skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blocking access at geographic level across pretty clear signal they don't care about users/readers in those regions (I think it's hard to argue otherwise, the law has been coming for 2 years).

Obviously they cater to people interested in local news in those regions. However, I hope they will rectify and allow access again for EU users at some point soon. It seems to go against the idea of a borderless internet, and I blame the companies for that, not the EU.
>It is the most clear cut indicator that there is some super sketchy shit going on ever.

Yes, there is something that they're hiding, but there is no evidence that this has anything to do with their 1:1 USD reserve being a bogus. It's far more likely they are encountering regulation problems given the regulation uncertainty surrounding crypto.

>People seem to be willing to believe whatever they want despise clear signs they are wrong.

Or perhaps I'm not willing to commit to conspiracy theories based on baseless speculations.
I tested mine right now, and I can't see any correlation between the light ring and my location relative to it.
The UK Adopts Data Protection Act 2018
GDPR Applies from Today
I know you’re talking about bullet (or other express) trains where it’s expected to eat, but you’re definitely not supposed to do it on normal trains.
Things like this will test how much EU citizens value their privacy. Of course there will be some sites they will not be able to visit but time will show if they are okay with that.

These rules are very similar to rules limiting loans. No matter how desperate a person is and how low credit they have, in the US you can't give them a loan for above a certain amount of interest. That could be terrible for a poor person who is about to be evicted if they don't get some money right away. But we as a society are willing to accept that if the result is that more loans will be "reasonable".

If GDPR is enforced as HN people say it will be (in a good way) then the result will probably be that a lot of free websites ban EU users and smaller companies take their place with products that either cost money or will be a bit worse.

If it enforced in a bad way then big companies who can navigate the law will get bigger because their small competitors will be to afraid of the law and shut EU users out.
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The response to GDPR is interesting. If they are handling and selling your data in ways that are not compatible with GDPR, then you should seriously consider using someone else for that information.
Going up against major players typically starts with a massive cost, consider the losses that Tesla is taking on. As per my other comment [0] from the article it's more like $89M in revenue.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17152056
I really don't think anyone was trying to disallow people from saying that one notch is smaller than the other.
They've just made a huge mistake. Upset the hardcore gamers market to stop essentially a remote desktop app?
Pretty sure AWS has had f1 instances for some time already.
Don't new laptops only have one of those, for their hard drives?
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That would only suggest to me, not knowing any better, that the car can in fact fully drive itself but might not be allowed to yet in my jurisdiction, so only a legal barrier not a tech one.
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Doing business in the EU is only one path that causes the GDPR apply to you, processing personal data of people located within the EU, not necessarily EU citizens, is another one and probably the one relevant here.

Article 3(2): This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to: (a) the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or (b) the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.
Have you looked at any of the links I posted? https://blog.bitmex.com/tether-addendum-new-financial-data-r...
Meh. Looking at his Resume (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Rubin#Career_timeline), he started working on Mobile OS's as far back as 1992. Then he hopped from company to company (founding 2) until the Google Acquisition in 2005, and he didn't get into Robots until 2013.

You don't spend 21 years working in a domain you don't like.

And you don't quit managing Google's robotics division after LESS THAN A YEAR to immediately go back to mobile if robots are your lifelong dream. OK, sure, maybe he didn't like Google's robotics strategy or vision, but he was in a prime position to change it from the inside, and that takes longer than a year.

It sounds much more that Robots is a hobby. But his life goal and passion is Mobile.

Also, discounting his successes as just cloning the work of a genius is silly. Firstly, he has a credible role in the historical progression, as the Danger SideKick was a legitimate leader in the field for a few years.

Secondly, Android to iPhone in the 2010's is Windows to Mac in the 1990's. They democratized the platform to give people the freedom of choice.
> Because I don't believe in stealing other peoples' things just because they have them.

So that makes you a libertarian who thinks any tax is theft, and estate tax is just as bad as any other tax?

I always wonder how libertarians really think society would work, when nobody cares about anything other than themselves and their own wishes. Countries with weak governments are really not that nice to live in.
I don't think that would mean that Google's business is fundamentally incompatible. If 90's-style bannering is the only thing that is allowed/feasible now, of all companies Google is in the best position to do that profitably.
Haha nice, I've used "Okay poodle" a lot before.
I guess the problem is the store. The app allows to access valve's store (which is far cheaper than games in the apple store). If they remove the ability to buy games I am sure the remote desktop app would be ok.

