skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compatibilism isn't simply a language game. The "free will" question has centuries of ethical baggage attached to it that are critical to a functioning justice system, among other concerns. Compatibilists basically say that although basic scientific reasoning would assert that there is no Ghost in the Machine, and that true libertarian free will is a delusional fantasy, that anything that comes from the brain of a single individual is that individual's free will, by definition.

If I hold a gun to your head and force you to do something, that isn't your free will, but if you choose to do something without my influence, that is your free will. Whether you actually had the option to make another choice (whether any specific moment in time has multiple different future paths based on some magical internal rational agent) is irrelevant.

You are "simply" along for the ride, but it is still you making your decisions, as opposed to someone or something else.
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Ask HN: Is Hacker News GDPR Compliant?
Just wondering.
For a little bit of context: AirConsole is a platform where you can play local multiplayer games with a smartphones.

If you want to try it for yourself and tell us what you think: The game's called Brawlanders: https://www.airconsole.com/play/brawlanders
Extra annoyances with paying cash in Poland:

- The smaller amounts (equivalent of a more or less dollar) are coins, not banknotes. They make your wallet way bulkier.

- When paying with a bank note straight out of an ATM (usually a 100 PLN note), the clerk will usually ask you for a smaller note, and sometimes refuse to do the sale, as he has no change. Other times, he'll take your hundred, but with an eye roll.

Meanwhile, contactless card transactions take under 10 seconds and work pretty much always.
The 4% of worldwide revenue aspect is almost exclusively pointed at the giant US tech companies. Europe has few meaningfully large tech companies, with large global sales, such that taxing worldwide revenue matters (this is why they didn't just make it an EU revenue tax).

It's meant to try to plunder some of the global revenue that Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. are generating. They're betting that these companies will slip up at some point (who the hell taxes revenue, instead of profit, other than the backwards Russian state anyway?).

Amazon is going to $400 billion in sales (and is about to have a giant, lucrative ad business). Google is going to $200 billion in sales. Facebook is going to $100 billion in sales. Netflix will have 250 million subscribers. Apple is pushing toward $250 billion in sales.

GDPR itself wasn't designed just to tax the US giants. The 4% tax on worldwide revenue however does exist solely to try to get loot from the US tech dominance. As the EU gets left further and further behind the US tech colossus, their rage and envy will increase by the year.

The Germans like to snark at the Americans about how they should build better cars. Well, 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.
Problem is, wallet IDs are public, so I can use anyone's who paid the fee ... Etherium contracts?
The vocabulary explorer is indeed awesome and a great idea. Unfortunately not even Apple is very good at supporting them. And with Sal Soghoian's departure, automation at Apple will probably either change a lot or die.

My problem was the language syntax as a whole. But I'm particularly sensitive and picky on this issue. ObjC and Java's verbosity repel me so strongly I could never properly learn them, for instance, and so on.
I just thought it's cool sounding, there's no real reason behind it.
Yes, reporting to the data protection agency was what I meant. My use of the term "legal action" was probably incorrect. Thanks for pointing that out.
What do you think the creative work is for running a recipe site? And what about the technical work/costs?

I guess you mean the kind where either there are users providing those for free or it uses a huge number of compiled one, not some person inventing new ones.

I would wager that 970 of those sites can be run for virtually no cost, either maintained by loyal community or the wide internet.
And here I'm hoping for the EU GDPR to kick all of these guys in the balls pretty hard. In the last few hours, I have been getting dozens of emails. Basically: Take it or leave. Some of them sent an email "if you don't leave, you are taking it".

And you are not given a choice to download your data or temporarily access your account to sort out things. Your hands are getting forced to accept the rules or potentially be locked out of your account.

I'm taking note of these little evil services. And in all fairness, my banking provider actually gave two options: one is required and the other is optional (marketing data collection). I was able to unselect it successfully.
Where does one host this without getting SWATTED?
Fair point, I was mistaken on that.

How can the community learn about the rules if we should not point to or discuss the rules? If it were not for my comment, you would not have pointed that to me :)
The Boscop one is just bindings for https://github.com/zserge/webview which is only MSHTML on Windows not Edge. The tether one appears Rust only which means I have to expose my own C FFI layer to use in other langs. I want them to combine and give me the best of both! :-)
I'm not sure what the point you are making here is. The developers behind "ifconfig" on Linux could support the new API (iproute2) just as the developers behind "ifconfig" on OpenBSD updated their software to support the new kernel API as they became available.
> Only if I make significant money from that market. If most of my revenue/profit comes from the US and it's problematic to "do business" in the EU or China, why wouldn't I want to just cut access off rather than dealing with potential hassles?

