skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure no single person understands every detail of the diesel engine, arguably nobody so far can solve the Navier-Strokes equation exactly. But even children understand that the car needs fuel and they might now that it has an engine that can break if given the wrong fuel. They could, at least. The fact that there are those who don't only corroborated the fact that there are folks who don't know how ... what was the actual problem? Will be owned by having their traffic captured.
> In our case, the best decision was to block EU traffic and ban EU users from the forums we operate. GDPR compliance for forums specifically is essentially impossible, because almost all forums allow users to embed external images. The owners of the servers on which those images reside could start deploying tracking cookies that the forum doesn't know about at any moment, and therefore there will likely be exactly 0 GDPR compliant forums, except perhaps text-only forums. That issue alone was enough to get us to block EU users, but that doesn't begin to address any of the other fine points of the law.

You are not going to get fined by the EU for that happening. The sites issuing the tracking cookies are the ones in breach, not you.

> You also seem to be [under] the impression that the law will not be abused by revenue hungry governments to reach into the pockets of foreign corporations. Call me cynical, but if that doesn't happen, it would be the first time in history. The spirit of GDPR is great. The implementation is the exact opposite of great.

I honestly cannot see that happening in this instance. Most governments bend over backwards to appease big businesses and often at the expense of consumers. What you're suggesting would be a complete U-turn on Western politics.
Yes. I create separate roles for different ec2 instances, Lambda expressions, etc. based on least privilege.

With AWS databases - except for DynamoDB - you still use traditional user names/passwords most of the time. Those are stored in ParameterStore and encrypted with keys that not every service has access to. Of course key access is logged.

There is a difference between the root account and an administrator account.

Day to day work on the console is configuring resources.

Even if you do have strong separation -in our case separate VPCs, someone has to have access to administer it. We don't have a separate "network operations" department.
You wrote "I am sure Greek astronomers would have laughed at any Jew who said that the number of stars is in the millions and billions."

Why do you think that?

Plato, who lived until 347 BCE, wrote in Timaeus (39b-d) (quoting https://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/physis/plato-timaeus/time.as... ):

> Mankind, with hardly an exception, have not remarked the periods of the other stars, and they have no name for them, and do not measure them against one another by the help of number, and hence they can scarcely be said to know that their wanderings, being infinite in number and admirable for their variety, make up time.

A Greek astronomer living at the same time that the Torah was written down would agree that numbers were uncountable. It was a poetic metaphor or hyperbole to mean "uncountably many."

Eg, https://www.bibleandscience.com/bible/books/genesis/genesis1... points out that an Akkadian inscription from around 1280 BCE - which is around the same time that tradition says that the Oral Torah was given to Moses at Mount Sinai (1312 BCE) - says "Thereupon, the land of the Kuti, whose numbers are countless as the stars of heaven"

Or from around 1018 BCE: "In his first year the city of Suru of Bit-halupe rebelled. Assur-nasir-pal captured the city and said, "Öhis heavy spoil, which like the stars of heaven could not be counted, I carried off""

Thus, the account in the Torah appears to be in line with what the Greeks and what others in the Middle East believed - that the number of stars in the sky was beyond counting.

On the other hand, a Greek astronomer after Hipparchus or Ptolemy might have laughed, as their catalogs counted about 1,000 stars. But that was several hundred years after the Torah was written down.

This is what we would expect if the authors of the Torah drew from the general cultural understanding of their era, and does not require some special or hidden connection to a non-human source.

You further posit "who really uses stars as an example of millions, just like sand grains, over and over repeatedly, if they really thought there weren’t that many?"

As I believe I have demonstrated, it wasn't until Hipparchus's star catalogue from about 135 BCE that people in that region of the Earth had the idea that the visible stars might actually be countable. Until then it was used metaphorically to mean "could not be counted."

The Greeks also used the number of grains of sand as a metaphor for "uncountable". For example, Pindar's Olympian 2 ("For Theron of Acragas Chariot Race 476 B. C.") ends "Since the sand of the shore is beyond all counting, who could number all the joys that Theron has given others?"; http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... .

There are other metaphors for uncountable. In Olympian 12 the same author uses "I would not know how to give a clear account of the number of pebbles in the sea."

Could you explain what "militant" means? Are you militant? Do you think I am?
None of it has to be complicated, it is because people want to make it complicated, and make computers some magical box.

