skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically the GDPR considers anything that's accessible or marketed to EU residents (not citizens) under its jurisdiction. In practice this is (probably) pretty much every side that isn't a local business or specifically blocking visitors from the EU.
Have you played Lone Echo and “Blade & Sorcery”?

Really think those are the benchmarks for me, vr isn’t about the headset or 3d it’s about rich hand tracking/interactions.
You are assuming that these businesses are using online versions of Excel (or whatever) that store the data under US jurisdiction. If they have committed to using online services that rely on US storage, then they have made a bad mistake - that is not allowed, and this case just reaffirms that.
Seems to raise a couple profound questions:
1. Is there a credible alternative (comparable ease of access and implementation)?
2. Does the absence of such a tool hinder business operating efficiency?

If the answer to #1 is no, then any assertions that Google is not operating as a monopoly in the space are undercut. If the answer is #2 is no, then there are quite a few BI/Analytics/Strategy personnel who might find their value more difficult to justify!
Electrolysis
Are libertarians into informed consent? Because if they are, then they'd be against most of the data scraping going on.
It's a DNS resolver, not an authoritative DNS server. So it's similiar to Google's 8.8.8.8, Cloudflare's DNS resolver, or the DNS resolver that is provided to you by your ISP.
It's an asymmetric relationship. You may think you are able to out-smart Google, and you might be one of the very few people who are, but society as a whole is not served well for the vast majority of people who even if they spent 24/7 researching and learning would still not stand a chance against multinational corporations.
Not everyone is ready for HN frontpage...
5. and 12. are really concerning. IMHO the EU should invest in a DNS Infrastructure that is resilient to censoring (copyright or political) and operate it as non profit.

Edit: to be clear, non profit doesn't mean it can't charge money, profit shouldn't be a concern/target.
Do you have a car?
It almost certainly would. This isn't about cookies, this is about sending PII (which IP's are) to GA. I have a hard time imagining some safeguards that'll allow you to use GA, without ever hitting a GA server.
There is one problem. If the change in question is related to just having an alternate DNS stucture, that's perfectly fine. Because it doesn't mean users are forced to use it: at any moment, I can force my machine to use any DNS server I choose and it will respect that.

However, if they actually implement URL filtering, it might mean something completely different: that IP addresses of SciHub/Libgen will be blocked by the ISPs in the whole of EU no matter DNS server I use. Not all countries would individually agree to that.
The real problem is that ignorant people drag the rest of us with them into the abyss.
Might I add, realistic libertarians do what you're saying

But there are extreme factions of libertarians who really question things like "Do mothers really have a duty to take care of their children?" or think that private tribunals would work in practice.
I understand and am aware of L2 solutions like lightning. My own startup uses Polygon (Ethereum L2) to store copies of user asset verification records.

Generally speaking, L2s are interesting because they all make compromises from the principals of blockchain (as you mention - but that's for another day). It's been interesting, to say the least, to watch some of the fundamental definitions and principals such as "decentralized" and "secure" get redefined over the years.

I use statistics for Bitcoin transaction volume in these comments for several reasons:

1) Bitcoin is more widely known than any other blockchain based technology.

2) It's (essentially) only used for payments so transaction volume is more easily directly compared to other uses. For example, Ethereum has roughly double the daily transaction rate of Bitcoin but it's not clear to me how to easily breakout payments for direct comparison to Bitcoin, Visa, etc.

3) I'd use Lightning transaction volumes if I could find them. Anywhere. I've researched this quite a bit and all I can find are posts like the ones you provided (from Lightning Labs themselves) or from places like the Dailyhodl, etc talking about how big all of the markets Lightning is going to take over are, how much potential there is, etc. The typical "by 2030 we'll be doing (insert astronomical number)".

