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" For instance, you want to create stuff to interface with ancient equipment. Lots of that is necessary, and lots of it is custom. For telecom companies, banks, factories, ... here CPUs and the fact that you can do one at a time are tough to beat. Sure FPGAs can do it better, but that's not the point here."

Guy I worked with had a recurring gig interfacing FPGA's to older Telcom equipment. Multiplexing multiple gigabit Ethernet channels into one very high speed channel which then was fed into a microwave up converter. Last and final one they did the FPGA put out like 25W. I can't imagine doing that with a CPU of any type.
Yeah - there's always a HATEOAS comment somewhere and I've never really managed to figure out what that means beyond using URI's rather than a database IDs + some documented endpoint path to point to other resources.
He’s right about free speech. Even in countries where free speech is a right, it is strictly defined as government can’t punish you for your opinion. Private companies can show users the door at any time.

What I fail to see is what has his retort about free speech anything to do with my comment on the youtube monopolistic position.
I really like this post:

http://archive.li/fi5Xn

It's been deleted by its author and archive sites are the only places where I can find copies. I've saved a copy for myself just in case. If you use an article like this as a source, it'd be nice if there were a copy somewhere.

This is one of my favourite independent movies:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527628

I bought a DRM-free copy from the writer/director back when they offered it on their website. The main website is still there, but the whole purchase/download system is broken and those domain seem to have expired/been purchased by someone else. I almost lost my copy of this movie, but luckily I found it on one of my off-site backups.

People talk about how much content there is being created, but there's an incredibly amount of content that's being lost forever. Even if it's still out there, search monoculture (today we have Google/Bing/DDG where once we had Lycos, Hotbot, Altavisa, etc. etc.) can effectively keep content from being accessible. There might be something nice about the ephemeral nature of that content, but there's also something sad there as well.

To go back to your point, if someone publishes an article, it is nice to be able to see it again in the future. If they don't want it backed up, there are procedures like DMCA (if the author didn't publish the content to the public domain and the archiver is based in the US).

As a side note, we've already seen on here that the Right to be Forgotten is more about censorship than anything else.

Eventually we'll all go extinct, our sun will burn out, and everything that ever was and is will be lost. So preservation efforts really only go so far, and this brings up some more deep philosophical ideals about the ephemeral nature of what we produce more than anything else.
people like you and I can write on Medium.
People should be encouraged to create, but with the knowledge that anything published may be retained by others, and that it can have consequences. No technological measure will prevent people from making personal backups or gaining access to data published under the presumption of secrecy or time-limited availability — even if all the layers of DRM work, the analogue hole will always be there.

Rather, invest in teaching kids how to safely publish under pseudonyms or anonymously if they wish to publish their angst-ridden teenage vampire poetry. You can always abandon your connection to that work that way — even if the work lives on for all the world to see.

> Comparing that to Facebook: […]

You should indeed never upload anything that you might wish to expunge at a later date. You have the right to see an old picture gone from Facebook, but you don't have the means to enforce removing it from your cousin's private backup on their own computer.
GDPR is not relevant to this. It’s not about enforcing copyright on people’s work.

It’s about ensuring that companies only store and process privacy-sensitive information about people which they are given consent to store and only used for the purposes the consent was given.

There is nothing privacy related wrt the author in a public article published worldwide for everyone to read. Clearly outside the domain of GDPR.

It’s not hard people, just common sense. Just treating user-data with respect. Let’s not fool ourselves into thinking it’s harder than it actually is.
I'm not sure what you are trying to insinuate...

There is plenty of nuance to copyright, such as public forums, public domain, fair use, etc. You have those defenses available to you. However, a person can bring a civil action against you anytime you make a copy of their protected work. The case may or may not be meritorious but already defending against a lawsuit is a penalty. Archival facilities are already exposed to this risk and they actively lobby for protecting their activities as fair use to varying degrees of success.

A person cannot bring civil action against you under the GDPR. They may make a complaint to the data protection authorities who may bring action against you if your use of the data is unlawful. Therefore, there is no way to force a person to have to even face a trial under GDPR. If your use of the data is unlawful, you certainly have no license, so you are not protected less under the GDPR than under copyright law. If your copy counts as fair use, then it will count as being lawful under Article 6.1 (e) and no action can occur under the GDPR.
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Lloyd’s is up, TSB is still down AFAIK. They’re happy alright...
Apple can't build the Macbooks they want because Intel doesn't deliver the chips they need. I'm sure they want to avoid that situation with their iPhone.

