skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's basically impossible to know. Even laws which should be really clear, such and if and when you need winter tires are not clear.

At the end of March I drove across Europe from south of Spain, and had summer tyres on. The weather conditions were good, so I was fairly confident I would be ok without winter tyres, but a lot of European countries have laws requiring then at certain points of the year.

I knew in my destination country you needed winter tyres until April 1st, but I couldn't find anything clear on all the countries in-between. Austria was actually the toughest, my understanding is their laws are you need winter tires if the road conditions dictate you need them. In some cases snow chains can be used, but not on highways. But this was based on reading English forum posts from 10 years ago, so I have no idea if it's still correct. I tried to find something clear from an official authority (probably doesn't help I don't speak German) or an automobile association website, but couldn't.
Probably too late to keep this discussion going, but...

I understand Proof of Stake vs. Proof of Work. But what Ben says about only "publishing the current state of the ledger" doesn't seem to relate to whether PoS is used. It's certainly not inherent to PoS that the entire blockchain isn't published.

Maybe he's just confused about how PoS works (but I somehow doubt that). I understand how PoS makes things more efficient by entrusting a single validator (or any small subset of validators) rather than having essentially a contest, and I understand why this is also inherently less trustworthy than PoW.

But Ben never mentions Proof of Stake anywhere in his explanation, just that the blockchain's "current state" is the only thing "exposed".

I'm juse trying to understand what he's getting at there.
You can't post these as regular submissions to HN, but there is a monthly "Who wants to be hired thread" which appears on the first weekday of each month.
Is Shazam actually one of the safer "always on" microphone apps. I didn't realize it was owned by Apple.

I found the desktop app pretty useful in just identifying songs friends played when people were over, popular songs in commercials, and just popular songs that played when I lived abroad on tv. But as I thought about the security implications of apps like Alexa and Hey Google I eventually uninstalled it. Siri was always basically useless so I kept it off mostly for that reason.
The magic isn't really in say. say is just print with an automatic linefeed at the end (and, two fewer keystrokes for the keyword). Perl's print (even in very old versions of Perl, dating long before say arrived) also accepts expressions as arguments, so you can write: `print join "\n", @array;`

Obviously, the Date (and other) type stuff is new to Perl 6, and is quite lovely.
A hacker invaded 2 CBS reporters' lives without writing a single line of code
Heh. Of all the examples I gave, lambics were probably the worst, but not by as much as you think.

Nicotine, like caffeine, has a bitter taste on its own. Ecigs are flavored in part to cover the taste. Lambics aren't fruit juice, ecigs and flavored chew aren't candy. No-one would ever mistake the two.
40 years since Thatcher, Reagan and the rest of the world started tearing down everything communal, and community, giving individual "choice" instead. You'll buy a service, seek a product, but you won't know your neighbour.

Seems to be working as intended.

With hindsight, we should have stopped after about 10 years of those reforms.
The point on AFPS is very compelling. Imagine risking that much of someone else's data.
He isn’t an idiot, but he was a extraordinarily weak president. He essentially allowed Cheney, who is in turn puppeteered by his wife, to act as a second president.

IMO he is someone who could have developed into a good Senator, but unfortunately was the president at critical point in history.
Google chrome has a nice feature for that. Yeah I know it isn't an efficient workflow but to lazy to change at the moment.
There are no consequences. You don't need additional oversight. This is not semantics, at the core of the issue.

The idea that oversight (ie another layer of bureaucracy) is a solution to a problem is what the US legal system has to avoid, to stay effective.
Either one looks completely fantastic, I assure you.

I have helped people on my team write promotion packets in both forms. Both worked perfectly well.
Well, suppose he does some transformation involving position. GPS points also have altitude in them. He neglects to sanitize altitude at the point of collection, and is therefore collecting and retaining more data than necessary to perform the service. He plots positions on a relatively zoomed-out map. Only the first six significant figures make a perceptible difference in the map position, but he retains the same precision that was uploaded, usually higher. Again, failure to minimize. Worse, he enabled automated periodic VM snapshots with his VPS provider, so is not properly complying with deletion requests.

