skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is right. I just don't encounter that much speaking of species, if that makes sense. Most of the speech about species is often anecdotal, at best.

I think you both squared it correctly calling it a semantic debate. I wasn't trying to call you out as wrong. My caveat at the end was supposed to be how I realized this is shifted when talking about evolution. Rather, I was attempting the principal of charity.

I do fully agree that scientific writing should be more precise. However, I also think scientific readers should accept that there is a lot of context that goes into making some terms specific. To the point that it is best to have a readership that is attempting to reach a common understanding, not one that is expecting to be given vanilla facts.
This is outside the scope of my previous comment. If someone visits the US then they have a physical presence in the US.

I'm still failing to see how the original claim, that everyone has to abide by the DMCA, is true. This seems like claiming that everyone has to abide by Thailand's Lese Majeste laws (laws criminalizing insults to the monarchy). Yes people may face repercussion if they have an economic or physical presence in the country. But if they don't, then theres nothing Thailand can do to enforce this law .*

* not without cooperation with other countries at least. Some nearby countries are known to enforce Thailand's Lese Majeste laws abroad and extradite people. But in most countries, this isn't the case.
Issue is here: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/5885

The problem is that npm just migrated their registry to use CloudFlare. Yarn already used CloudFlare, and had https://registry.yarnpkg.com CNAME'd to https://registry.npmjs.org. CloudFlare has a security restriction that one CloudFlare account cannot have DNS records pointing to another CloudFlare account, so npm moving to CloudFlare broke yarn's existing CNAME to npm's registry (thus breaking yarn).
Maybe, but the Bay Bridge wasn't, and they were built around the same time. http://www.americanmanufacturing.org/blog/entry/dont-forget-...
Peter Thiel: Europe is cracking down on Silicon Valley out of 'jealousy' (GDPR)
Water shields double bonds from UV light preventing them from breaking down. For examples of this look no further than PCBs (polychorinated biphenyls, not circuit boards)
We're still more affordable per sqft than most top international cities and many US cities -- I think the mentality of needing a large sqft unit, or yard, or single-family home in Seattle needs to change. We have a ton of parks if anyone needs space. For the quality of life, I still think Seattle is very affordable.

That being said, I completely agree that zoning needs to be overhauled.
I fucked a consultancy once on accident with this. They hired two extra devs and a manager griped at me that I wasn't being productive enough. I sketched the critical path of information flows required, and every morning grabbed a blocker card. Got a four month project done in one, consultancy was screwed because they had no backlog and were billing hourly. Oops.
For any given X, there are more people who want the government to do X than there are people who want to pay for the government to do X. But since it's government, we're going to pay for it.

It's a bit leading, but not heavily. To be non-leading, it should also say that the high speed rail will take you from SF to LA in Y minutes, and tickets will cost $Z. Then it's non-leading; it's merely supplying additional information that not all poll respondents may know.

But it's not all that leading of a question. The cost and completion date, while they reflect badly on the project, are not irrelevant to peoples' opinion of it...
You're absolutely right! GDPR is in no way, shape, form, or manner meant to be cost-neutral. Your point about bank robbers is well-taken.

However, is it possible that in a context where companies are weighing the cost of GDPR compliance against the benefits of GDPR compliance (i.e., keeping their EU business) some might come down on the side of jettisoning the EU business? They might even opt to do it by using a tool, like Cloudflare Workers, that they can convince to block everyone in the EU.

You would be absolutely, completely, 100% right to consider this fully in line with the intentions of GDPR. Protect privacy or GTFO, right?
That's more of a fallback in disasters to get important information out to the public. Here is CNN's in english and Spanish.

http://lite.cnn.io
http://lite.cnn.io/es

If anyone knows of more let us know.
Call a rather obvious bluff and put political pressure on American leaders over it.

They have a pretty easy to defend position.
Agree with your second point.

Re:cannibalization, Apple is more than willing to cannibalize their products - just see iPod Nano v Mini, iPhone v iPod, iPad v Mac, iPad 2018 v iPad Pro. It's part of their playbook to cannibalize themselves, so that competitors don't wind up sneaking in market segments. This is enabled by organizing the company functionally rather than by product line, which lets them avoid the 'strategy tax' of pre-existing divisions that own products wanting to keep those products alive (bureaucracies self-perpetuate and all that).

That said, a phone that converts to a desktop (at least in how I think OP and others who bring this up think of it) is not part of the playbook, because its making the device do double-duty in UI/UX. See iPad not having a mouse.

I think Apple's perspective is that the glue that ties mobile UX to seated/desktop UX together is the cloud, and to your point, that involves multiple devices. The exception is non-interactive content (AirPlay), which third parties can license.
GDPR? It’s not a four letter word. It’s not even a word
Many people in my area regard "3rd world immigrants have a right to come to America" as a proposition so self-evidently true that it could not possibly merit proof, argument, or thinking about.

