skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>1. Suppose that the data is used to pay for keeping the site afloat? Does that make it essential?

If you use the data for bank transactions or paypal subscriptions it's essential.

If you sell the data for profit, it might be essential but it falls under "opt-in only" of the GDPR. So in this part; not essential in the above sense.

>2. Suppose my site is presented as a site that has basic and premium content. The premium content is behind a subscription paywall.

Subscription paywall is fine. What isn't fine is degrading the service if the user opts out of having trackers included in the website when they visit.

>3. In #2, does it matter if that's how my site works for people that I can identify as being the EU, but works different for people elsewhere (e.g., for people in the US it collects data on everyone and does not offer the option to pay)?

GDPR only applies when you target people currently in the EU (citizen or not) and EU citizens outside the EU.

>4. Suppose I just say "the hell with this...I don't want to deal with GDPR", and have my site ask first time visitors if they are in the EU or EU citizens.

If they say no, I would say that is okay to believe considering the GDPR also requires a "Are you 16" question. Ask a lawyer.
Years-long waiting lists for apartments shared with many strangers are the historical norm under socialist housing schemes and the only evidence-based expectation were we to implement one today.

This despite central-planning allocation of graduates to work assignments and no freedom of internal movement. This alone would probably "solve" the housing crises in major cities today: just stop letting people move to them in such massive numbers.

A coworker who grew up in Soviet-era Moscow remarked that it wasn't all bad - homelessness basically didn't exist - but each nuclear family (let alone individual) getting their own home is a development of the contemporary West's uniquely hyper-capitalist and hyper-atomized society. Embracing collectivization is not going to make it easier to get your own home.
TL;DR: sites were obliged to provide information and ask for consent when using marketing cookies. That is, cookies required for the site to work (e.g. session) were fine, but tracking/analytics were not. Everyone started to show banners saying "we use cookies [OK] [what cookies?]", users just got used to clicking OK on them, and almost nobody has any clue what this was all about.

You could see the cookie law as a gentle request for Internet businesses to self-regulate and limit unnecessary tracking. It didn't work (I don't know of any case when businesses decided to self-regulate themselves out of potential extra profit), so now GDPR is meant to force companies to stop their user-hostile data abuse.
This first of all: never underestimate the nearsightedness and self-importance of a university governance board.
Citadel, located in Chicago. You guys out west are so smug it’s unbelievable.
If you know it's a sweeping generalization, perhaps don't make it? Software development is maybe a young person's (surely not just for men, right?) game at startups, but that's because startups don't pay as well and have narrow technical needs. Big companies hire young people, too, because they have a lot of grunt work to do and recent college grads are cheap. However, an older developer who's managed her career well is valuable to most organizations.
Google does not only deduce your location from your connection. It keeps data on you.

If for example you have some residual information (cookies etc.) on your browser or you've logged in to your account, google will probably continue to show your last location known by it.

Google might even query local devices as you suggested, who knows?

It is really aggresive on getting location data.
Seems like this could be avoided if they just change the zoning laws to allow more vertical development. People talk about earthquakes but Japan has managed.
Other book recommendations for preparing to be a PM:

- Decode & Conquer

- Inspired (Marty Cagan)

- Radical Focus (about OKRs)
Buying a L4 car may be not possible. Because I don't even think they will start selling them initially. May be we can bet on number of L4 cars in operation after 5 years.
Why? You might if you really really really liked mild year round weather, a variety of food options, great mountain/road biking, diversity, and a couple of other things. But only some people are into these things.
Same here. I grew up in Seattle and thought that was bad, but the number of downcast and desperate characters I saw in downtown SF and how closely they were pressed up against areas of impressive wealth (like at Mission & 16th) was extremely depressing.
Money of course.
Stimulants don’t have the same effect on kids that they do in adults. They may even be downers. Well, that’s what my Uncle the doctor told me
I'm guessing you're not a wedding or news photographer...

You can't get around physics. Nobody is going to prefer fake bokeh to a real lens.

So far nothing in a cellphone that I've seen has been comparable to anything from a DSLR with a real lens, and that's also ignoring all the extra usability features found on a DSLR as well.
I've never heard of someone preferring PulseAudio to ALSA
$16,000 / 365 = $44 / day. And wealth and income are non-linear [1], so 70% of the population could easily be below the mean.

