skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t get me wrong, Starlink will be a substantial increase in the number of satellites. But if you don’t notice them now, it probably won’t be overwhelming after.
This could be a lagging indicator. Let's see how much it grows in 2019.
I bought a non K CPU (without hyper threading) , If I would have bought the K version and later Intel announces "disable the hyperthreads to be 100% safe" I would not be happy, even if I am 99.99% safe with HT on, (I personally did not enable or disable any security thing, I run the Ubuntu defaults).

IMO Intel customers should not be indifferent, what you thought you bought was not what you got latter, you lost performance and you have to do advanced stuff to disable the security patches and be unsafe

Edit:
My bad, I considering buying i7 and got an i5 , I got confused(my i5 is a K CPU 6th gen).
The event-stream incident shows that npm has restructured the way projects work: rather than an end-user choosing a few pieces of software, each of which has a lot of maintainers, they install a huge number of very small packages each of which has a very small number of contributors. The "unit of contribution" is not a pull request or commit but spawning a new micro-project.

Community management and vetting remain hard problems that aren't fun to volunteer to work on for many developers, so they are neglected.
Well, the big reason early film is kind dangerous is that it was nitrocellulose, and so had plenty of nitro-groups just waiting to have a little fun...
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Theoretically possible, yes. But Snowden and the Shadow Brokers indicate that it is practically much harder.
San Francisco IS failing in all the ways that matter for a city, the fact that is rich is just a thin golden veneer over the dumpster it has become.
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I've started 2 startups in the UK since GDPR (well, 1 that happens to sell 2 different products), not really affected me one little bit.

But then again, they're not scummy companies.

Soooooo, bullshit.

I had to put in like a few hours thought into what data I was collecting and how long it was appropriate to keep it.

I happen to know quite a lot about GDPR because I dealt with it at a client I was previously working with, if you want to make it extremely complicated, you can. But you don't have to.

In one we actually track user's behaviour to make better recommendations, but we're open about it and they can disable it if they want. We also delete that data if they delete their account.

It's just a different mindset, it's their data, not yours. You're open about what you're doing and if they want you to delete it, you delete it.
Don't use LegalZoom. I've been a customer of them for years, but I'm trying to transition off of them. Stripe has a project to replace them, I think.
I wholeheartedly support the concept of eating billionaires.
Without the people who start business type X, we won't have competition in business type X. Therefore a law that makes it hard to start businesses of type X will affect you whether or not you ever intend to start such businesses.

This applies for any X that you care to name, including "internet".

If you believe that you can both pass regulations that make businesses of type X harder to form, and enjoy the benefits of having new businesses of type X around, then there is probably a big flaw in your thinking.
Sorry, China has disappointed the westerns, especially USA, that it didn't fall apart, collapsed or stuck in finance crisis, but get stronger and more powerful.
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Atlas customer here - I filed for an LLC myself in 2013 and then helped some entrepreneurs sign up through Atlas in 2018. While the up-front cost is higher ($160 for filing yourself vs $500 through Atlas) you get access to cheaper tax preparation and have no chance of being hit with pesky fines for not filing paperwork on time, and the cost is negligible compared to the minimum tax. Most importantly, you get access to some great support for all the ancillary stuff to running a business that is otherwise hard/expensive to come by on your own. If I had used Atlas in 2013 it would have easily paid for itself in time saved and fines avoided.
and the owner is carrying a plastic bag
I've helped hundreds of creatives figure out their formation + taxes in the past couple of years. Here're my top learnings:

- LLC formation is not just filing the article of organization. Make sure to get an EIN, an operating agreement (Google operating agreement + your state for templates), get a business license, open a business bank account (https://www.azlo.com is great), make initial contribution (don't worry, it's your money). This makes sure that your LLC is set up right (some states won't give you limited liability, if you don't do it right).

- In most states, LLCs are pass-through entities, meaning you'll file your taxes via Schedule C and pay 15.3% self-employment tax. If you plan to make $60K or more in profit, consider filing for S Corporation (significant tax benefits)

- Get a decent bookkeeping software and do your books right from day one (it pays off). Quickbooks online is great. Connect your business bank account, categorize your expenses, close your books at least quarterly.

- Pay your quarterly taxes. Even though the penalty is not huge, you'll avoid getting a huge tax bill at the end of the year

- You may be able to manage doing your own taxes for a while, but if you're serious about this, find a tax preparer to do your taxes. If you pick SCorp route, definitely get one, as it's a separate tax return and a lot more involved (i.e running payroll)

- If you go SCorp route, make sure you get the reasonable compensation right. Run yourself regular payroll (https://www.gustom.com is great) and get K1 distribution every now and then. Pass your health insurance via your S-Corp

- Invest in Sole 401K. Investing in retirement is always a good idea and you'll save a lot in taxes.

