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I don't understand the "Patrick" thing. My confirmation name is Peter? That's the closest any of my names come to that. The 'P' in my last name is silent.

I have 2 kids.

I really don't care what your brother thinks? Sorry.
Ok to the point: 5-6 companies have made mockery of the H1B system. Let's not fix issue for suffering people who came legally as the cream of the system, are highest paid as an immigrant group, pay taxes, understand democracy because of 'those' rotten apples?
https://github.com/versionpress/versionpress might be worth checking out.

> works fine on simpler sites [...] but it is not production-ready yet
"We've already seen non-adtech companies simply shut down EU access if they don't have enough revenue. That's probably not a good thing." - Why not? I suspect we can live happily without them.
> This change only happened due to corporate pressure, and was done without considering the impact towards the open source community.

FWIW, it's worth noting that only OpenBSD has this stance, and it was brought up a few times on the mailing list. The general summary is that "every lawyer we've had look into this issue has said that OpenBSD's fears about the patent licensing clauses are FUD, and OpenBSD has provided no legal opinions to back its claims up."
> Engineering solutions to combat or circumvent Climate Change is our ONLY way forward.

I think that this perspective ignores the environmental problems inherent in a capitalist mode of production, and in fact plays into them.

I think that a political revolution could be imminent, and I would urge those concerned about the future of life on this planet to consider alternative modes of economics.
I've used FF almost exclusively for a large chunk of the aughts, so there is some familiarity left.

My main concern today is actually a matter of trust. Mozilla has had enough privacy-related debacles and questionable decisions that after each update, there is a lingering doubt in the back of my head whether I need to crawl through some settings again or worse, edit obscure config keys to keep it from doing what it shouldn't have been doing in the first place. It's the same feeling I have after a Windows update, albeit to a lesser extent.

I used to be a huge advocate for Firefox. My name is one of the many thousands of donors in their NYT ad from 2004. It pains me to say that these days, Firefox feels somewhat user hostile.

If I do find myself leaving Safari, it's merely the least-bad choice from a continuously shrinking field of options.
Referential transparency is a handy thing to think about in OOP as well as functional programming. If you provide the same parameters to a function, will you always get the same result? If yes, and if the function is 'pure', e.g. does not result in some side effect like state manipulation, you could replace the function itself with the output of that function. If so, and the function is computationally expensive, you can memoize the function, which is a specific form of caching where you auto cache the results by the parameters passed to the function.

This is a handy chain of reasoning in any language, and in a more dedicated functional language might be supported as a concept in the language itself.

Like in OOP, you don't have to have that term memorized to actually use a functional language, just remember the pattern.
An active legal tool might be as little as requiring an official claim of copyright and a related Cease and Desist to be mailed physically to them.

That would prevent the issue of domain squatters with robots.txt files in most cases, and offer the public a means of challenging such ownership requests (and freeing up the content on archive.org) if they desire.
Sure. If you think that's an argument against the definition, then perhaps you could elaborate. Also, what do you think people seem to mean by the term "deep" that isn't captured?
Equipment can't make you a good photographer. Luck and taking lots of photos sometimes can get you a good photo, but it's not reproducible.

The thing that better equipment gives you is options, and if you know how to use it, the possibility of getting photos you otherwise couldn't get (at least not a decent version of). That's it, really.

Even the most modest equipment can take a great photo - but the conditions have to be just right for that gear.
There's definitely a difference in outcomes between

1) allowing customers to opt-in to data collection by giving a them reward. In this case, the default behavior does not involve data collection

2) allowing customers to opt out of data collection by paying a penalty. In this case, the default behavior involves data collection.

People usually don't bother to opt out.
Sure, but the valley companies in the article (and their employees) wouldn't be afraid if they didn't routinely engage in human rights violations.
No is suggesting this. Population control via less breeding is always an alternative.
Governments can tax EV owners to offset the loss of fuel taxes. In many US States, the fees payed by EV owners exceed fuel taxes.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/electric-car-state...
You don’t pay US sales tax, though. You should probably be paying South Africa sales tax? You would have to if importing into the U.K. at least
Opt-out for GDPR is under 1%. Most people don't care at the moment, sadly.

However, a mass movement to opt-out would absolutely affect them. This lays the groundwork for that, and thats what they should be afraid of.
Your approach will fail for the same reason than an ethical environmental appeal does.