Because you would rather grow your market?
How about the philosophy of math? Do numbers exist outside the human mind/culture? Is the universe mathematical, or is it just a map? Does math say anything fundamental about existence?
Nice one. I used to have a large mp3 collection (now replaced by Spotify) and would have loved to use audiostreamer and Waypoint to get to it while at work.
There are network effects. In Germany, everyone has the change on hand because they're using it so much. If they don't someone nearby will have it and be willing to help.
The age of unlicensed computing is coming to an end.
The GDPR only regulates use of personal data, not all telemetry, though.
> That's because German vendors are hopeless at processing cards.

>Australia/HK/Singapore/China/most of Europe: the reader prompts you with the sale amount. You tap your card. It adds zero time to the transaction.

Outside of department stores and similar, using a card is very inconvenient in China. Depending on the place, you need cash or Alipay/WeChat.
If any prospective phone startup founders are reading, here's what I want:

1) A utility phone (i.e. maps, weather, camera, sms--leave all the extra features nobody uses out).

2) Good ergonomics, fits my hand, small.

3) Battery that lasts for at least 2-3 days.

4) No notifications possible apart from phone and sms.

5) Well-made and well-designed, like an iPhone.

Assuming it's very well done, I'd pay as much for it as an iPhone.
They could replace it with a document saying “There are no conditions of use. Enjoy your new phone!”
As they say, science answers questions, but philosophy answers which questions should be asked in the first place. Science is weaponized philosophy: once a field or subfield of philosophy matures enough, it turns into a science. If you accept this premise, then that is one way to measure progress in philosophy. It seems that this is exactly what the author has in mind.
I would like a feature where Alexa detected the sound level in the room and responded with an appropriate volume. For example, in the quiet of the early morning I just want to hear the days weather forecast at a low volume, to avoid waking others in the house. However, during the afternoon, when kids are playing and the A/C is rattling and the dog is barking, I would like my responses in a higher volume.
On one hand I can understand why some orgs are having trouble with GDPR.

On the other hand it’s pretty clear the actions of more than a few have gotten GDPR to where it is.

My takeaway at the moment is something along the lines of this is why we can’t have nice things.
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Careful which countries you go to with that VPN. You don’t want to intentionally circumvent an access control restriction.
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I'm sorry, but I think you're wrong. You make it sound as if all Teslas are suddenly as dumb as their phone-wielding drivers.

The Tesla recognizes a stopped car on the freeway much, much earlier than a human driver. The forward collision warning system is always attentive, never blinks. It won't panic slam the brakes, but will brake with exactly the required force.

You really are overestimating the ability of human drivers here. If human drivers are so excellent in reading road conditions and anticipating to traffic, why do we have so many accidents?

The severity of accidents with robotic cars is a magnitude lower, simply because they always pay attention. It's just that fatalities with autonomous vehicles are newsworthy, whereas fatalities with human drivers aren't. It's a classic example of the Baader-Meinhof phenonemon. Just because you read about it more, doesn't mean it actually happens more.

I'm not saying that Teslas are 100% safe or that Tesla shouldn't investigate why these accidents happened. I'm also not saying that there aren't edge cases where a human driver could have prevented an accident where the Tesla would fail. But statistically speaking, autonomous vehicles with all their sensors are a lot safer than human drivers.
New companies can't benefit from that scheme anymore, since 2014 actually.

"Finance Minister Michael Noonan closed the Double Irish to new schemes in October 2014 (existing schemes to close in 2020), and expanded the Capital Allowances for Intangibles scheme as a replacement"
AFAIK you can't delete all your messages on HN, nor even delete your profile. They also do fingerprinting, or else how can they detect people with multiple accounts?
My bad. My last visit predated Alipay.
a) 2FA for your bank account

b) Who is going through all the trouble to target me specifically with a phishing attempt.
It is somewhat tracked, new bills fresh from an ATM have been used to help catch a serial killer in England.

The banknote recovered was passed to the Bank of England, who were asked to trace where it was issued.

Detectives learnt it had been sent from its printing works to the Leeds branch of the Bank of England, just a few days before the murder.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manches...
> Actually because internal distribution at companies is generally considered to not be distribution

This is not true. Copying material internally to a company is distribution. If you (person or company) don’t have the rights to copy, then it is illegal. If you do have a license, then it's legal distribution.

