skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling a C++ function from your scripting language, or a scripted function from C++ are different uses, they're just combined into one for the purposes of a demo of what the code looks like.

edit: For example, there's a fairly clear distinction in a game between engine code and gameplay code. Engine code is run all the time, and should be memory and computationally efficient, and robust. It won't likely need to be changed much, and is OK to spend some extra effort writing it to get all these properties. So C++ is great for this.

Gameplay code doesn't tend to have these requirements, and you may not want to pay the cost to write C++ if you don't need the benefits. And additionally, gameplay code often needs to be rewritten frequently while you experiment with gameplay to find what's fun, or do expansions, or support mods to the game, so a language that's very easy to write in helps a lot.
Minimize for Loop Usage in Python
This is literally textbook how-to-do business, if the fines are smaller than what you earn from doing it, you keep doing it because it's profitable.

It's why Facebook's $5bn FTC fine is laughable too. You need to fine them an amount relative to their market capitalization to really make 'em feel it, probably around 10%. I'd go as far to say, one would need fine them in the $50-$100bn range to really stop them from doing something (same for any of the $500bn+ companies).

If it's profitable to be shitheads, they're are going to account for it, and be shitheads.
> The tendency to seed cloud formation is well documented
Merely opening an account won’t. But if something goes wrong and they decide you owe money, that will. It’s not a certainty, but by just opening a checking account you are taking on an certain amount of risk that your info will be reported to the credit agency.

You can get your info corrected if you’re the victim of fraud. Can you get it deleted entirely, such that the credit bureau has no record of you, as if you never existed? Or is participation in the system not actually voluntary at all?
It's crazy how these things tend to snowball.

In some ways isn't this how cults get started? Someone picks some arbitrary and weird thing that "initiates" an individual into an exclusive club. Then you get that first follower and you're off to the races.

Personally, I'm excited for the cult of the pineapple. It's my favorite fruit.
Federal, State or local laws can avoid that problem. Like the law that prohibits HOA's from preventing you from installing a TV antenna.

https://www.fcc.gov/media/over-air-reception-devices-rule
I can’t speculate too much without knowing where, but it sounds more like regulatory capture to prevent development.

With conservation, rainwater collection, gray water re-use, incinerating/composting toilets and/or engineered septic fields, a lot can be done without a lot of groundwater or usable natural septic field.
It's also going to make those you convince of this less genetically fit than those who ignore the advice. So the people who choose to have ten kids are going to be more represented in the population a hundred years from now.
Send nonce+hash(phonenumber+nonce)? Then recipient could just iterate over contacts and check if they get same hash for anyone. Expensive but works?

OR send (handshake) message encrypted with recipients phone number (put through KDF). Anyone knowing the recipient probably could be able to get your phone number, but that seems like an improvement?
Absolutely! Most places I have worked offered showers but it's not always the best experience. (Busy, not comfortable with lenses, ..)
I mean pre-auth in that you pass it a JWT with a shared credential that it parses for you, as opposed to an explicit auth'd credential.
Speaking from SSD firmware development experience, the reason is those devices are so hardware constrained (in particular SRAM and code) that the firmware team spends a lot of time being clever in making it all work under huge time pressure. Couple that with SD cards being a testbed for the newest flash technology. That is why I don't use SD card for anything I care about reliability.
So the Scooter companies business model is built on a gap in local regulations allowing them to leave there products anywhere without recourse and they are now upset with another business model that found a gap in their gap? Get me some popcorn.
It's still not inexpensive. Desalination plants cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build.
Ask HN: Does your codebase have much technical debt?
And, as a programmer, do you constantly do the work to pay down technical debt as you go, or do you just leave it to accumulate?
The book actually allows putting definitions on cards. They just need to be in the target language, so you need a monolingual dictionary.

I have the second problem as well, but I don't know if it's really a problem. I remember learning many patterns in English before fully understanding their meaning, and the same applies to Russian.

That's probably a "feature" of learning a language. The more you will see the word in conctext, the more you will refine your understanding.
it's pretty standard in granting to overpromise like this and if you don't do it you will be at a disadvantage relative to your peers.
Not just east coasters can subscribe to this thinking. A citizen of pretty much any other country can.

