skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And is anyone else annoyed that since GDPR started, every single website that even so much as stores your username now has a "this website uses cookies" thing you have to click on to get rid of it? And if you turn off cookies, you see this damn intrusive thing every single time.

I am indeed very annoyed that so many companies are throwing an online tantrum over the very reasonable requirements of GDPR. Most of those cookie banners aren't even GDPR-compliant because they don't let you opt-out of tracking and don't actually tell you what data they are tracking or who they are giving it to.

Just tell people what you are actually fucking doing with their data and let them opt-out of having their data collected. It's not that fucking hard.
Given that most Chinese know perfectly well that theyand their families will wind up dead or in a concentration camp if they express dissent, in what way is it useful to ask them what they think?
> Maybe this is because "union shops" are allowed in the USA.

Not only are they allowed, but they're almost universal. Unions in the US (for various historical reasons) refuse to represent a bargaining unit unless they can claim the majority of the bargaining unit, which means that, in a unionized shop, every single employee must be covered by the same union.

Unlike in Europe, there is no competition between unions for workers in the US.
.. Which you rarely see stuck in people's ears. You do see those little white airpods everywhere though. People have them stuck in their ears even when they're not playing any audio.
As found here [1] but variations are all over the net.

In 1998, a programmer who had been working on Y2K fixes started to get anxious because he couldn't believe how pervasive the problem was. He switched from company to company trying to get away from it, but everywhere he went he became regarded as the Y2K expert and immediately became the team lead for that company's Y2K contingencies. He finally had a nervous breakdown, quit his job, and decided he wanted to be knocked unconscious when the Y2K actually came about.

A month before Y2K he was put into an artificial coma and cooled down to a near cryogenic easily sustained long term life support.

Unfortunately the life support notification system had a Y2K bug, and no one revived him for 8000 years.

Finally he was found and revived. He woke up, and saw himself surrounded by lots of glass, light, stainless steel, and tall beautiful people in white robes. He asked if he was in Heaven.

They replied, "No, this is Chicago. Actually but it's a lot like Heaven to someone like you."

"Someone like me?"

"You are from the 20th century. Many of the problems that existed in your lifetime have been solved for thousands of years. There is no hunger and no disease. There is no scarcity, or strife between races and creeds."

"What year is it now?"

"Yeah, about that - it's the year 9,998. You see, the year 10,000 is coming up, and we understand you know something called COBOL?"

[1]
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/3aakb8/the...?
A minor nitpick, but the "Cookie Law" that introduced these banners was way before GDPR, although the GDPR does have articles that also talk also about cookies.

The intent of the parts of GDPR which mention cookies (or, at least, what I assume the intent was) was to essentially "upgrade" the banner from a simple and largely useless notification (i.e "By using this site you agree to our use of cookies") to one of informed consent (i.e "Please click accept or deny the use of cookies to continue using this site").

Interestingly, as far as I am aware, no site or company has ever been taken to court or even fined for not using a cookie banner, despite some websites publically declaring they won't use it[0].

0: https://nocookielaw.com/
The good thing about being a hunter-gatherer is you don't have roots. If the local food sources are depleted you simply move on to someplace better. Agriculture roots you to the land, especially if you had to clear the land to make room for your plants and animals. Moving becomes expensive, which makes you more vulnerable to local disruptions to the environment.
Knowing that most of my stress comes from extrapolating and cascading the worse case scenarios into the future. Meditation helped me understand how such scary nightmares originate from simple problems that can be overcome. Once I understood that, they were no longer scary.
So ... which paragraphs in the certification documentation to the FAA justifying no new training were false?
If a company has an “unlimited” vacation policy, it’s totally off-limits to bring that up against you in a review. They could say that you didn’t get X work done or something, but with that kind of vacation policy — it’s what they specifically signed up for.
Are you really equating the US (where I live) to China? I don't imagine anyone in this thread is dumb enough to see the comparison as "US good, China bad", but if you think they reside at about the same level on the oppression and tyranny scale... I don't know what to say to you.

It has nothing to do with "culture" and everything to do with an oppressive regime's stranglehold on its citizens.
How would you detect if something is a cookie dialog in a standardized way? It's pretty much impossible as all of them are custom code with different layouts / selectors / sequence of actions you need to take to opt out.
They're different in more ways than you think. Fun fact, Jeff Bezos passed on acquiring Whatsapp because he's secretly biased against Acton. Talk about getting your signals crossed.
Yup, good point. It's not possible to extract AirPods from Apple and still have them be as successful. But it's illuminating to isolate the business against a backdrop of other top tech companies. It's kind of like Apple spawned Silicon Valley's hottest new tech company in 2016.
As a general rule it should be transparent to you what is evaluated how. Is it subjective feedback ("I have the feeling you could benefit from looking through your code before submitting to review."), is it some kind of arbitrary metric ("Your change requests take way more iterations than the average before being merged.") or is it some kind of pre-arranged evaluation scheme ("You scored only 3 out of 10 on the code quality.").