Additionally, the problem with Qualcomm is that Apple thinks they are charging too much on patent licensing fees — by doing research and building up their own patent portfolio, they will have better leverage in license negotiations even if they use Qualcomm chips.
I was a long time iOS user from the 3G to the 5S. At that point I decided to try the Pixel 1 and I really preferred the Android experience. It's clear that the quality of the UX is subjective and it takes a little time to get used to the nuances of a new OS but 18 months on I'm still very happy with the move to Android.

The main concern I have is for device lifetime. It's hard to know anything more than an anecdote until a particular model is too out of date for the information to be useful but my Pixel broke within a year. I was given a free replacement under warranty but I don't have that same feeling of long-term hardware lifetime I got from Apple.
Who cares? Me posting my (very German) name and address on somebody else's website (blog comment, forum or whatever) doesn't magically make that person have to comply with GDPR.

According to [1] the law applies to:

1.) a company or entity which processes personal data as part of the activities of one of its branches established in the EU, regardless of where the data is processed; or

2.) a company established outside the EU offering goods/services (paid or for free) or monitoring the behaviour of individuals in the EU.

The internet archive doesn't offer goods or services in the EU (if you want to know how that's defined you have to read the actual law I'm afraid) and they're certainly not "monitoring the behaviour of individuals in the EU".

[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
No. That’s not how it works.

Read the law before posting wildly misleading comments like this.

If you explicitly make something public, you can’t later come and claim that this information is actually crucial to your privacy. If so, you yourself was the one who violated that privacy, not the company later archiving/caching/processing your public article.

GDPR is all about decency and common sense wrt. user data and privacy.

No need to spread FUD about something that simple. SV proved tech companies can’t be trusted to act ethically, so here comes the regulation. Deal.
>You can't just throw money

That's exactly what you should be doing if you want to solve it. By throwing money (cash) directly to the poor you can drive up the local economy.
Ireland's language is actually Gaelic.

It's the only country in the EU that does not require it's language in translations because even in Ireland nearly no one speaks it.
of course, but you shouldn't be stopped by people who want to backup your content at all cost against your will.
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> If no one can read an a book what good is it?

Plenty of good. As a writer myself, sometimes just having these thoughts put out into form is a very gratifying process. When the inspiration hits you, nothing feels worse than not being able to express these thoughts and feelings in a way that feels appropriate.

Likewise, sometimes people write dumb things in a fit of passion. They write something that is a blemish on their otherwise fine history or that no longer reflects what they believe anymore.

While I'm on the side of the Internet Archive here, I can definitely appreciate that it's not an open and shut case. Sometimes the yearning for information to be free is at odds with our want for privacy. Tools like Medium, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media are like the gun in the house to someone suicidal (to use a very bad analogy) - an easy and convenient tool that allows for a very bad spur of the moment decision to be made.

I know I've done stupid things on games and on message boards in the past, and I'm only so lucky that this data likely isn't available anymore. Some of it was me being a dumb kid. Some of it was me just being an angry kid, but I am 100% grateful that this information is only remember by myself and a handful of others. A very different past me had a very stringent set of beliefs which I now have come to accept were very bad beliefs, and I did bad things in general as a result of them.

Is it really fair that I have the benefit that time forgot all these dumb things I've done simply because I was born before a time when Twitter/Facebook were common place? Before data permanence was really possible on a global scale? I'm open to the idea of some review on archiving data like this; I want the Internet Archive to be able to archive this stuff, but it would be really nice if there was a way to vault it for a reasonable period of time as well by request. Otherwise, you end up in a position where no one wants to write or produce or do anything in a fit of passion as a result of knowing that everything is permanently preserved.

I don't have an answer aside from "vaulting" the data, and I don't think that's a good answer. But I also don't think it's black and white like you're trying to make it.
FedEx, UPS, Amazon Logistics, basically every delivery company.

I don't know about the rest of them, but your information is totally wrong about UPS. The "delivery" people are most definitely employees. Union employees, Teamsters in fact. Which means that UPS doesn't get to push them around all that easily. But which also means that the relationship is occasionally more confrontational than it should be.

https://teamster.org/divisions/package
The commenter said that handwriting recognition didn't work well. But, having tried it myself, I know that's not true. My point is to share that data.
There were at least two browser extensions which also discovered that poor design was widespread and to disable prefetching for similar reasons:

http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/index.html

https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/google_web_accelerator_he...

