skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Taxes may be too high, but why do they deserve an exemption? We all gotta pay for the snow plow.
Well in reality it applies if the US wants to enforce such judgments.
If myself, as the king of Monaco, I declare a law that says that US companies should pay a tax to pay for air that transited through Monaco (and hence was cleaned by Monaco's trees), it's perfectly valid.
There's currently no equivalent of a class action suit under EU law, IIRC. Some jurisdictions within the EU have something equivalent, but there's nothing Union-wide. I vaguely recall some movement by the Commission to establish something like that though a few years back, but I don't recall where it went.
The issue isn't what particular actors think to justify their beliefs, but whether society-wide definitions are justified. This is a practical matter.

As I said initially: if you stick to describing actions, rather than intents or consequences, the difficulty of defining things is much easier.

Your example is also illustrating my point perfectly. Under my system, Nelson Mandela would not be a terrorist or a freedom fighter, he would be a man who engaged in both (separately) terroristic acts and freedom-fighting acts. That seems far less controversial of a statement to me.
>And when you do request them to remove the same, they ask you to provide ID proof.

On the other hand, imagine one day you try to log in to your Twitter/Facebook/whatever-the next-big-thing-is and you can't, because the company has deleted all your data upon your request. You didn't make that request though. Someone else did it, claiming to be you.

It gets even worse when you realize that people can request all the data the company has collected of themselves. What happens when somebody impersonates you and requests all of your data?

You need to have some kind of verification method that leads back to a real identity. Otherwise this can be massively abused. I doubt that even asking for a real ID is enough.
But the rest of Europe stood around, slack-jawed, while things spiraled out of control in Italy. I live in a different European country, and the lead-up to the COVID crisis was like watching a someone being chased down by a snail -- the only reason the snail caught them was because they didn't bother to move out of the way. For example, people were regularly traipsing off to the Italy for vacation up until the point when things started to spin out of control and they shut the country down.
The Silicon Factor (1980) [video]
Unless the payment processor is in the EU, the courts would have no jurisdiction.
Until the next developer/sysadmin comes along and update the bucket permissions to be able to send backups from yet another production system. :D
I think this is not the scenario the parent poster refers to (that is, "three letters agency attack").

The typical scenario is: dev brings the laptop out of home -> laptop is stolen. In this case, encryption at rest spares the owner's sensitive information.

Actually, I personally consider any machine at risk even if at home, as burglary is not to so far fetched to be considered unlikely.
Correct. I'd edit it if I could :)
Not to be confused with Oak [0], the precursor of the Java programming language.

[0]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_(programming_language)
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They then can't make business with European publishers or show ads for European businesses as those are liable. And showing ads for things not available in Europe isn't really bringing revenue from an European audience ...
I disagree. Restoring quickly to a known-good state is a crucial aspect of shutting down an attack after the intrusion is detected. If you can't get the attacker out of the system, they will have more opportunity to exfiltrate data.
Ok but he didn't subscribe on that website.
If you make noise they will cut you off and disregard you as a bad actor on their marketplace
Aside, the (2016) tag added here is incorrect; the original article was from 2016, the suppression of it (which is the story) is from a few days ago.
I won't be surprised if this ends up solved in low-tech way - just mine and smelt 50 tons of iron/nickel and then build 1MWh Edison battery.
Dimash does an amazing version too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5zMupUOgQo
The ANC engaged in blowing up a bar full of civilians.

Was that an act of terrorism or an act of freedom fighting?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban_beach-front_bombing
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If it’s trivial to dump password hashes, you’re probably already left with zero factors.
> it’s like creating an alternative to a bar with no alcohol

In many muslim countries in the world there are plenty of places like this because alcohol just isn't a thing.
For most, you can simply ignore it since it doesn't apply anyways
You've just switched to a totally different discussion. I don't agree with it either, because I see everyone around me in home-office, not even developers just workers in a normal corporate environment, that can definitely use that extra performance. But that wasn't the point being discussed.
What's wrong with you people downvoting answers that merely give an opposing view in a non-condescending way. Jeez, this site should remove those buttons.
Argon2 is the obvious contender
They pay taxes in the UK and we still have functioning communities and community groups.
Geochemistry and isotope ratios.
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At least I think we agree the whole solve the problem by nudging consumers personal choices but otherise slap them silly when they make or worse previously made what or now bad decisions is kinda terrible. See imposing a stiff carbon tax on someone filling up their 15 year old car.

The size of needed changes and consumers limited agency makes anything but coordinated society wide action a worthless endeavor.
This part: https://day8.github.io/re-frame/a-loop/#the-data-loop The analogy with the water cycle is not helpful at all to me.

