skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CCPA is no doubt inferior to GDPR for that very reason. But to keep things in perspective, CCPA was only passed as a compromise because Alastair Mactaggart, a rich real estate developer, forced their hand by threatening to make it a ballot initiative. It's unlikely that California would have led on this issue without the threat of a referendum.

Fortunately he's back at it again with a new ballot initiative, which he's funding himself, to improve on CCPA [1]:

>Mr. Mactaggart said his 2020 state ballot initiative, among other things, would create a state enforcement agency, limit targeted advertisements based on geolocation and add items covered by the “negligent data breach” section, which would allow consumers to pursue legal action in more instances of a hack.

>Most significantly, Mr. Mactaggart said, his new effort would make it harder to adjust the current law any further. The initiative includes a “purpose and intent” section that requires any amendment to the law to be in the service of protecting consumers’ rights to privacy, a legally binding clause that Mr. Mactaggart said would prevent industry from chipping away at the measure.

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>The lobbying against Mr. Mactaggart’s earlier initiative kept it from the ballot in 2018, and legislators instead passed the privacy law. “It was the right thing to do because there was no guarantee at the ballot box,” Mr. Mactaggart said of his agreement to drop his measure. “Now, it’s different because we have the law.”

>Mr. Mactaggart said he would do whatever it takes to pass his initiative next year, including spending millions of his own money. He bankrolled his last campaign almost entirely himself, spending more than $3 million. Mr. Mactaggart will have to collect more than 623,000 signatures for his new initiative to qualify for the ballot. A survey in October by Goodwin Simon Strategic Research of 777 registered voters in California found that most supported Mr. Mactaggart’s initiative.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/activist-behind-californias-new...
Not if you define democracy as rule that occurs within a framework of fundamental human rights.

The Swiss were denying women the vote in federal elections until the early 1970s.

And that's the problem with 'tyranny of the masses' - popular isn't the measure of good, just or rational.
Might be interesting to add the Ouster sensor to our sensor simulation [1] to give people the ability to play around with the data even if it's outside the price range?

[1] blensor.org
A dogwhistle is where the vast majority of people perceive something as innocuous (or don't notice it at all) and only those with the appropriately sensitive ears can pick up the real meaning.
The original title (before it was changed) included the word "shafted".
> Ring is reducing the overhead of asking somewhat, but they're not enabling mass surveillance or building AI systems that track suspicious people across multiple ring devices.

It really looks to me like this is exactly what they're building.
>> They don’t complain about business constraints and they put out stellar work.

> Given the above, humans will also factor in the moral and ethical side of what they are doing. And they can, will and should criticize those business constraints if those don't align with what they feel is "good" or "morally sound".

My thought after reading the article was that the author seemed to consider writing good code, maintainable code, and having a strategy prioritizing long term over short term needs as moral imperatives. Or at least the words and terms used were ones I often hear and use when discussing ethics and morals.

Which made me think, do many engineers consider these things as ethical decisions, rather than just business choices?

Personally I enjoy being involved in strategic decisions, both providing input and opinion - but I also see the value in adhering to a strategy once decided even if it isn’t the one I’d advocate for if it was up for discussion. For ethical decisions I’d reason differently - it’s not ok to break laws or destroy lives (etc etc) just because a business decision said so.
But didn’t you read it? They don’t really mean it! Orange man bad, you’re gonna get drafted for World War 3, be sure to get out and vote this December btw. And then when you do and we bomb the same people 3 years from now please clap for our patriotic defense of America.
This has a single moving part - a brushless motor that turns the turntable. It's rated for over 100,000 continuous hours of operation, and passes automotive shock and vibration standards.

There's a good explanation in the post about what we mean by digital lidar, but the tl;dr version is we use silicon CMOS chips for lasers and detectors vs analog components like side emitting lasers and APDs used by legacy lidar providers.

Solid state is a bit of a buzzword, and most "solid state" lidar sensors actually have small, delicate moving parts inside. Solid state sensors are aimed primarily at consumer vehicles, which are still many years away.

The benefit is (at least in theory) easier integration into the vehicle fascia and (again, in theory) higher reliability vs legacy spinning lidar, which are quite unreliable in the real world.

Ouster's digital lidar sensors are much more reliable than the legacy analog spinning lidar sensors, and much more compact - and therefore easier to integrate.
We are lucky in that we have a five foot rat snake that lives in the rocks in front of our house. I think I've seen it twice in 10 years. We have no rodents on our property.
So you want to pay someone to train them.
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IWqT5XhsDM
The Procrustean Bed of Productivity by Nat Eliason
Interesting. Outside of bombs, the most crash survivable area to sit is a middle seat in the rear third of the cabin.

Since you want the bomb behind the engines to avoid ingesting debris, you would likely have to put the bomb in this previously "more survivable" area.
Although I agree with your statement, I disagree with the bullying undertone it conveys.

