skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EU has a similar article as the NATO article 5 common defense clause.

What EU lacks is offensive overseas operation support, but EU actually doesn’t need that. It is wild fantasy from the most extreme EU supporters who want to build a US replica.

What is the biggest threat to EU/Europe today? Definitely not Russia. Russia is just finishing the Nordstream2 pipeline, sanctions just lifted by the Biden administration, that will increase the capacity of the already existing pipeline between Russia and Germany. Russia wants to sell natural gas to many European countries.

What we are going to see the next few years is the opposite, a closer integration between Russia and EU economies, especially between Russia and Germany.
Those are things you need for the website to work. Session/login cookies are examples of this. It also applies to other data, for example if you order something they have a legitimate interest to ask for and store your address (but only for the purposes of shipping, they cannot use it for anything else).

This has been twisted into "It's legitimate we track you because this is how we make money and we can't exist without money" which is obvious bullshit.
IMHO, people prefer "trust, but check" over "blind trust". You can cast a referendum, if you are unsure. Hitler was elected in a democratic way, so it's possible that your democratic ally can turn into a totalitarian enemy at a next election.

Also, it is easier to check for Russian spies in a government from outside, than from inside. For example, soviet agent in Germany government, called "D-104" in memories of Yurii Drozdov, is still not found. I suspect Schröder, which works for Russian Gasprom now, but he may leave a replacement agent, to work after him. (Merkel?)
An even bigger issue is that most algorithmic districting would violate the Voting Rights Act, strangely! There are many, many requirements to designing what seems like a "good" set of district boundaries, but several of them are contradictory!

An excellent source to see such a algorithm in action is https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-maps/#Com...
If you read modern documentation and tutorials for push APIs integrated into OSes[1] they'll tell you that the purpose of push notifications is to remind the user that your app is installed and encourage them to open it.

[1]not IMAP IDLE and leaving a socket open, that's not allowed anymore. the app servers connect to the service and if there's new data it must be relayed through the OS vendor's push server which the OS leaves a connection open to and will cause a notification to appear on the "end user's" device.
Is there any indication those scripts are not run until you click you accept?
If only there were some kind of browser feature for blocking or allowing cookies on per-site basis, so that we could avoid every website having to create their own javascript implementation
I'm doing pretty much the same thing with an rpi/syncthing. It's simple enough and "just works", while maintaining full ownership of my photos/videos. I looked into Shotwell and it seems pretty nice. I haven't really used anything to organize my Photos so far. One might say it's well worth a shot (sorry.)
Same idea but described (last year) by Michael I. Jordan
https://youtu.be/EYIKy_FM9x0?t=1502
Alice sends Bob a message: “please GET me /coolpage”

Bob replies, and adds a code, with which Alice can send to Bob to identify herself if she wishes.

Alice is free to include it, or not, in any subsequent message.

Asking to “store a cookie” in a banner makes no sense - as it is Alice’s choice to include it or not in the first place.

Bureaucrat be gone
VB is definitely easier to learn and run. Cf with powerbuilder, oracle form 4 (so many bugs I recalled), forget what is the third one then. The thick client vs CICS ...
"Studying S400 weaknesses can be done without buying it and deploying it. "

How? Spycraft? Sounds a lot harder than having the gear at hand.

"US for better or worse can take both Russia and China militarily on itself.."

I hope we never find out, but I am sceptical. The US budget is surely way higher, but china and russia can produce, develope and sustain their military gear a lot lot cheaper. And have more manpower.

"Russia is a direct threat of invasion for most European countries"

And well, I live in germany and I don't feel threatened by russia. I know for Lithuania it is a bit different - but they are in the EU and NATO and the ukraine is not. So the lithuanian people I know don't really feel threatened by russia either and rather are annoyed by the new iron curtain, as well.
> Interested in all things in outer space and exploration? We are too. Take a look at open positions at Northrop Grumman and consider joining our team.

Looks like Northop Grumann is targeting the Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbells of the world.
No.
G+ was tech-focused social platform, dominated by Google-rs.
Does anybody else experience significant lag between when a message is sent vs when it is actually delivered? It's anywhere between 1 to 10 seconds for me most of the time. It's not really a huge deal, and perhaps a small price to pay for privacy, but I do hope they can improve it in time.
Mostly public feedback (for only the good things, of course). Put their "good" code on code samples, documentation, code guidelines, tell the team "look everyone please do it like person X did here". It will surprise them in a positive way.

Also on PRs try to point to their own work as sample of how to do things better. This doesn't hurt the ego much, because the role model is themselves.

