skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe social media fatigue is setting in.

Twitter is becoming the political infighting network. If it wasn't for Donald John Trump and the millions following or belittling him - what is there to do for the masses on Twitter?

Facebook struggles with revelations about their deep privacy invasions and complete lack of vision/product development for years and it seems Snap having never figured out what they really are or should be is now losing users too.

Let's just say, having been a Myspacer back in the day - I know how quickly the tide can turn once user growth starts to staqnate.
Well, for one thing, Switzerland isn't in the EU.
Yes I think so. Also tried a few and I'm blocked every time (France).
Thank you for this list of websites that I'll never use, even though I'm not in the EU.
This is downpayment for the future taxes by their children. Seems fair to me. But, for some reason, not for you?
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Hm, I don't know all the details of those websites, but I think it might have also something to do with the unwillingness to having to comply with foreign law.

The US Military News for example, probably won't need the tracking, as they have other intel and income sources, but they are also on the list. I suspect as a political statement.
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How do I get more followers on my FB page for a short I want to crowd fund?
I'm planning to launch a crowdfunding campaign in order to get necessary funds for my film. I was counting on getting the word out through social media and particularly Facebook. I was wondering if any one else on here has had to do this and how were you able to succeed?
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The link to our facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/layersshortfilm/
Maybe they relay more on selling data?
This is exactly how the 6th largest power plant in the UK works (but the turbine is reversed to become the pump)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McByJeX2evM

https://electricityproduction.uk/plant/GBR1000151/
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It's not satire, it's hella informative, just some humor mixed in. Even if some of the info may be disputed, the wealth of the rest still outweighs.

The display of relations between genres is pretty much unparalleled, including the dive into subgenres solely focused on obscure features of parent genres, such as the kinkery going on in trance.
Or it could signal that snap has a weak value proposition that was easily emulated by Instagram and Facebook messenger devs (AR selfie face filters and stickers etc.) Thoughts?
It'd be nice if there was an Alexa ranking column and sorted by that instead of alphabetic.
Ironically named. DieFarbe = "The Paint"
Why is it all mostly news websites?
In a couple of words: not yet.

Metaprogramming is definitely on our radar, and we have had some internal discussions regarding it, but it’s not one of the top-priority items right now.
It's a nobrainer, but the electric kettles are rather expensive and are usually therefore only bought to ensure production capacity in the case that the powerplant's own kettle malfunctions.

Besides, district heating produced on power from the grid is taxed as if produced on coal, as the power has no traceability. This makes it really expensive, unless you are directly hooked up to a solar or windfarm.

That's the law in Denmark at least.

PS: I worked in the administrative building just next door to Skærbækværket! :)
Not hours per day. But if your climate has wet winters and dry summers you might choose to build a desalination plant that you only really need to run for three months per year.

And then you have the plant sitting there for most of the year, able to help the power grid. So the example makes sense.
Or maybe just revenue from eu < cost to comply
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A lot of these sites are ostensibly local US news or media (e.g. WPTA - Fort Wayne, IN), and it's hard to see how they fall under the GDPR.

So either it's a political statement, or they somehow are subject to the GDPR, e.g. they are owned by a multi-national conglomerate, or sell data to them.
The name of the game in that case is overgrazing or at least a bad case of abusing the soil for entire generations.

Fires eliminate the shrubs leading to more pastures. After a cycle of repeating the process, all the fertile soil ends in the sea... And then your grandsons have a big problem.
You're absolutely right, and that's exactly why I am enthusiastic about these fields. I think there is a ton of potential, and that these fields will be booming once the industry discovers this.

Of course, the point is not to prove every program correct. But it should be feasible to prove security-critical parts correct, especially for large companies.

The biggest problem is that formal verification is about as un-sexy as it gets, since it has no applications an sich.
For anyone interested in learning more, these measures are examples of traffic calming [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming
Why would someone say something like "I love the lightning connector" if they aren't aware that they do? Please explain.
I've ran into this a few times through 'normal usage', e.g. I search for something, click the link, and get told off for being in the EU (for the time being).

