skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly I don't see how this decision can be translated into practice, since I strongly doubt the CNIL will be able (or willing) to send formal notice, and fine after a grace period, all French companies that make use of Google Analytics on their website.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30284820
To be technical, I never said anything about size. I said "inadequate".

Also, one can be opposed to patriarchy while, at the same time, pointing out that the men who run capitalism fail on their own archaic and patriarchal terms. That these self-asserted "leaders" fail at being what they themselves want to be makes it all the more probable that they fail at being what we in society want or need them to be.
a four-year-old is obviously 33% more advanced than a 3-year-old

that would require that all children develop at exactly the same pace which is simply not happening like that.

see my other comment.

i do agree with the socialization.
> 'lightswitch were i need it'.

That would certainly be a plus. I have at least one missing lightswitch in my kitchen, and adding it would be rather complicated. Still it seems like overkill to invest in IoT to solve the issue of my lightswitch being 1,5m from where I'd want it to be.

The whole "light atmosphere" is something I already have, I just have to go around and turn on the lamps manually. As for the Alexa, Google Assistent or even Siri integration... I trust none of the company behind those technologies enough that I'd allow them to have a microphone in my home, constantly listening. It is beyond creepy.
> The processor seems to score less than an RPi4 on Geekbench.

The apu2 is an embedded AMD quad core 1GHz SoC consuming 5W. It is not a powerful system by any means and not surprised rivaled by a >1GHz quad core Arm.
AWS - Preparing for the Loop caused me to really focus on where I had been in my career and fully understand that path and what I could bring forward to AWS. I think even if I was not offered a position with AWS it was great preparation for interviewing with other companies.
> Rest is just making life of web developers/admins/tech company owners harder.

So what ? The right to privacy is more important than a select few having an easier time doing business, end of story.
People go to college because that is what they are told they should do. Everything else is secondary.
Sigh, this old hoary chestnut again. I don't suppose you'd have the thinnest shred of evidence of those "millions"?
It was strange reading this comment on Hacker News..

You will also find comments from CloudFlare folks here which suggests this use-case is sanctified.
The scarcity of houses is real and physical. The scarcity of NFTs is artificial, completely made up.
Surely Google has presense in France? Why not go after Google directly. It is way easier than processing 1000s of siteowners.

Google are the ones spying. The aggregate put on GA dashboard are a minute of the personal info they collect.
This is completely unrelated to GDPR. In France, Google Analytics was illegal since it was ever started. French privacy laws from 1978 are still to this day MUCH STRONGER than GPDR which is just salt on the wound and does not prevent malicious collection of data (though now you have to come up with a "legitimate interest" excuse for that).

Google knew they were making an illegal business and still went ahead. IMO they should be charged for being a criminal ring defrauding small businesses for SEO as part of a global scheme... if not for helping genocidal regimes surveil/censor/imprison/murder their population as they have been doing for years.
It seems intuitive that perception and memory are one and the same. How we perceive and how we recall is intrinsically bound to the neuron superstructure. Changes in one affects the other. The mind really is an interconnected prediction machine. Fascinating stuff!
We were talking about another topic. “Temporary dirty MVPs” are only acceptable if their code will be completely thrown away. Otherwise, “there is nothing more permanent than temporary patches” (c) forgot who.
For sure lots of issues for peloton after those accidents with kids.
> "Look, beyond a certain size, almost nothing you can do will save or destroy a company. At that point, people mostly go to work to play politics. Occasionally, as a side effect of the political maneuvering, work sometimes gets done."

From working at a big company, this is accurate.

> But at a 50 person company, or even a 500 person company, it's possible for single person to make a huge difference.

That's true, and you still might be stuck fighting politics to do it.
And what am I being paid for? I’m not the one promoting a dictatorship. I’m consistent with my anti-dictatorship message.
I looked this up the other day and I might be wrong but it seems like in most jurisdictions even if you buy a meatspace piece of art you do not own the actual copyright on the work.

While I’m not a fan of NFTs this does somewhat weaken the proposition that any “rights” cannot be sold with NFTs because IIRC this is the status quo in meatspace art purchases too.
You are expecting these people to be “journalists”

Lower that bar. Seriously
Note that Wikimedia has been not using Google Analytics since forever because they're concerned about precisely the same privacy problems as the regulators.

This other post has more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30284820

I love that the plaintiff in this case is the "NOYB Association", as in None Of Your Fucking Business, Google.
In most countries, you may take a photo including some person walking down public space. However, if you follow this person, aim your camera at this person specifically, or take several pictures of the same person it would be considered an infringement of their "right to image" if not criminal stalking.
> For some reason—whether a sense that there was some mistake, or someone copied something down wrong, or because it was so absurd—the manuscripts we have show that Heron ignored the minus sign and gave the answer as √63 instead.