Lets firs talk about removing root privileges on personal workstations or laptops. This is pointless. Anything that might be bad for root to do on a single user system is going to be just as bad running as a user. The second you allow any custom code to run as a user on any system you should treat it as potentially compromised -- adding root in to the mix really does not change things -- on a single user system. Worried about root user getting access to some customer data on the system? To bad, if the data was on the system it is more than likely the user level account (windows or linux for that matter) had access to the data therefor any intruder will also have access, just at the user level. The same goes for just about any other issue you can run in to. Am I suggesting running things as root? No, because there really is no need for most things -- at the same time if your developer needs to have root level access so they can test or work with technologies that require it when deployed to production then it really should be a non issue for sysadmins. The problem is sysadmins are mostly scared to be outed for doing nothing for most organizations these days. These sort of power sweeps are often used to justify big budgets and teams of people who tell you to "reboot" when it does not work right. There is also a bit if power hungry attitude associated with it too.

You state that Linux makes it harder, I can't see how and you did not show me anything convincing. Bold statements without any details into facts can just be tossed into the trash can as far as I am concerned.

Now lets talk about citrix. How does that help? All that does is move any real or perceived problem to a different system. If any of these VMs get accessed by bad actors they will still be able to own any of the information on them that the user had access too.

In any case I did not really come here to argue any of this, your comment is just sort of out of place with relation to what I said.

If you can't trust your employees don't hire them, or just pay them and tell them to sit in a dark room so they can't hurt anything.
> I mean, keep in mind the two carriers have incompatible networks, incompatible phones and so-forth so soon or later, there will have to be a "reconning" where one ex-carrier's phones become useless, yay!.

This actually is increasingly not true. This deal also allows for Sprint customers to roam onto TMobile starting today, so the networks and phones are not as incompatible as you believe.
So his story reduces down to the real problem: what tooling can I find, which runs without root, but makes images which include root outcomes, for the set of things I need in an image which can't run un-privileged, and those tools need to work without running setuid() or seteuid() to root.

Thats a good story btw. I have people working near me who probably want the same thing from a lower driver, but nonetheless interest in non-root required builds.
Thanks, I'll try and keep an eye out for that.

EDIT: There is a smaller thing I noticed: a function on its own is a syntax error in GNU APL (and they can't be assigned to variables either).
Sorry, but you've responded to a surface detail, going out of your way to be unempathetic. Gyms can be alienating to anyone at any age. So can smells, music, etc.

Any number of small things can add up to make a person feel like an outsider, and prolonged feeling like an outsider can ruin previously enjoyable activities (and can have other more serious effects).
Does that still apply if we are a 'data processor' according to their definition? We are an Australian company, with servers based in the US, and we have EU companies actually using our SaaS to manage their employee's information (also based in the EU). We haven't had formal legal advise on this, but upon discussions with other service providers, it seems we still have to be compliant because our paying customers who actually own the data are based in the EU.
About 2 years ago I decided to "stay" on facebook on new terms: my interaction with it was reduced to checking messenger less than once a week (I have messenger lite installed and notifications turned off) and login into its mobile page around once a month to check for any important @mentions or photos people may have posted of me. I also have facebook cookies blocked. Everyone on facebook who needs to contact me urgently or more directly knows of alternative ways to do so.

I do feel strongly that facebook as a tool has evolved to become more toxic than beneficial. I don't think being worked up against it will solve anything so I find that my ignoring it is way more useful in the long term and trying to leave and having to decide what to keep, who to notify, etc. From my perspective facebook can very well become slowly irrelevant and now one will care.
If you are a bank and a client asks you to delete their data. The bank will still keep it for the tax agencies.

If a tribunal gets asked to delete the personal data of the accused, they will keep the data.

There is a principle of public interest and public obligations to keep data.

What part do you think that is a disaster?
Submitted title was "I tried leaving [social network]. I couldn’t". Since the article's title is neither misleading nor linkbait, we've changed it back to the original, as the site guidelines ask.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Look how richly rewarded AMZN is for long term choices.

Yes, Bezos made it clear that he was going to reinvest all profits for a long time. Although obviously some people thought this was a great strategy, it was considered quite unusual.

Google is another example of a company that has done very well while making it clear they were not going to dance to Wall Street's tune.

But the existence of notable exceptions doesn't disprove the overall trend. An awful lot of companies these days don't seem to be able to find any better use for their retained earnings than stock buybacks ... at a time when technological change is only continuing to accelerate. Even if overall R&D spending is up, as might not be too surprising in an era of record profits, it could be up a lot more.
The zoo of build tools and scripts on top of Docker and "orchestration" tools sure reaks of incidental complexity. Could someone explain to me what material problem Docker is solving that couldn't be solved using a statically linked binary as demon?
Made my day
The comments come in part because spacex mission profiles are more demanding. Falcon 9 thrust / payload capacity is 10-20Kg to mars level launch capability. New Shepherd is crossing the Karan line. Both totally cool, but very different. Just thrust alone is probably something like 23,000 vs 500 kN?

