skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You should be able to work from a stable coffee shop WiFi connection."

I think there are different philosophies, just like 'no comments allowed in code', this is a matter of judgement.

I saw 5 different corporations setup centralised workflow, and usually you end up with a massive cloud bill, incorrectly configured admin rights, under-resourced VDI, and a ticketing system that takes a week to resolve the smallest issue.

If we assume for the moment that data in question is not highly sensitive (for example public satellite imagery), there is nothing wrong with getting every dev a beefy workstation with 50 TB of storage and a 20-core CPU, and it's often even cheaper.
Thank God we have very capable cloud providers in Europe that will rise to the challenge and offer a viable opportunity to the US major cloud providers!
Web 3.0 is The Phantom Menace.
So the entire EU is going to be forced to use Open Office or some other equivalent? Non tech people will hate this and it will cripple many businesses that rely on Microsoft Excel. You'd be surprised how much of the world economy is based on emailing Excel sheets back and forth
You either pay with your data, or you pay with clicks on stupid cookie banners. Or both, if you click on the wrong button.
We have IRC and it shines bright!

But seriously: Google just needs to move the problematic part of their EU business into EU and start complying.
Developer centric, performant and extensible Python ASGI framework
> Someone who's great^N granddaddy banged a slave is

... the great grandchild of a slave?

if that were me i'd have many questions about the situation and how it
impacted the next generation, etc.

this is the problem with dismissal -

it facilitates or accelerates the process of suppressing the history.
> "standard contractual clauses", basically an attempt to contract away the regulation is not valid.

how is this suprising? This has been the case in Civil law since atleast napoleonic times.

Contracts do not declare laws or rights invalid, unless these exceptions are defined in said law.
Nice to see Kiwisaver getting a mention!

Can you give some options for other currencies? I'm after Japanese Yen.
the criticism is that it is necessarily entirely coincidental, due to there being no possible mechanism for these signals. if you really are under the delusion that you are predicting volcanic eruptions based on dreams, perhaps speak to a mental health professional rather than posting on twitter and hn?
That's not quite right. This ruling is not the precedent, the Schrems II ruling is the precedent. This is just a court determining that Schrems is in fact relevant precedent in this specific case, and finding based on that.
It is still a larger attack surface. A salesperson can give a false impression about the value of the ongoing relationship over the transaction and make a ~promise that is not legally binding.

I.e. if you give the actual date you need something they may say they talked to a friend in logistics and they have it on good authority that it really should be here by then. Getting their offer with no indication of your requirements means any misrepresentations aren't tuned to your specific requirements.
I did, thanks. Fixed!
Hetzner, OVH, Leaseweb, Scaleway. How many cloud providers do you need?
Can you think of a good alternative other than outlawing Microsoft 365? I want these services to be spread out however this particular idea would make the EU even more sluggish than it already is
Just to clarify, the article is about the court case where he wants some transactions on the Bitcoin SV blockchain reversed. The question relating to whether he is Satoshi, and therefore owns Satoshi's 1.1M Bitcoins on the Bitcoin Core blockchain, is a separate court case.
Well this might open a HUUUGE market for Analytics in the EU. We might see some competition rise and a good (better?) product emerge.
While it is a little more difficult for us to read transliterated text, it is pretty common, and the only way to write something in Russian without a Cyrillic keyboard. So no worries, it is quite acceptable.
You mean 1997?

By 1999 I was already using our own version of mod_tcl and unfortunely fixing exploits every now and then in our native libs called by Tcl.
This feels like really bad faith argumentation.

You haven't engaged with the point being made -- that the tools _might_ actually make the job easier.

