skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally yes, but you have to understand Cuba is full of evil, evil communists. So it couldn’t possibly be something so simple, it must be one of their wily communist plots.
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> Can you imagine owning a grocery store and having to ask every customer their nationality

For privacy matters it's easy though. The UN has declared that privacy is a human right for all humans in all countries.
This. Imagine if you said the same thing with taxes. "Gee, why do I have to pay taxes differently in every country?" Well, because that's what you have to do if you want to do business there. You're not forced to do anything in here if you don't want to; if the opportunity is worthy, others will take your place.

Same with the laws, especially those that remove agency from the users.
Wales is a constituent country of the UK but not a kingdom.
It's pretty clear humans are fine with getting any given species down to populations as low as dozens so long as they don't completely go extinct.
"Reducing" (by means unspecified) sounds uncomfortably close to mass killing.

Worse, the logic of the "climate action now" position is that we can't wait for 2050. That will be too late. Well, if you want to reduce the population by 2050, what concrete steps do you propose? (I know, you didn't say 2050. I think "action now" is inherent in the logic of your position, though.)
Privately traded companies and publicly traded companies use different terminology for the same things.

In the private markets "valuation" is a term that just means "someone bought a couple shares at this arbitrary price, here are the value of the other millions of shares at that same arbitrary price". Although the effects on all shareholder's balance sheets are real and useful, it is just broadcasted for marketing and hype.

In the public markets "marketcap" is the same term.

And finally, older public companies have low price to equity ratios because the hype has fizzled and they are predictable. It doesn't mean anything. Its not enough inputs alone for you to decide what the rest of the market will do.
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Essentially, yes. And don't forget all the other ones from other countries as well.
I was just told at my day job that the team will not be using VC for tracking production analytics code because "using git is over-engineering".
Can anyone give a good concise explanation as to why GOTO was not in LLVM from the beginning? It seems like something quite obvious to need. I can only guess that it had something to do with their compliation strategy not being able to deal with the ... nonlinearity* ... introduced by GOTO.

*Probably a better word for that
> The deep state is just the permanent bureaucracy that sticks around as presidents come and go.

It's also far from a monolithic group of people with a similar point of view.
A natural consequence of your suggestion would be the legislative/EULA analogue of "tax inversion", whereby major companies would move "physical presence" (for some technical definition) to a legislatively lax state/country, and states would have a race to the bottom to attract companies (like with tax benefits).

While I understand your point about the impediments to unfettered interaction, this seems to me to be a fundamental problem with "globalized" interactions where the different parties to a transaction expect to be governed by different laws.

> Can you imagine owning a grocery store and having to ask every customer their nationality to check which law you must follow to do business with them?

It is, unfortunately, a little too easy, to implement filters based on whitelists/blacklists at the DNS level, since those are largely organized geographically (proximity by packet travel time, and what not)
You've linked this page. The correct link is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21018916
"This branch is even with torvalds:master." Does that mean there are no patches necessary for any GCC builtins? Or does the actual clang-buildable part live on another branch?
The UN has no way to enforce anything. It comes down to individual countries in the end, and sometimes that's too general.
> I don’t see why my comment warranted downvotes

It doesn't, really. I think this audience probably has a high representation of people who regard the "deep state" as a real entity that we should fight against and take issue on a personal level with your well-founded claim that the guy is a bit cuckoo
My mistake! Thanks for the correction.
I like his writing, but there's something about it that's just too time consuming, day to day. Maybe it's my own short attention span.
Sure, and respected camera review websites like DPReview get the majority of their revenue through people clicking through their site to purchase cameras. Is it a conflict of interest? Oh hell yes, and you should keep it in mind. Does it make the review wrong? Well...probably not, but keep it in mind.
Nice to see that all browsers support Pointer Events now. This Microsoft proposed standard was initially fiercely opposed by Google and Apple some years ago.
Yeah but that's kind of nitpicking. If you're looking for a "decentralized reddit" on blockchain, it's pretty hard to argue Steemit isn't this.

There's others too. People are free to fork it and make a new platform. Most of the hard work is already done unless you want to change absolutely everything about it.
I wasn't aware that we had a national obligation to be fair to Indians. Especially since Indian tech bodyshops have made a mockery of the entire H1B system.
So what? What's the higher purpose?
LLVM changed their versioning scheme a few releases back (maybe around 3.9 -> 4.0 IIRC?), so major version increases will be more common now. I think it used to be roughly tied to bitcode compatibility?

Someone who works on LLVM can give a more specific answer, but the gist of it is we'll see more major version increments now.
Spend is irrelevant. Intent is key. By the way, China and Russia have shown their (immense) capacity in spying. Given their human rights track record and intent to slowly undercut the US and rest of the Democratic world, don't you think that the US needs adequate funding in counter-intelligence?

