skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting take, because my experience has generally been that there's an inexhaustible pool of tasks -- bugs that could be fixed, minor but nice-to-have features, little refactorings and code cleanups, closing stale bug reports -- in any largish codebase. Mostly these don't get done because major feature work or fixing bugs users complain about takes priority, but I've pretty much never found myself on a Friday afternoon thinking "no, there is nothing at all I could do for the moment".
Check out the book... included in the coverage of the past 200 years is coverage of the last 40.
Nice I like having persistent structures available. Then I don't have to safeguared against unintended modifications.
Why is this the "holy grail"? Seems that room temperature quantum chips are not nearly as much of a big deal as, say, room temperature superconductors. You could keep a quantum chip in a special environment since they don't have to move around or span large areas.
Yep. This law is nothing like the draconian extremes of GDPR. One can even say it's good because it weeds out the really shady businesses but allows the ad ecosystem to work.
Perchance inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21015826 ? ;)

(Mostly linking it because it also contains a few other interesting dates around climate change. Basically, the oil knew in the 1970's that global warming would be a problem, and we've suspected it to be an issue since Arrhenius at least)
It's not a requirement that services be provided for free. It's an acknowledgment that, if services can't be provided without violating basic human decency, they should not be provided at all.
I'm glad that you will happily incriminate whites as long as they are not also Jews. That can not possibly be racist.
And as someone who has lived in a building infested by Airbnbs, honestly, screw Airbnb.
It depends on whether the federal government has decided to preempt or not.

In this case I don’t think there is a national privacy law that preempts CA, but companies are lobbying now for one to be created. I think it would be a good idea, a national sales tax and a national privacy law are a natural fit for the Internet age - needing to know different laws and regulations for 50 states is only going to hurt small businesses and startups.

FTA:

> 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
Either jurisdictions will expand to include the entirety of the planet, or they will be abolished.
It's not Colt branded AR-15's most people are buying. It's the AR-15 platform that allows people to build a decent AR-15 for 300 bucks that is making them so prolific.
Is that pronounced "soo-ass"?
Without going back and digging for sources (google it yourself), existing nuclear costs about $100/Mwh. Coal is around there, too (this is round number, different sources have slight variations). Onshore wind and natural gas are currently pushing $40, and PV solar is under $60 and dropping rapidly.

Numerous nuclear plants in the US (and MANY coal plants) are being shut down before end-of-life, due to losing key customers to cheaper alternatives. It costs more to keep the plant running than to shut it down.

We have a couple of decades of data on wind consistency and variation, scaling from minutes to years - enough data to do very reliable projections on storage needs. Solar has a consistent schedule, which also helps projection, and of course we know loads. So computing just how much storage is needed is a straightforward exercise.

Tesla and other companies are stepping hard into the utility-scale storage game. It's a very exciting field because there are billions to be made. And there are billions to be made, because once costs drop below a certain line, wind/solar + storage will be cheaper than anything except fracked gas, and will take over the coal/nuclear markets as fast as it can be built.

A lot of people who are smarter with money and know the field more than you and me are expecting to make fortunes on this. That says more than any numbers I could throw at you.
Posting something wrong and waiting for people to correct it to claim how you drove the conversation to an interesting place is mostly wasting everyone's time.
You need parental permission to collect data from young people in the US anyway (see COPPA). But an age gate and asking for a credit card number are very different levels of sign up friction for a young person to try to get around.
WeWork Employees Treated to DMC Performance and Tequila After Mass Layoffs
Disclaimer: I haven't read the article. But I am working for a client that doesn't have space for all of the consultants on the project to come in to the office and this leads to wild miscommunications that lead to non-trivial delays which ultimately result in the client to ask the (local) consultants to come in to the office to talk to the staff to settle miscommunications. Setting aside the assertion that the client might need to communicate better we're all humans and misunderstandings happen. For remote workers who can't come in for a face-to-face meeting there's little chance to overcome a situation like this.

If companies were always able to communicate effectively then I might agree with the title... but this game works both ways and sometimes it's the employee/consultant/contractor who has the communication deficit which is exaggerated by remote.
EVs have much lower lifetime emissions than ICE.

I'd encourage you to read some of the great comments discussing this below
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21019030
Deconstructing an iPhone Spearphishing Attack
> The physica[l] establishment rule is the only sound and workable principle.

