skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty funny argument given that the big US companies are benefiting the most from it according to the article.

“The consequence was that just hours after the law’s enforcement, numerous independent ad exchanges and other vendors watched their ad demand volumes drop between 20 and 40 percent. But with agencies free to still buy demand on Google’s marketplace, demand on AdX spiked. The fact that Google’s compliance strategy has ended up hurting its competitors and redirecting higher demand back to its own marketplace, where it can guarantee it has user consent, has unsettled publishers and ad tech vendors.” (Digiday)
False dichotomy. It's missing the third option of living in a warm climate, but using more energy-efficient architecture to cool homes.
A critical thinker would wait until all context was clear, rather than join the mob and rapid-fire smash the retweet link. I would expect them to be more enlightened than the mob.

I assume in their job when they encounter bad code, they don’t git blame and run to that coworker’s cubicle and start hurling insults at them. They likely calmly identify the context before taking action.
They're specifically talking to distros in the letter, not end users. If you want to install your own custom theme, fine. But if you're a distro shipping a custom theme, when it breaks a 3rd party app, the app gets the blame, not the distro.
In the United States, meaningful climate action is primarily a political problem to be solved -- not technology, policy, technology research, or policy research.

If you're interested in getting involved in addressing climate change, here are two options for citizens to get involved:

1) The Citizens Climate Climate Lobby has been around ten years, and it currently has a bill in Congress that has bipartisan (1 Republican, 30+ Dems) support: The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (http://energyinnovationact.org/). With this plan, all the revenue from a carbon tax* is directly returned to citizens as a yearly check--no enlargement of the state. This is the organization cofounded by NASA scientist James Hansen, who first testified to Congress about the perils of climate change over 30 years ago.

2) If you're a millennial/gen Z, and you're more skeptical of a market-based solution, the Green New Deal and Sunrise Movement are making waves. Rather than a concrete policy in Congress, they have a set of principles/values that they are pushing forward.

In addition, if you live in the states of Oregon and New York, both are on the cusp of passing similar legislation. And there are many more out there in various stages of development...

*Carbon pricing (which can come in the form of a tax or cap and trade) is the single most effective mechanism to address climate change, according to economists. The idea is to internalize the _real_ costs of climate change into the price we actually pay--ramping up the price on carbon over time until it is prohibitively expensive to use fossil-fuel-expensive products, and incentivizing the economy to adapt.
Side note but isn't it sad that being poor gets you hassled by police? Not only is it irritating but it leads to the poor getting tons of extra nit picky tickets that end up costing hundreds of dollars.

It's also racial. I drove with a cracked windshield for almost a year when I was at University of Cincinnati. A black friend was amazed and said if he did that he'd get pulled over within days.
I’m pretty sure not least of all EU authorities would step in if the latter were to ever eventuate. Huawei buying Qt would raise a whole ‘nother level of fire storm at the thought of Huawei now buying themselves into, amongst others, a bazillion embedded devices and desktop apps.
10 billion passengers have taken high-speed rail in China. Currently, it’s up to 2 billion a year. Seems like that’s more efficient than flying.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1149608.shtml
Hypnotized, explosive trout. Brilliant.
If you like to ship business value for your employers, you will want to be full full stack.

If you want to be partially responsible for your work and put up “not my job” boundaries, then sure, proudly hail the part stack flag.

If you’re an architect or a lead engineer and you are not coding in the front end (and I don’t mean designing its visuals), then you are dodging solving hard engineering problems (let others do the toil), and you are on your road to losing useful perspective.
I’m not sure what you mean by simplicity. Detecting whether your browser’s JavaScript uses document.layers vs document.all?
Ask HN: Do you see any value in a Persistence as a Service platform?
I am hoping to have a prototype platform soon. It is to simplify relational data access and make persistence a backing service for microservices and serverless applications. You will specify persistence services with SQL and JSON only using a WebIDE and run them as managed services. I am uncertain how useful this is and would like to hear from you.
If interested, slight more info is here: https://github.com/bklogic/backlogic-persistence.
Thanks in advance.
Hedonism, sex and fear – why the Weimar republic is in vogue
"At some point, I bet someone in a design meeting said "Hey, I think this might compromise security, can we study that before implementing it?"
And the decision to implement it without that study, or despite it, was made."

Because we should assume all your past missteps were due to willful negligence? Yeah, let's not just start making shit up to support the group think outrage.
> France, in spite of all the beheadings, never really lost its aristocracy.

The popular imagery of the French Revolution, at least outside of France, was that the peasants rose up to destroy the aristocracy by chopping all their heads off. While some people certainly had this motivation, especially the sans-culottes and extremists like Marat, as a means of describing the entire revolution this framework falls far short of reality.

