skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the times I've been to the US I can see how disrupting NYC taxis could be a very good thing indeed. UK taxis? Nope, happy to keep those regulations and want to see them applied to Uber etc.
I assume you are implying it is based on the Harvard Classics? I guess they wouldn’t explicitly advertise it as such.
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Where does one find LaTeX source for published books?
> GDPR seems to be on track to wipe out vast swaths of businesses serving the EU market

What type of businesses? Do you mean the businesses making vacuum cleaners or the businesses surrounding it like a vacuum cleaner review site?
Would you accept the trade off for significant subsidies on installation?

also, but think the jury is still out on the power walls, there is evidence that Tesla batteries in Model S have much reduced battery degradation than previous experience would suggest. Which is interesting but needs more study
Yes. Yes. Yes.

Technical discovery is baked into traditional project management (e.g., civil engineering) in a way that continues to surprised me as a former IT project manager. There is a culture of investigation and research, such as materials research, proof of concept development, and needs-driven public-private academic research in other technical fields that IT project managers just don't get exposed to.

For instance, engineers planning a drainage project have a very good idea of how long a particular type of pipe will last before it needs to be replaced. They also have the tools/software/training needed to estimate how local stresses affect functionality and lifespan, and they're expected to use this information - even if the lifespan of the project exceeds their expected tenure.

IT PMs can't say the same thing about their infrastructure - who knows how long AWS or Azure will be around, for instance, or how long a local server blade or piece of network equipment from (x) company will actually last. When it comes to software development, the prevailing attitude is 'I want (x) by (y) for (z)', without having any justifiable basis for (x), (y), or (z).
No, the actual values are quite different. From [1], the same source:

City Violent Crime/100k Property Crime/100k

Detroit 1759.6 4093.6
DC 1202.6 4516.2
Houston 966.7 4397.5
Chicago 903.8 2946.3
San Francisco 776.8 6138.0
Boston 706.8 2316.1
Los Angeles 634.8 2359.6
Seattle 598.7 5522.0
NYC 585.8 1518.7
Portland 472.8 5234.8
Raleigh 392.3 3063.0
Austin 372.5 3771.0

(I added a few cities that are frequently on HN and rearranged them.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b....
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> I think they should be automated, though..

I agree. But that's mostly a convenience, and if the number of requests is low enough then you could do it by hand.

With reocities.com I did a hybrid approach, I did allow people to make the deletion requests in an automated way but then I still manually reviewed them. The reason is that there the link between the accounts and the users did not make it when we backed-up as much of Geocities as we could, so to avoid people requesting the deletion of other people's data or pranksters that would request 1000's of accounts to be deleted we needed an extra step for verification.
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Which is how the paper and TV ads industry worked for more than half a century, forcing brands to push creative limits in creating campaigns that we regard sometimes as a pinnacle of arts and media culture.
Just because the Internet lets you laser focus a campaign by profiling the shit out of people, it doesn’t mean that is how things should work.
600k gets you a shack or a small condo on the outskirts with a long car commute. For someone making $150k trying to buy an $800k property is really stretching them thin
You can gzip that
I tried to read through this once. I couldn't get beyond: "Volume 1 - Benjamin Franklin" because I found Benny Frank to be an insufferable nerd hah. It sort of ruined the perception that grade school gave me of him.
> Sounds awfully cultish, and it also happens to be wrong.

GDPR is a piece of human rights legislation. For entirely sensible historical reasons, Europeans are acutely sensitive to issues of privacy. Many of them were born and raised in totalitarian regimes and learned painful lessons about the dangers of mass surveillance.

By passing the GDPR, the European Parliament said in no uncertain terms "if you can't run a business without infringing the rights of our citizens, we don't want you to do business in our Union". The citizens of that union are supportive of the decision taken by their democratically elected representatives.
> A newspaper might argue that their business is tracking users so they can show ads and afford journalists, but it won’t hold up.

I think it will hold up. Newspapers are a big factor in European the courts would not risk anything against them. Especially not if they might loose a big chunk of revenue.
In victorian era, asbestos was used as a gods gift. Like plastic today, blooming bussiness. When they figured out that it hurts people, they forbid it. And? What's your point? Business will transform and something else will bring money. This was happening trough whole human history, nothing special.

And anyway, the marketing business was already going down, ads became so invasive and annoying that everyone is using ads filters today.

