skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a stolen car will fetch you a bit more then $25, something tells me that successfully stealing one car will pay for hundreds to thousands of AirTags. So they can afford to lose one or two.

> They steal cheap ass Honda civics and what not because the

Opportunistic thieves steal easy to steal things. Professional criminals steal high value assets and will have good contacts in organised crime to move those assets on, and usually move them over a border, very quickly. It’s these individuals who are using AirTags to steal cars.

Professionals are probably tracking half a dozen high value vehicles (Mercedes, Audi’s, Porsche’s etc), and will grab a number of them in a single night. Don’t assume these thieves are just junkies looking to pay for their next high. There are more cars in this world than just $1mil collectors cars and cheap civics, plenty of $70k-$150k cars worth putting some effort into.
The original PS1 was so freaking limited. 33mhz? 2mb RAM? I used to wonder how they made games work on it. But looking at them today, you can see the short draw distances and the limitations very clearly.
The machine is completely optional and just there to save time if they get a lot of deposits. They can handle it manually if they want to.

There is a limit to how large the deposit can be for stores without a machine. If you come with a big trash bag with bottles/cans, they have the right to refuse and refer you to a place with a machine (most grocery stores have machines)
Agreed, it would have to be the same subjective memory, and you're right it's not a very interesting question. You'd probably have to either not observe it, or forget about it.
> patient zero for a generation of kid’s films whose humor is more directed at their parents than them.

This. There are just so many "kids" movies which Nixon impersonations, or 80s trivia, or 70s nostalgia in place of actual content or humour.

> Why do I know what “extra-textual intertextual Easter eggs” are and not how to shampoo a carpet?

Don't we all :)
Potentially. COVID is a slow disease. First there have to be ~100 cases (so that there are expected hospitalisations), then it takes a week or so before the hospitalisations actually start. It matters who those cases are, if a bunch of kids get the virus then the stats will look mild.

It is too early to be confident about what is happening from the sidelines. The evidence is a bit murky and we might be about to see some horrible numbers in the aggregate numbers. Or we might not.
The problem here is that a website is built in such a way that implementing the (admittedly annoying) cookie consent mechanisms goes through three different subcontractors/API providers.

The needless dispersion of your users’ browsing history is in itself disrespectful. Yes, privacy regulation do make life complicated if you choose to ignore their core, and instead create some Frankensteinian caricature of an infrastructure to continue doing business exactly as before.
New dad is really hard. For me It was really difficult to adapt. It really gets better when your kid starts to communicate. 1 to 2yo is really hard. From 3 to 4yo, I’m now less stressed than before being a dad. But that’s because a 4yo boy is really damn cool to live with and pretty autonomous for a lot of basic things.
All the @State, @Published etc. pragmas look to me like they hacked the compiler to do the stuff they couldn't do in a regular library....
I saw this problem recently at work, with a Go program running on Kubernetes. You can work around it by setting GOMAXPROCS to the same value as cpu limit in the container spec.

(So be careful not to assume this problem is specific to Java, the JVM, Mesos, or Twitter's environment)
From reading this I get the sense the problems are lower level and there is no impetus to fix them.

I'm embarrassed to say, having programmed for over a decade, and running Linux for half of that, I still have no idea how to setup my computer to serve a webpage (or even a file)

I probably need to `apt-get install apache` and then deal with some magic config files and incantations and hope I don't mess something up and expose my whole computer to the open web. Then there is the whole mess of NAT (wasn't IPv6 supposed to kill off NATs?).

I need to then figure out the endless (and impenetrable) configurations in my OpenWRT/LuCI router to open a port and have it forwarded to my computer. Or maybe that needs to be done "upstream" in my landlords internet cabinet..? I'd have no idea how to even figure that one out b/c my router doesn't make it obvious in any way.

Then I need to find some DDNS service and figure out how to get that to route traffic from a URL to my IP (and then it's somehow supposed to reconfigure when my IP dynamically changes? Is that some cron job I need to write?)

Hosting webpages from home is still complicated and no progress has been made. And if you do it wrong someone will hack you and steal all your files :) The incumbents are probably happy it's so painful and you still need to do technical gymnastics to punch through NATs and whatnot. This text further confirms it by just telling people to host int he cloud. And understandably.. you'd have to be a total nut to serve a file from your home instead of dropping it on Google Drive.