If you have a reputable/reliable source for the number of transactions on the Lightning Network I'd love to see it. The amount of bitcoin on it, the number of channels, the number of nodes, etc make for some impressive looking graphs but I suspect the transaction volume (to me the only real number that matters in terms of adoption) is still extremely low. If it wasn't everyone in the blockchain sphere would be hyping that too.

Let's circle back - I use blockchain at my current startup. I had 200 GPUs mining Ethereum in 2017. I'm not anti-blockchain by any means. I bring up what I consider to be valid criticisms because the bubble inside a bubble wrapped in an echo chamber present in blockchain today isn't doing anyone any favors. The reality is that (zooming out) after 10 years blockchain is still a toy. If it has any chance of ever living up to the promise and hype at least some people need to step out of the bubble and ask themselves why it's actually been one of the most slowly adopted technologies in the last 100 years.
because he wants them and Google offers them at a very reasonable price, forcing people to use inferior products is bad
AR for me is way more exciting
Super long is >100 character passwords. Not much point: either the hash function is broken or some other hack will happen before humanity develops enough compute power to crack 100 char bcrypt passwords.

Websites (like some banks used to) that have less-than 20 char limits for passwords are purely bad security strategy.
That is all well and good until the day you need to it to return two different results depending on which context its running in.

Relying on fixed global state is asking for trouble down the line if it's something that will be evolved over time. DI makes such changes possible because you're injecting it with the constructors, while still allowing you to have a singleton DB managing class today.

Another major benefit for long term maintainability is the ability to see _all_ dependencies in the single constructor. It certainly makes writing tests simpler from unit tests to in memory integration tests.
Yeah, I also expect that after these 100+ cases we'll have a pretty clear consensus in most european countries about this.
> How does the consumer know it is zero-knowledge?

The courts, not consumers, are the ultimate deciders in this situation. Companies say so under oath and a judge weighs the evidence.
"I make my life more difficult because people in the past had difficult lives"?

How far do you apply this model? Passenger airbags in your automobile too?
That would be one of the best legislations of the decade
> It's classic US legislation, 'we don't care about borders when it suits us' style.

GDPR is written the same way.

i.e: https://gdpr.eu/article-3-requirements-of-handling-personal-...
Direct link to the transcript: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1068930998?_pjax=main
Eclipse.

Why? I guess it's mostly down to familiarity / expertise and the fact that it fundamentally "just works" and does what I need. Yes, there are some warts, but by now I've mostly normalized the pain or figured out how to manage around the warts.

I've tried some of the alternatives, including IntelliJ, and just don't find any of them compelling. Or at least not compelling enough to justify the switching cost.
> But yeah, it's the sort of thing that it's better done at EU level rather than in 27 different, weak and uncoordinated ways. Offices and schools would be very happy to use it, I bet.

No, 27 uncoordinated ways means 27 ways of going around. That's better in this case. No government the size of EU should have control of the internet.
It makes sense that if one were CERTAIN that the real Satoshi could never claim otherwise (because you knew them to be dead), you would feel emboldened to make outrageous claims without fear of reprisal.
As an American I learned a lot from this article. The idea of encouraging product design that is specifically repairable with the same parts that went into it during the initial manufacturing seems like an obviously great idea, but I know enough about planned obsolescence to know why that isn't the world we live in. The examples here about irreversible disassembly (breaking things) was also eye opening. It makes perfect sense but I had never considered or really noticed this phenomenon. Of course it should be possible to take an electric toothbrush completely apart and recycle the components, but that's often so difficult that the entire thing gets thrown away, wasting all the components, recyclable or not.

I am sensitive to environmental problems but hadn't ever really thought about it at the level of these products, thinking such waste was just an inevitable feature of Capitalism. I'm very heartened to learn that there is a legislative effort in the EU, however nascent, to try and change these patterns and create a better future through design. I will never think about "right to repair" the same way again.
You can recover a private key from two signatures if they reuse the same nonce. The nonce should be random and only used once as the name suggests
I’ve strongly considered to migrate from Keepassxc to Bitwarden for making things simpler. At the moment, the way I use Keepass is: password + only storing the db on Google Drive + adding the key file to any device I want to access from (smartphone and laptop) via usb cable. This way I can keep the db up to date across devices while keeping it “safe” as the key file is not being shared across the network.

