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The SCOTUS has been wrong, egregiously so, many times, and this overreliance on their views amplifies the very real problem of stare decisis and the bad precedents we allow it to set, especially when people confuse dictum (commentary) with order and findings.

One of my favorite examples of this: Wickard v. Filburn
PII is an American concept, not a GDPR concept. The GDPR has a notion of personal data and it is much more expansive than PII. While merely accessing the page from the EU doesn't trigger GDPR, logging and analytics may.

I do think DPAs attempting to regulate EU external sites will be something to behold.
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How many surviving trees do you propose to get out of one seedling pod?

(Hint: their own video says a max of 300 pods every 18 minutes, then reloading and repositioning. And it can only work in daylight.)
I wish there would be more research done on the pyramids and the number 432
I think it makes sense when your activities infringe on the rights of citizens inside their borders.

It's not like the EU is saying "These activities must be abolished from the planet!"; the EU is saying "You can't do these things to our citizens without their explicit consent, and we will punish you if you do, regardless of where you host your website."
Yes. when building product (more so for consumer product) there's only two important rules, how to people find you when they are looking for the value your service/product is creating (DISTRIBUTION) and how would they know if they're currently not looking for it? (MARKETING)... everything else... features, technology etc can be solved one way or another...
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> I'm going to block access to my services to anyone based in Europe... I'm tired of governments that I don't care about expect me to follow some nonsense I have no part of under the guise of compliance.

Ever been on a plane? ... Used a cellphone outside your own borders? ... Eaten a beautifully ripened imported cheese along with a stunning imported wine?

Put your money where your mouth is: boycott all benefits of transnational cooperation and international legislation. NGOs are how a lot of the capitalism on this planet gets done. 'Compliance' is how we protect our businesses and consumers against fraud and mislabeled products.

Functionally "compliance" is a judicial equivalent of an API... All I'm reading is "Why do I gotta use Googles APIs? I wanna make my own APIs! No more API use, no matter the costs to my customers, because I'm sick of giant oligarchies demanding I comply to their demands! What are you gonna do?"

They'll stop doing business with you, that's what. And shrug about it. Your website will be replaced with one from Romania, and you'll probably develop a deep sense of irony if you feel they've infringed on your IP in any way and want to sue them... because all that stuff is based on 'compliance' too.
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Types in any modern statically-typed language should go well beyond simple "machine types" and also capture semantics. If one is representing everything with Strings and Doubles, then the type system is not being fully exploited.

Refinement types can statically capture range checks and other similar assertions. There is a project to add them to Haskell (Liquid Haskell) which is already quite useable.

Of course, static types are machine checked prior to running the program. None of your Python "types" exist until runtime, by which point it is too late. The program crashing due to an assertion failed error is logically still a crash.

We will have to agree to disagree on the roll of static types when building large systems. I have also spent over a decade working on very large codebases. The more "dynamic" a system was (late binding, reflection, string-based lookup, variants), the harder it was to statically reason about the code and avoid introducing errors. In a fast-paced business where hundreds of people are changing the same codebase daily, I do not understand how one could stay sane without static types. Python was never designed with such use-cases in mind.
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Could you please not post ideological rants to HN, regardless of how wrong someone or some publication is? It makes for lousy conversation, and HN is supposed to be for good conversation. One needn't approve of The Guardian to see this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I hope everyone is nice and busy setting up encryption, access control and timely erasure for all their server and application logs: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/gdpr-web-server-logs
Imagine you’re living in a country which allows you to sell drugs freely, then it’s clear that you can sell them in a country where they are banned. I don’t really think this is different regarding privacy. You have to obey to the law where you run your business. It’s up to you wether you change your business or leave the market.

Your argument that it’s weird that you have to “adhere to their laws” is a fallacy. Your decision to leave the market is up to you.
I assume the "one per second" figure is calculated from the total tree output, not the other way around. As in, whatever rate the drones can plant per day divided by 86,400 and rounded up to one
I feel bad posting this here but if you can wade through the terrible language there's a lot of good architecture comparative info on this page- https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/140759957/

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What's interesting that if the basic point is true (that modern human brains emerged only 100,000 - 35,000 years ago) then its amazing (and scary) how quickly things have moved from there. It wasn't that long after "relatively speaking" that the Greeks emerged, then the Romans, Egyptians, Europe, Asia, etc, and now our modern technology driven civilization.
Indeed. The idea that a country would zealously protect it's citizens' rights is practically unheard of these days, but that's what's starting to happen. GDPR is a great example, another one was Canada pushing a Right To Be Forgotten ruling worldwide as well.

