skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah Twitter and Facebook have opened this can of worms on themselves by leaving a default neutral position. Now anything is open to takedown by anybody, and we're basically going to go from "everyone can post!" to "only official people registered with the government can post, and they can only post very boring things".

Of course, people will leave Twitter and Facebook as they become subpar and go to alternatives.
Western* Social Media platforms do that to it's own Americans. Should one expect LESS? The global culture just doesn't mesh and its messy to provide exception policy in platforms across borders. This isn't a political bait / trick either. I just finished reading NO RULES RULES and listening to the French and English markets and how they deliver context and feedback, it's just one of those things you have to fight to overcome. I wish it was better, but with half the world right now culturally different than the West (if not more) - not going to change.
Yes it apply to residents in the EU, but not EU citizens outside of the EU. Unless I misread the link.
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It is standard development practice. But sometimes development is done in service of a business plan, in which case those requirements would apply.
Except that if the sites don't do annoying things there is no need for annoying popups.

The EU law:

- doesn't require opt-in permission for essential cookies and similar. So basic non-personalized website usage statistics (analytics) do not need a opt-in only if it's tracking people in any way are such opt-ins needed

- if you login you are known to have accepted the terms of service and as such after login no opt-in pop-up is needed either

- is not limited to cookies btw.

All in all this means that for any site not based on ad-revenue they fully can get away without needing any annoying popups, if they don't do some sneaky questionable things.

Even for ad's there are ways to do them without annoying popups, you just need to not track people, tracking the number of times a website was loaded doesn't require annoying popups, just tracking who opened it does.

Similar if you track people only after they clicked on the ad you don't need annoying popups on the site the add is one but only on the site the app navigates to (through only start tracking after opt-in). Which given that many adds try to sell you stuff and buying thinks only requires a account isn't that big of a problem as it might seem.

In the end you can say the only reason there are so many annoying popups is because most companies have not intention to respect the privacy of their users. Actually if you look into it and realize that many popups are not legally conform or borderline illegal it becomes clear that they do not only not respect the users privacy but the users themself.

Through I have to note, that while many (most?) companies can switch to respectable advertisement, some companies can't as easily do so.
"Disingenuous" implies that someone is being deceptive, which breaks the HN guideline against assuming good faith: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. The rest of your comment would be just fine without that bit.
> Is there any chance evidence to suggest that they hired Timnit merely as a PR show, rather than because they actually wanted a good product?

I didn't mean to imply that the ethical AI team is empty PR. What I'm saying is that the obvious corporate justification for an (expensive!) AI ethics team is to reassure regulators and customers that Google's AI techniques will follow best ethical practices. Obviously the best way for Google to achieve that goal is to hire a bunch of really strong researchers, and then incorporate their recommendations into Google's products. And of course, to have those researchers publish their findings so that the world can see that a standard is being followed.

But the flipside can also be true, and damaging the credibility of your ethical AI team comes at a cost. It would not surprise me if some observers have come to negative conclusions about the independence of Google's researchers, which means those people are more likely to mistrust Google's products in the future. The irony is that even if Google has the very best intentions, they might now find it harder to convince people of this. This does meaningful harm to Google, and nothing Google's gotten out of this mess has been worth that cost.
Wow. Somehow this feels like an even more extreme version of Carl Hewitt's actor model in which individual actors themselves involve asynchronous components.
It doesn’t mean no analytics, it’s about including third-party analytics scripts. You can still do analytics.
You're just one step ahead of us :)

We'll be working on building in one-click configuration to have Cloudflare Access in front of your preview deployments specifically for this purpose.

More good news: we support private repos today :)
> What does it mean to consume "ultra-processed" food?

Something like a snickers bar or packaged saltines maybe?

> Can someone give an example how the daily dietary intake can be 50% processed foods? What do you eat for that?

I mean, clif bars would count, for one. If you ate plain chocolate bars for 50% of your calories you'd probably overeat but... many people do!
Reuleaux Triangle
My favorite subject too. Do you have a writeup posted
anywhere? What delay model did you assume (e.g., SI, DI, QDI, burst
mode, something else)? FWIW, the Amulet processor from the Manchester
group and a prototype from Martin's group at Caltech have demonstrated
that asynchronous general purpose processors are possible.
Almost anything from a fast food restaurant, or in a box that you microwave, or in a use-once bag / single-serve container is considered ultra-processed. These tend to be a lot less expensive (because making them is much more efficient for the manufacturer) than regular foods, and are more readily available and time-convenient when compared to other foods.

