skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If China can afford to coerce companies into censorship and violating people's rights, the EU can afford to impose some privacy laws as well.

Take this with a grain of salt since I am not from China and really only know about it from HN: The EU is not nearly as powerful as the Chinese government nor do I think the general Chinese population is aware of how much better G/FB/other sites are outside of china (admittedly speculation on all accounts), nor are they in a country where they can vote to change laws (pretty sure on this one from what I have read on HN).

If G/FB suddenly stopped supporting EU users, they would most likely cry out so loud that the law would get reversed in days. This law seems to target privacy and opt-ins mostly and I as a programmer don't even give a shit about those since they give me amazing services for it. I highly think most people want the free apps with targeted ads over a full block or paywalls.
Sure, but the EU is not an insignificant market and to be honest, this could have a similar effect to anti trust laws. Have European companies build up competition against the US behemoths.

China is an unfree hell hole that I don't want to live in (social score) but you can't argue that from the position of developing a domestic industry their selective blocking/worsening of services allowed the ecosystem to grow intstead of sharecropping on Google's "platform"
Are they actually Android devices? It sounds to me like they're probably just spoofing User Agents.
Yep, that's why I like how repr() does it. Guido solved this nicely a long time ago :)
I would caution against redirecting them to a government run website. I understand the sentiment but it seems like you could quickly run afoul of the regulations surrounding abusive traffic and may be liable if anything bad were to happen.
As an outsider, that reads as quite polite, especially given the context of his quote as what seems to be a request fallen on deaf ears.

I read the Quora link. It seems most people are supportive of Pearl's ideas. Why not try his proposed thought experiment and see?
Low carb,high fat, mod protein diet

Stoicism

Memento Mori
A language's ecosystem matters: libraries, afforable programmers etc.

Reddit, which was inspired by PG, switched from lisp to python for reasons like this.

ta;da intrinsics merits don't matter, only what's popular.
Is deleting an arbitrary set of rows every fortnight such a problem?
Yes... What? I'm not sure I understand what you're saying?
I'm not onboard with the idea that Silicon Valley holds a monopoly on technical innovation. Getting people to click on ads on smartphones doesn't capture the entire scope of technology. Europe's economy is roughly as large as that of the United States. Many world-leading companies from the car industry, to chemicals, to biotech reside in Europe.

The US holds one dominating advantage in one subset of technology. Consumer-facing internet tech. While a lot of people employed in this field commentate on this website, it's a marginal part of the tech industry, and it's not worth sacrificing privacy for, Europe does not need Silicon Valley to produce high-value products.

And if adtech is supposed to be the definition of the future, rather than genomics, complex manufacturing and the life sciences than I'm okay with us skipping that part. There are business models that don't rely on sacrificing the attention and privacy of consumers.
You are just making s*it up. Meme is something you publicly posted it is not your personal info, you possibly agreed to transfer copyright to the site, if you still own it, of course you have right to delete it.

As for personal info, most meme websites don't require any accounts to create them, because it only makes the site less usable, but if the site do have accounts, you do have right to see/update your account, you have right to delete your account and be sure that if your account is deleted the data is actually gone.
I was referring to those out to game the system, not the creators of the software. Then again, I have the same contempt for stock market traders, currency speculators and purveyors of financial "products", "instruments" or any other crazy term invented to make getting something for nothing sound respectable.
Normally it's defined exactly as S(S(0)) like you said, so the above should constitute a proof that 1+1=2.

Anyone disputing that sort of proof normally needs to take issue with one or more of,

- The axioms,

- The rules of inference.

So someone might say, "In step one, you used an axiom of the form X=X. What basis do you have for assuming it's true?"

