skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fairness, you're probably right about them not requiring a DPO. I thought that was required for any organization over a certain size, but it seems it's required for any sized organization that tracks people with a certain amount of enthusiasm. A court would have to determine if they meet that criteria, I guess.

However, with response to this:

>but their US site seems like it would be out of scope for GDPR according to Article 3, because it is not offering goods or services to data subjects in the Union.

You're referring to Article 3.a. The argument on whether the US site is offering services to EU citizens if it does not take active steps to forbid VPNs or place "are you currently in the EU?" gates in place is something only a court could rule on.

However, more importantly, you're skipping over 3.b.

>the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.

That's unquestionably happening for anyone in the EU that uses a VPN to connect to their US website. Hence, their GDPR obligation is not discharged if they are under EU jurisdiction.

The GDPR does not lay out a set of ways to handle EU citizen data. If you ctrl-f search "citizen" in the GDPR document[1] you'll get no hits. It lays out the way /companies are expected to handle personal data/. Americans may not realise this, but they have the right under EU law to file GDPR requests against EU companies. They may even be able to file them against American companies, although which companies are or are not in scope gets complex at that point and I really don't know enough about who is incorporated or has subsidiaries where to know which companies that would work against if it came down to lawyers in courtrooms.

The point is, if a company falls under the territorial scope, they have to extend GDPR rights to /everyone/, because it's not about who you're allowed to track, it's about how you're allowed to use tracking technologies.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
My problem is with such articles that very rarely I see some in-depth argument with numbers and details to justify the switch. Many engineers are just too lazy to drill down and get to know their stack so that they can scale it up when necessary or add/remove fetaure, fix bugs with reliable veolicty. I have spent some time in California working for startups and the ratio of engineers who know their stack in depth to ones who would switch language because of trends, never really get to know anything in depth is 1:100.
> University students should be going every day and not taking breaks.

As a university student, I respectfully disagree.
I always liked how this automatically hooks into the python installation via pip, but preferred another text format. Hm. So if you want to permanently replace python's crash message, you could put a file `sitecustomize.py` into your python path, with these contents for example:

# in site-packages/sitecustomize.py:
print('hello!')
import sys; sys.excepthook = lambda a,b,c: print('<bomb emoji>')
# or also:
import stackprinter
stackprinter.set_excepthook(style='darkbg')

(you can find the path by `python -c "import site; print(site.PREFIXES)" `)

It felt bit much to do that automatically on installation, but maybe it would be a good option to have
Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous to expect a one-to-one replacement.

Let's imagine a large bank that closes down 1000 branches with 10 employees each, due to online banking becoming more prevalent. Does this mean that the bank suddenly (or ever) needs 10,000 extra developers working on their online banking? Not even close!
And the saddest thing about the saddest thing is that you can't even get the white keys in tune! For example, if you tune the C major scale (C D E F G A B) in the most natural and singable way, the "perfect fifth" between D and A will be 40/27 and the "minor third" between D and F will be 32/27. And that's unavoidable - there's no way to tune the C major scale so all perfect fifths are 3/2, all major thirds are 5/4 and all minor thirds are 6/5. Basically if the D note is in tune for the G major chord, it will be out of tune for the D minor chord and vice versa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy%27s_intense_diatonic_s...
No but the assessor can - and in every place I’ve owned property, does - give you a breakdown.

Heck, the breakdown is required information in your federal taxes if you want the depreciation expense.

And for all of us who don’t live in crazy-land CA, we have to get assessed since my purchase price (I.e. market value) ten years ago is meaningless today.
> or javascript on the backend, that would be madness

It seems madness is pretty common.
Okay, so let's be optimistic and say a team of 4 can do in 12 weeks what that one dev could do in 4 weeks. 48 dev-weeks vs 4 dev-weeks. Do you think it's reasonable for a project to cost 10x as much just for that precious consistency? Not to mention that longer projects with larger teams have higher variability in outcome, with most projects overshooting by 100% or more. Is this really the right attitude then?
Pretty easy to defeat: downloaded and extracted executables are quarantined. And documents can’t ‘drop and run scripts’, they are documents. And by the way, try sending a password protected archive in the mail once. Most services just throw them away.
So there are three numbers: the expected expansion based on Planck measurements of a historical value based on cosmic microwave background, red shift of distant supernovas calibrated to nearby Cepheids, and an independent value obtained from LIGO based purely on gravitational waves, which still has uncertainty that encompasses both of the others, but will sharpen in coming years.

The LIGO measurement is not subject to vagaries of electromagnetic effects that could be introducing anomalous redshift, or to possible systematic changes in supernova brightness, such as might be caused by metal concentration of stars decreasing with distance/age.

