skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would disagree because "The rules don’t apply to data processed by an individual for purely personal reasons or for activities carried out in one's home, provided there is no connection to a professional or commercial activity." Obviously when you put the video out in the world those rules start to apply (especially if you make money from that - ads etc.). I don't see how GDPR applies if i take pictures on my vacation and show them to my family/friends after (this is purely personal use). Even in case of surveillance (dashcam, cctv) you don't need to get consent from every person, you just need to inform them (signage) that surveillance is happening.
There are unicast options for VRRP
There are many alternatives to solar other than burning coal. For example, you can build a nuclear plant or hydro dam, or use more natural gas or biomass. The world is not divided into solar v. coal -- solar is not even a major player in global energy right now.

In terms of sources about the disposal issues for solar, there are many discussions about this online, but here is a nice, readable, layman's introduction to the problem:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/25/18018820/solar-panel-was...

"To understand the challenges of solar waste, it’s helpful to understand how the panels are built. There are different types of solar panels, but most of them contain aluminum, glass, silver, and an elastic material called ethylene-vinyl acetate. The problem is that they can also contain more dangerous and sometimes cancer-causing, materials such as lead, chromium, and cadmium. Functional panels are sealed off with glass and are very safe. But when the glass breaks or the panels are damaged, those substances can leak.

This risk is especially high with poorly made solar panels installed in areas that experience extreme weather, like hurricanes and hail. Winds and rain can break the glass, allowing chemicals to leach into the soil and then into the water system"

Now imagine a world where solar is a major player. So world energy consumption was 1.575 × 10^17 Wh (2013) and growing at, say, 3% per annum (conservative). (wikipedia).

Let's imagine that in 2033, when world energy consumption is 2.8 * 10^17 WH, solar accounts for 1/3 of that. Now today's panels are about 1.65 m^2 and can generate about 300W (https://www.solarpowerrocks.com/solar-basics/how-much-electr...), so let's say due to improvements in science, that becomes 600W. And let's say they do that 12 hours per day nonstop year round, to produce 2.63*10^6 WH per annum.

That means they can account for 1/3 of world energy needs if we have 38 Billion of these futuristic solar cells (the ones with double the current energy output and that produce peak output 12 hours each day 365 days per year).

That's about 20% of the area of Arizona. And let's say that due to external damage and internal failure, the cells need to be replaced once every 40 years, so that means we need to recycle about 1 billion of these cells each year, each weighing about 25kg, so that is 25 Billion kilograms of waste that would need to be recycled each year, contaminated with some nasty chemicals. And that number too will grow by 3% each year as global energy use increases.

And this situation is only going to get worse because as we do more research and create more efficient cells, that's not going to happen by switching to more organic compounds. It means more exotic compounds.

And we still need to find something else for the other 2/3 of global energy use.
There's no rule against politics on HN as such (and never has been: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869).

The rule is against garden-variety politics—the kind with no intellectually interesting aspect: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Many good HN submissions have some political overlap. That's inevitable and fine as long as people don't use the site for political battle, which takes discussions out of the range this site exists for (the curiosity range). I've written about this a fair bit: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Edmunds examines costly side effect of safety tech: repairs
Charge a LOT for admission, and include the ability to play with a bunch of the best toys. Then, if you buy a new toy, ~75% of the admission price goes toward the purchase price. I bet they'd make a killing.
Me too, and I was looking forward to it.

When I have time, I want to experiment with doing a sort of gradient descent on an array of different cookie recipes to find the best ratios of ingredients. That would be an interesting project.
You can choose any delta, so that f(t)*constant=f(t+delta) for every t.
Another definition of pressure?

> behaviour of people and how they constantly invalidate me... Reality can just hate a person.

... That you can't escape.

> like putting a downpayment on a house and people refuse to consider it medical treatment.
I guess I did, but I still wonder what company would advertise this way.
English has some of these words too -- they're specific kinds of counters.

Paper is counted in "sheets" or "reams," for example. "I want a sheet of paper" is distinct from "I want a paper" -- outside of the context of a newspaper, the latter would be considered grammatically incorrect.

It's just that in Japanese, these are more or less standardized based on the kind of thing you're counting, so 個 for small, discrete objects, 匹 for small animals, 本 for long, thin things, 冊 for bound sheaves of paper, etc.

So as an example, an English interface could say something like "4 umbrellas", and the Japanese version could get away with something like "4 傘 [kasa, meaning 'umbrella']" if it's a list, but if it's in prose, you definitely need to be able to say "傘4本 [lit. umbrella 4-count-of-long-thin-object]" or something similar depending on the context.
I sympathize!

