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To what extent is your startup's business dependent on violating users' or others' privacy? Will it be uncompetitive if they don't?

It's a broad question, not a legal one.

If the answer is: it's very important, because our competitors will violate and win, then EU probably expects to apply industry-wide regulation.

If the answer is, not much or we don't know yet, then just don't. Please.

Law and money are certainly important, but there's other important things too.

Look at it from the regulators' perspective. Regulators will always lag nimble startups. But if those companies are violating reasonable and widely-held priciples (perhaps not the law, yet) how should the EU best apply those principles into law?

I find the vagueness of the GDPR exactly satisfies this dilemma.
The i960 flopped in part because it was tied [0] to the I2O ('Intelligent I/O') project. (The 2 was always rendered as a subscript). I2O pushed a split-driver model in which the OS driver ('top half') did not talk directly to its hardware ('bottom half'), but queued I2O messages to the bottom half, which sat behind the i960 which did the proxy work.

IHVs had little interest in I2O as it would reduce Intel's costs for swapping out vendors and there was no demonstrable performance improvement. The latter was at least in part because the I2O infrastructure was immature in comparison to the IHV drivers. It eventually formed the model for I/O over Infiniband (where it did make sense).

[0] It's not clear if I2O was the original application for the 960 or it was a pivot for an otherwise homeless processor.
I've gone the opposite way. I did WFH/remote for ... years, always on a single laptop. I was very mobile - f2f client meetings, work from coffee shop, work from hotels, etc.

In the last year, as travel/f2f was essentially taken off the table, I've moved to laptop with 2 external monitors, and just recently to 'desktop' setup. I still have the laptop, and use it to work from home now and then, but I'm slowly getting used to more screen real estate. It's not even so much 2 monitors, just a much larger main one. 32" vs the 15" has been a big difference, mostly for the better.

But... I had years of comments from a lot of folks about "no idea how you can get anything done from just one laptop - that screen is so small, etc."
The flaw is that you depend on Google. You can not trust them at all, for anything. You can use Drive as a redundant fifth backup either for data that you’ve encrypted yourself or for things that you don’t mind being public, but not as the only place that has your data. Things that could very well happen: you get locked out with no recourse; people at Google browse your data; your data gets mined; your data gets lost; Google messes up and other people get access to your data; Google gets a subpoena and those photos that you thought were perfectly normal are now evidence of a manufactured crime.
In GTA, there is a limit for single family homes (with yards) that have access to proper public transit. I have no belief an entlightened govt can fix all these factors in my lifetime (wide spread efficient public transit, increased investments in recreational parks, etc.). We have a policy called the greenbelt, which was pitched as an environmental thing but has been at least one factor in this whole mess.
> It's infuriatingly unspecific about what you can do, and full of vague hinting on things that you maybe really should not do.

It really isn't that complicated.

You can collect and process data assuming you have a valid business reason to do so. You need to collect/process that data in a way that complies with the law based on what you're collecting/processing.

Want to collect people's health data? Cool, ask them for consent and you've got the right to collect it.

Want to process that data to make decisions about their insurance premiums? Sure, you can do that, but you'll need the user's consent.
Generative Prints and the idea of “1 of 1 of X”
That seems like about the right proportion to me - struct solves a much more common problem than restrict does. And to be fair, it is a lesser known feature. But user-the-name is implying that restrict is somehow difficult to use or understand, which I don't agree with at all.
Not worth it there is so much to loose burning out that money can't replace.
I worked on GDPR for a health related startup and at some point, I had to start explaining GDPR and HIPAA to the lawyers! The lawyers thought the startup was subject to HIPAA, but we weren't a health org or a BAA, and I explained that. They said "well it's probably better if you just follow that law anyway"
About half the time in my experience
I also have a ZFS NAS and a separate backup server for the NAS that only gets turned on once a week. I disagree about his recommendation to avoid encryption. I keep the NAS and backup server drives encrypted. It’s not a big deal to unlock the drives at boot with a password and I’ve never had any issues with it. If someone breaks in and steals one of the servers, at least they won’t have access to years of all of my documents backed up.

This author’s setup looks good, but I think most people would get burned out by the complexity unless you really like managing servers, automating things with scripts, and navigating the little quirks that pop up with the hardware and software involved.

A complex solution isn’t necessarily better if you find yourself not investing the time needed to maintain it. I think most people would be better off trusting one of the online backup services rather than spending thousands of dollars building and maintaining a pair of backup servers. If you’re worried about losing data, signing up for two separate backup services could still be cheaper than building and running two separate NAS servers.

