skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does knowing what data Facebook has on you change anything? You already know the data they have by virtue of the fact that you give it to them. I just don’t get what damage this protects you from?
So look. 3 hours after you wrote this (now, that is) you probably forgot your comment (whether a random HN project becomes a business or not). Here's my take for an answer - it doesn't matter :)

It probably touched base for everyone linking such mirrors with mental health points - fair play, I know I'll think about this tomorrow regardless of its far-fetched potential biz-prop. Cheers!
Does anyone remember http://www.nissan.com and its long, drawn out legal battle?
I admit that I'd do that. Lowest friction solution. I don't want law enforcement agencies knocking on my door because I host a hobby project on a free / $5 tier VPS for years.

My intent isn't malicious. I simply don't want to invest in more maintenance. Hence I'd block EU, yes.
I am! I'll check this out, thanks!
Did France use bankruptcy laws to get the courts to order that the domain name be transferred? Was France a creditor? Was Frydman a debtor?

Did France use trademark law to pressure the registrar to transfer the domain name registration?

What if Frydman was not using the domain name to provide information about anything covered by the classes under which France registered its trademark(s)?

What about if, e.g., France had registered in some class covering tourism and Frydman was providing information about French tourism.

Does it matter? Why or why not?
Yeah that's the one I own. I trust her more than I trust Laozi honestly.
I wrote my own PostScript interpreter three months ago, which runs in a browser :) You can play with it at http://www.ivank.net/veci/pdfi/ There are also some demos from 80s and 90s.
No, it gives the government teeth.
GDPR doesn’t require you protect the data. You can still leave it unprotected as long as you tell them this on some stupid fine print.

There’s no damage that GDPR protects you from, and it doesn’t add any liability for stolen, hacked, or misused data.

Facebook can do the same shit they were doing under GDPR!
GDPR applies to any company that offers a service or product, paid or free, to users within the EU. An American company with EU users must comply with the regulation.
Yet I still can't shake the idea of a potential hidden agenda behind the effort (not saying there is, just curious).

Why go through so much trouble and financially support it, while it doesn't seem to bring anything to the maintainer to financially support it over time?
We're a medium-sized software company, and we had to create a dedicated GDPR position so someone can look into everything and decide whether we're GDPR-compliant, and if not, how we can fix it. GDPR really complicates everything, even though most uf us (devs) are actually in favor of it (because we don't really like the idea of companies tracking us forever).
(Continued. HN is limiting my posts for whatever algo reason)

My side-project procrastination was the main reason I decided to see a Psychiatrist. Before Adderall, I had about 8 different side-projects in various states of progress, with a couple hosted and launched, but I was doing nothing to market and grow them. Now, a couple of years later, I have successfully grown the 2 that were launched and were languishing, launched 3 more, killed 3 that were going nowhere. I am now very satisfied mentally with my situation, do not procrastinate, and am making about 1000$ per month across all the side-projects. These projects were more for learning and keeping up to date, so money is not a concern for me, completion is (/ was)

Word of caution: I did as my doc about micro-dosing LSD. He gave me a very stern warning. According to him, LSD, even in micro-doses, "fries" the your serotonin production network in the brains and destroys neurons permanently. He strongly advised me to not try it even once.

And for those looking for Adderall or LSD, I would advice you to consult a Psychiatrist, if you believe you have ADHD. For people that don't have ADHD, Adderall, Ritalin etc don't work, and they end up getting addicted on high doses and land on documentaries like "Take my Pill".

LSD is only available on the "dark web" as far as I know, so you'll need to use TOR and Bitcoin. It's also shady and you have to purchase a "Tester Kit" (who knows if that tester kit is also legit?!). Don't do it.
Sad -- regulation hurts small businesses. Why not make GDPR apply once the number of users reaches a certain critical mass?
There are plans for WASM to add features like GC, threads, PIC, direct DOM access, etc. So when those arrive, this can port over and bring less runtime.

And there is currently pretty direct access to a canvas.
Ultra low margins works in retail because it’s less capital intensive and risk is low. If Wal-Mart stopped innovating they’d still dominate for what, a decade or two? If a carrier decided to sit out a round of cellular evolution (let’s save $20 billion and skip 5G)? Even Verizon couldn’t do that. Or, if they bet on the wrong technology, like Sprint. In the 3G era they had about equal market share to Verizon and Cingular (which became AT&T), but bet on WiMAX for 4G and never recovered from that.
This seems like a variation on the Zawinski Quote -

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use crypto currencies." Now they have two problems.
This. Facebook becomes what you let it. We’re humans. We have the power to form and maintain friendships.
GDPR simply reminds me of the other possible legal venues small owners can be sued over. So you might be right on your final point.