I don't think you can state this as fact without some justification. I think it's very debatable, and, frankly, I disagree. The physical establishment rule was borne out of practical enforcement considerations, not out of any principled approach.
There is already a price in the data collected (for FB i think $120 / year). I think making it public is a good thing. I think the law will also force facebook to offer ad free subscription plans, something people have been asking for. My bet is nobody is going to use them though.
> The earliest shareholders including a gentleman called Mortimer Zuckerman were not just their landlords AND seed investors. They also happened to own Fast Company and NY Post which were instrumental in propping up WeWork in the press before anybody knew who they were. The headlines they spun about WeWork’s valuation and ‘meteoric’ rise was basically the shareholders advertising their investments. Even Wikipedia’s page (throughout 2015 and 2016) introduced WeWork as the ‘most innovative company of 2015’, citing a Fast Company article.

Wow. It pays to own the press.
These laws may be targeted at companies that deal in advertising data relating to consumers, but the laws as written affect all of us.

Are these the right laws to regulate SaaS companies that build business software? Should a consumer be allowed to request that data about them be deleted if that data are records of legitimate business transactions? If you buy a car from a dealership, do you "own" the data in their systems about your transaction and should you be able to request its deletion?
Things get overcomplicated when we start using capital “C” words like Communism/Capitalism.

The basics are enough: unchecked greed is bad, regardless of the society / system of capital allocation and thought.
The main issue is proving compliance. Any website could, in theory, be recording information that counts as "personal data" under GDPR and CCPA without the user realizing it. What happens if a user doesn't believe you when you say you don't store or share anything? How do you prove to a regulator that you actually don't?
There are numerous examples of public inquiries failing to provide a full picture of the truth which then came out many years later, eg in Northern Ireland. There's a documentary running on the BBC right now about the Troubles featuring lots of photographs and footage that were suppressed at the time.

I don't care whether you see the point; if I wish to investigate a matter of public or historic interest, why should I be bound by your preferences?
I bought one Colt once. It ended up being a wobbly POS that I overpaid for based on the rollmark. It had that ridiculous metal block blind pinned into the lower so you couldn't install a sear or some such idea. I wasn't going to anyways, but if I was going to a milling machine would take care of it. Dumb. What it did do was make installing a decent aftermarket trigger nearly impossible. Sold it, never looked back.

The AR design is a commodity these days. Colt is and has been an also-ran in that market that had all the advantages going in and their management blew it royally time and time again. I'm sure their .gov contracts don't do any better. America is plagued with bad management in every single industry and vertical market. Horrible minds run this country.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but Colt has 'exited the civilian market' several times in the past only to 're-enter the civilian market' every time they ran out of military contracts. So don't imagine for a second that this is some great win for gun control or some kind of headwind when it is just Colt being Colt--utterly ineffective at their one job, which is to make money.

You want to know who the biggest risk is for getting guns into the wrong hands? It's not the American people, it is our own government!
Here is the correct fix for that:

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Lines starting with four spaces are for code, not for quotations. In that situation you usually really do want a horizontal scroll bar rather than line wrapping, and this breaks that for actual code. That's also why it uses a fixed width font, which makes no sense at all for quotations.

Hacker News is deliberately very light on formatting, and I prefer it that way. The only thing that needs fixing is a bit of user education not to misuse the block formatting feature. Maybe there should be a list of formatting options below the reply box, with the idea of just sticking a text annotation on quotations mentioned explicitly. (A comment preview would also be nice, mostly so you could read your comment back in a proportional-width font before you post it.)
There's no conflict.

necessarily there needs to be a way for that business to confirm your identity and link you to that data

Why would linking you to that data require confirming your identity? My password links my HN account to me and me alone, while revealing nothing about my identity.

There's no conflicting views. They're two, completely compatible aspects of the same view.

One is how much or how little data each service gets about you. The other is how much control you have over what those services do with the data they do get.

That's why technical and legislative solutions work in tandem, reducing the former (amount of data) and increasing the latter (control over data). That's also why technical solutions are preferable: there's no need to legislate control over data that services are unable to collect about you in the first place.
> “Civil servants” are probably working to do good, no matter the political winds.

"Working to do good" is an interesting phrase because it begs the question: Who's good?

Is it the citizen's good? There's not a reasonable way to approach or decide that short of elections (the ultimate form of polling), therefore whoever the citizens have elected should determine the "good."

Or alternatively, it could be their individual good and therefore irrelevant to the citizens and their wishes. In that case, riches, stability, or whatever all fit the bill but are probably counter to the "common good."

Or alternatively, it could be their agency's good and - once again - irrelevant to the citizens and their wishes. As long as the agency goes on an grows, that fits their "good" but may be counter to the "common good."

