skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd also encourage you load your fonts late via JS

can't tell if joke, so:

there are already enough sites that display content for a split second and then some script runs (or fails?) and there is either nothing on screen or an error message.

this is ridiculous - please stop!
> having an “Accept all” button but requiring another click to have the option of refusing, then making us manually select each category to turn off, then confirming, is certainly not symmetric

That, and if there is a “reject all” button it is often only equivalent to flicking all the base check-boxes off, leaving their mirror “legitimate interest” options enabled. In fact, the “legitimate interest” checks irritate on their own: they basically say to me “we see your preference, but fuck you we still wanna”.
It's over half of Google's estimated annual revenue in France. Not sure how you did that calculation, but if someone confiscated half your income it would not be much like a 62 cent fine.
This is already a solved problem everywhere in the world except for places that overly rely on credit cards. Has nothing to do with crypto or credit cards by itself.
Their collective security treaty is… interesting. I wonder how Russian people would react if situation was opposite and Kazakh paratroopers landed in Kazan, for example. Calling civil unrest “foreign terrorism” is not new in history for sure, but not in the age of internet. What to say, no “end of history” in sight
Same in Spanish with “pluma” for the writing tool and the bird-thing.
Also, if the person exclusively talks on the 3rd person and does weird demands that would have been a non-hire or quickly dismissed as soon as they would start making eccentric requests

The 90s were weird I guess?
6. No, you are not really looking at this issue the right way.

While it has been nicknamed the "Cookie Law", the ePrivacy Directive is about trackers that contains PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and the reason some cookie exist.

On a high-level, the spirit of the law is:

- if the cookie is essential to the site, consent is not needed

- if the cookie doesn't contain PII / isn't used for tracking, it is not impacted by the law, and thus consent is not needed

Now several examples you detailed could be done server-side, without any tracking cookie, or with a cookie if the user is logged (which implies accepting the website conditions and could be deemed essential). In those cases, no consent is needed.
If on the other hand you use a tracking cookie, like a Google Analytics tracking cookie, yes consent is needed.
I don't think she cares about the messages being green or any status implications that are attached to this color. However from what I understand iMessage groups basically break when there's a non-iOS device involved and suddenly everything reverts back to SMS/MMS, which sounds awful.

In other countries we use cross platform messengers like Whatsapp to avoid that. Of course that brings a whole other problem set with it but that's a different discussion.
Focus on "right-wing propaganda" is important enough to be included in headline, but never mentioned again. Suggests to me that this article is scaremongering. Do you really think any organized group isn't using social media automation at this point, be that left or right?
The slightly female-obsessive nature described in the piece would suggest the character does not have "many girlfriends".
> Actually it does seem feasible to make an encoding that's backwards compatible with all printable ASCII characters, and uses 3 bytes for all other code points.

Sorry, you can’t squeeze Unicode in that way, even unsynchronised: you fall just over 2½ bits short. No, reserving the 95 printable ASCII characters scuttles your hopes, meaning you get less than 1½ bits of that byte to use for the rest of Unicode, when you needed a touch over 4 bits.

To represent all the rest: Unicode scalar values minus printable ASCII is U+0000–U+10FFFF minus U+D800–U+DFFF minus U+0020–U+007E: 1,111,969 possibilities, log₂(1111969) ≈ 20.085 bits of entropy. (Removing the 2048 surrogates and 95 printable ASCII characters barely made a dent, under 0.003 bits, but I had to remove it for informational correctness.)

95 printable ASCII characters, log₂(95) ≈ 6.57 bits. Subtract that reservation from the three bytes available and you’ve got about 17.43 bits left for the rest of Unicode, but you needed over 20.

[Edit: I observe you’ve removed what I was quoting before I posted my comment. Still fun mathematics.]

> If you discarded ASCII compatibility, you could create a 1-3 byte self-synchronizing unicode encoding.

Not quite. If you discarded ASCII compatibility, then you’d have almost four bits to spare, which is enough for a self-synchronising fixed-width 3-byte encoding (reserving the first bit of each byte to signal if it’s a start byte) or for an unsynchronised variable-width encoding of some kind; but to make it even 2-or-3 or 1-or-3 (rather than 1–3) bytes wide variable-width, you’d need four bits (3 + log₂ 2) for self-synchronisation, and you’re about 0.085 bits short. (1–3 bytes variable-width would require 3 + log₂ 3 ≈ 4.58 bits.)

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I just got nerd-sniped, didn’t I?
reason: offer users of your website the option of per packet encrypted DNS

CurveDNS is also not difficult to set up, so if you run your own authoritative DNS for your website, you can provide optional per packet encrypted DNS. There are very few websites that offer this option.^1 If every website provided this option, users would have a better alternative than DoT or DoH.^2 Neither DoT, DoH nor DNSSEC provide per packet encryption and they focus on DNS caches run by third parties, not authoritative servers.

