skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no costs because no one is enforcing it.

> In one we actually track user's behaviour to make better recommendations, but we're open about it and they can disable it if they want.

If I understand well this is opt-out instead of opt-in... If you would be slapped some percent of your revenue for this you would feel the costs. Not only the cost of fine, but also of reading and implementing GDPR more carefully. But data protection authorities don't have enough resources to audit even 1 / 100 000 of companies that ignore GDPR up to this level of detail. So you can live in happy ignorance that you are implementing GDPR.

That not to say that GDPR doesn't help in general. The issue is that it will be a dead law or a law that hits randomly some very, very small percentage of companies breaking it.

Having a law that no one implements properly is just a recipe for abuse of power by authorities. "Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime" is well known to people living under the Soviet rule. (And, No! EU is not the Soviet Union. But some DPA are in post-soviet republics with people that were raised in this mentality.)
None of these have ben shown to work with a real-world exploit in JS. There is just too much noise going on.

I'm getting so tired over how oveblown this is getting I was thinking of laying down a $1k bet if anybody will take me up on it, but I dont't think anybody would because it likely isnt possible.

Most of the hype seems to be drive by some Intel gotcha hate.
Should have stated anxiolytic or* downer instead of /
Right, but can you load an older microcode after a newer microcode has already been loaded, without rebooting?
Whoa, let's not go crazy! Just because the naming conventions, which weren't crazy for the day, would cause issues today doesn't mean you get to call my first child, I mean computer, a "Trash-80". I didn't stand for it then and I won't now.
Why not make it a stand-alone app and charge right away?
Compliance costs money, what's supposed to be new or particularly bad about that?

Many in this thread seem to argue that launching an internet based business or entering a market as large as the EU was previously free and I honestly don't see where this illusion is coming from. Yes, GDPR compliance costs money, just like a whole bunch of other things.

> To some extent, these costs could also hurt competition (assuming the competitor had the same data-vacuuming business model).

Same question, if that data-vacuuming assumption is true, why should the general public care about preserving that? GDPR regulation and implementations are by no means perfect but it's not like transparency, forcing companies to think about their impact on their users privacy and other aspects don't present benefits as well. I realize that the question of regulation is a matter of philosophy just as much as it is political but painting GDPR as some kind of killer of good businesses seems, at least, very weird.
EstEID is a purpose-built identifier. They are subject to a different law.
Like many (but not all) of Apple's premier offerings since then and today, it was cheap taking into consideration all the factors, and they sometimes capitalized this in their marketing. For all it offered out of the box, with the market penetration it had, the number of users/popularity it enjoyed, the ease-of-use in its class, and level of support delivered...it was "cheap" for certain values of that term that all placed a premium upon getting that entire combination of factors.

There is no doubt it is expensive, but if you fit their target market, there was a fair probability you would get pretty enamored with the fit and find the budget. There are tradeoffs (some significant) to that approach, and Apple had and continues to possess a cultural tendency to be pretty purist about it for some products some of the time, but it has served them well so far (though I see eerily uncomfortable parallels of the ][ era to today's iPhone era).
Awful? I think you might need to get your outrageometer checked.

I’m old enough to remember being lectured on how prude we are in the States not to have topless women in ads like the enlightened Europeans and Japanese.
Poster child for the child abuse the climate alarmists have wrought upon a generation. Are the lasting psychological effects of instilling so much fear in so many children really worth it? We’re not all going to die on account of climate change—nor will our grandchildren. Endless war in the Middle East and child labor in rare-earth metal mines in Africa are what children should be speaking to the UN about.
Yes, it's absolutely the same thing. Receiving criticism online and being oppressed by a totalitarian regime.

What a mind-bogglingly clueless and disrespectful thing to say.
Why does the 6502 have the BIT instruction?
Keyword is "unexpected." Despite all our climate models, we have almost no clue about the future of the earth. The IPCC reports are all guesses and the real situation could be much, much worse than anticipated.
I would not call that a hack: many timekeeping systems rely on this principle. There was a great write up on Hackaday: https://hackaday.com/2018/03/29/ask-hackaday-is-your-clock-t...
Yeah if you're doing dumb string matching. But they have access to all of the photos as well. So index all of the faces and then query it on the face matches, then pull the rest of the chats and dk pics.

Yes I know that not everybody sends face pics, but the majority do, and this is good enough to harvest for data.
I just went over a sample of the advertising companies. Some of them were acquired, most of them no longer exist, with the exception of Apple and Xerox.
It might not be surprising, after all its been 40 years, but it is a strong testament to the fact that companies need to constantly evolve together with their markets. Being in the right place, at the right time, with the right product, is just the beginning.
I've seen it used in the internet for a few years now. Maybe there is a recent surge but people do use it relatively often when discussing politics.
In 2013 (only 5 years ago!), The Phoenix Project [1] came out. Very interesting to read what has changed since then and how some concepts that were considered new at the time are take for granted. It's a pretty easy read, ideal as an audio book.