Enough humans who feel and fear their impending mortality are selfish and vindictive enough to obstruct change because they want to conserve whatever material comforts they have now and do not care about what happens to other people after they're dead. I would go so far as to say that some of them take a perverse pleasure in the idea of everyone else being worse off, going by the number of facially specious arguments and overtly sadistic rhetoric deployed by many self-styled 'skeptics'.
I think the complaint wasn't that the book was intuitive or not, but that it lacks actionable guidance. "Make sure to write the correct amount of documentation in a clear manner." sounds great on the surface, but doesn't actually help someone who is trying to figure out what the "correct amount of documentation" or "clear manner" actually is.
Yeah, and you know what, if I called Walmart and tried to buy half the groceries they sell to then resell to UK customers, I’d probably end up paying massive fines or even in prison. I can’t source products that don’t comply with the law, even if they are legal where I bought them. I can probably get away with it for personal use, but there isn’t free movement of goods like that.
On the flip side, the downsides of regulations don’t outweigh their utility.

We don’t scrap seatbelt and airbag regulations just because they’ve had some unintended side effects.

Regulations aren’t set in stone forever, either, and a functional legislative body can always modify and update them as their effects become more well known.

Or, well, maybe I sound too idealistic. But...I think most of us can all agree that consumer data protections are highly lacking.
“The GDPR does a lot to protect user data”

As you proceed to state absolutely nothing. Before GDPR my information was in a bunch of databases managed by other people. After GDPR my information is in the same databases managed by the same people. Except now they have legalese stating this totally fucking obvious fact.

Before GDPR if my information was hacked and used to hurt me, the business was not liable. After GDPR they still are not liable. Oh and if they violate the GDPR the state gets money, but the victims don’t. Such amazing protection of consumer data...
I was actually wondering recently if there has ever been a huge spike in, say, a new species of algae or something, that caused a large change in the atmosphere. I know that what we're doing as a species isn't "natural", and we know better and could avoid it if we really wanted to, but it still had me thinking about what kinds of things the planet has gone through before that would have been alarming at the time if someone had been around to monitor it.
> Will that be banned as well?

I sure hope so.

> Many companies, including Google would have to significantly change their pricing model if so

Good. It would be even better if they have to change their business model.
yeh, see HK, taiwan, and japan
And so the system will filter and reject them. Unless you believe everything is Office Space?
Broad wording usually has a higher risk of being ambiguous thus violating the vagueness doctrine. This is not a strictly better thing; all the efforts invested to the law can be easily invalidated by 9 justices due to the poor wording.
As a user, I want to be able to access any website online without providing them my location data (even approximate).

As a user, I want to be able to pay or donate to a company or individual without providing them my identity or location data. This is already an extremely hard thing to do because of tax laws like VAT. Please don't make it harder for me.

As an activist, I want everyone to use technology that by-default masks their physical location from websites they access. I want them to feel free not to provide their physical location to anyone online, including businesses like Facebook.

As an activist, I want the majority of popular online payment systems to avoid revealing a buyer's physical location by default, and I want users to feel free to not provide their physical location when paying for a digital product or giving money to another individual. This is already a (nearly) impossible goal because of the sheer amount of tax and money-laundering laws that need to be addressed first. Please don't make it harder.

Laws that force websites to geo-lock based on consumer location are going to be (in the long run) bad for privacy and bad for the open Internet. I don't care about what businesses do or don't want, but the strategies we use to take down advertisers and data-hungry corporations matter.

My less-charitable reading of this situation is that people are generally fine with using user-location as an indicator of jurisdiction because the laws working on that principle are primarily pro-privacy right now. If these laws were being passed in other areas, I wonder if people would be more nervous about the precedent they set.
I'm curious as to why they chose to raise $250M via VC instead of raising in the public markets? Of course there are trade offs and advantages to each, I'm just curious as to their calculus.
Every major corporation is trying to get rid of GPL. On the embedded market Linux is competing against alternatives like mbed, RTOS, Zephyr, NuttX.

In a couple of more years, we will be back to days of public domain and freeware, a subset of features free and the enticing ones all closed source.

Or running in some cloud (aka mainframe), with the only open part being the browser code, or not even that depending how WebAssembly + WebGL/WebGPU happen to evolve (depending on how Google and Apple feel like driving it).

Then the anti-GPL crowd might remember the days that they got GCC, GNU and the Linux kernel, or maybe not.

Although for many of us that deal daily with commercial software that is kind of irrelevant anyway.
I'd rather have a search engine on the app that provides me a relevant list of results.