Can we just flat out assume the GDPR won't indeed be abused to scare away smaller players though? You are claiming they will be safe for years but what if bigger players want to make an example out of 5-10 smaller players and just report / sue them to hell and back?

I know I am reaching but this possibility can't be dismissed just like that. Historically, bigger players have exhausted smaller competition with legal fees and effectively drove them out of market. We cannot in good conscience claim GDPR won't ever be used like that.

I'll be happy to be proven wrong in several years time from now, but right now I am simply not sure if GDPR is gonna be used for or against the free market (competition). Not claiming either way, just saying the risk wouldn't be worth it for me for now.
> FRAM has some very desirable properties compared to current technology uC that use both SRAM & FLASH.

Could you please elaborate?
Implementing LHLS on hls.js
If you have no presence in the EU, to what sort of "risk" do you refer?
I think someone of the change has come from the realization that you can turn likes/eyeballs into IRL money. Whether its from things like youtube monetization or being paid to promote products and lifestyles, as I've heard people do on instagram.
I thought the gdpr applied to all EU citizens, even if they're not in the EU. If so filtering IP addresses isn't enough.
Phone numbers take you to an IMEI, which is looked up in some table.
Mostly compliant is not actually compliant. Respecting users and their data has nothing to do with the policies, procedures, and technical operations necessary to become and stay compliant. That being said it doesn't need to cost 7 figures but it is a material expense to businesses of all sizes.
Lying is unacceptable--it's better to be honest with your employer and if they still hire you then both sides have better-calibrated expectations.

If you're not getting the sort of work you want, maybe adjust your expectations.
After we had our son, my sleeping pattern has changed. I sleep early at around 730PM. Then wake-up at around 8 or 8:30PM. Then sleep around at 12:30-1AM. Wake up at 7AM.

I get to take some sort of power nap for the day. And when I wake up, I feel fresh. Does any one else have a similar routine?

I'm not sure if it's healthy, but I do not feel tired or deprived at all.
Fun track based on the 2600 sound set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rKkpHLl1Ew
I switched to using SlimSocial. It forces me to launch an app, so I'm consciously deciding to go to Facebook, while avoiding the notifications and battery drain that plague the regular Facebook app. Thankfully, I don't get the nags.

https://f-droid.org/packages/it.rignanese.leo.slimfacebook/
There are 28 member states. Under some circumstances, a company headquartered in the EU can have the headquarters country's authority act as its "one stop shop." But it would be a mistake for a foreign website to rely on the opinions of 1/28th of the agencies that might prosecute it.
I'm not sure if we agree or not. I'm not at all after the classic sourdough taste, and am not really interested in keeping a friend. I buy bulk dried yeast and always use yesterdays dough as a starter, do a slow ferment in the fridge, or keep a fresh sponge fermenting for a day before I actually make bread. lots of fermentation really does develop a richer flavor.

if I do want to grow a friend you suggest I turn my culture over often to stop it getting too funky, and use proofing chamber to get rapid yeast development when actually baking?
What about the data they have on people without accounts on their service, but who they track across sites and through friends? I can keep myself from having an account, but I can’t stop my family and friends, and I can only do my best to block their trackers. I’d like to know what shadow profiles they have on me, despite the fact that I gave them nothing.
I'd always heard that moving more and more functionality into play services was their strategy for end-running the carrier fragmentation problem.
Reminds me of the performance artist Chris Burden who in 1971 had a friend shoot him in the arm with a .22 rifle. But at least he had the guts to have himself shot vs. a dog.

In Docklands, Melbourne, there's a public sculpture that any normal child would think is a fun thing to climb (https://markstoner.com.au/projects/the-river-runs-through-it...). Naturally there are signs instructing parents to prevent their children from climbing the "sculptures"!

All part of the long process of contemporary art becoming increasingly irrelevant to the public: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/how-art-became-i...
There's apparently an Invisible Boyfriend site, too. It's linked at the bottom. I have to suspect it gets less traffic, though.
> And the curiously gender-specific invisible girlfriend: https://invisiblegirlfriend.com/

There is a male equivalent: https://invisibleboyfriend.com
How does knowing they have shadow profiles (if they do) help you? What damage is that knowledge protecting you from?
On further reflection, most of them are single player / multiple character, excluding ones that are very far from any roguelike influence. Actual multiplayer that still have much resemblance to roguelikes (especially the turn-based nature) are harder to find (IIRC, Neverwinter Nights might qualify, though largely through the influence of roguelikes back on D&D, since it was a fairly direct translation of then-current D&D.)
I'm in SV proper and I take adderall and have taken modafinil before. People generally don't talk about it. I've met more people who said they used to use it than say that they currently use it.

> is this actually common?

