skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post above said:

> If you are a solo founder without any business presence in the EU, or clients in the EU, you have nothing to worry about. Blocking EU site visitors is unnecessary, and GDPR covers this in clear language.

Do you think this statement is correct or incorrect? If you think it's incorrect, then why are you interpreting the "clear language" of the GDPR differently from its poster? (I personally think the statement is either incorrect or too vague to assess.)

If you think the statement is correct--I presume, because you think that as soon as an EU visitor signs up, you have a "client" or "business presence" in the EU--then what meaning does that poster's statement convey? Does it mean anything more than "blocking EU visitors is unnecessary, as long as you have zero EU visitors", a true and entirely meaningless statement?

Or are you saying that the email address makes this different from just a visitor? Even if my server is a typical default configuration that logs time and IP for each visit? Even if my ad network logs tracking cookies? Even if a data broker exists somewhere who could map that information to a real name? Even if I buy that data?

And, for clarity: What about the case where the website (1) calls out only products with authorized distributors only in the USA, (2) has recipes for all kinds of food, (3) describes restaurants only in the USA, (4) is in English only, and (5) isn't advertised makes it subject to the GDPR? The EU says in an example that:

> Your company is service provider based outside the EU. It provides services to customers outside the EU. Its clients can use its services when they travel to other countries, including within the EU. Provided your company doesn't specifically target its services at individuals in the EU, it is not subject to the rules of the GDPR.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

Do you agree with this guidance? If yes, what factor constitutes the specific targeting? Or does the "travel" language mean we exclude only non-EU residents who temporarily visit the EU? Also EU residents who sign up while in the USA, but then return home? But not EU residents who sign up while in the EU?

How sure are you that your answer is correct? I get that you're sure that it's morally right, and complying is always the conservative choice; but what probability would you assign that an EU court would reach your same conclusion, that all 216 cases are subject to the GPDR?

And since any suggestion that the GDPR is less than perfect attracts angry reactions: I am not asking whether it's a good idea to comply with the general spirit of the GDPR for all visitors worldwide, and I think the answer to that question is yes. I'm asking what the law says. I think the rule of law is important, and I'd venture that most people who have lived in countries with and without it would agree.
Yeah i agree with this comment. The only thing I’d say is that the point is hard to make in a friendly way. People borrow without consideration all the time, be it money, belongings or even favours. In all these cases there is little respect for the value of the debt the individual has been granted. It leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth when i see people continue to take credit upon themselves without any thinking forward as to how they will service it, or what limitations it may place on them in the future.

I didn’t come from a wealthy background, my parents didn’t go to university, i had debt...but i sure though long and hard about its impact to my life and how i would return it to the lender. I think most of our problems could be solved by simply not over extending ourselves, and when people do it i often am left thinking how inconsiderate they are. This person took nearly $100,000 in debt and had next to no income, how is that sane or responsible?

Good soft skills can certainly land this point better, but at some point someone’s needs to tell people to stop doing stupid things and it won’t feel great hearing it.
Nowhere did the OP say she should declare bankruptcy, so I’m not sure why you said the OP is clueless. I believe the OP understands the author is stuck with the loan.

Your opinion about fraud is also unsupported. Even the author conceeds she didn’t read the contract, nor did she express any understanding of how her interest rate is set.

Frankly, she still doesn’t seem to understand the basics of how loans work.

“I will have paid nearly $170,000 to my original $95,000 loan.”

The above quote is meant to express her outrage, but it’s meaningless. She’s missing the time component.

I pity her and I think the student loan business is in a terrible state, just remember who the politicians were who got us here and what they said these laws were for.

The road to hell is surely paved with good intentions. Which is why it’s better think selfishly rather than altruistically.
Maybe you haven't read but we're in the age where "personal responsibility" doesn't exist.
Ugh, WF was one of the remaining anonymous, non-loyalty places. Damnit
Given how public hearings just turn into opportunities for political grandstanding, empty soundbites, and gotchas, this is probably a good thing.
In theory, but the wallets of a few hundred families are deeper than everyone else’s combined. All it takes then, to make “vote with your wallet meaningless” is to introduce one or two major divisions in society and the elites can rest easy knowing they control lobbying as well. It would take a society-wide alliance to fight the influence of the Koch brothers, George Soros (and of course about half of the population only wants to fight one of them and not the other). When you factor in the money and power of corporations like Goldman Sachs and Exxon... well... don’t bother.
Amen.
Maybe Airbnb should mention that
a) normal rental agreement doesn't permit porn production.

b)and if a residence is used for porn that the host and Airbnb gets a share of revenue - separate contract.
Do you mean Reagan? Bill Clinton became president in 1993, Bush I in 1989.
That’s what you got out of the article?