Compare with Hong Kong. Right off the Victoria Peak there are 40+ story apartment buildings. There's forest to one side of them, and more 40+ story buildings to the other side.
Of course we are talking generationally here. Plenty of boomers bucked the trend, but by and large they defended the status quo, moved the nation economically to the right, locked everyone up for minor crimes, and just absolutely devastated the environment, to name just a few of their great accomplishments. Under the boomers, labor unions have all buy gone extinct. And for the record, the largest protests in US history have occurred amidst the rise of the millennials (Iraq war protests and Women's March).
Isn't this the argument free-marketers have always made? The people who said GDPR would stifle competition? It will be a long time before the outcome of these choices are obvious.
I'm pretty sure you don't have a legal claim against a site because it doesn't use subresource integrity. Three quarters of the internet could be sued. Now if the company handling the claims _also_ loses your data, then maybe you'd have a shot at a case.
While unsubstantiated, I love the analogy, I hadn't thought of that possibility.
My favorite thing about the GDPR is that it's both a secret plot to ruin Google and also a secret plot to protect Google, and I doubt even Google knows which it is.
I don't know how they could mistake a major political candidate spending as spam. Seems like reckless neglect, really.
I remember in the 90's there was a drive to buy Amazon forest to prevent deforestatio. A lot of people bought (i didnt). I wonder if it still stands or if it was a scam.
The population physically cannot grow limitlessly so there must be a point at which you level off.

If you wait longer you're increasing the number of people that have to suffer during the transition period and increasing the ecological load of the stable population's lifestyle.
Canada invests $85M in internet satellites for rural areas
Bravo to Chris. We need to see more of this.

Of all the FB lottery winners, the one who should be doing the most and avoids all negative press is Dustin Moskovitz. He votes his super voting shares whatever way Mark Zuckberberg wants, keeping Zuck’s power unchecked. The world needs to stop allowing him to pretend to be an accidentally successful founder of Asana and force him to own up to his responsibilities.
Hey that album is actually good!
There are 5 or more independent modem developers in China. If you add to that that 5G was mostly a Chinese thing, I can confidently say that at least in 5G space, Qualcomm is nowhere near a monopolist now.

Qualcomm is pretty much an Intel of modem world. Their stuff is quite good, but their commercial terms are beyond a robbery, and you simply don't play in this space if you are a <100m company according to them.

Modems are no rocket science, and QCM made itself the juiciest target for Chinese.

If people have good memory here, at around 2012 Chinese company called Allwinner was steamrolling Qualcomm in its home field - application processors for mobile electronics.

Allwinner's only weak side was poor 3G integration, and they were about to finally solve it with their "phablet" solution with single package ram+soc+3rd party baseband combo.

Then, something strange happened: every mention of Phablet vanished from their website, and a month later they announced some vaguely termed "deal" with Qualcomm, after which a lot of their senior managers quit the company and left China for fancy life in the West...

There is a speculation in Shenzhen that they were basically bought off by Qualcomm.

Now with 5+ more contenders, I doubt they will be able to buy off all of them, especially when Huawei is involved.
Overly cynical.

All companies exist to provide profits to their owners.

Your argument about the datapoint can also be argued for lending: credit disappears when it’s most needed. It must be completely and utterly useless, then.

Or perhaps when a crisis strikes, if you want to minimize spending, you first eliminate consultant bills, instead of, idk, firing internal employees?

Part of the value of a consultant is that they are more mobile than an employee, so they get to see the same problem in different companies, and get expertise on that issue more quickly that if you stay on the first company in which you solved that issue. I’ve dealt with the same very-specific software on about 20 different banks, for example (disclaimer: I’m a consultant :) ); I have people under 25 on the team that are real experts on very specific things, and run cicles around people with 2x - 5x their experience if you count it in days and not problems solved.

And then of course consultants are sometimes hired for the wrong reasons and asked to do obvious recommendations. Politics were there before the consultants arrived.
That's exactly what YouTube Kids is for. https://www.youtube.com/kids/
Just as an example: a controversial political figure's popular website is buried on page 5 of Google results (underneath a mountain of criticism) when you search for his name, despite being in the top 3 results of page 1 for all of Qwant, DDG, Bing, Mojeek, and Yandex. Obviously, the website is being downranked for being full of "conspiracy theories and fake news" (I wouldn't completely disagree that it is). But who decided all this? Is this not "political"?
EDIT: Apologies, I was incorrect in this assumption

We need to solve this by requiring all repurchases to be with post tax money.
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It sounds impossible for very-low-entropy secrets. Like just imagine if the secret is 1 bit. Anyone can pretend they have that 1 bit (since they can just try both possibilities), which would let them determine that's the same secret the other person has. The only solution would seem to be to stretch the entropy and make a brute-force enumeration slow.
Glad to hear that even liberals set the bar at "Fox News does it - it must be okay." There is no more moral ground on either side.
That's what happens, when complete crooks get to power.
Absolutely. Part of the solution is to figure out how to disaggregate knowledge economies. Why so many mostly digital companies insist on in-office work is absolutely beyond me.
That is assuming Google's continued surveillance empire is actually found to be legal in the EU. Google claims they are complying with GDPR, but that's... unlikely.

