skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a profoundly cynical view on experiencing, well, anything really. That's like saying couples in love should just wake up to the fact that an experience of love has zero nuance and can be summed up with a single word.
It's absurdly easy to get around these laws. For example: I had a motherboard shipped from China a few months ago. The shipper lied on manifest and claimed he was sending the motherboard back to me after repairing it. Neither the US government nor China got any duties or taxes on that shipment.

Lying on manifests also lets people import quasi-legal things such as cell phone jammers. The manifest will usually say something like "laser pointer" or "wifi repeater".
I have had good experience buying bitcoin through Square Cash app. It can then immediately be sent to the walet of my choosing.
This is what you call putting the cart before the horse.
If I am voluntarily giving information to a company, and have been completely informed of all the purposes that it will be put to (especially which companies it may be transmitted to), then I have no problem with it at all, personally. And I particularly would not be inclined to say that others can't decide this for themselves.

The problem is the rampant data collection that is engaged in without my permission and/or knowledge, and that companies often forward that data to others.

Targeted/behavioral advertising in particular has monetized that abuse. I would be thrilled if that business model dies an agonizing death.

The amount of abuse on that score has been so extreme, and going on for so long, that strong legislation is clearly the only remaining option to at least stem the worst of it.
Well, since I don't really have access to a real quantum computer yet, I'm ok with it just being on a simulator; I'm assuming that if/when quantum computers become cheap enough for consumer products, the MS team will probably work to make Q# support it.
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Note that he said species and you said civilization. Civilization could crumble, worldwide populations of humans could crater to under a million, and the species could survive for another hundred thousand years.

You're both correct, you're just talking past each other.
You’ll pay about $2.70/watt in Florida. Payback period will be based on whether you’re paying cash or financing, system size, and your current utility rates.

Much cheaper than in the past, but whether it makes financial sense is a calculation each household has to perform.

I’d suggest getting three quotes from local installers to kick off the process.
I've been a developer for about three years now but before that I worked in food service for about eight years. One habit I've had to break is the constant looking for something to do attitude that you absolutely need to keep an orderly kitchen.

The pool of tasks to complete doesn't replenish in software like it does in food service. When you've suitably completed a task and the next task lacks the definition needed to be completed, just read a blog or go on a walk while the other people working with you do their thing to get you in a position to complete the next task.
I switched from a Macbook Pro around 2015 or so. Since then I've used a few Thinkpads (T470, X1C, P50). Currently I'm on a X1C7. They're great machines, work perfectly with Linux, high build quality, etc.
which means your logged in and your behavior and activity is captured, and available for ad-targeting anyway. There's no real opt-out.
Location data is explicitly called out as sensitive personal information in the text of the bill, so it's definitely not exempt as a category of data.

> (e) Many businesses collect personal information from California consumers. They may know where a consumer lives and how many children a consumer has, how fast a consumer drives, a consumer’s personality, sleep habits, biometric and health information, financial information, precise geolocation information, and social networks, to name a few categories.

As to how this will interact with free speech - in this case, speech of the company - is a bit of an open question. One of the assumptions of the bill though is that selling telemetry data about a consumer is not a form of protected speech, and that adding some restrictions to this practice is reasonable.
Even the most pessimistic models do not predict human extinction. Life existed on earth before the carboniferous period, and will exist even if atmospheric carbon goes back to pre-carboniferous levels. There will certainly be drastic changes in the environment that reduce arable land, cause water shortages, and other negative effects if this happens and thus it's a good idea to decarbonize energy production. But this hyperbolic narrative of extinction is counterproductive, and makes people question whether proponents of decarbonization are really making an effective judgement around the tradeoff of energy cost and carbon emissions.
Here's a few:

https://www.jotform.com/blog/is-stripe-psd2-compliant/

Linda Scott of Silicon Dales in the U.K. uses Stripe and isn’t surprised that the payment processor is in compliance. “We have found Stripe to be proactive and open around legislative changes.”

https://www.paymentssource.com/news/stripes-next-step-is-bui...

Stripe hasn't exactly been in the news for lawsuits or controversy, unlike AirBnB.
Here's their original Hacker News post, which is always a fascinating read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053883
The exemption you quoted very specifically says it applies "if you combine or link compiled forms of this Software with software that is licensed under the GPLv2 ("Combined Software") and if a court of competent jurisdiction determines that the patent provision […] conflicts with the conditions of the GPLv2" (emphasis mine). I don't know how you could read that as applying to situations where nothing is licensed under the GPLv2.

In other words, it sounds like this would address OpenBSD's concerns if OpenBSD were GPL-licensed — but it isn't.
Stripe supports ACH: https://stripe.com/docs/ach
You can't have two partners in a transaction following different sets of laws. That's why contracts routinely specify a jurisdiction. Otherwise you couldn't even agree on a court to hear your case.