So, as I said, I’ve considered Bitwarden for being open source and cheap and for simplicity but despite reading the implementation they do and knowing they have had successful audits the paranoid in my cannot stop thinking on the “what ifs”. I have all my life on Keepass: from access to the bank, to government taxes stuff, to the pi-hole web ui etc etc. I feel I have more control now with my clunky approach. If I migrate to a managed solution and for any reason my data gets compromised on their side I would be utterly fucked.

Probably it’s just me being irrational.
Quiz: Is Pluto a Planet? What Makes a Planet a Planet, Anyway?
GDPR is about sharing personal data and tracking users. It doesn’t matter if it’s done via cookies or some other way.
If you never persist state, AND don't allow any type of auto-configure when adding media that you store data on, that would actually be true.
As far as I understand the decision is about US being able to order companies inside the US, to give them any data, even when that data origins from overseas.

So regarding your question, I guess the answer would be: A European website makes use only of services, which are not in danger of the US (or other countries from outside Europe) ordering the company to grant them access to the data. I guess this means, that you cannot use any services, which are offered by companies, which store data in the US and possibly even if they store it elsewhere, but fall under US law.
We use Dashlane at work and its probably the worst software i have ever used. I have no idea what they do with their funding but it doesn't seem like it gets spent in making the app function correctly.
I calculate melting the antarctic ice sheet to be more like 2e15 tons (ignoring the heat required to bring it to the melting point).
Are you using Vaultwarden?
The echo chamber needs thicker walls.
Are we talking about the same EU? The EU does this for censoring and monitoring, not against it - and they're totally open about it too. Google "Zensursula"...
I'm the author, thanks for the link!

Mistakes happen, but I think we should try to learn from each one.
> Setting limits (...) makes it harder to abuse services with those identities. Almost no legitimate users actually need truly unlimited email addresses (...). Even generous limits would help to avoid many problems.

Note that Relay already rate-limits customers:

> we limit our free users to 5 total aliases, and we rate-limit our premium customers so they cannot create large-scale throw-away aliases for abusive sign-ups and behaviors.

https://github.com/wesbos/burner-email-providers/pull/339
Majority of Excel jobs I have seen in regulated industries are because people use the tools that they are familiar with for everything. Do you really need a spreadsheet to generate reports? Project Management Tracking? Timesheets? Task Lists? Calendars and Schedules?

The majority of the jobs people do are updating crap in spreadsheets that don’t need to be there. If it weren’t for SOPs and audits, this stuff could be wiped out easily.

The only protection for these office workers is the status quo and inertia to change. Excel provides some task automation but still requires recurring human input and maintenance. The new wave of AI does NOT.
> Miners could stand ready to do that

“Could,” or “are”? How many miners are doing this? How many would even want to?
Qonto (“EU NeoBank”) raises €486M
You seem to be mistaking "I want to know about the history of the people I come from" for "I want to know how the history of the people I come from impacts my everyday life". It's entirely possible to be curious your ancestry because it's part of the long path that leads to you existing.
Carlton Landing, in the Middle of Oklahoma
Even if this works and this were marketable today, we still have to take into account the amount of time to scale up production capacities for the reactants and the devices which would to the extraction. On top of that the necessary subsidies to make it economically interesting to have it be deployed far and wide.

Don't get me wrong, if this works we HAVE to do this. I'm just not very optimistic that it could save us at this point. We'd still be fucked, just a little less so.
Nope. I've heard some people talk about company constructions where you create a new officially unaffiliated company in the EU, that then just lends the IP to create a datacenter from the US-based companies, but I'm not sure if that's actually feasible.
This looks like a really neat tool but I wish that people didn't have to sign up in order to submit a response to the survey.
> but how is this not a fad? The wii was cool at the time too. Nintendo didn’t retain the ideas in later hardware.

