skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fundamental role of the regulator is to ensure compliance with the regulations. Regulators must consider a number of factors before deciding whether to issue a fine and the size of that fine. The regulations provide for a very high maximum fine, but that would only be appropriate where the regulations have been intentionally, grievously and repeatedly breached. In the case of an unintentional breach with relatively minor consequences that is swiftly addressed by the controller, a small fine (or no fine at all) would be entirely appropriate.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/
Thanks for clarifying!

Fees are denominated in satoshis though, and even today the average USD amount of fees is around $8,000 per block[1] (around 6% of the total reward). A 10x increase of the BTC price will make that amount around the same as the current total reward.

[1] https://fork.lol/reward/fees
> military procurement and engineering created a corrupt design process, with unnecessary complexity, poor safety standards

Assuming this permeates a considerable amount of the US military spending I'm curious how much it deflates the true value?

The US spends more than double China on military, and although it is likely a portion of their (China) budget goes towards graft and corruption my suspicion is that actual design, development and manufacturing is much more efficient (e.g. lack of environmental controls and labor unions) and would support the argument that the US is on course to losing its position of top military force (to China) within the next two decades.
You don't understand because you haven't shifted your mindset about Apple correctly. As a former Apple fan I was the same way.

Apple under Tim Cook is motivated by shareholder value, not usability or design leadership, as they were under Steve Jobs.

They got rid of Magsafe and the rest of the useful ports and added USB-C not because of the warm and fuzzy feeling it gives nerds, but because it streamlines factory production and makes the laptop thinner.

At some point Cook decided to shift their decision making from being driven by the power user's needs to being driven by the shareholder and average consumer (which is motivated more by marketing flourishes like thinner laptops and the Touch Bar than usability). Shareholders would likely applaud that.

The point is that Apple is more Microsoft than Apple these days and we should shift our expectations as such.
Go compiler internals: adding a new statement to Go – Part 2
I think you're mistaken. I'm just asking to add the unit to make it clearer.

I won't enter into the unit war, and FWIW I'm used to centigrades.
The Morning After: Facebook and Instagram's Image Outage
> The 2-meters-at-most charging cables are a downgrade

From what exactly? My 2015 MBP and partner's older Air both have 2 meter cables from the Magsafe connector to Transformer. Mac power supplies have always had a modular transformer to mains connector that you can swap out for longer if you need.
If you download a Wordpress plugin, you need to re-up it zipped -- not a major use-case but I could see other similar situations (downloading tarballs). It's an interesting choice.

MS Windows' transparent zip treated as folders works well (it's the same on Kubuntu), one could just do that and pre-cache an uncompressed version; then you get to use the file or open the folder with minimal friction?
Because of the “You could have just Googled it.”
I wonder if you had a counterfeit Magsafe adapter? They commonly get shipped with used Macbooks, and get quite a bit hotter than their genuine counterparts.

I have personally preferred the Magsafe adapters ever since I had a USB-C powered Macbook slide off my bed by accident. It didn't fall far, but it landed right on the power cable and damaged both the USB port and the cable.

Understandably, Macbooks are not designed to withstand any sort of drops, but I'm positive that the Magsafe of my 2015 MBP would have popped out, and the body of the PC would have been fine.
Same here. It's an unpopular opinion because you lose nerd cred but I remember the din of a cube farm full of people banging away on mechanical keyboards, and I have no desire to repeat the experience in an open plan office. I'm glad the things are expensive.
>The dongles and USB-C are a mess.

The failure here is that they did not leverage their power over the market to drive adoption faster. Apple managed to get all the music labels in line back in the day, perhaps they could have done a little more to encourage peripheral makers. They could have, at the very least, dropped their proprietary lightning connector in new products in favor of USB, but I suppose they were blinded by the potential to increase short term revenue by selling superfluous future e-waste.

One would assume that they had gained knowledge as to how to encourage adoption of Type C with their experience with their previous supported standards which failed to become popular, but evidently not.

Adaptor and cable sales may have given them some revenue, but the need to use them, together with the other problems with their laptops have tarnished their brand.
I personally like the lack of Magsafe. It means I can charge my macbook pro and my iphone with the same cab... oh wait, no I can't. Add iPhones still using lightning to this list.
I loved The New Tetris - specifically the power block mechanic (if you create a 4x4 square out of assorted tetrominos you make a silver power block, if you create a 4x4 square out of the same tetrimino you make a gold power block). I keep hoping we will see power blocks come back in newer Tetris games...
What I find more significant: walmart.com takes 9 seconds to start displaying meaningful content, amazon.com is finished loading in 3 seconds.

(Disclaimer: Anecdata for my system, obviously.)
Mozilla's userbase isn't really that significant, <5% is like ~2/50 people, where Chrome for example is 2/3 of all people using the internet by comparison: https://caniuse.com/usage-table
> Like they knowingly released something that was a stop-gap PoS.

