skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And lots of people will only ever hear what you said second hand. After all nuance has been intentionally stripped out and the message has been spun to serve the aims of the person interpreting it. “Journalists” do this all the time, but I’ve also seen this happen in the workplace.

When I was in grade school I remember my teachers used to constantly stress the importance of primary sources. And I didn’t really understand the importance until much later in life. Why do all that work when someone else has neatly summarized it for me on wikipedia? Now I basically have a rule where I don’t allow myself to have a strong opinion on something unless I’ve gone and read up on primary sources.
Things that helped me:

- small steps

- accept failures, don't let them stop you. My first "solo-traveller" holiday was a disaster, but the next four were great

- be open (i.e. say "yes" to things even if you don't really feel like it - being with people is IMO well worth it)

- life throws spanners in the works - but also golden opportunities

- help others. I enjoy baking and cooking, I might meet friends and bring some home-made treats along. Or offer to help them in DIY.

- be pro-active. e.g. ask if anyone fancies a walk/visit to a local attraction. Arrange a trip somewhere. Your circles may start small (e.g. with work colleagues) however make them interesting and it can grow.

- meetup.com has been helpful, however do something you'd enjoy _anyway_ - if you meet someone (friends or romantically) that's a bonus

This isn't a panacea, I'm personally struggling. However when I look at the good things I _do_ have, this is how I have them.
Google probably gets 100000 queries with unintentional typo's. Then Maybe 10 queries where the typo is intentional. They're simply gearing their features towards the larger use case.
Except I was comparing bubble sort to insertion sort. Read my comment again.
That's just technical details. For all I care the website executes the code on my computer without my volition.
Incredibly, I wasn't even completely sure this was a joke. Something like this doesn't feel too far off from the madness going on in the space
It's not a great situation that this is possible but you could make a similar error for the same amount of money in your brokerage account and also have no recourse. It could be a typo in the ticker symbol, you could buy an option for the wrong month, you could buy instead of selling, you could enter an extra zero, you could not notice a multiplier for the futures, you could let a physical delivery future expire, etc. Using Interactive Brokers or other brokers with advanced user interfaces, it's even possible to turn off confirmations or do most things with just a keyboard or through an API. I don't see this situation as significantly different.
If you send money to the wrong person and they don't give it back, you can try sue them to give it back, but there is no inherent law that they must do so.

Or am I wrongly informed? Because that's the knowledge I have from central european laws.
Absolutely not surprising. I am originally from Germany and the whole of Bavaria is excruciatingly underdeveloped when it comes to IT.

Outside Munich, it gets even worse as you venture deep into beer county where people who can reformat Windows are admired as the next Linus Torvalds and competition consists of people with varying degrees of beginner-level knowledge competing against each other.

Merkel once said that the internet is a new territory for all of us... I am surprised the court even understood half of this.
gate.io does this.
It hardly matters in the court of law what you "could also say".

The law is clear: you don't have to send your users' data to third parties, but if you decide to do it, you have to receive their informed consent first. In this case, the defendant chose to send personal data to a third party without receiving their informed consent.

The option of conforming with the law by not sending that data anywhere still stands, as does the option of receiving informed consent beforehand.
> big banks still have to deal with checksum-passing iban typos on a daily basis

Citation needed.
I'm torn here. I can see it from both points of view.

As a user I don't want any of my data going to third parties at all.

As a website owner trying to provide a service to my users I want the best experience for them. This might be linking to third party services that are doing a better job than I could.

I only see this going one way. The user will have to agree to the sharing of their data with third parties if they want to view third party content, or want the fonts rendered in a better was. Link NPRs text version when you don't agree.
So code in frontend would be "asking" in this case, in your opinion? Javascript is executed by default by all major browser deployments.
Yes, it would. Actually so many uses of CDN's are nonsensical. I mean, I literally block those requests and sites just work OK. (For my definition of OK. If I don't see autoloading autoplaying video it's only a big big plus)
They are absolutely looking to create precedent on the "third-party beneficiary of the GPL" idea, which will be great for users of GPL software if it happens.

As IANAL, I'm unable to judge if the cases they cite in the motion back up the "GPL is a contract too" idea though.
The one for Vatican City made me laugh!
Option c is how the Danish BBC-equivalent does it, and I deeply appreciate that kind of care for their users.
The browsers don't share third-party caches across domains, because it made it easier to leak information about which sites the user has visited.
Depending on the circumstances, telling people to jump from the bridge can be a crime.
Sex is very much a 'binary' concept; it's fundamentally tied to a property of reproduction strategies; the size of the gametes. To quote [0]:

> The type of gametes produced by an organism defines its sex. Commonly in plants and animals, male organisms produce smaller gametes (spermatozoa, sperm) while female organisms produce larger gametes (ova, often called egg cells).

