skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gist of these laws are all the same. Just respect ALL users' data from the start, and you shouldn't have any difficulty with compliance.
It only sounds crazy if you don't believe the "deep state" exists. It does, it's just not exactly what Trump claims it is.
China has its own harmonized app stores, the issue will be how the phone will work without he G-stack for non Chinese markets.
>> is there any environmental problem that a smaller human population doesn't alleviate?

Shhhhh. Nobody is willing to talk about that for a number of reasons. Most of those reasons are nothing more than burying ones head in the sand.
I think AdGuard will do what you want, but I feel uncomfortable about blocking ads from sites that provide you with an option to pay to remove them, as does YouTube Premium.

It's difficult to even use the malware defense with YouTube, since YouTube's ads are just videos.
I was really being facetious toward the startup culture and praising BackBlaze. I didn’t expect a serious response...

But your response was quite informative. Backblaze is one of the few smaller tech companies I admire from a business side along with Fog Creek, JetBrains and Base Camp.
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"try feeding the human race" - How about we reduce our impact on the planet by not feeding all of the human race? Reducing the number of humans on the planet seems like it would be a great first step in solving the overall problem.
From F to A on the N.Y. Regents Science Exams: An Overview of Aristo Project
Adyen is _way_ ahead in terms of revenue, yet only at a $25b valuation. I don’t see how $35b can be justified when their direct competitor is twice as big and growing twice as fast. This seems like a recipe for another WeWork.
"Bird" is the word today: also on the front page now:

> "The Crisis for Birds Is a Crisis for Us All": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21018850
We're exceeding the carrying capacity of the planet. The alternatives are either less people on the planet, lower standard of living, or resources from off the planet.
Chicago, Washington D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, and Boston
There isn't a big difference between most AV and malware nowadays.

Both hog all your system resources, both send info about you to HQ, both spread often piggybacking on other software, both are hard-to-impossible to remove.
Heh I thought you were making a joke but Q# is really a thing ?!

Damn I'm old.
To underscore the point that legibility is as much a matter of familiarity as anything else: I think a big difference with an "OOP language" like the above poster seems to prefer versus Haskell has a lot more to do with the English language keyword operators that most contemporary OOP languages favor versus Haskell favoring more mathematical notation.

There exist "OOP Languages" like OG Smalltalk, Self, Io that might make for better comparisons to Haskell by virtue of being closer to the simpler syntax and general focus on more "mathematical" operators. Just as there exist more functional languages that use much more of an English keyword approach than Haskell.

(Some forms of Lisp/Scheme are so English keyword-forward with micro-DSLs that they may be a better example in a lot of posts like these for comparing "contempory OOP languages" and "functional languages". Plus there's all the bits of hybridized "functional languages" embedded directly inside contemporary "OOP" languages such as LINQ syntax in C#. It's interesting to me how many of these sorts of articles jump straight to Haskell.)
Overpopulation rhetoric is eugenics.
Exactly, with the progress of technology we need to codify more nuanced concepts of degrees of privacy to protect the individual from powerful institutions. The standard of "no expectation of privacy in public" was developed at a time when universal surveillance was unthinkable, there is no reason that it should permanently remain the limit for putting constraints on surveillance.
>Is there room for a TechCrunch-like publication with a more Silicon Valley-influenced editorial bent?

are you actually asking for someone to purposefully preach to the quire? The function of journalism is to speak truth to power, you think facebook et al need any further help? I think they actually paid the telegraph for a series of agitprop articles, you might want to check those out.
How is that different than, well -- anything? In the United States all 50 states can make their own laws; it's a fundamental part of our legal system.

As for every country making their own laws - well, yeah? That's what sovereignty is all about?
You can write code without ever using `where ...` :)

It's just how mathematicians are used to express their version of "top down problem solving". It's also similar to what you do when you define a function/method before the smaller ones it calls and before the even smaller ones they call (using what's called "function hoisting" in Javascript for example).

Now, if you really dislike "top down problem solving", you might have an allergic reaction to `where ...` which applies the same pattern but does it down even to the micro level of small functions of few lines...
Cool! I don't know much about bird conservation efforts but it is encouraging that we are having success in some areas.
>> the entire Middle East

Except for Saudi sweet. There is plenty of very high quality oil in Saudi Arabia, which is no doubt in the heart of the "middle east". (Iraq and the UAE also produce sweet crude.) The really nasty stuff, the really energy-intensive gunk, is the tarsand bitumen from Canada. Saudi oil is positively green in comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_crude_oil

>> The term sweet originates from the fact that a low level of sulfur provides the oil with a mildly sweet taste and pleasant smell.
Great to see this, easy onboarding to Lightning Network is needed and this solves a real pain point with added benefits.
This update kills Tampermonkey.

