skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why could GDPR possibly make someone shutdown such a website?

Pure FUD.

EDIT: Downvotes don't change reality. The OP is spreading FUD.

Edit: unless the website was actually abusing users privacy in which case I'm glad it is gone.
Spotify wants a refund on overpaid royalties to US songwriters, report says
Elsie MacGill: Queen of the Hurricanes
oh wow, the "say" keyword is quite nifty. also, straightforward iterative solutions often lead to inefficient implementations. which is why most of us fall prey to complicated implementations that use all the tricks in the book... i don't know much about perl anymore, but in some languages, creating a new date object every time through that loop might not be space efficient.
I found this to be an interesting story and it linked to an interesting perspective on the term alcoholism. I was rather surprised by how little she was drinking (20-25) a week ! During my heavy drinking periods I drank about that a night and still functioned "normally" during the day. I've always been able to stop/cut down radically for longish periods. When my kids were small, I stopped drinking for 8 years and started again after I got divorced. I find it gets bad whenever I'm stuck in negative social relations. Idk
This seems like a micro-version of whats happening in Japan. Looks like most civilisations have a curve of social development. Japan is post-prosperity.
Correction. The deal will start as soon as they refresh the page. These guys aren't smart enough to keep track of the timer state across visits.
Reading through their plan on sustainability: https://storage.googleapis.com/sidewalk-toronto-ca/wp-conten...

I think tracking building energy and indoor ambient conditions in order to optimize the former is a good example of how collected data should be used. There's a lot of subtlety in being able to manage building systems to run passively (i.e using natural ventilation to condition buildings) that are too complex for facility managers or residents. This is a problem domain that desperately requires predictive tools, integrated with effective visual/interactive methods for dynamic feedback from occupants and owners.

One area that could be improved in their write-up, as it stands now, is a better discussion of demand-side energy management (meaning controlling the energy _demand_ that is a function of the architecture, material elements, to be resolved with passive and active systems of energy _supply_). This proposal reflects the kind of thinking I always see from engineers/energy modelers, which tends to tackle energy reduction primarily from the supply-side (i.e with more optimized HVAC systems) and omit strategies to reduce the the demand-side of the energy equation.

There is a section on using Passive House methods which addresses this in terms of building insulation, window thermal properties etc, but that's primarily for small residential use, and starts to show it's limitations once you get into multi-family housing, and commercial buildings. At that scale there's a lot more interesting opportunities to coordinate energy demand trade-offs that they could explore. For example, there's the classic case of optimizing window size and placement to reduce heating loss while increasing daylight, or trying to reduce peak loads, typically associated with cooling energy, versus designing for annual energy reduction associated with heating energy (in Toronto). The pace of the design cycle means most of this kind of optimization is done using rules of thumbs, even though the simulation engines to model this exists.

I also think this is important because proper consideration of demand-side energy forces you to grapple with the building's interaction with the local environment. Therefore it's the most obvious way in which the building energy logic translates to issues of urban identity and scale. Without that nuance, you just end up with abstract, large boxes crammed with hyper-efficient HVAC systems (i.e the worst of modernism). You need the constraining factor of demand-energy to provide some needed traction for the architecture.
It is a weird one in Germany. Generally you can record everything because of a law called Panoramafreiheit, however once you start to have discernible individuals on your photograph/video you need their consent, because individuals own the Bildrecht (”image rights”) to themselves, while you as the creator own the Urheberrecht (”creator rights”). And it needs both for a image to be taken legally.

So you get their written consent, ask them if it is okay or take the risk that they will e.g. see themselves in your movie and force you to take it down. This fits with the general feeling that filming another person without asking is seen as extremely rude.

The key here is that people need to be recognizable, so pictures of crowds usually don’t count.

Certain architects can also forbid circulation of photographed versions of their building if it is central subject of the photograph — but I only know of one such thing.

Note that this all was enshrined in law way before GDPR.