I wonder if the minus sign was in use in the time of Heron (First century AD). I couldn't tell from this Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_and_minus_signs
I believe that HN is very far from left-wing, not sure why you feel singled out, ad hominems are frowned upon anyone here, call them out and move on.

This defensiveness is really off putting, it seems like the only argument you can carry is "the left has a Gospel and I'm against it" and I still have absolute no idea what exactly you refer to and why you are against whatever you are referring to.

You just feel victimised and attacked for some reason.
Curious how they did the animation in the article?
The current thread was actually posted first, so we merged the comments hither. Thanks!
I agree. I don't know what's "natural" because I don't think human nature is well-defined or stable; most humans seem to reflect the context they are in. Otherwise, you are absolutely correct, and this problem is not limited to the corporate adversaries or "the right". It is truly systemic.
Direct link to view the pdf:
https://docmadeeasy.com/v/656502559
I don't think this is the case at all, maaaaybe it's a tad cynical in tone, but I think overall it's a pragmatic and realistic view of software engineering, ESPECIALLY web development.

I say that as someone who is been in the industry since just before the first .com bust, and have seen a lot of this cycle.
I always assumed kohl was somehow related to coal. Are you saying it's not?
When implementing such controls, careful consideration must be given to all plausible scenarios, and there are cases (an engine failure on takeoff above V1 - the 'takeoff decision speed' - for example) where the alternatives are a tail strike or running off the end of the runway.
Very cool (not cold) solution! I would like to set up a similar system, which should be possible - I've recently bought a hubitat hub (highly recommended at $100) which uses groovy for scripting, and uses an installed app on my phone with geofencing to detect presence.
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What you're describing is very illegal in France, and you might have the police called on you or the person reacting aggressively if you're filming them like that. In fact there were a few incidents of that nature with Twitch streamers pointing their cameras at people and complaining online they were being mistreated by the locals.
> 'politics' is just a single word shorthand for 'dealing with human beings.'

No wonder why we are so messed up if this is the bar that we set and condone.
I've had experiences like that both as CTO and Director of Engineering - I vividly remember one exchange when I'd been at a company for a month or so:

CEO: How are you fitting in?

Me: Good, I've got a good handle on where we want to take the product.

CEO: I know you don't.

Me: OK, care to explain?

CEO: I've just changed the vision for the product!

This was also a company with a significant hardware component.
This I can agree with. I benefited a lot from having older cousins around.

At the moment I have a kid who is asking me about chemistry, and I can't just wait 5 years for him to get to that age where they teach people specifically chemistry (as opposed to general science). There's no reason I can't tell a 9 year old about valencies and that kind of thing, so why does school wait with it?
"The CJEU had highlighted the risk that American intelligence services would access personal data transferred to the United States if the transfers were not properly regulated."

As an EU citizen: Thank you Mr. Snowden, sir! <3
Why is the onus on the CNIL to notify companies on the law (which they actually did by issuing this press release) and not on companies to keep up-to-date with the law (which they could to by reading the news)?
I think it doesn't help that the "normal answers" for "normal people" are essentially broken right now.

We were looking at somewhere to park €50k while we hunt for a house. Growing up we're always told about savings accounts. We should have a savings account, we should be contributing to savings accounts, blah blah blah. So we asked our bank about a savings account, and they offered an annual return of €78. And I don't even mean 0.0015%, but the return is capped so it's not allowed to compound.
> That image will likely be the image of recently used cup or something you cherished deeply.

I ended up imagining a comically ornate, little, blue, fine-china teacup. It's not one I've used recently. In fact, I can't remember ever using such a thing! But the image arose effortlessly so I must have seen it at some point, no? Maybe in a videogame or at a friend's house?

I don't know; the same thing happens when I attempt this exercise with the words "tree" or "car" or "pencil". It's almost like I'm imagining my own, personal platonic ideals.

On the other hand, when I think of a duck, it's a mallard rather than a call duck, and I definitely see more mallard than call ducks in my day-to-day life.
“Context is that which is scarce”
Peak example of "Frat-Boy/Bro Culture". Funny thing is they were lecturing others, 'virtue-signalling' while this stuff was happening within the company for many years.

Original Full Article:-
https://archive.md/RYk6K
I'll be in my angry dome
Sat nav devs find way around the chip shortage
Interesting to know that we don't always need to use microchips, sometimes there are ways to code around the issue.
Putting NORAD in a mountain to protect it from nukes is a problem solved by more nukes it seems.
This line stood out for me: "The capacity to give and receive love may
be more central to the good life than self-admiring cleverness."
I wonder if the author could've used the TCP ngrok tunnel with a certificate they acquired? Might have eased the iOS issue without a migration.
Someone put something in piss 35 years ago and you're still talking about it now instead of whatever form of art you think is superior. Sounds iconic.
China plans more than 50 space launches in 2022 – SpaceNews
> School is glorified babysitting until university.