When I was studying this stuff in college I just figured tech is in an awkward teenage phase and this will all get worked out and streamlined - but I think it's not going anywhere This isn't the tech future of 80s scifi

I don't mean to be wholly negative, I'd actually appreciate if someone pointed me to a good step by step to set everything up. At the moment I'm a sellout :) and I just use Github Pages and git push HTML/CSS files there. Ideally it really should be just as easy to git pushing to your own home computer but till then I guess I'll do that..
I hope they fine the everliving crap out of these platforms that go "oh suuuure you can opt out of all this tracking, just spend 5 days turning off millions of individual settings in this maximally inconvenient dialog!"
It is always I nice moment of discovery when I learn that yet another feature I hate from Gnome was copied from MacOS
That is exactly what I thought which is why I suggested that FB should replace their ugly hack with a normal library. But the person who I replied claimed they have a library which sounded weird to me because then there would be no ops problem.

I feel FB is solving a technical problem by alienating a bunch of their users with a terms change. Why not instead just build the right technical solution?
sanity.io sounds and looks awesome! I didn't know about it until now.

I'm wondering if Sanity would be a good fit for creating static websites for other non-technical people but still give those people the power to update the content themselves.

I've been trying to acomplish that with Airtable but I quickly ran into annoying limitations.

For example, I'd like to create a gallery website for my artist brother (something similar to this: https://brooksburgan.com) and give him the possibility to re-arrange, add and remove images without going into HTML or JS.

Can anyone who used Sanity let me know if this is a valid use case?
You're right that they won't give up drinking soda! But the experience of Philadelphia, [1] which imposed a per-ounce soda tax (later repealed) shows us that these tend to drive consumers to other jurisdictions (NJ) to buy groceries. This means Philadelphia lost out not only on soda sales, but also on other groceries purchased at the same time.

Another issue that arises is that people will actually transport recyclables across state lines to arbitrage the differences in redemption value. [2] This only happens if there are large enough disparities, but in the US this is almost certain to happen due to the different policy choices made by nearby states.

1: https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/...

2: https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/arrests-in-16-million...
I lived in Berlin for a while without an income - I collected cans and bottles and would cash them in at the supermarket for food vouchers.
Because most of the world (also, as in industries) isn't under those type of laws.
You can always write some tests to verify behavior and fall back to the standard library if this winds up not working.
Cookies are especially important at Christmas. They taste good but it's best to bake your own.
This topic is important but I guess it's so behind to today's fingerprinting that this whole topic is getting polemic.
Seriously. It depends entirely on the content
Very sorry to hear this. Its hugely challenging, in ways that IMHO most people can't comprehend /imagine. In my experience, sibling(s) of a severely disabled person, while they get things put on them that are unfair, also can emerge with great resilience, caring nature, and extra qualities they wouldn't have otherwise had. Perhaps leading to greater happiness. "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" . IMHO there's no real problem caring for a severely disabled person, if the rest of society understood a bit more, and things were better resourced, high quality respite easily available etc, people were willing to pay a bit more tax to help others in need. But the world isn't like that. There are hacks though. Thank goodness for working in tech, where one can at least earn decent money and throw money at challenges. Could you and your partner work 4 days a week each and have a weekday off together? That may be an effective way to get respite and some time together. Best wishes :)
> chimps don't even feel the need to communicate all that much

Because that wasn't providing any evolutionary benefit. Take a group of chimps, and make offspring of those who communicate more often to have a higher chance of survival, and voila -- they will develop an urge to communicate!
How did you cover your rent and other expenses?
It's pretty much a given now that "modern" replacements for basic Unix utilities are written in Rust.
I hear so many people recommend Tailwind but every time I look at examples it reminds me of an entry for the 17th Annual Esoteric Programming Language Competition.

Maybe you get used to it but hell it looks hard to parse visually.
If you'd have cared to actually check the linked projects, you'd have noticed that most of them avoid communicating with the service in question except when abosolutely necessary, which for most of them means the provider can't ban your account because you never logged in from their point of view. At most it will get your ip rate limited if you choose to open your proxy up to the public, an issue most invidious instances unfortunately do have.
I understand why the rule is in place. I regret to say I had forgotten the rule. My sincere apologies.
"Here, however, the court reasoned that since data “are processed on Akamai servers, a data transfer to a third country is occurring,” simply because “Akamai Technologies Inc., as an American company, is subject to the CLOUD Act.”"

This consideration is key, even when Akamai servers are hosted in the EU.
Difficult to pinpoint specifics, it's probably a matter of personal preference. I just enjoy working in Firefox's performance tools more than I enjoy working in Chrome's now.

Previously Fx lacked so many features that existed in Chrome that you couldn't really compare them.
Neanderthals changed ecosystems 125,000 years ago
> Above the sea level, anyone who had it is either a part of “our” genome or extinct.