Now he has "decided to build a business around profiting from the abuse of personal data" and the consensus in this thread looks on his destruction with glee.
Yeah - Booking.Com stresses me out every time I use it. It’s the worst culprit I’ve seen in this category.
Or a self driving car, would have plowed ahead and never hit the brake.

There’s an assumption that self driving will be safer, but it’s not necessary (there’s very little public data with any reasonable detail), and plenty of anecdotes where the car did something very abnormal. Furthermore, you have self-driving backers like Andrew No, publicly moving the goal posts to justify the investments.

My point is, in 2019, self driving cars don’t work very well, and there’s little expectation that they will work well in the near to medium future, so it’s silly to sing their praises now.
Why not Google? There are a lot of kids (including my son) addicted to YouTube. Why not Amazon? There are a lot people addicted to buying stuff they don't need.
It is in fact quite plausible that lower costs for physicians could lead to more physicians and more price competition among physicians, even in USA.

It doesn't matter what seems plausible to you, what matters are the hard facts of how much is spent for what outcome, and as you'll see from those graphs, the evidence is overwhelming that the US spends a lot (both per capita and as % of GDP), and gets less in return.
It’s now extremely ill-advised to join a startup. There are barely any advantages unless you are 1) young 2) a cofounder or 3) some altruistic reason. If you are neither these things, it’s completely not worth it.
We also used leaded gas a few decades ago. What’s your point? Just because people go to church less doesn’t mean that’s why people are lonely, it just means that people are lonely and they’ve also stopped going to church as much. There’s no causal link there.

Plus, it’s 100% possible to have community without church.

Edit: cool, downvotes for disagreement.
Are use case driven DBs helpful? Is the use case and possible adoption crowd large enough to sustain a product this critical down the road?

I worry about the proliferation of infra level tools or adopting a new one. Why not make an extension or fork postgres to demonstrate your concept? (Just an example)
Just so we're completely clear, Google has been an incredibly long-term contributor to basically all parts of LLVM. So have sooooo many other companies. This is a really cool project IMO, but it doesn't represent a significant change in who or how much anyone is contributing to LLVM... It's a drop in the bucket.

And for the record, LLVM is doing fine with all these corporate contributors.

I'm not trying to say that this can't be a concern for OSS communities and projects, but LLVM seems to have a quite successful and sustainable model here.
BMW speeds up plans to electrify 25 new models, now due by 2023
What?
How would wealth result in social isolation? Youre positing that a lack of survival need on others results in isolation?
They almost certainly got complaints from the users on that list. You tend to get pretty swift response from that.

Very likely that they just ignored it.
What does DOT mean?
> Someone who can't control their anger isn't someone you want poking around your insides with a scalpel.

If the surgeon is prone to violence fits as you claim he might be, wouldn't it show on his track record as a surgeon?
Him moderating is a volunteer position, and he's been doing it forever.

(He's also an llvm foundation board member, etc).

Truthfully, I think the drive by commentary by HN on a community they appear to have about 10 minutes experience dealing with is a much worse look than what chandler did here.

It's funny to watch an entire group of people assume they understand the situations, motives, and community, based on a sample size of "1-2 emails".

If anyone actually bothered to look at the history of his moderation, you'd see he's incredibly consistent in his moderation. In fact, he's publicly called out me before for something similar, despite the fact that I was his boss's boss.

So I don't think it's reasonable to claim what should be happening here when the community itself has not asked for anything different - in fact, it's been quite happy with it.

