skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the problem with overly aggressive legislation. The big companies performed well, the small companies ignored the law, and the medium sized companies tried to comply and failed. You can’t legislate good behavior because people will always find a way around the laws. The legal philosophy behind GDPR seems to be nothing more than to make everyone a criminal and then choose who to prosecute, and in that case why have laws at all rather than letting law enforcement punish whoever they choose?

At the end of the day this incentivizes big companies to comply with the laws because they can afford the necessary legal teams and the laws provide a moat to their entrenched power. It incentivizes small companies to ignore the laws just like the move fast and break things mentality of Silicon Valley. The people it hurts are the medium sized, growing companies who are best positioned to fight the big monopolies but are now being held back by well meaning but over burdensome legislation.

The good side of GDPR is that it’s trying to advocate for consumer privacy, which overall is a good thing. The issue is that it’s not a legal problem. In the same way you can’t declare drugs to be illegal and expect the supply of drugs to instantly disappear, you can’t declare misuse of data illegal and expect the same. As long as the data has value there will be a market for it, so why not draft sensible regulations instead of trying to solve the problem with laws.
The article's last sentence says that training is still required, so in order for this news to have any effect with respect to service horses on planes, the answer to your question is impliedly a yes.
..but if the problem is programs not checking malloc() return codes since it will not return failures, then ulimits will in themselves not help the program. It will help the OS to stay alive which is good, but we still need to deal with the programs who expect to run all the way into a swamp and sink without malloc giving them "bad news".
I'm genuinely unconvinced that we would be worse off with a reduction or removal of patents' scope over much of modern monopolising in many industries. Sure, it's difficult to know with any certainty that changing the law wouldn't have bad knock-on effects, but what is clear to see is that the implimentation as it currently stands allows for some flagrant abuses.
I would also be curious to find (I can't find any stats) on how much carbon is put back into circulation when people metabolize hydrated carbon a.k.a. carbohydrates. I've done my part to stop consuming carbohydrates and it was not easy.
I'd recommend One-Dimensional Man by Marcuse. You're not going to extract anything too wild out of it, but the picture he paints of 50's American consumerism is worth it.
After El Paso Shooting, Workers Plot Their Own ‘What-If’ Escape Plans
I took the downvote, and I agree with everything you've said here. Thanks for your reply.
The next time you're seated next to a dog, just let me know and I'll happily switch seats with you.

(Wake up, airlines. You nickel and dime us for everything else, let me pay to sit next to a dog already).
Frankly, no one has the resources to do this reliably, and the identity theft consequences are potentially enormous.

It's fairly easy to get a reasonably convincing fake ID. High schoolers manage it all the time.
I have refused to use CCleaner anymore since Avast acquired Piriform. I used to enjoy their products.

Avast is no stranger to dark patterns, nag screens, and other spammy and user-hostile activity.
Yea I’ve see people slap fake service vests on dogs. They will yell at you and tell you that you can’t legally ask them if they are disabled. Also seen people in apartments get letters from therapists when they have large or aggressive breeds that aren’t allowed.

The other day I was in a coffee shop. They asked someone to remove her dog and she started a fit about how it’s her service animal. I laughed pretty hard and got a mean look. They went outside to sit and I doubt her tea cup chihuahua was a trained service animal.
IMO: Get to the point early! establish what's different / special / unique about your browser. All you need is 1-2 paragraphs early in your story.

I made it to "Rebranding and the early days of Space Browser" and stopped reading. Why? The article is autobiographical without establishing enough context to keep me interested in you. (In other cases, if you or your product was well known, something autobiographical without establishing context is okay.)

BTW: It's worth trying to disambiguate, early on, if you're building your own HTML rendering engine, or just reusing something else.
Kik Answers SEC Complaint
Why do you guys think saturated fat is bad for you? Certainly when fried it's much much healthier as it doesn't decompose into cancerous aldehydes. The science on this is very tainted so I would be very careful about assumptions here. Are there other things apart from saturated fat you are worried about?

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3t902pqt3C7nGN99hV...
Most of the animals flying are just pets. Many airlines allow small pets in the cabin; there is no requirement for them to be service animals.
I guess every generation has their own ways of coping with anxious situations. I remember sitting next to and old catholic lady who spent 10 minutes praying on her rosary beads before takeoff. A bit more compact than a horse I guess.
This makes sense. Apple is protecting their anti-environment and anti-consumer policies such as enabling Find My Phone by default.

If anyone found a way to bypass iCloud Activation Lock it would allow people like me, who run donation programs, to reuse the hundreds of cosmetically and functionally perfect Apple products that come in each year.

Apple can't allow that. It would be good for the planet and good for the impoverished inner-city people that our program serves.

