skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the wizard of oz, the “great and powerful wizard” is actually a tiny old man with no powers who uses stage magic tricks, which is revealed at the climax of the movie by a tiny dog pulling back a curtain.

It means that something is revealed to be fundamentally weaker than it appears.
Amazon and eBay should be liable for faulty goods, says EU group
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It boggles my mind why they didn't think of doing this in the first place. I've been annoyed by the stupid cookie law since it became a law, it's ridiculous to have every single website implement it differently when the darn browsers can just implement it.
Spoiler Alert

The wizard isn't actually a super powerful wizard. It's literally just a dude behind a curtain talking into a microphone and operating some contraption. [1] If you hear someone use the phrase "man behind the curtain" this is what it's referring to.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyCCJ6B2WE
Eu lawmaking in a nutshell:

Commission (leaders of which are selected by your government that you presumably voted for) makes a draft.

Commission consults widely (usually online consultation) and all national ministries comment.

Commission redrafts and sends to parliament and council.

In the council your government has (most of the time) veto power.

In the parliament your and other countries delegates vote on it.

Then parliament (people's representatives) and council (national government representatives) sit together, find the middle ground of a final draft.

Parliament and council then each do a final vote.

Depending on the exact type of legal document it either enters into force right away or your national administration, parliament and government create their own national version of it conform to the EU document and make that a national law.

That's a pretty heavy process but it's just wrong to say that the voters don't have influence. National governments and delegates both can say no.

Now is the parliament representative just because people are not from just one country? Is your national parliament representative even if there are people from different regions/cities/...? Is your major democratically elected just because that other suburb also got to vote? That's just an absurd position.
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>I don't think there are many "bad" places that are cheap around Silicon Valley.

They're not cheap relative to other parts of the country buy they're cheap relative to where most white collar employees are living. The janitor and the plumber have to live somewhere and you can pay what they pay if you don't mind living among them.

>Most western European cities have neighbourhoods that are drastically cheaper than the well-off ones.

And in American cities those neighborhoods are particular suburbs (often cities themselves). Cheap housing that is literally in the city is much less numerous.

>New cars in America are twice as expensive as the average in the EU.

You can't compare car prices without comparing the cars and the associated costs. Americans buy much larger more expensive vehicles because they can because the taxes are lower, the fees are lower and the insurance is cheaper. This topic has been beaten to death. Americans buy $30k crossovers because those $30k crossovers cost $30k out the door. Contrast that to the typical taxes on new cars in Europe and you'll see why Europeans gravitate toward lower purchase prices.

>Average car insurance in America is five times as expensive as the average in the EU.

Citation please. This flies in the face of all my anecdotal experience.

>Sorry, I meant nursery.* Kindergarten is free in the EU as well.

We call that daycare. In the US you have an entire range of options from a high priced daycare with a low child:staff ratio, located in a high end part of town, quadruple extra special background checks on all the employees, etc, etc all the way down to single person cash only operations that people run out of their homes. It's as expensive or cheap as you're willing to make it. Remember, the poor families have to send their kids somewhere too so it's not like options don't exist at every price point. It's rare in tech because the employee demographics result in low demand but many employers offer free/cheap on-site daycare or a voucher to a particular daycare as a job perk. That said, work from home perks that are common in tech can alleviate some of the demand for daycare.

>Well that's convenient. Based on the American medical debt lets go with a lesser coverage for the American workforce. Also it's not taking into account the cost of opportunity of having medical insurance event when you won't be employed anymore in case of an accident or other reason.

I'm done debating with you. I'm not going to get tricked into trying to defend the American system as overall better which is where you seem to be nudging the goalposts toward. All I am saying is that even with it's failings someone making 175k (a pay grade certainly not representative of the workforce in general) is likely better off with it than taking a 100k pay cut for the European system.
You wouldn’t have to worry about rabies too much in a stable population like that. If they’re living their lives inside the library, the only risk would be if a human with rabies entered the library and was bitten by a bat; a very low probability event.
HCaptcha makes me do a lot more work to be considered a human, and I end up having to do it more often.
I wish there was a rundown on what everyone does / what all those folks do at those companies.

Not saying they don't need them, it's just that there are a lot of "Wait that needs X people?" situations and I wish I knew what they did for a given use case.

Accounting?

Does uber need a lot of local reps for regulatory requirements?

