skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> even worse the service could be taken over by a malicious actor

This particular problem is partly mitigated by subresource integrity (hashes of third party resources you put in the html tag).

For my money, there are plenty of situations where third-party resources are acceptable. Ultimately that is basically what a CDN is, which most serious websites rely heavily on (often sharing their SSL certs).
What if we let the potentially malicious AI of extraterrestrial origin be managed by a trusted AI of our own manufacture and that is proven cannot be swayed by arguments such as those commonly indicated could corrupt a human?

Just speculating, without knowing how we could get to such a predicament.
> Tell that to the crackhead living in the rustbelt with no job.

People addicted to drugs or without jobs are not new issues.

> I know you can make the stats look like living standards are on the up and up

That's a bit unreasonable, suggesting any and all statistics that disagree with your view are not trustworthy.

> you would be ignoring the huge issue of income inequality which is root cause of the political instability the west is experiencing.

Inequality and living standards are significantly different things.

Do you have statistics to support the 5 decades of falling living standards claim?
Haha, oh man I've spent a lot of time thinking about exactly this. I don't think I've got much to add that anyone else hasn't already said, but:

Cookies - well known, hard to footgun yourself

JWT - new, complicated to implement, easy to footgun yourself

OAuth - generally only works in certain security models. You're probably still going to end up using cookies or JWTs as part of your OAuth state management anyways.

Personally, I use cookies for all "apps" and I'll use JWTs when I need authn/authz in a more complicated microservice architecture where the "clients" aren't browsers.
Yes—Rainbrow, a game you control with your eyebrows: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rainbrow/id1312458558?mt=8
Technology is progressing fast, but I think UX is going down more and more.

To be able to read basic text, we need to fix things by ourselves, make scripts, addons, etc.

Soon we will need fix for this, fix for that, fix for everything.
The Australian gambler you're thinking of is most likely David Walsh, who made many millions by deploying similar systems in horse races across South East Asia; he is also noted as a collector of eccentric art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Walsh_(art_collector)
Being able to read stuff to me seems pretty high on the list of desirable features though. Couple that with the fact that a huge amount of webpages are very un-readable due to overload (not just ads), so theory and practice IMO combine too make this a feature that should have higher priority than most of the other 599. Granted, one can argue ad infinitum about what it means that the browser makers start fighting the content makers, and vice versa...
yes, same in EU

back to WhatsApp and gotta try open source Wire which doesn't require phone, though i will still keep Signal as SMS client
I find it peculiar about people's continued good feelings towards Carmack.

During the Zenimax/Oculus case:

He claimed that he never wiped his hard drive: An independent court expert found that most of his hard drive was wiped after Carmack heard about the lawsuit. So Carmack lied in his affidavit.

He claimed that no source code from Zenimax ever got transferred over to Oculus. Then later admitted that the emails he had taken form his Zenimax laptop on his last day there did contain source code. He denies that the source code in the emails benefitted him and that he "rewrote" all the code anyways. But this runs counter to the testimony of Oculus programmers who admitted they copied Zenimax code straight into the Oculus SDK.

He also has not outright denied the copy claims from the testimony of David Dobkin's in which Dobkin testified about the similarity between the source code in Zenimax and the source code in Oculus's SDK. Carmack instead accuses him of doing it for money and argued that the methodology wasn't very robust. But no denial, just ad hominem attacks.

So why do people still fawn over him when it seems like his ethics are dubious?

(Granted it could be possible that the technical aspects of the case went over the heads of jurors. And I will admit to being wrong if the Oculus appeal ends up revealing more information.

But his HD was discovered to be wiped, and even Oculus programmers admitted to copying code. Why does he get a free pass on this?)
Sometimes you need to temporary disable filters or edit them. How do you manage that? Is it user-friendly?
IANAL, but if you deem the processing necessary, then you can use "fulfilment of a contract" or "legitimate interests" as your legal basis and argue on that. There's no "right" legal basis, and you can choose whichever you deem necessary.

This just now means you have to be pretty darn sure you're choosing the right one (because, you've always had to protect and limit the amount of information you collect and process, now it's just much more explicit).

As with everything GDPR (and most digital regulations in general), the large companies will win as they have the legal teams to draft the statements and scores of developers in order to get the UX process sorted (or argue their case in the event something goes awry).
This is exactly why I believe income tax is stupid. It's people like this who should be lifted up on our shoulders by our economic system and taxed 0%. They are the real leaders of us all. A high consumption tax that punishes buying stupid things like super cars and private yachts would help do this.

“the millionaire will be but a trustee for the poor” - what a great thing to say. Where are these great men?
Perhaps he didn't want them eating the beans and losing their vote.
How would they know it changed ownership?
The jurisdiction stuff is disturbing. Having separate rules/rulings for Belgium, Turkey, Venezuela, etc...
It's (a) not practical and will end up helping incumbents .
(b) It really curbs the internet's ability to promote an open information norm.

