skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>if _banning the export of almonds_ would allow building another LA and SF, "does CA have enough water for its population" is not the right question to be asking.

Serious question from someone who lives on the east coast and understands little about almonds. Why doesn't this happen? Is the almond industry a particularly strong lobbying force?

I like almonds just fine, but I see them as more of a luxury food than a staple. Are the places in the world where almonds make up a significant percentage of calorie intake?

I see that the U.S. is the world's biggest exporter of almonds. Is it a thing where if we stopped exporting almonds we'd have nothing to put on the boats leaving California for China and elsewhere?
Newer cars like my accord use a camera that looks for speed limit signs. What's funny is it's not perfect and sometimes will read a random sign and tell me the speed limit is like 100mph on a 35mph road.
That's kind of the logic of a cheating spouse: "hey, if they don't know, they aren't harmed."

Or for that matter, someone who spies through a peep hole at hotel guests.

Sure, this is less serious, but I don't agree with the "what you don't know doesn't harm you" excuse. It's deceptive and wrong.
That’ll get compressed a bit too.
Unless it's your own cloud, don't trust it with the crown jewels.
What if pulling the lever has a 50 percent chance of reducing deaths, but always eliminates societal cohesion and trust?
>Also why is it safer?

Because you spend less time and less distance in the "wrong" lane.
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Doesn't Australia have "follow the traffic" rules?
Really? I think the most productive thing the industry could do is get rid of developers who drastically overvalue their own work, methods, and ideas, haughtily dismiss the value of others’ contributions out of hand, and blame everyone else for a project’s shortcomings. You can usually ID them by their persistently rolled eyes, big fish in small pond mentality, and 1.9 septillion reputation on Stack Overflow.
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What if you’re thinking too much?
Come to Houston. You better be speeding on the highway or you're in danger. When everyone is speeding, and you're doing 60mph, you're a danger to yourself and everyone around you.
The same European countries have one lane roads where horse carriages and slow old oil burning cars and trucks cause long lines of other vehicles that desperately try to pass each other and the culprit of the delay without hitting incoming cars and trucks from the reverse lane next to them, in the dark with little markings. This game of chicken leads to big speeds, and lots and lots of death. Now imagine if you are speed restricted and the car you are trying to pass wants to drive the speed limit after they see they are getting passed. You are target for any incoming vehicle because you have to spend additional time in the dangerous opposing lane. The market for removing those devices will be lucrative.
Prove it. Let's look at some data:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...

Even from 2004, when Brad Pitt was arguably less popular than in the 1990s, we can see that Tom Holland has never reached the same 'peaks' that Brad Pitt had reached. Tom Holland blew up in December 2021 (though never reaching two of Pitt's peaks), and is now down to a level of interest lower than Brad Pitt is today.

Similar for Zendaya vs. Jennifer Aniston: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...

If we average out the 2021 popularity for Zendaya/Holland, and average out the 2004 popularity for Pitt/Aniston, then Pitt/Aniston dominate.

The data is slightly tangential, and so it's not conclusive, but it basically suggests that you're mistaken.
Speaking as an Asian American, no, let's not do that.
> Nobody is forcing you to sideload anything.

Yet.

Facebook and Google were both previously caught using enterprise certificates on iOS to ship software to consumers outside the store, that would capture network traffic destined for other sites and information on what third party native applications were run.

The problem a lot of iOS users have with offering side loading is that the store, for better or worse, is serving the role of a regulatory body saying things like 'you must get consent to track the user', or 'you must allow users to delete their account and any stored information'.

Unfortunately, the EU does not appear to be planning to add regulations to protect user privacy, nor are they properly enforcing existing regulations like GDPR.

They are really just moving power around to other large corporations - e.g. letting banks use NFC without paying Apple their 0.15% Apple Pay commission, or letting Facebook track the user in ways that Apple does not allow.
Ah - that's why we added the 'root' links. You still have two steps: (1) jump to root, then (2) collapse – but it's much easier than scrolling.
"A sucker is born every minute" - Richard Nixon, 1972, China
Mosh uses AES-OCB (and has since 2011), and we found this bug when we tried to switch over to the OpenSSL implementation (away from our own ocb.cc taken from the original authors) and Launchpad ran it through our CI testsuite as part of the Mosh dev PPA build for i686 Ubuntu. (It wasn't caught by GitHub Actions because it only happens on 32-bit x86.) https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/1174 for more.

So I would say (a) OCB is widely used, at least by the ~million Mosh users on various platforms, and (b) this episode somewhat reinforces my (perhaps overweight already) paranoia about depending on other people's code or the blast radius of even well-meaning pull requests. (We really wanted to switch over to the OpenSSL implementation rather than shipping our own, in part because ours was depending on some OpenSSL AES primitives that OpenSSL recently deprecated for external users.)

