skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don’t think this is as credible of a threat as you paint it to be.

Terrorists don’t go around killing people for banning them from forums.
That claim can only be made with respect to using a Kulisch accumulator (what he calls the quire) for accumulation.

This can represent the exact sum of any number of floating point values (or products of floating point values) with the intermediate operations preserved at infinite precision, up to a single rounding at the end.

e.g., for computing an inner product of vectors \sum_i x_i y_i with x_i and y_i in floating point, a fused multiply-add operation (as on today's computers) would perform something like:

r(x_n y_n + r(... + r(x_2 y_2 + r(x_1 y_1 + 0))...))

where what is performed within the rounding function r() is done to infinite precision and a single rounding at the end. This is also only true if you are accumulating into the same value, and not splitting this operation across multiple values, otherwise there would be additional rounding steps performed.

Using a Kulisch accumulator the result would be:

r(\sum_i x_i y_i)

similarly also only preserving precision if everything is done in a Kulisch accumulator.

You can add a Kulisch accumulator to IEEE floating point or any other floating point as well. In fact the second? ever computer with floating point (the Zuse Z3) performed FP addition using a similar accumulator, but sums-of-products probably didn't preserve the multiplied value though.
Specifically in France the train has a near-zero carbon footprint, because it's electric, and the electricity comes from nuclear power.
As subsidies and taxes can be used to incentivize and disincentivize behavior, I’m happy about this. Flights have truly large ecologic costs, and flyers need to be aware of that, trying to minimize travel if not necessary. I’m particularly happy that it’s not a flat tax but based on ticket class.
This is the point of sandboxing apps in the Mac App Store, and (to my understanding) providing simple and complete uninstallation. Mac users that care about issues like this (and I'm not saying they shouldn't) can avoid them by choosing to only install apps from the App Store.

Revoking signing keys on the Mac is pretty extreme considering that Zoom is creator of the software — and that is what the key is meant to prove / enforce. I think that sets a very bad precedent.

The fact that Zoom is distributed outside of the App Store should at least raise eyebrows for Mac users. At this point, I tend to ask what specific functionality is required by an app, such that it wouldn't be allowed in the Mac App Store — especially for free client software (there can be perfectly valid reasons for this, such as previous versions of BBEdit).
There's the BQ Cervantes, which runs FOSS software, but Kobo's open source community seems much more active.

https://github.com/bq/cervantes

https://blog.bq.com/es/bq-ereaders-developers-program/
Using a train.
Trains, buses, cars and not traveling.
My thought would be that there are probably multiple people interested in the idea of federation or decentralization in most moderately sized cities. If they find each other, then can start from there and spread the word.
Apple comes to mind. Their products are usually even more expensive in poorer countries.

Just about any commodity would qualify. Oil companies aren’t giving discounts to poorer countries or selling them a cheaper inferior product.

Lots of indie software makers can’t be bothered to put in the effort to target individual countries, and just sell at one price worldwide. I believe both Apple’s and Google’s app stores work this way, with no ability to set a different price in different countries.
Oxfam says that the 10% richest account for 50% of air pollution. People that have enough money to travel by plane should have enough money to not destroy our environment.
Using another means of transport or doing without travel (eg conducting your business remotely, hiring someone local, etc )
Nice bingo:
* ecofascism, leftist, propaganda.
* account created a few minutes ago.
They say it will "help support the environment", which could mean through funding of greener initiatives, R&D or level the playing field (although the tax is really low/symbolic, in my opinion).

It makes sense to tax flights in order to subsidize rail for short-distance trips. I would have expected a higher tax on flights outside the EU, so that people change their habits (although then you need a carbon-tax sort of scheme, not to penalize low-income people who visit their family once a year).
It’s a bit more complex than this. I highly recommend the book, has a ton of research and cites a lot of the experiments. It’s truly fascinating.
This is why large game studios are generally moving to a SaaS model.
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This is simply rent seeking. It won't reduce flights, it's too small to incentivize any fuel efficiency changes, it's passed on to the consumer so it won't alter airline behavior, and while the article claims the revenue will go towards financing trains, it doesn't state how that will be implemented. Are they going to reduce fees on trains accordingly? Are they going to improve train efficiency? Are they going to build additional infrastructure? It's possible that they could do all these things and cause a tiny shift away from air travel toward less-polluting options, but it's more likely just another general tax revenue source that's politically easier to acquire because it's easy to demonize airlines. I'm not defending airlines; they pollute a lot. I just don't see how this helps.
>, but what many don’t know is that he funded NeXT computer - Steve Jobs’ post-Apple venture

Ross Perot also tried to buy an early Microsoft in 1979 when it only had 28 employees:
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=199...