So, if we just wait, LIGO will give an answer. Possibly, a third answer. If so, we will then have two problems, or maybe three: explaing why the Planck prediction is off, explaining why supernova brightness and/or redshift is off, and maybe even why LIGO is off.
I’m hoping people can come to an agreement over the degree of asymmetry.

This reminds me of a parallel discussion of how much businesses leaders should benefit vs employees, the spectrum ranging from full socialist worker control to naked capitalism.

Maybe a hint lies in the ranges of accepted offers in the ultimatum game
I agree with what you've said, but your last paragraph also points to a simple, easy way forward (on the individual level): just describe the specific feelings without needing to roll them all up into that one loaded word. The specificity is probably better communication anyways. It also maybe frees the other person to express the same kind of appreciation.
Microsoft’s views can be represented by groups of people without every individual within every group representing them.

I’d still wager that you represent their views to an extent. You’d probably oppose a 100,000% tax on Office, or a plan to disband the company and destroy all of its assets, for example.

The employees want the company to prosper. Their views will be closer to what’s good for the company.

The shareholders will represent the company perfectly, pretty much by definition.
I've also been a happy user of Sandman: https://github.com/jeffknupp/sandman2
I've been programming for 30 years. I have also spent most of my career as a contractor, startup developer, or a gig worker on Upwork or something.

I'm sure that many HNers will try to claim that I am a bad programmer or something. I believe the reality is that a large portion of the market for software engineers just doesn't have a lot of resources and so is looking for ways to save money. Not dealing with benefits or even minimum wage is a way to do that.

HN likes to think that low paid or non-benefit work for software development doesn't exist. It is a huge global industry in fact.
Coffee Cups Are Next
Yes but it did go into decline for a while until it reinvented itself. It's lost its dominance in OSs and web browsers. Government intervention didn't cause that, free markets did.
I recently left a company organized in this way. It was quite disheartening: small changes would break the code in multiple ways, hundreds of public functions, no interfaces. The architect was seen as a ‘super’ developer...
I don't think it supports business transfers.

https://www.zellepay.com/user-service-agreement

"The Service is intended for personal, not business or commercial use. You agree that you will not use the Service to send or receive payments in connection with your business or commercial enterprise. We reserve the right to decline your registration if we believe that you are enrolling to use the Service with your business account or to receive business or commercial payments. We further reserve the right to suspend or terminate your use of the Service if we believe that you are using the Service for business or commercial purposes, or for any of the uses identified directly below."
That is not optionals, at all.
Please don't do that; it's abusive towards the provider of the service you subscribed to. They deserve to be informed that you want to cancel, rather than to discover that you've unilaterally stopped fulfilling your side of a contract.

(Indeed, in many cases they might be within their rights to pursue you for non-payment, depending on the details of the agreement you entered into.)

I understand that in some cases, companies make their cancellation process so arduous and difficult to access that stopping payment seems the only option, but I don't think it's fair for users/consumers to treat it as a default method.
The only reason you are in that position in the first place is because you have few rights in the society you live in.

If not for that your situation would be much better. The United States is singularly bad at protecting basic rights for people who are less than lucky in life, the gig economy makes this worse, not better because it now seems like there is a solution: let those at the bottom of the societal ladder fight over scraps in a race to the bottom.

Of course from your position scraps are better than nothing but there are much better options available too. But they all start with a society where 'winner takes all' is not the default.

Unfortunately the export of the gig economy to parts of the world where the social safety net is working just fine has the effect of slowly eroding that safety net because there is less of a perceived need for one.
I don't under how government pensions are stolen. If the funds are mismanaged, the taxpayer is responsible for making up the difference.
Who would possibly downvote this?

Occam’s Razor.
They banned me without warning and refunded all my customers and I wasn’t impressed. After reaching out they refunded me all the money I lost though. I’m studying my choices
> We're talking about romantic love where lust is a dominant factor

Oh, I thought we were talking about unconditional love in general.

> if there was no sexual attraction bringing the two parties together, then how could there have been any subsequent love to arise?

Afaik sexual attraction isn't a pre-requisite for love in general, let alone unconditional love.

All this considered, I'm still unclear on why unconditional love and lust cannot co-exist. I can see how uni-directional/unfulfilled/non-reciprocal lust could in some cases diminish the love felt by one party (this would be a case where it isn't isn't actually unconditional love), but the part I don't understand is that unfulfilled lust must do this, even if the lust is strong.
The problem with Goodfellow's book is that it is half-baked. I don't know why he has to introduce Linear Algebra section for a 3rd of the book (which ends abruptly) but then moves on to the ANNs. If Goodfellow intended this book for mathematicians, that whole section about LA can be omitted with literally no loss in the book's value. The whole book arguably feels rushed.