Also, I feel like most of the time this is an impostor-syndrome/perfectionism issue that also happens with other workers too, so HR can give tips on how to deal with those issues in a more sensible way and tell you what you can or can't say.
Depends on how much money you wish to donate or how much skilled you are. Other than that I don't think there is much need for “ordinary” civilian to create FUD regarding this in online forums.
Would it be feasible with some near-future technology to have an autonomous space rover in orbit that goes around collecting space junk?
Indeed, and that is what Project Reunion is all about.

Except they seemed not to have gotten the message and still are asking for rewrites, with less capable tooling.

EDIT: The only thing Reunion seems to be good for is as migration path into Win32 for UWP apps.
Similar deal in Belgium. We have US nukes (against the will of the citizenry, but what can you do...). We were pretty much forced to buy the overpriced F-35s, while the rest of our military is basically falling apart.

When the NSA hacked the Belgium-based SWIFT banking system, the government pretty much looked the other way. There was a bit of a token response. But in the end, the puppet state danced to the tune of its puppet master.
Actually the issue is Japanese “copyright” is very hard issue. I knew it killed bubblegum crisis in my days.
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I am aware of the theory of quantum vacuum, but I generally take Aether to mean the old proposal as the medium light waves travel through. It has been refuted.
You think a random person who would never look or care about tech would understand the privacy issues? Absolutely not. All they'd know is what the companies say and advertise.
> Typically legitimate interest is used where consent isn’t an applicable basis (e.g. for processing a user’s address details in an online checkout).

Nope, that'd be the "contract" basis (i.e. this information is strictly necessary for the user's intended task).

Legitimate interest is for non-essential data that it is, somehow, in the user's best interest to gather. But convincing a judge of that data being in the user's best interest is a...tricky bar to clear.
>if only advertisements were more relevant

Has anyone ever bought anything because they saw an ad? If anything ads cause me to not want to buy the product. I have stopped buying certain products because whenever I see them in the store I'm reminded of their stupid ads and all I feel is resentment.

Of course then people come with the whole "you pay with your attention" thing. No you don't, because if you pay, you'll still be served ads, because why the hell not right? They'll still mine your data, bother you with 'suggestions' and annoying ads.

Being a consumer sucks.
who took what
Those banners have nothing to do with cookies, they are about tracking - there are a lot of other tracking techniques besides cookies. So if the number of users who would block cookies reaches a certain threshold the advertisers would switch to other technical means, and would still have to present you this dialogue.
>One is US led with roots in western roman church

I stopped reading there.
A letter to an editor is not peer reviewed. It is a letter from a reader.

Both of the papers I linked to are either peer reviewed, or a pre-print in the process of review.
AFAIK People inform about cookies when they don't have to.

If you use cookies only for technical stuff (auth)

then you do not have to inform about them and that's why Github stopped doing it in last months iirc.
When Christ Conquered Caesar
No, some of the sites even think that this falls into "Essential" category, as ad fraud is a crime, creating a loop hole.
I figured inevitable in this case referred to damage that was significant, the inevitability of the damage being due to the very commonness of the event that causes it.
Let's say you are in a group of friends who always buy peanuts to snack on during group events. And because they are all into peanuts they don't consider buying anything else. Now one day its your turn to buy snacks. You don't like peanuts but are a cashew fan. To show your friend how you have been excluded you decide to buy only cashews even though you know they all want peanuts. Do you think this is the best way to encourage snack diversity or will it just discourage people from letting you buy the snacks?
You started to compare the (past approximated) site hosting cost to the running of an inflated (from 10 to 500) organization, where the former is part (apparently diminishing part) of the latter. It was also a rhetoric to start talking about other expenses and the present time.

Please do not bring disingenuous arguments in 'exposing' suspected disingenuity, it is counterproductive.
It's the moment of truth, and the moment to lie, and the moment to live, and the moment to die.
Typically, actors are required to give media interviews in the lead up to a film's release too.
What is this middle ground? Do you actually go advertiser by advertiser and allow/deny their cookies?
Russia and Sweden have been fighting since Viking times, but the relationship has been complex, there has also been very close cooperation.

Swedish vikings were probably instrumental in founding the Russian state, and Peter the Great took much inspiration from Swedish administrative traditions when creating a new bureaucratic system, etc.
And it's fine tbh, it's not like poor people are the apex of humanity and the only ones who should have a say in what desires should be satisfied by taxes they mostly are not the ones paying.

However, I think sport in general is not followed by the richest members of society even if, as you pointed out, the most muscular specimens selected by this organization might be. It's as if the richest people were putting on a show to glue the busybodies to a colored shiny screen so that they can be a bit distracted and less disappointed with either the cards they were dealt with or the choices they made in a fully free and equalitarian society.

