skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Good luck suing them, but what would be the end game? Ruin their business model?

Are you another American? We seem to keep having Americans who have this idea that the regulation is about lawsuits. I understand that in the US the law enforcement regime is so broken that you end up with "Sued for wrongful death" rather than "Prosecuted for murder" and "Sued for breach of constitutional rights" rather than "Prosecuted for rape" and so on ad infinitum, but everybody else with the rule of law didn't replace their courts with elected politicians and their cops with a violent gang so they still actually have criminal law.

The GDPR doesn't create a new civil tort or anything like that, its an EU regulation, disobeying is a crime so the relevant government agency could _prosecute_ if they can't get you to obey.

The European courts don't have to decide that Europeans have a "right to free content", only that this business model in which you track people without permission isn't legal.

Suppose I have a great idea for a business, I'm going to set up a stall, I'll sell bottles of Coca-Cola for 10¢ each. Obviously at this price I can't buy them wholesale, but no problem, per your agreement that I have "to make money" I will just take them from the bottling plant. Simple.

The court doesn't care about how I needed "to make money", they care that it's a crime to steal the bottles, and I'll go to jail. Oh my 10¢ Coke bottle stall doesn't work as a business if I have to pay wholesale costs instead of just taking the bottles? Well boo hoo.
> Europe should learn to build better tech, and learn to pay their engineers what they're actually worth if they want to compete with the US that pays 3x or 5x more.

I'm an European and I must say that's bullshit.

Yes, you can earn 3x to 5x more in Silicon Valley. Property prices are crazy expensive however, many people don't afford to live near their office, with crazy commute times being common, the schools there are either expensive and crazily competitive or poor, if you work on your own or in a startup it's pretty common to not have health insurance, in which case you can get fucked, plus your gun control is pretty broken and it's horrific to see kids shot in US schools all the time.

I live in Romania. I'm within 15 minutes of my office that I do by bike, I have both public and private health insurance for cheap (and in spite of popular opinion, Bucharest has some of the best trained medical personnel in the world), my earnings are well above the average which means that for me the cost of living is cheap, my 8 year old son goes to a good public school, I own my own apartment and we'll build a house in the future too and I freely travel to Berlin, Munich, London, Barcelona, Rome, etc. yearly for conferences and I can walk the streets of Bucharest without fear, gun-related murders and murder in general being almost unheard of.

People in Silicon Valley may be earning 5x, but the cost of living is 10x at least.

If anything, Silicon Valley is only attractive because all the cool companies are there. But you know what, due to the high competition, nowadays you've got plenty of companies hiring remotely or opening offices in Europe. I'm fine with that.
The Cambridge Analytica whistleblower is using Facebook and Google for incomplete compliance so yes, you can get sued.
Twitter got it right.
I think the anti-philosophy era you are referring to is actually more like an anti-intellectual, anti-science, and generally populist movement that seems to be picking up steam. The most irritating manifestation of which says that you can't learn anything from books, something I increasingly hear people saying. I'd say the progress in more recent philosophy has been the efforts of multidisciplinary types like those in neuroscience and philosophy (ie Sam Harris) to enable more useful and practical 'popularizations' like the realization that meditation has benefits. Unfortunately debates about what 'grue' and 'bleen' are, while actually fascinating when you dig into it, and potentially even having practical consequence, generated an anti-philosophy populist movement that resembles general anti-intellectualism, and isn't helpful.
> To illustrate: there is common belief that metaphysics became irrelevant -- that it was replaced by science. This is, in itself, a metaphysical position, and a misunderstand about what science is and does.

This reminds me of religious people who say "Ha! Atheism is just another religion!" In both cases, there's an inability to conceive of what a truly apathetic position looks like.
That title will make someone a proud winner of bingo.
It really isn't a problem once you're adapted which takes a few days normally (my experience). These guys seem to have no problems with their physical strength on a ketogenic diet: http://www.fatchancerow.org/ - so if this isn't fake (which I don't think) most daily energy demands should be satisfied.
Interestingly at least in my experience this seems to be changing rapidly in just a few months since more girocards (which have much lower fees than credit cards) have gotten RFID. Suddenly it's so much faster at the checkout (no pin below about 30€) and no fumbling to get it in right that it turned at least my shopping from 80% cash to 10% cash. The only thing I now regularly pay cash is the food in the cafeteria, it's always 5€ so no coins and they don't take cards anyway.

Also one huge issue with girocards before this change was, that the cashier first had to press a button to enable the terminal for cards and if you had out inserted already you would have to take it out and in again. That was super awkward every time
Ask EU users: why are you using this shady site that doesn’t comply with GDPR?
Pretty sure that HN is not fully compliant with GDPR, and that only very shady sites that intend to misuse your data are not compliant as of today. How can you stand this blatant violation of your human rights?