A large portion of the early revolution was actually supported by factions of the French nobility, including the liberal sons of old noble families. These nobles saw their current privileges as destabilizing, and wanted to move the country in a more meritocratic direction where they could dominate based on their education rather than their birth.

Furthermore, the near universal opinion of the political class early on was that they wanted a constitutional monarchy, even Robespierre opposed a republic early on during his revolutionary career.

It wasn’t until after the execution of the king did the purely anti-noble sentiment get going (and executing), but for a variety of reasons (read: civil war), they killed a lot more French peasants than they killed aristocrats. Later historians would typically call this period the “bad revolution”, while the partially aristocrat led early phases the “good revolution”. A later King of the French (yes, they came back) actually ponied up a huge amount of money to restore property to the nobility that had fled, effectively returning the nobility to their pre-revolution economic power.

tl;dr: the French Revolution was never a unified anti-aristocrat operation, which explains why semblances of the aristocracy remain to this day. It was effective at eliminating the king, but it was partially led by aristocrats, and ineffective at killing off or making the aristocracy permanently poor.
These are basically code for "reject them for silly reasons to get back to screening cheap candidates"

dgzl probably dodged so many bullets that they should be in the Matrix by now
Yes - stocks don’t stay in their category forever. Most start needing capital, and then eventually return in.
Honestly the cure is worse than the disease with these “vulnerabilities.” How do I opt out of the 10-25% performance hit for an extremely speculative vulnerability?
> Isn't pumped hydraulic able to work at city scale?

Not really. Pumped hydro is able to work at the scale of a city, but not in the scale of many cities - effective pumped hydro requires very specific locations (a sizeable river with sufficient flow; a comparably high drop, and space for a large reservoirs not only above the dam but also below the dam) which are quite rare. The best spots for it are already used; you can't simply take a normal hydro power dam location and use it effectively for pumped hydro.

We could double the current use of pumped hydro; we could triple it; heck, perhaps we might use ten times of current pumped hydro if we're ready to destroy lots of ecosystems by altering major rivers, but it's physically impossible to have enough pumped hydro to cover half of our grid.
The term "personally identifying information" does not occur anywhere in the text of GDPR; the regulations use the term "personal data", which is defined differently.

I raise this issue in almost every thread about GDPR, because although it might seem pedantic, the error strongly implies that people have not read or understood the legislation. The difference between personal data and personal identifiers is integral to GDPR and the legislation cannot be understood without fully understanding that distinction and the implications that follow from it.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/
I think this title is a bit misleading. "100% renewables" in the title does not refer to the 100% renewable capacity worldwide. It simply refers to the energy consumption accounting at the company level.

"Corporations that claim to be 100 percent renewable do not actually cover all their power use with renewables, as some acknowledge."
Here in the US, we sent most of those people to the RAND corporation and outsourced "national security" to them.

We managed to live through it. 8-)
Like when the 'off' button meant 'off'? Yeah, I do.
Yes. The thing I miss the most is the sense that I, and everyone around me, used to be mentally in the same place they were physically.

Obviously people were distracted or preoccupied from time to time, perhaps they had a sick far away relative, say, that dominated their thoughts.

But those kind of situations were the exceptions. Now literally every single person you interact with is mentally in the middle of several conversations with people who aren’t there over text, is halfway through an article or blog post, and is in the midst of judging their own success in gaining attention for the photo they just posted.

You can be in a room with 10 people, but only 10% of each of them is actually present and engaged in the room they are in.

I count myself in this group too of course. In fact right now I’m having a conversation on HN instead of being engaged in the real world.

It kind of sucks.
Only if we stop producing so many people. (Good luck with that.)
Lawsuit accuses Apple of selling iTunes data
Aside from the obvious - better insulation - I think deep geothermal can be quite an eco-friendly way to heat homes in the near future.
It wasn't about sending many emails. Many of the few test emails I sent ended up in spam. They were struggling with the issues of being a new email provider.
> then I could be held accountable for that

Held accountable by whom?

> To what degree can a company executive get him or herself in trouble for publishing a document

Not from the EU. They are interested in compliance, which you either are or aren't, and will be explained to you why you aren't.

Possibly from your own company, but I assume your understanding and presentation of the GDPR does not hinge on gross negligence and it's a pleasant normal working environment where making a simple mistake will not lead to retribution.

Other than that there are other companies that may follow your guidelines and will be found lacking. I'm not sure about this one, and it might depend on the legal environment of your country.

