skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The introduction on the youki website is masterfully written! Clear and direct with a very effective frame of context. Thank you!; The effortlessness is inspiring in many ways.
The last time my cc was compromised is when the bad guys injected js into a large e-commerce site and stole the card data. This is a real threat. I’d rather not use any pull based payment mechanism if possible. Push only.
I completely understand your point and indeed “pecking keys” on iPhone sucks (especially since they refuse to incorporate haptic feedback although the entire stack is there to do it).

However I have to say since iOS (finally) started supporting “swipe typing” the process of typing has become a lot more enjoyable. It’s fast, accurate and easy to do one handed.
Well most of them are Non IT businesses, so they just know what peers/family etc told them what todo (or what they do), then read some (oneside-)sponsored media and now they ~know whats best, it's Azure with WindowsServerDatacenter-edition, SQLServer-enterprise and McAffee antivirus ;) but who can be mad about it? It's just not their field of expertise or even interest.
Are the nibs of Hero and Wing Sung compatible with the Lamy Safari?
But how is the project manager going to feel useful without creating Jira tickets to add tracking scripts to projects? /s
Recycled Tennis Balls Could Protect Buildings from Earthquakes
Who is forcing you to be in the USA?
I have had to build things I consider to be dark patterns.
Normally, it goes something like this:

1. Client asks for something that is a dark pattern.

2. I outline that it is morally questionable to do that and give a suggestion on how it can be done otherwise.

3. Client insists that they don’t care or don’t agree because they feel as it will bring in more money.

4. I end up building it.

I do have the choice to outright say no, but I’ve found that it normally comes down to a compromise. Some clients are not willing to budge but we can always steer them in the right direction.
Yes, if they want to keep doing business in France.
I don't know about the user you mentioned, but the “why” is patently clear: Tricking and bullying users into being the milking cows of the surveillance economy.
This is true, but the big ones have the most money to actually pay the fines, and they have an exemplary role. The smaller websites will see this and think "Oh shit, our big examples did not get away with it, we need to fix our shit"

Keep in mind that a lot of websites and technology in general is basically copying from others. Google and Facebook are leaders in that area, and a lot of companies try to emulate them and follow their lead. Cargo cult? A bit.
Australia cancels Novak Djokovic's visa
Extremely easy. The bookkeeping for tax is less easy though.
i bet they have cool ones with big cracks on the screen
Yes and no; percentage wise it's a dent, but it's still a lot of money.

It's enough money that they will probably employ / deploy a small army of lawyers to get them to reduce or dismiss the fine, or stall it for as long as possible. 150 million buys you a lot of lawyers' time.
yes, all mild cough which resolved in a day or two
Retro PC? How about ASCII printouts (not on-screen as the 80 column 25 rows black-n-white (actually dark green and light green) screens weren't enough even with our high school freshman imagination) off USSR clone of IBM/360 in the 198x - couple meters long at something like 200 characters per row, and had to be viewed from a distance of like 3 meters to see the picture instead of just rows of ASCII ... Running and collecting the printout from the University datacenter so that the typical operator there - a young woman - wouldn't catch you was a Mission Impossible endeavor on itself.

For the original question - i think we humans had always been making it possible using whatever tech is available at the time, for example i think that is "nude pictures" too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurine
> So the privacy law that is regulating tracking and data transfer - especially when ambiguous to the user - is to blame and not the companies performing these shady practices?

Yes, the purpose of the law is to end the shady practice which doesn't seem to be happening and no one is caring about the outcome. Popup seems to be just like a second ToS which existed in web for years. If the law doesn't track its real world effect or doesn't do an analysis on the benefit to annoyance ratio, yes it's the law which is to be blamed.
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I'm using Cloudflare on and off.

But it depends what/who you trust. Say you're based in the US work for Google and want to whistle-blow about some nefarious defense/Pentagon contracts, then staying away from Google (or US based Tech firm) infra as much as possible would be sound advice.

Even if you're just a consumer you should be interested in degoogling your life including not just google DNS but their stupid web-fonts and google auth API's. Google is still going to get lot of your traffic no matter what you do but every data point you can remove is good - even if it adds zero to your bottom line at least you will maintain awareness of how you get milked every day.
I never noticed this in the demo
No, just the handset configuration. See thread from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29768382
Went to a new years party in California and a dozen of us got stuffy noses and a small cough. Test came back negative. Haven't had a cold in so long I had almost forgotten what they were.

