skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been seeing this a lot recently as my father died before Christmas. I think it's also down to people trying to be sensitive too - back when he was in the hospital I had many calls from doctors and nurses and there was a wide range of words and phrases used to talk about how long he had left, the possibility of death etc. It's the same too now that I'm dealing with closing down all of his accounts.
We exclusively speak in Pluralis Majestatis of ourselves.

It sells way better.
The Danish browser extension "Consent-O-Matic" already handles most tracking dialogs, including Trust Arc.

But automating thus wasn't intended by the GDPR.
It specifically requires a reject all button and specifically bans an accept all button. Rejection has to always be easiest and the default, accepting has to be hard and slow.
> In this scenario you would basically have to have 25 round trips to bring the site from 5 seconds to 1 second

You’re forgetting that the TCP protocol itself is bidirectional. High latency connections will have lower throughout, especially at the beginning of transmission, because the data isn’t literally just streaming in one direction.
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That's great news, thanks for the info and contribution, weiznich!
I’ve read this note about Kazakhstan and BTC a couple of times now but I havnt seen any documentation for the claim. For a crypto novice, what would be a method for validating this claim?

BTC and other crypto seem to gravitate toward less expensive energy sources, yet require a substantial capital investment. Is crypto an emerging method for dictators to expropriate wealth? Are there going to be “blood bits” similar to “blood diamonds” or other commodities tainted by their provenance?
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I have better things to do than spend my time watching useless things.
> Bitcoin has redistributed wealth.

Amongst whom? Do you have some studies showing the distribution relative to normal fiat?
Which is shocking as the point of the movie is starkly presented. I’d rather think it’s some form of denial
Maybe need mem_sleep_default=deep in the boot parameters in the grub config - this was needed on my XPS to stop battery drain during suspend.
Hi everyone, author here! I will be glad to answer any questions. :)
That's the delay set by the French DPO (Cnil). At that date, most French websites finally introduced an option to directly refuse (often a simple link saying "Continue without accepting").
That Guardian article is part of a series called "The Long Read" which seems apropos: https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-long-read

(I subscribe to the Guardian, so I don't know if there's a paywall in front of those articles, my apologies if there is)
I can't find the source right now, but I recall reading somewhere that aside from being a clever marketing gimmick, Nintendo's official seal wasn't just a response to all the "rubbish" games on Atari (which is what then-Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi explicitly stated), but also the high number of them that were sex-themed.
It's actually a pretty small prefix in the IPv6 world. The recommendation for an IPv6 network is to be at least a /64, because features like SLAAC, which mostly replaces DHCP, need a /64 prefix to work properly. If you have multiple networks, it's standard to use a separate /64 prefix per network. My ISP for instance gives every home user a /56 prefix, some ISPs even give out /48 prefixes.
There is a very large crypto currency project, holding 9.3 billion dollars, that believes that variable names should be mostly meaningless, and furthermore that all nouns should be three letters long, and all verbs four. Here's the start of the method "frob()", from the file "vat":

Urn memory urn = urns[i][u];
Ilk memory ilk = ilks[i];
// ilk has been initialised
require(ilk.rate != 0, "Vat/ilk-not-init");

urn.ink = add(urn.ink, dink);
urn.art = add(urn.art, dart);
ilk.Art = add(ilk.Art, dart);

int dtab = mul(ilk.rate, dart);
uint tab = mul(ilk.rate, urn.art);
Your attitude is why we can't have nice things. The solutions is to close the loopholes, not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
There are multiple factors involved. The extremely high rate of spread of Omicron does a lot to bring it to the top. More subtle is the difference between immunity generated by each. That is, it appears that vaccinations and post infection immunity from Delta are little help against Omicron infections, but post Omicron immunity is highly effective against Delta. This appears to be related primarily to differences in the spike protein.
That's the real innovation behind cryptocurrency. There is no single founder, and so there is no one to put behind bars when the whole thing collapses. But still the formula of paying old investors with new investors money remains. It's quite brilliant really
I kind of sympathize the engineer who had to code this in the first place years ago. I could see it, it was probably a junior person being thrown into it. He would have had to deal with non-standard components, incompatible packages and limited memory, and had a manager breathing down his neck because the manufacturing line was starting up.. He's probably looking up at the clock and thinking that it had enough bits for the foreseeable future.
Sounds generally plausible to me. I learned all sorts of obscure tricks to make MATLAB run faster in my grad school days... I wouldn't be surprised if something like this was useful over there as well.
> Agreed. The way the EU has handled this is naive at best.

The EU could have started fining everybody and unleash hell at unseen levels. They would have ended up bankrupting companies and people who added google analytics or AdWords to their site in good faith, without understanding the privacy implications.

