skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not a fan of endless global restrictions either.

If we don’t like to live with global restrictions at someone else’s say so, why should we expect teachers to go out to teach at our say so? As a group, they have chosen to stay home and that should be that.

It’s not war where the price for not wanting to face the enemy is a cowardice charge and a court martial. These teachers don’t want to teach in-person. End of story.
The current name didn't prevent this to finish in the front page ahaha
> It's a shame there aren't more big fines for shitty sites, like stackoverflow.com, that punish people who don't accept all cookies by prompting on every visit.

Agreed. The way the EU has handled this is naive at best.

> These large sites know exactly what they're doing. They're hoping people will become fed up enough to just accept, or they're hoping there'll be enough accidents where people click "Accept all". It's rather shitty.

Yes, and there need to be new regulations to prevent them from doing this. Something like:

(1) all web browsers should have a setting allowing users to accept or reject advertising/tracking cookies.

(2) this must default to not accepting them.

(3) in headers of http GET/POST requests, if the user allows advertising/tracking cookies, it should indicate this; if the user doesn't allow such cookies, it should be silent.

(4) all websites would be forbidden from using advertising/tracking cookies unless explicitly permitted

(5) all websites and web browsers would be banned from nagging the user or giving them a worse user experience for not allowing advertising/tracking cookies

(6) The spirit of these regulations is that users need do nothing and they will automatically have a tracking-free experience; any work-around by companies attempting to find a loophole in this is a violation of the regulations.

(7) Violation of any of the above would result in heavy fines; and if infractions continue, further crippling fines would be levied.
A conspiracy theory lol. When they talk about exponential growth, they are talking about an R0 > 1. Yes, after some point it drops under 1 and flattens out because there are fewer and fewer people to infect.
Ahahaha that would be brilliant :D
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29811834 "Interview with Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua on the Future of Autonomous Driving"
I just clicked through their estimation tool,

Cloud Bed, Sofa Edition (King) → $16,750
Shipping → $340
Installation → $2,213
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\*Monthly financing available

Place a $100 reservation to secure your place in line. Once we've
received your reservation our Space Design team will reach out to
schedule your home visit.

That's an awful lot for a bed.

That said, I once paid a lot for one of these [1], so I guess I shouldn't knock it. I do prefer that this one doesn't have any moving parts, though it's only suitable for tall ceilings.

[1] https://adultbunkbeds.com/loft-beds
Yeah it was so famous, no one who watches Fox News noticed she was outside the whole time.
Disagree. Waste is subjective, and ultimately not for you to decide. If the miners do not find it wasteful, who are you, the non-economic participant to say it is?

Green and crypto are quite different things, supply and demand — green is about production, the only important part. How we generate energy in a clean and sustainable way.

Crypto is about consumption, and you have no business telling others how they should spend energy. You can however incentivize the consumers to do it cleanly. You can be green and also pro-energy usage.

Being green doesn’t mean being a bully and telling people what they can and can’t do.
> After toggling experimental features on, then off again, it now works.

Still the most sure-fire way of fixing anything computerized.
I wish they would deliver a real upgradeable Linux experience. It's almost the pocket machine that I want.

The original Gemini is still stuck at Debian 9 Stretch and totally dependent on an Android container to work with all the binary blobs for the MediaTek chipset. OpenGL ES works so it's serviceable but stuck in the past. Kali has abandoned it: https://www.kali.org/docs/arm/gemini-pda/

Cosmo's Linux seems less-abandoned (updated 8 months) ago but I'm not sure it's any better. Does anyone have any experience with it?
Gave my kids (around 10yo) mint condition refurb iPhone7’s at ~180 usd. Battery is like new and there isn’t a scratch.
The same can be applied to your comment of "Crypto doesn't really solve a problem that needed solving". That's not an axiom, thats a subjective opinion, saying its not useful because it's not useful. Plenty of people will, and have, argued otherwise.
Not including extra human cost in the analysis is just disingenuous. I think to manage private servers of that size you would need at least two extra experts totalling at least $20k/month.
Wow, just googled it, looks fantastic.
I have implemented things that are illegal. I objected against it in meetings, and it was one of the reasons I left that company. What exactly are you supposed to do as a developer? In general, I think all these trickster managers are just making things harder for everybody. It often feels like their decisions are based on a mindset rather than something that they can back up with real data.
https://nocookielaw.com/
Agreed. I feel sorry for Sten, not the company or the other employees.

That said, even as shortly back in the 90s, mental illness was still ridiculed and something to be ashamed of, at least we've made progress in that area these days.
The issues seems to be with an old model, people talk about 2007, 2010 models etc. If they have USB ports, they'll probably be charge only, or only connected to the audio system / infotainment for iPod playback (latter might be an update path if its an infotainment system only issue). You can probably only do control unit updates over CAN (or custom methods), so unless you're a particular type of car enthusiast only a garage will have the tools.