But I don't know why are we talking only about ads. What about people getting some bad credit rates as bank bought the data from ads network? Or things like Cambridge Analytica. Like the marketing and ads world is everything we know of and GDPR isn't bringing any positive effects as it hurts tracking. Tracking market goes down, human freedom and rights + democracy goes up. Who cares for targeted marketing in respect to that.
It should be possible to track ad campaigns and therefore see exactly the turnover ratios as long as the campaigns are broad enough that they don't target individual users.

In the analog world they do this for example via coupon codes which are unique to the ad.
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Thanks for the link, though depressing to read.

(1) So much for driverless cars, I guess. (2) I guess a study is needed when aerospace and rail has, oh, 50+ years or so of cumulated data about the problem.

MIT or not, these people seem pretty confused about the rules governing safety in automation, and the abstract is just inaccurate. The driving task can be formalized. It has been done before. [2] Maybe it's a boring driver, but it's possible. Part of this formalization requires the safety control functions to be separated from the driving and navigation functions. AFAIK this principle was formulated first by Georges Westinghouse when he patented his air brake system in 1873 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Westinghouse
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_...
If this usage means having to replace the batteries more frequently (or at all; for some people they might last a lifetime with typical use) will they subsidize the cost of replacement too?

Otherwise it's a losing proposition for the homeowner.
Evidence: EKS.
I love it when articles about music spill on HN. Especially this one is a fantastic mix of music, historical investigation, engineering and art.
There's also economic/financial violence.
> Which is how the paper and TV ads industry worked for more than half a century, forcing brands to push creative limits in creating campaigns that we regard sometimes as a pinnacle of arts and media culture. Just because the Internet lets you laser focus a campaign by profiling the shit out of people, it doesn’t mean that is how things should work.

How did the paper and tv industry work? Oh yeah, advertisers would crowd around and bid up the largest players. Small niche products would receive little to no revenue and die quick deaths.

That is what I suspect will happen in the EU. Without tracking Advertisers will be unable to know how their ads are performing. 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. The tiny blog you enjoy reading that is barely scraping by will receive very little.
> legislated away one of the most profitable monetization schemes ever devised, when it used against and without the consent of European customers

Fixed that for you.
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No it does not. It covers data in the EU. Being from the EU but using for example a US service while you are in the US means you are not covered. EU law doesn't cover people not inside the EUs borders.
> will simply shift their ad spend to other markets

That's totally fine, and nothing of tangible value will be lost to society.

Some valuable innovations have happened thanks to $$ being fueled into the tech sector via adtech and privacy invasion, and those will suffer, but that's a trade me and many others are happy to make. The "value add" of privacy invasion is purely an arms race.
While I like the idea of Soundex I always had problems with is fixed length. In addition it is limited to the English language and for other languages you might need different algorithms (e.g. Cologne phonetics [1] for German). As others have mentioned, Metaphone [2] is another alternative which got some traction in recent years, but I haven't tried it in a real world scenario yet.

For some use-cases n-gram [3] based string comparison might be an option too. It is in no way phonetic (therefore universal for many languages), but when it is just about finding similar words it often produces better results than the original Soundex (mostly due to its length limitation).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_phonetics

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram
>No mechanical engineer would complain about safety regulation

Mechanical engineering projects are too costly to be undertaken casually in the first place. Regulation is unlikely to be the long pole, so do you don't hear them complain about it. It only takes a few minutes and some easily self-teachable skills to start serving HTTP traffic; now it's going to take a few months and some lawyer hours to create the bureaucratic cover for doing so.
>It should be possible to track ad campaigns and therefore see exactly the turnover ratios as long as the campaigns are broad enough that they don't target individual users.
In the analog world they to this for example via coupon codes which are unique to the ad.

This will severely undercount the number of conversions. It's not atypical for someone to view/click an ad and then purchase at a later date through a different channel.

It was possible to track that before GDPR. It is not possible now.
My instinctive response is always: 1) people paid for untracked content-related ads in newspapers for what 200 years or more. Should be possible now too (it might support just a hundred publishers rather than ten million sites - but so be it).

2) in a vast global experiment where advertisers knew everything about everyone they still completely failed to show people relevant ads. Most notoriously even the giants who know what you ate yesterday fail to realize you probably don’t want ads for toilets for a year after you bought a toilet.
I'm sorry to have myself made not very clear then.

