skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup agreed. I wanted to see someone spell out why they opposed this law, because it would make it obvious that they have no problems with the horribly unethical things some of these tech companies are doing.
Maybe the spraying happened at night when everyone was out of the office so nobody was none the wiser?
A beaver dams a river, flooding the shores and killing off the ecosystem. That’s natural.

A group of humans do it and it’s unnatural?
Adyen seems to have higher revenue, a faster growth rate, and stronger overall financials. By nearly double.

They're at $25b.

How is $35b justified?
I have been on a couple of remote/distributed teams and a common concern is that one misses out on the watercooler/hallway discussions happening between the employees.

We have usually gotten around this by saying - "hey , let us take this discussion over slack and may be XXX would have some good ideas to discuss".
I like to post hyperbole because it elicits interesting and insightful counterpoints like this one.

Thank you sir.

Also, to others: stop burning out from working on stupid shit.
No. John Forbs Nash did the math 40 years ago. Nothing changes until its profitable to change and it will only be profitable to change when its already to late.
The compiler will surely use a (most likely intrinsic) function with appropriate semantics in that case.
who cares. look at the numbers. continue with your life... it's not like the text claims something that isn't true
Drones must fly below 400 feet and thus are not sharing the airspace with crewed vehicles (which fly above 500 feet).
I think one thing that everyone should know with respect to climate change is how simple it is to prove that increases in co2 cause increases in temperature. You can literally put some co2 and a thermometer in a bottle and watch the temperature climb. It’s not some mysterious effect.
Practice is deliberate, though. Merely taking a ton of photos won’t make you better if you aren’t actively trying to improve. Lots of people have phones full of photos of their kids that look no different than the photos they would have taken with a 35mm point and shoot.

Most people don’t even try to frame properly, because they don’t know it’s a thing, and also because they don’t really care.
Charging different customers a different price for the same product is illegal under US law

Demonstrably untrue.

It is illegal to charge a different price based on a protected class like race or gender. But travel sites, for example, are notorious for charging different people different prices based on their GeoIP, whether they're on mobile or desktop, or Windows vs Macintosh.
There was an entire aeon of life that produced so much waste that all of the organisms drowned in their own excrement, which happened to be oxygen. Fortunately for us now.

It might be that the purpose of humans, mammals, multicellular organisms, whatever.....in the holistic sense, is no greater than theirs.
Has anyone else had a hard time with R? I felt like the fundamental data unit (forget what it’s called) didn’t have any rules. Sometimes you can index it. Sometimes you can’t. It felt strange to me.

Also I found Perl really hard because there was just too much to memorize. I couldn’t get into a flow. I like something like python (2.4 and lower) where the whole language could fit in your head after a quick read of the docs.
He said reduce, as in the numbers are to high now.

Still in?
I would counter that there value to spending time thinking about doing things in moderation, especially for those who think they do, but don't. It's a chance to shift their internal thought process such that they are a little more likely to think about that while doing their work, because they are now more familiar with it in a (second-hand) experiential sense. This is damn hard to quantify in terms of value, but it definitely greater than zero IMO.
> The entire premise of free exchange is that I give you my services in exchange for something of value of yours.

"Something" doesn't mean "anything". You can't offer your services in exchange for e.g. my body parts. Why are we willing to ban that but not our data?

> 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.

Well, no — they could charge money for them. But even this is a false dilemma; surely we can come up with at least one business model other than "charge directly for our service" and "surveil our users".
There is so much pollution that goes into making those vehicles, and all the waste from the batteries that need to be recycled every 8~10 years. This makes no sense from an environment perspective. You're better off buying older vans, that aren't so old they aren't inefficient, and just keep running those.

Plus you're talking about more growth and selling more products, which is just more waste.

We can't buy ourselves out of environmental disaster. We can't keep consuming. This feels like lipservices because for us to not destroy our planet, we actually need to buy fewer goods, that are more durable/fixable, even if they cost more. It's the opposite of what ever retailer big and small wants.
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> except if the difference is reasonably related to value provided by the consumer’s data

I think it means that if you opt out of data collection, then things like personalized recommendations will no longer work, which makes the services worse. That is a part of the service directly related to the data.
> Since the law passed, tech giants have pulled out their last card: pushing for an overarching federal bill.

>In doing so, the companies would be able to control their messaging through their extensive lobbying efforts, allowing them to push for a weaker statute that would nullify some of the provisions in California’s new privacy law. In doing so, companies wouldn’t have to spend a ton on more resources to ensure their compliance with a variety of statutes in multiple states.

