skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only documentation that’s more frustrating than Apple’s “‘doYouReallyWantThat’ is an attribute. It returns ‘true’ if you really want that. We can’t tell you what’that’ means. Code samples are for lesser people” is Python, where I somehow, every time I want to look up if it’s ‘subst’ or ‘substring’, I somehow end up in either the C bindings or some ten-year old PEP on package management that was never implemented.

PHP in the late 90s did it right (and probably still does today), ruby gets it mostly right, although it, like python, somehow still hasn’t figured out how to get Google to rank the most recent version higher than the one that’s a decade out of date.

The popularity of video tutorials is baffling. Is it because it’s the only way to earn money with this content? Anyway, I’ll just add the observation that the three communities that seem to really embrace the format are QAnon, “men’s right’s”, and WordPress.
> so behind to today's fingerprinting

Yes that's the sad thing, they do not need cookies anymore.
But AU probably isn’t a good way to compare this.

Sun and the Solar System is 1,921.56 AU in diameter (google)

So in these Solar System Units Alpha Centauri is only ~140 SSU away. Still more than 25, but comparable, and we are not in a dense neighborhood, afair: https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2006/01/how-close-c...

M15's center packs approximately 4 million stars per cubic parsec — that's more than 75 million times denser than the region around the Sun

But some galaxies pack stars even tighter. M32, one of the Andromeda Galaxy's satellites, has the highest measured stellar density of any nearby galaxy — around 20 million stars per cubic parsec in its core! Not even HST can resolve M32's core into individual stars. A typical stellar separation at this density works out to 0.008 light-year, or 500 AU — about 12 times the Sun-Pluto distance — between stars.

(500 AU being ~0.25 of our “SSU”, or 12 M32’s SSU)
There's a number of very large and well known archives of classic mod and tracker music around. E.g. https://modarchive.org/
I wrote a small JavaScript program to do Microsoft's MSN New Tab one. It took about 9 minutes to run… and I didn't even program any delays in.
What's an example of a site that needs third-party cookies to work? If it breaks because it can't load Google Analytics, that's a website bug.
Getting consent for functionality is pretty easy. EU data regulations specifically allow you to set cookies in a scenario that this enables functionality that would otherwise not be possible to provide to a user. Like a classic session cookie, for example. What's affected negatively is the UX for tracking and spying on users – and so it should be. If this forces companies out of business who rely on that for their business model, good.
For plastic bottles at least for the machine you would have to un-crush it, it scans the bottle.

For beer bottles, I dunno, try it out and report back?
>, misunderstood the point (aka he's talking about people who are cramming information,

The author is making multiple points and it's fair to consider each claim in isolation.

One of the points is that that active learning is better passive learning. And another point is that reviewing the information multiple times is better than reading it fast once. No disagreement about those. However, the other claim that the speed of 3x is always less retention than 1x isn't true for every listener, every speaker, and every topic.

- 3x can be better for focus because some speakers talk so slowly than listeners tune out at 1x

- 3x lets you listen to 3 different presentations of a topic for reinforced learning rather than only getting 1 perspective in 1x time.

- 3x lets you get past "easy sentences" and selectively slow down to 1x for the "hard dense sentences".

- 3x increases the wpm (words-per-minute) into the normal/natural speed of the reader's "imaginary voice in their head" when reading written text

The author should have titled his essay "Against Passive Learning" because that's the stronger point rather than highlight "3x".
The headline of the post misses the point. The problem the author describes, revolves around active vs. passive learning and the '3x Speed' part is just part of what he refers to as passive learning.

I completely agree, that passive learning is what happens in many western classrooms and that active learning is a lot more valuable.

However, listening to books or videos at 3x the normal speed is nothing I would condemn, because IMO it depends on the source material. Some audiobooks/videos are so slow that it is hard to keep the focus at normal speed. Consuming them at higher speeds keeps me from drifting to other topics. So I think the discussion about the speed doesn't lead anywhere. That said, I don't use 3x speed. Sometimes, I consume videos at 2x speed and I tend to keep audiobooks at 1x speed, because I like to consume them as secondary activities e.g. while driving. Certainly not the most effective way to consume the content, but I like it and it fits into my daily habits.

I think the discussion should be about active/practical/self-directed learning vs. pure consumption of material, because this is what makes a difference.
"crypto means cryptography" is reactionary.
Heroku came up with the idea of buildpacks [01] the idea has later been picked up by Cloud Foundry [02]. Using buildpacks (as an alternative to dockerfiles/images) mitigates this problem. A lot of best practices are build into the buildpacks.

Of course this does not work for everything. But for most cases this is just good enough.

[01] https://buildpacks.io/
[02] https://www.cloudfoundry.org/
The scope here is far, far higher than cookie management providers, If the scope is that a company with a us presence can’t have extraordinary access to data.

