skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people also don't pay for a subscription service that gives you cheaper prices. If you look specifically at Prime subscribers, I bet you'd find that they make efforts to do all their shopping through Amazon where possible.
> Dennett wrote a book on it.

Lots of people have written books about lots of things. That doesn't always mean those things are worth studying or thinking about. Witness the vast plethora of literature about minute points in Christian/Muslim/etc. theology. You could fill libraries with the books that have written about these subjects, none of which have any real basis in reality.
> By using it, you agree to cede control over minutiae of hand-formatting.

I may be in a minority, but I do not want to cede control over minutiae of hand-formatting. Am I the only person that feels this way?
There's nothing inherently wrong with storing user data or using targeted advertising as long as it's not abused. Instead of outlawing only cases of abuse like any sensible law would do, the EU just chooses to throw the baby out with the bathwater because it's not their baby.
It works great. Implementations are badly missing a standard MFA mechanism.
Airbags and seat belts were installed in cars long before they were required by regulators. The same goes for improvements in fuel efficiency. This all is driven by competing companies trying to make a profit.
The page shows a modal popup with two options: consent to personalised ads, or visit the privacy policy to withdraw consent. I visited the privacy policy and withdrew consent (by clicking the link at the end of the page's text, obstructively labelled “here”), but I was still unable to read the article.

(…until I deleted a few page elements using the page inspector, and removed a class from the body element. This is beyond most users.)

I thought this was illegal now, in the new world of the GDPR, because consent must be actually consensual.
Sounds like some utter bs to me. The guy I know who fasts loses about 20lbs on his bench max every year during that fast.
Well, they are totally free to exit markets located in jurisdictions they don't intend to abide.
Aldi should support CCs and Google Pay. Haven't tried for a year and don't quite know if it was north or south, but yeah. Paywave or Google Pay worked fine to buy your groceries..
Nothing to see here. The do-calculus is just fancy notation for what reinforcement learning is already doing: trying different possible actions and trying to maximize reward. If you know possible actions in advance, this is basically minimizing regret of wrong policy actions.
First, you can use HN without even creating an account. If you want to comment and upvote you can create a an account, and the only personal information you need to provide is an email address, which doesn't even need to be your main email address. It doesn't show ads, so it doesn't have an incentive to collect our personal data and interests to target ads or sell the data to third parties.

Your comment seems to denote that you think GDPR is a silly european thing and that it restricts companies freedom and that USA doesn't need similar laws to protect user data and privacy. So, are you really ok with Facebook, Google, Amazon and so many other companies spying on us for their own benefit, to profit off personal data, even share that data with three letter agencies or it's just because it's an US vs THEM mentality that everything outside US is strange and slightly frightening? Genuinely curious.
"others" would be right, but the present team doing the refactoring is actively, aggressively incompetent, doesn't listen to even constructive feedback, closes critical bugs with snarky comments, refuses outside contributions, claim outside contributions are literally impossible, and absorbs independent functionality in the name of empire building.

So the notional idea of 'refactoring' being better -- yes! But with the constraint being that the people doing the refactoring have to be at least as wise, tasteful, mature, sensible, and thoughtful as the people who came before.
Such TOS would most likely be 'unduely onerous' or whatever the local term for this concept is in other EU jurisdictions.

I've said this many times here already, but law is not a closed rule based decision tree. Intent matters, and laws are written in a way that they can be interpreted so that their meaning can be adapted to new circumstances or different times. Now, I'm not going to argue about whether that's how it should be (because that's such a trite 1L discussion), but it's a fact that it is.

So no, that's not how it works.
Also the first three paragraphs have no relation to the rest of the article and seems placed here for apologetical or political purpose.
oh, reminds me that the very first programming class per se we ever got as kids was on one of these :

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bigtrack+programmable+rover&atb=v5...

basically real life LOGO. I say "per se" because LOGO trying to not feel like programming, teacher didn't say the word IIRC.
As a non EU member I'm jealous. I would love to see a uBlock filter list targeting all non GPDR compliant addresses. Maybe something like the 'Badware risks' list that allows you to proceed but not before displaying a warning.
I think the phrase "You're oversimplifying a complex situation to the point of no longer adding anything to the discussion" applies to your comment.

No one here is saying that ALL regulations are bad or should be removed, just that all regulations have unintended consequences.
It should be up to communities to make these decisions and if they value privacy more than efficiency than so be it. We shouldn't default to "Make things as efficient as possible at the cost of privacy implicitly and by default".
Please send me a link to your project for analysis before you say it’s easy.
> Chinese citizens generally are evaluated for visas, mortgages, schools, and employment by social credit scores.

