skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it? Because if a consumer protection is a trade restriction, would requiring electric devices to be insulated so they don't electrocute the user be a 'trade restriction' as well?
Strangely enough, I was just compiling a list of "good things that happened this decade" in an adjoining window for a different purpose. Here's what I got so far:

Cheap solar energy

Electric cars

CRISPR gene editing

Real world machine learning applications

Commercial space vehicles

Ebola vaccine

Heightened public awareness of: plastics, climate change, inequality, sexual harrassment

We fixed the Ozone hole

Extreme poverty down by half

Higgs boson and gravitational waves discovered
The first sentence of the piece says that "Any point source which spreads its influence equally in all directions without a limit to its range will obey the inverse square law."

A laser beam has a direction, as such doesn't spread its influence equally in all directions.
For Women in Kabul, ‘It Is Just Me and the Water’
Sorry, I must have had Christmas confused with Halloween, because DEC 25 = OCT 031. I only wish Gelernter was as afraid being known for patent trolling, denying global warming and evolution, and promoting intelligent design, as protomyth was afraid of being asked to justify his bizarre argument attempting to whitewash Gelertner's reputation by citing the Covington kids. ;)
The Aesthetically Ideal Position of the Nipple–Areola Complex on the Breast
The app was $2.99 so I am not sure there will be any court cases for breach of contract. Just public shame.
Citymapper has more features, some of which Google Maps has actually copied.

They still have some more unique features. I'm not sure which of the following have now made it to Google Maps but here are my favorites:

* Recommendations for routes that involve combining bike sharing with transit. (They call it multimodal labs)

* Commute alerts in case of disruptions.

* Map with all the transit features nearby.

* Shows car sharing options as well (such as Zipcar), in addition to Uber / Lyft of course.

* If you start a "Go" trip you get notifications on which station to get off at. On android it also works great with a smartwatch (full support for Android Wear).
"Today's news in 5 minutes - China and its artificial sun"
Neat, thanks! I can't use it unfortunately (the little Perl I still write targets 5.8 on ancient CentOS, but that's not the language's fault).

Good to see it still evolving!
your browser will refuse to send the xhr post when the preflight options request does not allow it with CORS headers.
Show HN: Charitius, global charity search engine
Now I think of it, of course they used switching relays in the 1960s. But...I am astonished that they worked in such a high-vibration (and extreme temperature) environment.

The entire enterprise remains incredible, and the more I learn about it the more incredible it seems.
Honestly I think you would find thousands of volunteers to do space exploration with a much higher risk than we are willing to entertain today.

I sometimes wonder just how much we are handicapping ourselves as a civilisation with the risk averseness we take to some tasks while being pretty blase about others where the reward is nowhere near as high.
> I’m sorry, but no matter what you think storing all unindexed columns as binary is very, very weird

You may be surprised to learn that several very large and well-known social networks use this technique -- serializing unindexed columns into a blob (typically compressed at some level) -- for their core product tables. It's not really that "weird", if you consider that literally tens of thousands of engineers work at companies doing this.

Conceptually it's exactly equivalent the same technique as putting all unindexed columns in a single JSON or HSTORE column. Newer companies use those; older companies tend to have something more homegrown, but ultimately equivalent, typically wrapped by a data access service which handles the deserialization automatically.

This technique is especially advantageous if you have a huge number of flexible fields per row, and many of those fields are often missing / default / zero value, and the storage scheme permits just omitting such fields/values entirely. Multiplied by trillions of rows, that results in serious cost savings.
I've automated everything except paying bills and credit card payement: I like feeling that money going away.
I forget the article but someone had the genius idea of turning on email notifications for all their accounts and scraping the emails instead of dealing with aggregators.
I think this makes sense. Why do homeless people need to live in expensive cities where housing is scarce? It's better for NYC housing to be occupied by people working in NYC and their families.
I didn't make it past the first paragraph because I really can't stand the worst logic flaw in web performance being turned into a worldview. Hiding glaring flaws behind averages by just trying to overwhelm the average with a much higher volume of "good" traffic.