I think the point of the article is that we shouldn’t have predatory loan companies that are going after kids who are trying to get higher education.
Good point, re soft bodies fossilizing more rarely - because what may have happened is the squids just didn't show up in the fossil record for a very long time, nor the proto-squids. Ocean acidification at various periods (say due to CO2 variations at different periods, which were large) would be a factor.

I'm not saying the 33 scientists weren't well aware of these considerations, though.
Adding a trusted component on a trustless system is not the opposite of a holistic trusted system.
She's not smart. No amount of college is going to fix that problem either. She states that she knew her parents thought this was a bad idea. But she wanted to take the loan because if she didn't she would have to transfer colleges or drop out, and those two choices meant she would lose friends.

She chose a college she couldn't afford, and when the warning sirens were blaring in her face she doubled down.
Among other things: TOTP.
None of those things matter if you are competing in a shrinking market.
Preparing the world for the possibility that AI will destabilise global politics
Pretty similar to Quebec, Canada. Lenders are typical banks, but the state pay interest while you are still in school and a bit after for you to get set. No need for collateral, but you can't get rid of it with bankruptcy. Interest is low.

This US education system, just like healthcare, is something I just can't wrap my head around..
There’s an interesting surprise: the Shannon Juggling Theory.

> By building on the juggling theory of Claude Shannon (yes, that Claude Shannon—the father of information theory was also an avid juggler), Kalvan's studies detail the ways that juggling more balls requires a simultaneous increase in the height, frequency, and precision of one's throws.
In her defense, when I went to college, we had financial aid advisors whose job it was to explain the options. I can say unequivocally I was not prepared to make that decision on my own at that age. Years later, it came out that Banks were giving those advisors kickbacks to steer students to their most profitable loans. In typical fashion, the banks and schools paid a small fine and promised not to do it again, with 0 recourse for the students.

Fortunately I didn't get stuck in something this ugly, but i definitely could have.

Our schools do a VERY poor job of educating students on fiscal responsibility. It's actually something I think every high school should have as a required course.
Came here to say this. The photos didn't help sell her story either, making her look a bit clueless and entitled.

It's a shitty situation, to be sure, and I definitely think there needs to be some fixes put in place for outrageous student costs, but this article just doesn't help the case.
You know PhD candidates have their tuition paid for and get a stipend. They don’t pay for it like you made it seem or seem to think.
> with quite decent accuracy

Citation needed. I've tried commercially available systems about 15 years ago, and the results were universally awful.
The next milestone is actually to write a code generator for structs, maps and slices.
While that's true, it's worth remembering that the primary audience for student loans is 17-18 year old high school kids who have a lot of social pressure to go to college and not much financial education.
Let me make sure I have what you're saying correct. You think the basis of all of this backlash stems from anti-Semitism rather than:

Blatant political corruption

Selling/distributing of user data to shady third parties

Poor protection of user data

Privacy invasion beyond what's reasonable to sell people adds

Tracking of individuals who do not have accounts

...

Do I have that right? If so I find it hard to agree with your conclusion.

Edit: OP edited the anti-semitism bit out of their comment.
Thanks, those were very informative.
You're not wrong but you're not right either. There are organizations that prey on people because they estimate they won't do their due diligence. These organizations are leeches on our society.
It may be clickbait, but it's not clickbait that's trying to sell you something or more generally make money - it's trying to get people interested in space, and it's relatively wholesome, so I agree.
The flip side is that without government guarantees people would be complaining that college is only for upper-middle class kids who's parents can afford to pay.

TFA's author goes on about how her father tried (unsuccessfully) to talk her out of taking a loan with "abusive interest" but that didn't stop her.

My mom was pretty unhappy I tricked her into letting me sign up for the army at 17 but that doesn't mean there's anyone to blame but myself.
I think it should begin earlier. In primary school, kids should learn that debt is bad. Animal Crossing has done more for this than schools have.
Because they're in power. I recommend Jacques Ellul's Propaganda. The fact that the tactics are totally obvious is, in fact, exactly the point. They serve not to convince, but remind who has the power.

Ellul has a passage in which ancient Chinese poetry is "analyzed" by communist party members. This was served in classrooms of course. And the analysis was manifestly ridiculous. Anyone who reads it can't help but chuckle at the ham-fisted attempt to suggest that a poem about the sky, actually was referring to the glorious peoples revolution.

But: read that every day, hear in class every year, hear 1000 messages that confirm and reinforce this crazy, idiotic, message, and you can't help but be affected by it.

That is the nature of propaganda. In it's essence, it is a demonstration, an exercise of power. There is nothing subtle about it, and only part of it is covert.
If you make student debt dischargable, the cost of the loan must also include the cost of insuring against borrower default. I.e. students who don't default must pay for those who do, plus an additional amount to due to uncertainty in future default rates.
Yes - a bit at a time, I take it whereas some bacteria can swallow whole chromosomes entire (so-called "competence"); so I was skeptical about so much DNA transferring to just one kind of creature, at once.

