skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, I was told my predecessor used his girlfriend’s name for temp variables.
By forcing every website to implement the same functionality for cookie prompts.

They are legally enforcing the reinventing of the wheel.

It could have been done at browser level, which would have been a relatively negligible cost of compliance.
Friend of a friend knew someone. The person in question went on Apprentice in the UK, and spoke like this (Felipe for those unfortunate souls like me who watch it).

My friend confirmed that Felipe speaks like this.

The funny thing is, apparently until the Apprentice, and this being pointed out, he didn’t even realise (???), and then found it impossible to keep up.
Didn't you just exactly "go to safety"?
> Well, for starters, many medicines are just extraction of a plant or a synthesis of it. And they surely work, to.

Sure. And they are also completely different thing then was achievable from those herbs in times we talk about.

Yes, in fact, modern medicine works better then 200 years ago.
Now you're getting to the spirit of the legislation.
How do you wanna ban it? Break my fingers so I can’t run some open source software? Break my hardware so It can’t Hash, cut my power? Arrest me for doing math?

The battle is between the libertarians and the authoritarians. The authoritarians want to ban things they don’t understand. They want to bully others with their choice of how they use energy. They want the state boot stomping on the face of humanity forever.

Banning is always an act of violence. Don’t give in to violence.
I somehow missed this. That is disappointing.

There may be reasons to doubt the constitutional legitimacy of that law were it not constrained to emergency situations.
> I think that stackless coroutines are probably a necessary evil in system languages as full stack switching might have too much overhead.

I think it's worth noting that the big operating system kernels - perhaps the ultimate target of "system languages" - tend to use stackful coroutines rather than stackless.

Stack switching tends to be similar speed overhead than stackless, despite surface appearances in how the code may appear. Stackless tends to do more memory allocation and freeing, though.
This is one of those articles I think about constantly. Especially when I get on the elevator. I wish we had more articles like this.
I had a very similar experience when I deployed a microservice on k8s cluster. I wish there was vendoring, better testing frameworks, database drivers (not ODBC), proper async framework, precompilation for faster startup. Serverless workloads for pretty much impossible in Julia.
Browsers already do this. These cookie laws are just plain stupid.
GitHub – willkg/kent: Fake Sentry server for local development, debugging, and
> It’s fairly easy to pass a driving test.

That's quite a country-specific statement. Here in Norway[1] there's a non-trivial 17 hour mandatory course required, including at least 13 hours of driving with a licensed instructor, as well as a theory test and a final 1-hour driving test.

They've extended the mandatory parts quite a bit in recent times as part of Vision Zero[2].

[1]: https://www.vegvesen.no/en/driving-licences/driver-training/...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero
Bananas, like almost all fruits (excepting grapes) have enough fiber to render the sugar mostly harmless.

The label will say something like "Serving size: 31g ... Sugar: 3g". Bread is at the low end.
Mina's tweets are all over the place, and mostly speculation. It's also strange that he's arguing that the vaccines are working in one breath, and then basically telling people to retest daily if possible and go into isolation the minute they think they're going to sneeze in another breath.

The cold is a minor annoyance to most people's immune system, as almost everyone has prior exposure to cold-causing viruses, but colds still manage to spread. We don't test obsessively or quarantine for "the cold."

If "Symptoms don't = contagious virus", how in the world is the virus spreading at such a blistering pace? Is Mina suggesting that literally everyone is getting this thing, including in highly vaccinated populations, by magic? Occam's razor, combined with basic knowledge about how respiratory viruses work, tells us that people who have symptoms are very likely contagious. They might also be contagious before noticeable symptoms arise, and as they subside.

As for viral loads, with Delta, research found that vaccinated individuals were capable of having viral loads as high as unvaccinated individuals[1]. Until there's data about the viral loads with Omicron, it seems dubious for Mina to suggest that the reports of rapid tests failing to pick up omicron infections are related to low viral loads.

Instead, Mina's 5th tweet is worth paying attention to:

https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/14723880511462645...

There is a lot of chatter about how people are getting positive rapid tests when they swab their throats instead of their nasal passages. It's anecdotal at this point, but if we're going to engage in speculation, this seems a much more valid form of inquiry.

The vaccines are very effective at reducing the risk of hospitalization and death, and Omicron seems more mild to begin with. It is very effective at spreading in vaccinated populations, which isn't surprising given that the decreasing size of the SARS-CoV-2 naive population means that the virus is now under pressure to select for immune escape. It's strange to me that a "Epidemiologist, Immunologist, Physician" would tweet as if he didn't know this.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2074
In the 1980s I was handed a piece of code to maintain; one of the coding conventions they had followed was that all variable names began with the letter "O" followed by three numeric digits. This was FORTRAN 66 code, so no excuses except the code was originally written by the system administrator's girlfriend who was a brilliant engineer.
> I think to manage private servers of that size you would need at least two extra experts totalling at least $20k/month.