Unless you stick your camera into other people’s faces without asking or plan to distribute your images on a bigger scale you will probably manage without ever hearing about these laws.
Well a few decades ago people used to go to church weekly and now people don’t, and hey, loneliness and lack of companions for people is cropping up all over the news lately (observation).
Hypothesis is my favorite. I also use TestCheck.js [0] for JavaScript and RapidCheck for C++ [1], but the Hypothesis generators seem the smartest, and they're easy to customize.

[0] http://leebyron.com/testcheck-js/api

[1] https://github.com/emil-e/rapidcheck
Social isolation is probably the result of too much wealth. Y Combinator should have it on their request for startup list. Snapchat is doing something in this space.
"After Donald Trump took office the next year, the agency said it would push back until 2022 a requirement that vape companies submit applications to continue selling their products. Once a product has FDA approval, the legislation would allow its sale in San Francisco again."

The city supes want e-cigs regulated by the FDA before they are sold, just like regular cigarettes are.

Just because FDA approval is not mandatory until 2022 does not mean that Juul can't submit an application for FDA approval now, if it wants to sell in SF.
If that’s true then the gdpr was not used according to it’s spirit at all. They punished annoying guy who was trying to get some attention. Of course google or fb is fine...
Then the bean counters say "why are you buying this software, when you could have gotten it for free."

"what do you mean it's like donating to a charity? we already have a corporate social responsibility budget, and it's spent on XYZ. We don't need to donate anymore".
I get where you’re coming from, but I think legitimate scarcity or urgency is ok.

If there truly are 3 items left, that is a legit fact that matters. And it’s context that I had in retail. Likewise, sales do run out.

That said, online retailers don’t seem to need to meet any true in advertising standard, and they are mostly full of shit.
I'll have to train my mind to overcome my subconscious bias to ugly fruits while looking at other criteria.
Ecologists are monitoring biodiversity using DNA shed by wildlife
Interesting point. I can add that it ran smoothly with full-size view on an IBM PS/2 70/80 laptop with a 386SX 20 MHz.
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Friends as a service, ha :) Naturally money can pretty easily promote companionship but I’m guessing people might need a few hints how to perform the conversion.

Edit:
Thinking about this more, it seems like there could be room in the market for “like Tinder, but for arranging social events” (ie party, soccer, whatever)

“John from 3 streets down would like you to play soccer this Saturday (26 people are going, you’ve met 5). Accept/Decline?”
My guess is that by itemizing the open-source donation, the higher fees (compared to your competition's) is justified.

If you just raised your price by X%, you are now more expensive relative to your competitor's (and they don't donate, so thus out-competing you).
But Toys R Us has the name brand recognition that this doesn't. If they just reframe the idea of going there from a place to shop to a place to play (and buy your favorite toys to play back home) then they'll get back all the sales that they've lost to online shopping.
James Lovelock at 100: the Gaia saga continues
I have never had an issue with electron apps being terrible because of networking - although clearly there are apps that do push more work than is necessary over the network, there’s plenty of native software that does too.

My problem with electron apps is that they use way more memory and cpu than they should be - the architecture fix for that would be to not be a full browser.

The problem I have is they lack basic app behaviors from the platform. My experience is mostly for the Mac, but my experience using vscode on Linux has been similar.

But here we go, for a Mac:

* cmd-e/f/g are so wide, not just app wide. Vscode goes even further and seems to achieve per-view behavior.

* document editors and viewers are expected to have an icon for the file being edited, either in the window or in the tab. That is a draggable link to the file, and a drop down on right click for the directory hierarchy.