My background: I have several years of Clojure(script) experience, and used various other cljs frameworks before trying re-frame, so my view is probably biased.
Do other non-profits pay taxes (eg food banks)? Do mosques and temples also pay tax?
Lusha in NY does this too except they claim the deletion magically happened automatically because of "algorithms".

I'd made a subject access request because they'd sold my personal email address linked to my business position to random spammers. That association didn't exist in any legitimately accessible data, only in the linkedin data breach.
Sure, if I ever do, I will let you know! I've bookmarked this comment.
I wonder about future generations who will see their then-average temperatures as the new normal. There will be people complaining: “do you really want colder Winters?”
Heh, it's like first generation machine learning.
edit: got it wrong as per below comment
It seems like you aren't really reading my comments, because as I have said a few times now, this would clearly be an act of terrorism.

If your next question will be, "Is the ANC then a terrorist organization?" I refer you to my previous comment where I said we should avoid labeling nouns, but instead label actions.
I'm not disagreeing with having the ability to restore your data - plainly that's vital to business continuity.

My point is that it's not the only consideration.
From your own link:

> If we assume that case fatality rate among individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 is 0.3% in the general population — a mid-range guess from my Diamond Princess analysis — and that 1% of the U.S. population gets infected (about 3.3 million people), this would translate to about 10,000 deaths

That was the only point estimate he made in that piece, so it seems quite fair to hold him to it. It wasn't being presented as a lower bound, but as a reasonable middle ground.
Thanks for the replies. I really wasn't aware of the behavior of let here and did indeed learn something. The "buggy" code really does work.

It's important to note that this is not just due to scoping but that a regular for loop apparently really makes copies of its environment for each iteration, as ylyn described[1].

You can demonstrate this as follows:

const objs = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) { // i++ seems to be executed after copying but before execution of the loop body.
objs.push({
getI() {return i},
add10() {i += 10}
});
}

// each object gets a copy of i from its respective iteration:
console.info(objs[0].getI(), objs[1].getI(), objs[2].getI()); // prints 0 1 2

// the copies can be modified independently:
objs[0].add10();
objs[2].add10();
console.info(objs[0].getI(), objs[1].getI(), objs[2].getI()); // prints 10 1 12

I'm not sure I like this design, to be honest. This is an awfully complex special case hidden in something as mundane-looking as a regular for loop.

Seems to me, this can make understanding the general principles behind scopes and environments harder at the expense of making a particular special case more convenient.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23955809
This might also have the desired effect. Increasing the price of a product would make it less desirable. Unless those companies have enough power to lobby and keep adjusting regulations in their favor (hidden subsidies, additional roadblocks for competitors, etc.).
> Ceteris paribus, it's 'terrorism' when you think it's 'evil', and it's freedom fighting' when you think it’s 'good'

Is “good terrorism” impossible? What if the year is 1942 and you are trying to blow up a Nazi party meeting?
Electronic signatures tied to your ID.

Don't delete instantly but after X days. Notify owner immediately.

Problem solved.
Why are you interpreting it that way?

Labeling actions is exactly what I did.

The acton was "blowing up a bar full of civilians".

You labelled that action as 'terrorism'.
The ANC labelled that action as 'freedom fighting'.
Hmm, this looks realy interesting. As there are experts in any field here in HN, could this become a mitigation solution for the phosphates problem?
Open-endedness: The last grand challenge (2017)
> so actual Flutter is just Google NIH syndrome

I'm not sure I agree with this assessment but even if this were true I still think it's a good thing that we have an open-source alternative to Qt considering the recent drama about its licensing [1].

[1] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.h...
Is it though?

Renewables that are popular now, like solar and wind, are weather dependent, which means the grid needs to handle variable input, which it's not designed to do and would need major fixing. Also means you need to store the energy for when it's not abundant, Germany does this by pumping water into mountain lakes to produce hydro on demand, but they've run out of lakes, so you need batteries. Batteries of a grid-size magnitude need carbon-expensive materials and have their own plethora of problems.

These two problems are only feasibly conquerable in a reasonable timescale by a few countries, for others they are prohibitively expensive, far beyond the small subsidies proposed in things like the Paris Accord. Now, sure, USA, Europe could implement these, but it's not going to fix the problem if Asia, Africa don't, and additionally it's going to add significant economic and geopolitical pressure between these nation-blocs, those who are hamstringing themselves and those who aren't.

Hydro has serious geopolitical issues as fresh water supplies grow more tactically necessary, consider Egypt / Ethiopia right now with the Nile, or China's tibetan plateau snow-seed cannons to capture water before it reaches India.

Tidal has extremely short lifespans, any moving system in salt water is difficult to keep going for more than a few years.

Geothermal is good, but also one of the most expensive and a bit of a "slow burner," not going to be powering anything serious with that without sinking billions into the plant.