Google analytics is going to be essentially outlawed in the EU.

Hosting with any company with a US presence is going to be questionable. No Aws, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, linode, azure, hetzner… (Leading to the further question of who you can host with — what big EU cloud providers are there without a us presence)

I’m not sure where that leaves the EU, other than possibly hardware in a local data center.
That kind of technical countermeasure only works when you're a statistical minority and adtech doesn't care enough to chase after you. If everyone were to block 3p cookies, the adversary would create new ways to share data on the backend, without clientside involvement, and we'd be right back where we started (other a small increase in friction).
> Jessia is the American dream.

She's the one who made it, unlike thousands of others, who worked equally hard, and didn't.

No family should have both parents working 12 hours a day just to survive, period.
The following document helps a bit. I could believe that 15% of forests in Germany (regardless of ownership and access) are "very semi-natural".

I'm not so convinced that the next 21% of "semi-natural" forests just means that they haven't been logged or actively managed for a generation or so.

The document has some stats on ownership.

The Forests in Germany
Selected Results of the Third National Forest Inventory
https://www.bmel.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/Publications/For...

page 22
"By nature, Germany is beech country and if left to nature, today’s forest area would be made up of 75 % beech forests and 17 % oak forests. Where beech forests would naturally grow, today only 21 % beech forests stand;"

"15 % of the forests have a very semi-natural composition and another 21 % a semi-natural composition of tree species"
> we must realize that exchanges are the problem

The problem for whom though? Clearly not the problem for the exchanges themselves, owning a busy exchange brings huge amounts of money and power (just look at the coinbase IPO). It's also not a problem for their users, who clearly indicate by their behavior that they prefer to store their coins in exchanges over having to store everything themselves. It's not a problem for the miners and protocol devs either, they don't care either way. And finally any governments are more likely to prefer exchanges over individual holders because it gives them a single point of contact.

So, everyone with any power prefers exchanges. The only people who don't are those with no means to move users away from the exchanges.
Show HN: Christmas Backgrounds for Zoom
Most of the things you've mentioned are caused by the delayed IPv6 rollout, self-hosting just isn't a priority for residential ISPs. I'm sure that there are plenty of good tutorials on setting up Apache or some other web server, those tutorials can't exist for actually exposing it to the Internet, there's just too many routers and ISPs.
I've worked in a company working in holacracy. Some people are more active or passive than others. Some people are more vocals than others. Some people have better social and negociation skills.

In the end although there is no hierarchy per se, some natural leaders emerge, and they are usually best suited for the job than some managers who are clueless about what the team is doing because they still have to do the job and be accounted for.
I'm not saying it's a character flaw. I'm saying they held onto a job that wasn't optimal based on their other available options. They could have been middle class had they chosen another job. Down right negligent honestly since they clearly had no healthcare that entire time. One illness could have thrown them on the street.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:opening_hours

You go around, survey the opening hours posted on local restaurants (I usually take a photo, and don't copy and paste from other sources as this normally goes against their T&C) and then add these to openstreetmap.org.

Then next time apps like organicmaps.app update, you'll have all the local opening hours for restaurants and things directly on your device.

I have found that places usually change opening houes by an hour or two.

And if anyone reads this and thinks: "well, that sounds like a chore", this is the only solution I've found that:

1. Is under an open data license

2. Is easily editable as a normal user

3. Isn't backed by "Big Tech" that can wall it off

4. At least has apps that make the data searchable in an offline way

5. Fully exposes the data in open formats (just zoom in on the map, right click on an object and press "Query features" for a basic example or see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Databases_and_data_acces... )

But like anything else, you need people to contribute to it.
The 'Privacy Redirect' addon does exactly that, you can turn it on/off per website
I'm also developing for 25 years, I also really really like websites and coding, but not for the reasons the OP sums up. For me, it's not about all kinds of solved or unsolved technical questions.

Today is a very good time to build websites, because a good website is the only way to push back to Big Tech and it's practices. Your website can be build on techniques invented in a time where the dream of the internet was not yet shattered by Big Tech.

Of course you can choose to put your website on AWS and svck on the bolls of Jeff a little. But you don't have to! And that's what all kinds of young devs just miss.

Oh, and RSS is not dead. Not at all (thanks WordPress, for putting a feed on every instance). RSS is the only workable way to make the web social again.
> and not how to shampoo a carpet?

Because carpet is out of style. Engineered hardwood is where it’s at.