Before getting the results I had assumed this was the mutation everyone would get as we leave the pandemic with a natural immunity to this weak strain.
This is a nonsense definition. You are describing an incorporated company as if it is the only kind. There are unincorporated companies, sole traders and partnerships turning over millions. No a company does not need employees.
Astro Slide 5G: upcoming smartphone with physical keyboard
the unpopular opinion, however well presented, gets heavily downvoted so there is no incentive for them to share their views - healthy discussions are rare.
The author states without very specific evidence that "proof of stake" demonstrably works, and thus quickly dismisses the energy costs of cryptocurrency. I'd personally be very interested to hear more about that, since there is a lot of hand waving around proof of stake. The cynic in me says that it would already be broadly used, if there weren't fundamental problems with it. It does, however, seem like a handy way to support the idea, in the long term, wasting real-world resources isn't an essential element of crypto, which is of course very attractive to people who stand to make short term gains from crypto.
Noodler's Ink is at https://noodlersink.com

Pentel is at https://www.pentel.co.uk
You send it from your wallet to the exchange where you bought it, sell it for fiat and withdraw it to your bank account. The most complicated parts are complying with KYC regulation and calculating taxes, as well as not losing or leaking your private keys.

If the asset has only low liquidity, then it is difficult to sell it at the sticker price and your sale may actually lower the price, but this will not happen for most people with high liquidity assets, such as BTC or ETH and so on.
The law doesn't stipulate that websites should have these cookie banners. It stipulates that users should only be tracked if they give consent. The banners are an invention from websites - get angry at them for tracking you, for annoying you into allowing them to track you instead.

And look at Apple; they pushed a change on the app store and their apps where privacy is now the default, and they do not bully and annoy you into accepting anyway.
4k/mnt for 2 Servers? That's a little bit to much, 200euro for two servers at hetzner is perfectly fine ;)
It's been years since I frequented a forum like that and the admin claiming that people should just ignore it and its not an issue because people have smartphones really drives home what I hate about them.
My personal experience is that it's okay for me as long as the desk is where you don't sleep and the bed is where you sleep. Low/no smartphone/laptop usage in bed also helps.
The same goes for someone caring about TCP vs UDP, or perhaps a more fundamentally competing standard back then which doesnt exist now. If the software developer is not working on that, they're not working on it. The backbone layer functioning still has to provide confidence to investors so the developer can sell their app.

Why is cryptocurrency software development different, to you, then the rest of tech?
my android phones are all going great, back to the google nexus one. maybe this is just a highly emotive and irrational topic?
I don’t really see the reason why one would want to do that on the ETH mainnet. If you just want to play the game it’s trivial to spin up a private network and play for free.
Slate roofs are a solid choice. Our 1875 house in Denmark still has the original roof with Port Madoc slates. It's in good condition, and the few slates that have broken can easily be replaced.

Slate has a higher upfront cost than other roofing materials, but it's a shame that so many houses are built with concrete roof tiles or fibercement roofing which only last 25-35 years before needing a complete replacement. In comparison, the typical life span for roofs with clay tiles are 75+ years and slate roofs 100+ years.
What's the difference between those two? What are the requirements for ePrivacy directive for sites?
Telling people to be witheringly ashamed isn't "throwing a tantrum". It's giving them their chance to repent before getting cut off. It's THEIR job to clean their house, not that of critics.

https://twitter.com/DigiEconomist/status/1477420461122375683

> Some statistics to start the year:

> During 2021 Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total, which is comparable to the electrical energy consumed by a country like Argentina.

> Related CO2 emissions were ~64 Mt; enough to negate the entire global net savings from deploying EVs.
Slinging double SHA256 til the heat death of the universe is my long term vision. POW as a bootstrap phase is ethereum pos wishful nonsense. Many see the long term future of PoW. Many believe it is the only way.
It's not that simple though. Even though I agree with you that it is not JUST about cookies, the legislation and guidelines do go into some cookie specific details such as when you can use session cookies vs. long lived cookies as an example.
I've seen this argument elsewhere and I don't get it. From my understanding the limitation on exponential growth, the flattening of the top part of the S-curve, comes from total population. There is no one left to infect, basically.

If the rising part of the S-curve is steep, that means people get infected within a shorter timespan and a corresponding higher load on hospital beds and healthcare personnel, which is what we are trying to avoid with the lockdowns.

What am I missing?

Also, calling exponential growth a 'conspiracy theory' seems unnecessary
Can you list the euphemisms? I found exactly one, if you could the “if you cannot” as one.
Approach every technology you encounter like a box. Look at the box, weigh the box, play with the box, figure out how it behaves when you interact with it.

And then, the most important step, open the box and look inside to understand how it works. Often you'll find a number of new boxes to explore.

