skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had an experience when I was a hardware engineer working in a lab that had been converted from previously being a machine room (for mainframes: raised floors, closed ventilation system). I was cleaning a prototype board with trichlorotrifluoroethane (or something similar -- whatever the solvent du jour was back then). The board had the typical green FR4 or Brobimer solder mask film. While engaged in this task I saw a little green dragon emerge from the board, chuckle, then blow a small flame from its snout. The whole thing was entirely realistic. The only thing that made me realize it wasn't real is I was pretty sure dragons don't exist.
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Wouldnt ruin mine, because if everyone is just a decent human being to each other then there's no problems.

I've lived in countless apartments where the residents were the loud ones, not the vacationers.
The form of "assert" is not important. It is isomorphic with if (a>b) {exit}. The compiler can assume that thereafter a<=b. until one of them is modified.
With all due respect I think the title of the article “Ultra-efficient frequency conversion in quasi-phase-matched lithium niobate microrings” is better than the editorialised title given here.

Maybe let us debate whether or not the presented research does what the poster claims it does.
> If people don't want to serve people outside their jurisdiction, do an IP lookup as some US outlets chose to do.

Are you sure your comment you've just made comply with the law of all the 200 countries in the world?
Is this an opinion article or a legit journalism? The article clearly has a slant, but TechCrunch didn't classify it as Opinion.
Stripe is trying to capitalize for a capital intensive endeavor: Stripe Capital.

An IPO would have been one way to fund it, but likely would have involved a lot of financial scrutiny along the way, which would probably distract them from the main point of raising the funds.

A bold move which will hopefully work out for them and not overvalue the company before they attempt to go public later on.
Please allow international, independent charges/transfers. This is a huge pain point in our Stripe experience.
For this purpose, I think one doesn't need psychedelics, nor religion, nor to consider the situation slipping away from us a miracle.

You just need to go out to nature or a park, on a nice day, and realize you really want things like birds and (if you still have them) butterflies. And food, and air, and clean water, and not being underwater, and not having large swaths of continents be broiled to uninhabitable.
Wow, I would not have expected to find so many Normalites here.
If I were to guess, probably performance and battery life. They emphasized efficiency when they introduced their own compiled blacklist API for content blockers.
Your mileage may vary, but I find that extrinsic motivation is a very weak force.
Same. Older I get, the less sketchy crap I'm willing to put up with.
Already ahead of you. Moved my children (all under 10) from Austin, TX to Ithaca, NY (above 42 latitude) based on long-term climate change forecast models and detailed regional models that I ran based on what data I could gather, as well as taking feedback loops into account.

I took regional agricultural production and soil quality, active regional environmentalism, presence of higher education (Cornell), water sources, historical wildfires, and more into account. I'm hopeful that I picked a place that will give my children a less frightening future than the rest of the country, at least for a while longer.

I'm working on buying some land now to start working on some basic agricultural production and building a home designed around "edge case" risks being less edge than normal such as extreme weather, temperature, vermin, and unreliable utilities.
I've had a hard time learning lisp. I feel like I don't really know what's it's good at, or what to do with it.

To remedy that I've tried learning elisp to do some fun stuff with emacs, but usually I end up fighting/learning emacs as a system rather than lisp as a language when I do that.
It is proper to call it an exit scam. Blue Apron has lost 90% of its value since IPOing 2 years ago.

Day one investors transfered virtually all of their value to company insiders.
> One man told a deputy that they were conducting a vulnerability study and handed the deputy a piece of paper, which he described as his "get out of jail free card," containing the names and contact information for three state employees, [Dallas County Sheriff Chad Leonard] wrote.

> A police sergeant called one of the state employees, who confirmed what the men said: that this was a legitimate contract and that the men should be let go, according to the email.

> "I advised them that this building belonged to the taxpayers of Dallas County and the State had no authority to authorize a break-in of this building," Leonard wrote in the email.

> Leonard wrote that he then called the state employee to tell him his contractors had been arrested and that he didn't have the authority to authorize this.

> The state employee disagreed and asked Leonard not to tell other sheriffs, wrote Leonard, who said he responded by saying he was going to tell every sheriff.

It's not just an implication, the police just decided to arrest them anyway.
> Now app developers have a big incentive to avoid Google Play Services and run on open-source Android.

Only for applications targeting Chinese users in China, behind the GFW, which is a special kind of a market abet a large one. If a developer is not targeting that market, not using Google services is using a spoon to dig a trench.
While I think CCPA is a step in the right direction from the status quo, which is basically a free-for-all, it's still a mediocre privacy law. GDPR remains the gold standard because it's opt-in, CCPA is opt-out.