We won't really know until they get taken to court over it.
The cities of the Peninsula voted against getting a BART subway line decades ago, leaving them in the car-dependent, flat suburbs of the 60s
It's essentially a way of outsourcing management structures. Instead of having to handle and process 1000 $1M projects (and probably 20000 proposals) it awards a $1B project that is then in charge of managing that money and awarding subprojects, etc. It's also a good way of getting press and making sure that a fair amount of$ ends up in the pockets of your buddies working on a specific topic.
Not related to Bliz but would be interested to get your take, if there is one, on Disgaea 5.
You're right but water is not priced properly. Everything above the minimum requirement to survive should be at least 10x more expensive.
>> is it important to you that the changes in video scenes line up with the beat of the music?

Well yes in an ideal world it would be great to feed in a video and have appropriate music created to match scenes etc but I can't imagine how that would work without fiddling on my part, and it's hard to imagine it being cheap. I want to do this cheap.
Banks, healthcare, police forces, and many other municipal services could fit into this criteria. All of these need to change and evolve over time, but a very sudden radical shift is scary, unpredictable, and unpopular.
What should we do? Have the US military take over the Amazon river basin, declare it a human-free zone, forcefully evict all people from the site, and let it grow back? We're not helpless, we're just not totalitarian conquerors.
Call the police, or (in the case of the scooters), move it off of your property. I mean I sympathize with the property owners encountering problems, but I'm pretty sure it is very illegal to just impound other peoples property like this. If it was an individual property owner taking scooters off their property and throwing them in some dumpster after they got fed up with them, I wouldn't really blame them, but making a business centered around stealing property just to shake down scooter companies and reduce competition for your bike shop doesn't seem very legal or ethical.
That's the issue, I've found, with hoping that calamity will make the problems visible enough to shock us into making systemic changes. Humans are very good at inventing clever short-term "solutions" that ameliorate the symptoms but wind up making the long-term problem worse. I have no doubt that if/when global civilization fails due to global warming, we'll wind up burning everything in sight to power our air conditioners for a few minutes of respite.
Alibaba Is Open-Sourcing Its Powerful New RISC-V Processor for 5G and AI
Yes thats what i mean. IF models are approximations. I thought the HBP was implementing compartmental simulations. Also the models we have for LTP are at best speculative
And in reality, it's really only the US. Even though pharmaceutical ads are legal in NZ, they are pretty rare and most GPs won't just write a script because a patient asks for a particular drug unless there's a clear need for it. The role of Pharmac (NZ's central drug purchasing agency) also tempers the effectiveness of drug advertising so you just don't see it like you do in the mainstream US media.
Telegram is really, really, really, really popular with furries.

I haven't encountered another group of people who so ardently use Telegram.
Totally. They're making almost criminally high margins while they wait for the law to catch up. The story of several disruptive startups.
Repurchases are done with post tax money. The reason why companies do that instead of dividends is because dividends are taxed for the investor again.
Fact check:

1. This was not published in The Lancet (a prestigious medical journal) but in the Lancet Digital Health a similar sounding spin-off journal without an impact factor that uses a pay to publish model (pay around $5000 and you get published)

2. No bones or anatomic parts were printed. What was printed is this: https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/...
My counter to your comment, and my own personal experience, is that doctors are fully aware of the manufacturers conflict of interest. They know that the drug companies will present everything in the best possible light.

Other things that exist to counter this bias are competitors, who will provide a different perspective and most importantly, the FDA that regulates all pharmaceutical promotion for accuracy and will quite swiftly drop the hammer on a company that bends the rules.[1]

[1]https://www.fda.gov/drugs/warning-letters-and-notice-violati...
I'll have to go digging but there already was a good article that made it to the front page here about how much GDPR has helped google. It had some great numbers and graphs showing a sizable increase to googles marketshare once they were the first ones to be "GDPR compliant".
Is that $5B fine deductable from taxes?
I think you're reading more into it than you should.

The line where the EU fine is marked is in the table of revenue vs. costs & expenses as part of an accounting formula: "Revenue - Costs = Income from operations". Even if you were planning to stop paying it in 2020, where else would you list the fine?
Either there is a human in the loop, or they disrespect their largest ad clients by not having a human in the loop to prevent outages. Neither seems good for Google.
You have already received couple of strong suggestions, excellent advise there you should try to incorporate.However, both of them are extrinsic rewards focused. When faced with external challenges (things outside of your mind or physiology) changing your outlook, circumstances or expectations in order to adapt to your situation is certainly a good way to handle it. I would only offer one suggestion - if this is an internal struggle by any chance. That would be to find your core empathy for yourself and your colleague, which means be compassionate to yourself and understand why is it bothering you so much. And be compassionate to the other person and try to determine what is driving their behavior. These are both hard things to do. I can't tell you how exactly to do that - but try reading a few books like "Dare to Lead" by Brene Brown or "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey. Good luck!
I pay for TV because I don't like to steal, but I like TV.
> I guess the US is afraid that terrorists may develop weapons using Adobe flash player xD

