skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What percent of the population do you think has as the first priority when visiting a website the detail that they are tracked or not? What percent do you think even cares?

And what is the law protecting them against?! I still have to discover the horrifying malice tracking does to visitors. So far I know two downsides: resource usage and ads following you.

Now compare that with the gigantic waste of time when hunting and answering the stupid popup every time I visit a new site...

This is how it is when a bureaucrat decides to protect you from yourself: reminds me of the War on Drugs.
Its a bit ironic that the very website the article is on is itself a pretty bad example of this.
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I mean, it may be because the coverage dedicated to women vs men was even more imbalanced in the past, fewer textual sources having been written about women so less to reference.
"Monsanto GMO, "
You made my case for me

"Non-instituionalised religions prove time and time again to be cults."

Institutionalized ones tend to be ...hotbeds of child abuse, spousal abuse, fraud and grift on a mass scale.

"The pharmaceutical industry is based on science, and subject to audits and regulation."
You forgot to mention lobbying (AKA legalized bribary) which is used to tailor regulation (writing or enforment) in their favor.

"A small fraction of police still commit violent abuses because America is full of aggressive, suppressed, violent people."

"Folks are basically decent/conventional wisdom would say/but we read about the exceptions/in the papers every day"(Rush, "Second Nature" ) ACAB didn't appear out of thin air, and the "few bad apples" theory doesn't hold up once you consider that those "bad apples" are not held accountable and are supported by the "good" apples.

We are not going to escape the mob (by which I assume you mean criminal?) mentality -just the opposite. Most of history has been strongmen oppressing those who can not fight back assisted by a religion that tells the oppressed that they'll get theirs "by and by" or in another life or that they deserve to suffer full stop (original sin, mixed with the divine right of kings). We had a bright shining moment of roughly half a century -but now that is over, corruption and superstition (Qanon, anti-vax,anti-maskers, flat earthers) are going to take us back to the brutality that most of recorded (and unrecorded) history has been.

The only thing we'll be rooting out is weeds in the muddy fields of our multi-national overlords.
In Japan, Home Depot Gardening Section / Military / Retrofuturistic Chic is turned a relatively high-end design aesthetic. Think Restoration Hardware

https://www.dulton.jp/onlineshop/
Crimea is very complicated issue with no clear answer.
Or his investment into lab leak hypothesis is just another symptom of him going into the fringe.
Without media and fans, professional sport simply doesn't exist.
Oh yeah, I agree here.

That's why I think it would be nice to try the Mayastor engine, which, based on some benchmarks, provides much better performance. I'm curious, if still the OpenEBS would be the bottleneck, or maybe I hit the SBC limitations.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure if they are planning official ARM64 support...
It actually also errors out from the "Strict" preset in Privacy preferences in Firefox. Clicking "Customize settings" on the StackOverflow popup thing results in this error on their site:

"We couldn’t save your cookie preferences. Please adjust your browser settings or disable ad blocking. You can access your cookie settings at any time by clicking “Cookie Settings” in the footer."

To be fair, Firefox does say this under the Strict setting:

Heads up!
This setting may cause some websites to not display content or work correctly. If a site seems broken, you may want to turn off tracking protection for that site to load all content.
When Microsoft updates Windows 10, they try to get you to sign in to a Microsoft account and present the options "Continue" and "Remind me in 3 days".

No, Microsoft, how about "no"? Or "fuck off"?
I’m not a doctor but here is a decent summary: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-lucid-mind/20210...
Sure, but history has shown that the former almost universally leads to the latter…so the intermediate steps are somewhat irrelevant.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Has always been this way.
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> None of this bullshit really concerns me.

Until they decide otherwise.
Ka-bar's name comes from literally kill a bear.

A lot depends on the wildlife you could expect to encounter - a pair of micro scissors weighing less than a ounce won't be useful against even a smallish dog went feral. (Lots of stray dogs around the places I live, not all of them good boys)

Having a rugged piece of metal that you could use for defense, prying stuff apart, lever, axe is a must for me. Especially one that is easy to re-sharpen with a simple rough whetstone.

I go hiking with esee 6 - it is comforting to know it is there if the going gets rough since it is nigh indestructible
I could cite the rise of Sverigedemokraterna which has an anti-eu slant.

https://sd.se/our-politics/eu/

https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-election-2018-results...

But I live in Malmo and see stickers popping up against the EU, I hear from the Swedish workers who have replaced the electrics and plastered the walls in my apartment about how bad the EU is and that Britain did the right thing (I'm british, which is why they came out with it).

I mean, "SWEXIT" is definitely something on the rise.

https://www.expressen.se/debatt/kasta-in-eu-handduken-och-bi...