Start with easy backup solutions first to get something going. Then consider the more complicated options later.
Apple Sells $6.5B of Bonds, Adding Cash for Buybacks
I thank jjgreen for her/his invaluable comment:

> "What I didn't do was kvetch about it on a public forum."

Academics are supposed to stay silent about the diffuse unfair peer reviewing, or else...
I suspect that might indeed have been the joke.
Practical Types
Fake news. Live in fear let the 1% control you.
As someone who makes a pretty good living cleaning up technical debt messes, I'd beg to differ.

It's remarkable how much substance there is to the technical debt metaphor.

1) There is good debt and bad debt. It's only good debt if it buys you an asset that creates a value stream.

2) There is compounding interest over time on technical debt.

3) You can metaphorically go bankrupt from technical debt. (IE total project failure and or abandonment)
I knew someone that failed to prepare for their presentation, and did this as an excuse the presentation computer was not working and had to reschedule
What's the ratio for Tesla S with one occupant vs a 4100 lbs F150? Even a model 3 with long range and dual motors has a poor ratio, right?

Seems like this ratio isn't a great indicator of ridiculousness if we aren't factoring in other things. Not to mention it would change based on the day. If you need the truck once per week or more, it probably makes more sense to own rather than rent, even if 'the ratio' looks 'bad' 75% of the time. The number if heavy vehicles are only going to increase as we adopt electric.
It also didn't help that the Itanium project was delayed many years. Actually the first one "Merced", was supposed to come out 95 or 96. Had it been on time, things might have looked quite differently. And indeed, I think it was the AMD64 which breathed new life into x86, killing both the Itanium as well as most classical RISC architectures, because it was a nice upgrade path from existing PCs.
....&foo=BAR

sets a shell variable, not an environment variable. The value of $foo will not be available to shell-forked processes.
DSL is indeed a joke, but Ziggo cable and KPN fiber together have near universal availability these days. Cable isn't that much more expensive than a dedicated fiber but tends to come bundled with TV and phone only.

This paints a pretty good picture: https://tweakers.net/ext/i/2003127256.jpeg, which comes from this article in 2019: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/158414/aanleg-van-glasvezel-naar...
> Overall, 33.76% of SARS-CoV-2 exposed children and 57.88% adults were seropositive. Children were five times more likely to have seroconverted without symptoms compared to adults. Despite the frequently asymptomatic course of infection, children had higher specific antibody levels, and their antibodies persisted longer than in adults (96.22% versus 82.89% still seropositive 11-12 months post infection)
I think that the yellow-bellied, or pelagic sea snake (Hydrophis platurus) is my favourite snake I've ever caught & photographed - because it looks so different with the fin-like tail; the fact it is apparently the second-most toxic snake on the planet; and how we had to charter a boat and convince the captain of what we were trying to do to get one!

Absolutely gorgeous creature - and apparently they also can't really swim - they just get carried on currents to get around!
the engineers who "fixed" the site all worked themselves to near-death "fixing" the site. Not sure that's a real win.
No, it is two ring buffers, with the kernel in between moving requests from one side to the other. My guess is that the name describes the shape.
Well, real debts don't have to be paid off either. Debt IMHO is a fantastic metaphor if we look at it in more detail, from both the financial and software side...

SUMMARY: tech debt is just like financial debt, but with a clock whose speed varies with the rate of change of use cases and dependencies. Also, more subjective because instead of borrowing fungible money, you borrow extremely illiquid (and thus hard to objectively appraise) assets (like the notebook your great great great grandmother wrote her recipes in, or that Mario 64 cartridge we've been hearing about lately, or the mona lisa, or the last gas station in manhattan, or the vacant corner lot that's next to your house but can't be built so is of little use to anyone else, or the goodwill that the Disney name has -- all very real assets that could be conceivably borrowed through some kind of future contract, and many of them appear on real corporate ledgers and are reported on real SEC form 10Ks).

Financial debt doesn't "HAVE" to be paid off either, so that's no objection. A special purpose LLC subsidiary or something can go bankrupt. A security can drop to zero value and be written off. Just like a codebase can be abandoned, possibly in favor of a rewrite, possibly just entirely.

What's confusing you is that in finance, the clock marches on and interest accrues at a constant rate. But with tech debt, time only passes as fast as the software gets used, generating new use cases and usage experience that demand features and bugfixes. Software that doesn't get used doesn't pay interest because the clock is stopped. The more it gets used the faster the clock spins and the more interest collects. If it reaches an equilibrium where use cases and dependencies aren't really evolving anymore, like some sort of small core system library component like a heavily optimized sorting algorithm, time slows down again. Although the day a change comes -- eg a new weird CPU architecture that makes the old algorithm suboptimal -- time will pass again.