> While we're here, I'd love to get your opinion on polysemy -- it looks like the best thing since sliced bread for free(r) monads, the combination of the usability of freer-simple and the efficiency gains of fused-effects.
> I've long secretly held the believe that mtl-style and free-monads were roughly equivalent in power and efficiency equality was only a matter of time, but I am really looking to the free approach because effect algebras seem to be a fantastic tool -- they compose more cleanly than mtl does.

I've not tried polysemy and I don't think I will unless it comes up on the job. I'm inured to effect systems after the fifth or sixth flavor. I've heard it's nice from people who've wanted to use it though. I've written my share of production Haskell and I haven't found mtl to be as bad about composition as people tell me it is.
I don’t think the Android team is the interested party here, given the original poster’s interest only in x86_64
Biothreats, Real and Imagined
When there are actually samples of his speech before and after moving to Texas, and when he was Governor of Texas versus President of the United States, it kind of lends more credence to the claim.
F-15 Strike Eagle II was the first game I ever played on a computer. I wrote an indignant handwritten letter to Sid Meier c/o Microprose praising the game but demanding a replacement floppy when the one with the desert storm expansion got lost. (My mom let me send it after editing out my “By the way...” preceding the request.)
pthread cancellation was a terrible idea when it was added, and it's even worse today. It's an API that provides no actual value (you can implement it yourself via signals), is a giant minefield if you care about not leaking or deadlocking, and infects the entirety of libc with pointless checks for functionality that no one in their right mind should use.
Couldn't the local government ask libra not to operate and if it does start blocking the revenue source of members such as Facebook?
perhaps the language around proportionality/reasonableness is sufficient.

It is not. Those terms have enough legal leeway to drive a truck through.
> He must have recognised the seachange of populism

In 2006? That seems far fetched.

Your point about cynicism and politicians of his generation being the first to ironically cater to it seems more solid to me.
I've been lucky enough to know some US state level politicians for quite some time, not major figures, but folks who did it most of their life (while doing other things too) and were successful at it.

I often got the felling that they did that thing, and even pushed the issues they did... because they were successful at it and it fit their personality. Most were not idealists despite what they said IMO, I suspect many if pressed to change their positions did not really care about the issues outside of a couple topics at most (and due to the winds of change in US politics most actually supported surprisingly different issues over time). They were just very good at getting along with people, shaking hands, negotiating deals, had the social skills that provided them the financal and political support hey needed to keep going.

In many ways it seemed to be a lifestyle that once they were successful, was also a sort of social life, and to some extent a thrill seeking event (elections are exciting) that just kept them going as people.

Not to pass the buck on any moral choices they make, they're certainly responsible, but I suspect for may they just sort of fall into it, and just don't want to quit the lifestyle as it fits who they are.
Not patio11, but I interpreted that comment of his as referring to this particular part of his blog post:

> A better reason for a technologist to be long a stock a lot of people want to short is because they have earned it through services and, for whatever reason, not sold it. If you own a material amount of stock in a publicly traded technology company, particularly a material amount of stock which is not widely available at the moment, you should probably devote non-zero effort to understanding whether you’re allowed to loan that stock out and, if so, whether your brokerage will pay you to do that.

In other words, if you own millions of dollars of stock in a company but you aren't allowed to sell it or just aren't going to, you may be able to make serious money "for free" just by lending out your shares to short sellers. If your brokerage will pay you to do that, as IB will.
> I know this person. I know how much $$$ they spend on acohol a week. I know how they got fired from their job for not showing up. I know they blew their tax return in a week. I'm not a cold hearted person but ...

Well, you kind of are. That's basically of the definition of cold-hearted.

It's 100% your legal and moral right to not contribute to these fundraisers. You could even argue that the best course of action here is to be cold-hearted, but you should at least own it.
> No government is going to let FB and any coalition do an end run around their national currency and their banking institutions. They're also not going to partner with an international consortium to have them replaced with something they only partially control.

I disagree. Politicians from many countries have shown a willingness to sell out their own nation. With a high enough time preference it's entirely possible.
Yes, but if an entity has no interest in interacting with the EU then they don't have to respond. You only need to care about a country's laws if (1) you want to do business or visit there or (2) you're going to piss them off to such a degree that they convince your home country to come after you.
Somebody has to write the library to begin with. The typical Unix thing is for the OS to have one everybody links to. Which means, among other things, variation between libcs is a factor in portability of C programs from one OS to another.
IIRC think that is the business model of this store in NYC:

https://camp.com/
Can you point to a source for the last point? You say "you can't ever go back". I'd really like to see if that is true.