This is true, this is a harsh truth.

You can see the effect in actual (real world) consequences: no one cares if you learn nothing at school and no teacher is ever fired for low learning outcome in their students. But the immediate moment a student gets hurt, for any reason, then hell is unleashed on the teacher, lawyers get involved, a the teachers is now actually risking something.

School is glorified babysitting, until university when you're on your own, age brackets mostly don't matter, and the burden of learning is onto you (professors don't care).
It will since it is a result of automatic scanning. So next time someone submits an update for their app that uses same library, they will get same results. And then Apple will change this.
Steve Jobs was, quite likely, one of the biggest jerks in Silicon Valley history. I've worked with two people, over the years, who worked closely with (or directly under) him, at one point or another, and they both loathed him. I mean serious hate. It was pretty shocking, as they were very calm, likable folks, otherwise.

He was, unquestionably, a true visionary, though, and his obsessive, brutal management style, allowed him to implement his visions, with little interference. It reminds me of the "bad guy" in Braveheart, Edward "Longshanks" the First. He was a complete bastard, but he also unified a lot of what is now Britain.

Steve Jobs was also an outstanding persuasive speaker. He could not only convince you that the world was flat, but sell you First Class tickets, on a boat to the edge. The "RDF" was real.

But so many people think that dressing, and acting, like Steve Jobs will somehow allow them to channel him (see: "Cargo Cult"). They get the "asshole" part down, but can't quite synthesize the "visionary" part.

It's a bit ironic that Tim Cook is sort of the polar opposite of Jobs. It seems to me, that he's actually a rather decent chap (as much as any CEO can be).
Another way to think of it is that all numbers are imaginary.

Numbers aren't real. Platonism is wrong. Imaginary numbers aren't "out there" somewhere. The whole system of mathematics is an accumulated edifice of metaphors designed by human brains, for human brains, and there's no god "behind the curtain". It's just a tool of thought. It reflects the "reality" of the universe only insofar as we've looked at the universe, noticed patterns, and constructed metaphors around them.

This is not a popular viewpoint! But it is the only scientifically supported one.
This is awesome! I love reading about projects like this. Always gets me thinking about how I can do little things like this for my life workflows.

> installing MyQ W-Fi connected garage doors

Haha you were already light-years ahead of me before you even started. I typically slide my key into a little pocket and pray it doesn't fall out. I think using events from your router is a great idea. I have recently been playing around with events you can send from routers and it has really opened up my mind to whole new avenues of creativity.
Mortgage means somebody is going to pay somebody else regularly for 30 years, or bank gets a valuable property. That is more reliable wealth guarrantee than NFTs are.
the 3 years batches are the first thing to go away.

the term "montessori" is not protected, so many schools claim to use montessori, but aren't really.

from https://montessori-ami.org/about-montessori/montessori-12-18

The school for adolescents is for young people ages 12 through 18. Sometimes the young people are divided into two groups of 12 to 15 and 15 to 18 and sometimes all six years interact in one environment, depending upon the size of the school.

so in fact instead of the batches going away, they may grow to an even wider age range. the same for elementary.

At the other extreme, I've seen attempts to get rid of the synchronicity at university undergraduate courses. It's almost trivial there and seems to have no downsides.

that's how universities work in austria and germany. and it makes a lot of sense. the older you get the less the actual age matters for what you learn.
Would love to see Kotlin (more) on the frontend

Its a nice language all around on backend (and i suppose mobile, but i wouldnt know) thats a pleasure to code in
A lot of this seems to be coming due to US regulations that compel US registered companies to hand over data from subsidiaries in Europe markets if asked by US intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

With these various data locality regulations, i wonder if a standard operating approach could be to split tech companies into 3 legal entities, a technology licensing company, a US registered operations company and a Europe registered operations company and hand the shares in all three companies to the current shareholders. This would insulate the Europe entity.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30284372
Dealing with Fair Dealing: A Collagementary
Zero security in what sense?

Is confidentiality of your messages the only thing you care about?

Even that you won't get to keep once hit by a WhatsApp vulnerability.
The thing with the gaming industry is that it has this cult that once one is in, it needs to think twice in leaving, after winning the previlidge to be in at all.

So people put up with lots of crap to keep in the game (pun intended).
In school, you get multiple noisy grades per year but the noise cancels out. That's what averaging does. You might get a B or even a C when you deserved an A, and vice versa, but your grade-point average will, in the long term, approximately reflect what you put into your work.