That's too vague to argue with but I'll do it anyway: No, elephants and crows as just two examples.
Ah yes the good old, being poor is a character flaw. There's plenty of evidence that being poor is primarily due to nothing else but lack of money. But the rich/middle class love to feel superior by saying people are poor because of bad financial decisions.
Sounds nice but how it would be possible to prove that owner of the device attached it to vehicle? You would need to have video recording with clearly identifiable person, otherwise owner can simply say that she lost AirTag and someone did a dumb joke and attached it to the car.
The article is right that as of now , exchanges are casinos. You can easily pump up coins with a few orders and watch if the rest of the herd will bite. There's not much use of them otherwise. Ironically, Coinbase is basically a child of US protectionism that keeps other exchanges away. At some point we must realize that exchanges are the problem, because they centralize activity and become a target for hacking, regulation and centralization. The article is right, that these exchanges have the power, since they are the gatekeepers. But i somehow think that that tech will be over time embedded in desktops and phones, we won't need exchanges.
I recently spent an inordinate amount of time implementing effective self-hosted cookie control (as in: actually deferring loading of offending scripts until after being accepted, and then loading and executing after being accepted without having to trigger a page reload)

It would be absolutely asinine to assume that a layman could understand, much less implement the currently available solutions in an effective manner, so here are the two scenarios that small businesses are faced with:

a) They still wanna make use of cookie powered tech and just do it without consent, which opens them up to legal trouble

b) They don't do it and give up on functionality, which big biz will be able to provide, putting them at a disadvantage and making the web less democratic in the process once again.

While I have no particular thoughts about the type of providers targeted here, I am certain that the last thing the current setup needs is additional complication.
People may not like hearing this but this whole cookie issue is American capitalists fighting European bureaucrats and I know the former will win.

On an even more fundamental level this is a conflict between American legal system of common law vs European statutory legal system.
That’s mostly a question of how one chooses to define “intelligence.” For the purposes of this type of discussion it’s usually equivalent to “whatever humans have that other animals don’t.” We’re looking for something that would be relatable to us, probably the minimum requirement would be the ability to communicate with them at the same level of robustness that we can with each other (edit: or a recognizable demonstration of mastery over the physical world to a level that meets or exceeds our own).

It’s true that other terrestrial life forms possess some capabilities that we could call intelligence, but then we would just need to use another word that defines the special human je ne sais quoi.
And do not forget these blatantly illegal "legitimate interest"... Which I have to manually turn off after turning of the rest...
Indeed, I think it's clear a lot of animals can do a lot of things that they just don't want to do and the reason they don't want to is because that just wasn't beneficial for them in their environment. Maybe cultures could be created and spread amongst them that might bring out that ambition though.
>Nobody's absolving the managers

Whether consciously or not, scapegoating their minions does exactly that.

This is a pervasive feature of American culture where the most guilty parties with the most power who have the least defensible motives use FUD to spread the blame around and it actually works. People buy this shit and even internalize it - something this thread is a living testament to.

This is the same shit that happened when the CEO of Boeing tried to blame the dead pilots and subsequently tried to throw his engineers under the bus and each time where there was even a shade of doubt a ready cohort of people stood ready to defend the self serving FUD he pumped out.

>I've never worked at Uber or any other big corp so I can't speak to how they do things there.

Only at small companies have I ever been asked to build $evilfeature. At big companies I get asked to build $featurethatcouldbeabused. The bigger the impact and the more morally wrong it is the more feature indirection there will be.

Either way it's good to know that when somebody with the power to deprive me of my sole income asks me to build a kitchen knife they intend to stab someone with there's a willing crowd on hacker news ready to claim that they dont get to hog all of the blame because I technically could have refused to make that kitchen knife and joined the unemployment queue.
> I know some of you will say they have some special custom app with very custom logic that is so unique that can only be done in code.

Basically that's the way it is.

As an Architect I have to look for no code solutions, then low code and if non fit only then do I have a justification for a custom build.

Sometimes a solution is a combination of those techniques.
I don't know about "respectful" for both parties. Bottle collectors trying to take/steal not yet empty bottles and cans has become more of a rule than an exception in parks in central Stockholm.

I'm still very much in favour of container deposit but I'm growing really tired of forceful collecting.
If confirmed, this implies that the use of any provider that could in theory bring the data to a third country should be avoided.
All so all the fingerprinter/css/font/gpu identification. That ought to be illegal, and any provider caught using it ought to be punished.
Yeah and seeing it from the other side as a cafe owner you have so many different sites to manage to try and help people find out where you are, when you are open, and the events you have running.
Would really love some sort of framework for managing all those competing offering for location services. An open source framework in particular would be ace although it would mean the vast majority of small businesses wouldn't use it. Too little time.
The cookie banner on iapp.org is provided by OneTrust via cookiepro.org[1]. This thing figures out your location (by IP address) and displays a banner at the bottom of the page with specific buttons for the laws based on where you live. It captures data from around 42k websites[2], with a unique user-specific ID, so OneTrust can track people across all those sites. If OneTrust operate other services, or if they share the data with other organizations, they can track you more widely.