BTW, people commit suicide from burnout too. Doctors mostly.
If the price barely covered the VCs I doubt the employees got anything.
Show HN: Converting audio files to text using Google chrome
Well I too was hoping for cookie iteration, mostly because that's been one of my side hobbies for a while.

I don't have Food Lab style process shots posted anywhere because this took me a decade of fussing over dozens of iterations, but I do have my current recipe here:

http://devansdesign.com/personal#/cookies/
Isn't it possible to derive a CI from the confusion matrix? https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/363382/confidence-... or using bootstrap? The authors of this research also provide CIs.
> For reference [0] I think you're going to have a bad time

Youre going to have to be more specific.

> if you tell the people outside of NYC and LA that their voice, concerns, representation is totally irrelevant.

Nobody is saying anyones representation is irrelevant.
But how is it fair that the vote of someone living in Wyoming weighs 3.5x that of someone in New York or California?
The comment was mostly tongue in cheek. Venezuelan currency has been hyperinflating for a while. So people are used to referencing prices in currencies other than the one used for the actual payment.
Oh, I am learning clojure. As best I can and as quickly as I can. But that isn't the problem so much as clojure's ability to make code so succinct that to read it, you have to sit down and really, really read it.

But see, someday, I won't be on this team anymore. And then all the time I spent all learning how this beast works will be wasted and some new person will be scratching their head at it.
As someone put it: we are picking a huge bear with a stick.
We haven't seen anything yet, the war against crypto will be bloody.
I'm surprised the proposed initial scope would include x86-64 but not ARMv7 or AArch64. That suggests Google's motivation here is their server software, not mobile devices running Android or Fuchsia.

Also, portability and consistency is an important attribute of a libc. Supporting multiple architectures from the beginning would help shape a portable design. For example, the original target processor for Windows NT development was the Intel i860 specially because it wasn't the standard i386 architecture. Fun fact: the Intel i860 was codenamed "N10" aka "N-Ten", which may have been the origin of the Windows "NT" moniker.
Simplicity Made Easy
He is a fool who pretends to be playing one. The upper echelons of the conservative party are not at all meritocratic - you do not have to be whip smart to get there, but being personable counts. He's made enough self inflicted strategic blunders.

Nonetheless he holds a certain appeal for the upper classes in the UK. I don't think his appeal translates down to people who work for a living though.
How do you secure the socket and prevent a malicious process from connecting to it?
Except those are cylindrical holes, not spherical ones.
specifically: "I will ask my clients for an hourly rate that is 1 Euro higher than I originally negotiated or I would usually charge. I will take that money (up to ~160 Euros per month) and support those projects on Open Collective that I'm basing my work upon in my client's project."
The first link says the North Carolina Medical Board just pulled his license. And a "nationally recognized and board certified plastic surgeon" said the doctor had no training to perform plastic surgery (only general surgery as all doctors receive).

So I'm not sure why you're trying to make some artificial point in isolation about lawsuits being meaningless, other doctors clearly think badly of his practice of medicine, to the point that they've stopped him doing so.
A lot of my clients use a SIEM for security and something like Splunk or LogStash or ELK for application debugging.
What about humans? Is it carcinogenic?
Yes, if you hit a pedestrian and didn't brake, dash-cam footage of that would not be helpful to your court case.
In what language? I thought Haskell and OCaml for example, had generics.
> It's not immediately clear to me why an LLVM implementation of the C++ standard library would be desirable while an implementation of the C standard library would be undesirable.

Worth noting the c++ standard library has had a lot of changes in recent years. libc has been hugely more stable in the same timeframe. (Notably there was C11, but the changes since C99 are not nearly what has been going on in c++ land.) The odds that whatever libc you already have is good enough are very high.
Exactly, the guy's irrelevant given the context of the article.
This wasn't really a acquisition though. More like Apple buying some assets as Drive.ai gets liquidated.
> e-cigs/vaping leave no butts, no trash and are mostly devices people want to keep and reuse.

Most commercial e-cigs have some form of disposable component, ranging from the plastic pods used by Juul to some Blu-branded devices which are entirely one-time-use.
Your ETF fund manager can buy and sell within an ETF structure, tax free. This beats any high turnover tax loss strategy.
This seems like a bad PR move. Having been in consulting everything is about perception of value. Why not just plan to spend some of your money (say 5%) on supporting open source projects and just raise your rates by 5%?

Ticketmaster is the perfect example of this. You buy a concert ticket for $35, but after all of their exorbitant bullshit fees, it's more like $50-55. But if they just told you "$50 is what you pay" then you'd probably not care at all.

