skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they do use dollar, right - mano a mano?

If you think that crypto's hardier than real world fungible assets when the shit hits the fan, I imagine it's not me who is trapped in a 'comfortable bubble' as you so condescendingly put it.

Given now infamous recent disclosures about fundamental flaws in our trust in IT at the deepest levels we can imagine, I suspect you vastly overestimate the resilience of digital 'securities'.

Never mind power cuts or flat batteries...
Vast majority of population loves cat videos and would click on "Top 30 reasons to see royal wedding"

I bet those people are shown what their friends post and are moaning on their own forums about the lack of memes and quizzes these days.

The point of the algorithm seems to be to keep you scrolling and scrolling to see what you actually want so I bet that noone is happy.
_When that USB drive is inserted into a Windows PC, without the user knowing it, that worm will quietly run itself, and copy itself to that PC._ Truly magical. Anthropomorphism and personification help continue the myth of sentient, usually evil, software. Whilst scaring the heebie jeebies out of everyone.
GDPR and “not spying on your users” are not even remotely related. GDPR is a massive regulation requiring significant resources that most small businesses simply don’t have.
Which you consider worse than the instant obliteration of millions of people?
Good tip!

There's a wiki page on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sail_bogey
Are you American, by any chance? The whole internet dances to the US tune, legally.

Welcome to our world :)
We ran the numbers on how much it would cost to establish compliance, and with that alone it was barley worth it based on the current EU customer base we have.

We also considered all the additional liability we’d be taking on, and with that alone it was barely worth it based on the current EU customer base we have.

We’d also be very happy if one of our competitors started investing in the EU market. It’s worth about 10 times less than the US market in our industry, so having them chasing peanuts in Europe (and investing in compliance with European - absolutely not international - regulations) would be a truely fantastic outcome for us.
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Is it still believed that Stuxnet was never intended to escape and infect machines worldwide? If so, I think that blunder deserves to be a more prominent part of the story.
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Theoretically it should be faster on twin-aisle. However, you tend to get more passengers/door on twin-aisle planes. A A320 with max 180 passengers is boarded through 1-2 doors, a A380 with up to 600 passengers through 2-3 doors. They could use 7 doors for the A380 but no-one is doing that (refuelling and cargo unloading also takes longer). Other long-haul planes are often boarded through only one door (or the second one for <20 premium passengers). That can lead to boarding times of 30 minutes for a long-haul plane, compared to ~10 minutes for A320/B738 through one door (values from experience).
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Err, they absolutely were trying for a nuclear weapon. That’s what Stuxnet and (later) JCPOA were trying to stop.
> I think many (most?) companies will implement these privacy policies across all of their users

In terms of percentages, exceptionally few businesses outside of the EU will implement GDPR. The rest of the world will overwhelmingly entirely ignore it.

There are 20 million businesses in the US. 500,000 new businesses are created each year. 0.1% or less will comply with GDPR. Why? Because very few US businesses ever do business with the EU.

A small clothing retail shop from Texas or Florida or Michigan is not going to concern itself with complying with GDPR just because they took three orders from the EU. They're going to ignore GDPR and continue doing business as they always have. And the EU is going to find it entirely impossible to enforce compliance for those types of small instances due to the scale & tracking required to do so. If by chance they develop a larger EU business, then they'll comply.

Further, how do you force compliance on a US clothing shop from Florida, that sells 27 items per year into the EU, and violates GDPR (while having zero presence in the EU)? They can't, unless the EU develops a Chinese firewall.

The extremely majority of small businesses in India and China also do not do business with the EU. They will not be worried about GDPR. That's true about nearly all the rest of the businesses around the globe.
I wonder the same. Would I need the web visitor's consent for loading a reCaptcha to verify they're indeed human?

Google fonts is just one of the many font libraries. For example, most web font licenses at myfonts.com don't permit webmasters to self host them. Bypassing the HTTP referer download protection, downloading them and then self hosting the font files could lead to significant legal problems.
Right, which is why my Canadian business doesn't have to follow COPAA /s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
I would consider that to be an 'existing WMD' rather than some new 'virtual WMD'
You also somehow need access to the industrial grade target platform in some way shape or form which is not something a teenager has lying around in their room nor extensive knowledge about to this extent.
Nice work man!

I added your project to Chartly [1]. Looks like a weekend warrior project with most commits on Fri/Sat/Sun.

