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by eminent101 2y ago
> The Go compiler is written in Go, for example! Do you know how they avoid the GC in the Go implementation of the Go compiler? If I understand correctly they need to implement the Go garbage collector in their Go implementation of the G
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by eminent101 2y ago
I found Coq in the list to be very interesting. Is anyone using Coq here for serious math or programming? What kind of problems are you solving with Coq? And I'd also like to know how different Coq and Lean are. I'm not a mathemat
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by eminent101 2y ago
Thanks! I stand corrected.
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by eminent101 2y ago
> not sure if this matters? Sure, it doesn't directly affect any practical programming tasks to matter in real life... but sometimes it's good to indulge in intellectual curiosity. It sharpens our understanding of how far a lan
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by eminent101 2y ago
> are we allowed to read/write to external storage? They did restrict the scope of their article to the standard only: "This is an argument about the specification of C, not any particular implementation." I don't thi
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by eminent101 2y ago
Fair enough! Thanks @dang!
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by eminent101 2y ago
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by eminent101 2y ago
>The authors estimated that between 2000 and 2005, the loss of vultures caused around 100,000 additional human deaths annually, resulting in more than $69bn (£53bn) per year in mortality damages or the economic costs associated with prem
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by eminent101 2y ago
I can clearly see a response from "hafida Cloudflare Team" with a green checkmark next to it.
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by eminent101 2y ago
> "Incidental inclusion" does not cover walking right up to someone and putting a camera in their face. Like, "incidental" is literally in the term. Correct! I don't see where I implied otherwise!
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by eminent101 2y ago
> If I walked up to several individuals (maybe even you) on the street with a camera and tried to take a close-up, a lot of them would object. I don't think "why not let me take it, it's already online someplace" woul
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by eminent101 2y ago
> The London→Brighton bit is only valid that day, but the Brighton→London bit is valid for 30 days. Get through the barriers at Brighton with a Brighton→Hassocks ticket. Wait, if you already have a Brighton→London return ticket, why woul
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by eminent101 3y ago
> It does, and it's a very good game, but this feels like plagiarism with how similar it is -- artwork style, mechanics, even UI is essentially identical to the GBA games "Plagiarism" does not mean what you think it means.
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by eminent101 3y ago
Is it going to send my personal data to OpenAI? Isn't that a serious problem? Does not sound like a wise thing to do, not at least without redacting all sensitive personal data from the data. Am I missing something?
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site moderators(qz.com)
29 points by eminent101 3y ago|6 comments
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by eminent101 4y ago
> I guess like many folks here i’ve sat a ton of exams over the years At the risk of sounding like a caveman I have to admit that I haven't sat a single exam in my professional life. Am I losing out on something? What benefits have
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by eminent101 4y ago
Does the computer really send requests to their server when I open dev tools? I checked and I couldn't find any request that was sent from Firefox or Chrome when I opened dev tools. Aren't they using a JavaScript based detection m
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by eminent101 4y ago
Isn't this spying on the user without user's consent? Me opening dev tools to view the source is a private activity. Is it okay to collect this kind of info and use it to block access? Are there no regulations against this?
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by eminent101 4y ago
> FWIW, I find the founder's apologies in the issue thread [0] believable. The comment thread here looks fishy enough that I am disinclined to give the benefit of doubt here.
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by eminent101 4y ago
> Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing Why has the title been editorialized to make it so much clickbait? Can you not use the simpler title from the README or About of the project? EDIT: Does this comment
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by eminent101 4y ago
Finance companies were doing distributed systems even before Internet existed. Yes, finance has a lot of numerical work but it has a lot more data pipeline work. The reason for this is to move market data from one geographical location to a
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by eminent101 4y ago
Previous related story: Tech Nation shutting down as UK government pulls key funding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34613408 (85 points, 73 comments)
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Tech Nation’s fall must not mean the end of UK’s global talent visa(cityam.com)
1 points by eminent101 4y ago|1 comments
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by eminent101 4y ago
> If a company has your livelihood, bank balance, etc by the balls Whose fault is it that people are relying on free email service (with no human support) for critical things like livelihood, bank balance, etc.? Is the provider of a free
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Ask HN: Do you read comic books?
1 points by eminent101 4y ago|2 comments
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by eminent101 4y ago
Thanks for the answer! The blog has visitors from other geographic locations (both in EU and outside EU). Those visitors also post comments with their names included in comments. Those comments are then made available on the internet. So I
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by eminent101 4y ago
Thanks! May I ask how you would handle this scenario - A blog has a commenting feature where users can type in their name (possibly full name) and a comment. There is no user registration or email address collection/verification. Any u
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by eminent101 4y ago
IP address seems to be personal data here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo... Many other articles I read also agree with above.
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by eminent101 4y ago
Because name field in a comment form is personal data in GDPR. IP address is also considered personal data in GDPR. And GDPR requires that we publish a privacy statement about how personal data is going to be stored/used/shared. I
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Ask HN: Is there a GDPR compliance privacy statement template for small blogs?
6 points by eminent101 4y ago|14 comments

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