skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. A blockchain-based smart contract algorithm can very much check the price of a particular commodity on a particular exchange (fully automated enforcement).

Introducing trust issues with that exchange and what it decides to report to the smart contract that day. And that's the very simplest of circumstances, one data point from one source.

> 2. Parties can meet up and resolve the contract themselves (semi-automated enforcement that saves escrow fees).

So resort to non-smart way of resolving the issue, only the dynamic has likely already been changed as an automated system may have transferred funds already.
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Cool! Only thing is that crypto subscriptions" wasn't instantly understandable to me. Maybe something more explicit like "offer monthly subscriptions for your product paid in crypto"
I feel like Vladimir Arnold echoed a similar sentiment, but I can't find the quote. He was complaining that a first course in ODE and PDE tends to teach methods for finding exact solutions, even though equations with exact solutions are vanishingly rare in practice.

Or maybe it was Rota again, who knows?

Edit: nope, Rota again. Lesson one in your link :)
XDR is a highly efficient format, primarily used in telecoms

We have a developer who has developed decoders in C. Ping me if you need details.

See: https://www.tmforum.org/resources/standard/ipdrxdr-encoding-...
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It's just my personal anecdote, but I'm happy to be able to choose which cookies can be used.
And when I see the changes the companies I worked with and the comany in which I work had to make, I think it's a good thing. People are more cautious with how they use the data of users now.
I mostly agree with the points you're making, but...

> Security unwilling to own risk

Security cannot fundamentally own risks created by other parts of the organisation. I'd actually put it the other way around - the organisation is often unwilling to own risks identified by security.
> It doesn't matter what the user consents to

That's not entirely true. If a user really consents to being tracked for advertising purposes, the GDPR allows tracking. Whether the consent banners inform users honestly about the extent of tracking is another question. I think they don't.

What's worse is that Google still tracks users by default, even if they never visited an actual Google property, let alone have a Google account. That's an obvious violation of the GDPR but Google will probably try to shift the blame on publishers.
This is the reason the GDPR was implemented in the first place. Its just really sad if people still belive to this day that large organisations of any sort care about the little people.
The sandbox is there for portability. I don't see a promise of being _more secure_ than other app distribution channels on linux anywhere. Though the packaging & sandboxing model certainly opens a path for improvements in the area.

Is it any less safe than installing something via aptitude or Ubuntu's app store?
Note that "anothergoogler" said that consumers of open source were acting as though entitled, not producers.
AKS is good until your custom resources are slow to react, and there is no ETA when the issue will be fixed. Check the following issues:
https://github.com/Azure/AKS/issues/522,
https://github.com/Azure/AKS/issues/676
In the past I've sometimes achieved 20% or better speedups by writing custom allocators (speedup on overall performance, not just malloc performance). tcmalloc or jemalloc are great for the general case, but sometimes you know invariants about object sizes, alloc patterns and free patterns that allow much more performant allocation.

The simplest case is if you know that you will free everything at once, or nothing at all. This allows you to eliminate most bookkeeping and allows a completely lock-free architecture. But there are also more complex cases where you can still get big benefits from exploiting known invariants.
> Did you watch them? Some of them are literally snuff, with tons of gore. The stuff of nightmares

I don't have kids so I only watched what I could quickly find on a simple YT search, and I remember watching that spider man scene the OP mentions (hence why I commented) which I didn't find that scary (even though it was quite tasteless). The gore stuff (probably meaning blood showing and similar stuff) should probably be restricted, of that I agree.
> In my opinion, the large corporations behind fossil fuels have too much of an economic clout.

It's easy to blame the big corporations. It's also about the governments facilitating alternatives and about eventually, literally every person buying into that.
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I can't upvote this enough. Thanks for putting my thoughts into words.
> ...the Central Intelligence Agency has used it for hacking, Google for crawling webpages, Pixar for producing movies and Spotify for recommending songs.

This statement gives articles and journalism like this a bad name. It's as misleading as you can get as it gives the impression Python would be the main language for these jobs and nothing could be further from the truth. I'm sure it participates in some way, directly or indirectly, but doesn't perform the main function.

And then we get this:

> Fortran, Lisp and Ada were all highly popular in the 1980s and 1990s

Which may be true for Fortran and maybe even Ada in defense or government but Lisp? I don't think so.
Do something about YOU; protest insanity by not being insane. It's actually quite simple.
If I read that graph correctly the number of trackers per page has gone UP 20% since April in some categories for US visitors.
Yes, the amount of tracking cookies is declining.

https://www.techradar.com/news/gdpr-sees-cookies-crumble-on-...