I think a lot of "omg what do they do?" is actually curiosity.
The idea is that if this is how it is presented, you can tell them you agree and they still have no permission.
Nah, the Fed will bail them out. They are already holding a lot of corporate bond indexes and more will follow. We have a system now where companies were borrowing money at 0% to do buybacks to keep executive compensation rolling. This is one change that must happen. C-suite, VPs and board members should not be allowed to receive compensation based on stock price. It creates a perverse incentive. They should be building strong companies that allow them to stay employed. Give them bonuses based on growth or profits or whatever, just not stock price.
How is this not solved by Brave + uBlock Origin or Disconnect or Privacy Badger?
91.7% for a sample of 1,061 people with a non trivial subset removed because of pre-existing health issues isn't that noteworthy. Given only the mean age, it's very difficult to know what the baseline levels should be. Averages are not realistic. They depend on the age and health of individuals. The concern about placebos is a thing, yes, but the real problem is that the rates of poor clinical outcomes are not standard. You could get a decent estimate by looking at other results coming out of this hospital from a similar age and health cohort, but that's not here in this paper. The baseline mortality rate for an average individual below age 60 is nowhere close to 15%, but of course, it all depends.

It's probably fine if you want to take the drug, but accurate statistical reasoning is not the driver of that decision.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing? It could go either way with approximately equal probability.
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But with modelling having much more grunt allows you to use much better models for things like hydrodynamics modelling / weather simulations.

Which beats using a physical model and highspeed film projected onto a wall covered in graph paper and manually digitising data.
Actual legal backing.
Wouldn't advertisers just use the auth token as a cookie then?
> Anyone who wasn't able to predict these annoying popups after HTML5 and GDPR, is seriously blind.

Have you read the GDPR, though? Because in no way does it require "cookie consent", incidentally, neither did the previous "cookie law". The consent forms I've seen so far are all willfull misinterpretation, dark patterns, or both.

95% (if not more) of non-shady uses of cookies do not require consent, and thus don't need a consent popup. If you do implement one on your website it means one of several things:

1) You did not actually read or understand when/why you need consent

2) You did read it/don't understand, but are unable to figure out where all the stuff on your site is actually coming from and are thus unsure about the implications

3) You actually need consent (in case you are hosed anyway, you can't predicate usage on consent, so there's 0 motivation for users to ever consent)

4) Your purposely trying to annoy EU residents in hopes they will lobby against GDPR back in the EU

5) You're blindly copying what other people are doing, because thinking is hard.
This isn't specific to bash scripts, this can happen to pretty much any file. What we really need is a way for a process to atomically "check out" a copy of a file to read from that won't change.
Here in Los Angeles, food delivery demand is way up. Almost all restaurants have switched to delivery/takeout only, and lots of people are doing delivery for food.
Thank you! This helps me understand the mentality a great deal better. It also helps explain some of the failure modes I saw Clojure teams I worked with fall into.
Giving you the right to get a copy of data held by Facebook & co!
The Eclipse of Medieval Women Mystics
I'm not talking about the desktop UI/UX philosophy but the system itself. It is much more stable than Linux, especially where there's ongoing chaos regarding Wayland.
I found his videos just yesterday! I was watching a video about an extremely high powered laser he ended up burning stuff with, and was incredibly tempted to get my hands on one till he noted how they try to keep that stuff away from hobbyists lol.
I'd like the title better if it mentioned SpaceX was a defense contractor.

A reminder SpaceX lives off taxes to enrich the lives of Billionaires.

Congrats on the working design. Sounds expensive.
darker than that
Availability seems to be an issue all around. After an early lockdown surge of restaurant additions in DoorDash, now listings which appear to be available and open have a decent chance of getting your order rejected, or just dropping off altogether. Restaurants are having a tough time right now, and it remains to be seen if poorly-advised re-openings will have any short-term positive effect on business.
And of course the main competing hypothesis—which appears to be winning—is WIMPs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly_interacting_massive_par...

(Note that confusingly, while both are called "massive", the mass of an average MACHO would be somewhere between 50 and 60 orders of magnitude greater than that of a WIMP!)
Well step one should be to create a product that competes.
The Windows Terminal, WSL, and VS Code has been a life saver for development on Windows. I've been using it for developing a web app (in Go and TypeScript) and so far the experience has been almost indistinguishable from my macOS environment.
The Cookie Consent banner is a terrible regulation, and it's just bad practice, there is absolutely no need for it, it does not make the world a better place, it makes it worse.

1st: almost nobody cares about cookies let alone knows what they are.

2cnd: people don't read the fine print.

3rd: it just creates an ugly barrier to the experience for 99% of people.