In my experience, the people that do well in this industry are the people who aren't afraid to look inside the box.

Also remember that every box was crafted by fellow humans like you and me.
I can’t imagine anyone on HN not understanding this distinction; I can’t imagine any parliamentarian does understand it.

A website can not “set a cookie” in the browser. The website can include a cookie that the user (agent) optionally can include in future requests. The user does not “accept” or “reject” cookies, but rather chose to include them in future messages, or not.
The money raised from these fines should go towards building a browser that handles cookie permissions on the browser side.

Every site should get to ask for cookie permissions only once - through the browser - (like with notifications or location), and the browser should remember the user’s preferences and never ask again.
Or do away with them altogether; I wish that they tweaked the laws so that tracking or not is a browser setting, optionally enabled on a per-website basis but with no room for websites to bully you into it.

As we can see from Apple's changes recently, the vast majority of people do not agree to being tracked. The cookie banners bully people into allowing it anyway, because the opt-out is so convoluted.
Every company using TrustArc or similar stuff should be fined.
It's Taiwan. Still the lowest COVID rate and from early on. Still one of the last democracies that aren't corrupted.
I still read all the same feeds I had on Google Reader first on Digg Reader and now on Inoreader free version. Main way I consume news although I do look at Facebook for family stuff and twitter for very topical stuff and following folks like Elon Musk who mostly tweet.
Thanks a lot. As I'm not a native English speaker, I'm not confident in my writing.
The Dark Crystal is also a trope-laden, cheesy (though critically acclaimed) puppet-action fantasy movie from 1982, whose making involved Jim Henson (of The Muppet Show fame).

One horcrux-like trope central to the plot is that a missing shard from a crystal (the Crystal of Truth) must be found and reunited with the crystal to put the broken world back in order again.
All New Cars Sold in EU to Be Fitted with Data Recording 'Black Box'
Share apk. All will be revealed.
"In addition to the fines, the restricted committee ordered the companies to provide Internet users located in France with a means of refusing cookies as simple as the existing means of accepting them, in order to guarantee their freedom of consent, within three months. If they fail to do so, the companies will have to pay a penalty of 100,000 euros per day of delay."
Genuinely curious question: how do tell the sky hasn't fallen? American media is so polarized and dramatized that I imagine it's as disorienting on the inside as it feels from the outside.

For context, I believe covid has killed more Americans than anything else in your history (though I haven't been able to confirm that, most wartime figures are estimates).

That doesn't mean lock down and mask up but surely doing nothing is equally bad? Just seems like covid has become political theater and it gets minimized somewhat as a result
"I lost my sense of smell and got it back way after my quarantine ended, like months after. Plus there’s a mental fog that lifted a long time later."

I've had exactly the same, and still haven't got my taste or smell back 100% yet. It sucks, but I still can't imagine being so selfish as to expect millions to endure endless global restrictions over some minor personal inconvenience.
For most sites I find not accepting persistent cookies at all and using a blocker to hide the prompts is sufficient. This avoids tracking (at least via cookies) whether the site is compliant or not.

The nasty ones are the likes of Google's more recent interstitial, which you can't easily hide with a blocker even if you've chosen to disallow cookies through your browser settings anyway, and which also requires several clicks to turn everything off explicitly before continuing, and which then redirects to a link on a domain most ad blockers will intercept causing further hassle for the user to override.

I'd have some sympathy for sites being put in a difficult position if visitors have disabled cookies entirely because putting up some sort of prompt on every visit if they need one is probably then required to comply with the letter of the law. But there's really no need for the obnoxious many-clicks-to-clear-it things like Google is doing and I don't believe for a moment that they weren't fully aware of the implications when they made the change.
I always wonders where is the money going in this case ?

I'm sure some part will go toward keeping the CNIL properly staffed (which is great), but where is the rest going ?
> After years of experiencing cookie popup hell, I’d say that a better way forward would be allowing users to configure their browsers to automatically communicate cookie preferences and consent, but regulators would have to work with the tech industry to make that happen.

We tried that once before. Advertisers joined the board investigating making the "Do Not Track" header have legal weight, as an apparent sign of good faith, and then murdered it with endless bureaucracy that went nowhere.

We're trying to again with the Global Privacy Control headers [0], and I fully expect the same thing to happen again.

[0] https://globalprivacycontrol.github.io/gpc-spec/
I feel the same, but I am genuinely curious to hear from someone that genuinely feels the other way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVukpkWAp4Y

here is a link to the key signing ceremony if, like I was, you are interested.