If poverty is an error, then a 60% error rate on 1 billion requests and a 10% error rate on 6 billion requests is the exact same thing for those people.
I think 'swapping' isn't quite the same (it implies whole teams being swapped, rather than members), but I agree that something like "swapping some members between teams" would be just as clear and less creepy.
What about The Wire? I think there's room for more nuanced portrayals, it just needs to be created by people who respect their audience.
One i saw, was a banking backend; stored blobs retrieved by accountnumber from the mainframe were passed to mid-tier servers that mounted the blobs as r/w db instances.

Sort of like piles of sqlite db's on S3
I think the app being talked about was $2.99 for the lifetime license. How does that work in your model?
I agree in principle.

> [The solution] is about good laws, enforced vigorously.

This I agree with, but I think it does have to be more than just "good laws". It has to also be a constitution, or some check on the government that is outside the "regular" powers of government to overcome.

I think of the US-style bill of rights as having the correct idea - make it clear that the government is a servant of the people, that the people have given it power over some things, but certainly not everything, and that there are some things which are completely off-limits for the government.
> Good is a moral judgement that doesn't enter the picture.

Cool, then we agree that it's fine for Apple to hire immigrants. Have a nice day.
It was 8 years ago.
You should consider keeping the unused/not yet needed annual funds in a high yield savings and do monthly transfers, excess cash in a checking account adds up. Sounds like you have a good system regardless though!
Excellent question! But your question seems to make the unfounded assumption that application programmers should be in charge of restoring crashed Actors. Instead, an Actor System should restore Actors as best it can based on recordings that it has. Applications must be made resilient against any and all kinds of inconsistencies that will pervasively arise.
Any opt-out popups anyway aren't caused by GDPR anyway, as consent is 'GDPR-kosher' only if it's explicitly opt-in.

If I take no action, accept the default conditions and don't opt out of anything, then that must be interpreted as me not granting permission to anything - there are a bunch of data use-cases that you're allowed to do without my consent, so you don't need the popups for that, but otherwise no informed explicit affirmative action means no consent.
I explicitly have to give my consent to certain processing, and my relationship as a customer is not affected if I do not give consent.

For example, I now am far more willing to consider signing up for a loyalty card, as long as they don't use my data for profiling purposes. I didn't have many cards before, but the number has grown.

Same thing applies to online shops: I am far more willing to create an account when I see that my rights are being observed, and I can eg delete my data easily.

This, of course, assumes a processor that would rather be compliant with the GDPR in its current form, rather than fight it. Facebook, for example, needs to profile, and is using an IMO ridiculous interpretation of the GDPR to weasel it out of the consent issue. Let's hope the courts do the right thing.
Open source, open data search engine.

Code here:
https://github.com/juliuszelf/global-charity-search-engine/

Some background info & core principles:

https://medium.com/proof-of-concept/join-me-in-creating-an-o...

Tech stack: Docker, Flask, Elastic Search (ES), ngnix.
Also python scripts & Makefile for downloading and transforming source files to json to upload to ES.

Love to get feedback on how to improve.
All of this is great but it doesn't change the fact that our emissions are ridiculously high and we are entering the most perilous time for humanity.
POST requests don’t necessarily trigger preflight. But now that I think about it, the DevTools protocol most likely does not accept application/x-www-form-urlencoded, so good point.
When I interviewed at CM they said they actually provide data back to Google/Apple/TfL. I guess this for analytics, but I’m unsure if they charge companies for their data. As far I know, their Pass weekly transport card is now their biggest source of income.
I haven't tested it much but I did this a while ago: https://github.com/aap/l15
Unfortunately there is no compiler (yet?) but otherwise I implemented most of what is described in the manual.
Your definition of what is great for humanity doesn’t necessarily need to be relative. You can have absolute criteria for what you consider a great decade for human dignity. Perhaps there has not yet been a great decade for human dignity.
Everything has to do with science and innovation.