But now I think about it, the frozen octopi or eggs would bring a lot of alien octopi viruses along with them that might be able to do the job for all I know.
I wonder if this is really a generational thing vs a different type of person winning NOAA grants than in the past. Ie, people more interested in hype, advocacy, networking, etc than science.
You are right. I totally missed it in the first few tables.

The lack of allocs for JsonParser was definitely a big win for my project. When processing at high rps (40k msg/sec), GC is near the top of all my performance profiles. Driving allocs down with Buger's parser was very helpful for getting the throughput up.
That looks neat! I'm going to check it out.

It gave me a related app idea. Maybe it would require gmaps integration and probably wouldn't be AR, so probably a different app altogether. But, what about an app that plopped famous ancient landmarks into my neighborhood? And let me "walk" out of my front door & walk down to the Colosseum or Great Pyramids? That would give a really cool sense of scale because it would juxtapose the environment I know best (my home) with the environment I'm learning about. (If anybody wants to take this idea feel free, I don't know mobile development)

Tangents aside I will check out your very cool looking app today.
> While it’s (still) possible to obtain the standalone versions, it’s difficult to find them. And I expect that in a few years, they’ll be gone completely

They mentioned somewhere on their site (I don't remember exactly where...it might have been in an answer to a question on the forums) that one of the points of 1Password 7 is to bring the standalone versions up to parity with the subscription version.

Right now, standalone and subscription are essentially different products, with all new feature work going into the subscription product. With 1Password 7, they become essentially one product with different licensing options.

It sure didn't sound like they plan to get rid of standalone.
Because it's crossplatform. I can open the kdbx file on ios, mac, win and linux. Probably elsewhere too, but these are the ones I use.
What value does it provide beyond the old family license pack + syncing of shared vaults via free Dropbox tier?
It's actually the next milestone, a generator for structs, maps and slices. Until now the goal was to make it ready for some high traffic services in production. These traffic receive JSON with chinese, vietnamese character so we needed to make sure it works well first (boilerplate was not an issue).
Bitcoin is not the only cryptocurrency, and there are forms of distributed consensus in which the economic commitment is denominated in the currency itself (proof of stake) rather than any real-world resource like the computation required for proof of stake.

Ethereum will likely operate on proof of stake within two years.
A man without a job goes to you to ask for a loan. He wants the money for a trip.

You perceive a high risk and demand a 100% yearly interest rate. He accepts.

Did you make the right choice as the lender?

Lending has a ceiling on the capacity of the borrower to default. The issue with student loans is that the lender has no downside to giving defaultable loans.
wasnt passing judgement, just waxing poetic
US federally subsidized loans don't accrue interest while you're in college either. And the interest rates are fixed at around 3 to 4%. So I think the US should strive to move more student loans in this direction. It's pretty obvious that you're probably going to get screwed by any private loan (Sallie Mae).
The easiest solution is to block access to EU citizens.
Paying for a Prime membership doesn't change the experience of using any other website at all. It costs the same amount as an HBO subscription. Does an HBO subscription lock you in to their channel?
The decision is about how to pay off that loan.
The main problem with multiplayer is that 0ad is still just using a single thread for everything, so all the path finding, rendering etc. competes with network related requests. One effect of that is that the player with the slowest hardware might introduce lag for all players in multiplayer games at the moment.

Splitting the game logic into multiple threads to have at least network related stuff happening in another thread is afaik on the roadmap for the next development cycle.
No Place to Hide: Contactless Probing of Secret Data on FPGAs [pdf]
I've used 1Pw local sync for years, and it's very finicky. When I've contacted support, they only offered suggestions like "restart the app", or "upgrade to the latest version" (even though there's nothing in the changelog which seems possibly relevant). Some days I'll add two new passwords, sync to my other Mac (multiple times, even), and only one of them is transferred.

The move to their own "cloud" as the primary sync system pretty much ensures other sync methods will never get properly fixed. I wouldn't have recommended 1Pw to people looking for non-cloud sync in the past, and now I definitely wouldn't.
I don't see the "political corruption"" angle.

The rest (your distortions aside) was already addressed by him and the company on many occasions still the animus directed at him is extraordinary.
No showboating (like what we saw with the US hearings, a lot of senators went on random tangents to placate their voter base). More likely they'll just be talking specific difficult/uncomfortable positions for zuck and staying focused on it.