[1] citation needed
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This is the most amusing part of this whole article, as someone who moved from Chicago to the bay a year and a half ago.

If midwesterners are hungry enough and good enough, they’ll move to the bay (or they’re already working remote for Bay Area salaries).
Don't believe it! maybe salary + stock options + benifits - that's a possibility (even though a pretty rare one). But 200k cash, BS, no employer would pay that to someone with 2 years of experience...
One exception is if that guy possesses some unique skills of some hype industry (blockchain, AI, VR), but that really a very unique situation. Most of people here make around $130k/year + some stock options/rsu's
Could you give a more complete example of how that works? I had a look at the `go/ast` package but couldn't find anything.
Whenever I look at cost of living comparison it doesn't seem advantageous to me to be in SV unless you get lucky on equity ( how do you even measure that? ).

$150k in Dallas is something like $265k in San Francisco. And I would think in SF your housing would be pitiful compared to the midwest at $3k/month mortgage.

Engineers at my company can make upwards of $300k in Dallas and that gives a standard of living thats comparable to making $1m in the valley which is probably pretty rare.
Server-Side .NET Core Based GameBoy Emulator with Angular Front-End
>enable hundreds of thousands of businesses to grow their businesses

Seems innocuous enough until you really think about what they're saying. "But, tracking these people without their consent allows companies, including us, to make money off of them".

That's actually a pretty brazen thing to say; as if the fact that people can be monetized should trump their right to privacy.
Had to stop reading long enough to see if I could prove it myself using similar triangles. This is definitely cleaner than what I came up with though, which involved creating a similar triangle with side b1 set equal to side c of the original.
just wait and see what happens when full automation is achieved
I wish there was some way to reduce the randomness of finding people to live with, and increase the odds of compatibility.

Maybe something like Ok Cupid for roommates.
Agreed, I feel like I always add a ton of code to communicate with the DB/data storage system. If I go with Kotlin I think data classes will keep the number of lines of code down at the very least.

For a side note about language influencing architecture, when I wrote Python I felt some of the jobs you mentioned (serializing & deserializing JSON, mapping SQL results to objects) were smaller and simpler, probably because I tried to embrace duck typing and forget about types and checking somewhat. I'm not sure if that's a great long term solution but it was an interesting feeling and data point.
> I just wish the dosages were lower

Two things.

First, the first 1-2 days of ADHD meds can have a dramatic effect that have you thinking "this can't be right". It's normal, expected, and goes away very quickly. You should be warned to expect it by the prescribing doctor. After 3 days or so you barely know you're taking them.

Second, the dosage and effect on a non-ADHD person is entirely different to that an ADHD person will get. That's presuming it's the right med for them[0]. You will have a stimulating, speed, effect. An ADHD person (well most) will get little to no stimulation, and a calming effect, and might sit down to do their homework, or even just sit still for a couple of hours - for the first time ever. Amphetamines don't do that to normal neurology, thus you can't compare.

The dosage is putting them closer to typical, but putting you far away from typical. If you were normal vision or long sighted and tried your friend's short sight prescription glasses you wouldn't wish their glasses were weaker, would you? Same principle.

It's also common for one or other parent to discover they have it too after they have tried their child's meds.

[0] Getting the right medication is a bit of a trial and error minefield, but should be a standard part of treatment. Not all doctors are as willing to switch medication or titrate dosage as they should be.
>And we won. The judge gave the Secret Service a tongue-lashing and ruled for SJ Games on two out of the three counts, and awarded over $50,000 in damages, plus over $250,000 in attorney's fees.

You know, this really sounds like a "win" only in the sense it's the "win" we're "allowed" to have.

Everyone's lives were ruined for years. They almost lost their business. They lost a product they had poured countless hours into. They had to pay up front for attorney's fees (even though they were completely in the right), and spent years in court.

And all the Secret Service lost was some "sharply worded comments" and a tear-drop amount of taxpayer money that wouldn't even register on their budget and had zero affect on their future budgets.

The only brightsides were indirect ones. The EFF was founded, and their case law would likely be used for future cases and possibly future government actions (before they act) since they know they wouldn't be able to get away with it.
>rut it on an entirely physically disconnected (battery powered) machine inside a Faraday cage

What if decompression produced an alien message hundreds of gigabytes in length? Is that file completely safe to transmit to un-airgapped computers?