I am guessing anyway
I'm a fan of 'lsof -i', in fact of lsof for anything. Makes lots of sense to treat network sockets and files as equals: that's the big idea of UNIX.
It's still unknown how exactly they will enforce the GDPR, but they've got data on Europeans thus need to comply. The US does this quite often as well having their laws applied to foreign companies, without them being physically present in the US.
Building REST APIs for database schemas which do not follow conventions of frameworks (rails,django,play etc) is incredibly tedious.

Xmysql solves this problem [1]. Within 2 seconds you can serve REST APIs for any MySql database.
Other than CRUD-List APIs it has few more cool APIs and features relating to filtering, grouping and prototyping.

[1] https://github.com/o1lab/xmysql/
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Why do you assume that neural network would be unable to understand (or classify) 'Gestalt' of the picture? I would not make those assumptions about perspective, because in the end ml could make 3d model of the picture and KNOW the exact perspective.
In 1y every website will have a click through EULA with 20 pages that loads before everything else and doesn't store IPS - and which no one is reading - privacy served. Just when they install from the App store or install Microsoft Office.
This a pretty much direct summary of a paper [0] previously discussed(twice) on hacker news [1][2]

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03453.pdf

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16837030

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16600701
In your example, the disk is entirely read-only I think.

I would guess the state of each disk replica (HEALTHY, UNHEALTHY) is stored in a master elected data store. Anytime a write to one replica fails, the data store must be updated to change the state of the failed replica before considering the write complete.

Then to change the state back to HEALTHY, everything must be online and fully re-replicated.

If the master elected state store can't be written to, because (due to a network split) it doesn't have sufficient votes to gain mastership, then no writes can occur.
Agree with this feedback, I think this idea has legs, but you need to be really clear about the process on both sides. Easiest way to do this would be to have some kind of sample workflow - what the client does, how it flows to the tester, what the tester does and a sample result video that the client receives.
In 1y every website will have a click through EULA with 20 pages that loads before everything else and doesn't store IPs - and which no one is reading - privacy served. Just when they install from the App store or install Microsoft Office.
And yet the Steam Store app is available on the iOS App Store.

This is a very strange decision.
GDPR does not have the full force of law in Iceland but yet I am blocked. Not that I will miss those publications.
Those labeling nets keeps resurfacing in the news. They're more of a hack than a proper implementation. It uses a focus-based algorithm to detect prominent features and just glues them with NLP without using any context. If it detects a scissor and a paper it might say "Man uses scissors to cut painting" despite no man or painting being present. That's because there's a high statistical correlation between the two in it's dataset. That's it.
I doubt that user tracking for personalized ads is a legitimate interest, especially in the case of Google search. Tracking users without consent also contradicts Google's own privavy policy. From https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en#enforcement

> For example, we ask for your consent to provide you with personalized services like ads.

No, they apparently don't.
I don't have any apple products, however can you buy a RDC app and remote to windows and buy apps in the windows store?
> They cannot compete with GPUs on flops with Xeon, but an embedded FPGA might get them closer.

FPGAs aren't known for their FLOPs though. Sure, the high end ones pack a punch, but compared to GPUs are still extremely expensive.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were caught off guard on GPDR. There are some who seem to feel that the pending deadline was universal knowledge, but I don't think it was for many of us in the US. I hadn't heard of it until the recent Monal kerfuffle here on HN.
I have a hard time with this explanation, as the Steam Store is already available through the iOS Steam app which is available on the Apple app store.
Cash is cool. Cash is anonymously. Cash is independent from any payment processor. Cash has no payment fees. Cash does not require power, so it is somehow environment friendly. Cash is just cool.
They will, see my click through EULA comment.
This looks like the result of a drug-and-alcohol-fueled unplanned pregnancy between COBOL and Ada.
Anecdotal, sure, but I find about 9 in 10 trains are online and boardable. Frankston and Werribee lines, off peak. I hope the new lines that will bypass the city will help decongestion the network.
I hate shit like the changing text at the top. No one seems to be capable anymore of putting that in some kind of fixed height box to prevent the website below the fold from skipping up and down constantly. This is unusable. I was interested but immediately closed the site without reading a single word when I saw that.

Screen recording - https://kevingrahl.de/temp/3724.mp4
Answering those questions in a public forum would be extremely foolish

Perhaps asking for questions was foolish?

And how many of them are actually in compliance?

If you're not in the business of selling customer data to third parties, it's not very hard to comply, just requires some discipline on how data is stored and who it is shared with, and a point of contact for enquiries about data.
It's a fluff app for messaging and so on, no actual gaming.
That's almost the description of a smartphone.
Maybe some mid-level manager at Apple is trying to get a promotion with this.

