skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Liability for what? You're not going to get sued.

Yes, this is the most confusing thing - a lot of posters talk about "being sued because of GDPR" but that's not how it works. And it's always people with the same arguments - small companies, getting sued, crazy money for lawyers, etc.

If I was paranoid, I would think this is some kind of organized campaign to spread FUD and have as many people be against GDPR as possible, perhaps as a way to make sure something similar won't happen in the US.

It's probably just misinformed people.
>It was the issue that drove Newton nuts (that gravitation was, in Einstein's language "spooky action at a distance")

Was Newton ever much concerned about this? He was into alchemy and magic, even spookier actions at a distance. Plus, by all they knew at the time, why would "action at a distance" feel strange?
Another thing is that some stuff that Americans consider dystopian are seen as good by PRC citizens; for example thieves getting apprehended by leveraging ubiquitous cameras and facial recognition, getting train discounts for not knowing people banned from wechat etc. My guess is all the nutty stuff that went down in the mid 20th century makes "stability" much more attractive
Liability for what?

$20 million in fines that - despite the protestations of everyone that has ever commented in these threads - can be imposed for a first, single violation, without any warnings. If they meant for there to be any safeguards for companies, that language would have been built into the GDPR. But it wasn't. There are no limits, other than $10/$20 million.
Syntax is an element of structure. But, yes, I was going beyond the upthread comment.
Thank you, that looks very interesting. I'm not sure if it's cross-platform, but I'll play with it a bit and see.
Now that you mention it, none. They're all just better than iceberg.

Green cabbage is the lowest vegetable on the hierarchy that I'll actually eat by itself. Though even with that, I sometimes put a red cabbage leaf on top of it.
Often it's not the case, which is why general consensus with SSD's for ZFS SLOG devices is to go with ones that advertise end-to-end power loss protection unless sufficient testing has been done to guarantee the drive protects against partial-writes and doesn't lie about a flush being complete.

Samsung has bigger issues with writes though, almost all of their current drives are TLC NAND which has extremely poor write performance so while short bursty writes can be fast (due to there being a chunk of SLC NAND cells as a write buffer) sustained writes are terribly slow. Optane doesn't typically meet the same peak write performance but it will beat most (all?) TLC drives on the market in sustained workloads.
I believe all that is necessary is NVMe support in both the BIOS and your OS. Standard mini-PCIe NVMe drives are seen as PCIe devices and this is the same thing, just in a full size card form factor. Modern Linux based OSes will boot from it just fine, as will Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. I don't believe macOS allows booting from NVMe PCIe devices on the legacy Mac Pro even with High Sierra, but the OS has native support for using it as a storage drive.
You think that they'd say that, given the choice over whether to be given Nikes, made entirely by automation, or to have to work to make them, that they'd choose the work?

I'm not saying that there aren't classes issues in play here. I'm saying that I wish poor people didn't have to wish to make shoes.

Surely if we can automated all the matter around us to do our will, we can also shape instill in our economies the basic tendencies toward compassion and freedom.
This is mostly lost in translation. The original quote has nothing to do with external shame.
Why can't databases and DBMS systems come out with GDPR-compliant integrations that automatically provide the required data-wipe services? Surely it won't be so difficult to have built-in triggers/scripts that delete data etc automatically? And if the entire ecosystem uses these tools, it'll be better for everyone, and the onboarding/integration even for startups can be easy as well - maybe as easy as simply installing an NPM package.
Elon Musk: I'm starting a candy company
While I very much enjoyed the narrative of plucky Houseman and her cross-tabulation-of-truth battling against elites, smug in their complacent certainty, I’m also skeptical of it.

I spent most of this century in the UK, and the narrative there was always that these jobs have gone away, they are not coming back, that’s why things say ‘Made in China’ on them. This seemed to be the conclusion of other EU countries too. Germany was very deliberate in its approach to manufacturing for export.

I find it very hard to believe that the US alone could come to a radically different conclusion than the rest of the world about the largest economic trend of recent times, because no-one had examined numbers.

The surprising thing is that as a politician you can say what you like, and journalists have neither the ability or interest to examine it before spreading. This seems to be what happened with the automation narrative.
It wouldn't be a win-win if it results in less services being available in the EU - maybe services that are niche, that don't have the time to adapt to regulations, but would otherwise be useful to some of the people in the EU. Is there a way for a person in the EU to opt out?
Europe’s electronic music and metal scene, the whole raspberry/arduino single board concept, Hong Kong/China’s action cinema, Korea’s romantic comedies...

That’s just from the top of my head. There’s big swaths of our culture that radiates from all around the world.

