skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, and seeing how the post appeared after submitting didn't convince you otherwise?
No Continent for Junior Developers
How are you supposed to do any business over the internet without collecting information?
I've had an incredibly good experience with the Volt. They deployed their best engineers to work on it. It was probably the best made Chevy at the time, a kind of flagship project.
> I'm not seeing anyone state any numbers, though.

You aren't stating any numbers either, yet you seem very confident that it can work out.

> Just a bunch of handwaving about how it's totally impossible, which strikes me as simplistic BS.

Same to you, just a bunch of handwaving how it's totally possible, which I might call "simplistic BS" as well.

I could give some of the source material that my opinions are based on, but then you will just complain about how the sources are biased or how the calculations are too pessimistic, and so on. Been there, done that, it's a waste of time. Therefore, I suggest you do your own research and believe what you want to believe. I don't care if you change your mind.
The "uBlock" app extension in the store has nothing to do with uBlock Origin. Do not install it.
Hunt and Thomas themselves don't really recommend it anymore. Large parts of the industry have changed over the years. They're interviewed in episode 352 of The Changelog podcast. It's worth a listen if you're a fan, or interested in either edition.
What extensions do you miss?
My dad started way back in 1989, and had the fortune to take an early retirement package. Now he spends his days doing adult enrichment at Bradley University. Living the sweet mid-century union dream.
What gave you this idea? I've attempted to find corroborating evidence online and am coming up blank.
Possible reaction to the recent Webflow Series A ($72M) maybe?
U.S. navy confirms UFO videos from Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge are real
Carl Sagan wrote about the numinous, a feeling of awe from looking at the night sky. Can't remember if it was Cosmos, or Contact, or one of his other books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numinous
I actually think Airbnb’s UI is awful, and the website is very slow so poor UX.
Wasn't oil used medicinally for a while after its discovery? Not ingested, but rubbed on your skin to ease joint pain?
Navy confirms videos did capture UFO sightings but it calls them by another name
How is this not a violation to the first amendment? Does the first amendment not extend as follows: (?)

As a citizen don't I have the right to create a business and privately take notes on whatever I'd like to about my customers? If i run a dry cleaners and take notes about my customers, should I be obligated to disclose these notes or even the existence of these notes to my customers? I don't see why extending the dry cleaning business to a mobile app or website effects anything. What about journalists, are they required to disclose what data they're collecting about people as they do their job?

I feel like the state constitution granted right to privacy does not supersede the federally mandated right to freedom of speech both the right to take internal notes and documentation and the violation of one's speech rights by forcing this disclosure.

however IANAL and I don't live in California. Could someone share some insights onto the first amendment side of this?
You're right that ACH reversals can come far after the payment appears to be settled. Based on the customer and transaction size, we treat the ACH as "completed" (i.e. available to buy Bitcoin with) at different points in its lifecycle.
One of the benefits mentioned is "a transparent "build"-free environment for the developer", so they don't have a build pipeline at all. Plus, with heavy caching thanks to Apache this would probably only get hit on server startup. Given the (self-imposed) design constraints it seems like a reasonable solution. Definitely some room for improvement on the minifier implementation.
>Besides the onus laws like this may place on small startups and side projects:

Startups and side projects are a non-issue. They can just comply from the get go. It's the too small to afford compliance but too big to easily change their business model that are going to be hurt by this. However, that brings up the question as to whether those business models should be able to exist profitably in the first place.
Go was made difficult for me because of it's really strange package management and tooling around it.

I was coming from a C#/Ruby background and Go seemed nice on the cover but once I tried to write some more advanced software with it, I was struggling (this was around 5 years ago).

Maybe the Go story is better now, who knows. I've seen moved on to Elixir and feel right at home and very excited about it. Hell we may even have web assembly Elixir support coming in the form of Lumen.
Product-Led Growth Fundamentals
Not exactly VX, but Amiton (also known as Tetram or VG). It's about one tenth as toxic as VX, and similar in toxicity as sarin.

In 1975 the Iraqi ministry of agriculture negotiated with a U.S. company, Pfaudler, for a contract to build a pesticide production plant. The deal eventually fell through because Pfaudler did not understand why the Iraqis insisted on manufacturing Amiton instead of some safer alternative.
Prob'ly need it for H2, though.
There are a (very) few hard edge cases. But most of this stuff is easily addressed by 1) having good designs around data handling in your system and 2) treating customer data and PII as data you only have limited rights to in the first place.
Sure they have. They used monkeys and a dart board.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-hedge-fund-geniuses-go...
The comment you’re replying to correctly used F=ma to impute the amount of sustained acceleration the roof could support.
Right. I'm not saying definitely no politics, but there's a ton of political content that is not really that interesting (like the two stories that were just on the front page about the US drone strike killing pine nut farmers in Afghanistan that are sliding down the ranking fast). It has been a growing trend. Maybe I spend too much time on the site, but I usually see most of the threads that get flagged/dead.

