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They have their place. I particularly like Ruby's ActiveRecord for handling relational data. The extra caching and easy eager loading is really nice. It sucks for high performance batching processing but it works great for web requests. I wish it was a little more complete when it comes to bulk updating/inserting ActiveRecords
Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean by absolute and relative, I think the law is already relative:

> The maximum fine under the GDPR is up to 4% of annual global turnover or €20 million – whichever is greater – for organisations that infringe its requirements.

From here: https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/dpa-and-gdpr-penalties
That's simply not true.

I'm not aware of any place where C++ is taught. (And in fact C++ programmers are very hard to find.)

C is very common and anybody with even a bit of format education has been exposed to C.

Then you get people who know a bit of C and throw in a couple 'class' and a couple 'cout', and call it 'C++' for some reason.

Which is wrong, obviously.
China relocated millions of urban youth to country side reeducation camps during the cultural revolution. If push comes to shove, it's well within the capability of the CPC to relocate the problem population in HK. The fact is, Beijing has not used any physical levers yet.
With 100s of millions in revenue every year for the last decade plus through their corporate entity aren't they already funded pretty much in perpetuity?

On Wikipedia it says they get 2% of their corporation's revenue, which they own in its entirety, they can increase their funding more just by increasing the 2% they assign themselves from their own revenue. Not even a third of their funding is donations according to a dated IRS audit so they look pretty much secured financially and will appreciate, but otherwise not notice your money hitting the pile.

I think a more important thing we can do to help is make our work exclusively dependent on open technologies instead of Chrome APIs, which might one day be open technologies but till they are they promote not using Firefox.
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The writer doesn't seem to distinguish between reserves and resources, a common mistake in these kinds of articles. In normal mining use reserves are areas of ore you've mapped out and shown to be economically extractable by drilling holes, taking samples etc, resources are the amount or stuff out there. Reserves always only go a few years ahead because it takes money to find them, drill them and so on. That doesn't mean we're running out.
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I remember when people got excited about Hack, Flow, and Nuclide (or whatever the Facebook IDE was supposed called), but eventually realized the same things that you and GP realized.

Microsoft has paying customers who are devs, and FB doesn't. That explains a lot.
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Google has been fined a 5 billion dollar fine already last year, that claim simply isn't true. But I agree with the implicit demand, they clearly haven't gotten the message. The EU should slap them with billion dollar fines again until they learn their lesson.
Ask HN: How do you share knowledge within the team as you grow?
I am working on this startup and we are growing. And now it gets harder and harder to share interesting articles, company guides, etc with all people in the team and people with the same role in different teams.

Do you guys experience that issue too? What's a possible solution?
Another way to look at it is the phone camera is like a folding scooter you carry on your backpack. It doesn't do much, but it's always there, and you can make it work for most things. If you need to buy groceries, you might buy a few days' worth when you'd rather get a week's worth, and if you want to go a long distance, it won't feel as nice, and sometimes it's a little embarrassing when you compare your experience to your friends', but you can get by. Beyond the scooter, there's an entire range of transportation options which are all better but are bigger and more expensive and require extra attention: where do I put it, should I take it with me or will I not need it, do I really want to bother with it today? If I buy something, will I always leave it at home and never have it when it would be useful?

95% of the time you're happy you just have your scooter with you, but the other five percent of the time, you may be disappointed or downright helpless compared to somebody with better equipment. Say you and your friends decide impromptu to go to a music show twenty miles away, the concert starts in two hours, and public transit will get you there at approximately noon tomorrow. Your scooter is useless, and you have to ask for a ride. This is analogous to when you see a coyote in your neighborhood (let's assume that's a rare and interesting occurrence in your neighborhood) and you're pointing to a blurry dog-shaped dot on your phone saying "Look! It's a coyote!" and your neighbor is ordering a 2' by 3' print showing the reflections in its eyes and the steamy breath coming out of its mouth. Situations like that are frustrating, but each person will feel differently about whether it's worth embracing the expense and daily hassle of traveling with a bigger piece of equipment.
That sounds like something fairly trivially avoided by having the punishment be proportional to revenue. And I believe this is already the case for GDPR?

