skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a qualitative difference between degrees of data collection. What you can see and remember is a different category from what you can write down; what you can write down is a different category from recorded audio/video; what you can record with conventional equipment is a different category from what you may capture and store using all available technology e.g. DNA sequencing. In general, the more powerful the technological aid, the stronger the regulation.

Even just the first two, seeing and writing down, are legally distinct. Supermarket checkout staff handle hundreds of credit cards a day. How do you think the law would react to such an employee writing all of them down?

It's not discriminatory against old people, because even a completely amnesiac person armed with a notepad can permanently capture vastly more information than all but a photographic memory.
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I know what an analogy is. I also know that you chose the slavery reference specifically because you wanted to equate - or compare, if you like - the two things.
FWIW, in the wake of the news about cancellation, the producers said that S3 won't be ending with a huge cliffhanger.

Anyway, I'm extremely happy to see The Expanse saved.
I tried to opt out of tracking in some GDPR form yesterday, and it wouldn’t let me do it because my browser doesn’t support third party cookies. So ironically, you need cookies to track who doesn’t want to be tracked.

As to your specific question, do you realize what a PITA that would be to manually accept every single cookie in your browser? It’s bad enough clicking through the GDPR forms on every single site I visit.

A much better solution would be to actually respect the DNT (do not track) header. If I have DNT enabled, why do I need to open a form and deselect 100 trackers on every website? I’ve already said I do not want to be tracked; that should be sufficient to automatically opt me out of all tracking.
Apple are held to a higher standard because of the perception that their hardware is of a higher standard. I don't see the problem.
Fair point; how then would you rate your own comment? ;)
These million dollar companies are worried about paying thousands for a photo to an a freelancer. Meanwhile individuals deal with bankruptcy, prison, and even suicide due to these companies suing them for a song, photo, or video.

I shall play the tiniest violin for their troubles.
I read your comment saying that you work remotely. I have been doing that for 2 years too and honestly until recently I felt the same way as you.
I started fixing myself by doing meditation and exercising regularly. I have made my mental and physical health my top priority.
Once I established that I made sure that everyday I am learning something new and challenging and creating something.
After that was taken care of I decided that every week I am going to take time out to reach out to people and socialise.
Now I feel that my life is meaningful, which means different for different people. I am happier than I ever was and I have fallen in love with programming again.
You could argue using hard data is less rigorous. But, in practice people make mistakes so without verification Philosophy and math is again arguably less rigorous, depending on what you mean by that word.
You are one of the most vocal anti-GDPR commenters in HN. I'm not going to count your comments of course, but for each GDPR related topic in the last weeks (which means close to daily), I invariably encounter a discussion where you are warning of the threats and unknowns GDPR poses to companies.

It's good to have multiple viewpoints of course, but I was a bit surprised by your commitment to anti-GDPR commenting. It's as if the previous discussions accounted for nothing, and it all has to be hashed out again.

I would for sure classify your viewpoint as "doomsday" (or FUD), but I have to admit I'm probably biased by my opinion: I legitimately feel GDPR is the best thing to happen to not only privacy, but Internet in general in the last decade.
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Well, there must be some fiction in sci-fi as well :). A small amount of magic is usually allowed. If you ignore the protomolecule, the rest is quite hard.
Isn’t this the case with all book -> tv/movie adaptations, you lose 90% of it? No surprise really.
This is false. See Article 3 (Territorial Scope):

"""

1. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not. [i.e. EU companies, or EU subsidiaries of foreign companies, have to obey GDPR with all data they deal with]

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: [foreign companies dealing with the data of people physically inside the territory of the EU have to follow the GDPR if...]

(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 [they're offering services to those people]; or

(b) the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union. [they're tracking what those people do in the EU - but tracking what they do abroad doesn't trigger GDPR!]

3. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data by a controller not established in the Union, but in a place where Member State law applies by virtue of public international law. [it applies to businesses in places with weird legal status, like some overseas possessions, or maybe the Channel Islands]

"""
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Nickle-Iron batteries have 50k+ deep cycle lifetime, though they are expensive and have numerous other drawbacks (poor efficiency, high self discharge). They are typically found in applications where cycle life matters more than any other parameter.
> And what if the PII is stored in a blockchain? Then what?