- There are a couple of all-in-one services that can help with all. If you're doing freelancing/contracting https://www.hyke.me is great. If you're selling apps, doing ecommerce etc https://www.stripe.com/atlas is great.

Hope helps.
And some people are complaining that Python has too many batteries. I'll be happy when I can depend only on the stdlib, which I expect to have better reviewing process than a thousand random projects.
Yeah, this speaks more to the incompetence of local government than it does any kind of intelligence agency. Although the normalization of exploiting CVEs is a worrying trend.
Elsewhere in the thread it is said to never even have been a zero day, i.e. before it was publicly released, Microsoft was forewarned and released a patch.

So yes, it is patched in the sense that the vendor did, and in the sense that the Microsoft customers should long, long have patched a vuln from 2017.
Climate change isnt just energy production, anyway. I highly recommend the book Drawdown. The sector that they recommend as the highest impact intervention is actually refrigerants.
The reflex reaction is some combination of "privacy above all" and "our AI overlords are running amok".

I'll take the opposite view.

Distracted driving causes 1.6 million traffic accidents a year in the US alone, causing more than 3,000 deaths [0].

I don't have statistics for China, but 4x the population indicates maybe 6.4 million accidents and 12,000 deaths a year.

No system is completely error free. Even posting a cop on every corner to cite distracted drivers will make mistakes.

So given the carnage, agony and grief that could be prevented, how many false positives are acceptable?

[0] https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving
It is a well-known fact, just wondering since when it is news?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_cont...
The previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13240495
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Have people been reading the same 10 books over the last 10 years? Those are almost exclusively content-light business books with a couple insights here and there. I hope people who pride themselves on contrarianism every other day have other reading materials.
>which includes all of the work on ML in music

As of yet :)
That many professional developers are worse at SQL than professional non-developers is an indictment of those developers, not SQL.
This is a potential strategy to tackle it: https://genesis.re/wiki#Plan_B

(decentralized innovation as politics is too slow)
I'm aware that OSS sometimes makes money on activities like customer support and custom development. That's not what's being discussed here.
Today, there is so much you can do with a computer with nothing but an updated version of Chrome, that’s all many people need. Add on Office, and you have everything you need. So a computer that can use Chrome + Office + Dropbox and you’re good. That’s all I use any of my non work computers for besides as a Plex Server.

My Core 2 Duo was my Plex server until earlier this year and I would use it for browsing or personal stuff with Office often.

I used my 2006 era Mac Mini running Windows 7 as a secondary family computer until 2015 running Chrome + MS Office.
In case of GDPR, X is "businesses abusing people's data", which essentially boils down to "adtech". We don't need more competition in adtech. We need adtech to die.
Funny to read this in a US VC investment forum.
This reminds me of the studies by Paul Piff:

https://matrix.berkeley.edu/research/are-wealthy-more-narcis...

In particular, he demonstrated that in a rigged game of Monopoly, where one player e.g. starts off with more money than the others, that player will sooner or later demonstrate signs of feeling entitled and, in some cases, even attribute their victory at the end not to their initial advantage but to simply playing better than the other participants:

https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_piff_does_money_make_you_mean
At a quick glance tiptap looks great and I don't want to derail the thread mentioning another solution, but after admittedly struggling longer than I'd hoped to implement mentions into a Vue-compatible RTE I got it working fine using modules (NPM) `vue-quill-editor` and `quill-mention`.

Since this is the first public thread I've ready of at least one other person struggling with this (I'm sure there are others), I created this gist of my Vue component in case it helps anyone who want to use Quill instead of tiptap: https://gist.github.com/whatl3y/d1a9fb7bab75c2188b226e902c6f...
What is your opinion based on? Have you both read the law and attempted to bring an organization into compliance with it?