Is it really that much easier to control a federal vs. state legislator?

I wonder if the idea might actually be to prevent the likely future scenario in which 50+ different privacy regulations need compliance. Setting a national standard could prevent such an outcome.

Privacy advocates should favor the state-by-state solution, though. The more difficult it is to comply with regulations, the more expensive it becomes to collect the data in the first place.

As the cost of compliance increases, the alternative of simply not collecting the data in the first place becomes more attractive.

But that itself can lead to unintended consequences. It would mean that only the biggest companies could afford the regulatory burden of collecting the data. And these are the very companies that have received the most negative attention.

All of which makes me wonder whether at some point we could see a private data settlement along the lines of the tobacco settlement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...
I was just thinking of it as a good reason to encourage harmonization of regulation.
> That explains the sparkling environmental record of the USSR and China!

If you assume that capitalism requires unchecked growth harmful to the environment, it doesn't follow that some specific alternatives to capitalism are automatically healthy for the environment. The only conclusion you can draw (if the initial proposition is true) is that if there is a healthy alternative, it's not capitalism.

By the way, some people believe China is currently practicing a form of "state capitalism" (regardless of what they call it, which by the way seems to be "socialist market economy").
Given that encyclopedias work without javascript enabled I would hope that's the case.
Adobe must have the best salespeople ever, for what people pay for Experience Manager vs what it actually does.
Busy-body, most likely racist, neighbors get upset that there are people who aren't rich enough living in their fancy pants neighborhood.

Alternatively, jealous neighbors are upset that someone has more money than them and are convinced that it must be because the tenant is basically hitler.

In other words, socially acceptable xenophobia.
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>>> Which is going to happen regardless.

It's not "happening," it's being done. By us. We can choose to stop.
Congrats on the launch Trey! I'm very excited for the future of Sparkswap and the Lightning Network ecosystem.

Shameless plug: I've built a platform that showcases apps that are powered by the Lightning Network.

Most of them are experiments with instant settlements and micropayments, but it should give you a good idea why you should care about Lightning: https://www.lapps.co
- 1:1 relationships between teammates are harder to build remotely. I've seen that countered with recurring pairing and online coffee/tea hangouts, and making time for 1:1 meetings whenever the team is together.

- communication issues escalate. The lack of small daily positive interactions make any friction-ful interactions more intense. Direct communication is my only strategy for fixing this. For example, "Hey, I don't like it when you post a ton of comments before I ask for review. I like to put up PRs before I'm 100% done so that people can see what I'm working on, but they're very much works-in-progress." rather than just stewing and being resentful of someone pointing out something I already knew and just hadn't gotten to yet.

- timezones suuuuuck. A couple hours is manageable, but working with an east coast / west coast / india team was a real problem. We have team quiet hours until noon ET / 9PT a couple days a week, so even though I'm 3 hours behind I don't feel behind when I show up for work.

- Everyone needs to be a strong and profuse written communicator. If folks aren't in the habit of proactively providing lots of context, people will get left behind and lose context for why decisions were made, and the product suffers. We're used to reading facial expressions and body language to actively gauge understanding in conversation, and it's harder to get that remotely.
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- Consumers can opt out of their data being sold, and businesses can’t retaliate by changing the price or level of service.

If the price of the service is based on the ability to sell data, how is it reasonable to disallow the business from changing the price of the service for those who opt out?

Also, how can you reconcile this with being allowed to offer financial incentives for being allowed to collect it?
They have different pricing depending on the type of storage medium (Phone/USB Drive/Regular HDD)

https://www.copiefrance.fr/images/documents/tarifs_FR_2019_0...

Looking into it, it seems to not be considered a tax as it's not collected by the government, it also states that if you are importing a drive from a country that also collects such a "tax" you should seek to be reimbursed from the exporting country and pay the "tax" to the importing country.

Their FAQ: https://www.copiefrance.fr/fr/ressources/questions-reponses
Having to choose between WooCommerce and Magento is like asking which leg you'd like to be burned off.
IMO If a method take many parameters there is a chance that this methods have too many responsibility and can be cut into two methods.
This belongs in your profile, not a post. Click your username in the upper-right corner...
That doesn't fix the problem.

Buying oil is already expensive, yet we buy too much of it.
Most people call the "deep state" government employees (or civil servants). I honestly think that people outside the Washington D.C. area don't truly understand how much the rely on the federal government...
"He" is "me" in this case, thanks for the link (and contribute some postmortems!) :-)
> I am a big time traveler.

