skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The law applies to your non-EU company when you target EU citizens and people currently physically in the EU. E.g. if you sell goods and offer shipping to the EU, GDPR applies to you. If you do not ship to the EU and do not offer services to EU residents, GDPR doesn't apply to you.

There are some areas in need of examples:

For your restaurant in Bangkok that takes a reservation from the EU: not covered by the GDPR because they don't target EU residents, that a resident used their reservation page is incidental and an exception.

For some purely-online service, if you somehow target world-wide or all speakers of an official EU language, GDPR applies. That means your french language online newspaper in New Orleans is affected, if they have an international section. If it is chinese language, you are fine. Geoblocking helps.
That’s exactly what rule of law is about. A respect for even small technicalities.
Policies have a habit of changing over time.
Metaphors We Live By - George Lakoff, Mark Johnson

It's a linguistics focused book that suggests people use metaphor to understand abstract constructs. It also helped me understand people, conversation, and intent in an especially eye opening way.
Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged
Housing prices are barely correlated with incomes in a meaningful way across cities, let alone caused by them. See [1]. The #1 determinant of housing prices is supply, which is usually an issue of regulation, not of local ability to pay rent/mortgage. There's not much consensus on this topic among economists since there are so many confounding factors - the best paper I've seen so far is [2] which finds that income increases via minimum wage hikes might increase rents anywhere from a quarter to a half of the wage increase, absent other factors.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/07/heres-the-share-of-income-th...

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3282661
The means by which facebook would alter your voting decisions would be by showing you targeted content that it wants to use to sway your opinion, or by letting advertisers do that for money. Why would you expect a Chinese government associated entity to not do the same, given they have a general, vague vested interest in discord among foreign nations?
Forward looking:

Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Historical:

The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

General:

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
Twitter Just Got Hacked: I Still Think We Need More Hackers
Or use electrostatic energy to pull the hair away before cutting. But I think vacuuming would work best.
How do you know they really know their stuff? Is it because they used a lot of words you're not typically familiar with? It's straight out of the "blind them with bullshit" playbook and the modus operandi for a lot of HN comments these days.

OP is concerned about extra cable length that is needed with this approach (completely unfounded), drops a few attentuation loss over distance calculations, but really, the practical engineer says: "we'll have only as many winds of fiber per meter as is neccessary"
Magnesium is used by the body to cope with stress.

I've noticed in the past, that when I've been under a ton of stress, I drink coffee, soda, ruminate a ton, and things get worse, much worse.

I've started taking magnesium l-threonate the past few months and it's literally made me a better person. Thoughts come and go. The rumination, the "voices" are much less.

One scoop, three times a day during stressful periods (166mg of elemental magnesium).

The only other solution that's had this profound of an affect on me was Lexapro, but it had too many side effects.

I've done years of therapy but nothing ever seemed to stick. But the l-threonate, the diminished anxiety, those affects seem to stick. Better than any therapy session I've had.

I'll give this much more time to see how it plays out. But I have had the thought wondering if my mental anxiousness and depression all of these years was just a mineral deficiency.

Not that I wouldn't have gotten really sad or ruminated, but that it didn't have to be so bad. I was stressed. I needed lots of magnesium. I definitely was not getting it.
You could turn it into a startup

There's definitely some reliable way to detect tissue (like ears) between the blades (capacitance?) so that a robot never cuts someone's ears off
The Crisis of the Modern World and The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times by René Guénon.
After hours for who?
Could Twitter implement something like signed messages?
Mainly I don't like that the term is just used to sell stuff, like books, now. The entire idea can be encapsulated in two words: deep work.
> I think that's how I discovered that mental context switching is a real thing

You had to go to that level to understand that? I am glad you did realize it, but I am surprised it was that late in your career.
That would be ideal but it’s not going to happen.
The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' - Sidney Dekker

He hes a short review of his book on YouTube in 5 parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw3SwEXc3PU
This made my day. Great video. incredible project, and funny too.

Spoiler - he gets a robotically perfect mullet because the scissors can reach the lower neck line.
It is saying those things are white, when they aren't exclusive to western culture at all, thereby erasing others' identity.
One rep does password resets for scores of high value accounts?
Apple’s ARM-based Macs will be more like iPhones than ever before
The way I got started with Linux, even in the early 2000s, was blowing away the Windows install on my laptop and installing Ubuntu. Out of the box everything worked (but the laptop was ancient and didn't have wifi, so that didn't have the opportunity to break) and besides the weird problems with alsa and xorg that were endemic to those days, I had no issues.