I find it disingenious of FaceBook to be serving all the EU equally, then claim that Belgium's jurisdiction doesn't cover them because they're based in Ireland. That sounds like having your cake and eating it.
Every time I visit medium, it shows a popup reminding me how much times I visited it before. Do they want to make me feel guilty for visiting too often?
I think this is just a really hard one to solve....

Cookie restrictions basically amounted to an additional clause in terms and conditions, the thing we're disingenuously treating as a contract.

Realistically no one reads them, not even lawyers. That is the expectation they we re written under. If people actually read before accepting, they would be 250 characters long. Very few services would put up with that much of a roadblock to signing up. Do you really think apple would tolerate an average iPhone sitting unopened for months while the user has the "contract" sitting on their todo pile along with mortgage refinancing and insurance paperwork?

It makes a mockery of the whole thing, reductio ad absurdum for the whole concept of consent...with side effects.

The dynamic this has created is one where the "contract's" job is to reserve all rights that can legally be reserved. There is no trade-off, no reason not to reserve any right. It's just silly to treat these as agreements.

The idea with unbundling is to break this dynamic. Encourage some semblance of informed consent where the user is party to these decisions.

Giving users an all or nothing proposition is a part of the problem. along with the insane levels of user engagement in legal boilerplate that would be required for the system to actually work the way we're pretending it does.

That said, I think it won't work. We'll probably have a more complex version of the current system. Services will still have an incentive to obscure... and turn consent into a click-without-readung-or-fuck-off nag screen. They may just need 4seperate ones now.
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Where they are based doesn't matter. If they are collecting revenues (taking payments) from EU clients, it applies. That includes generating ad revenues from EU based eyeballs.
When it comes to on-ad-generating, free websites, it remains to be seen how bold EU regulators get. It'll be hard to penalize or prosecute such websites, and there are enough violations in the fat cats anyway, so I'm guessing those free websites will get a free pass for now (pun intended).
Wouldn't have even thought that looked like him, still have trouble seeing it.
It's already the case that many contractual terms will be considered invalid even if both parties agree. In the EU, there are also -- especially for B2C contracts -- a number of terms that are implied and can't be waived.

Examples include distance selling regulations (that provide the right of withdrawal) and limitations on what's considered an acceptable mid-contract price increase. GDPR adds extra restrictions on what privacy rights businesses are allowed to require consumers to opt out of.

So if you've done it correctly, the customer isn't rejecting your terms: they're exercising their options under the contract you've offered them.
>And I think most of us here are hardcore outliers, and have a passion for learning and self-development outside of a formal education context.

A passion for learning only helps if you learn useful things, and a child with ADHD will focus on what they find interesting. And I don't see how improving your ability to focus on uninteresting things would have held you back.
Oth: it's a calibration process. If the regulations are to onerous, we can loosen them again, or companies will spring up that make compliance easy. https://www.chargebee.com/ solves the European VAT nightmare for example, until we have harmonization on that front. Is it inefficient? Depends on your model of the world: I'd rather pay a bit more for my goods/services and know that my privacy and data autonomy are preserved, and some people might argue that having the freedom of fiscal policy in differing regions is worth paying chargebee their premium. And if we figure out a way to slide into a better pareto point, cool.

>I realize generality and such get in the way of this, but... I think it would have been better if this move specifically targeted the 100 biggest companies, who have the scale an resources to actually use all this tracking data.

then they'd outsource it, hide it, whatever. See: tax laws. Law is like exercise, you can't specifically target abdominal fat,nor can you specifically target Fortune100 excesses
>wiping out people of a particular religion, not so much.

As a nihilist I would disagree.

The kind of people that want to do that have a much different set of morality and ethics.

There is no objective moral framework that you can base claims for or against wiping out a particular religion. You can however use your own, personal, subjective moral framework and most people will probably have something vaguely compatible to it and agree with you that wiping out religions and it's people is bad.
> perfect is the enemy of good enough

Funnily enough, that's also how the original article described the opposition to the Authors Guild settlement. As it turned out, killing the Google Books project didn't really move us closer to copyright reform.
What does porn have to do with free speech and privacy?
Telegram Down in Europe and MENA
I had a Yamaha soundbar some years ago, which could be calibrated via a small microphone, that you would place in the location in the room, where you wanted the sound to be beamed. During calibration it would create some beeping and whooping sounds, I guess to learn about the room it was in and you could then sort of have a sound bubble in your sofa, when watching a movie late at night.
Statistics go out the window when you know an actual outcome, so they're useless retrospectively.

