skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a pretty great talk about how companies fail at this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd3DiRuvr8A ("SOUPS 2019 - Personal Information Leakage by Abusing the GDPR 'Right of Access'")
Selling is probably the correct word... as in "They are selling the information like facebook sold user's private messages."
> can the US government legally issue a National Security Letter to an individual employee that forces them to comply and spy for them?

I don’t have a link I can share at the moment to prove this (I’ll update this comment if I find one), but at least in the case of an employee with a security clearance, it is my understanding they can be forced to comply with a US Government order without the ability to inform anyone at their employer (including corporate legal staff). I’m not clear if this order would have to come as an NSL or via another channel.
This old white man may be a good old sexist, but is there truth to the statement "female physicists face more career obstacles than their male colleagues" ?

I was lucky enough to do my Phd with an all-female group of advisors and i m pretty sure it was beneficial for my work. There are all sorts of female-only or female-first awards, funding, prizes, scientist networks and, considering how there are less women in STEM field, conference quotas and funding quotas visibly benefited my advisors and indirectly, me. This provided opportunities for visibility for my (mediocre) work that were just not available otherwise. I 'm not in academia so not sure how this translates to hiring prospects, but AFAIK everyone is struggling, regardless of gender. I'd recommend having a female supervisor however.
The manager's schedule is built around Taylorism and the idea that if she (the manager) just figures out the exact mechanistic steps for squeezing all the productivity out of the worker, everything will operate smoothly.

Unfortunately, that's not particularly useful in knowledge work where most of the time, we're dealing with a non-deterministic relationships and creatively figuring out a problem. The expression of the symptom is the manager's schedule but the actual disease is the outdated idea of command and control as a way to manage knowledge workers.
My coworker and I feel the same way. We’re both .net devs for over 15 years each. We avoid power shell like the plague. The syntax is ugly and there is a bit too much magic in it.

As a point of comparison, we are both quite happy to use bash so we don’t have an issue with command line tools or scripting languages.

That said, after writing a Windows forms app using powershell, I had a slightly better understanding of it.
The REPL on all platforms is the same. There’s an issue with old buggy versions of cmd.exe, but that’s only on such old versions of Windows that they’re not even supported by Microsoft anymore.
> “I don't think PostgREST obviates the need to write intermediate API layers, at least if those intermediate API layers are doing anything interesting.”

I’m just pointing out that PostgREST’s own tutorials _do not_ say this or even appear to agree with it. I know experienced DBAs & engineers would follow these design ideas, but PostgREST makes it sound like your REST API can literally just be the very table it’s querying from. Hence why I qualified which use cases that might be OK for in my first comment.
> This path has failed.

Has it? Not convincing 100% of Chinese students is not automatically a failure. What about Chinese pro-Hongkong protestors?
I don't think so anymore. I wrote a book for O'Reilly in 2016 (http://flyingsquirrelbook.com/) and it was done in ASCIIDoc, which is a variant of Markdown (or perhaps vice-versa) with some custom extensions and structures.
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As far as I understand it, if they are processing EU citizens' data then they are liable for GDPR regardless of where they run their business from.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-eu-general-data-pro...
Hint: Look for the single, colored "order calling" tile on the other side of the counter, and how the upcoming order plates are set

There's a wicked smart method to the chaos.
For all of these linkages there needs to be a key that associates data from disparate services together. So what’s the key? Email address? IP addresses? Credit cards? Is it implausible to try to take steps to circumvent these firms’ abilities to connect our dots?
Python does have giant rolled-up binaries. They're called Docker images.
Hmmm. This convinces me that I should look into Tex and Latex soonish, as I can't comprehend why anyone would want exact typesetting for electronic-first documents in the age of varying screen sizes.

I dream of the day when PDF is as dead as Flash, for I have dozens of PDFs in my reading pile—which I can't reasonably get to, because I don't have a 14" tablet or a printer and can't spend days on end propped in front of the laptop just to read through them. Meanwhile, practically all of those docs are two-column walls of text alternating with rectangular pictures, nothing more complicated than Markdown, and they won't be printed in a paper journal. But the authors felt for some reason that they have to employ PDF.