Most of us are rooting for Blue Origin to succeed despite the fact they worked together with ULA to try and block spacex access to a pad in florida (total BS!).

Seriously, build the orbital rocket then Nasa SHOULD give you space or make spacex provide space if needed - but the claims of need between 2013 and 2018 for the nasa pad seemed totally bogus.
Having AWS admin privileges doesn't give you access to the database data. RDS/Aurora/Redshift instances are still controlled by your typical database privileges.
As mentioned earlier How to Win Friends and Influence People will take you far for the rest of your life.

Meditations will never fail you.

Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday has actionable tips with stories on how to not get in your own way- perfect for someone just starting their career.

Also highly recommend Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin because it teaches you how to think the Musk/Feynman method, from principles.
TMobile is a real 3rd player. AT&T and Verizon are just happy if their net adds in a year are positive vs TMobile which is adding a million+ every quarter for past 10 quarters.
If you're doing business with the EU, my opinion is that you should comply to GDPR. Your EU business customers will very likely demand / require it, if not today then sooner than later. Those EU businesses will be assessing the services they utilize and trying to make sure there are no holes in their own GDPR compliance as a consequence.

As a counter example. A US-based service I'm building now, will have zero business dealings with the EU, although it may store EU resident data (people that sign up that are from the EU). I have no concern about complying any time soon. I may choose to never comply, as I doubt I'll be drawing revenue from the EU. It's about the last thing on my list of things to worry about (GDPR, not user privacy in general).
I agree, this guy seems just to cry with no clear reason whatsoever
It arguably produced stagnation during the Ballmer era.
Saying that some data that you enter will be shared with Amazon, doesn't seem all that far from reasonable expectations and shouldn't need to be codified in law anyway. So number 1 should be there already.

Number 2 could be an "email me if you want your account removed". This will trigger like two emails a year, and you just run a DELETE FROM command. If it becomes more, you make a page.

For numbers 3 and 4, see number 2. I expect that this won't be much either.

The page doesn't mention a single thing that would be a good reason to quit over GDPR. I think the author was looking for a reasonable-sounding exit, especially since he was operating at a loss (and apparently cared about it, since he was cooperating with Amazon to begin with).

What were the previous data protection laws in the UK anyway? In the Netherlands, none of the 4 points above are new. Our data protection law from 2001 also required all of this.
You know what developers do with root?

They install bitcoin miners.

They install malware.

They install all sorts of shit.

It's unfortunate but it's true, I've seen it 100x.

We let our devs have local admin at my company but please don't misunderstand the serious risks involved in that decision. We take great measures to ensure that we can do that while still keeping our customers safe.

We would never allow admin AWS access, that's absurd. An attacker on your box would be able to own prod. Sorry that it's an inconvenience! When you manage to solve infosec, hit your ops/sec team up, they'll be happy to hand you the keys after that point.
If I just click in the search box and hit "Enter", I can get to the search page without having to type and delete the "e". (This worked in both Firefox and Chrome.)
You could trigger a DB migration using a Jenkins step. Alternatively could have a web hook which triggers a migration as a step in the pipeline. Third option would be to run the migration inside the container.
Having done this myself for large forums, I think we had a single DMCA. Bandwidth costs are relatively inexpensive, too. You can cache images for an indefinite amount of time, serving them over your existing CDN, and purge the older cache based on last-to-access. I've not been blocked from any image hosting sites.
This last bit is what is so exciting! I think they may even come out ahead on re-usability. And I'm not a BFR fan frankly - the whole going around earth on a rocket - blah. Automated planes or something first please!
A twist on "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick in 1966.
If you drive while sleep-deprived, you're at a significantly higher risk of being involved in a fatal accident. And it might not be you that gets killed.

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/best-cars-blog/2016/12/d...
>- don't store data you don't need for your business' stated purpose

>- get active consent before you do so

These are mutually exclusive. The GDPR specifically warns against soliciting consent for collection and processing activities that are actually needed, as consent is not considered meaningful when the alternative is to avoid doing business. Consent is only valid if you can "degrade gracefully" in its absence. (I'm not a lawyer).
IIRC, lots of things in the old days (1970's-ish? Popular Electronics, for example) talked about using a 4009 or 4049 as an audio amplifier.

You put a feedback resistor in place from input to output to bias it and then capacitively couple the input and output.

Metal-gate CMOS was particularly good for this as it had an operating voltage from <3V to about 18V.
Can you name a conflict?

The GDPR applies to trying to do business in europe. Seems simple enough.
Liberian Patrice Juah – “A Gem of Unimaginable Proportions”
But the 18th century structure was left effectively intact and stopped the USA evolving properly like Europe is my point - a while back I heard one Senator Joke that the House of lords was more democratic and this is pre reform and getting rid of most of the heredities.