I think the state of the web has improved slightly over the last decade but this is a great example of why browser vendors are so conservative. You can do this now but only opt-in.
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I feel the headline is misleading/clickbaity; the article posits that stirring a liquid is similar to a hash function. Hash functions have many more applications than Bitcoin, and are only a small part of how Bitcoin operates.
When you published your article though, you wanted people to read it. You can't blame the people around you for changing your mind. And "nothing gets deleted on the internet".
Speaking of app interoperability, I can never go back to ios simply because I have an app called gentle alarm that plays a shuffled playlist from my music app to wake me up in the morning. After all these years, ios still doesn't give access to users music, and there's no way to set a playlist for built in alarms.
FWIW, I move my family between iPhones every year and haven’t noticed any data loss. One exception to date is WeChat, for some godforsaken reason they only back up the most recent dozen conversations or so, so if you want your entire history, you have to jump through hoops to initialize a device-to-device transfer over WiFi, which can take an entire night in worst case.

Would be curious to hear what kind of data loss you have seen though?
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There is more to it, sbt has a very rich echo system of plugins, it will take time for any alternative to gain traction.
I have intensely followed this idea before and while I still agree that it's theoretically true, thinking of it too much can be depressing (even more if you believe the universe to be deterministic).

Whether you go do a thing is still your choice (within universal limits, of course). Your success in it will partly be luck - but if you don't go do the thing you will definitely not succeed. And if you prepared for it your odds will be better.
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I hope that public opinion will be swayed most strongly by facts, not by random internet guys’ opinions. This got started with pugworthy’s request for numbers above, and I think the facts I’m asking for are relevant.

I actually worry that this plea bargain business is a sign that we have implemented a justice system much more scary than what everyone else is discussing. A system which locks people up for having a little weed is bad... and also pretty trivial to work around. A system which locks people up for reasons known only to the DA, who is free to lie and threaten behind closed doors, is fucking terrifying.

Do we even know which of these systems we have? That's what I was hoping people could help me understand.
robots.txt is really only supposed to be used for blocking the Internet Archives first snapshot, and not to remove existing snapshots – and even this might not be the case in the future as they try to preserve most snapshots. They made a few policy changes last year[1] to how they handle robots.txt files, to handle cases where a domain is sold and a new robots.txt file would result in deleting old data among other things.

[1]: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
Wow this article is some self-serving tripe.

puns?

1. most people aren't very funny

2. some smart people conflate recognising a reference to some external knowledge with wit

3. not enough people follow Shakespeare's lead and make lots of puns about genitals
Space exploration is engineering+economics. Every penny used for lifting things to orbit removes number of launches and shrinks the budget used to build payloads.

The Space Shuttle was a resource sink and failure while Soyuz was the biggest success in rocketry before SpaceX. SLS seems like the tail end of Space Shuttle era. It directs NASA budget to small number of expensive launces.
Exceedingly difficult these days now that movies, music, photos and videos, and even unused apps can be offloaded to iCloud.
To clarify:

Any centralized messaging can not be secure by definition.

Also:

A lot of people are forgetting what a lot of NSA types can do with metadata.

(IIRC Italians caught CIA spies with phone number metadata analysis software supplied by... US!)

Any messaging app that is associated with a phone number calling itself "secure" is just maliciously stupid.
There are many countries where Stripe etc. aren't available. Starting an LLC in USA is an easy route to get that going albeit at additional compliance cost (e.g. filing informational returns). The article above clarifies that a foreign owned LLC with no income connected with US doesn't have to pay taxes in US. They just have to pay tax in their home country. It makes it more appealing & easier to start an LLC.
But is it your contention that the experience of the current iOS on a 2014 device would be the same (or very close) as that of the current iOS on, say, an iPhone X?

Because I'd push back on that.
Huh, my mistake. Well, Amazon Logistics it certainly going to be in trouble. Dynamex works on a very similar model to them.
Actually it's not necessary to use text-mode browsers as the trick used here is JS-related, so it's enough to switch JS off.

Actually most nuisances on the web today are JS-related so I have a button for quickly disabling it. It works like a charm, also for this case.
However from experience GPDR will also be abused by jobsworths to avoid doing something either through laziness or for more suspect reasons.

Just like H&S and the Data Protection act are abused today.
Ideally they'd show a map with a projection based on having the line drawn on it as a straight horizontal or vertical line in the middle of the map. So basically, a Mercator projection with the line being illustrated as its 'equator'.

That would require a custom rendering for each line though.
Yeah, it's a sit/stand Linak desk.

