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What does keeping surveillance records of your customers' online activity indefinitely have to do with not treating customers like crap?

Offline businesses now and always don't and have never had indefinite surveillance records of their customer's behavior. Is it your position that offline businesses are incapable of not treating their customers like crap?

Besides which, aggregated data that can't be de-anonymized would be exempted, as described by Maciej Ceglowski. The 90-day limit is only on fine-grained, personally-identifiable behavioral data that isn't explicitly shared (the content of my HN comment should of course be kept forever/until I delete it; but there's no reason to keep the IP address I used, other than aggregate statistics about what cities people access HN from).
You'll always be the victim if you think that way.
There are similar provisions in GPLv2.
Most basic 80s and 90s mice used LEDs to track the ball, via secondary wheels. They’re tiny and don’t look like lights so you probably overlooked them.
You point it at an empty patch of sky.

edit - have a go at pointing an infrared thermometer at an empty patch of sky on a clear night.
Out of curiosity, why'd you decide not to use LLVM?
That's what I thought too, but then I just bought enough $10 usb-c to headphone dongles for all of the headphones I usually use (one at home, one at work one in the car and one in my backpack). iPhone dongles work on the Pixel too.

Sucks to have to pay $40 just to restore the functionality of the headphone jack, but kept it from being a dealbreaker.
To clarify to anyone else who may have been confused as I was: the "quoted" text in the parent post is not an actual announcement from the source URL or anywhere else, but a hypothetical future situation.

Almost gave me a heart attack.
I've been waiting for Hyper to get reordable tabs (which to me is kind of a basic feature).

I wonder if this version will finally introduce this functionality.
Taxes on fossil fuels just raise the marginal cost of production. They are a totally separate issue from the effect of introducing a new fuel into the market.

Given the amount of down voting I have received basic economics is not popular on HC. Increasing the supply of gasoline will reduce its price which will cause increased demand greater than the original supply. The original example used by Jevon was coal consumption which rose 10 fold as the price halved. If Promethus succeeds they will cause an increase in consumption of fossil fuels (assuming no other changed) as they will lower the price of gasoline increasing its consumption.

The only way that such an approach can work is if they can get the price of gasoline below the cost of production from fossil fuels. While this may be possible, on thermodynamic grounds it is hard to compete with all the stored sunlight in fossil fuels, let alone the sunk costs in the fossil fuel infrastructure.

I am very much in favour of doing something about us burning fossil fuel, but I want us to concentrate on those things that make economic sense. In respect to gasoline that would be electrification of the transport system and better electric storage.

The one thing that would potentially be worth pursuing is not the production of gasoline, but avgas (diesel) as there really is no viable alternative to these for air and sea transport.
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Estimates for internal client is a different ballgame than estimates for sales, it would seem.

My approach to the same project would be different if I know that I get to walk away when the project is over, versus if I know I'll be the one to maintain the project when this phase is over and it goes into production. I work for internal clients lately, and I can't honestly say it's my way or the highway, but if you ask for an estimate, I'm going to give you an estimate.

If you tell me the deadline then we're having a different conversation entirely. (And that's OK! Deadlines are better than estimates in my book, especially if the consequence of missing the deadline is some unfinished garbage goes to production, or doesn't ship at all as we had to move on to the next thing. If you asked me for an estimate and told me "that's too much, do it in less" then you didn't really want an estimate, did you? Just tell me the deadline and I'll deal with it, in that case, let's not play games.)

Here's another approach: tell me how much time you want to spend on this project, then I'll put a pen to paper and tell you what part of the scope we can deliver given the resources you've allocated. Don't like that very much? OK, you write the plan and I'll say "yes sir." But that's not why you pay me, is it?

Estimates are a function of scope, time, and cost. If you tell me to do it in less time, I'll do it in less time, but it's going to come at the expense of one of either feature scope or quality. This is not a negotiating tactic, it's just a statement of fact. If you tell me I have to shave off a bunch of time without sacrificing anything, then we're not having an honest conversation and we're not going to have a good time. I'm sorry you had a bad experience, mate.
Upwork is another technopoly. They have such a dominant position that it is practically a monopoly.

These technology monopolies run by private interests should be replaced by public decentralized protocols and networks. Then cases like this would have public records available. And there would be the possibility of multiple companies operating in the network that would allow for competition.
Test on a phone, anything over 1MB will lock up the script parser for a few seconds.
I love the idea of Flutter for mobile and desktop but I'm very skeptical about the web implementation.