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Busines...
As a lender the big risk with small businesses is fraud.

Online lenders have automated much of the underwriting process so the main cost is actually CAC rather then staff overhead.

Loans are generally designed to be recoverable (requiring personal guarantees, assets, etc) so even in case of defaults lenders will recover most of their money (recoverability is also the reason it's normally capped at 10%-20%)

However with fraud the chance of recovery is essentially zero, so fraud is typically what blows up lending books.

With small businesses it's often hard to distinguish legitimate business from fraud and that's the real bottleneck.
Not sure how this is "unexpected."

For 20 years there have been articles/studies saying that the "calthrate gun" containing all the methane stored in Siberia and the arctic is the best reason we need to keep CO2 levels below 400 ppm.

Now CO2 is at 415 ppm and we're starting to see the accelerated release of methane and it's "unexpected." Why not interview one of the people who said this is exactly what was going to happen 10 years ago, and ask them what happens next?
Full text pdf: https://www.researchgate.net/journal/1758-678X_Nature_Climat...
I don't think you'd see as much resistance to such a tax if it was dollar for dollar paired with a reduction in other taxes. This has two benefits:

1) In the absence of this pairing it just looks like a government-growing cash grab to a segment of the population.

2) People who aren't even convinced of the dangers of AGW can still support it.
I don't usually like to discuss these topics, but I want to point out a few things. First of all, communism and in general left-wing politics are viewed with a significant bias in the western world, even more in the US. While there have been many societies claiming to be socialist, none would actually qualify from a political theory perspective (it was something more akin to propaganda, e.g. look, we achieved socialism!). Even then, it's worth noting that those societies developed in an environment of extreme hostility from other nations, almost every time during a period of extreme difficulty (e.g. a civil war, right after a long and terrible conflict etc). Coming back to current China, I think Qiu's conclusion can actually make sense if we remove the bias that is normally present in western circles, especially since China's current system, classified by some (especially those that want to make use of the fear of radical left-wing policies) as communism, can also be classified as state capitalism. I don't really think that workers have much power in modern China (this article provides several examples), and I don't see how that could lead you to argue that China needs less communism (as Qiu intends it, that is, characterized by more workers power and less inequality). The only thing I can agree with you about is that Marxist societies, based on a vanguard party with control over everything and everyone, should (one would hope) be now left behind.

P.S. your claim that communist societies tend to be run by academics doesn't really hold much water - if you're interested in the russian revolution, consider reading Sheila Fitzpatrick's "The Russian Revolution" as an excellent introduction.
Oh I meant hypothetically - some of them did and some of them didn't since some of the cards pre-dated ProDOS. What I was trying to say was, if you wanted to do something where an RTC made sense, you would almost certainly have to buy extra hardware to do the something itself as well - it's not like the machine had as much as a serial port. I imagine the //e card gave a view of a nigh-impossibly tricked out //e, as would make sense for a //e that has an entire Mac as its 'peripherals'.
This sounds like something the Stylish browser addon could do for you easily.
Generating Random Numbers from Specific Distribution with Metropolis Algorithm
> It is hard to be complacent when 600,000 people who should be our patients are instead languishing as prisoners or sleeping on streets.

Any success stories of decriminalizing — or normalizing given it’s pervasiveness — mental illness?

One of the most poignant “policing” incidents I saw was at a Charlotte bus stop where the officer with compassion and humbleness was helping out a gentleman who was going through an episode — my lay person’s interpretation. I don’t know whether the officer had any training, but he was doing the best he could with whatever training he did have, in a way where the person, his meager belongings and his integrity were respected. So why do we depend on the kindness of police rather than mental health givers?
And due to various licencing bullshit, there are still lota of movies not availabe on Netflix. Especially outside US.
They're being abducted by the state? I don't think that you're being very objective.
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Why are there so many Ponzi schemes in cryptocurrencies?
Anything python2 is a problem, because Python 2 is officially end of life in January 2020. It is being dropped from all major linux distributions, along any software that depends on it.

RedHat 8 that just got released this month doesn't have it. Not sure when is the next release/update cycle for Arch, that will drop it. Keeping in mind that Arch probably doesn't care about doing things last minute or even after the due date.
Any reasonable effective top-down action on climate change would require significant short-term restrictions on how common people live their lives - either as direct prohibitions or through taxation e.g. pricing in environmental externalities.

A political leader who'd force their nation "go full green" would be ousted at the next election, if not quicker - immediate riots on the streets would be likely.

