skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India has ~18% of world population, and still are way less proportionately as immigrant population.

Genetically, Indians are the most diverse ( next to entire African continent ) than any where else.
Religion wise (ALL major ones and many, many minor too), linguistically, culturally too.

By any objective measure group of Indians immigrant will be way more diverse as an immigrant population, unless you define diversity incomplete until a favored group of people is not highly included.

In a highly capitalist world, there's no free lunch; surely most of the immigrant must be bringing great value?
I mean, not that China deserves to be defended on anything, but on that particular issue with the west, there's a bit of history there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
Are you serious? You're arguing that because you had to invest in a computer and perform labor to click a button that you created the movie you copied?

Maybe you want that to be an argument or you just came up with it and are seeing if it sticks to the wall, but it don't. It's absurd.
Stripe is also in the payments space. I wouldn't expect Stripe's financials to change any more than Visa's during a recession.
Fuck fentanyl. It is a huge problem in America. I’m sick of hearing about people overdosing from this drug.
> those aren't what most people would call subsidies, they're costs

Says who? There are plenty of people who term untaxed externalities as 'implicit subsidies', it isn't just this paper. Wikipedia lists "environmental externalities" under its "Types of subsidides".

So while I think there is clarity added by saying "Note that this paper includes 'implicit subsidies' such as...", there is very little value gained by telling people they cannot use the term "subsidy" when talking about this issue.
I'm using the classic GreaseMonkey, but I find that my attempts don't match Stylus: the styles get applied after the page is already loaded, so everything is reformatted and jumps away from my view (in cases of heavier formatting, e.g. changing fonts). So basically, Stylus encapsulates accumulated knowledge of properly applying styles in an extension. Plus, it can change them without reloading the page.
"Assange's extradition hearing is scheduled for February 2020, and if Lamo had still been alive, the prosecution would likely not have needed to compel Manning's testimony;"

<tin foil hat> It seems Lamo being deceased in a necessary pretext for detaining Manning, and so perhaps the IC community knocked him off to keep her imprisoned.
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Very likely. They needed a pawn for the economic war against the US and took the first opportunity; the arrest for carrying airsoft pellets seems the only pretext they could find.
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For some perspective on this, go look at Austin's iPhone 6s camera review [1].

If you aren't shooting photos like his with your iPhone X, upgrading to an 11 series is not going to make much of a difference.

1. http://austinmann.com/trek/iphone-6s-camera-review-switzerla...
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The internet is not the same as a food place. People expect and have gotten used to services for free. If you put a price tag on a software library, you obviously discriminate against students and poor people.
Agree entirely. This part is overreach as it’s now forcing a company to provide a service for which they receive no compensation. That’s too far.
My mind immediately went here: https://www.zvex.com/guitar-pedals/fuzz-factory-guitar-effec...

Then again, I’ve programmed myself for almost 20 years with this stuff....
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe most Western democracies freely allow people to renounce their citizenship.
“Still?” They Probably pump them out more than ever.
>The only thing I think we can conclude about the incoherence of firearms legislation is that they have staunch and effective opposition from firearms advocates. I do not think it is at all valid to look at them and say "legislators don't know what an assault rifle is".

Well, if we're calling AR-15s and centerfire semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines assault rifles, then we don't know what assault rifles are. The term has been in use since WW2 and refers to selective fire rifles with intermediate cartridges and detachable magazines.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean about the original 1980s proposals - afaik the only major 1980s attempts at legislation occurred after a school shooting in California, had limited opposition in California, and was enacted into law. It included classifying rifles as assault weapons if they had detachable magazines plus at least one of other relatively features, such as pistol grips, barrel shrouds, folding/telescoping stocks, etc. Most of those features have limited to no impact on the ability of the rifle to be a deadly weapon.

>(The AR-15 itself, of course, was designed by Eugene Stoner to be a standard-issue US military rifle.)

The ArmaLite AR-15 designed for the military was a select fire rifle that ultimately became the M16. The trademark was sold to Colt. Colt later used that trademark in producing the semi-automatic civilian version. An AR-15 or AR-15 clone a civilian can buy is not the same AR-15 that Eugene Stoner designed.

As best as I can tell, most legislators have no idea what assault weapons are, what assault rifles are, or much at all about guns in general. And this includes those on the conservative side. I'm pro gun control, if we can find a way to effectively do it, but if we're actually concerned about human life, assault weapons don't even make sense to be the focus. Over 60% of homicides committed with firearms are done with handguns. Rifles only make up about 4%. Mass shootings are scary, and make news, and are terrifying. But they're responsible for a tiny fraction of gun related homicides, and the focus on rifles (and particularly features that are more related to appearance than efficacy in being deadly weapons) screams to me that it is almost entirely a political play and less related to any real concern over the healthy and safety of those living in America.
It did not.