A few months ago I tried to install FreeBSD on a spare 5+yr old laptop. FreeBSD doesn't show boot messages (display goes all wonky) and it can't detect half the hardware (network, disks, others). Seems like it's a decade or two behind hardware support on Linux.

Is there a vendor that sells good FreeBSD desktop-enabled systems, i.e. system76 for Linux? I'm now at a point that I'm more than willing to jump into using a BSD desktop, I just want something that works. Alternatively, is there a FreeBSD-based OS that is Ubuntu-like - includes a bunch of drivers and gives me a decent desktop out of the box?

(also, as an aside, the fact that the bus factor of FreeBSD's wifi stack seems like it's 1 reminds me of libinput on Linux.)
When I am choosing which information I show and how exactly it is framed, whether hints of opposing information existing are shown or not, it is still pretty easy to lead you to my opinion.

It is just less apparent that is is going on. When you know what my opinion is, then you was warned.
Yes to the "defect" thought. Learning about Karpman's triangle[0] helped me understand this. In conflict, people flit between three identities: the villain who tries to force their way, the hero who tries to save the situation, and the victim who accepts loss and points out their difficulties. And everyone's trying to be the victim because that's who ultimately gets their way, through manipulating the "don't kick someone when they're down" mentality. Fascinating stuff, and now that I've seen it I just can't unsee it almost everywhere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpman_drama_triangle
This is a beautifully written article with devastating implications. I have no idea if it’s correct.

My summary: psychiatrists have been orchestrating a campaign of disinformation aimed to remove the stigma of mental illness from our culture, but it appears they may have made the stigma worse.
गिंबल-स्टाइल कैमरा के साथ विवो की X50 श्रृंखला अंतरराष्ट्रीय स्तर पर लॉन्च हुई
The Things They Carried by O’Brian - it’s ostensibly a war book but is nothing about war. It’s about empathy. The world, unfortunately, mostly operates without empathy. Knowing that helps to understand various actions people take.
We are concerned about a troubling trend
It does use a vacuum.
The recommended routine from the bodyweightfitness subreddit is aptly named: https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommend...
I had a friend who worked for 15 years as a public defender. I asked her how she dealt with cases where it was completely obvious that her client was guilty. Her answer (paraphrased): we have a system of justice that requires that there is a process to locking someone up, or even just fining them. That process needs to be followed all the time, whether the person is "obviously guilty" or not. My job in those cases was to make sure that the prosecution, and the court system, dotted all their i's, crossed all their t's before rendering a judgement on my client. I wasn't trying to keep them out of prison, I was trying to make sure that only people who deserve to be there actually end up there.
I'll second "The Dictator's Handbook". And if anyone is thinking, "I don't need this, I don't have any plans to become a dictator", you're thinking just like I was thinking a few years ago. When finally I read it, I kicked myself for passing on such a great book because of its silly name. This book does indeed change the way you understand the world (Small caveat: the authors stretch their theory to cover some cases such as corporate governance. That part felt quite weak to me. You can just ignore it. The rest of the book more than makes up for this).

And here's another one that's somewhat similar: "Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook". The title is not just a joke, unfortunately. Some coups were indeed carried out following the advice in this book (which was obviously not the author's intention, but life sometimes takes unexpected turns). The second edition of this book was published in 2015, just one year before the attempted coup in Turkey. Armed with the knowledge from this book, you can go and analyze what happened in Turkey and it's going to make a lot of sense.
Google’s Cookie Fight Will Shape Future of Digital Advertising
As another option, Compose is a ML tool for labeling data. It structures the labeling process and integrates easily with Featuretools which automates feature engineering. Definitely worth checking out!

[1] https://github.com/FeatureLabs/compose
[2] https://github.com/FeatureLabs/featuretools
Anyone who speaks of psychological issues with absolute conviction is wrong. Psychological processes and coping mechanisms are affected by hormones, neurochemicals, and lifestyle. Hormones, neurochemicals, and lifestyle are affected by psychological processes and coping mechanisms.

While drugs aren't a panacea, they can help many with fixing psychological processes that are messed up.
I actually think this isn't that far from a legit product. It is just an early prototype, the approach seems to be totally working, current problems pretty easy to fix, so it kind of makes me surprised cheap robotic barbershops aren't a thing yet.

(Attempts into jokes and acting in this video are painfully lame, though, it is much better when he just focuses on description of the actual project.)
I'm working on it now, but Behave by Robert Sapolsky has been fantastic so far. All about evolutionary biology and how it influences behavior/psychology.
48 Laws of Power

The Power Broker

History of Western Philosophy
In my opinion:

If you cannot communicate effectively with your customers it is your fault, not the customer's.

