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Ask HN: UK Local Council GDPR Breach Advice?
Due to COVID, a consultation on the location of a secondary school campus was held entirely online by my local Council in the UK. It has been contentious because there were five options and the Council's preferred one involved sacrificing a local greenspace/park.

They concluded that the silent majority preferred their option because the site received 1500 visits and 70 objections (preferring an alternative) versus 20 non-negative comments.

They are using this 1500 number to justify their position. I'd noted accessibility issues (the site says certain user agents are incompatible and you can't view the site at all)

That in context, the site itself had a cookie splash screen asking to accept or reject cookies for analytics. Upon viewing the source code I noticed that the buttons were the wrong way round, i.e. those who rejected cookies were being tracked those who clicked accept were not being tracked.

Is this a clear cut case of a GDPR breach and the information collected should be thrown away? I have sent relevant information to ICO but wondered if the wisdom of the HN crowd could offer further info.
Well, not really. Unless you die young very rapidly in a way that won't incur major medical costs, you're going to get your money's worth eventually, with the added benefit of stability.
I have never truly known a period of time without a smart device. The last watch I had was when I was a small child and it was only a few years ago I found a street "atlas". I have a feeling that I've missed a building block of the digital age by not experiencing an evolutionary phase.
Check out the bematists of ancient Greece![1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bematist
So I don't know if we have reliable numbers for how many people use Google, but it's probably in the billions. 0.01% of 1,000,000,000 people is 100,000. So I see what you're saying but also calling it unused based on a 0.01% use rate at Google's scale is also silly.

I get that they aren't going to keep every service, but they have over 100,000 employees and it's hard for me to believe that they can't spare an engineer to adopt the project (which would be the proportionate number for a 0.01% use rate).
I live in a democracy so I am partially responsible for anything my government does. Even and especially when it does something I don't like.
I’m pretty sure AMD offers perf/watt that is in the ballpark of ARM chips, and I’m guessing Intel, if they ever get on a similar process node again, will be able to get close.

None of that changes the need for accelerators though. Nvidia et al want to make the biggest chips they can, and at some point that means water cooling.
Another perspective:

https://www.asiafinancial.com/china-seen-ushering-in-new-era...
^Low-quality comment.

PBS is consistently rated as a reliable and unbiased source of information. You think it's a "liberal lifestyle outlet", but what evidence do you have to support this claim? What is your unbiased alternative?

Maybe you should watch this series ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4aNmdL3Hr0&list=PL8dPuuaLjX...
I don't allow unrestricted access to the internet for my kids and they aren't allowed screens in any room except where others may see them and their screens all the time. Yes, it is friction and not perfection. The internet is a Victorian-era cesspool with raw sewage and dysentery everywhere. They'll have to learn how to not contract cholera as they grow up, but I also don't let them play with firearms or dabble with black-tar heroin.
Story name?
I think it's a bit late for foresight, maybe Cassandra (is there a Norse equivalent?) is a more apt description of the situation we are in ;-)

Good luck, great idea, hope it works out!
It's amazing how well prospects respond to receiving a personal video — but time and time again senders complain about the production cost — Tavus solves this! Fascinating product and not terribly surprised HN seems unimpressed about this sort of thing ;)
The World Bank has a great resource here which lists out pricing for emissions trading systems (ETS) and carbon tax by country.[0] (Map & Data > Price > Type of Instrument). Highest carbon taxes are $100+ / ton (Sweden, Switzerland, Lichenstein), high initial value for trade is about $50 (EU, Switzerland).

We are a bit behind in the US in credits or taxes, we are now treating the social cost at $51, but not using that for tax or trade policy.[1]

There's one more number that is useful to get a numerical sense of the costs: $258 / ton, an estimate of the actual cost to society. [2]

[0] https://carbonpricingdashboard.worldbank.org/map_data
[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cost-of-carbon-po...
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24487-w
> Except, of course, that specs are only tested correct, not proven correct like types would be.

Yes this is the fundamental tradeoff. Specs et al are undoubtedly more flexible and expressive than static type systems, at the expense of some configurable error tolerance. I don't think one approach is generally better than the other, it's a question of tradeoffs between constraint complexity and confidence bounds.
What electricity sources have you identified as acceptable for this? Proximity of e.g. hydro to an ocean seems like a small set of sites. :) A naive glance suggests that solar capacity factor of 25% is going to put that particular source out of your budget.
No. I will criticize such decision but Israel is the wrong address in this case.
Studies that looked at bias in the media found PBS to be the most centrist of the major news organizations. People on the extremes of the political spectrum see PBS as biased against them, as they would any centrist organization.
I doubt Google has outsourced their entire process.

But many recruiters work as independent contractors or in recruiting firms. They often do a minimal phone-screen, vs sending a candidate "cold" to the hiring company.
It's like the Juicero, but for food.

Each pack is made of a very, very sturdy piece of plastic, and an NFC chip, and a single use QR code which will invalidate itself after a single online lookup for an unlock key.