I think it's high time the American people realized how shitty their rulers' foreign policy has been and that it's time to change it.
mm wave radar + sar postprocessing? Given you have a 100% static scene, it should work great
Note remote but Amazon/AWS have offices in the twin cities. Google has an office in Madison, Wisconsin. Google is also opening up an office in Rochester, MN. Whether you can work remote is another question.
And all it took was good old-fashioned lies, brainwashing, and corruption.
This looks more like a bad painting of softbank, though deals can go either way and at best softbank should do better at their own due diligence before making interest/commitment by way of term sheet and All tha
All they want is for us to not exist anymore... in their region. Influencing their lives. Influencing their politics. That’s all they have ever wanted. Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan… they just want the US to get the fuck out.

Every major problem the US has in the Middle East is self inflicted.

The “embassy” in Iraq isn’t an embassy. It a city. At 100 acres and 15,000+ personnel, it’s larger than many cities.
He was sitting there...menacingly!
And even with all that simplicity, there's enough disagreement and misinformation about the subtleties of the CHIP-8 instruction set to provide a microcosm of the same challenges emulation enthusiasts face for more complex systems.

One of my colleagues published a number of writeups about CHIP-8 portability based on original research which might be interesting: https://github.com/Chromatophore/HP48-Superchip
You are missing the point. Grow other things or something will grow. Using roundup is just making the problem worse.
I don't have anything regarding performance detail, but I wrote this detailed post about configuration.

https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/9g1nts/rsyslog_elas...
Pakistani Intelligence Storm Mohammed Hanif's Publisher's Office
I'm a bootcamp graduate who successfully inserted myself into the market and within three years (2016 - 2019) gained a senior title at a large company (~2000 employees) as a software engineer.

I attribute my success to having a computer science background from being a gigantic nerd my entire life (first code written was QBasic in 3rd grade and you KNOW I was at every lan party in high school) and luck (Had someone willing to hire me to maintain small fry websites for a year which helped my resume quite a bit although at a poopy salary).

Both my brother and I went this route after getting unrelated bachelors degrees from a large university. I think a lot of people don't become competent after these bootcamps because they just aren't technical enough to grasp the concepts at the pace they're introduced in class.

The people in my cohort have been fairly successful. Without checking I think about 50% of them have jobs as web developers now.
I'd love a service that puts me in touch (for a fee) with an engineer/someone above level 1-2 support from Google/Amazon/huge corps

When dealing with companies that are above a certain size, it takes days or weeks to get to someone that can fix issues, but if you're lucky and you have a friend that knows someone who works there he can expedite your ticket. This service would work like that, a friend that puts you in touch with people hired at big corps.

I'm aware this service would have a number of potential issues, such as how to get employees on the platform without annoying their employers, or how to prevent abuse/bribes, but if somebody find a way..
Made the mistake of suggesting a bootcamp to an unemployed relative. She passed the initial screening/interview stage but really seemed to be struggling with the prerequisite material. The bootcamp didn't seem to care and kept trying to pressure her into signing the ISA. She probably wouldn't have been able to complete a basic beginner MOOC much less an intensive 8+ hour a day bootcamp. I eventually talked her out of moving forward but it was not encouraging to see how aggressive the bootcamp wanted to admit a clearly under qualified student.
That's closely related to what I'm going for. Ultimately I'm looking to make an A.R. system that guides various house remodeling tasks, including framing and floor-leveling.
Ask HN: Thoughts on censorship resistance vs. offensive content?
Suppose someone creates a peer-to-peer distributed Youtube clone. The selling point would be that no single party would be able to kick people off the platform for publishing videos they don't like. There would also be no recommendation algorithms drawing viewers towards privileged channels (or perhaps users would select their own recommendation algorithms).

Technically I think it's solvable, but how to deal with content that "should" be taken down when there is no single controlling party?

FreeNet is a platform like that, but from their help page:

"I don't want my node to be used to harbor child porn, offensive content, or terrorism. What can I do?

This is a problem that sadly any censorship-resistance tool faces. If the capacity to remove content existed, it might only be used to remove things one finds offensive, but it could be used to remove anything. From a technological point of view one cannot have censorship-resistance with exceptions. Freenet is merely a tool that by itself doesn't do anything to promote offensive content. How people choose to use the tool is their sole responsibility."

They're saying is "it's impossible" so most people don't use FreeNet because they don't want to help child porn distributors. For the same reason, people wouldn't use a distributed Youtube. People clearly wants some moral norms/regulations/policies but not so much that it gets in the way of free speech.

Is the problem impossible to solve? What if there is no anonymity in the network? I have no idea how to solve it myself, but I'm thinking that with blockchain tech, machine learning, crowd-sourcing it could be solvable. Any thoughts are very welcome.
>Why would you trade the vibrancy of your young urban block or the sense of trust and community in your suburb against prevention of low-impact black-swan events like serial packet thiefs?