My experience has been that it's trivial to get a prescription of adderall in America. Doctors have tried to give it to me even when I've said that I don't want it. So (I assume) anyone with health insurance that wants it can get it.

> do you need them to survive?

Yes and no. If I were to immediately stop, I think it would take me 6 months to 4 years to redevelop coping strategies to manage work and my own life properly. I grew up taking it, thus it's my primary coping mechanism. Certainly possible, but certainly unpleasant.

I think it's probably the safest investment I can make. The cost of going to doctors and filling prescriptions is mostly in time, but the payback is huge. I think my life would have taken a very different path without adderall.

To clarify, when I say adderall I mean Adderall XR. My experience with other, similar drugs has been much worse.

Here's how various similar drugs affected me:

- Adderall instant release reliably caused psychosis for me (paranoia and hallucination primarily) and the come up and come down were too sharp. It worked, but benefits < costs

- Ritalin works for me, but it's closer to being unmedicated than it is to being medicated.

- Dexadrin works the best but is both easy and tempting to abuse. I think the benefits < costs.

- Vyvanse feels much "dirtier" for lack of a better word. It causes too much PNS stimulation. At lower doses, it's a bit less effective than adderall, at higher doses it just makes me feel bad.

- Modafinil is very different from any of the above. It does what it says it will, but cheating sleep is a losing game (and that's all that it's really good for), with or without drugs. Thus, benefits < costs.

- Caffeine doesn't help with focus much and has a lot of nasty effects.

For various personal reasons (the stigma and laws of foreign countries), I do want to taper off/stop, but it's been extremely difficult. Even with adderall, the modern world is just so crushingly attention-grabbing that I find it hard not to feel mentally exhausted and overwhelmed constantly. Honestly, I think getting rid of my smart phone and not keeping my computer connected to the Internet all day would be better for my health than stopping adderall.
A reasonable approach that we're following is to have a documented backup retention policy and a procedure to re-delete data for any users who have asked to be deleted when those backups are restored. That retention policy can be longer than 30 days as it's impossible or infeasible to delete individual user data from all the backups.

One easy way to do this is with an expiration policy on s3 objects. You need to have an independent backup of those deletion requests though.

If you have a years-old tape archive you probably have a massive legal team who is much better equipped to answer this question.
Let me add one more point. I believe that it would be to your advantage to insist on a job title of Computational Physicist or something similar. If anyone ever refers to you a a programmer or software engineer, forcefully correct them.

Good luck
GDPR is pretty clear that a users “right to be forgotten” isn’t absolute and that businesses should be weighing up (and documenting) a users right to privacy against their other legal obligations.
Interesting they choose to rename blue/green deployments to red/black. Is there some Netflix specific reason for that? Like their logo colors maybe? Red/black is more commonly meant for insecure/secure (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red/black_concept)

Not trying to be a pedant, just curious.
I like the permutation example, make a n^n array of 1...n there by ending up with n choose n with replacement, create a boolean mask of which ones have all n numbers and return.

There was a post here last week about BEAM needs an apl that pointed out the basic idiom of APL is take an array make a boolean mask then select on that mask which I thought was a very straight forward explaination of how APL differs from Matlab or Numpy.

And it is a very different approach: make everything take what you want vs make exactly and nothing more than what you want.
I've been out in the middle of the savannah in Kenya, with no artificial lights around, and it looked worse than the picture on the left. Night sky photography is best understood as a creative art form, with only the faintest connection to what the sky actually looks like to human eyes.
I do I remove data in a WORM store?
To be clear before I answer, you’re acknowledging that this isn’t actually just about data willingly given, right?

What does it change? Not much just by knowing, but it can allow for change, including exercising a right to delete that data under GDPR. That is a positive change in my opinion.
You're spot on with your observation in the medical industry. I've been researching stem cell treatment for a condition i have and the impact regulations (which i fully support btw) have had is that now there are a bunch of hucksters and a bunch of legit businesses offering stem cell treatments and it is practically impossible to separate the two. Despite being well versed in reading scientific papers and internet research in general it is impossible for me to separate fact from fiction. Added to that there is also a significant number of people spreading FUD which adds unwanted noise not only in the marketing side but also on the flip side making it all the more difficult to decipher the landscape.

Related to GDPR i can definitely see a similar situation developing where large entrenched player leverage it to gain an unfair competitive advantage against startups who could threaten then in their market, using the same FUD tactics. This is a silent killer which will wipe out grass roots innovation in Europe.
They've been at it for a long time https://www.warren.senate.gov/files/documents/Tax_Maze_Repor...
I come from the same public education described in this article and it is outrageous that we barely cover Julia’s life work as part of the current academia.
Ouch. They use Siemens NX, which AFAIR has to be set to either metric or imperial for all models and assemblies.