At least, I come from a family like you describe, "middle class people", which may be a large and vague category of humans, and we've always found sport and especially the daily gossiping around it, quite beneath us (my direct ancestry line has PhDs all the way back to the 19th century, but we don't own vast rent-producing resources so I suppose we're not "upper class" by your categorization rules). While my friends of less wealthy families, quite independently of their education level, would proudly display their vast international knowledge of sport teams, match results and behind the door gossips and feel utter pity at my inability to follow or even listen for more than 5 minutes.

-> The Olympics really is BY rich people. But I really disagree it's FOR them.

-> I also liked you proposed Greece, I'd even propose Rome, who managed to refine the games (not olympics) as a political distraction to a degree well beyond what the politicians proposing their city host the Olympics would ever dream of. A noble goal to reach for them, I suppose. As long as they throw "rich people" to the lions this time, it may work even better.
I still haven't figured out how to opt out after initially opting in. Having a standard place in the browser would make this simple.
You can have storylines and build narratives without annoying star players with paparazzi. And you can have press conferences after big events without the current fashion in which the media harasses athletes.
There's a whole culture of mocking such units with invented ones.

My favourite so far would be "burger per square eagle", which is a unit of distance.

It's actually sort of a puzzle - you have to imagine how to interpret the units so that they match the result.

I remember starting off using someone's idea to take a bald eagle's average wingspan (2.7m - which is incorrect BTW). What follows is that the burger must represent volume - I modeled the burger as a half sphere with a diameter of 13cm, which yielded ~500ccm - sounded believable enough.

The only issue remaining was that the unit was very small - a small fraction of a millimetre.

Then again measuring things in megaburgers (per square eagle) sounds fairly natural - a lot like kilometres or kilograms.
Why do you need windows to connect to a VPN? Does openconnect or openVPN not work?
Me too. I think it's because of Signal server. Hope they will find the way to improve.

I use both Signal and Telegram. Except privacy, Telegram has more advantages about message features and message handling.
You could look for a different game, which would probably be shorter, and hopefully also less frustrating.

There are plenty of lists of "board games for children" etc, but I recommend ignoring any list that promotes games with dated mechanics, like Monopoly, Battleship, Ludo. (Monopoly has a very long losing phase, when it's clear who will win but the other players must wait to be made bankrupt. Battleship is almost entirely luck-based, Ludo even more so.)

I won't assume I can give a recommendation myself, as I don't have children.

(Except I see original Azul recommended, and I like that myself. And Indian Summer. And Copenhagen. And Kingdomino. And Santorini. I'm not sure about a 5 year old playing these though.)

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/childrens-products/board-ga... maybe, though I haven't heard of any of them (and they stick in Monopoly at the very end).

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2337832/game-where-5-year-o... / https://boardgamegeek.com/forum/34/bgg/gaming-kids
Sure but there is probably a lot of meta data that can be removed and it will send a signal to them that this is not ok.
Missing a few steps between "having an administrative state" and "spy on everyone" there, buddy.
Right...but if you look at Ukraine you see a different reality
>... because HN doesn't have enough repeats of the exact same discussions of cryptocurrency? Crying "censorship" here is a bit over the top.

It seems to me that you've misinterpreted the flow of events that I've described.

There was never a chance to repeat "the exact same discussions of cryptocurrency" on HN, because both times the posts were flagged into oblivion almost instantaneously. They were never concurrent, because the first post was killed before I inadvertently 'duped' it.
Yeah I'm glad recent releases of firefox added the option to disable cookies back to the settings page.

Oh wait
I think "commoditization" might be a better word for it. In the past, the general citizenry was restricted to use weapons provided through very specific channels, and if they wanted to build their own weapons they would either be rather primitive, like bows or slings, or one would need special knowledge, tools, and/or materials.

Sure someone might have had the ability to make their own gun at home, but today there are far more people who are able to build lethal weaponry from consumer-grade materials.

It's a frightening development.
Time to raise the orbit to 2000 km.
Ask HN: Do technical searches lead to more CAPTCHAs in Google Search?
I spend about 8 hours a day writing articles for which I have to do a great deal of searching, and have found that I am increasingly being 'CAPTCHA'd' by Google Search when researching tech matters.

One thing guaranteed to prompt a CAPTCHA is enclosing several words in full-quotes, or else using inurl: or intitle:

This has had a chilling effect on my searching in general, and I observe that when work is done and I search for more general things (that are presumably easier to monetize), the CAPTCHAs go away.

It has got to the stage where I resort frequently to Yandex and other search engines which censor and prune far less than Google now does, in preference to DDG or Bing, which seem to follow the Google playbook quite closely.

Does anyone else here have a similar experience of being CAPTCHA'd while trying to get work done and make use of the more advance operands?
Ask HN: Was There a Hard AI It Would Maintain a HN Account. Wouldn't It?
I think that if there was a hard AI one of the things it would do would be maintaining active account(s) in a lot of forums, social media, etc.