It's a big and a privileged assumption that the worse that happens in neighbours is "low-impact black-swan events like serial packet thiefs" or that otherwise they resemble a "vibrant young urban block".
Can Zig's enums and tagged unions be used to write algebraic data types?
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A Walmart source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters the company is “working through a lot of ambiguities in the law, for example, the language around loyalty programs and if retail companies can offer them going forward.”

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If loyalty programs run afoul of the law, it'll be interesting to see if this creates a plane of competition between companies that kick out or forego loyalty programs in states outside of CA as well as inside CA and companies that continue to offer loyalty programs in states outside CA.

Loyalty programs seem a mixed bag for consumers; some are actually into them, some hate them (seeing them as inefficiency that pushes labor onto the consumer).
Sure it does, that’s just how locals work (in bash and similar). Try printing it after `main` with and then without `local`.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20436692

Sometimes, it really does take 10 years to get a joke.
"the blank slate" or other texts from Stephen Pinker come to mind, though the connection to relationship insight from sociobiology is rather hazy
DEET is no pancea, and has its own issues. Protective clothing is your first defense.
If package theft is the problem, maybe the real solution is something closer to "Package Theft Insurance" than "Cloud-based Neighborhood Surveillance."
LP is short for Limited Partner
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To address crawfordcomeaux's point: Does Switzerland let you peacefully revoke your consent to be governed? No, I'm pretty sure it does not.

Does any country allow that? No.

So why pick on the US?
Limited Partner, the people who out up money in VC funds for the General Partner to invest/manage. iirc though LPs cant have an actual say in investment/strategy or else they risk losing the "Limited" status.
Exhaustive PHP 5.6 to 7.4 benchmarks across 22 different platforms
So, in other words, citizens can't verify anything. Instead, all we can do is hope that any abuse will eventually be noticed and reported by some random whistleblower somewhere.

That's hardly sufficient, and especially not with a company like Amazon.
I think you mean "brakes," as I thought you meant "breaks" like in an iterator. Not that familiar with Java though, just assuming based on the reference to a vehicle failing to brake before a turn.

I thought maybe it meant using break statements in your loops slows things down or something.
BS.

For a corporate setting that may have the resources to hire people for the potential and long term maintenance of their cogs, sure, hire "recent graduates" with zero ability to produce any value to the company.

But don't tell me that you can't find young people with little to no experience that are talented enough to run circles on any "experienced professional" and actually be useful from the start. I've done it myself more than once.
Serializing and Deserializing Clojure Fns with Nippy
If you knew the technologies/software that Fortune 2000 companies are spending the most on, you should build complementary products, or similar things that solve the same problems those products are solving?
That's a great point. Apparently gmail and fastmail, which are what I use personally, don't do this, so it's not something I came up against in my testing. I'm definitely going to need to handle that.
Best not to assume anything about battery breakthroughs - there's one reported every week.

Many companies are on the fore-front of batteries...if this chemistry is legit and available, you will know when Tesla or LG chem or one of the big players buys this groups' IP.
>>> get things shipped to work, use Amazon lockers,
>These seem like reasonable solutions. Why not just do them?

Because that's bending broken backwards to accept a broken neighbourhood and society.

Where this stops? "Drive-by's are a thing, accept it and just were a bulletproof vest, it's a sensible solution"?
I believe the deductibles on that insurance will also be much, much higher, though, than most systems in Europe.

So out of pocket expenses for the Amercian are going to be much, much higher.
How does preventing ASML from selling products to Chinese customers help it stay a world leader? A strong EU council would not block such sales.
Why would you take 60+ days? Why not go for 600+ days?

The idea of unlimited is that it's not 14 days or 21days. Take as many as you honestly reasonable need to. Everyone's life is different, you might get sick, have a sick family member, have a new child. There might be things that come up that requires you to take time off without you having to grovel to your manager. If you also need to take time off for the good times, a wedding, a party, to go see a world cup, Olympic, whatever, do so. So long as you're contributing, not holding your team and peers back and your impact is constant.

p/s. I don't work for Netflix, but that's what I imagine anytime I hear "unlimited".
I worked at Microsoft, and didn't have that experience. Maybe it changed? When were you there?
At my previous job, in a legal-tech company, we used Woleet to build a copyright protection product for intellectual property. However, I believe IPFS [1] is a superior solution for proof-of-existence, compared to timestamping on Bitcoin.

With Woleet, you must keep the original payload (file + personal identification) that was timestamped, for eternity. In the event of a copyright violation, you must be able to prove in front of a judge that hash of the file in your possession is indeed what exists on the Bitcoin blockchain.