That's how you can easily get to 50% or more of your daily intake with them. If you're already short on time, or if you have several family members at home who need to be fed quickly, or if you have a lower income and cannot easily afford fresh food items and the utensils with which to prepare them, you will buy and eat lots of ultra-processed foods.
It feels rather contradictory that people on fora like this are all in favor for being tolerant of neurodiversity – let’s not judge those on the autistic spectrum for lack of social graces because they were born that way – but at the same time there is a lot of disapproval of RMS. If we aim to create a better world, should that not be a world where a figure like RMS would seem perfectly fine, not a weirdo who has to be represented by more "acceptable" figures?
Great, I guess you’re out of the businesses of programming and mathematics... after all Gerhard Gentzen was an enthusiastic Nazi. Let alone von Braun
>>Ten years ago today, 26-year old Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest over injustice and state marginalization, igniting mass uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and other countries across the Middle East and North Africa.

He set himself on fire for having his fruit stand confiscated for the third time, for not having a license for it. He likely had no money to get a new fruit stand, and saw no way out except to commit suicide in protest.

I wish these so-called human rights activists named the oppression that drove Bouazizi to self-immolate, instead of glossing over it. He was driven to suicide because he had his right to engage in voluntary economic interactions with other consenting adults violated. This oppression was rationalized by the ideology that says the state has a right to use the threat of incarceration to control the private economic activity of individuals, and is one the human rights activists are silent about.
CockroachDB is not a key-value store though.
Rpitx: Radio transmission from a Raspberry Pi GPIO pin
Perhaps the new group won't confuse ethics with activism.
You mean of Jean Vautrin? And may I ask what is the connection between the article and the novel, which in English translation is called "The Voice of the People".
part of the GDPR law is the intent of the information you are storing, not the method. Cookie is just a technology. If you track your users using a DB it still applies and you need consent if the tracking is not necessary
Breakfast: Cereal and milk. My favorite cereal is Trix.

Lunch: Sandwich made of bread, bologna, cheese, mustard. Coca-cola or chocolate milk to drink.

Dinner: TV dinner, perhaps a Lean Cuisine or Pizza rolls. Mountain Dew or Kool Aid to drink.

This was a typical day of food for me as a child and through being a teenager.
They had me. I have a strong idea in my brain that a meal of chocolate bars and a healthy meal will result in same weight loss if calories are equal. Some professor lost weight eating chocolate bars!

I also assumed the public knows sodas contain a nauseating amount of sugar. How will this "research" benefit Coca Cola as a soda company?
It just makes you wonder how much toxic behaviour did her managers put up with before deciding that enough is enough, and (more or less) firing a prominent, visible, black, female AI ethicist working in the field of gender equality and racial discrimination. They knew perfectly well how damaging it could have been and yet decided they had enough.
Which is why the headline emphasis this is in reference to "ultra-processed" foods and they further go on to define ultra-processed as:

Ultra-processed foods and beverages can be defined as products with additives and industrially processed ingredients that have been technologically broken down and modified.7 They are not merely processed foods with high levels of sugar, salt, and fat but also contain ingredients and additives not commonly used in home kitchens and artisanal restaurants, such as synthetic flavours, emulsifiers, hydrogenated oils, and soy protein isolates. The role of these ingredients is often to simulate the taste, texture, or nutritional profile of minimally processed foods.
There's a huge difference between an entire metropolitan mega-city like the US East Coast projecting billions of watts of light into the sky, and a thousand sattelites in the vastness of LEO which occasionally passing overhead for a few moments. They contribute to light pollution on scales removed from each other by several orders of magnitude.
> What? it's not needed with "Americans" so there's no need

But that’s the point: it’s not needed in Spanish either. Spanish speakers are totally fine without new inventions like “latinx”. They see those strange American people, who usually don’t even speak Spanish, try to impose their own new norms on what the Latinos should be called, and they don’t like this kind of cultural imperialism.

The whole problem stems to a large degree from lack of understanding the English speakers have for gendered languages. English is, with few exceptions, not gendered. The exceptions are rare enough that people who care can try to lobby for using gender neutral terms, like they are used for almost everything else. This is often against established language patterns, but since English is, in general, not gendered, it doesn’t seem all that out of place.

That’s not how gendered languages works. In gendered languages, everything had a gender. In Spanish, chair is female, and desk is male. When you use an adjective, you need to use it in an appropriate gendered form to match the gender of the noun. Spanish speakers are completely used to it, and don’t see this as anything special or in need of rectification: that’s just how their language works. External efforts to make some specific words gender neutral are just strange and foreign to them.
If I was a savvy corporate customer, I’d be more concerned that you’d get AWS’ed by a too-permissive license, which would either put you out of business or prevent you from growing. From that POV, being stuck with a dead or stale product from a dead or stale company is far worse than being stuck with a dead or stale product from Microsoft.