In B2B transactions, there are often international standards. Even where the supplier's location is set to be the relevant jurisdiction, this only follows from the assumption that a purchaser of industrial goods tends to have the experience to navigate foreign law. This cannot be assumed for consumers.
> For many, many people, that is _fine_.

I would argue this isn't the case. For many people it is out of sight and out of mind. They don't realize what's happening.

I came to this conclusion after talking with people about it. Numerous people didn't believe it. I had to show people documents and articles for them to believe me. Most of the people I've spoken with do not like this behavior and would rather not use a service or pay for it if they had known.

The average person is unaware. That does not make it ok.
Back in 2014 Google was using fixed wings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTNvWcx9Oo

They must have changed for good reasons.
Owning both a Thinkpad P1 and the latest XPS 15, I agree. Productivity on a Mac is in a different league than Linux. OSS partisans, high schoolers, and bearded gnomes, feel free to downvote my experience.
A const declaration only ensures that the variable always points to the same object, not that that object is immutable. For instance in JS:

const foo = {};

foo.bar = 1;
I have managed networks with 1000+ (microwave link) network devices that had Bash but no sed.. Sure was nice to be able to script maintenance on those..

Your definition of "reasonably complete" might not work for everyone else's use case.
I'm from New Zealand, which has a lot of birds, and I live in California. The forests here are eerily quiet, I hate it. Back home the birdsong in forests is deafening.
This always comes up, so I am curious if one fixes for "where the Tesla is driven" when doing safety analysis? Considering how difficult it is to get a Tesla (and for older models, how expensive), surely if one fixes for location, such as suburbs and well designed metropolitan areas as well as the type of people that drive Teslas, then perhaps other vehicles will do just as well?

I am by no means saying Tesla is less safe, in fact I do believe these claims, I am just not sure if they are truly thorough.
CI is probably the more important use. You certainly wouldn't want to host your CI system on Windows, regardless of what it's building code for.

That said, apparently Microsoft's still is. For now.
Excellent summarization, my thoughts exactly!
So in the pic it carries one package?

So the sky is going to be littered with drones delivering packages in ten to 20 years? Present day that seems ridiculous and unattractive!
Thanks. It turns out it can be used as a verb:

- (verb, transitive) To make bored or listless; to weary.

But it doesn't quite capture what I mean. It's not merely that we're boring ourselves by some particular activity, but by deciding that reality itself is boring.
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You're right, there are some elements from the Agrarian Age, namely getting summers off to help with the harvest. But, if it's one thing I have learned, it's that anything can be disrupted!
Yep, people are generally lazy. Having something be two steps instead of one make a big difference on your overall conversion rate.
>The US will for sure become like China in 10-20 years, with regards to surveillance.

I very much doubt it. It is one thing when a bunch of small and big companies collect pieces of data about you, and another when the centralized governmentt does it.

Also, it really matters what that data is used for. I would be hard-pressed to compare the onslaught of personalized ads with "disappearing" people who speak out against the government. Just look at US-related political posts on twitter. Why would you even need surveillance if people feel perfectly safe to publicly air out their negative feelings towards the government to a giant audience.
No argument there; just pointing out that many of the common complaints around ambiguity are explicitly addressed in the text of the bill already.
Yep. We did this in the deep south when I was growing up. Good times.
100%. As an Aussie so i know how hard we work to control feral cats and I appreciate local wildlife. I live in Austin, TX now. No one seems to care about the cats running around. Our dog recently passed away and within a few days a cat moved in. Now our birds are gone.
I'm sure they said the same things about planes and cars some 100 years ago.
This is hilarious to me, how this site is so badly laid out and has so many rendering bugs.
Given how hidden opt-out settings tend to be, yes. If the user has to opt in explicitly, it’s much less likely they’ll consent unintentionally.
There's a fun catch here though. Earth is going to face a natural destruction sooner or later. Be it by a gamma ray burst, a super-volcanic eruption, an asteroid impact, or any of other other practically infinite number of ways it can happen, has happened (multiple times), and will happen again soon or later. So we're all effectively living on borrowed time. You can't create a permanently sustainable Earth in a beautiful equilibrium because that's not how this universe works. It loves to throw a spanner in the works, over and over. And so the point of this is that it's only by racing against an unknown clock that one can hope to actually sustain humanity.