* drag and drop of files into and out of the windows don’t work

These are basic behaviors that even the simplest apps manage to get right on OS X, yet no electron apps seem capable of meeting this low bar.
DJT is a lot of things. Sociopath is pretty far down the list.
The absolute best is WireGuard-style: don't open your mouth if nobody is talking to you directly.
Kaiser Permanente is a counterexample to "it wouldn't work in the US".
US government announces nationwide crackdown on robocallers
But they do have free will and agency.
Justin has been on a phenomenal run of sharing valuable insights (personal, professional, entrepreneurial). Very grateful!
This isn't good enough for me. While I'm glad for this action, and for OP...too many times I've been in a similar situation, basically told to sod off. People suggest lighting up Twitter or other social media, which frankly, I do not use and isn't worth my time. So this poor fellow had to deal with CS, be rejected, go through all sorts of mental hell before deciding to write a diatribe, just so your company could finally decide to do what it should have done all along as a form of damage control. Don't you realize how much cheaper it would have been to do the right thing when first presented with the option?
So TL;DR, prices are high because of poorly done / too much regulation?
I wouldn't say a lot but I suppose I could try to be more civil. Thanks for your moderation.
Rich is of course totally right. There's not only the botched musl in Fuchsia, also Android Bionic, which is a libc written in C++. It's utterly unusable.
They had a better, older, safer libc implementation based on some HP code, but that is gone.

Some of Rich' points are moot though. Google already have their own libc's, in Android and Fuchsia with enhanced security measures. Similar to Huawei or Intel or Cisco. Better than Apple's freebsd libc.
Now reaching out to the community to outsource their development efforts under llvm is a good thing. There's obviously a need, musl, bsd and glibc cannot address. I'm sympathetic to that.
Goodness me! Here in Germany we have insurance on most of our goods - I don't think most other societies use insurance as much as Germans do
Hi HN!

I started this service for myself as a way to ensure all my email is encrypted at rest on infrastructure I don't own. It's a mail exchange service that ensures incoming mail is encrypted to your public GPG key.

I think others might find this useful so I've wrapped it up as a subscription service, free 30 day trial included.

Feedback is welcome!
Australia is too dependent on extractive industries. Once that happens, things go downhill, as the owner of the resources is a rent seeker, and his only goal in life is to reduce his overheads and keep the good times rolling.

As the Chinese diversify their sourcing of materials in Africa, Australia is pretty fucked later this century.
Phone-connected device detects bacterial toxins in water
>cross compile from any of those in the future

that would be very helpful, I use Linux and to be able to provide executables for Windows/macOS would be nice
Many US vendors have been caught implementing backdoors for the NSA.

So from a europerspective the questions is: which one do you want to spy on you?

Both have very likely interests in doing so and for one we have definitive proof that they did that also towards nations they call “friends”.

If the US warns about Huawei it probably does so because that is what the US would do in China’s place.
>deciding to create a business around other people's personal information

>profit off people's personal data

Have you "decided to create a business around destroying the environment" and "profit off CO2 emissions" because your office is heated in the winter? GDPR is not specific to the adtech or data brokerage industries.
Lol if you think that they make that much at a failing startup
Kind of sux when they probably took paycuts to join with promises of equity riches
Thank you for the correction, I hadn't realized that there were different drugs for different cases.
You sound smart, but I don't want to have to be that smart when I'm refactoring code. I want the compiler to do as much thinking for me as possible. I want to be able to change it in one place and have type errors to remind me of any other places in the codebase I forgot to change.

Static analysis doesn't solve all your problems, but it solves enough of them to be a very useful technique.
0.0 is what the employees got
Boeing Forced to Store Undelivered 737 Max Jets in Employee Car Park
There haven't been many "serious" people at the helm since the Brexit vote. Clowns are running the show, and BoJo plays a very convincing clown.

Ultimately, though, that's a sideshow. He has no principles, forethought, or plan. So I struggle to understand how he'd improve the UK's position.
> Do you mean "the GUI shows 0-conf transactions as pending?

It's not just GUI but also a miner policy which can break the use of BTC as cash - as it was originally intended.

> And why does adding Segwit make it "not bitcoin anymore"?

