skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the only results is the enforcement of existing law and some fine?

The job of European data protection agencies isn't to be punitive, but to ensure compliance.

If the issue was tiny, an honest mistake that was promptly fixed when it was brought to the offender's attention, and they show that they implement safeguards so that something like that won't happen again, there may be no fine at all.

Compared to this, EUR 50M is rather heavy handed, but given that Google has approximately $infinity at their disposal, no value would "ensure compliance".

What this does is ensure that the topic will be discussed by the board of directors (50M is probably beyond the discretionary spending budget of the not-quite-top level manager who handled this) with the outlook that there may be more fines like that.

OTOH it's still far from that "4% of global revenue" figure, so it gives room for escalation. Hopefully it's also small enough that it won't be disfigured too much into "the evil EU is being protectionist again!" US press cycle that comes up every time a US company is fined by some EU body.
Because they would be caught doing it very quickly. There are so many ways to detect this.
If they all can afford it, sure.

If they can't afford it they end up with overcrowded buses and then people who don't want to wait a long time for a bus that isn't full have to buy cars instead, and traffic gets worse for everyone.
You understand the point of the parent's example and are only arguing semantics.
It seems like you sir don’t have enough facts, experience, or just plainly evil and openly advocating for a large government, I’m going to go ahead and politely disagree. We can leave it at that.
I've been using restic for a long time now. It's flexibility is amazing:

* Fully open-source, command line implementation. Script as needed.
* Supports ton of backends, including directories, SFTP, and many cloud services.
* Supports multiple backup operations in parallel. Create one repo for multiple machines.
* A repo is really an encrypted object store with a lists of directory/file/metadata references (snapshots). If the same file exists on multiple directories/drives/machines, it is deduplicated.
* Supports tagging, which allow you to identify independent snapshots and manage them.
* Supports purging old data with conditions, ie. keep last 7 daily, 3 weekly, and 6 monthly.
* Can verify and repair repositories.

I regularly use it to backup my home server to a backup drive and to Backblaze. I've also used to back up my home directory of my development machine to replicate it on another machine.
I’m in my late 30s and I’ve never even driven a car. What would I do with a carport lol. It’s just a different mindset, I guess. I don’t have a ton of shit and just enjoy the minimal upkeep, simplicity, and other benefits of living in a small urban apartment.
Could this be a new hint to the reason for a zebra's stripes?
LizardFS is Pretty Nice
Have you read the part about consent given during account creation ?
Proxies are entirely a runtime API. Did you read the article?
There will be more traffic and more air pollution. People will take the bus more often instead of walking or cycling. The bus companies in most Western European countries use diesel engines.

And Uber Eats wont use public transport, it is very slow compared to an e-bike or scooter.
Your concept of objectivity is more flawed than their agenda
Same here. I always check out some new fonts when a conversation like this appears on HN, but in the end I never found real improvements. I did, however, start testing Ubuntu Mono the last time I compared fonts. Ubuntu Mono is pleasant to look at, like DejaVu, but it takes much less horizontal space, which helps a lot with dual side-to-side text editors.
Funny thing is there's practically only Mozilla and Google left with their browsers. Microsoft, Apple and Opera all basically piggyback on the chrome renderer (prolly not entirely true for safari, but it doesn't run on anything besides apple anymore)
You’re being naive. Things were never better, it’s just that we live in an era when disseminating the counter narrative is easier than it used to be.

Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer was never revoked. He worked for the NYT as Moscow Burea Chief while the Holodmor, the Ukrainian famine was happening and didn’t cover it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty

> What Duranty knew and when

> It was clear, meanwhile, from Duranty's comments to others that he was fully aware of the scale of the calamity. In 1934 he privately reported to the British embassy in Moscow that as many as 10 million people may have died, directly or indirectly, from famine in the Soviet Union in the previous year.[25]

> Both British intelligence[26] and American engineer Zara Witkin (1900–1940),[27] who worked in the USSR from 1932 to 1934,[28] confirmed that Duranty knowingly misrepresented information about the nature and scale of the famine.

> There are some indications that Duranty's deliberate misdirection concerning the famine may have been the result of duress. Conquest believed Duranty was being blackmailed over his sexual proclivities.[29]
If you create an onion layer like the GP proposes, I don't see any loss from it running over HTTP servers.
At a research institute I worked for, we had a proxy server that intercepted http. The antivirus software on the proxy made it impossible to download some security updates once in a while.
Fortunately it was possible to change the ubuntu URIs to https:// to use HTTPS and the broken antivirus sofwate did not intervene anymore.
Custom fonts slowing you're website down? We can fix that
Why do you prefer paying for public transport through taxes instead of paying a fair price for your ticket? Why does your retired neighbor need to pay for your commute too?
The original article by CNIL has been posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18960564 but this article might bring more context about the fine, incl. the key notion of consent bundling.
"It’s a type of cognitive dysfunction involving:

- memory problems
- lack of mental clarity
- poor concentration
- inability to focus

Some people also describe it as mental fatigue. Depending on the severity of brain fog, it can interfere with work or school. But it doesn't have to be a permanent fixture in your life"
I recently got a 28" 4K monitor on sale for $250US, and it's almost too big to me, but I love the way fonts look under macOS's scaling. I'm farsighted, so when I wear glasses with a lower resolution, I really don't like seeing the lines between pixels. While not technically "retina", my new monitor is close enough.

