skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the cookie banners the way they are I'd say cookies are an antipattern and I wonder why the webdesign industry hasn't done away with them entirely.

I think they contribute to the overall decrease in excitement about the Web. You never start to interact with a website in a fun way, it's always a click-based legal contract first.
This works by loading a bunch of JSON on page load, and then do search on the client side in that json blob. I think it's fine, but I have looked into something similar to do as a toy project for learning postgres FTS by fetching an API provided by ietf, storing the data and doing search on the stored data. However, I couldn't find a straightforward API provided by IETF, and I was super surprised. Similarly I would also have liked a similar straightforward API from W3C for documents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Sweepers
To judge it like this you need to compare.

To compare, you need to measure the attributes of the this and the compared entity.

The alternative entity compared in this case is the Existing Financial System that is handled by the Fed, Wall Street and the Bankers.

Now, there are innumerable number of comparisons and metrics that have already done this job for their preferred metrics and statistics. They all unequivocally side on the side of Bitcoin. (one example: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/)

You are free to ignore these comparisons; but you have to compare and contrast that how cryptocurrencies, if ponzi compare to the modern financial system of all it's warts and what is the net effect of Cryptocurrencies and the Financial system as it exists today; rather than simply stating Cryptocurrencies are in and of themselves Ponzi.
Give them your finger, and they'll not only take the whole hand, but your arm too and then divide up your other limbs and make it into a wholesale.
Sadly our presence in the ocean depths isn't as transient as we may wish, with pollution in the Mariana Trench.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/20/plastic-...

Perhaps we will detect the traces of alien life by what they discard, which is what some suggested 'Oumuamua could be.
I can't get package insurance as the recipient - only the sender can do that. And I wouldn't want to - the sender is the one picking the packaging, delivery provider and all of that, so it is their responsibility to get insurance. If they don't, it is their responsibility to cover for a lost package out-of-pocket.

And I'm not just using the term "responsibility" im a moral sense here - consumer protection laws in many places agree with this. The seller is an "informed market actor, taking on the risks of the transaction". The consumer is not an "equal market actor" and is therefore afforded protections from the risk.
Allow me to quote the Algorand paper, https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/gilad-algorand-...:

> Weighted users.To prevent Sybil attacks, Algorand assigns a weight to each user. BA⋆is designed to guarantee consensus as long as a weighted fraction (a constant greater than 2/3) of the users are honest. In Algorand, we weigh users based on the money in their account.

That 2/3 is your n=3f+1 right there. It's just that, as I said of PoS in general, the n is based on coin holdings.

This is not controversial, as the authors of Algorand are completely aware of the limitation:

> Most Byzantine consensus protocols require more than 2/3 of servers to be honest, and Algorand’s BA⋆ inherits this limitation (in the form of 2/3 of the money being held by honest users). BFT2F [35] shows that it is possible to achieve “fork∗-consensus” with just over half of the servers being honest, but fork∗-consensus would allow an adversary to double-spend on the two forked blockchains, which Algorand avoids.
Just to save everyone's time:

This article is almost free of information and the conclusion is a slightly extended version of the headline:

"[...] So, do aliens exist? Many scientists believe that humans need to work even harder to determine whether there is extraterrestrial life out there, let alone whether or not aliens have visited Earth. [...]"

The opening question remains unanswered.
It's easy to make that take. But try to see the story from the other side.

The person writing that article is a journalist who almost certainly has no direct connection to the ad department of his site and the people who are responsible for the cookie banner. (I sympathize, because I'm a journalist with no direct connection to any of those things.)

It's an unfortunate reality that most media orgs use shitty ad tech. There's also an alignment of incentives that makes it hard for media orgs to do anything else.

For a journalist there's few options how to handle this:

1. Still write about these things and be called hypocritical.

2. Don't write about these things and avoid being called hypocritical.

3. Write about these things on sites without cookies and shitty ads (e.g. a private, simple blog) and don't get payed.

I don't think 2 is particularly preferrable and it should be understandable that 3 is not particularly attractive.
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Their survey/acquisition funnel is sketchy as hell. They demand your PII before giving you results, after first asking you a bunch of personal questions, and intersperse marketing spam in the steps.

Major turn-off.
1. Buy an USB Blu-ray burner and a stack of high quality BD-R (Panasonic Japan, single layer).

2. Sort your photo's by date and archive anything older than 1 or 2 years to disc. If you can't fit any year on 1 disc (25GB), consider tidying up, like our parents told us to do when we were toddlers.