The only real solution I see is nuclear, but that's a naughty word for some reason.
Could you kindly provide a link for the hovering hexacopter please? Thanks.
China aside given that it's an authoritarian state I much prefer the control the state has over the church here in Germany, because it eliminates virtually all religious sectarianism and has led to the church having adopted teaching and a curriculum that is largely in line with the basic constitutional law and secular values rather than existing outside of it. Same in the UK or Scandinavia.

One of the reasons Islamic extremism is so hard to combat is because Islam exists largely outside of the control of the state, as backyard mosques can basically preach anything regardless how extremist it is, often deliberately recruiting people out of organizations that try to integrate with the state and society at large. I assume this is similar to radical Evangelicalism in the US.

Parallel societies are bad, they're a breeding ground for extremism.
That's part of the reason why TMSC is building a fab in Arizona.
I thought this was obvious. I've been saying since day 1 that GDPR won't help much with privacy. It might even do the opposite by making people feel that their data is safe. But a company beyond the jurisdiction of the EU can simply ignore GDPR and vacuum up all the data they want.

What will ultimately help with privacy is not leaking out this data in the first place. Push browsers and other such services/devices to stop leaking enormous amounts of information on the user.

That's not to say that GDPR isn't useful. It certainly is, because it stops the big legal businesses from doing it, but it also has the downside of harming European online businesses.
If you add up all of the infections in the EU, you get numbers similar to the US, and test results are very situational. If you get tested in a state that doesn't have an outbreak, it'll go faster than one that does. The US Federal government doesn't have the authority to swoop in and play hero in the same way the EU itself can't come in and dictate to Germany what they must and must not do. For the US, habeus corpus among other laws and our constitution are reasons why. What the federal government has done is print money and hand it to the states and people directly which IMO, is a solid initial move while all the other machinery is brought to bear.

Never discount a European's willingness to poo-poo the united states. It's like a pass time.

As for data.

Peer Reviewed Antivirus\Seriological studies show a mortality rate of .9-1.1% when hospitals\ICU's are not overloaded. When they are overloaded, the observational data shows that rate jumps up to double digits. Something like 30% of patients require hospitalization. There's also a body of observational evidence this virus also reinfects people; GISAid shows 6 distict strains at this point.

So your enemy looks like it can infect and reinfect and every round, if your healthcare system isn't built up, it kills double digits.

India has an exponential breakout they will not be stopping any time soon, Brazil is following suite it seems as well. It doesn't require a lot of scientific infrastructure to count body bags and the fundemental reason the numbers are so f'd up is due to the fact once body bags begin piling up people freak out and try something new.

If you are smart you'll take this thing seriously, wear a respirator or CBRN Gas mask, and work at getting yourself healthy.
German police can access any WhatsApp message without any malware
TSMC does not build the actual tool that builds the processors, which is the photolithography device. That technology is owned by ASML, the Dutch company, which obeys any commands given to it by their masters, the Americans.

As an analogy, TSMC is like a really good artist, that can use someone else’s tools, but they can’t make the actual tool itself. It’s like a graphic artist that can make very creative drawings using Photoshop, but he’d have no idea how Adobe created Photoshop, since he’s just a user of the product.

And on the flip side, the programmer who created Photoshop, created a very good tool, but he has no artistic skills in his training, to create such magnificent pictures. In this case, it’s that way for ASML. They can create the machines, but they need TSMC to achieve the 5nm production.

What TSMC and others have said, is that the secret to their success, is in the yield. Or how many wafers they can produce, with the minimum amount of defects. This is where TSMC needs a lot of cheaper engineers, in order to make perfect their production process.

This might be the key reason why Intel, and any other western semiconductor manufacturers cannot currently compete against TSMC or Samsung. The cost of a western engineer is likely 5x more expensive, than a Taiwanese TSMC engineer. This is quite possibly a numbers game. You just need a lot of engineers, in order to hit your yield, in order to achieve profitability.

What China needs to do is: (1) create an ASML competitor to build the photolithography device and get their independent intellectual property rights, and (2) employ the massive amounts of semiconductor engineers, like TSMC, in order to achieve the yield.

If they fail to achieve #1, then the United States can easily block their success, by preventing ASML from selling them any photolithography devices.

However, the key difference here, between China and the rest of the world, is that this is now considered an existential crisis. They must now achieve photolithography mastery and dominance, or else, they will die. They must create an ASML competitor.

This means that, China will financially support and backstop whatever domestic Chinese organization, in order to achieve this political goal.

And they are not starting from step 1, so they at least have some understanding of the science behind it. So when they do achieve mastery of the photolithography devices, then TSMC, Samsung, Intel, and ASML, will have some very interesting competition on their hands. At the very least, they will likely lose all future business in China. And they have the American government to thank for that.
Most churches are located on expensive real estate? And most are run like big businesses? And you know for a fact that charity work is less than 10% of income?