Depending on your field of endeavour and location, I'd say it might be worth publishing. If customers can see online you take the GDPR serious, it might increase customer confidence, and, should there have been a mistake in your understanding, it might be pointed out to you before it becomes problematic.
Not sure if my experience is the norm but most of the flats I lived in (california) had single pane windows, most of them weren't sealing, and they had next to no wall insulation.

A properly insulated building doesn't replace a/c but it sure lower the needs for both.

It's like if you used your freezer as a fridge by leaving the door cracked open, it works fine to keep beer cold but there might be more efficient ways to do it.
Planes have a huge environmental cost, can carry less cargo and people, and are a bad investment for fixed transport needs.
Show me anything with even remote promise of delivering like coal, oil and nuclear And you will find a swarm of willing investors. The problem is that energy isnt like technology, its about fundamental physics, something we spent almost 200 years exploring. There isnt just some magical solution out there that can compete with fossil fuels unfortunately.
hmm... I'll have to try this out too. Love the charting feature (which I do by hand in onenote)

One thing about timers on iPhone is when I look to see how much longer I have, other notifications distract me.

Does Focus Keeper solve for this in some way? Or do you turn all notifications off?
Something about this article felt disjointed. I read back over the jarring part to see if I had somehow skipped over a section or read it in the wrong order.
Lists of Orders of Magnitude
But who knows if there’s climate change?
>China doesn't make quality things, it pumps out low quality junk that breaks catastrophically and isn't worth fixing.

That's the same BS they said for the Japanese and Korean in the 60s up to the 80s. We saw how that turned out.

The Chinese not only make "quality things" but make almost all quality things, from high end "European" car engines, to high end mobile phones (Apple), computers for all high end brands, and so on.

Heck, even clothes like Armani and co are being made in China these days.

The quality is based on the market and what the manufacturer is willing to pay / have margins for, not on the Chinese's skills.

And at least Americans, with their crumbling infrastructure are not that qualified to judge modern Chinese public works...
You’re describing the temperate areas of America that are insanely expensive. You don’t need to cool a home in a coastal CA town, but you also need to cough up $3k+ a month to live there.

If you live in the south you absolutely want to cool your home by 10c, and it might be a requirement to not die.
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We are gonna have to change the "modern economy".
Canada Passed a Generous Passenger Bill of Rights
Do you have considered Braintree?
The unanticipated downside of a policy of nobody can be fired.
Intel played fast-and-loose with correctness to eke out performance gains. They cut corners that they shouldn't have cut and now their customers are paying the price. Other companies cut similar corners, but Intel did it on a gratuitous scale.
I'd be more inclined to think that richer people spend more time and money on their kids - a kid constantly left at home with working parents is going to be worse off than with parents that are home and read to and interact with them
Truth. In the 90's, if you went to a party and sat in a corner reading a book, it was usually....odd. The idea was that you were supposed to at least try to be interacting with others. Some of us were geeks, some of us found social interaction difficult, but since there wasn't a real substitute for it, we had to stick it out and learn how to be with people. And then we got the benefits of being with people.

Now there's always something else you can do at any moment. I feel like some younger folks I know (in their 20's) don't have the same capacity for understanding their place in the social universe. Social media / phones etc. give a simulacrum of social experience so you never have to really stretch yourself and grow these new skill sets.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rhbD44jXffY

Review of wear on Model S with 450k miles.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2019/jan/low-carb-program-ap...
One big academia/industry thing about the early '90s is that CS students and business students were very different.

Not that either category were bad people, but they thought and acted differently, and I'd say that diversity turned out to be more important than I realized at the time.
> Did American businesses really think that they were immune from prosecution under EU law prior to GDPR?

Prosecutors need to build a case before causing costs for the suspected noncompliant. Complaints, and regulators in complain-investigate regimes, can incur costs with zero evidence. This is why most systems reserve such structures for high-margin, high-risk applications, like banking regulation. Deploying it as a general business law is aggressive.
Don't apply updates. For desktop computers the risk is practically non-existent. Servers and VPSs are the ones taking the hit.
The path to billionare is unique and can't be copied and involves luck and usually some business skills and almost always communication skills or skills to get others to do work for you.

Being an nba player involves luck and hard work and a high spacial iq.

Anyone could become a billiarie with luck (powerball lottery in one extreme). Only 100,000 people in the world would even have a chance to compete to be an nba player.
How Money Laundering Works
Let me answer your question with another question. How old are you?

Because I'm in my 40s, which means I was in my 20s during the 1990s. And from my perspective, it was not a notably simpler time back then than it is today. It was not some pastoral idyll, it was just a time a lot like now, except it was a little harder to get a hold of people.