In corporate, there's just as much noise, but rather than getting smoothed out over time, it accelerates. In corporate, some guy can turn off your income, even though you're good at your job, because a manager wants to show off that he "can make tough decisions" and impress his own manager--either to get a promotion, or to get into someone's pants. It's random and bad things happen for no good reason, and we're prime to just accept that this is "just business" but we shouldn't have to. We can build better systems, by far, than the ones we've got.
Static websites can collect data too. Lots of stuff can go into web server logs.
People talk about misinformation on Facebook, but the British media are guilty of promoting criminals and fraudsters via news stories about their "success".

For example, my local newspaper published a number of articles about a "successful" trader who was offering training programmes. Last month he was sentenced to three years in prison for fraud.

There are numerous examples of this and even "reality" TV shows promoting these people as successful or rich, it is about time the media are held to account.
Reading the headline is wild because, that just sounds like fun depending on the kind of culture you want to foster (not alcoholism, but a “fun” environment).

I must admit; there are definitely companies like this that I’ve worked at, very free “anti-professional” vibe where it’s totally acceptable to have a lax attitude to rules as long as you’re not hurting anyone.

I think the people might not understand that a large part of what makes that culture work is mutual respect.

The blurred line between professional and personal which is the root of the “anti-professional” environment makes people feel at ease with some hurtful comments, likely because they don’t even believe them to be hurtful.

As mentioned, I have worked in these environments and personally I wasn’t a huge fan and always acted more professionally there than in normal professional environments.

But, I’m also guilty of making comments which taken out of context sound awful. So maybe I’m biased.
I don't like the meat industry, but seriously all these food safety laws are getting out of hand.

Anyone who's concerned about salmonella, hormone levels or animal welfare, can just not buy any products that could potentially contain animal products from countries with weak animal welfare or sanitary laws. The rest is just making life of farmers/shops/wholesalers harder.

Especially with these European intentions, I frankly believe that one single country's laws should be universal and no other country may implement or enforce laws that protect their consumers. The onus to protect themselves from harm must lie with the individuals and governments should not dare inconvenience anyone just to protect their citizens' interests.
Probably is high. Americans seem to divorce a lot.
> It is absolutely not a trucker protest.

Clearly it is not.

https://youtu.be/STsihoheCJQ

Also, who can count all the confederate and swastika flags in this video?
First principles thinking applies more to science and invention than engineering. And it's easy to misuse and make it into philosophical thinking.

Musk appears to have derived his dislike of LIDAR more from ideas than technical studies. Most of the rest of industry seems to disagree...

First principles thinking carries the implicit values of keeping things simple enough to reason about that way. It doesn't deal well with suppliers and ecosystems.

In tech, "Everyone else does it this way" IS a technical advantage because of economies of scale and compatibility.

If your custom thing is just right for your application, it's probably a liability to the ecosystem in general, because "just right" tech is tuned for one product without concern for the whole system.
> The scarcity of houses is real and physical

Not really in a lot of cities, most scarcity is based on government regulations (=not allowing more of them to be built, or not allowed to build larger ones). There are a few locations where there is no actual usable space to build more, but mostly, that is not an issue.
Is the CNIL actually starting to do its job? Since the early 2000's they were doing literally nothing against the many crimes against users committed by big tech. In the past few years though they started to distribute fines when the law was obviously and willingly broken (eg. Google)... did they suddenly start to care for users? or do they care that they can fill the pockets of the government (who doesn't dare to tax those evil multinationals) while making it look like they care for users?

I mean CNIL does not exactly have a reputation of helping/protecting users... they more have a reputation of being a watchdog who sees no problem with government surveillance programs and does not react when you send them reports of illegal activities surrounding personal data. For their defense, their budgets and prerogatives have been cut so many times they probably couldn't investigate/fine anyone if they wanted to.
The industry standard is to show utter contempt for the user. It's expected that every site will show you tacky and distracting ads and will dump 90 third party cookies on you. It's beyond belief.

Imagine going into a travel agent to inquire about a flight. The moment you step through the door 50 people attach themselves to you. Some start recording your every action in a notebook, others flash torches in your eyes, two of them start showing you a video at the same time. And the rest follow you around holding up large ads. And they carry on following you around even after you leave the store!
Chinese State Media’s Global Influencer Operation: Why It Matters
Yes because you still interpret the similarity of morals as a causal direction (‘legacy’, ‘divorce‘) from religion. You’re giving religion way too much credit there.
GDPR mechanisms are directed at pushing you towards compliance, not getting big payouts. So in many cases you can even avoid any fine if you cooperate on first notice.
You can buy drugs and other illegal things off the internet (tor), that's very useful for some people. Basically crypto allows for transactions that could otherwise be blocked or easily tracked by central parties (1). It can also be used to bypass gambling laws.

For legal purchases and activities crypto is useless, regular money is much more practical.

[1] depending on which crypto and how it's used tracking is possible, so care is required (especially) when converting dollars to crypto.