NBC already owns the production rights to the Office. Under agreements with the various Hollywood talent guilds, they are required to pay market value for distribution rights such as exclusive online streaming, because that money gets paid to profit participants like producers, actors, writers, etc.

However, NBC is considering rebooting or spinning off the Office with some of the original cast.
> Without going back and digging for sources (google it yourself), existing nuclear costs about $100/Mwh. Coal is around there, too (this is round number, different sources have slight variations). Onshore wind and natural gas are currently pushing $40, and PV solar is under $60 and dropping rapidly.

So what? This is an apples-to-oranges comparison. Coal, nuclear, natural gas are all delivering stable supply 24/7. PV and Wind are highly volatile both intraday and seasonally. Why don't you add in the cost of storage?

> We have a couple of decades of data on wind consistency and variation, scaling from minutes to years - enough data to do very reliable projections on storage needs. Solar has a consistent schedule, which also helps projection, and of course we know loads. So computing just how much storage is needed is a straightforward exercise.

Computing the cost is not the problem. Paying the cost is the problem:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/08/12/new-us-study-finds-re...

> A lot of people who are smarter with money and know the field more than you and me are expecting to make fortunes on this.

It's a reasonably safe bet that western governments will push green energy and penalize fossil energy in the future. Of course you can make a lot of money off of that.

> That says more than any numbers I could throw at you.

It really only says that speculators are speculating that green energy will yield a big payout.
The IRS may see that differently.
Not good. Sorry about that. Could you forward me that support thread (edwin@stripe.com) and I can look into what went wrong?
It is not known at the time of storing the data if the data being stored will be denonymizable - especially for logs data.

Saying, "Just don't store logs data" is a fundamental misunderstanding of how web development works. This data is crucial for operational uptime, debugging, and running an online business. The scope of the data is so large that there inevitably are factors that can be used for denonymization, which is to GP's point.

The reason I asked if you replied to the right comment is because logs data is fundamentally different from database records, which is the working example you gave you gave with exemplify.
> The authors have taken a completely justifiable position and then thrown away their legitimacy by misrepresenting the data in an attempt to strengthen their position

That is completely inaccurate.

The very first line of the summary of the referenced article says:

>> This paper updates estimates of fossil fuel subsidies, defined as fuel consumption times the gap between existing and efficient prices (i.e., prices warranted by supply costs, environmental costs, and revenue considerations), for 191 countries.
LLVM bitcode is backwards compatible. It is however not forward compatible, so the linker needs to understand the newer bitcode format that clang and rustc use.
I bought a rubber duck for fun after reading the first passages as a student. Sincr then I've been known as the rubber duck guy and people constantly gift me them. They are all over the office.
energy takes into account both mass and velocity. you can check the relative energies (and velocities) of common rounds on wikipedia. .308/7.62 has more energy, as the projectiles generally mass more than twice as much, and go only slightly slower.
Gas deteriorates over time, but in practice, it’s not really a problem unless it’s very old.
It's pretty clear to me. If you created it and you own it, you're entitled to it. If you didn't, you're entitled to agree to the terms of the person who did create it, if you want to get it for yourself.

It's called property rights and it's the bedrock of almost all modern cultures.
The current SPY Puts for 240 expiring Dec 2021 are $12.30. How many did you buy?
Even before the pirate bay became a vague concept often repurposed by people trying to sell dubious VPN services or mining cryptocoins with your browser they had already ceased to be a tracker. Those are just indices! They'll suggest some actual trackers on the magnet URLs in their listings but you can get comparable results using a DHT search engine.

You can intersect here "trackers" that are "public":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_sites
In that case you are limited to real terrain only, your replication goes as far as your recording.
Do you know for a fact that plastic BBs are not considered ammunition in China? That seems silly to me but I'm ready to believe it.
From what I can tell between 10,000 and 100,000 species are becoming extinct each year. Maybe we should tax the rich to save them all? How can we save 100,000 each year. Do we think Capitalism is causing these extinction?
> Meaningful work isn't a guarantee that burnout won't happen.

Exactly. I'm a public school teacher, which is something many would consider 'meaningful', and which is, in a lot of ways. I'm burnt-out of it, and actively looking for something different. The kids are little shits most the times, and we've basically just become glorified baby sitters to their parents (I'm in the rural Southern US, in a place with next-to-no culture of education) and rarely pay attention. Too busy trying to sneak their next glance on Snapchat...And then trying to teach them math or science when they don't have the proper requisite knowledge because they've been passed along...Definitely burnout waiting to happen. And it's not just me. It's hit two of my other science teachers this year too.
All* full sized rifle rounds are supersonic and cause the cavitation the 5.56 has become infamous for (e.g. bruh it goes so fast it's basically explosive! - overheard in a cafe). The terminal effects of 5.56 on flesh are severe, but not moreso than other rifle rounds. A full sized rifle round will cause more damage and can do it from much further away.