Would you bet all of human civilization that it's safe? No way any part of it would produce any negative effect on a human reading it?

>Send the plans to a massive superweapon but only send it to the USA

Laser beams sent over interstellar distances will be hundreds of thousands of kilometres wide at the destination.

The threat model for a hostile probe inside our solar system would be rather different, of course.
One practical use is talking to people you're on a flight with but not say next to. I can't say I'd be a regular user of that feature, but I do find myself on flights like that from time to time.
Afaik software will be sane untill Lawyers and Finance execs are involved. Once they are into your company no more great software.
4G LTE pried open to reveal a slew of new protocol-level attacks
voidlinux's firefox package has sndio support in it. It takes very little cpu to run this unlike pulseaudio which would kill this little underpowered laptop I'm currently on (several generations old sual dore atom).
Please tell me you've got pictures. I would very much like to see them.
> Einstein’s predictions, during a solar eclipse in 1919—was asked if it was really true that only three people in the world understood the theory, he said nothing. “Don’t be so modest, Eddington!” his questioner said. “On the contrary,” Eddington replied. “I’m just wondering who the third might be.”

for another side of eddington, see 'empire of the stars' [https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Stars-Obsession-Friendship-Bet...] quite a fun read, i picked it up on a whim, and could not just put it down over the course of a 8hr train ride :)
The old idea that occurred in the Soviet Union was not the only possible outcome. That idea was for a vanguard party to take control of the country and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat. Unfortunately, this dictatorship was exactly that... it concentrated power in the hands of a small minority and lead to tremendous abuses. However, it also lead to obscenely rapid industrialization in one of the poorest most besieged countries in the world. Russia, post WW1 and WW2 was not a happy place having lost millions of soldiers to invasions by Germany, Japan, the US, and others. It is an open question what would have happened had they not been besieged. However, that is counterfactual, and there were large abuses, especially in the Ukraine.

Other countries, like China, have produced significant abuses, but notably they are also rising economic powers. They are no longer strictly communist, but nor are they totally capitalist. China recently announced a plan to eliminate poverty within its borders (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/world/asia/xi-jinping-pov...). While you might say that they won't be able to do it, that would fly in the face of their 6+% (!) GDP growth. Can you imagine a US politician ever making a statement like that? Not since FDR have we seen anything like it. The closest we had was MLK's Poor People's Campaign in the late 60s.

The new hip idea is for power to remain mostly decentralized to prevent this outcome. Hence, worker coops. If more stakeholders participate in decisions, hopefully fewer truly awful ones will occur.

I could go on, but there is a lively debate going on right now that much of the US public is asleep to having been lulled into a zombie like state by Carter, Regan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump. It's acceptable to think about the shape of the new world that is coming and have a hand in shaping it. Otherwise the same old, frankly evil, behaviors will continue until something unimaginably terrible happens like a nuclear war or the seas and changing weather sweep our civilization away.
That's pretty bad, but frankly he could have communicated better to Emirates. If I was working as first line support and received that message with "omg do you know you are sharing fields a, b and c to partners. And maybe you are sharing with x, y and z also?", without any technical details at all, I would also give a canned response, tag it as tinfoil hat and throw it into the junk.
The problem comes from people conflating the term 'amateur' (does not pursue a paid-for career in the chosen field) with 'ignorant' or 'unskilled'.
If important parts of internet infrastructure (broadly speaking) rely on charitable donation of service, they're going to start going away, as the internet is almost entirely commercialized. Or replaced by services 'donated' by Amazon or Google instead.
No, it's more like 150mm per year from the DoD. the 1.8B number makes sense if you are talking about a decade worth of funding. They also get some funding from private industry.

Seems like not many people from the FFRDC community read or post on HN.

https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/datatables/ffrdcrd/2016/html/FFRDC...
Sounds like he's directly addressing the lack of replication that we bemoan so much.
If only. That battle seems to have been lost long ago, at least in the U.S.

Google, Criteo and other have long had a default opt-in policy for their retargeting products, etc.
Eh, I don't think it is required. Probably better to work on being likable so people think you're more than just a skillset in the interview.
Should, but sadly doesn’t at the moment.

We need more housing.
I love this. I may start looking for jobs in the bay area if it has a decent jr-mid RoRails job market
In the paper, they would nuke the hypothetical moon base, although sadly not from orbit.
>It is not Amazon’s fault that the Android Compatibility Test Suite requires the availability of proprietary Google code, and that the AOSP itself does not pass the CTS.

