skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't know for sure that the universe isn't infinite, but we do know that it is at least tens of billions of light years across. We aren't going to run into actual laws of physics making growth impossible for a long fucking time.
Honestly... none of the questions in this letter are that hard to answer.

I really don’t see what the fuss is about if you run a semi-professional operation.
If we continue a bit further down that path we come to:

Well, you never know if they're skilled or unskilled hackers, but they're probably not very skilled. Or at the least not as skilled as I am. So no matter what you tell them, they're probably going to write shitty code I helped produce. Even if they have some skill, why take that risk?

So it's better to not bother even with the initial "Why do you want to do that?" gatekeeping and to just ignore questions entirely. They're just going to screw it up anyway.
My thinking was more of instances, many, where ‘there isn't much value to be captured’. A profit-led mechanic hasn't the scope or motivation to foment much useful change.
What makes you say they aren't codified better than that?
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I’m surprised nobody has mentioned that being forced to provide personal data on request does not in any way reduce the risk of personal data being misused.

What’s the damage consumers are being protected from, exactly?
I get longer life out of things than most people. My Subaru is 18 years old and still going just fine. Unfortunately, its gas tank -- residing above both the power train and parts of the suspension, is otherwise intact but starting to leak at its horizontal seam. An open-ended, expensive job to replace -- you have to drop everything below it and its unclear how many of those suspension parts would have to be replaced due to age and deterioration.

I'd like to spray a fuel-tolerant liner into it. If I can find the product and someone -- or the tools -- to do it.

Anyway, the point I wanted to make: We are making so damned much of this stuff. And I also think we may become "energy rich" as solar and other "next generation" power come online. In my opinion, as much of this stuff as possible should be made to be as fully recycle-able as possible. If it can be made a matter of just having enough energy, then melt it down wholesale and separate, ensuring that ensuing volatiles are stripped of their metals and then heated into component atoms or molecules we can collect or tolerate the release of.

We can't do it, yet. And certainly not at scale. But, especially with control of the inputs, maybe we are closer than we think.

Closed loop use would also mean less mining and destruction of the environment from production (as opposed to disposal).

Meantime, DRM and the like that artificially limits recycling? A pox. Counterbalanced against real needs for security, e.g. those replacement iPhone and Android screens that have spyware written into their firmware.

P.S. And are the last two concerns really in opposition to each other, or the same? If it's open and we can confirm what it is, then we can assess its security.
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> In a few particular cases, I've found myself having
> to move functions out from one subclass and into the
> superclass, in order for related subclasses which
> needed access to it, for me to be able to add more
> functionality to the site.

That seems like a refactoring basic. Far from being miserable, it is likely the easiest way to have met the requirement to add functionality.
Hrm, did you expect me to design the output of an entire industry in an HN comment? I didn't say it was easy to do. But it is what must be done. My goal was not to provide code, but an outline, a very rough sketch, rough to the extent that it could fit in a pair of sentences. I guess in that sense the owl metaphor is accurate!

We've had two years to work on this. At my company, we've had entire teams spending significant fractions of their time over the last year prepping. As a result, we'll be ready when the switch flips.
> Has there really been a point in time where the human collective consciousness hasn’t involved a sense of duality?

Of course not, but that's a binary distinction - there 0 'duality' or there is >0 duality. There is a big difference in civil rights, integration, etc. between now and 200 years ago.
To be fair, I don’t think most people know how to repair things when they need to repair something. For example, I wouldn’t even know where to get started with a TV, so 10 hours in total seems reasonable to me
The concept of smalltalk are implemented to some degree in many dynamic languages like Ruby, Python, Perl, Elixir, etc.

And if we are going to talk about functional programming, we can't exclude languages like Python for having too small a user base, as their popularity and impact is often wider than that of any static functional language.
The obvious solution is to remove the on-street car parking on at least one side of any street that hosts a bike lane, and use the space for a separated bike route with a protective barrier. Unfortunately I doubt it's politically feasible at this time. There's plenty of resistance to bike lanes already; reducing the street parking would be seen as an undue hardship on the middle class.

I do feel things will change over time though -- I know several New Yorkers who used to have cars but now, in the age of car/bike sharing and app-enabled car services, no longer own one.
Or you could just run a semi-competent data operation...
Where do you think politicians come from? People who started WWII were WWI veterans. They were not born career politicians either.

Also, soldiers tend to be more pro-war, statistically speaking. Pacifists tend not to join armies.
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Sure. But it is unethical to exaggerate and hold only part of the political system accountable for shady or illegal practices.