Maybe one lesson here is that many people believe in the benefits of unit tests for their own code, but we're not as thorough or experienced in writing acceptance tests for our dependencies.

Mosh got lucky this time that we had pretty good tests that exercised the library enough to find this bug, and we run them as part of the package build, but it's not that farfetched to imagine that we might have users on a platform that we don't build a package for (and therefore don't run our testsuite on).
Compare with opt-out audio headphone notifications on iPhone, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211903

> Receive notifications that your volume should be turned down when you've reached the recommended 7-day audio exposure limit.

> Due to regulations and safety standards, headphone notifications can't be turned off in certain countries or regions.
The counter-argument to this is that driving a 2-ton machine capable of killing people is not a fundamental right either.

I'm not saying that this isn't a privacy overreach and I think there are other things we can do to limit speeds (road design, etc.), but I think there's a reasonable balance to be found here.
But lives will be saved, that is worth the lost in revenue.
Ending with a contextless kill count was the perfect touch. This feels almost as profound as it is silly, but I'm not sure how meta-level the profundity is. Lovely site for sure
What vpn works with this? Neither Mozilla nor mullvad could trick the bbc iplayer
Conventional wisdom is not universally accurate in this case.
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Do the 'root' links not help? More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31996519.
Good thing you're not carrying one into the car either
It won’t stop them from speeding.

“The ISA system is required to work with the driver and not to restrict his/her possibility to act in any moment during driving. The driver is always in control and can easily override the ISA system.”

https://road-safety-charter.ec.europa.eu/resources-knowledge...
Turns out I am extremely selfish.
Education should not be a business.
As stated elsewhere on this thread, the 30% isn’t entirely going to Apple’s pockets — they have costs such as App Store bandwidth costs, support costs for purchases made, and the likes.
I hope that’s not your whole pitch
We shall see this fall; the bill does not mention anonymity and desantis’ intent was pretty clear
I would get an ad vaguely implying that you have a better chance to get away with piracy, but it amazes me these ads just outright say "set your VPN to India and Netflix is cheaper".
like Turing? or they use AI to sort out the applications?
Science does not work by popular vote.
Also some things are wayyy slower on v8 compared to other engines. (I've only checked spidermonkey.) In my experience v8 is faster at running WASM and spidermonkey is faster at running optimized js (not quite asm.js but using some tricks like |0) and starting workers.
> If the only reason people use Safari today instead of another browser, is because they are forced to use Safari, even if there is a better one, isn't that kind of messed up in the first place?

The vast majority of people generally don't think a browser is 'better' outside of the chrome - tab functions, bookmark syncing, password management, etc.

IMHO when people complain about Safari, it is usually web developers who wish they could block MobileSafari and just mandate everyone use Chrome. I've certainly seen developers do that for desktop Safari (most notably Google).
I'll name one: being significantly different from the speed of surrounding cars irrespective of speed limits results in more accidents.

Differential speed kills.
Oh no, we will just limit it at the speed limit. What could be the problem with that?

No one has accepted anything, certainly not the increasing number of dead pedestrians from ever larger cars. You surely recognize the massive moral hazard.
How long ago was this? Did he get back into it later?

My school had this thing called mental math, learning to do arithmetic really fast as a large portion of my 4th or 5th grade material. I absolutely sucked at it and I lost interest in any kind of math. My dad who teaches college math for a living was very disappointed when that happened.

Around 8th grade, I started doing some plane geometry and it sort of opened up my mind in a way that's hard to explain. I remember spending a lot of evenings working my way through several geometry books and problem sets. I sort of branched out into other areas and developed enough skill to make it to national olympiads and other such competitions. I don't do math now, but I think it had a reasonable amount of influence of my eventual path through life.

Who knows, maybe he'll pick it back up again in a few years.
1. My country randomly blocks websites and services. VPN is essential.
2. Have to access some sites and services with geoIP restrictions.
3. Accessing certain sites and all which I don't want to be tracked.
4. To avoid exposing my IP.
This is awesome. I am that person ie. I know GTA map more than my real city's map.
Ugh, masks are not that bad. I literally went to a party and danced until 4AM with my friends in a N95 and it was fine. We only unmasked to do tequila shots.