It's worth looking up the Munchausen trilemma for a little more on that sort of thing, but I'm not sure how many people would seriously argue against the validity of that proof (or one just like it if I've made a mistake :-)

As for why you've been downvoted, I have no idea. I think your question was perfectly fine, asked politely enough, and there are no doubt many perfectly reasonable logical systems in which 1+1=2 is trivially true (and not just "a short proof away.")
Only a few cities are more expensive than Seattle ATM, like LA, SF, NYC, Boston maybe.

It isn't as simple as upscaling zoning, you need roads to go with it. West Seattle has horrible traffic these days because they built a bunch of high density housing around California Avenue. They did add rapid bus transit, but everyone still drives even if they have an apartment.
There are services that specialize in providing mobile proxies at scale for this sort of thing. See luminati.io
Why is delete=1 a best practice? There are competing concerns here. The government has now decided for everyone. Agree or disagree it is not worth implyng immorality where no immoral intent is present.
I don’t know GDPR inside and out, but I have worked at places (not military) where I could be held criminally liable for misuse or negligent disclosure of PII.

The answer to “How do you handle...” is that you get your shit together. Separation of duties, build and configuration standards, no customer data on random laptops.

When I was in high school, I worked at a sandwich/coffee shop. The precious commodity in that store was cash. We didn’t leave cash on a counter, or on a roll in our pockets it was in a locked register. When there was more than $500, we withdrew down to $250 and put the cash in a safe. At the end of the night, we put the cash in a locked pouch and two of us walked to the bank and put it in a dropbox.

Data is no different, just more complex.
The other thing to consider is that lead batteries don't mind being floated at max capacity for long periods of time. Lithium batteries like to stay closer to 90%, unfortunately most chargers just blindly charge to 100%.
FYI: "much" in your last sentence is misused, and should be left out. You could say "it's very much a visually appealing presentation," but the current usage is just wrong.
That it isn’t known with confidence is your answer to whether it is worth implying it is easy.
Interesting that none of the signatories appear to be experts in, you know, biology or any relevant field.
Can you clarify what you mean by this? I have never heard of any YouTube video (mp4/webm) having DRM in it.
A friend had COMAL on his C-64. It was very impressive.

Microware Systems Corporation's BASIC09 from about the same time took the code you entered and converted it into "I-code". It's VM code, Jim, but not quite as we know it. The basic09 program didn't do the things we expect from IDEs now, but it did let you modify code etc., so its internal form reflected the BASIC09 statements and control structures rather than having lower-level branch and conditional branch instructions. That let it prettyprint your code with a consistent format when you listed it. (It also let it avoid the insane interpretation and symbol table lookup overhead of Microsoft BASICs of the era, inherited from the days when Altair BASIC had to run on a system with 4K of RAM.)
The insistence that Americans migrate away from high-tax areas doesn't seem to be supported by the facts. Connecticut and the Bay Area are losing population, but so are heartland states like Kansas. Seattle is the fastest-growing area in the country, but close behind is Texas. I don't think partisans on either side of this question have an empirical leg to stand on.
You should just drop packets from badguys unless you are planning on great-cannon-of-chinaing something using 301s. `--reject-with tcp-tarpit` may slow this down but it's probably not worth it if they have 10,000 IPs since that sounds like it's probably comming from a rotating proxy "service."
I think you may be on on to something the honeypot server...you could create something like Slowloris in reverse. One of the techniques it uses is to send a request one. Byte. At. A. Time. Very. Slowly. You could try doing the same thing with responses from your honeypot, which, assuming they don't give up before they get the full response, could even be redirects back to the honeypot.

But if you can ID them easily then iptables rules might be the most effective use of your time, especially if you can use fail2ban, which makes the whole process very easy.

The TLS thing is interesting, but if some of this traffic is coming from compromised devices it would probably be less harmful for the owner of the device if you didn't make them burn a ton of CPU cycles.
That is insufficient. You can still infer identities through metadata and behavioural analysis. For instance purchase history and geolocation is often enough to identify some individuals.
Is it?

