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> any information concerning you as a person belongs to yourself. Any diversion needs active consent

But in the US that isn't true even outside of the internet. If you walk outside of your home/land, I can legally photograph and record video of you. I can write down what you're wearing, make assumptions about your income based on your address, record you gender/age/etc. All of that is 100% legal - you willingly give up information about yourself when you go to public places.

You could argue the internet is not a public space but that counters most pro-privacy people's opinions on free speech/etc online.
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As someone working in automotive-tech, this company is still vaporware in my mind. I hope it is a success as I am a fan of EV's but until I see a single Rivian doing anything I'd be very skeptical of a 2021 release date.

Would also probably be willing to bet more than 100k Rivian vehicles never get produced.
Amazon applies said vendor stickers when they receive stock from a vendor for inventory.

If Amazon receives product with vendor stickers already attached, they get rejected permanently.
It is time to break the duopoly and introduce competition into the market. It is good for all customers.
I really appreciate your thorough description. If you are a fan of "mathy" scifi, check out "Permutation City" - it takes what I have described as my philosophy of science (physical reality being dependent on math) to a very entertaining extreme. I think you might find it entertaining even if you have the opposite views (math "just" being an indispensable tool for physics).
This doesn't make sense to me. I've used 7.1 and 5.1 systems that have very good stereo imaging, and being able to place sounds clearly on one side or the other like that... didn't seem unusual.
I think part of it would be intent. I don't know that much about its creation, but I'm guessing the Notre Dame was planned out to survive a long time, much longer than a wooden structure of similar size. It was also built as a place of worship and of similar religious use. It wasn't something that wasn't going to be discarded if it wasn't "performing well".

I say all of this in contrast to e.g. tearing down the Notre Dame and putting up some real estate development that rents out stalls to merchants. Say the economy takes a hit and the owners start considering selling the land, only for the structure to be torn down again.

My point is that it'd be a tragic misuse if the structure fell into the hands of those solely seeking a profit from the structure/land.
PlayStation Now still exists.
I was looking at monitors recently and found this - 8 different monitors by the same seller, and reviews for them all lumped in together! Useless!
Apple's motivation to grow Apple Maps is the same as Google's motivation to grow their maps product-- commoditize the complement.

They both spend lots of money on maps in the hope that users will use those maps on each corporations platform. The difference is Apple makes money selling the device and services, Google makes money selling your attention to advertisers.

The real driving force for Apple to spend that money was Google restricting features in their iOS app.
The rust compiler will help you avoid a lot of common runtime errors. It comes at a cost of extra development time. The Rust philosophy values code correctness over developer efficiency.
It's not entirely clear, but I believe that some of these changes, namely namespacing, may impact compatibility with POSIX awk[1] (as shipped on BSD, macOS, etc. al.). Historically, GNU awk has been a strict superset of "standard" awk. I for one am concerned that this may impact portability of awk based scripts between platforms using gawk and other implementations.

It could be that I have missed a detail and this isn't really the case; I also certainly don't want to discourage progress, but there is something to be said for being able to write an awk program once and be confident it will work on any POSIX-ish system, rather than only those with a GNU userland.

1 - http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/
I think it's more about power usage. Shorter bursts of more data vs having the radio on for longer.
This is very true and I thank you for this.

I think what hurts really is the fact that a cathedral that took 200 years to be built, and had been standing there for 800 years can burn down in a single night. It makes one wonder about the vanity of many of the humanity's achievements and it's a harsh reminder that everything eventually comes to an end.
The Versailles oaks are for the Steeple only, not the whole roof (which needs the 13k).
The big data players have tools for this. For example:

https://datacloudoptout.oracle.com/registry/
Please don't drag us down into previous hells.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Parts of the gdpr are good. Imo, these are mostly the data security elements (leak reporting to users and legal barriers data selling).

The consent/privacy elements are near useless, imo. In practice, they amount to a "we value your privacy" notice. I don't think individually "negotiated" consent for users visiting a website or downloading an app is useful or privacy promoting. It just amounts to "tick this box to use this app," most of the time. Other times, there is a UI actively directing the large majority of people away from the rational choice.
You missed the first sentence of my comment.
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I'm sure a lot of folks have heard of the Amish practice of young adults living among the normals for weeks or months, sampling modern life before making the decision to settle down back on the farm. I wish that was a common thing among everyone, with teens out of high school given a year on their own before college, to exist as legal adults while supporting themselves with whatever entry-level, minimum wage job. I would imagine the numbers of freshmen dropouts would drop considerably, with more young adults in general being more willing to apply themselves toward realistically achieving goals, having tasted how hard things might be.

