skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Growing up, all my family used were small, cheap paring knives. As an adult I treated myself to a high quality set, and I try to keep them in good shape. It's taken a few years to fix my visiting in-laws' bad habits like running them through the dishwasher or cutting stuff on ceramic plates. At first they thought I was odd for calling them out on such things, but they're starting to come around and realize the quality of life improvement of being able to actually slice things. I'll bring my sharpening stone and oil when visiting them, and put an edge back on whatever random kitchen knives they have. I sharpened my sister-in-law's set and she almost chopped her fingers off cutting through a tomato because she was used to putting muscle into it. A month later she bought a whole new set of knives that have sharpeners built into the block. My mother-in-law now even brings her knives when she visits us just so I can sharpen them sooner!
And the joy of having to go through the list of “legitimate interest” that contains every tracker and advertisement platform, with no button to reject all
The idea that governments, regardless of their legitimacy or level of competence, can't be trusted to manage the money supply is anti-democratic. Because, after all, governments are also responsible for maintiaing law and order, which is even a more delicate issue since it involves the use of violence. So the government can be trusted to use violence responsibly, but it can't be trusted to manage the money supply? No, this is stupid. The implication is that governments can't be trusted and are essentially oppressive and evil. And democracy isn't a lesser evil, it's just evil. This is the basic tenet of anarcho-capitalism.
Yes, I agree. Flarum is definitely an interesting software.
I sense in myself a disconnect between my desire to read longform journalism and my willingness to actually spend the time to do it.

It's as if I have a guilty, deep-down feeling that the longform stuff is the really good, nourishing stuff, and anything else is basically fast food.

But perhaps this is just not true anymore. Maybe it never was. I always come back to the adage “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”

When I think of a garden-variety longform piece, it is often one or more narrative components bolted onto lots of historical and background material. There is some new stuff, some reporting, some original thought -- but always laced with flourish and narrative.

Occasionally this is fun to read, but more often I just don't have the time. There is a time and a place, but as a matter of course, it's not practical anymore. One must carefully choose which long pieces to devote time to, whether they be longform articles, books, or otherwise. There is just so, so, so much to read.

I wonder why authors of this kind of thing don't put more energy into providing TL;DR executive summaries. Is it because it obviates their job? Or is a summary somehow less than the real thing?
An area where GPT-3 might have some funny creative stories to contribute
many of todays popular chains that are not BTC and ETH are currently using PoS, especially those interacting with web dApps and smart contracts. See Tezos for a real world example that “currently works.” ETH (the devs and community) is also heavily committed to PoS—most of the value and rewards now locked in the $33B staking contract cannot even be withdrawn before a successful merge of PoS occurs (likely some time in the next several months, but let’s wait and see).

The idea that crypto is inherently wasteful is inaccurate. PoW is extremely energy intensive, especially without L2s, but it need not be the only consensus mechanism for the future of these protocols.
Don't miss lectures; do the assignments, even if most of the course grade is from exams; every percentage counts. Start on programming assignments early; there can be unpredictable debugging difficulties, which can turn into consecutive all nighters if you start a day or two before. Use reliable reference materials for languages and libraries. If you're a complete newbie, learn to use a programmer's editor. Try getting some simple programs working in the language you wil be using. Like, today; don't wait until three days before an assignment is due. Keep your work secure; if someone copies you and gets caught, you might both go down even though you're innocent. Keep track of what is on the midterm and final exam. If the textbook is expensive, borrow it from someone and take pictures; going without the text is risky: if your notes are poor, you may have nothing to cram from before the exam. Double check important dates and times; don't show up for an exam on a Wednesday only to find it already took place Tuesday. Find out what support there is for difficulties: availability of the professor or teaching assistants for asking questions and such.
Cryptocurrency crime in 2021 hits all-time high in value -Chainalysis
This gave me a much-needed laugh. Thanks for this! :-D
Would somebody maybe explain to me what an NFT is? I have good understanding of Bitcoin and Blockchain technology (not deep but sound). But I fail to see how an NFT could be applied to a video clip in a meaningful way. To me it sounds like an NFT is a signature signed with a key of the rightful owner for a digital object like a video clip and that signature is then integrated into a blockchain and associated there with that rightful owner in a verifiable way via that rightful owners public key. Is that it? I mean, I assume no b/c that whole process is meaningless as you may just change one bit in that video file and its no longer associated with that rightful owner - so I suppose I'm missing something here.
The rule originated from central planning.
The alleged "antagonist" refutes this article [1] as a lie.