I've been sermonizing for years that it'd be better to publish in HTML and, if the author feels like it, build PDF from the same source—and now it turns out that Tex is a one-track thing and I could just as well ‘print’ HTML to PDF! I gotta see what's so special about Tex that HTML doesn't look serious enough to the big boys.
For sure - that was my thinking on the alternative scenario. If that happens then that certainly changes the picture somewhat although my other points remain true around what Grammarly would decide to do with that content I would say!
Complete lack of zoning can suck too. What if I build a chicken farm next to a nice neighborhood and make it unlivable due to smell?
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...gets the popcorn
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Am I missing something? Why does said customer just self host the open source software and purchase support. 90% of the sensitive issues will be solved
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It varies and you can't always find the same price. The last price I paid for Nanos on Amazon was 5 for $17. Aliexpress is cheaper than that (that's where they're usually under $3), but I can't always wait that long.

My bad: forgot we were talking 32U4. Here's a link for $2.70: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32846843498.html?src=google&...
So, they’re publishing something that could pass peer review by someone with no background in the field because...?
The more I know about cryptos, the more I remain skeptical. The only people I know that uses cryptos seriously are acquaintancies from latin america, and none of them for storing value, with the exception of Venezuelans. Not even argentinians, that just buy as many dollars they can.

IMO this is a thread worth reading on this topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/dj2jro/the_large...
Ahaha, I remember when I studied database systems and concepts once I had a vivid dream that I was inside a database or even like a database myself, and I saw visually how indexes were working - sort of 3D dynamic representation of pictures in the book I read.
afaik Dropbox will use local connection. Yes it will also upload the file to their cloud but that's how it works...

Also check Syncthing. They have a very nice interface that skips the cloud...
catkin packages are just CMake projects, and you can use find_package to discover them without making your module into a catkin package. I've written a few drivers this way without any problems (using existing message definitions.) For example: https://bitbucket.org/richmattes/si7021-sensor/src/master/CM...

Lack of QOS (and many other things) are definitely a drawback of ROS. ROS 2 is built on top of DDS, which replaces ROS 1's bespoke messaging/transport and has a robust set of tune-able QOS parameters.
It's weird how people are not understanding this: perhaps it's the way you phrased it. Or perhaps you missed to mention the core part from the article: the experiment was only run "for a few hours". This means that many a DNS record (well, most) with TTL greater than the experiment duration would not show up in the data.

FWIW, I've learned in the past that while there are plenty of people who claim to want communication to be as succint as possible, majority are unable to understand when somebody is really terse (while still saying exactly enough). I've learned to follow up such a terse statement with examples and longer explanations for the majority that does not get it.

But maybe it's just that people don't expect the mathematics-level precision on the internet :)
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That the public would have that 2.5B is a false assumption even if it is a complete tax write off for Apple. The money was already theirs for better or worse.
>In a move likely to attract criticism, a peer-reviewed journal

Literally the first sentence of the article.
His original presentation was heavily debated on Twitter and other places. Now that a revised version is published, everyone will be able to publish rebuttals in various (peer-reviewed) journals. That's how it's supposed to work.
In my head, 19+25+28 becomes:

20 + 25 + 30 - 3 = 72

Works well with multiplication too.

12 * 13 = 10 * 13 + 2 * 13 = 130 + 26 = 156.

or

19 * 15 = 20 * 15 - 15 = (10 * 15) * 2 - 15 = 285

There's no simple rule I know for multiplying by 19, but for 20 you just add a zero and double it. It's all about transforming the numbers into ones that are easier to work with in your head, and just accounting for your transformations at the end. Even if you forget to account for your padding, you're still in the right ballpark and have a rough idea of what the answer should be near.
I don't believe the right to be forgotten here is at all relevant. It only covers the indexing of data. For example if I commit a crime a media organisation will write a story about it, google will index it, after a number of years I have the right to ask google to unlink those stories, however I don't believe it covers removal of the original story.

Certainly it's hard to believe some of this would be completely compatible with the GDPR. Perhaps you could make the argument that there is a legitimate business need to prevent fraud but from what's included in the article the data goes far beyond what anyone would consider minimal.
Australia will never have one. Its institutions are designed to ensure that.
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There is a difference between blaming someone for the actions of a government over which they have little control, and suggesting that it’s possible to work toward a better system. Nobody blamed the Civil Rights Movement for segregation; though they lived in a time when Jim Crow was law, they did all they could to defeat it.