Maybe it's the englisher in me, but I was hoping for more grandeur, perhaps some kind of ceremonial mace or at least a benediction.
Not particularly scientific, mind you, but often works:

1) heat the refill slightly (NO flames, NO heat gun, some friction rolling it in your hands or a hair drier or run some hot water on it) you want around 40° or maybe 50° C, not more

2) try writing on your shoes (rubber) sole or on one of those largish rubber bands or even on the side of your car wheel (the idea is that there is more friction on rubber and the ball will start rotating again)

Acetone and similar solvents risk to affect the plastics (if any) in case you want to try with a liquid (immerging just the tip in it for a few minutes), alcohol might do it.
The fines were issued to Facebook Ireland and Google Ireland, which are within the jurisdiction of the EU.

Typically if a company wishes to do business with EU residents they have to comply with the EU regulations. Many larger companies choose to incorporate somewhere in the EU to make this easier or in some cases they will even incorporate in each country that they do business in.
I'd like to add a bit of love for the timeless classic, the Bic Cristal. Reliable and consistent, and sufficiently cheap you can have them scattered all over home and office so there's one nearby when you need it. Apparently ~5 billion are sold each year.

Thinking about it now makes me a little sad that I've switched entirely onto an iPad instead of paper and pen.
That's the central bank narrative, whether its a good thing or not I think is still up for debate. Regardless, this can still be done with crypto (in fact, Ethereum is inflationary and not fixed cap like Bitcoin is), except that speculation and capital inflow still drastically outpace the inflation. Presumably one day an equilibrium will be reached.
> The type of articles I like the most are those when someone takes a ridiculous amount of time to explain something mundane.

May I humbly suggest this long-but-interesting 2008 New Yorker article about elevators, if you haven’t already read this seminal work in the genre?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-do...
Bitcoin adds a whole new country to an international power economy that already cannot provide enough green power. In some places (notably the US) fossil power is being brought back online to service it.

These assertions that it is clean are not based on anything more than wishful thinking.
Wow, really glad I ran this tool.

Looks like with some dead basic optimisations (free versions of WP Fastest Cache and Autoptimise), my Wordpress site can handle around 1500 requests per second on a $5 DigitalOcean VPS before it starts to slow down.

On the old site, running on a shared host with less optimisations it would crap out at less than 10!

Seems like I don't need to worry about this after all.
This one...

http://www.roysac.com/asciinudes/default.html#Joan

...is the all time classic. Every time I logged onto a new mainframe/DEC-VAX system, it'd be sitting in a folder somewhere.

I even had a personal copy printed out on several sheets of paper[1] that has now alas, been lost to time.

--

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_stationery
Didn't LinkedIn once (ten years ago) ask for your email login credentials when you signed up?

I know it suggested my ex-girlfriend as a connection when I opened my account, five years after we'd last talked.
This article is about the French Data Protection Act, not GDPR. They might be lex specialis, I don't know. I am just giving a benefit of the doubt that it is a more difficult problem than people make it out to be.

I skimmed this [paper](https://epub.wu.ac.at/7523/1/HCIS2020_A%20Human-centric%20Pe...) which, among its main topic, argues the issue being intentional and ubiquitous, but I am unconvinced.
Google Maps helps Italian police capture mafia fugitive
Michael Mina explains it this way:

> Rapid tests do work with omicron. "But why are some people staying negative in the first days they have symptoms??" This is expected. Symptoms don't = contagious virus This is literally a reflection of the fact that vaccines are doing their job!

https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/14720244576403947...

There's a nice diagram with additional information there, and further discussion on other possible factors contributing to the results we're seeing.
1. Doubtful, as Bitcoin alone uses more power than entire countries

2. Banks provide orders or magnitude more services than cryptocurrency ever will
Can you elaborate why this is laughable to you?

This might be a shocker, but even American companies have to obey the local law of the country they operate in. Big tech runs offices, has infrastructure and profits of a huge market in those countries. All of this is leverage a country can use to enforce their law.
The law is just fine. It is the lack of enforcement which has been the problem. I hope that this move from the French is the beginning of the end of these shady pop ups.
When Insurance Fraud Is Profitable for Society
I believe that was Frank Abagnale, Jr.
Fixing memory leaks in web applications (2020)
I've recently switched from Android to and iOS, and I feel like part of your frustration might with Apple's overzealous autocorrect. Even if I type a word 100% accurately as I intended Apple often seems to correct it to something else. Very frustrating, and I feel like Google's keyboard was much better at this.
Google has huge annual revenue from EU advertisers and significant assets within EU; the main EU subsidiary "Google Ireland" has something like 50 billion euros annual turnover - of course they have to pay this unless they want to withdraw completely.