So, no amount of praise and mathematician's justification makes sense. I agree that it is inclined for mathematicians, but this book is overrated and it is terribly due for a rewrite, update and frankly in my personal view - the writing style.

I am curious of specific parts of the book you found valuable.
>They just moved to more obscure places, where they can continue and be evem more motivated

Citation needed.
Working out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle
Nobody is going to start WW3 over China tightening its grip on Hong Kong at this point. Because the west and China's economies are so tightly intertwined a war would be disasturous economically and militarily and for what purpose to prevent the inevitable 30 years early? Heck sanctions are almost pointless too.

The closer the 2047 deadline gets the tighter the control will become.
If that occurred while they were on duty it'd be misconduct.
Love it!

Also, you said the magic words...

What are the magic words? Are they "Abracadabra", "Alakazam" or "Open Sesame" perhaps?

No.

The magic words are: "Passion Project".

In any marketplace, there are 800lb Gorillas, medium players, and "Passion Projects".

I tend to root for the "Passion Project", having several of my own.

I mean, this is America, right, many of us root for the underdog, right?

Good luck with your "Passion Project"! May it grow and grow! (Also, realize that as it does, it will attract more and more criticism -> criticism = barometer of fame and indicator of success, that's criticism's secret identity, just so you know in advance! <g>)
The low opinion is not of humanity, rather, certain drivers who are particularly dangerous.

I didn't have all drivers who'd be in a collision with a cyclist in mind, just a large fraction of those who deliberately pass cyclists closely. My wording was too strong.

Hit and run crashes account for roughly 12% of all crashes in the US, so they may be more common than you believe: https://aaafoundation.org/hit-and-run-crashes-prevalence-con...
Not the person you are asking but if you think about it, sex is weird, gross, and makes you very vulnerable. For some that is offset by it being wonderful and hot and sexy, while for others it takes more to go past the reality of it. That’s why the asexual spectrum is a thing: not everyone is down with getting down. And because as a society we expect sex and sexual attraction to be the norm, people on that spectrum may not always be out about it.

Not saying the other poster is on that spectrum, just pointing out that many different brain configuration exist, with some going “all the sex” all the way to “sex? No thanks.”
As a Chinese-American, I want nothing more than for China to succeed and reunite with Taiwan and establish complete dominance in Asia. If they have to get their hands dirty with extradition laws then so be it.
> how is this any better than X

This is called switching cost and it's a challenge for any new business in an established market.

Consumers ask themselves this question constantly and it's something you need to be prepared to answer if you want people to use your service instead of X.

I'm currently using Netlify for free static hosting. How is 1MB any better than Netlify?
As a cautionary tale. It's a good idea to say AWAY from Veem as well.

I received my salary via veem. First few transfers were good. I got the rate they mentioned on there homepage.

But later, they started giving me absurd rates and said there homepage currency converter tool is broken and what they are transferring to my bank account is final rate.

There was absolutely no way of finding out the rate you were going to get paid.

Absolute bait and switch
Simon Sinek has a great presentation in regards to that topic if someone is interested.

Famous "Do you love your wife?"question and more.
Complacency creep.

Talking to a few Royal Australian Air Force folks last year, apparently they had a similar-ish culture of “she’ll be right” arrogance/confidence, and then they had a cluster of accidents that caused a foundation level rethink and rebuild of a safety/process culture into every flight and every high risk activity.

It sounds like accident #’s have collapsed since then.

Be careful, aviation fanboy writing, not a qualified pilot/tech/engineer.
Lambda School has to play by the rules of regulatory bodies. It makes it more difficult to be innovative but makes sense in a field line nursing.
> Taiwan is not a province of China, but an independent country.

Depends on the view. The central Chinese government certainly considers Taiwan to be its province, and achieved that Taiwan has no seat in the UN, and sanctions Hotel chains that treat Taiwan as separate country. Taiwan themselves maintain a claim to the entire mainland as well, they just disagree on who should hold power. There are also countries that recognize Taiwanese independence, as there are countries that recognize Taiwan's claim over of all of China.
In modern Greek we use the word irony but we also use the phrase 'are you eiron?'. I always thought this is adjective but as I understand now its a name.
Hong Kong should just give up at this point. China is a million times more powerful and no foreign power is coming to save them.

Also, most major businesses have moved to Singapore as their APAC HQ since the China handover.
Sure. But why? Because someone else somewhere else might feel uncomfortable with how you feel with my partner? If what you feel can only be described as love, but you don’t plan on making a commitment, why would you call it something else? Wouldn’t it be the person who wants commitment that needs to say “I love you and want to be with you forever” rather that the person who just is experiencing love that has to clarify “I love you but am not necessarily looking for a commitment”? If you accept that loves doesn’t mean commitment, it logically follows that you can experience a form of love unburdened by expectations. After all, I love chocolate but that doesn’t imply that I should only eat chocolate.
Rockefeller Center Tower to Offer Airbnb Rentals
I much prefer reading Karpathy's notes and watching Stanford CS230 than to delve into Goodfellow. It sits on my shelf collecting dust.
Well I don’t think they should be down voted, but it is wrong.