[1] https://chart.ly/github-dashboard/KDE/rust-qt-binding-genera...
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But you were obeying PECR (or the e-privacy directive), which came in around 2002, right?
Lol, the EU has GDPR which makes it very difficult for any startup to work with anyone because of the danger that someone from the EU might stumble by.
AFAIK, Einstein was not the product of a pair of super-geniuses. It doesn't work that way.

Of course, you're not likely to get an Einstein if a bunch of uneducated idiots breed either, but most really remarkable people like that come from pretty "normal" parents, though admittedly usually from family backgrounds that are at least middle-class, and not impoverished, and where they had good opportunities and education.

If you want to increase your chances of making more Einsteins, there's two things you have to do as a society: 1) minimize poverty, illiteracy, poor education, etc., and 2) increase the birthrate (while making sure as many of those kids as possible grow up in economically and emotionally stable homes). You're not going to get Einsteins from a bunch of dirt-poor subsistence farmers, nor from a tiny cabal of wealthy people.
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You can turn-around a A320/B738 in ~20 minutes (low cost carriers do that frequently), a A380 is really challenging to turn around in less than 1 hour. Furthermore, the A380 will need space of ~2 A320/B738. So per given space and time during peak hours, small planes can actually get you more capacity than large planes. You could change that (boarding A380 through 7 doors, probably faster refuelling) but planes like the A380/B747/B777 were never designed for quick turnarounds.
First of all i did not mean to make you change your blog site - I was just pointing out that the law applies to everything no matter how small.

Second, are you sure about this? My understanding is that if you use third-party tags such as analytics you need to get consent from users and not to use them if they don't consent.

One other thing that is not clear to me is if we need cookie prompts, and how can we implement cookie opt-ins/outs without being able to set cookies.
To date, my most complex piece of software in terms of how it was implemented was a simple calculator written in my first programming course. About a week before I started it, I had learned about regular expressions (the programming construct, not the formal language construct).

The basic implementation was a calculator that could add, sub, mul, div, pow, and sqrt. Bonus points were awarded for adding additional functionality including lettered variables. It started with a relatively clean shunting-yard implementation, but my use of regular expressions quickly fixed that.

My calculator worked under most circumstances, but that thing is an eye sore. I'll never get rid of that source code. I like to go back and look a few key pieces of software I've written through the years.
We’ve got a great privacy policy, and don’t abuse our customers data in any way. However compliance would be very expensive for us, largely due to some of our early architecture decisions. The liability is also insane, and we don’t want anything to do with it. When we looked at how little our EU customers were worth to us, it was a very easy decision to simply abandon them.
Nothing shy of heroic efforts have gone into making such a comprehensive and wonderful-to-use library!

I look forward to seeing its future flourish!

Thanks to all who contributed.
There is TLDR version, it is called the checklist. Here is one:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/resources-and-support/d...

It captures the compliance with a checklist which is shorter than the original 88 page law.
He doesn't need a DPO.
As someone more on the hysterical side, good post, thanks. Can you clarify one part for me? Take this bullet:

> The GDPR is going to expose me to fines of up to 20 million Euros for even the slightest transgression

> No, the GDPR has the potential to escalate to those levels but in the spirit of the good natured enforcers at the various data protection agencies in Europe they will first warn you with a notice that you are not in compliance with the law, give you some period of time to become compliant and will - if you ignore them - fine you. That fine will be proportional to the transgression. You can of course ignore the fine and then ‘all bets are off’ but if you pay the fine and become compliant you can consider the matter closed.

What if you get warned and decide at that point to just shut the site/app/business/project down?

Or is it the case that once you begin operating under the GDPR era, you'll have to handle those "good natured" enforcement warnings, delete data, etc?

I get that I'm probably compliant, and probably wouldn't have any complaints against me. I just don't know if it's worth waiting it out to see if there's an issue, or if now is my only chance to easily not deal with it by just blocking EU users.
I assume you spend a lot of time getting the SME to clarify what the hell they mean by "such and such," as well. :)
The Tesla has multiple different sensors, including ultrasound, radar, and cameras. Fusing information from the different sensors should help correct for such errors.
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there was an actual as-yet unexplained result / measurement

1. "actual" isn't that actual if enough independent
scientists aren't duplicating it using scientifically
accepted testing procedures.

2. "actual" isn't that actual when the quantity is down
at around noise level.

crazy person X has found a bronze alloy that almost seems like antigravity

You're using words like "almost seems" that just don't match up to the results seen, especially considering the flawed testing methods used.
It actually was not. My first 3d software was milkshape 3d and quark for q2 models and map making, respectively.