User puts this "food cartridge" into the machine, and scans the code. The machine will cut open the cartridge, and cook the stuff inside.

It will of course refuse to cook if your "food subscription" is expired, or if it thinks the NFC chip is fake. Or at least this is how they wanted it to be in their original design proposal.

Whatever engineering company who took them as a client probably managed to tone down their fantasies a bit.

Brave new world...
Rather than a pithy, "I give this 2 generations" comment, I'll talk about why I can't see myself buying a phone by Google.

They don't support phones as long as Apple does. They don't have a clear focus on usability or compatibility. Every generation is different in a unique way. Put the last three generations of Pixels side by side, and you would be justified in claiming that they were designed by three different product teams, which they might very well be.

Lastly, it feels like the Pixel range is a showpiece for Google rather than an honest effort in making a phone or phone series that lasts the test of time. Be it Soli or the new TPU, it feels more like showboating than something driven by user demand. Not to mention the price inexorably increases every year.
First generation stars are stars that are formed from big-bang gas - mostly hydrogen, a bit of helium, a trace of lithium, and nothing more. Second generation stars are formed from the gasses blown off by the novas of first generation stars. Third generation stars are from the novas of second generation stars.

I suspect that the claim that life as we know it can only evolve there is because life as we know it needs a wide variety of chemical elements. We need carbon and oxygen, of course, but also iron and calcium and magnesium and potassium and so on. You're not going to get that around a first generation star. You might not get enough of it around a second generation star.
This looks exciting! You mentioned building a demo plant that has 1 tCO2/year of capacity, which you plan to scale up to 300 tCO2/year. What is your estimated cost for building a plant, per tCO2/year of capturing capacity? (As opposed to the ongoing cost per tCO2 captured, which sounds like it will be somewhere around $100/tCO2?)
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Man, if only copper was easy. One of the gotchas is most connectors for CPU, graphics cards, and chipsets tend to use the G1/4" ends up having metric on the other side. 12mm or 13mm. Most copper pipe is .5", which works out to about 12.7mm. You have to be really picky with couplers if you want to use copper. PTEG/Acrylic is less great for things that would be banged around and a pain, compared to if you know how to actually do copper.
> seems like a lot mental overhead with little gain

Now, I have bias, of course, and I do think this is the relationship at the start, but for me personally, it's the opposite. I never need to think about lifetimes. That's what the compiler is for. I don't think about it. If I make a mistake, the compiler tells me where I made a mistake. I fix it, and then I move on.

Huuuuuge YMMV here, of course. But when I'm reading C code, the mental overhead of keeping track of all of this is massive. But it's generally nonexistent in Rust. That's why we pass this thinking off to the machine! Humans get tired, they get sloppy, they may even be intoxicated in some form. Compilers do not. (They do have bugs though...)
Thanks. Its comments like the GPs that makes me wonder how I have avoided learning some very commonplace issue and its these types of comments that foment imposter syndrome.

I have even read books on linux architecture and remember discussions about filesystems and inodes and remember the general structure and form, but a detail around what is and what is not stored in the actual inode... seems like an absurd detail to memorize.

The only way I could see this being commonplace is if I somehow missed out on a widespread bug that somehow caused inodes to be corrupted and requiring manual intervention/surgery to prevent data loss.
This is spam. The audio sounds like it was processed through a vocoder.
At least in C++11 and later, many classes of these memory bugs are eliminated with more modern container and pointer types. It’s not uncommon to have a company policy of not using “new” or “delete” anywhere.
Strong arguments can be made that the ability to become a multi-planetary civilization requires you to master the tech tree that includes engineered life.
here be rabbits

https://100r.co/site/home.html
Just WiFi; I didn't try cellular (and dislike what I understand of the cellular integration in the hardware).

Unfortunately, the onboard WiFi in the i9300 needed some closed device firmware blob, which I cannibalized from an old version of Cyanogen or Lineage. I've heard some people use a more Linux-friendly WiFi chipset with the i9300, via the OTG port, but that'd put it to the point of non-viable to me. So, as an stopgap measure open source handheld, I have an impure and not-much-trusted device that can do email, chat, SSH, and other non-Web network stuff pretty well anywhere I have WiFi.
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Heh and what if the engineer even introduces evolution and what he truly engineers is code-based chemical cells that can conquer, survive, evolve and expand from anywhere ? :D

I'd do a life myself, I'd make it post-metallic, post-silicon, post static: I'd make it use water and carbon, so that it can exist everywhere. I would make it so that it can become intelligent on a small time scale, say a few billion years, all on its own, from scratch, on any rock :D

Not saying we have an engineer, but you think of engineered life as you are now as a simple software programmer. But an engineer in 500k years trying to expand more, would probably think of chemical automata that can evolve and adapt in harsh conditions. Say for instance if humanity decided it would be enjoyable for life to exist on Jupiter. It'd have to make something that can try a lot of variations with a very simple first formula to consume whatever gas there is there and survive whatever pressure.
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you can search for things on instagram on google and they appear in the results. you can browse instagram without an account, some of it.
We’ll be moving to unique IDs this week, good catch :)

The background content is customizable and dynamic per video, you can pass in a different URL for each video.