This is a glib take on US sanctions regardless of whether you feel US sanctions are appropriate. Sanctions are just a weapon, they're not supposed to specifically ban things that are useful to terrorists. It doesn't matter if terrorists use Adobe flash player or not. What matters is that the bans make life worse for Syrian people and their government. Clearly, it's working, because even savvy Syrian developers have to scramble to find illegal/unofficial 3rd party mirrors and VPNs to access basic downloads which, even if it "does the job", can be severely outdated. Enough of a problem that you're coming to this forum and complaining about it.
Why do you care so much about what the media has told you Assad has done? Assad is not and never has been a threat to you or anyone you know. It is a good thing that we didn't get into a protracted war with Syria. It's easy to see the results of our wars in Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The Syrian people are fortunate that they didn't suffer the same fates as those nations. Gabbard's diplomatic mission is at least partially to thank for that.

[EDIT:] This is a really complete explanation: https://www.tulsigabbard.org/tulsi-gabbard-on-syria
No that's exactly what I mean, you read "terraforming" and took it too far. The parent was saying that, the general conclusion is making housing smaller and smaller. Today's apartment buildings will be too big as the population grows and we'll have to fit more people in more limited amounts of space. This is assuming several things, that we won't be able to build tall buildings, that we won't be able to go on another planet, or one of the many other things that can come in the far future.

The solution right now is to build medium density housing and disincentive individuals from driving their cars alone to work.
Progressive corporate taxes seem like a good idea to discourage companies from growing too big.
Intel has a history of acquiring company and then sell it for less ( e.g McAfee ). The Wireless Modem was acquired from Infineon in 2010 for $1.4B. It had 3500 employees then, compared to only 2200 moving to Apple now along with lots of Wireless patents that Intel has contributed to LTE and 5G NR over the years. The $1B sounds like a very good deal.

My guess is that the recent Intel BaseBand modem design are worth very little to Apple. It is based on Intel's 14nm ( and 10nm for the 8160 5G NR Modem ) , since Intel is winding down their Custom Foundry, and Apple has a much better relationship with TSMC, the chance of Apple fabbing their Modem with Intel is close to Zero. The last TSMC Intel Modem was Intel XMM 7480 used in iPhone 8 / X.

But even if the Modem is literally worthless, I would have thought the patents are worth a little more than $1B?

I am wondering if part of the deal is making sure Apple sticking to x86 and Specifically Intel's x86 CPU on the Mac for at least another 5 years. No ARM or AMD Mac.

Edit: On another note. The Honor 9x [1] is selling in China for $280 VAT inc. If that is $250 excl VAT, the iPhone XR selling at $750 is 3x the price. Apple got a lot of explaining to do for the market to justify its price tag. And privacy alone, which is what they are pushing is not enough.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14667/honor-unveils-9x-9x-pro...
Technically easy, but economically terrible if you bother with the permits, sign-offs and buying an approved system when you effectively can’t DIY.

I’m waiting for WalMart or Amazon to sell an elegant $500 incinerating toilet and $500 gray water system that’s approved and just needs pipe/power connections.

We have the tech to run homes without any sewer connections.

Solutions right now seem to be priced/targeted at situations where buyers have no choice.
It is post tax money. Only difference from a dividend is avoidance of double taxation by shareholders as value goes up.
I mean, fair enough. But all of these are highly local (and most require user interaction), meaning they're less of a privacy concern and more of a security concern for high-value targets. Localized phishing, mostly. Plus you can guard against them by turning off bluetooth.

Worth knowing about if you're somebody important, or manage security for someone who is, but pretty far from "Everyone Knows What Happens on Your iPhone".
I'd be happy to pass it along to debug if you have a specific query in mind. In the cases of this I've seen in the past, there's been a specific actionable bug that we were able to fix.

(Lots of other search engines use each other as backends, so don't be too surprised when they return consistent results.)
defense: "OK, at the time we thought we could lower prices. But as time went by and we saw that ......we changed our mind."

Can't jail people over these things. Lower prices when, for how long? Never increase them?
The Death of the Mom and Pop E-Store
Indeed. The NY Times has become unreadable. Sad.

Edit: OK, if you hit reader mode fast enough, it is readable. Otherwise you just get:

> Thanks for reading The Times.

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Perhaps the rest of the world should be sending money to the rainforest areas to represent the value to the world climate that they provide.
You make a good point. I wonder how is drug marketing handled in places like EU. How do their doctors learn of new drugs and decide which meds to prescribe?
You underestimate the number of people who pirate media. Usenet isn't the only way.
Which lasts until the advertisers figure out that the views are going to toddlers watching creepy videos featuring unlicensed Disney IP and bad Peppa Pig creepypastas, and the party ends.
A huge part of it is education when it comes to drug advertising.
Alphabet: Google parent's profits hit $9bn amid increased scrutiny
Relevant discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20463170