to reign in bad trucker behavior.
My counter argument is nicely summed up by The Problem With Single-threaded Shared Mutability (https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/05/17/the-problem-wi...)
I'm confused, isn't "Gamergate" like "Watergate"? How can you be on Gamergate's "side"?

That's like... are you on Watergate's side?
DP means you map the problem to a grid, and your cache connections are your neighbors on the grid.

Memoize (aka caching) was invented later than DP, and it’s easier and the same complexity. You don’t have to map your problem to a spatial layout.

One big difference is that DP often involves windowing your cache. While the problem might be on a 2d grid, the storage for your cache might be just two rows, and the algorithm will sweep down rows only once. So, a DP solution might be far less memory than a straightforward memoize, unless you’re doing work to clean up memoize as soon as it’s no longer needed.

Another big difference is that with DP you’re pre-allocating, while with memoize you’re typically using dynamic memory allocations by default. That obviously doesn’t have to be true, but makes a fairly naive DP solution faster than a fairly naive memoization.
It's actually limited to the anti-gamergate narrative. It sounds legit, because it's written in an authoritative tone, with large walls of text full of links to anti-gamergate sources.

It's worth seeing how gamergate describes itself. The "what is gamergate" column on the sidebar of a subreddit where they hang out[0] might help there. Do note that I do provide the hyperlink, but I do not endorse either front.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/
How are they paying this much?
Well, heroes only emerge when there are good villains.