So the regulators initially notified companies and gave them time to implement whatever change they were required to. To this day, if they aren’t satisfied with the changes, they contact the company again, they don’t just issue fines. This happened to a company I used to work for, that initially just added a cookie banner, then was asked to make the “deny all” and “accept all” buttons of equal size and with equal accessibility.
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Like Popcorn time but uncensorable
No, I just try to be objective here. From Cambridge dictionary. Steal:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/steal

"to take something without the permission or knowledge of the owner and keep it"

As far as I know, they do not have my permission to get my wealth.

From RAE, in Spanish, robar:

"Quitar o tomar para sí con violencia o con fuerza lo ajeno." -> To extract or remove for oneself with violence or force other people's property (ajeno in this context refers to property in spanish)

So yes, it is an objective definition of what stealing is, because you pay under the threat of jail, not by mutual agreement, as you do when you purchase something.

https://dle.rae.es/robar

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>>> But over the next six months MRR doubled and I didn’t put in more than an hour or two of work every month.

>>> My life goal quickly became: how can I spend as much time as possible with my family?

Wasn't Mugshot just like passive income at that point ?
what level of awareness do you think the "majority of people" have about the implications of online tracking, of detailed behavioral profiling, of biased algorithmic influences on all online information experience etc.

somehow this particular industry can get away with standards and regulations that for any other industry would be the wildest dream of deregulatory heist

the "innovation" shtick has worn thin, its time to clean up the mess
We name all devices on our home network after fictional computers.

MU-TH-UR 6000, HAL 9000, Multivac, Deep Thought, Earth, etc
That's generally how things work. Sci-fi and stuff influences the thoughts of others to help make the ideas turn into creations. I think they even made a documentary about all the Star Trek props that became a reality, but I don't remember.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/world/gallery/science-fiction...
There are bots that scan GitHub for credentials and private keys.

Sorry that happened to you, I hope it wasn't a lot of money.

Considered adding files like that to .gitignore in the future.
In the 80's at Boston University, some CS labs had their own small computer networks, plus various devices like tape readers, film scanners and such. The naming convention was aquatic life. Mainframes were named after species of whales. Called minicomputers then, we call them servers now, were named after species of shark. The Thinking Machine at MIT was aliased to be a killer whale. And the various output devices like printers were named after common edible fish, while the input devices like film scanners were named after edible sea plants. We had one special minicomputer that had special hardware (of the day) that did dot products in hardware, the CPU had a dot product op code (it was a Celerity), and that was named 'dolphin' - the only system with a general name rather than a specific species.
I still think/visualize aquatic life when I envision a network.
There’s research on this. Check Florence Italian study rich bla bla bla on google . But to answer: gold, land, art
BMW has made a color-changing car... yes, really
I find this to be missing the point.

No one is arguing against all form of verification of trust, hell even fully open public domain content would benefit from simple verification, what people are (rightfully) angry over is the fact that:
A: It's not open for anyone to audit/modify
B: It's a forced dictation upon the customer, not the bad guy.

In essence in the name of "trust" don't trust the customer, even though customers would gladly see individual implementations such as anti-cheat be implemented.
There's a really interesting video blogger called "bald and bankrupt" on YouTube who visits all sorts of weird and wonderful locations in Russia and former Soviet Union States:

https://www.youtube.com/c/baldandbankrupt/featured

Doesn't look like he's been to Kazakhstan yet though...
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It's almost like intelligence work and active military operations aren't the same thing...
> Y10K

I appreciate the optimism regarding the long-term survival of the human race.
Think DNS over TLS/TCP.
I hope to God that Intel’s new Core i9 processor crushes Apple’s M1 Max
Even 2 out of 3 configuration options for their consent manager immediately turn it into an illegal setup.

GDPR isn't complicated, it only sounds complicated if you want to find a loophole without breaking the law. If you just comply, it's super easy and simple to follow.
When he mentions the lack of cables, he's pretty close with most of them being underground. But also he's incredible close if you consider the mess of cables that was the Stockholm telephone tower, functioning until 1913 https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/09/the-stockholm-telephon...
I do this near constantly. How is it that the software is not smart enough to recognize that typo and fix it? Heybthere seems like a trivial problem.
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But they shouldn't have access to private repos, right?
Ah, like the hibernate/suspend and swap file issue for mobile computers?
There are places were randoms, but related, names make sense, but not as random variables. Naming machine comes to mind: you may want to group machines on a same LAN with names from one constellation, then machines on another LAN with names from another constellation. Or have a little network cluster which is "neptune" and name your few machines after Neptune's moons. Stuff like that.