None of this getting a canned answer that half dodges the question and moving on, instead getting an answer that picks apart more of the nuance.
If We All Left to “Go Back Where We Came From”
Probably nothing other than ease of use, but the old model isn't part of the equation for me. 5 bucks a month for my whole family to have good password security practices, and for 1password to sustain continuous updates, is a great deal.
I find it really bizarre to be living in an age that such a thing happens. And by that I mean I couldn't imagine back in the early 1990s that owners of websites would be meeting leaders of nations to discuss the rights of citizens of the world.
The Temperature Side Channel and Heating Fault Attacks [pdf]
I agree they are burying the hell out of it, but as it stands licenses for 1Password 7 (which is still in beta on Mac & Windows) can only be purchased from within the client, as they want to test the order flow which was rebuilt in this version.

The Windows version of 1Password 7 still can’t be licensed, they haven’t built that part yet. The Mac version however can be purchased, and if you plan on sticking with it I would do so now, as the price will be much higher in the near future. Right now it’s being offered at 50% off.
What are the comments? Usually people that complain that I don't comment enough are also the ones that add extremely useless comments like:

// Return this
return this;
New York is the tech sector's official second city
Season 1 of Daredevil was probably my favorite show in recent memory (followed by West World). I don’t like political dramas, but House of Cards got huge critical acclaim. Definitely mentioned in the same circles as say Mad Men.

Personally, I’d rather watch Netflix’s catalog over AMC’s or HBO’s.
Those things aren't being done with the EHR data, at least in the real world yet. Those benefits aren't being realised yet (which is far more likely due to regulation of the data rather than EHR uptake). To doctors, an EHR is just a replacement for paper with a clunky, hard to use interface. It's hard to beat the flexibility of paper.

From what I've seen from EHRs and other related software, they're absolute garbage to use. I wouldn't want to use one either.
Welcome to the world of lending. Thats how its supposed to work.
DeepMarks: A Digital Fingerprinting Framework for Deep Neural Networks [pdf]
Legacy media is threatened by social media. So they focus on the bad parts and use what power they have remaining to shame and try to shut down social media.

When in reality, I believe, social media has done more to connect people and show them more possible lives than anything in history.

Journalism in its best form is first-hand. Meaning, those images and videos of events you see are most likely coming from an eyewitness on the ground, who happened to be there. Legacy journalism will have to evolve to survive. So far its devolved
Wondering if it's available via udemy/udacity or the likes?
Ah, I see why it’s useful for me: I use Chrome and Chrome stores passwords per profile. And I have several profiles that must not be shared (private, work-dev, work-sysadmin...), and an OS-wide password manager would be super-prone to mistakes. I also use Firefox for non-Google-approved work (ex: MRA and James Damore), and, same, profiles work super-well.
A person can be indeed irresponsible and yet that does NOT mean we refuse to criticize entities that take advantage of and abuse irresponsible people!!
After using (and loving and having paid for) 1P for years, I moved over to Enpass a year or so ago. Their clients are not as good as 1P's, but I simply neither want a subscription based service (what happens if they are bought / go under), nor do I want my passwords to reside on their servers (encrypted or not).
A.I. Is Harder Than You Think
Introduction to Ricardian contracts
Less like a obsession, more like a paid agenda.

He is discrediting reliable anti-war (i.e. anti-government) news sources.
Older versions could sync with e.g. Dropbox. So to get your passwords, someone would have to break into dropbox and then into your encrypted vault.
> You can sue for anything

Sure, but that's nothing to do with GDPR and can be done today.

Tacking GDPR onto a frivolous suit doesn't add anything and also doesn't set any precedent.

The law clearly sets out how to handle GDPR complaints, and it's not via the courts.
Simple Photonic Emission Analysis of AES [pdf]
Interactive visualizations in R with altair
China’s Crypto-Chips King Sets His Sights on AI
I mostly agree, but I don't see the need for name calling.
Maybe someday we will actually enact policy to prevent predatory lending practices to our youth.

We could fix this really fast to by allowing people to default on these loans.
Here's be passage in question:

```In on article in Pruula in May 1957. the Chinese writer Mao
Dun wrote that the ancient poets of Chma used the following
words to express the striving of the people toward a better life:
The Bowers perfume the air. the moon shines, man has a long
life " And he added: “Allow me to give a new explanation of these
poetic terms The flowers perfume the air — this means that the
flowers of the art of socialist realism are incomparably beautiful
The moon shines — this means that the sputnik has opened a new
era In the conquest of space Man has a long life — this means
that the grout Soviet Union will live tens and tens of thousands
of years “

When one reads this ouce, one smiles If one reads i* a thousand
times, and no longer reads anything else, one must undergo a
change. And we must reflect on the transformation of perspective
already suffered by a whole society in which texts like this I pub-
lished by the thousands) can be distributed and taken seriously not
only by the authorities but by the intellectuals This complete
change of perspective of the Weltanschauung is the primary totali-
tarian element of propaganda.

```