Consequently, our rapid development which is undoubtedly causing harm to Earth is likely also, equally without doubt, the very thing that may ultimately enable humanity to survive in the longrun. We already have all the resources we need to become a space faring civilization, except for one - public will. People of course want it, but also simultaneously think space is a fantasy, much like at one time crossing the ocean was seen as. And so it's put on the side burner while we focus on much more pressing matters, like what some politician or celebrity said on Twitter. If a tenth of the energy we spend on social media or trying to shove ads at each other was focused on space, we'd already have set foot on Mars.
Obligatory C#:

var input = new string[] { "abc", "ab", "abcdef", "abcdefgh" };
var maxLength = input.Select(e => e.Length).Max();
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{
var padding = (maxLength - e.Length) / 2;
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Most modern `oop` languages these days all support functional constructs and achieve the same thing in same amount of code & style. Language and oop/functional style are not mutually exclusive anymore, which this article seems to overlook by comparing both languages and styles at the same time.
I found setPointerCapture() caused multiple bugs in corner cases (including one regression a while ago that completely broke our touch support in Chrome desktop).

Maybe the support has improved in Chrome and Firefox, but I would be very careful to test Safari support before I relied 100% upon Touch Events.
> Is that an externality of AirBnB or poor city planning?

I'd say both. Poor city planning leads to it happening, but AirBnB exacerbates the problem. And for a politician, regulating AirBnB is much easier and a lot more understandable by the electorate.

Explaining how they should be reelected because of changes they made to fundamental housing policy that will take 30 years to materialize is a hard sell.
> I suspect a horny 16 year old can figure that one out

To be fair, I think that's a really high bar. Never underestimate the ingenuity of horny teens.
The U.S. economy is growing and using less and less stuff to do so
Crash safety ratings are based on sound scientific and statistical analysis of real-world crash data and have been proven to save lives.

The process is essentially this: the IIHS looks at the most common crash scenarios which involve fatalities. They replicate the the crashes in a lab to gather data on the forces exerted on occupants during the crash. Then a test scenario is formalized and future vehicles will be scored based on the forces exerted on occupants during the crash and whether such forces are survivable.

Auto manufactures are supplied information about the tests are are given an opportunity to design their vehicles to perform well in crash testing.

Note, that the IIHS is a independent scientific organization dedicated to reducing fatalities and injuries in motor vehicle accidents and is supported by car insurance companies. These companies wouldn't be funding the IIHS if it didn't have a measurable payoff (humans are expensive to fix).
If anyone is interested in a fanciful take on reducing the world's population in order to save it, I can happily recommend Channel 4's two-season Utopia series [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJnN3WMwDsk
"The alpha Kardashian is as skilled at capitalizing on transgression as Bernhardt was at playing Phèdre or Tosca."

A safe assertion, I guess, given the number of the living who have seen Bernhardt perform.
Well, they have contractors leasing Amazon-branded vans from a fleet management company. Like the top poster illustrated.
You didn't see/care how the post looked for several hours?
I am surprised nobody here mentioned wooCommerce and Gutenberg. Prior to Gutenberg, I was sold on Elementor but now with the upgrade have been using Gutenberg quite often and love it.

I bet the funding is going into these two fronts especially wooCommerce (the top ecommerce platform on wordpress and also owned by Automattic.
The US has a common law system. What is not specified in the statute will be slowly clarified by the courts.
> I fundamentally do not like attaching methods to my structs/records/whatever, since I think that forces strong and unnecessary coupling.

I see it almost exactly backwards from that. I like being able to make it so that nobody other than a select set of functions can modify my structs/records/whatever. To me that prevents unnecessary coupling.
We've got a long way to go if we're hoping to catch up to cyanobacteria [1]. It's a rather dubious distinction though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
Can't see anyone on that list that I admire; with a sample size of 3500, I wonder if they were picking a good spectrum of 'tech professionals'.

Zuckerberg? I've yet to meet anyone (literally not a single person) that admires him, let alone a tech professional that is exposed to more of his shenanigans.

"They trust me - dumb fucks" - Zuckerberg
doing that right now

you cannot take shortcuts. like I am building for an operation, so I can walk over to the head of ops, or one of the managers and just figure out my problem. For my remote engineers, we gotta spec everything out otherwise they simply can't build it. And timezone issues make that even harder.

My personal preference is to make a team 100% distributed (could be multiple teams in a company) or 100% local. 100% local can solve local problems. Distributed teams can solve problems that don't require interactions with other teams.

The watercooler brainstorming loss that ent101 mentioned is a big loss and I miss it very much.
Does it really surprise you that people write their own? Or perhaps more importantly here, that people write their own and then never revisit that decision as the industry builds up around them?

Sadly all too common in my experience. Disappointing? Absolutely. But few things of this sort surprise me anymore.
> The entire premise of free exchange is that I give you my services in exchange for something of value of yours. Making it illegal to withhold services if you don't give up your data is crazy. The only reason those services are being provided at all is to get that data. That's effectively a requirement that people provide services for free.