That happened with the iPad 3. It was replaced 6 months later since its SOC was totally underpowered for its retina display.
If you’re going to compete with Amazon on a “buy something and get out” basis, you’re going to have to offer me something better than Amazon. If that’s “you’re expected to drive over here and park”, you aren’t winning. If it’s “you can drop in, have a look around, maybe get a coffee in the cafe, chat with a semi-knowledgeable associate, crack a book open and sample a few pages before buying”, then you’ve got a fighting chance.
I disagree with all of these. USB-C is great. You can use non-Apple chargers now, and external batteries. I never understood the dongle issue. You almost always need a cable to connect to something anyway, right? So why not carry a C-A cable instead of an A-A cable? Or a C to HDMI cable instead of an HDMI to HDMI cable? Or do people really leave cables at home and count on their destination having the right ones?
While I am happy for you, I am also pretty surprised and would be interested in more details. A full can of beer is 355 mL, so how much beer are we talking about here? Are the keys not sticky at all?
A lot of people made the same argument when Jobs removed the cd drive from laptops. It seemed like an issue at the time given most software was still installed from CDs. After a two year dark period where you had to use an external cd drive, most people didn’t miss it.
>The categorical imperative isn't about "is it likely that everybody will act like me" but "would it be good if everybody acted like me".

I know what it's about. My point is that in many tough situations, following it leads to suboptimal solutions (not just for me, but for society). It is not a good way to decide the morality of many things.

>You'll likely not end humanity if you start murdering your neighbors, because most people will not follow your example. Your murder might not even get noticed, so even the statistics won't change - and yet you'll probably agree that there's an ethical problem involved in murdering your neighbors.

I would agree, but I don't need the categorical imperative to decide this. It's not as if this is a tough scenario that the categorical imperative made a lot easier to analyze.
My purebreed english bulldog 9 years old ate zignature kangaroo for past 2 years

Zignature has the top most dcm cases from this report.

He was diagnosed with DCM 2 nights ago.

We had to put him down last night.

Not sure if there is a relation, we never got a chance to validate his taurine levels but put him on taurine supplement, but there wasn't enough time to see the effect as he got worse with breathing and bloating do to the DCM and myocardial arithmia, was in severe cardiac arrest.

I read on the possible link and the vet mentioned it could be related yesterday.

He was born with an enlarged heart, so dont know if that's related.

Who knows... we will miss him, I wish there was more we could have done.

Also want to point out we did do 50% BARF diet, my dog had alot of allergy and supposedly did have gluten intolerance.
Barf was not always feasible to give being on the road alot, so we also fed him zignature.

Since he was on it, alot of his conditions cleared up and I would say he was doing better overall health than on other brands (royal canine) till recently.

More work needs to be done before I would blame the brand.
Absolutely, but we can also see that such needs are more likely to be met at the top of the hierarchy.
Starship Congress
LibreSSL - the devs have concluded that, so long as TLSv1.2 is used with secure ciphers, it is every bit as secure as TLSv1.3 - but they still include some ciphers that have been more successfully attacked.

The library itself has the kind of compatibility hooks, and zealous porters out there that you'll be surprised what works.

You know all those changes that happened between OpenSSL v1.0 and v1.1? Every project had to work hard to accomodate those changes - compiling that code for older versions still has to work, or companies freak out.

Add LibreSSL into the correct side of the header-files' if-statements. Usually its legacy, but we're recently having to consider different versions of LibreSSL.

When a single if-statement begins to span three lines for readability's sake, you know you're shoving LibreSSL into the seam between OpenSSL versions.

Libp11, the backend for Yubikeys was surprisingly simple to get running on a different SSL backend. Three additional if-statements in one header-file, and one extended out. Code compiles, works beautifully, even past LibreSSL's v2.8.3 that I was running at the time.

BoringSSL - while Im less intimately familiar with Google's offering? I thought they were the first to implement TLSv1.3 - years before anyone else was even considering it.

I have no experience porting anything to it. The only folks I know who do? Are Google Engineers, writing proprietary code. The API is explicitly flagged as unstable/quickly changing on their github mirror.

Google, like always, doesnt care about your needs.
Frontend Robot's official GitHub integration
I hate it, but I think there are definitely uses for the TouchBar. My main issue is the lack of indexing. You really can't use it without looking at your keyboard. I already dislike that the chiclet keyboards have no grouping of F-keys, unlike my standard layout keyboard that groups them into groups of four. But at least there I understand it's due to space constraints, and at least I still have some physical guide to the key I want.
Building an LLVM-based tool. Lessons learned
I think the number is much lower than people realize. There are a lot of multi-billion dollar companies that still operate in one region and don't have a solid disaster recover plan.
I live in the Portland area and so I'm interested in the impact.