It's a statement that someone's private data and intellectual property is theirs. You aren't free to steal it just because you're in another country. Google and Facebook have no divine right to people's personal data, and I am thrilled to see countries protecting their people.
>. You can get reasonably good statistics by just using a local log analyzer that does not upload your visitor's data to an analytics/ad company.

1) Has your user consented to your webserver's access logging?

2) Has your user consented to the use of access log entries about them for analytical purposes?

3) How will you delete the access log entries corresponding to a user upon request?

4) How will you provide a user with the access log entries about them upon request?

(I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice).
It is remarkable how many websites use Google fonts. I wasn't really aware until I used uBlock to disable third party fonts, and icons started disappearing on many fonts. Web designers are inadvertently enabling mass corporate surveillance by simply trying to save bandwidth on font icons.
Would anyone be interested in a simple tiny compiler ebook?
https://github.com/deepanprabhu/simple-expression-compiler

Guys, would anybody be interested to read a simple, pithy ebook, that describes fundamentals of building a simple tiny compiler in Java to begin with ? I would also take the reader through building a simple compiler themselves, step by step, using Java. The exercise simple enough that i chose is, taking a mathematical expression like 6 * 5 + 3 * ( 2 -1 ), and generating NASM assembly code, that we would compile and execute using NASM. Please give me your thoughts !
Pinker has been repeatedly criticized for his focus on combat deaths, and with good reason. The technological advances of war have shifted the balance of casualties from combatants to civilians, and increased the fat-tail risk of escalating conflicts. This is another iteration of the same.

This is my main reservation about the Better Angels thesis: we may be replacing regular threats of (relatively)limited scope with existential threats. It seems like we are building a complex ratchet mechanism made up of entangled components. Many of these threats don't actually disappear, but are held in abeyance by continual technological progress, resource substitution, or our own fears of upsetting the ratchet.

I think Pinkerian thought is strong when it argues that we are currently in a much better time than, say, the Plagues of Justinian, where war, disease, and famine affected a huge part of the western hemisphere. But I wonder if our present condition is more fragile than our large population and social/technological advancement would lead us to believe.
Previously, human groups were like two separate containers, one containing coffee and one containing milk. Now, through technological advancements and many other developments, they have been brought together into a single cup. The laws of physics demand that the two liquids in the cup combine into a homogeneous mixture.

This is an imperfect metaphor -- in reality, the separate containers have only been partially brought together, and human individuals are more complex than beverage molecules. But I think the idea expresses noteworthy amounts of truth.
The US did audits and actually issued 20000 + 2000 Fitbits at minimum in trial programs.

Strava is the least of their problems. Despite all news articles in the last day I didn't come a cross a single previously unknown site mentioned in any of the stories. All those "experts" did, was showing known locations with a novelty overlay.

The heatmap is the graphic and interactive part that makes the story digestable, but there is no actual hard news in there. The story usually then shifts to being able to track users across bases, which is nothing exclusive to strava and mostly speculative when it comes to discovering actually secret deployments.

In the case of HMNB Clyde, that place also exists on instagram, which I find way more discerning, since by default geo-located pictures are even less obvious than a share my GPS-Track of my sports activities as default setting.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2015/07/27/20000-so...
This story was heavily flagged, but unless I'm missing something, the content is solid. It's an interview with a major scientist. The tabloid site isn't great, of course, but that's not how we evaluate articles here I'm going to turn off the flags.

All: if you comment on a sensational story like this, please take extra care to make your comment substantive.
One. That's why it makes sense to plant several in each pod - tree sapling survival rates aren't 100%. It makes sense to plant many more trees than you expect to grow to maturity.
> The more wealth, the deeper and more heinous one's crimes can be.

That's one of the most absurd and dangerous arguments I've ever heard. Yes, their crimes could be more heinous, and their good actions could have much more impact (see the Gates Foundation).