One of the triggers for gilets jaunes in France was a comparably tiny fuel eco-tax - can you imagine the effect of a taxation that's intented to meaningfully decrease consumption; an eco-tax so large not that people pay more and whine at increased prices but that many of them would actually be forced to stop eating beef and driving cars because they can't afford it? Most of the population currently doesn't want such restrictions and the political leaders won't force them to.
The article makes it clear that methane emissions from farming can be reduced without reducing the production [1].

At the same time, the majority of methane is produced by fossil fuel production that drives industry, transportation and energy production, that are also the largest sources of C02 emissions.

It seems to me that by addressing the emissions of industry, transporation and energy production, we'd be killing two birds with one stone- whereas by going vegan or vegetarian we would only achieve a small reduction in both kinds of emission.

The best thing to do to reduce emissions seems to stop driving, stop flying, prefer public transport, stop buying a new phone every year and stop burning as much excess electricity as we now do. Going vegan or vegetarian seems like a personal option, and a distant third or fourth priority for the general population.

There are many more, much more effective things to do than stop eating meat.

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[1] Thus, there is wide agreement among experts that, regardless of the drivers behind the surge, reducing emissions from fossil-fuel production and distribution, primarily through ending leaks and venting, is one of the few options available to control global methane levels and that this option is the most practical one. In addition, scientists report that there are narrow opportunities to address agricultural emissions, e.g. changes in the diet of livestock can reduce the production of methane without affecting production.
The GDPR does not restrict much what you can do with personal data in principle, it does require much more effort in explicitly informing the user (also for updates) and it does grand inalienable right to users on their own data.
Exploit writeup: macOS Safari sandbox escape and kernel privilege escalation
Polluting industries don't get a 'get out of jail free' card - they just die if people don't want to buy their then-expensive products anymore. So if you like they will pay the ultimate price instead.
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The Pursuit of the Well-Designed Take-Home Coding Assignment
My girlfriend was in Barranco at the time of the earthquake and had to leave the building because she and her family felt unsafe (in all the years I've known her it's the first time they actually thought it was serious enough to evacuate). Pretty scary I'd say.
I actually agree about the scaremongering coming out of the Thunberg camp, but come on, it's not like she's doing this personally. She's a figurehead for a relatively niche movement that's trying to make it big, and she can surely handle this role. It's not any harder than the things that she did engage with personally in a decision-making role - namely, the initial school protests (that she was entirely right about, btw - the Thunberg/post-millennial generation is entirely disenfranchised wrt. lots of crucial issues not just climate, and they should be very visibly upset about this!)
> changing the diet of animals

Changing our own diet is on the table too... considering we don't need to eat cattle to survive. This problem is one of overconsumption, and isn't going away by keeping our lifestyle the same.
On the other hand, maybe the have few reasons to impose tariffs on "small" countries, because small countries never produce enough to threaten the local Chinese economy.

Also, again, many small countries seem to do fine without the EU. Presumably they still trade with China.
I have a horrible feeling that, in 50 years people will be saying something similar about today.

"During the rise of <insert power here> anti<blank> was a worldwide phenomenon. Recall that few countries wanted to take in the <blank> refugees. Had <power> not started the war, they might have gotten away with exterminating all the <blank>."

Substitute for whatever you feel most applicable. A frightening number of variables fit.
Would be great if they put it high on the front page. Someone privacy-focused may be worried when he sees something privacy-oriented advertised without a business plan, which could indicate that selling data to advertisers could be the secret.
This is the experience I have on something called seroquel, in my case taken for sleep issues. It comes on more gently than propofol, but once I'm out then I'm out, and waking up in the morning is, about 90% of the time, like a time warp. Sadly, remembered dreams are exceptionally rare now.
Logo was always regarded as a "kids language" by association with schools and turtles. It was very much a niche even in the mid 1980s when I learned it. Of course it was in reality a fairly sophisticated LISP relative, but programming languages are driven by fashion rather than facts.
Yes, but at some point there's serious diminishing returns on having every layer of the organization forced to rationalize their behavior this way.

If you're an average developer at a non-startup you've likely been asked to put together a queuing system. You didn't decide to do that work, and you probably shouldn't be spending weeks trying to gather the information you might need to justify that work.

Your job wasn't to figure out 13.2% of your customers opt out of your paid reporting services because they experience slow responses and unrecorded data.

Your job is usually much closer to -

PM - Can we make this service faster? We're losing customers on this feature because it's slow.

TeamLead - Probably, we can re-implement our queuing to be quicker and more reliable.

Dev - Ok, I'll investigate [x] queuing library or service

Then you should be spending your limited time and energy on actually producing that result. The technical task is usually quite complicated (ex: here's just the table of contents for RabbitMQ https://www.rabbitmq.com/documentation.html).