What about mass surveilance, rising suicides and homelessness, or never-ending wars, among other things?
> Streamline Audits with Release Evidence

I've seen companies with overly painful audit requirements, and making the process of generating artifacts for audit as easy as possible is a great way forward. Box ticking exercises should take minimal engineering time.

My current project doesn't use gitlab, but I love the constant innovation Gitlab pushes out.
> it did change for everyone else

OP was asking for EU residents to comment on how it impacted them. This is how it impacted me. If someone else is very happy with GDPR because their country didn't implement the previous law (DPD), they should comment separately.

Edit: actually, all EU member states implemented the DPD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive#Impl...

So this is actually representative for everyone else.

> Also, the impact of a [breach] is much bigger now

Indeed, as I mentioned, the fines are higher, and that's the only change in that regard.

Note that the requirement to report data breaches to the authorities is not a GDPR thing. The Netherlands introduced a separate law for that prior to GDPR.

And the reason you can be fined for a breach is not because you had a breach. It's not a crime to become the victim of criminal activity, so that's also not new with GDPR. The reason for it resulting in a fine is that it often highlights inadequate security of personal data, which was also illegal under the previous law.
There are groups of people that believe there has been an ongoing attack by "The Communists" to destroy families, encourage 'miscegenation', reduce attachment to religion, and spread homosexual behaviour. All as part of a plot to destroy the West.
Although it would be silly to expect much better from The Spectator, this is an shockingly bad article which does little more than say “some metrics are better therefore green policies are shit”.
> If poverty is an error, then a 60% error rate on 1 billion requests and a 10% error rate on 6 billion requests is the exact same thing.

I can't conceive of the mental contortions you must have forced yourself into to conclude that a world of 600 million people, all in abject poverty, is just as good the world we live in now.
Thanks!

Unfortunately, C++ has many issues implementing Actors because of problems with regions of mutual exclusion with holes.

See the following: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3418003
I'm hoping the arrival of PSD2 in Europe early this year will finally mean we get apps that will be able to auto report as opposed to manual accounting like it has to be done today
I am pretty sure that I paid $20 at WESCON, a "conference special" but I could have dropped a bit.
Loved the read, with the exception of the anti-vaxxer/climate change denial mantra: “The majority is always wrong. The minority is rarely right.” — Henrik Ibsen
I’m a big fan of Prism https://get.prismapp.com/2Y0S3GK4C2
Ken Block eat your heart out. He should trademark an enable Block mode.
Sure, but then you're playing semantics to grandstand and detract from real achievements.
Honestly the world is awesome and there is no time I’d rather live than the present. The endless complaining and “sky is falling” stories made me unplug from the media, when I do read the news I skim over anything like that (which is usually most of it).

My wife has a coworker who has to go to therapy to deal with her generalized anxiety about the world’s issue, which went into overdrive after the Trump election. She is constantly on top of the latest NYT disaster article. Her hair has started to fall out and she’s only in her mid-30s. It’s really, really sad.
I know, people are stupid. There is no way to give our children their childhoods back, in this era of Trump, and when a child from Sweden asks him how he can do that for her he starts a cyber bullying war with her. The world is literally dying right now.
The best decade technologically and economically? Yes, no question.

But the best decade politically? Not even close. Nobody saw the resurgence of right-wing populism coming, of anti-immigrant vitriol, of rejecting the international institutions safeguarding peace, or breakdown of constitutional norms.

And with climate change on its way, I wouldn't count our chickens before they're hatched.
Those aren't good things?
it’s not really cloud cuckoo land at least in terms of the philosophy of mind. dual-aspect monism and panpsychism are serious lines of thought in philosophy.
Right? Any of those photos that they composited together into the final would've been great, or to just release them as a collection of wallpapers. Instead they took them all and rammed them together into something that looked less interesting.