* excepting a few that are deliberately manufactured to be subsonic, because they are niche products.
You'll reach a better target audience on the Stack Exchange, either [1] or [2].

[1] https://security.stackexchange.com

[2] https://superuser.com/
Bill to scrap per-country green card limits blocked in Senate
And remember when Uber “ordered” 100,000 Mercedes S-Classes?

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/news/a28508/uber-or...

Bezos is probably trying to pressure UPS (or has some other business motive) versus target Amazon’s carbon footprint. Amazon will undoubtably grow its own delivery fleet over time, but this splashy press release is probably not entirely about climate change.
My shared secret with HN, my password, is an identity? I don't think you'll find a lot of people who agree with that definition of the word.

As for the use of photos of me that are owned by other people, I'm pretty certain that neither CCPA nor GDPR cover those. The EU might have some relevant privacy laws, but they're not relevant to the "dichotomy" you brought up, because no one expects to be unidentifiable in a photo in which their face is identifiably visible.
Ex-kinda-Normalite here. I went to ISU
I like to point out that at the very worst you can keep existing nuke plants and nature gas fired peeking plants around for another 15-30 years. Which means you kick the solar and wind will never work because of storage 'problem' 15-30 years into the future.

And as you said a significant proportion of 'baseload' customers will chase price whatever it is.
One of the topics that comes up in article praise for cap & trade, pointing to the success of existing pollution laws.

In practice - last I checked, and I admit to not having followed them closely - I don't think carbon credit schemes have had a big payout just yet. I'm not ready to dismiss them, on the other hand. This might just be because more of the CO2 emissions get exported to the developing world, and so a true ROI has to wait until global economic goals start aligning.
Relevant content and other interesting people.

Look, I loved Usenet back in 1994, it was one of my first great Internet obsessions. But it effectively died in terms of relevance before the turn of the century. The majority simply preferred web forums.

Usenet was always a pain to use, posts would routinely get mangled or dropped entirely, and the multiple user-driven quoting conventions and wonky clients made any long-lived threaded discussion impossible.
I independently investigated Lamo's death. The most likely cause of death is related to kidney failure as per the autopsy posted of the medical examiner's website.

Whether the cause of the kidney failure was related to his diet or to some external actor is unable to be determined due to the decomposition of the body when they found it.

RIP
As quoted in the article, Adam says they can choose to become profitable at any time. If that's so, then obviously they should do so before trying again at an IPO.

If they instead try again in three months, then it would be logical to ask why they are in such a hurry to sell at a cut-rate price?
I manage a team split evenly between California and Eastern Europe.

In an agile environment with many changes in-flight each sprint, or doing daily hand-offs (for a follow-the-sun support model), the communication overhead becomes significant. It's tough to keep up with what N other coworkers are doing every day, plus do your own work.

In my group I've seen some pretty bad resentments build because of the perception that people were left out of the loop. Or, because someone didn't overcommunicate his changes and broke something downstream.

Coupled with the fact that there's a 12+ hour turnaround time on even simple communications between the sites, people can feel pretty frustrated.

We use a Slack channel for daily standup updates and changelog; that helps if people are disciplined about it.

The worst thing though is "othering" -- it's human nature to point fingers at the group across the hall, in the next building, and definitely across the ocean. If you have immature or problematic personalities on the team (don't we all), rifts will occur and deepen without regular face-to-face contact.
So, I would not call softbank an uninformed investor. Also, its all a bet.

(It would be a fraud if I present false statements to the investor, but as long as I show correct statement (even if I am not profitable), then it is up to the investor to decide)

The fact that a startup is profitable does not affect its value.

Look at Amazon. For a long time it has 0 profitability, and yet, it is one of the most valuable companies in the world.

Remember that startup or any assets should be valued using cashflow from the future (DCF). As long as I can show that I will have positive cash flow even in 10-20 years from now, I can state a value.
Bird populations are declining in the France:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/21/catastrophe-as...

Britain:
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/uk-bird-numbers-sp...

And also seabirds in Britain:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/20/seabird-...
“Safe”
I have no idea. I kept hammering them on this for years until Stripe came and ate all their lunch. And only THEN did Square release an API.
I’ve tried to cut out all the small nonsense (except HN of course...). And that really leaves time for a small few longer reads a day, and I find it to be much richer consumption overall. But then I’ve got 30+ tabs open that I’ll probs never get to
US manufacturing output is at a ~30 year high (perhaps an all time high, the data only goes back to 1987): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS
Are paintballguns and paintballs illegal there too?
Anyone remember when TechCrunch actually took the side of "Silicon Valley"?
FN makes incredible weapons. I grew up shooting a FAL regularly and never had issues. And after four years in the Infantry I can attest to the quality of the 240B. Elegant engineering.
> I don't think there were that many unintended consequences from this tech.