Also, I do like working on a 13" laptop -- especially with workspaces. Switching the workspace is almost a complete replacement for the screen real estate of a larger monitor.
Moving the Boundaries of the Cloud, in Every Direction
Indian tax system largely resembles British and Brazilian systems. Chinese tax system is simpler, but they compensate by tighter population control (which is unfavorable in the US).
On the other hand, in Danish and Norwegian, East is "Øst", making slashed zeros awkward together with compass directions. Dotted zeros would be better.
Tab, Tab, Return.
Some overdue transparency into the Cryptopia exchange hack
Discourse Is Poisoned, but You Already Knew That
Announcing Add-Ons Updates and Migration Tool on Clever-Cloud
For film, 2k & 4K describe the horizontal resolution as you state, but the vertical resolution is determined by the aspect ratio (1.85, 2.35, 2.40, etc). HD & UHD are fixed to a 1.78/16x9 aspect ratio which explains the difference in widths.
The roads are funded by road-tax. You only pay for the roads if you use them. They are not funded from income-tax. That is a fair system.
I have a theory that the type of people who make it past the google interview are smart people who are bad at teaching. Like they get all the concepts, algos etc.. but when it comes to distilling it into an Explain-Like-Im-5 tutorial, it just goes to hell very quickly.

What they need to do is hire some people who are great teachers, explainers etc.. Avoid people who rely on already attained technical knowledge, design patterns, algos etc.. to pattern match on new tech to instantly grok it. The 'noob' people who question the engineers who designed the tools and ask a ton of dumb questions about how it works so they can then translate it into everyday tutorial paragraphs.
You are correct, 'toxic' is a value judgement, I should have said extremist.

One problem is that it will be impossible to know if a Facebook poll is representative; most likely it will not be, and will instead be taken mostly by people who already have similar views to the author of the poll.

However, the polls may help convince users their views are actually mainstream (even if the "mainstream media" is ignoring them). Such users may feel free to take an even more extreme position if they believe their current views are actually about average. This is one mechanism Cass Sunstein has identified for driving extremism is groups.

Voting isn't intrinsically democratic or empowering for voters - North Korea has elections. Presenting informed people with meaningful choices is what matters.
Each mirror can have its own cert with its own private key. After all, they each have their own DNS name.

Really, the issue is convincing all mirrors to migrate when they have the simpler issue of turning of a mirror.
I found a cool game that teaches you through the history of machine learning techniques via visual programming.
Anybody else having issues with gmail or Google apps?
> About an hour-and-a-half passed, and although I didn't know it at the time the attackers had by now killed almost everyone in the lobby, the restaurant, and on the first and second floors of the hotel. They had rushed through the third and fourth floors to the fifth floor and I could hear them running around on the rooftop above my head, where they were managing to keep away helicopters belonging to the international forces.

Reading that, I can't imagine being stuck in such a situation without weapons. Yeah, a sidearm won't necessarily save one's life, particularly against several attackers, but all it would take is a few people to fight back to subdue the attackers. According to Wikipedia, there were only 'four or five gunmen' and about 200 people in the hotel (42 dead, over 160 rescued): if each person had been capable of resisting, then the attackers simply couldn't have won the day without a significantly larger team, which would have incurred increased cost, opsec risk & operational risk.

I can't imagine the terror of being stuck in a hotel room, waiting to die. A weapon might not save my life, but at least it'd give me something to focus on & feel better about.
> In the US, it's standard for a rental agreement and/or state law to specify that the landlord can enter your property with 24 hours notice even if you're not there, or to enter immediately in case of an emergency.

As a European, I find the idea extremely shocking.