With that knowledge you can prepare a defense or proactive suggestions for improvement if you feel the need. It could also give you something to use as an argument for a raise.
The union bosses do it to themselves:

Misuse of union funds and a union boss passing over union workers for private workers because they cost less for the job.

Utopian unions don't happen.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/20...
How much does it cost per pilot is it really that bad?
Stronger unions also have their issues. I strongly disagree that union-only shops should be allowed.

While I may be free to quit a union job, it feels quite gangster to say that I have to participate in one to take a job. I don't think the tradeoffs -- benefits from a union versus costs involved, especially when it's exclusively to pursue a career at a specific company -- favor unions.

That said, I do think unions could be stronger, and get a bad rap. To me, this seems like a problem the larger/stronger unions caused (and still cause - see police unions).

Your language - "be part of the group or don't work here" - is also a major disincentive. Artificially created black and white scenarios are reductionist.
Why not let the factories and workers move elsewhere?
As we've never seen any examples of tech sub-industry unionize before, this whole scenario is of dubious provenance. Especially since 21st history labor relations will unlikely to mirror what happened a century ago.
You've replied to me four times without addressing my original arguments, which are fundamental to the issue, regardless of the status quo.

Conversation is attained when both parties listen.
The comment was about the ease of making electric cars, which is only happening on the last decade and plenty of companies are popping up.

Yes, those engineers are busy dealing with the complexity I just mentioned.
>but I think most of us here know that they've been conditioned to think that way.

Haven't you and I been conditioned by the ideology of the liberal conception of freedom, human rights, "democracy" and morality? Do not those concepts also have their critics?

Yes, I am engaging in whataboutism - but sometimes that's a good thing to see just how far the slippery slope can slide. If the Chinese populace, with its faulty ideology, and the Muslim women wearing burquas, with their faulty ideology, can be said to have such a "false consciousness", why is your (or my) ideology so much less faulty or immune to criticism? What about the very ideology you espouse that declares that overriding the will of people is justified if people are "conditioned"?

It is very hard, rare in fact, to escape false consciousness. It just so happens that our false consciousness is a little different to those in other places.
And New Relic, while we're at it.
The assumption being that most Chinese feel absolutely free to disparage their government...?
Are you surprised that growth is higher in China than in the US?
By the way, DDG is also essentially entirely backed by bing. Bing except ddg for bangs is pretty much the same as just DDG.
Yes (though in practice, they're probably just swapping the unit and sending the original back to be refurbished). https://support.apple.com/airpods/repair/service
I went through interview training 5+ years ago, but that was covered then and I believe it's still covered now. Because interviews are mostly conducted by engineers who do it as an occasional thing there are many inexperienced interviewers.

(Speaking only for myself)
Advocating for violence is the one thing you can't do with free speech in the West. Everybody apologizes for that.
What difference does it make when the actual hardware is still flawed? I still refuse to fly in 737 MAX and its variants. Boeing can convince AA and Southwest pilots to give them vote of confidence but consumers are not stupid.
> But again. This doesn't hold up to a straight forward comparison to many European countries. If labour costs would be so detrimental to employment we'd still be queuing to the transatlantic ocean liners.

You can't use a "straightforward comparison" to Europe because labor law is so different in the US. European unions are legally required to compete with each other for workers, whereas American unions almost exclusively represent members where they assert exclusive right to representation.

That's a massive difference in incentives, and it makes for very different dynamics.
Are planets that are earth-sized more likely to contain life than ones without?
My overall grade was 'Outstanding', but I joined in Feb, so had a good -5 months before I was reviewed. Apparently it's difficult to get this where I work.
Great point. Furthermore, how much have AirBuds eaten into Beats sales? Is this more revenue for Apple or just shifting the exact product.
Build your own. It's easy. I've built 2 myself and have learned from/taught some of my friends.

I have registered myself with the FAA for their current program, but I know plenty of people that haven't.

Nor do I want to have to figure out what I need for a TinyWhoop or similar because every little bit of weight is important at that size.
Why would you run AI in the cloud? It is a closed, expensive, high latency, etc. You might want to train in the cloud, maybe.

For inference, I See 90% on the edge (I.e. outside of the clouds).
Most profitable company in the tech world creates new product and uses prior manufacturing skill, brand awareness/loyalty, device lock-in, advertising experience and retail channels to sell it and makes more profit that arbitrary list of companies in different business areas. What's the point?
1) I don't know the estimates but I see it on the streets. Everyone and their dog has AirPods. I already have seen people with Pro version as well. I do not see people walking with their GoPros. If I go skiing I don't see people with their GoPro (people mostly just go skiing and then do some pictures with their phones from what I noticed), Chromecast I have seen some but not as many. There is no comparison.