Curious to know how you’re solving this — we should come up with some best practices in this area for everyone to adopt!
I really wonder genuinely if the regulation has improved anything at all. I just click through the banners without even thinking. It has become so annoying. The value I get is below zero. I wonder if the majority is like me.
Still an interesting comment, though, because while most people know that regular apples exist, not as many people know that liquid piston engines exist.
Please don't cross into personal attack and name-calling on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The first cold war wasn't about People vs. their governments either. They were focussed groups too.

The pattern is still the same. Build a boogey man, spread fear, pretend to kill heroically, declare victory.
I did wonder that same thing, this breaks it down nicely:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-are-ultra-processed...

One example:

Corn vs Canned corn vs Corn chips

Where corn is not, canned is processed, and chips are Ultra.

My favorite example is Doritos. "Favorite" because they're soooo damn good, but sooo damn bad for me. Ultra Processed for sure.
For me it seems like the earlier I start the less is required.
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Prosecutors say Google accessed WhatsApp messages – but the evidence is thin
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1114375/wearing-a-face-m...

As of October--How often have you worn a face mask outside your home to protect yourself or others from coronavirus?

Sweden:

Always------- 4.3%

Not at all-- 76.7%

Spain:

Always------ 95.8%

Not at all-- 0.3%
the beautiful irony of having "share on Facebook link" on this page
I read that and it said that it applies to data not processed in the EU. I always interpreted that as applying to data centers and such in something like an was availability zone in the US. It said “ the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.” I never thought that applied to EU citizens all over the world. EU citizens living in another jurisdiction would be subject to that jurisdictions laws right? For instance GDPR wouldn’t apply to a Spanish expat that lives in Thailand, as far as I understand it.
I'm still emotionally invested in how angry this episode got me because we ended up needing to downsize because of it and it wasn't like we were printing money from the decision to use managed accounts and we absolutely didn't budget for an overnight 40k expense. We understood the liability issues, that's why ultimately we had no leg to stand on, but the crux of how poorly Stripe handled this was:

- "0 day" notice. Boom, account shut down. Don't like it? Well pay clear every single account.

- You let accounts process refunds even with active chargebacks. This isn't a default "sane" position. We had no way of reacting to this.

- The period this went on. From the first negative balance to "Day 0" was well over a year. Not once did you send a notice or friendly email this was happen. It literally went from happy days to business destroying lock outs overnight. We had customers leave us with serious negative balances which we could have possibly collected if they were still customers. Overall we only managed to get about 1k back from our customers.
Food companies have led very good marketing campaigns for many years telling people that “cooking is SO difficult and SUCH A PAIN. Just buy our prepackaged food which is so much easier.”

Unfortunately when so many people buy into it, it impacts those who don’t. Lately I’ve noticed that basic bags of frozen vegetables are being replaced with “ready to steam” bags that contain half as much quantity for the same price.
Software breakthrough radically boosts the speed of nanopore DNA sequencers
All Lives Matter?
By looking at http access logs, like since the beginning of times? Note if by modern sites you mean SPAs, you could still make HTTP pings for those features; might not make much sense to use SPAs for content-driven sites though.
If half of our food is ultraprocessed, then that's a problem with the definition of ultraprocessed.

Breakfast cereal is "ultraprocessed" by the definition of the article. But Grain Berry cereal is going to be grossly different from a nutritional perspective than Frosted Flakes. For both to be lumped into the same category of "ultraprocessed" is a bit ridiculous.

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Its not like "processing" makes something more or less poisonous. 100% all natural fully organic death cap mushrooms will kill you.

Now high-fat, high-sugar, high-salt, high-preservative stuff is probably bad. Those things have clear science and nutrition issues associated with them. But the nutrition in "processed" canned corn (picked and canned at peak ripeness) is often found to be superior to "fresh" ears of corn (which loses nutrition the longer it sits in the food aisle).

If you cook all-natural brown rice with fresh pork-belly all day every day, and you'll have a heart attack from all that fat you're eating. It doesn't matter if that pork-belly is ultraprocessed bacon or freshly cut from a squealing pig in your backyard: pork-belly contains a ton of fat and is just innately unhealthy.
It is not the responsibility of a compressor to manage (or even store) your data. So yes, you have to come up with some sort of scheme yourself. But the overhead of a version number or something is usually negligible compared to the gains.
>but it is honoring a nazi

even when it is honoring nazi, doesn't necessarily mean honoring its action.

even when it is honoring nazi action, doesn't necessarily mean honoring its bad action

Even nazi can have its good side.
IANAL!!!! But I think, yes, there are still implications. GDPR makes no distinction about back end and front end AFAIK, it's just about what data you collect and why/purpose.