For money burning reasons I had to use 3dsMax when I was making games for the army. It had been years since I touched it, but a few days and it was fine enough for my purposes. Still wish they'd have let me use blender though.
Is there any chance you might be interpreting the article in a less-than-honest way?
I think you would need to think in the line of a global economy/technology/infrastructure collapse (no power production/utilities, (global) transport, financial crisis), millions of first world being thrown into third world conditions (no access to water, food, medicine) due to the large cities depending on technology.
Also see: https://archive.org/details/james-burke-connections_s01e01
I don't understand either how this article got so many upvotes.

Your article is good. But it's still incomplete, simple tasks like using a CDN / Reduce the number of HTTP calls / Caching can be implemented in an afternoon for lots of simple website, et can dramatically improve load times.
Are you American or European? US law (common law) works very differently from European law (civil law).
> It's like pareidolia, but with sound

Pareidolia includes sound. So this is paredolia. ;)
If you put your phone close to your amp or sound card and if they are not perfectly shielded then you can hear when the phone is transmitting the signal. You can hear modem-like sound before receiving a call or a message, and in idle mode the phone usually transmits something every 15-30 minutes.
The symptoms are consistent with cluster headache, and my doctor has instructed me to get in touch if it reach a point where I'm unable to manage it. For all I care, it's equivalent to sticking a knife in my eye - so very painful. My eye also get severely red and is constantly running when it happens.

> I would suggest that the odds of someone managing cluster headache without medication

Do you find it hard to believe that I, as a person that has managed this particular condition my entire life, is able to tune out the pain as long as I'm completely still and have my eyes closed? I was 30 before it even occurred to me that it was not what other people calls a headache, and I would feel guilty not doing anything with a headache, because people around me constantly said "I have a headache" but acted like nothing was wrong.
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Except in this case the Vogons already visited you 15 years ago to tell you about the e-privacy directive and 20 years ago to tell you about the data protection directives.
>Before someone from north america is "doing well" you need a partner, a 5 bedroom house, two cars, two jobs, and a university education. We can't meet our "needs" until much later in our life.

If it's what your priorities are you can have a home, cars, max out your 401k and be paying back student loans on a single entry level tech salary.

This requires that you put up with a long commute, beater cars, an old house and DIYing a good chunk of skilled trade work that you could hire someone for. You'll be bringing your own lunch to work, drinking beer from a can and not building much cash savings at that stage. Nevertheless it's sustainable on a single entry level tech income in a major urban area and living a couple hours away.

I think that increased spending on luxury things has by implication de-prioritized the "life milestone" things.

Generations ago people bought a house and started a family first. Now people accumulate wealth first and settle down later (which is probably a reflection on the fact that the lifestyle needed to accumulate wealth is not very compatible with settling down).
Isn't a quality of a software engineer to produce good code even when the specification isn't 100% correct? A lot of bad software exists because it was designed to only do what was written in the spec with no room for flexibility. Good engineers will have a dialogue with other stakeholders and clarify any issues and potential future uses.

That means, if you read decimals for roman numerals you'd ask them to clarify as there are no decimals, just integers. They'll admit the mistake and already know that you read the task properly.
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Sort of funny that right under the section titled:

>Let's not criticize Cisco

I get a nice Cisco add.

I know that the author doesn’t choose the ads but it’s still pretty funny.
Yeah in general this approach is based on ActiveRecord from Ruby On Rails.

But in Ruby it's based on method_missing not a proxy. I believe ruby got it's method_missing idea from Smalltalk. But there might be other precursors.
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It just remind me dirty 'hack' from 2005-2010: if you set format for SMS as "E-Mail" on Siemens C65/C72 phone, then send SMS from this Siemens phone to SonyEricsson K210/K750 phone -- this SMS on SonyEricsson phone shown as sent from anonymous ;-)
Ask HN: What are some challenges that need solved for Social Justice?
I'm mentoring a team of student-developers and need to come up with a few projects for them to work on. It would be great if they had some things to work on that could solve challenges in underserved communities. A few ideas I had mulling around, was wondering if HN could think of more ideas.

- Food Justice: A place for people with extra produce to offer their produce to their neighbors.

- Criminal Justice: A way for people in New Orleans with incarcerated loved ones in Louisiana State Penitentiary to pool their resources to find rides to the distant prison.