2) There is one interesting thing. Everyone would say "make software" because it is easily scalable and you want scalable business. You don't want to make physical things, because making business on physical things is not scalable. Now Apple is showing that making physical things makes loads of money if you are Apple. So still making physical things can make more money than making SaaS.
The tone of the post, makes you sound exactly like the run of the mill militant vegans, that I have been talking to many times before, so no reason to continue.

But I will let you know that I respect your choice of not eating meat, even though you won't accept that I will continue, like the majority of people, eating meat. Have a nice day.
Anyway: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210726
Had they done it even before that a lot of people might still be alive.
No worries regarding the naming, it's what makes open-source friendly! You can see some benches here e.g. https://travis-ci.org/yamafaktory/jql/jobs/618374730#fold-st... but those actually more like regression tests that are triggered for pull requests to compare them against master (and I should use Github actions probably here now instead of Travis). Thanks for your reply!
Done this myself. They don't replace the battery but send you a new AirPod or charging case.

My understanding is that opening an AirPod without damaging the plastic casing is close to impossible to do.

My guess would be they replace them then strip the components out of your returned AirPod or charging case and recycle/reuse what they can.
They're obligated to retain some information for a certain period of time, but certainly not all information that they have and not forever.
The cell phone Bluetooth headsets produced plenty of eyerolls when they were the thing a number of years back too. Probably for similar reasons--you never know when I may get a phone call that's more important than you.

Personally, I don't wear these sorts of things in public but that's mostly because I hate being isolated from even relatively benign environments.
Ok, what are those incentives exactly? Just say you don’t want to read it.
Why are there people measuring ground current? Even though random scientific interest is enough reason, I suppose it's more than that.
I've lived in the US all my life, and I've been subjected to propaganda my entire life as well. Everyone grows up in a society that tries to justify why it's the best and everything else is worse, point at a dozen good qualities of America and I will point at a dozen evil ones. America has and continues to do horrific things. I had to see that broken down with my own eyes to figure out that I was raised on lies just as much as any other oppressive nation.
When I pay to compensate my CO2 emission, it goes into tree planting project.
I have both. If the AirPods Pro didn't make my inner ear sore after wearing for 3+ hours, I would sell my Sony's immediately. I might sell them anyway. They are inferior in everything apart from comfort.
> security level 2 (defined as 112-bit security) in the latest release (Debian Buster); this already prevents dangerous usage of SHA-1

FWIW this doesn't apply to Fedora currently, because it has a patch that re-enables SHA-1 in security level 2 in non-FIPS mode: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openssl/blob/master/f/ope...
Building drones is stupid easy. It doesn't even need to be a quadcopter, you can make a glider that will stay aloft on thermals using nothing more than two servos, some foam core, some AA batteries and a receiver.

This seems dumb...
Gess, a chess-like game with mutating pieces
Don't make cancer anything it's not, either. Cancer is just growth of abnormal cells, unconstrained, to the point that it causes harm to the host.

That said, maybe AMP is more like a virus. A non-living organism that spreads by infecting living organisms and repurposing them to replicate itself instead of sustaining the organism they were a part of.

The more sites adopt AMP, the more everyone else says "well I guess we have to now." Seems pretty viral.
If our only consideration for every decision is whether or not if it will increase cost for employers, then we would still have child labor and slavery. I don't believe this is a hyperbolic statement. The specter of increased costs is used to justify opposing everything from higher minimum wages to the 40-hour workweek.
It’s already a meme on college campuses that you aren’t cool if you still have the ‘long stems’. I’d say pros are doing well.
If not the governing org then who? It's not in the public interest to facilitate or encourage rent seeking. To the extent that price differences are inevitable in a market based system (where we assume the party most worthy of a domain is the one willing to put the most money into acquiring it), it only makes sense that the money be used for the public good.
Guardian XO: Full-Body Powered Exoskeleton
I loved my Pebble, but it was certainly not cool. Also didn't work as well as my Apple Watch, which I waited until my beloved Pebble finally died before buying.
Good luck getting "permission" from a union to operate a "non-union" game dev shop.
It is a spillover from Hong Kong, but in the sense that mainland capital that would have entered HK is now investing in Shenzhen and is hence making the city too expensive for manufacturing.
Guardian XO Exoskeleton Amplifies User Strength by 20 Times
Primary source for the 17% number (although dubious considering it was 1,010 people online via Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and to qualify participants were required to be sexually active and enjoy listening to music):

https://www.tickpick.com/musics-influence-on-sexual-behavior...
Anyone needing to buy several Pi W's should look into the Orange Pi Zero. They also play some games with the shipping cost, but at least the shipping cost per unit goes down the more you buy. Buying 5 would run you $10.60 each, and 10 would cost $10.30. (All US shipping prices from AliExpress)

The main thing to look out for is that it doesn't have HDMI out, only two headers for composite out. I imagine most people plan to run them headless anyway, but unless you have something that can display composite video, it can be a pain to set up at first.