The customer is always right in the sense that they are the only ones that know what they want, like and don't like. Either you can figure that out correctly or you can't. That is a very important part of your job.

Whether you want to deliver what your customers want is a whole other question. You don't have to deliver things you haven't agreed to.

Basically, I think the author of this post has a poor perspective, and another one might work much better for all involved.
Let's hope it goes better than this:

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/automatic-business/
Yes but you can mitigate the risk by limiting the rate at which any rep can perform security-impacting operations such as password reset, and by denoting high value accounts as requiring additional manual approval.
I'd love to hear his opinion on how we're handling Covid19. Rip.
Debt: The first 5000 years

And then I have not yet read it myself, although I have it on the shelf, but others recommended it for the exact same question as yours:

Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky
Aren't most PRNs made deterministically? LCGs can have huge cycle times and can produce statistically sound random numbers.

I had to look it up and Wikipedia has this statement a bit differently. This one makes Neumann sound funny because his Mid-Square method is a terrible PRN generator.
How do podcasts help? I skip every ad on every podcast I listen to. I click the +30s button a few times. Not sure how any podcasts make money. I get people are paying for ads. I'm curious if there is any proof they work. podcasts are to spoken word as tivo was to TV, in both one killer feature was skipping the ads.
Most people take doctors seriously, but "Alphas" do exactly the same thing to doctors and lawyers and other professionals that they do to programmers and tech support etc.
Yeah, I'm trying to work on-device with Apple devices (Mac and iOS, principally).

That's not-so-simple. The VLAN folks have written some excellent SDKs for their VLCKit engine, but it is quite "heavy." I've also messed around with ffmpeg, but that's not much lighter, and doesn't easily work on iOS.

Another consideration for iOS is battery use. Video tends to be a bit "piggy," when it comes to power usage.

I am sort of waiting to see who comes out of the scrum. Video is just too damn important to be allowed to remain the rather chaotic mess it's in now.
>If you're a US entity you can freely store EU data on US servers entirely without EU permission or consent, and do anything with it that you want to (within US law), so long as you don't operate within the EU.

No, this was what was invalidated; Privacy Shield enabled this behavior

>The EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks were designed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission and Swiss Administration to provide companies on both sides of the Atlantic with a mechanism to comply with data protection requirements when transferring personal data from the European Union and Switzerland to the United States in support of transatlantic commerce. [1]

With Privacy Shield being invalidated, and nothing else to currently take its place, EU data will technically have to sit within EU (as I understand it). Enforcement of this law will take sometime and won't impact a little startup that's breaking all sorts of rules, as you won't have enough valuable assets for a legal team to go after.

If you are a large multi-national corporation though this is trouble..especially if you aren't using informed consent to notify EU users on what's happening with their data.

>Despite the invalidations made by the judgment, absolutely "necessary" data flows can continue to flow under Article 49 of the GDPR. Any situation where users want their data to flow abroad is still legal, as this can be based on the informed consent of the user, which can be withdrawn at any time. Equally the law allows data flows for what is "necessary" to fulfil a contract. [2]

[1] https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome

[2] https://noyb.eu/en/cjeu
Rando.js becomes cryptographically secure in latest version release
"Charlie is the designer of P2P!!" should be on a shirt.
> A lot of candidates come in with their environments just very poorly configured, run into weird dependency errors, mismatched installed versions, no linting or syntax highlighting set up in their editor because they don't actually ever code on their personal computer, etc.

Isn't that a useful way to filter out candidates that you don't want to hire? Presumably they know in advance what kind of code you're going to ask them to write, so they have time to set things up beforehand.
The Origins of Political Order: From prehuman times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Political_Ord...

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York By Robert Caro

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Broker
Be careful about doing too much pushing without pulling, though. The bodyweightfitness subreddit is full of people asking about doing a high number of pushups daily and people always warn about imbalances, shoulder impingement, etc.
I feel we're going to get a barrage of comments....

I was wondering if folks could also mention--in 1-sentence--what they learned from each book. Why was the book helpful in understanding the world?

I think this would make comments more interesting.
Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Taleb

Letters from a Stoic - Seneca

The Bible

Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche

Psychological Types - Carl Jung
I agree. This was a long boring joke with an anti-climactic punchline. This guy sucks at handling his boss and his client. I've done agency work for over a decade now. I've worked with people like this and they're annoying.
Go-to-market strategy for startups: guide + template
As a counterpoint, I didn't care for the project itself so much and he had me cracking at the robot jokes.
Russian Hackers Exposed Trying to Steal Covid-19 Vaccine Research
TLDR; we use 4g
#1: "Western Esotericism: a guide for the perplexed"

You just wouldn't believe it.
Extremely good scholarship.