'Food Network' is one I've hit a few times searching for recipes; it seems several other domains are under its umbrella:
https://www.foodnetwork.com/not-available.html
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Haha. Thanks. The project doesn't use AI at all. I figured out that you don't really require the system to pass turing test in order to develop tutoring system. It can assist in clever ways.
That being said, Primer ( the tutoring system ) will teach ML/DL/RL courses.
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Local and regional news media like newspapers are often owned by large conglomerates that hold dozens, if not hundreds, of titles. These are likely to follow a single guideline with regards to the GDPR.
Well, complying has costs, you know. Perhaps, in some cases, it’s just a matter of not wanting/being able to justify that cost.
Yeah, they don't fall under GDPR it's mostly a knee-jerk reaction (or, as you mentioned, they are owned by a bigger conglomerate)
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Women's liberation is about choice, not about "acting like men".

Not everyone wants to have kids and family. Some will work, some will stay at home. Same goes for men btw.
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There could be a browser extension which opens these pages via US proxies when blocked.
Dunno, I was looking for some Fender guitar reviews and quite a few sites that had them told me to go away without a VPN.
Yeah that's my thinking. Personally I'd rather just get on with my actual work and avoid having to mess around with changing how my computer works.
If I understand right, that figure is measuring the accuracy of a prediction of electricity production, not the constancy of the production. We can't smelt aluminium with no power even if we have predicted that there'll be no power.
Sorry to break this to you but outside the US "made in the US" is up there with "made in China" as an indicator of quality.
cost to comply is not to log data of the same users they are showing the blockade right now. I fail to see how that's so expensive to do.
Where can we submit pull requests? Plenty of crappy websites missing that do show up in search engine results.
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H1Bs tend strongly toward the lower end of the salary range for a given position, fwiw.
This wouldn't work that well, you don't learn a complex subject just by flash cards.

First you need to understand the subject, then you can formulate useful flash cards, then you can work on remembering them.
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I have 6 months to reach ramen profitability from making bootstrapped tech products as a one-person business while living in South-East Asia. I document all the process, as explained here : https://towardmastery.co/en/article/6-months-to-reach-profitability-in-south-east-asia

Any particular insight you guys had like to read about ?
What is so wrong about leaving it all out there and letting people use their own discretion?

It's bad enough that the internet re-centralized as fast as it did. Now we have all of these people cheering-on private censorship just because they lost an election. Dark times for civil liberties. Some would counter, "Oh, that's just Twitter.", or "That's just Facebook". With the centralized nature of the beast, those bans alone are tremendous. Throw in Cloudflare or an ISP or two, and it becomes a total blackout.

I'm less afraid of nutjobs like Alex Jones than I am of seeing my country turn into the People's Republic of North America--or perhaps Saudi America--depending on which party rounds-up the most oligarchs.
Yes, right now they are ordered by how little I care.
What stops Spotifyfrom trying to fight back with more tools for recording artists? Find out what artists need and allow them to self publish on Spotify? I imagine recording an album is orders of magnitude cheaper than just the production cost of Westworld or black mirror.

I mean just following the Netflix route in general. Is Spotify already doing this?
They don't want to devote resources to investigate what should they do to comply. It's a business decision. If only a fraction of their visitors come from the EU then it may not be worth it to deal with the GDPR.
modern warfare can be very specific, nukes can't. The only use for nukes is to kill the maximum people and it's going to be big cities where civilians exist. Are you going to use nuke bomb to kill 10, 15, 2000 people? of course not.
Maybe not a political statement, just unwillingness to pay lawyers extra for supporting compliance to a law they don't care about.
Clearly it is a list of website someone tried to visit, judging if they actually needed to is a tad police-state.
I can access them and I'm in the EU...

By not available what do you mean?
I'm the lead dev on just such a project: https://feather-apps.com/
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Skimming the list, it does seem very heavily dominated by US local news sources.
That sounds quite good actually. Now how to do that consistently...
Maybe even because they would make less money if they can't sell your data anymore.
They'd be subject to the GDPR if someone visited from within the EU and they stored data about that visitor as far as I'm aware.

Edit: this is incorrect, see comment by guitarbill below.
well, the latter is quite insidious, and something they've likely tried to keep a secret. Weirdly, this could a win for transparency by the GDPR even outside of Europe.
Rq makes task queues easy again.

But I feel like celery is mostly badly documented: it show off the complexity of it instead of what can be simple.

