skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that it relates to you, but maybe just for others: "better user expirience" is not something without it your website could work. If this means handling PI (for analytics (GA way, not local) for instance), you cant just flush it down the legitimate interest.

Over the thumb: you can use it for things were you need PI for your service to work, it is normal, that you request address if you operate the online shop, you can't deliver the goods without it, while analytics is something users don't need and is not required for your service to operate.

I was just writting complaint letter to my phone/isp company where they showelled marketing, questionars, threat assesment (not IT security, customer assessment) analytics and few other fishy things into legitimate interest, without even providing information about which data they use and why exactly. Legitimate interest is a really nasty thing and it is hard to get it right, it is not free "get out of jail" card.
If you use data such as repayment history, income, assets, and other metrics highly related to whether or not somebody is going to pay back a loan, and the resulting model does not output equal representation among arbitrary population groups, I fail to see a problem. If the data being used to train the model has absolutely no knowledge of arbitrary group identifiers, such as "gender" or "race," the resulting output quite simply not biased.

However, if something like "race" or "gender" is actually being used as a feature input, then the output from most ML strategies is highly likely to pick up on correlations between racial and gender groups and certain outputs. That is undoubtedly going to lead to negative discriminatory outputs.

So while I see absolutely no problem with the first scenario I mentioned, and I clearly see a problem with the second scenario...I'm inclined to believe that the politics of many people would lead them to have a problem with both.
> This is a thought-experiment by the Design team from years ago that uses a technique known as ‘speculative design’ to explore uncomfortable ideas and concepts in order to provoke discussion and debate. It’s not related to any current or future products."

> Google prompts users to select a life goal and then guides them toward it in every interaction they have with their phone.
Storing the Prometheus data in long term storage raises one question for me... what is the process for upgrading the TSDB data format when it changes over time?
Is it obvious that fighting a war of defense is evil?
> though this may be a simplification for the layman

It's almost the opposite of that: a simplification for professionals' sake. You can set up an eternal black hole and enjoy the simplifications its time-invariance permits, but then you have to match the outgoing Hawking radiation flux (as seen at infinity) with an ingoing one.

With a collapsing-matter black hole you lose time-invariance, because, coarsely, there is a region of spacetime where there is spread out matter and no trapping surface ("event horizon", or whatever, let's be agnostic about that), there is a region of spacetime where there is a trapping surface, and finally there is a region of spacetime where the trapping surface is gone and there is a gas of thermal radiation. But on the bright side, then you don't need any ingoing flux to balance the outgoing Hawking radiation. Instead you look at non-trivial Bogoliubov transformations between these different regions, which model how observer in region-with-horizon sees particles that observer in region-with-uncollapsed-matter ("no horizon yet") does not. (You can additionally change the speed of collapse, which changes the difference in particles that the later observer sees: sufficiently slow collapse means no Hawking radiation at all.)

(Professionals even make other simplifications, like dealing with a free-as-in-linear scalar quantum field rather than realistic interacting matter; it won't matter much since "real" Hawking radiation would be almost only photons anyway, and the stark problems around the border between the region with the horizon (and Hawking radiation outside it) and the region with only Hawking radiation (and no horizon) likely do not depend on the precise content of the hottest Hawking radiation.)
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Online publishing is a different concept than open access.

Elsevier has had a very strong online publishing platform for quite a while now (including SRU interfaces for federated article search, which we integrated too). If you were involved in that effort, my belated thanks :-)
Even if you write NIF C or in Rust. They can take down Erlang's BEAM VM.

> http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html

Erlang itself shield you from actually doing stupid thing and follow the assumptions that BEAM have while running programs.

You're better off choosing a different language. Have Erlang deal with concurrency but don't have it do number crunching.
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Looks great, but there are a couple things that I think they could work on:

> $99.99

This is in-line with, or slightly above, other players in the market (e.g. TI, Casio). I'd love to see someone challenge them in this space with something that's like $25. I can get a cheap $10 scientific calculator that does 60% of the same things for $10, so it really seems like there is a spot here for a lower price point. Especially since the hardware is so "old".

> 20+ hours of use on a single charge

A couple hundred hours would be nice. The benefit of a normal calculator is that it works without charging really being a thing that most people have to worry about.
When I read it, I see that the "The data subject shall have the right to ... erasure of personal data ... where one of the following grounds applies: ... the data subject withdraws consent...."

I imagine that HTTP logs associating URLs and IPs are personal data because they associate users with activity, so they would have to be removed.

It's pretty hard to destroy individual log lines (they're often aggregated in zipped files, for instance), and logs show up in lots of places: your load balancer may log, your web server may log, your application may log, those logs may be backed up to tape, you might have debug logs captured for analysis from any of these systems, and those debug logs might be present on developer machines, not on servers or long-term storage.