I’d also suggest there’s a difference between acceptance of bad government action, even if you don’t or can’t actively oppose it, and active defense of such action.
The Postgres support of Python is usually way overhyped. I’ve done a lot of crazy things with it, like even compiling my own extension modules using Postgres C libraries to write Python native functions that vectorized business logic over columns like the way numpy works.

It’s extremely hard to manage the Python environment itself with Postgres, as Postgres has to be compiled with it. If you’re working on scientific or analytics applications where you are spinning up a new conda environment all the time, adding & changing package dependencies, etc., and you need to keep your external-to-database Python app logic synchronized with the internal-to-database Python, it’s virtually unusable.

Imagine needing to ship new versions of an in-house machine learning library into the database, test it, update that library’s own dependencies inside the database’s python, etc. It becomes a crazy packaging nightmare very fast.

The plpython extension is basically just a cute toy. Occasionally useful or a small script or single transformation that needs Python standard library functions, but anything beyond that and it becomes very unscalable & unmaintainable very fast.
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This looks very similar to Trilium Notes [0] which I use.

[0]: https://github.com/zadam/trilium
Data from Google Pay and Apple Pay must be extremely valuable as it links your user account to actual physical purchases - expensive to fake those en masse.
nice question, but this implies AI would suffer human emotions.
if it knew it would be destroyed, it might act. but likely not out of 'fear' >.>
i sure hope we don't make robots and AI who can be depressed and suffer such negative emotions :D acting all rash because they are feeling overwhelmed :'D wtf
We started using docker and kubernetes not long ago.
Every deployement in production must have a release number as a tag.
If one element of our environment need a rollback, I redeploy an old image on kubernetes. Its very fast, only a few seconds to rollback and you can do rolling updates to avoid downtime.
> at triple to quadruple the bandwidth at the cost of 5-10 ns higher load-to-use

You need to make full use of the bandwidth for this to be an overall win.
Thank you for sharing your experiences. It's great to hear about good experiences.
How did you submit your government ID securely? Email?
If you do the same with `.eye`, instead of empty eye holes you see closed eyelids.

So apparently there's even more work than initially meets the eye.
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This is approaching weird semantic questions: what is non-peer-reviewed content in a peer-reviewed journal? I mean, normally the answer would be “Sponsored advertising” but I don’t think Strumia is paying them.

And this isn’t how it’s supposed to work. Substandard papers don’t get published. Papers from people with no grounding in the subject matter don’t get the big journals. The debate is between legitimate scholars and studies, there’s no evidence this paper passes either bar.

This isn’t politics, this is science. You don’t just publish your opinion and shout “Debate me!”
I finished an MBA at UNC in 2005, right as they aggressively partnered and launched an online MBA using the same branding.

I got what I wanted from the degree, but it felt like the new product damaged the brand of the full time program.
I guess I don't see any way a dockless bike/scooter rental scheme can be compatible with privacy. Their need to know where available bikes are, and to be able to detect thefts makes it hard to imagine they could work without GPS tracking.

And as soon as you know who rented what bike when, and where each bike went, you're going to start knowing customers' homes, workplaces and places of worship.

Although the government and uber knowing this data is less private than uber alone knowing, we all know uber doesn't give a shit about customer privacy. Personally I'd be much more worried about uber having the data in the first place than about the government also having the data.
Quite possibly a composite key comprising name, gender, age and locale.

"87% of the U.S. population is uniquely identified by date of birth, gender, postal code." [0]

[0] https://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.p...
I am always concerned by the idea that universities simply exist to hand out education. Most of the science, software, technology, etc. that is being used by all these companies with people obsessed with disrupting education has been developed, in part, by research laboratories at universities. It sort of feels like throwing the baby out with the bath water. I always wonder how much the "disrupter" knows about the university when they ignore all the things universities do besides hand out undergraduate degrees.
The author's absolutely earnt the right to call themselves a CSS expert on their personal site, I had no idea CSS could do something like this!
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It can also imply syncing over an end to end encrypted (and verified, using QR codes at setup) channel between the devices being synchronised. I believe this is what signal does, for example.
A binary score is still a score.
4 day work week!
Do you have any suggestions as to what Western companies can do to prevent intellectual property theft and the Chinese government trying to pressure them into censoring non-Chinese citizens?