This is really a good demonstration of the law of diminishing returns relative to art. Sometimes less is more. A more complicated and weird process doesn't always, and in fact very rarely, increases the value of the output work.
Get started how? As a user if SBCL or a developer?
To simplify, if you have a map of Ankh-Morpork on your wall and you put your finger on Sator Square, your finger is not in Sator Square, no matter how detailed the map is. If you moved your finger around on the map, you would not know what would happen if you moved your finger around in Ankh-Morpork, nor whether it's safe to do so, no matter how detailed the map is.
Pay yourself first.

Setup an auto transaction to move a set amount into a savings account on payday - that way at the end of the pay period when you run out of money, you've already saved how much you wanted to. If you wait till the end of the pay period to save, there will never be any left.

My trick is to increase the amount going into savings every time - just a little. Eventually you'll find the point where you're saving the most you possibly can, and you might need to back it off just a touch.

This maximizes my savings to the point where I work for a couple of years, then I can take years off and drive around the world.

Rinse, repeat.
to be fair to gp, i probably wouldn't include those in a list of the best parts of the last decade either
The sea level rising by two centimeters is not more perilous than nuclear annihilation.
But does the inverse square law hold in non-euclidean space?
> The thing I dislike the most is that they added explanations and backstory to things that just didn’t need it. Fans could wonder and theorize endlessly about things such as Yoda and his race... until now.

What explanation or backstory did they add to Yoda and his race?
Waist–Hip Ratio
Who downvotes facts?

https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/almanac/electricity_data/total_sys...

Large Hydro 10.68%

Renewables (including geothermal, solar, and wind) 31.36%

Nuclear 9%
Written by the woman who implemented the ao (add one) instruction on the Whirlwind I!
I appreciate the positivity until it comes at the snarky expense of environmentalists and ecologists.
One of the advantage of doing things the hard way as a process is also a commitment to commitment.

By deciding that the windows logo should be a studio photo they also made a statement about taking all pieces of the project seriously.

Moreover like for Google's material design, constraints are often the source of creativity.
Ok, boomer.

If you read the article it makes exactly the point that you can go to 100% renewables with keeping our current industrial level, but since you apparently don't even want to read it...

Your argument with storability of perishable goods is just laughably absurd. News flash, we now have fridges and cans and pickles.
Chinese Mass Surveillance – Snowden
I love it. I’ve submitted several GDPR data deletion requests to various companies demanding they delete my data for various reasons. Each one complied.
Summon The JSON to be translated to almost 300 languages
Hah! XMODEM still shows up in a surprising number of places. Bootloaders and stuff use it for firmware recovery, although I think we're past the era where Cisco routers used it for OS upgrades.
Welp, I've reached my free article limit from Bloomberg, so I'm working off the title alone.

Last year a spate of articles appeared about how grocery stores had bailed out of small-town/rural America, leaving maybe a Dollar General or something. For years, we've heard about telecom monopolies providing less than realistic service to small-town/rural America. Remember all the hand-wringing over a "digital divide"?

1. Isn't this just market forces at work? Since we're all free market fundamentalists, why does this bother us?
2. This is the result of deregulation, unchecked consolidation, and the populace migrating to cities. Monopolies, or even firms with a lot of monopoly power in oligopolistic markets don't have to meet every need, they just need to keep turning what they consider as an obscene profit. This strikes me as a 2nd order effect of allowing banks to consolidate.
3. Small and medium towns are losing population as well, and may be on the bubble for this sort of thing as well.
4. There's certainly an outsized amount of hand-wringing over the fate of rural America. I'm going to guess that there are urban areas with vastly greater population, that have much the same problems. Don't we usually agree that 15% of Americans are un-banked? This seems like an "electoral college" for concern about rural Americans.
> If poverty is an error, then a 60% error rate on 1 billion requests and a 10% error rate on 6 billion requests is the exact same thing.

