skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, once Europe realises that the USA's 2018 Cloud Act makes its *impossible* for every USA registered cloud provider, every Office 365 account, every Google doc, every Gmail account, and every Dropbox account to be GDPR compliant, it will just quietly fade away.

A nice idea, but no one will care that much.
James Joyce fan I see ;-)
You should've been at FAANG when GDPR hit like a ton of bricks. Compliance probably cost those companies hundreds of millions each, pretty much everything was affected.
But they benefited from the EU in a way which is no more possible.
For me the biggest flaw of GDPR that it does not distinguish between something done as a business to make money and something done non-profit, as a hobby project, etc. GDPR killed forums, etc. everything moved to Facebook groups, where people agree to whatever Facebook wants.

Who will create forum for a community if one has to deal with all the bureaucracy, "right to be forgotten", data accuracy checks, data export request, gathering consents, being responsible for bugs in some forum software if there will be data leak and risk huge fines if something is not done correctly.

Another issue is vagueness of the regulation. What exactly is data processing/controlling? If kids leave they clothes in kindergarten or school, can clothes be signed with kid first and last name (so it is easier to find lost items)? Is school a processor or controller of kids' PII in that case? Probably not, but who knows what will happen if someones signed hat will be stolen?
Problem is that if the net is too big, it will be different game. I was maybe too generic with "kids". Youngsters (cca 10 years and more) are playing in official nets on full size field, so if they were bigger they couldn't catch almost anything that goes directly into any of the corner, or they would have to be away from net extra few meters. This would change game drastically. Especially with young players I think it is much more important to build up chance, pass and "play", not only shoot slapshots from blue line.
Also, in non-pro games, there are plenty of goals. There is no need to have much more. If you play on amateur level, like I do now, you would see that there is usually problem to find enough goalies (for many reasons) and with bigger net it would be even worse, because if you are under 190cm you would be there for laughs.
I hope the UK follows through with its 'Singapore-on-Thames' plan, which requiring losing regulatory harmonization with the EU:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore-on-Thames
Google Takeout existed for many years before GDPR was even a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Data_Liberation_Front
It's already happening. I work with a few affiliate platforms, amd many of them sent an email requesting me to update my invoices. They moved to Germany or some other EU country.
That my be true - but I work with a lot of companies and they way the legal departments are hunting down problems has changed dramatically.

I have customers that are asking "Do we really need this kind of data".
Yep, never heard of corruption in Italy before. The Mafia was created just a year ago right after Brexit
You seemed to suggest the cake case was about excluding certain people as clients. That's what I thought you misunderstood.
Humans cannot really explain their reasoning.
It has been shown that they usually invent an explanation that matches what has already been decided in their black-box.They mostly use post-hoc explanation, but cannot explain the true decision mechanism.

If you make them believe that they choose another decision, they will create another explanation on the fly.
I can follow this viewpoint. I think it is probably emergent vs conspiratorial. But there is no question that most businesses would rather deal with microagressions than unionization.
That is very clever, I like it. Especially dependency on proven and simple technology. VPN swarm like e.g. ZeroTier which I was thinking about would be too complex and thus harder to maintain.

Thank you for the explanation!
Yeah we saw the mighty EU negotiation leverage with COVID vaccine...

UK market is large enough to stand on it's own and EU has been grossly incompetent in public for a while now. There's going to be downsides for sure but becoming "America like" is not going to be one of them.
As far as I understand it, it currently can't be hosted in the UK anyways. As the requirement is to store the data within the EU.
Who said they're becoming America-like. More like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, etc. like.
Well say goodbye to EU data adequacy. Although to be honest it probably wouldn’t have survived the first court case given the UK state’s addiction to snooping.
Yes, I don't think a wiki is really appropriate for most recipes at all for this reason. There are many different ways to do a recipe each at least close enough to equally valid that you'll have those people arguing over nitpicks for weeks while everyone else steers clear.

You could rank them or something, but the reason I like YouTube is that I can generally get a sense of a person and what they like. If they like similar things to me, I'll probably like their versions of recipes. Inauthentic adjustments or weird herb profiles included.
It's unclear whether the 'they' you refer to are the British people, or the class of ruling individuals who know exactly what they're doing and are set to profit immensely.

(I'm aware that all sounds quite America-like already)
48% of us realized this
Portability is more realistic with portable tooling.
That like claiming
"For 99% of consumers food safety regulations means nothing but annoying 'use by date'!"

Just because the effects are not obvious to a layman, doesnt they aren't there
Sure, but the large number of businesses who are UK only won't have to deal with it.

Instead of frontloading compliance for any new venture, they can build for the UK first then work on compliance if and when they go for EU business.
Nvidia Has a Driver Overhead Problem, GeForce vs. Radeon on Low-End CPUs
I'm not sure why it should do that. Data is data.