I'm not saying it isn't true.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/DevangVDave
A cookie popup allowing you to easily either accept or deny (you do not need consent for truly essential cookies) is legal and the intended way to do it, so at least those first two are perfectly fine - not sure about the last one. It is not fine or legal to have a giant accept button and hide the option to refuse behind a dozen buttons like "More information" or requiring you to spend two minutes denying consent for each individual cookie provider.
Don't anthropomorphize your variables, they hate that. And it makes it awkward when you have to ruthlessly eliminate them.
French Data Protection Act has been around since 1978. And was amended in 2018.

GDPR (which is basically all such acts from across EU in one legislation) has been around since 2016.

If in 2021 your company pretends not to understand the law, your company deserves to be sued into oblivion
They explain the measurement approach in the article. The Zeeman effects occurs when spectral absorption lines 'split' due to the influence of magnetic fields. They measure this effect at radio wavelengths.
I use https://weloverss.com/ as my Google Reader alternative. TheOldReader is also nice. I prefer the first due to its ui not being bloated - only thing I miss is timestamps.
Making quantum computers even more powerful
OK. I am convinced. The entire cryptocurrency industry is a scam.

So rather than saying the same thing over and over on every HN thread about it being a 'scam', let's do something about it then? How do we ban it all to save the planet and stop the scams everywhere then?

Or are we going to complain on the next HN thread about cryptocurrencies and web3 once again?
Absolutely agree. I think an interface like the terminal can exist for normal users, if we make it more responsive and the errors more explanatory.
I think we're talking at cross purposes. I am specifically picking up on the mention of "identifying" cookies in the OP. As you've flagged, the Planet49 case said that doesn't matter (your post: "cookies containing personal data and cookies containing no personal data have to be handled the same"). I'm not commenting on the essential cookie aspect.
No, I read both positive and negative reviews when I can find them. I have not yet found negative reviews for budesenide (though some may exist). I did for fluv.

But I also found for remdesivir, which in the US and Israel is given like candy. My point being “hear about it everyday” is more related to politics and agenda than actual efficiency.
I added a text replacement of first letter of the name + @ + first letter of the domain.

This always works reliably most of the time. ;-)
E.O. Wilson saw the world in a new way
It might not be the cheapest solution, but that it wouldn't be a solution to climate changes doesn't sound right. It doesn't use much resources, the plants last 40-80 years and there is hardly any CO2eq/kWh.

You also need some form of storage or geographical interconnection for when renewables underperform. Which the sun does during the night and the wind does during certain, unpredictable intervals. You can build more than you need to increase the baseline, but this has an economic cost of course. It would also lower profitability when it does deliver.
The author never defines "nemesis". "Nemesis" was a goddess that punished hubris (extreme pride and arrogance). In British English, the traditional meaning of "a nemesis" was someone with a greater power that inflexibly punished the lower-rank person. A recent meaning has emerged, where "a nemesis" is simply a long term rival. In American English, the Oxford dictionary defines a nemesis as "a person or a thing that is very difficult to defeat".

Across the post, the word seems to variate significantly. In many cases (e.g. Nadal-Federer) it's pompous word for "rival" or "strong opponent". Overall, so many words for so little content.
Enjoy the social side too! (corona permitting).

Try to keep in mind subjects that seem utterly theoretical and possibly useless are usually in there for good reasons, and you might encounter them in your career more than you'd expect.

Take time to absorb the math-related concepts too, chances are it will come in handy if you become a programmer.

Purely biased based on my experience: do your internship(s) somewhere that pays you, like an investment bank or something.
Reminded me of Terry Pratchett' retroannual (?) crops, which would be ready for harvest a few years before planting, putting a lot of responsibility on the farmer not to forget to plant what he'd already eaten.
> I have plenty of money, could buy anything I want brand new within reason.

Most people can't and that's exactly why they buy second hand. Turning this into a decision driven by concerns about sustainability seems very optimistic to me. Your concerns are admirable but I wager most people have more immediate aspects to consider - like being able to afford these things at all.
One variable you miss is the price of your own time.

To pay USD $20 and unload a problem to some 3rd party service takes under 30min, while running a scalable, high performance web-server on low budget is hard and time consuming - even impossible for devs with no sufficient devops/admin skills, which is sadly a majority.

Back in the day, as a student with no money and a time to spare I used to do it all myself too, guerrilla style. Nowadays tinkering with my private servers would mean taking time from my real job, and that just doesn't make sense financially, my time is way more valuable and scarce now.

That's why we have the economy of specialists in the first place. One can do everything in DIY fashion, but in our civilization it's usually cheaper to hire a plumber's or carpenter's services than to invest in learning the skills, buying the tools and then doing it, if it's not your primary source of income. It's no different with CDN services.
That's what I'm always saying too. Crypto is used for two things: criminal activities and convincing others to buy into your crypto so your crypto portfolio increases in value. The second thing can also be considered a criminal activity because it is _literally_ a pyramid scheme. Not "almost" or "something like", but by definition it is a pyramid scheme.