Some accounts said one reason Ross Perot's enthusiastic investment in NeXT happened was because he regretted missing out on Microsoft and didn't want to repeat the same mistake.
How we smell depends a lot on our activities. It's really the bacteria that cause sweat to smell bad, so it depends a lot on a physical activity and how long it's been sitting on the body. When a person sweats a lot, like during sports, sweat contains much more water and less food for bacterias, so the smell is less intensive. In high-school I used to spend whole summer on the beach playing sports, sweating like a pig, but also going in and out of water every few hours, and never smelled sweaty although I often would shower just once a day, before going to bed, and often with no soap at all. On the contrary nowadays after a day of 10h sitting in front of the screen I smell horrible even 10 minutes after just having a bath with soap and douche gels and everything.
I'm an introvert and I don't mind talking about life. Just don't expect the things I talk about to be bent towards social endeavors.
Not traveling?
What you're missing in your first paragraph is that legitimacy is being given to what is illegitimate, and when that failure has taken place, it then becomes permanent, because, after all, if the Supreme Court says it's okay, who am I to argue?

I'd be less inclined to say, "spawn of the devil… for the enslavement of mankind," than "parasitic beast bent on survival at any cost." (If it were less parasitic, fewer accountants would be needed.) Like a tapeworm, the government parasite doesn't require malice to be harmful.
It means screwing off people and justifying with "we're saving the planet".
Why didn't they put São Tomé and Príncipe on the map? Okay, it's crowded there, but not too hard with one or two longer lines.
I've flown through a French airport once - Paris Charles de Gaulle and since have gone out of my way to not fly through it again. It was a hot mess. They lost the luggage, it was hard to find gates, parts of it looked outdated, customer service sucked. A year after, the ceiling at its _new_ terminal collapsed killing several people (https://www.thoughtco.com/charles-de-gaulle-airport-terminal...).

Maybe it was just me having a bad luck, but it was certainly enough to convince me to stay out French airports even if it means longer flights, delay or changing the duration of my stay.
Maybe they changed it because it was not clear! I was also curious to know if I had misunderstood because I'm not a native English speaker. I know that "I work out of Berlin" means "I work in Berlin", so...
There is no definite scale for the fines though, i'm pretty sure negotiating with the hackers will be cheaper 100% of the time. This is interesting from a free market perspective: The undefined cost of the fines would lead to the discovery of the true price of data leaks by negotiating with thieves.
This is one of the special-est pleadings I've ever seen on HN. You might has well have said the privilege of living in the shadow of Big Ben compensates UK nurses. We are comparing financial transactions.
Which road do you take to Iceland or NYC from Paris?
I was surprised recently to learn that photoshop has an api (albeit poorly documented). I was able to get quite a ways with it and am using it to control photoshop via a hardware MIDI device. Really handy to have physical knobs and buttons for certain things.
By starting with a small tax which won't affect much CDG, the strategy is probably for France to push it on a EU-level after that.
Note that i recommend two "brands" in my comment above, the link isn't to Papoutsanis soap but some smaller one :-). It is very easy to find Papoutsanis soap with a Google search so i didn't link to it.
Certainly it is not always obvious who shouldn't be let in and who should get a second chance, but such is life.

Keeping those not appropriate is out is still the task, even if "appropriate" varies strongly with the precise context.

And without a deep discussion on what precisely is appropriate for all the contexts the state operates in, insistence on bureaucracy is merely (intended or not) a codification of conservatism.
Before you decide to go, I'd evaluate exactly what you want out of the engagement and keep that in mind during the whole process. It's so easy to get used in this sort of scenario. Facebook obviously has an agenda of some kind and so should you. If those two agendas don't mesh then you should probably disengage or else be open to a one-sided benefit in their favour.

Be aware that their PR guys could use your name to dilute your previous critical commentary once you have gotten involved and are part of their 'consulted expert' club. This could potentially leave you fighting their PR which will likely just end up with a muddy mess.

Be prepared is what I'd say, a reputation is on the line for you and not much for them.
Not embedding per se, but Chrome folks are working on integrating Firefox into the puppeteer project. https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/tree/master/experi...
Airlines dont pollute. Their customers do.
Yeah, that's really an unsolvable problem I guess. But you could at least make it clear to the user what some app is requesting. If it's requesting the root capability / ambient authority (basically access to everything) then that should be a big red flag.
...in my day, the same stuff was accomplished most entertainingly by Sesame Street. "c" "oo" "kie"... "cookie!" Nobody was bored by phonics being screamed by a blue monster.
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That seems to be all it means these days.
Is lsof part of the default install of OSX? It isn't usually part of the base install on Linux (though obviously very easy to install)
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Is 3 euros, round trip, really going to incent different behavior?
I am actually surprised that short-distance flights aren't taxed more in Western Europe. The train infrastructure in France is world class and can get you from Paris (North-Central part of the country) to Marseille (Southeast), a distance of about 500 miles, in 3 hours.