But maybe this is not in Stockholm or the other major cities, I would even say Malmo itself does not have an appetite for breaking up with the EU, but the surrounding Skane region definitely has a stronger anti-immigrant and anti-EU sentiment.

But that was true for Brexit too, London was quite opposed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2016_United_Kin...
Looking for something similar.
Why does Wikipedia not do more where it would matter? Get rid of all the jargon and hostile environment to get the world engaged in exchanging knowledge.
More users, links, more languages more articles etc.
>to think these ads have no influence on you.

Yes, it has an influence, it influences me to avoid their shitty products. My assumption is that if you have to sink 80% of your budget into ads, I assume it sucks and I'll end up paying for more ads to be directed at me. Especially if the ads are annoying on purpose to "make you remember them" I avoid their products like the plague.

>The idea that ads help us have things for free might be the greatest marketing stunt they have ever pulled.

That was sort of my point. But the real secret of marketing is that it has a very low success/conversion rate. Marketing and ads are a product sold to the companies who pay for the ads, it's a racket. Marketing companies will pretend that you'll lose money if you don't, so you'll have to spend that money on them instead.
In 1992 (just over 10 years after the IBM-PC was introduced), with version 3.1, Windows started becoming much more popular than MS-DOS.
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This has been my view from the beginning of GDPR. People were complaining that it wasn't having an immediate effect, but governments and law take time, which is generally a good thing in most cases because moving fast and breaking things when you're a government or a legal system can be catastrophic. But once the full weight of the law is put behind things like cookie consent (I often think of these things like the length of time it takes for a supertanker to change course) it will absolutely impose itself.

Also, for those here pointing out the Techcrunch cookie notice, for all the cognitive dissonance that entails (and at least they're reporting it!) I would argue that this is due to sites not wanting to be at a competitive disadvantage. If / when this is properly enforced and the initial squealing from companies is over, they'll generally be OK with it as long as everyone has to comply.
You make it sound like the cookie consents are the only think the EU tackled, ignoring that it is only one small aspect of the EU's data privacy & protection legislation, which is having a big effect globally, not just in Europe. If you look at the GDPR penalties & fines so far you won't find any about cookie consent but you will find a lot of examples of bad governance, incompetence and bad data use, which people should be concerned about. Your "nothing" in this case if actually quite a lot of oversight which many people are happy about (even it it's a constant consideration for some of us working with data).

Your example of other ways to gain data about somebody is ALSO covered by GDPR. What's called the cookie consent is about customer data in general. All data provided directly or indirectly by a site visitor is subject to GDPR consideration, regardless of method.

As to not being asked if you personally want a law to exist or affect you: that's not how laws & governments work. If you're in the EU, then it's part of the governing institutions that we contribute to. If you're outside the EU, then it's the choice of the website you're visiting if they provide different experiences for you vs European visitors but again, you have an individual choice about if you visit those sites but your individual opinion doesn't get to decide how somebody else's web site operates and which legislation they adhere to.

It sounds like this is more an issue of personal inconvenience, which most of us share. The problem here is the implementation (e.g. it could have been more directed at browser vendors to implement global privacy controls) but while the current execution is bad the underlying reasoning for data protection is sound.
How are you getting so many surveys? I can't seem to get more than one every few months!
Wikipedia folks are aware of the problem and there have been many changes over the years to better protect neutrality. I agree the situation is still far from perfect but Wikipedia is still one of the bastions of free information out there. They could have commercialized it but it became a non-profit relying on donations from users (as opposed to corporations) for a good reason.

What will happen when Wikimedia is gone?

There's a reason there's such a relentless smear campaign against it. Instead of turning our backs we have to think of ways we can support Wikipedia and protect it from shills with deep pockets. If you have any ideas on how this can be done more effectively try bringing them up! Anyone can sign up and participate. That's Wikipedia's strength and weakness.
C'mon. This isn't contributing to the discussion.
Yes, yes... let's see what happens next winter.
If you are the security services, with an unlimited budget and carte blanche to do whatever you like, then you can covertly place equipment at either end of the communication. If the equipment is in your country, you can coerce the company to install your equipment under the guide of "national security".
Oh the sarcasm ;)
I think nurses do get a lot of respect in the hospitals I've worked in. You certainly wouldn't be long tolerated if you were dismissive to them, at least.
For people who do not deem browser cookies a grave threat to their welfare, there is https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/, a very practical browser extension that mitigates most effects of this abysmal law. It's nearly as helpful as adblock these days, if not more, since few ads are as obtrusive as the cookie popups.
If it looks like we're heading down that path, we should send a probe with a complete history of our race, all of our known science, etc. to a lagrange point for safe keeping.
I spent a lot of my childhood in hospitals. After a few years of fighting, my situation almost stabilized. Until a high ranking doctor decided to do an experiment on me, which eventually cost me all of my eye-sight. From my side, nurses get 10x more respect then doctors.
Cats are artists though...
Best photos are on my website, those are quite stupid photos just for documents the trip. The man is talking about the injuries of the little girl caused by the ISIS during the genocide. She was escaped from ISIS.