I only learned about social credit scores last month. Have they actually been around for much longer? That seems unlikely, given that Wikipedia says it's still proposed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

It seems disingenuous to claim that a proposed system is in general use.
can't upvote this comment enough times!
I do not work in Amazon. I side with them on this because look at this protocol:

1 Wake up w “Alexa.”
2 respond to “send message”
3 respond to “To whom?”
4 respond to “[contact name], right?”

As an engineer (well, an AI researcher who used to engineer), that looks to me like they were not negligent and it was hard to predict background conversation would produce this unlikely set of inputs - it would be nice to see stats but this is the first time it is covered in the media to my knowledge. And as with the laughter story, they will now change the inputs to make it likely 1-in-a-trillion this will happen.

However, it does seem like Alexa etc. will have to be better about recognizing audio from TVs/conversations and stuff directed at it - and I am sure they are working on it.

PS comparison to CPU is not great obvs since it's about number of instances (how many times does "Alexa" get woken up by background audio - not 4ghz)
>You're completely losing the plot here here.

You are not only losing the plot, but you are also clearly unfamiliar with this particular case, much less patent lawsuits in general.

There is no punitive damage in patent trials, unless there is very clear evidence of willful infringement, in which case, the final damage can be tripled. The legal standards for awarding triple damage likewise is very high in this country and that was rejected years ago.

Leaving aside your ignorance in patent litigations, most don't believe that frivolous minor patent violation should enable patent holders to disgorge infringers' entire profit. There are over 120+K active patents in any given mobile devices today, and the courts have over the years developed legal theories limiting the scope of damage to the infringed component only. This is precisely why SCOTUS sent the case back to the lower courts and instructed them to re-define what that proper infringed component, or "article of manufacture," on which damage can be calculated ought to be. It seems like Apple's judge willfully botched the jury instruction again, rather than help the jury define and award damage more inline with the SCOTUS decision.

Do you know who else believes in this? Apple has over 90 pending patent litigation today (as defendant)and has consistently argued the same for apportionment in cases where Apple is defendant, while asking for the whole kitchen sink against a foreign company.
you can configure gnome easily to look that way (with a hidden panel and no icons, and a bit of tweking of your compoositor)

or you just write a tiny ~/.xinitrc that calls evilwm or cwm

xsetroot -solid black
evilwm &
exec xterm
I agree with your second paragraph, but not your first. We all agree that the fact that a legal restriction was democratically approved absolutely does not make it moral (e.g., slavery). A nation doesn't have collective rights to do anything; the individual citizens have rights. And if a minority of citizens wants to welcome and employ immigrants in their home or town, there is a burden on the majority provide the same kind of overwhelming justification we require for other restrictions on rights (free-speech, taking of property, etc.) In particular, your suggestion that nations have rights to control immigration suggests it would be OK if nations had explicitly racist immigration policies; indeed we allow individual citizens to have racist policies for who they let into their home on account of that citizen's individual rights (even though we may strongly disapprove of those individuals).

https://openborders.info/
I'm also assuming pycharm has some options. This thing seems to make very specific decisions and if you don't agree with them, tough.
Absolutely!

But note the blameless analysis is NOT the same as saying "meh" errors happen.

It is a culture and deliberate practice of allocating resources to seeking and classifying risks, and designing, implementing, and testing engineering and procedural mitigation strategies (vs. development as usual).
You jest, but to use another example, aggressive regulations is exactly why manufactures produce private aircraft designed 50 years ago.

Onerous regulations are always overcome, one way or another. (And airbags are not onerous.)
this was my realization too when I first started hearing about IF several years back.. "I do this already, but on accident" I have never eaten breakfast in my adult life. I eat once at 11:00AM for lunch, then again at either 6:00PM or 9:00PM for dinner depending on if I train that night or not. I don't snack or drink any calories, so this is basically intermittent fasting right? It seems weird but it does make sense, I am relatively lean and don't put much effort into it.
You can write P(cold outside | do(turned on heat=X)), where X is another random variable. So P(cold outside | do(turned in heat=X=1)) will be equal to P(cold outside | do(turned on heat=1))P(X=1 | cold outside) = P(cold outside)P(X=1 | cold outside).

But, you might want to consider making "turned on heat" part of the system in this case, and go back to using the classic conditioning operator instead of the do operator.

This is covered in chapter 4 of Pearl's Causality.
Can you back this up with research?
The issue isn't if the distinction is justified, or makes sense. Clearly it does.

The issue is that language usage is often conversational and informal, and people often don't make the distinction the GP wants them to make.

Insisting that they do is a losing game.
Digi-Comp I
> i.e. "It's easier for horses to compete with cars if you set the speed limit everywhere to 5 miles per hour."