If you want to become part of that community and then suggest change, by all means, you are more than welcome to join and contribute.
Google doesn't do "only x86_64". Even when I was there (years ago) at a minimum all software had to run on PowerPC as well, and non-portable assembly/intrinsics required explicit approval from "Eng Elders" and a portable fallback. I wouldn't be surprised if ARM compat is also required now.
> This seems to be proof that the GDPR is being weaponized against people and organizations one doesn't like.

Well, against people who publicly share private info of 150 other people who trusted them those emails. 2K euros is not that huge money in Germany, it's not like they'll loose their house over it, and that certainly is a practice that needs to be stopped. Just being an amateur is not an excuse when you deal with other peoples' data.
It is cumulative. Each time, no real worry.

Over 20 years it just happens. I noticed one day when listening to some signals. Levels, at some frequencies were different.

Again, minor league. But, due to a few decades driving window down, it all did add up to a little something.

Overall in my life, apart from that window business, I have taken good care. The highs are rolling off some now. Normal.

Discrimination is still really good. But, I can now tell left ear from right.

Thanks for the tip. I will have to get a set.

So, you have to decide what is worth what.

At my peak, I could hear well through 22khz.

Today, I still hear very well, but range has dropped. 17khz or so.

I do not care much.

Discrimination, sensitivity related to things under 12khz is where all the good stuff is. Mostly normal aging. I have no worries. I can still often tell you who made a vintage watch by the sounds it makes.

Music is still great!

With a ton of work, I could have preserved more sensitivity, and a bit of range. But I have lived well too.

You must evaluate these things and act or not, now.

Hopefully, you have no worries aging up too.
Sorry to hear that. Unfourtunately the idea that this could happen wasn’t widely publicised and hence the correct cautions were never put in place (for example, now to serve as a minister you need to be on a register, hold an ID card and undergo regular police checks). Of course that doesn’t solve the issue in its entirety, but hopefully it helps you appreciate that people are thinking about the issue.
Climate impact research about the current heatwave
Logic Pro, later the Alchemy synth, then TestFlight are the acquired products that come to mind. However, Buddybuild got acquired and shut down but hasn't resurfaced yet in full, i.e. as a CI tool.
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The examples here make clear that "a clear reason for collecting everything" means an ironclad justification for each field, each bit of precision, each minute of retention. That is not a casual thing. As in, one of the fines here is for retaining a phone number to fulfill a need to communicate, when postal mail could have worked instead.

It is doable, if you have the lawyers and the time. But that's not a degree of scrutiny you want to gamble your life savings on for a personal project.
This is great--I'm using "Minimal Viable Prototype" from now on. "Product" brings along so much expectation baggage. I also chose "Minimal" over "Minimum"--one being desirable with purpose and the other perceivable as deficient.
Clearly church was a common source of community for people, and the OP makes the point that maybe we haven't found a good replacement for it yet. I wouldn't just dismiss that out of hand, it's a reasonable hypothesis on the surface.
You have it backwards. If you directly replicate an ETF by buying stocks directly, you can capture the loss as soon as one stock goes down (and buying a share of something equivalent to stay approximately indexed). In the ETF, you only get a tax loss if the whole ETF has gone down. If no stock goes down, you don't have to sell, same with an ETF. For tax efficiency, direct indexing is superior than an ETF. This means you have to keep injecting money into the fund to keep the portfolio properly allocated (ie, you must avoid selling stocks that have gone up).
If the story linked elsewhere in this thread is the one in question, this wasn't an accident. It was a guy running some kind of harrassment campaign. His "little mailing list" was of people he was harrassing, not subscribers to a newsletter.

https://www.rosepartner.de/blog/bussgeld-fuer-offenen-e-mail...
Yes! That was the name.
> You can disable 2FA if you like.

Sure, good idea, let's disable 2FA on your life savings account, just because you can't have 2 logins from different locations, or two different users.

> IB's API doesn't suck, it's very low level.

IB's "API" sucks hard, and it's not low level at all.

First, it's not a real API between you and IB's servers. It's actually an API between your software and the IB heavy, graphical, client that you installed (the API gateway just being a lightweight client). You have to start a listening local socket on the heavy client, and send your messages to it.