The justification for the work wasn't your job to put together (although asking sane questions is usually a good call). Your justification was simply "My PM/TeamLead asked me for it".

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I sure as hell don't want every junior dev on my team going out and trying to tease out the intrinsic business value of every task I give them.

That's a waste of my resources. That doubles up the effort that I already expect my PM to be doing. That leads to disagreements about priorities when those junior devs don't have the context about why a business decision was made and either infer it incorrectly, or spend lots of time asking when it really just doesn't impact them all that much.
I've given you examples which have nothing to do with "separatism", such as extradition and kidnapping, and you choose to ignore it. In another instance, a journalist was refused a visa because he chaired a panel. That's about freedom of speech, which HKers have long enjoyed.

I'm a Hong Konger and always will be. I'm aware of what the CCP is doing and they're not at all as hands-off as you make them seem. Xi Jin Ping especially does not tolerate differences.
Oh great, I need to update then! Is the beta available to test somewhere?
Can only speak about myself, but it renders social media with pictures or videos pretty much useless. My usage dropped significantly. Check it out for yourself under accessibility settings if your have iOS.
What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today
In its glory days Byte magazine was a good 1/2 - 3/4 inch thick (and printed on very thin paper). It was also densely packed with information.
What a bizarre comment, these camps have been widely reported and nobody serious disputes their existence. But hey, here you go:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=chinese+internment+camps
The Enderby Shield
Depends on the country. In the EU many countries make available debt for growth purposes, generally supported by EU funds.
> there is no way that the entire global population is going to stop eating animals

Hard problems always feel this way. <insert slavery reference>

1. No way to stop eating animals
2. No way to stop driving/flying
3. Don't ask me to change. YOU change.

=> no change in status quo
8.0+ earthquakes are quite unique, there's on average only one 8.0+ earthquake per year. [1]

[1] https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/browse/stats.php
To make a little jump, this is like saying that child labor regulations mean that your children are actually property of the government. (not to show it is wrong, but that there is some background context needed)

Also I can still give facebook all my personal data. Simply facebook need to get my consent to distribute and sell it and I will forever have some basic control on what data fecebook has on me. The government has little to do in this.

Also (beware the strawman), as far as I know people cannot sell their own organs in the EU, is this a sign that your body belong to the state or that business models build on harvesting poor people organs are unjust?
Well, you are probably ok with mass incarceration, other countries don't oppose it. You find a way to justify imprisonment for non-violent crimes, consent to this is manufactured through media that you are exposed to. So you feel like it's acceptable in society. I'm not exposed to that media, I feel as equally awful about mass incarceration as about reeducation camps.
> because these agencies only recruited from Oxford and Cambridge

Nothing has changed. This year, Oxbridge professors were writing articles in The Guardian asking people to stop saying Venezuela failed because of "socialism", and instead to look at the other thriving South America socialist countries as examples that socialism is amazing.
Portugal got Cha by sea (through macau)
Thanks for the review of Ubiquiti in general. I'm still not sure I see a great use case, however.

If the customer can get away with a single wifi router (eg. Asus AC 5300) that will generally be easiest for them to manage (eg. easy to reset if necessary, no concern that older devices are connecting to the wrong access point). It also gives very strong download speeds (around 450Mbps for a gigabit connection).

If the customer needs multiple devices the Linksys Mesh system has worked very well. I can connect the nodes to each other wired or wirelessly, and I can get speeds in a similar range as a single router (450Mbps). The Linksys app is dead simple to setup and restart the system, and clients have even been able to apply firmware updates from their phone without issue.

I don't consider the Ubiquiti software easy to use for general consumers, so I would only install their products if I was planning to fully manage the network for them, i.e. they would have to call me in the event that the power went out and the system didn't come back up correctly or something.

Regardless of ease-of-use, I am more concerned about the speed. It seems like the Ubiquiti access point I have installed top out around 200 Mbps, so I don't even want to use them for my own house.

My guess was that the Ubiquiti devices were designed for use in an office setting, where making sure that everyone can connect is more important than enabling the fastest speed for say 5-10 devices.
Downstream: The Afterlife of American Junk
I thought it was the other way around, unfortunately, because I'd rather see cattle on pastures rather than in yards
Which is the whole point.

Either reduce your polluting ways or lose business to a company that does.
Our grandchildren are probably not going to die of climate catastrophe. However, that “probably” is sufficiently weak to justify a huge urgent response.

An asteroid with a 3% chance of wiping out hundreds of millions of people in 60 years would motivate us to deflect it. The long tail of climate outcomes is a worse threat than that hypothetical, and we’re doing precious little to prevent it.