skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You obtain consent and then you log only if consent was provided. You can essentially use two logs, one for technical purposes (under legitimate interests you should be fine logging as long as those logs are only used for technical/debugging/abuse prevention purposes and the data is not kept for longer than necessary) and one for marketing/analytics purposes. You only log to the second one if consent has been given, and you only ever do your analytics on that second log and not the first one.
I don't have the answer, but the consent banners are interesting.

I have two browser plugins: "I don't care about cookies" and "Never Consent", I'm not sure what Never Consent doesn't technically, but the other one just hides the DOM element with the cookie thingy.

That means that I never see the "consent" banners so I can't click the "Okay" buttons. I should test to see how many sites just assumes OK to cookies because I didn't click "No".

On a positive note I do see more an more sites making it just as easy to say no to tracking as saying yes. Though sites are better at remembering a yes to tracking, compared to a no.
The primary idea behind regenerative agriculture is that manure helps soil. But plants regenerate soil too. Legumes for example fix nitrogen in the soil.
Hah, in some fields things are much worse. My wife was actually (seriously!) offered two postdoc positions in her field. One was unpaid (!) and the other was even worse: the university wanted her to pay a fee for the honour of a postdoc position. Needless to say, she did not accept.
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You can lift the suspension and cut off the top but a Cadillac is never going to be a Jeep.
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Consent is one of the legal bases for processing personally identifiable information[1]. There are five more, among which "legitimate interest" can cover a variety of cases.

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
I'm really glad they understand the value they get from nomads. Here (in Serbia, a non-digital-nomad country), it was the total opposite; foreigners got almost zero help and they were left on their own.
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Related: i really like the "Enhancer for youtube" extension for Firefox, which also removes ads...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-...
The cookie banners come from the ePrivacy Regulation and are supposed to inform you that the website is storing data on the your device and that you can opt out (not in) of it.

Consent is required by GDPR but not for the technical circumstance that you store a cookie but that you use it for profiling. Some lawyers argue that basic web performance is legitimate interest especially in e-commerce, others don’t risk it and ask for consent (which is strictly opt in).
Tenured prof here. The changes have turned teaching from productive, creative, and enjoyable to frustrating and unsatisfying. I have a number of colleagues who have retired as a result. (Personally a bit too young.)
I noticed spotify delete tracks without telling you a few years back. So setup IFTT to write any files I add to a playlist to a gsheet
That has little to do with government policy. People from Michigan and New York State move to Florida to retire. Florida is basically where Americans go to die. It's packed with old people.
One can easily state the opposite and claim that voting against Biden would make sure that an era of massive corruption can come to an end. So what‘s the point of having this email posted here? I don’t find such articles little helpful.
I would like to see more software having the option of just logging the users country and not the IP, and perhaps just as generic a user agent as possible (Just, is this Chrome, FireFox, Edge, whatever, but nothing else.)

for example for Nginx something like:

log_format logfmt '$remote_country - [$time_local] '
'"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent '
'"$http_referer" "$http_generic_user_agent" "$gzip_ratio"';

That would assume access to a GeoIP database, but it would be helpful.
You are proving my point by defending Java against PHP because my argument was that being more like Java isn't a negative thing.

The productivity point was a secondary point but when it comes to building websites I think people can build faster in PHP although I guess that depends on many factors.
Not sure whether you mixed up I Don't Care About Cookies and the other one, But IDCAC does not just hide the DOM elements - it always gives full consent.

From their website [1]: By using it, you explicitly allow websites to do whatever they want with cookies they set on your computer (which they mostly do anyway, whether you allow them or not).

Which is fine for me, I use it with Cookie Autodelete, but if you don't, you should be aware of that.

[1] https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
Which is a curious argument since it compares the free time activities of a patent officer with the activities of a scientist trying to improve his workplace communication. I.e., apples with oranges.
I don't understand GDPR too well -- does this mean every company must build APIs that would be sufficient to allow competitors to import user data from them?
Just like their keynotes.
Something like this would be great for ferries. For instance the ~200km Busan-Fukuoka ferry connection is about 2-3 hours with a hydrofoil. With an ekranoplan 550km/h like the Caspian Sea Monster that'd be cut down to like 20 minutes.
doesn't the GDPR protect against storing "Personally identifiable information"? Plausible does use the IP address for the visitor to create a unique visitor ID, but it does not store it, so I am not sure how can you use that information to link it to an individual.
cling ? clang perhaps?