With IPFS, you only need to save the hash of the payload (or a human-readable name, with IPNS [2]), to convince the judge that you authored the original file at a certain point in time. Additionally, IPFS has version control. This means that if you want to prove to a court that some revision to the T&Cs of your product were made before a certain date, it makes more sense to use IPFS.

[1] https://ipfs.io
[2] https://docs.ipfs.io/guides/concepts/ipns
Probably because a tube map is both familiar to many people and presents a much more restricted set of names to choose from.
I've got the map: some thoughts on gender
Almost exactly same situation with exactly same salary. I work at a bootstrapped startup.
This is exactly why campaigns push so much harder on GOTV than persuasion for the general election.
Please see if it is possible to add Bangalore as well!
It can obviously be "fixed", but the problem is that it might regress other loads that have been tuned for the current behaviour.
I would not get it for this exact reason. However to counterpoint your argument this will work for some people like my high school kids.

They stream spotify because they don't want to buy songs and after that current song is no longer popular they move on to another one and forget the first song ever existed. They play video games and when they are done they sell them and buy a new one, never wanting to revisit the old one. They spend $50 on the new game and sell it for $15ish. For that mindset of people this is a great product, along with the digital only xbox one.

I am not implying all kids or youth are like this, mine are and a bunch of their friends are. I prefer gog or a physical copy, but then again i don't buy that many games.
Scientists Say They’ve Solved Mystery of Orb in Da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’
I think this is poor translation. In Russian "Тормозить" may mean to "use brakes" when applied to a car or just "be slow" when applied to a program (or a person). "MySQL сегодня тормозит" would mean MySQL is acting slow today, not what it is using brakes. So that meme I think is best translated as "Clickhouse is never slow" or "Clickhouse never acts slow"
Just because alternative methods aren't widespread, it doesn't necessarily mean they are "more complicated", just that rely on different assumptions.

I'm really excited, for example, about "model-free" time series methods emerging from non-linear topological data analysis. Takens' embedding theorem shows that low dimensional "shadows" of high dimensional attractors can be constructed from a time series alone, and that they can reveal deep, useful facts about system a time series is part of, even if that system defies geometric modeling. These kinds of methods are radically different from conventional statistical methods.

see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrFdIz-D2yM

Previously, researchers found themselves flailing around with geometry, trying to come up with models that accurately described the dynamical nature of the systems they were studying (e.g. fish populations). A model might work well for a few years, then stop working. These topological methods cut through and get straight to the underlying relationships that drive various observables in a complex system, without relying on fickle geometric assumptions about how exactly those relationships will be expressed.
I know this may sound callous; but if they're too young to go to the park unsupervised, are they actually in your yard unsupervised; especially if you're concerned about local crime? I'm not pushing one way or another honestly, it just seems like an odd qualifier unless your yard is extremely private and maintained in a way that there are 0 hazards as well.
Very cool, thanks! Whoever is also going to try it - don't miss the -v XxY command line key to have a bigger view. Also don't waste time trying to make it work with BNE resources, just download the DOS CD from archive.org.
LP stands for Limited Partner. They are the people that actually provided the funding, but they have an arrangement where they have severely limited control (basically none) as to how the money is managed once it's part of the fund. The reason for this is because they are trusting the VC firm to actually invest their money wisely, and the VC firm needs to able to do that without constant interference from the investors.

https://www.thebusinessofvc.com/blog/limited-partners-101
> The fairness doctrine went away in 1987.

Thanks, I misread the date upon quickly glancing the article on Wikipedia (and not American / quite old enough to remember it happening in 1987...)

> Given the relative diversity of sources available today

My first issue with this claim is that it's a straw man argument. I'm arguing in favor of more moderation, not less plurality. You're presenting false dichotomy by suggesting that showing both sides of an issue gets in the way of a diversity of sources.

Now for more subtle and perhaps subjective criticism: what good is a plurality of sources if all of those are simply pushing their biased agenda hard down people's throats? From society's standpoint, there seems to be consensus that the state of news media today is worse than it was a few decades ago as far as partisanship, sensationalism, clickbaiting and alarmism go.
But you're not taking it at face value, you're evaluating the English translation, not what people are chanting (unless you do in fact speak Farsi).

Translation is not a 1:1 affair much of the time.
Two ways one could test -
1] REST client <-> Hasura <-> Phoenix
2] Phoenix-generated HTML <-> Hasura <-> Phoenix
I have sued someone for ruining some very expensive landscaping in a similar manner for the costs to remediate. It was over 60k. Sucks for them. Disrespect property at your own peril.
I once lived on a street that was incredibly badly maintained. The city informed the residents that they would be repaving the street and the residents campaigned hard for the city not to do that, for precisely the reasons you're talking about here.

Their campaign was successful, in no small measure because a poll of the residents showed 95% of them opposed the repaving, and that the local paper wrote a big story about the whole affair.