What? You set up the deployment once, and then you only need to touch it when things go horribly wrong, which is every couple of months, or to make minor quick tweaks and run some updates. Let's be generous, and say you need 10 h/month, which is about 1/16 of a person-month. And if things go horribly wrong, everybody drops what they are doing to fix things, anyway, no matter if you're on AWS, dedicated/colo or run your own data center.

When you significantly change your architecture/deployment, then you need to put in more time again, but if you build your code with need to scale and such things in mind from the get-go, then that won't come up much or at all.
Are you sure there are at-home antigen tests which are universally accepted for international travel? I have been on a number of international flights during this period, and having read the entry requirements for a few different countries, this would be the first I have heard of this.
I don't really see a problem with this, as long as it is only used after an incident and only available to law enforcement. Of course it's a slippery slope, first this, then something else, but that's a different story. If you want to drive a 2+ ton vehicle that can easily kill or seriously injure innocent people, then you should be responsible for your actions and dangerous driving should be taken seriously.

In many EU countries there is already so much CCTV that the authorities know exactly where you are driving and how fast (average over a distance) you are driving, so this doesn't really change anything there.
This is why Ivy League resumes are "Red Flag hires" for us. It's like attending a university that NO ONE has heard of. That bad!
I believe that’s also against the letter of the regulation.
Just a few months ago it looked different, there were articles like this

https://globalcomment.com/is-russia-losing-or-tightening-its...

about US looking into getting an airbase and Tokayev trying to play it both sides. That probably won't happen anymore
It’s useless to get angry at websites. The real issue is the law.
These are already commonplace in the US. They're called Event Data Recorders. While they're technically optional, I'm not sure there's been a car sold in the last decade without one. If you get in a wreck it will record data about the cars speed, seatbelts, etc from the last moments before the crash. Otherwise, it's a ring buffer that isn't retained.

ETA: More information about the EU here: https://unece.org/media/transport/Vehicle-Regulations/press/...
The problem with running Pi-hole on the Pi 1 (original) is that it does not have enough physical memory after installing pi-hole stack (I used Nginx + php-fpm for the web UI), otherwise there is way to use utils like `vmtouch` to read the sqlite database file and keep it in page cache, even "lock" it.

On Pi 2 and 3 it's no longer an issue (even if you don't do anything about it) to a memory buff and better I/O (using faster micro SD).

Pi-hole provides a mechanism to backup and rotate the database from time to time, one can do that whatever way suits their use cases.
The place I recently stayed at in Umbria, Italy for New Year helpfully tolled bells 1-to-4 times each 15 minutes to describe whereabouts in the hour we were. All night long.
They’re rather more melodious and smooth-toned, and typically quieter at the point they’re heard. Not harsh and jarring like those awful beeping watches.

I once imagined a nightmare: a classroom full of children who all had watches that beeped on the hour, not synchronised, with slightly varied pitches and patterns.
2 websites out of thousands don’t have these popups. Great browsing experience.
Nope. I know somebody who mostly refers to herself in the 3rd person and has a ton of other quirks.

If anything, people with underlying oddities might develop several quirks on top of them. Or they realise that one can get away with strange behaviour and don’t even try to suppress ever new and interesting patterns.
The intent of the laws is to force businesses to make better decisions about how they monetise and how they manage user data. Most businesses have reacted by refusing to make these decisions in favour of users, instead choosing to make the experience of using their sites unpleasant to generate a backlash against the law. Like you're doing.

You could say that the law is failing because it opened the loopholes allowing businesses to choose to behave badly, externalising the decision making to users. If that's your opinion, can you be a bit more specific, so we can dig into that issue and explore solutions and objections?
> It’s fairly easy to pass a driving test.

Not in EU.
Amen that!
Exactly. And it's also frankly absurd we've been accustomed to the idea of ad networks autonomously publishing content on websites. The idea that a serious magazine would have printed an ad that no-one had seen before would have been bizarre. Today however you see this "get rich fast" and "miracle weight loss" ads on otherwise reputable news sites.
I didn't see a mention of remote access, but if one is to assume that's possible then that's a huge vector for a major terrorism attack. Disable every vehicle with a black box from driving. Near term effect is preventing those vehicles from operating, long term effect is the distrust in those systems and vehicle manufacturers it'll bring.
this is pretty cool to see how he predicted some things pretty good
the IT Crowd captures it pretty well, for a British comedy series
Yeah I am not sure these tests are good for anything these days except for personal responsibility.
I would distribute a web app as a website, not as an Electron app.
Yes, you're quite right; I'm talking about GDPR, but other data protection laws may apply and may be stricter.