Here entering the residence of someone without their explicit consent is considered home invasion and can net you a year in jail and a fine of up to 15000 euros. It doesn't matter if you own the property as long as someone else lives their. It remains true if they are not paying. You will need the police and a court order if you want to enter.
I bet DoHTTPS/DoTLS has more penetration than ESNI. Neither are widely implemented though, which is the important part.
Well, on that... I will chose Vue for something relatively undemanding just for the sake of convenience, and availability of devs. For something more performance critical, S.js + surplus looks to me the best library around today that provides lightweight data binding, templating and reactivity without feature bloat.
If you managed to survive high school algebra, you might be able to 'redo' your basic math education with a geometric bent from Stillwell's book 'Numbers and Geometry', which teaches the classical link between the two subjects that has been eliminated from elementary education to some extent. However, the kind of intuition he presents is still semi-abstract - it's not a super duper picture heavy book - but I think it's about as close to what you're asking for as you are likely to find.

https://www.amazon.com/Numbers-Geometry-Undergraduate-Texts-...
> As a customer, I want to know what data a service stores and how it is used, without digging through pages of cryptic terms and services.

As a customer, I simply want my data to not be stored at all, unless I explicitly asked for it, in which case the consent is obviously implied.

> Plenty of paid services share their data with third parties.

And plenty of paid services don't. And those don't have to change anything. That's my point.
And then what? In NYC at least the subway and ferry service is very inefficient by pretty much any measure, and that's why they're constantly running in the red. The problem is there is no real feedback, instead they just lobby for more subsidies and higher prices. If there were some kind of feedback, they would prob improve efficiency like reducing service to outer boroughs or charging more for those, stopping ferry service as that's a huge money sink, reduce head count and maybe restructure pension obligations. Instead they're putting usb ports in trains
My complex's owners are doing this, and from the person's details on Twitter, it looks to be the same company. They own properties in 22 US states with 250,000 residents according to their website.
I saw that too but later in the article it gets explained.

> early in the morning the international forces began to fire from a tank into the rooms. They concentrated on room 521, the one next door to me

The blackened rooms to his right aren't the fire he was talking about. There must have been another fire out of view of this picture.
My understanding is that Teslas have scientific accuracy that is not needed for deep learning... my machine has nvidia 1080s.
Writing more code is, indeed, the solution. This may feel challenging or even impossible because it takes away time from doing the research of actually understanding why everything works. Ie, due to time constraints, you may need to implement things more often without understanding how they work. This might make you less good at talking about solutions, but on the other hand better at actually providing them.
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The mistake I see __consistently__ is that when I'm discussing an opportunity / relationship with someone who is "hiring" is that they don't realize I'm interviewing them as well. Fairly often, those who don't realize this are the same ones who will hint / complain about retention and such. They want better people but that have no idea how better people think / feel and how their approach will never get them the type of people they need.
Characteristics of Timers in Apache Flink to Keep in Mind
Which would be perfectly fine, except that digital newspapers have a pesky habit of putting "Opinion" or "Editorial" in very tiny font on the piece's header, with no other indication that the piece being read is, in fact, an opinion/editorial piece.
RE: safe levels and the sheer number of chemicals flooding into the environment, I wonder whether in some cases a given chemical studied in isolation could be safe at a given level, yet have unexpectedly strong negative effects when combined with the presence of other chemicals -- also perhaps at or below their respective "safe" levels that were determined by studying them in isolation.
The story just kept going. I thought it would be over after the initial hiding under the bed and the men leaving his room, but it was only the beginning. It's amazing this man is still alive.
It's a quasi-gov "agency" which means taxpayers are paying, however indirectly; those same taxpayers are also paying to use the service.
So bots and fake accounts now have a direct line to influencing local politics.
How do you get senior candidates to spend any time and effort on submitting "work samples"?

I'm a senior engineer. Last time I interviewed, I received multiple offers from brand-name employers. None of them required any work samples, just hard technical interviews.

A few times I saw a small unknown company that piqued my interest. I talked to them. Occasionally one would require me to do some sort of a task.

Why would I do it?

I don't need to do any of that for the top employers in the market. Why would I spend hours of my time, and precious coding time, especially on some small company I never heard of before?

I haven't done that in years, and doubt I'll ever do it again. The only way you could get me to do it is if I was desperate for a job.

By requiring this sort of time and effort from candidates, you are screening out the best ones, those who can get multiple offers from great employers without jumping hoops for you.
In a pure economy, a job that is located in a place that is expensive to reach will cease to exist or pay enough to make the commute worth it.
The CNIL has explicitly stated it is going after dark patterns, and blanket opt-in is one. The only real question was over standing, I.e. whether the Irish DPA has jurisdiction or not.

As for the amount of the fine, even if it is small in comparison with Google’s profits, it has to come from one employee’s budget. That one person will be strongly motivated to fix this.
Nice to see a statistician weighing in on this post
well, this is like saying your car does not need airbags because it already has brakes and your gonna die anyway
They probably tried, failed, and are building their own petition platform now.
I have never heard of art of living in India.

But sadhguru and ram dev baba were famous in India for yoga and meditation.