Visit Germany sometime. Drive through the countryside. Most parts of the US look like a hollowed out shell by comparison.
Never do business with someone you don't trust.
The 2017 standard deduction for married couples was $12,700 (compared to $24K in 2018). So the average homeowner also gets an additional $11,300 tax free. Granted so do non-homeowners.

I don't think the "average homeowner" would complain that they can't take as big of a homeowners deduction when the net result is they are exempting a larger portion of their income regardless.
The official NPM registry isn't fairing well, either: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/20766
Don't drink beer or coke while eating fondue.
Maybe tarpit[1] the connections? By rejecting them quickly you help them move on, but if you instead make the pages load as slowly as possible that would waste a lot of their time.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)
Homeland Security proposes eliminating 'startup visa' rule
The T480 is almost a T470 and unbottlenecking said drive would've required a motherboard redesign and a new adapter into the bay. Not this generation. The T470 was a completely new design, chassis and planar both.

The T480s is a new machine.
I don't understand how that's relevant to what I asked, do you mind elaborating..?
Maybe. It is more likely the United States will create the opposite regime. Since all major Internet software firms are American or Chinese it is also possible that the EU May sideline itself.
Made almost entirely in house.

You provision access over in-dc REST api, then rdma capable routers route the appliance to your vm, then you access it through provided libs for linux.

In other words, you don't deal with RDMA yourself at any moment
>The US holds one dominating advantage in one subset of technology. Consumer-facing internet tech. While a lot of people employed in this field commentate on this website, it's a marginal part of the tech industry, and it's not worth sacrificing privacy for, Europe does not need Silicon Valley to produce high-value products.

> it's a marginal part of the tech industry

Hilarious
NPM not resolving some packages
This is a silly and downright crude comment. My mortgage contract was 56 “dry” pages and I found time to read/understand it, to the best of my ability.

If you own a business, the cost of reading this document is about 2 days (with consideration for googling terms). To disenfranchise a whole continent because you are inconvenienced is ridiculous.

Put it a different way: are you too busy to read docs/specs of the technology you are using or will you abandon it because specs are too dry?

American services are just busy because they are doing their best to keep the lights on. Within a week, the handful of companies will comply. They’re just cautious because they have to pay folks and don’t want to make a silly mistake that will shut down their business.

Edit: structure
Are there no laws in the US?
The activity they restrict isn't showing targeted ads; it's collecting the data necessary to show targeted ads. That is to say, you're not allowed to collect data that would show that the user is e.g. a 33-year-old African-American male living in Fremont, CA and with an interest in certain sports, which is necessary to show targeted ads. If you could show such ads without collecting that information, I'm sure GDPR drafters would be totally fine with it.

[EDIT: e.g. this article talks about "programmatic advertising using non-personal data": https://martechtoday.com/consent-unworkable-programmatic-ads...]

Recital 43 says you're not allowed to collect any data that isn't necessary for performance of a contract. In contract law, "performance" specifically refers to the actions one side is obligated to take by a contract; that is, the service provider is only allowed to collect information that is required in order to "perform" (that is discharge their obligations under) the contract. If the contract says the user's performance of the contract requires handing over data? Tough luck. The service provider isn't allowed to collect it.
It's reassuring to hear that the GDPR is not meant to target little startups and projects but I would like it a lot better if it said that in the actual law, rather than just trusting all current and future regulators to treat me kindly.

If it's only meant to be used against big companies or extreme offenders, why doesn't it say so? It seems like the spirit of the law and the language of the law are not aligned and in my opinion that's a sign of poorly designed regulation.

I object to the idea that small projects should be ok with breaking the law merely because they very likely won't get caught.
> So you're saying that you are asking consent to store the phone number and email address of a client?

No, I didn't say that. GDPR doesn't mean that you have to ask for consent in each and every case. If as a business you have a legitimate interest to store client data for a specific purpose you don't have to ask for explicit consent. Being able to contact clients in the future who contacted you first constitutes such a legitimate interest.