And I agree with my parent poster -- lobste.rs is a much better curated feed of interesting topics to me -- I'm not on it yet, because I sort of feel that I've made an investment here in the community.
Miniaturizing Medical Imaging, Sensing Technology
> That's debatable. I imagine that many EU residents who are tired of having their data collected and sold by US companies consider this to be a very good thing.

Until that game you like simply shuts down in the EU. Or until that website you visit simply blocks all EU access.

Just because someone can't prove they comply with the GDPR doesn't automatically mean they aren't in compliance.

You've added a bunch of friction to the little guys in order to punish Google, who won't really notice. Maybe you agree with that, maybe you don't. But you have already made that trade whether you like it or not.
I have had an idea for a Black Mirror episode based on this:

An alien was captured and studied in Area 51, and learned how to hack a computer (or a cell phone he stole). The alien used the computer and pretended to be a human and started the event on facebook, to get himself freed.
Scala is fine, but do you not feel that it tries to do too much sometimes?

Like, I like Scala if I'm the only person writing it; I basically write Haskell while still having access to all of Java's libraries, but I absolutely dread having to collaborate with people using Scala.

A coworker of mine (whom I respect very much) said it pretty well once: "I write Scala...but in a Java accent"...he doesn't use the functional features of the language, and basically just writes Java without semicolons. When we try and collaborate on stuff, it becomes difficult because of the sometimes-conflicting way we write code.

Personally, for functional-on-the-JVM, I prefer Clojure. You still have access to all the Java libraries, but it's a bit more decisive on what it wants to be: a functional, dynamic lisp on the JVM. While you can write OOP-style code in Clojure using records and protocols, it's often frowned upon, and not always 100% intuitive....virtually every tutorial you'll find on Clojure writes in a pure-ish functional style.
If you're not a scrub, go through non-scrub recruiters, and manage to get through a handful of high-vis projects relatively unscathed, word travels extremely quickly and from then on out you can pretty much coast mostly on reputation.

It's a small world out there sometimes.
The US scrapped alcohol prohibition due to its unintended side effects, and is increasingly scrapping marijuana prohibitions.

Often the downsides do outweigh their utility.
Interview with the first crypto fund manager on the future of Bitcoin
Dat Y-axis.
Biscuits are basic, but chocolate biscuits are luxury.

Chocolate cakes are basic.

Cake is a made up drug.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEET

DEET isn’t a cholinesterase inhibitor.
Not sure about the connotations: flying toys (Parrot and the like) are heavily marketed as drones and seem to sell fine.
All countries should do what either Australia and/or New Zealand are doing with feral cats. Not saying it will reverse or fix the damage done but it may help save some native bird populations. I read yesterday that feral cats are threatening not just birds but keystone species (like sea otters) in the Pacific Northwest.
Re•Work AI in Insurance Summit NYC 2019: AI Underwriting, Fraud Detection
IANAL, but I think a human needs to be involved in the individuals' processing as a prerequisite to "speech." An automated process has no Constitutional rights.
> Wikipedia's startup payload now neatly fits into the target budget of 28 KB – chosen as the lowest multiple of 14KB we can fit within subsequent bursts of Internet packets to a web browser.

But (according to their linked article) 14KB is only the max size of the _first_ burst of packets, after which TCP will usually double the size in each subsequent burst. So two bursts equal 14 + 28 = 42 KB, not 28.

Are they doing this to assume a connection limited to only its initial burst size? I imagine this might be relevant in low-data areas (developing countries, etc.), but they don't go in to it.
US drone strike intended for Isis hideout kills 30 pinenut workers in Afghanista
Thanks for the suggestion—you are right!

We're working on a walkthrough that'll help with this now. Stay tuned.
They did not just broaden the API. Previously, extensions were written in Javascript, roughly following open web standards[0]. This let you write your extension (nearly) once and have it work in all web browsers.

Now, all of those Javascript extensions are deprecated (users can no longer install them). If you want your extension to work, you now have to rewrite the majority of it from scratch in Swift[1]

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf...
Can you provide your definition of culture, please?
> - Consumers can opt out of their data being sold, and businesses can’t retaliate by changing the price or level of service.

This is something I object to. It's just fundamentally stupid and doesn't make sense. 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.