I only used it for a very specific reason - I had a script which removes multi-item eBay listings where one item is 99 cents (typically some kind of keychain) and the other items are the actual listed item at a much higher price.

It's a technique used to break the "sort by price" function, since it sorts by the cheapest item in a multi-item listing.
NYC is still not on the list by # of cameras. If you read the rest of the article you see Chicago is #1 in that category, with 35,000 total cameras.
I agree with your thought process but you also have to realize that overtime issues can arise. It would be difficult to say 'look at how safe they are' when in months or years later issues can come at their doorstep. I think analysts don't want that on their record.
Right. Only about 1 trillion in proven reserves, a number which often increases over time due to technology and economics and exploration.

I was discussing how much actual coal is there. Coal resources, which is a (relatively) fixed number.

The fellow I was responding to was talking about extracting all the oil and gas from the ground (not just that which is today known with high certainty and both technically and economically viable).

For instance, look at this graph of US proved oil reserves. It has climbed for most of the last 100 years and peaked in 1970 at about 39 billion barrels, declined and has started rising again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_the_United_Sta...
...but that data only goes until 2012. The reserves have kept climbing, and as of 2017 have now equalled their peak of 39 billion barrels: https://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/crudeoilreserves/pdf/table_1....

In other words, technology and economics has improved access to fossil fuels faster than we can burn it.

But it's not like there was a bunch of oil added into the ground. It was there the whole time. Hence why I'm using resources: It's the ultimate limit.

We cannot rely on Peak Oil (or Peak Coal for that matter) to stop our reliance on fossil fuels and the ensuing climate change. We just keep getting better and better at extracting them. Trends in automation of mining do not bode well for the climate, either.
I was thinking about the Zenbook line. I use a ux303 as my daily driver, the current revision would be the ux331.
Yeah... CCPA and GDPR have proved that large enterprises will do just fine, because Amazon can always afford enough lawyers to handle regulatory overhead and confusion across territories.

The startups end up either (1) ignoring the laws or (2) giving up.

Good job EU, if making the FAANGs the only companies with the clout to hold customer data or break into new markets was your primary goal.
I don't understand the persistent misstating what lowering the population means. It's no secret we're all going to die. We don't need to kill anyone.

As for alternatives, we've exhausted plenty. Growth, in particular, has failed. Stepping on the gas pedal is not slowing us down. When should we step on the brake? After we drive off the cliff feels too late.
I considered that and dismissed it because it's frequently been proven that these accusations have had no merit.
Dude... amazon is a big company. It has lots of different groups. One sees an opportunity to make money by providing service to oil and gas - the other sees an opportunity to reduce their costs and/or get good pr by using ev’s.

This could be greenwashing, if this was done purely or mostly as a pr move, but that’s separate from the fact that another wing of the company does business with oil and gas.
"Bird" is the word today: also on the front page now:

> "Birds Are Vanishing From North America": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21018916

== Update ==
Thanks to @jgwil2. Changed the link (it was pointing to this page (21018850)).
all each company has to do is click 'accept'
Does it work on IOS?
I can believe humans have the technology to build a missile that can drop at a speed of 5miles a second and maintain an object above the surface after its fall, possibly a secondary stage active component. The Russian/Indian Brahmos missile is a sea skimmer that goes almost 2miles a second horizontally, and it’s in production. It would seem normal for the US military to classify the observation of tests by other military powers of unknown vehicles as UFOs. It also seems normal that this information should be considered classified. The alien angle feels like a flat-earther movement.
Probably the exhaust/escape typo.
> The beaches surrounding the atolls are sinking due to erosion caused by waves and this is exacerbated by rising sea levels.

> In addition, because the sea level is rising on the islands, Tuvaluans must continually deal with their homes flooding, as well as soil salination.

> Soil salination is a problem because it is making it difficult to get clean drinking water and is harming crops as they cannot grow with the saltier water. As a result, the country is becoming more and more dependent on foreign imports.

> Tuvalu has adopted a national plan of action as the observable transformations over the last ten to fifteen years show Tuvaluans that there have been changes to the sea levels. These include sea water bubbling up through the porous coral rock to form pools at high tide and the flooding of low-lying areas including the airport during spring tides and king tides.

Re: land increase

2% is within the margin of error and experts have raised issues about the accuracy of data collected prior to 1993.

Source : http://probeinternational.org/library/wp-content/uploads/201...

It is also understood that growing coral reefs combat sea level rises to an extent, but that this biological mechanism is not infallible.

In any case, the rising sea levels are a matter of fact :

> The 2011 report of the Pacific Climate Change Science Program published by the Australian Government,[297] concludes: "The sea-level rise near Tuvalu measured by satellite altimeters since 1993 is about 5 mm (0.2 in) per year."