The only reason it was even passed was because some guy was going to force the issue with a ballot initiative so lawmakers scrambled to do something. If not for that, California would be the last state to pass meaningful privacy regulation.
I think we do. "Metaphysics" refers to both the branch of philosophy as well as any particular system of metaphysical beliefs. We all subconsciously (and sometimes consciously) carry around a metaphysics in the latter sense.
Thanks @pc for the last words!

I built opalang.org many years ago - introducing a mix of functional programming, strong static typing for the web, fixing the independence mismatch between client/server/db etc. in 2009, and although we were not able to make it a big success, I'm still spending all my time in this area and am convinced that there is a lot to fix.
I’ll concede to your points, except you saying that my sample size of three is insignificant because they are the only three I need to worry about personally, and so observing them personally individually react to the size of amount injected, with the additional outcome of getting the actual chicken pox due to the vaccine biases me.

Spread across millions, sure, an outlier family, but truth.
Your email address is not visible to others unless you put it in the about field along with the other text you have there.
this quora question has some good answers. Rural routes could be 150, urban routes could be as low as 5 miles but more typically around 60-80

https://www.quora.com/How-many-miles-per-day-does-a-FedEx-or...
I don't see this change breaking the examples you have given. You can always modify non-const objects. What you can't do is modify const objects through a pointer to non-const.

e.g.

((char*)"fooo")[0] = 1

is broken code but

int x = 0;
int const* y = &x;
*((int*)y) = 1;

is not.
Diana Dor's Code, and the Quest to Find Her Missing Millions
> If you engage in meaningful work, then it is impossible to get burned out for too long.

Most social workers and medical practitioners get a burnout they never recover from. All that because they cared. Your boss who doesn't care and just runs you down for profit never gets a burnout and enjoys superb quality of life.
We need a principle-based approach, sound societies can only be built with sound principles.

If I have interesting ideas, I could write a book and sell it in every country of the world. Then this product would be taxed and would need to respect the publication-related laws of that country. On the other hand, if someone reads my book and then travels across the country to hold free seminaries to teach my ideas to the masses, it is not reasonable to try to tax this value transfer, but this is exactly what governments have decided to do.

You see: values vs principles. We can have values but we need to articulate sound principles to give life to these values. What you describe are values.

And what I contend is that we already had sound principles, principles developed across decades and even centuries. The physican establishment rule is the only sound and workable principle.

What we have now is a mess encouraging anti-democratic dynamics (centralization, fingerprinting, and ironically data collection since you need to know more about consumers to know how to apply the laws), in addition preventing innovation and making business difficult.

All of this while for every non-taxed value under traditional principles, a taxable value is actually created... but for some reason nobody is interested in investigating this correlation... for example, the person holding seminaries pays a tax on the room he rents for the seminary. But government prefer to go hard on their propaganda.

If a country wants to tax the books royalty, it should focus on upping its game to attract intellectuals instead of hacking together unsustainable notions to tax "learning".

Similar things could be said for advertising company. When an advertiser
advertises in a country, it is by definition to sell a product that most of the time will be taxed into the country (and even if it doesn't, this value transfer will at the 2nd or 3rd degree lead to an activity that can be taxed).

This is why principles based on physical presence and not abstract fictions are not only sufficient and sound but they are also fair. The same is true for privacy, which are after all transactions of their own kind. If you want to regulate data, make sure people use services based in your country by creating the proper environment instead of hacking together extraterritorial laws based on wacky principles.

Just compare these new frameworks, with the readability of the physical establishment principles, that been able to accomodate even the most complex business models for centuries.

Principles should be a foundation, not something you throw out of the window as soon as you start losing to avoid confronting your difficult challenges at the cost of creating an international mess. Digital is not complex, and does not require complex regulations. Trying not to adapt to the world and not to confront your true problems is the only that is complex.
I'm not sure I fully know your stances on all of this, but Religion is not really a prerequisite for fully appreciating how beautiful yet precarious our biosphere truly is.

Engineering solutions to combat or circumvent Climate Change is our ONLY way forward. But first we need to get a critical mass of our American citizenry to be convinced we have an actual problem. Especially, in fact, a large segment of the electorate that's VERY religious and continually refuses to accept the facts about AGW.

I say Americans here because a disproportionate percentage was/is being caused by us, and because we also play a unique place in world affairs.
But, did the spraying start short time before the symptoms appeared? Or has it been going on for a long while?
In the latter case, it's not strange that they didn't make a connection initially, because "nothing changed".
In fairness, most headlines are chosen by editors and not article writers.
Sadly, our system of infrastructure funding is predicated on increasing populations and growing tax bases. A population decline would result in bankrupt cities and even worse infrastructure problems.