Which means the basis of IB automation starts with automating the start of a heavy graphical client, login with GUI input boxes, and keep the graphical client up (note that running this client will disconnect you from everywhere else, you now cannot use the IB phone app for instance).

Second, it's not a real API, it basically just allows you to send messages to the client that emulates GUI actions you would have done with your mouse. Is that what you call "low level" ?!
For instance, if you want to retrieve your executions > 2 days, you have to open a specific window on TWS and _THEN_ make your API call to the client. This is INSANE.

Hell, even the documentation of their various API itself is a joke. You can find gems such as:

> gateway may sometimes need to be restarted intraday. The possibility of avoiding intraday restarts so that gateway can typically remain running all day is under review.

> It's asynchronous

It's asynchronous in the _worst_ possible way. Basically you send messages to the heavy client, asynchronously, and you have a single stream of replies all tangled together with no means to know from which request they originate, which is why all wrapper implementations just _force_ you to make synchronous API calls: so that they can match the replies to the requests.

> There are a few good R and Python wrappers

There are only some half-baked, unfinished, tutorial-driven libraries that do synchronous request-reply for 50% of the protocol.
The official library being an automatically-generated python binding of the Java SDK.
Not my definition of "good".

Did you actually ever used these APIs in real-life?!
Four loko was controversial because the caffeine and alcohol contents could easily make anyone sick.

Most telling is that the article you posted was entirely focused on college age adults, not teenagers. In fact, I didn't find any references at all to underage drinking as the reason why it was reformulated. Am I missing something?
He only has the rights to Keen Dreams specifically due to it being the only one published by Softdisk.
Shameless plug: this reminds me of how I once spent an afternoon compiling the open sourced version of Keen Dreams using Borland C++ 3.1 :D

http://x3ro.de/2014/09/18/keen-dreams-dosbox.html
Timeseries databases have an entirely different set of technical challenges from relational databases. Also, I wouldn’t exactly call this proliferation. There are relatively few decent timeseries databases in existence, some of which have been around since 1999.

So yes, timeseries databases are incredibly helpful if you have to store, well, large amounts of timeseries data quickly.
Well, there are still huge holes in musl. towlower e.g uses a linear search. my binary search made it 2x faster, but we still have to wait for that to appear. Implemented Unicode standards are years old.
You don't know which standard is implemented.
Still many problems with dynamic linking.

And: musl is POSIX. POSIX blocking IO should not be used in a modern OS or language. You can never guarantee concurrency safety with POSIX. This is the Fuchsia problem. They went for unsafety and POSIX compat. L4 ditto. Microsoft's Singularity not.

A modern libc would need to get rid of blocking IO and implement strings as utf8 only. There's no need for anything else. The C standard made too many mistakes.
Faking urgency and scarcity (and faking social proof, I guess, but IANAL and I haven't read about cases) is illegal in Germany, thanks to the law on unfair competition. The thinking is that the best product will win if you eliminate unfair practices and lying in marketing is considered an unfair practice.

The downside is that companies are supposed to enforce the law on each other, it only goes to court if they disagree. If everybody in a certain industry does this stuff, nobody has incentive to force them to comply. Consumers, clients etc do not have means to enforce it, though a handful of special associations ("Verbraucherschutzvereine", literally consumer protection associations) have been given the right to enforce it on behalf of consumers.
It's not that I don't perceive many things that might be described with some truth-of-the-matter as "fascist, classist, militaristic". What I might object to is the use of such terms as "fascist", "classist", "militaristic" as thought-terminating cliches deprived of any real content, which is astoundingly common. And the meme of "the white-supremacist society" is not significantly different in any real sense - though it does seem more likely to prompt attitudes such as Ravelry's, as reported in the OP.
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There is no more legitimate scarcity or urgency anymore.
This also was discussed here yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20269376
It’s weirder when you visit and half the place is on fire and in drought and they still want to keep it up.
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In theory, no. A private company (by the commonly understood definition) always needs growth and profit to continue providing a good service. Neither of those things are compatible with being cheaper than a provider that doesn't have to optimise for those things.