Plus the general digital archaeology needed to get a decade old project / branch and get it and the developer tools back into a state where you can compile and test it. Probably hard to get a fix in a few days if its only just been found. That's if a non-safety critical issue on a 10+ year old car that will fix itself in 8 months is considered worthy of fixing.

In more general I suspect car companies are a bit reluctant for self-service updates like that because of the potential to brick something. If the clock problem is just tied to an infotainment display, losing that would just annoy the customer until it got to a dealer. If it for example disabled the instrument cluster, then that's a safety issue and might make the car illegal to drive (depending on local laws). If its at a dealer, a failed update can be fixed directly by the technician (replace part, or use alternative programming method etc.).

Although newer cars (particularly Tesla) are perhaps seem a bit more happy to do things like OTA updates. You really hope they don't take a "build fast and break things" approach to development. And have good self-recovery systems.
The daily wtf has been significantly fictional for decades
RSS-Proxy can watch sites without RSS and inform on changes. Well worth self hosting it alongside FreshRSS. There are also solutions for watching Twitter, Facebook et el too. In todays technology there is no reason to just visit a website to check for updates and I find most sites I use do have RSS anyway.
Agreed. The way the EU has handled this is naive at best.

How so? The law is explicit that it should be just as easy to refuse the cookies as it is to accept them. Companies are ignoring the letter of the law anyway.
https://3quarksdaily.com/
It's BOTH.

You can't run a plastic industry without high density energy - fossil is the best for that short of nuclear. Simple matter of Carnot. No way to fake it or break it.

Feedstocks also ONLY can come from oil. Not even coal works as well. You must have carbon in the supply chain.

Sadly a lot of Soviet-style propaganda and erasure of "inconvenient" information is absolutely happening with every .gov site these days.
Webshites [sic] that include multiple pop-ups, privacy violations, and other nastiness that get in the way of me reading the text on the page ought to go bankrupt.

They provide a public dis-service and the world is better off without them.

Yes, there needs to me a new business model for monetising content.
If we wanted to reduce to the absurd, everything is impermanent. There's bit rot, atoms will decay, everything will fade (or perhaps another big-bang).

IMHO, regarding your point on ownership, is what kind of ownership do people want or expect with NFTs.

When I buy a book, a CD, a game or an Amazon movie, I buy it with the expectation to enjoy it for a period of time, I'm not really concerned[0] about lifetime permanence.

If I buy a work of art for millions, I'm probably more worried about permanence, maintenance, security and beign able to pass it down to someone.

NFTs seem to neither here or there in this subject.

[0] What I mean is, I _hope_ the Amazon movie will be available for many years, but I accept the potential loss as not really terrible.
Learning the material well and getting good grades are not necessarily correlated. If an assignment has grading rubrics, satisfy them literally and you'll get a good grade. As for really learning the material, it's often challenging to do within the timeline allowed for a course, especially with other courses competing for your attention. Just try to do well and get through the semester/quarter, then afterward when you have more free time, pick the subjects that speak to you and go through the material again, this time with the objective of internalizing the knowledge. Feel free to supplement your school material with material from other sources. Remember that what you're learning in school will only scratch the surface of CS; the real learning, if you choose to pursue it, will happen afterward.

Best of luck!
> If they are, EU institutions should be taking action against ... themselves.

Yes. Yes, they should. No idea why you think that some EU institutions doing something incorrectly absolves everyone else.
But chromium is opensource. Even if google stop devoting to chrome, we can develop it. In fact, I think Mozilla should turn to chromium too like Microsoft, just be aware of keeping the licence open.
Online loan calculator has an interface where you are required to enter various details such as amount, interest rate, loan term and type of installment such as monthly, fortnightly or weekly. The loan calculator calculates the installments you need to pay and the total annual income which is suitable for repaying the loan amount.
Emerging Data Raise Questions About Antigen Tests and Nasal Swabs
This was added in Python 3.7 and it's always enabled since Python 3.10.
The Acorn Archimedes [1] in 1987 was a 32bit 8Mhz machine. It had "just about" enough power to decode a jpeg "in software" when the format came out ('93 according to the article). I can remember the few jpegs that were around took a few seconds to render "line by line".

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes
I agree in general, but doing something like adding the project to https://www.codeshelter.co/ so someone else can pick it up if you're no longer interested in it doesn't seem like such a huge hassle, no?

I definitely agree that we shouldn't demand things from maintainers, though.

Full disclosure, I made Code Shelter.
> making the "Do Not Track" header have legal weight

And then DNT was used to fingerprint users :(
Serving ads doesn't require cookies
This is madness. We are doomed to climate disaster without central planning.
I have the exact opposite experience. I often hit the b key instead of space making the keyboard autocorrect into one super long word.
They sure can make JIRA tickets, though. :)
> ...mass timber...