E.G: did you know you can use celery without any broker ? None. Not even redis.

https://www.python-celery.com/2018/07/03/simple-celery-setup...
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If you can default on education loans what are they going to take as collateral? Your knowledge? What would stop every new graduate defaulting? Do you think your idea might lead to greatly increased costs for everyone due to the risk?
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Gridlock has gotten far worse in NYC. Cars constantly pull into and block intersections and crosswalks.
Not always true. Some tools 'made in the US' are really great, high-quality.

Then again, Sainsmart made a soldering iron recently that was very good quality - so I guess China will soon become a purveyor of quality objects. It already is, in some sense - it's just a matter of separating them from the trash.
Sounds like they're in the Modder's market:

> The Das Keyboard 5Q is a cloud connected keyboard allowing users to display color notifications on each key. Notifications can come from applications such as Twitter, Gmail, eBay, Facebook and many others. Hundreds of applications can be configured via IFTTT and Zapier, transforming the 5Q keyboard into a RGB dashboard. An open REST API is also available for programmers.

As with other fashion, don't expect decisions that can be explained rationally from without.
Maybe because of die German Cherry MX switches... oh the 5Q doesn't even use those.

They should have called it 'Die Tastatur', sounds very rammsteiny.
> I'm surprised you aren't seeing legitimate universities responding to the market and producing a 2-3 year BSc program, stripped of almost all general-studies courses.

Funnily enough this is how it works in the UK. All BSc/BA degree are 3 years long without any GenEd requirements.
Great question, I needed a macOS equivalent for my macbook. Technically this is *nix since its unix flavored

https://alternativeto.net/software/timesnapper/

I haven't tried any personally, but digging through the alternatives I actually didn't see any resembling it. All the other alternatives were designed to manage employees & their time. None of them seemed to offer video playbacks like timesnapper, only screenshots. And they worked online which is a giant red flag for me.

The closest one I could find though for linux and macOS is this one called productivity-peach https://www.etopian.com/software/automatic-screenshots-windo... . I strictly wanted to avoid "remote monitoring" or "employee-tracking" type software

I did pay $30 for timesnapper (one license works on more than 1 PC). Timesnapper is nice, you can playback your entire day and see everything that was done. Super useful if you do sysadmin stuff as well, sometimes you might change a setting on AWS/cpanel/etc and it screws up everything. Now you can go back and see what you changed. You can add a password too which I do as well, your video playbacks are encrypted
More or less - easy and intuitive like Python (or better), fast almost like C.
A cloud-native storage orchestrator for K8s
I don't exactly see the irony here.

And it also means "The Color" which is probably a more apt translation in this case.
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Does anybody has further info on this? For now it's only one tweet directly from the person who was banned without any other sources.
A timesyncd total failure and systemd's complete lack of debugability
Spotify is on the best way to become the Google of the music industry. They're doing alot of things right. Not sure if it's the best decision to sell now but i guess the people from warner know what they're doing.
Curious, what are the primary complaints about them? I've used one for about a year and have had no issues with it.
No, that's not the only requirement. At the very least there are additional record keeping steps, policies and procedures to draft, the appointment of a DPO that responds to requests for access or erasure, and the development of the features to fulfill both of those requests. Not to mention the potential risk of doing any of that wrong and dealing with the fallout if you get called on it.

One of the sites on this list is the Aiken Standard. We're talking a local newspaper serving Aiken, SC - a city of less than 30,000 people. Even if an EU citizen (or someone traveling in the EU) cared about their local news, it's simply not worth it - that's not their audience.
I read it as colour.
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And it's a very small change on the app side to make the switch. It's essentially the same service but rebranded.
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Same. I clicked 5 of them at random and only 2 was blocked for me.
Because are those that run the most ads, which do profiling and automated decision-making (i.e.: real-time bidding). It's hard to get that GDPR compliant.
And grammaticaly correct.
What I think would also be useful (or more useful) is a list of sites that blatantly don't comply in popular ways such as requiring tracking consent ("By continuing to use …") or assuming consent, often making it hard to opt out ("You need to enable third party cookies and visit these 95 places to opt out").

Right now ICOs can't even begin to hunt down all the small offenders, but once case law builds up and we have such a list bulk processes can be set up.

A browser extension could be used to ease reporting and even detect popular noncompliant solutions.
I think the idea of positive discrimination is related to countering inherent bias.

You might think A isn't as qualified as B. But it is known that inherent bias against A is very likely. So you might decide, even though I believe B to be more qualified, I will go with A, knowing that my judgement might be wrong, because of the likelihood of inherent bias.