Obviously in practice that's not how things work out, so in most cases private companies end up moving faster, leveraging efficiencies, utilising innovation better, and generally being cheaper. The lesson shouldn't be that means the government shouldn't provide services though, but rather that the government should act more like a business and do things businesses do to be competitive.

It's very noticeable that when government does this it works really well. The UK government has brought a lot of it's web and IT services in-house in the past decade, and they're so much better now.
Once again under UK drug law it is entirely legal to send someone to prison for five years (I think) for an eighth of weed. Except it never happens. To get straight to a maximum penalty there would be very damning circumstances.

It's why we have regulators, judges and magistrates - to apply judgement and proportionality. Sure there's a few headline cases of some absurdly harsh sentence - and just about always the details reveal there were a lot of very damning circumstances that make the sentence seem pretty reasonable.

Do US judges rubber stamp a maximum sentence each and every time? No. Does every visit by police result in prosecution? No. Is every warning and scaling mechanism offenders get in the US expressed perfectly in statute? No. Otherwise you would have fired all the judges as surplus to requirements.

You're just spreading FUD. Understand the legal system in Europe before spreading such rubbish.
But how do you get from that to “we’re lonely because we’re not going to church”?
Isn't it glorious?

I definitely share those concerns. But being able to package things in an independent way is incredibly useful.

I hope we can get away from the reliance on incredibly disproportionately sized runtimes (such as Chromium) for making GUI apps in most cases. I think it trades too much of the user's resources for developer convenience. Unless you are trying to do audio/video conferencing in which case I guess I get it.

I've found the work on the Scenic UI framework in Elixir quite cool (only depends on OpenGL + glfw on desktop, nanovg on RPi).

I also had reason to build a simple bit with wxWidgets in Elixir through Erlang. Didn't love it. But that should be able to make reasonable-sized native but cross-platform UIs.
Elixir and Erlang tend to package releases in a nice independent way.

But what I need this for is because every library under the sun is available for Python. And sometimes you need to just get a small utility built and distributed.
Reveal: Google Plan to Prevent Next “Trump Situation” (Hidden Cam)
I wasn't aware they allowed this. It's a horrible idea, but it leads further towards Google's dream of an fully and instantly mutable, impossible to reference, fully personalised internet where no one and everyone could be accountable for the fact that you shared a video with your coworker and he saw a completely different version of it while neither of you is aware of it.
Subaru Telescope identifies the outermost edge of the Milky Way system
Aggression Detectors: The Unproven, Invasive Surveillance Technology in Schools
tell that to the relatively large amounts of polonium-210 found in cigarette smoke
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Exactly. All these comments about how rude cloudflare is forget this style of public shaming of AS’s that can’t perform basic hygiene on their own network has been the norm rather than the exception for over twenty years. And further, all the surprise that cloudflare was quick to report - here’s the deal: bgp doesn’t lie. The second something is wrong, everyone knows who did it. There’s zero mystery. It’s not like some grand caper that takes months of investigations. Operators basically have one rule - don’t leak bad routes to everyone else. That’s pretty much the only rule that’s a constant. When you break it your karma goes to zero, everyone dumps on you but life goes on.
> why is it inevitable? What do trade wars get us?

Could have asked what do wars get us in the 1930s - and the answer would be: with the United Kingdom? Not much ... With Nazi Germany? Quite a bit ...

Not saying china is Nazi Germany but if you ask the question in the abstract without context then it will never really have a consistent answer.

My personal view is that the Chinese regime must fall. I would be in favour of dropping most immigration restrictions for any chinese citizens. If you cannot topple the regime you can remove it's people.
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