In the end though, you don't have to go crazy about it, because there is zero chance of enforcement over small pebbles.
With the difference that companies can now move Britons into the cohort of users whose data you can sell and do things with you probably didn't quite consent to in any meaningful way. And as Europeans we will probably get a couple more websites that will just tell us to sod off (in proper British English parlance now) because of our data protection laws. You know, the kind of message that already pops up when you search for some recipe and end up on an American website with good SEO or some topic featured on a local news outlet in the US.
The person isn’t changed, just like the weights aren’t changed. You’re missing the training step - after the person fills in the blank, then we tell them what was supposed to go in the blank. If I had you try to paint the the rest of the face of a portrait, you may do a poor job, but then if I showed you exactly what it was supposed to look like, you can see what you did wrong, and next time you will draw it better.
> google takeout only exist because of gdpr.

I doubt that since takeout precedes gdpr by several years.
Actually, there is. It is called language acquisition. It's not a tool, but a method. Trivially simple method, just require some basic material at the very beginning, say, first 3 months plus SRS like Anki. And a most importantly a will to practice every single day.

If you think about it, how well did you speak your native language at 4? How well at 7? Did you attend any classes to teach yourself? No, I assume not. So how come you are fluent?

Turns out, it is all about ingesting as much as possible. Even if you barely understand at the beginning. More of it - learning grammar is just a distraction. You can skim the book to have an overall grasp of it, but that's it. You weren't learning your native language grammar by the age of 7, did you?

The key is to ingest comprehensible input. If you can't understand the sentence, have a visual cues. Start simple by learning most frequent 1000 words (should take you 2-3 months max with Anki) and then you can easily switch to sentences. Just keep your senteces at the level that you understand almost everything but a word or two. One word ideally.

Read or watch only context you like, you are interested in and you have fun with. That's it. Do it long enough, every day, and you are set.

As an example, I've been learning Japanese in class for 2.5y and could not read nor speak as well as I'd like to. Not to mention I couldn't read kanji at all. Now after 9 months of trying language acquisition I can read children books (Winnie the Pooh) and comic books. If that's not a win, I don't know what is.
I think the weak point is their domain name. I think cloud providers should have a second domain, with a different registrar and managed sompletely independently, so that if one is subject to a problem (hijacking, dns outage, etc) clients can fallback to the alternative domain.
I don't really agree with you.

> If you were rejected by a bank for a home loan, you would want to know why your creditworthiness wasn’t evaluated positively (and banks must explain precisely why to regulators).

This is why we don't use humans to evaluate credits, but precise algorithms. Humans are just applying the algorithms, they are not evaluating themselves with their gut feeling. I don't see why this would change with AI. Regulations prevents unexplainable tools to be used there, so deep learning black box models will not be used, similarly to why humans are not used today.

But in cases where performance is required, but not explainability, then deep learning will strive. And I believe that cases where explanation is required is only a very small subset of areas where AI could be useful.

> And if a self-driving car made a decision in a collision

Would you prefer a car that crashes once every 100 million miles but is not explainable, or a car that crashes once every 100 miles but is interpretable can explain why it crashed ?
Let’s be honest, it’s not up to the UK alone. The EU still has strong world influence and they will try to stop it at any cost.
On the death of my family's dairy farm (2019)
In the vast majority of cases, gender reassignment surgery results in improved human wellbeing. Most surgeons who perform this surgery want their patients to have a mental health evaluation beforehand to help make sure it is the right choice.

So, once again, nasty politics seem to stem from the clash of totalizing vs nuanced beliefs. "Gender reassignment is a mental disorder" "There is no mental disorder associated with gender reassignment"
The fact that we can see back in time ..... to the early universe no less... is really one of the most underrated and miraculous things humans have achieved.

When you think about it, it’s truly astounding.
Please tell us the name of that European enterprise that breaches the GDPR and we can put the EU enforcement procedures to a test :) Let's call it an experiment..
We are counting on this. Actually investments in Sweden for data centers has rissen more than 20-40 percent at the normal rate.

I know that some purchases of cloud services are halted for now to be sure about this. Data movement is going to be increasingly an important matter. It should have been from the begining but here we are.
You're cherry picking.
Great tests reflect system behaviour
As a German, I only know Staples from American TV shows and movies. Is there Staples IN Germany? And yes, I live in a city of several hundred thousand inhabitants.
A school most certainly already is a data controller as it has way more PII than just your kids name.
Thanks 4 this
So with a quick search online, I found this site:

https://incountry.com/blog/data-residency-laws-by-country-ov...

