skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is on purpose. It's done to be as painful as possible while being legal to make the user hate the experience and blame the law, not the implementation.

I'm hoping the EU cracks down on dark pattern implementations, malicious compliance (as another comment mentioned) very likely goes against the spirit of the law. The ad-tech industry is quite powerful so I think this will drag on for a while.

While it drags out, I've been stubborn. Always refusing all cookies when I can't zap the cookie banner/blocker with uBlock. The most pain I can take is setting about 20 toggles. There are some implementations creating hundreds of lines of opt-outs, some where you have to opt-out vendor by vendor on their own website. Those are the ones where I close the page and forget about the content. It's not worth the hassle and my data.

I wasn't such an advocate for data privacy half a decade ago, I was aware about it and how it could be used, just had never seen it, not necessarily in action at the time, but being debated on corridors.

The unethical proposals I heard in meetings or by the coffee machines on how to extract/transform/identify through amassing data were quite alarming. Not because they were blatant bad but that the collective way of talking about it completely disregarded the end user.

GDPR really changed that talk internally, it's been a massive effort and a pain in the ass sometimes but I do value the spirit of it. Could it be the wrong approach? Or too heavy-handed? Misapplied? And so many other still unknown problems? Yes, I do think there are too much uncertainty in how this pans out on the long term. I do deeply appreciate the effort though from the EP and the EU in putting this into the public eye, we should have been having this discussion quite some years ago...

There are still tons of open questions and discussions to be had on data privacy laws, I feel the pain of having an increased workload because of it but it should become cost of business. Protection of your customers' data, its usage and their privacy should be a cost of business for companies depending on that. Level the game, create some mechanisms to help smaller companies be bootstrapped with this mindset and with guidelines and best practices for a quick ramp up.

It can be a cost of business for large enterprises, smaller companies might need help to not be overburden if these laws get too complex.

I don't think I'm too revolutionary.
Yeah, I remember in the early 2000s we had a wireless RCA audio/video transmitter, bought at a local electronics store, that played absolute havoc with the WiFi in our house as well as several neighbours.

Another classic example is early cellphones that you would pick up on stereo systems etc. - "dat-dara-dat-dara-dat-dara-dat-dara-daaaaaa" going out in full blast.
He didn't call whites supremacists white people, if you listen to the rest of the sentence, he was referring to the protesters from BOTH sides that they are fine people. And then said that he condemns neo Nazis and white supremacists. I only came across this this morning btw, and I too believed he really did call them fine people..
EDIT: watch this whole thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmaZR8E12bs
This isn't accurate. Slack has 100% control over the content that goes on their site, and that includes 3rd-party tracking pixels and other mechanisms that lead to these cookies from 3rd parties.
So your German car depreciated less than 9 month of payments (supposedly on a 60 month loan with little down?) after being used? That's not my experience with German autos, was it some A-B Klasse that they don't sell in the US?
Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Community
Looks like I did. Would the title be less clickbaity without the "Here's what happened" part?
IF you know the associate and trust them and think they will screen the right way - the small team can often be folks who know / trust each other. It can be hard to add someone particularly outside your standard networks.
> failures caused by adding the extra layer of abstraction and complexity

I perceive nix as a tool that removes a layer of abstraction and complexity - the FHS. Having an app working is easy. Having multiple apps share the same FHS is complex because of conflicting requirements. Without FHS, there is no shared dependency resource thus no conflicts. Multiple applications are just as easy as a single application.
Tons of people put up with the similar on a daily basis. The pay is often really good in consulting gigs.

I was a consultant for retail/financial megacorps. 75% of the job is managing blame - covering your ass, finding ways to blame others, referencing the statement of work, etc.

PMO is always 5 or 6 members deep because of this - the work of many consultants is to milk money, not solve problems, unfortunately. Obviously there are great consultants out there - but I find for every one good one there are 10 bad.
The original Ethernet used similar hardware as ham radio. AlohaNet predates it of course, but Thicknet used local RF loops.
People's opinions are non of your business
Can't read the full article, but the analogies to the Laffer curve seem obvious.

Seems like it is a much more real consideration for fishing than taxation.
Sadly this is what a polarized political system does:
if you believe that the opposing side is primarily motivated by racism and bigotry then you will not have any moral scruples about willfully manipulating human beings.