If you're talking about vaccines, I have an all natural colloidal silver supplement to sell you.
If everyone's speeding, perhaps the limit isn't correct. Using 'AI' to forcibly counter societal norms is concerning.
In Texas, rice farmers also account for, to use your wording, an “idiotic” allocation of water: https://www.dailytrib.com/2022/01/05/lcra-seeks-public-comme...
Simplicity from Complexity: Emergence in Maya (2012)
I'm not aware of a "freedom to speed" under either the US Constitution or the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Speeding falls under the "expedient" category of crimes: it's been illegal this entire time, but selectively enforced for practical reasons. Nobody wants to live in a society where a sufficient number of police are chartered to universally enforce speeding laws, so this seems like a very reasonable solution.
Arkworks isn't really addressing the core of what Lurk provides. In theory, we could use Arkworks to implement a backend — but we are targeting Nova (https://github.com/microsoft/Nova), and I don't think Arkworks supports Nova currently. So the part we are building from scratch (the language itself) is at a higher level of abstraction. We like Nova's characteristics and are actively helping with aspects of its implementation so we can use it as soon as possible.
The problem with GPT-3 is it’s too agreeable. It will agree to anything and promise anything - which is not a good idea in this context, to put it mildly.
Level 20 was weird. It was a choice between letting a trolley run as normal ("emits CO2, kills 3 people in accidents over 30 years") or running it into a brick wall and decommissioning it. For some reason more people picked the latter. So, they just dislike public transit? What about the emissions and death rate when everyone switches to cars instead?

Goes to show how easily the context and exact wording of a question can sway people's opinions.
> Hacker claims to have stolen 1 bln records of Chinese citizens from police

This title is not exactly correct, yes the data involves lots of police reports, but it may come from a thirdparty, as Chinese police would often outsource data analysis job
It is called clustered index, used by MySQL. You still need different ordered index.
I think they mean the advent of sending that GPS data over a cellular modem back to some home server. Due to the advent of GDPR+CLOUD Act[0], no US company can legally own a subsidiary in the EU and collect any PII-linked data from EU citizens; in other words, the GDPR's goal is to localize all citizen data within the country's borders. With this, it'll be super easy for a country to obtain that locally-stored information for the purpose of police 'investigations' (possibly via europol/similar for cross-country intel).

This should apply to GM, Ford, Stellantis, Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid, as all of them offer some sort of app functionality for seeing the location of your car.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31853276
That's already happening: https://www.reddit.com/r/replika/
Do you have any statistics to back that claim up? E.g. loss of workforce / strain put on the healthcare system vs revenue from traffic policing.
It’s near impossible to buy a new car that doesn’t have some “smart” feature. Sadly electric is synonymous with “smart” features so it’s only going to get worse.

Things like ABS, radar controlled cruise control for distance, blind spot mirrors, auto levelling mirrors are all fine in my book, even heads up display for speed. Blind spot mirrors should be regulated as a requirement on all new vehicles.

The connected GPS’s, mobile connections, digital touch displays all seem a backwards step, especially the new thing manufacturers are doing by installing hardware but soft locking the feature until you pay extra.
Well Uber is logistics/CS company which a tech approach. I would think that makes it a tech company. Their stack is complicated and there are plenty of logistic giants who could've beaten them if only they were as tech focused.
Might need a dedicated IP for that. I had some success in the past with the Proton VPN premium/streaming option, not sure what the exact name is
> pay me reasonably as you would pay someone else who is doing the same job

The author doesn’t negotiate anything. He never explains what he does after getting an offer.

The key point that’s missing in this article is that you should not accept the first offer. Don’t decline it, either; go back and ask for more. Why isn’t this in his article? It seems really basic and fundamental to me.
After their introduction to the US markets I can see these vehicles in Texas having a near zero market share.

There are far too many long stretches of open highway with very light traffic that can easily handle speeds several tens of miles per hour over the posted speed limits. Locals and long-haulers routinely speed down these stretches, slowing down for the towns and then speeding up again once you are through.

This feature - allowing the car to manage vehicle speed, acting as a backseat driver will not only be annoying but will be a nonstarter for many people out here.

I personally will never knowingly buy a vehicle that could override any of my driving decisions in real time or that would nag me with automated messages. I am a trained practitioner of defensive driving techniques since one former employer required all drivers to take classes. I can use those skills to understand real-time highway conditions better than any pre-programmed algorithm ever will.

I don't need an algorithm to babysit me or to back seat drive for me.
Sometimes I could not use bbc.com from my mobile. By switching to VPN, it works. I don’t know why they block bbc.com in the ISP.
Ask HN: What is your experience with equity refresher grants?
I am trying to understand how to better negotiate equity grants after reading some articles that explore changes to compensation practices, so I wanted to ask the community about their experiences:

- Company stage? Seed, Series A, B, ..., D, etc.

- How was it explained to you? Terms, requirements for grant, communicated verbally or written, etc.

- If you have experience as founder, executive, or equivalent role in trying to convince the board to approve an equity refresher program, how did it go? Board member awareness of the concept, concerns, etc.