That basically means that if any user asks to have their data erased, you have to figure out whether they owned that IP address at that time (so they can't ask for others' information to be removed), then delete all those logs, potentially rewriting your whole tape archive(!), potentially having developers destroy the debugging info they were using to track down a memory leak or whatever (on laptops, or in the ticketing system, or in heap dumps, or wherever it might be).

It's pretty easy to say "don't keep logs of IP addresses", but that's one of the major ways people detect malicious traffic, e.g. spam, denial-of-service attacks, and break-in attempts. It's hard to live without that.

Am I reading something wrong? Is there something I missed in that section that makes it easier?

Is "so we can look for malicious traffic" enough of a legal ground for processing to keep personal information around indefinitely even if the user asked for it to be removed? I can't imagine that's so, as that would be a pretty big loophole.
Awesome project & blog!
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But it is nearly impossible to systematically keep track of the candidates that aren't hired to see if they are successful elsewhere.

LinkedIn could offer this as a service, if there was sufficient demand that they could monetise it. Every company will routinely check out every candidate’s profile anyway. They just need an automated way to check again in 6 months and see if everyone they reject is going to a competitor who is beating them in the market.
They claim to use Angular, React and Vue.js so that did not help me much.
You have therefore eliminated everyone not interested in that from your pool. Good candidates know they are good and will avoid too much contrived hoop-jumping.
The thing that makes this trickier than it looks is that these features aren't necessarily encoded in a straightforward way. For example, race could be inferred with some loss of accuracy from zip code. Add more variables and it might be inferred with more accuracy.

Machine learning doesn't necessarily do what you want it to do; it probably will "cheat" and use an easier proxy variable, unless you watch out for it.

There is the urban legend about the machine learning program that learned to "recognize" tanks based on time of day in the training set. It probably never happened [1] but it gets the point across.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/Tanks
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What personal data is is a legal definition, so no, you are wrong.

In the EU IP addresses are legally defined as personal data and have been for a long while now. End of story.
Or more accurately, that racism is a social construct.
Second this. Taleb's Black Swan and Spitznagel's Dao of Capital especially were extremely thought provoking and have changed the course of my life. I read them every year at least.
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Post an Ask HN. There are many people on here who have sold their companies (me included).
Almost everyone involved in content creation and tech has a story about being kicked from Google Adsense.

What sucked about Google Adsense doing this is everyone started using Google, then got big and they killed off smaller web ad networks. Then they ripped the rug from under content creators that chose them where they cut them off.

It was a bad move, I sometimes think it was a big data move only to get people's personal information and get free tracking across the web of user activity.

It was definitely evil and the brick wall they setup for clarification was unnecessary and very cold.
In cooking, I like to think of large thermal masses as a thermal battery. Thus, a cast iron pan is good for searing steaks than typical pans because it's a beefier battery.
They're in an awkward position where the entire company does their work on a platform that is not remotely strategically interesting to the company itself.
We don't really have any "rights" at all, a right is just a concept that refers to the expectations humans have of each other and what is and is not okay to do. For example you may have a right to life to but you could still be murdered. Conceptually your rights have always been more than just what the law currently says. The US Declaration of Independence famously declared that all men are simply born with certain inalienable rights. That's just one way of looking at things, but it's an idea that kind of caught on.

Nobody declares our rights, we feel them in our guts. And the public feels this one in their gut without me having to explain it, which is why I call it a right: If something is generally accepted by the public, it is a de facto right. For example you could repeal the 1st amendment tomorrow but that wouldn't change anyones mind about whether freedom of speech is their right. But if you want me to stop being pedantic and actually defend my position, I would argue that people should have this right so that spammy AIs don't just ruin human interaction all together. Imagine a world where you never know if you're talking to a real person or some kind of AI trying to sell you something subtly... Not knowing explicitly whether you're talking to an AI or a real human could have a chilling effect on human-to-human relations.
I am not saying that this is the case in your examples, but sometimes these "predictors" create an unfair feedback loop. e.g. Cops patrol majority black neighborhoods more because of higher misdemeanor rate and because misdemeanor is a strong predictor of crime. This higher patrol rate leads to higher arrests (for crimes such as having weed on you that might not have a significant difference among races and neighborhoods). The arrest data is then fed back into the system, leading to even more patrols, essentially creating a forced equilibrium. Whereas if we didn't use the model the system might have naturally evolved to a different state. This is one possibility of why these models might be effective in the short term but not "fair" (i.e. not effective in the long term). But in any case, I think it is obvious that the benefits of a private company (such as the insurance company) are not necessarily aligned with the benefits of the society.
Wow, cixl is a great thing! I love the Dijkstra quote against complexity that serves as inspiration for the language. However, you find this :

> To build Cixl yourself, you'll need a reasonably modern GCC and CMake installed.