Hand tracking (via controllers or cameras) isn’t comparable at all to the Nintendo waggle/point/swing tech.
I once worked in a non-tech company and was tasked with finding new hosting infrastructure for their web apps / sites. I proposed two dedicated servers from Hetzner for about 350 EUR / month. Instead of being happy about the small cost, the CEO rather said "that's too cheap to be any good!" and asked me to specifically to move the apps to AWS because some golf buddy and his company were using that.
So now they're paying thousands instead of hundreds. But as long as the CEO is happy. I moved on because at the same time they were extremely stingy with salaries.
There is currently an EU member challenging the concept of European law’s primacy. Meanwhile, implementation of other courts’ rulings are delayed by years between jurisdictions.

There is zero chance, for instance, that anyone in Greece or Portugal or Ireland will be impacted, judicially, by this decision for several years. That’s better than before. But it’s far from e.g. a U.S. federal court ruling in California’s impact in New York, or a French court’s ruling in Paris in Marseille.
I don't know where you're getting that IP-level filtering is the only way to "actually implementing URL filtering" - if they're talking about URL filtering as a feature of a new DNS infrastructure, then the most likely assumption is that they're talking about DNS-level filtering.
Nope, what is described is addition of new DNS servers for EU users with some extra things on top for monitoring and premium services. It's not the intention to create a new parallel/separate internet where new TLDs will exist.
Good move from network point of view, good for most users but with a few caveats for more experienced users ;-)
Yes, but while the US generally wants to have their dick up your arse, GDPR makes sure your butt is protected by law.
I often see people asking here if there are large raises of capital in EU; I haven't seen this one covered, yet it feels pretty unicornesque, so worth sharing!
What ever happened to Scientific American? My dad was subscribed since before I was born, and paid for each 6 numbers to be bound in a high-quality encyclopedia-like hardcover binding. I remember devouring these venerable volumes as a kid, looking especially for the Martin Gardner, and later Douglas Hofstadter, mathematical games. But also for all the extremely cool news about space exploration, chemistry research, biology, plans for future nuclear fusion. Now it seems to be nothing of the sort (I don't talk about this stupid article, but about the overall content).
I've played a few VR games that were better or could only really work in VR that I thought justified it, but I keep my Rift around pretty much just for Beat Saber. Generally speaking I'd agree that VR is pretty disappointing. The best experiences are room scale and need, you know, basically a whole room dedicated to them. Movement is a problem because of motion sickness, tracking tech is still a bit dodgy, and unless you are ok with patronizing Facebook the tech is expensive and requires you to deal with cables.

In a few generations I'd say it might be worthwhile, but for now it's a pretty expensive gimmick.
The writing's been on the wall about this for a long time, and anyone following the space has seen this coming. I'm glad that we're starting to see some judgements now, so people have something to point to when arguing to not send PII to america.
They are using Google Analytics and Tag Manager.
Incidents like this happen all the time, the latest that comes to mind was in Paris CDG [0].

0.https://www.aerotime.aero/28405-near-miss-at-cdg-due-to-atc-...
Well Microsoft just needs to found a company owned 51% by a European entity /shareholders and operated by Europeans. Like that, the cloud act cannot be enforced. MS licenses the Azure/Office/whatever to this company so it will grap the majority of revenue. They can make fancy auditing agreements making sure that this company never steals anything from them.

China is doing this model for years. Just with a different motive I guess.

They tried this also with Telekom Germany for the Azure cloud but stopped doing it
Congrats on the beta release! I've been following along for awhile with great interest, looking forward to picking out a couple repos and shadowing git with pijul now that it's beta.

Since you mentioned sanakirja, I'd like to ask: the obvious (to me) reason to build it, rather than use SQLite, is easy ABI compatibility with the rest of the project through Rust. Are there other architectural reasons it's particularly suited to pijul?