For Americans, this would be roughly equivalent to go from Boston to Washington D.C. (a trip that takes 7-10+ hours)
Except that trains don't have the same possible destinations, you can't (easily) take a train to a destination outside EU. I think the gov went in the wrong direction here, the tax for flights within France should have been the highest, to give more incentives for using the train
I knew going in this wasn't going to end well...
Incentivizing human beings means treating them like the rats and birds Skinner-ian techniques were derived from. But we’re not rats nor birds and thus such attitude is not effective long term. Apart from being condescending, humiliating, degrading and destructive.

Rewarding a child for reading makes them read for the external reward (for someone else) and makes them hate reading even more because of the humiliation and having to go against their own internal compass in order to get something they want.

You may say this prepares them for the “real world” of exploitation but maybe 1, truly successful people find ways to include their internal compass in their daily flow career-wise and 2., a society where almost everyone tolls at the whims and pleasure of a very few ought to be questioned (reference the insane levels of inequality worldwide, having a king emperor is not sustainable).
I remember people criticizing apple when introducing new air, that it's product line is mess. Now, after discontinuing 12" macbook (which overlaps with new air quite a lot), people cry about how they'll miss it.

Steve Jobs, 1997 WWDC quote is adequate here:
"You can please some of the people, some of the time".
Can we do this in an email?
Do you agree carbon emissions (among others) contribute significantly to warming?

If not, conversation is indeed over and baseless.

If yes, what alternative do we have help reduce carbon emissions in the atmosphere? (because this is something to do, and fast now)
Yes CDG is doing pretty good job of deterring fliers already .
How can a user purge all data about them on fb, including shadow accounts and backups?
How can a non-user opt out of having a shadow profile about them?
How can they claim to respext privacy if they dont have flawless answers for these?
More SaaS, definitely. Every major player is positioning themselves toward streamed content for every vertical.

Indies will continue to seek profits via traditional means; I expect the Switch will be a mainstay for much of the next decade.
Falling comes to mind :)

I guess that's why the tax is on take-off, so everyone can afford landing!

Bad jokes aside France has a huge highspeed rail network.
Okay, but how does that relate to fascism? Really, you'd expect fascists to advocate the opposite actions, because of the strong nationalist component of fascism- wouldn't they tend to favor actions that benefit France and disregard global externalities?
Smells like 2007
I generally agree with the article. Personally, I don't log _that_ many informations in my applications.

Normally, my users will just dump the whole log in an e-mail with a "doesn't work" message attached.

IMHO, a logging facility should grow with the project and I think the standard logging package in go is the right size.

About bubbling up the errors: absolutely! Always let the caller handle it!
At least for flights around Europe, taking the train. Flight in Europe are very cheap. It's actually cheaper to fly from London to Newcastle than it is to get the train, and it takes roughly the same time.

For all flights the alternative is just not to go. Instead of flying to the Caribbean for a holiday, go some place closer and take the train, instead of flying for a business meeting, just call in. If it's worth that much for you to fly, then paying a little tax on top should be fine. Flyers still aren't paying fully for the damage they do to the environment.
Please noooo. I can tolerate the downgraded experience since Quantum on desktop but I can't deal without uBlock Origin on mobile.
Etags make it really easy though, by storing not a hash, but arbitrary text. Of course arbitrary text is much more flexible.

Even without etags you could devise a similar scheme probably, if you can get a browser to cache a request indefinitely. Then no request would need to be made to get the “cookie,” though JS would be needed to make use of it.
Why are Americans so obsessed with religion, devil and sins?!

Taxes exist to capture money and finance the externalities that are ignored by corporations. If corporations were more responsible countries would not have to tax these issues.

In this case France is using the money to improve an already pretty good rail system. Compare this to the US and the California train line?
Ross Perot was way ahead of his time. We are finally getting an idea of how terrible some of these deals have been.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/perot-in-1992-...
Kiwi Browser (Chromium-based) runs Nano Adblocker and uBlock Origin with full support (like on Firefox)
State of serverless, create Helm charts and Docker's damaging paradigm (U&R #29)
Why? Delete the apps and they won't be able to do anything.
"The new French tax will be 1.5 euros for flights within France or the European Union, 3 euros for economy flights out of the EU, 9 euros for intra-EU business class and up to 18 euros for business class tickets out of the EU. Transit flights will not be taxed."