The second thing is that crypto or "defi" enthusiasts go on raving about the decentralized structure. Anyone older than 25 should know that decentralization/centralization is a continuous cycle in which neither one is inherently better than the other. However, decentralization by itself is always used as an argument for crypto without further explanation. Red flag to me.

Why a red flag? First, crypto is not decentralized, contrary to popular belief. In the case of smart contracts as the author of the article points out, everything runs on the network (Ethereum for example). That is _extreme_ centralization. Everything has to happen within the boundaries of the network. Sure the execution is decentralized, but there is one and only one protocol that everyone should use. Imagine a world where every messaging app has to use the SMS protocol.

Second, centralization has enormous advantages, which is why we have so much centralization. Do you trust yourself to safely store the key to your life savings or artistic portfolio? I absolutely don't. I don't even trust myself to backup my holiday photos.

You could then argue that there are identity/access services for that, like Coinbase (or whatever equivalent in the future). But as soon as you use a service like that, you are basically creating the crypto equivalent of Facebook/Google/Twitter for single sign-on. To me we are then exactly right back where we started in 2005: building centralized services on top of a decentralized infrastructure. What have we gained? Nothing. Except that some VCs got to execute web 2.0 all over again and get rich from the gains, which they apparently missed out on in the previous cycle.

I have thought so much about this subject, and maybe I'm just too dumb or know to little about it, but honestly everything about crypto is repulsive to me.
Yes, the law is to be blamed. I don't care about intentions, I see the outcome and as long as the outcome is lose lose (as is the case with the cookie banners) then the law needs to be changed / updated / repealed / amended.
totally agree,

using the stuff is extremely useful to passing and getting a feeling on what is possible, even more useful in getting a job
And yet, these cookie banners appeared after the law was passed. We all know why. It's because of the law, and because the law forces companies to react a certain way in order to avoid legal trouble.
Assuming the story is real, why forgo sympathy for the other employees?
2 billion dollars just in respect of French users having to wait a few seconds and do a few clicks?
I agree with the sentiment of OP, I too was “tricked” into upgrading.

Although, I simply removed the new version and reinstalled 3. Then disabled the update popup in the settings:

“update_check”: false
Yeah, I agree with you, it clearly wouldn't work. To get an egg you have to wait, you only get feathers and meat when you kill them. /s
After covid I just accept we are living in hell. Everything about the systems we exist in is a joke. At the end of the day, just embrace the madness I guess.
The first two have two buttons of the same size, color and prominence at the bottom of the site allowing you to accept or refuse cookies. These are not cookie popups, and they don't promote one option over the other unlike what Facebook and Google were fined for here. So I'm not sure where you see a problem with these sites?
Is talking about death not inclusive? I would have thought it was about as inclusive as one could get seeing as it is a life experience that applies to literally everyone.
Scent and the Male Orchid Bee
So 50% of sites do this, but the only ones getting fines are foreign entities that politicians like to hate on for votes? That indicates to me that this is about revenue and politics, and not about the law. Call me cynical.
If they continue to refuse, the fines are unlikely to stop there.
In the absolute vast majority of cases those popup banners are illegal under the rather straightforward and unequivocal law.

If 5 years after GDPR went into effect you still don't know what it is and why it exists, your company deserves to be sued into oblivion.
Well no they don't because the NFT only has meaning in the game world which is still owned and operated by the game company. NFTs in their current incarnation merely move the receipt from a centralized private DB to a decentralized public one and make the entire thing much more expensive.
I have worked with someone who used female names for temp variables in the early 2000s. He also kinda saved us by substituting all icons with over the top cute looking ones the night before the demo, which was super efficient at distracting the audience from how disfunctional the application was.
How many DevOps do you need to manage your cloud? How much do they cost?
I think the same. RSS and Atom feeds couldn't be riddled with ads/trackers and dark patterns so they don't generate revenue/control for corporations. However, they are great for the users. Keep them alive people.
Part of the problem with folding furniture is that it's a hassle.

I wouldn't move into a house that only had room for a sofa bed, because I know myself well enough to know I'd end up leaving it in bed mode all the time. Fold up and store my duvet and pillow, and lift some heavy ass mechanism every morning? No thanks.

I can see the appeal of something fully automated, just like I can see the appeal of getting a motorised standing desk instead of a hand-cranked one.
I fully support him. He has the right to do whatever he wants when it comes to his own body. Go Novaks!
I think this is a result of app stores enforcing links to external digital products thing. That's why all these support pages which need to be linked from app, don't have a single link to main site.
As long as you don't connect the statistics you collect to individual user data, you should be fine. A server-side hit counter that just increments a row per page visit in the database doesn't need consent, as long as that row isn't directly connected to any user accounts.