I was very taken aback by this. Really? Why do you really need to depend on the cmake monstrosity? It's just a few lines of C without dependencies that they are distributing!

If there is something about cixl that will scare people is the ridiculous dependence on cmake, not its clean syntax.
I thought it was Swedish? Even the article hints that: “the Stockholm-based payments provider.”
Google's speaking bot may have violated two-party recording laws
Also an excellent example of how a site can (and should) be functional without javascript enabled, incidentally.
If they're going for quality, it's hard for a small operation to beat the larger players on price. Presumably as they become more well known, they can go for higher volume shipments and benefit more from economy of scale.

I'd agree a good old-fashioned set of AAA batteries like my old TI would've been a better choice though, everyone's been pushing rechargeable batteries, but beyond the need for recharging regularly, they degrade over time and are often a pain to replace.
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Or the individual. Large companies are made up of many heterogenous people.
Yes, I get that feeling too. Not that is definately so but maybe possible, and hitherto not understood. "Impossible" hasn't fared well in medical or science history in general.
Is it obvious that is is not evil?
Or use this Firefox extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-ft-wsj/

It changes your referer to "Facebook" every time you connect to the Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times.
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Yeah, that would certainly be exciting but we're a long way off from that. The Google Duplex stuff we saw only covered a very narrow domain (taking reservations, etc). And that's not even released yet, and there's no telling when it really will be ready. Nobody even really knows how you would structure an artificial general intelligence at this point... last I heard.
It's easy for ML to pick up on proxies that are related to race even if you exclude what the race is explicitly - zip code and names are two common ones, but this can appear in a lot of different ways.

It's particularly insidious too since a model that accidentally is making credit decisions based on race helps to perpetuate the inequity in the future data.
Hmm. How would you do away with header files in a simple way if you wanted something similarly-scoped to C? Have the compiler vacuum in every source file at once to pick up all references, then discard via dead code elimination? That'd kill incremental compilation :/

(I'm genuinely curious about the answer to this question - I'm also looking for something similar to C)
More beer.
He doesn't have an outlet to plug it in to. He gets all of his electricity from the solar panels. His whole house runs on 12 volt DC.
- How do you deal with the fact that we don't know why anything at all exists? Why, for instance, do atoms, subatomic particles, etc, exist AT ALL? Why not NOTHING?

A: Realize we're all made of the same "stuff" what ever that is... and we'll never know "why", but it matters not, as it has no effect upon our lives if this is merely a hallucination or sim, ignore it, enjoy it, or not, it's always your choice.

- How do you deal with the fact that your life is meaningless. You will die and - at best - leave behind a legacy for history books. More likely, you will die and it will be completely insignificant. To put it another way: How do you deal with the fact that your life is MEANINGLESS?

A: If you seek a lasting public legacy, I feel for you, as darn few achieve that. But your life is meaningless only if you remain selfish and don't give back to society, your community, and friends, seek out ways to help others and share your knowledge, your time is a gift worth giving.

- How do you deal with the likelihood that you will suffer greatly at some point in the future, whether it be from cancer, or some other disease? How does a day of 9-5 work, capped off with a horrible prolonged cancer treatment at the end of your life, not corrupt your mind?

A: I never concerned myself with that possibility, until age 60 when I awoke in a hospital, and lucky to be alive, then I went through a year of hellish pain and depression. What "saved" me was honestly asking myself what would truly make me happier, it doesn't have to be a material object, but in my case it meant getting rid of my car and getting another motorbike as my only transportation.

I ride in all weather, and will ride until I don't have the strength to hold my bike up anymore and it's huge, it saved my life.

Whatever you come up with, I wish you the best in figuring it out.
Well, yes. However, we should look at illegally: it's going to make it much easier for sites to exist in areas where there won't be any enforcement. So it's going to kill European sites, not anything else.

Effectively European companies below a certain size can't allow for forums anymore.

Obviously this will impact things like newspaper forums, tech support, webfora on specific topics, ...
If you're looking for something for engineering, check out the HP 50g. It's discontinued, but it definitely trades blows with the TI 89ti (it even has an IRDA port, SD card slot, and an RS232 port). It's fundamentally an RPN machine, but the stack acts more like a command line, holding objects like equations, variables, and even programs.