But note there are other reasons you can have for collecting data other than consent (something often overlooked) - for example I would guess GitHub would log IP addresses in the back end for a limited time for spam fighting reasons, and I think that would be fine.
A friend of mine had a personal trainer that would make him send a photo of everything he ate. I thought that was a good idea.
A Better Description of Entropy
That would break the "remember me" feature for sure, unless you explicitly bookmark the site with the get parameter attached.

It also poses a security / opsec issue if anyone non-technical wants to send a link to a friend / co-worker. You may compromise yourself.

If people share their screen people would be able to hijack the session too.

You won't be able to distinguish device sessions from one another reliably neither. Think of "log out all other devices".

These are what I can think of. There's probably a handful more reasona NOT to do that.
“And we would rather not have this crap but nobody pays for content are there only two types of ad networks: privacy preserving and paying so we’re stuck. Please call your congressperson to complain [here].”
> BSD and pcc started 10 years before GNU, and if it wasn't for the failed law suit against it by AT&T there wouldn't have been any need for Linux either.

People still believe this myth? 30 years on and still sour grapes from the BSD folk who were too slow and to elitist to adapt.
They can't apply EU law to citizens residing outside of the union.
I literally proposed this solution in a previous HN thread, discussing the cookie situation. I'm glad a large business such as GH is able to take the _extremely_ painless route of just outright removing them entirely.
In the real world, (outside of compiler development) we rarely discover arbitrary code without context. Usually, we are writing that code to fulfill some business purpose. Without being able to describe the behavior of the system, we'd never be able to design any practical software that exists outside of pure math.
Whatsapp advertises end to end encryption even thought it knows very well that an overwhelming majority of people turn on Drive and iCloud backups.

Even if you turn off backups, the person/people who you chat with would most likely have it turned on.
Site appears down- is there a mirror?

Page says "Something went wrong."
I'm honestly amazed at the PC component market for the past decade. The Thailand flooding that messed up HDD production, and crypto mining jacking up the price of GPUs, are just two examples
Neil Mendoza [1] does some fantastic work combining art and code/technology, quite often with interactivity.

[1] http://www.neilmendoza.com/
The existence of scalpers implies demand outstripping than supply, so it’s the same thing.
I get ads on GH homepage for open positions. They seem targeted to me or maybe I just notice the relevant ones.
It would still be a violation because of how you're using it. The law isn't purely about what data you track, it's primarily about what you do with the data.
I can't reply to the reply to this for some reason, but it's worth noting that GDPR and the cookie law are different, though related.
I think Polan said something like "If your great grandparents didn't have it, it's probably not good for you" and I think that's a pretty good rule of thumb.
Yes ASP.NET allows (allowed? Haven’t used it in years) cookieless sessions this way. The problem is it has to rewrite all the relative links on the page to ensure session state is not lost.

The problem is it’s makes urls horribly unwieldy if a user wants to bookmark or paste in links from emails etc etc, or writing JS to interact with links, not to mention the security issues of being able to accidentally share your session.

Possibly, yes, but not at all user friendly.
Yes. Some sites operating like that eventually tried to work around this issue by tying it to the IP, but you can see how that is hopelessly broken anyway.
Yep, we’re all rich racist WASPs, you got us.

More seriously, it probably does indicate something about the political sentiment of users of HN who comment, which may indirectly indicate something about demographics. A direct link is tenuous.
It’s about more than just the cash cost though. In many jurisdictions court cases decisions can create legally binding precedent. Arbitration typically does not, a critical advantage when Uber was very busy trying to make sure courts the world over never decided drivers are employees etc. Arbitration could never really make that distinction binding, risk a court might.
GV leads $9M investment in open source product analytics platform PostHog
OK, so my top comment on this post calling out the ethical AI group and Gebru as toxic got flagged, and I'm still a bit salty about that, but I'll respond constructively to this statement:

> a good chunk of HN seems to just go with the "she's a toxic person" narrative without ever relaying what she actually DID

I didn't feel the need to add a ton of details because it all seemed quite clear. I mean, in this case, all the information I got about what the ethical AI team demanded comes from the posted article. My previous comments about this were all taken from Gebru's public tweets and information in the primary posts. I didn't feel a need to rehash what she actually DID because it was all posted, multiple times, in public forums, and my assumption (perhaps incorrect) was that other people were similarly up-to-date on the controversy.