Cookie banners that seek to improve privacy for users by limiting what third parties can do have become another way to track people. Limiting the activity of cookie banner providers would not be a terrible idea.

[1] https://www.cookiepro.com/products/cookie-consent/

[2] https://cookiepedia.co.uk/host/cookielaw.org
Clinical trials showed >90% efficacy in preventing symptomatic infection. The cornerstone for “returning to normal” was mass vaccination. It was held as the only solution.
Really? I can find plenty of pics of vintage GPO phones online but none of them work like that
If your only logic is a boot to the face of anyone you're told to hit, or to kill people you never even met, you aced the test.

Today you're the victim of a lot of conspirators.

Tomorrow you're the hero.

Nevermind the people driving you to kill those other people are also conspirators, using you to kill their personal rivals.

Must be easy to see the world this way. I've never been dumb enough to do it, but maybe you could spare a couple words and explain why it's so great.

"No".
The law here is totally reasonable to protect people's right to data privacy. It's just that every damn website is trying its best to trick their users into consenting despite the law. Half the solution look illegal anyway, as you can't deny cookies with a single click. Plus the US Cloud Act is an authoritarian overreach and rightfully gives US providers a competitive disadvantage.
> brexity type people I'm 'freinds' with on facebook began covid all in favour of restrictions and vaccines

My brexity friends started covid feb 2020 - "There have been no white people die of Covid, white genetics are superior to chinese genetics and immune to covid - this is an EU conspiracy to punish the UK for brexit" - since then a few died of covid, most lost parent / aunt / uncle / family member.

Its still 100% an EU plot to destroy brexit.
Sounds simple. Could you elaborate? Among all of the problems that this legislation aims to solve, what problems can be solved by simply blocking third-party cookies? And what can not?
Other idea: make browsers have a proper cookie banner and not one that tricks me into selling my soul, I never got why pages would need individual banners.
I am ambivalent and torn about what to think of European digital policies. On one hand there's GDPR and regulations like these that are absolutely overdue and EU is probably the only entity in the world who can improve situation given the current meta.

On other hand, there's encryption regulation and absurd piracy strictness.

Please someone with a formed perspective tell what's happening? What is a general vector of European policy on the internet?
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At least for now it seems that most American companies are trying to respect the gdpr instead of fighting it, so I am not sure that the American capitalism will win this battle.
Before the discussion descends into the usual "that's stupid and will kill all tech startups" vs. "that's right because all cookies are evil incarnate", I'll say again:

This is a perfect example of the kind of legal processes we have now.

The EU and Germany in particular have decades of privacy regulation and core values behind them. These core values won't change. Regulation for the past decades has ignored that tech routinely violates these values, and it's catching up now. Rules won't be as dramatic as in the past, but will differ widely from the us.

In this context, it's legally important to account for entrepreneurial freedom (guaranteed by the constitution), but if there's an overriding reason to protect consumers, then it is entirely irrelevant how long companies have been doing this, how many do this and in what other countries they do it.

To sum up, the law sometimes bites late, but it bites hard, and arguments surrounding competitiveness, business culture or internet culture are legally completely irrelevant.
It's a terrible idea. It will break a lot of sites in a way that's not predictable.
> CSS is effectively solved.
Tailwind CSS is the best thing to ever happen to CSS. I cannot imagine ever writing CSS in a separate file and having to think of names for elements.
It's also an excellent resource for beginners.

I work with developers still have difficulty with concepts like specificity and cascading even though they have been working with CSS for many years.

I don't think statements like this are true or encouraging.
> And to that problem, the best solution I've found is to get the fixer and the problem user as close as possible

You mean put development and operations together, into some kind of dev..ops.. :)

I'm sorry for the snark, it was not meant as disagreement with what you said. The whole idea of the role was to try to remedy that exact issue, but old habits die hard and sometimes things just change names but stay the same. I shouldn't throw stones, I'm struggling at our shop to steer outside of that behavior as well.
0891 50 50 50 is stuck in my head. I still have no clue what it's for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1S5BvsTNSQ
That's largely already a consequence of Schrems II.
If barcode is readable they accept semi-crushed bottles.
What functionality would that be? Anything else than targeted ads?