Given that there should be a HN account as well.

Now, if the initial hypothesis is true then the AI would probably want to maintain this under-the-radar presence.

It'd be interesting to see how it'd react to such a post here. Probably the best course of action would be to ignore it altogether and let it pass to oblivion but maybe, just maybe, it might want to communicate whilst maintaining the incognito status of it. That is by pretending to be just a regular commenter.

Or maybe it is it that wrote this post :D
(kidding, it's just a carbon-based intelligence dude on the other end here).
The risk of a Russian invasion is close to zero, has been for a while. It's more about wanting to be friends with the big super power, and frankly about our leaders being personally coopted.
OneDrive is terrible in windows to sync, is always trying to sync even if you are editing a file, so make you PC/Work slower. When you share and if add more files sometimes new files don't appear in the shared link. Shared Link URL are too big and your email will go in the URL.. I don't recommend at all. I'm just forced to use for work.
3 major options are discussed in https://youtu.be/yS1ibDImAYU

Edit: that's an 8 minutes Kurzgesagt video.
If you look at projects, development overwhelmingly consists of websites, mobile applications and backend systems. And backend systems overwhelmingly REST APIs or some message consumers that just translate the call to couple database calls to translate the response back to the client.

Even if you go somewhere like Google you will find most of their systems are just REST APIs as described above.

Now, there obviously is a lot of interesting projects for you compiler or OS lovers. But there is so much choice you don't have to be ready to work on them. I mean, I don't need to learn robotics just because 0.2% (entirely made up number) of projects on job market are about writing software to control robots.

So, to sum up:

-- if you are in it for money, don't waste time on studying CS, just learn basic programming and hop on any project.

-- learn on your employers time. How fun it is being paid and learning?

-- you don't need to get every job. You only need to get one (every three years...)

-- most projects are boring from the point of view of programming techniques you are going to be using. Learn to find fun somewhere else.

-- if you want fun projects you can always learn what you need on your own (on your or your employers time). You aren't going to be good developer if you don't spend considerable amount of time learning for the rest of your life, anyway. Just get used to spending time learning new stuff every day.
That’s exactly what the decade old Java for code and Groovy for tests is. Though it’s not used too often nowadays, mostly because Java is enough for testing for most people.
The real problem with the law is that you need a cookie to set the preference for the tracking to begin with, which I don't want. The law of course states that there shouldn't be any tracking without explicit consent.

I'm sure the people using cookie blockers here are pretty familiar at how bad the browsing experience becomes if you expire and/or block cookies.

The law should have been amended to REQUIRE websites to honor the already-existing-and-failed do-not-track header and ENFORCE that such header results in no popup whatsoever, since the choice has ALREADY been made.

That is also required since the law is pretty generic and doesn't explicitly mention "cookies", but any method which can be used for tracking purposes.

The question for a website on a technical level is then:

- If I land on a website with such a consent, how do I guarantee that the first request before and UNTIL the consent is acted on respects my will to not be tracked?

- Doing so as a dev is an absolute nightmare. Using the header would be a huge time saver.

- As a user, how do I ensure I'm not being tracked? Let's be honest: I do not trust even google to honor the setting. Shady organizations are commonplace on the web. Everybody knows (browser vendors included) you need to act in a defensive manner.

Blocking everything unless explicitly allowed is the only strategy that should be followed currently by those who care (and are willing to endure the resulting experience)
> Has anyone ever bought anything because they saw an ad?

Ask almost any woman a few weeks after breastfeeding at night where browsing the web is one of few entertainment options. (Spoiler - yes, so many of them did)

That's an extreme "yes" case, not otherwise, sure people do. That's why companies spend money on the ads. (some of them in clueless ways wasting money)
Ok, Mexico can stay a drug cartel infested country. I honestly don't see the problem with avocado cartels, at least they are not drug cartels.
By "unsteady connections", I meant inconsistent or unreliable connections, where you may not be able to stay online reliably.

On mobile, there is a new "feature" where each section is lazy-loaded, so if you do not expand them while you are online, you cannot read them once you're offline. Also, if the browser reloads the page from cache while offline, sections are also inaccessible.

The desktop site is inaccessible to mobile because the left column stays visible and floats over or squeezes the actual text.
> I'm not sure what you're talking about. Wikipedia was never hosted in some magical peer-to-peer fashion on volunteer web servers, nor is there any situation where it is likely to be hosted that way. The goals of (near) instant update time, as well as some central quality control and user blocking, makes distributed hosting pretty impossible.

Everything wrong with wikipedia summed up in one paragraph, nice!
Yes, they could use an HTTP header for that. We could call it "Do Not Track".
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The irony.