No. They are not the same thing. Error rate does not automatically drop when requests grow. The number of errors remains the same, but the number of "good" increases, how is that "the exact same thing"?

Also, 1 billion world population was in 1800s, at that time poverty rate was 80%.
How many miles of rightwing, anti-immigrant wall have been actually constructed, though? Seems to me that a lot of people are conflating rhetoric with actual reality.
Our department once tried to buy a 200$ fiber optic cable... it took 2 engineers, a manager and a director 9 months of paperwork to request one... and in the end we never got the cable.
edited in a "for those people" to be clearer.
Careful about the milkman: https://youtu.be/lZTrb49wi3o?t=30 (scene from James Bond, The Living Daylights)

That movie was the first time I learned about "milkman" being a job. We had glass bottles that we filled ourselves at a self-service station that a farm just outside the city set up.
>Setup an auto transaction to move a set amount into a savings account on payday

Better yet, go to payroll and have them split your check, $x or x% in savings and the rest in checking. If you do it by percentage then your savings will grow in proportion to your income.
Sounds like a local squid proxy setup from the early 2000s...
Ho Ho, Oh No!  Germany Has a Santa Shortage
Indeed, and that's the point I failed to make. TC39 is rightfully concerned about not breaking the web. They are very mindful even if features that have reached stage 3 (because by this time everyone is already using them).

Browser implementors though... They take a much more callous approach.
Propoganda.
> The people who stay at CM are mostly too scared to leave

How does this happen to people? Are there really no other options or something? Are they barrel-bottom candidates on their final shot? I just can't imagine feeling like I need my employer more than it needs me.
> The average US representative represents more than 700,000 people.

That's because Congress capped the number of representatives. https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1901-1950/Th...

If they had not capped the number, we would have over 10,000 Representatives now. This would, of course cause problems, but when the house became too large to function, we should have added a third level of representation. But that would require Congress to relenquish some power, which will never happen voluntarily. Instead, Congress decided to solidify the power in the hands of the few, and to ensure that the voices of the many would be drowned out.
For an invective against environmental politics, this Spectator article somehow managed to avoid even alluding to carbon.

If you're going to say that all green types are nuts because everything is hunky dory, you have to at least put in some claim that the Earth isn't even really warming, or isn't warming as much as we thought, or that rapid warming is good. Any of them would be false, but you've at least got to try.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of this setup?
Take your meds and go back to reddit.
I like positivism. And I think given what we see in the news all the time it's important to promote good things.

But stating "best decade in human" history is really tongue in cheek. You could has well hand pick other indicators and state "end of the world signs were clear starting from 2010":

- The biggest economical power in the world, China, is now turning into 1984

- 60 % of the insect species considered extinct, and because of us

- Micro plastics everywhere

- USA general opioid addiction

- For the first time literacy, IQ and lifespan decrease in some occidental countries

- Obesity and diabetes epidemics

- Highest difference between rich and poor in centuries, while the former never paid such low taxes.

- Mass surveillance and black torture sites are now considered standard practice

- Extremism rising

- Mega corporations now have more economical power than some small countries

- Ads, ads everywhere. Comments are ads. Articles are ads. The entire internet has been sold to PR companies.

- Huge revealed scandals (panama papers, PRISM, Epstein, snowden, equifax...) ended up with no consequences for the criminals, screaming to the world that the powerful can actually do whatever they want

- Health care and justice systems in rich countries are saturated

- Jails are businesses, filled mostly with males from a few minorities.

- The population is violently divided on major political issues: Trump in the US, Brexit in the UK, Gilets Jaunes in France, Hong Kong in China...

- Privacy is at a all time low with the rise of IoT and smart speakers/cameras to complement the already omnipresent internet trackers and ubiquitous phones

- Star Wars 9