"Fuck 'em all, and fuck the planet too", says Apple. "You can all go to hell when the sea levels rise and people die en masse from heat stroke. So long, suckers. We're moving to our fortress in the hills of New Zealand."
That's a much more reasonable explanation - thanks, I appreciate it! The way I'd had it explained to me was more along the lines of "greedy pilots want to be able to fax because they can't be bothered to learn how to use email", but your explanation makes a lot more sense.
Nothing like flying next to a horse with a diaper that’s been filling up for the past two hours.
> iOS-only WebKit with a neat tab interface doesn’t strike me as a “power user” browser.

But it's a great way to experiment with different UIs.
Of course not. I'm not insane and so I didn't continue using a shadow banned account.
Well, that’s a horse of a different color..
I think you may be missing the point.

The controversy is about whether humans need gargantuan amounts of protein.

Your post is assuming protein is very important, and thus it’s important to maximize protein per calorie.

The post you’re responding to is discussing the fact that any time vegetarian or vegan diets come up, people launch into criticisms that are based on the assumption that humans needs lots more protein than occurs in vegetables.
Well maybe the other carriers have less awful legacy tech - I can't speak for what they have. All I know is what I saw while working at BA.
You can focus on breadth or depth depending on what kind of programmer (generalist or specialist) you want to be. Matt Klein (of Envoy) had a good thread about that on Twitter [1].

He focuses on depth whereas I tend to focus on breadth. Of course I have areas and technologies I know better because I have worked in / with them (computer vision, filesystem / DB replication algorithms, Lua, etc) but I try to expand my areas of knowledge so I can understand whole systems rather than become an expert at a specific thing. For instance, right now, I'm doing mostly Web front-end stuff, which is the part of the Web stack I know the least.

[1] https://twitter.com/mattklein123/status/1130206792175169536
Can't see them collecting much more than google do.

One has more influence over my life, the other is China.
> if hedge funds would buy something that would allow access to private data

Extremely unlikely. The risk/reward if found out is too lopsided. Conviction for insider trading has you pay a penalty and transform your fund into a family office -- Raj Rajaratnam going to prison for a decade is a unique exception not the rule.

Conviction for insider trading in combination with wire fraud, espionage, and all the other exploit-related charges will send everyone involved to prison for 10-20 years, pretty much guaranteed. What use is a bigger hedge fund if you have that sword of Damocles hanging over you?
I recently ran into a weird error concerning Lat/Lngs and floating point numbers. Google has a service for retrieving imagery from Maps, and you can even request that imagery have certain paths drawn on it. You encode those paths as part of your request URI, but if you have a lot of points, you could end up exceeding their maximum URI length restriction. So they also define a hashing system for compressing those points into a single value, which is defined here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/utilities/p...

One of the things they don't mention is that the rounding step does not work as they expect for single-precision floats. You have to use double-precision floats to get the same results that they are demonstrating in the example.

They are asking for 5 values to the right of decimal points, which, with the maximum of 3 digits to the left of the decimal point, means a total of 8 significant digits. Single-precision floats should be good to 9 digits, but the rounding step is off by one when using singles.

The solution was to cast singles to doubles before performing the rounding. Which seems absurd.

Single-precision floats should be enough precision for lat/lngs anywhere on the Earth, for everything other than some applications in commercial-grade surveying. And if that is the job you're doing, you shouldn't be using Google Maps.
Food is always free. We pay for human labor not food itself.
Ask HN: How to choose a business and personal accountant?
Mainly targeted at business owners who are the sole employee, director and shareholder in their company.

How did you pick an accountant for both your personal and business affairs?

What did you do to screen and dismiss the weeds?
On my side of the ocean, people will gladly _pay_ to pick their own fruit (and pay even more to the ice cream stand by the parking lot on their way out). Just google u-pick.
It's also true for the agricultural industry in the US in general though.
Worth noting though that if the dog has to fly, this is by far the most humane option. Eg, crating them into the belly where horrible things have already happened (trapped on Arizona tarmac for an hour in full sun comes to mind) shouldn't even be an option.

Unfortunately, due to what you mention it seems it's most humane to drive your pet across country rather than a relatively short flight.
And yet other laws require the collection and retention of sensitive user data, in particular any service that allows for transmission of large amounts of money (crypto exchanges were a good example).
I only posted it here because I give dev.to the benefit of doubt. My guess is that the listing is a new business inside the community (has pricing) and they were experimenting
I went to law school with a woman who had a service miniature horse. It was able to give her more physical/balance support than a dog. It was about the size of a large dog but a bit stockier. It was never a problem in the hallway or in classes or anything and didn't smell.