Currently we are only handling the generation of the video- not distribution just yet.
> rely on good old HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript.

Unfortunately, it's not always that easy. Often times, this same camp will forget about accessibility or other performance indicators like image optimization. Also, native web platform features usually lag behind the web performance and JavaScript communities.

Yes, React isn't always needed – but more often than not, it's a solid choice for your company. There are no absolutes. But there's a reason it's the most popular way of building frontends right now.
Insult?
Thanks, here's my output

######## 100.0%
# tcp: 0.322244
# tries: 1
# dns: 0.001493
# ssl: 0.905716
# size_dl: 158
# speed_dl: 134.000
# url: https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt
# total: 1.176158
# Real Time: 1.195

Firefox dev tools screenshot https://ibb.co/9G75JsH
Yes, I think that is one of the big weaknesses of it. You can write specs that make no sense and it will just let you. So far there is also no way to automatically check whether you are strengthening a guarantee or weaken your assumptions relative to a previous spec. In a perfect world we would have this in my opinion.
Tough day for Google, but I wouldn't want to have to compete with Pinboard either
Doesn't Blue Cross/Blue Shield still offer individual plans?
Wall Street is buying up family homes. The rent checks are too juicy to ignore
> IMHO eventually the tides will shift and school districts and exams will start allowing cell phones

I doubt that will happen as an allowed accessory device, but what will happen, I expect, both school-issued and standardized exams will move from exams for which you can use an accessory calslculating device to online exams done on (possibly standardized, definitely closely monitored) computers which will have calculator utilities installed (possibly integrated into the exam), rendering dedicated educational calculators superfluous.
The stores in "bad parts" of town have the cages, and sometimes service to match.

The "good parts" of town - no cages in sight and you can grab what you need.

It's sad.
Sure, Russian propagandists did it. But you wouldn't necessarily see fellow forum members partake in it until recent American political elites started doing it themselves.
No way. The ecosystem is just not there.

All the libraries - both open source and commercial that do a million things - do not exist in the Lisp ecosystem.

Even in 2000
I think the bar I gave, PQ of 130, is about right for Google. Your typical Google programmer is pretty bright and pretty competent, but not spectacular.

Most of what makes big companies succeed or fail is in the overall culture, organizational design, incentive structure, and corporate structure -- properties of a network of individuals rather than of those individuals themselves. I think most of Google's success and failings can be explained that way, much more so than the success or fault of employee quality.

Organizational design is really hard to get right. A senior manager described it like a herd of cats. If you get them all mostly moving in a beneficial direction, you're doing okay.

That's why they pay executives the big bucks. Executives fake understanding how to manage this stuff. Most don't, but they do a good job of convincing boards that they do.
I used to ride motorcycles, sportbikes. I was in a pharmacy once carrying my helmet via the chin strap. Rather than a bag or cart I was putting things into the helmet as if it were a basket. Store security noticed and confronted me in the aisle. They were friendly enough.
> Something something federal gov want it's own probe before pushing forward

Why they didn't push before all that was even started ?? Is it now a rule in US that gov is told what could be potentially expected and gov "pushes forward" ? Like with military ships with only touch displays controls, planes
with so big engines that body was not even imagined to have them attached, cable companies telling gov what coverage they have (but really not), etc, etc ?

In not so old day it was known that military guys are dumb and without imagination eg. discarding idea of Gutling's gun (until he started to gather attention somewhere else), or do not being interested in some fishy stealh jet technology... But now looks like civilian part of gov is completly and utterly dumb and clueless. And looks it's a word-wide phenomena...

EDIT: Forget to mention, that being grounded in reality is a + for military guys and that looks like thay found processes for some innovations, eg. DARPA. On the other hand looks civilians-in-power are intentionaly cherish chaos, eg. Congress, Senate, Parliament.
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this is a good idea, because I always need one more bucket than I currently own. same phenomenon as clamps
which obviously applies more to the person asking about what I've done because their ideas and execution made them nothing. good luck ya'll.

this is a thread about the conundrum of leveraging this experience without losing freedom or opportunity costs, not about being miffed that someone won't share how to make money, its like you all want to be scammed into purchasing an some youtuber's outdated amazon dropshipping masterclass.
This assumes that your phone hasn't had any updates for 10 years.

If your Tesla had no updates for 10 years, you probably would also be wise to not check your email on it.
> decentralizing the distribution of quality news

This is laudable - but it ignores the reality of aggregators and user behaviour in the attention economy. The audience is centralised, and increasingly so. The question becomes: how can a pluralistic public-service ecosystem flourish within that economy?

In the UK the BBC has tried a number of routes for this, including sponsoring local reporters, external linking to local news outlets to try and share their audience and so on. None have really been successful but it's important that they keep trying -- and odd that a piece like this wouldn't mention the BBC at all, come to think of it.