Now more often than not it will be cloned/absorbed in the US to the point US people won’t care to know where it comes from (and to be honest it’s not a issue).
That doesn't limit their ability to impose the maximum fine for a first, single violation. It says they should consider some things. But it does not limit their statutory ability to impose the maximum without warning.
AI is so good at predicting, we predict it will replace consultants buzz-wording by the end of the year.
Passing laws on those issues isn’t even possible in Canadian provinces they don’t have the constitutional right.
There's a credible case to be made that the shipping container did more to kill manufacturing jobs than any trade agreement. The container reduced shipping costs far more than lack of tariffs.

It's also likely that America could not have maintained its standard of living by walling itself off from this new technical development. The rest of the world would have continued to trade without America.
I agree, but driving while high is not at all safe. Sure, it's less bad than drinking, but it's still more dangerous than driving when sober (and rested). Accident rates have gone up since legalization. [0,1,2]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/21/auto-crashes-are-on-the-rise...

[1] http://gazette.com/study-finds-fatal-crashes-in-colorado-hav...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/26/what-...
It used to be you had to go to shady Russian porn or warez sites to get tricked into downloding viruses and malware.

Since then the same groups behind these tactics have realized you can just buy ad placement with a legit exchange and get your malware-dropping JavaScript pop up code embedded on the home page of the New York Times or CNET. There were a few high-profile instances of this happening in 2009 or so.

Letting random sites run arbitrary code supplied by anonymous vendors is bad for your digital hygiene.
>I don't disagree, but I also don't think it's appropriate to say that globalization and free trade should be avoided just because they've harmed those communities - globalization just needs to occur alongside policy changes that offset the localized harm that it does.

Why does it "need to occur"?

For example eating local produce is better for the environment than eating stuff that has been transported for 1000s of miles, with the respective carbon footprint. And that's just an example from an environmental perspective.
I'm a lawyer (day job) and programmer (now hobby, former side job). I find interruptions just as bad for both kinds of work when you are in or trying to get into the zone.

By that, for coding, one good example is trying to work out how something new would be implemented, then how it would fit with existing things, then getting down to implementing. For that, you need a clear mental model of all the moving parts -- what's there, what's not there, what has to be added, and what has to change. When you're in the zone, you know where you are, where you're going, what to add and how to add it. Things just flow. Code appears, and you keep track in your head of files you need to visit and what you need to do in each. If left uninterrupted, you will eventually get there, and hours can disappear without you noticing. Same with debugging, when you're trying to map in your head what is going on, what should be going on, and what might be causing a deviation between the two.

You have to rebuild that model when you get interrupted, and the extent of the rebuilding is usually proportional (and monotonically increasing) to the length of the interruption and the extent you have to commit thought to it.

For legal work, I find that kind of work usually occurs in writing submissions or preparing cross-examination. You're thinking about your overall journey to win the case (usually all or part of your case theory) and how you help get there with what you're working on. You're keeping points made in dozens of cases that you have to interleave when you get to the right place, or that you have to take account of in the evidence (eg what kind of evidence does case X require me to adduce to prove point Y). You're thinking about what is persuasive (the key to all good legal writing) but also about what is accurate (duty to the court), what is admissible into evidence, and what is understandable to your audience (usually a judge). Again, when you're in the zone, it just flows and time has little meaning.

The overall interrelationship is the same as coding -- lots of moving parts in your head, lots of reliance on short-term memory -- and it suffers the same way from interruptions.

My pet theory is that the more that mental work requires saturating short term memory, and making use of it when saturated, the more vulnerable it is to interruptions.
Damn it.. this was my idea. I was going to call the language "raw" x(
The Twitter account "Ominous Null" shares real-life examples of systems mishandling null values:

https://twitter.com/ominous_null/
Is is possible to use QML in a PyQt/PySide2 app? Using QML for interface and Python for logic would make perfect sense. But every PyQt article and tutorial I see is about QtWidgets.
Difference is noticeable, especially in boot.
What about pygobject? What does Qt have to offer over GTK?
We just keep applying for the DV lottery. It’s a long shot but my wife qualifies.

I might move on a TN visa with the understanding that my employer converts to H1-B after 12 months.
I highly recommend setting something like this up. So nice to type a command and be ready to start sketching 3s later. Mine:

`
alias initblock='function __initblock() { mkdir $1 && cd $1 && degit 1wheel/d3-init && gistup -m $1 --private --no-open && subl . && hot-server; unset -f __initblock; }; __initblock'
`

https://github.com/1wheel/d3-init
Denial is rarely a complete thing. Most people will say they aren't 'that' depressed right up to being put in a clinic.

People really overestimate the organizational capacity of somebody in deep depression. Getting a doctor's appointment, showing up, then talking honestly about your problems is really hard. It's doubly hard if you think you have alternatives.