Awesome example of a major semantic difference depending where you place a hyphen.
I found java difficult because there’s so much ecosystem behind it. And whatever IDE I was using was getting in between me and the code too much.
It's not rushed. It's agile!
The correct answer is “it’s not the law”. Or at least the way the OP described it.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
The counterargument I often hear is that janitorial work is, in the grand scheme of things, very important and yet nobody would do it if we all just did what we wanted to do.

As a veritable army of curmudgeons has pointed out, "that's why they call it 'work'".

That said, when those of us who have the privilege and opportunity to take this advice don't follow it, that's unfortunate.

The American legacy of Calvinism is that you do well by doing good, or working hard. If people work their asses off and there's no payoff at the end... if nobody 'arrives', if it's slaving away until you're old and broken...

Then what's the whole point? Why do we think we are more right than the slackers? Where's the evidence?
Yeah, it does seem like Chevys have some pretty robust engines/drivetrains, installed in some pretty lousy bodies.
I looked up the definition of externality again - you're right.

Then there are no positive externalities of fossil fuels. All of their benefits are already priced into their cost. Otherwise someone would be profiting off the arbitrage no?
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You'll probably hear a bunch of legit things in here, but the root cause is always lack of face to face communication. The proxies for this are getting better, but we have a long way to go
Any thoughts about offering this as as service? There are lots of hobbyists who have been playing around with GPT-2 text generation, and it'd be sweet if you could just fire up a simple form URL with two text snippets, two options, and it trains on feedback.
You just have to change the onboarding process to include a fee, and offer an incentive/rebate of the subscription price to match the cost to basically make it free. That way if they decide to change their mind and not give their data, you're still in the clear by removing the incentive and either charge their payment method or disable their service until they do (or reenable data sharing).

That way it feels more transparent to the end-user, and they have to make the conscious choice of either giving a bit of their data in exchance of a free service or be prepared to pay to keep their data private.
You are well on your way to having this comment pulled. Heaven forbid you cast any blame on those who are building our dark-patterned surveillance dystopia. Note, I have been told on good authority that the pay is good and the work is interesting. And that makes it okay.

Good luck!
The product is very similar to the Square Cash app. The main difference is that when you buy Bitcoin with Sparkswap, the Bitcoin goes instantly (and without paying on-chain fees) into a wallet for which you hold the private keys (rather than a company holding the keys on your behalf). And that Bitcoin is available for spending on the Lightning Network.

The downside is that you have to be comfortable being responsible for the keys, which not everyone is.
What’s with the attitude? He said he was wrong and the child comment fixed the issue. No need to castigate him.
I don't need psychedelics or religious fervor to realise and appreciate how extraordinary the likelyhood of our existence is though ^^.
It has to be expensive enough to depress consumption and/or promote more efficient use. Countries where oil is expensive have better fuel efficiency, for example.
This is one of the saddest things I've read in a long time. Birds are amazing. It's amazing to me that they are the descendants of dinosaurs and they're all around us. Their songs and plumage are beautiful to me.

> Grassland species have suffered the biggest declines by far, having lost 717 million birds. These birds have probably been decimated by modern agriculture and development.

This one I'm not totally sure is even related to climate change. I don't want to tell the person next to me to "stop trying to make a better life for yourself" so I'm not sure what the solution to this is right now.
> If you don't collect any information that's not essential to delivering content and services, there shouldn't be any problem.

That's pretty ambiguous. For example, I'm pretty sure everything Google does that can be considered against privacy can and is tied to the service they provide as features. The fact they keep a history of everywhere you went to can be used by users to recall the locations they've been too. That Google keeps one's contacts can be used in case you lose your phone and get a new one. That Google uploads your voice to their servers is to improve their speech recognition. All privacy violations can be made "essential" by tying it to a feature.
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What prevents burnout is taking care of yourself. To realize that your value in the long run is higher if you don't carve off little pieces of yourself every month to "give 110%" until there is nothing left.
Wouldn’t packages end up on your roof with a catapult and parachute approach?
That's true, but it does ignore the waste heat, which in winter months is used to warm the passenger compartment. It's one thing EVs do have working against them, though it doesn't make up for the huge efficiency gain EVs have overall.
Things have changed so much, from the app side laying out data, file system/storage side, and hardware speeds, that people are much more lazy with applications due to the environmental improvements.