Honestly the last time I saw a drone, the most annoying thing about it was its noise. I can't imagine them buzzing around all the time simply because of that.
I'm pretty concerned about it, and we are a tiny political digital agency. My reading is that basically any small sized email list, website, service etc that 'receives for the business’ commercial purposes' data on more than 50k 'devices' or 'consumers' must be compliant which is a very low bar. Like small business email lists would hit this, though maybe burden falls onto Mailchimp for most.

It should be fairly easy to add a contact us address for delete and info requests to the bottom of websites. A lot harder and would take development time to automate a UI for a person to see all data associated automatically (e.g. lots of separate analytics; would have to build api to lookup ip/device/user data match across tables/dbs, and then how do I verify a user is requesting their data and not someone else's). Also harder to 'block' new data collection of device/consumer post delete request.

What I'm less sure about is 'inform consumers before the point of collection.'

Does a privacy policy link in footer count? If not what is required for compliance? What about advertising?

Another big concern for me is that this is going to be weaponized in my industry (politics). I think a political campaign wont fit the bill's definition of 'business' (profit seeking for shareholders) but I think it will still be weaponized by opposition campaigns and service providers.
I think you’re missing the point.

At least I know where my data is. Have you ever read a GDPR popup partner list? Do the people you mention understand how gmail business model works?
The same reason an extra pinch of salt can ruin a soup.
Useful in small embedded. Add twelve lines to a boot script, or bring in several new executables into /bin?

There are resource constraints even in large-ish embedded. Your main file system may live in a decent amount of flash space, but when the kernel is booting, it uses a tiny file system in RAM, which is pulled out of an initramfs image. There is a shell there with scripts.

The partition for storing the kernel image (with initramfs, device tree blobs and whatever else) might be pretty tight.

However, because a lot of these snippets depend on Bash extensions, they preclude the use of a smaller, lighter shell.
If your equation is Energy=mass*velocity^2, the 3x mass difference is much more important than the 15% velocity difference. That's why a .308 has about twice the energy.
Oil prospectors invented the terms when they were combing the backcountry looking for oil, without access to proper chemical labs.
But, but, but ..... wasn't the F-35 supposed to be the be-all, end-all plane that does everything, even washing the dishes?
>Fuck fentanyl

the perspective that somehow it's the drugs fault is both damaging to the recovery effort, the effort to reduce harm to the general public, and damaging to those of us with chronic pain that find fentanyl to be a solution to their woes.

Point the blame where it belongs.

Fuck under-regulation, over-prescription, greedy doctors, broken medical systems, for-profit care, and systematic government abuse.
Ask HN: Are you concerned about supply/demand dynamics in Silicon Valley?
With high valuations unsupported by mediocre (or nonexistent) profitability, there have been a number of nontrivial, public engineering layoffs, most recently at Uber and WeWork. Do you think the Silicon Valley labor market is about to get re-priced in a significant way? Does anyone view this as a potential watershed moment, if no, why?

(I'm interested in engineering/eng-adjacent fields specifically, but happy to broaden the conversation to other roles)
New Design and Criteria for Channel Verification on YouTube
Can someone who has actually READ this law summarize the main provisions from it?
If you wanted to effectively ban assault rifles, you’d pattern a ban on the energy and firing rate of the gun. Instead, the bans are based on cosmetic characteristics such as the presence of a pistol grip. That’s true even of Feinstein’s new bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/209...

Maybe they do know what an assault rifle is and just assume that their voters don’t.
I've been. Sure, its Orwellian, I'm in their "system" now. But it was absolutely fascinating, I'd say go while you still can.
I take your point but by 1989 there was at least 10 years or so of history in industry with source control. Granted it had not seen universal adoption.

In 1989? Lots of RCS shops who had recently moved to CVS and were excited about the "C" part...
I never said it was; it seemed that someone 2 levels up was suggesting this.
GCP Instances that are scaling up and down based on usage. Lot of image freezing, for faster boots, etc.

One hack is for the medium-level models, you can actually run them on Cascade Lake (which are sort-of more optimized for ML) than traditional processors. There's a 30% performance there. Mathematically, GPU vs CPU in performance at inference time, you're paying an annoying premium!

Right now, the default writing style "medium" is running in Cascade Lake (no gpu). I also (over)optimized the microservices running the endpoints too.
Incidentally, the National Firearms Act (1934) was originally meant to ban handguns. The current regulation on short barrel rifles and short barrel shotguns are vestigial remnants of this intent (if you ban handguns, it only makes sense to also ban somebody chopping up their shotgun to make it handgun-sized.)