You're just reiterating your view that "I didn't need these tools, so they are at best worthless and and at worst exploitative"
What are solid european alternatives?
Getting started with extensions is hard especially when there's no great framework. I built a great boilerplate with everything set up for you to build your product!
GOAL does have a GC, though particularly primitive, and is definitely a lisp (there can be lisp without GC, it's just an unnecessary failure of design to not have one)
A side note left out in the history mentioned here is that Igor first[1] developed two third-party modules for Apache, mod_deflate and mod_accel[2]. I think especially the latter was a big step towards NGINX already. It was a much more capable replacement for the mod_proxy module that was bundled with Apache, and that would slurp up the response from the server as fast as it could, storing it in a local file cache while starting delivery to the client immediately (and optionally re-use the cache for future requests); it freed up the back-end server quickly, which was very helpful to reduce the number of concurrent processes in a system that used fork (as the Perl based systems I was working on did). It made performance better than FastCGI (as at least the Apache FastCGI implementation would not do the step of slurping up the response and copying it to a temporary file, and thus tie down the back-end process until the response was fully delivered to the client).

My interpretation of the history is that Igor first solved the scalability problems for a direct need (IIRC he was working for a large Russian website at the time[3]), while doing that probably realized that the Apache code base could be replaced whole-sale to do more than just HTTP proxying, and introduced the async approach to make it scalable itself, too.

[1] IIRC I saw the public NGINX announcement a few months after starting to use mod_accel.
[2] Amazingly the page is still up: http://sysoev.ru/en/apache_modules.html (and it is still linking to the "Babelfish English translation" that I made by auto-translating and manually cleaning up the docs and that I hosted on a DynDNS domain that I've long since lost).
[3] Rambler, from reading the other comments here.
See my comment in another thread[0]. It doesn’t necessarily add much but my gut says probably not. Or if there is I would bet it’s just as or more niche than parents who would self-host their own app. But maybe I’m understanding the extent to which becoming a parent makes people think more about privacy as a priority?

Definitely curious to know if anyone has done any real research on this generally — that is, whether there is a real market for the “privacy focused” version of any product that would have other cheaper, less privacy focused options.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29993024
The thing is that they upload your data across the pond without you knowing it.

Wouldn't you rather be aware?
I guess parent fears that Google will blanket-disable access to all Google services in the EU, as retaliation. Unlikely imho, but it's true that Analytics was a big loss - it's only one step down from their core product, Adsense, and if GDPR enforcement comes for Adsense then they will have to go nuclear.
Libertarianism is so silly. "My freedom to live would be best served if there weren't politicians micromanaging other people's right to murder me". It's like a parody.
"World primary low-grade gallium production capacity in 2019 was estimated to be 720 tons per year"
Testing in court is not the way to enforce legality for police departments. Having someone let go from a crime years after they are arrested based on court proceedings would 1) be too far removed from the illegal behaviour to change that behavior, 2) not catch most illegal behaviour because, as the most likely response would be for the police department to lie about it, 3) not catch behaviour that is illegal but never makes it to court. I would much rather have police departments have strong training about appropriate evidence collection, third party oversight over police behaviour, and technical monitors of behavior such as body cams.

Edit: I just want to point out there should be court cases about it, but they should be focused on repercussions for the offending officers instead. With a model where illegal police behaviour is punished by releasing a defendant doesn't actually punish the police and forces the non-police individual pay for illegal police behaviour by being put on trial.
Yes, it is. But MacOS (and Windows) are popular OSs for laptop users. I'm the maintainer of a command line tool that is reasonably popular and I believe that the majority of my users are MacOS. So the question is quite concrete for me -- should I provide documentation in the form of a man page? I do not currently, for the reasons I gave above (although I made a mistake in saying Linux when I meant Linux and *BSD for which I deserve what I get!) But I'd appreciate it being pointed out if my thinking is wrong here.
Ahah, of course during a period of time.
Look at DuckDuckGo https://duckduckgo.com/traffic they benefited a lot from the changes imposed on their competitors.
As far as I'm concerned you're free to send whatever data you like to the googleanalytics API. In fact I encourage it.
> You'd be surprised how much of the world economy is based on emailing Excel sheets back and forth

How would Excel being run locally, with its work product being emailed back and forth, be impacted by this?
Once again, Amazon is way ahead of the pack here.