I hooked up an ESP32, 2 channel relay (up/down control), and distance sensor (to detect height). Pushes height to graphite and position is settable remotely. :)
I think because in math you don’t ever have side effects you usually use composition where in programming you usually use a sequence. So to change that function in to how people would implement it means rearranging the internal stuff and then it probably wouldn’t be idempotent be either definition.
The puzzle is, when and how will this state of affairs (running legacy technology) change. Is it because C-suite movers and shakers doesn't have skills to bring about change? Or is it that things we take as trusted and agile modern systems and methodologies discussed here in HN happen to be things that the market at large will not bet on for a forseeable future.
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But its not personal data that's being handled and the EU is quite happy with the german imprimatur and not keen on anonymous publishing in general.
Did your company still buy it?
This kind of thing shouldn’t even be a REST call. Use JSON RPC.
Only images? So, fonts can still be used to leak and manipulate?
7.1, I believe? I guess you can't call it stock, since it was LineageOS 14.1, but it's close enough. If you're being picky I've used actual "stock" Android Marshmallow and it's had the same issues.
It's not about access control, it's about the fact that browsers are free to make speculative GET requests whenever they like, and they actively do to pre-fetch pages. His GET end-point was pre-fetched by his browser, activating the door. This would still happen even if there was a token or session associated.
The lawmakers did something far worse than disregard the constitution.

The drug laws exist because they wanted to throw black people in the dungeon.
I really don’t like that, I prefer debugging with curl which easily supports the other verbs.
what personal data is being exposed - the EU isn't keen on anonymous publishing in general eg in the UK any thing published by a political party during elections etc must have both the printers name and their agents - the penalties are quite severe .
The only issues that this really could address. Would be nice to have a "Wall of Shame" for these gaps.

A) Racket is so enjoyable everyone builds their own solutions

B) "The view that full-fledged problem solving almost always calls for language design" Which sadly falls onto deaf ears especially people from Python.
Isn't the point of this thread that the OT says that he shouldn't have used GET for this?
That's what you get when you mix a highly electronegative element with anything else!
Well, the claim is that a minority of users experience hostility, so I’m not sure how you would define statistical significance. Also, a poll wouldn’t distinguish so-called virtue signaling.
Which one would you recommend for normal web browsing?
I won't blame people for storing a private copy, but I will blame people for sharing such copy if it is against my will, especially if they're claiming it is their right and thus my integrity has to suffer.
He’s created a hash function and hash functions have applications apparently.

It’s publishable because you can link it to blockchain somewhere in the article.
Replacement projects for big legacy technology stacks have a track record of costing huge amounts and then not delivering. So keeping them running for as long as possible can be perfectly rational.
I wrote a book and never published it, the only person who's read it is me.
Of course, I agree. In time, as the scala ecosystem flourishes and adapts, I, along with many others, may be coaxed back in.

Scala suffers from a problem of too many bright people all trying to solve too few problems. And implicits. Bad idea there. But the rest of it is logistical, and just takes time, as you said.

Have faith! Learn ocaml or f# too, but have faith all the same.
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You just have to look at the effects of the 18th amendment to see the point the OP is making.

In the USA it caused massive increase in organized crime and corruption - the effects of which are still with the US today
Unfourtunately not, it’s part of a very expensive ERP package. But this article has a few screenshots:

https://www.scopesystems.com.au/whats-new-pronto-xi-740-scop...
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> * typing feels much nicer, no lag in character input

This is huge for me. I feel like every Android phone has some kind of lag when typing and scrolling. It's really annoying me to the point of sticking with iOS even thought I'd love to switch to Android.
They use height data rather than land/water data, and assume that there's just a cutoff at sea level. I think this gives them the correct answer for the water path, but it gets things wrong for the land path because there are a lot of lakes and rivers above sea level and also some dry land below sea level.

If you don't allow the path to cross any lakes or rivers at all then I think the land path has to be much shorter, since rivers makes it impossible to make any progress at all in most places. If you trace their path it definitely goes through several lakes. The optimal path is probably across a desert, my guess would be Antarctica.

If you do allow the path to cross lakes and rivers then I think there's a longer path than the one they give, starting in Liberia and ending near Fuzhou, China. They probably didn't spot this one because it passes too close to the Dead Sea, which is below sea level (and crosses the Suez canal, which is at sea level).
The Earth is not a sphere.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_the_Earth
Reading from a database isn’t “side effect free”, neither is reading from a mutable variable.

Given that HTTP requests are supposed to trigger database reads that may return a different result after some time, then “side effect free” would indeed be incorrect.

The litmus test is ... does it always return the same output given the same input? If that can change, the it’s not describing a pure function, but a side effectful one.

And the output of a GET request can and does change.

Speaking of which people here aren’t talking of idempotency in a mathematical sense:

f(f(x)) == f(x)

If you really think about it, GET requests aren’t even idempotent ;-)
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