3. Let go of the Fear of losing that sole precious photo from 10 years ago. There are more important things in life.
Whats the man talking about in the video with the children? Liked the pics though - would be up for going if I had a guide. I feel like it's like when I went around rural China a bit, if you dont have a native its easy to get turned about or stuck!
That sounds like a lot of work. Can we just post our banking details here, and you withdraw the money if we win?
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Is there anything preventing you from having separate amazon account for digital assets and physical orders? That seems like almost a requirement give what I've heard about them in many comments throughout this thread.
You’re right, social media is essential to growing the number of fans. And yet, the TV interviews do two important things - it reaches an audience that’s watching the game live and might not have social media. My dad, for example, would watch the post match interviews but he wouldn’t create social media accounts for this. And secondly, social media posts are choreographed while post match interviews are raw, unedited and “real”. Seeing a human being vulnerable and in pain elicits sympathy from us, makes us invested in their journey, creates the parasocial relationship I was talking about.

Again, maybe Osaka has reached a stage in her career where she doesn’t benefit as much from doing it, but she did benefit from decades of Serena Williams and others doing these interviews. They grew the sport to the point where the prize pools are $10M+.
It's also debatable if managing to stay basically at the same point given developments in the rest of the internet for the past ten years isn't far better than people have a right to expect.
Advertisers have proven time and time again they're not trustworthy.

And any website that says "your privacy is important to us" while deliberately tricking you into accepting terms and cookies you weren't easily made aware of is a hostile adversary.

I've said before, I'd be happy to see ads that were embedded in the website's content, unchanging and baked in on the day the page was written (like print publications) as there would be no need to track and stalk me, profile me and sell my behaviour to dodgy companies around the world who are making money from me without my consent.

Do that and I'll turn my ad blocker off. Until then, let's bring on the gdpr lawsuits.
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No idea, i would need to find an American and ask but im afraid they will be a police officer and judge my melanin level to be incorrect.
Could you name these six Rust competitors please?
Yeah, it's incredible how useless governments still are (this is criticizing them from the point of view of they need to do more, not from the doubter's point of view "that it's just a flu"), they're still just blabbing on about 6 feet distancing and handwashing despite all the new (and old!) facts.
This is also a halfway decent way to become addicted to ketamine, a fate that has befallen many of my close friends, as well as a former partner.

A perfect, near-instantaneous solution to depression button is a compelling button indeed.

Take care.
But what if it gets too warm?
This isnt the right thread to wax lyrical about your skill in linking wikipedia articles for crime stats.

Its about cartels on Mexico taking the fight to the police. My point was an aside to OP seeming fascination of including South African crime when it isn't relevant. Wait for the right post and we shall discuss at length about the dangers of painting pictures with mere quantitative analysis.
Very solid point. I personally don't trust Wikipedia articles in many subjects. There are many proofs that Russian Wikipedia have paid by government editors solving its own propaganda. I think +/- the same situation for other countries.

Also, I know companies or celebrities who pay for their Wikipedia pages. You can find this service in 5 minutes by googling.

"Profit-seeking and mindless consumption" can be a motto for the current WMF.
You're right of course, it's become a weird international boondoggle benefiting old suited men across the globe.

It could actually be a good thing for some billionaire to do: get your name in history, make a difference to a non-essential area (sports/arts), have a town built the way you like it.
I was and still am totally amazed that people still think it's a good idea to require each individual site owner to comply with that kind of policy instead of letting the browser vendors do the hard work.

Which is easier - to modify and monitor billions of different sites, or to create a framework and obligations on the side of browsers to handle it?

Something like requiring all browsers to start with cookies disabled, and mandating exactly how those users who do consent to tracking can be tracked (up to minute technical details), would do wonders if the goal is to actually improve privacy instead of just making it easy for Google and Facebook to continue doing what they do, while making life harder for millions of small companies and increasing bureucratic load while doing it.
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Eh, they used to be a lot worse. Nowadays it's just 2-3 clicks to reject all tracking on TC. Could be better but I'll take it.

Same with Google and Facebook. It looks like they're starting to get in line.
I wonder if we will ever get to the space debris situation that is depicted in the movie Space Sweepers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Sweepers
So for most viewers of the site (who don't know and don't care about the IETF process), "legacy" is just misleading as it doesn't have the meaning they expect.

Serious UX work needed.
I'd like the idea of the government having a monopoly on landlordism - like the Systembolaget, etc. but for renting.
I daresay Facebook could manage on <$1bn...

Is Twitter's current product so much more complicated than it was circa 2012, that it needs 100X as many employees, resources and such?

If Wikipedia had been founded later, it probably would have been a startup. A unicorn, considering how popular it is. It would be burning through far more resources. Comparing it to any commercial site of comparable size, it is orders of magnitude more efficient. Meanwhile, it makes its money by asking. It doesn't snoop, sell your data, or participate in creepy ad-tech.