Convention is; if you produce small gametes, you're male, if you produce big gametes, you're female. Sexual reproduction happens pretty much exclusively in two sexes. Biologically speaking, individuals that don't produce gametes, don't have a sex.

To quote from [1]:

> There are almost invariably only two gamete types, all analyses showing that intermediate gamete sizes are eliminated due to selection.

Gender can be considered a cultural construct based upon the interpretation of sexually defined roles and strategies. But sex itself is binary. So "Intersex people" - your words, not mine - do exist but as an defective expression of the reproductive function, see above. I'm not aware of any medical condition in humans that results in functional hermaphrodity as seen in some plant species, that is; individuals that produce functional small and large gametes. Although there is a condition called 'True Hermaphrodity' whereas an individual develops both ovarian and testicular tissue, this does not result in functional gametes.

> Sex is mostly based on a mix of genome

There are many sex-determination mechanisms, not all of them involve different genomes. Some are based on temperature, for example. Again; see [0].

> Honestly I've some trouble understanding how some people find this to be such a hard concept,

I do wonder that myself and I guess it's because for some people this is a placeholder for some kind of ideological discussion, separate from the actual discussion about sex. The impreciseness of colloquial language probably also plays a part. But to summarize;

Gender: cultural construct based on interpretation of reproductive roles and strategies, pretty much unbounded in its expression and shape and form

Sex: "binary" reproductive trait that comes in two expressions; male (small gametes) and female (large gametes), although there are some species where both male and female is expressed in single individuals. Sex doesn't necessarily depend on the chromosomes but in many species can also be decided by external factors.

Hope that helps!

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamete
Could someone make a fork please which works for PornHib as well? :D
Does this ruling distinguish between “does” and “could”, though? Because any CDN could spy if they wanted. Google fonts has a pretty reasonable privacy policy[1]. I don’t read German, so I wonder if there’s nuance here that I’m missing (like, did they find that Google actually was misusing the data?)

https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_...
In an accounting system, everything must always sum to zero. That means every transaction has to balance, so nothing can "appear" or "disappear", it has to come from somewhere and has to go somewhere.

Imagine you ran a private currency called Mate Dollars (M$) for you and your mates to exchange with each other "off grid". You decide to introduce the concept of loans. A transaction which lends 1000M$ to MateA would look like this (in ledger[0] format):

2022-01-30 Loan to Mate A
Accounts:MateA 1000.00M$
Liabilities:MateA -1000.00M$

This a perfectly valid transaction. It sums to zero. Now Mate A can "spend" this money, maybe he buys some goods from Mate B:

2022-02-01 Goods
Accounts:MateA -500.00M$
Accounts:MateB 500.00M$

Now Mate A and Mate B both have 500 Mate Dollars.

Eventually Mate A will have to pay back his loan because the bank (you) will charge interest on any current liability:

2022-02-30 Loan repayment
Accounts:MateA -1000.00M$
Liabilities:MateA 1000.00M$

Now he's paid back the loan.

Now from inside the system, nothing was ever created or destroyed. But from outside the system (ie. the real world) it looks like money was "created" at "Loan to Mate A" and destroyed at "Loan repayment". From Mate B's point of view, Mate A always had that money. He doesn't know anything about the bank loan.

Between those two transactions, 1000 Mate Dollars existed, but it was just a ghost in the machine.

Replace "you" with Barclays Bank, "Mate Dollars" with Pounds Sterling and "you and your mates" with the public above and you now understand how "real" currency works. 97% of money we use is just a ghost in the machine between a bank creating it via a loan and the borrower paying it back.

So, you see, money appearing and disappearing from thin air is not a feature of crypto at all. It's just an illusion. It's what it looks like to anyone outside of the ledger (ie. everyone except the bank).

The ETH transaction is the equivalent of you (the banker) making a promise to Mate A to keep his money in an account that can never be accessed by anyone, including him:

2022-01-30 Silly transaction
Accounts:MateA -1000.00M$
Dungeon:MateA 1000.00M$

The account "Dungeon:MateA" will now always have a positive balance for as long as you keep your promise.

Unlike you, the Ethereum blockchain is incapable of ever breaking this promise.

[0] https://www.ledger-cli.org/
> It is the the user’s browser that initiates a request to Google’s server. A request by the website itself to Google sharing the user’s IP address never actually occurs.

Manipulating a system so that it gives up information that wasn't intended to be given away, is called hacking.
What's wrong with system fonts

This is a serious question, I personally prefer to set my own font for web browsing so why do people feel the need to force fonts on me and load them from google of all places?
> The myriad heirloom tomato shapes and colors you’re referencing were all carefully sought after and stabilized by human gardeners.

They've been groomed for generations, yes. But they've not been stabilized. When i talk about the variety of tomato colors/tastes, this is something natural that will happen over a few generations in your garden.