A quick search indicates "Up to €20 million, or 4% of the worldwide annual revenue of the prior financial year, whichever is higher" https://www.gdpreu.org/compliance/fines-and-penalties/
I disagree. Just because people like free stuff doesn't mean they want to force others (and themselves) to provide that free stuff. Some certainly do, but there are plenty who don't.
The Go module hash checking seems to be more about avoiding the problems encountered by other language repos integrity and versioning issues (cough NPM), and in terms of tracking it seems about as invasive as Debian's popcon.

Enabled by default can and should be the default for security-related features.

I tend to agree about the rest of the creepiness, especially anything personally behavioral.
> Your other claims are more reasonable. But they would lead me to the conclusion we need bigger fines on bigger businesses. Not absolutely bigger, as the law already does, but relatively bigger. The more power you have to break the law, the bigger the stakes should be.

GDPR penalties are a flat fee or a percentage of revenue, whichever is higher.

If Google is truly willfully violating the GDPR, the maximum penalty by law could be up to 4% of their global turnover. I would not call that pocket change. But more importantly, it is a relative increase in fine based on the law breaking company.

(Will the EU actually fine Google ~6 billion dollars? Perhaps we will find out!)
Direct action, as they say, gets the goods.
All-Electric Porsche Taycan Officially Unveiled
There's nothing preventing the 'victim' channel providing information on how not to be a victim; in fact, that seems a natural fit.

Further, the 'victim' channel should be more a celebration of the goodness that was removed from the world, thus inspiring others to go out and do more good.

But it's all academic; the news channels would never abandon their "if it bleeds it leads" mentality. It's far too profitable, because ultimately humanity is (in general) voyeuristic.
YouTube Red (when it was Red) did exactly this with individual videos. And it worked. Red views were (are) worth around 100 (or more) traditional ad views.
Oh yeah, depending on how they show up, they're a problem. I'm just saying that there are certain non-problematic cases where only a free parameter will do.

I think the trouble with dark-matter-as-WIMPs is that the free parameter (the location of those WIMPs) is overpowered:

You can say that the extra gravitation is caused by the presence of these particles and leave the details of how those particles got where they are out of your theory. But then when you add "oh, and they can't be detected by any other means" it becomes a problematic free parameter because wait a second, that's the very problem we were trying to solve in the first place. If you can't connect the causal agent to anything besides the problem that necessitated it, then it might as well be a ghost.
It's an unfortunate reality that sometimes good is the enemy of good enough.

I do think it's easy to go too far the other way, though. You can plan to throw one away. You can write a quick and dirty MVP. You can throw money at the scalability problem if you're lucky enough to have it. Sooner or later, though, you are the player with the established offering. Unless you want to keep rewriting it from scratch every few months, at greater and greater cost as your offering grows, you need decent code at that point to maintain reasonable progress in supporting whatever your next revenue-driven features might be.
> The coffee part is odd - what's that about? What does the World Bank have to do with coffee?

The world bank holds many countries to ransom by dictating what they can (or can't do).

Guinea wants to get the internationally accepted price for their Bauxite? World Bank says no, else we'll call in your loan.

Senegal wants to get a fair price for it's resources? Nope, let's put a travel warning on them and decimate their tourism for a year or two.

The list goes on and on and on. I just spent 3 years in Africa at ground level in 35 different countries. The longer you spend there the more you realize.

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> A further thought: How could a hiring process look like that selects for the kind of work that one actually has to do?

Hire anyone that walks in? Kick them out if they mention anything like passion, only people motivated by money are accepted, but preferably as little as possible.
> A ... programmer needs to understand ... underlying operating system and its internals

Oh the humanity!

I weep for mankind and for the industry if this is where we have fallen.