EDIT: Since people don't seem to believe me, just look at this [1] NPR article from this morning, which quotes: "The Chinese, are our No. 1 intelligence threat."

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/09/19/761962531/people-are-looking-...
Fellow Normalite here, you still in the area? Would love to talk shop with a local Hacker Newser. Email in my profile if you're interested.
I think the modern, post-religious intellectual discourse has not even space for metaphysics. Anything in this direction is considered mumbo jumbo. :-) Materialism probably hasn't reached its peak yet.
Not trolling- why do you think that?
That example illustrates my point perfectly.

Not only are the people normally distributed, the schools are too.

That tippy, tippy top will always ever only be a handful.

That's not to say we can't raise the bar globally, but realistically we're probably at or close to the ceiling ;f what's possible for mass education.
Not that dude but ~11 years ago was the recession so I'm guessing he's alluding to the fact that lots of investment money comes out of hibernation all at once when recessions begin to recede.
The lack of presented evidence feeds theories and ideas about what actually happened, strengthens local anecdotal witness word of mouth stories. Epstein is a good example of this, more questions than answers and a sudden silence from the corporate media
Point free can totally be abused. It's also, in my opinion, often very useful for clarity.

It's my experience that, especially with FP code, often the important things to write down are the stages/steps in a transformation and that the intermediate outputs do not, by themselves, hold much semantic meaning.

Pointfree lets you write just those steps. Moving to "point-full" coding forces you to give names to these semantically meaningless intermediates. This can sometimes just be noise.

Terseness is also just shocking sometimes. It can take time to get used to it. I feel like when I read more verbose languages I skim each block of code numerous times and collect the meaning iteratively. When I read Haskell, I depend upon each name having distinct and important semantic meaning, I leverage type information heavily, and when I do read something I read each word carefully.

Totally different styles, but I've found strong preference for terseness.
Yes! Mission Bay, cheers!

What if they had built three-story buildings along the western edge to create a standing wave in the wind large enough to "skip" the rest of the development? Also, they could have shaped the whole place to guide and concentrate the wind to banks of wind generators and defrayed some of their energy costs, maybe.

We're so smart but we just don't pay enough attention and think deeply enough, IMO. The folks that made Mission Bay are not dumb, the problem must be something else.
lmao @ spinning up a python interpreter just to perform a trivial string operation
>What are the chances that we will get our act together or be able to engineer ourselves out of all of these problems?

Engineering is what got us into this problem. Foolish to hope it can get us out.
Most agriculture is not particularly labor-intensive now. We have robot tractors and ploughs and industrial scale feedlots and slaughterhouses. The average farmer cultivates over 300 acres, and that number is distorted downwards by large numbers of family farmers. Pure agribusiness can cultivate many square miles with basically no people.

The exception are soft fruits like strawberries, avocados, or apricots, where harvesting them mechanically will bruise them beyond what a consumer's willing to eat. These are luxuries, not staples, though. Things like wheat, corn, and other grains get harvested by giant machines and require little labor input.
But you'll start a business which captures some data, and you're on the hook for proving that everything captured is necessary and compliant in hundreds of jurisdictions.
> Can you imagine owning a grocery store and having to ask every customer their nationality to check which law you must follow to do business with them?

Thats a bad metaphor. If you open a grocery store in one country you follow the relevant law of said country. If you extend you business to another country the new store has to follow the law of the other country.

The problem with physical establishment is that it could create a 'race to the bottom', similar to tax laws.
With non-tangible elements like privacy, what stops big players like the USA to implement weak privacy protections to get a competitive edge?
90s: Netscape
00s: IE
10s: Chrome

It's not quiet that precise -- there was a transition period at the end of the 90s and a period of multipolar quasi-equanimity before Chrome's dominance -- but it's a decent first approximation.
Most of those categories are from financial institutions or card networks. Stripe has been working with them so we can support more businesses, and I know of quite a few networking equipment businesses that run on Stripe today. If you're still seeing any trouble, we'd love to take another look—our support team's at support@stripe.com (and my email's edwin@stripe.com).
Because it's easier to punish the people who enable it.
Heh, he has >100B under management, so he indeed raised more. Much more. :)
If you don't collect any information that's not essential to delivering content and services, there shouldn't be any problem.

If you have a shopping cart, you must collect billing and shipping information. But you don't need to use it for any other purpose.
I would define it as something like this:

The deep state is a set of individuals who use the powers granted to them by the government in order to further their own power interests and/or the power interests of extra-governmental entities regardless of whether the government and its constituents share in or benefit from those interests.
“e-commerce” does not directly come to my mind when I hear WP. Different story with Salesforce.