I ask because I already store as much as I can in SQLite databases, and am moving to patchsets and changesets for certain kinds of document-oriented data management. Storing pijul's artifacts in that same system would be a natural fit for my application, so I wonder how closely tied together the two codebases are on a practical level.
Again, these are not the "smoking gun" examples you make them out to be. Item [3] in particular is a widely accepted opinion - you will find it expressed enthusiastically by such "tankies" as Bill Gates [0] and The Economist [1].

For item [4], his opinion seems rather complex. Here he is praising a thread that condemns China's treatment of Uyghurs in no uncertain terms [2]. Here he is again mentioning the U(i/y)ghur problem and China's authoritarian surveillance state [3].

(Note that if you want to see real honest-to-god tankies, there are plenty in the replies to his tweets. It seems an outlet called Gray Media, that they cite, is also a good example of actual tankies, directly claiming the Uyghur crisis is a "Western fabrication").

It's also important to remember that there is a major difference between Israel and China speaking from a UK/US/EU journalist: our countries are generally pouring billions of dollars of direct support, and heaps of diplomatic support, for Israel. They are doing no such thing for China. So, we have a much better reason to criticize Israel compared to China: we are partly responsible for Israel's crimes; while we bear little to no responsibility for China's (with some exceptions, such as slave labour for the production of export goods, or the status of Hong Kong). We can huff and puff all we want at China, it won't budge. Israel will.

What you're doing here is similar to people complaining that Chomsky criticized the USA without criticizing the USSR as much or more. His point was simple: he lived in the USA and had some measure of say on its direction. He had no such measure of say on the USSR's behavior, so he was naturally more silent on it.

[0] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Goalkeepers-speech-20... - "In the past quarter-century, China lifted more than 500 million people out of extreme poverty"

[1] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2013/06/01/towards-the-end... - "China pulled 680m people out of misery in 1981-2010, and reduced its extreme-poverty rate from 84% in 1980 to 10% now."

[2] https://twitter.com/aaronbastani/status/1285358145003556864 - "Great thread Ammar.", in response to a thread that says things like "This repression is widely documented: it’s difficult to cover-up concentration camps. It’s also hard to argue against the statements of escapees who describe being ‘brainwashed’, as well as being tortured for speaking the Uyghur language and reciting the Qur’an."

[3] https://twitter.com/aaronbastani/status/1115585109736996864 - "All encompassing surveillance state...not a democracy...uighurs"
a 200 million lawsuit plus removing the unix stuff
I believe the last verified communication from Satoshi (before the account was compromised) was "I'm not Dorian Nakamoto" in 2014: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour... .

Edit: See also the full list of forum posts at https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/ .
Yes, but not automatically and immediately as far as I know.
Technically maybe but in practice using zero-knowledge encrypted services if you want to calculate aggregates or do large-scale calculations isn't really technically feasible.
Then again, if it is public (or not-sensitive) data, why make it part of your infra?

If you are working with ML and have public datasets, just use the original source. Make a public mirror if you want to collaborate. Make it accessible via BitTorrent. You can bet that the amount of savings you will get from AWS will be enough to give each dev a NAS with a few tens of TB, which then they can even then use to host/mirror the public data by themselves.
The US-style "depending on cloud services for everything" is generally frowned upon in the companies i work with (germany). I see much self-hosting.
It looks serious to me. Go to the homepage and look at the some of the other articles; this one doesn’t seem unusual.
Hetzner sucks if you care about support and not being arbitrarily blocked & banned without recourse or explanation.
#cursed adapters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22428321
I could not derive from the article that they are shady. All it said is that they receive money from National Endowment for Democracy, just as Thomson Reuters Foundation. I am not sure why this is shady per se. Maybe you can explain?

Bellingcat was crucial in identifying the Tiergarten killer and the corresponding researcher was invited to court as a witness[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/15/germany-convic...