OK, I’m being deliberately provocative about it, but it’s a serious question. Is HN actually compliant and I’m just not aware? Or are you giving them a pass for some reason? Or are you all filing complaints right now?

Genuinely curious.
I've had it. A few days of very low carb intake leave me feeling very low-energy, foggy, and crabby. It's more of an issue if I'm also too calorie restricted, so if your goal is weight loss, I'd recommend starting Keto first with a similar number of calories to your existing diet, then restricting calories once you're past the adjustment phase.
Is there any way to prevent 51% attacks in bitcoin forks besides increasing confirmations?
The fifth generation project didn't actually use prolog, but instead a custom prolog-like language.

However, there's still work being done adjacent to 5G using real prolog, by people who thought it was an interesting idea: https://github.com/bitlaw-jp/the-constitution-of-japan

Prolog is still used in the development of expert systems, though when those systems are shipped, they have often been rewritten in an imperative language based on a Prolog prototype.

The fifth generation project, from what I understand, died because of a dedication to custom hardware using already-obsolete fabrication tech -- mid-70s flipflops-on-IC tech over late-70s microprocessor-on-IC tech, wire wrap, etc. There was an inability or unwillingness to iterate on original committee designs. By the time it folded in 1998, everything involved looked like stone knives and bearskins. Those boxes wouldn't have been able to run it fast by 1980 standards.
I never said people don't have issues with battery life. I said it's not a driver for most phone purchases, and I stand by that. Good battery life or better than average is a nice to have.

> Go to any Android or iOS support forum

The average consumer will never post to any support form in their entire lives. /r/iOSbeta was all battery life posts until they were banned because they cluttered up the subreddit, because of course that will be a common issue.

> Battery is also _the_ limiting factor for the tasks phones are suitable for.

But we don't have an answer for that. All GP is suggesting is slapping in a giant battery. That won't solve the problem at all. If someone has a breakthrough solution for multi-day battery life that isn't just "throw in a bigger battery and to hell with design" then that would be a game changer.

However, is it a major driver in purchases? No. Like I said, there have been plenty of "big ass battery" devices, none have been successful, because it's not a significant driver of sales.
You're excluding his co-founding of Danger and the development of the Sidekick, which was way ahead of its time and did a lot more than the original iPhone could do - just without a touchscreen.

To describe his contributions to mobile as a pale shadow of what Steve Jobs was doing is unfair.
> That argument doesn't seem valid. The notion that fairies don't exist is, in itself, a fairyological position; still, few would accept that fairyology is a legitimate field of endeavour.

You are using Popper's criterion for what constitutes a valid scientific theory, but I think you misunderstand me.

My claim is that saying that theoretical physics is the ultimate explanation of reality is a metaphysical position. Cosmology describes the big bang but it does not answer the question "why is it so?". Maybe there is no answer. Maybe it is not knowable. Maybe theoretical physics cannot have the total picture. These are all metaphysical questions that seem perfectly legitimate to me. If you are not allowed to ask or talk about these questions, I would say that you just accepted a religious faith. I am not trying to sell you anything except doubt and curiosity :)

> Many things are accepted by most people without much reflection. Often that's because they really are as simple as they look

Perhaps. Perhaps not.

> What are the outstanding empirical questions about consciousness? As soon as you go down to an empirical level, you find that no mysticism is necessary: there are valid, interesting questions to be asked and answered, but they are no more outside science than questions about how, say, protein folding works.

You are implicitly making the strong claim that knowledge can only be attained through empiricism. This is clearly not the case. I know that I am conscious and I assume that you are, but I cannot use empiricism to test this hypothesis, not can you use it to verify that I am, indeed, conscious. So there is something very fundamental -- in fact the only thing I know with 100% certitude -- that cannot be empirically tested.

Your use of the word "mysticism" betrays the current bias against such questions. I am not proposing any woo. I'm just curious. Even being curious about certain topics nowadays gets you labelled and a "mystic". I think this illustrates the point that I wanted to make in the beginning.
> I'm using Docker just as a serverless app container with Fargate for long running apps - services that are inappropriate for Lambda.

But what are you doing in that Docker container? Anything more than just pulling the default container? Every container I've built required pulling packages, setting some permissions, etc. A Docker container isn't OS-less, and you still have to be mindful of the same concerns as if it wasn't a container.

> As a developer, all the resources are managed, you never touch the underlying OS.

Sure. Though I'd posit is that if all you're doing is using fully managed services on AWS, it's akin to installing and configuring Wordpress - you use PHP, but you're not a PHP developer.
It's really no problem to do this. We're using a variation on this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/158400/etc-shadow-h.... The output of crypt (where the input is an email address) is pretty useless if we did suffer a data breach. They'd have to hash every known email address with that salt in order to figure out who had declined an invite from us.
FYI: GDPR provide a framework allowing investigations from the EU... So the EU might ask to get enough informations on algorithms - and even to audit code - to check if there's some hidden targeting ads. And then...
I would be cautious to make health related reading recommendations where the book comes from 1922 and was on a reading list of a man who was rejecting science based medication for his serious sickness until it was too late.
First of all, ethical ads are possible, and more so on a website already very targeted like a recipes website. I can easily guess what sorts of ads would be useful.