But I do notice that when I talk to people in their 20s and 30s, they often talk about the '90s as some kind of dramatically simpler time. But that's not because of anything about the '90s; it's because they were children during the '90s, and people of all ages look back on their childhood as a simpler time. This is true even of people who grew up in objectively much more difficult times, like the 1930s and '40s. It's not that the world children grow up in isn't complicated, it's that they don't comprehend all the complications. You don't start to appreciate that stuff until you reach adulthood. So to everybody, childhood is like a lost paradise.

This is part of why nostalgia is such a seductive trap. It's so easy to look back on the past and think that it was something it wasn't. So if you try to make it your mission to restore that lost paradise, to restore something that never really existed in the first place, all you end up doing is chasing shadows.
What's interesting is that your observation directly relates to the article. "We've turned over our perception of what's real to algorithmically driven systems that are designed not to have [paid] humans in the loop, because if humans are in the loop they're not scalable and if they're not scalable they can't make tons and tons of money."
I recently had a recruiter questioning my application for a "senior developer" role as "You seem to have no background in software".

I told her I have "a background" of well over 10 years as a developer, and consider it my profession.

"So why did you study Biology"? she replied.
A better link:

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Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure from Jerry Kaplan is missing. 25 years old yet ripped from today's headlines.
So, it seems like the pendulum is swinging back. I remember companies with more dedicated specialists, and it could be challenging to ship small features due to large coordination efforts.

Further, sometimes the work is unbalanced. In my current company, we recently had a backend-dominant release in a way that the frontend team didn't have as much work. That team rolled up its sleeves and dug in to solve problems, even if they weren't specialized in it. They weren't happy. It wasn't what gave them joy, but it was what was necessary for everyone to release what was needed. Now, we made sure that they had access to backend developers who could pair or guide work, and we knew the work would talk longer. (After all, these were developers who were stronger in the front end!) With our next release, we look to be more balanced, but we're looking at having developers with more backend competencies contribute to the frontend this release.

I think it's too much to ask for developers to be equally brilliant in multiple areas, but I don't think it's too much to ask that people have the willingness to develop minimal proficiencies in multiple layers and the willingness to contribute and learn.
Yeah, the naming conventions between 8008, 8080, 8086, 8088, and 80186 is enough to make you nuts.

Anyway, let's check the sources! Surfing over to https://www.saildart.org/[ALF,DEK]/ and clicking on ALPHA.LST on the left, shows code that looks like it's for an 8080 to me, but I'm rusty on this. The file itself is dated July 1980, but it's just a listing and not the sources themselves (not sure why).

Knuth starts the "Preface to the Third Edition" of Vol 2 with: "When the second edition of this book was completed in 1980, it represented the first major test case for prototype systems of electronic publishing called TeX and METAFONT. I am now pleased to celebrate the full development of those systems by returning to the book that inspired and shaped them." Here he's talking about our very first Alphatype production output, confirming it was 1980.

Note that the CRS wasn't an especially new model when we got ours, so it wouldn't be too surprising for the CPU to not be the latest and greatest as of 1980, especially as I got the feeling they were pretty price-sensitive designing it.

By the way, the mention of "fonts came on floppy disks" elsewhere was generally true back then (and selling font floppies was how the typesetter manufactures made some of their income), but we didn't use the floppy disk drives for Knuth's CM fonts at all. All required METAFONT-generated characters were sent down along with each print job. And, in fact, there wasn't enough RAM to hold all the characters for a typical job (remember, each different point size had different character shapes, like in the old lead type days!) so the DVI software on the mainframe had to know to mix in reloads of characters that had been dropped to make room for others, as it was creating output for each page. It's essentially the off-line paging problem: If you know the complete future of page accesses, how can you make an optimal choice of which pages to drop when necessary? That's my one paper with Knuth: "Optimal prepaging and font caching" TOPLAS Jan 85 (ugly scan of the 1982 tech report STAN-CS-82-901 at https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a119439.pdf when it was still called "Optimal font caching"). Actually, the last full paragraph on page 15 of the later says that the plan to use the Alphatype CRS started two years before production happened, meaning that the CRS was available commercially by 1978.
You post an awful lot in support of China, "NotPaidToPost".
On Linux you can just ignore the intel-ucode package (or whatever it's called) and not update your CPU microcode. BUT, I think they also have mitigations in the kernel, so you would have to not update your kernel, or somehow remove the patches.
I still want the fixes for actual vulnerabilities though.
> Show me anything with even remote promise of delivering like coal, oil and nuclear...

Are you mixing in nuclear with coal and oil and calling it a fossil fuel?

Besides, the efficiency of fossil fuels isn't the issue. Their impact on humanity and the planet is the problem we're trying to solve.