They will need to reimplement tons of stuff that are already included in the browsers and ship all that code with the application.
Replacing EMMC in Tesla's MCU
I agree, though it would make New Years Eve less fun away from the prime meridian. Probably worth it.
And how many years will the battery will last?
Oak – Open-Source Scalable Concurrent Key-Value Map for Big Data Analytics
It's just an experiment. If you try to use it and you use the terminal for work you'll see that it freezes and crashes often with more that a few hundred lines, and that it uses a lot of RAM.

It looks cool, though!
For the record, nothing I said is incompatible with what you’re saying. Something can both be the result of a wrongdoer’s blameworthy choice and the consequence of social structure. People don’t have a problem understanding crime in general that way, but for some reason the suggestion that sexual misconduct might have to do with changes in sexual norms is met is treated differently. E.g., there are ways of organizing our society that would make murders much more common. Suggesting that we not organize our society like that does that does not entail the suggestion that the murderers, who wouldn’t murder if the society were organized differently, wouldn’t be responsible for their actions.

And yes, the world is full of people who have been left by a partner for no good reason other than the grass being greener on the other side, including, as just one example, women being left for younger women. There are some well-known instances of this in public life right now. When there is a stronger norm of lifelong monogamy, I think people are more likely to internalize their commitment and stick it out, just like they internalize other norms of rightful conduct. There are, allegedly, fairy tale marriages out there, but most of the older folks I know who have had successful, lifelong marriages will tell you that it wasn’t always easy or what they desired at every moment, but that at various points they stuck it out for the kids, out of obligation, out of love (the commitment, not the feeling).
It does not show that at all, especially not "definitively". Matt Walker's career is based on fearmongering about sleep. The actual studies are quite mixed. Here's a recent one that showed little to no effect of short or long sleep lengths on cancer risk: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30463535.

Feel free to read the book, but don't do so without strong skepticism. In particular, the book never actually attempts to answer the question in its title, other than to present some vague, unfalsifiable theories. It presents tons of information, but no answer to the question.
I think one of my first HN comments was meekly raising my hand and asking "OK, but what actually is this?" And getting quite a few (unexpected) upvotes, haha.
Paper wasps capable of behavior that resembles logical reasoning
I bought an HP x360z Envy recently and added PlayOnLinux which seems to be similar to going through the whole WINE setup of installer -- easy to do. The Android MOBAs I play with desktop client support work without issue. Getting Radeon driver support for VEGA 8 is an entirely different matter though. I'm running Fedora 30 and before that 29, before it's release, the Cheese camera app would flip through and flicker with the IR camera with no easy way to resolve it and thus, making it unusable. It sucks, because the only thing tying me to my Razer Stealth is gaming and that in turn, to Windows. I can't say Razer is hardware I could recommend though, think of it as the Apple of gaming hardware. Steep price with bloatware and in my case, the ocassional repair that leaves you without a laptop for days (my laptop case warped due to heat generated). Rather than replacing it because of fault, they just swapped the case and sent it back. I can expect this issue to happen in a few months again. Razer support is OK -- I've gone through a few cases where I had to talk to a x-tier technician who resolved a problem with the Razer Core e-GPU. Will gaming on Linux ever work? who knows. I'm excited for Google Stadia and hope it doesn't go the way of OnLive.
related "what's your end game?" thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16418842
> Tourism is an economic curse similar to the curse of resources. It makes most unrelated economic activity less viable.

Got any source to back up this claim? Plenty of regions with strong tourism industries have other viable industries. San Francisco, LA, and New York are all heavy tourist destinations but no reasonable person would say that this tourism has made unrelated economic activity less viable. Same with London and Paris. Large tourism industry, but plenty of other industries.

It may be true that as other economic opportunities are exhausted, communities try to use tourism to bring in money to the community (e.g. Leavenwoth, WA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leavenworth,_Washington). Underdeveloped countries that don't have the ability to participate in many industries lean on tourism more heavily (especially eco-tourism since the lack of development is actually an asset for that industry) which makes tourism take up a larger proportion of their GDP.

But I am highly skeptical of your claim of a causal link between growth of tourism and inability to sustain other industries.
The wage part is incorrect. Wages have been growing the past years
Would that be a "RRM" (Record-Relational mapper)? If so we're already on board (in a different language).

P.S. I bet you would never guess which typed language with great support for records makes it easy (for the most part) to build most type-safe SQL queries on the fly, even with projections, without explicitly defining types for every possible projection variation.
The rise in prices for new rentals is real. ~70-100% over last few years. How much of that is caused by AirBnB is debatable.
I think they should raise it to 30%.
Any given country provides a much better platform to these companies compared to what google play provides to app publishers.
Not sure if it is mentioned in the video you linked, but a Stanford team has been doing interesting research into this type of thing in recent years;

https://news.stanford.edu/2017/09/04/sending-excess-heat-sky...