They already have the answer for the ad industry --- specially developed low cost hardware that forces ads to the purchaser. Aka, the Fire tablet --- cheap little ad spewing machines.

Unless government steps in and breaks them up, Amazon will eventually own most of retail commerce.
Where can i see an official statement of this? The linked website seems dubious…
Looks great! But I feel that $9/month (up to 10k views) is a bit much for my personal website... I pay that much to Google now, but I get a whole suite of tools besides analyticsm, like email addresses (for my whole family under our surname as a domain, which is cool), my own domain (via GogoDaddy, but I got that via Google and pay Google only) and all the small business office tools they offer (though I think those are free?).

Are the any alternatives that offer the same kind of thing as Google?
Why not now force the EU to heavily invest in libreoffice so that it becomes a drop replacement to excel? I'm sure the European union can spare some euros to make it possible and this isn't even a utopian dream that can't be achieved. It just needs a good push
“It would have been a better world without Teller.”
Thanks for further clarification. Verbal approvals are not good.

However, your reference to Spolsky is not correct as nginx was not a side project, but a core work project that powered all of Rambler's properties. The situation is similar to a Yahoo employee open-sourcing the Apache Traffic Server (very similar project with similar timelines, by the way; Rambler was once the "Russian Yahoo", while Yandex is the "Russian Google") and then Yahoo 10 years later claiming the open-sourcing was illegal. I understand that something may have been done wrong (and that's why I appreciate Eclipse and Apache legal team support and due diligence), but I have a hard time believing that Rambler didn't notice its core internal project being open-sourced for 10 years.
> How do you turn gallium oxide back into gallium?

electricity? Cathode and Anode?
Casino, there was no max. A lot of players sitting on 100k+. There were far bigger hands than this one.
Is Microsoft no longer making a desktop version of their office suite?
I got Cloudfare error "This website has been temporarily rate limited" [1]

[1] https://i.imgur.com/zZ3h24s.png
Libertarianism is definitely against murder. And quite a few libertarians believe that the FDA and EPA do too much to protect corporations from lawsuits, basically, if it meets their guidelines doesn't matter if it kills you, the company is protected. Absurd reductionism isn't helpful.
It's absolutely not the same. You're not getting any personal info about google business secrets or employees in exchange.

As for the why, while you might want to share your data with the US agencies and want to have a choice, there are millions of people who don't want to, and didn't get a say before. Today, you're simply on the side which lost the battle.
Yep

ca 720t in 2019
Why can't I stop companies from taking my data if I don't want them to? Protection of its citizens is a primary function of a government.
You are free to share any data with Google that you wish. Google is however not free to take said data from users without explicit consent.
I wish it were so simple, yet I think the rapid advances in the last 10 years or so in Java, C++, and JavaScript, which developers have been expected to learn and keep up with, are sufficient to more than cast doubt on that. The changes on whole are nearly broad enough to count as new languages. If that's not enough, then there's the mobile development side of things, which have seen actual language shifts in Objective C to Swift and Old Java to Kotlin.
As far as I can tell this ruling means that transfering PII to any company/service controlled by an American company is illegal per the GDPR.

I work for a European company that is already being impacted by this ruling. Our first step is to replace Google Analytics, but I believe we are also looking through all cloud usage for any traces of PII.

I think this is a huge opportunity for European companies to get a foothold in the Analytics/Ads/Cloud/Office spaces. Perhaps also an opportunity for good open source alternatives, like Matomo Analytics, to get adopted.
http://web.archive.org/web/20220119113842/https://pijul.org/...
I've heard the opposite since the term software emulation has its roots in mimicking architectures in software but full blown virtualization simulates the entire system in software.
You can use MS Office without putting everything on the cloud. Excel doesn't need to go, and you can still use Excel online for calculations that don't include personal information, which should suffice for most businesses.