The shutting down of companies is a desired effect, because those are the companies that won't get consent. Data resellers for example that dont provide any advantage tto the user.

We haven't even seen the actual effects yet because google Facebook et al are probably in violation and are waiting to be sued to fight it out in courts
> ask for a check/bank transfer and pray it doesnt bounce

Why would a bank transfer bounce? These are free and effectively instant in most places I know of now.

> I just saved myself a 10% fee

You probably had to pay network fees though.

Once again, the blockchain-positive argument seems to stem from outdated ideas about traditional banking.

--edit-- I'm going to reply here to the comment below then I shall bow out of this discussion because HN has me rate limited.

> Bank transfers are reversible.

Good, this is a form of buyer protection. Much like credit-card chargebacks. We have literally thousands of years of history of sellers ripping off buyers to show us what a great idea this is.

> Network fees will be infinitesimal compared to the fees a human wants to extract.

There are existing, non-blockchain ones with a flat fee of under £3 in the UK I could find with a quick search. Network fees have gone over this on various cryptocurrencies at various times.
Build your projects in such a way that the difficulty of diving back in is easy as possible. Nothing enables my procrastination quite as much as not remembering how to get back to working.
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Hah I couldn't read that with a straight face!
Another MongoDB as a Service, especially useful for european looking for a MongoDB hosting in EU: https://scalingo.com/databases/mongodb
Are user namespaces enabled by default, or are they something that you have to enable and then spend time dealing with all the containers that weren't written with them in mind?
Yes it is, really.

The oracle problem is not a problem. The data quality is not a concern of the blockchain protocol, only what happens to it once it enters the state trie.

Cases where the external data that must be "truthful" can be done trustlessly with prediction markets for instance or Token Curated Registries among other cryptoeconomic primitives. For cases where the data feed needs an extra layer of validation there are options around using TLS notary, secure enclaves, etc.

In the majority of use cases where the app / smart-contract users are responsible for the data they enter and that's good enough.
> What's funny is that my friends in the know tell me this is how private warez torrent sites work: you invite someone, and now you're responsible for their behavior. If they mess up, you deal with them, or you might be out, too.

lobste.rs works like this too. Tree structures of invites are a great way to prune further up the tree when undesired behavior happens.
> Most of the European Jews who were murdered were low- to middle-class.

Yeah, I know that, I'm particularly interested by the history of shepherd Jews that used to live in the region of Maramures (in present-day North-Western Romania), I think they were one of the only such Jewish communities in the whole of Europe. That's not that much written about them, apart from a few blog-posts like this one: https://frgheorghe.wordpress.com/strabunicul-meu-a-fost-evre... (in Romanian, but the photos are unique), but I find their way of living extraordinary nonetheless. Of course that they were all wiped out in 1944.
I understand it (and code a hell of a lot of Python) - but it's a shame. While it's a lot better than the many low-barrier-to-entry languages that came before it, it is such a heavily compromised, suboptimal language in so many ways. I feel like a whole generation of programmers is becoming stuck in a local optimum that will cost us very dearly later on.
I think the schools spend far too much time on symbolic differentiation and integration. This limits the exercises to the kinds of toy problem that yield to those methods. Kids get sidetracked on solving anti-differentiation puzzles, while the fundamentals are relegated to those (largely useless) puzzles.

After 20 years of engineering--in almost every case--numerical methods have been the only way forward. In hindsight, a year-and-a-half long course to convey the fundamentals seems excessive.
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I think the biggest issue with GDPR so far is enforcement.

It's still early days, but many companies don't even follow GDPR as they're supposed to, including Google and Facebook. That will only be settled after an enforcement wave against both large and average-sized companies (GDPR is more lenient towards small companies).
I really like how a number of languages now have a code formatter built in (Elixir, Go(?)). I might not always like how it formats my code, but most of the time I do. Furthermore, it:

1) spares everyone a whole bunch of bike-shedding and bickering

2) often teaches me how to better format my code

3) speeds up my work slightly because quite often I can just messily write my code and rely on the formatter to fix it.
Unless your sample size is small, it makes no practical difference and isn’t worth splitting hairs over.

Also, the topic of correct degree of freedom adjustment can get quite complicated, for example see Satterthwaite degree of freedom calculation.

Sometimes you have to calibrate a confidence interval or standard error calculation by comparing with the result from some paper or library function, and you need to match the degree of freedom calculation even if it is not the ideal choice.

I had to do this once when migrating a legacy program from Stata into Python and matching the exact rounding conditions for percentiles (Stata’s xtile) and degrees of freedom for standard error in a few different significance test functions became a huge pain.