I read that as most flights in or out of France being taxed.

"Transit flights" Is that a connecting flight? Seems to be the only exception.
I always grab a paper towel on the way out to open doors with.
Blowfish isn't good, and it's important never to use it (as a cipher; bcrypt is fine). But that aside: Schneier has had a weird aversion to elliptic curves, has never (that I know of) written anything technical about them, claims to "not trust the math" behind them (whatever that means), and my suspicion is that he simply hasn't studied them in any depth. All I said was: I wouldn't look to Schneier for information about curves.
Is it being rewritten in non-Rust during the porting? Or is it left in Rust, with build system taking care to compile and link it properly?
Funny to read that, I forgot my folding knife which has a reasonably big blade inside my backpack. Went through the security of 3 different countries, no one found it, was mortified myself to find that huge blade when I arrived.
Should be based on passenger mass
as long as 69 doesnt auto update from 68 in the play store, it doesnt seem like a problem. people can switch over once extension support is added.
This is not to contest your overall explanation, but I should note that teaching with phonics can be fun. When I would give baths to my kids, we used foam letters that stuck to the bath walls. They would randomly pick letters to build a nonsense word with, and we would take turns trying to pronounce it.

So they might randomly grab GSLKJUH and stick it on the wall and I would say "Guhslickjuh!" as I moved my finger across the letters in time with my pronunciation. It's super silly and fun.

To make the associations of letters and sounds more obvious, we built our "words" iteratively, one letter at a time.
This has been fixed last week. Try update your system.
The only add-on I need on y phone is an adblocker. This is why I've been using samsung browser for a long time. It does what I want and does it well.

(I'm not paid by samsung, just trying to help fellow readers)
The purpose of the tax is to recover the external cost of flying.

Ideally there are alternatives to flying, but it's not a requirement: as long as flying has an environmental price, recovering it through tax is a decent logic.

We can discuss the offered price, or how the tax could be structured, but I don't think the approach is unreasonable on its face.
Related: I was surprised to learn recently that short-distance trips by plane actually have lower CO2-emissions than long-distance ones, because the plane does not need to carry so much fuel just for later use.
I had a pretty good experience on my case, nothing to say really. The passport control queues were pretty optimized and things worked as they should. I've definitely seen much worse airport than that.
I worry that said lawmen are going to be more bueracratic and even less safety. Moving slowly isn't going to cut it unlike structural engineering. The metaphor breaks down because the architect isn't responsible if people use sound dampered sledge hammers and saws in the middle of the night on vital support beams.
The software engineer is.

Especially given the origin cultures of regulators think that just banning Cryptography is a remotely reasonable idea instead of barking mad.

Standards may make some sense but they should be deliberately open ended like "encrypt customer data sufficiently or don't gather it" not "use single DES to encrypt - if you use large key RSA you will be in deep shit in spite of it being better".
From Wikipedia: «Fascism ... characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy».

There are people who see the enforcement of the green agenda in these terms, like this: you can't speak publicly against it, you can't act openly against it, and it gets forced on the economy through the power of the state.

I personally think that such a view is a bit of a exaggeration. But we should remember that the danger of fascism is always around the corner, in the groupthink and in the enforcement of One True Way in anything.
No. I had hair below my chest for 3 years without using shampoo or conditioner and it worked out great. Brushing was way easier and I always got compliments by my lady friends for how great my hair looked. There is also an entire subreddit dedicated to this: /r/nopoo
How We Lost the Great Pacific War (2018)
How is Facebook a free speech platform if users cannot control how and to who their speech is directed?
This was my impression as well. "I don't work with people I wouldn't invite for coffee"? I don't need my coworkers to be my friends (although it's definitely great if it happens), I just need them to be professional and good at what they do.
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Business class taxes are 3x-6x economy, so corporations/rich people are paying more.

Flying as is is a luxury, economy class or not, and we shouldn't forget that.
Can't wait for the wave of "Its okay to pirate, the devs ASKED us to!" excuses popping up from this.
They can take boats. Or not travel as frequently.
Sailboats
According to Burkhart, 20/20 patients in their pilot study answered affirmatively that eliminating soap bathing helped their atopic dermatitis (eczema). They mention that this is already a routine recommendation in some countries such as China.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18986472
Is there a contact I can send my resume to instead of signing up for an Angel.co account?