- A place to receive notifications about and engage with city & state legislation around a chosen topic. e.g. "Let me know when the next LGBT bill is up for vote in my city or state". Provide a platform for people to engage with their government (like Countable, but for state & local government)

Any feedback on these ideas? Or more challenges that technology might be able to help address in underserved communities?
I find it amazing so many companies are willing to advertise the fact that they will abuse their customers in the way you are doing right now.
Good observation. I still hear yanny starting more left-center, but it makes a difference
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No, minor obfuscation is not ok. The same as a picture can be a problem for blind people, your example can be an issue for people not speaking english (it's a German law). I wouldn't take any risks with these laws.
You know what's worse than the instant obliteration of millions of people? The slow obliteration and starving of millions of people.

Imagine Venezuela, but much much worse.

Picture a society that doesn't know how to create institutions, conduct trade and collaborate with the people around them without the aid of a computers.

Now, I don't know if disabling their computers would result in an incredibly dysfunctional society that would starve, but it's not unthinkable. If it did, the suffering could be far beyond the instant obliteration of millions of people.
Which is an indictment of the laws, but not necessarily the system.
I was wondering about this: how your, let's say, "native phonemes", might affect what you hear. Is there a word like "Laurel" in Arabic, for example? Would that bias non-English-native speakers to "yanny", or another interpretation entirely?
An advocate of rules-based regulation would say this can make regulators unpredictable and capricious.

Unfortunately, so might students of history. Ask anyone in the UK who was working in the freelance or contract world when IR35 was introduced.

In that case, too, the principle was reasonable enough: there was a loophole in tax law where you could decide you're a contractor instead of an employee and pay less money despite for all other practical purposes still being an employee, and this was being actively exploited by some people.

In that case, too, the reality was that most people working in the sector probably wouldn't be challenged by the authorities, not least because the enforcers had limited resources.

But in that case, too, a given individual's status was often unclear. While some of those who were deterred or subsequently received penalties really were engaging in obvious tax avoidance, other reports described crippling penalties for people whose arrangements appeared to have been quite reasonable but to have fallen foul of someone in government's dubious interpretation.

This led to substantial amounts of time and money being collectively spent by the freelance and contractor community incorporating new legalese into contracts and paying for advice and taking out insurance policies. An entire trade body was formed primarily to deal with this threat. Even today, those of us who take on any sort of individual contract or freelance work from time to time have to be careful not to say or do certain otherwise reasonable things, or to allow others to do so, for fear of tipping the balance or giving any appearance that might be subject to challenge.

And the irony is that while the law arguably had some effect initially in getting contractors to go back to being permies if they were just using it as a tax dodge, overall it appears that IR35 has raised very little extra tax revenue for the government. It turns out that the vast majority of contractors and freelancers were operating in that fashion legitimately and continue to do so, and most enforcement actions appear to fail to the extent that the government even tries any more. Nevertheless, the rules still hang like a sword of Damocles above the whole sector.
Will we become dependent, and again exporters of prime matter, never acquiring our know-how needed for true economical independence?
I'm not sure it would be. I don't think we've considered all that can happen with a sophisticated worm.

The problem with leveraging nukes is MAD. With worms, you can do a lot of damage without even knowing who did it. Think the Anthrax attacks in 2001 x 1000.

With worms, you can do a bunch of damage over a long period of time without getting discovered. What's the US going to do, start a nuclear war over it? No, see MAD above.

I mean if a worm could figure out how to stop shipping (say simultaneously disable control / start systems of vehicles or gas pumps), people will start to starve after a few days, then probably total chaos will happen leading to a bunch of deaths. That's just a single scenario.

How about if a worm took control of all the air traffic towers simultaneously and change the information so that controllers would start crashing planes everywhere.

I know nuclear war has been played out on tv and in movies for the last 70 years or so, but I don't see an all out nuclear war between two states lobbing hundreds of warheads at each other ever happening. At least not intentionally. Any type of nuclear detonation would either be accidental, or very isolated.
I don't understand how the EMDrive came to be a serious topic.

First, someone proposed a design that violates both conservation of momentum and conservation of energy, but that's cool because you know, fuck physics. Then there was a hoax and yellow journalism and in the end, several experiments failed to confirm/reproduce the effect, but that's cool because we have this awesome theory we are trying to confirm, right?

By the way, I am looking for a team of physicists that will confirm my revolutionary Tooth Fairy Drive(tm).
I noticed the following comment in the article:

> Encryption – Each local NVMe device is hardware encrypted using the XTS-AES-256 block cipher and a unique key. Each key is destroyed when the instance is stopped or terminated.

Does anyone know if the existing i3 EC2 instances NVMe drives are also encrypted in this fashion? I can't find any articles stating this...

Thanks!