Just don't upload that CSV containing all of your customers to Microsoft, that shouldn't be too hard.
It's pretty ridiculous how much bloat there is in Google Analytics anyway. Their interface hasn't gotten any better over the years. Sorting through behavioral visits will sometimes crash the browser tab. A lot of open-source platforms can do super specific analytics while also remaining privacy-friendly.
> Why not now force the EU to heavily invest in libreoffice so that it becomes a drop replacement to excel?

The history of this strategy working, versus becoming a job/contract bank for cronies over time, is very poor in the long run. Regardless of the political system which attempts it.
The various shields for EU->US datatransfer, agreed before and after GDPR, have been found incompatible with GDPR even if only potential. It's just that nobody has sued anybody yet, as the industry silently scrambles to look for alternatives.

There is the law, and then there is enforcement of the law, and the latter has not fully happened yet.
For servers, there is countless providers. Not nearly as big as the hyperscalers, but certainly sufficient.

Netcup, xTom, Hetzner, OVH, Scaleway just off the top of my head
> getting the Ga2O back to being liquid Ga is probably the problem

guess, the same way we got it - bath, electricity, cathode and anode
We self host Bitwarden at work so I can distribute read only logins and passwords to vendors, lower level employees, etc.
I like the theory however, I don't think a state owned and funded initiative could ever compete with Microsoft/Google/Amazon etc....
I've heard Google is working on a new cookie-less version of GA just like plausible and other privacy-focused GA alternatives. Wondering if this cookie-less GA would still come under the ban.
Because corporations are deaf to constructive calls. Like, e.g. opt analytics in and not try to trick masses into it. An average person may or may not want to share, but they have no choice.
> a little awareness goes a long way and can save a few awkward situations

if society ever gets this right about northern ireland it will be a good day for everyone :)
Why do you need analytics for your personal website?
Co-locate run your own hardware, Hetzner, Exoscale etc. There are many alternatives just not as large as Amazon. Many ISPs also offer DDoS protection.
>As a non-American, I have no idea what kind of damage hurricane Katrina did

As a non-American, I do.

I agree comparable to a nuke is better, I was just commenting that Katrina for a large number of people is quite different than the other examples and does convey an intuitive understanding.

While noting that intuitive understandings are imprecise.
Nextcloud would be a solid European alternative for office365. It's a file sync, groupware, office and xhat solution all in one. It's open source, self hostable and has enterprise support.

Disclaimer: I work at Nextcloud so I'm a bit biased
Compassion/self love is what made me change my lifestyle and overcome excuses. If you have compassion for the work that your organs are doing, you are going to be more motivated to do the things that keep those organs healthy, while doing less of the things that damage them. One day I heard someone talking about how the heart has to work harder pumping blood around if you sit all day. I couldn't shake the thought, so eventually I started moving more and adopted a cold shower routine despite hating the cold. I started giving a shit about my cardiovascular health as a result of compassion. I didn't have to crack the whip either, making lifestyle adjustments just felt like the right thing to do.

Compassion is not about making people feel better for not taking care of their situation/body/work/goals/life/relationships, it's about acting with a level of care for the things that matter most.
Smart TVs are equally expensive, you just pay with your sanity and data instead of bucks.
So they set up an EU subsidiary that's independent enough for CLOUD Act to not apply. Problem solved.
We could build 1000 times more renewables than we have right now. But since we don't have a way of storing vast excess of energy available in peak production times we would still have to burn coal for some part of the day.

Thanks to this technology with proper economic incentives we might use surplus electricity in peak renewables production hours to make carbon to burn later, or to bury underground.
API REQUESTS MUST BE AUTHENTICATED

With Covid-19 pandemic requests for our API went skyrocket, our servers could not handle so much traffic, so we decided to limit API usage just to authenticated requests for User Agents. In short it means, you have to provide opensubtitles.org username and password in LogIn() method.