Getting them mixed up sounds potentially risky. :/

Definitely would expect they've added some automatic safety checks around that, which is quite do-able in NX from memory.
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The thing is if you get rid of the pressure to be notation you get rid of the pressures that makes APL what it is. You could definitely make an array language with words but you'd end up with something more like Factor with it's cleave/spread/apply combinators (you work on a factor inspired concatenative language right?).
Having data on someone doesn’t constitute any kind of damage. So I don’t understand how I benefit from this at all. If my data is hacked, I’m not compensated. If my data is misused, I’m not compensated. Nothing has really changed to protect me from actual damages resulting from personal data collection. But apparently lots of small businesses and startups are now hurt, and Facebook is in a stronger position to collect PII.
But legal trolls have an array of legislation to attack you with. GDPR is just the latest one.
One thing I'd love to see is some Android Tablets that are ROM friendly.
"When we failover US-East, we send traffic from the Eastern U.S. to the EU and traffic from South America to US-West. "

Interesting that you shift US-East to the EU. Any more color on why that direction, versus say, US-West? Like maybe less common components in AWS? At face value, it seems like an odd choice.
File a defect log to the book of Genesis, assign it to original developer, the God himself.

Why are you surprised that humans are being humans?

Why can't you put trust into the fact that there are more people being good most of the time.

Internet tools should be like paper and pencil, opinionless. Pencil maker doesn't get to control what gets written by the pencil, a social media platform maker doesn't get to control what gets said on the platform. Only when legally required, the pencil may be seized; only when legally required a social media post be taken down.

If with the protection and power of USA we can't stand by the Freedom of Expression in the marketplace of ideas, we are doomed to get an authoritarian overlords.

This "I don't like this free and open internet" because my ideas are losing is very dangerous power grab.
I would think any small software shop outside of Europe is better off blocking all EU IPs rather than risk having to lawyer up when they wind up being targeted and potentially face a $20m fine. It would be financially irresponsible to do otherwise unless they have some kind of GDPR insurance policy (if such a thing exists.)
> this is not why I got into tech, I don't want to read 68 pages of yuk

One of the goals of this law and similar efforts is to make it clear that you need to consider the social, ethical, and legal ramifications of the things you crate. You are not creating neutral things in a vacuum; there is no neutral ground in a burning world[1]. That "small thing on the internet" might be reuniting families that were separated by work or politics, or it might be undermining the support structures of an entire industry or community. Maybe you are creating a social space*, which includes a duty to manage that space to keep so it doesn't become a tool of abuse[2]. Maybe your small site stays small. Obviously you cannot be expected to foresee every potential consequence of your creation, but you at least need to make the effort and catch the low-hanging fruit (e.g. the basic privacy features enforced by the GDPR).

[1] http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/no-neutral-ground-burn...

[2] http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1024060/Still-Logged-In-What-AR
Pretty much any metro in the US. Up in Seattle we could hardly see any of the planets, never pleiades.

Generally if I can make out 6+ of the stars in pleiades I've got a good shot of seeing the milky way.
eval? You can't say that's elegant.
"...and Firefox on Android still isn't a great experience..."

As a daily FF on Android user, I am not sure what he is finding issues with. I wish he would elaborate so his issues can get fixed.
I have to make two points.

1. This regulation is specifically (deliberately?) anti small business. If your revenue is less than €20m their fine is up to €20m, i.e. can be 100% of your revenue, meaning bankruptcy. If your revenue is greater than €500m, your fine is capped at only 4% of your revenue, i.e. an acceptable fluctuation. It's worse than a regressive tax.

2. China also has many regulations. Instead if trying to extend their jurisdiction to foreign sites, they simply block them. I thought about this and I actually prefer the Chinese non-expansionist model: I would rather outsource due diligence to the Chinese government than hire expensive EU lawyers and then implement EU specific blocks.

FYI we do not collect any data other than for spam and DDoS attack mitigation, but apparently if you have any third party code in your site like ads you have to subject all of that to this expensive audit.

Well meaning regulation like this written by people who have never created anything pratical in their lives other than regulations illustrates why entrepreneurship in modern Europe is nearly impossible.
This may be part of the confusion there are ~9 galaxies visible to the naked eye and ~13 nebula, but they don't count as a star. Similarly binary stars should only count if you can't see both stars. Remove all the stuff that's not individual stars and there are significantly fewer points remaining.
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More than that, male chicks are overwhelmingly not raised and just killed because they’re not particularly worth the money. Buying mass produced eggs means a lot of chicks died to make it efficient at the start. With cows the males who are not going to be used for breeding (very few are raised as bulls) are generally raised for veal.

As you say, they are inextricably linked on the large scale. At least for eggs though, you can definitely patronize small farms that don’t need to employ such aggressive economies of scale.
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