1. One example is https://ianix.com

2. Users could query the authoritative servers directly using stub resolvers and/or recursive resolvers that support dnscurve protocol, such as dq and dqcache, respectively.
No. Taxes are the proof that there are mafias and people that are not civilized enough and want to spoil the rest.

A civilized person would try to contribute to the society without promoting violence to steal other people efforts.
As non-technological or academic advice.. maintain a healthy "study/life" balance. Keep enough time to socialize and make connections. Do fun things.

Having good social skills and some nerve can put you head & shoulders above other people in an interview. Once in a team, being able to communicate effectively makes projects much easier. Many times when engineers complain about lack of clarity, what they really mean is they were not able to communicate with the other person.
Why isn't there a browser setting that passes a standard header to declare what types of cookies you consent to? You set it up _once_ for your browser and you're done.
> With this, I don't understand the reason at all. It seems to be the same issue

> One of the forum users says a firmware update DVD goes for $150, that's just insane.

There's your answer, although some additional context: this date issue has been a repeated problem for Honda and other Japanese auto companies. They likely know, and are using it to force people to come in for service.

It's also worth noting that a large portion of Japan's economy is propped up by the auto industry, thanks to rules making it very difficult and expensive to keep a car beyond a couple years. Japan exports used cars like crazy.

Toyota in particular has almost Umbrella Corp levels of tentacles into Japanese society because they are supplied by thousands of smaller suppliers around the country. Hence their kids books explaining how hybrids are great and electric vehicles are evil...and those books actually making it in front of kids.
That may or may not be the case, but I worked with someone back in the early 00’s who named all their variables things to do with the planet or sky, actually including both of those words too. Everything was $sky, $cloud, $mist, $hill, $rainbow etc.

The code was at times almost poetic, but a nightmare to debug.

At least some of this sounds very plausible.
> “Page views per session”, most likely not essential (though you can make the argument they are), but if you’re not installing an identifier on the user to track them (for example, they’re signed in and you’re aggregating as such), then you don’t need to ask for consent.

GDPR might allow for this but other data protection laws might not. In the UK if you want to use an authentication cookie for any other purpose you're required to request permission[0]. Weirdly the guidance also states that consent is also required for persistent login cookies.

[0] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/guidance-...
I seem to be the only one with this opinion in this thread, so perhaps I'm misguided, but the reason I'm tired of these cookie permission pop-ups is that they strike me as security theatre. It's pretending to the end user that they have some control over being tracked or not, when we all know that they'll be tracked all the same, with non-cookie based fingerprinting methods. Can the "don't do evil things with user data" intent of this legislation not simply be subsumed under GDPR?
Illegal monopolies and anti-competitive behavior[0] have that effect. Such arrangements may produce the best widget available but probably not the best widget possible. More to the point, they definitely don't produce the best possible widget for the best price.

That said, I wish Levi's still used YKK or something better than whatever no-name garbage zipper they use now in the cut I've worn for years.

[0]https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1926941520070919
In ideal world where the traffic is a horizontal line, yes. In real world you probably get idle times, and peaks of 20x that traffic.

Also note that they say "page views" which can translate in many more requests per each page opened.
What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)
Alright, I get where you’re coming from. I am a believer in the vampire squid as a mascot for investment banks. And I do think that the brain drain from more positive endeavors into these ones simply because they pay spectacularly more is not necessarily positive. A nuanced counter to the argument, I appreciate it and will ponder.
Not mikesabbagh, but depending on your sshd_config's MaxStartups you can easily be locked out of SSH access if the probers have too many active unauthenticated sessions holding up your own from connecting.

Having a backup sshd behind something like Wireguard is an inexpensive insurance against this kind of DoS.
I never spent any other time other than the initial deployment. Like I said if your tap is leaking find a competent plumber or if you have the skill fix the leak, don’t pay for water tanker every time you are out of water. Im not sure why you need high performance, scalable multisharded and other big cloud tech to run a static site. Im not against using cloudlfare, there is a usecase for it. I cant stress more about why cloudflare is such an overkill for static sites. A cheap VPS can go a long way before you have to start worrying about not being able to serve traffic for a static site, its not a blocking call. We would be wasting unnecessary resources, if we don’t fix the actual problem.
I think “if you cannot” may be appropriate too. It makes me feel that the author would be sad if I died, so they don’t want to think about it.
I consider myself an ex-anonymous guy from the days of the yore. Think back in 2010. Around the same time, twitter was heating up as a "troll war" between three major groups. 1. Pro India. 2. Pro Pakistan. 3. Pro Kashmir independence.
I was in the 3rd group and I remember spending time, 14 hours at times to fighting trolls. There was some sort of flame wars but nothing too difficult. I remember learning a lot of stuff, improving my capabilities. I've doxed people but that was not fun.