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/532826/material-cools-bui...

http://web.stanford.edu/group/fan/
Good thing the universe is expanding, or else the void would be overflowing with photon waste from projects like this.
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> Not sure how they're going to achieve that.

Less lumens. The lighting industry has successfully scammed the public into buying less efficient LED lighting with greenwashing.
DDC is not at all a representation of the final size of the code, as it doesn't run any kind of tree shaking, minification or optimization, and the animation library has a lot of things that you will definitely not import.
I remember being pretty good at scraping the hardened goo off the rollers with my finger nail.
Campaigns :clap-emoji: never :clap-emoji: have :clap-emoji: this :clap-emoji: person :clap-emoji: on :clap-emoji: staff.

You really have to get a sense for how ragtag a political campaign is. Startups --- themselves pretty ragtag --- are raising funds and building for an imagined future in which they're big. They might engage professional IT and security (though many don't). Campaigns aren't like that; every single one of them will be "out of business" within a year and a half. They have minimal infrastructure and a mostly volunteer staff, and there are many hundreds of them every cycle.

At best, you might suggest that the upstream service providers for campaigns, like NGP VAN, should get better at security. The DNC, for instance, has an experienced CSO. But that CSO can't do all that much for individual campaigns.
Based on being able to do well on a test. Very different kind of merit than I think is actually useful in a lot of real life.
If you can, I'm sure someone would pay you a lot of money for the design.
"First not null, Middle null, Last not null" represents an a priori assumption that everyone has a First, Middle, and Last - but sometimes we don't know what the Middle is. Allowing a zero length string in any of those attributes implies that some rows in a table have First, Middle, or Last represented by a zero length string. What a zero-length string actually means is subject to interpretation and thus beyond the data model.

in the real world it turns out not to be useful to require that people have names just in order to keep data about them...nor does a name particularly distinguish one person from another.
Here is an awesome presentation from Rancher about how cloud providers are not providing resources but convenience and want people to buy more and more services. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mnu477057W0 full slides etc are here after registration if interested https://info.rancher.com/single-node-standalone-servers-scal...
If we're not the audience then who is? This was made to the Chromium open source blog, which is typically a developer heavy blog (with previous topics like "Hint for low latency canvas contexts"). Throwing a few reference links at the bottom shouldn't harm their message with the less technically savvy.
Lowest unemployment since 1969. That's better.
Curious where this is an issue. React Navigation feels and is, according to their documentation, composed of native components.

Vs. what you can do natively it has severe limitations and the documentation isn't the best (though I think it has improved recently).. but feels native to me.
Fellow Googler here. I think it’s best to report those numbers with the appropriate SI prefix: 4.414 MB and 8.572 MB. Reporting numbers as “X thousand kilobytes” makes it harder to grok the real scale.
Unless you're porting an existing localhost web app which is accessed via Websockets.
Test driving it, like it a lot! Some initial feedback:

* I sent a support request by email with two screenshots. The first screenshot did not show up in the web view (the cid: remains in the HTML source).

* A demo account with lots of dummy data might be useful for a quick glance at the product.

* Might want to add a Letsencrypt wildcard SSL domain for https://*.demo.fullhelp.com

* Missing language string when creating an article: Title.created

* There is a non-deletable dummy note attached to a customer from a certain Peter Richards ;)

* Typo: shoirtly -> shortly

* Theming: this is quite a big feature, so understandably a bit rough right now, perhaps offer a blank template .ZIP file to get started?

* I'd like to be able to modify language strings, but perhaps this goes via the theming ZIP

Looks quite cool!
How to create a spotlight of sound with Lego-like bricks
I doubt that TikTok has the capacity to mine meaningful data. From what I've seen it's mostly teenagers doing lip-sync and making memes. Maybe marketers can establish a link between certain preferences of memes and proclivity to buy certain goods? Perhaps there's some potential for data monetization.

But this is nowhere near the level of analysis that Cambridge Analytic did on Facebook. The data Facebook collects is way more useful, and even contains people's estimated political leanings (which are fairly accurate in my analysis).
TBTF has nothing to do with this. What's being proposed is basically the exact opposite of TBTF --- that Facebook is too big not to fine unusually.

If you believe there should be a notion of SITCs --- Systemically Important Tech Companies --- lobby to pass that law in such a way that it survives judicial review. But it can't simply be up to the FTC to make that rule up.
I would very much like to learn more about what you're doing. My wife sustained a spinal cord injury and while is still able to walk with assistance, there are issues that she still has that present fall risks and with some sensory issues.