Furthermore, I agree the sibling commenter in that these sorts of websites usually just publish what community submits anyways, so we can have a bunch of wikis instead.

P.S.: Everybody should know the difference between trying to overcome the status quo which is selling yourself to companies and hoping that they do not abuse you, and things like communism or government overreach. And if businesses will lose money or get closed if they stop bad, malevolent practices of theirs, good riddance. Let the sanity get the better of them.
I haven't been given an option not to make calls to your servers, those websites used to load 20 tracking scripts without asking me. Thanks to the GDPR now I will be able to stop sending requests. What's the problem?

See, how browsers work is that they load this thing called HTML that describes the content and can load other stuff without asking me. Apologies if I accidentally sent any data or money, it wasn't my call. It was in the HTML that I loaded because I was offered to view a free article.
You assume that just because someone doesn’t want to got through all the hassle of being GDPR compliant that the website is somehow bad? Among other things this includes setting up an EU represeneitive—a high bar for a free product..... Obviously you haven’t had to deal with GDPR compliance.
Pass whatever law you want, just don’t expect me to care. This law has nothing to do with me. If you don’t want to do business with me because I’m not compliant, don’t send me server requests, data, or money.
You can exchange with strangers but then you'd have to use an UV lamp to check the banknotes for fakes.
iCloud contacts & calendars are still CardDAV/CalDAV under the hood.
It would be cool to see measurements of people on Survivor or all the alone in wild shows. Like blood glucose, ketones, movement tracking, and sleep. Maybe even a few IQ and strength tests. There's all this great documentary monitoring and doctors already on site. I assume that academic ethic review boards would never allow a researcher to participate, but it would be great if the shows shared it. Maybe the individual competitors could.

I wish there was some middle ground between self tracking and big expensive studies that don't really change anything.
Can you back up such strong and broad claims with something?
I don’t need to be accused, while stepping out on the street still eating the doughnut, of having stolen the doughnut. Especially while on holiday outside my home country.
> the Blackberry KeyONE wouldn't have been the moderate success that it was.

Ok, well I come from the land of BlackBerry, and I have seen maybe one person with this phone in the wild. Keep in mind that BlackBerry was still a significant force here until years after it was dead everywhere else.

Just out of curiosity, how old is your better-half? Did they have a hardware keyboard device in the past?
It is a theological position, but it'd be silly to call atheism a religion just as it would be to call theism a religion.
> Requiring passports is not an impingement on anyone’s freedom; it is the exercise of a country’s freedom to control who trespasses within its borders.

This seems like a narrow definition of freedom, something like, freedom is whatever rights are granted by the nations I like. I would think it is possible for something to be an impingement on one person's freedom, while being the exercise of another's.
I am guessing Chaldean, language of the Chaldeans (sometimes archaically Chaldees)
Care to give an example pitch from the real world?
Lean Data Practices
Setting aside older ad-showing media (newspapers, magazines, cable TV), even the web itself did just fine before today's holistic individual ad-targeting. For the most part, today's problematic practices started happening after the Dot Com boom.

It's amazing the point we've reached, where egregious tracking is so normalized that we assume it's fundamental to the internet's feasibility. Facebook and Google aren't meek charity-organizations, trying to give the world free stuff and only asking for the pittance of our data, to help keep the lights on. Their profit margins are enormous. They could do quite well for themselves without any tracking at all, just showing random ads. Not to mention that many people would pay for their services if it meant getting rid of ads altogether.

The reason they don't offer individuals the option to pay for their services instead of being tracked isn't out of charity. It's because they would make less money. Your data is more valuable than any reasonable monthly fee you'd be willing to pay.

If GDPR puts an end to the gold-rush that's happening at the expense of everyone else in society, forcing tech companies to make a normal amount of money instead of an insane amount of money, that sounds to me like an unambiguous good.
Let's flip that on its head. Why are people not prepping for emergencies? Who do you think is going to save or feed you?
I used to take 200 euros every few weeks at the ATM when I lived in Germany, and had to carry around min. 30 euros to be sure I could run errands on my way home or whatever. Honestly I didn't feel comfortable taking all these bank notes from the atm in the middle of other people, and carrying so much cash all the time. Had I been robbed, or had I lost it, it was simply gone. A card fraud you can contest (and hopefully be covered if your bank and card insurance is good enough)

Now that I've left ? Rarely have more than 10 euros in my pocket, can take 20 euros at ATM and not give a shit about fees. I can pay with my card everywhere.
I don't think the author's facts support his conclusions, but I commend him for what appears to be even-handed honesty. Peterson is not a saint, but warts and all he is bringing some different perspectives to the forefront.

