skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People want to donate to fund the thing they actually use, not a bunch of other arbitrary projects they don’t care about.

I see this argument often associated with Mozilla as well and I cannot put into words just how much I disagree.

They've both made a product that's immensely useful to me, to the point where I don't even second guess donating to these projects on a semi-regular basis (like once or twice a year, usually in the range of $50-$100 per donation, equivalent to what I pay to certain services for a yearly subscription). What they do with that money is completely not my concern. I've donated money, it's up to them to decide what to do with it. I trust them to make that decision because they've already made a product that I rely on quite frequently.

I couldn't care less if they use it to support an existing successful product (Wikipedia or Firefox), throw it into some other fringe thing that has a tiny chance of turning into another immensely useful product to me, fund advocacy projects, fellowships, CEO salaries... it doesn't matter. I trust the team behind it so I throw money at it.
> Many internet users mistake this annoying situation as a direct outcome of the GDPR, when in fact companies misuse designs in violation of the law. The GDPR demands a simple “yes” or “no”, as reasonable people would expect, but companies often have the power over the design and narrative when implementing the GDPR.

Thank you.

Latest annoying offender to me is Stack Overflow with their ridiculous semi-intrusive banner. And if I accept it errors out (probably because the ad-blocker blocks it). So thanks but no thanks.

Why should I be given the equivalent of an intrusive intimate "verification" every time I visit your site?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...
That's correct, American citizens are required to pay tax to the IRS regardless of their residency. However, you can deduct something like $106,000 from your yearly income if it's already been taxed, to avoid double-taxation of income.
The ITU is more than twice as old as the UN.

It was around long before the UN, and in spite of being "adopted" by it, will be around long afterwards.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunicat...

Describing the ITU as "just a UN agency" is like describing the IETF as "just a recipient of donations from Google".
1.1.1.1 gives the correct "A" record for the.earth.li (the site that actually hosts the downloads), but 1.1.1.2 (DNS with malware filtering) and 1.1.1.3 (with protection against malware and adult content) give 0.0.0.0 as the address.

A wild guess is that this is because PuTTY has an integrated SOCKS server which can be used (given an ssh account somewhere) as a tool to bypass the filter.
The EU never stands up for itself anyway. Never supports its own Tech companies, etc.
> Who would play golf as a youngster if it wasn't for the possibility of becoming a professional and making a mint?

The same youngsters who paint, work with clay, learn to play musical instruments, learn to play other games, or learn other sports. Because their parents or peers strongly encourage them to.

Sometimes it’s worth reminding ourselves that not everything we do needs to have a direct capital ROI.
Real article link: https://outline.com/qtxEx3

The blurred webpage is a lie - just a jpeg. Plus, it's a yahoo consent domain. Very ironic.
Doesn't matter, since it's hard to read.
The GDPR has a part about that, it's where this wording comes from.

It boils down to basic visitor counting without privacy violations.

Companies obviously try to broaden the definition of that.
Homemade Kubernetes: Liberation or Burden?
Perhaps it's just so easy to buy guns on the black market that there's no point going through the effort of 3D printing one? I'm just speculating, I have no idea.
America has a rich history of innovation by Asian immigrants
I would be very surprised if their spend was just $10M/year on their tech infra. That's very low. I expect it would be much higher.

PS: I work for cloud computing company and have insight on how much costs increase with scale.

edit: fixed typos.
Sounds good. Target https://www.consentmanager.net/ and similar services and it'll trickle down to a lot of websites.
And they employ exactly the same tactics they describe. TC is such a pile of gunk.
The leading '0' issue should be fixed; not sure why that happened, it was tested before.

WRT UX - yes, it certainly could be improved. Issues and PRs gladly accepted :)
As if thowing the messy complexities of MySQL queries into the serene simplicity of static hypertext is somehow better.

How often is numerical (which is the only knowledge you can really automate this way) knowledge updated? How often is said knowledge dependent on cultural idiosyncracies? How much effort is the code maintenance of the specialised editing system? How much effort is maintainance of the centralised infrastructure. How much effort is it really to change the data in multiple places, given that enough eyes every bug is shallow? What are the oppirtunity costs of not being able to properly distribute and share articles because they are suddenly tied to a very specific codebase? How much infrastructure cost do I have because I can't get volunteers to host my data?