If you believe the other side wants to destroy America's founding principles you will be equally fine with doing the same thing for your side.
He did another video of something similar using diffusers instead from a busted monitor. I wonder if you could add a very thin layer of blue tape on the acrylic layer to achieve a similar effect?
Reducing Cognitive Overload for a Better User Experience – Everyone Should Read
> Why this blocks manual screenshots with no override though is bonkers insane

Because they don’t want sensitive information persisting in your camera roll.
I want to fly with stock market API
Vatican enlists bots to protect library from onslaught of hackers
Government urges Greeks to not hang out on internet 9am-6pm during lockdown
I was very happy to read that when I saw the news. The app has been in a half-dead state for years and it took me a long time to convince myself to buy it. It always felt like buying a dead product that won't get any updates, but then every once in a while there was an update to fix some bugs while it was sold from company to company.
Im also in group of people that moved to Emacs and never looked back.

After all, my workflow is to precious to put in any non-free ecosystem ;)
“We need these super high tech cookiemotrons to provide you with the best user experience possible. We consider it a technical necessity to meet your need to have your data harvested. You should be thanking us. We would explain further, but you’re too stupid. What are you gonna do? Have us testify before technologically illiterate politicians and fine us 1% of what we pay our CEO?.”
With the thermal and power throttling on that i9 it ain't much of an i9.
I can't speak for all of HN, but I don't have a problem with Apple showing that a battery isn't genuine in settings. I don't even have a problem with them throwing up a notification—as long as it's only done once, to inform rather than annoy (or frighten).

Where I get upset is when Apple purposefully makes these parts difficult or impossible to replace, or removes functionality when they are detected.
I understood that reference
Unless there's actually a captcha on that page, they aren't essential. Furthermore, you could argue that recaptcha itself is in breach of the GDPR as it collects a lot more data than necessary (captchas have been done just fine for decades without collecting any personal information).
> I’m not sure if everyone has gone through this, but for me I suffered through thoughts like:
Will I be ever successful?
Will I ever be happy?
Will I ever have another good idea?

These seem unanswerable/pointless, assume whichever is more likely to go in the better direction.

> Was my idea good?
Can I have good Ideas?
Can I be good at anything?

Thinking about the whys or hows to these might get you somewhere.

My question that wasn't easy to find one/many 'yes' cases to is Have I ever had a truly original idea (not related-to/derived-from anything else) in my life? Good thing success doesn't depend on originality.
As usual, a bunch of non-commutative human beings rewarded for hiding and not sharing their Authoritarian opinion about controlling humanity under your very ADULT response
> but it’s impressive that people could seriously entertain such out of the box ideas as recently as 100 years ago.

I don't know if there was any other period in history than 1920 when this sort of thing could have popped up. It was exactly the period of time when people seemed to have been swept up by all sorts of incredibly idealistic/weird/outrageous/revolutionary/utopian ideas. This is the period when things like Communism, Anarchism, and places like Fordlandia seemed like a good ideas. Also notably League of Nations itself came from that period.

Also I'm not sure how seriously this idea was really entertained even at the time, and how much it was just regular crackpottery that happens to have survived.
Is there a catch here? Or was PA Semiconductor some kind of superstar design company that's just way better than the big guys?
First I would like to thank you all that have commented and gave me their best advice.

I want to reply to all your comments, but I feel I still need more time for introspection and to think about what was discussed here.

The best thing about HN is there are so many beautiful, intelligent people with different perspectives and that helps a lot when trying to change my own perspective about life.
It should be noted that there are legitimate reasons for blocking screenshots; on corporate managed devices handling sensitive data e.g. files or PDFs for example. Obviously if the device is owned by the company then the company is well within its rights to control what functionality is available (just as a solo user is within their rights to control what the device is doing at all times). This is a bug where the device is somehow being tricked into thinking this functionality has been disabled by its owner, when in reality it has not been.

There are also legitimate reasons for blocking the disabling of location services. If I have devices with proprietary applications or access to proprietary data sitting in a secured room, I want to make sure nobody can take that device out of the room, and if they do, the device should enter some sort of lockdown or sleep mode so as to prevent the leaking of sensitive information. This is a legitimate feature that would make sense to implement on commercial (not consumer) devices. That the OS ships with the ability to disable disabling location services is not an indictment on the OS - it is only an indictment if the OS does so without your permission.
I didn't know about this software. Install and try the trial version with:

$ brew cask install kaleidoscope
Let’s Encrypt Is Garbage, Albeit It’s Disguised as ‘Free’ Privacy
Well, I think this so nicely points out the differences between a solution that comes from the top versus one that comes from the bottom.