The CTS is used to guarantee all Android apps on Google Play work on the device. That's on Amazon for not really caring to maintain compatibility and instead use their own services as a replacement. As for the AOSP not passing the CTS, it was never intended to do so.

>It’s Google’s fault that Android’s open source version isn’t even considered Android anymore, nor does it have even a working email app anymore.

According to the following link updates were made to the Email app 2 days ago which seems to indicate it's still maintained.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Emai...

>It’s Google’s fault that over the last few years, the AOSP search app, music app, calendar app, contacts app, and finally even the phone app were all dropped and lost support.

These apps require Google services to even work and it's unrealistic to think Google is going to provide non OHA members free access to their servers.
Ruby, Sass, React, yarn, Node... Its like a game of how many dependencies can we require to make a <table>.

Seriously though, are we running off the rails here? Are we going back to the bad old days of perl "page generators", just replacing a dozen CPAN commands with a bunch or yarn's, gems, and npm's instead? I'm starting to wonder.
I really appreciate your perspective. I'm still learning about all of this. My understanding is that most often these setups were started in relatively poor countries that didn't have enough housing to start with. That is not the case in the US where many houses remain vacant in the face of homelessness so that speculators can speculate.

In China, they are building entire ghost cities and then filling them as fast as they can. In the Soviet Union, my understanding is that the economy was out of wack because of the need to build the military to defend against Western aggression. If those resources were diverted to the civilian sector, perhaps there would have been more and nicer housing?

EDIT: Even in a capitalist country I'm still living with roommates, and this is part of a trend for younger people. That kind of takes the bite out of the criticism that capitalism offers more freedom in that regard. Such freedom once existed, but it has been declining.

EDIT2: I like my roommates. Not dissing them at all. :)
I cannot decide if this paper is meant to be a joke.

Also, there is no proof that true AI can be achieved with Turing completeness alone, so this is a gaping hole in the logic right there.
Well, it's not that they haven't been talking publicly for years that they are going to do something.

And I guess Facebook and others have been trying to lobby it away for years already.
Reminder that anytime hypersonic aircraft are proposed, it’s absolute nonsense (based on where current research, particularly in materials science, is at) and just a bunch of a CAD animations.

Ronald Reagan already topped this anyway by proposing in his 1986 State of the Union a modern-day “Orient Express” that would go New York to Tokyo in 1.5 hours. That never happened either.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_X-30
Interesting, does `table-layout: fixed` have any effect?
Which is what “landlords” means; not the company’s landlords. It’s far from facile.
Without adjusting for purchasing power, that number is meaningless. What is the PPP number?
I can get a better education from Moocs than I did from my tenured mathematics professor who didn’t know the applications of linear algebra in the real world.
Gartner MQ for BI 2018: What's New?
What sort of company pays engineers $300k in Dallas?
Exactly. Twitter isn't the medium to report this sort of problem. Ask for an email address for security vulnerabilities, and send it there.
P-hacking can be done by analyzing the data in different ways until a significant effect is found, and then failing to report all of the analyses done. There is no universal way to analyze data (especially what collected data to include); there are choices that are made and this leads to a “garden of forking paths” where if you look around the garden enough noise alone will give you ‘signicance’. Preregistration makes this impossible by declaring your analysis before collecting data.
I don't think masses in western societies will accept that. There was already revolt against TPP by both left (Sanders) and right (Trump) in 2016. So much so that even Hillary had to renounce the pact she once praised as "gold standard".

If globalization continues to decrease standard of living in the West, I will expect a massive political backlash (which I believe is already under way).
There's no way for you to get the astronaut out of the box. But consider a hostile, superhuman AI. Who knows what it can do?

But more to the point, who knows what it can convince the astronaut to do? Can it convince the astronaut to transmit a hostile message back to Earth, suborning the receiving computer, and thereby letting the AI out of the box?

In the AI alignment field, this is called the "value drift" problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aunCa_WwwzY

I think that's the video where he tells the story (which comes from his book)
Beowulf clusters of AI scripted big data machine learning block chain crypto ledger.
Do you believe the human brain is not a computational system?
It seems like there have been many recent setbacks for FB on the privacy side. When do these setbacks begin to have material impact on the stock price?