Getting medical help is a really big step. Taking St-John's Wort, or eating more cumin, isn't. And that would be great if they were equivalent. But for a lot of people, they absolutely aren't. Otherwise doctors would prescribe exercise and sunlight.

I'd be really happy if every advice column on depression just told people to go to a doctor. I mean, jesus, imagine if somebody put a github repo up about how to self-treat cholera! Depression is really dangerous. It kills a lot of people. If you have it, you should talk to a professional - not read random studies that are probably p-hacking anyway.
I can’t think of any way it could be otherwise, but please, feel free to enlighten us all how a non-standard port number adds any more security than would an additional 16-bit key.
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/04/13/qt-for-python-is-coming-to...

"PySide2 – the bindings from Python to Qt – changes skin this spring. We have re-branded it as Qt for Python on a solution level, as we wanted the name to reflect the use of Qt in Python applications. Under the hood it is still PySide2 – just better."
I didn't expect there was much electronics manufacturing in the US at all, let alone it has been driving manufacturing "growth". I honestly expected a solid chunk of design happened in the US, then the fab happened elsewhere. This article got me to do a bit more reading (yay!). So, I'm sharing a bit of that, as a starting point for anyone else that wants to dig in more.

This commerce.gov report [0] taught me a few pieces of the puzzle. I especially like the graphics on pages 5 and 7, showing major semiconductor manufacturing and lots of output from Cali, Oregon, and Texas.

This wiki page [1] shows lists semiconductor fab plants. The ones I recognize (as my own proxy for size) are Intel, TI, Broadcom, Seagate, former Fairchild, and NXP/Freescale.

[0]: https://www.commerce.gov/sites/commerce.gov/files/migrated/r...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
In the visual effects industry, it's common practice to write GUIs using Python and Qt that are compatible with PySide, PySide, PyQt4 and PyQt5 all at once. I think that speaks for how similar these bindings really are. Source: I maintain the most widely used shim for such occasions https://github.com/mottosso/Qt.py
Wxwindows was a dream to work with. Electron needs to die a fiery death. preferably the corpse is then mauled by bears and tigers
> Standard mini-PCIe NVMe drives

I don't believe anyone has actually made one of those. MiniPCIe is a different form factor than M.2; the latter is newer and has almost completely replaced miniPCIe. MiniPCIe only provides a single lane of PCI Express, while most M.2 variants allow for two or four lanes, and almost all NVMe SSDs support at least two lanes.
Ask HN: How many GPUs do you train deep models on?
I've noticed that most of my colleagues will only use up to 4 GPUs when training deep models (tensorflow & pytorch).

Why is that?

Do you train on multiple machines?
Here is an article from my local paper in rural Massachusetts that gives more info - http://www.recorder.com/Dairy-farmers-hurt-by-lowest-prices-...
Selling your privacy / data is 100% of their business. The service they provide is 'free' as in a 'free toolbar' that then steals data off your system.
622 might be too low. Scanning first 1024 ports is easier.
The Core 2 Duo was 64 bit and was popular in 2009. Why is 32bit software still a thing?
Interesting that many seem to prefer weekly 1:1s. That seems far too much to me. I would absolutely dread having to spend so much time on that with my manager or my managees and I can’t imagine there are substantial benefits to it (does anyone REALLY have meaningful thoughts about their job/career path EVERY WEEK?)
Yes, but you won't feel like you just switched from HDD to SSD. Going from 15s to 12s is nice but won't make you super excited. This new Optane is the first SSD that might give you that feeling.
Show me where it is written in the GDPR that this could not possibly be the result of a single violation. It's not there. Yes, it says they should consider some things when determining the fine amount. But they still have the statutory authority to impose the maximum at their discretion regardless of any other considerations.

It's not FUD when that's what the law says in black and white.
Libertarians will say this is ok
Or the ratio of script kiddies to developers.
The Importance of Analytics
I think facebook helped win Trump the election or at least that is how its being framed. People are in front of facebook more. They are clicking on stories etc. I guess you could do the same think with youtube, but for example if you use google search its not like you are just sitting there and looking at articles. You find what you need and move on.
Speaking personally, I'd rather opt out of the Load Balancer altogether and instead have a floating IP automatically set up across the workers. Ingresses are easy enough to set up so that would complete the picture.

I think having the Load Balancer option is important for simplicity, but I feel a lot of DO customers (such as myself) opt to use DO for optimizing cost as well. It's a balance.
Just-In-Case v. Just-In-Time Learning
> It wouldn't be a win-win if it results in less services being available in the EU

I don't think that's necessarily true. If a company does not provide the service in the EU but there is demand for it, someone else will fill the spot.
And then what? /etc/ssh is still owned by root, another user can't see the hostkeys. So you'll get an error message if custom keys are used.
I"m not really sure. I'm not an expert on all of this, but I've sourced from the US and China, so this is my take.