I have, and it is definitely ambiguous. To take a simple example, consider all of the cookie warnings that you now see. Intelligent and informed people disagree on whether they are required, enforceable, or sufficient.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19998024
I did exactly this for my last company and it worked great. Might need to use netflify cms moving forward because contentful is NOT cheap.
Thanks for the references! I'll have a look and update my opinion.
I agree. I think it also may backfire. The Chinese market, backed by its government, is large enough to develop alternatives, and those could become the cheaper and/or better alternative.
There are basically zero public restrooms there. If you need to pee, what exactly else are you supposed to do? Tough it out for the 1.5 hours it takes to ride a bus 5 miles back to your apartment?
How is flagging a submission for something site rules and moderators explicitly say is acceptable on HN not misusing the flag feature, which is for things that are not acceptable?
This overlooks one of the biggest under-reported problems GDPR has created: a large percentage of all industrial sensor data is "personal data" under GDPR. These are systems and companies that nobody associates with collecting or using personal data, because their business isn't about people, but the regulations have defined the scope broadly enough that there is universal agreement among their legal experts that are liable for not treating this data as "personal" under GDPR.

This raises some difficult challenges that the average Internet business doesn't have to deal with:

- Compliance with GDPR requirements for personal data in many industrial settings is operationally impossible. These aren't Internet ad tech databases.

- Some industrial systems aren't the kinds of things you can trivially upgrade to make them compliant in any case. We are talking embedded systems with operational lifespans measured in decades. In many cases there are other strict regulatory compliance requirements around the design and modification of these systems.

- The workloads and data models for some high-scale sensor data models make it technically impossible, given the current state of computer science and hardware, to comply with some obligations under GDPR when handling "personal" data. And for a much larger set of systems, it would be economically implausible even though theoretically possible.

- Sensor data infrastructure software often lacks the basic functionality required to support compliance, as the functionality that the regulators assumed exists for other purposes has no purpose in this context and therefore has never been implemented. There is a disconnect between what is required of the software users and what the upstream vendors can or are willing to provide. These aren't software companies.

- For some specific industry sectors, compliance costs disproportionately fall on EU-based companies by virtue of the fact that their primary operations are in a European country, even though they sell into a global market. That's an economic own goal.

This has become a Sword of Damocles over some industrial companies because their legal teams have studied their exposure to GDPR, identified substantial compliance obligations, and realized that compliance is effectively impossible. It is pretty clear to me that the regulators were so focused on Internet advertising companies and similar that they were completely oblivious to the unintended consequences for unrelated industrial sectors.

I've been studying this problem for a few industrial sectors for a couple years now. You have companies scrambling to find technology that often doesn't exist and in some cases requires hardcore computer science R&D before it could exist. And this is a business opportunity for someone to add a tax to what these companies produce. But the worst part is that this extremely expensive compliance exercise does almost nothing for personal privacy because most of this data was being collected for boring industrial applications.
It is and it isn't.

If you're in the business of "doing free services so you can skim GB's of data from users" or you "sell wholesale data collected without notice", the EU doesn't want you.

If you're doing a good job of keeping user data private except at the direct request of a user in a plain-language direct permission, then you're doing a good job to the GDPR. Slipups happen, and as long as you do your best to stop the bad thing, limit the breach, notify users, and be a good steward for their data, then it's all good.

As a US citizen, I try to make a point to only work with companies that adhere to the GDPR. I know they don't have to do so with me. But it tells me their internal processes are set up to respect the user's rights. And well, running dual systems for different compliance regimes is a tough sell - its easier to do 1 big system.
This isn't a US VC investment forum. This is a US forum subsidized by a startup accelerator, but otherwise quite generally about tech and geeky stuff, and frequented by lots of people from outside US.
No, X is "businesses that handle people's data". For whatever reason.

The goal is to regulate adtech. But the effect is to impose regulatory costs on every company that wants to have a discussion forum on their website. (And the upcoming copyright bill is even worse.)
Intel doesn't make its profits with gamers. It's data centers that buy Intel chips by the boatload.
Kiyosaki is a charlatan

If you want to validate this claim, go to a local bookstore and review some of the charts. The charts are disingenuous and fit to his narrative.
> holding company meetings w/ minutes

How do you hold meetings with minutes in a single person LLC? With clients/subcontractors/advisors maybe?

I'm not being sarcastic, my accountant wants me to form an LLC and if doing this helps with liability I'd be happy to go through the ceremony of it.
> It is like giving up volunteer work to another volunteer

But without making it clear to anyone else in the volunteer community that that's what you've done. In other words, using your garden analogy, a weary volunteer potato farmer whose potatoes feed a lot of people is approached by another volunteer who wants to take over maintenance of the potatoes. The weary volunteer gives it to him, but doesn't tell any of the people who rely on his potatoes for food. The new volunteer puts a harmful substance in the potatoes and lots of people get very sick, because they thought the potatoes were still being maintained by the first volunteer, who they knew and trusted; they had no idea that the potatoes were now being maintained by a newcomer who they didn't know and whose trustworthiness they had no way to evaluate.
How can one learn or acquire this trait?
Major powers set international standards, and failure to establish standards for cyber has produced a situation where exploitation of CVEs has become so normalized that there are almost zero repercussions for using them in destructive ways. Especially if you are a non major power or non state actor, there seems to be little incentive not to wreak damage and havoc.