In the same vein,
"Music, science and natural magic in 17th century England" (about the birth of the Royal Society)
Wow, amazing work - the skillset includes everything from machining parts (Using a plasma cutter) to custom 3D software (for simulating and debugging).
I miss the term neurosis. It seems like we're taking another step on Pinker's Euphemism Treadmill.
I just bought a power cage for the garage of my new house, no problem.

Already had the weights, though.
In Tcl everything is a string. If you work with numbers for instance it's quite slow. Or maybe loop or set operations are slow. Dunno. Compare these two:

Lua https://p.thorsen.pm/5ecb8ce026ab
Tcl https://p.thorsen.pm/ee8a792acd52

Results:

Lua 5.2: 0m0,027s
LuaJIT 2.1: 0m0,016s
Tcl 8.6: 0m0,630s

I'd pick Lua over Tcl any day.
Thank you. I have been looking at Scribus
Will this have implications for Chinese and Russian services as well? Will the EU go fully local?
What is your point? Yes, HackerNews readers, including you and me, bear extra responsibility.
Was thinking about that. So one scenario, that depends on an API end-point for the internal tool, would immediately and quietly takeover and change account passwords for targetted accounts. After that, start messages from individual accounts. While security is chasing around individual incidents it would take them a while to realize the breach is more systemic. That's probably when they threw the kill switch for verified accounts.
See also "Machine with Concrete", by Arthur Ganson
https://www.arthurganson.com/concrete-1
This is my default understanding of all requirements. Listen to your customers, but don't do what they ask for.
Assuming the query [10^100 planck lengths to lightyears] is a correct interpretation of the question, a tooth on the first gear would need to move ~10^49 light years (well, in a circle) before a tooth on the last gear moved 1 Planck length.

I am less familiar with arc-Plancks, but I assume that is sufficient to say "the last gear doesn't move".
Open it up to all legal resident of a country, not just citizens, and you avoid this problem. The gulf state / Singapore two-tiers model begets these things.
“I was working remotely at a coffee shop and my computer was swiped while I went to the toilet“ isn’t even plausible given take-out only as well...
The problem I have with FB and to a lesser extent, IG is that you can't get away from politics. The issue with that is that in addition to data scraping, it opens users up to political manipulation (i.e., vote hacking).

How is it on TikTok? I'm not an avid user and never got hooked. My impression is that it's just dumb dance videos.
The evidence is that it is a hard problem that is not solved. No amount of people who can't do the task demonstrate the existence of experts who can. Google and Microsoft have shown us examples of failing at simple HR tasks for years or decades with budgets for HR that dwarf a small companies entire payroll.

What virtually every attempt shows is that it is better to hire people who are roughly qualified and see what happens, managing the results instead of filtering. Having an HR strategy for hiring leads to creating biases (i.e. requirements based on your current work force) that gets you a group of overly similar and therefore collectively incompetent work force.
Another option is that the BTC was nothing but proof that they compromised those accounts. They had full access to the compromised accounts including any private messages. Now there is public proof that they compromised those accounts and a BTC account they can send funds from to prove it is the same group. This allows them to sell those private DMs along with proof of authenticity.
Supposedly my credit card company works this way (Chase), though you have to opt in to it when you sign up for two factor authentication. Sprint has the same thing, where they can’t get to anything on my account without passing two measures.

I can’t verify this 100% unfortunately but they are notable because of how rare it is
That's not what the EU guideline says above. See the Manitoba example
Myself and a few colleagues attended the _absolutely packed_ presentation the Snorkel folks did at ODSC in Boston last year and came away so convinced by this approach that we actually constructed our interns summer project around using Snorkel for multi-label classification on complex very domain specific financial documents. The project was successful and both us and our intern were very happy.

The main lessons learned from this exercise helped us identify where our efforts would be shifted when using Snorkel. Of course there's never any free lunch, but Snorkel has what I believe to be a very reasonable and effective trade off. Snorkel provides both a huge decrease in overall costs, but critically it shifts costs towards the front of the development process. Writing a good set of labeling functions is a non-trivial piece of work. It requires the data scientist to have deep domain experience or a few fairly large blocks of time collaborating with and learning from a business user that is a already a domain expert. It has the upside though of forcing the data scientist to get a solid foundation of this domain knowledge, which I feel often times is underestimated in many ML projects.

Anyways, congrats to the team! Looking forward to checking out your future work.
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