The only time it was an issue was in the ladies room. The bathrooms were ADA compliant, at least in theory, but small.
There were three stalls total - 2 "standard" and 1 wheelchair accessible - but a woman + a horse are a bit wider than a wheelchair and the horse wasn't quite as agile a dog and couldn't maneuver well in the small space.

I regret that I didn't ask her where she kept the horse in Boston - did it live in her apartment? Outside? No idea how that would work.
There has been a lot of coverage in the last couple of years questioning whether Huawei, specifically, makes trustworthy products, due to the political situation between the US and China; is it so far fetched that a large US news organization would continue that thread?
I believe horses temperament is already calmer than dogs by nature, and they make good service animals. They are also too small to ride and are unlikely to be pets; the horse are actually helpful.
People are allowed to bring pets on planes. So yes, most animals on a plane are likely to be just pets?
> I have spent a lot of time in the scummier parts of London and yet to step over some kid sniffing glue. In Glasgow it is an all too common sight.

I studied in and now live and work in Glasgow. I've been here for a total of 7 years. I walk to and from work across the city. I'm out late in either the City Center, the west end, Finnieston or the Merchant City at least once a week. I'm maybe out twice a month for past 1am nights and I'm up early for the gym a few mornings a week too. I have not once seen anyone sniffing glue or doing any kind of drugs openly on the city streets.
With those statistics, it's funny. The solution is buses and green energy, but those cost money.
OP grandparent meant CMD-?, and ? happens to be SHIFT-/ on US and international keyboards.
Tailwind is quite nice for raw prototyping. I'm still not how it compares to basscss. I would love a pure scss version of tailwind.
Wow, this is awesome, I have always felt comfortable using css utilities like px-2, text-center, or border-0, this goes next level, super interesting.
Bolsonaro has blessed ‘brutal' assault on Amazon, sacked scientist warns
Gamification at Lyft and Uber
There's no way I'd fly with my pet dog given the horror stories of those that do. At best, pets seem to get sub-par treatment, at worst, they are abused and die. I'd think pretending they're a service animal so they can fly _with_ you is better than putting them in a cage and in with the luggage, at least for the animal.

Personally, I think people that need service animals deserve that right and should be respected. So I just don't fly with my dog. No real need to, there are plenty of local boarding options, including "doggie daycare" places where he's never locked up.
> You should also know that the guidance only allows airlines to specifically ban snakes [..] from the cabin.

Obvious joke left as an exercise to the reader.
Faith in god won't carry your luggage though.

I can't imagine owning a horse/donkey/mule of any size and not using it as pack animal at every available opportunity.
I understand some people need emotional support animals and service animals. I get that. But it poses an interesting problem. If you call an airline and tell them you have a peanut allergy, they’ll remove all peanuts from the plane.

But if you tell them you have a dog allergy, they’ll tell you that other persons right to their service animal trumps your allergy.
> makes it much less positive than it first appears.

Take in mind that fish food for aquaculture has a small percentage of plant proteins and oils also. Is unclear if this was included or not in the claimed FIFO ratio, so some of this fish could be really soy (or maybe not). Reality is always more complex than a single numerical value.
Probably. Also in the early days Google was publishing things that were at the forefront of tech, which was interesting to everyone in tech. But over the years they got bigger, started to lag behind, putting out boring crap for strategic reasons. Big companies just cannot advance tech and be seen as exciting, as they are the ones trying to hold it back to keep getting those massive profits.
video https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1159734010484072450
What will happen to veggie prices when we go to a $15 min wage? Do other farms not benefit from illegal labor?
My approach would be to put a sign on the tree - “Tree has been treated with pesticides, fruit is not safe to eat”.

This is a reason i don’t eat random fruit off of trees. Pests are a big problem with fruit trees and I have no idea if it was just sprayed yesterday.
Trying to read Haskell code without any knowledge of it is interesting to say the least. I like how compact it looks, but I'm guessing a lot of the simple looking statements (at least at first glance) do a lot under the hood. Is that a characteristic of Haskell itself or just the developer has a good style?
Quantum Cryptography Needs a Reboot
It's kind of disturbing that we've got 7+ billion human beings but we're so disconnected from each other that people are increasingly resorting to animals for comfort and friendship.
"Frankly, I'm saddened that everyone seems to want to focus on the tool instead of the people once again. It's an infuriating tendency that more than anything I'd like to see stop."

Me too. Not a big fan of thought police. Action police? Sure, seems necessary.

That being said, I think that any host is well within their rights to refuse to host content. I just think that it doesn't make much of a difference; except to scatter and make identifying people before they act more difficult.
I’d never trust a jury for any highly technical matter such as this. Prosecutors have shown they can be highly effectively at spinning even the most basic security research into sounding like serious criminal behaviour (like punishing someone with serious jail time for incrementing the id number in a URL and finding other users personal profiles completely unprotected).