With a future of climate-induced migrations, we will likely face these problems anyway as people leave areas and never come back (or simply die) after "edge case" disasters strike.
But you don't.

If I am from South Africa and I buy a US product from a smaller website I don't pay South Africa sales taxes. If I buy from Amazon I would because they have offices or a physical presence.

When you buy a product from a website hosted/incorporated in a different country you are literally going into another country and buying a product under their laws. Your local taxes (national/stat wide/city wide) shouldn't matter and don't.

The same should apply for eu privacy law.
I heavily disagree that the physical establishment rule was the only sound approach. It's certainly a valid approach, but not the only sound approach.

The problem with the physical establishment rule is that it leaves the end user with no leverage to actually protect themselves or their data.

The EU and California taking a stance that you must obey their data handling rules in order to do business there is a direct result of the lack of a robust system between states and nations to give users the ability to control their own data when the company's physical establishment is in a different legal system. This approach is the most immediately practical one: I vote for the politician who is willing to enact laws that actually have teeth to regulate the use of my data.

The industry has certainly shown a lack of desire to put teeth into any sort of self-regulation. I worked in ad tech - that industry standard body (the IAB) pretended to care at best, and actively lobbied to erode privacy rights most of the time. Real privacy enforcement mechanisms that actually respected users only started to show up once the GDPR boogeyman showed up.

At the time when we were generally happy with the physical establishment rule, the set of problems we were dealing with was very different. We were more worried about individual freedom in terms of access to services and communications, not individual freedom in terms of safety from bad actors.
So far I've managed to find a perfectly acceptable alternative to every extension I was using except for Tampermonkey.
Agreed. My first thought was that you can do the exact same thing as the Haskell code in C++ using <algorithm> from the STL.

The biggest advantage I find to functional languages is they force you to write code that's more testable and modular. I now actually write almost every OOP class to have all functionality in private static methods with the public interface methods mostly only doing the work of gathering the args for the private static methods.
It is quite the achievement for just one species.
Maybe we just need to have more math training for people who want to become Computer Programmers.
People who believe in the "deep state" but aren't cranks or self-serving propagandists call it what it is: "the bureaucracy" or "the civil service".

And, oddly, it turns out to be one of the best inventions of modern government as it keeps things running in an orderly fashion in the face of leadership changes.
> Many companies have to RADICALLY change their architectures just to support these laws. And often the costs will be enormous.

Boohoo and cry me a river. Good riddance. Other companies who take care of customer data from the start will take over.

> It's government dictating the technical architecture.

No, the government doesn’t dictate technical architecture. The government dictates: be careful with personal data.
Transported by trucks that do pay road taxes
Those citations in the Wikipedia page reference a deposition given by the victim many years after the alleged crimes occurred. When asked where she went to have sex with Minsky she answers “I believe it was” Epstein’s private island. That is not a strong statement of fact. She is using language which implies there is a possibility it may have happened elsewhere.

When asked when it happened, she answers “I don’t know”. This is why I question whether she was really 17 at the time.

There is a flight record that shows Minsky and the victim were together on the same flight, when the victim was 17 years old. But there is nothing that links that flight as occurring at the same time that the victim was directed to have sex with Minksy. Given that the victim was employed by Epstein for years, and reports that she basically traveled everywhere with him at the time, it's entirely plausible that they were two separate events. The reporting that links that flight with the victim's deposition is entirely speculative.

This is my understanding of the available evidence. But it is entirely possible I am missing something. If you think so, please share.
It sounds like this means it'll have to be clearly disclosed up front as a bonus, rather than being charged after the fact as a penalty and hidden somewhere in the ToS.
Maybe something like the advertised price of the service must be the price without data collection.
Hey Andy, will this mean I can try (experimental) zig on risc-v in the near future? :))
Pelosi & Schumer have been fully complicit with their efforts to prevent timely removal of Trump. Action today, and certainly their brand of parlour politics, won't change that. Reading outside American media would give you a better sense of how much their values fall in line with the same republicans they pretend to oppose. They either aren't suited to deal with a politician who can control the media by saying racist things, or they legitimately don't have the values or will to focus on the good their roles can do.

You may be right, maybe the courts will rule that certain actions are legal or not. The fact that we're talking about this in the hypothetical is a clear indication of failure of leadership. The party is directionless and floundering. Trump is going to do just fine.
With LLVM 9, it is now possible to build the Linux kernel with no patches (for x86_64).