And besides, nobody shampoos carpet. People just let it soak up our dead skin cells, oil, and the occasional spill. Spraying an equal amount from each of the unidentified bottles found under the sink aught to clean the apartment right up. She’ll never know
All I know is that at this point I'm getting Cookie Rage every time I have to click on those cookie consent popups. Some are better than others. Some are so bad I give up and leave the site (Admiral, I'm looking at you). It's so annoying I don't even bother reading or thinking about what I'm clicking, which in effect reaches the opposite outcome of what these cookie consents were meant to do. None of them remember my choice, none of them are "not annoying". I get annoyed just "talking" about it...
I agree with you that exchanges are the problem, in that you are just reinventing banks, but with worse regulation and extra steps, both cost and environmental.

I would though suggest that cryptocurrencies wouldn't be fraction of where it is right now without exchanges enabling everyones grandma to easily enter the casino and pumping up the pyramid scheme.
> formed perspective

I do not think I really qualify but hey.

> What is a general vector of European policy on the internet?

Generally the EU is very pro-privacy but sadly companies like Facebook bribe our "data protection officers" (sorry idk how to translate) and individual EU countries also just break the EU law on a regular.
I'm a daily user of nitter. As someone without a Twitter account, nitter has legit a 10x better UX than Twitter. It loads super fast and just works. On Twitter, it seems the "X" to remove the sign up popup is first run through 10 react js virtual dom frameworks, it's so sluggish.
Some metrics always have to be implemented to make sure the teams fulfill their role.

Metrics depend on the kind of role. As a sys admin team we were relying on uptime of the services we were managing.
I'd guess fingerprinting without consent is also illegal under these regulations, but may be harder to persecute.
> Anyone here know a good legal, compliance or best practice reason for blocking all access

The philosophies include:

1. Applying a maxim like "Principle of Least Privilege", or "That which is not allowed, is forbidden". Maybe through choice, maybe due to standards like PCI-DSS and SOC2.

2. Blocking access isn't a problem, because we're going to grant access requests quickly. Just as soon as we fill these five vacancies on the team....

3. Surely bugs making it to production will be a very rare event? Aren't these developers testing properly?

4. Don't we have test environments for troubleshooting? Isn't the heart of devops that you have a test pipeline that you have confidence in? If your developers think they're likely to deploy buggy software to production, maybe you aren't ready for devops...

5. Any large organisation will, at some point in its history, have had some chump run their test code against the production system and send every customer an e-mail saying "Hello World". If that happened when you had 30 developers, I doubt hiring standards are any higher now you have 300 developers! Stopping that happening again is common sense professionalism.

6. Would you want Google's 100,000 engineers to have read-only access to your gmail account? Of course you wouldn't, you've got loads of private shit in there. And if you were CEO, would you want an intern on a 2 week placement to be able to download the entire customer database? Of course you wouldn't. People having access - even read-only access - to the production system is a bad thing.

7. Locking down a lot of things gives the security team more political power, as every request to reduce restrictions or expedite a request is a favour owed.
Same. We used to collect cans, and whenever we filled up several trash bags worth, we'd drive to a can return machine in a parking lot. We'd press a button on the machine, and it would come to life. We'd then dump cans in a funnel, and coins would come out of a coin return. Now that I think about it, even when I was a kid, I don't recall ever seeing another machine like it.

Edit, it looked like this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/ljr0sa/where_can_i_...
I remember asking a German friend why people were leaving the bottles on top of the bins when we went to a football match.

Growing up in Scotland collecting Irn Bru bottles was something you could do for "sweetie" money. I was disappointed the last time I looked to find out that they have now decommissioned their bottle cleaning plant. Apparently conventional recycling has resulted in the rate of return being too low.
Here's one:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Ne...

It's from New Zealand, but they drive on the same side of the road as the UK ))
Fortran Preliminary Report (1954) [pdf]
I am not sure if Europeans can even take this article seriously after reading about "cookie management requirements apply for EU websites generally" which is wrong in at least three major ways: GDPR is not just about cookies, GDPR is about data processing and its purposes rather than management and storage, and GDPR applies to all websites (including American) who serve European customers.

"Per the Court of Justice of the European Union, IP addresses are personal data (the court also considered Cookiebot’s “user key” to be personal data)."

They seem to be using the term personal data (correctly) but I cannot help but sense some disdain for it in the writing as if the writer was still thinking personal data being PII (which it's not). A 5-star rating I give a driver is also personal data because it generated by me or obtained from me (and that's why you can get it when you request an export of your data under GDPR). But then the article goes on to nitpick on the definitions: "Because the Wiesbaden court cited the CLOUD Act as a reason to limit U.S.-based services, we note that the claim for “any US connection” is incorrect, because the CLOUD Act only applies under U.S. law where there is possession, custody, or control in the U.S." Possession, custody, or control pretty much covers everything when it comes to cloud computing infra.

"NOYB has filed over 100 complaints alleging improper transfers to the U.S., for a range of data analytics and cookie plug-ins that are pervasive in the current online ecosystem."