The US and Europe have failed to clearly state the consequences for a major attack, instead, we muddle along assuming that that the implications will be enough. Even huge damage attacks by nation state actors such as the Sony North Korea hack seem to have gone unpunished.
But hacker news was cheering about Apple buying Tesla. So I guess that won't happen as is the case with current MBP
So, you think ETERNALBLUE was an inside job?
The K thing is about overclockability, not HT.
The paper that this article is discussing was published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. That's interesting for two reasons. The first is that it's a rather well regarded journal with a very high impact rate. The other is because it's one of the journals that's driving the ongoing replication crisis plaguing psychology. [1]

In particular the journal this was published in was found to have an overall replication rate of 23%. Another way of putting this is that if you assumed the exact opposite of everything you read that was published in that journal (e.g. - what they claim is statistically significant, is not actually significant) you'd be vastly more informed than a person who took what was published in the journal at face value.

Of course that does not mean that this study is 'false', but you should take it with the same degree of credulity that you'd take something published in a venue when you know 77% of what is published is false. I mention this largely because I think there's a substantial degree of dissonance between the crisis in psychology and people continuing to take studies in psychology at face value. It's illogical.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Psychology_...
Simple fact, Mercury does not dissolve gold.
It amalgamates with certain metals making them easier to collect in one mass rather than having tiny bits all over the place.
Mercury use has very little to do with gold mining or recovery today.
Repeat: I said it's used very little- not that it is never used.
Its much easier and more economical to just use aqua regia to get the gold away from the base metals.
Gold recovery from electronics is done in semi- laboratory conditions and the gold is refined using the same conditions which are a far cry from some guy in the hills digging up dirt and spilling his waste into a mountain stream.
Modern refiners shun Hg.
It's hard to clean up the waste to acceptable levels.
That's a big deal nowadays.
No one wants to poison the environment.
Acid based extraction techniques are much cleaner,easier and more environmentally friendly.
Just like everything else- it comes down to profits and it's just more profitable to use acids instead of Mercury.
Hell it's even more profitable to use cyanide to extract the gold.
I know a little bit about this stuff- AMA?
You'd have to ask my parents about that.
> individual “data rights” have led to unintended consequences; “privacy protection” seems to have undermined market competition;

That opening paragraph already speaks to the over-elevation of the market over any other concerns. So it perfectly fits onto "news.ycombinator.com". Human rights, including privacy and data rights, are more important than the profits of some companies

Most examples in the text are, for instance, related to companies failing to properly implement the GDPR (Amazon sending data to the wrong person, Spotify not asking for 2FA/email confirmation for the bulk download, companies deleting articles even when there would sufficient public interest, Ad vendors failing to ensure compliance and therefore seeing drops in demand, ...), that is, market failures - something this site would probably not call out but rather attribute it to the legislation.
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Wow, that's eerie. And I thought I had everything disabled.

Can this be disabled?
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> Microsoft makes decisions for its own benefit 100% of the time.

The nature of decisions is completely different. Microsoft cannot put you in jail, confiscate your property etc. Also, microsoft has outlived a ton of governments who lost the trust of the public.
I think lead-acid is not useful for grid installations because of the low lifetime. They're good for maybe 300 cycles. Their only redeeming quality seems to be their low cost.
Nice project! Can I offer a suggestion? Add support for goold old sendmail. Every email provider (Mailgun, Sendgrid, SES and others) have SMTP support and sendmail instructions. All of my home servers are already configured with it, so adding markdown to this setup would be sick.
Everyone’s favourite article on the topic seems the lead-crime hypothesis by Kevin Drum in Mother Jones. It’s very interesting and there have been updates too.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...
It still is.
Yes. They do. Results should be the measure.
Respectfully, that's pretty silly. People have been "wreaking havoc" with exploits for as long as there have been exploits. Nobody in the world was waiting for China's permission to do this kind of stuff. I don't think that's the previous commenter's argument.
_if_ you can ensure that you can re-execute deletion requests if the data needs to be restored.
There has been pretty strong attribution for NK in the past doing ransomware.

100k isn't a lot but you are talking about NK, a country that has it's diplomats selling meth and heroin
Go into a McDonald’s or another restaurant.

Are you honestly excusing drunken wealthy people coming out of bars and treating the streets of the Mission like it’s a public urinal?