The epistemological dimension, along which I find this ideology particularly ridiculous, comes from the "self-evidently true" and "doesn't need proof" parts.
> I am against targeting ads and collecting/distributing my data without my explicit consent.

Which is exactly what GDPR is designed to stop. You're welcome - the rest of the world.
Even if there is something that could influence our choice but that is not the state of the universe and that is not randomness, it would still be something, not yourself, pulling your strings, would it not?

No matter how much I think about it, I keep on concluding - against my intuitions, if not my will - that the only rationally resolvable position is that we don't have free will, in the sense that we get to make meaningful choices.

But when I think I have found the only rational answer, I ponder how apparently impeccable reasoning led Zeno so badly astray.
Sure. The question is still: did they place them directly adjacent to treated wastewater outflow?
As a Canadian I'm fine with my country being behind too.

Would like more spending to make sure soldiers don't die due to shitty equipment, but still largely fine.
I was thinking for your employer. If you piss them off then it's the same situation as if you have quit.
> Selective breeding isn't genetic engineering though.

Yes, selective breeding is far less controlled and predictable as to unintended changes; people think of it as safer because of the way it used to be done which operates over longer time scales, which, aside from not actually providing any kind of safety, neglects the fact that modern methods allow selective breeding to operate over much shorter time scales.
Abine Blur: passwords, payments, and privacy
I just did and it's such a fantastic user experience.
> I don't think it applies to individuals and noncommercial activity

Why would these be unaffected? You have to comply with GDPR as soon as you start processing personal data.
Don't forget "Software Tools" by Kernighan and Plaugher.
You'd also make me happy :).
Which is the answer I see all of 50% of the time. Then, I see "Well, actually it is non-compliant because yadda yadda". My company isn't going to hire international compliance experts to review the operations of every public website we run, and we don't have any that need European visitors. So, best to just block them.
We've already got users who fall under GDPR protection. Not as many as we will by the end of this year, but some.

And really, I've done all I can do. I've talked it up, given powerpoint presentations, and emailed a comprehensive report about penalties for failing to comply as well as a project outline for becoming compliant.
Google Cargo Cults.
You're right! Those are all critically important questions to ask! It's just possible that they might not be completely exhaustive, though.

Do they take reasonable measures to detect and inform me of a breach? Do they take reasonable measures to ensure it's me requesting data being deleted? Can they provide the same data about all Data Processors they make use of?

It's possible that the answers to this might not be easily and readily answered in every single potential case one might encounter when dealing with specialist vendors.

You're completely right to spell out those questions. It's just possible that there may be more to GDPR compliance - and certainty - than that in some cases.
Video: Jaron Lanier Talks Past and Future of VR as a Virtual Octopus ( 43:30)
There is nothing wrong with publishing your opinion. There is nothing wrong in engaging in reasoned, responsible discussion. There is nothing wrong in displaying passion towards a chosen point of view. You'll notice that I have very, very carefully chosen my words. I could probably continue in this vein for ages and not impress anyone.

I'm not sure where the balance is but I find discourse on HN tending towards saccharine with some excellent but infrequent counter examples.

wrt: [0] - I think that sometimes you have to be seen to tilt at windmills but you should choose your windmills carefully. Actually, you'd be surprised how effective a well chosen jab from a lance might be at the sweeps (think branch in the spokes of a wheel). Perhaps someone should have told that Spanish bloke or have I completely knackered this analogy?
Equivocating mishandling user data on a project that some kid in a dorm made for fun, which collects maybe an email address. With putting someone in the hospital with food poisoning is beyond a dishonest comparison.
Filburn wasn't a copyright case.
Right. A lot of people posting "pro/semi pro" drone footage on YouTube etc., have _really_ got to master the art of "planning a shot", so you don't have jerk-stop-jerk panning, zooming etc. The tools are there, the technique is learned. Just as buying an EOS 1D and some L lenses won't win you photography awards by themselves.
So, is it safe to plant in the world or will it irrevocably merge into the gene pool of naturally occurring plants?

This is the true concern about GMO, since people royally suck at introducing new species into ecosystems, an action that often cannot be undone.
Sorry but this is kind of funny. It would have been easy for the default value in the app to have been "https://registry.npmjs.org". This is an example of "every level of indirection can fail". [EDIT: removed unfounded speculation that CF wasn't necessary for yarn's requirements.]
Love the idea!
>> "...reflect a relatively homogeneous ethnic block with ties of common culture/history is more modern."

On the contrary, the idea of "each tribe on its own territory, with perpetual low-intensity border disputes between all neighbors" is literally the oldest possible social arrangement.
Relativistic baseball explores some of that.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
You're missing the point. The purpose of the statement is to show that the speaker who says "science has superseded philosophy" can't possibly really believe in what he's saying, because he's using philosophy to justify the superiority of science. Which makes no sense. If the physical sciences were really superior to philosophy, then they wouldn't need to rely on philosophy for their justification.