EDIT: I'll also add that it strongly favors incumbent tech companies, by explicitly carving out "selling to third parties" as a disfavored tactic. Google can monetize your data internally. Your average startup may not be able to. Specifically carving out "selling to third parties" favors large, incumbent players over small startups. But then, regulation always does.
as an investor I bet Wing will "soar"
> Something that I do on my website, like basic retargeting marketing for abandoned shopping carts doesn’t feel to me like an invasion of privacy.

It sure does to me. So much so that if it happened to me, I'd be sure to never buy from that site again.
Pros of asm goto: it's useful for introducing low overhead tracing and debugging abstractions. Tracepoints in the Linux kernel are one example [1]. It's also used for implementing certain Meltdown/Spectre mitigations [2].

Cons of asm goto: as parent points out, asm blocks are largely opaque to the compiler, which stands in the way of optimization. Control flow analysis can't take into account internal jumps, and for GCC at least, every asm goto block gets flagged as volatile. That disables whole classes of optimization.

Unless you're relying on hardware-specific instructions that the compiler doesn't know about or expose as an intrinsic, there's always an alternative to asm goto. That said, those alternatives might prove more expensive than the loss of optimizations precluded by the use of asm goto [2].

The pros/cons of including asm goto in clang were discussed in [3].

[1] https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-April/111748....

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/748074/

[3] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-October/127239...
Communication issues. Therefore we get together 1-2 times a year. It helps to see the other person for real for your online presence. Communication otherwise via Slack, Zoom, Jira, Email, Hangouts
My machine tooling comes in little padded envelopes with standardized shipping labels that have the customs declaration info. They all say "phone accessories".

If the origin country is not willing to track it back to the source and do enforcement for you and you don't want to categorically block or have invasive monitoring everything from that country then it's a fool's errand. The same goes for websites.
I think Matt mentioned it on the Vergecast recently, so it's not a secret – we have a team of top folks working on Simplenote and are continuing to invest in it.

Source: I'm on the mobile team at Automattic and just spent a week hanging out with the people working on it :)
Stripe Connect's fee is 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction for all payment methods accepted; plus another fee of $2/user/mo for each active "merchant" on your platform.

Adyen's MarketPay fee varies depending on payment method and is about 1-5% + 12¢ per transaction. I've contacted them to ask what one could expect for MC and Visa, but Amex and Discover are 3.95%, so I imagine similar. No mention of any other fees.

So for smaller dollar transactions (~$5), Adyen appears to be cheaper. Also, they support ACH, which Stripe does not.

sources:
https://stripe.com/pricing
https://www.adyen.com/pricing/full-list
Well, going on the endless GDPR discussions last year, that very much depends whether it's a time it's mostly America awake or mostly Europe. There's far too much of SV wedded to the idea of farming customer data infinitely. Which is why data privacy laws are becoming a thing.
>I feel like the state constitution granted right to privacy does not supersede the federally mandated right to freedom of speech

Gonna have to stop you there.

The First Amendment doesn't mandate a right to free speech. It only prevents Congress from passing laws abridging that right.

There's nothing, Constitutionally speaking, preventing states from doing so.

Edit: nope, Apparently I'm wrong on this one.
No more so why, but how.
greybeard spotted :P
I was also surprised by this when I first saw it, but if you read the reasoning behind the ending of the program, it kind of makes sense. It sounds like they are just switching their focus.

The emissions check program is aimed at carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, and particulate pollution. Properly functioning emissions systems ensure a vehicle operates efficiently, but the effect on a car or truck's overall greenhouse gas emissions is fairly small - and it is greenhouse gases (primarily carbon dioxide) that are driving climate change.

Vehicles are still the largest source of carbon pollution in Washington. We are working to change that by making sure new cars are more efficient than old ones, supporting zero-emission vehicles and cleaner fuels, and advancing transit, ridesharing and other alternatives to single occupancy vehicles.

we expect air quality to continue to improve as older vehicles are replaced with newer, cleaner cars. Ecology will continue to monitor air quality conditions throughout Washington. If we see any reasons for concern, we will certainly take action.
Species are created on geologic timescales. Human activity is, in comparison, instantaneously destroying biological diversity. Evolution simply doesn't have enough time to adapt species to the sort of exponential changes we're seeing in their environments.
Climate Change: what do you want me to say? – FT
Your position seems to have changed - you were initially saying that safety wasn't improving, and cars of 20 years ago were safe enough. Which is patently untrue.

Now you're saying that the issue is that car weights have increased.

That's a different argument - and the links that you cite aren't making the exact point that you are - the 1000lbs/47% figure may well be true, but that's a difference over 30 years, and both papers are actually talking about inequality between colliding vehicles.