You do have to pay the tech debt, if the clock keeps moving. But dead men tell no tales and unused code does not "age"

The other confusing thing is financial debt is one dimensional. $1000 is $1000 is $1000. But there is no unit of exchange for tech debt. It's like bartering, like I have a monkey and a jar of pickles and who knows what each one is worth to anyone. A codebase well adapted to certain types of changes might be poorly adapted to a very different kind of change. Like maybe one codebase has hard to change business logic but easy to re-optimize the performance on a new architecture, while another one has mediocre performance on any but the chosen architecture but has very flexible business rules. So pricing is not well defined. My jar of pickles might be worth 2 cows to me, or 40 personyears of legal services to you. Who's to say? Without a way to trade, we cannot value tech debt except subjectively relative to our own use case.
There are plenty of places dogs and cats are accepted as food animals. Surely those places use the leather too? Some of those places are net exporters, so it seems reasonable some of our leather goods are dog or cat but labeled otherwise.
I get your perspective, but I don't think even a European/German court would be that cynical. Although I would agree that the court is actually just demanding a reason be provided for the removal of speech and expression, not even that really that a human must do it.

My expectation is that Facebook will increase efforts to automate more granular and broad surveillance on users and content in order to provide automated reasons for removing content. The crux, after all is not that the content was removed, but rather that no reason was given. Maybe the short term solution is simply an overwhelmingly broad legalese that covers broader reasons for censorship.

I don't see the Germany polity desiring the increase in humans doing such rote and banal work. We have seen the damage it does to people to essentially be enforcers of human rights violations. It is psychologically and emotionally damaging to abuse people. No, this will be a move towards more automation of the control, surveillance, and censorship that the ruling class demands. You may agree with it since it's the censorship of "racism", but don't be surprised when what you believe or say is all the sudden "racism" too or that your lèse-majesté will be included in the list of forbidden speech and thought next.

If allowed to manifest … and we are racing towards this end … things will soon look like right out of 1984 where you don't even have the chance to disseminate anything the regime dislikes. Instead, you will instead you will be whisked away or have your life ruined if you say anything the regime will intentionally arbitrarily deem "hate speech" or whatever other rationalization they come up with. It will be anyone's guess what it is that the regime may not like at any given time and therefore no one will dare say anything.

It is what others have called anarcho-tyranny, but I simply see as rather fundamental abusiveness 101 that any abused spouse can describe and you can read about the the most basic psychology textbooks.
But a lot closer to what most non-British people would understand by "private school" than what they would by "public school"

The Wikipedia link I provided has the details.
Previous recent discussion:

13 days ago / 36 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27865232

13 days ago / 12 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27865611

9 days ago / 2 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27907081
Ok, I'll guess I'll be the lone voice of dissent here. I don't like it. I think it goes against the concept of utility classes / functional CSS. As soon as you start making component-level classes, things begin to become opinionated and you lose the universality.

My understanding of the functional CSS approach was that you'd make a button component, and use the variety of "atomic" classes to style it. If you're using a "btn" class etc, it muddles the distinction of where the semantics live, and things get harder to reason about / debug.
I never really had trouble with that aspect with it, but I also never really mastered OO programming. The paradigm shift is probably tough, but I sucked enough beforehand that I didn't have to deal with it.
Is that not true of Apple Pay too? Lots of places I can't use Apple Pay. Amazon, Steam, Epic Games, etc.

I'd argue PayPal is way more ubiquitous than Apple Pay.

Some sellers don't want to use a service like Apple Pay/PayPal because they don't want to give up the money from the associated fees like Amazon for example.
A Resistant SARS-CoV-2 Variant Could Emerge Any Time
That's MINIX.
It's also almost never applied in practice. There are several openly far-right political parties and there have been two unsuccessful attempts to ban the party with the most well-known ties to neo-nazi movements, the NPD:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPD-Verbotsverfahren

Note that this is a disambiguation page because there were two years long processes, neither of which resulted in a ban even though the more recent one did at least rule the party anti-constitutional, which resulted in laws being passed to exempt anti-constitutional parties from public party financing and the forced neutrality of public institutions in their statements regarding political parties. Still not a ban.