This is part of a consistent pattern. Our media has become as hopelessly partisan as our unfortunate two party system, and unethical behavior on one front does not justify the same on another in response.
>TVs get thrown away that need a few dollars worth of power supply capacitors. //

I mourn every time I go to the tip, it's pathological with me, however ... the few dollar repair costs in the UK a £100 because of labour costs (and it's kinda like the "you only added one character to the code, why's it cost so much" line with programming, you pay for the experience and knowledge too). So, if there's a chance something else might go wrong then it may be cheaper to get a new one.

I daydream occasionally about having a warehouse where old TVs and household goods are repaired or stripped down for parts but the costs of real estate, labour, utilities, etc., make it something one would really need to do as a charity I feel if you want to keep any significant level of electronics out of the dumps [I've not fully costed it].

When Brexit hits things will start to push more to repair being financially viable, and as the balance shifts towards China in the next decade, as I expect it will, then the economy of repairs will become more of a necessity.
Actually, I was stuck for years, not being able to do a single pull-up, until I found a youtube video that explained how to progress in pull ups[1] The way was counterintuitive to me, so it would have never occurred to me.

The method consists in actually jumping, skipping the hardest part, then when being on top with the head above the bar, you let your body fall as slowly as you can.
It turns out this works because in the eccentric phase your arm muscles are more powerful, but you are still able to progress overall.

The advice I would give is, as you said, embrace confusion but pay attention to where is your next mentor, the one that will show you that little trick or that little piece of understanding that will get you progressing.

[1](spanish)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQxbnI3QFBE
My fridge went out several years ago. It was one that we got when we bought our house from the previous homeowners. We made an agreement when we put in a bid. When it went out I was like man, we are going to have to pay to have this repaired. I called some companies and the estimations were in the $500-600 range. Being in a hard time I decided to just tinker, for the first time in my life. About 4 hours later of research and testing I determined I just needed a fuse. I went to a shop about 30 minutes away and bought a fuse for $5. Put it in and saved the fridge, and thank goodness for the dry ice tip that saved all my food in the freezer.

Tinkering is now my go-to for anything that breaks. I hope that it rubs off on my son as I think I missed out on life not knowing how to tinker as much as I should have. It is really refreshing to fix something that is important to you.
"However, it’s only 829kb, and that includes every single non-image asset (fonts, css, all libraries and dependencies, and js)."

Only 829KB? ONLY?

This[1] is a (dynamic) on-line course for all beginner sport shooters in Poland, each page takes about 15KB. And i still sometimes want to rewrite the CSS, as it's now 3 requests. It shouldn't make a difference on HTTP/2, but that's a lame excuse.

It's not very fast (100-200ms) and maybe i should get a faster server -- there's room for improvement.
But in my view, if it's static, it's supposed to be as fast as a native app on your smartphone. 1MB of bullshit js that nobody wants is not "ONLY".

Btw, maybe mine is lame and ugly. But i couldn't sleep if i made people load 1MB of fonts, javascript and CSS. It's just a shameful waste.

[1] https://patentstrzelecki.eu/ (polish)
Why did we evolve to rely on vitamin D in the first place? It's a hormonal substance, and doesn't carry any energy by itself, so why do we need it so badly?
If someone's wrong, saying so and why, is preferable to patronizing them.
Yes. But the method that was used to siphon the data out of Facebook is no longer available.
Being forced to comply with GPDR forces companies to keep track of data, limit usage, add data expiration policies -- all of this makes compliance easier and definitely improves security.

A well-known researcher once joked to me that programmers are associated with a company for a few few years, programs live only for a few more years, but data lives forever.
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The hung that shocked me the most about the article was the incredibly long sentences for petty crime. I guess I’ve spent so long hearing about how horrible sentencing is in the US that I automatically expect other first world countries to have shorter or no jail time for such things.

In California for example, theft of less than $950 worth of goods is considered petty theft, and would normally result in a misdemeanor or infraction and a fine.
In software it was Gartner that popularised the TCO marking - and what you are asking here is roughly the same thing.

that we have to fight for food labelling suggests that TCO is still a long way off
I agree that it is likely that a reasonably diligent startup is generally doing the right things just out of general competence. But I disagree that they are reliably doing the right things.

We expect programmers to write working code out of general competence (and we even make sure they know how to write working code in the interview process), but we still write tests and insist that they pass. We expect finance folks to handle money correctly out of general competence, but we still have written policies about how money should be handled. The reason we do these is that good, well-intended people occasionally make mistakes, and in both of these cases, the mistakes have real consequences.