Because short of some effective alternatives, the Chinese government isn't really giving the West much of a choice here.
I was on board with this, but doesn't more or less all of this apply to traditional hotels just as much as AirBnB? I don't make a habit of checking my hotel room for hidden perv-o-cams but how often are the housekeeping staff checking inside light fixtures, above wardrobes, etc? Guess I've got one more thing to worry about, so uh, thanks?
You do not deserve to be downvoted. As a developer, I wholeheartedly agree with you (anyone remember Safari's super buggy indexed DB implementation?!)
Calling these things algebraic structures might help you win some confidence, but the communities which talk about algebraic structures aren't going to be helpful for learning how to program with these things. Mathematicians love algebraic structures (and non-algebraic ones).

The advantage really plays out more with the first-order structures, too. Things like monoid, semiring, torsor, group. You also have nice ones in more standard data structures: a balanced tree is an excellent example of a structure where the laws exist to cut out unbalanced trees.

In my opinion, there are two things to study here:

First, the practice of thinking about abstract structures that apply to concrete data. For this, the practice of thinking of there being a type (or multiple interrelated ones) which offers some set of "constructors" which create the type or augment existing values (gluing new items into a tree, merging two trees, etc) and some set of "laws" for which all values of that type must uphold.

It turns out that you can do a lot of analysis of the behavior of these structures in the abstract and then apply it wholesale throughout programs. Many concrete values you work with are the combination of multiple structures in natural ways. Sometimes you can replace whole APIs with hundreds of calls, each named uniquely to this implementation of this type, with just a small set of nicely orthogonal methods with completely standard names.

Second, the use of higher order structures like Functor, Applicative, Monad. These get a LOT of airtime because they're both challenging and offer important capabilities. But they're also in a lot of senses their own realm of study. Not only are they developed very uniquely in programming communities (as opposed to what you'll find if you read about the category theoretic definitions) but they are also "higher order" in that they involve functions between types.

This higher-order nature both makes their own equations much more complex, but it also means that to see them applying (in languages other than Haskell and its ilk where purity drives this) you have to get really good at seeing languages in an abstract fashion. It's a great skill to develop, but ramps up the difficulty greatly.

Master the "first order" ones first. Master concrete, interesting types like Either, Maybe, List (as a source of non-determinism) first. Then come back and see if you can see how the skills you develop with the "first order" structures apply to these higher order, computationally minded types.
Examples that I've seen with GDPR requests are:

* Scan of ID

* WebID - video call where they take screenshots of ID and your face

* Cookie - kind of makes sense since 3rd party web trackers Quantcast rely on cookies to identify
I find it so ironic how much convergence US enterprises got with Chinese business models now.

In China, all and every large company is a real estate company. Baidu has real estate, Tencent has real estate, Ping An has real estate. Pretty much any large conglomerate is.

It is almost scary to see how much businesses in China are, in reality, just front covers for their real estate investments operation.

It remind me a bit the situation in mid-200X America, when every big company was a bank in disguise
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https://archive.nanog.org/meetings/nanog50/presentations/Tue...
Welcome to the wonderfully paradoxical task of organizing and controlling secret services and jurisdictions in an otherwise democratic state.

Most countries do it by subordinating secret agencies to a military division of sorts, wherein martial courts and security access is already structural. Others choose a more 'civilian' approach subordinated to a parallel chain of command within the citizen government/legislation/judiciary — closer to police, interior dpt / homeland security, etc. (in such cases, army intelligence is usually quite distinct from civilian surveillance).

Which approach is favored historically by a country typically depends on pre-existing constitutional models and principles — notably how the army features relatively to the ultimate civilian chain of command, and how the latter is accountable to the (sovereign) public in the event of treason.

None of this applies in authoritarian regimes where the ruling caste or figure(s) usually answer to no principle (no courts for them, only 'advisors' for they sit above the law) and secret service is almost always directly answering to them, as part of the active coercion of the people (fear of the "enemy within", etc).
Ever since the China attack in 2010 when Google pulled out of China, Google has prohibited access to user data from employees in China. They gave since expanded to a more general geographic blocking system.

I assume Gitlab lacks the sophistication to do this split of user data access vs other business operations.

Gitlab runs an open source company, so I don't understand why they are so concerned about China and Russia. Is it for anonymous/confidential customers?
With current Bitcoin volatility it's crazy to store money with it. I really love tech which allows me to remember passphrase and having all money locked inside my brain, so I would certainly use it if it weren't so volatile.