Truth is, I did get your point. Perfect refinement is not necessary in every context. Your comment, like CERN's interpreter, though sloppy was fit for purpose.
I do not know why, but I prefer it to be like this.

However, if it helps:

- Control + Click OR Mouse middle-click
They wouldn't even necessarily make more money that way, after user learning effects, if people found it annoying enough that they would use Google less or get in the habit of quickly scrolling past the ads.
I think they don't do this anymore. I have some old playlists with some tracks greyed out so I think that's their new way of dealing with songs they no longer have rights to let us play.
Early web was written in Perl, I guess it was the classic approach of lets borrow what is already successful and in end PHP won over Perl so it worked too. Bill Gates would have been proud.
> That's exactly what I'm saying too.

No. You focus on sex, instead of focusing on the process of assigning funding. The process cannot be wrong just because the outcome is not 50/50 man/woman. Look into the process first, instead of dismissing it and pointing out only the imbalance.

> Since there are 50% women in the population then they should account for 50% of founders, right?

Wrong. Unless you think founder selection is a random process.
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They don't have many developers and they have been undertaking work to sort out the fundamental tech, to sort out age-old bugbears.

In the meantime, the team from ZeMarmot have been making concrete changes in features and UI, with a funding level, that I certainly couldn't live off.

It would be interesting to see what would happen if they were funded to the level of just one developers salary.

Here's whats left before GIMP 3 can be released
https://www.patreon.com/posts/40087754

Getting the Gtk 3 version out should be a boost, there is way less between Gtk3 and the upcoming 4 too so the way ahead is good.
There may be a node. But even so, it is a myth that the social networks know everything from other people's shared information.

WhatsApp does not know which people/entities I have in my contacts list.

That cannot be deduced from other ordinary people's lists.

It is a two-sided issue. On the one side: We should understand that we can't completely hide our personal information because other people share it without our consent, and that we should all be more careful what we share because it can harm other people, and is without their consent.

But on the other side: There is still value in limiting what we share about ourselves and others, because what other people share is limited and does not produce as complete a picture as when we add more to it ourselves.

So, WhatsApp knows about specific contacts other people have entered which include me, but it doesn't know what's on my full list. There are many things which can be estimated from my contacts list which I don't want to share and can't be deduced from other people's contact lists:

- Which banks I bank with.

- Which credit cards I have.

- Which recruiters I've been talking with.

- Which prospective companies I've talked with about getting a job.

- Which clients I'm doing business with or have done.

- Which taxi firms I use.

- Which restaurants I know well enough to have in my list.

- Which lenders I'm borrowing from.

- Which debt collectors I'm talking or not talking with.

- Which people I have a secret affair with, who are smart enough not to share their contacts list.

- Which journalists I'm in touch with, who are smart enough not to share their contacts list.

- Who I'm organising protests against the state with, who are smart enough not to share their contacts list.

- Who I know well enough to have not just their number but also their email address and other contacts, home address, notes etc.

- Which other communication applications I'm using if those store contacts in the list.

As well as the number of each of the above, to suggest which aspects of my life to target for advertising, policing, or general intimidation and election manipulation.
I haven't (yet) read Vinge, but KSR's Red Mars trilogy is excellent, with featherweight belief suspension requirements. ("2041", even more so.)

Weir's "The Martian" was good fun and felt believable. Most of Stephenson's "Seveneves", too, for me.

Enjoy! :)
I still don't really get this, if they're using GraphQL which it appears they are with Falcor why do they need a specific microservices for every client? Can the data that each client needs not be queried ad-hoc?
Yes, but such a display of resourcefulness will grant you a visit to the interrogation room of the local intelligence agency, in case you or one of your contacts is ever found with a working telegram app.
Yeah. This is very 90s MSFT complaining.

Also, based on the way git works I’m certain there are dozens of backup copies. But I know I keep specific copies as well. It’s super easy. It’s git.
If the algorithm for turning an IP address into a visitor ID is reversible then that ID is equivalent to the IP address as far as the GDPR is concerned.
I am a particle physicist and when I worked at CERN I helped building the data acquisition software of the ATLAS experiment.

The empty promises she is talking about are the equivalent of the promises by politicians during a campaign: they are for the larger public, for the people who (rightfully!) don't want to get more informed than that.

In the background, both in science and in politics, technical folks know what they mean and, especially, where the money is actually going.

In the case of politics, it happens unfortunately that big chunks of the money involved go into private pockets.

Based on my experience, in the case of particle physics, that money invariably goes to wide technological improvement.