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=clang-li...
> Once upon a time the memes of Internet culture would suggest that "information wants to be free!" Oh, sweet halcyon days of yore!

Turns out it’s not free — it’s actually very valuable, and the cost is borne by society writ large.
Lot's of (mis)information floating around regarding CCPA. I recommend taking the time to read the actual text[1]. The text is not particularly long or dense. There has been a lot of speculation about complex compliance procedures, but the main thrust of the bill is to provide users with information about how their data is collected, who it is shared with, and the rights to prevent certain types of selling or sharing of said data. The leginfo site also includes non-partisan analysis (under the "Bill Analysis" tab) of the bill and amendments as it moves through the legislature, which is useful for getting an understanding of how specific issues are being considered and addressed. Something to consider is that bills change substantially through the amendment process, so often critiques you read are based off old versions of the text that have already been addressed.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
Ford is making a risky alternative bet. Instead of putting all their resources towards electric vehicles instead they're hedging the bet and developing both a hybrid vehicle as well as an electric one.

Either they know why the Chevy Volt failed or they're condemning themselves to failure.
The OCaml MOOC is back for a 4th edition
> I've been in crypto full time for the last 6.5 years

Do you really believe the "coins of today" are going to stand the test of time as hardware gets more powerful in the next decade?

Where do you personally see crypto in 10 years in terms of real world usecases that aren't fraud / money laundering?
> If that term just refers to veteran government workers

Because it clearly doesn't just refer to common government workers that exist across multiple administrations.

It's the massively powerful leadership groups, political cliques, that influence agencies from the DOJ to Homeland to the FBI to NSA to CIA to the Pentagon and each military branch, and so on. They hand off ideological batons and pursue agendas across decades.

One example is the Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz crew that wielded power across decades (approximately ~40 years), numerous presidencies, and various roles in and out of government. They're the Deep State personified. The Bush family was an integral part of enabling that clique although they float above it rather than swimming down in the muck where the political schemes are fleshed out (like deciding to invade Iraq and topple Saddam at some point in the future, back in 1991, as Wolfowitz & Co. did). They're able to pursue political agendas in and out of roles, through influence and connections in the government and private sector. Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were able to wait out the Clinton Presidency (which was only interested in no-fly zones and sanctions in Iraq) and then finally pursue their Iraq invasion with the friendly George W Bush admin. That's the sort of big ideological pursuit and time carry that only powerful pieces of the Deep State can successfully pull off.
Not everyone has data mining and adtech as a business model. Why should people running legit online businesses that do not involve mining data be punished for unscrupulous actors in the adtech biz?
I thought this about a year ago when they came out of stealth, however; Rivian has all the magic in their sleeves.
1: They actually did the work, the prototype trucks are rather far in development for their announcement. Seemingly they are almost R&D-complete. This is different from most other EV startups like FF or Lucid as they pretty much just showed off mockups.

2, and this is what really matters:

They got major investments from established ICE manufacturers (Huge investment from Ford) with agreements to cooperate on building the factory and making products together. This is the real barrier to entry on EV startups and they executed on it by spending years figuring out the powertrain issue and then going off and getting help by those with the institutional knowledge on manufacturing them. This is why I think they will win.

3: It's a van, a skateboard with a metal box on top, likely borrowing heavily from already developed designs. Note that the van appears largely production ready lacking all the normal concept drawing details and lacking any form of wild 'FUTURE!!' details. Boring Ford van mirrors, standard marker lights, correct size tires and rims. This is a production-ready design, not a concept-car, that likely makes use of the Ford production machine for all the little bits. Think of it like building an app with Angular or React, they know what they want to do and what they want to use other sources for.
> Saving the environment is simply saving ourselves

I wonder, though... we know, for example, that bees pollinate plants, and that we need plants to be pollinated for our survival. But if the bees die out, we can figure out another technical way to pollinate plants - it might be a pain to carry out, and we might be kicking ourselves for not saving the bees before it got to that point, but it can be done. If it comes down to a matter of survival, humans a a species will figure out a way to get what needs to be done, done. You might say that saving the birds and the insects now is the "simpler" route than replacing them, but it's starting to look like you'd be wrong, and we're not going to have any choice but figure out how to keep the human race going without them.
Objects with text on them aren't magic; we have no shortage of records of what it says.

It's very rare that contract disputes involve a serious disagreement over what the contents of a written contract were. Litigants submit their version under penalty of perjury. Mostly questions involve either verbal contracts or questions of whether additional material (specs, advertising copy) is part of the contract.