It could almost even illustrate the pitfalls and hopes of someone architecting without the details, and saying "just make it work!"

When you plan from the top, you leave the details (and pain) to someone else to work out. There are 10,000 little problems that you don't have time to think through and delegate it down to the people day-by-day to figure out how to fit into your symbol of clean order. (and often don't or can't, leading to anger at the top when details don't cooperate)

Versus when people work out their patchwork of little agreements with each other to their temporary satisfaction to get on with life every day, it works but has no coherent direction to it. Like a coral reef figuring out how to grow -- somehow every little piece figured out how to live, but no one exactly told it how to do so.

It is to be marveled at in the rare cases when someone from the top designs something with the reality of the bottoms-up in mind, and can make it work.
We did, it was called Do-Not-Track. If websites were respecting it we wouldn't have the current situation.

The problem? Websites were not only ignoring it but using it as yet another tracking vector.
Yea, but just as an example, determining that the Rhine forms the border between Germany and France probably goes back to Roman times, and probably also involved a lot of genocide.
This is where a small bit of editorializing in the post title might be useful. The linked page is about a bug when you use .nomedia which is kind of interesting in it's own right. However most replies here seem to be on the broader topic of whether an OS should be able to block screenshots - this is another interesting topic but one that's only vaguely related to the linked page.

I'm curious if the /u/distalx posted this because they were interested in a discussion about the former or the latter.

If the former then it has largely strayed off topic. If the former then there might be a better page to link to that is more clearly about that specific "feature".
Looks like it doesn't just compare text but also images and folders.
This caught my eye last week, since the football stadium is built over the England/Wales border, and the two places have different rules on using indoor toilets at public events during lockdown:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/24/cross-border-t...
Mickey Mouse... republican who could not vote for that maniac, hate monger-er!
You can use WinGet which is official as well

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
I mean it's real for taxation too, it's just nobody wants to ever accept they might be on the side of the Laffer curve that implies taxes should go up.
Have you seen Elinor Ostrom's work[1]? She gives the conditions under which commons resource sharing works. Globalized fishing doesn't meet them. I believe she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prizein economics too.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom
> Bottom line: TeX is a leftover from the 1980s. In the 1980s it was probably quite good. So was the Commodore 64, but you wouldn’t write your thesis on it in 2020, would you?

Whenever I see this type of argument I always get frustrated. I use shovels too, they were invented ages ago. I still use hammers, they've been around since time immemorial.

More close to home, I use SQL, which was also invented in the '70s/'80s, and I love it.

Speaking to TeX directly, yeah, it has some unfortunate warts because it is old. But, by the same token, it is mature and has sooo many packages allowing you to typeset nearly anything. Markdown does a pretty good job, but sometimes you need something special or weird, which is a common problem in academia. I mean, that's what you do in academia: you try to find something novel to present to others.

Sure, I'll try new stuff if it comes out and tries to remove warts. But, I doubt anything that removes the warts of TeX will not also remove some of its usefulness as well. Rust hasn't yet killed C++.
Great opportunity to talk about time series predictions! It's not obvious when you're starting out with this type of prediction how you should measure accuracy. The simplest approach is to compare the guess made for a point to the actual data as was done here.

"People have over- and underguesstimated the number of new cases, but not by much. There were only a few occasions where the actual case count didn’t fall within one standard deviation of the mean of guesses (represented by the whiskers around blue bars on the plot). Granted, the daily standard deviation tends to be large (on the order of a few thousand), but still, I’m impressed."

The author almost calls this out but there is a natural range that the data is expected to fall into given the previous data. (Standard deviation across the whole time series isn't actually that helpful). This leads us to what should be everyone's first baseline. Last-time-step prediction. If your prediction is simply the previous true value how good are your predictions? The mean absolute error over some time window is a decent place to start when you're measuring quality.

This predict-the-last-timestep model is often surprisingly good. If your prediction horizon is really only one timestep then its easy to fool yourself that your model is doing well. This is why models are usually judged on how quickly the diverge from the true data over as long a time horizon as possible. If your model is capturing underlying dynamics then it should be better at predicting long time horizons.