Taiwan is de-jure a part of China. China just happens to be in the curious state of having two competing entities claiming to be the legitimate government.

Both ROC and Beijing agree Taiwan is China. The “C” in ROC is China!
While I can't disagree about other programs being less expensive, how much is it worth to students knowing that the program is incentivized to get them hired because _the program won't get paid unless the student get well hired after_?

It's a priceless feature that every student would value differently... maybe that's worth a few thousand more?
that's a good point about the rigid surface.
Question: why don’t you profit from this either with the stock market or selling info to companies? What is your motivation for doing this anyway since it takes significant time and skill?
>The issue is that the "outraged crowd" has a habit to assume they have the moral highground and start forcing changes to rules/habits/processes/... even when their views are shared by far less than 50% of the population.

I don't think the majority of the population has views worthy of "the moral highground". Most of humanity isn't very nice; just look at the world. We're mostly riding inertial culture from the past and evolutionary optimizations which we mutate only slightly as time passes.

I also think they should be pressured toward more enlightened worldviews because those worldviews are still better whether or not they have majority subscription.

>And since they are very quick to try to marginalize you by avoiding a healthy debate and quickly associating you with the worse of humanity

Yep. It's sad. This causes a lot of cognitive dissonance and alienation. I think a major reason for it is that the literal nazis, today, are rarely blunt. They use dog whistling, memes, and implication that gives plausible deniability and a way to elide accusations or deplatforming. A heuristic, then, that many people grab to adapt to that is assuming the meta of what someone seems to be saying. This is pretty sound (never accepts a nazi) but not at all complete (rejects many non-nazis).

>So by all means be vocal about your opionions wether you are outraged and want to see society change, or you aren't and find some views blown out of proportion. This is the only way to actually measure if the majority of the population wants stuff to change. And that's how democracy works - which everyone should respect.

I think you'd be wrong to assume that everyone has equal expression in society. Just look at the nazis, for example. So our measuring technique is dysfunctional.

I also think that, even if that wasn't the case, this isn't the best way to reach positive social change.

I think the majority of the world is very sexist, for example, and therefore don't want meaningful societal changes that level the sexual playing field (a clever, diplomatic way to put this is a philosophical objection, like "we should have equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome"). Does that mean that maintaining the sexist status quo is the best moral thing to do? I don't think so. And that's for positive change; what if the majority votes for negative change? I can't respect that just because the majority wills it any more than the nazis respect the mainstream's censure of their ideology.
while moving on is natural for the persons to a software company it's a costly proposition and quite different than surgeon teams, because while humans are all more or less similar projects are wildly different so there's less interchangeability.

also while surgeon tend to specialize into one in the many fields, programmers that rise in a "surgical team" tend to become of the "full stack" variety

> not sure why companies expect to be able to cost-optimize away a functioning economy

I'm with you here, I'm not stating this is the optimal way to handle the issue, just reporting the patterns I saw on many workplaces of all kind I've ben into
Take CS230, I believe it used to be taught by Fei Fei followed by Karpathy and I don't know who teaches it now.
Nadella and Cook: Please take these Pro OS features no one has built
Do you trust your local McDonalds with that kind of access?
Didn’t one of those revolutions kill 20 million people?

So to the Chinese: stand firm to improve your lot but do it carefully.
Do you poop in the lunchroom to stimulate the janitorial economy? /s
Well the Republic of China (a.k.a. Taiwan) and the People's Republic of China (the big communist one) would both disagree with this (in principle). Of course in reality Taiwan is at this point a separate nation that some people go to great lengths to conspicuously ignore, but this isn't the "party line" on either side. The revolution in China is still within living memory and there's more than just Xi Jin-pingbots who don't see the status quo as valid, de jure.
I Work with Suicidal Farmers
That makes sense. It seems about 1% of the population is asexual from some quick googling.
Just guessing, but there is also a programming language called Scala[0], and this person just had a type resolution failure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)
exploiting people, even women and minorities, is not an acceptable antidote for anything.
I talked about this a little here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19772530
Mobile Safari? On which iOS version?

On mine (latest on iPhone 7 at the time of this writing) the site just says my browser doesn’t support the full screen API.
Scalaz and Other Libraries Removed from Scala Community Build
I hate being the devil's advocate, but you know the word "fascist" has an actual meaning, don't you? I'm not trying to defend the Chinese government, but calling them "fascist" is just wrong
Look at this guy using pedantic words to look smart lol