So the question is - how does it fit together?
What an incredibly depressing time to be alive.
And that's how privacy compliance as a service was born.
And what's to stop you from selling that data about what was in my shopping cart to a third party? Would you be compelled to notify me, or ask for my permission? After all, I agreed to share that with you in exchange for the product in the shopping cart. But I didn't agree to anything else.

It's not for the operator of a website to decide what is an invasion of _my_ privacy. It's for the consumer to decide. And that's precisely why we can't rely on website administrators, or the "recipients" of data to determine whether something is private.

I'm one of those website administrators who wholeheartedly welcomes something like GDPR here, even though it would make my job harder. But hey, that's fine. Putting privacy back in the hands of consumers is the right thing to do.
The genius about the Tesla Roadster was it was competitive at the price level of very expensive toys.
...we die out and the planet recovers on its own.

I like to think that the point of humanity is to destroy as many genetic lines as possible, before going extinct ourselves. A trial by fire that weeds out all but the most resilient. Eventually evolving into new, even better intelligence.
Could always just read the underlying study, but I'm guessing you don't care too much about what it's saying, just who's saying it? https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/wp-content/uploads/2019/0...
Not really Buddhist at all. The Buddhist (and Jain, Ajivaka etc.) view is that results don’t matter because the actions themselves don’t matter—they are delusions.

Whereas for “Hindus” (for want of a better word.), actions are of supreme importance. They are divinely ordained. What Krishna Bhagavan is saying is don’t let preoccupation with results paralyze you into inaction.

Some historians see the Gita as a rejoinder by the Vedic traditionalist to the quietism of the Shramanic movements.

As for Arjunas argument; the need for a pure family line is not that illegitimate children wouldn’t be e.g. heirs but that they would be uneligible to make the offerings (shraddha) to the deified ancestors (Pitrs. The term literally means “fathers” but it includes male and female ancestors.) Deprived of those offerings, the Pitrs would lose their place in Heaven and fall into Hell.

Incidentally this lunar fortnight is the season when Hindus perform shraddha. It is my great-grandmothers shraddha today.
They already have this in some areas. Most of our deliveries are directly from Amazon trucks. I'm in a Houston suburb across the city (not in a 1 hour delivery area) from the distribution center. I just started noticing same day deliveries as well.
I stand my position here.

While accident rates fell all across the world significantly with advance of road safety science, and active safety, no question there, but the lethality of car to car collisions has been rising, with most of rise happening in developed countries

The increase in average car weight is the biggest contributor to lethality of vehicle to vehicle collision.

https://www.nber.org/digest/nov11/w17170.html and https://academic.oup.com/epirev/article/34/1/57/493339

> being hit by a vehicle that is 1,000 pounds heavier results in a 47% increase in the baseline fatality probability.

In three decades, the weight of a family car went from under 1 tonne to close to 1.6, with big thanks to SUV overtaking sedan as a default "family car."

And increase in car resistance to mechanical deformation no longer plays a big role when G forces overtake blunt and compression trauma. And there is nothing one can do about them when crumple zones and the "deceleration track" are already maxed out.

The last few car fatalities I saw were all about that: 2 cars seemingly intact besides the front, but both flung violently 10m meters off the road, and people dead without much signs of external trauma. The energy absorption capacity of crumple zones did not save them.
Naiveté and a bit of corruption and/or blackmail. More people need to watch this recent interview with a former CCP insider on the Chinese threat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cwXifDaCjE&t=3s.
> herbicides are for plants only so of course they have no effect on insects

Is pretty obvious that herbicides kill insects indirectly. They are killing its sources of food (wildflowers and weeds). They have a deep impact over insects.
> Airbnb has the benefit of a much better UI and UX compared to several over hotel aggregators like booking.com

While AirBnB might be pleasing on the eyes, Booking's UI is optimised for conversion. The benefit of "better UI and UX" is arguable here if it does not result in more $ for the business. Specially if they want to compete in the public market.

Disclaimer - Ex-Booking.com employee
Well I think that makes the phone more attractive.
Something that doesn't report everything I do to Google.

Huawei should market the shit out of that.

Blackphone (maybe used to) sell a hardened version of the Android phone without the google spyware but version 2 was really expensive and made in small quantities.