But if parenting has much in common with management styles, there would need to be a balance equally between super cool bro and anal-retentive wretch.
"Admits?" This was clearly communicated by the very fact that he was indicted for conspiracy. By definition, conspiracy is an inchoate crime. It's a bit disingenuous for Vice to paint this as some kind of revelation or admission.

For further reading: https://criminallaw.uslegal.com/incohate-crimes/
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Python 3+:

Blue - A dead simple event based workflow execution framework.

I always find it easier to model systems from an event driven perspective. Especially when you have to move fast and evolve unpredictably.
I wanted a framework anyone could learn to use within 5-10 minutes. At the same time it should be able to solve all kinds of use cases that require event based coordination between tasks in a distributed environment.

Works well for us for simple use cases (eg. data processing workflows) and complex ones (eg. our entire retail order fulfilment system).
I recently read the red book, and I'm a little torn. The strategic patterns are great (I love the idea of bounded contexts, Ubiquitous languages, and integration), but the tactical patterns i'm less sure of.

I'm not sure i like the idea of going through what's essentially a batch job to export my events inside one bounded context. I'm also not sure i like going through an external message bus to operate between aggregates.

I don't have any better ideas, but i wonder if it's necessary to discard my reservations to succeed in the strategic goal.
The first paper explains why such estimates are deeply unreliable, even in the second paper.
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They're trying to combat fake news through education and platitudes. Even though they're not the ideal candidate, I don't think they will do any harm.

And I wasn't happy with the EME decision but how the web goes there is almost entirely chrome's fault at this point.
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But that approach, at best, only tells you about the weather near the ground. That can be useful, but is woefully incomplete. You also need to be able to see weather high in the atmosphere.
Price negotiation is not zero sum. Zero sum means one party’s gain is exactly equal to the other party’s loss. Most deals are positive sum - both parties get benefits. Price negotiation is about the seller getting some the upside of the buyer’s benefits but not so much that it sucks for the buyer and not so low a price that the seller will walk.

Some deals are inherently negative sum - if you bought a lemon.
How does it convert signal strength to clearness of weather, I assume you have a map of base signal strength in clear weather? How accurate it is compared to a weather radar?
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Been having those thoughts revisiting my old elementary school with my kid. Every teacher and staff member when I went there is gone, but in my memory there is a snapshot of that part of my life...frozen in time. Comparing that snapshot in time & space to what it is now is jarring. Nothing is permanent but change.
Dropped a mail there now, thanks.

Edit: Too late I see it was already reported before the release and apparently wasn't regarded as significant:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gawk/2019-04/msg00015....

I guess that means no fix.
That's interesting, I wonder how that came about.
Or zero lifetime from its own perspective, I suppose
Honestly I read most of those reasons as reasons for not being free and community-driven as opposed to not being open-source, and also more as a post-hoc justification than a prediction on what will happen in the future.

As a matter of fact a large part of the Mathematica codebase is inspectable (the part that is written in Mathematica itself) [1].

Disclaimer: I'm a Wolfram employee, but these are my opinions and any decision on open sourcing the language would be way above my pay grade.

[1] https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1742/what-is...
I would say that any time you are using GLUT for new projects, you really should be using GLFW or LibSDL instead.
Maple got really close to being freed a long time ago, before they were bought by that Taiwanese Terminator company (Cyberdyne systems, or whatever they're called). I can't find a reference for it now, but one of the Maple admins said so in an interview.
I'm blown away on a regular basis by how long it takes to write software that in my opinion is super easy.

Usually it just comes down to fuzzy/missing/changing requirements. A lot of times people know that they want something, but they don't know exactly what. Or they're absolutely sure they need feature x, but then later they realize they don't, but they missed out on developing other more fundamental features.
That church is pretty cool and and pretty hidden, up on the hill behind the colosseum right ?
>> I end up being responsible for the estimate I've given (as I should)

You're not responsible for an estimate you give, the person who's asking for it is.

This is the key difference between an estimate and a commitment: If you give someone an estimate, they are responsible for steering the project using that information. If you give someone a commitment, you are responsible for meeting that commitment.

This is why very few people actually want estimates. They want commitments, but they will ask for estimates to get an answer and then interpret them as commitments. Most people asked for estimates know this intuitively, thus "doubling and adding 10" and other communication strategies to turn estimates into safe commitments before they are communicated.
I think Neil Young was on a similar page (okay, maybe not full electric but still):

http://www.lincvolt.com/

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Are you saying that the Roman Empire, was at any point, lead by someone self-sacrificing and honest who was focusing on the greater good?