Quick question: are you a Javascript programmer?
The Coca Cola bit is a myth. There are a lot of depictions of Santa in a red suit before Coca Cola used it in advertising: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-pictorial-histo...
Porsche unveils production version of its Taycan electric sports car
I'd be surprised if CCP exists in 2047.
With js_of_ocaml, you need not use Bucklescript at all.

Both are transpilers for OCaml -> JavaScript.
Some of the points you make were also brought up in the ShowHN post for 'My Brand New Logo', which similarly uses AI as it's USP. I would like to know, what differentiates your service?

https://mybrandnewlogo.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19076745
SpaceX missed a satellite collision warning due to a software bug
Very funny actually.

I should've added that I do speak my mind when asked about it or if its a open discussion. I don't go around calling people overweight, but if they ask me if I think they are I will for sure tell them what I think they are ;)
I’m all for staying flexible and realizing the rule isn’t absolute, but fixing a typo or improving a commit is a very low bar. On my teams, I reserve rebase on public history for more serious emergencies, like someone accidentally checking in security keys.

It’s probably fine on a very small team, but pull with rebase doesn’t protect you from merge conflicts when someone rebases master underneath you, this is why the practice of rebasing public history is and should generally be considered an anti-pattern.
>> the present invention does not conform to known scientific principles

Nutjob aside, does that mean you can't patent an invention if you don't fully understand why it works?

I wouldn't be surprised if there were patents granted for things physically impossible. And on the other hand I would bet there were inventions in the course of history that defied the then-current known science.
> If we relied only upon renewables

Strawman. No one is talking about "relying only" on wind/solar. The point is that if you have $100M to spend on power and infrastructure, and have the choice of one medium scale reactor that will come online around 2027 or about 4x that capacity in coastal wind that can be operational next year (and yes, the price delta really is about that big), and you actually care about climate and not an argument on HN, you build out the cheaper option because at the end of the day that's going to make a bigger difference.

If at the end of the process we're trying to decomission the last 10% of legacy gas plants and need carbon-free options for peaking and buffering, sure, we can talk about building some expensive reactors.
> On September 5th 2018, Google announced that it would no longer share encrypted cookie IDs in bid requests with buyers in its Authorized Buyers marketplace, “as part of our ongoing commitment to user privacy”. Mr Ryan’s analysis also found that Google continued to share these with ad firms.

But now Google shares not cookies, but unique URLs. Look, they kept their promise.
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Arguably the top conservatory in the world, with an orchestra that is often called one of the top orchestras in the world. But our expectation is that e.g. on Youtube a recording of piece X by the NY Phil will generally get more interest than a recording of piece X by the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. But we're not trying to compete on quality, we're trying to use these recordings in ways other orchestras can't.
You have to pass a test and pay to write USB on it, so I find the Pi4 thing confusing on many levels, PoE and usbC were both botched implementations and there are active communities associated with Rasp Pi full of people who could have done a proper job.
There are philosophies in many hobbies that are pretty close to what you were getting at. With firearms when asked what the best gun is the answer is "the one you shoot well". With astronomy they say it's better to have a small cheap telescope you use all the time rather than a big expensive telescope you barely use. And with cars/motorcycles you hear how it's more fun to drive a slow vehicle fast than a fast vehicle slow.

Everywhere there's a fixation on expensive equipment. People use it to try to replace skill. Also it serves as a way to elevate their status within their hobbies community. And man it happens in every hobby I've seen. But in the end all it really does it weigh them down. Their equipment is too bulky to use all the time. So much more gizmos to keep track of. Things are so much more expensive that you don't really take it out as much and enjoy it out of fear of breaking it. Even if there's some sort of insurance in place to cover the cost of damage, you still don't want to risk scratching your new baby.