No clue. But I can't wait for that to be tested, because I'm very curious what the solution will turn out to be.
Not to mention, that case-insensitivity requires knowledge of locale/encodings and all the associated complexity. Not every language even has the concept of case.
It's OK but ineffectual when up against industries spending orders of magnitude more. It can never be a level playing field.

You give using a phone while driving as an example. UK tried PSAs for years before ultimately outlawing it. Enough were seen ignoring that law that they doubled the penalty some years later. From the occasional piece I've seen on US sites that mention the issue I get the impression that distraction from phones is a disappointing but accepted facet of modern driving.

The older I get the more agreeable I feel to more regulation and adequate enforcement. Without it companies large and small, and individuals, are too inclined to be abusive - of pollution, of privacy, of financial misselling and so on. All to make that sale or commission. Caveat emptor works when it's a consumer against the local greengrocer, or taking a survey before house purchase. Not so much when it's a consumer against multi-nationals employing psychologists and so forth which is why most UK consumer regulation has been steadily moving away from that model for years.

As a European I can look as the US, who prefer minimal regulation, and see it as providing much confirmation that I don't want to do it that way. I'm a little disappointed that UK governments frequently do wish to adopt a US-lite approach.
I would trade 10 new seasons of The Expanse for a couple of more episodes of Firefly. Just saying.
Amazing.

But that's why everyone uses ad blockers.

It's just unusable otherwise
The problem is that I can't afford the services of a lawyer, or a data protection officer, for a non-profit project. Especially not to satisfy regulations made in a foreign land far away from my own. So the only option left on the table is to block the EU.
Alternative approach by USA today: add and tracking free site for EU users :)

https://eu.usatoday.com/EU-learn-more/
USA TODAY NETWORK EUROPEAN UNION EXPERIENCE
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Umm.. I'd say that merely looking, especially by a non-expert, is more than just a little naive.

A famous civil engineer, no less than William Mulholland, had his career ended by the geology of those hills.
Finding the Meaning of Your Life – Sergei VanBellinghen
You can always cancel any human-oriented law and get even more progress. Look where most of the [inhuman] progress was done: wars, henocide, communism. s: Imagine how many downsides we could experience by preventing big wars and ideologies of last century, oh my /s. Personally I’m glad that at least EU citizens can state where them lines should be drawn.
http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html
This is great - especially _removing_ hanging indents which is a real pet hate of mine! Only issue is the quotes - I'd love to see Black leave those as single if flake8 is configured to do so, for all the reasons mentioned in the comments.
I’m aware, I read it and I’m the one that posted the link in this thread. But as I said far above, the odds that most users will explicitly authorize this kind of thing for most applications are nil.

Many, many arguments on HN could be avoided if people would just read the comments they are responding to in full.
I am not sure if they are in violation, if they track but do not use the data. As I understand it, the manage option is the permission to use the tracked data.
This site blocks ad-blocks in a particular way, it doesn't show the article text but just the headlines.
With regards to 2), there are specific exemptions in GDPR to allow this kind of data usage (specifically in 6(1)(f), this is the general interpretation of "legitimate interests", though the exact definition is up to member states' data protection agencies).
> Not to mention the ads keep following you after you buy the thing.

There may be sense to this madness.

I believe rate of returns is increasing as online sales takes over. The only way to actually see and touch many electrical devices is to buy and return them e.g. there is no store in my major UK city that has premium non-mac laptops on display. It means you might buy and return 3 devices to find the one you want to keep. If the return rate is 30%+ then a completed purchase really is a strong indicator that might purchase the same thing.
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Actually this is a better fuller link, for the time being:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNH_RI--7sI&list=PL7ZXnH9gAV...
So far there are CEF1 and CEF3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework#Ov...
CEF1 is single process - no longer supported.
CEF3 is multi-process - current.

CEF3 still allows single process, but it is only advisable for testing/debugging only. Multi process is recommended for optimal performance and likely some functions may not work well without it. My experience is for simpler apps, single process can still be used.

Chromely is fully configurable and allows single process usage. Please see configuration wiki page at : https://github.com/mattkol/Chromely/wiki/Configuration
That ship has sailed, no? Good luck getting the cast and writers together after all this time.
Funnily enough, the GDPR applies not just to foreign companies processing the data of people in the EU, but also to companies in the EU processing anyone's data :-D
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> As a fundamental right, doesn't that mean that the government needs to abide by it as well? Can an EU resident demand that their image be removed from all footage collected by public surveillance cameras, for example?