Very few sane people really cared whether the Higgs boson existed, but the world is a better place because we got our efforts together in order to find an answer.
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Thanks, I used one at some point that just hides the element... Now I just use I Don't Care About Cookies and flush cookies when I close the browser.

But yes, something I need to be aware of.
> $50k in extra debt is a whole lot of money to pay in exchange for the promise of friendship.

I'd amend this to "the possibility of friendship".

I'll add that I got a professional friendship from college that's lasted sixteen years so far - very much the kind of thing the GP was talking about.

Both of us were commuters doing the last two years of our degrees at a commuter school.

We didn't need to pay for dorms to meet each other and develop friendships.
Are any phones produced today that are not based on work under conditions like those mentioned in the article?
Australian, so I’m in the exact same abysmal boat!
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I don't really understand that argument. What does a failed prediction about super-symmetry in 1996 have to do with the opportunities of the next collider? How does "we didn't find evidence for or against supersymmetry at LHC" connect to dark matter experiments in its successor?

I'm also not really convinced of what she categorizes as failure. She enumerates quite a few incorrect predictions, but is that sufficient to show that the experiments were a failure? There are literally thousands of papers published because of the LHC and CERN claims hundreds of results. Maybe you can show that they are mostly worthless (which is not the same as boring or not spectecular), but she doesn't really seem to even try to do that.
Hopefully more accountable though.
It means the start of a variable name, as simple as that, it isn't anything significant. Maybe it was made to make parsing the language easier at the time, who cares?

You can get used to that in 10 min and move on with your life, it is not a reason to not pick up the language, it's bike shedding.
ah.... yeah... they still will.

just cause they can't get a ransom, doesn't mean the data it's valuable as they can still sell it on the black market to carders and other gangs.

it's very ignorant to think that just because you cut off one area of revenue for these gangs that the problems will stop.
Plausible Analytics is GDPR compliant - with one possible exception - the IP address which if they dropped the last 3 digits would probably be enough.

The blog post conflates general data points with PII. The IP address is considered PII.

While other info can be used for fingerprinting, it’s ok to use in some capacity as long as you don’t.

For background, I’ve done GDPR implantation a in the past, an a privacy advocate in that sense, and spent more time with lawyers in this subject then I’d care to admit.

(Pardon brevity/typos, on phone with unreliable connection)
MSFT buying them even lowers the risk a bit, since they have the backing of a big tech company so they’re financially more secure. And you should keep backups, I don’t care where you’re hosted.
BTC has no benefit over central counterparty clearing and settlement.

Even if the technology would adapt cryptographic ledgers, there is no reason to use another currency for that. You use sovereign currencies as before.
Nitpick: if it's reversible, determinism doesn't matter.
That’s fair, and careless of me to forget about. I wasn’t around at the time, but the whole A/W split still seems a bit strange to me—that most of the problems that followed only really happened because Microsoft blessed UCS-2 in this way (“use codepages, or Unicode via UCS-2”), rather than continuing to use the codepage mechanism to distinguish things, which would have allowed an easy transition to UTF-8 (where even switching shortly before release would probably have been quite feasible) rather than being stuck trying to perpetuate something bad by making it even worse. (Sure, there would have been different problems using the codepage mechanism in this way, but I think they would have been lesser problems and that they would have led to a much happier future where UTF-16 might even never have happened.) As it is, they’ve finally headed in this direction of using a UTF-8 codepage on the A functions, but only in the last three years. It’s a pity they didn’t do it this way from the start (well, with some other Unicode encoding that existed), 30 years ago.
This has actually become a David vs Goliath situation. Pradeep Poonia has been at the forefront fighting this curbing of free speech and abuse of content moderation. They've started a subreddit(https://www.reddit.com/r/whiteHatSr) and numerous channels on YouTube to spread awareness but most things keep getting taken down.

The main issue is that these people are promoting coding for kids aged 6-12 to be a silver bullet that'll land them Rs. 150,000,000 salaries. Gullible parents are shelling out $1000 for very basic classes in scratch. And FOMO is being used to drive this.
I could not easily find it on the website, but I remember reading about how they do it, basically the ID is generated by hashing the IP + user-agent + a salt key that is changing on a daily basis.

So, no, I do not think it is deterministic.
Hardly. Special relativity was a collaborative effort that was underway before Einstein gave his contribution. It was general relativity which was 100% Einstein's idea.
79 points as of now. And how many points would hacker news have given to the Nature comment by Giudice and Gianotti?

It is both curious and sad to see the outsize attention given to bitter polemicists (and not just in physics).

Please read https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-01054-6 .