Overengineering solving the wrong problems at it's finest, no wonder the software has stayed this bad for decades now.
I am one of those who’d seriously consider going. I was even watching many videos of people traveling to the region. One big disadvantage is that once you go there, you won’t get ESTA to the US and would have to go thru lengthy visa process. And I’m afraid you’d be getting more attention in general, unfortunately.
While the article emphasizes differences between then and now, I tend to see them as similarities. Once again our greek ancestors feel so close and familiar. We think we're on top of human history, but these people have been there, culturally, 2000 years ago!
AFAIK all language bindings for the macOS system APIs go through the ObjC runtime library and call objc_msgSend() to invoke object or class methods (not sure about Swift though).
Definitely - to a point. You pay local taxes first, but if they aren't high enough, you still have to pay US taxes. If you are married to someone of a different nationality, you cannot use online tax filing services without the spouse getting a number from the US government and reporting their income as well - even if they have never lived or worked in the US.

So it turns out that living in Norway means that I have to file paper taxes any year I work, but generally don't have to pay since Norway's taxes are high enough. If I lived somewhere with a low tax rate, I'd have to file and pay taxes.

Note: In general, I don't have to pay All taxes. We have Federal, state, and local taxes - they are generally only concerned with paying federal taxes while I live overseas. This also means that someone might still pay a lower tax rate overseas, depending on the state that they came from and the type of income they receive.
I don't see a problem with an OS bundling a browser by default. For so many people today the OS is anyway just some plumbing that runs their browser. But when it starts throwing popups at me to use this instead of that, or to reset my default "by accident" then I have a problem.

And for this I blame Google who was big enough to afford nagging everyone to use Chrome whenever they set foot on Google turf. Youtube, Maps, Gmail, Search? "Hey, try Chrome instead of whatever you're using now". They even went a step further and shot their competition in the foot on those Google owned domains in order to make the value proposition of Chrome feel better.

So I'm not surprised at all that other companies now feel comfortable with pulling the same stunts. Especially since there's no regulatory agency that didn't have it's backbone softened to mush by lobbying and bribery.
>This goes to the idea of viewing the world as a type of HR department where you can always appeal unfairness to some authority that will punish appropriately

Pretty much in agreement with everything else, but had to note that people viewing the world that way would not have much experience with real HR departments. Maybe there is another reason for the misconception.
I don't see any ads with ublock on my desktop and mobile browser. I believe the ads I don't see don't influence me. Can you believe that?
Why don't you watch netflix on linux? DRM is supported there, too.
Or do you want to use linux only for software you trust?
This might have been the lesson the original creator had in mind, that capitalism is somehow a fool's game.
Close. Bitcoin is a concept for a system - described in a whitepaper and in forum posts, and expressed in an initial release. BTC would prefer you think they alone are Bitcoin, but is the Catholic Church alone Christianity? Certainly not. BTC, BCH, and BSV are all implementations of that idea, each with various degrees of similarity to the original Bitcoin, and each of which share a history back to the genesis block. Interestingly, when you dive in, you'll see that BTC is the one that has diverged the furthest from the project's original goals and protocol, not the so-called "forks" BCH and BSV, which were both created from not wanting to change protocol rules. This is good reading if this viewpoint is new: https://thatsbtcnotbitcoin.com
I find it sad that this is a debate given how much of a public good it is. $10m is absolutely nothing in the scheme of things.
>it's encouraged by Microsoft now.

"If you can't beat them, join them." The cynicism with which Microsoft embraced this path is sickening.
As far as I have seen the problem with this kind of institutions, and there are many also at the national level of countries is that the community appears to have forgotten that science demands that not everyone agrees on everything. Instead blind adherence has been enforced with dissidents dismissed as loons.

That all sounds like a great idea but inevitably it turns out the purportedly enlightened organizations, like everyone, are not always right.

Perhaps it’s an insight into how life must have been when religious dogma ruled the world.
Here's their budget for 2020

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Mediu...

They budgeted $5M for "data centre expenses". We cannot know for sure how much it would really cost if WMF only focused on running their website. But $10M doesn't sound implausible to me.
> It's a sobering reminder that the low-Earth orbit's space junk problem is a ticking time bomb.

"Space junk that can hit the ISS" and "space junk that's a long-term problem" are two nearly separate groups.
> look at Turkey, specifically about F35. they got cut off from it by the US on a whim.

Not really "on a whim." The implications/consequences of purchasing and using the S-400 were clear.

It was a clear choice made by Turkey and the decision cost the US much more than Turkey ever invested in the program anyways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/07/17/turkey-officially...
Commit to doing Coursera courses and Leetcode. There are no easy answers here.
I never understood why the Wikimedia foundation needs so much money. I never donated because of that.
My guess is that the same people that were complaining about multi-million dollar fines were the same ones that decided to adopt this blatantly violating "cookie solution"

Would be fun if all companies relying on this "cookie solution" sued back if they were found in non-compliance.
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The problem with this is that when your VM unwittingly become part of a botnet, you're now a cost to everyone else.

Either keep your OS up to date, or use a different one.