Some of the readings that spurred this question, and for context purposes:

[1, PDF] https://go.gusto.com/rs/110-WOX-868/images/An%20Entrepreneur%E2%80%99s%20Guide%20to%20Employee%20Equity.pdf

[2] https://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity
This was of great help and a fun read. Thank you for the detailed reply.
I'll give you an example. I was recently searching for an old blog post I read about a guy who installed fiber at his home. No amount of specific or vague search terms on google would yield anything but endless pages of results that were either blogspam or ISP product pages for fiber internet. Surely google doesn't think an ISP in Australia offering fiber is relevant enough to an SF resident that it should be on the second page of results.

Results get exponentially worse the more pages in you go. By page 3 the only results are ISP's. Basically if it isn't on page 1, it's just padding almost totally unrelated to what you were looking for.
I have a lot of trouble begrudging anybody anything in this, even though I don't like it. The models who own the pages can't possibly give everyone in their subscriber base what they want. The subscribers are looking for a product, and they're getting it. The comparisons some have made to infidelity or cheating seem misplaced: There's no real relationship here, except a business relationship, and expecting a random woman to shower you with attention for $50 a pop videos seems unrealistic.

The personalities described here - like Jason Rosario - don't seem like particularly pleasant people to spend a lot of time with. Their life goals and priorities are not mine. But like most porn, while it might be kinda gross, but it shouldn't be illegal or inherently subject to societal shaming (if Rosario was selling energy drinks, who would judge him the same way?).

The place for real unethical behavior, therefore, is on the margins: Taking unreasonable cuts of models' income (70%!). Negotiating different rates with different subscribers for the same video. What if a subscriber is having a genuine mental health crisis? What if they threaten to kill one of the models? Or themselves? Is Jason Rosario prepared to handle that?

None of those possibilities seem like reasons to just shut all of this down or do anything - not that I'm sure the article is advocating for that. I'm just not sure what else to do or consider in response to this phenomenon. I guess I just acknowledge it exists? I doubt the people in this story could be counted on to behave responsibly, but until they don't, I'm not sure what it matters.
I think Bathymetry is one of the layers on the map, which provides "topographical" lines in the ocean.

I agree that the layer list used to compose the map ought to be separate from the map legend.
Not at all a subtle clue that the EU is rapidly speeding towards (pun very much intended) being a totalitarian socialist police state. On the other hand, one wonders how much support stuff like this will have in the US --- because at least it seems that we have the infamous Franklin quote and at least like to talk about our freedom a lot more...
The M1903 Springfield.
... if that summary is materially accurate, then it would make the first occasion on which I would genuinely believe that rewriting a code base purely in C was a security improvement.
Things must be crashing and burning over there in California with all the driverless cars.

Or you know, cars will just go the speed limit, 10 years from now and you won't even remember your brain simulated a shitty PID controller to hit some speed number subject to your irrational whims.
> Serious question from someone who lives on the east coast and understands little about almonds. Why doesn't this happen?

$21 billion in gross revenue and 100,000 jobs in the state.

Plus, there is a risk that adopting such a ban would be found to be, for at least some affected property owners, a regulatory taking under the 5th Amendment, requiring compensation from the state for the loss imposed on top of the state costs for the reduced tax base and additional costs due to the number of people thrown out of work.
Any good documentation that talks about how big open source software manage code changes, releases cadences, given contributors from across the world.
As a former South Korean student, I'd say it's focused on standardized test but that doesn't imply rote learning. At some level of test difficulty, it starts to be more efficient to actually understand the material, because you can't memorize all possible questions.
Having worked in the localization space over a decade ago when gettext was still the industry standard I was pleased recently to use Fluent which I think is a better more modern approach:

https://projectfluent.org/

Worked well for my use case but still needs more progress to be fully featured across all supported programming languages, for example, i found some more advanced features missing in the Rust implementation. Really worth checking out.
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Yes, the alternative could be more car driving which “emits CO₂ killing 12 people over 30 years”.
Of the 520 drivers, just five considered that they were worse than average – fewer than 1%. The rest – even the truly abysmal drivers who were constantly making errors – considered themselves to be at least as good as the next person, and many thought they were a lot better. It was, essentially, a mass delusion that rendered them completely blind to their own failings [1].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200923-why-arrogance-...
The surveys he wants are an ideological witch hunt and can be seen as such from a thousand miles away.
You mentioned it, but to clarify: cars are much safer for their occupants. As a pedestrian or cyclist, I'm pink mist whether the speeding car has lane assist or not.
That number is now at 33 - their CTO responded to a reddit thread yesterday - https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/vrq829/eli...
The question regarding baby vs old people was really telling. It’s practically the argument for / against abortion. What’s strange to me is that someone would choose to kill five people who are capable of thought instead of an undeveloped human being. But I suppose that’s why we’re seeing the reversal of Roe v Wade being supported. Sigh, fuckin religion.