So... when a person like me, who gets tremendous value and enjoyment from wikipedia is asked to kick in, we do. I do it gladly. They have, in my estimation, every right to ask me.

The donation banners that seem to upset people are far less annoying than any commercial site's cookie/privacy popups.

Tangentially, think of all the truth wars of the last few years. Notice that wikipedia, even though it deals directly with the hard part of this problem, has fared much better than most other websites/organisations. This is not a coincidence.

Can wikipedia operate on $10m? Maybe, plausibly. Why should they have to?

Wikipedia is a shining beacon, in many ways, including resource efficiency. They successfully bridged the gap between OSS, and non distributed organisational elements... allowing them to own servers and such. Few have.
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> The problem is that most websites simply aren’t compliant. They choose to make a mockery of the law by offering a skewed choice: Typically a super simple opt-in (to hand them all your data) vs a highly confusing, frustrating, tedious opt-out (and sometimes even no reject option at all).

Like the Techcrunch site where this was published.
Too late, I already wasted 40 seconds of my life. Thanks for trying though, should have checked comments first...
"in Sweden now and there is a growing anti-EU sentiment here"

That does not ring true to me. Care to back up that claim with a source?
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> Covid's over bro.

You may be right, but it didn't end on it's own.

> There are better ways to spend our resources than on redoing the world's HVAC

Before we had vaccines, ventilation improvements likely prevented a significant amount of transmission. If ventilation can reduce the transmission of other illnesses, and prevent the next COVID, it's pretty hard to argue that it's a bad use of resources.

> climate change

Yes, that's important. But it's not a zero sum game where investing in public health somehow takes away from investing in environmentally friendly technology.
Yeah the name isn't very good. This wasn't actually supposed to become something, it was a quick thing I made when I was bored, that suddenly expanded into all this, haha. I like being able to type `kalk` in the terminal, but maybe something needs to be added to the name to make it more recognisable.
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I do want to, and have, customized my cookie preferences. On some sites I blanket-allow, on others I blanket-deny, and on others I’m somewhere in the middle.
Nurses are the unsung heroes of the hospital. Doctors get status and respect, but often it's the nurse keeping you alive by monitoring drug interactions and physical readouts that a busy or overconfident doctor has missed.

Never say someone is "just a nurse". It's a hardcore and highly technical job where one mistake can kill a patient and end the nurse's career.
Where do you draw the line for tenure? So hitting colleagues with a binder is acceptable, okay got it. How about hitting them with a baseball bat? How much tenure we need for that? Should Einstein be allowed to kill physicists because he's a genius? If we already agreed to make tenure an excuse for doing bad stuff, let's make it official and negotiate the legal borders.
The Gist: A non-profit developed a cralwer which can pick up misleading (or non-working) cookie-consent banners.

> with a plan to file up to 10,000 complaints against offenders over the course of this year

> Today it’s announcing the first batch of 560 complaints, large and small

> noyb is even giving offenders a warning first — and a full month to clean up their ways

In general I'm not a fan of vigilante law enforcers, specifically if they attach an invoice to their warnings.

I hope noyb won't and that the small in large and small doesn't mean people will loose their jobs. If that's the case then god-speed.

If not I fear a lot of warned sites are going to be run by barely profitable family-run businesses, who barely managed to have a consent-banner at all and whose sites are barely visted anyways (thus causing next to little harm).
Ever since I've become a father, stories of children dying or just barely surviving have an immense emotional impact on me. I almost cried when I read that the boy from the article survived the operation and had a second, better chance at life. I can't imagine what his parents must have been going through.

All this thanks to technological and medical progess. What would his fate have been 20 years earlier? 40 years earlier? Think of all the technology that was necessary to perform that operation. The technology needed to build and support that technology, ad infinitum. If you have the ability and the motivation to work in science or on new technology, please do so. Even if it's not directly related to medicine: Maybe that software you're writing will make it slightly easier to build other software that will make it slightly easier to build other software that will make it slightly easier to build a machine that one day helps save a young boy's life.
Aw come on let's not shame the poor robot arm. Space is a cold and lonely place--I'd want a blanket too. :)
No wonder the "war on drugs" is a failure, it literally is the delivery mechanism.
I don't think anybody is begrudging them $10M/year, or even $100M/year for that matter. My concern is that the way their expenses keep spiralling upwards is a) not sustainable and b) introducing serious scope creep into their original mission.

Here's the OG version by Jimmy Wales: "The sum of all human knowledge available to every person in the world."