Edit or keep it off the internet.
An article dissing cookie popups has a cookie popup with no easy opt out. Amazing.
Interesting post, but it can't quite decide what it wants to be. First it lures you in by sounding approachable for non-economists, then it hits you on the head with sentences like "there's path dependency that locks economic activity into suboptimal equilibria"...
> ..[the] space debris problem does seem to be increasing. Last year, the ISS had to perform emergency maneuvers three times in order to avoid collisions with space debris at its altitude of around 400 kilometers (250 miles).

I wish I could do something about this. What can an “ordinary” civilian in the US do to help? Are we limited to electing politicians with the hope they follow through on a potential campaign promise?
There is no free shipping, or handling, or warehouse space, or tax compliance, or network backhaul, or HVAC. But I expect a retailer to amortize all that stuff and give me a single number they're willing to stand behind.
Puerto Rico is an interesting choice given many US citizen apparently don't consider it part of US proper (given apparently puerto ricoans are weirdly considered 'immigrants'). I chose mainland cities to evoke the "proper" expected outrage level given both Athens and Vilnius are (supposedly) major european cities.

Your example, of course, is much closer to the percieved outrage level.

I have no idea how US would specifically react, but the response likely would have been chosen to a) discourage future actions of the sort and b) to appease angry voters.

Also, Cuba is already quite cordoned off, while Belarus has been part of the international community (they got to co-host Hockey wordl championships 2021).

The EU response felt like "as a geopolitical entity, what is the bare minimum effort to save our diplomatic face".

The lack of voter interest in EU is most critical, I think. I can't find any popular EU citizen sentiment of outrage over the matter. Which means, for all purposes, it's obvious the voting public has no "global eu consciousness" and hence EU is after this again geopolitically that much less credible IMHO.
... because HN doesn't have enough repeats of the exact same discussions of cryptocurrency? Crying "censorship" here is a bit over the top.
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Maybe white- and blue-collar?
> I believe most EU countries aren't that interested in that information.

France at least appears to be interested, requiring you to explicitly list every foreign place you can stash money on tax returns every year. If you have any kind of French rental income, no matter where you are in the world, I understand you have to declare. There is an EU directive for reciprocal information sharing and I understand it is used.

There are fines and penalties for not declaring a foreign account. The fine is not income or wealth linked, so it seems like it wouldn’t really bother anyone with the sort of wealth to benefit from not declaring; the penalty is having the stashed money treated as income for the year it is discovered, which seems like it could make certain people nervous.

> Note that it has been a nightmare for US people living in EU

It appears to make life much harder in all manner of ways. When I opened my French bank account, the forms placed a heavy emphasis on me not being a US citizen. I asked and was told that it would be much more difficult to open an account.
I love sites that do that, even three options, "reject all", "accept all" and "only legitimate interest" (whatever that means) are fine. No going through the pages of third parties to make sure all of them are deactivated. No ridiculous wait times. It could be so easy.
That is not true, in the Netherlands a critic had one of his videos pulled by YouTube for claiming COVID-19 spreads through aerosols when this was not the consensus. Yet.
I wouldn't be surprised if Swift also calls objc_msgSend for accessing macOS APIs, or at least a practically identical function.

The Objective-C runtime library (which objc_msgSend is a part of) allows to access the "Objective-C object model" from other languages than Objective-C via a C-API.
They could release updates for those older devices to unbreak them after protocol changes.
I use DriveSync Pro and I want to say I had this issue and had to fiddle with the Android app preferences to allow it to run in the background, I may be confusing it with another app issue though.
Great, thanks for the fast reaction!
we were talking about the bootloader. how is a locked bootloader going to stop malicious javasrcipt? for that other measures are needed.
I find it funny that someone wrote bulletproof in the specifications of the windows. Is the bulletproof term used in the space industry?
The biggest fast food chains are a mafia in business terms and treat their employees and IP accordingly. Same with patented Monsanto GMO, for instance. Non-government lotteries are dubious at best and held by the mafia at worst (at least in eastern euro). Non-instituionalised religions prove time and time again to be cults.

The pharmaceutical industry is based on science, and subject to audits and regulation. In fact, one of the best ways to rehabilitate people is gradually decrease their intake with pure, medical-grade narcotics. That aside, the infamous ADHD/OCD pills are last-ditch effort - nobody talks about schizophrenia and mania pills that do a good job.

A small fraction of police still commit violent abuses because America is full of aggressive, suppressed, violent people. Again, police officers' actions are subject to audit and regulation, and action in a court of law. Let's not forget they have the right to apply necessary force to make you comply, a lot of people simply earn a beating. The rest of the cases are a minority nonetheless.

We must move on and escape the mob mentality. Root it out of our DNA. Amortise punishments over time and rationality.
We're clearly not talking about the same class of printer. I was talking about flagship, departmental printers that typically do not sit on a table but have their own wheels and 3+ paper trays. I also avoid rebadged brands because they are less likely to have the breadth of repair parts that top-tier enterprise printers do (advice from the printer repair guy).