"Look at how loyal and useful I am to the company. I saw this revenue-threatening thing in the news and I killed it."
You can still run a free website and be compliant with the GDPR. The EU/EEA is the largest market in the world, closing yourself for an market that size will hurt more than changing a few thing to be compliant.
Yes, it is annoying.

At least they have their money purses in restaurants and give you change in an instant instead of fumbling it like in other places. They are as efficient as cash allows it to be.

(And most places that cards only take German cards)
Need of serverless computing? So here are HSE has all the solutions
Archlinux ships this as default now (and has for about a year) and I think Ubuntu is doing the same. Thus people are increasingly being exposed to iproute2.
I wished everyone who says "GDPR hysteria" would cover legal costs for those who are hysteric.
When I look to run user testing, I need to set some demographics on the kind of people performing my testing, to make sure the context of the feedback I receive is actionable and relevant.

For example, if I was making a site targeted at Call of Duty Xbox players, I'd be looking for user testers from within that demo.

At a glance, not sure how you can do this with a fixed set of trained testers?
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Apple is wrong here.
At least, Germany is not as bad as Japan!
Can I specify that my site is tested with representatives of my target demography?
FWIW I can usually never get ifconfig to do what I want it to, but with ip it's usually fairly straight-forward.
The five stages of grief, in GDPR email subject lines
Reminds me a bit of intentional programming, something that Charles Simonyi has been pushing for a few decades. As far as I know he might still be pushing this but I haven't seen much progress since 2002.
Presumably the file is a recording of a human operating the car?
You know what let's me access the Steam store (and many others)? Any VNC client to my other computer.

Or just the regular Steam app. Check the screenshot page on the AppStore and you'll see the store with prices and all.
Germany has a bunch of things going for it, and a bunch of things against. This one of the "against" things, but I don't think it's a huge factor.
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That was uplifting to read. Thank you for sharing your experience.
For the most part, but every few years the bearings will need replacement. This means shutting the entire thing off and dismantling it for several hours. For redundancy, you therefore need multiple flywheels to cover for the maintenance periods.

Batteries can and indeed do go bad without warning, but current sophisticated UPS monitoring systems are able to detect failures, track battery ages and raise alerts (whether anyone actually acts on those alerts or not is another matter...). I've also found that lead-acid batteries last longest as long as there is some amount of power continuously trickling through them - I have an APC UPS at home with its original batteries from 2010, and they still provide ~1h of runtime at 20% load. And with most DC-grade UPSen, batteries can be replaced in situ without powering the device or any connected equipment off.
If that person does make it on to a watchlist it's wasting resources and causing them 'harm' (eg always stopped at border checks).
FYI, there is a strange rendering glitch in current Nightly occurring while scrolling the page with menu opened: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/17016

If you plan to make some radical alterations that could potentially "fix" that bug in near future, could you please freeze current state somewhere until diagnosis finishes?
What else can they do when they have this laundry list of tracking scripts on a front page:

https://i.imgur.com/hKEItPS.png

They obviously have NO idea what's being collected on every user and how it is being used.
A Dutch anti-piracy group infringed on copyright in one of their campaign videos: https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-corruption-scandal-surrou...
"Cash has no payment fees"
This is simply not true. Take a business for example:

1.) have a cashbox (or multiple)

2.) guard cashbox

3.) every evening count money in cashbox

4.) hope the cash you took in is still in the cashbox

5.) if not 4) --> accounting nightmare + fire employee

6.) bring cash to bank
It seems that once you are in the EU, the GDPR applies to you. So you could move to Europe for a year and demand that Facebook provide you with all the benefits of the GDPR. Residency is probably a practical requirement but is not a written legal requirement since you will need to complain to the data authorities, and if you leave after complaining they will likely not follow up on your complaint.

Travel is probably one of the hairier issues. For companies which are big enough and do have an EU legal presence, they might get pushed to comply. Obviously, while someone is in the EU, EU laws regarding the treatment of that person apply. If you (as a data controller) are in the EU, of course you should comply, even if the basis of your legal relationship was formed outside of the EU.
> But there are many career programmers who would rather say:
> Print 1 to 10, as a comma-separated list.

No, I would not. Don't make assumptions on behalf of others.
U.S. Websites Go Dark in Europe as GDPR Data Rules Kick In
Americans always cry about taxes but then they pay an 8% premium on everything to their payment processor. As long as the money doesn't go to the state its okay, right?
It depends on the country.