There are, of course, many ways to then start building up better and better models for use as baselines, and even relatively simple models (random forest over a moving window for example) can produce pretty good predictors. I'd love to see how humans do in compared to those over medium to long term predictors of covid case counts!
When this was written a married woman was required to obey her husband in all matters. This meant that she would vote for whomever he told her to vote for, effectively giving each man two votes. So it made sense to disallow this.
never heard of crypto?
If you don't understand TeX and don't want to learn how it works, just don't use it. If you think Markdown serves the same purpose as Tex does I'm not sure you are in its target audience.
Let's take the US as we know it, the 1780s constitution granted the Federal government power over interstate commerce, like a glue between the states, by the 20th century all commerce was interstate commerce and the "New Deal" in 1930 leveraged that to assume control over all facets of life in the US, with the Supreme Court finalizing the subjugation of all the states shortly thereafter (for example with rulings that a farmer's crop in one state affects the national market of that crop and therefore can be regulated by the federal government). All autonomy of states is merely tolerated by the Federal Government to maintain easier compliance. A pacifier in the mouth of a dependent which could realistically be removed at any time.
Most people don't have the money to afford to own an entire factory, and if they did its still more secure for them to diversify by owning many pieces of many factories in different industries, that's why capitalists figured out how to commodify the means of production as stocks. Its not quite the same, its better.
This isn't specifically about Trump, but about the political tactic of accusing the opponent of "enabling extremists". Both sides are using it.

Let's focus on the falsifiability: What would a candidate have to do in order to disprove the accusation?

If there isn't a clear answer to that question, then how is this tactic materially different from name-calling?
I will go further here: the idea that there is a mass of people out there waiting to support a third party that would somehow better represent Americans is entirely without merit

A huge number of Americans are socially conservative and economically liberal and there is currently no party that really supports that point of view.

https://www.storybench.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/polcom...
It's geekbench... hold your horses.
Alex Trebek, Revered Host of ‘Jeopardy ’ for 36 Years, Dies at 80
There's a double blind study from Japan that suggests lions mane mushroom extract is an effective nootropic. Not sure how much follow up has been done on it.
What would her recommendation be?
>"Cable systems have a design lifespan. This is usually around 25 years."

Literally the last sentence of my post is "Newer systems have a lifespan of around 25 years." What is your point?

>"The cables themselves have a lifespan, but it's far longer than 25 years."

No this is incorrect. There are a many factors that limit the lifetime of "wet plant" - chief among them are fiber hydrogen exposure, which causes attenuation. There is also glue and insulation aging as well as corrosion. And "the cable" in submarines systems always includes all of the passive optical components, alignments, joints and passive electronic components. Extending these system is generally on the order of 5 years. That could hardly be classified as "far longer than 25 years."
If all you need is diffing source code, I’d really consider buying a Jetbrains IDE (disclaimer: no affiliated, just a fan) which provides this out of the box, isn’t much more expensive and has an additional use as an IDE :)
There's loans vs equity, structuring the company differently (C corp vs B corp), creating different legal incentives for employees to stay on (letting employees exercise their options more than 90 days after a departure, letting employees exercise their options during a follow-on investment round), the YC SAFE is relatively new if we're going back to the 80's...

There's a ton of ways to make things better, it's just never better for the investor (since the investor wants control).
> Slack has no control over those cookies

Sorry, I fail to see how Slack has "no control" over the usage of ads.linkedin cookies?
Agreed, documentation was in some cases improperly maintained and/or became stale once they started contacting the people. As a parent, I can empathize and it is truly heartbreaking. I hope Biden can do something positive here.

But at the same time, I think the larger issue is a bit more nuanced, than simply assuming people are all monsters.

for e.g. After some initial research :- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/us/migrant-children-separ...

>Some of the families who have been identified have decided their children would be safer in the United States than in their home countries, and elected for the children to stay with friends or family members who agreed to sponsor them.

>And because the computer system used by border authorities for processing incoming migrants had not been updated to accommodate family separations, the agents often inadvertently deleted identification numbers that could have been used to keep track when parents and children were sent to different places.

>In some cases, members of the steering committee have had access to only names and countries of origin while trying to locate separated parents. Even after conducting public record searches to identify the cities where the families were from, they faced additional hurdles. Many of the families had fled their homes to escape violence or extortion, intentionally withholding information from friends and neighbors about where they were going.

etc..
> Let's Encrypt will stop signing new SSL certificates with DST Root X1

The subheading says where the source of the change/difference lies--not in Android itself.
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