Lastly, there is no meaningful difference in this context between a completely submerged island and an island that is in the process of becoming submerged by the sea. You are arguing a moot point.
I’m not sure this is entirely true. Texas for example has some pretty big arms (long-arm statute) when conducting business in or with a resident or Texas business.

Maybe helpful - http://euro.ecom.cmu.edu/program/law/08-732/Jurisdiction/Lon...
When you say modern what you mean is W.E.I.R.D. Historically, even in the West, people thought of themselves as members of a group first. The resurgence of populism throughout the World shows that they still do.
Yes sure, but rewriting a legacy system is not always an option. My experience comes from the scientific computing world where venerable Fortran programs are glued together with huge piles of shell scripts.
Can relate. I used to use AirBNB exclusively. I hated hotels with a passion. Maybe I just got older. Maybe Booking.com got a lot better. Maybe AirBNB got worse. I'm not sure what it is, but now AirBNB is always my last resort.
We need to have a conversation about jurisdictions in the digital age. The way governments have decided that having a website accessible in a country makes you liable to respect the law of this country is a convulted and hacky notion that has been accepted way too fast.

The physical establishment rule was the only sound approach. The fact that some countries started to lose shouldn't have allowed them to rewrite the rules (especially in such a hacky manner).

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? Then multiply this hell by 10 and soon 1000 considering new laws created left and right and you have the environment these dishonest politicians have created.
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I read the first edition back in the days; and again, and again. Back then, during my first years working as a programmer, it was a gold mine and definitely helped push me in the right direction.

One of my favorite authors wrote that every book eventually becomes a prison for the mind. At some point you will transcend the content which means it's time to move on. But that doesn't change anything about the book, it's still as excellent as ever for others.

The only constant in this universe is change.
Thankfully one can just:

mpv 'anyoldurl'

and you have a unified UI for very many services:

http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html
Could you elaborate a bit on the cycle part. Why is it a cycle at all assuming money gets invested all the time instead of once-a-x-years?
It says for MacOS, so no.
Out him. You won't.
What hardware should you provide to remote workers?
So simple crypto trading bot development framework, your grandma could use it
Revenue is a better thermometer than profits here, especially since most startups leading up to an IPO manipulate their profits into looking great.

It seems the regulatory product lifecycle is that AirBnB enters a new market, and then some time later that market starts to regulate and restrict it. How many new markets does AirBnB have left to exploit regulation?
You kind of wonder, if someone's fumigating your office that often, and then you suddenly get sick, why wouldn't that be the first thing you look at?

Like, "Hmm, what about this giant cloud of bug spray? Maybe I'm allergic or something?"

Why did they jump to, "The Cubans must have Marvin the Martian's P-U-38 Explosive Space Modulator that they're shooting at my ears."
In cases where the Feds have decided there should be a uniform standard, states can’t make their own law. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_preemption
What will these laws accomplish in real terms?

This just seems like poorly written legislation with the purpose of pandering to the populist public. I guess if it makes you all at least feel better.
No it's not. There are too many humans on the planet. Reducing the number would lead to a more sustainable situation.
That's just basic logic.
> Added support for the Visual Viewport API for adjusting web content to avoid overlays, such as the onscreen keyboard.

This is awesome for WYSIWYG editors, most of which have struggled to keep the formatting toolbar visible on mobile screens because there's been no good way to detect whether the keyboard is open.
Yes, but in 50 years, North America population increased by 120 million. No pain, no gain.
"Stop having multiple children for Christ's sake" is a great alternative.
It doesn't really make that assumption unless you assume simple linear extrapolation. It wouldn't be easy but I expect a decent modeling and extrapolation scheme could be devised.

I don't think it matters much though, as a simple count of cameras isn't so useful (especially with them being so cheap now). How many cameras is less important than what they cover and what they are connected to.
> Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Amazon and General Motors were both expected to invest in Rivian, "in a deal that would value the US electric pickup truck manufacturer at between $1 billion and $2 billion."

Assuming that valuation is vaguely accurate they must own a pretty decent chunk of the company too.
Who do you suggest we kill?
I suppose you'd want to include transportation 'costs', and off gassing (edit: I meant flaring), etc, etc.
High information investors and executives know an impending recession is probable, but low information investors will still happily plow money into IPOs.
Well, not sure if Bayer is such a good name either. Bayer was part of conglomerate producing Zyklon B used by Germans to kill millions of people.
Kudos to Stripe on an amazing journey! Interesting to revisit the original HN submission of Stripe's launch:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053883
> It does

Every definition of the "deep state" that I've heard is usually based on a vague conspiracy theory or is an obvious truth that draws conclusions about the intentions of state actors without providing any evidence. Can you prove me wrong?
How does that affect works exported from common-law countries to civil-law countries? Does the same work have different copyright holders in different jurisdictions?
The biggest corn subsidy in the US is ethanol for vehicles. It can take as much as 2 gallons of gasoline to produce a single gallon of ethanol, so this is just insane. This was a known fact before the subsidy was passed and was an incontrovertible fact after it was passed, and yet it is now impossible to stay elected in the US and talk about rolling this subsidy back.