These are bold statements that need sources other than some guy you know.
Android 10 (on googlephones) has a feature called ‘digital wellbeing’ that can measure how much I gawk at the screen, and show that to me. Interesting, I think, let's see if that data stays locally. The only piece of info on data usage that I've found is a link to Google's overarching privacy policy. Oy vey. Some data-processing features in the settings are marked with ‘data stays on the phone’—but this one isn't. So I have to assume that ‘wellbeing’ snitches to Google, and can't use it.

“Collection of data is disclosed to and controllable by users”? Well, if the users presume that collection is going on unless said otherwise, then maybe.

Annoying thing is, I'd quite want to use the voice assistant. Do I like to fiddle with integrations and workflows? Oh boy. Damn well I do. Do I know that my voiceprint won't turn up on Google's servers the minute I use the assistant? Nope.

(Btw, another baffling trait of the Android ecosystem is how many well-known and widely-used hackish tools are closed-source: those from XDA and such. “Flash this binary to root your phone”, “install this blob for low-level customizations”. Eeeeh? I think I'll just disable all Google's misfeatures instead, for now.)
English evolves because it is polycentric. Other languages are held back by formal regulators from evolving (e.g. Association of Spanish Language Academies, Académie française, Council for German Orthography, China's State Language Work Committee, etc.)
But the publisher and advertiser might not know where the data came from. The broker could easily just say "oh yeah, we have permission from these people to share this data".

I'm sure some of them will get caught, but how long will that take?
No, but broadcasting cctv pointing to the skies above my home would not be a huge issue. Continuing the analogy, in skies broadcasting the issue would be how they could connect to my camera, rather than privacy which is also violated and also a tiny issue.

Or another analogy. If Google threatened to blow a nuclear bomb over Manhattan, Google gaining knowledge about competitors would not be an issue.

Yeah, Google spying for other apps is bad. But let’s not miss the forest for the trees.

(Also, please don’t use ad hominem arguments, the conversation becomes emotionally loaded rather than coldly rational.)
I've found grapheneos, /e/, UBPorts, etc don't support Pixel 2.
You can decide that up is down and left is right, but again, as a practical matter, this is really quite irrelevant. Unless you convince a sizable portion of the population / those with power to agree with you, your aberrant labeling is simply meaningless.
The match expression is so elegant. For the past 10 years I've been puzzled by how verbose switch is.
Paying $40,000 to watch a professor give a dry Powerpoint talk over a box in Zoom ain't the deal universities think it is.

I can get a better education with a textbook and a Youtube for free, let alone real online courses.

Universities have neglected teaching-and-learning for the better part of a century, and with COVID19, it's coming back to bite most of them. For a lot of programs, enrollment numbers are dead. Professors have viewed teaching as what they have to do in order to do research, and many approach it with all the vigor and intellectual rigor that entails. You show up. You talk at students for an hour. You hand out last semester's homework. You go back to your real job. Anything beyond that, you hire someone for near-minimum-wage to do for you -- a graduate student who doesn't want to be there, or an instructional designer who can barely tie their own shoelaces (note: there are some really good IDs; just not at most universities. No one qualified would work at that salary or position in the social pecking order).

Universities which have strongly invested in online, blended, virtual, and pedagogy are surging, though. Why would I pay a $40k tuition when I can get GA Tech, ASU, SNHU, or what not which give better quality education for a fraction of the cost?
> I can't see how CCS (carbon capture and storage) can ever be viable economically. It's pure expense.

If fossil fuels weren't available, profitable activities that currently release carbon from fossil fuels would be done in other ways.

For example, plastics could be made from plants, and a lot of carbon from the atmosphere would end up in landfills as a side effect of making disposable consumer goods.
My understanding is that merely having a website that can be accessed from the EU may not by itself be enough to be subject to the GDPR. However collecting or processing data on EU citizens or residents certainly is. And almost all websites track users (even when it's not obviously useful to do so), so unless you go the USA Today route and create a site for the EU with no tracking, you have to comply.

There's also the question of who they sell the data to. It's hard to see why they would sell EU citizens/residents data to companies who don't have any EU presence themselves, so at least some of their customers are bound by the GDPR as far as these are concerned. Informed consent is required at every step, so for example they would need the EU subject's consent to buy that data from RocketReach.
The ANC couldn't convince those in power to agree with them on the trivial matter of having their human rights recognised.

They defined themselves as 'human'. Those in power rejected that definition.

That's why they engaged in freedom fighting. Or as the National Party called it - terrorism.
And yet I've also had people tell me the opposite - they say they liked the water cycle analogy, even more than the subsequent dominoes narrative. Hmm. Hard to know what to do about such conflicting feedback.