And unfortunately just declaring "we all know what good is!" doesn't apply when we take just the topics of education, healthcare policy, and the military.

Or to put it another way.. who do "civil servants" serve? If it's not the citizens, then we have a problem.
At Frame.ai, we are using both PostgreSQL and faiss (and other tools) in our stack to do several different kinds of inference tasks on semantic representations of text to help companies understand and act on customer chats, emails, and phone call transcripts.

We've frequently had the same dream of adding more native support for nearest-neighbor type queries, since that is the workhorse of so many useful techniques in the modern NLP stack.

Right now, we have lots of dense vectors stored in massive toast tables in PG. It's faster to fetch them rather than recompute them, especially since there are a number of preprocessing steps that limit what we pay attention to.

The discussion here about full text search versus semantic search is interesting. In our experience, both are highly relevant. Sometimes it's most useful for our customers to segment their conversation data by exact text matches, and other times semantic clustering is most effective. I think there's plenty of reason to offer both kinds of capabilities.
It's only really a problem on mobile
I grew up in Bloomington, the closest city in the world to Normal. I moved away before the Mitsubishi plant was built, tho.
Absolutely would love to!
Truth is, there is no crisis, because birds aren't real.[1]

[1]: https://birdsarentreal.com/pages/the-history
> This apparently isn't a popular opinion, but: this world is precious. I would even go so far as to say miraculous. Until we wake up to this fact, we will continue to ennui ourselves and this world into oblivion.

I agree. I would argue the majority of people in developed countries share this view. However, it should be pointed out that it's also a luxury to have this view. If you're currently in, come from, or ever visited a developing country; you'd realize that for many other people a major primary concern is to get enough income for basic needs. They just don't have the bandwidth to fully appreciate the world as we do.
They basically already do, considering most new console games refuse to start without a working internet connection.

I had a service outage from my ISP the other day, so I figured I'd play some offline AC:Odyssey. Imagine my surprise when it refused to launch (from the disc, no less) without a connection.
In the sense that you can recreate all the usual OOP syntax and behavior on Haskell. What people only do on practice for very limited extents, because it's not very useful to import those concepts to a language aimed at dealing with pure functions.
> I have many customers being charged in EUR, and on our end we of course get JPY.

We charge in USD, we pay for services in USD, but with Stripe we can get payouts only in our local currency. This leads to us losing twice on pointless currency conversions to the tune of 10-15% of the volume. It's been an ongoing headache for several years now and the only response from Stripe to all our asking to fix this has been that "it will be passed to the respective team."
Roku TVs can operate in a dumb mode -- during guided setup, you can opt to not connect to the network, and they won't try to connect from that point on. There are still some ads that show up occasionally on the home screen, but they're built into the OS ROM and are to encourage connecting.
Oh we can figure out what to log - and figure out how it would suck donkey balls. Just like the other "too hard" areas like the magic golden key backdoor.

It can trivially backfire to make things less secure if it is poorly defined which is generally a given. The GDPR made exfiltration easy as an account compromise - one could argue it is an acceptable trade off for transparency but the regulators must bear full responsibility for their constraints.

"We can't log sensitive customer data slowing down debugging and worsening data integrity" is one thing but now imagine "can't log customer IDs in a read only way as sensitive information" oops there goes a lot of useful auditing information as it is excluded or forced to be writeable.
Payment Card Breach Hits 8 Cities Using Vulnerable Bill Portal
Agreed. It’s been tough for us as well. We don’t monetize customer data in any way yet these regulations add real cost for us. We’re in the business software SaaS world as well, so it’s not really even our data to delete. We end up having to have a 3-way ticket between the business, the customer and us (the SaaS provider) and explain how we are deleting data from their system.
That's really stretching the meaning of "essential to delivering content and services". If I search using Google, all I want is the results. If I have Gmail, all I want is an email account. Anything else is clearly extraneous.

Edit: And they can always offer more. With clear explanation of what information they'll need to retain. And users can either accept, or decline.
Pointers to documentation of features used would be a major benefit to this reference.

The hacks (as a 30+ year sh / ksh / bash user) are indeed Very Cool.
In reading through these responses, I don't see any that correspond exactly to my experiences in four different remote roles. I'm sure the issues mentioned were legitimate issues, but I have not found them to necessarily be problems inherent in remote work. For example, I have not found there to necessarily be communication issues or problems due to lack of face-to-face interaction. Timezones can be hard, but organizations can be structured to accommodate those. I've also not had a problem brainstorming remotely with colleagues on work issues.