Organisations which receive and hold any of regulated data types to follow the GDPR requirements. According to GDPR, companies have to keep the data secure inside the EU and if the data is to be transferred outside of the UE, then it can only be transferred to countries or organisations that have signed up to equivalent privacy protection."

So the EU has all the power here to say that the UK doesn't meet their standards and require businesses to transfer their data.

However, I would guess that most international organisations would have already moved their EU customer data out of the UK.

There were years of uncertainty with the Brexit negotiations, keeping data in the UK would have too much risk.

Plus many other countries have data residency laws, so it's not like a foreign concept to international businesses.
This was recently covered on the excellent (and my personal favourite) podcast Futility Closet

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/01/11/podcast-episode-32...

It seems to predate the linked article by about a month.
Mistaking the EU, the political union as an evolved form of the Rome treaty, with Euro, the coin. All that with the tone of absolute certainty and authority.

Hacker News has reached new lows :(
> or the class of ruling individuals who know exactly what they're doing and are set to profit immensely.

I'm really not sure about that. I agree that may be the case with some of those ruling individuals. My impression is that Johnson doesn't believe in anything, except his personal interest and profit.

Others in that cabinet, however, really appear to be true believers.
1 friend pays for netflix, the next for amazon, the next for spotify.
I mean do what you want, but if streaming gets worse than now (it's almost like pay TV again) people are just going to pirate again.
> UK to depart from GDPR

Good for them.

Looks like in the UK there will be a lot less time wasting clicking on useless "Accept all cookies or else" disclaimers pop-ups.
there is usually annual report by some law firms talking about the state of GDPR, and so far the EU or states hasn't been keen on charging high fines as the law suggest instead closer to slap on the wrist kind of fines for transgressions that sounds big when you read the law.

I think most corps by now realize that and are willing to live with the risk rather than lose a lot of data and introduce a lot of processes.
That is true, it’s pure naivety to believe GDPR changed anything. It enforced cookies to ask for permission and a few billions in extra bureaucracy. I don’t get why people want to live in a Kafka novel
I don't think that's true. I've watched a complete about face by companies when faced by the GDPR. Previously the attitude was to collect and store as much data as possible "just in case" it was later useful. With GDPR, management is suddenly aware of the legal liability of storing this data, and it's generally only stored if it's actually needed.
I thought the data could be exported to any country whose laws offer the same level of protection.
That’s unfortunately not my experience from observing other engineers. Many get stuck at a “good enough” level with their tools and never seem to learn the shortcuts which would allow them to code and edit faster.
Sure, it may be solution, but there is a lot of muscle memory that is bound to size of goals. If you have goalkeeper in junior league it would be very complicated to pull him up as backup to senior game. Or from lower league to upper one.
All the angles and distances would need to be re-trained when switching leagues. I cannot imagine that, really.

I think it would be easier to somehow limit area blocked by goalie equipment together - so if the goalie is very tall, pads would need to be either narrower or not that high to keep some max blocking area. And this is only IF we really need to do some change at all.
The GDPR only regulates automated data processing and manual data processing where a "filing system" is used, so you kindergarten doesn't "process" children's data just because they write the children's names on their coats... In general I think you're exaggerating a lot of the problems, many forums are still alive and kicking and most forum software has been updated to accommodate the requirements of the GDPR (which aren't very difficult to implement in any case).

The centralization of the web on very few commercial platform has many reasons, data protection is probably the least important and might even be a counter-force in my experience.
I've been led around a DC in the Netherlands where they used a separate room for the UPS batteries. Not only because of safety but because the reliability of small rack-mount UPSes really sucks (and you have to match them to the power draw of the servers in the rack or pay for a lot of unused capacity)

All racks and servers were connected to dual power feeds, so even when one of the feeds goes down the servers should run fine.
I have no doubt you're right, but I'm just not familiar with the specific details. What are some real ways they stand to "profit immensely"?
Don't like the environmental impact of monero and TOR? Stop making them something everyone needs.
Hmm, this would be good for business if it had never been an issue. It looks like the plan is for this to just be a divergent set of regulations which is not particularly of any general utility.

Maybe if they harmonize along CCPA or something it would be of value.
Not that I voted for this, but what’s done is done. And now that it is, I’d personally like to take the wins where we can get them.

Hoping we see the light, and the blight that is the cookie law goes the way of the dodos.
Netflix password sharing crackdown underway with new test and warning
It depends on the usage, I guess. I have been using Emacs with its stock key-bindings for more than 10 years. I don't even remap my Caps Lock to behave like Ctrl like many others do. Yet I have never felt any issues due to repetitive strain yet. I do touch-type though which means I use the left Ctrl/Alt/Shift key while typing a key on the right side of the keyboard and I use the right Ctrl/Alt/Shift for typing a key on the left side of the keyboard. Maybe that distributes the repetitive strain evenly to both hands.