I think that elides pretty important aspects from the equation. In reality, it's more like: "It's easier for Bill-brand horses to compete with John-brand horses; if you ban the steroids, amphetamines, and cruel practices John uses to get his results."
I wonder if this is really apple’s concern. It’s not hard to imagine this feature eventually evolving to the point where you don’t run your own games on your PC and stream to your device. Surely within the next 5 years this feature evolves to have Valve run the games in the cloud and stream to your device, so it’s always available if you have a sufficient connection, no need to even have a PC.

At that point it’s a much bigger competitive risk to Apples AppStore game sales revenue. To play devils advocate, I could see this argument having more strength within Apple’s walls than banning an app that just streams games from the user’s own PC.

I think it’s inevitable Valve enter the cloud hosted pc gaming market eventually, personally. Sales of mobile devices and cheap PCs dwarf sales of gaming PCs, the size of the potential customer base explodes once your users don’t need to be well off enough to afford a gaming rig.
Normal pose is difficult to infer from a pile of bones.
So this sort of rethinking goes on quite a bit.

I remember this discussion about rethinking the correct pose of the archeopteryx. Less splayed out, similar to this article.

And the t-rex used to be posed more upright, now it is posed more horizontally. In the Carnegie Museum the old t-rex was very upright in a fairly static pose, now they have two in rather dynamic pose horzontally with their tails off the ground.

I believe some of the earliest dinosaur models were posed in assumed ways that were later drastically changed.
This made me laugh and feel better. Being in a startup is tough!
Youtube's " 15,000-strong salesforce"

and non existent customer/producer support
If science is statements about facts, then philosophy is statements about other statements, the only requirement being that these statements are non-contradictory.

That makes mathematics just a subdivision in philosophy, in which statements about statements must be (axiomatically) derived exclusively from a completely explicit starting point. Since math mostly took over logic and epistemology (as computability), general philosophy has indeed lost its most important subjects.

Philosophy is simply meant to shrink and downsize. Reasoning without any particular method gets naturally replaced by reasoning with one. If philosophy had grown, that would not have been a good sign. It would not have been progress.
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> Of course not, it wasn't invented yet so they didn't know the Palm Pilot lacked this.

You miss the point: Most people rejected the Palm Pilot before seeing how you interacted with it at all. The idea that how you interact with the device makes such a big difference is flawed to a large extent because these devices demonstrated quite clearly that there were other issues that stopped mass market adoption of these devices before people even bothered to figure out how you actually interacted with them.
If I run a free website, I have 0 revenue. Why would I care how big the EU market is?
Not at all. I would never use something like this except to clean up some sloppy code that I am inheriting.
About 300MB. I just tried to replicate using random data and failed, will look more later, mine is power-law distributed and might make a difference.

Used these commands:

cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 10000000 > text

cat /dev/urandom | od -DAn |tr -s ' ' '\n' |head -10000000 | sed -e 's/$/\/9.0/'> num

bc -l num > num2

(that's to create decimal numbers)

paste -d, text num2 > textfirst

paste -d, num2 text > numfirst

time LC_ALL=c sort -n numfirst -r > output

real	0m10.712s
user	0m21.959s
sys	0m1.644s

time LC_ALL=C sort --field-separator=',' -k2 -n -r textfirst > output

real	0m9.638s
user	0m21.940s
sys	0m1.293s
I quite like journalctl, but the naming could be better. 'system' means OS, and kernel, and init system, and computer, and many other things. 'start-service' would have been better.

The worst is 'system-cat' to send a log message (SysVInit used 'logger'). Why not just 'log'?
Tried this and was actually really impresseda after being a little skeptical. My feedback videos were 25-30 minutes long and were all finished in just a couple of hours. I ended up ordering more.
You have deviated into the absolutist approach I mentioned before. You don't even have to do without regulation, just not more and larger. Among solutions there includes: education, enforcement of existing statutes, reduced scope legislation until enforcement catches up, promotion of alternative approaches, tacit support for technical defenses, etc, etc. There are so many more. Adopting this large sweeping legislation is a myopic approach taken by those who think they wield a toolbox with only one tool in it. Sometimes even, if the unfortunate choice is corporate or government overreach, we should not be so hasty to counteract the former with the latter. Work towards it.
> but everyone uses registrars for their domain name, even the biggest businesses out there.