What I meant is that ad spend for large customers has always been handled such that a budget is handed over to an agency (to the winning one of several ones competing for the budget). That ad spend is allocated to multiple media channels and campaigns; now it will have to find other, more creative ways to get the message across to the customer.

Online ads have been under pressure, and their effectiveness has been questioned for much longer than yesterday when the GDPR came into effect. The GDPR legislation has been a long time in the making, so if publishers haven't prepared for it, then they have only themselves to blame. People have certainly no obligation to sustain a rotten big-data/big-media mindset by giving up their privacy, especially when that only benefits very few.

The situation for publishers has been precarious for many years, so publishers should focus on the opportunities not risks of this change. For example, exactly because clickbait isn't going to be sustainable any longer, quality media might get a boost, and could even make a profit from paywalled content. Holding on to a model that's on its way out isn't a winning strategy.
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Targeted ads are like a cancer on the web front-end. It started out unnoticeably with one mutant script infecting a page, and now we’re at the point where the majority of client network traffic from accessing a news article goes to ad peddlers and trackers — the cancer has overtaken the host.

A chemotherapy that starves the cancer’s food supply by 25-40% overnight sounds like a success to me.

(Edit: USA Today decided to actively remove the cancer tumors and created an adless site for EU visitors. The results are amazing: load time shrunk from 45s to 3s, network requests from 500+ to only 34! Source: https://twitter.com/fr3ino/status/1000167643431784449?s=21 )
Sometimes, bicyclists kill pedestrians.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Cyclist-p...
>the party line

Oh, a "red-scare" american.
But then it's not about new sales, but rather brand loyalty and maintaining market share. If coke or pepsi stopped advertising, I'm curious how long it would take for them to take a hit if the other kept advertising. Maybe it would be fast, maybe it would take a generation, but either way it would happen eventually.
SaaS idea: I am a EU citizen and I will test that for every company that sends me a link to their website, by creating an account and then complaining to the Romanian authority that the site doesn't comply with the law.

Sarcasm... maybe :)
>It makes it feel more like a shared story than a game, to me.

And that's the entire crux of why D&D is special, it's not just grinding along squashing mobs and ripping through dungeons it's creating that shared experience in novel non scriptable ways. I feel like Paranoia takes this to a extreme where I can DM sessions where only a handful of die are even cast and the rest is all interactive storytelling!

A DMs style must fit the player, this is one thing that will make or break a players RPG experience.
Someone should just invent a standard cookie that people can use if they are comfortable with it and that’s all ads can see. I’m comfortable telling advertisers my age group, gender, 3 hobbies and my zip code.

I’m not comfortable with ad networks deducing those very same parameters from my browsing habits.
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They are pointing out that it’s based on Great Books, the Western Canon. There will be some disagreement on which minor works are part of the canon but very little on major works. Plato, Homer, Augustine, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Cicero, Goethe, Dante, Shakespeare
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This might be a silly question, but I'll take the chance to ask it anyway.
What constitutes personal data? More precisely, using FB as example, does it apply to things like:
1. where have you been?
2. what have you liked?
3. photos you've shared?
4. comments and posts you've made?

Or is it really just identification details like name, address, etc.?
https://wikidiff.com/comparison/analogy
AFAIK, it's on them. They can't track you without explicit consent, and they can't force you to consent to improper tracking in order to use the service. By improper I mean something that's not literally required for the service to function; a newsletter obviously needs to know email addresses to work since that's the core operation of the service.
I have an interesting idea.

How about make the login process more resource intensive on the browser side, by running some intensive javascript code before sending it to the server?

The trick would be to make this much more intensive on the client side (say 1s of CPU time), while keeping this relatively easy for the server (say 1ms). We're trying to waste their resources, not ours.

One way I can think of:

1. server sends a random seed to the client

2. client calculates 1000 hashes based an random numbers generated from the seed, something like hash(rand() + password) and sends them to the server

3. server picks a one of those and validates it. In case the hash isn't valid, you'll respond with an invalid password, so the client won't be able to distinguish between a failed authentication because of hash validation or because of a wrong password.
> The difference is that before, they had to click accept in order to receive whatever service they were trying to obtain. Now they don't.

This doesn't receive nearly enough attention.
No, reading-comprehension like yours is. People read the law like you read his comment. The fines are the biggest new thing. The laws are mostly from the late 90's.
You mean the consent like not going on the website in the first place? And if all GDPR was just a bunch of consent forms it wouldn't even be a problem.