The point is, I would have loved to have something like this back in 2009-2012.
The next step in these laws should be mandating program consumable APIs for essential functions. What if every website showing a cookie banner also had to expose a few endpoints:

/cookie-tracking/all/accept
/cookie-tracking/all/info
/cookie-tracking/essential/accept
/cookie-tracking/essential/info

Browsers could hook into these or making a browser extension would be easy enough.

As a bonus we might witness the first ever televised government bikeshed over API/naming/is it really REST though?
This is wrong. The GDPR is anything but clear.
nice, I was just reading https://blog.zkga.me/announcing-darkforest
where they use zkSNARKs for a fog of war game mechanics
Support him how? Support him as a tennis player, or support him being allowed into Australia?

He can uphold his bodily integrity by leaving the country without being vaccinated. Nobody is compelling him to have the jab.

It's a reasonable condition particularly because most Australians are by virtue of employment restrictions are required to be vaccinated. It would be unfair to have one rule for celebrities and another for ordinary people.
I beg to differ, but it's difficult for sure. I'm very thankful for people who don't surrender but continue to call out what is wrong.
The only pain point I have about Darling is that it is way more bothersome to install compared to Wine due to the fact it uses a kernel module. Except that, it is great.
I have been managed for years a cluster of recursive authoritative DNS cluster for a broadband ISP (around 30k subscribers). We have also 2 authoritative DNS servers running bind, but the operations were fully automated through a bunch of custom python scripts (the NOC operators can request a new record by themselves).

For the recursives one, I started with bind, but after a few months I replaced it to unbound and it's works like a charm. The only problem that I experienced was about DDoS, mainly generated by ultra cheap chineses home router with buggy firmware.
Anyway after a few attacks, we start implementing an application monitoring solution and we were able to mitigate the attacks in a short time.

On my laptop I run a a docker container with grimd (https://github.com/looterz/grimd) as recursive DNS and DoH proxy. I can filter out lot of dab requests and tracking and have visibility of what my DNS traffic is. It's not hard to configure
Sure, but we're speaking of a kind of standard (RFC or more specific one).

In this case, compliance is in the law: albeit not perfect and people trying to game it, you have to comply or be fined (if you do business in the EU).

EDIT: reference to DnT header https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
You need high skilled people who are comfortable in AWS or other cloud offering as well. Have to care of tons of things, set them up etc. They are not one button setups in real life when things get complicated.
If your site is mostly used with an account, you can easily have targeted ads without cookies.
> Are airlines even a big source of co2 emission when you compare it with other source

I am not an expert but I found this article: https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

According to this it looks like passenger aviation accounts for around 1.5% of CO2 produced.

Additionally, according to this article: https://www.carbonindependent.org/22.html the climate impact of flights should be considered with a factor of 2-3 times their base carbon emissions, due to additional effects specific to air travel, like nitrous oxide and ozone emissions.

Even at the base rate of 1.5%, that seems high for a single activity no?
Maybe you can help me here. My reading of the situation is that it was an attempted revolution against a dictator after he made a devastating unilateral decision to raise prices for a critical fuel. Am I missing something?
You're right, I read your response quite differently than what you seem to have meant. I read it as "cookies need consent, no exceptions", which was my misreading and my bad.

Thanks for clarifying.
Because an advertising company pays the bills at Firefox and fully controls the predominant browser.

Google's ultimate move however is killing cookies, so they can push their own concept of a supercookie that only they will be able to access.
This is still too common in network equipment, server names, and project names.

So you need to know if some obscure name is the name of a star, galaxy, or a nebula, in order to know if it's a router, firewall, or server.

Still better than naming shit after greek philosophers.
You cannot go wrong with Leaseweb or Nforce if you're looking for something in EU.
Ahh Lenna - the Henrietta Lacks of image processing algorithms.
There are far too many ways of tracking users, automated solutions just perpetuate a continuous escalation. Making the behavior illegal in itself, as the GDPR does in absence of explicit opt-in consent, is a much better solution over the long term.
The article does mention that they contacted him, he denied all claims, and then subsequently their sources twitter account was hacked and changed.
At 80TB (~83886080 MB) and 5000000 that's 16,77 MB per request in average. And at 1.92 qps that's 32,2 MB per second.

So they're saturating 25% of a gigabit uplink every second of the month.
But the DNS traffic still goes through the ISP right? They could blackhole all normal DNS traffic matching their blacklists?
It's very weird to see the President argue 'foreign interests' spark the unrest, and then promptly invites a foreign army to quell it. Who's falling for that?
This is the epitome of French hypocrisy when it comes to Big Tech. "Assymetric cookie dialogs" are a big no no but some of the biggest French websites give you two options:

1- Accept cookies and access the website.