I mean I know the capabilities are limited because the search is supposed to work offline and doesn't call home for help, but if you don't know the exact name of the app you're looking for, then the experience is a little more tedious.
When I first wrote that comment, it was at -2 after three minutes. Which is interesting because usually HN users claim they care about privacy.
This article is about new research that says the source of useful gut flora is not the vaginal canal, but is in fact from faecal matter from the mother.
There are better solutions to climate change. But access to solid sex education, free birth control, and legal and safe abortions would go far to aid in a lot of issues, over population included. It wouldn’t even require any draconian measures, just give people the tools for proper family planning.
Isn’t this just anarchism?
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You're on a web site chock-full of people whose income or dreams of wealth depends on unfettered surveillance capitalism.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
> Chicago's city hall has a retention period of zero days on its cameras.

Does it mean that they have people watching the camera, warning the street police if they find anything, but do no recording?
Daimler stops developing internal combustion engines to focus on electric cars
European here, I can help:

Yes a click counts as personal data if you can reference it back to a real person. Aggregated clicks probably wouldn't.

Selling ads based on personal data is selling your personal data. The personal data provides the value to the transaction.

Yes lots of companies may need new business models, but for the most part what I've seen is dark patterns, non compliance or wriggling to avoid any real change.

In Europe at least, it's back to the regulators to make a move.
There's no place in the world for that kind of person. Most of them have probably given up in some way and new ones are rare.
The GDPR doesn’t apply to European IPs, it applies to Europeans. It would be like a French guy showing up at the grocery store you run and now you have to obey EU regulations or be subject to massive fines. Also, half of the grocery stores in the US now flat out refuse to do business with the French, or any American expatriates. The other half make people with French accents fill out a disclaimer form before they can enter which is also somehow against EU regulations in some cases... but it’s mostly OK for now, because the law weirdly seems to only be enforced against large US multinational food chain suppliers who were able to out compete local French companies. To top it everyone thinks this was such a success that they are racing to pile on with California leading the charge.
Specifically, it comes from faecal matter that she expels during the birth.
This is the appropriate term.

The problem with using it is it has a default positive sound to it. “Civil servants” are probably working to do good, no matter the political winds.

While those in the “deep state,” these folks are agenda driven and not trying to benefit the average American.

Thus, it is hard to vilify civil servants.
Experiment with perspective, take a photo from up above your head tilted downward, or lower from the waist. Sometimes it helps to get closer to the subject to fill the frame and get some natural depth of field. Also,a cheap tripod selfie stick works wonders, esp. at night with manual exposure time. And a personal gripe, don't ever ever cut off the feet, people end up looking like cardboard cutouts.
> Because finding accounts of women who dislike his creepy sexual advances is not hard.

Sexual advances? I doubt it. Women confuse friendly behaviour with sexual intent all the time. Men do too. Friedly behaviour from ugly people is considered creepy. Most ugly people learn to not do that ... but Autistic people present a problem in this regard.

> Your argument, if it makes any sense, means that Stallman should have been kicked out long ago because he was being surrounded by enablers and yes-men who didn't provide the feedback he needed for his position.

It takes two google searches to find feminist popes who support paedophilia and incest. Let's ruin their entire careers, dreams, ambitions and piss on their graves if they are dead.
> The escrow account is held with a trust company in AnchorUSD's name,

That means the total FDIC insurance on all the money in all accounts is capped at $250K between all the users of your platform. One Bitcoin quoting at $10,288, means that at most money needed to buy 24.3 bitcoins are insured across the entire platform.
Bug in Windows Defender causes scans to fail in seconds
wow, this totally works! just played a few rounds with a friend. very little lag. thanks for making this, it's a lot of fun! here's my open game: https://openarena.live/lblplo
I am surprised to discover that wikipedia appears to not use a standard minifier on their JS, but rather they have a custom one (written in PHP) that appears to just do whitespace-style removal, which they appear to run in part of the critical path of serving (?!) rather than as an offline build step.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Architecture#R...

You can 'view source' on a page to confirm that their JS doesn't even do "safe" transformations like local variable renaming.
Duty is imposed at the country level. In my country things we make have additional duty but products we don't are not.

I would assume importing milk might trigger 50% duty but receiving a dnakit from 23andme wouldn't.
They're following in Apple's stead, I guess.
>modern scientific metaphysics has no space for "miracles," so we don't have a coherent framework in which to talk about or even remind ourselves of this profound truth.