As for the right to be forgotten: Sure, why wouldn't I? If they don't want to be contacted anymore and want me to delete their contact info I'm happy to oblige.
fail2ban may prove some use: https://www.fail2ban.org
There is video story at all (except a serial console), but the apu2 amd-based boards are nice, stable targets, and much, much faster than a rpi for networking applications:

https://pcengines.ch/about.htm
The guy is making $225K a year, but only paying $18,000 a year towards his debt, leaving him over $200K (before tax).

Sounds like he's making out like a bandit.
I was wondering if one of those options might work well for this situation. They are a bit spendy at $500 for the Powerhouse, but sometimes I have seen them on sale.

I guess I should get a Cigarette Lighter adapter so that in a pinch I could use this 75KWH portable battery I have called a Tesla. :-)
We did that with The Sims. The programmers would sketch up stuff in Microsoft Paint as ugly as possible, to make it clear that it was just placeholder art:

https://i.imgur.com/4yh7Bqt.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/oMbtAL3.jpg

Q: Were these screenshots taken when you were working at EA/Maxis?

A: Yes, these have placeholder "programmer art" that looks really shitty on purpose, so nobody mistakes them for final artwork!

Q: I thought as much; also noticed the 'Live' 'Buy' and 'Build' mode placeholder text on the UI ;)

It's harder to make ugly stuff in 3dsmax, so we had to make it inexplicable instead. Things tended to get weird when we were doing things like testing the 3D sprite exporter animations. I am at a loss to explain this, other than it's an experiment in post-transmogrification texture mapping...

https://i.imgur.com/gmLNaBu.jpg

You could place "spores" on the ground that would grow into big Mona Lisa Mushrooms!

Before that, I also used the same "programmer art" approach for some demos I made at Kaleida, when I didn't have an art department at my disposal to do my bidding, but knew just enough Photoshop and Director to be a danger to myself and others. (Some of it literally looked like shit and smelled like stinky cheese that made people scream!)

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/1995-apple-world-wide-develop...

>To make any sense of this, you should realize that it’s live improvisational performance programming art. The graphical and audio artwork are just ugly placeholder “programmer art”. The references to “great content” are laughably ironic!

>I didn’t have an art department at my disposal, and I have terrible graphics design skills, but I didn’t let that stop me, because that wasn’t the point!

>The art is in how it works and what it does and how I use it, not how it looks or sounds.

>It was meant to inspire ScriptX developers as well as myself, and it led to me to later develop iLoci and MediaGraph.
I've been a computer user since age 3. I only started developing RSI when I began computing as a profession.

Within the first year I experienced prominent wrist pain, primarily in the mouse hand. I had to deal with many applications across three 1920x1200 monitors.

Things that helped:

> I used a Wacom Bamboo tablet for several months to completely replace the mouse. I became pretty skilled at using it and it helped a lot with the RSI. It was a good experience and it's nice hardware for the cost, too.

> I bought a pair of wrist braces from Amazon. I used them while working and while sleeping. They provided excellent pain relief by keeping my wrists fixed and stable.

> A mechanical keyboard. I've bought and used several, but an old Das Keyboard with MX brown switches remains my favorite and most comfortable keyboard. I'm sure an ergonomic variety would be even better but I'm comfortable with the standard QWERTY.

> I gradually increased my mouse sensitivity. This was one of the most important changes, as my hand no longer needed to travel as far to accomplish the same tasks. My window configuration was already pretty optimal for me.

My RSI resolved within a year or so. I stopped using the braces and Wacom tablet but keep them on hand just in case.

I haven't had any problems since.
Definitely not the same.
verdaccio for NPM is a breeze to set up: https://www.verdaccio.org/
Oh thanks, I was picturing ripping apart troops into 4 pieces and was wondering why they would want that, let alone in my home.
Why conflate standup with a social checkin? Why not have a pre-lunch time to hang out and shoot the shit, instead of cramming it in as an ad hoc part of "the process" of standup?