Here's what it currently looks like: "Empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally." https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/mission/

Which one is more inspiring on all counts?
So it does ?
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Nice work! And you beat me to the name "Kalk", I've had a private github repo with a calculator with that name for a while, though mine takes sort of the opposite approach, input and manipulation is very visual.
In our physics research lab we use some COTS components down to 10 mK. Many passive components no longer work and we have to use C0G capacitors and NiCr resistors. Only some discrete SiGe and HEMT transistors will continue to work. But then our thermal budget is 50 uW so design is difficult even if the components remain operational.
It's true that smart psychopaths can do way outsized damage in today's world. The flip side is also true though, the genuinely good and competent can also have an outsized positive impact.

I think this speaks more to the scale people can access through modern society (technology, capital, large orgs, and so on).

I hope you're wrong. If not, we're in trouble.
Valuable, a library for object-safe value inspection
There is no big differences for the database in these numbers.

On big thing that changes as a site grows, and as it reaches more places internationally, is that it attracts more attacks. Stopping that costs lot.
Haskell, Kotlin, Scala 3 (with a compiler flag) will all remove null from the set of values acceptable by type. (There are others as well) So a String can’t be null ever, you have to do ‘Maybe String’, ‘String?’ or ‘String | Null’ as a type respectively.
If this is what you are asking.
> The capacity goal is about 4,400 people an hour, but from what we’ve seen (in addition to some math), it’s likely to be closer to 7,000 people an hour.

That's completely unsubstantiated. There are literally no sources provided, and nothing that remotely corroborates this figure. The only literature I can find says even the 4,400 could be hard to reach (but possible).

> Construction of the Vegas Loop cost $52.5 million. Fun fact: New York City’s Second Avenue Subway cost $2.5 billion a mile. With a “b.”

> Listen. The Vegas Loop isn’t mass transit.

Then maybe don't compare it with a mass transit system with wildly different scales of operation.

Lot of mention of "critics" and "boneheads" but obviously no links to them. Just say you're excited about something because you found it cool, and that covering it will likely make you money. Not this disingenuous BS indistinguishable from propaganda.
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I wonder how much Facebook spends on running _its_ website?
It's one of the reasons that allows a company to collect/process personal information without
a) consent
b) contractual obligation
c) legal requirements

It's a bit loopholey, but has high hurdles since the processor needs to argue that their legitimate interest is bigger than the right for data privacy of the user.
The processor has to create a DPIA (data privacy impact assessment) to show that they indeed balanced these both sides. The document can only be requested from the data protection authorities and are not public though.
It's a common pharmaceutical, manufactured and distributed like many others.

Schedule 3 in the USA, so less controlled than, say, Adderall (Schedule 2).
GDPR is not a directive, but a "regulation" (hence the name, General Data Protection Regulation). It is enforceable "as is" in the whole EU without the need to be transposed into the various national laws.
Well, it is possible that this exact scenario happened. I don't remember exactly what I did but it definitely wasn't the case of clicking reply, writing comment and submitting it. I also opened this comment section but I don't remember if it was before or while I was authoring the comment.

In any case this is the first time it happened for me and I comment regularly.
I'd scratch the arguably, seems to blatantly violate the pretty explicit text of the GDPR.
You can't even click on the techcrunch link if you have uMatrix, it's blocked due to their redirect tracking. TC (and some other notable sites, I think engadget and others) employs a tracking-by-redirect scheme through https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers which is a well-known tracker that has been discussed here and on many reddit threads it seems...
It might be a "garbage dump", but it's one that large pieces of the Web are increasingly relying on. The pre-existing alternatives (mainly DBpedia - incidentally, based on scraping Wikipedia articles) were pretty disgusting hacks compared to what we have now.
That's easy and has nothing to do with what you're thinking (although you could hard-code/guarantee emission schedules if you built a smart contract on a decentralized platform) but let's ask, how and where do you redeem your $1 cyber-chuck? Presumably only with the issuer? With a crypto-token, particularly an ERC20 you have the ability to take it to any DEX and use (or create) a liquidity pool that you can then swap for high any number of high-liquidity tokens that you can use or cash out anywhere. (You can also perform price discovery and see if your $1 cyber tokens really are worth $1 on the open market, or utilize your newly acquired cyber-chucks to generate yield by providing liquidity, collateralizing it, etc).

Note that in Gitcoin's case, GTC serves as a governance token which gives voting rights for their DAO. While it may have a market value (it certainly has some value for those who want to participate), but there is a different purpose to this type of token (the same for utility tokens).
It's funny how the rich get roughly twice the welfare that people on welfare get... even though they're the ones who really don't need it.

And now Texas is about to try to criminalize homelessness yet again, which I thought was settled in the 9th Circuit multiple times. Maybe it's the old "let's see what horribly-insensitive laws we can pass to rile up that other side but will probably be struck-down by the courts."

Robert Martin et al. v. City of Boise

Desertrain v. City of Los Angeles