I've been adding home automation in little bits at a time as we can afford it also using Home Assistant and working to make the system as bullet proof as possible.
Show HN: Answers as a Service as a Service
Are you? They have been using plastic in phones since the very beginning.
A discussion from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11459186
No need to limit it to city centers. Raise prices, throttle driver recruitment, and the market will adjust accordingly. More locations will naturally lack the density of a healthy driver and passenger network.
Images show construction on China's third and largest aircraft carrier
In my opinion, Flutter combined with Firebase (one of Google's other projects) is probably the best possible combination to build an MVP today, on both quality and speed to implement.

There's probably a market here for one-off white label apps too...
Surprised to see lack of any comments on experts systems domain from the semantic technologies perspective. Is it because both domains are disconnected (concepts-wise, tools-wise or otherwise) or because people from the experts systems domain don't see any value in semantic technologies? Or something else? A larger related question is what is the optimal strategy for integrating semantic technologies with / into AI systems (except for real-time AI, e.g., autonomous driving, where semantic approach is most likely not feasible performance-wise).
This is actually an issue, to work around this as a dev you would usually use sprite sheets (one single image file with multiple images in it)
> the greater of the harm done and the amount needed to deter the behavior

Shouldn't it be the lower of the two? If deter < fine < harm, then they wont do it. And if harm < fine < deter, then they will do it but everyone comes out ahead (assuming the fine money is distributed properly).
India has highish tariffs and VAT; China is the same way. If you take those out, additional retail markup is probably not that significant (at least in China that has actual Apple stores, not sure if India third-party resellers get iphones for something like wholesale).
I'm just guessing. Something else that sparks joy for me: the fact that Google will never give any of their announcements the titles they're justifying, like, "OMG, WE KILLED CSRF!", and that I'll have to dig in a bit to see how big a deal what they just did is. It's like every "Improving privacy and security on the web" is a little gift I get to unwrap. It's like Justin Schuh and Mike West's version of "one more thing".
Calling for genocide is a spicy joke?

How does calling for killing an entire group of people sound funny to you?

Not to mention paying really poor people in the third world to hold up offensive things, I guess exploiting poor people also sounds funny to you.
It's great that people are interested in this, but the topic itself has had significant attention in the past year, which is the criterion we use for dupes (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19811183

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19610199

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Zig%20points%3E30&sort=byDate&...
How doable is it to replace just the module that has the eMMC?
That was my opinion 10-15 years ago. Which was despite what the professional fainting goats left claimed the best thing to do about gay marriage was a full court press to force it through after which the issue would just quickly disappear.
Not to mention the maintenance required for a project of this size. You have to maintain emulation of the UI for multiple environments. When those update, you have to update. Imagine a new iOS release coming out and all other native apps on the market look new and everyone sees your outdated app trying to look native. Now imagine Google putting that on the backlog, never updating the iOS controls in favor of Material. The team has to maintain this emulation for iOS, Android, Windows, and MacOS. This is unreasonable for any company, let alone one with a track record of abandoning projects.

For the record I believe Flutter is here to stay, but I don't believe for a second they'll keep the "native look" around for anything other than Material design. It's a marketing gimmick to get their foot in the door and then transition everyone over to their own design.
It's descriptivist advice on how to fit in and explanation of ways someone might not be fitting in. Some people are in a situation that prevents them from fitting in, and they shouldn't be judged for that, but that doesn't make the advice or explanation wrong.

I don't think it's saying "conform or lose", just, "this is how to conform".

If you can't or don't want to, more power to you, tell that advice to fuck right off. There's nothing wrong with not conforming---its explanation of how you're not conforming is still right, though.
I believe it's common for tech companies to consider all engineering / product payroll as R&D, even if we might consider some eng work as maintenance. In this case a lot of it is stock-base compensation being recognized post IPO. In any case, this isn't just far-out tech stuff like self-driving cars.
Always the same story. When it comes to cell networks or whatever, population density blah blah. Sure, it's a factor, but it's hardly the whole story.

If you count about 140 mph as high speed train, Finland (pop. density 17/km^2) and Sweden (22/km^2) seem to be doing just fine. (Those countries also manage to provide pretty comprehensive and cheap 4G coverage (with unmetered data!) and cheap gigabit class fiber internet, but that's another story.)

The reason U.S. is like it is has only to do with path dependency. How things slowly shaped over time. Politics, generic stereotypes and opinions about things. Culture. That's all. U.S. has more than enough population density and wealth to support all those things.
Mouse settings, video websites, GUI isnt great, having to use terminal is a major turnoff.

I'm a linux user, so terminal isnt a big deal, but Ubuntu is no windows.