I use to make lists first, then process the lists, I still do this sometimes since its faster. If you have to run a query every time, your probably doing it wrong, but for small stuff, everything is so far, I can chain gnu apps and be done. I'm not a programmer, I'm a sysadmin so mostly deal with the fixing things like auditing or fixing data on a file system. (or maybe db)
No, by basic rules of intellectual intercourse.
I like that the webshit data robbers downvote me for saying what they're doing is evil, yet if I showed any particular one what kind of information I have access to about them, just as a random private citizen interested in these things, they'd freak out and call me a creep. It's a shame what money does to people.
Well, Valve will either have to make a specific part of the store for re-selling games in France, or roll it out to all customers.

I think they'll roll it out to just France.

It's also frustrating when the legal system works so slow that competitors like Epic, Origin, et al. don't have to abide by this ruling yet.
Is it? The current extinction event seems to be faster, and we're far from done.
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Well said. I think a lot of people are drawn to Haskell because the abstractions are so well integrated. I remember reading the Prelude and muttering "wow so true" all the way. But then I got stuck when designing a first program.

OOP to me is not imperative control flow but about managing responsibilities. What does this object know, what can I ask it to do, what does it need for the job? If I look at my program at the level of for-loops I'm lost in the brush. And granted, sometimes I do miss Haskell's expressiveness in the brush.
I'm with you.

I was on a web site with several items in the shopping cart. I went to the bathroom on my way into another room of the house to get my phone to make a payment on my credit card so I could make the purchase. When I got to my phone I already had one of those abandoned cart remarketing e-mails from the company.

I went back to my computer and closed the browser tab. No sale, creeps.
Where is the Holy C edition :)
(PS. I know about his rants on ycomb)
If you can get past his rants,
some of his concepts end up pretty neat.
To experience it, just download the ~12mb
OS and run it in VM Virtual Box pretty quickly.
Choose 64bit alternative OS.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnj43x/gods-lonely-progra...
xda the website is just like any other website that will take ad money. The developers are independent and do their own thing. xda is one of those relics of the past that just has a large number of users. So you get visibility and QA for free. Other than that, replacing a forum like xda that is not ad run should not be that difficult if it weren't for the inertia.
Carbamate is an insecticide. In what insect repellent products is it combined with DEET?

And in terms of cholinesterase inhibition, there was a 2009 paper that said it was. Digging into it, it was when applied in vitro at a concentration of 20uM, which you’d need to drink hundreds of milliliters to achieve.
I could see the sound of high pitched drone motors going overhead being a pain.
> To the point that I prefer booking.com again these days. I would have never expected that to happen.

Interesting. A friend and I were looking for places this weekend and I kept posting airbnb listings, while he kept posting booking.com ones. I absolutely can't stand booking.com's website and we ended up with an airbnb one.

I can't recall many listings I avoided because of reviews. I might just be lucky, but pictures and words usually match reality
We announced a beta for this last week! You can send money to 45 countries. (We're turning this on for businesses in the US first, and we're working on more countries soon.) https://stripe.com/connect/payouts#request-invite
My one prediction for the future: drone delivery mini platforms next to windows (with 2d "barcodes" printed on top) will be the most visible sign of the 20s -- comparable to satellite dishes in the 90s
Nit pick - The "original control systems math" is Bode, Black, Nyquist.. 1930's. Cybernetics is the application of control theory (branch of mathematics) to biology; Norbert Wiener, Ashby, etc, 1950's.
I don't actually think it is faster is it? The KT event deposited a lot of meteoric material over a few decades but I was under the impression that most of the species that went extinct actually died off in the first few years (due to the sun being blocked by dust).
http://releases.llvm.org/9.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#notewo...:

”The optimizer will now convert calls to memcmp into a calls to bcmp in some circumstances. Users who are building freestanding code (not depending on the platform’s libc) without specifying -ffreestanding may need to either pass -fno-builtin-bcmp, or provide a bcmp* function.”*

So, he’s, you may have to provide it yourself. I expect you can fairly easily copy-paste it from various BSD-licensed libraries, though (example: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/libkern/b..., but be warned about that “I don't believe this is a problem since AFAIK, objects are not protected at smaller than longword boundaries”. That likely is, but may not be true on your platform)
Dang, that’s the only legacy one I use
I have to disagree with this. Nothing distracts and annoys me more than watching the bouncing Skype typing indicator and thinking my coworker is deep diving into an important topic and after three minutes of typing all I get is "yeet!"