One of the craziest "naming frenzy" though was revealed during the Enron scandal, where they had created countless shell companies to hide their crimes. They'd name the companies using names from the Star Wars universe: "Chewco investment" after Chewbacca, etc. Hundreds of them.
Before clicking on this link I was thinking "oh yeah, I know of one such example near where I used to live in Bath". And then I clicked the link... and now I'm terrified of you.
I have noticed the same behavior, looks like someone somewhere has subscribe to these left/neutral channels and they get a notification as soon as the video pops up and start disliking and commenting unrelated right wing stuff. Most users also have default auto-generated thumbnails.
> The internet and computing is certainly a big shift, but from a visible changes to the world perspective I think 2022 is more alike 1922 than 1922 was alike 1822.

Lolwat? Handheld devices that have the power to process millions of calculations a sec, to record Ultra HD videos, to establish a video conference instantaniously with anyone in the whole world.

Thousands of satellites that orbit the earth constantly. Space missions that are already flying past the limits of our galaxy.

Bio-mechanical organs, giving the crippled back the ability to walk, the blind the ability to see, the deaf to hear.

Welp, I do think that technological progress has been growing at a logarithmic rate, and it's probably keep growing at that pace...

I think the one point in which the author was super correct is, when he says that the progress will be made on technology, rather than the "emotion that arises between a man and a maid" - as I understand it, emotional intelligence - , which will remain stagnant.
> Every illness is unique, which means that all recoveries must also be in some sense unique. There is no one-size-fits-all to getting better

When I had my cardiac arrest due to Ventricular Fibrillation, I was very glad that the bystanders immediately applied a generic off-the-shelf solution (CPR and a public defibrillator) and in doing so kept me alive without brain damage due to lack of oxygen. Rather than treating me as a unique individual who needed a tailored solution.
> I went to school with a young kazak person (...) Their parents had direct contact to the state and they were unaccountably rich went to an insanely expensive private school and owned various apartments all across Europe.

I don't understand what point you tried to make. Do you believe someone needs deep state contacts and government approval to purchase private property in a European country?
> but rather hospitalizations

The hospitals are all on bypass where they're calling in the national guard.
Yes, it's that damn CIA who forced Nazarbayev to appoint his son as the head of the national gas company and then forced said son to raise the gas prices. Damn you, CIA! (shakes fist at sky)
Speaking from a personal perspective, eccentric to me means you are very odd but you try hard to contain it among people.
Brilliant investigation but the article has too much of technical jargon for average non-technical user to understand.
The company is nagging you to accept being spied upon. You don't have to consent for "essential" cookies.
My main blocker is how the heck do you get one online after you've built it? I suppose I should at least build a qwerty pda first.
Same here in Indonesia.

If not their first name, then their title "younger brother/sister" (adik), "older brother sister" (kakak). Interestingly, when the second child is born, the "adik" becomes the "kakak", which you would think would be confusing but the switch happens pretty naturally.
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It's spam, and I can't believe it got upvoted as much as it did.

Any junior sysadmin should consider this "yeah, duh" levels of advice.
What do you mean leave your job?

If I tell my boss that doing xyz is illegal and he doesn't dispute it, I'm absolutely certain he would not ask me to implement it.

Certainly there will be shittier bosses that will ask anyway, demand it, and perhaps even go so far as to fire someone for not violating the law, but I should hope those in the last category are few and far between and there would be internal and/or external outcry over it. Even if you have a boss that wants to fire you over it and nobody cares internally or externally (I'd find this situation very unlikely), you'd still get unemployment benefits / severance / whatever is typical in your jurisdiction, since you were fired rather than choosing to leave yourself.
..and the article mentions it, besides there are other points raised in the article as well.
Normally not. But this particular author is not just “right”, but far-right. This context is highly relevant when critiquing it’s context.
This looks similar to troops without any signs on their uniforms in Kiev, Ukraine a few years back... So now we can guess which country is using "no-name" troops...
Unix_prog_design.pdf [Program design in the Unix environment]
Azerbaijani laundromat
Then you withdraw a couple of hours later?
Even in SE states, even when the positivity rate was below 5% (which was roughly 2 months at a time) we didn't get back to regular tech meetups.
Do any of those even come close to 1822-1922 changes of aviation, global telecommumications, ubiquitous electricity, cars, Quantum Mechanics, and so on? Space exploration, nuclear propulsion and satellites are great, but their impact on people’s daily lives is far smaller than the above, imo.

I think the author was largely correct.
I have a vague memory that IE or maybe Netscape asked you for permission for each site with cookies way back?
Absolutely agree. People are downvoting you, because they have problems contemplating that people from poor(er) countries have the ability to think for themselves.
This come up a lot in writing fiction as even simple stories may require dozens of names. The push and pull between wanting to fit in and wanting to stand out is very strong and can be used to establish the identity and origins of a character. And it is often useful for contrast as characters with conservative origins and names may rebel and seek out their own path and even rename themselves while characters with radical origins and names often head out on a radical path on their own. Readers tend to infer a lot from names right from the start.
The whole inclusion also includes providing safe space, which I noticed means to basically act like there is only good things. So if you mention death in a different context it could trigger someone who recently lost someone, for example.