That's all about "can be". What is certain, though, is that the opposite is true: the poorer a country is, the higher its crime index.
I see a lot of skeptical comments on here and I suppose that's healthy, but generally I find news items like this encouraging. We need to find more ways like this to use technology to fight deforestation, pollution and the erosion of the natural environment.
That is actually not correct, consent is one of several options (and usually not the best option because there are strict requirements for a valid consent).
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/11/update-on-genome-seque...

Interestingly the cost had not dropped in the past two years.

Also the graph references genome.gov but that site appears to be unavailable at the moment.
Right, hypothetically if I were to physically enter the EU I could expect trouble, and that's the EU's right. But in the meanwhile, if EU citizens wanted to do business with me, that's not my problem.

I basically agree with your assessment.
While your experience is shockingly expensive, I think if you refuse to get an x-ray following a bike accident and swollen arm, then you're basically omitting a major source of information.
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wealth in terms of money was just an example, because it's easy to quantify and compare numbers. the idea can be applied to other non-material things, like family and relationships: there is always room to be a better parent/mother/son/daughter, and there is also room to be better towards your significant other. it's not life advice, it's just a reflection. but personally i think constant improvement is what makes us better and our lives interesting, otherwise we'd be stuck in the stone age.
Could you please not use HN for political and national flamewar? This is the last thing we want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How do they reconcile the fact that apparently only brains after 35k years ago show this new brain morphology when humans left Africa at least 70k years ago (when they showed up in Australia).

So one of the groups, either the "in Africa group" or the "out of Africa" group still should have the "old style brains" unless magically the changed happened in both groups at simultaneously. And yet I believe all humans currently alive have essentially similar brains.
> Who cares if Dumas didn't write the whole thing.

This is the first I've heart of this, what happened there?
Funny, I recently donated to the Guardian. I thought there was something refreshingly honest, open, and unobtrusive about their call to action at the end of the article. I'm glad it seems to be working out for them.
This argument always seems backward to me, because the important issue with this topic isn't about the supply and demand for the floor sweeping, it's the assumption that the supply for the work of the CEO position is lacking, as opposed to restricted due to power structures or incentive for control of money.

What I mean is, yes, everyone can sweep, the compensation is lower, but there is less power also. As you move up the hierarchy, you are not only potentially going up in skill, but also in the amount of power afforded and compensation enjoyed.

Let's take a hypothetical case where all employees are equally skilled. Just for argument. Now you create positions of more and more power. By definition, there will be fewer positions of greater power, otherwise those higher positions would not have so much power. Because of the power those positions afford, there will be more competition for positions of more power, under the assumption that people want more power. Because those workers are all equally skilled, though, something other than skill must determine success in gaining those positions. And once they have those positions, they can use that power to increase their compensation relative to other employees. They can also use that power, consciously or subconsciously, to create or shape a narrative that they deserve that compensation more than others.

This is hypothetical, and reality involves something in between the "floor sweepers get paid pennies because everyone can sweep" and "CEOs are randomly assorted into positions of unlimited power" but the point is that there are properties accrued by the inherent nature of power structures, and those properties lead to inequities just as much as supply and demand of skills.

I can't believe that in the US the power structure side of reality is ignored so much in favor of the supply and demand side of reality, even when it's staring us in the face and glaringly obvious. And that you can't see society as complex and nuanced, and have to choose to be either a rabid capitalist or socialist.
I‘m sorry, but 99% of the population will prefer a random shiny device that plays their cat video to one that lets them be „in control“ but have them recompile their kernel with the correct wifi driver before it works for them.

With the current ecosystem, it‘s just much cheaper to mix and match commercial off the shelf solutions that are way too powerful for the job than custom building an optimized solution, because it „just works“.

Heck, I‘ll take a Raspberry Pi over an Arduino any day to automate a simple relay, just because with real Go and Linux I can use the same tooling I‘m using every day at work.
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Nationalistic chest-beating and political flamewar are poster children for the kind of comments that do not belong on Hacker News. Would you please not do this again, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> So much for Go not being a systems programming language.

There are other examples already.

Fuchsia TCP/IP stack and file system driver management utilities are implemented in Go.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-dev/2xuYHcP0Fdc/tKb1P...