Another option is that when you buy from Adafruit, you can buy one of each version. One Zero, one Zero W, and one Zero WH, for $29 plus shipping. You can then buy a USB WiFi adapter off E-Bay for about $1 shipped, and as many USB OTG adapters as you need for less than $1 each. Depending on shipping, that puts you in the $11-$12 per board range.
The "I don't care about cookies" addon[0] seems to do a pretty good job of it, I've not seen a banner in ages. I assume it works on a mixture of detecting popular cookie popup js libraries, and user feedback for the rest (although I can't seem to find a github or any code for it so it's hard to say). I think ublock also has a filter list for it built-in.

0: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
It's odd that you say decay. IMO Sony's products are still quite good! I have a Sony-WM1A sitting next to me right now that's well-made, and I'm using Sony WF-1000MX3's as headphones, which are also well made. Not only that, but the Sony MDR-EX1000's that I own that are quite old are still buzzing. I can't quite say that for many Apple products I've purchased in the last decade.
No doubt that Sony becoming a major media company has hurt their consumer electronics business.
Yet there are degrees of oppression, propaganda, and tyranny. It's not black and white and no country is perfect, but that doesn't mean we're on equal footing.
crush is a strong word here, which Android phones would that be referring to? I got bored after they released the X, but at least up to and including that generation iPhones dominated benchmarks while at least being top 3 in photo quality.
You need to take them out every 2-4 hours for charging.
> The social media platforms were conceived and designed for non-journalists to share information among themselves

s/share/unwittingly expose/
s/among/about/
s/themselves/themselves to paying advertisers and social\/political manipulators/

I think that substitution is pretty clear by now.
And for $49 each, Apple will replace the batteries in your airpods. (they probably just replace them)

If they aren't replaceable by you, they aren't replaceable.
I suspect that it would be far to expensive to make it work on the hard 20% of websites and brittle on the easy 80%.

As a personal confession I cannot sympathize for this animosity towards banners. Apps usually have a worse onboarding experience than websites.

My only considerations of GDPR notices is to note how many of them manage to be uncompliant and wonder if archiving services can bypass them.
If they will move out of Shenzhen, what will we be doing in Shenzhen?
1) Honestly, they look ugly (like toothbrushes), just like the white iPhone looked ugly.

2) There's a lot of copy cats who look akin to Apple Airpods because Apple is a premium brand.
The difference between 9 and 12 billion matters absolutely nil for the main point of the piece. Seems like you just feel the need to somehow dismiss it? Why?
OP wasn't saying walkman wasn't cool or have a significant market position, in fact he's saying the exact opposite. That Sony had the position an failed to use it to position new devices. Apple turned the iPod into the iPhone and iPad and now they have AirPods coming off of the same train using each product brand to push the brand of the next.

Sony had the Walkman but missed the mp3-player market, didn't bring out a walkman phone, and now they have a product competing with AirPods that's naturally completely disconnected from the walkman both directly and indirectly because "walkmen are ancient" which is not some universal truth, that's just what they let their previously powerful brand degrade to. They've wisely chosen to brand their Airpod competitor the Sony WF1000XM3, who doesn't want products that sound like version of cruiser missiles, or shipping container dimensions? Ironically I heard a friened describe his pair as his "Sony AirPods", because that's what they are to him, the equivalent of Apple AirPods but cheaper and made by Sony, because even the people who own the product can't remember the name. So naturally friends ask why not get "Real" AirPods? And his answer was price, which makes the product sound like a cheap discount version. But it's in the same price range and same quality and even beat out the AirPods in some reviews. Talk about a branding disaster.
If pilots and pilot unions are satisfied with the results, I'm satisfied with the results. There's no-one more safety conscious in the aviation industry than pilots, since they're responsible for the souls on board their aircraft, including their own.
I don’t think the article is taking about the whole of China, just Schenzhen.
Correction: It is run by NPCI (National Payment Corporation of India) which is a multi-bank private non-profit body that is authorised by the central bank (RBI) to run a payments system.

Additionally, the central bank already runs a vendor neutral bank account transfer infrastructure called NEFT which recently became 24x7. UPI just happened to be mobile first and we had enough underlying infra to support such a thing.
Isn't the perception of a saturated market persistent though? I mean, there were many social media apps when Facebook started. Twitter was created when microblogging had already become a trend.
At this point no matter how amazing the Android is, I would find the iPhone easier. I've been using an iPhone for so long it's just second nature. At one point I was forced to use an Android for a month. I could just never get used to the interface.