A 8.0 earthquake just happened inland in Peru.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Peru_earthquake

2 people died. From what I understand subduction zone earthquakes can be terrible, but it depends on the depth in the ocean at which they occur. If they are the right distance from shore and depth, devastating. But, further out and deep enough, they can often result in no tsunami. Does anyone know if that's supported by evidence?

I also keep seeing the author's quote about a 1 in 3 chance within 50 years that the big one hits. But in other places I've seen it say 5%. I'm a little confused by that number and what's correct.

It's scary either way. But, it does seem like the biggest death tolls occur where massive populations are spread near the coast, like in Indonesia.
I think Christina Maslach, world expert on burn-out, highlighted these six factors as conducive to burn-out. I'm just a bad copycat but you can see her talk on the topic.
> I found the Magsafe adapter cords would fray, corrode, and blacken pretty easily, becoming a fire hazard.

Why do you attribute fraying and/or blackening of the cable to the connector at the end?
This is just a data gathering link for Mozilla to validate some ideas for added revenue sources, they are also doing a VPN one.

Clicking the button brings you to a survey where they seem to indicate the intent is to be ad free:

> You clicked a button to possibly subscribe to Firefox Ad-Free Internet for $4.99
Did you try to use an executor that can drive the new futures? The ability to use &self in an async context is so much nicer than playing around with Arc with things that really don't need one.

Also very happy to not being forced to write .map_err ever again.
> "I can personally vouch that your average Indian IT engineer is very ethnocentric, clannish, and completely unamerican in every sense of the word"

Honestly I can attest to this from big tech. It's anecdotal but my experience is that Indian engineers will self-organize into their own teams, start bringing LOTS of people on both remote and in-sourced, and effectively push anyone out who's not Indian by implementing super authoritarian leadership structures where everyone's vague on their standing in the company.

Those leadership structures often push non-H1B visa holders out because the quality of work plummets, and they don't want to put up with VERY terse management (ie: the type that will call you at 10:30pm screaming at you because your overseas Indian counterpart can't read the English documentation you wrote and now it's your problem).

I've now seen this at one old-school Midwest aeronautical corp, one startup trying to save costs, and one "big-tech" bay area company most people would recognize. This article very much speaks to me on something I have seen in my life.
That sucks big time. Sorry for your loss.
Most of the analysis of regulation in both the article and this discussion thread focuses on what is controlled and where the lines are drawn, but this is actually a small part of the experience of regulation. Because of the structure of environmental impact reports and reviews proposals for development are open ended with all manner of input being considered for a period of time that is difficult to even estimate. Changing the process to be more reasonable and have expected time frames for resolution of conflicts one way or the other would greatly improve the experience of development. As it is estimating the time, cost, and risk of failure for development projects is nearly impossible. This unbounded process is a huge barrier no matter what lines get drawn along the way.
I have a hard time understanding people that just keep complaining about the new USB-C ports instead of just buying a handful of those (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CVX3516) and permanently attaching them to the mouse/keyboard cables.
If you play out the terrible comp, you are almost sure to get the “not good enough”.

People work for a variety of things, but comp and colleagues are high on my list. If you give me crap for both and I have options to go elsewhere, you’ll be left with people who don’t have options to go elsewhere. They’re probably not going to end up being the cream of the crop.
IMO it's a liability and an unmitigated failure. It feels like a decision which came down from the board room, not from UX. Like: how can we make this product "pop" and at the same time make keyboard replacements produce more revenue?

The toudchbar is useless without developer adoption, and there will never be developer adoption if the only people using the feature are those who can spend a couple thousand dollars on a laptop. It seems to me the non-inclusion on the new Macbook Air was an admission of failure.
About forty years ago I was a research assistant for a university physics department. I supported two researchers, one a tectonophysicist who was studying the geometry of shearing in viscous flows, and the other a theoretical physicist who was studying practical applications of optics in measurements at atomic scale.

Another assistant devised a clever solution to a problem in making practical measurements of shearing. The physicist wanted a way to fit nearly-spherical balls of clay into the middle of blocks of clay of a different color, so that he could pop in the sphere, shear the block, and then compare measurements of the resulting distortion with mathematical predictions. One problem was how to get mostly-spherical balls into a smoother, more-nearly-spherical shape, and the other assistant rigged up a clever device made out of some photographic development equipment that rolled a near-spherical ball of clay around in a bin for hours, resulting in a very-nearly-spherical ball.

More relevant to computing, about six or seven years ago I worked for about a year and a half on a subproject of Peter Neumann's Clean-Slate computing research project. The overall project was funded by DARPA, and pretty large. (I don't know its current status). Its mandate was to examine a group of proposed ways to address rampant security and reliability problems in computing.