The weak party system is another problem makes it much easier for fringe candidates and entryisiam to take place
> A few nukes is not enough, as NK is finding out

They are enough. With showing to the world "we can blow shit up if we want, especially the very near South Korea", they have the leverage to do whatever the f..k they want. If the US (or other Western countries) attempt to repeat Iraq/Libya, they'll blow up Seoul. Basically, they liberated themselves from any kind of pressure from the USA.

That, in turn, allowed NK to actually think about meaningful peace talks with South Korea. Of course, the US will still participate in the talks, but with a lot less leverage over NK - so NK will not feel coerced by the US. (Of course, SK will feel coerced a bit more, but at least in terms of nuclear weapons they're still on the upper edge given the US-SK alliance)

At least, that's what I hope: that both countries find a way back together (or at the very least, a durable peaceful coexistence), and that the NK civilian population will no longer be suffering for their leadership.
Please read and understand the requirements of the GDPR before promoting incorrect ideas like this.
> but how are the hoops ambigously defined?

Well, just in this thread, two people providing 4-point lists of _simple_ things that can be done to abide by the GDPR provide two different lists that they themselves are ambiguously defined.

So, perhaps it's not as _simple_ as you make it out to be.
for boolean operations yes... for control flow it's debatable.
Bollocks! First off: GDPR will be harmonised across all 28 member states (not countries) - that's the point of it. For example in the UK, the current Data Protection Act of 1998 will be superseded by GDPR (https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/data-protection)

You do not need to be a lawyer to understand GDPR, you merely need the ability to read, and have a few hours to devote to research. Implementing a policy that is compatible with GDPR is not hard. It does require some thought and some time and will need some training across your organisation. If you do not have a market in the EU then it need not worry you at all. Funnily enough, if you bin (or neuter) those social icons and a few .js thingies from your website you'll be well on the way. Now think about how you would like to be treated, personally ... yep - you'll be fine. No lawyers needed and certainly not seven figure sums for handwaving. You really can use research and common sense and some time, to do the job in house effectively.

I might politely suggest that it is a pretty good standard to work to anyway: it is designed to protect the privacy of individual people. I consider myself an individual and perhaps you do too.
I'm guessing you're young... once you hit 30, your mind is probably going to change on this.
Important to note you're not required to use any of these features....considering sign up takes 7 seconds within the app (and for security... Email is a weak point), I bypassed it.
What everyone seems to forget is that "trusting trust" has a counter: https://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
The averages have moved less than you might think, the median even less, and tthe gaps between richest and poorest have grown.

The report below shows global wealth from 1960 - 2015.

Per capita average ingome has increased, from $8.8/day to $17.7/day, or about $3100/yr to $6200/yr. (Fig 2.1, p. 19.)

The ratio of income disparity between the US and the world's poorest country has increased, from 47:1 in 1950 (Tanzania) to 73:1 2000 (Sierra Leone). (Fig 22.3, p. 25.)

https://piie.com/publications/chapters_preview/348/2iie3489....

Multiple authorities state that the state of the poorest people in the world is worse now than at the beginning of tyhee Industrial Revolution. E.g., Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms, Chapter 1. Available online.

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8461.html

http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8461.pdf
Reducing competition to increase competitive liability has generally not been good for consumers. See: airline consolidations.

We've seen in other markets that going from four to three results in increases in costs for consumers, while keeping investment levels flat: https://www.economist.com/news/business/21699143-country-mer...
GDPR is about users, not companies/organizations.

If I’m not mistaken, it applies to all persons in the EU (not « living there », or « citizen », literally everyone one currently « in » the EU).

So this is totally possible.
Both are a weak point, when it comes down to it.
Code != data

Do I really have to spell it out?
In NY a lot of the public works from 1930-1960 was driven by Robert Moses, starting with his Jones beach projects.

The Power Broker would be my recommended reading.
Also check out an excellent podcast series on the topic by the BBC and ABC RN a while back.

(2016) Flying for your life: The journey begins
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/offtrack/flying...
Maybe they're government-a-phobes, not Francophobes.
NB: 2016
Looks like they edited the livestream.

Launch 38:41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=38m41s&v=ZUV53Nn3PhA
Oh. I could've written the same post, I am just before buying a ticket somewhere. Would love to get in touch, if that's possible.
Trust but verify. AWS has plenty of logging capabilities. I'm not saying that all developers should have unfettered access. But someone has to be trusted.
You should probably assume that anyone that has admin access to your aws account has complete access to everything in it. It’s too easy to get access to whatever secrets you need.