A written policy about how you handle data isn't going to save you if you're messing up in general. But it should be easy to write, and it will save you from "Wait, why did one of our interns add a library that sends stack traces and local variables to a third party? How did this code review even get approved?"

The documents don't protect your users' data. Your general technical practices protect your users' data. The documents protect your general technical practices.
There's a lot of lost value. But profit is gained by it's disposal, if we bury a TV then there's an environmental cost but the company gets to sell a new TV and everyone up the supply chain stays in a job a little longer.

Profit and value can often point in opposite directions.
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Yeah, it's pretty easy to get a 10x increase when you are stripping out nonsense.
First, I'm talking about the stack in Scheme (the high level language), since that's what we are talking about here (you gave map as an example); whether there's a C stack used underneath somewhere only matters in this context if its size is tied to the stack size available to Scheme programs. Also, some might argue that Scheme needs to implement call/cc and hence "can't use a stack" for storing Scheme call frames as that would not be efficient, which is correct if you tie the word "stack" to implementations as a single array only. A singly linked list can also work as a stack[1]. Since Scheme gives first class access to continuations, the "call stack" is sometimes correspondingly called the "continuation stack" instead, which then makes more sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_(abstract_data_type)

Gambit definitely does grow the Scheme continuation stack; if you let it grow infinitely, it increases memory use of the whole process until it swaps or runs into a memory limit set via ulimit -v; in the latter case the Gambit runtime throws an out of memory exception in some situations, or reports an out of memory error and exits the system in others. If the procedure returns, the memory is given back first to the heap and then at some point (if not re-used) to the OS.

With regards to Chicken, as you say, it transforms the code into continuation passing style, allocates every continuation frame first on the C stack and then copies surviving frames into a second zone (it basically uses a generational garbage collector with 2 generations). Each long term continuation frame is essentially allocated on the heap (or whatever it is that the second zone is allocated from). Hence I expect that there is no limit on the size of the continuation stack in Chicken, either.
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It's 2018, quit recommending Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, or anything by him for that matter. It's made up. Hill was a scam artist, among other things.

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-untold-story-of-napoleon...
I feel like I'm missing something but wouldn't this whole brouhaha be avoided by making the website 100% HTTPS and redirecting any HTTP requests to HTTPS through the server itself? This is common practice with Nginx, for example.
In most of the world, the officer looks at your id and puts your details in the system; They do not collect any money on the spot, and you have the right to appeal said ticket before paying.

You get a copy of all the details (including how to appeal, how much to pay, etc.), and while there would be a need to cross this against the income tax database (the way it is done in Finland), it doesn't usually go through a person.
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Then you haven't thought it through or don't understand the gdpr.

Though this letter doesn't mention it, you not only have to provide all data in your systems -- every single db inside your company -- but also data from every 3rd party system. Your transactional emailer, your marketing emailer, your billing system, your logging system, your retargeting system, etc.
Accurate knowledge of risk exposure allows consumers to adjust practices and plan accordingly.

It may also incentive companies to play more carefully with the data, since they have to explain what that have done with it.
What provisions are there in place for a company receiving this type of request to confirm the identity of the requesting party? Are companies expected to be able to properly identify a citizen, in order to not disclose possibly very sensitive information to someone else impersonating them? In a lot of cases the company might not even have enough information stored in order to know who the owner of a given account is. How do you prove "abc123@example.com" is Mr. Smith, if your service doesn't ask them for names? Or if it does, which Mr. Smith do you have on record? Email original senders can be spoofed.

The first thing I'd do if I was a black hat type attacker would be to submit GDPR information requests to all internet companies I could think of in behalf of all my targets.
Each symbol of the 11 characters in the plus code is in base 20. There are about 2500 emojis, meaning that you can encode 2 symbols from the plus code with one emoji (20*20=400, if you try to encode 3 symbols, it becomes 8000, which is way more than the current emoji count). So that would become 5 emojis, instead of 11 characters, which in my opinion would look quite nicer.
The name itself is what is owned. You agree, since you just said "their name," i.e. "the name owned by them."
"Silicon Valley is a 'tyranny' because it's the only place where innovation in the United States really happened."

Wait, what? "Happened" is the past tense, right? As in, over ~250 years of American history?

So, including Boston's Route 128, AT&T Bell Labs, and Edison's research laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ (and GE)?