That's a good point. The term "fundamental right" occurs only the recitals, not in the law itself IIRC. The laws applies to authorities, but not when they carry out the legal tasks in prosecuting and preventing crimes and dealing with public security. So you would not have any rights with respect to video surveillance by authorities, unless you could prove that that is not done for public security :(

When it comes to authorities practices differ a lot in the EU. Let me give 2 examples because I live/lived there

1. In Germany video surveillance of public spaces is not very popular. One of the biggest cities in Germany, Frankfurt/M. seems to have 6 (six) such cameras now. And whenever there is a new one, it still makes big headlines http://www.fnp.de/lokales/frankfurt/Datenschuetzer-Es-wird-z... (In socialist East Germany they had them already in the 1980, but I am sure they all disappeared in 1990)

Google has stopped rolling out Streetview in the very early beginnings. Not that it is an authority, but it shows the public opinion, even if it's a single picture every couple of years and faces are blurred.

It appears that the resistance is more and more broken. At my last visits in Germany I saw cameras on trains/buses for the first time. I'd assume they are not counted as public spaces, but private properties. Which is a problematic classification considering their function. In Northern Ireland cameras were standard on buses already in the 1990s, no idea for how long before that.

When you get a German passport they will store the fingerprint on it (I guess that's a nearly world-wide standard for machine readable passports). However, in Germany they make a big fuzz about it that the fingerprint is erased from all databases as soon as you have accepted your new passport. If you detect a typo in your passport after accepting it, you have to apply for a new one, pay again and have your fingerprints taken again.

2. In Finland public videos surveillance has existed in all big cities (not that there are many...) for decades. There are also street condition (think snow) cameras on the internet. It's not their purpose, but some of them show fully identifiable people when they happen to walk by. Not many people seem to be bothered about it.

In Finland the fingerprints for the passports are stored until there will be a law how they are allowed to be used. Only few people believe that the police would not use them to solve a high profile crime before the law is ready.

A common Europe is still a big fiction in many aspects.
A pretty easy way to discover how Soundex works can be playing with http://gridoc.com/fuzzy-matching/ - a tool for fuzzy record matching that supports Soundex and Levenshtein Distance.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the tool.
Classic Mini PlayStation 1 could happen admits Sony
Yeah, your eth0:xx is just a label (a tag of sorts) attached to the entry. Otherwise, they're exactly the same thing.

You can even add an address with `ip addr add' that will be visible to ifconfig.
This is relevant to another discussion going on in society at the moment. And the same thing holds.
I'll second the books, but I do like the show as well. I agree that the full story most is probably impossible to translate into TV/movie format. Nevertheless, I'm happy with the compromises they've made to make it fit. I particularly like the VFX work, because it tries its hardest to obey the laws of physics even in smallest of details.

(A particularly memorable scene for me was the initial launch of the Nauvoo. During the sequence, ship's engine exhaust was shown to heat up structural elements of the scaffolding it was leaving far in the background, and also it destroyed a small drone that got too close. Neither of those things were important to the scene or even immediately noticeable for the viewer.)
I appreciate the irony that these media companies leverage the cost of litigation in order to avoid paying for photos but, when the cost of litigation is used to extract compensation for their victims, this whole litigation blackmail thing is just evil and out of control!

I can’t help but feel the article chose to veer too far in the direction of sympathizing with the serial-thieving companies here. Is the best that could be said for this guy is hat he’s an ass “of the media’s own making”?
I believe that you are in the minority. Judging by the amount of activity by book readers on Reddit, the show has been faithful enough. I've read the first 5 books and I felt that the show has been great so far.
I did read your comment. You claimed "outlaws most machine learning applications". That is a pretty far cry from "makes it harder to get training data".
Heavily discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17152496
There's actually quite a bit of independent auditing involved in making sure that newspaper ads are actually shown to the number of people that the newspaper claims they are, especially for free papers where those still exist.
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Shoving an Arduino into a pillow
The short answer is that they don't over produce. If there is more energy being generated than used, turbines (for example) will start speeding up. In the very short term, the extra energy goes to accelerating the turbines. This can be observed by the grid frequency increasing. Immediately, generators will be throttled back to reduce production. If this can't happen fast enough, generators will be cut out of the system entirely, and their excess energy will almost certainly be released as heat somewhere.