The one thing that I have found to be a predictor of success in each of my remote roles was whether the company was all-in on remote work. If you're one of the handful of guys for whom they tolerate remote work, you're likely to experience all the problems mentioned here. It's different if everyone's on board with remote work. And practically speaking, it's pretty unusual for a company to be all-in on remote work if the company is not 100% remote (or at least very nearly so).

For me, at least, there are essentially no cons and significant pros to remote work.
> I am supportive of massive tax increases on carbon and massive subsidies for renewables.

I've been advocating that for the last 20 years. Finally getting some traction!

It's also time to start taxing pesticides, plastics, and raw land development.
Show HN: Step-ca is a self-hosted open-source CA that supports ACME
The catapult launches the drones into the air, which then parachute the package to the location.

Real Engineering [1] and Wendover Productions [2] have really nice videos about their system currently deployed in Rwanda.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEbRVNxL44c
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnoUBfLxZz0
We just added ACME support to `step-ca`, an open source private certificate authority that I work on. ACME is the protocol that Let's Encrypt uses to automate certificate management for websites.

ACME support in `step-ca` means you can leverage existing ACME clients and libraries to get certificates from your own private certificate authority (CA). This is particularly useful for:

* Using ACME in production to issue certificates to workloads, proxies, queues, databases, etc. so you can use mutual TLS for authentication & encryption.

* Simulating Let’s Encrypt’s CA in dev & pre-production in scenarios where connecting to Let’s Encrypt’s staging server is problematic.

We're supporting the `http-01` and `dns-01` challenge types, so you should be able to get certs using any ACMEv2 client that supports one of these (most do).

* More info and examples on our blog: https://smallstep.com/blog/private-acme-server/

* step-ca is on GitHub: https://github.com/smallstep/certificates

We've been working on this for a while so we're psyched to release it and see how people use it! Let us know what you think!
That's awesome! Thanks.
I am TL Lim, PINE64 community founder. The PineTime watch using NORDIC nRF52832, thos chip has i2s output and do you thinks this SoC good enough for an open source MP3 plater just like Sansa Clip?If the answer is positive, I can pass some PineTime devkit to RockBox developer to try out, then just redesign the schematic with audio DAC plus phone amp and a suitable touch screen case. Please note that this is just an exploration, we are currently fully loaded with various projects. P/S: don't mind the PinePod name :-)
Employee dies at Facebook's Silicon Valley headquarters in apparent suicide
It's quite amusing how in a week the valuation dropped from $47B to $10B (-79%) and now it appears it may in fact be worth nothing.

Time to put an end to the ponzi schemes. We all know We is not the only company that just moves purely on bullshit.
Nice recursive definition..

The practice of programming in shell languages was well established when Bash was designed and Bash was definitely designed with that use in mind. So by your definition Bash is a "real" programming language.

Lisp on the other hand, was much more designed as a system and formal notation to reason about certain classes of logic problems.. So, Lisp is not a "real" language?
Checking in. Grew up in Decatur/Forsyth.
Hopefully driverless vehicles can make this redundant. I'd prefer quiet electric robots zipping around the streets to noisy drones in the air.

What problem is drone delivery actually solving? How often are people sitting at home and need a delivery dispatched right now. Food delivery seems to be the only compelling use case. Maybe the occasional "out of toilet paper" emergency?

Or perhaps on demand delivery becomes so easy that it changes people's behaviour to JIT all their shopping.
Arrhenius' descendant, Greta Thunberg, is leading a worldwide effort to keep global warming under 1.5 degrees. She has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as well. Maybe there will be 2 Nobels in the family.
There are a bunch of exceptions to the requirement to delete user data in the law (full text: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...), the exception for data that is collected "to enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with the expectations of the consumer based on the consumer’s relationship with the business" would probably apply in the cases you cite.
Bonding. You need to make an extra effort to get to know your remote teammates.
Check on my response :-)
> Kenneth Johnson, police commander of the Englewood district in Chicago, said that residents shouldn’t be concerned about privacy because the cameras are out in the open in public places. “This isn’t a secret. This isn’t an Orwellian ‘Big Brother,’” he told the New York Times last year.

This quote tells us Kenneth Johnson either did not read Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four or doesn't remember it well enough to talk about it.
Ubiqti makes it really simple

Basically create a new hidden ssid and make a new rout that goes nowhere

Then enter SSID and password into the tv

You can monitor that interface too
And your response isn't? And who is to say it's wrong?