GDPR is bad/onerous for the following reasons

- right to have access to the information that is being stored on you

- right to be forgotten

- right to view a web page without being shown ads

If GDPR was only asking for consent + banning the sale of information to 3rd parties it would hardly have had the chilling effect it is currently having.
But this drop is only for online ads, correct? So unless they buy fewer ads overall, what has happened now is that companies moved their ad money to print/broadcast/posters and other traditional media?
The other allegation (which is pretty viable) was with large reserves to play with, they could cause crashes or spikes in order to gobble up their users risky shorts. Shorts they would know the exact number and values of.
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yes, that's the intent of the law
You mean, now all the bookstores are used? ;)

Shouldn't it be "used-book stores"?
Yes. The undergraduate 'great books' program used at St. John's came from the University of Chicago (Mortimer Adler and others) through Stringfellow Barr. The University of Chicago based their program on Charles Eliot's work (i.e., the Harvard University Classics).

I was also pointing out that it's (anecdotally) beneficial to read the Harvard Classics and other foundational works, but if you're looking for some sort of academic purity, there you go.
This is great news. I thoroughly enjoy The Expanse.

That the internet has given fans the power to affect studio decisions is quite a useful feature.
So exactly like GDPR. Got it.
>Any machine learning application that utilizes automated decision making - which is the entire point of machine learning - is forbidden under the GDPR.

Not true. Article 22 allows automated decision making if it is contractually necessary, is authorised by law or is based on explicit consent.

Many use-cases for machine learning do not constitute automated decision making within the meaning of Article 22, because they do not produce "legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her". Using ML to recommend a product or enhance a photo is perfectly permissible without any special safeguards. Most ML models based on personal data are effectively anonymous in line with Recital 26, so are not considered to be personal data.

If you're using ML in a way that respects the rights of users, GDPR is not a significant obstacle.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-26/
https://personalmba.com/ is also good for entrepreneurs
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Ghostery accidentally leaks customer emails
Traditional banners would be fantastic. I’m hoping for a future where a fraction of sites move to traditional print style ads, some fraction moves to paid content, and a huge fraction simply moves to the waybackmachine. If tracking ads support a business it’s not a business it’s a scam.
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We've had a fair bit of work around cyber-security - being a bit sharper on checking project dependencies, encrypting all data (including things like access logs) restricting firewalls even further, better audit trails, and also things like automatic password rotation.

I'd say this is all good stuff, and in most cases we were already doing it, but it is difficult to retrofit in one go.

Going forward it will be a lot easier though as new projects will simply be designed better from a security-perspective.
But that's the same with the EU rules - nothing to fear if you don't go to the EU.
It may make sense. If 4% - 5% come from EU why go through all the hassle and risk fines? Block them. Unfair to users? Oh well...
So once all batteries are set up, what happens if some hacker discharges them all at once?
Complying with the majority of the law isn’t good enough when you can be sued for not complying with a small part of the law.

It’s like complying with 99% of securities laws and forgetting to comply with the insider trading laws. That’s not a defense.
> Do you find your team enforcing the string quote rule consistently?

Yes. It's pretty much the only formatting style point that we don't have automated.

> As for number of lines after imports, how is a lack of enforcement there stopping you from using the tool?

Our current automated linting enforces it, but Black doesn't always reformat it, so we might get linter errors from Black formatted code.
The existing fines in the UK of upto £500,000 are a significant risk, but don't seem to have had much impact on start ups. It should also be reassuring to see that the maximum fine of £500,000 has never been applied.

A company really has to do terrible things to data to come anywhere near the €20m maximum fine.
Yep, as others have commented, this is what I meant by using the translation tools.
Nothing to see here folks. Just some angry Americans talking doom and gloom AKA FUD.
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I find it's a pity there's no Mac mini anymore, at least not a powerful one, with dedicated GPU, a kind of NUC Skull Canyon.

I still run a 2008 Mini with Manjaro Linux..still good for Kodi
Hint: The relevant part to this topic starts at minute 11.
Here's a Shadertoy implementation: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XtdSDn
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If people want to see what D&D can be when done by good players, don't look further than Critical Role. It's a bunch of voice actors playing D&D, who finished their multi-year campaign at the end of last year and started a new one at the beginning of this year. So they are dedicated to The game. The playlist is here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7atuZxmT955Cw-fFS-_3...