While I could get the source for NumPy and SciPy, I could not for all the relevant Stata functions, and spent a lot of time creating experiments that could decide which of these subtle choices were being used in Stata, and then match them in Python.
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Plus it knocked a lot of potential competitors off the internet.

I know multiple young startups and entrepreneurs in Europe that killed their projects/ideas because the additional burden of coping with GDPR was too much for them.
Most of them save and have really nice lifestyles. I know a bunch of people who are on track to retire early.
> I can see the other side of the coin as well - the need to maintain the code quality, and probably the burnout of multiple “stupid” questions/patches. I can imagine how it gets tiring especially if one does it in their spare time.

It gets tiring only if you despise answering these "basic" and/or seemingly "stupid" questions. In my day job I'm a system administrator of an HPC cluster, and we also do technical support ourselves. Users ask questions "wrong" all the time. Not enough information, seemingly simple details, etc. I personally never get mad at them, because they don't know how to do it better. We generally try to guide them, point to the correct places, test the problem ourselves, and see what happens, but never intentionally harass them.

You can maintain the code quality with a polite "Why this patch didn't pass the inspection" letter. There's a similar effort called "I downvoted because" [0], but even giving links from that page requires some niceness. Just pasting the relevant URL also looks and feels rude.

If a user is intentionally volatile, we defuse them. If they're intentionally malicious, we block/prevent them. If they're intentionally smarmy or snarky, they get polite but firm answers. At the end they cool down, because they cannot fuel their anger with our reactions.

> Do I have the right to say “they need to be more patient/welcoming”? Probably I don’t - but equally I don’t fancy being someone’s emotional grounding.

They don't need to be patient, if one is intentionally testing their patience. They don't need to be (overly) welcoming, but they need to be polite enough to tell that, or point the person to right way. Saying "no" is not a problem, but not pointing the next step is problematic, especially if the asking person doesn't know the better.

At the end, these behaviors are not because of the person asking the question, or sending in that "stupid" patch. It's about the person who's reacting to the patch/question/whatever. They don't like something, or see something and get triggered, then unload all the rage upon the asking person regardless of relevance of the rage.

For one, knowing oneself better is as essential knowing the stuff that you're working on. Having a baseline niceness is a win for everyone, because it makes life much simpler without softening boundaries. In fact, it strengthens them without making them intimidating.

[0] http://idownvotedbecau.se
One nasty side effect is some large organisations are shutting out Europe. I can no longer access severs popular US based sites and instead get messages about the content not being available in your region. (Most recently: latimes.con and fox8.com)
> The oracle problem is not a problem

Yes, it really is, where human motivations to pollute input data exist at all it's a huge problem.

All of the above require external, trusted systems, or fuzzy, imprecise arguments based around the honest, enlightened economic self-interest of actors who, throughout history, have shown themselves to unenlightened, dishonest and not to act in economically rational ways.
> It's hard to compare it with the other providers since with Hetzner you are renting unmanaged servers, not turning up cloud instances.

Hetzner Cloud is already a thing[1] and is a direct alternative to Amazon EC2, if you choose dedicated vCUP.

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
One positive effect you can already see: people think about privacy laws. Most of the GDPR was already law in various EU countries, just largely ignored by everybody. GDPR gave the laws more teeth and publicity.

For real improvements, we will have to wait a few years to find out what and who regulators will persue for violations, and how the courts interpret the GDPR. If regulators never look at small companies, the second order effects on small companies will vanish. If regulators miss to successfully prosecute the obvious violations by tech giants, no meaningful effects will stay at all. It all comes down to what regulators will do, and it's way too early to tell.
None of the major digital services directly support transferal of licenses and most of them directly forbid it in their terms of services.

Considering the amount of money that people sink into digital services, I’m surprised this hasn’t already been through the courts in the case of divorces.
There have been plenty of hands on reviews and product/box images since September
State sanctioned violence in the form of imprisonment being enforced by individuals whose egos can't accept that methods change. I find it unsettling to say the least. But then I guess actors like agent Cooper need to hide behind fortresses of self assurance or else they'd never be able to testify against anyone. How else do you take life away from someone? You need the utmost assurance in your methods.
Horrifying. The entire legal system is supposed to be based on the concept that it is better to let the guilty walk than destroy an innocent person. Instead of evidence they used federal agents as expert witnesses providing evidence free accusation. It is almost like prosecutors pursue cases based on the likelihood of winning instead of actual evidence.
That I have no doubts about, but having it in the standard lib would be awesome!
Really? Because I haven’t heard of any, and I live and work here. Any sources?
I used to do push ups until the round restarted, which could be 2 or 3 minutes long - it was a good incentive not to die early on!
Are they getting sued? I'm not aware of any GDPR-related cases against Facebook or Google so far?
That's also fine - was their content worth your privacy? If they can't be GDPR compliant we don't want them.
In democracies we can't all just throw up our hands and blame it on the political class and big business. If the ordinary people of the developed world really wanted something done about it, as a higher priority than anything else, there is no gun held to their heads preventing them from voting for that. We are all benefiting hugely from the cheap energy reaped from fossil fuels, whether we like it or not, and in the main the fact is we like it.