It seems like you’re conflating copyright rules with licenses. The copyright rules are not different for companies than for individuals; without the right to copy, no entity, person or company, other than the copyright holder and license holders, can do so legally. It’s fairly simple.

> That's why "the rules are different" for companies. They're not different, they just apply to different legal entities.

Also not true. Copyrights belong to the author/creator of a work, they protect the author, they grant the author exclusive right to copy the work. This protection does not differentiate or change based on who wants to copy the work.

Licenses are what apply differently to different legal entities.

> The internal employees actually watching/changing the content are simply acting as the agents of that legal entity.

That’s only true when the content has been licensed to the company for company-wide internal use. If the content was licensed to an individual and then distributed internally to a company, co-workers might not be allowed to consume that content, depending on the license. Furthermore, some content can be licensed to an individual at a company, such that the same individual is not allowed to use that content outside of work, and no other individuals at the company can use it either.
Unrelated, but this reminds me of one of my favourite Mitch Hedberg bits.

“I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, 'Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut, I've got the documentation right here... It's in my file at home. ...Under "D".'

Really funny when you think about how this joke aged in this era of rampant privacy abuse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWx6uA5aCrE
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Article 79 says that each data subject that considers that their rights under GDPR have been violated by a controller or processor has the right to an effective judicial remedy, which may be brought before a court in either the Member State where the data subject resides, or where the controller or processor has an establishment.

This is distinct from administrative and non-judicial remedies.

That sure sounds like suing.
It's not poorly designed, it's just too open ended. You have tools like logic to to assess arguments, but there isn't a limit on what questions can be asked or what avenues investigated for areas that fall outside other well defined disciples. Questions such as what makes life worth living, is this wrong or right, what is the nature of reality, how do we know, etc.
IMO, it is time to redefine monopoly. Something, that affects a billion of users should not be let policing things like this.
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>It's only recently that people have started to assign blame and responsibility to the platform hosting the content (really only after the US election drama).

Pretty certain 4chan would have been shut down and held responsible if they did not cooperate with the FBI in reporting and moderating cheese pizza a long time ago (at least 2010).
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I agree with this, and hope that it will cause innovation on both points. I know there are a lot of regulation-phobes on here, but good regulation is a driver of (good) innovation, as opposed to further innovation in fields like spying on customers and exfiltrating as much data on them as possible.

Innovation will always be made, and I feel that currently, many great minds are being utilised to make people click on ads. Hopefully this is a step towards changing that.
Ask HN: Seeking collaboration on developing alternate economic system
The present economic system makes us work damn too hard.
It's not good for a majority of people.
I am working on developing an alternate economic system.
I own ad-tech company and don't want to be remembered as eyeball dealer. Who is looking to collaborate? We can crowdfund the idea, purchase an island, and get volunteers who are ready to leave their country and move to our Island. We'll iteratively develop a new economic system which will solve all the problems which limit current economic system.
Technically, this would seem true for a lot of things.
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There can be no progress in philosophy because there's no clear definition or consensus on neither the content, the objectives or the method of philosophy. The very notion of "progress" implies a kind of scientific philosophy that is a very recent (20th century) development.

In my view Analytic Philosophy (that I studied while at university) reduces philosophical thought to linguistic and logical analysis and therefore is a depleted form of philosophy.

If you accept the premise that philosophy should enrich people's lives metaphysical and speculative thoughts clearly can't be excluded. This is also what the (later) Wittgenstein thought, for instance.

With the recent return to ancient thinkers like the Stoa I see that people might get more value out of philosophy. No progress there in the eternal wisdom of humanity.
That model already works for streaming TV! At least it’s working pretty well for Netflix, Amazon, HBO... (It’s definitely not ideal for viewers, but at least now it’s easy to get TV without ads.)
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But it definitely had rounded corners.

So any reasonable person should be able to conclude that Apple did not invent rounded corners?
Because the risk and costs of compliance are borne by all, not just the non-compliant. I would hope that "but laws only affect the bad guys" or "if you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about" would no longer be reasonable arguments these days.
I think, philosophy has not answered all the questions posed by Plato and Aristotle but it has put up quite some more interesting questions since then. Science has answered some of these questions -- Nameley in the fields of astronomy, biology and geology wich was considered natural philosophy in ancient times.