For something smaller, there's the Swissmicros DM42. That one is definitely an engineers tool, but it's exclusively RPN. It's basically a super modern HP 42s with a huge, georgeous screen and a USB interface (and a modern ARM MCU). The software is based on the excellent Free42 project.
Ooooh, bitwise looks really interesting...
you all need mote tk in your life.

maybe it's time for jsTk?
It's been a while since I've done any telecom work, but from what I recall, the SIM card just sends a message to your phone with the operator name. The origin of that string could either be baked in the default app running on the SIM card or come from a message received from the network (eg. for a multi carrier SIM card).
Thanks. A couple things I don't think are accurate, based on my limited knowledge:

> As long as each side has weapons that can't be credibly destroyed in a first strike, you have MAD

With the significant qualifier that you need enough weapons to survive to completely destroy the enemy.

> MAD is less a strategy than a reality

I'm pretty sure that's incorrect. It was and is a specific strategy and implementing it was the reason for the ABM treaty and others - defensive weapons would make destruction less "assured". See the source I linked above.
What's so bad about cmake? The first time I ever used it, I was very pleasantly impressed by the percentage system.

I take it that cmake tried to tackle autotools, partially succeeded, and partly succumbed to autotools' all-devouring complexity? :)
We can compare her to Shkrerli, who if the media portrayals are accurate is obnoxious so I don’t want to be seen defending him, but it is a great contrast that the Armenian immigrant got 7 years and the pretty WASP got a slap on the wrist.
How did she get taken advantage of? She commited a billion dollar fraud. All of a sudden just because there's a guy in the picture it's all his playing and she was just a pawn? Don't you think that's extremely patronising?
Right, which is 'overengineering' compared to getting a generator and an inverter.
On a larger scale something like this has been proposed (or maybe even already implemented somewhere?) as an economical way to deal with variable renewable energy (wind, solar); when VRE is plentiful and cheap, giant industrial refrigerated warehouses cool down a few degrees, and conversely when VRE is scarce and expensive, let it heat up a few degrees.
Can't you add it?
They're talking about a variety of hostile, high-temperature environments, not just Venus. "Hell" is a bit cheesy, but it's a totally reasonable expression for "hostile, high-temperature environments."
The only adjective I'd put for Twitter video experience is shit. I really hate it.
I came across this email from Linus announcing the handover: https://lwn.net/Articles/145123/

It's interesting how the first ever git project itself was looking for new maintainer almost as soon as it was created.
Owns Safari, publishes a bunch of mediocre programming books.
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Question to online shopping
An online shopping The JT Store is sell their product at very low range compared to other shopping sites. Is this true? They deliver product at given time? Can i trust them? Please suggest me.
The reason you've been down voted is that takeout gives you all YOUR data that they hold, not THEIR data about you (which GDRP now says is mostly now your data)
The reason why the term is specific is because it’s trying to bring up a point: we live in a society that has mostly been shaped by and around men’s needs and wants, and consequently sees male behavior as the “norm”. That allows certain male traits to be seen as benign, even when they aren’t. The whole “boys gonna be boys” thing: “oh well, so he grabbed your ass you and made you uncomfortable! what’s the big deal? boys gonna be boys!”

That same lenient view extends to other behaviors. Think how many times you’ve seen men described as “assertive” and “commanding” when women with similar personalities are described as “bossy” and “demanding”. That is what the term “toxic masculinity” tries to convey: behaviors that would otherwise be seen as obnoxious or outright abusive are applauded or tolerated because Steve Jobs was a male CEO. He was enabled, by the simple fact of owning the right set of genitals, to get away with it and be widely remembered as a “genius” rather than a pushy boss.

Now, does that mean only males can assholes? Absolutely not. But we do get a lot of slack before judgement kicks in.
The only information is “google employs me”.
How would the overhead of such an act be worth it? And in 10+ years she never slipped up on video? And what about everyone that knows her in real life?

I actually know someone who does this (disclaimer: an ex-boyfriend of my wife). He's a scrawny little guy, arms like noodles but he puts on this big... booming... voice. He's done it for so long that I guess it's become a habit but far from having the desired effect people just snigger about it behind his back. I guess there was a book or a "guru" at some point that advised this in order to seem more leader-y.
Ya, I agree with you that it's definitely tricky business. Including features like zipcode in something like a loan payment predictor is a good example of a sloppy proxy for the underlying and relevant features. Especially when certain data becomes hard to resist using, when something like zipcode of residence might have a 90% overlap with income range and be extremely trivial to acquire, whereas getting detailed and accurate income information from an applicant might be much harder. Tricky stuff.
Aka a birthday “paradox”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birth...

“23 people. In a room of just 23 people there’s a 50-50 chance of two people having the same birthday. ”