Personally, I am not a fan of this, but this is how I understand this.
I live and die by my IRC Client, Textual [0]. It may seem like a simple thing, but I've tried all the clients on both Windows and Linux and haven't found a suitable replacement.

[0]: https://github.com/Codeux-Software/Textual
As far as I'm aware, unless your software is Hello World simple, the only way to make sure it's correct is to not write it in the first place.

After that point, everything is a compromise.
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(Disclaimer I'm not an expert)

Afaik the different data protection agencies cooperate, meaning they can join in, and compliance means compliance in the whole union.

See: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-60-gdpr/

Point 10: "...the controller or processor shall take the necessary measures to ensure compliance with the decision as regards processing activities in the context of all its establishments in the Union".

But I'm not a lawyer so I might be understanding that wrongly.
> opponents just have to solve the problems we've created...

Cryptocurrency being in use means people perceive the cost of using them being less than the benefit from using them.

If the problem is the carbon emitted for power generation, then tax the carbon emissions (which already happens in lots of jurisdictions).

About Bitcoin being a Ponzi scheme, if this is true, then so are the current stock and bond market at absurd valuations (1.75% interest while inflation is 6.8%), where investors play musical chairs until the Fed and commercial banks stop printing money.
I am so happy about this, because those companies are not respecting the local laws! Now others will also switch to "symetric options" because of fear...
We may have met :-) It was actually hard to find a good example on street view today - the whole centre is washed now and Cheap/Westgate aren't black for over a decade.
So the problem is our naming scheme is insecure so we ask untrustworthy 3rd-party entities to vet our certificates. The CA mafia isn't gonna give up their hard-earned monopoly easily (remember CACert?), and most client companies are happy to have for-profit CAs for insurance/policy compliance. Something like DNSSEC+DANE[0] is more reasonable but unfortunately unsupported by most programs.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6698
this feels like something that could be a handy little plugin or bookmarklet!
A multiplexer is an interesting layer to approach this.
Here's a good take on it:

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-news-latest-nhs-backlog-is-...

> Professor Andrew Hayward, of University College London, earlier told Sky News that it is unlikely there will be a variant more severe than Omicron.

He said: "This one will be hard to outcompete... given how successful it is."

Professor Hayward added that for a "variant to stick", it needs to have "some advantage over the existing variant and that advantage needs to be really in terms of increased transmissibility or escape from immunity".

He said: "There's no advantage to the virus itself becoming more severe."
>The source did not provide The Wire direct access to the Tek Fog app. They claimed that this was due to the presence of various security restrictions – including the requirement of three one-time passwords (OTPs) to login to the app dashboard and the use of a local firewall that prevents access outside of the facility.

I don't think that's possible.
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> at worst, it can break production systems.

I assume you don't mean these production systems are depending on reliable access to code in a third-party Github repo because that's fairly easily remedied by at least forking the repo once that repo becomes a dependency (not to mention potentially very dangerous in case of malicious changes), but I'm curious what the scenario you're referring to here is.
Only if the traffic is evenly distributed during the day. Which it's almost certainly not.
> We consume 2GB/S, maxed out, which ends up being 5184TB a month. We have millions on users a day, all on a streaming video platform.

> It cost less than $2K/Month.

The solution in this article is serving on the order of 100TB/month for $400/month including a high speed global CDN, their API and database servers being hosted reliably, and redundancy and backup being handled by someone else.

Your solution is hosting on the order of 1000s of TBs of month (ignoring the database and other aspects of this website), but the price is an order of magnitude higher. You’ve also given up all of the automatic redundancy and hands-off management, and you don’t have the benefit of a high speed global CDN.

But more importantly, you have significantly higher engineering and on-call overhead, which you’re valuing at $0.

If anything, that only makes Polyhaven’s solution sound more impressive.

> Of course, for this price, you don't have redundancy and horizontal scaling.

Which is a huge caveat. The global CDN makes a big difference in how the site loads in global locations. Maybe not a big concern if you’re serving of static files with a lot of buffering, but they have a dynamic website and a global audience and they said fast load times are important.

> You also don't have to maintain and debug a system with redundancy and horizontal scaling.

But you have to do literally everything else manually and maintain it yourself, which is far from free.

All of these alternative proposals that value engineering time at $0/hour and assume your engineers are happy to be on-call 24/7 to maintain these servers are missing the point. You pay for turnkey solutions so you don’t have to deal with as much. Engineers don’t actually love to respond to on call events. If you can offload many of your problems to a cloud provider and free up your engineers for a nominal cost, do it.