Android's new GPU debugger is written in Go.

https://github.com/google/gapid

An then there are some bare-metal experiments like G.E.R.T.

https://github.com/ycoroneos/G.E.R.T
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While I largely agree with you, for the most part enough guidance has been available that many companies have been preparing to handle GDPR. They should have done a far, far better job with this but it's not entirely a "We won't know anything until late Feb" kind of thing.
> the EU is saying "You can't do these things to our citizens without their explicit consent, and we will punish you if you do, regardless of where you host your website."

The EU has neither the right nor the ability to deliver on that threat. I will continue to ignore the GDPR, as I ignore the ridiculous cookie laws, without worrying about European police raiding my home at night.
What would you classify as "advanced manufacturing" today and localized to the area? I'm consistently impressed with the quality and cost of machined/prototype parts that come out of Shenzhen – even the "traditional" manufacturing can be mind-blowing.
To me this reads with the focus in reverse. The EU's aim is not specifically to regulate or punish non-EU service providers - rather, that's (one effect of) the tool they are using to protect the rights of its citizens which is the real focus here. Since service providers the world over have been unwilling to voluntarily protect those rights, what alternative approach could they take?
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Why doesn't the main browsers implement some mechanism to help with the notification and consent of cookies?

Some standards based description about the cookies/etc. that could be consented. Non-consent means the cookie isn't accepted by the browser.
Don’t take on the customers then.
What a brilliantly terse formulation of the topic complex that had me pondering for quite a while now! In some manner, "mulling over casually on-and-off" for 2 decades.

> Under the right organizational structure and incentives, people are exceedingly bright at optimizing for their personal success.

Optimizing organisations for converging towards such structure-and-incentives would be the money-shot, wouldn't it.. the only set-up coming to my mind proven to work (for team sizes greater than 1) are the cliche garage up-start and "small gang of well-aligned-in-skill-levels-and-obsession, ~90% of the work/design 100% under own control, product-builders". In other words, how can every small tech team feel like "early-days id Software" --- or rather, the perception of it that prevailed.

> The principal-agent problem is a crippling handicap that hobbles every medium/large business today. The day we find better ways to solve this problem, is going to be a transformational day in the history of our civilization

Indeed. "Medium/large" is worth repeating. Small shops need to get to medium to be able to financially and mentally afford to become some-degree-of-"wasteful". The question then becomes, why is this dynamic so predictably playing out every time that they indeed will? Is it human nature? A case of "everyone who continually succeeds in meeting their next goal eventually rises to their level of incompetence"? Is it that as soon as the adrenaline-rush of ensuring "the bacon" has actually worked, we naturally relax and become playful? With the only way to express 'playful' in a "serious setting" being to endlessly bikeshed and adopt new toys to play with, I mean "promising/proven tech to adopt and migrate/pivot to"?

Remember early-Google's (maybe they still have it) "20% of the week is play-time (at least for developers)". No (or at least reduced) need to channel the urge into counterproductive role-plays of long-winded 'architectural/tech/stack/paradigm debates'. No matter how you cut it, they must have gained heaps from this arrangement not just in product prototypes like Gmail, Maps etc but probably also simply in reduced time-wasting back then. I do suspect for 99+%-software companies, the most fruitful model might turn out to be like this but with 80% devoted to the "play approach" and only 20% of the week to revisiting the concern's concerns that inform and subtly (re)direct in what problem areas to "play more". It's just a bit too radical-seeming to invest a-million-plus in, unless it's one's own millions (and possibly reserved for structures that don't primarily aim every second of every day to "exit" from their own construction).. I suspect the remaining 20% "serious" puts that aspect in the right adrenaline-driven ultra-effective no-BS 'hungry hunting mode'/context and would remain crucial so that "play" doesn't drift off into 'massaging sandcastley no-one ever asked for'..
Can we ever imagine dna sequencing been done like a remoter sensor? E.g. automated sampling for e(environmental) dna,in-situ sequencing (single and multi species targeting), results transmitted back wirelessly. A biodiversity IoT system?
You don't have to convince them it's hacked, you just have to convince them that your car is not where you left it and that you really don't know where it is. Which is all you would actually know, like with any case of auto theft.
I’d feel rather more lucky to inherit money than alcoholism.
Looking at the EUs antitrust fine for Google - https://www.google.ch/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic... it's clear it does have the ability. The message is "you want to profit from EU citizens? You follow the rules"
Maybe I’m misunderstanding GDPR, can you explain how tracking your users through logs is OK within the GDPR, but Google Analytics isn’t Ok.