This Mate30 will be mass-produced.
They could make this the favorite privacy phone.
(Well privacy from the US surveillance state)
Many companies have to RADICALLY change their architectures just to support these laws. And often the costs will be enormous. How do you scan all the logs that might somehow have an association with the requesting user that are in cold storage and alter data on write only archived optical media? You have to make an entire copy of it with those data removed. It's not about just treating customers better. It's government dictating the technical architecture.
> Can you imagine owning a grocery store and having to ask every customer their nationality to check which law you must follow to do business with them

Can you imagine a grocery chain who wants to profit from potential customers all over the world but doesn't want to obey local laws in the jurisdictions it operates in?

If people don't want to serve people outside their jurisdiction, do an IP lookup as some US outlets chose to do.

Hacky US start-ups don't get to dictate the rules of the game to the world.
As usual in FP code, the order of your words are completely different from the order things appear in the code. Also, most developers aren't used to concise function declarations (yeah, even with JS pushing them), what further adds to the problem.

This is not something people with no experience on FP can read easily. Now, calling it illegible strongly implies that people with no FP experience are the metric one should code for, what is perfectly valid if you are at a company aiming to hire cheap coders, but not something to brag about.
Interesting detail is that the set seems to span age 14 to maybe 30, but no older then that. Would it be harder to generate realistic aged faces because of the increase of details?
Tangential, but wikipedia without javascript enabled is a great experience.
Maybe true, but writing readable code is a difficult thing in any language. No matter what language you're using, you're going to have to come up with a set of coding standards in the long run.
This is not true, unless by “respect” you mean “do not collect any at all”. I would argue that you could respect users’ data without implementing data takeout, for instance. I would also argue that cookies not used for tracking do not need disclosure for users to be respected

Anyway, the only companies that will end up being able to collect data at all are there very biggest ones. Everyone else will have to just fly under the radar or use some kind of SAAS solution to comply with the patchwork of regulation. Not sure that’s really the desired outcome
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GDPR is not a difficult law to comply with for an EU company, unless you're adtech.
Very politically charged statement. It doesn't matter what the end result of what they do.

It's about who gets the cards in the first place. If India can undercut it'll just be more indians instead of having diverse backgrounds from around the world. As diverse as India could be there are other reasons to pull people from other countries fairly.

This seems exclusively to increase Indian immigration rates and not actually improving diversity of green cards given out. (If you want to play identity politics)
Colt is ending production of AR-15s
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I would never use the phrase "ideal state", but rather "natural state". Though, even that is not quite accurate as humans are naturally-occurring too, but the things we do (and do to the planet) are not quite so "natural".

While thinking that "the planet is worse off because of humans" is a judgement, I think it's not unreasonable to assert that innocent life forms all over the world suffer by our actions (more than they probably would have if we weren't here), and they are powerless to prevent that. I think this is what people are intuitively feeling a sense of when they say things like "or we die out and the planet recovers on its own".
Choosing not to make a choice is a choice itself - additionally this portion of policy has been heavily debated societally - it's not like we're talking about something so obscure that actually opening up a discussion on it will require a heavy expenditure of labour to properly research the topic.
Then there's no need to buy and renting is perfect for you is my point. It's typically 2 to 4 dollars. You can rent from iTunes, Amazon, YouTube, etc and get the movie usually for 48 hours.
Currently the diet is 25 grains of rice, 25 chopped pieces of beans, 25 leaves, and 25 cows.

Unhealthy? Likely. Unfair? Definitely.

The current bill tries to go closer to fairness by weighting based on population.

What if there are only 3 countries in the world, US, Lithuania, and Rest? Would you want 50 Lithuanians and 50 rest and call it diverse?
I think these sorts of examples dodge the real issue. Of course you can show a (perhaps needlessly) verbose procedural example of an algorithm that lends itself perfectly to FP and then demonstrate how FP is far more concise.

But the real issue, in my view, is what happens when the algorithm is not ideally suited to FP, otherwise we're back to the cute inheritance hierarchies in OOP textbooks.

Say we're dealing with something like the UK share matching rules [1], where you can't simply process your items in sequential order (because the cost of shares sold on a particular day may depend the cost of shares purchased on or after that day).

The open question in my mind is whether pure functional languages scale well to problems of real life complexity, ugliness and the occasionally crucial optimization requirement.

Does FP fall apart completely in those circumstances or does it just degrade to the point where procedural code was all along? I don't have an answer to that, but it may depend on how dogmatically the purity constraint is enforced.

[1] https://www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/technical-activities/techni...
That, and local variables. I avoid bash for the same reasons as GP, so I tend to (reluctantly) live without pipefail and work around the lack of local variables with subshells (which I assume has a performance impact - but hey).
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They're giving you book recommendations. Don't they deserve something for that?
Video w/ explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnh_9nKkemM
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In 30 years, this law will look as silly as the censorship of Clockwork Orange and the likes.

In the meantime, somebody will make money in VPN services.