Anyways there's this series on youtube called "Pro Photographer, Cheap Camera Challenge" that I adore. I'm not even a photography buff but it's super interesting to see these professional photographers take the cheapest cameras available, in some cases they're actually toys, and turn out some amazing pictures.
I agree with a lot of things in the article and I can relate to the author but this quote really threw me off

>"some guy who does the same work as me is getting paid 20% more”
(the author being female)

Several times in my career I've found that other male developers (me being male) that I considered not even good made 50% more than me. Sometimes I found out that I made 50% more than other younger developers that I considered way better than me.
I understand that women are underpaid compared to men in general but this specific situation can be explained by so much more than sexism.
There's nothing novel about sexual situations on TV, either, yet by repeating it throughout the years it's become normalized, to the point that nobody even thinks about it anymore. This is how this works: have a controversial point, repeat it in as many places as possible until it becomes normal.
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I second that. Most Europeans who have been exposed to American banks find them years if not decades behind. But investment banks and consumer banks are two different beasts entirely.
It quite handily demonstrates the truth of my theory, no?
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> 2 - the name "USB4 Gen 3×2". Honestly I have never had the faintest idea what any of the various absurd names invented by the USB IF might mean. Superspeed? High speed? USB 3.1?

It's so fast, so consumers have enough time to spend additional 2 seconds to pronounce the whole "3x2", "Gen" or other marketing gibberish. Not saying about good connotations of SS abbreviation (as in superspeed logo) in Europe, especially in Poland. /s

Jokes asides, but what is a reason of using 3.1 name for USB-C connector? It is very, very different how it looks, how it can transfer power than early rentangle-shaped connectors of 3.0's. And now again, USB-IF serves now the same drama again with ambiguous name. I'm glad I am techie guy, but I believe 80% people will end with question what they really need to connect device with their laptops.

I wish we could completely drop "superspeed"/"gen 2" and use way simplified name. Such name should not follow the naming that WiFis has now, like WiFi 5 or WiFi 4, because even if we include identifier for people more interested in technical name (standard), like WiFi 5 (802.11ac), it still ends with situation you actually have portion of information, because 802.11ac operates on various powers and streams, i.e. WiFi 5 (802.11ac Wave2; 4 streams @ 1024-QAM), which is way different how it works than former example. However, I really like the quite recently introduced naming like: AC2600 or AC5300[0]. When I someone mentions "WiFi AC 2.6k", it tells me a lot more about given device for a techie person and consumer. Also, let's take a look like we query data from databases, the AC2600 could be an unique indexed column (even a primary key!), it falls below of group within defined standard, has various parameters etc. etc.

On the contrary to WiFi, USB type is easily identifable by parameters like possible power delivery, data transfer and connector type (shape, size). Why USB-IF can't introduce similar naming that are clear for everyone to recognize? USB standards are not the same as an iPhone, they do not need any fancy name to be better than previous generation.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ac

// Actually, I really got used to 802.11a/b/g/ac naming when it , it has really rooted into my brain, so it's very hear from me speaking WiFi-5.
Important detail that Helene mentions in a comment:
You should add that that setting in Google Calendar is only available on desktop.
I spent a while the other day after getting one of these trying to find the setting on my phone. It’s not there. The setting affects your phone too, just have to use your desktop to change it.
Yes, digitization is a big part of it and somebody will get paid to do it. Probably not internal staff but nothing is decided.

Not actually a lot of vinyl LPs but lots is still analog in various forms.
I'm a huge fan of the Olympus u4/3 range. The size is, for me, just right. Small enough to toss in a backpack with other things during travel and camping. Light enough to wear on a sling most of the day without discomfort. And still really nice photos.

About once a year, I consider moving to Fuji. Or to some other larger format mirrorless. But, the size and weight penalty just isn't worth it.

All that said, my wife's old Canon S90 compact is near the end of life. I thought about buying her a replacement, but I may just splurge on an iPhone XS instead.
They operate like the mafia.
Take that offer you can't refuse, then they own you. This, on a macroeconomic geopolitical level.
I believe IBM offers this.

https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/managed-cloud-environm...