Also, these are general guidelines and may not be compliant to 100%. But the clients I deal with do not usually need to worry about absolute compliance, otherwise they'd be hiring teams of actual lawyers, not me.
I just finished writing a long proposal: https://github.com/WICG/proposals/issues/43

PKI is fairly awful and bad for internal anything, unless you have a full IT team and infrastructure.

A much simpler solution would be URLs with embedded public keys, with an optional discover and pair mechanism.

Browsers already have managed profiles. Just set them up with a trusted set of "paired" servers and labels, push the configs with ansible(It's just like an old school hosts file!), and don't let them pair with anything new.

If you have a small company of people you trust(probably a bad plan!), or are a home user, just use discovery. No more downloading an app to set up a smart device.

The protocol as I sketched it out(and actually prototyped a version of) provides some extra layers of security, you can't connect unless you already know the URL, or discovery is on and you see it on the same LAN.

We could finally stop talking to our routers and printers via plaintext on the LAN and encrypt everywhere.

We already use exactly this kind of scheme to secure our keyboards and mice, with discovery in open air not even requiring being on the same LAN.

We type our sensitive info into Google docs shared with an "anyone with this URL" feature.

It seems we already trust opaque random URLs and pairing quite a bit. So why not trust them more than the terrible plaintext LAN services we use now?
Common trope in certain walks of life. The primadonna idea itself is from performing arts (ballet?), and there are loads of stories about musicians requiring special attention. Sports as well, lots of stories about stars with odd routines or demanding behaviour.

The thing that links them is you have someone who ostensibly creates so much value everyone else is supposed to live with their demands.

It can be minor things. We had a trader in an firm I worked for who made the company hire a car to take him to work each morning. Certainly not a strange thing but it wasn't exactly something the couldn't pay for himself, nor a benefit that everyone enjoyed.
You can already manage cookies on the browser side.
I understand the potential security issues. But the only affect this would have had on you is you would have had to contact your bank to reissue the card and chargeback any fraudulent transaction.

Consider a similar hack on a site that accepted Bitcoin instead of credit cards. The fraudulent JS replaces the payment address with the hacker's address and you send your coin to it. There's no getting your money back now.

I know which outcome I would prefer. However based on your username there is probably some bias in your argument.
I’m relieved this (eventually) happened. Every day those consent forms remain up is like a giant F. U. from Google at GDPR. It’s not like they didn’t realise they were completely non-compliant.
And I am not saying you have to pay $20 every time. It's there to handle the traffic while you identify and fix the problem.

It's your choice if you don't want redundancy in place if any incidents happened.
> I've never met anyone that speaks about themselves exclusively in third person in any walk of life.

My 2.5 year old daughter does this. I suspect she'll grow out of it at some point before she gets a job, though.
Situations like needing signed pre-approval of all your customers in a data controller position or giving the possibility to refuse when you act as a sub processor and need to update your own subprocessors.
Browser developers explicitly stated the DNT would not work due to it being purely a method to fingerprint users.

That was exactly what they were used for.
Ditto here. A friend's girlfriend uses her first name instead of "I" in every instance. She's even got the friend to start doing it for her too. eg firstname instead of "you"

No major concerns about it though, it doesn't negatively affect things.
I think that a good society should probably prioritize data/cookie rights over webdev nightmares.
Well, it is already nightmare. I would gladly welcome some standardization on cookie banners and tracking.
I traveled many post-Soviet countries in the past years with my old camping car. My personal impressions in Kazakhstan were frightening. A deeply corrupt state, much worse than Russia.

Aggressive armed bandits in police uniform tried to rob me several times. Kazakhstan is true mafia state where every part of the regime tries to enrich itself at the expanse of the people.

In contrast to the rich oil elite there are the normal people who often not even have tap water in the villages. And who live often in constant fear of being robbed by the armed forces.

But why is such a dysfunctional dictatorship so stable? Why did it last for three decades?
The situation is very similar to Azerbaijan. I believe the answer is: it is backed by the West because a stable dictator in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan guarantees the oil flow.
A copy of a zero hedge article with little to no sources, in the homepage? Ok
The original source of this heap of trash disguised as article is summit.news. I think that should be enough.
The law is failing because it created a worst situation. This has been going on for what seems like a decade. Nobody won from this. This is a bad law QED.
Whataboutism anyone? You should've received your updated propaganda field guide by now, currently it is no longer advised to so blatantly point somewhere else.
> I never accept those, because I highly suspect they're legally binding.

Thanks for articulating a feeling I hadn't managed to put a label on yet.
From machining parts to working with motors and pneumatics to microcontroller code to high-level code to machine learning algorithms in the cloud. My dream job :)
I’ve been looking for something like this for a while thanks!