How likely is it the failing in school helps you? Not very.

Given that you have succeeded because of failing in school, what was the probability that failing in school helped you? There's no such thing as that probability because there's no such thing as how likely it is that your actual outcome came about. There's no such thing as what fraction of possible life-outcomes are similar to your actual outcome. At least you can't possibly know these things.
But it couldn't/won't guarantee anything, say Chrome could notify user the change ownership of an extension then the new owner state that they won't be evil, blah blah blah, but 1 or 3 months later they changed their minds and send ads to users. What next?
Step 1.) Work in Silicon Valley

Step 2.) Desire an advantage over your peers and competition

Step 3.) Notice political hysteria and how it affects the behavior of your rivals.

Step 4.) Deepfake a rival's face into a Nazi rally and send it to his professional network.

Step 5.) Rinse and repeat for every rival you encounter. It's not like denying being a Nazi supporter or crying foul play ever assuages paranoid suspicion.

Congratulations, you can now destroy the career of any worker in Silicon Valley with impunity.
Demonstrations based on physical objects aren't mathematically precise. Who's to say that the wood doesn't flex, or that the fluid doesn't compress? You can see that the areas are equal to within measurement tolerance, but not that they're exactly equal.

Here's a classic 'physical' pictorial proof that 31.5 = 32.5:

https://jeremykun.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/31equals32.png
if internet internationalizes, why US still use retard units? US and other SF startup have put too much pressure with privacy, it's now the time of payback.
I agree, but they're swimming in disingenuous waters. Surely, they can't run 100 versions of the site to suit 100 legislative/court systems. Well, maybe Facebook can. Can tinder? What about the next Facebook?
And it looks like it's creating a cult - https://www.gsmarena.com/the_notch_is_spreading_for_no_good_...
Emirates gets a big chunk of their revenues from EU customers. They definitely don't want to piss of EU regulators. As for US regulators, they've been at odds with them for some time, so Emirates will probably try to fight them before giving in. But this particular privacy hole is the size of a crater - it will be hard to fight the regulators. In fact, as a software architect, I feel that the solution is far cheaper than fighting regulators.
>Up to this point in time, everyone had access to news, videos, science articles etc - for free.

I really don't like your definition of 'free'.
wikipedia has been relying on donations for quite some time. guardian.co.uk is one of the recent examples asking for donations and working out for them.

>science articles

Ok that has to be a joke, the paywall journals subscriptions are nothing like ads.

Please, don't conflate any pay method with pay wall (which is a pretty good one). If business cannot retain itself w/o breaking the law and has to shove unwanted images/videos/etc. straight in the face, it may as well not exist. The ads have degraded user experience in so bad ways that having a page with little content and 'next' button just to show more ads is pretty much the norm now.
Check my HN profile. From there you can find my GitHub (see the repo Website-Test that has everything), feel free to use my code if you so wish!

Oh I really like neocities. You can sign up for pro membership and have custom domains and so on but I've not needed that so far - I may do at some point though.

All the best!
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Not impressed. Foundations are just another way to avoid taxes for some people, especially when their finances are managed from offshore accounts in countries like the Bahamas. Often, the foundations pay their "benefactors" a salary and "donate" just enough property and resources for the "benefactors" to get by, lavishly. [1]

If you want to do good, donate your company to your employees.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC9jTqhJBh4
A rational thought may not be a predictive thought.

Before people knew the earth was a globe, it was entirely rational to think everything that goes up goes down again.

And for all testing you can do, ie, throwing an apple up, it'll come down again.

It is entirely rational to conclude from the available evidence that everything falls down when thrown.

But recently we've discovered that things you throw up hard enough may not fall down at all.

Thusly, the rational thought was still rational but wrong.

Predictability is important when you want to evaluate scientific models (ie, assume earth is flat, assume earth is round, assume earth is a mostly round potato all have different predictive quality, though the first ones are easier and sometimes sufficient)
I agree, national politics is the only politics we have. But, the internet does not exist within national confines, and I don't want it to.

In this case, I like the courts decision and FB is big enough to deal with it. What about a much smaller service dealing with polish cencorship laws, Turkish political content laws and 12 incompatible eu privacy laws. It can only end in either (a) overall ineffectiveness or (b) internet balkanization.
Couldn't agree more. This is why I would like a federated service. Right now I'm testing riot as well, but it was such a hassle to get people to use signal that I didn't even want to start to try to persuade people to try it with me. It's really annoying that I still use more than one messenger (xmpp, riot, signal, irc), but at least I can still communicate with some of my peers.

Back to the signal topic my first thought was that they just didn't have time to react yet since it's before 4am in the US, but they changed the DNS entry of the signal gateway so I guess it's maybe a DDOS? First people are asking for a service page https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7461

Anyway it's up again. Hopefully there will be a writeup
Are you familiar with the term "progressive taxes"?