The service isn't free. The exchange just isn't money. When money is involved a price is put forth. It's an agreed to and published exchange mechanism. When it's data on someone the price isn't shared. It's kept secret. There's always a price. It's just not always money or public. This will make more information public.

I wonder if this will start to change how business operate. Right now they are skewed against consumers towards businesses. I wonder if consumer protections, like this, will cause businesses to re-evaluate business models.
Who in the world would do that rather than just supporting both compilers?
Wrt the laws benefiting incumbents with more resources: in this case I think it’s simple. If you don’t have the resources, just don’t collect the data! If your business model absolutely depends on it, then you should have the resources to do it correctly anyway, so the extra burden of this law shouldn’t be too much on top of that. This is definitely a simplified view, but I think it’s worth noting that following these regulations may actually be easier and cheaper than breaking them (which isn’t the case for, say, some finance and trade regulation).
This statement is too broad brush for me to actually understand where you're coming from. Let's try a few variations of the theme and see if we can suss out why we perceive this so differently. If none of these touch on your perspective, I'd appreciate it if you could propose some of your own.

Please note that these are deliberately constructed as strawmen; I am not advocating for them or saying you do.

1/ Would you approve of a law which forbade companies (perhaps outside of eg healthcare or finance) from collecting or storing PII?

2/ Would you approve of a law which forbade a company which bought or sold PII (perhaps with the above exemptions) from doing any other kind of business?

3/ Would you approve of a law which required companies to explicitly price and purchase PII from consumers?

4/ Would you approve of a law holding employees or executives criminally responsible for data breaches?

5/ Would you approve of a law standardizing the requirements for anonymizing data?

6/ Would you approve of a law banning online advertising?

7/ Would you approve of a law which placed the same requirements on any company which stored PII as are currently imposed on credit agencies?
This:

> The bill would authorize businesses to offer financial incentives for collection of personal information.

Means it's nothing like the GDPR. This might actually be a sane law. And it doesnt implement punitive fines if you get hacked. Nor does it bring about a massive cookie alert insanity.

The right to delete may work in europe , but i think in the US it is going to clash with free speech laws. So it might not work at all.
Trolling?

> Many of the pentesting actions would violate hacking laws.

No. Just like the physical penetration, if you are authorized by a legal authority to access a computer system then you aren't breaking any law when you penetrate it. The question is whether these parties were in fact a legal authority.
Of course, but English is still the de-facto universal language in the Western world, and Chinese do consume lots of American television and music.

It's still a valid question.
It's multi-paradigm. Want FP? Do it. Want OOP? Do it. Want both? Do it.
Right, but before 2010 the credit processing agreements could (and always did) include language that you could not offer a different price to credit customers and cash customers, discount or not. Otherwise you would lose your ability to accept credit cards. Some places would still offer a cash discount and assume they wouldn't get caught, but most places didn't risk it.
Yes. But there is a reason we don't call that a subsidy. That's the entire point of the comment thread.
because he has witnessed dozens of companies overtake his own in achieving mega-valuations and success without following his cargo cult advice that was born from a halo effect

his entire m.o today is to beat down anything that doesn't fit the poor and loose thesis he built a brand on -- everything from "surveillance capitalism" to "open source monopoly bad"
How do car dealerships do it then?
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Olkiluoto 3 started construction in 2005 and was supposed to be complete by early 2010. It is still incomplete as of this writing [1]. Its cost is also triple the original plan. The EPR under construction in France as Flamanville 3 is also grotesquely late and over-budget [2]. Meanwhile renewables started out very expensive per unit of electricity generated, but always had predictable costs and time lines from first concrete pouring to first commercial operation. And they continue to get cheaper to construct.

The AP1000 reactor projects in the US had the same late-and-over-budget problems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000#United_States

Chinese budgeting is opaque, but note that AP1000s built in China were also years late [3]. This isn't just a matter of overly-strict regulations specific to rich countries.

If California and Germany had embraced new reactors like Georgia, South Carolina, Finland, and France did, it's far from assured that they would have cut fossil electricity faster and cheaper than they did by their actual renewables-heavy paths. Perhaps both locales would have multiple partially-built reactors still generating zero watts.

I write this as someone who was initially very bullish about Generation III reactors but became disillusioned as their cost/schedule realities proved so much worse than initial estimates.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)#Flamanvi...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmen_Nuclear_Power_Station
You chose a very bad example for "imperative code". It seems artificially complicated.

def fib(n: int) -> int:
prev, cur = 0, 1
for _ in range(n-1):
prev, cur = cur, prev + cur
return cur

I think most humans will find this variant more readable and understandable then functional one.