It's an ugly addition to the original protocol that among others breaks the definition of a coin as a chain of digital signatures. This might lead to legal issues as some people (including lawyers) pointed out.
I'm not sure it would need to be regulated, any more than a medical textbook needs to be regulated. The radiologist would be making any decisions. As for privacy, an x-ray is sent. No personal information whatsoever.
Solar punches higher than its weight because it produces marginal electricity at times of peak demand.
Because you get to work as a tech consultant fixing sf issues and extending SF for the many many corporate customers that use it. There are whole agencies built around doing SF implementations and other SF work and there is plenty of money to be made in this space. I know people at Deloitte that went from SF consultant to director and even one to partner.

Plenty of devs work with specific products as these products are used by many companies. I know lots of ERP developers that make very good money scripting customisations into ERP systems, it's a pain of a system but you're right at the heart of the business working on very high value contracts.
Correlated errors. Naive averaging will lead to overconfidence and it is not trivial to model the correlation.
Boosting is worth a shot though.
Not that I want to be seen defending pointy headed bosses, but I think there's a fair amount of survivorship bias in your statement. How many groups of 2-3 people have worked late, lived on pizza and coke and produced absolute garbage? Quite a few, but you never hear about them because they aren't notable.

You don't have to get into pointy headed boss territory to be a successful programmer and leave the office at a respectable time every day.
CVE-Less Vulnerabilities
If you know your insurance won't cover a procedure, couldn't you truthfully tell them that you don't actually have insurance for that procedure?
Why do you prefer semantic whitespace?
You use a license that’s hard for corporate counsel to accept like GPL3.
But they’re no longer at a failing startup. They’re at Apple.
> Then the bean counters say "why are you buying this software, when you could have gotten it for free."

Because it's the "officially supported" version and companies don't like running software that isn't eligible for official support.
He didn't "climb the political ladder". He was born on the top rung. His whole family are politicians, and his dad was president.
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That leaves an opportunity for organizations who bring people together without propagating silly beliefs. Sunday Assembly is one example of this model.
Obviously this has real advantages for making it easier for non-technical users to run Python applications, but I despair for the future of computing.

A desktop computer in 2025 is going to have 47 redundant installations of Chromium for various electron apps, 78 separate-but-basically-identical Python runtimes as every small utility packages the entire Python interpreter + stdlib, 200,000 redundant npm packages...
Never join a startup to get rich. Your option are lottery tickets, and most likely worthless. In fact, they’re worthless, right up until a liquidity event, and many times — like now — they’re still worthless.
In part. I used to work parts. They are absurdly marked up, but protected almost in a cartel like manner. New parts typically had a 100 percent markup, others much more. A rebuilt alternator, for example, cost us around three dollars. Depending on the vehicle, they sold for between 30 and 100 dollars.
Ummm.... I remember my father gifting me a 386DX 40Mhz with 4 MiB of RAM, 200MiB IDE hard disk and one of the first X2 CD-ROM that support all CD-ROM formats. All this on 1990 or 1991. Before, I had a ZX Spectrum +3.
I really have good memories from these two computers.
The proportion of VG and PG, vegetable glycerine and propylene glycol, decides how hard it is on the throat. Known as "throat hit" on vaping sites. More PG gives more throat hit - it feels harsher, and more chance of a cough, but fewer clouds. I used to prefer the high VG liquids as I thought the throat hit part of the bad of smoking that I wanted to quit.

Maybe some of the flavours have impact too, I don't know. One thing that is different is it's "just" a cough from immediate irritation. None of the horrible green and yellow crap coming up from a coughing fit next morning that you got from tobacco.