The problem is that we (the public and various business owners) are still living under the assumption that it's the year 2000, when you could land from China for $3 and sell something for $30. This isn't true in the "New China," where wages are catching up to the US. That $20 item you are buying on eBay has a COL of $15.

There are three major issues:

1- China has a TON of engineers. This isn't so true in the US. This means that China can get from spec to market in short order. In the US, spec to market is much slower.

2- Supply chain. In China, the manufacturer, design team, broker, sales, printer, and so on are all in one building.

The US supply chain is incredibly convoluted, featuring 5 layers of people who's sole job is to prevent the buyer from contacting the factory directly.

3- China still has an unfair advantage. When you buy a product, a large chunk of that cost is shipping ("free shipping" is up to $7 that you don't see).

This is doubly bad for the supplier, as they have to work out the shipping price for China -> US and US -> customer.

Ever heard of e-packets? It's actually cheaper to use USPS ship from China -> customer than it is to ship a package US -> customer, even if the customer lives across the street.

In short, China has some inherent advantages, but the US also does many things that give China an unfair advantage. Last but not least, the US supply chain is a complex web of back-patting that does little more than destroy itself.

There are plenty of options for cheap US manufacturing, it's just that there is no scale for that, and there are many other small issues. The US has to do much more work than open up a new factory down the street. If we are talking about raw per piece production, the US often does it cheaper than China. It's all the other things that raise the price.
Bobby Tables. Founder, CEO.
You want to opt out of laws?

Laws are not mailing lists.
>I'm surprised that many people don't realize that Optane to SSD for consumer computers is similar to SSD to HDD.

Funny enough, I skipped over SSD entirely, and upgraded to Optane from HDD.

It was like trading in a Model T for a Model X.
Setting up infrastructure is hard, and the costs can add up. I don't want to spend cloud GPU money to debug my crappy tensorflow code.
What about an edge for someone with deep technology knowledge ?
(I'm one of the managers with a README in the article)

It really depends - I've had direct reports that have had plenty to cover on a weekly basis, and others that don't really have anything new -- the point of the weekly 1:1's is that they have dedicated time whatever they want or need from me - and it's their time to use as they see fit. If they want to skip that week because there's nothing new on their side, that's fine (but not every week), and if they are done in 10 minutes that's fine too. Other people have wanted closer to 2 hours a week of 1:1 time. It really comes down to the individual.
Since they meet every night the implicit idea is that whoever is to kill themselves will do it by the end of the night or next morning -- so after that, in the next-next night's meeting they can take whether someone committed suicide or not into account.

Whether someone is "slower at solving logic problems" goes into IQ etc, and is not relevant to the logic problem (the same way "what if someone refuses to kill themselves over something so superficial" is -- one should assume they can all do the math it takes equally well, else we would have been told of that.
That's a good point. NZ wasn't on the list though so I cheated. Let's add Flight of the Concords then :)
Imagine there is one billion people- and they are deemed by their own government so incapable of innovating tech - and so not in need of future IP protection due to a lack of inventions, that such massive industrial espionage is deemed a better trade off.

For a Chinese developer- this is actually the hardest insult somebody could throw at them.
Yes, PyQt4/5 has supported this since it was first introduced, PySide2 just recently got some support for it although it is incomplete. Source: I maintain a Python/QML library https://github.com/pyblish/pyblish-qml
My old plasma TV is 600 Hz and I can't get $20 for it. Sometimes fast enough is fast enough.
You might be able to learn stuff on your own but you'll probably do it at a much slower pace. I consider myself an autodidact but when I started taking in-person classes at my local CC I got access to an almost custom level of guidance. "You get out what you put in": If you're expecting professors to just upload all this karate to your brain, you won't get as much out of it as the guy practicing at home and bringing his questions in.
Thanks. Interesting that some folks in the comments say "actually, this site was abusing your data to make money" - but I don't have a good sense of whether a similar site that didn't use Amazon ads, and either took a small membership fee or was run out of the founder's pocket as a side project, would have things to worry about from GDPR.

On the flip side, does anyone know of side projects or community projects that have said "We chatted with a European lawyer, who said we don't have anything to worry about, and we'll keep doing our thing"? I know Debian is having that chat (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/04/msg00... - and there are some privacy things I think Debian should change, like not keeping people's support emails from years ago public) but I'm curious about projects that are smaller in scope and are basically not trying to hold personal data at all.
Frankfurt a/m I'd hope :)
I'm not sure if he's self-taught (most likely not), but as for languages he did exactly exams required by Canadian immigration service. In any case, my point is that it is observably easier for a CS professional to move to California than to Canada. I don't blame anyone/anything, because frankly I have no first-hand knowledge. Probably, the system is transparent but inefficient.