In the UK, a small claims court will happily take on such small amounts, with no lawyers involved. It usually won't take up more than a few hours of your time, especially if you've done the process before.
I don't think it's that Germans want to only use cash, I think it's more that the payment systems in Germany are not great.

Lot's of bars/beer gardens/shops can't take cards.

German banks seem to use their own system called EC card which is not usable anywhere else in the world.

You can't use an EC card to buy stuff online you have to make a bank transfer.
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Only for businesses that handle large volumes of cash. For person-to-person transactions, cash is the way to go.
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I don’t think this will last for long...
Except that won’t help them with the GDPR one bit.

They will worsen their experience and not be in compliance because they are unwilling to actually do the simple things needed.
Note that this is a ~$2500 processor with a ~$5000 FPGA stuck to it.
"Cash is anonymous" : This is a feature it seems particularly for Germans, known for their privacy laws and privacy efforts.
Yeah, but for those one you still have to do all the HDL programming stuff yourself. Alibaba on other hand aims to provide everything ready to use over a cute RDMA api
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But they get 1.5% cash back!
Also: if the effects of the bug were obvious, the creator would have fixed it.
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I like C++, but it's not the language that you would design if you hadn't accumulated so much cruft over the years. Rust didn't have to support C compatibility and compatibility with earlier C++ standards. So Rust could be designed properly for modern use cases.

There's necessary complexity to express certain concepts, but C++ has accumulated a lot of unnecessary complexity over the years.

Rust, in terms of GC-less languages with mostly zero-cost abstractions is the simplest language that I've seen. And having a GCless language with memory safety is not just fashion. It's pretty much the greatest single advancement in language design since the GC itself.
8%? What? That can't be true.
A pox on your ignorant generalizations.
Personally I find the push in Sweden to only use card much more annoying. Cash tends to fail much more rarely for me than cards. Of course there's no reason why they can't coexist but since much of the official point of cashless is tracking, cash will always be bad for those pushing for increased surveillance.

Incidentally when I lived in Berlin I used to only use cash and I never found it a bother. My bank had ATMs in many places and it really wasn't very hard to keep cash around. I've always found it a little odd when people talk about ATMs as being inconvenient when historically they're probably as convenient as they've ever been. Of course it is always easier not to have to go to an ATM, but today it really isn't that hard unless you have some tiny ATM network.

Regardless, having both cash and cashless is definitely the best of both worlds. Convenience, redundancy, autonomy. I wish people would stop unnecessarily view the two methods as incompatible when they complement each other so well.
For F#, you can also use F# to transpile f# to clean javascript (will use standard babel and has an awesome interop story with existing npm packages or js libraries), and use electron api as is

https://github.com/fable-compiler/samples-electron

Related, the ionide extension of Visual Studio Code ( https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp ) is implemented with fable, and used to generate extension of vscode (electron/js based).
works really well and power the F# language support of Visual Studio Code
You're considered gaijin even if you're born in the country. My half-Japanese children (born and bred in Japan) get called "gaijin" all the time.
"Click here to agree to everything we do" schemes are explicitly forbidden by the GDPR. You need to individually opt-in to every single use case, and you need to consent to every transfer to each individual third party as well.
EC/Maestro works anywhere in Europe and in most parts of the world. It even works in US at the ATM.
As long as cash is available, it is difficult to charge penalty interest on your bank account.
Facebook too, one can't access feed or chat unless they accept the terms including broad spectrum tracking. Meanwhile FB happily handling all the personal information associated with the account. This is without going into the problem of shadow accounts.
Forcing users to accept a 20 page EULA is not compliant, that's what's so great about this directive. If all you have to do to be compliant is add a new clause to your 20 page EULA, then the law would have no purpose - we're already trained to just click accept when presented with any kind of lawyerese. The whole point is to get away from that.
Slate is doing this too - full page block of the site with only a single "Agree" button to click. No customization or opt out:

Slate’s Use of Your Data
By clicking “Agree,” you consent to Slate’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and the use of technologies such as cookies by Slate and our partners to deliver relevant advertising on our site, in emails and across the Internet, personalize content and perform site analytics. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information about our use of data, your rights, and how to withdraw consent.

The terms of service is https://slate.com/terms
The privacy is https://slate.com/privacy

Oh sure, there are some links like "Opt-out from data use". Which are just...mailto links to gdpr@slate.com
While many people claim to be using cash for privacy reasons the same people often are absolutely fine with using a digital loyalty card called Payback (I'm not making this up. This is the actual name ...), which is widely used in Germany.

So, I suppose this is not so much about privacy at all but rather about laziness or stubbornness.
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