The statement is meant to expose a common hypocrisy. It is not meant to be an actual argument to support philosophical study, which could still be totally useless. It would be more convincing if the science-lover could use empirical methods to disprove the need for philosophy.
I’ve been reading hacker news for about a decade, and it’s getting to the point where I don’t think there are many entrepreneurs and/or technical people on here anymore.

The number of people who are saying it’s no big deal to comply with this huge law, especially for very small startups, is mind boggling.

Let’s just take one feature: the requirement that you can permanently delete all of your information. Most early-stage startups use the (in 2008, when I did mine) best practice of “delete=1”. Changing your whole database over to permanent cascade delete is only easy if you’re a very experienced programmer or who knows what he’s doing. And that sets aside the fact that even if you know what you’re doing technically, there are lots of business logic problems with just deleting things out of the database and anonymizing users is very tricky.

I was not a great programmer when I started my first startup. I was learning as I went along.

We couldn’t afford a lawyer, and the amount of time for me (the only programmer) to go through and read all the regulations and make all the requisite changes in the product I would estimate might take on the order of a month or two, which if timed poorly would’ve killed our company. I say again: at an early stage startup with one programmer, you cannot have that one programmer spending two months on compliance.

It’s just gotten to the point that there’s one comment after another responding to this regulation or that regulation or this situation or whatever with “well, just call HR“, or “I can’t believe you don’t have a company policy for that!”

Or “well just ask your lawyers“. It ain’t that easy. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to have “your lawyers” go through the GDPR, tell you what you need to do, and deal with all of the edge cases and gray areas? $20k or $30k doesn’t seem too high.

My biggest fear is that all of these complex bureaucratic laws are just raising the bar for doing a startup. Maybe the days of two people doing a startup in someone’s garage should be in the past? If so, that makes me kind of sad.

Regardless it’s not obvious that GDPR is the right policy or that it’s well designed or clear.
Perhaps in Europe, but "government" has meant "the state" in the US for most of two centuries.
This basically boils down to, "just hope that all current and future EU member nation agree with you on what is and isn't morally right."

Good thing different societies and cultures have never disagreed on what is and isn't morally just, amirite?
Both, I suspect. At that speed, there's no point in talking about "flow" around it, it would simply compress all the atmosphere hit into a disc of plasma. The object would be disintegrated, but all the momentum has to transfer to the plasma disc instead. It would produce an impressive crater.
> If a kid makes a meme generator site where you can create a profile and organize your dank memes, then now they have to have a data protection officer, build a system to purge user data

No, because that website doesn’t collect personal information.

> and build a system to get user consent, etc.

You need user consent to send emails or do something with their personal information (i.e. nothing since you don’t hold that information).
> they have to have a data protection officer

DPO is only needed in specific cases. Dank meme sites don't fit in any of: a) public authority b) monitoring subjects on large scale c) dealing with criminal conviction data.

> build a system to get user consent

It's called a checkbox. They likely use one to agree to TOS anyway. If you don't have that one, DMCA and COPA is what you should be worried about before GDPR. (If you're based on the US anyway)
The waterfall albatross is the absurd amount of up front requirement documentation in a Word file on a share drive.

Modern waterfall where you have documentation in git with references into tests is 10x better than the waterfall of old.
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This Regulation is intended to contribute to the accomplishment of an area of freedom, security and justice and of an economic union, to economic and social progress, to the strengthening and the convergence of the economies within the internal market, and to the well-being of natural persons.
Does anyone sell a dishwasher where the racks lift out to put away in a cupboard: so you can fill a rack, lift the cleaned rack out the washer and put it away, put the dirty rack of dishes in the washer to clean; rinse and repeat.
And that’s why you never do an infrastructure change EOD Friday before Memorial Day weekend.
Chips are the enabler to all sorts of critical features and user experiences. Its not just the chip - hardware architecture and software are there too, but three examples:

- maintaining device responsiveness for more and more complex software and higher resolution displays

- 120fps UI (iPad Pro)

- 4k60 video

Re:4k60, try to find another device besides the iPhone that can shoot 4k60 that isn't professional equipment. Best you have is the new Samsung S9 which can do so for a whopping 5 minutes. That's primarily the chip.
While I understand your logic, I don't think you can make this claim universally. Our food distribution systems are set up to be efficient, but they are also set up to be beneficial for a very small number of players.

For example there are very few distributors for grain: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-big-five...

The systems we have in place are meant to protect that near monopoly as much as they are to distribute food. On top of that, countries give loans to poor countries in exchange for 2 promises: 1) that they use the money to buy grain from the country lending the money 2) they don't grow grain themselves. In that way, we actively undermine world agriculture.