Consumption tax is the same for multimillionaires and for people who have 3 part time jobs and struggle to feed their family.

Then, imagine that you put a massive consumption tax for cards, for instance. What happens when the car of the 3 jobs guy is broken?

Also, how do you decide which products are the products that rich people buy and which are the products for "the poor"?
when a security vulnerability is found, you can fix the relevant library without recompiling all the binaries that are linked to it.
Game AI described here seems perfectly in line with what John McCarthy (who coined the term) describes as "artificial intelligence".

http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/whatisai/whatisai.pdf

If you have a strong physical reaction to a phrase being used as the originator uses it, as it is widely used in research, widely used in the media and general public, then perhaps the issue is not with everyone else.
Wire is already open sourced https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12148596 and server https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15302592
And article links
https://medium.com/@wireapp/wire-server-code-now-100-open-so...
Here is the repo https://github.com/wireapp
This is not just about ADD/ADHD medication, or about
"boyhood". This is about the unnecessary prescribing of psychoactive drugs with powerful side-effects to people who cannot consent.

I am yet another person who, around 7, was prescribed strong stimulants. Yes, it turned me into a robot, and yes, I did better in school. For a while. Until finally I grew so bored of pointless academic striving that I completely gave up doing any school work. At the same time, I discovered the computer.

When I first told my mother "I don't want to live anymore", she asked me, "Good lord, why would you want to kill yourself?!" We had just recently moved back to the states, to a place I didn't know or like, to a school I didn't like. My parents fought, partly over us. My brother despised me. Due to my medicated existence, I had no real emotional connection to anything. At fourteen, I didn't see much value in life. "I don't want to die," I said, "I just don't really want to keep on living. There's no meaning to life. It's just pain."

Soon there was the anti-depressants, and when those didn't work, the anti-psychotics, and more stimulants. Sometimes I couldn't sleep for weeks. Sometimes I couldn't stay awake for months. I needed blood tests to make sure my kidneys weren't failing on new medications. I was kicked out of schools, and was unable to complete any work. The only thing I noticed about this time was the kids at public schools were somewhat nicer, and the work was somewhat harder. I remember reading Ray Bradbury's short story collection and thinking, wow, maybe there is something to life.

Dropping out of high school and not attending college, I was pretty fortunate to have found a medium for my attention that was both intellectually and fiscally rewarding. I doubt the rest of the kids who endure chemical tinkering at the hands of unscrupulous "doctors" are as fortunate as I to make a good living after a normal mental/emotional childhood is taken away from them.
> I often wonder how horrible my life would have been if I had done well in school and not pursued my dreams through entrepreneurship.

I see where you're coming from, and happy to find your relatively niche fit, and for sure I hope it's something long term sustainable.

But since you're clearly describing something you don't have experience with - what your life would be when actually finishing university and being more 'stable' - you paint a dark picture. It's actually opposite - you would have many more options in life.

I've met tons of 'unstable' people in life, for whatever reason - they can sometimes find spot in the universe to fit in, but long term they almost always, consistently struggle. Their life is a mess. Relationships are often crap. Long-term happiness and life balance are mythical phrases. And so on.

I hope this isn't and never will describe you (and ideally nobody)
This is beautiful.

To be honest the second image with the tilted c² is enough. From that picture alone you can figure the outer square has the same area as the inner square + 4 times the triangle area:

(a+b)² = c² + 4(ab/2)

a² + b² + 2ab = c² + 2ab

a² + b² = c²
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Why would you let them accumulate an unreasonable amount of wealth if you then expect them to give it back to poor people? Why not limit the wealth in the first place to ensure that everyone get its share?

And do you really expect every millionaire / billionaire to do this? I'm afraid numbers are against you, that's why this appears in a newspaper: it's a rare event.

Finally, why let a few rich guys decide where the money goes? I think it would be better if the money was given to the government, so that the people can decide where the money will be useful. I'm not sure all of this guy's money went to good causes (you can check his Wikipedia page).
You will still hit the same problems they described for some sites. Because some JS has been blocked by your blocker, certain websites will have buttons that just don't work. This is frustrating when those buttons are key things like 'buy' or 'confirm'.
I used the chat on a KLM flight to Canada recently, it was neat. You could also chat with a specified seat number, and they would get a popup on their screen that you want to initiate chat - it was very useful as there was a large group of us travelling together and I could just chat with someone without walking to their seat on the other end of the plane.
That's more realistic than some I've seen but it reminds me more of Paul Rudd from his body language.
They're taking money from EU customers, so yes the EU will enforce.

They have assets (and even more, they want to land in EU airports) in the EU so yes the EU can force them to comply even if they don't want to.