We are avare some of user agents doesn't implement authentication for numerous reasons.

What you can do for fix, if your app is affected:
- let your users know about this change
- implement LogIn() into your app with user authentication
- contact us for pricing, so your app can send unathenticated requests (e.g. if you have free and pro version of your app, it is possible free will work only with authenticated requests and pro works as before)

More info on [our forum](https://forum.opensubtitles.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17110)

We are actively blocking IPs, which are sending unathenticated requests
Using Python and mitmproxy to scrape private API of mobile app
> Or would that still violate GDPR as Google as an American company can still be coerced to give access to data stored on their servers outside the US?

Yes, because of CLOUD Act. If GA would create a deployable agent that proceses user data on your server before sending it in aggregate/anonymously to central GA, that would make it usable
>Plants are much better suited to capturing CO2

I do wonder if it would be much cheaper to capture CO2 by investing technology and capital into 'building' forests. What if we can irrigate Sahara and cultivate some fast-growing plants like bamboos there? Maybe that has ecological consequences but it doesn't seem to be much different than the agricultural land expansion that has happened in rainforests in the first place.
I came here to say this. People should read at least the Wikipedia summary for CLOUD act. It's classic US legislation, 'we don't care about borders when it suits us' style.
> I am curious, why is that undesirable for you?

Casting from a phone is a terrible experience. I want to sit down on the couch, mash some remote buttons and watch something. I don't want to find a phone to cast from. Whose phone would we use? Mine, my wifes, my relatives who are over? What if they want to change the program? Now they are figuring out all the casting business? No, pick up the remote and use it like normal.
Semantic Search with a Vector Database
> Oh but I can't

Yes, you can

> when the companies decide not to offer those services

They never offered "you can freely sell your personal data to us". What they offered was "we siphon your personal data, for free, whether you want it or not, and sell it to the highest bidder".

> I am willing to bet that the vast majority of Internet EU users is busy hunting for the "Allow All" button

Ah yes. It's the politicians who are at fault, and not the companies who put up these banners in clear violation of the law.
Interestingly, Google afaik did some funky business with SAP where they swap jurisdiction around so that when faced with US request they can at some point say "send it to SAP AG and see if they care" - or so it seemed few years ago (source: notification of contract change wrt GCP)
From the Schrems II judgment:

> Where the controller or a processor established in the European Union is not able to take adequate additional measures to guarantee such protection, the controller or processor or, failing that, the competent supervisory authority, are required to suspend or end the transfer of personal data to the third country concerned.

It would seem as though any EU company that can be compelled to transfer data to the US would be found not to be able to take adequate measures to guarantee the protection of the data. I'm not familiar enough with the law in the US to understand whether the US authorities can compel an EU subsidiary of a US company to transfer data out of the EU, but if so...
Its not a managed service so its not a direct alternative.
In London the cost of public transport is comparable to running a car. The end result is meh. It works ok but with the usual drawbacks.
If we’re comparing apples to apples, you’d expect a 2.5D platform from an indie developer with only a handful of people to cost $60.

Speaking of markets, doom 1 sold 4M copies. The best selling hardcore gamer game is grand theft auto V with 155M copies sold.

That’s a bit less than 40x the number of sales for doom (next best is red dead redemption 2 at 39M or 10x). 9 people in total developed doom. 1,000 people worked in GTA-V. They also worked many more years.

That’s over 100x more people and probably 500x the total development time for just 40x the sales. If you look into red dead’s numbers, I’m positive they look far worse than that.

GTA-V would need to cost $300+ to match the profit margins of doom if people were getting paid the same. Of course, they get paid peanuts for the “privilege” of working on some megacorp’s game.
That's awesome, thank you. The irony of "show me or you're bullshit" is amazing!
> Privacy law in the EU is harmonized

In theory. Reality is quite far from that, as anyone on the ground can attest.
What is the gps app? Give it a shout-out.