Not sure if this is a regional / language difference, but I've more commonly seen it called "engineered wood" [0]. Which apparently now also includes transparent(?!) wood composite [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_wood

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_wood_composite
> Mozilla can't figure out what your transaction cost is, because it is variable.

Yes, I agree with this, but for someone who is using cryptocurrencies the first time, it might not be, and the answer they currently have to that question doesn't say what you said, it says something different.
Agreed. We need to fix the web's default business model to something that does not require people to be tracked all the time.
Looks interesting but how do you change the styling - the jaggy cyan text really hurts my poor old eyes...
Maybe in some countries. I only knew about the phone use for WAP.
I can see that, it's pretty much the standard progression for flat edge pen work.

Felt tips -> Pilot Parallels -> Flat metal nibs with specific inks.
RSS feeds have become my one and only way to consume the web and subscribe to people, websites and various things on the web.

Tiny Tiny RSS[0] is an addictive RSS reader with tons of options to sort, manipulate, filter in/out, etc. RSS entries. Feed Preview[1] is a must-have Firefox add-on for finding available feeds on websites (and previewing them).

All alternative front-ends to YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc. provide feeds to subscribe to people like Invidious[2], nitter[3], Bibliogram[4], etc. (large list of alternative front-ends here [5]).

Fortunately, Github and Reddit, still natively support RSS feeds.

As others have mentioned, WordPress-based websites natively include RSS feeds for the whole website, by category, for comments of a particular post, etc. This is much better than crappy newsletters.

Regarding newsletters, when it's the only option, I use Mailnesia[6] to turn an inbox into an RSS feed.

Speaking of bridges, RSS-Bridge[7] makes feeds available to hundreds of websites through community plugins.

Feed43 [8] is also a great tool to force an ordinary page to be available as an RSS feed.

SearX [9], a metasearch engine, turns into a very powerful tool to watch for something on the whole web with advanced search functions and results available as RSS feeds. This is better than many dedicated tools, imo.

Anyway, I don't think RSS feeds are missing or even dying. But they are definitely a relic of the good old days, when Aaron Swartz was around, and unfortunately reserved for people who are looking for them or are curious enough to dive into that world.

One thing is for sure though: if they disappear, I'm out.

[0] https://tt-rss.org

[1] https://code.guido-berhoerster.org/addons/firefox-addons/fee...

[2] https://invidious.io

[3] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

[4] https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/

[5] https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends

[6] https://mailnesia.com

[7] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

[8] https://feed43.com

[9] https://searx.space
I always accept all cookies, and it has caused exactly zero problems for me. I have no idea why everyone is getting so excited about them. The only annoying thing is having to click accept all the time.

Seriously, the people downvoting this should try it. It frees up your mind to think about things that actually matter.
Scaleway will rent you one for $2.40/day https://www.scaleway.com/en/hello-m1/
But if you can't be bothered to read a RFC, 40ish pages of GDPR will be too much for you. You've got code to write, reading and learning is for schmucks.
If you haven't already, get a head start on learning the programming language for the course (C++, Java, Python).

One of my regrets about my time at university, was that I focused only on the course and the exams, and didn't build and tinker with my own stuff much. I think it's good to try to build some small websites or apps on your own.

Have fun!
Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track ?
Steam already has an inventory service, trusted by millions of players to store billions of items. There is already machinery for users to authorise applications to see their inventory. If a game developer wanted to allow use of another game's inventory in their own game, they could already do this.
> a better way forward would be allowing users to configure their browsers to automatically communicate cookie preferences and consent

Yes. I should only have to say once (or better still not at all) that I don't want to be tracked, and then it would automatically apply to everything.

> regulators would have to work with the tech industry to make that happen

"work with the tech industry" sounds a bit too much like the regulators think they get what they want, but the tech industry really get what they want.

Regulators need to be able to impose a solution on an unwilling tech industry, who'll never agree to it unless forced.

> And meanwhile companies will keep inventing workarounds like FLoC to track users without cookies.

Any such workarounds need to be explicitly make illegal.
Total plug here, but please don't wait until you die to allow others to maintain the projects you've lost interest in. I'd encourage you to take five seconds and add them to the Code Shelter (https://www.codeshelter.co/).
Thank you for the link to [0] - I've never heard about nor thought about such a contraption but it looks so freaking cool. Don't have the space for ATM but it's on the To-Get list.
Actually, you may wish to have an "extended" experience on some websites and not on others: all cookies are not either technically essentials or pure ad-junk tracking!!!