I am a happy supporter of NOYB and glad to see my donation being used well. Though I am a bit worried about being able to use Cloudflare in the future.
Following this approach it becomes harder for the developer to do things wrong. This is one benefit why Cloud Foundry is used by a couple of big enterprises.
Is the title being "omnicron" instead of "omicron" intentional? The actual website does not have "omnicron" on it, as far as I can tell.
> Yes, privacy regulation do make life complicated if you choose to ignore their core

Yes, 100%, it is relatively easy to just not track your ~~victims~~ customers every move.
Problem for the users. Exchanges are convenient in the same sense that FB or twitter is convenient. The point of decentralized finance is not to re-centralize finance or else it will have reinvented a slower wheel. As always with tech , you get what you incentivize. If we are incentivizing users to lock themselves inside new walled gardens called "exchange" then we actively promoting evil.
Gopher was more widely used that WWW until 1994, and it was a basic install on most Internet nodes in the first few years of 90's. The point of Gopher was it was one of the first widely deployed protocols that allowed you to find things, like a Mosiac Browser to download. It died quickly but was an important stepping stone.

In 1990 IRC had average of 12 users :) (but other chat programs were used before IRC) . True FTP, other chats, MUDs, email, etc. were widely used/available.
SUCS: Stand Up Comedy as a Service
(or SUCaS)

For the purpose of team building.

Imagine comedian (imagine Louis CK or Ricky Gervais) added to your team's chat for a week, watches how discussions go, attends Zoom calls and by the end of the week "draws a caricature" for everyone.

And then performs with a 1-1.5 hour [your-team-name]-special.
Mandatory reading for anyone wanting to implement RSA by themselves (even if it's for fun): Why Textbook ElGamal and RSA Encryption Are Insecure Bonehn, Joux, Nguyen − 2000 [1]

[1]: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-44448-3_3
I don't intend any offense but just to clarify and purely because this is very interesting -- is that actually what the current thinking among experts agrees to be the best way to deal with this kind of drone swarm, or is this just what you think is the best (and do you have a background in this kind of warfare or weaponry?)

Would be interested to hear more details on why these kinds of ammunition would be the best way to go, why they haven't been deployed yet, what is being used today, and what the other options are being considered.
I've had third party cookies blocked for a year, and the number of sites that "broke" can be counted on a single hand.
System failure when the guys affected just get money off, firm ok, …
Since it's everything but random, given the strong, strong selection pressure, what you wrote misses the point completely. And the argument based on that is completely meaningless as well.
In a sence it's also a move towards limiting user's freedom to chose where to store data, isn't it?

If that develops further, people will be forbidden to store data outside of their country, so that the data can always be requested by local agencies.
Being immunocompromised is a contraindication around here. That said, only as so far as you are, for example you are on a corticosteroid therapy.
The goal of removing hierarchy is pretty challenging; it's been convincingly argued that the absence of explicit hierarchies often simply results in implicit, invisible hierarchies.

In a situation with invisible hierarchies, it takes a newbie a lot more time to learn what power they do and don't have. There are still power relationships; but they're less obvious and transparent, much harder to navigate, and much harder to modify.

My point isn't that non-hierarchical organising is impossible, but that it requires constant attention - frankly, I don't think it's possible unless removing hierarchy is a key aim of the organisation. That is rarely the case, unless the organisation is a more-or-less left-wing political organisation. A commercial organisation will hardly ever put eliminating hierarchy centre-stage.

So removing explicit hierarchies is likely to be counterproductive, in most organisations. You end up with implicit hierarchies that are harder to understand and alter, and so more rigid. If I were joining an organisation, I'd sooner it were one with clear, explicit hierarchy, or alternatively one dedicated to the removal of hierarchy.

To be clear, you can't completely remove implicit hierarchy. Dominant people tend to dominate, and an explicit hierarchy mitigates that. Dominance might derive from force of personality, having a loud deep voice (men!), knowledge, eloquence, and "who you know".

So non-hierarchical organising requires a lot of effort, and definitely slows down decision-making. It has a cost.
I think it was present, you just had to enable it.
Is that not something you can learn by picking up any number of good books in the area in much less time?

I am just getting into TypeScript programming, and I am really having fun. I learnt about the details of how Javascript works, and it is quite cool to have a static layer over a dynamic one. For learning JavaScript, I like "The Good Parts" and the "You don't know JS" series. It took me a while to learn how to create a datatype that can defend its invariants not only statically, but also at runtime, but that seems quite feasible as well, especially with decorators. It is interesting though that nobody seems to be particularly interested in doing that, there is not much direct information about this available.
Awesome! Congratulations!
Then i would prefer if bitcoin falls down to $10000 and people start working on actually integrating these payments to the things i use every day (like, this browser?). It feels like we are living the era of future bubbles, where nobody wants to deliver anything because they are afraid that they will break the rally of their stock/coin. We should have a name for this weird era.