If your massive improvement disrupts these players, I think you're going to be in for a very rough time of it. Things like GMO further solidify the near monopolies, by restricting where you can buy seed, etc. This is one of the reasons you see a big political push for them.
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If anything it's evolved backwards, this 80s bot was doing all those things on its own, without the cloud. And yet now on-device compute isn't enough and everything requires cloud proce$$ing
I actually don't have much hands-on experience with Postgres, so I can't speak to how it performs in practice.

My comment was highlighting that Postgres' implementation of SSI is at least a better starting point than most other purely pessimistic implementations of the serializable isolation level. It does not surprise me, however, to hear that there are still performance deficiencies in practice. For example, the Postgres implementation is imprecise, which will result in spurious transaction aborts (those will presumably be retried, but it comes at a cost to latency and throughput). And even though reads are optimistic (which will perform better than pessimistic concurrency control, if contention rates are sufficiently low), maintaining transaction dependency metadata can still have a non-negligible cost.

I also think Postgres suffers from other more dubious choices--like a lack of clustered indexes--which can exacerbate things.

My work in this area has focused on revisiting various architectural and implementation design decisions which have contributed to the current state of affairs. I think the relational data model is generally the right choice, but most relational databases have some godawful characteristics around performance, scalability, reliability, and programmability which limit their efficacy in practice.
I agree it does happen, though the party system really limits the possibility. It keeps nationally popular but not moderate idealists like Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders sidelined and picks winners long before primaries in local elections.

I live in a state with caucus primaries and it prevents any non-party candidates. Even at the local level you get some horrible choices of picking the least bad, corrupt, or even crazy guy.

Luckily, for at least some positions there is not enough party interest and there are 3 or more candidates that have to explain their platform and reasoning. If only that was the case with the more important positions.
> Most early-stage startup use the best practice of “delete=1”

Honestly that's a bad best practice if the data your collecting is sensitive, which PII is.
I'm still waiting for a full cycle washing/drying/folding laundry machine. I'm happy to rfid/index all my clothes if it gets me there...
I'm saying this is a weird/below-average way to do it.

If this cannot fit in one line:

foo(arg1, arg2)

My first choice would be:

foo(
arg1,
arg2,
)

Second choice would be:

foo(
arg1, arg2,
)

While Black chooses:

foo(
arg1, arg2
)

And made some unconvincing argument about it:

> Unnecessary trailing commas are removed if an expression fits in one line. This makes it 1% more likely that your line won't exceed the allotted line length limit. Moreover, in this scenario, if you added another argument to your call, you'd probably fit it in the same line anyway. That doesn't make diffs any larger.

Who cares about the 1% chance of not exceeding the line length limit, really?
He's not ignoring that? He's pointing out the laws are stricter when dealing with private companies. You are talking about two completely orthogonal laws or standards.
Especially, the Guy Kavasaki one and the Max Levchin one are cracking! Recommended!

https://www.infopadd.com/article/informative-and-inspiring-v...

You can actually edit and add to the list there if you have others.
I want a condo or townhouse. Apparently condos are unfeasible in WA due to state liability laws.
All stars are zooming through the Milky Way. :) The Sun does a full orbit in 225 to 250 million years. Although I have no idea why we can't calculate it more precisely than that.
"We (aka npm) are in contact with Cloudflare to get this third-party CNAME allowed. I'll update this thread when I hear back." (via [0])

More status on the Github issue [0] than yarn status page [1]

[0]: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/5885#issuecomment-392...

[1]: https://status.yarnpkg.com/
We rely on science as presented by the media to inform us about everything from what we should eat to how our surroundings influence our behaviour. It is a pervasive cargo cult - no article is considered credible without vague cherry picked references. The whole pop-science/self-help book industry must be worth billions.

Yet we hear about p-hacking and replication crises and seem to adopt an attitude of sweeping inconveniences under the rug.

I don't know enough stats to fully understand the article. Can anyone explain why we should not consider the claims of a huge body of scientific work that have relied on these statistical methods for over 50 years to be invalid?
You do not need to sign into facebook to read a public note.
> The echo dot has a quad core processor and 4gb of ram

And yet it still farms most of its processing out to the cloud
I believe you. I know a few other cases like that and I really wonder how we got here. I've been CEO of a 25 people company with presence in both Canada and Europe, I would never ever chart a course like that but maybe I'm just too risk averse.

In the beginning of Camarades.com/WW.com we had a lot of interaction with LE because of all the stuff our users got up to online and we tried very hard to comply with the various laws. It did not always work perfect but it worked well enough that we earned the respect of the various LE contacts that we had. I can only imagine how it would have ended if we had thumbed our nose at them. Going global means you need to change your attitude.