If return counts are nothing more than "this user has visited the site before" and there is some benefit to the user (say, remembering their address or username) then I don't see why you'd need consent. This is in the legitimate interest of you and your user. This "legitimate interest" exception doesn't go as far as many of the nasty tracking companies pretend it does, though.

A history of purchases for an account is an obvious feature, but you need consent before you can use that data to generate a marketing strategy for example. So a cart history is perfectly fine, but training your recommendation algorithm in that needs consent.

You can use whatever you like to achieve the technical requirements for your site to operate from the user's perspective. Theoretically you could even use advanced device fingerprinting techniques without consent as long as the purpose isn't to gather data, but to serve an end goal.

As soon as you start aggregating data for your own benefit, you need explicit, optional consent from the user to use their data to your benefit.

Anonimised data can be used without consent, but good anonimisation is very very difficult to achieve. Data is considered PII if the data can be linked back to the individual user if you have a theoretical second database. Pseudonymisation, which is what most frameworks actually seem to do instead of anonimisation, is not enough to not need consent, because the data can easily be linked back to actual user data using a backup of your site database afterwards.

Tl;dr: as long as you use cookies and other features only to directly benefit the user, you need no consent. If the data you collect cannot possibly be connected to a user, you don't need consent. Based on my reading of the GDPR (not a lawyer but it was covered in an IT law class), that means 1: yes, 2: yes, 3: no, 4: possibly, 5: probably, 6: you've got the right idea.

You can find more details here: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
You can also try reading the GDPR text itself, it's quite readable as far as legal documents go in my opinion.
So what drives this conflict? As I understand the ousted government was nationalist yet it asked Russia for help?
This happens to me, but mainly because of aggressive privacy settings on my Browser and my addons (uMatrix etc).
I think virtual interviews are in general a horrible idea. I haven’t interviewed since virtual on sites were introduced.
> is real money

is it?
An advertorial puff piece that fails to mention that OpenSSH since 8.2 has had the ability to use FIDO U2F tokens as private keys.
Understanding Lego Part Numbers
In the early days of IT there was the concept that the best developers were strange, hard to get along with prima Donna’s.
I use fineliners too, Satedler and Stabilo are my favorites. The only “drawback” if when someone borrows them and pushes hard to the paper with them, destroying the tip :’(
Yep... but the only question here is, will those tracking cookies (and in turn, advertising to those people) earn them more than 60/150mio.

Otherwise, IMHO, the cookie prompts are a huge pain in the ass, and this should be dealt with client-side - eg., browsers silently accepting cookies, and wiping them on tab/window close, with a special button/toggle for that specific website, to save cookies for longer than that session (eg. if you want to log in or stay logged in). I know there are extensions that do this, but this should be the default in browsers everywhere.
should go towards building a browser that handles cookie permissions on the browser side.

Don't they all do that? Per-site cookie management in the browser has been around since IE6 if not earlier:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/share/image/cookies_ie6_002.jpg
Nah. It is going to be fine.
Should there be a plugin where you can just report offending websites for bad cookie consent practices?
By 2013 mining was already occurring in a entrepreneurial industrial mining fashion. Large pools. ASICS were introduced in 2012, and created a billion dollar hardware industry.

Before that, 2011, GPUs. It was not a risk free operation.
All had ongoing energy cost to produce. You said “$1” to make most coins. It is much much higher than this.

If you are talking 2010, sure, the sub 100 or so folks that were actually mining and are actually on this board might think they did extremely well for themselves. Some have died with their coins since. Some have had tragic lottery winning misadventure. Of the ones I know, they absolutely deserve it and make the world better because of it.

Either way, it’s not like most of the early coins have not changed hands many many times. There are early coins, but the vast majority are not in circulation. It’s not nearly as bad as it seems. Significantly better. And most early holders sold years and years and years ago. Most of the circulating coin today is young. The exchanges have about 1.3M trading today.

Bitcoin has redistributed wealth. Especially the early coins, where it was the real hardcore math and crypto nerds that were rewarded. Don’t imagine that the early folks are those NFT and shitcoins shilling charlatans. This is a true cypherpunk revolution.
Call for social media. Don't be a censorship tool
That sounds like a lot of fun to write! Do you still have the code for that?
This country is so large...
ePrivacy predates GDPR and applies specific (and stricter) rules to a few things, including against intrusion to internet-connected devices (the ePrivacy Directive's so-called cookie rule also affects malware, telemetry, software updates, etc).

It's long overdue an update but its intended replacement, the ePrivacy Regulation, is taking a while to be agreed by EU legislators. In the meantime we're stuck with out of date legislation that's applied and enforced without the benefit of the GDPR's "one stop shop" enforcement coordination rules - neither of these things is ideal!