I worked on maintaining and extending an implementation of a novel programming language intended to be the main system and application language of a new computing platform. I didn't design the language, or any substantial part of it; I just fixed bugs and proposed and added conveniences for programmers.

The language used both static and dynamic type disciplines, simultaneously, in order to address the areas that each discipline handled best.

The language, called "Breeze," was meant to represent some security and data-integrity invariants in the type system that are not normally handled that way. For example, Breeze made it a type error to transmit privileged data to a recipient or a process with the wrong privileges.

It was a terrifically interesting project. I enjoyed it a lot. I did notice at least one problem with approaching it as an academic research project. It sometimes seemed like the incentives to publish novel work made the researchers less curious than I expected about related work that had previously been done--I'm guessing because nobody wants to publish a paper that basically just says, "these guys tried this thing and it worked pretty well."

I can't be sure, but it seems like maybe this preference might have slowed practical progress in some areas. On the other hand, it could also be that the researchers had more substantial reasons for their lack of interest in some older work, and I just didn't know about them.
Wow, never knew that was there. Learn something new everyday. Thanks!
I personally didn’t interpret the article as arguing for authenticity in and of itself, more that this lady beliefs her approach provides health benefits of a particular kind.

Nothing spiritual is prominently mentioned.

They do briefly mention her diet, which sounds Ayurvedic.

I too like the endorphins from yoga and hot yoga.
Don't Be a Jerk
Alternative:
https://launch.blendle.com
One is a research study and the other plucks cherry picked anecdotes from Quora.
Apple May Finally Ditch Problematic Butterfly Keyboard with MacBook Air Refresh
I meant it in both ways. Asking people not to have children is ridiculous. I can't believe it's even entertained. Maybe asking people to have smaller families but that isn't an issue for most people on here I would assume.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression this was exactly what the Oracle vs Google copyright lawsuit was about.
I mostly agree -- I finally ordered a new rMBP last week -- but the most damning loss on the new laptops is the SD slot. I'll miss that A LOT.
That sounds like a bad idea if you don’t like mosquitoes.
Agreed, as little trust as you might have in stockholders, hold not much more for your government.
There are signature schemes that can fix that issue, and cases where it's useful anyway, like:

Many linux distro isos are available from several different mirrors. Having a secure hash on the original site with the links to mirrors means I don't have to trust the mirror(s).

Another case where the archive hash is useful is when there's some public key crypto involved. I can have a public key from a publisher (gotten either out-of-band or in the past) and the hash can be signed so I can verify it. These schemes would mean that an attacker would at the least need to have compromised a site for an extended period of time (if I have history with the site, the first visit it doesn't do anything extra), or in the case of out-of-band key sharing, multiple communication methods might need to be compromised for an attack to succeed.

But yes, in the common case a hash next to a file link hosted on the same domain really doesn't do anything.
CentOS 8.0 Completed Its Initial Build Loop
Yes, removing magsafe was regression. They could (or somebody could) do a magsafe adapter for them perhaps.

But this fetish to produce the smallest - we saw this before with mobile in the early day and that ended with what got affectionately known as the mars bar phone, then things got sane again.

But with laptops it is different - what we effectively have is - hey look at our new cool smaller and lighter laptop. Don't look at the now heavier, larger bag of adapter and accessories you now need to carry so you may use it as you intended.

Why their consumer base puts up with it makes no sense until you view the core of them as you view religion. Almost case for many that if Apple says jump, they jump. [EDIT ADD] This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEERq5tLiOY maybe sums it up :).

I like you comparision of Cook, maybe we will get a video of him one day doing a parody of Ballmer's infamous developers developers developers speech, with smaller smaller smaller. Maybe that has already happened - nobody would be supprised.
I'm sorry, I didn't understand your comment about my ancestors eating hearts
and livers etc. I am Greek and we don't consider offal to be inedible, quite
the contrary. For example, we make an absolutely heavely dish called kokoretsi
that consists of the heart, lungs, liver and spleen of a lamb wrapped up in
its long intestine. I've made a couple of them myself (although it's a bitch
to clean the intestines properly because they're full of shit). We make soups
from the same bits of the animal, and/or its stomachs, as well as a kind of
sausage with its organs stuffed into its intestine, and so on.

We also eat snails, in a red sauce with garlic and parsley (but not any kind
of insect).

All these are considered delicacies, to be enjoyed in special times (religious feasts and the like), and with some good wine to accompany them, it goes without saying.

Perhaps this is a reason why I see the matter differently than you do? My
people are used to the idea of it not being right to throw out anything when
we slaughter an animal to eat it. If (further) Westerners did the same, meat
consumption would significantly improve in efficiency.

I also don't understand your comment about "the revolution". What revolution
is that?
Jesus, thats like every dog food brand.