If you need I can send you the contact I’ve used in Iraq. He’s a friendly student/guy :-)
No, I've look enough I think. Maybe those better frameworks do exist though indeed, but I have no proof of that. Usually they just have the bare minimum of assert checks and call it a day.

A testing framework should be able to mock and patch any class (or applicable) of the running instance of the program without modifying your code for example, tell me if a method was executed or not, intercepting all HTTP requests without changes, have complex assertion partially matching objects, factories, change the current time... I could add a lot more here.

All of that is necessary harder I think in a static typing environment.
While there is no air convection, there is a lot of heat loss via radiation.

Of course, if there's a CPU in there that's drawing lots of power (e.g. image processing), it will have to shed that heat. But if there's only some electronics in there that don't eat up too much power, there's a good chance they'll use the thermal blanket (and even heaters) to keep them warm.

I don't have the details on the Canadarm, but I can tell you that a lot of electronics on satellites use thermal blankets and heating elements to keep warm.
I saw a guy brag about swinging from altcoin to altcoin making a profit but then talks down Monero because "hard criminals" use it.

I thought that Monero at least served some purpose as a currency even if it goes against the wishes of some countries' governments. The fact that there are people that talk down cryptocurrencies that are actually being used as a currency really put things into perspective.

It's just multi level marketing schemes all the way down.
They lost me on the headline! Then I went down a rabbit-hole trying to grok the phrase "opportunity cost" - still none the wiser. Then had to bail after a short while.

Economics has never been my strong point. (see my bank account for proof)
Oftentimes nurses have to choose between sacrificing themselves or another human in massively profit optimized enterprise to keep someone alive or to let that person suffer to make management realize certain shortcomings of that system.

Keep in mind that unless nurses keep their work/life boundaries there is actually no way for numbers oriented management to realize issues within certain doctor run departments.

It isn't that different from other corporations per se, but in the case of the nurses they have to choose between letting a patient suffer consequences for the sake of transparency or not. It is a moral dilemma.
>"The damage is limited to a small section of the arm boom and thermal blanket. Canadarm2 is continuing to conduct its planned operations."
The "Rewards" icon next to it is laughable.
No. They had some contentID-esque automation bumbling around silencing doctors who were trying to communicate their understanding of the situation as well as silencing the crackpots.
The significant factor for me, was not that the flagging was due to 'discussion-fatigue' of a popular topic, but that in the case of both submissions (the original and my inadvertent dupe) it was used as an underhand way to counteract the extremely fast velocity to the top of the front-page.
If the fundraising positions are unambiguously bringing enough money to justify their stay, definitely. I have no idea, though.

It seems they currently (2019-2020) are responsible for 12% of the expenses [1], but I can't find any information as to which percentage of the donations they're responsible for. I wonder if there's a more transparent report for that.

Looking at their donor numbers [2], it suggests that most of the fundraising is still coming from the long tail, from regular people donating online. They only seem to have 17 "major benefactors" and even if we multiply the smallest amount for that tier (50k) by 10x, that still only accounts for 7% of the donations.

According to their 2019 data, the average donation seems to be $15, which suggests Jimbo banner is way more important than the fundraisers.

Of course my assumption might be completely incorrect.

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2020-annu...

[2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2020-annu...
I love Wikipedia and gladly donate every year.

I would say that Wikipedia is tremendously valuable to the human population. I find it to be money very well spent, even at $120M per year. I'd argue that the majority (90% ?) of tax money and other donations are spent on much less valuable endeavours.

Seriously, that's 2 dollar cents per year per human.
Golf was chosen specifically as, admittedly in my limited experience, a game that's uninteresting and unrewarding to youngsters outside of their parents' encouragements.

I'm a career amateur sportsperson. I've been unable to play sports since early this year and I'm a couple of months away from being recovered enough to play again, and I'm absolutely itching for it. I love it, it soothes something intangible within me, and I've never earnt a cent from it in my life, nor expected to, and don't expect my kids to either - but I do expect them to participate.
Two n half men ran for 12 years and firefly got dropped after 10 episodes, lets blame Google for this.
I agree with everything you said. But we have different opinions about what entertainment is. To me, constantly insulting your opponents is not entertainment.

There is a huge market for this kind of “manufactured drama” junk. As evidenced by Conor like behavior. I guess fans are to blame as they eat it up and encourage it.