Edit: downvotes? let me rephrase: if you care about particle physics then there was no reason to ignore the original proposal. if you care about outrage, on the other hand...
Why hope?
I believe you are right. As far as I know VATs are a solution for areas with turbulent wind only. To generate at least some wind power.
Reminds me of this talk I saw by Ray Bradbury on writing, where he said (I paraphrase):

Aim to write one story a week. That gives you 52 stories a year, and I dare you to write 52 bad ones.
> I've never understood this argument. Potential "yay" and "nay" votes are both term-limited, so the "inexperience" should cancel out?

There are no term limits on C-level executives in deep-pocketed corporations and special interests. The term limits are on the legislators they buy. It's like a subscription model: you need to renew every few years to keep the gravy flowing.
A large part of our consumption is not food. You can’t grow iPhones on a tree. You’re not going to consume less iPhones because you planted hundreds of tomato trees. You could argue that you can offset the total lifecycle energy for owning an iPhone (mining, purification, synthesis of raw materials, manufacture, packaging, transportation, recycling), by planting enough plants, but how many plants is that going to take?
What if you had a secret vote on whether to murder someone? Who would you blame?

You would charge the people who recorded the outcome of the vote and did the killing with murder, and you would charge everyone who participated in the vote while knowing one of the outcomes was illegal with conspiracy and failure to report.
That's true. It applies to Cloudflare Analytics too, right? Simply, if you want to be GDPR compliant, you'll need to turn off all server side tracking, and depend on client-side tracking (after consent).

If you track an EU user, a consent is needed (regardless of the technology). Otherwise, the analytics solution cannot show number of users visited a page (only pageviews).
That sounds almost like a typical airport or mall.

For some reason, people don't want to be in a mall anymore. It's like how people don't want to be in a minivan anymore. Malls and minivans are practical. They just don't have the right image.
https://github.com/root-project/cling
I live in Australia where the car also reigns supreme. I would say there’s no decent public transportation anywhere in the country outside of the capital cities, and even then it really depends on where you live.
How else could it be?
https://youtu.be/ALBViu_o-cw
I have an opposite experience, people who live in small towns usually seem to be actively opposed to development, and don't want any new people coming to their town. They just want to enjoy the low property taxes.
Is the salt key stored, or is it discarded?
That is deterministic, but the key thing is that it is not reversible
I think a lot of the confusion around the consent banner stuff arises from the 2002 EU ePrivacy Directive (ePD)[0] which long predates GDPR.

ePD introduced the idea of the cookie consent banners we see today.

While it was enacted in 2002, ePD didn't really start to come into broad legal force in many member states until ~2010ish (EU Directives are not like federal laws; instead they're implemented & enforced by individual member states separately).

GDPR's focus on prior consent makes consent banners in their popular format largely useless, but when GDPR came along, the intent was that PD should have been replaced by the accompanying EU ePrivacy Regulation (ePR)[1] to clarify this. ePR has been delayed, so we're in this ambiguous place.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_and_Electronic_Communi...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation
There was a number of other reasons why I didn't end up using PHP, so it was a bit like death by a thousand cuts. It was not the reason for me, just a small showcase of the weirdness for a newcomer.
They said it could “fly” in up to 2 meters. I would’ve expected any size wave could topple it.
This project seems nice, but there's some detail I have trouble wrapping my head around: why is a template string represented as a lambda containing an f-string, instead of as a plain string? Namely, wouldn't the code below suffice?

Q("""select 1 from {otherQuery}""")

What does the following code enable that the code above cannot do?

Q(lambda: f"""select 1 from {otherQuery}""")
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I live in a small rural town (30k people) that has a major research University. We have multiple fiber links due to the railroad and university, yet our ISPs are beyond shit. Unless you live in the "new" neighborhoods it's all old copper coax or old phone line DSL. No company is going to pay to put in the last mile of pipe for a town of this size. Anyway, it's about $40 / month with tax for 30 MB down and 5 up. Abysmal.
VSCode and Sublime Text remember the files they had opened. And renaming files while they are played back works fine with mpv.
Thanks. I retract the specific objection.
I have a ton of Ikea stuff at home. It's a great value for the price.

"Great value for the price" isn't the same as "sturdy," though. I don't have anything from Ikea which I would describe as "made very well," and I'm under no illusions that it will outlast me, like my proper furniture.
Yep indeed, deterministic isn't really the right word here. Reversibility is all that matters, although am I correct in saying that it would imply determinism?
Try harder with your demagoguery. This is not Twitter, these cheap tricks are not going to work.