In the Emacs world, while remapping Caps Lock to Ctrl helps in reducing strain for many people, it also causes strain for some people. Every time, this discussion comes up in the Freenode #emacs channel, I have always noticed someone mentioning that remapping Caps Lock to behave like Ctrl caused them RSI.

Surprisingly, I did suffer from pain due to repetitive strain under the base of my forefinger once which seemed to be linked to overuse of mouse. The repetitive clicking, dragging and dropping in the Windows world nearly 10 years ago had taken a toll on my right hand forefinger. Taking inspiration from how we use keyboard with both hands, I then taught myself to use mouse with both hands (alternating between left hand and right hand every hour or so) and the pain gradually disappeared.
If you do not have resources to take care of PI then perhaps do not gather and store it in the first place?

Forums do not necessarily require personal information to exist.
As a user of mac, ubuntu and windows, 100% agree.
That literally happened, they blogged about it recently. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/recent-outages-why-we-acceler...
If we were able to agree to those rules I'm sure we could strike a deal with the EU. This has always been the name of the game right - if you play by each set of rules and align the EU probably sees that as a net benefit and lets countries align, for eaxample Switzerland can still host EU personal data, from the article:

"Fortunately, Switzerland, along with 12 other non-EEA countries, has received an "adequacy decision" from the European Commission. An adequacy decision is a recognition of the strength of Switzerland's data protection law."

https://www.termsfeed.com/blog/gdpr-switzerland/
Good riddance. GDPR is an insane, Byzantine mess of legalese, which maps poorly onto reality.
Also:

“Did we do a PIA?”

“Is this a data leak and should we contact their privacy officer?”

These are common questions now. GDPR changed a lot of things. The basic idea that you'd just send and receive any data you have that seems useful from a technical standpoint to third parties and see what you would actually end up using is gone. Step one is as you say: “do we really need this kind of data?”
48V DC is mostly popular because human safety laws don't require special handling of 48v. Voltages above 48v/50v normally require testing/certification/etc.

48v is basically a voltage to avoid paperwork, while still being as high as possible to avoid spending too much money on copper.
You should teach history at college.
Show HN: Downloaded icons on the internet with an interesting twist
"In Europe, the education is inexpensive enough with government funding"

Actually, in the European Union the education is "inexpensive enough" with taxpayer money. The government is just the middleman with the gun.
Any time 'adequate' is the bar it's not great
One of the most obvious political impacts of Brexit is that the government will feel obliged to demonstrate some kind of benefit. Since real benefits are difficult—verging on impossible—to find, it seems likely the government is going to head in the direction of fabricating benefits. So - slash some regulation, present it as “freeing up business”, and ignoring the wider impact.
Electricity there is very cheap (ranging from 0.5 to 1.5 US cents per kWh).

The government has closed around 300 mining facilities in order to reduce energy shortages.

There are tens of such videos on the Youtube channel.
This is something that MS makes you do when presenting at conferences (it a uniform rather than the same actual article of clothing of course)
untypeable emails
I have an account for us, my parents and in-laws. It's barely worth it when split three ways, we're definitely not paying for three accounts for Netflix. I might as well set up a Plex installation and torrent a bunch of shows for them.
The Art Forger, the Nazi, and “The Pope”
You can store it wherever you want, so long as you're in compliance.
This is the thing that pissed me off the most about the referendum. The result was touted as an overwhelming majority but in fact the percentages are well within the margin for error on a poll that wasn't very well defined from the outset (ie what "leave" meant was different for different people).

The only thing the EU referendum conclusively demonstrated was how easily manipulated people are by the media they consume.
emojis break lots of things. Most people probably aren't surprised when using emojis in passwords doesn't work well either.
I don't think you're right at all. The US is the dominant online market. China is second. Neither have the stupid popups, so why wouldn't the UK just get added to the list of 'places we don't need to show it'?

Have you ever tried browsing many US news sites? They block the entire EU from even seeing their content. That's how much they care about their in-GDPR users. The idea that people cater to a global audience by just implementing the EU rules for everyone is patently false. If the UK diverges, it's free revenue to just add it to the whitelist, basically.
Not even - we will become a right wing basket case with a brand new nuclear weapons system and a failing economy and zero safeguards about those in power. This lot are bad but there is the possibility of something much much worse.
Thank you for the protection we've never asked for. Now, can you come and change my diapers for me ?
We can have really long conversations about many things related to business that can get quite abstract, and lead us to something new or help us straight our thoughts.

But doing these on Monday completely kills the whole work flow, it kind of depletes our mind capacity for that day.

And we find these talks really valuable so we do them on Sunday, in a relaxed and friendly way with the outcome of having set sprint