Plants will often borrow taste from other surrounding plants, as for color i have no clue what triggers them to change, but i've seen with my own eyes after a few years, new generations of vegetables starting to change colors (not uniformly across the entire garden). This of course is not possible with trees (eg. apples/oranges) as you would need to wait several generations of trees (that's a long time), nor is it possible when you plant seeds from the supermarket every year to replace last year's plants, as the commercial seeds are almost bit-by-bit copies of one another and will yield the same tasteless tomatoes bypassing the natural circle of evolution to your local environment.

If you can, i strongly encourage to go talk to local farmers and borrow a few seeds. There's some amazing stuff out there which you won't find in commercial gardening shops. At least that's the case here in France, where the government for many years made it illegal/criminal to share or sell "peasant crops" (which a judge ruled is legal only a few years back).
You should see how nice and powerful Svelte in Markdown is- https://www.mdsvex.com
I think this is actually a really interesting ruling because it's based on Article 6 and not Schrems II. The problem is that they are not taking enough steps to share as little data as possible which is a fair point, but it would also be interesting to see if Google Fonts actually is legal in the sense that personal data (IP, browser agent, timestamp) may end up in the US and used for other purposes (tracking) then just delivering a font.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Where%20Dreams%20Ar...
These are exactly the types of things I wish I could get myself to spend the time to learn, but unless I can force myself to learn something as an actual part of building somethings that interests me, I'll never actually pick it up :(
I can put “rm -r /user” in my HTML as long as I want. It’s the user’s browser that decides what gets executed. This is a fundamental principle in the architecture of the internet. You cannot make another computer do anything. You can only send messages, and the receiver decides how to act on those.
I’ve had food sitting at restaurants for over an hour before while Uber attempts to find a driver.

After a particularly frustrating instance where Uber told me to cancel but didn’t refund me for me, I did manage to find a support inbox that’s read by an escalation team and I had a real life human calling from SF let me know that they would refund me.

The effort it took to get the refund was ridiculous though as every contact option Uber presented me resulted in robo responses telling me since I initiated the cancel that I’d be responsible for food costs, even when I included chat screenshots of their agents telling me to cancel.
It was implemented within the last 2 years, with exception of Safari which did it in 2013.
I'm assuming bells labs no longer has the financial backing of a monopoly like AT&T that they had 40 years ago?
Ok, don't jump from a bridge. Take off your clothes, and go to your neighbors, I'm asking you right now. Are you going to comply?
GDPR requires informed consent.
It’s not a question of what is necessary. It’s a question of transparency and consent. You must gain consent for giving Google personal data for tracking purposes.
The Roboto woff2 file is actually only 16kb for each variation, and that's the format most browsers will use in practice.
But it is.

If you buy the wrong asset, you can sell it back and get most of your money back. There is a low friction “undo” button.

No such thing in crypto.
How was this possible, for the change to be sent to a new address? If I understand correctly what you're saying is that the account was split in two: one part went to the wanted destination and the rest to an unwanted destination.
I'm not against using font style; I'm against (or more like, failed to see the point) to manually craft a complex "system font stack" to achieve.. basically the same thing as sans-serif but worse.
The system is designed to do it. If you don't want your system operating as it was designed to do don't use it.

It's not hacking.
Kids die more skying than from COVID. COVID is pretty juch the illness that kids die the less from.... There is no reason (apart from profit) for vaccinating them.
> and this can then be used for advertising purposes.

Can it? Is this within the range what Google is allowed to do in the EU right now?

Because, if that is the case and we also wanted to stop that, wouldn't it be a lot more reasonable to just... forbid Google from doing that, instead of slapping every confused wordpress hack in the EU with a fine?
Okay but let’s say you have permission to host the content — e.g: you actually own the video.

Do you still think it’s reasonable that it should be a legal requirement that to embed a video on your web page you must develop your own video delivery infrastructure?
>The ruling says the website owner illegally shared the user’s IP address with Google. AFAIK, this is an incorrect interpret of events.

I wouldn't say so. By making use of the Google Fonts service, the website owner set up a scenario where the browser would then share the user's IP with Google. That's the default behavior of most browser setups. It's as good as sharing with Google directly, no? I feel like the scenario is similar to setting up a trap. Technically the victim activates the mechanism, but surely the one who sets the trap carries the blame?
Okay, and I made an argument of why I am against the law. That is all.
I write about America’s health care system, and I got caught up in it
Uber Eats has no calls, no chats, nothing. At least not in Spain. I can "escalate" an issue but it is always the same response, clearly automated
You got me on the first half..
John Locke was British, and in England we generally call crepe's pancakes (or at least, they are much more similar to a crepe, for instance on pancake day/shrove tuesday we will eat a thin pancake rather than an american-style pancake).