Everyone uses registrars, but in some cases you can be your own registrar. Like in Finland, when .fi domain registrations were moved to exclusively to registrars (initially you would register domains with Finnish FCC equivalent, later option was added to let registrar handle that for you and finally it was moved to just registrars), quite a few companies and individuals registered to become registrar for .fi domain.
You compile it yourself in order to disable WebDav?
Yes, I use Zotero (a reference manager) which uses WebDav for file sync to a Nextcloud server. You can also use davfs to mount a Nextcloud share.
Sort of. The technical cost is effectively zero, as everything technical which is required by GDPR ought to be done anyways. However, there are a lot of non-technical compliance issues in meatspace that have a very real cost. Most of that cost may be deferred until the first GDPR-based request, however that just means you're kicking the can down the road. The cost is still there.
There’s a difference between actually being under the jurisdiction of a government and them claiming that you are. My contention here is with so many people claiming that I should care as a matter of morality or something. That the EU’s claim here is right and just. Under that logic, so is Thailand’s. Is that really the world we want?

Obviously if the EU has some enforcement mechanism, I should be cautious, even if they’re in the wrong (like Thailand). But they don’t have any actual enforcement mechanism, so this just seems irrelevant to me.
You adapt pretty quickly to however you want to setup your fast. The typical recommendation is to workout fasted at the end of your fast, so you can eat afterwards. Have something light to start, then your first full meal shortly afterwards.

I do heavy PPL lifting program 6 days a week and have been doing IF for 3 months. The first 2 weeks were mentally tough at the gym, but after that, the gym really helps me finish off the last couple of hours of my fast and I haven't noticed a negative change in energy levels or strength.
Are you talking about a "dumb" phone? That I would agree is a special purpose computer.

A smartphone is definitely a general purpose computer, though. The definition of a general purpose computer isn't "a computer that can do anything a typical PC can".

A proper definition would be something like "Any computer-based device that accepts different applications". It's a differentiator between things like microwaves, which are technically computers, and smartphones/laptops/PCs/tablets.
Since the site was unusable and I wasn't able to look up the study they cite I'll have to make a small assumption:

Based on the date of the article, I assume this mostly precludes contactless payment. As a personal anecdote, a salad place I know in Berlin recently switched over to card-only and they specifically encourage and educate people to make use of the contactless payment feature thats enable in most debit/credit cards Germans have. They went from unmanageable long queues that made eating there a chore to almost no queues and one of the fastest ways to pick up food via that single change.
At the same time (as an example) I have something like 150 movies I've bought on iTunes that I cannot bring to any other platform.

So Apple locks-in users to their platform (as is everyone else) then they are using the control they have over their user base to lock out competition.

This is the very definition of anti-competitive behavior.
Do you mean during the fasting period or when you are out of the fasting period? Can you consume sugar when you are out of the fasting period?
But a country is not a person. A country is an abstraction and as such shouldn't have rights equivalent or superior to a person's.

How does a movement of a person though a territory hurts anyone or their nose?

Also, "nation states" are an extremely recent development.
GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
What’s interesting about this problem is that the average American is way better off now than in the past. We have access to things unimaginable to people a mere 100 yeas ago. We live longer and have way more material wealth. It shouldn’t matter that so few own so much more but it does. In some sense it’s an issue of psychology.
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Well, as it turns out, it's your problem. Like, literally :)

Anyway, don't be too upset about all this. The law is not banning you from collecting my data, you just need to be explicit and informative about it so that I can decide if I am going to send a request to your servers.

I'm often disturbed by the mindset that people are some business' god given a right to exploitation. It's the other way around really, that is, if you can find a way to serve me or solve a problem of mine I might choose to do a business with you if I decide that the compensation you demand fair.

If your business is unprofitable when you have to ask me for permission in plain English maybe it simply means that you don't have a profitable Business and you should consider doing something else.

We don't see business people complaining that government regulations are hurting their organ harvesting businesses, right? People decided that they don't want other people to sell their kidneys on open markets, so that business doesn't exist.

People at some point decided that they don't want to get cancer from Asbestos, regulations kicked in and the Asbestos businesses were destroyed.

This time around people seem to be in control of their data, if that makes your business unprofitable or impossible do what others did: Something else.
At Facebook, we are now using prettier[1] on all our JavaScript files, a growing number of Hack files are formatted with Hackfmt[2] and now black is being rolled out for Python. It's a really exciting time :)

[1] https://prettier.io/
[2] https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/blob/master/hphp/hack/src/h...
I don't. I use my phone less and less. And I disable location every chance I get, leave it at home when I go out, on my desk when I step away, it stopped inhabiting my pocket, stays in the other room when I am concentrating, etc. I don't trust my phone, but occasionally it's useful. Why is this hard for people?
Basketball Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon of the Houston Rockets is an observant Muslim; a Reddit post [0] says his game performance dropped a bit during Ramadan, but he still managed to lead the team to two consecutive NBA championships. (Apparently Ramadan never occurred during the playoffs during the years in question.)

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/3yvhf2/hakeem_olajuwon...