Sadhguru speaks in English, if it helps.
By the way sadhguru speeches are just awesome.

https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en
WhatsApp is banning you from forwarding the same message to more than 5 people
No, this will never happen. Genetic isolation of the kind you describe is impossible. Even attempts to maintain racially pure castes are stymied by people's propensity to fuck the wrong person, never mind this happening through passive means.
Tobacco is viciously addictive. Nicotine on its own is only mildly addictive. Tobacco contains MAOIs that potentiate nicotine.
> That's why CNIL chose such a big player

FWIW, CNIL didn't choose a big player. They're responding to complaints advanced by the two associations mentioned in TFA, that is La Quadrature du Net and None Of Your Business.
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This is wrong. A great deal more privacy is attainable by trivially using HTTPS. Privacy in the presence of stream inspection is more difficult, but attainable by padding files to have quantized lengths.
The case has to be seen in the light of the complaint:

https://noyb.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/complaint-android...

CNIL agreed with the Complainant
Likewise, integrity of the download is the primary reason I’ve switched downloads to HTTPS too. The argument that singed downloads is enough fails to address what the user is supposed to do after the integrity has failed? A redownload can result in the same tampered with file. This isn’t hypothetical btw, it happens in the real world, I’ve had ISPs in Ireland and South Africa damage downloads due to their injections and users don’t care if it’s their ISP, they get pissed off at you unfortunately.
I wouldn't recommend any in particular, but let your interests guide you. If your into front-end development, there's probably some bloggers who write about your favorite frameworks; or your favorite language; or if you're interesting in enterprise dev, you might follow InfoQ or Fowler's blog; Or with AWS you might read Cloud Guru's weekly updates on AWS, or Werner Vogels Blog, etc; you might be interested in startups, so your read one of the many VC blogs, etc...

I don't really have any preferences with what you're reading. Just the fact that there's some part of technology that fascinates you enough to read further, on your own in a self-directed way. It shows curiosity and initiative. I always like this part of my conversations because I often get to learn something new myself.
I am unable to read that presentation as satire. And as somebody that grew up using BASIC, he is much more correct than the overall "consensus" of the time. (Read "consensus" as "successful propaganda".)
> I've given up on the idea that political engagement on social media can make society better.

There is a name for it, it's called virtue signaling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling
> In another poster, the copy reads “The entire fish is salmon.” This is straightforward copy reminding readers that salmon is delicious head to tail, so all of it should be eaten.

I heard once that some steaks sold are actually separate pieces of meat glued together and made to look like a natural steak. Maybe this happens with fish as well. Wouldn't "the entire fish is salmon" be referring to that there's no pieces of other fish glued to the fillet? I mean, perhaps there's a legal technicality where it's permissible to sell a product as salmon when at least 10% is actual salmon or so.

It's kind of like how all those sweeteners sold as being stevia are actually only like 1 or 2% stevia.
That was literally the Nazi's plan, you realize:
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/germany/sp001630/peter.htm...
How long does the fog take to clear? Is it possible to do higher cognitive work until the fog sets in and then do more menial work until the fog clears? What kind of cycle time would that be?
We don’t do the PBN thing. Honestly that’s pointless unless the sites have enough authority to give the shared link any value and it takes years to build up a useful network.

Honestly, our work isn’t really cutting edge or innovative. Optimize content (we usually rewrite/redesign it all from scratch to hit both keywords and user-experience), claim profiles, get a few good backlinks.

I think the biggest thing is simply to track results over 6+ months and react to what you’re seeing. And looking for opportunities to continue creating good long-tail content, which is admittedly a crapshoot sometimes. But by working with a lot of similar companies, we kind of have a head start on what will probably work.
Go look out the window for 15 minutes. It can literally be the most productive thing you can do right then.
Can't they use md5 hash ( which is not unique), to stop spreading misinformation and a report button.

And use that md5 hash to stop forwarding to a lot of people.
For sni to be effective, you need to be hitting hosts that serve more than one domain. Otherwise, you can just reverse map the ip.
It seems to be a popular target.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Inter-Continental_Hotel_K...
It would send a different signal that France doesn't necessarily want to send. If the fine for having a bad UX over passable data privacy configurations is billions of dollars, and the fine for not making an effort at all is also billions of dollars, that doesn't really encourage the right behavior.
Last night my wife was trying to enter a Tesco (supermarket) voucher code in a website and got 0 and O wrong. The code she was emailed did not use a dotted 0. She was reading the code on her phone and entering it into a web page.
Online petitions are among the very least you can do.

The effort is minimal as is the understanding required of the topic or the petition itself.

If anyone starts accepting these petitions as valid expressions of the electorate you can look forward to more Boaty McBoatface-type results.

Plus, myself and a growing number of others are not on Facebook and therefore will not be represented.

It's not the right platform or medium for real political dialogue.
Swedish Approach to Road Safety: 'The Accident Is Not the Major Problem'