2- Refuse cookies and pay 2€ per month to access the website.

How is that less hostile than having to click a few extra buttons?
Solar, geothermal, wind and nuclear power? Using energy doesn’t destroy the environment. Producing energy uncleanly does. Shouting at children using PlayStations or miners producing hashes doesn’t make the environment any better. Shouting at the coal lobby might.
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These actions will eventually snowball.
Which "commodity server" could serve 2GB/s(16gbps) to public internet?
Likely losing power means loss of fortunes, privilages and for some people even life, so they will do anything to stay in power.
I knew a guy (extremely smart, a PhD physicist) who, apart from writing Lisp in the style of Occam, who was fond of using synonyms - so a variable holding a stream would be called brook etc.

I also knew another hyper smart chap who used to argue passionately for meaningless identifiers - his argument was that you couldn't actually represent anything meaningful about what an identifier was for in a short name so why try? Mind you, he was a MUMPS developer.
> fair enough, however they juggle the buzzwords.

Oh absolutely true, you don't want to look completely clueless in front of people who take your money to setup an infrastructure ;)

>and make hard requirements to IT, that would help

That would make stuff so much more easy. Often it even lacks even a inventory of used applications/hardware....network.

Just one example:

Made a plan for new hardware and network (new cabling etc), then i walked around the workshop and there was that dusty machine running...i asked what it is...a dos-machine with...wait...TOKENRING. That machine was an integral part of the whole workshop ;) However we made a virtual FreeDOS machine and buy'd a software converter for the machine protocol, the 25yo cnc-machine needed a new card (ethernet instead of token-ring, very lucky we found that thing) so there was that one little DOS-machine no one though about who could stop the whole "modernization".
A typical day on hacker news for me
I disagree with this. IMO, it's just propaganda that the elites use to maintain control. Look at all the economic 'miracles' in Germany, Japan, South Korea, ... Pretty much any time a developed, highly educated country had fallen, it managed to return to even more prosperous levels than before.
The raise of fuel prices was an immediate cause but it probably was long burning dissatisfaction with the economic hardships of the masses vs. prosperous kleptocratic elite.

On the other hand it seems that the economy of Kazakhstan was one of the best among other stans. It is possible that prolonged covid restrictions also played the role.
Lots of stuff :)

Simply: achieving the highest profit margin for LTL loads across a range of factors + route optimization.
Hey [name redacted], the situation seems messy. This person is a powerful man in Silicon Valley has seemed to left a trail of emotional and physical destruction. I’m an anonymous person, but I want to say I believe you, and hope you get some closure and justice from this situation. It’s unfortunate the thread has attracted a fair share of gaslighters including his current girlfriend.
The great population growth slowdown
fuck the laws!
Thanks for this relevant quality of life info.
It was practically mandatory in the days when Sun workstations were popular for them to have astronomical names.

I thought I was being quite daring when the lab where I worked got a load of DEC Alpha workstations and I named them after Martian surface features as I'd just read Red Mars.
> Sten's watched beeped on the hour

I have a bone to pick with whoever came up with this and thought it would be a good idea.
This is so funny to me. People always forget that immigration elsewhere also isn't trivial. Otherwise we wouldn't have the problem of statelessness.

Every time someone says "if you don't like it here, go somewhere else / home" with an anti-immigration stance (even if they're talking to people born / naturalized in that country) they're asking them to be an immigrant elsewhere.
Yes, I was speaking specifically about hospitalisation only.
Yes. Fantastic. The figures are a bit low but this is exactly what I have been asking for. Big visible fines to corporations for simply making asymmetric non compliant cookie dialogs.

I wish they’d also go after one of the smaller fish that use a “cookie dialog provider” in default configuration. Effectively saying “if you think you can get away with buying this scam service you were wrong and the fine that could show up any day could end your business”.
I'm surprised application devs haven't done this, but you can "backup" a sqlite db to an in-memory sqlite db, then just "backup" the in-memory db every so often in the background.
Lots of good advice.

> Surround yourself with people who have the same attitude.

This one is important in general. During the first two years at university I mostly spent evenings and weekends with old friends who were more into partying and playing video games. Of course it’s good to stay in touch with friends in general but I wish I had started hanging out with classmates who had better study discipline than me sooner.
Everytime I see RSS on HN I'd like to recommend Aldo Gunsing's[0] work on creating a solution for managing Feeds, Calendars and Addresses. It takes some learning but it works fine. Couple it with Syncthing and you have them synced on all your personal computers. He maintains also forks of some popular readers[1].

[0]: https://github.com/39aldo39

[1]: https://github.com/39aldo39/spaRSS-DecSync

Edit: formatting
Show HN: Cue to Go server with code gen
Metaphors We Web By
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