So it is absolutely horrible. (Fortunately car batteries are getting insanely good and this probably will likely fix itself.)
I wrote the op-ed and I give the NYTime a huge amount of credit for publishing this. On more than one occasion I've had reporters at other major papers be interested in doing a story on my news privacy research and had had the stories killed by editors. The Times actually came to me to ask about doing this and were hugely supportive the entire time.
Ha! Glad you were able to find a way. We still think it could be easier, even with Atlas and Australia support now. Would you be up to chat more? edwin@stripe.com
another issue is how preys of insects dying off is leading to more of the kind of insects that rely on humans, like disease spreading insects. i would not be surprised if zika or other disease are more widespread than being reported. and these corporations are trying to cash in by advertising gmo mosquitoes which have shown to not work. these mosquitoes are able to breed away the reproductive deficiency but now you are left with a franken bug out in wild reproducing like crazy.
And the funny thing is that some of these systems are still in use for critical missions.

Sometimes even bash isn't an option, you have to deal with older shells like ksh.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkExchange

Could work really well. All the best
LOL NY Times... LOL, sure, sure guys I believe you now...
uhm, yeah, the sim card was in a mobile "pocket router" and shared to phone(s) + tablet + laptop, and I'm sometimes watching multiple streaming videos at the same time as a way of mixing music (Bach + heavy metal instrumental rocks :P) without bothering to turn video off or to low qual even if I'm not watching it
I've been using an X1 Carbon running Ubuntu (18.04 until 19.04 came out, then upgraded) with Gnome 3 for about a year and some change as my primary development machine.

Hardware-wise I have no complaints. It's incredibly light, excellent battery life (no specifics, but I made it though an 8hr work day in a coffee shop), the keyboard is fantastic, and the multiple USB type-C ports are super handy. I did grab a sleeve for it as it isn't aluminum like the macbooks.

My only gripes are linux related and relatively small. I never got the fingerprint reader working, and with the company being attached to Outlook/Teams/Excel, I sometimes find myself wishing I had desktop apps as opposed to web-based ones.

Regardless, it's the best work machine I've ever had. I've used plenty, and this edges out the XPS 13 just slightly, as the keyboard is superior and the screen is about an inch larger.

edit: I do only have the 1920x1080 screen, which I'm sure contributes to the excellent battery life.
also, they came up with the awesome title!
memcmp has to find the first offset where the buffers differ, and check which of them is larger.

bcmp only has to figure out whether the buffers differ. It doesn’t have to figure out where they differ.

For example, for s=1024, bcmp can do (at most) 128 64-bit compares (using vector registers, it could even use larger steps)

memcmp could do the same, with an additional “figure out where in the last 8-byte parts compared the difference lies”.

That’s an amount of work that’s independent of the buffer sizes, so it wouldn’t add much, relatively, _if_ the buffers compared are large and the difference (if any) most of the time is near the end of the buffers. I doubt those ifs often hold, though.
Saving ourselves for a little while. At the end of the end, no one outruns entropy.
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So I know nothing about probabilistic computing, but is my intuition about how these work correct?

Essentially, a qubit can have a superposition over 0 and 1 and operations upon that qubit will change the probability and then when you "pop it" to read it out you will get the output that you want depending on the program that you set up.

By contrast, this "pbit" works by having some probability between 0 and 1 and this is represented by something, for example a time varying flicker between 0 and 1 which is weighted by the same aforementioned probability. Then, operations upon the pbit can change the probability depending upon the program and you read it out by sampling to see what the output of it is supposed to be.

If so, wouldn't it suffer from the Monte Carlo integration issue? Namely, in theory it is nearly independent of the number of dimensions, but in practice as your number of dimensions (here the number of bits, pbits or qubits) goes up you will get worse results?
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I stand corrected, thank you.

For posterity (I like to leave breadcrumbs for myself):

https://github.com/cplusplus/draft/blob/dc2bff0/source/decla...

https://github.com/cplusplus/draft/blob/dc2bff0/source/decla...

https://github.com/cplusplus/draft/blob/dc2bff0/source/compa...
Actually yeah, I showed this to my wife. She has EDS so her knees, ankles and hips can without warning dislocate when walking. She said she'd enjoy this — if a dislocation happens she can sit to recover. Otherwise she currently must risk a dislocation and potentially fall or use a wheelchair.
If Recaptcha gets the ax due to CCPA, the internet will be better off for it.
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It's also unlikely that all humans would die out even from severe climate change given our current technology.

You could say that saving the environment is just saving the current set of humans, or our modern way of life. It definitely sounds much less noble when put that way though.