That's ignoring Juul which works differently, I have no idea what goes on in those.
Please don't post political flamebait here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20281979 and marked it off-topic.
I believe the Conservatives, like the Republicans in the US, have abandoned any attempt at actually ruling the country sensibly and just try to stay in power.
Sociopaths aren't master manipulators. They mostly get by on the of element of surprise. People generally don't expect others to stoop below a certain level of immoral behavior in most contexts.
As a child who was abused by religion I find this offensive. It may as well be technology, the effects of the economy, and or social change from stress with competition being higher than ever.
Hi, full disclosure, it's my team working on this at Google FWIW, and the technical lead for much of Google's contributions to LLVM.

When we asked the community if they were interested in us developing this in the open as part of LLVM, we meant as part of LLVM. We're very committed to the LLVM open source project, and think it would be great for this to be developed within that framework (technical, project, community, the whole works). I'm hopeful that the community is in fact interested.

But we also were asking -- we have some specific technical goals that we'd like to make sure we can accomplish. It really is the community's decision whether this makes sense. =]
'reduce long-term medical costs'

the pharma companies won't be happy with that
> what generally should I know here?

The "real useful" part was a click further in for me.

https://github.com/BTrDB/smartgridstore/blob/master/tools/c3...

Ingress endpoints which is usually the more annoying component, rather than the exact storage format.

> As someone who generally finds "couple million rows? Sqlite is fine

There's still unsolved annoyances with analog timeseries measurements, which aren't easily solved in SQL with a columns + btree index.

So combining an airplane altitude sensor at 0.1Hz with a 10Hz fuel sensor, starts giving you trouble in SQL because the question someone might ask is "when the plane was at 31,000 feet, at 0.85 mach, what was the fuel rate", while the plane might have gone from 30,999 to 31,001 feet without ever recording the intermediate point.

Indirectly speaking, you can do range-scans for each measurement if you consider time as something that is different from a generic column value in a generic SQL engine (to join rows by temporal proximity).

The ASF proposal from IoTDB[1] might make interesting reading on the topic (the frequencies part) or the Boeing talk from XLDB 2018 [2]

[1] - https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/IoTDBProposal

[2] - https://conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb2018/sites/xldb2018.conf....
What's your source for that? It's not how I've understood the distinction between sociopaths and psychopaths. In fact, it's not clear that there is a well-defined distinction. Everybody seems to draw the line differently.
Google is trying to prevent the next Trump situation
It is incorrect to say that they are at least equally skilled. They could be better surgeons, they could be worse. There is no evidence either way.
Wayfair workers plan walkout in protest of company's bed sales to migrant camps
but who seems oblivious to (or to be willfully disregarding) the long term detrimental effect his skirmishing has on the UK.

He's not oblivious to it, he just doesn't care. Why should he? His ego is the only thing that matters, other people are a means to an end. He has the same low cunning as trump, I think he's quite good at reading people, and manipulating them, but others are just tools to him. He is remarkably similar to Trump in fact, and as Sarah Kendzior said about Trump:

"If Trump senses he may have to make a personal sacrifice, he will sacrifice the world instead."

https://www.fastcompany.com/40558314/donald-trump-will-do-an...

The same holds true for Johnson. He will happily sacrifice the UK for the sake of his political career, so that he can be prime minister.
Australia raised the tax for alcopops in response to a rise in teen drinking, which was kind of stupid since teens moved to spirits and cask wine instead.
GDPR doesn't prevent you from collecting personal data. It only requires you to have a clear reason for collecting everything and being transparent about what data is collected and how it is processed.
> so genuinely afraid

As a little tyke I used to actually duck left of my monitor when an imp threw a fireball with my heart thumping. Replaying as an adult I'm like wtf that's just a lumpy mass of pixels, how could I have been so scared?
(as stated elsewhere, this effort is in my team at Google)

FWIW, while I think libc is super important, and I'm really excited about this project and the opportunity it represents, I think the LLVM project and community is much larger than libc. =D I don't think you need to worry about this effort changing anything about how LLVM operates. And we're currently just asking if they're interested. =]
> Most jobs, such as mine, provide health insurance that makes costs at least manageable, if not reasonable.

Hope you don't lose your job for some bullshit reason.