Because that’s really not what I took away from classical history.
The oldest bug report I think I've made is now reaching 15 years old.

Sometimes I go through things, but its easy to think you've done your part if you submit a bug report, a reproducer, and even a patch.
I agree. I have yet to see any solid argument for 5G being a some sort of game-changer for the end user.
They even give an economic argument for this law. In a report to the EU commission they estimate this will result in potential benefits in the range of 5.8 to 9.6 billion euro.[1] This is only for public procurement.

The two main conclusions of this study are "There is a strong economic case for whistleblower protection" and "Whistleblower protection must be effectively be implemented to reap the rewards"

[1]https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publi...
I had exactly the same thing happen recently with a light bulb that wasn't nearly as bright as advertised. Seller said they'd refund me, let me keep the crappy bulb and send me a brighter and more expensive bulb for free.

I didn't take them up on this, as it wouldn't be fair for future customers; after all, I'd bought the crappy bulb because there were no bad reviews...
There was a lot of discussion on this matter in Germany and other European countries, back when he left Hong Kong and got stuck at the airport in Moscow. But nothing came out of it really. Despite many EU countries having laws that would have allowed granting him asylum, there was too much pressure due to the fear of U.S. retaliation if any country decided to go ahead with that move.
Now if only we could convince Bob that villages in Africa don't need him to go over and shoot elephants for them...
Yeah I don't see why not.

Generally just showing all the data is there to inform, and then the user can not participate or say as you ask delete.

I was thinking I'd put a delay on the actual deleting of data to prevent something malicious.

Granted this is all just a personal side project primarily for my personal use and education ;)
Well, signal strength yes - it does have those limits. But pressure data from the barometers can describe some higher altitude conditions (if you can map pressure at the surface over a large geography with decent density, you can infer metrics about the higher atmosphere).

And I do agree that other instruments are required for a complete picture of the weather, not just phones! But a remarkable amount can be done from phones. GPS attenuation for example, can also be read from some Android phones and can inform about high-altitude conditions.
Not having any seems more reasonable every day.
Forgive my ignorance, but black holes are quite common in the Universe, right? Why couldn't we simply take a photo of one that's closer to us?
It's there! https://github.com/historicalsource/bureaucracy
And radar data and satellite fills some of that need. We generally have a lot better idea what's happening in the middle atmosphere than we do close to the ground.
Most of Matlab's source code is visible too and its license allows you to modify its visible source code and share it with other license holders too.

But that's still not enough and that's why I still sometimes work on Octave (although I've been semi-inactive for the past few years). Freedom isn't a spectrum; it really is all or nothing. Unless we're all free all the way, none of us is. It's not fair of me to share Matlab or Mathematica source code with people who cannot have access to the software that runs it, especially from a mathematical and scientific point of view where reproducibility in software should allow anyone to acquire that software.
It's incredible to watch the emergent behavior out of real world systems. Completely counterintuitive, and yet there it is - a clear backward propagating compression wave, whose speed probably mostly depends on human physiology (e.g. reaction time, personal comfort level with distance to next vehicle, etc.)
Fascinating.
Can you add sources to justify this statement?
You can do much better than ImageMagick, if you want to visualize data like that. Veles (https://codisec.com/binary-visualization-explained/) (previous HN discussion: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15164166)) is a nice example of this.

R and ggplot (https://martin.varela.fi/2017/09/09/simple-binary-data-visua...) can get you some nice visualization with just a few lines of code, too (though not as nice as the Veles tool).
Does anyone know a good awk tutorial or book?

I kind of skipped over it in my journey into the world of Unix... I usually either (bash shell scripting, tools like cut and grep + pipes and redirection) or use python.
Circuses, but maybe not so much bread?
> There is no digital town square, where people could openly share ideas

There are many of them. We're conversing on one right now, in fact. I enjoy civil conversations here with people with whom I disagree deeply about many issues.

However, if mine or anyone else's comments veer to the hateful or inciteful, you can be sure that the moderators will address it by banning our comments or accounts.

> YouTube isn't held liable for copyright infringement

The existence of Youtube Content ID [1] directly contradicts this statement. The whole point of developing Content ID was to enforce copyright on the behalf of, and under pressure from copyright owners.

1. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797370?hl=en
I disagree wholeheartedly. In many cases the "tick this box to use this app" is not GDPR compliant, and once more enforcement is done, you'll see this pattern diminish or go away. Businesses will eventually transition away from surveillance capitalism, as it becomes increasingly less profitable and it's visibility makes products using it increasingly less appealing to consumers.

Furthermore, GDPR is already in effect in the EU, and multinational companies already have to follow it. There's no reason for us to fail to implement all of GDPR, since so many already have to implement all of it anyways.
> I tried some of those but found that nothing restrictive like that would work for me long term.

Any ideas on WHY that is?

All of us are subject to social pressures and internal weakness when it comes to staying on a nutrition plan.

OMAD has worked best for me long-term. Even after extended holiday with family, it's the easiest to get back on routine.

Black Coffee for breakfast. Skip Lunch, then a normal Man-sized dinner.

> https://blog.bulletproof.com/omad-one-meal-a-day-diet/
So then what are you proposing here, a straight head tax? That seems catastrophic to me but maybe you can tell me what I'm missing.

I believe in economics but I also believe we are living in a deranged Markov process with selfish actors. and I don't see how allowing multi-generational piles of money to accumulate is good for society in the long run because you end up with an unassailable ruling class which is exactly the opposite of what this country has evolved towards until recently, no?

I'm no fan of either major political party because the right cuts taxes and increases military spending whilst the left undoes those tax cuts and increases social spending. And in both cases we go deeper and deeper into debt.

What's your solution here? I could go for a wealth tax or I could go for 100% inheritance tax here. And in doing so eliminate income tax. I'm open to anything that doesn't excessively redistribute wealth yet at the same time stops the accumulation of wealth into a very small number of uber wealthy families.
Being able to charge customers more for their service would absolutely count as "doing something".
In some cases it's because the "unusual" design is actually more aerodynamic, so they are taking advantage of the "this is totally new and different" thing to finally push those changes out and make them acceptable. Like the wheel covers on the Honda EVs. They would actually make the ICE cars more efficient too, but people just get turned off by the look.
I've heard of buildings built on top of others before. Is it commonly because the buildings have actually sunk into the ground or are they somehow pushed?
Fully Charged episode on it:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMfxJEfb4lw
If you'd like to skip the very lengthy introduction, search for "The reason this hasn’t be done before".
Yup it is possible. See the Assault Weapon Ban from 1994 to 2004.
I should defer to the experts here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8070024

The part I'm working on currently is a privacy-aware implementation of recording useful signal strength from user's phones, that could be used for this.
Hey, thanks for the feedback and great suggestion. Made an issue to track on github: https://github.com/godaddy/kubernetes-external-secrets/issue...
I literally haven't actually posted or done anything on it...

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I've thought about putting one up for social.bbs.io or bbs.land
Large dishes and large networks of large dishes are economical on the ground in ways that are utterly impractical in space.
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I have developed a belief about this: people don't know what they want until you show them what they said they want. Then it's immediately obvious to them what they wanted instead.

This suggests that demos and mock-ups might be a valuable tool. The sooner you can get someone to try something, the sooner they can tell you what direction they really wanted you to go in instead, and the less time you waste.
I'm confused by this sentiment. How efficient is a developer when producing things that are incorrect? Unless the goal is produce incorrect things, which seems unlikely.

It seems like the philosophy prefers knowing ahead of time what's wrong over discovering it incidentally, and probably accidentally, after the fact.
TL;DR: the key is to insulate lawmakers from concentrations of wealth.

A law that prevents corporations from spending resources on politics would do this. Or low contribution limits could work, to limit billionaire influence.

A lot of comments in this and other privacy threads correctly worry about the combination of "diffuse costs, concentrated benefits" and the electorate's short attention vs sustained private lobbying. My feeling is those effects cannot be overcome once in effect, so we have to roll back to prevent the effects in the first place.

Sounds politically unlikely, but stranger things have happened in American politics.
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I think you misinterpreted his point. It's not that he can't give Mathematica away as it stands now. His point is more that Mathematica couldn't be developed as a free and open project with just contributions from random people.

The point he doesn't mention is that it costs money to develop it closed source, and giving away the source (or even the binary) would cut off funding. I'm obliged to agree with him, since there isn't anything free that comes close to Mathematica.
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I think the biggest problem here is that nobody can agree on the sort of information that they want to protect. Obviously everyone is fine with these organizations collecting their forum posts (this is the whole point). Likewise, few want these organizations collecting unauthorized photos by way of laptop cameras. There seems to be some legitimate disagreement on whether organizations should be allowed to collect e.g. your browsing history.