What American's call a pancake would be an 'American pancake' over here.
Pretty good news, Google is a Spy machine that should be bannes in the EU, if you enforce the Schrems2 decision.
> The browsers don't share third-party caches across domains

Do you have a source for this? I believe(d?) it too, but when re-checking just now, I could not find any.
There are two options to do what's required by the law: either A. not sending users' personal data to third parties; or B. receive informed consent from the users before sending their personal data to third parties.

If the option B seems unwanted for some reason (any reason), there is still option A. Implementing a different solution (that breaks the law) has consequences.
Not sure. They must operate differently in Spain. I had photos, timestamps, everything.
If you are that caring about your privacy, you absolutely should use a browser that is configured in such a way that it doesn't leak your IP to anyone you didn't consent to.
It really depends. If the website links to a URL that is the same for everyone on every website which uses that font, then without a referrer header (which is up to the browser to send) there is not much tracking info.

But if the website uses a URL that is unique for that site, or even for each user, that is absolutely something I'd hold the website owner responsible for.
I was working on an annotated (unofficial) edition of K&R updated to the latest C standards, with commentary like the Lion's book on UNIX, completely typeset in LaTeX. Sadly, I don't think it will ever see the light of the day due to copyright.

I had some correspondence with DMR in my early college days. It would have been an ideal tribute.
But technically, the user itself is sending his own data to the third party, and the original website is merely requesting the user to do so. You could interpret it like this: "To use this website, it's best if you have this font. You can get it from here: https://google.com/fonts/blah". It's not exactly the same case as a more obvious GDPR violation, where the website would collect information from the user, and then send it to a third party (e.g. selling user data to a data broker).

>It hardly matters in the court of law what you "could also say".

On the contrary, it's exactly what the court is there for.
https://gdpr.eu/compliance/

The whole thing, including guides, is much shorter than the spec for HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/

Probably clearer, too.

And just like for specs there are even better third party doc sites you can use: https://gdpr-info.eu/

Dry reads, but it's not like RFCs are heart wrenching novels either :-D
Their works still live among us, if anyone tried to look close enough, they would still see their names all over it
Buy a penny stock or an illiquid option and you certainly won't get most of your money back. In addition, there are many other hidden risks. For example, you could have the broker increase the margin rates overnight leading to forced liquidations or the stock could be halted and impossible to trade for months.

You can even end up owing more than your whole account is worth if margin is enabled.
These spectrograms are something! )
But the inflamation of "Russia attacks!" hysteria ruined the reputation of Vice for me forever (
I keep seeing comments about how NSO is Israeli state funded. I think it's not entirely incorrect (am Israeli, know people who work at NSO and people at 8200) - but the relationship is quite sinister and not something the Israeli public was aware of.

As in - NSO's ties to the Israeli government were filled with corruption and NSO was using its own technology in exchange on Israeli citizens.

There is (quite a big) public inquiry and people from NSO will likely (finally) go to jail.

It's quite a big scandal here https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3927410...
Your assertion is contradicted by the article itself, which explains this point clearly. I.e., you're wrong.

Isn't it curious how often people with the most strongly voiced opinions ("bullshit post") are bullshitters themselves? There's some interesting dynamic going on, psychologically.
Agreed. Some people are super careful, like myself, when transferring money between personal (normal bank) accounts I always test with a small amount. Even if the bigger amount is like $200. And that's after triple checking the account number before clicking transfer. I can't imagine what I'd be doing with these exotic crypto accounts and smart contracts.
And here’re some fresh examples with lists just encountered in the wild: https://developer.matomo.org/guides/tracking-javascript-guid...
My working theory of GDPR is that absolutely anyone on earth who has used the internet could be found to have broken the rules.

-Benedict Evans
> Next you need push and pub/sub semantics in PostgreSQL

It's fairly basic (then again, does it need to be more?), but NOTIFY exists: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-notify.html
I'm an average Joe and I understand what you explained and thank you for it.
It's just a completely stupid statistic all around. For example considering this risk aspect, it probably also means it falls prey to survivor bias and doesn't account for all the men who fail with their risky endeavours and have an income of zero (case in point: vastly more men than women are homeless, also vastly more men die on the job).

It doesn't account for transfer payments like men paying for their wives housing, food clothes and so on (and paying so that they can spend time with their kids - I think even if a father has to give away most of his money in child alimony, in the wage gap statistic he would show up as a high earner and the mother as a low earner). It explicitly excludes jobs where people get union tariffs and hence all get paid the same.

It doesn't account for differences in work hours. There are countless things wrong with it.

It is just a misleading feminist propaganda thing.

You could look at such a number and say "something is going on", but feminists want to jump to the conclusion that it is discrimination.

I like to link to this freakonomics interview for further aspects of the wage gap. They talk to a woman who has researched the issue https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gende...