The tendency to drive SUVs is an issue, for sure, and if you're in a little car then you don't want to have an accident with a large one where there is a physical incompatibility, but like all things it has become an arms race - I wouldn't want to be in a small car of yesteryear on the roads today because everything modern is bigger - so it's no wonder that people are driving them, as no-one wants to be in the small vehicle that will come off worst in an accident.

Your last few fatalities you witnessed are tragic, but anecdotal. I've seen many situations where people have walked away from accidents that would have killed them 20 years ago - indeed a couple of weeks ago I witnessed a car get T-boned by a good vehicle on an A-road in the UK, and everyone got out and walked away - that certainly wouldn't have happened 20 or more years ago. The statistics for fatalities in the UK (the only country I have checked) don't align with your statement that lethality is rising - it isn't in the UK.
"Someone passed a bad law once, therefore all laws are bad."

Guess we don't need food safety laws anymore, prohibition was bad!

Surely you can understand the difference between prohibition and consumer-protection laws? They aren't even like, the same field of laws.
>psychedelics

Every "epiphany" that someone has told me they had while on psychedelics has been something that easily could have been come up with a bit of quite time and thought.

I have never heard a single story that blew me away or offered anything but mundane "insights" that easily could be gotten other ways.

Its time for the "psychedelics" people to come clean and just admit they are simply getting high.
Regulations that don’t achieve anything create a massive drag on innovation and commerce. Every regulation is a compliance check that needs to be paid for, a lawyer that needs to be hired, etc. which advantages incumbents.

It’s like lines of code in a program — each one makes the application worse, so each one should have a purpose that it achieves.
For the 1) you just don't commit data in the blockchain itself. You can commit an ID that points to external data and drop these external data if requested. This clearly looks like an anti-pattern but putting personal data in an immutable data structure is an anti-pattern too, since those data don't belong to you.

What if a bank put the gold of their customers in a concrete pillar instead of a vault? Fuck the back, I guess. I don't see why not.
By that logic, capitalism leads to a necessity of murdering your business rivals for the sake of realizing growth.
The worst remote experience I've had was when leadership was not bought-in.

A butts-in-seats manager or VPE or whatever can really ruin it. The lack of trust is really toxic.
Doesn't the "LLVM Exceptions" part of the license take care of the patent issue you mention?

"[...] if a court of competent jurisdiction determines that the patent provision (Section 3), [...] conflicts with the conditions of the GPLv2, you may retroactively and prospectively choose to deem waived or otherwise exclude such Section(s) of the License [...]"

Source: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/master/llvm/LICENS...
Honestly this is a good move, I just have a quick question:

Does anyone anywhere have video footage of a Rivian actually being driven? Like, not in a commercial, someone genuinely driving it. I just want to know if they are anywhere close to having a production vehicle. If they have a single production vehicle that does what they say, then OK they "just" have to figure out scaling up the manufacturing.

If they don't have a single vehicle, they are years and years away, to the point that Tesla truck may beat them to mass market.

They have great marketing though.
Thanks for sharing, that was a great story.

A photographer friend shared with me a long time ago very similar advice to get better shots: location, timing, make the subject wear red, and push the shutter button more.

You can't frame what you didn't take.
I'm currently rewriting a legacy application to use Pointer Events + pepjs polyfill. Your experiences don't align super well with mine. I'm curious as to why.

What does vdom diffing / dynamic page content have to do with using pointer/touch/mouse events?

If anything, the last scenario you describe sounds like it would be mitigated by use of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/set... which is only available to PointerEvent implementations?
"With no occlusion, the flat-panel collector is more efficient than the spherical-surface collector by a factor of more than 2."

"Considering the occlusion factor, the spherical-surface collector can be the better choice in certain situations"
There needs to be some way to identify non-humans and/or malicious actors.
It also applies to sites not in the Union if their processing activities are related to "the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union". (Article 3 section 2(b)).

Unlike the target/sell case, this doesn't seem to require intent to specifically deal with Europeans.

If you aren't sure that what you do doesn't count as monitoring behavior, then blocking can make sense.
Paypal also came out and said they will no longer refund seller fees when a customer is refunded. Before, they used to just keep the $0.30, but now they will keep the 2.9% as well. More the reason to switch to a new processor like Stripe.
Where I come from it's just called "government".

That not every public sector worker is replaced every four years is quite ok, it's how things continue to function over time.

If you use the phrase "deep state" to describe "functioning government" you are adopting the language of nutjobs and either are one or deserve to be called out as such.
That isn't a data migration, that's a release.
I think middle managers seem to get burnt out more easily than their employees, at least in the software industry.