So go ahead and charge whatever you want for a fee. Just don't penalize your customers for the things you want to personally support.
This calls to mind the idea that our world is uniquely suited to psychopaths (or whatever the current DSM-V term is). Cities are too large for people to be held accountable as a villager would. There is too much information for scandals to have consequences. The thirst for confidence and charm is so intense that charisma or presence is by far the most useful quality a person can have. Modern life is filled with so much stress that those who cannot feel fear or empathy are highly advantaged.

In the end you can have amorphous politicians who can change their identity at any moment and be hailed for it, because they provide some form of emotional value to people in a world where nothing matters anymore anyway.

Looking at the new generation of entertainers on streaming or video platforms, many of them seem to have dark triad traits.
I think the point of the story was not that he was a 'good speaker' but rather, his foolhardiness is a populist act.

Which implies that his kind of bumbling attitude in popular politics might very well be calculated, i.e. he's not a fool, he's brilliant.

I'll buy that he's borderline genius with the populist bits, but I also believe basically everyone in international politics who say he's a clown, totally unprepared, never serious. Some of the things serious entities have to say about him are pretty bad.
I’m still in shock they started out in a basement in Shreveport. Shreveport! The tech industry in Louisiana these days consists largely of ghoulish “insourcers” like Perficient, DXC, EA, IBM and CGI or zombies like GE Digital.
Are there are VS Code intellisense plugins that beat Webstorm?
(This is the second half of what used to be at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869. I've split it off because the first half turned out to be useful to link to in other contexts.)

Re "I've seen it happen countless times": since you don't know anything about our politics, what you're seeing is your own interpretation of whatever stood out to you, which is likely whatever you most disliked. I know it feels convincing, but people convince themselves of everything this way, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15546533 to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307091. It is called the Hostile Media Effect (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...), and there are countless examples on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=....

Re your account, it looks like we rate limited it because it has a history of using HN primarily for political (and especially national) battle, which is against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. That's routine HN moderation. Saying something about YC was not the active ingredient; people do that all the time without getting moderated. Indeed we have a rule against moderating HN for that reason: see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... and https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=....

Re the YC/GDPR thing: it's impossible to say much without a specific link but I can tell you we didn't downweight it because of YC—that would break the rule I just mentioned. Users were complaining about a flurry of GDPR posts in recent weeks and even posting lists of recent discussions, so if we touched it at all it was probably dupe-related.
https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/investing...
> they must be too incurious to be worth recruiting to the language anyway.

Is Haskell a language or a cult?
Singapore Probing Drone Disruptions
I dont get it. They traded Pepsi for scrap metal? Could not they have traded it for wood, or ore, or gold? Like raw materials?
There are two essential options:

1. W "knew stuff" and chose to present himself as a Texan

2. W "didn't know stuff" and chose to present himself as a Texan

The second option is by far more likely. For one of many examples take the following clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdimK1onR4o

Is there any evidence at all that W actually knew what tribal sovereignty meant yet chose to completely bumble the answer here?
In my experience NDK development is quite painful now. Most of my NDK work is a little old now but I found the debugging process quite painful. This was for C++ code that was running on other platforms so almost all of the debugging was due to platform incompatibilities or bugs.

But I did notice in the linked article that they are only targeting x86_64, so I don't think this libc is targeted at Android.
> We know YouTube has the ability to edit video, heck they have done it to their own promotional videos.

I think that unless they are making trivial edits to a video, not disclosing an edit to an official announcement or rule change can be pretty dishonest.

When YouTube announced their controversial YouTube Heroes program in a video, they quietly uploaded a completely new video with slightly different wording to the same video id, without any indication that it was a new video.

When a company is trying to communicate important information that affects customers livelyhood, this is not ok. Thankfully some people had archived older versions of the video and discovered it. And the wording that they changed had major implications for content creators.

[1]: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/youtube-heroes-controv...
Many people are complaining about some fines, but here are some others I see that are evidence of this working extremely well:

- A police officer was fined for using his department's tools to get someone's private phone number for his personal use

- A rental agency was fined for leaving renter's private data (ids, etc) open to the public for six months after being notified of the vulnerability

- A company was fined because they were continuously filming their employees at work without explanation

- A political candidate misusing private citizen data for campaign purposes.

- Rental car companies tracking drivers by GPS without notifying them

- Hospital staff having fake doctor profiles to view unrestricted patient data

This is convincing me that GDPR is a great success.
Ask HN: Estimate the cost of silent phone calls?
I must get at least 2-3 spoofed calls a day. There's no one on the line when I pick up the phone and it's interrupting my work and wasting my time.

When I ponder the total lost productivity of everyone who gets these calls it would seem it has to be immense.

How would one go about estimating that total cost?