In a way, yes, the known biases, can create a new bias. I bias against my known biases. This does mean that at an individual level, I favored someone else, when I initially wouldn't have. But does it result in better outcomes? I think this is where it matters. Let me explain.

If one is chosen and given opportunity over another. That choice is always going to be judgemental and opinionated. You're trying to predict who will make better use of the opportunity and contribute back the most for being given it.

But predictions, like in machine learning, show that a biased data set often perform poorly. So I think part of positive discrimination is to say, diversity could actually yield better results. Yet, because we don't have diverse data, we don't know for sure. But its still okay for the person who chooses to be of the opinion that it would. I find that no different then saying, well I felt they were more knowledgeable. All of it are intractable metrics in an attempt to predict outcome.

Edit: Some more thoughts related to fairness. Is it fair to give opportunity only to those who would maximise it? What if it was true, that there was a genetic quality, sex, or race, or a more specific one, like height, IQ, EQ, etc., which was the key variable to maximize the opportunity? Is it fair to say only they shall be given such opportunity, always? Or should we pick at random? Would that be more fair? Are there other scheme? What does it even mean to be fair? Your genetics aren't fair, should society be fairer then them? Clearly in the modern western world, we seem to define fairness as, whoever can maximize the opportunity the most, shall be given it. Aka, meritocracy. Is this best for our society though? If so, are we doing a good job at it? What if we try to do that, but instead have been giving opportunity to those who most resemble us? Not to those who can most maximise it? What then? Is that unfair?
Meanwhile, visiting a large commercial website today involves:

1. A pop-up notifying the visitor on the website's cookie policy (required by EU law).

2. A pop-up asking the visitor to consent to its privacy policy (required by EU law).

3. A pop-up asking the visitor if they'd like to subscribe to its newsletter.

4. A pop-up telling the visitor that it's run out of "free articles", but that you can sign up at a premium.

5. A pop-up asking the visitor to turn off the adblocker because the site's revenue depends on the ads.

6. A pop-up asking the visitor to participate in an online survey.

7. A pop-up telling the visitor about a unique way to earn money in your underwear.

None of the pop-ups will share UI for closing them, and some of the close buttons will be so hard to press that you accidentally change site instead.

(Clarification: It doesn't have to be a pop-up, but it does have to be annoying.)
Maybe they just don’t do any business or have any audience in Europe and are faced with cost of compliance (more than $0) vs block Europe ($0).
Where and in what context? I'm outside the US and don't see it that way at all.
I usually try to understand if the company is trying to expand their team, replace someone that's leaving or coping with a mass exodus.

Sadly I've seen mass exodus happening, and I've interviewed at companies where mass exodus happened and it's usually a super red flag, usually a sign of very bad management.

Software being crap happens and is part of the job, you can deal with it and it can get better. But bad management is very hard to overcome and often just not worth it.
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Yeah, I was expecting to see Dart given more prominence, but guessing the momentum Kotlin has and the comparative ease of moving that way from pure Java, the timings still aren't working out.

Am only tinkering at the moment, but my excitement for Flutter means any push in the Dart direction is good for me.
The libraries you use with SBCL are likely to be source rather than binary, unless you mean via FFI to (likely) C libraries.

Quicklisp[1] has made a massive difference to how easy it is to download and manage sets of dependencies in a Lisp project. Try it out :)

[1] https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/
Those who benefit most from the welfare state are probably the people who hit a rough patch in life and instead of ending up homeless and desperate get a chance to recover back to contributing meaningfully to society.
Or perhaps they've been advised that because they have an email subscription, they'd need to hire a full time DPO, and their outside counsel quoted them several thousand dollars a year.

It's simple arithmetic to decide it's cheaper to block all EU visitors.
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I can't figure out what i think about it. Most of those are of no use to me anyways as a European citizen.

However were i interested in US local news i'd be sad not to be able to access them.

From the websites point of view, i guess there's not enough money to be made from people located in the European union. They are certainly not targeting a global audience. In the end, they are free to choose.
Hi Lia
I'm a consultant radiologist and clinical lecturer in Dundee, Scotland and have an interest in this type of thing although not published anything yet. Your work looks interesting and I would be happy to supply a letter stating that although I'm no expert in this field so not sure how much weight it would carry. You can email me at stephen.docherty@nhs.net