I assume that's only a certain type of technical innovation, as Hollywood and Detroit are/were known for different types of technical innovations.
Because billions upon billions is spent on reinforcing the idea that we should throw away something that's "out of fashion" and have a new thing, because new things make you feel great. You want to feel great, right? So throw away that old thing - get a new thing.

Being able to find a part to fix something makes me feel way better about myself than increasing the pile of junk being sent to be re-mined in some Chinese junk-yard.
The protestant Anglo-Saxons were the original "white" group. Irish Catholics and such were additions.

(I'm responding to it shifted so that all Protestants became 'white'. which could just be an accidental misphrasing)
Yup, it's tragic.

I lost all trust in Apple. Specially because it was my first high-end laptop.after always buying MacBook Airs...
Where's the problem? To me it shows what an excellent job the creation of the GDPR was. It makes companies think in depth about the data they hold on me and how they process it. It also provides clear ways to question and challenge it.

I've seen a number of articles trying to frame the GDPR as some kind of shambles. The shambles is the way too many companies have abused and mis-processed the data for too many years and somehow the EU lawmakers are bureaucratic imbeciles. Yet, everyone I know is fully in favour of this as consumers.

And, for context, I am the person who will have to deal with these at our company. Our customers are absolutely entitled to expect us to process their personal information is a responsible manner and I hope a number of these letters are sent to every company, it's about time there was a power shift in this area.
Thanks! Just bought a pair. These look great. They have slacks too.
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Hear hear!
If you're not against racism, and you support racist policies, you're a racist!
The word “access” may be some kind of jargon, but many people have confirmed that Michael Wolff was often physically present in the White House. He spoke to Trump and many members of the campaign before and after the election.
This is hilarious. When whataboutism is convenient to the self-righteous, what then exists is "reverse whataboutism".
There are at least 25 scandals surrounding the Trump administration currently that are each worse than the two pseudo-scandals surrounding HRC that Conservatives managed to drum up, I. e. E-Mails and “Benghazi”. And ts not like FOX and the entire US Congress have less power than the Guardian.

So, no: “They are all the same” isn’t just cynical and useless. It’s also wrong.
Baloney.

There are great many people who would die if the price of their food, or their water, or their medicine doubled tomorrow.

If the price of flash doubled, many people would have to choose between less storage, slow storage, or less money for other things. But nobody will die.

In fact, I bet the intersection between the people whose lives would be at risk from a sharp increase in food, water or medicine, and the people buy any amount of flash every quarter is nearly zero.
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It seems the ico is at odds with the EU here:

https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...

They also seem to be at odds with the GDPR:

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/
"‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;"

So yeah, a single IP in isolation might not trace back to a single individual - but with a timestamp and billing info it might track to a residence - with other data (eg: age, occupation) it certainly will trace back to an individual.

I'm surprised at the ico's interpretation / statement on this.

> > i don't think it's meant as a tool for "book burning"

> I think you've confused my statement of "I suspect Hacker News would..." to be a legal/professional opinion about what Hacker News should do, or would be compelled to do so under the GDPR.

Indeed, that wasn't mean as a direct reply to you, more as a general comment on the GDPR.

There's a provision on right to be forgotten, and it'll be interesting to see that vis-a-vis a public interest in keeping an open archive of public discourse.

See 3a)

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

> The reason I think Hacker News would simply delete it has nothing to do with the GDPR, but because they seem to have responded to requests to delete an account and comments in the past:

True. I don't think that'll be enough to comply with the GDPR. Just as storing child pornography in bulk, isn't ok if you remove individual pictures on request.
But of course, by allowing only people who have ties to one particular organization, you give too much advantage to that organization.

Only soldiers interests will be represented, nobody elses. And this matters crutially a lot. Moreover army spends a lot of time indonctrinating people - training, military discipline and so on. It changes them and their opinions.

Germany before WWII gave government jobs to ex-soldiers. Veterans being the ones who defined culture of those institutions had (according to historians) an impact on ease with which those institutions could be taken over and used for authoritarian purposes.
Simple question: if I just want to not make my business available to subjects that fall under GDPR regulation (so that I don't have to worry about it at all), would putting up a disclaimer that you have to accept before entering the website be enough? I was thinking about something similar to how many sites that deal with alcohol content, for example, make you confirm that you are 21 or older by clicking on a button before you get access to the website.

Please, refrain from sidetracking to things like "well, you wouldn't worry about it if you built everything with GDPR in mind in the first place". That's not what I was asking.
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