For anyone interested in this topic, I hereby plug one of my favourite podcasts: https://historyofphilosophy.net/
You don't need to get root on an android device to sideload apps, unless the app has specific functionality that requires root. You don't need to break anything about the system or your warranty. Its just a toggle in the settings menu.
Where can you read about who needs to do what
EU-only USA Today
To quote Fleet Foxes' Helplessness Blues:

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique
Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see
And now after some thinking, I'd say I'd rather be
A functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me
s/silly/fucking ridiculous/

but sure, I agree. That's why I questioned it.
Pilots are professionals who are trained and paid to use autopilot.
There are so many wrong things with this approach. First, what do you do when you have existing users, delete them? Second, I believe the law protects EU citizens regardless of where they are. If you're an EU citizen and register for a service somewhere in the US using VPN or while physically being outside the EU, that service/company will still need to comply. The safest approach is to comply. We're a tiny startup, but we decided to bite the bullet and comply because its much easier and quite frankly better for all in the long run. Oh and, disclosure sets you free.
NVidia published a very interesting paper on this technique called "End-To-End Learning For Self-Driving Cars": https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07316 . It's an enjoyable read.

The car learns to steer itself on an empty road. It's a good experiment to witness the power of deep learning and neural nets. For autonomous vehicles though, you need much more than that (e.g. sensor fusion, obstacle detection, localization, behaviour prediction, trajectory prediction, path planning, motion control, etc.).
I didn't think that was possible. Otherwise it would make determination of a fair price very messy -> In the extreme facebook could set an arbitraily high price if they didn't want to change their business model.
What features are better than Zapier? I am curious as I use Zapier for automating stuff I don't want to program especially for marketing releated and this does look like the flow can be more advanced?
It's a 1-in-a-million edge case.... I would hope people on HN at least would understand this stuff happens in software.
Does it mean they will stop tracking us with google analytics on their websites ??
I typically listen to podcasts when writing documentation, but when it comes to real development time, I listen to "minimal techno"/edm as in Tycho, deadmau5, marshmello, apex twins, thievery corporation, ODEZA, Emancipator, Tame Impala
The modern question of free is very different from the "the will does not have to be such as it is".

Remaining issues in physicalism and free will requires a radical revision of the term. It's like asking something completely different.
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I argue that we live in an anti-philosophy era. I'm not sure this will change in our lifetimes, but I think it will necessarily change if we survive for long enough.

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. Of course, reasoning about what science is and does is part of philosophy. So is the discussion of knowledge itself, what is knowable and how can we trust the various methods of seeking more knowledge. A lot of stuff surrounding these topics happened in the XX century.

The acritical use of the yardstick of "progress" as the ultimate value for everything (along with its little cousin: "productivity") is, in itself, a philosophical position. One that is currently maintained by social norms and authority. Which does not mean it is "wrong". I am only claiming that it is accepted by most people without any reflection.

Some boundaries of scientific knowledge are quite visible. For example, consciousness. You might argue that consciousness emerges from matter interacting in a complex way (emergentism), and you might be right, but this is accepted as a serious scientific theory although it has zero content -- no way to falsify empirically, no explanatory mechanism proposed.

Real philosophy is a very subversive endeavor at the moment. Perhaps it always was. It's something for those who love knowledge, but not for those who expect any public recognition.
As an EU citizen, I don't think the law is bad but you are free to be upset about it, of course.

Please respect our laws and privacy or don't do business with us. We will be very sorry if your product is irreplaceable or we will use a competing product that complies with GDPR.
Calling things like Claude Shannon's work on information "progress in philosophy" is like claiming Einstein's theory of General Relativity "progress in linguistics".

It is only true in a way that makes it essentially meaningless. Unless the people doing the work considered themselves philosophers, or drew on schools of thought from philosophy, you're claiming credit to philosophy from something that philosophy had nothing to do with.
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I'm in the EU, and a couple of the corporate VPNs I have used here have had their exit IP in the U.S. or Canada. Which means that when I'm at work, I appear to be in Seattle, and these sites are not blocked.

Based just on that, I'd argue that "Blocking 500M Users Easier Than Complying with GDPR" is probably not even a true statement.

I doubt EU regulators will go after these sites because they really aren't that consequential, but I wonder if setting up an IP block isn't just painting a target on yourself. It's basically a statement that the company was and still is violating GDPR.
Of higher value would be ridding ourselves of liars.

The solution to bias, is triangulation. People who don't know about it, or don't want to do it, just want to be spoon fed. And that's a spectator, not a citizen.