Put your details, questions, concerns, etc in text, where anyone can read it any time they like, and make "social hour" something related to being a better teammate on an interpersonal level, instead of a mandatory part of the process.
5000 / 3.6 = 2500 / 1.8 = 1250 / 0.9 ~= 1,250 miles/sec
If by fail we mean "doesn't make any money", I think one has to look at Sun and Java as an example of a great technology where the creator of it couldn't make a substantial amount of money.
I'm finding this: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/28603/how-to-satisfy...
"The part of your body that plays tennis doesn't understand English. " to quote Alan Kay paraphrasing Timothy Gallwey ("The Inner Game of Tennis").

I don't think all explanation is redundant and counter-productive, but a lot of it is. I think it is useful to demonstrate how and explain why. If a stufmdent can internalize the correct motivation of why that can help choose which skill or technique to apply.
That's exactly my point. The EU is built for entrenched institutions. There is no entrepreneurial spirit -- and that's why there's N-number of self driving car companies in the US and zero(?) in the EU, for example.
How is a home speaker any different? you can monitor your network traffic and see how much data it's sending home right now. It's definitely not a constant audio stream. You'd have to be targeted.
This article is five years old, they don't because recycling costs more than fresh water from the ground and injecting used fracking water is easy and cheap. Contrast to Pennsylvannia where they recycle 90% (and I don't think they had the same drought conditions Texas went through for a long time before 2017).

https://www.texastribune.org/2013/03/19/texas-recycling-oilf...
I've been there, that's not fun.

You can often find inexpensive units on Craigslist. I think it's a great investment to have a second set that's always packed and ready to go.
It sounds to me like this reflects more on the startup's sloppy practices than anything else. Prevalence of this bad practice shouldn't be an excuse for it.
> Drive through the countryside. Most parts of the US look like a hollowed out shell by comparison.

In what way do you mean? Wind power?
No, she will get passed over by the board in favor of someone else, probably by a narrow margin.
Proof of work system.

Require your clients to perform some amount of computation to do a request.

Something like this:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/work-token
But what about national compliance experts, do you hire those? Because you have a lot more national compliance on your plate than international...
I think EU citizens should take this as a good sign- the law is working. If nobody reacted to it, it would be a sign that the law doesn’t do anything.

And the whole idea here is that I’d businesses don’t feel like complying with the regulation, then the EU doesn’t feel welcome letting them do business. And if we all believe capitalism is as wonderful as we say it is all the time, then businesses will spring up to fill the demand left behind. But if that doesn’t happen... hmm. Maybe it wasn’t such a great idea after all.
Presumably you are also required to delete it from any training data for an ML model, does that make any models trained on previous set of data illegal to use?
Not allowing businesses to fire customers who don't want to share anything sounds like a massive problem for companies who's revenue model depends on user info. Think of all the people who don't want to share anything but still aren't willing to type in CC info for facebook, are they entitled to free facebook use on the companies' dime?
We use PerimeterX and it's generally worked well for us https://www.perimeterx.com/ (and more cost-effective than spending our own time on it, at least for us)

I do share your desire though to try to direct the traffic towards some entity that could be better equipped at cutting it off at its source. It's automated traffic for the most part, so perhaps a clever automated solution could be effective at stirring a bigger or more well-equipped entity to cut if off. Past attempts at FBI reports and such have not amounted to anything for us.
"This is an 88 page document with extremely dry language"

It starts along these lines after the usual intro:

"The processing of personal data should be designed to serve mankind The right to the protection of personal data is not an absolute right; it must be considered in relation to its function in society and be balanced against other fundamental rights, in accordance with the principle of proportionality"

I'll grant you that lacks a certain something but the language is compatible with another well respected charter of rights that you should be more familiar with.

FFS, do you not notice the similarities!
Timetrap: Simple command line timetracker