You only gamble on juries for stuff like murder trials and similar basic crimes.
Yeah at a first glance this looks like putting style in html except by using classes rather than `style` attribute. Cool for prototyping I guess.
No, please refrain from calling this a 'physics' model. It's just playing with words.
I'm also tired of how easy it is to abuse these regulations. I own rental properties that don't allow pets. A surprising number of tenants will get a pet anyways, then when they are caught, a week later they've got some papers they printed off some site claiming that it's a therapy great dane. I would have been happy in most cases to just charge a pet fee, but once they break out the paperwork, there are only 2 options, evict them, or ignore it.
You could try their feedback email [0], but it looks like most of the data is being sourced from other datasets, so your problem likely lies with one of them.

[0] feedback@fallingfruit.org
This isn't terribly surprising, given that dogs and miniature horses are the two explicitly named special vies of service animal in the ADA.

What you really want to look out for is the state-by-state definitions, like wolves in (I think) Montana.
How do airlines handle the situation of people with life-threatening pet allergies being seated near people with service animals?
Not really. If an owner owns tree he spends no labor on, the fruit still has value.
> Though notice that you picked literally the most trivial example in the entire codebase that anyone can understand without explanation.

I needed the explanation to understand what the code snippet was doing. Careful with those generalisations.
I'm in the UK. The only place other than here I've rented a car is in Ireland. I can't remember if I used a credit or debit card there though.
I'm thinking about the case where a calculation extends across many roundings.
I hate linkedIn and will leave it the minute it is no longer required for my professional work. It wouldn't surprise me if others feel the same.

1. My linkedIn connections include hundreds or possibly even thousands of people I have definitely never opted in to linking with. I don't know where they came from but I remove them at a rate of at least 10 or 20 per day and never seem to run out.

2. LinkedIn suggests connections derived from underlying data that are really scary from a privacy point of view. Eg for a while it kept recommending I connect with a person who I have literally no digital connection with whatsoever, no connections in common etc and the only way they could connect us is that we used to live at the same physical address. So it knows my address history and his.

3. I wish I could just automatically unconnect with anyone who reshares motivational posts by Oleg Vishnepolsky. This guys posts drive me absolutely crazy but the trite nonsense keeps infecting my feed because someone will reshare his thoughts about what makes a good boss or whatever. Just no more Oleg Vishnepolsky.

4. I have definitely seen the fake profile catfish thing attempted on LinkedIn. Presumably other forms of scams that have infested other social media are also growing.
Robocall blocking apps caught sending your private data without permission
> As an individual you almost have no chance to escape unless you put in a lot of effort to get better information and even then it's hard considering how much misinformation is being put out.

There are a couple of facets here, so I'll address them separately.

For one, it's not remotely my experience or that of my social circles to say you have "almost no chance" of healthy social media use (or abstinence, if that's your thing). It seems roughly as "inescapable" as "not going to the gym" or "not reading enough". I can't even imagine how you arrived at this conclusion. There are plenty of people who are either off social media or very happy with their level of usage, and they got there with sustained incremental effort, just like any form of self-improvement. Spreading the message that you're utterly helpless and your only hope is regulatory rescue isn't helping people, it's actively harmful. To forestall the often-ludicrous charge of "victim-blaming": it has nothing to do with blame to realize that the ultimate consequences fall on you, and that it's a good idea to do what you can to mitigate those consequences.

This isn't independent of advocating for regulatory action. My gut instinct is against regulation of social media, but from what I've seen, there are people out there who think of their social media usage as closer to involuntary addiction than a fun vice to indulge in, so I don't want to dismiss offhand any suggestions for regulation. I just simply can't imagine why you'd want to tell people (or yourself!) that they have no hope of getting to a better place.
I think there is a legal difference between a service animal and an "emotional support animal" with the latter having far less stringent requirements and also little to no legal obligation for people to accommodate
Care to explain why? The scrapers in this case clearly violated HN's terms of contacting those who posted their email addresses.
I wonder how well uMatrix stacks against Firefox's reader mode? You can prepend `about:reader?url=` to most URLs and they'll load fine, fast, and have very clean UI elements. It's a lot less of a hassle than using uMatrix.
Relax. Nobody said it was a mandatory reading list. There are no tests. It's a suggested reading list that I pull from depending on context. Joe's thesis is incredibly accessible.

At least two of my items were on Alan Kay's list. The other being "The Mythical Man Month", especially the edition with the "No Silver Bullet" article, which a depressing number of people in our industry seem to not have read. So I don't feel like I'm too far off the mark.