Imagine you are driving a car downhill and the car starts speeding up. You let off the accelerator in order to not go too fast. Worst case, you apply the brakes and dissipate the energy as heat.
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> The algorithm mainly encodes consonants; a vowel will not be encoded unless it is the first letter.

Interesting. Isn't this similar to how Hebrew works (or at least the one used in the Bible worked)? I wonder about the rationale (in either case).
HN feels like a cult. If you raise even the tiniest objection or critique against GDPR you get downvoted into oblivion. I've never seen so much one-sided hate and bullying on here.

For me it's very clear that while GDPR has many good things, it ís disasterous to some companies, which I really don't like and question myself whether it's worth it.
That's a local problem in Romania, not a GDPR problem.

As in your example, they'll use any law to beat people over the head. That should not be an argument against a privacy protection law.
From a legal perspective, the last is pretty close to the first two. If you sign a contract saying those things a court will throw it out. End of story. This is how contracts work in the US too.

Same as how in California non-compete clauses are illegal.
It goes into increasing the frequency of the electricity via accelerating all the turbines.

Suppose you have a generator somewhere operating at 1MW: 1MW of mechanical shaft power being put in (torque x speed) and 1MW of electrical power (current x voltage) being taken out. Then demand drops slightly to 990kW. The "braking force" of the generator coils reduces, but the input torque does not, so the generator accelerates.

This usually feeds back into the rest of the system - throttles in steam and gas turbines.
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I’ve always thought that double quotes are for degenerates who don’t pay attention to what a standard repr output is for strings.
Huh? It contains a blanket ban on most forms of machine learning. There is a way around that ban, in the form of special authorization, but the ban exists nonetheless.
The main selling point of PowerShell is that you cannot save intermediate
results of a pipeline to a file for inspection.
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m[a+1:b] and f(x=y+1) are weird corner cases of Python formatting.

I usually avoid this problem by adding extra parentheses:

m[(a + 1):b]
f(x=(y + 1))
GDPR: noyb.eu filed four complaints against Google, FB, Whatsapp, Instagram
very good article!
> Without metrics such as conversions which require end to end tracking advertisers will need to rely on the reputation of the platform. Products such as google and facebook will receive significant attention from advertisers.

Yes that's a valid concern. But blogging hasn't been profitable or even sustainable for a very long time now in the way it used to be ten or fifteen years ago, with YouTube, Fb, microblogging platforms, and news aggregators having taken this space instead. Those who keep on running blogs do so for promoting their own services, products, or other agendas, or as a hobby, and will continue to do so. So it's not a terrible loss really; the great starving of blogs has already happened in the past.

But sites such as product review blogs could get a boost by ad money being in need to be allocated in innovative ways. Post-GDRP advertising requires thinking a little bit out of the box, and leaving the "ad" model as we know it behind which isn't very effective to begin with. If you consider attention a scarce resource to compete for, I could imagine ad money going into more and new native advertising sites, temporary sites for local events with direct sponsoring, focused sites for special interests, etc.
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> As a fundamental right, doesn't that mean that the government needs to abide by it as well? Can an EU resident demand that their image be removed from all footage collected by public surveillance cameras, for example?

Yes, in Germany, everyone, meaning citizen(EU/EEA) or not, enjoys the right of forgotten from surveillance cameras or any image/personal information that is not subject to the legal registry, from public record beyond 90 days. Unless you are targeted for an otherwise legal reason.
If production slightly exceeded consumption, and production was not reduced, the generators at the powerplants would end up speeding up and the frequency and voltage of the network would go up. As voltage increases, many loads end producing more power and at some point an equilibrium would be achieved. If something goes wrong and a large part of consumption disappeared (e.g. broken HVDC transmission line) the generators would start overspeeding dangerously, and as voltage went over the limit, things would start breaking downstream (transformers, loads themselves burning due to overvoltage), resulting in a cascade of failures that would end up as far as damaging the generators themselves.

Grid balancing is a tough act.
And yet we could live without all their github open source contributions.

They haven't really created anything new, so not leading, they just go after the community and release what they can't keep closed. Or create their flavor of other existing OSS.
Although their R&D is great.