I'm not sure that this is true. As my understanding of the world has increased, my appreciation of it has also increased, as has my sense of wonder. The term 'miracle' implies some supernatural cause, but I don't need something supernatural to understand the preciousness of the world I find myself in. Nor do I struggle finding a way to talk about this.

My own hypothesis is that the world is simply too complicated for any one person to comprehend on large scales any more, and when it comes to environmental concerns, the problem of the commons completely kicks our ass.
> That's probably not a good thing.

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.

It also means that an EU-based company can come a long and fill the void left by the former incumbent that doesn't want to play ball, which is likely good for the EU's economy.

Maybe it's not good for the US company, or for the US economy, but the EU (in theory) exists to further the interests of EU citizens.

As a California resident, if the same happens with the CCPA, I will not shed a single tear.
Are you alright, Sam?

You seem to be posting a lot of pretty hostile posts to this thread.
Five or six TVs on a bus? I live here and I've never seen that. What some busses do have is a single TV screen that shows multiple feeds - either at once or flipping between them. I've never been particularly sure of the purpose or the screen (dissuading violence?), but it is useful for seeing if there are any seats upstairs.
Depends where you're located. I don't have an aviation map handy, but Beale AFB is less than 200 miles south of Mt. Shasta, and the Air Force trains continually.
Actually, I think you're the one that's incorrect here. California can set a higher minimum wage because it's explicitly allowed to by 29 U.S. Code § 218.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/218

That's an exception that's written into the law, while federal preemption is the usual rule.
Capitalism is based on infinite growth (economists even laugh at people like Malthus who proposed otherwise) and on fungibility of values (money is green no matter where from). This basically leads to a necessity of destroying nature for the sake of realizing economic growth. We need at least start to take seriously the fact that, the way capitalist economy is conducted, there is no way forward to save the environment.
Precisely :)
Ask HN: Cons of Being on a Remote/Distributed Team?
I know there are plenty of benefits of working remote such as flexibility. I would love to know about some of the issues you face and how you/your company works to address them.
Who needs Google when you got China watching your every move?
Don't wait on a consensus solution because it's difficult and slow to establish consensus and it's easy for malicious actors to frustrate. Get together with like-minded friends and engage in direct action against environmental criminals that will draw public attention to their malfeasance.
Biology is a lot cooler to the geek crowd when you reframe it as the study of (natural) self-replicators.
I agree with you that the world is precious. I also agree with someone else in this comments section that quotes someone saying the world and the life within is precious regardless of what we can extract from it.

However, this puzzles me:

> Psychedelics seem like one promising avenue. Perhaps they will help give us the inspiration to fill in this tragic blindspot.

Why? What do psychedelics have to do with anything? I'm not religious and I'm not about to try psychedelics either, and still I'm filled with awe at the world and want nature to continue existing. I find a lot of natural places breathtaking. I stare at a starry night's sky -- something increasingly difficult because of light pollution -- and I'm awed at the vastness and beauty of the cosmos. It's hard to describe the feeling, but anyone who's felt it knows what I'm talking about.

I still don't believe in any gods or need any kind of psychedelics.
As long as Huawei continues to ship phones with locked bootloaders that can't be unlocked, that is simply not going to happen.

https://www.xda-developers.com/xda-huawei-decision-stop-boot...

https://www.xda-developers.com/huawei-mate-30-google-play-st...

You won't be able to root Huawei phones, much less customize the stock OS to any meaningful extent. You also won't be able to change the OS (to something like LineageOS).
What is "the size of two 14 KB bursts of Internet packets"? MTU is 1500 bytes before overheard. How did they get 14 KB? What significance does that have? And what is "burst"?
True, but I didn't mean to say revenue was completely immune to the same manipulation - Microsoft was notorious for deferring windows revenue to show QoQ growth stability in the 90's, like you're eluding to. Still, there are fewer levers to manipulate revenue than profits, and I'd have more faith in that for AirBnB than profits.
Obligatory Community reference:
https://youtu.be/VxxYqE4Gil8
There should be an alternative to both extremes - complete mutability and complete immutability.
What is ordinary about them is a better question. The burden of proof is absolutely in your ballpark here.

Can you prove these aren't just crackpot theories? Do you have any primary sources or tangible evidence to support your claims?
> - Consumers can opt out of their data being sold, and businesses can’t retaliate by changing the price or level of service.

If you're ad dependent, would this basically mean you have to give your service to this user for free after this?