However, what I was ideally looking for was tours of houses/apartments which are heavily optimised interior decoration-wise, but also massive. Sort of like the intersection of the $XX million dollar apartment tours that exist, but instead focused more on the interior design. I enjoy the novelty in watching really expensive houses, but they always feel sparse and terribly designed (interior-wise). Maybe nice to look at, but not practical at all.
The only good pen for me is a pressurized pen, either rite in the rain, fischer, or similar.

No other pen stands up to being left unused as long as I leave them in between actually needing a pen, and still is ready for action instantly.
The requirement gets into effect in 2022, but the regulation 2019/2144 which introduced it is from 2019: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/2144/oj

It also mandates some further systems that all improve vehicle safety.
Are you hiring? What infrastructure engineer are you paying $10,000/month for just to manage 4 servers? LOL
Interesting blog! Bank transfers using the same bank are free here. Even the most used payment method used here in the Netherlands is pretty cheap (Ideal). But the question is if this can be scaled to a global scale. A lot of parties have to come to an agreement for that to happen.

It can also come in the form of something like paypal. Paypal could reduce their rates to almost zero. If everybody then uses paypal we achieved our goal. But for that to happen paypal needs to become a monopoly, and once it is it has no incentive for low prices.

Note: I meant privacy as in private for consumers. With bitcoin everybody can see all transactions. I (and most people) don't really care that the government can see your transactions for tax and anti-fraud purposes.
Show HN: Manage Kubernetes Admission Webhook's Certificates with Cert-Manager
The company that built this (as per the article) is Persistent Systems, a public company with close ties to the Indian Government.

Their shareholders absolutely deserve an explanation.
You can be tracked without cookies (or localstorage) trivially, it is commonplace.

You'd have to block requests to third parties. This is hard because it breaks most websites - all those that rely on cdns. You can wade through this with a script blocker like ublock origin and a whitelist but you don't really know what's happening unless you investigate each domain and script.

Even then you'd still be exposed to fingerprint tracking served through the original domain passing on to a third party at the back end.

Tracking isn't fixable with technological solutions alone.
I’m picturing Richmond from The IT Crowd and it really makes me wonder what happened to Sten.

Sten has been through the dotcom bust. And 2008. And the crypto mess. And a pandemic.

Sten’s blog would be mesmerizing.
Speed limiters and black boxes installed in new cars from 2022 and police can access data

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1142525/EU-speed-l...
I have a dedicated office space, with my desk set so I can look outside to a nice view of the countryside. I use an adjustable desk so I can sit/stand. I have an office chair made by a mattress company which sounds weird until you sit on it, then it is the best chair ever. I use a 45" TV as a 4K monitor. Both my work laptop and personal PC are hooked into the TV, with a shared USVB hub, so I just swap the TV source and usb connection to switch computers. That hub includes a headset and webcam, so I can take calls from either system.

For me, it isn't anything about the setup that specifically makes WFH work. It is about making it your own. My advice has always been to look around at what everyone does, and then feel free to accept/reject all the advice because WFH is about finding what works for you, not matching what works for someone else.
The reason in explanations is clear, it's how people naturally think about it "You have 1 B, then 3 Ws...". People don't say aloud "You have B times 1, then W times 3".
> it doesn't. there's no law against cookies, there's a law against tracking. you can perfectly well store the cookie banner consent choice in a cookie...they think that's what GDPR prescribes. it's not, it's a lie.

This is just wrong.

The Cookie Law (ePrivacy Directive of 2002 and 2009) is distinct from the GDPR. It really is a law against unconsented cookies: not just "tracking" ones but also anything that stores the user's preference: anything not "strictly necessary for the delivery of a service requested by the user".

That said, websites could certainly do a bit better here and give users a clear option of "I request a service delivered without the use of cookies, apart from the one necessary to remember this request".

[0]https://gdpr.eu/cookies/?cn-reloaded=1

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
There are three feeds referenced from that page:

- Forum activity (https://www.wilcosky.com/atom)

- Forum's new discussions (https://www.wilcosky.com/atom/discussions)

- This discussion (https://www.wilcosky.com/atom/d/20-i-miss-rss)

Of course these days browsers don't indicate that browsers are available. You will need an extension to detect feeds. (Or paste the site in your feed reader and hope it does, most readers will do the auto-discovery for you)
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I am surprised no such widely-publicized attack happened yet on CPUs. The Intel Management Engine and AMD Platform Security Processor allow remote access.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/the-management-engine-an-...
I hold an EU driving license.

Anyway, my point isn’t that it’s trivial, rather that it’s easy to pass for someone determined to do it. The expectation is that almost every able-bodies adult, and many disabled, should be able to do it with some work. And that’s all you need to get your hands in an SUV or an old-but-powerful Audi.

A bit like with guns in parts of the US, any crazy person with time and money can get one.

So policing this mess is key.