To me, the actual sport is the entertainment - whether it is MMA or Scrabble or something in between.
Is that like Embedded Journalist? :)
It's the big problem with Bitcoin. The USD dollar exists for the US. Bitcoin only exists for itself.
There's a pretty wide variation in how complex board games get. On the one hand there's games like "The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Dice Building Game" which I haven't managed to play at all due to how complex a game it is. On the other hand there's games like "Patchwork" which is one step above snakes-and-ladders complexity-wise.

The complexity of the rules is fairly orthogonal to how "deep" a game is though. I've now played patchwork a fair few times and I've not yet found a specific strategy that aproximates optimal.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you might just have had a single bad experience. I'd recommend trying again with different games. There's something out there for everyone.
Interestingly there was no mention of sister projects or the inflated activity in adjacent areas in the begging for money banner presented to me last time, did I miss something?!

It was asking for keeping the Wikipedia we use operational for a long time to come. No mention of educating the world or 'broader development goals'.

A Wikipedia that is created by volunteers (including the hundreds of language versions) for free, managed and promoted by sometimes high paid employees with expansion ambitions.

Are they risking the future of the Wikipedia we like and use today by the costly ambitions and the costly organization required to realize the big ambitions?!? Are they overstreching their means?!

The begging for money banners only talk about keeping it operational. Not about 'sister projects' or other ambitions, they do not ask money for those!

(not to mention that some of the banners condemn being commercial, saying 'it would be a great loss', exactly what Wikimedia LLC aspires to do)
> It's easy to remove the incentive: Just add some statewide delegates that are elected based on the "wasted" votes.

Can you make this more generic so that people who don't understand the US political system could follow your proposal?
So which one would you cut out? The hosted pictures, media? Or the database syncing factual data across languages so that a smaller language’s article won’t get factually wrong information because a data was spotted to be incorrect only in the large English version?
I am not so sure about the law situation here, but this consent is not about cookies especially. It is about user tracking. And there are fingerprinting technology beyond cookies (which bypass cookie resets or incognito modes).
What?
Being tracked and analyzed in unknown ways without your concent seems very serious. The fact you got used to it doesn't make it less serious. Would you accept people following you around all day taking notes? I'd guess not, so what's the difference with web tracking?

GDPR is good, the sites are doing their best to make the GDPR experience bad to encourage the existence of people with your opinion.
It doesn't have to be that way, and hopefully the regulator will use its teeth and make companies using obvious dark patterns pay for their infringements.
For translation, using a Weblate instance makes a lot more sense over using Google Sheets https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate

hosted.weblate.org is only free for open-source projects, but it shouldn't be hard to find alternative hosting, or launch a Docker container in the cloud??
I understood it as a contrast with the wider tech world, where most people, and specially most people leading, are white males.
"To be fair, states also sometimes fight each other. "

That's basically European history in a nutshell. The middle ages was basically walled cities fighting other walled cities, renaissance too.
That just moves the problem around. It might sort-of work for a time but all the incentives are still there so the parties will find a way.
The Olympics are just weird. All these sports normally nobody gives a shit about but because of nationalism countries compete for medals. Olympic spirit my ass.

My own country is rich enough that we can pay for a few hundred boys and girls doing gymnastics all day. But that means it isn't even a fair competition! Money buys medals.
The 2nd Bank of the Least Antilles

Routing 7381947295

Account 82848917433728

Passphrase: Cash cow

Privacy is so overrated.
The Swiss provider Infomaniak has an offer named kDrive (cf. https://www.infomaniak.com/en/kdrive/prices), at 5.35 CHF per month for 2 TB of space (not only for photos but also for documents, files, etc.). It's more expensive than Google Photos if you have less than 200 GB of data, but is cheaper than Google's 2 TB offer. Moreover, Infomaniak is very committed to user privacy (whence the fact that they don't have so many free services...), unlike Google. They are not very well known outside of the country but are very serious, they do exist since more than 20 years.
A company that provided jobs and services for millions of people. Nothing wrong with being valued at "billions of dollars" as long as things are done ethically.
These old ESS switches are currently being retired en masse in favor of packet-based softswitches. For example, see the Verizon network disclosures page [1]. Every listing for "Planned Network Change" or "Switch Retirement" is another 5ESS or DMS100 being ripped out.

[1] https://www.verizon.com/about/terms-conditions/network-discl...
Found the video [0]. Watch from 05:17.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e50gujs4l-I
The 2nd one just tells me that they are actively engaging in the collection part now.
How about considering it not cancer but necessarily inefficiency? Like, are you angry at your car for not being 100% efficient?
art is supposed to be for art sake
> Russia is effectively a criminal enterprise cosplaying as a nation state.

There are a lot of states which are criminal enterprises, US included.

There is really no reason for a country like Danemark to bend to US .
I wish archive.org fundraised like WMF. Archive.org is super slow when it doesn't plain timeout with some message about server load.