Sure, you can get smaller enterprise laser printers of many brands for cheap, but the smaller you go, the less repairable they are and the more expensive they are to operate.

Some of the cartridges I use go to multiple tens of thousands of pages. I never have had a paper jam on anything other than a printer with bad grabber rollers or cheap desktop models. Some of my printers have auto-stapling and collating. Basically, I never need a FedEx Office store unless I'm out-of-the-area.
I've found the taxi drivers here to be really good. Most are older career-driver types who are really nice and know the city back to front, unlike the Uber drivers who are looking at their GPS more than the road or take wrong turns repeatedly.

I think location matters lots, the last city I lived in I avoided taxis at all costs because I found them to be more like you're saying... aggressive, clueless, dirty, etc.
Nobody wants to “customize their cookie preferences.” Ever. It’s clear this should be a yes or no that has no impact on functionality, but once you do that it becomes clearer: why isn’t the answer just no for everyone? Is someone out there really thinking “ah man, if only advertisements were more relevant!” ???

I do see how someone could plausibly prefer relevant ads over irrelevant ones. But I’d be willing to bet a majority of people simply do not care and in fact would rather see neither.

Of course, this is bad news for some, but it was supposed to be bad news. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Besides an automated system, I'm wondering if we could benefit from some sort of reporting tool to report sites abusing this UX, with hall of shame and if possible make it easy for the enforcers to know what to focus on.

So folks can report a site if
a) it has poor UX to reject all
b) despite rejecting all it still uses cookies invalidly.

Seems like something like that would already exist?
Jerry Pournelle had quite a bit of experience with the guts of computer gear; his first home compter is in the Smithsonian Institution collection.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle
It‘s complicated for both sides. US citizens have to file their taxes but will be mostly exempt (depending on their income) since they will be already taxed abroad.

Likewise EU citizens may be taxed at home, depending on where the income originates.

So it‘s complicated.

But it‘s true that most countries determine where you are a resident (or have income from there) and then will tax you primarily on that and citizenship has no influence.
In hindsight, Denmark should have sold Greenland after WWII. That would have saves us a ton of grief.

The Trump "offer" on the other hand was handled weirdly, Greenland is no longer Denmarks to sell. You can not sell a country you don't own, even if you help support it.
If you have a site with disqus, please remove disqus.
Some people think that race is the most important thing about a person so they make sure to mention race in every situation.
This used to be a feature of most web browsers. Then they removed it.
> Over 23,000 pieces are being tracked in low-Earth orbit to help satellites and the ISS avoid collisions - but they're all about the size of a softball or larger.

Why do they always do this, give a non-standard unit of measurement which 90% of countries in the world for no reference for.

Its like when they describe something as "X number of football fields" - Nice one, only one country plays and misnames Handegg. its useless to the rest of us.
https://www.sciencealert.com/boeing-has-patented-a-plasma-fo...

there are other patents as well
Studying S400 weaknesses can be done without buying it and deploying it. (And likely has been done in plane design)

> Apart from that, china seems a bigger threat.

Russia is a direct threat of invasion for most European countries and yet they're not taken seriously (except neighbors which some have been invaded). The fact that S400 is even debated is proof of that...

US for better or worse can take both Russia and China militarily on itself... but it feels a bit pointless if the countries it protects are shooting themselves in the foot.
The thing that gets me is the Archive.org only has approximately $20 million USD of revenue and they run a system that is much more data intensive. The wayback machine alone is a data crunching monster and it is done for a small fraction of WMF.
To Microsoft's defense everyone does it. Everytime there is an OS update on iOS, I know I will have to go through a dozen of modals that nag me for apple services.
Exactly, it's weird to think that militarization of space should be something no one can defend themselves against. If a radar installation or military intelligence unit on land is a valid target, it should be in space too.

This testing and development of ASAT weapons is fully a response to the countries putting military technology in space.
https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/how-many-bitcoins-are-th...

90% of all bitcoin ever have already been mined. If your solution to the limited number of bitcoins is rampant deflation you probably don't have a viable currency
Can the search feature of ente become comparable to Google Photos? AFAIK, ente does E2E encryption, which means that unless they index the EXIF data on each single device, and also run the image recognition algorithms on device, the search is never going to be comparable to Google Photos.
Google still promotes Chrome as much as it can from its services. 5-10 years ago plenty of freeware were installing Chrome if you did not pay attention to remove some hidden checkbox. Apple nags me about Music subscription almost every time I open Music app. I don't understand what's wrong when Microsoft promotes its software and services.
How do you do this with iPhoto?

With an iPhone it doesn't seem that there is a way to sync with a folder anymore.