I think the more relevant examples are:

* Germany's strict laws surrounding "insults", which mean that you can incur a €600 fine for intentionally addressing a police officer using the colloquial form ("du" instead of the more formal "Sie")

* the ban on "anti-constitutional" symbols, especially the swastika, various insignia, flags, songs and salutes associated with nazi movements (but also symbols associated with designated terrorist groups like ISIS), when used in a context that can be understood to express approval of the associated ideologies

* the denial of the Holocaust

But note that in practice these are punishable by law, not strictly prohibited/enforced by the constitution.
What? Look at the URL in your browser right now. It has a bunch of x=y parameters. That's how URLs work.
Bed is for sleep and sexy time, not work.
Honest question: Why does it bother you that some (or even many) people put "CW: Food" on their posts? You can just ignore it.
Man I miss the enthusiasm and optimism of the 90's
Which is funny, because I'm aware of jwz and the history, but only clicked on the link because of the referrer joke. Maybe I should open a club down the street from DNA called DnB.
One wonders how long it will take for Oracle to become largely irrelevant.
From June 15th
Most states already have higher registration taxes. Plus you have second order taxes like paying more fuel tax because they are less efficient.

"If you’re not moving heavy equipment, you don’t need a big truck. If you are, treat it like a fork-list: assign a license."

Do you mean pickups or actual big trucks? Big trucks do require different license classes.
I think working from bed for a short time is a good way to keep varying your posture.

The headline is misleading because I would have answered that I work from bed sometimes, but I also work from every chair or position around the house. I have a laptop and I move around.

Working from bed is when I am trying to finish something that's not particularly challenging while also kind of watching the baseball game on TV.
Well it does sound like it worked but the problem is that they forgot to apply the tax on all land (even empty land), not just the vacant properties.
Fb doesn’t delete accounts because you don’t post enough statuses or photos. One thing that people miss here is that lots of accounts are taken over due to password breaches, and if you don’t realize for months that someone is using your account to spam, and none of your friends are telling you, well you might just be a ghost account…
I just found out this week that I don't have the antibodies even though I had the vaccine in March. I also found out that some of my specific T-cells are lower than normal. Likely a side effect from chemotherapy, which was finished in February. Just a PSA that these tests are not included with the normal white cell/neutrophils tests that they give cancer patients. So if you know someone, they might want to ask for an antibodies test and cd4/cd8 test
I actually find all kinds of browser history pollution a very serious problem rendering it almost useless (only useful the way "recycle bin" is - to recover an address of that useful page you have seen yesterday but forgotten).

I wish there were browser extensions capable to smartly sanitize the history by removing duplicate URLs pointing to the same actual page visited multiple times during the day and/or by via slightly different URLs, removing the specific parameters which can be removed without changing what does the link point to, rearranging the remaining parameters alphabetically, removing GMail and alike useless URLs, also normalizing the entry titles by removing everything but the actual article title (e.g. removing website name or moving it to an uniform place - always the beginning or always the end) etc.
> How does Docker handle asynchronous intermittent processes? Not good, actually. It is well known in Docker 101 that thou shall not run cron in the same container as the main process.

You can run cron just fine in Docker containers. Whether or not that's a good idea depends on what the cron is doing, what your application is doing, your runtime requirements, etc. Running cron in your container is definitely way simpler than the other options involving container scheduling.
>On the other side, there is the right to protection of health.

Please explain this right? What exactly is it? So by this right, can I demand pills for my disease free of cost?
Probably. I only meant that it helped for this tax to make it slightly progressive (the very low end) because they’re emote likely to spend everything and so the prebate has a major impact on their effective tax rate.

I didn’t do the math to see how it compares to the present system overall.
The subheading appears to contradict your conjecture.

> Facebook acted illegally in taking down racist posts and blocking the account of their author because the social network failed to inform the user or give a reason for shutting them down.

(my emphasis)
Unpopular opinion:. It should be illegal to not use purchase history to make better ad placements.

Forcing companies to not use all the information at their disposal to make business decisions leads to worse decisions. It would be like a superstore not being allowed to see the demographics of the area the store is located when deciding if they should stock more types of toys or false teeth. Clearly the families will likely be interested in toys, while the retirees want false teeth. Forcing families to hunt through aisles of false teeth is wasting their time, reducing the businesses revenue, and is bad all round.

"We're just taking money from the megacorps" isn't true - you're also forcing every user of a website to get a worse experience, sometimes severely to their detriment.
it was a great time. I remember buying a rackfull of AMDs at 1Ghz when the opteron first came out. They flew. They also consumed a ton of power and generated a ton of heat (I blew the circuit breaker for the whole floor of Evans Hall, in Berkeley, just turning them on).
the fire metaphor still works: we have arsonists (that build up tech debt or just bad practices) that turn firefighters (by fixing in emergency mode).

Of course not all tech debt is bad, the trick is know when to use it to good effect, not building it up everywhere only to pay it back at the costliest moment. It's all a balancing act.