We can solve this 'problem' in a much simpler way:

What is needed for example is possibly a special image/token at the top of the page, like a 'seal' that indicates the 'privacy rating' and whether or not cookies are used. Like films are rated, sites can be rated. A little symbol implies that cookies are used. People can then decide to 'move on or not' but otherwise, the experience is not interrupted.
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I think this is actually something that might be deserving of a blog post itself, if you had the time.

There’s a lot of opinions from people outside the working group for WGSL as to why it exists.

I think most of the PR damage right now comes from those people not having enough context and thus framing it in a negative light.

A blog post with more context and information would probably help imho
Simplified into something I say a lot: “opportunity cost waits for no man”.
This is so infuriating. This might work. It might not. Data is still (and must be, really) still anecdotal. It will be a year or more before high quality studies are done.

Yet we have to argue about the ?!@#!$ thing repeatedly, because public figures (we all know who) decided to push this idea irresponsibly as a miracle cure. So now all the people on one side of the discussion have to crow about every positive result as if it vindicates the original rhetoric.

It does not. I mean, this might work a little! It might save some lives at the margin. It's not going to significantly affect the course of the pandemic. It's just not.
Reminds me of this (dubious) Picasso story:
"It always reminds me of the story about the woman who approached Picasso in a restaurant, asked him to scribble something on a napkin, and said she would be happy to pay whatever he felt it was worth. Picasso complied and then said, “That will be $10,000.”

“But you did that in thirty seconds,” the astonished woman replied.

“No,” Picasso said. “It has taken me forty years to do that.”"

Apocryphal or not, the point of the arduous and often frustrating process hiding behind the product is relevant to any skill.
Don't forget to add about ~$1000 per port for a 400GB transceiver.
How many sites have seriously thought about reducing Google analytics and intrusive ads? If it's even 1% then the banners unequivocally HAVE made the web better.
I don't disagree, but the paper explicitly states:

> As a conclusion, based on our experience, we consider reasonable to follow the recommendations made in Asian countries for the control of COVID-19, notably in Korea and China
I've seen a lot of similar comments regarding various companies over the last week or so. what exactly is a "tech company", and what makes it different from a normal company (eg, a bank) for whom tech is still an integral part of the product?
And a good excuse to get out of the house for a few minutes.
Not sure how DoorDash compares but what often made me pause on ordering UberEats pre-pandemic was the way they do the service charge. It is a percentage (I believe 15%?) of the cost of what you are ordering, and it does not appear to go to driver at all (tip is a separate prompt + there is a delivery fee)/clearly doesn't go to the restaurant. I don't understand why I should pay Uber a percentage based on the cost of the meal, when GrubHub and some others operate on a flat rate service fee. I would sort of understand if it had to do with order size, but when you start adding higher end restaurants it really feels like a rip off. And it also makes their "deals" feel really hollow because who cares if delivery fee went from $3.99 to $0 when you will often still have a >$10 service fee?
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I appreciate the background on their issues and tips on where to go!

I'll need to brush back up on my Spanish, but hope to go over the next few years.
Sounds like something similar to the PawClaws project:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pawclaws/figeaallb...

https://github.com/TobiasKundig/PawClaws

https://github.com/PawClaws/chromePawExt

I wonder though: How do you deal with asynchronous sites which may take a variable amount of time for elements to load? Do you synchronize with Angular or try to detect elements or is it just the old stopwatch-and-pray technique?
Technical cookies don't need consent.
An ugly look didn't stop Airpods from selling like crazy, though.
"Administration of the HCQ+AZ combination before COVID-19 complications occur is safe and associated with very low fatality rate in patients."

sigh COVID-19 is associated with low fatality rate in patients. It's not clear this combination of drugs does anything other than not kill people any faster.

> As an aside, I do feel like the mean age of poor clinical outcomes, 69, feels a bit low relative to my expectations.

I'm confident that has to do with top of funnel.
> capitalism is a dualist theory, that assumes humans have individual agency

If we don't have any sort of agency, then we have no choice but to believe whatever we believe, including dualism.

I think that most people experience agency, though, whether they actually understand it or not. Even animals do, unless you condition them not to like those learned helplessness experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
More employee friendly
We use Uber Eats for discovery. We'll use it to find new establishments, and on the first order, I'll tip cash to make up for what Uber Eats takes from the restaurant. If we decide to patron the same restaurant again, we order directly from them to avoid the Uber tax for them (edit: as many are aware, margins are slim [3-5% typically] for restaurants and the delivery service tax is onerous on them). Has worked pretty well. Be the change y'all.
Indeed. MS just announced building a new datacenter in NZ (which happens to be close to eradicating CV'19 given it's geography) so expansion even during a global crisis is certainly possible.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121422743/microsofts-signif...
Nope, the law allows cookie that are necessary for a functionnality that allows the communication or is asked by the user.