Imagining that 'large corporations' are reaping all the benefits and could bear all the cost of weaning the global economy off fossil fuels is jaw droppingly naive. The massive costs of weaning ourselves off fossil fuels would bear down heavily on all of us, and especially the poor and the third world. Can we imagine China elevating hundreds of millions of people out of poverty over the last 30 years without fossil fuels?

I'm no climate change denier, far from it. You're quite right that the costs will be severe, even catastrophic, but there is no easy answer to this.
My point is the law is not nearly as clear cut and black and white as you make it out to be. It provides a lot of room for judgement and interpretation by those carrying it out in most cases. And unless a particular matter comes up before a court, "when it can be argued that the law does not apply" does not happen either - the immigration officer makes a decision and 99% of immigrants do not have the resources to fight it in a court. Believe me, neither your average CBP officer nor your average immigrant is very well versed in the minutiae of the law.

The end result is people can and do lose their citizenship status pretty often. Debating whether it is strictly unlawful is really besides the point.
Just want to say, I just downvoted you but it had absolutely nothing to do with preference for or against Azure (I don't really have a strong opinion on that either way)

I downvoted due to your statement that implies that anyone disagreeing with your view has "an agenda" whereas those upvoting you don't.

People have different opinions and turning debates into an adversarial situation "if you're not agreeing with me you're against me" isn't helpful, in my opinion.
Somewhat tangential: have you seen GitLab’s notice? And what’s your opinion of that style, as far as informing/consent?
First Round articles universally have this sheen of content free smarminess that reads like self parody, or something Mike Judge would come up with.
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I don't know how often it happens. That was my question after all. Judging by the downvotes I received, I guess people here either know (or assume) that asking prices don't rise. Unfortunately their downvotes aren't as educational as the statistics I was asking for.
He was an arson investigator. Instincts should be left out of final conclusions. If you don't have hard scientific proof you don't have evidence.
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Like who?

Seriously. Besides that one blogger who was screaming because he didn't even want to bother with the help wordpress provided, I did not hear of a single person/company that quit because of that.

It would also be quite embarrassing considering the time you had to prepare, the help that is all over now or the fact that nobody seems to enforce it. Especially for businesses.
It's Kant, essentially:

> Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
They are young single founders in the idea or mvc stage. So nobody that is mentioned by any sources.
Craigslist, HN. Still good–old, fast and extremely useful.

Most newer crap–web has more bugs than features and nearly defunct after all. My opinion is that in this stupid century of hype, ADD, dyslexia and internal censorship immutability is the most precious asset. And swisswatch-like software can be the next big thing.

PS. Booking.com is also cool. BTW, it is still powered by Perl.
1. Bank transfers are reversible. In Europe, you can void a bank transfer up to _several_ days after it has occurred by complaining to your bank. If the bank agrees with you (fraudulent transfer, identity theft, etc), they can ask the receiver's bank to transfer the funds back to you. In France, you have 13 months by law to contest bank transactions after they have taken place.

2. Network fees will be infinitesimal compared to the fees a human wants to extract.
Banking and Government are still making services in COBOL . It’ll never disappear.
Saying Google is the biggest beneficiary is grossly misleading. Their reach increased by a whopping 0.9% while everyone else's declined. Even if reach is the only relevant metric, that's hardly worth talking about.

The actual biggest beneficiaries are the citizens whose data is protected.
There are other opensource projects with no mothership

https://github.com/streamaserver/streama
It's not that big a burden - just have an officer and don't collect certain types of data without the user's consent. If you can't do that minimal amount of effort and either ensure the user's privacy, or get the user's consent, then you shouldn't be in the business.

It's like complaining about how new credit card businesses or banks can't just start up but need a load of compliancy. That was tried with cryptocurrencies and billions of user's monies was lost due to poor security and scummy companies.
Nothing about what you are saying here is related to my point though.

If I use one product of google, it does not mean they have a "business relationship" that entitles them to tracking me as a third party on random websites.

And even if it somehow did, I could merely opt to not be part of that, and neither the website nor google can deny me service for opting out. That's one of the main aspects of GDPR, you can't make a service conditional on clicking "I agree" and signing away all your rights.
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