Charismatic people tend to draw people who idealize them and put them on a pedestal, and it is these true believers who, when they become disaffected, usually become the most antagonistic.
San Francisco announces next steps in regulating shared, powered scooters
I wrote something like this, based in part on ideas from PLN: https://hackernoon.com/mycroft-a-predicate-logic-language-ov...
It depends on what you mean by that. If someone presents a view that is inconsistent with the accepted facts, then you you can "prove them wrong" in that sense.

But that's not really the point of philosophical inquiry -- the point is to flesh out each view entirely, and look for the best possible explanation of the subject. Those kind of explanations don't always (or even usually) come from outright rebuttals -- they come from synthesis, refinement of the situations considered, improvements in clarity, etc.
I have an answer: no way is the EU going to cut ties with the US over this, and no way is the US going to let the EU trample their national sovereignty by letting regulators start fining small businesses with no US presence because some EU citizen sent their data INTO the US. That’s ludicrous.
> hire an EU Representative

appoint, not hire.
And that's why you want to have regulations. In the case you suggest, you could ask e.g. EFF if you suspected that they are abusing the contract, to sue FB in behalf of the users. Or even kick-start a big court case yourself.
I built https://www.remotepassword.com because I didn't want to hardcode passwords in my scripts and wanted a way to disable them remotely (ie my raspberry pi has been stolen and I don't want them to mount my backup truecrypt containers).

It works fine and gave me some peace of mind!
Europeans just found out which US sites were tracking and profiling them.
Also, bone broth, chicken broth and vegetable broth.
Is this also bound by all the limitations of CEF? AFAIK, there's no way to override the storage limitations (i.e. 20% or something of the available free space, see http://magpcss.org/ceforum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=15857 )
No. They are tracking you because they are entirely oblivious to privacy and to the stuff they run on their websites.

A lot of those links and trackers and what-nots come from affiliate networks, or because some marketing manager said it would be better that way. And now they are suddenly alerted to the fact that they run 30+ trackers on their sites, and believe you me they have very vague idea about what those trackers are doing.
It seems a question of whether, given that you made a decision y[c] and the prior state of the world is x, how much of y[c] could we have determined just knowing state x.
Doesn't seem to far fetched that at least 2 people in power in all of history came up with this question and experiment.
No, it could be disproven. Take a high-energy gamma ray, and have it undergo pair production, creating an electron and a positron. Capture both in the same Penning trap, then let them annihilate.

This would result in a loop that is disconnected from any other electrons, showing that the electron/positron in the loop is distinct from other electrons.
I had it the first time I switched my diet. Headache, low energy, mild body-ache.

I'm currently a non-strict keto-er, which means I'm really just a high-fat, low carb eater. I think consensus on 'keto-flu' is really just that when you're flushing all the glycogen, it's taking with it a lot of water, and it's upsetting your sodium/potassium levels, I don't really know. I just know that I don't suffer from it when I transition from periods of moderate carbs back to low carbs.
Sure. Given that 15-16% of smartphones sold worldwide are iPhones, "dominant" is about as much of a stretch as "monopoly".
> Saying that tracking individuals is necessary for getting revenue is disingenuous.

I'm definitely not saying that. I'm saying non-targeted ads generate a lot less money than targeted ones which means the content on the internet won't be as good as companies will generate less money to pay for the content.

In the extreme cases as we are seeing now, businesses are shutting down or blocking all EU users because the peanuts they would make from generic ads are not worth the server costs, content creation costs, costs to comply with the law, and potential fine costs (risk).
Yep. I had heard the term bio-hacking, heard about Tim F. talking about it, IF, and exogenous ketones, and knew that it was all the rage for some time now. It wasn't really a new idea for me. In addition, I had done what I considered to be "low carb" in the past. It worked great. It just wasn't sustainable for me for various reasons.

What got me started was when random friends and relatives started talking about it. Then I looked around online and found dozens of podcasts, FB rooms, and so forth all sprouting up in the last year or two. The trend is clear. I don't think we've reached the almost-vertical part of the hype cycle yet.
Preparing for the GDPR and caring about the GDPR are two different things.
So my MVP is an imaginary service that does X for you. It charges $5/month and it uses your email as the log in. It captures no data other than what you give it to do said service. Other than good data practices which should be followed anyway, please described the huge GDPR hurdles that will make this service not viable.
The argument on both sides is around financial burden:

* Pay more for delivery because not using Amazon Prime

* Pay more to buy an Android phone

When making this argument it's obvious that buying a new phone is much more expensive than Amazon Prime but this raises an interesting question; what is the financial threshold at which point one has to be considered a monopoly?