For exemple, as I said in another post, is explicitely allowed:

* Cookies for login/session

* Cookies for shopping carts

* Cookies for interface personnalisation (language, etc.)

* Cookies for load balancing

* Cookies to retain user choice regarding cookies

And quite a few other. So really you can run your website without consent notice if you care enough. One grey area is analytics, it varies amongst european DPAs. That I know of:

* In France it is allowed if you respect a few rules (no cross-processing, no localisation, etc..)

* In the UK, it is not per say allowed, but the ICO said they would not prosecute on those grounds.
> these prices doesn't make sense given they can get better bang for bucks.

Like what? A nice high resolution 3:2 screen seems great and difficult to find anywhere else.

The drawbacks are the awful non-Windows compatibility (e.g. see reddits /r/surfacelinux) and the non-Wacom pen.
I hope for everyone's sake that it was just a naive crypto mining operation. But given the length of time this vulnerability was available, and the extent of access it allowed, I just find it very hard to say with any certainty that we know everything that it was doing. Exploits like this get passed around in nefarious circles pretty regularly. One of the scripts I saw went to great lengths to eliminate competing crypto miners from the systems so they could run their own. That tells me there were multiple people (or groups) exploiting this in competition with each other.

You said the v5 of the attack got more sophisticated. How do we know there wasn't a "v0" that was even more sophisticated and innocuous? You can't trust the server logs. Firewall tables were flushed, SELinux was disabled. It's just really hard to say the full extent of damages.
Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot
Aside: “Soldier of Fortran” is a great user ID!
We found a whole set of technical limitations to using just a chrome extension (file downloads and uploads to name but one). The simplest solution was to include a desktop service, although I agree it's a huge inelegant electron app.

This paved the way for running axiom in the cloud. Once we can do that, you won't need the desktop app.

I hope with time we can have a slimmed down extension-only version too, but this will be more limited in capability.
I'm a Linux user, and to me WSL2 sounds like it actually makes Windows pleasant to use. Now, I haven't used Windows 10 at all. The last time I used Windows was Win7 on a work project in 2016, and it was a typical experience for me - lots of annoyance due to lacking tools. MSYS is really lacking, I used Cygwin to do most of my work in a Linux-like environment with good versions of Linux tools, but it's annoying nonetheless. Occasional problems with Windows interop, occasional annoyance due to Cygwin packages not quite acting like the real ones, and so on.

Seems like with WSL2, one could run Windows but do all the work using native Linux tools while enjoying quality integration with Windows. It's not a setup I would actually prefer over Linux but it should make any work where Windows is required much more pleasant.

On a personal level it's interesting that Windows is getting WSL right around the time when I stoppped booting my Windows install for games. Proton has been amazing, changed Linux gaming completely almost overnight. It's still not the same experience as on Windows, but between Proton and even the occasional native Linux port of a big-budget game - no longer an extreme rarity - I've been able to play games on Linux like never before.
The cookie law is 18 years old, browsers have changed quite a bit since then, as has legislative understanding of the tech field.
Do you have any evidence to support this claim? Windows is the most widely used desktop OS by a huge margin.
WebGL is different than legacy OpenGL from 20 years ago. WebGL is pretty easy to work with.

WebGPU is a low-level API is more flexible than WebGL, which means more complexity. That is why it is being introduced, after all!
That is what they suggest, but a suggestion isn't the same as compelling evidence that HCQ improves clinical outcomes versus not doing it. They don't do that here, or even claim to have shown this.
say bye bye to next years refreshers
No website needs GA. You choose to have it for whatever reason but there's not ever a need to use GA. There are many less intrusive ways to father statistics than to sell your users to Google.
They have a presence in every country they're active; likely a big chunk of it is customer services, both for consumers and drives. Administration as well, they are handling a lot of money after all between a lot of people. See https://www.uber.com/us/en/careers/ for what positions they hire for.
Also, websites have no incentives to implement such a feature if it's not required by law.

It costs money and gives them nothing in return
A consent wall is consent and this ruling is why I hope European regulatory bodies fall into a hole.

How do you think those "free" articles are paid for? They're paid for with cookies.

This is the same wall that separates me from content on paywall sites - it's just that you don't get out your credit card. Instead, you whip out your cookie jar.

There is no universal "right" to view content. If the content is behind a cookie wall, you have two choices - either accept cookies or fuck off.
He also created Berkeley sockets, which pretty much powers networking today.