So it's sensible to allow a per-website configuration. Arguably, it would be better that this is included in the browser (like DoNotTrack was) with a configurable default (refuse all/always ask/accept all... and "always ask" ticked out of the box) and a widget showing if the website is in accept all/refuse all and allowing to change it... a bit like the uBlock extension
Perhaps laughable wasn't the proper word. It's just that there is nothing anyone can do against Google or Facebook at this point.
> then murdered it with endless bureaucracy that went nowhere.

That's why a solution needs to be imposed on the industry. They won't agree to anything in good faith.
Physicists watch as ultracold atoms form a crystal of quantum tornadoes
Official docs for that feature:

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__...
In your view, what's the long term solution between environmental efficiency vs attack resistance? The two seem mutually-exclusive in PoW.
What?! Maybe if you hire SV-skilled engineers on location in Sillicon Valley, but you can easily serve 2GB/second (on infra worth $2K/month) with one sys-admin dealing with it, and for way less than a whopping $10k/month.
So that the richest people don't have unlimited money. Compounding returns yield unlimited money for those at the top. The real economy does not experience compound growth like the economy of numbers does.

Those at the top of the pyramid have unlimited money due to compounding returns facilitated by infinite money printing. So long as the real economy treats those unrealistic numbers as if they represent real economic value, everyone else is enslaved to those at the top.
> Apparently P2P game updates ended up being disabled though. Probably a good thing too - imagine the absolute carnage on ISPs if places like netflix decided to outsource their CDN to everyone's home internet.

Given how asymmetric many home connections are, and were more so further back, and that using the whole upstream will effectively throttle downstream & there is no reliable way to detect at what throughput you will become a problem, I never saw P2P game updates as a good idea in general. Excellent for those behind the same bottleneck though - two PCs in the same student digs updating the same huge game for instance, saving a second slow download using the orders-of-magnitude faster local LAN - but I don't think that is a common enough use case to be worth the implementation effort.
coe.int is not the EU.
Fluent Python 2nd edition was just released in December, but I can unfortunately not find it anywhere
You can use www.deadmansswitch.net to send people your credentials (make sure you encrypt them first).

EDIT: I made this.
“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
They sure can but no business requirement - no JIRA ticket.
Medieval skeletons tell story of social inequality in Cambridge
I never accept those, because I highly suspect they're legally binding.

The amount of those popups elements I have hidden using ublock with right click, it's staggering.

Some websites introduce a vertical-scroll: hidden; rule on <body> that I often need to remove manually, or to introduce a CSS rule in ublock.

Reader view often help a lot, but some websites, like yahoo, make it so that reader view won't work (it will display the consent thing in reader view).

Some websites in france went another route: they ask users to accept cookies or to pay instead. It's crazy. It really shows data really, really matters to them.

Other gimmick, I had big troubles using the mozilla matrix server because of cookies, since I've set up firefox to delete all cookies at shutdown, except those in a whitelist.
There's multiple delays, arguably for a good reason. First, the law has to be ratified by each member state, which will also mean another delay state-side until legally enforceable. Institutions usually have a warm-up period too until they start enforcing new laws, preferring warnings beforehand.

It might seem inefficient but generally this is the only sane way to roll out changes across a society. Having people coordinate and "change habits" (as deplorable as the present habits may be) is best done gently. Providing ample time and warning for people to find a good course forwards.
So a DDoS attack is like a horde of skeletons?
Does it work to just "accept all" every time, and then rely on ad blockers to actually keep the cookies out?
They didn’t mention a fleet size but 2GB/s is a single commodity server.

You don’t even need a single employee to manage a single server…
The solution is not to rely on fining site owners, the solution is to support user agents that act in the interests of the user. Regulation will never keep up with the infinite ways sites can be shitty, browsers (and extensions) are much better placed to do this.
Some feedback on the actual implementation:

- I cannot reach inside if and while statements using tree mode

- It is not clear which lines are available for refactorings

- dragging a line reveals "+ If" and "+ else if" under an if statement. Dropping the line onto it does not work.

- tree based moving does not move the viewport

About the business side of it:

I think it will be hard to create a whole editor just for these features. I know that Jetbrains editors also have ast aware refactorings and I often use moveBySymbol in sublime text which acts a lot like your tree navigation. I think it makes more sense to create this as a plugin, but it will be difficult to monetize that.

Anyway I applaud you for creating something that actually works!
As a technical demonstration, this little project is really interesting. There's only one aspect I'd like to poke at a bit:

"Mobile gaming is more interesting than PC/web clients to me. If nothing it means developers can use push notifications and make games a much more mindless/regular part of players' day vs. depending on users to actively seek out their game on their computers."

This is one of the dark patterns that are actively eating away at our attention spans, and should be avoided. Develop ethically, please.
Strip tetris was also a thing. But AFAIR when you won it would tell you "Shame on you" :)