skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think the GDPR is a good idea? Wow, mate, that's quite the detachment from reality.

In reality, GDPR is pure nonsense. It's a serious burden for anyone putting up a site. Any site. They all have cookies. All of them. It is so bad, there are now services taking care of this, because it's so much of a bullshit that people need to rely on others to get it right.

You'll probably spin this as a net win, right? Because more businesses, right? Right??

The odds of 99% of the people not simply clicking "accept all" are slim to none and anyone insisting otherwise would make himself look like a moron. It's like you're assuming the masses out there are actually thinking about things.

They don't! It's not how people work! They just click it away and are done with it, because it's super fucking annoying to constantly click that bullshit away and it does literally nothing for us people, no matter how much anyone would want to insist that it does, theoretically, do benefit us.

The GDPR is pure nonsense. It is not made for the people. It in fact completely ignores how people operate.
I started learning to program in college. I am an EE, so maybe CS is a bit different. But I remember how intimidating it was to be in a my first programming class with the kids that already knew "everything". So, I bought a C++ book and worked through it cover to cover. Honestly, I had caught up with most the kids that already knew how to program after a couple of semesters or so and helped a bunch of them with our programming lab. I am sure there are some exceptional prodigies that are way better than I am, but it is quite impressive what one can learn even at an older age if one puts time and effort in.
Virtual communities aka BBSes.
> when you consider it only had 256 colors

Per-frame palettes allow you to hack this a bit if you don't mind a few fractions of a second draw time for a static image¹² or only parts of the frame need to update each time for an animation.

Edit: some examples... A good illustration of the technique can be seen in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FullColour.gif and https://gif.ski/ is a practically pointless but brilliant tool for making high quality gif videos.

[1] or don't mind some dithering on the initial draw with the more colours added in subsequent “frames”.

[2] though for a static image, just use PNG
Just to give one example that I am faced with regularly:

> https://www.google.com/maps/@49.2815263,9.5021834,162m/data=...

On the right side, there's the L1045. Speed Limit 100 km/h (around 60mph). Large curves. Lots of woods, thus shady in the summer, which reduces visibility for thin, slow-moving objects in dark clothing.

On the other side of the river, there's the Kochertalradweg, which is forbidden to motor vehicles, a designated bike road, goes on for the next 25 kilometers while still hitting all the same towns the street does, and is over most of it's stretch a one-lane asphalt road. (There is a small stretch where it becomes a gravel road, with very fine gravel, for about 200 meters).

Sane cyclists use the Kochertalradweg. The bike folks I encounter on the L1045 are almost exclusively 40-year-old folks who dream of their imagined glory days as a bike racers.
I am from a western background, and the last time I checked, I had about a 54% chance of correctly telling minor from major (p > 99.5%).
English Summary:

Free MDN isn't going away.

MDN Plus is a premium content service that will offer deep dives into technical topics. The service was tested over the summer.

Additional announced features include bookmarking across all of MDN, commenting, offline browsing, and themes.

Price: USD10/month or USD100/year.

Time frame: March 2022
I've had this happen to me before [0]: I just got one "mark everything that shows bikes" with pictures of cyclists, motorbikes and cars. The translation used the norwegian word "sykler" which to me is the human powered one. But it looked like it wanted me to also select motorized ones as well. That's something that's lost in the translation.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25227518
Yes, absolutely blame the lawmaker for making laws which are completely detached from how people operate. Yes, absolutely, blame lawmakers for making laws that don't actually fit reality.

Yes.

Absolutely.
Why? That just means we would be fucking up the land more. No joke, if we don't eat fish we are eating something that requires land to grow, and agrarian land usually comes from destroying biodiverse ecosystems.
Seeing how we coped with Covid has made me wonder how well we would manage an event like that. Supposedly we are well prepared in the UK but that was also the case for Covid and we know how that turned out.
Well, the article is about "dehumanisation of cyclists". I would expect that it is a lot easier to dehumanize people that look really different from anyone else. If most friendly bicycle drivers wear regular clothing and most entitled bicycle drivers wear neon pink, over time car drivers will come to expect a certain behavior just based on looks alone.
Schengen area countries (most of the EU) and the US do as well.
this is equivalent to suggesting plugging a keyboard and mouse into your phone when asking for laptop recommendations.
Well, that really seems to be a very hard problem to me.

Tables for instance get quite complex pretty fast -- joined cells, text alignment, etc.

As for a format which -- not plain text, though -- that handles this is rich text. It's been around for quite some time.

IMHO the problem is in the difference between presentation and data. One group of consumers want the "data" and parse it, the other group of consumers want to basically have it "look the same in this app as in the other app, and don't make my think."
Of course nobody should jog or run on a road.
> No lawyer, accountant, doctor, engineer, scientist or other professional stands up each day...

I think this has a lot to do with the office culture of software being figured out at the same time as the professionalization of Management and the trend of "methodologies" to give a veneer of objectivity to the managerial class. Combined with FOMO about the fortunes being made at certain other companies, whose whims and experiments are then followed.

Whereas the other professions you mention had their office cultures defined in very different times. Once defined, these tend to be sticky.

For example the extended hazing ritual by which we mint medical doctors in the USA is completely insane and would not be tolerated by doctors in most other countries, much less by non-doctors. Or for scientists, the amount of time many of them have to spend on acquiring funding for their employers instead of doing actual science, not to mention the very broken world of peer review.

The thing that makes our situation special -- and which these people were probably reacting too -- is how transparently ridiculous, toxic, and demeaning a lot of it is. From open-plan offices to stand-ups to pair programming and on and on.

I think we put up with this stuff because we are convinced we should be thankful for our fat paychecks and fear the Barbarian Hordes waiting to take our jobs for cheap in Elbonia.[0] That both of these things are objectively false has not made much difference in the last decade, but the salaries have gone up, so...

[0]: https://dilbert.fandom.com/wiki/Elbonia
Hmmm... I cannot promise you anything, but perhaps it would be worthwhile re-doing your account and adding an extra note explaining that the postal code is real. Perhaps you even have a form of ID/documentation where you can see it...?
Unfortunately, our low prices attract the usual suspects. We receive a very high volume of new fake accounts. Sometimes things that are actually real will raise red flags unintentionally. If we are not sure about an account's validity, we usually make the safe decision and reject it. We know that means that we lose customers, but it also prevents a lot of abuse.
As a customer with other online stores in the past, I have had my customer account flagged as fake because I have a last name that is unusual, because my home town's name sounded fake, and because people thought New Mexico was not part of the United States, so they thought the delivery address was fake.
Our team tries its best, but it's not perfect. We know we probably accidentally accidentally falsely mark some accounts as fake each day, and we are constantly trying to improve our system.
--Katie
I fail to see how a 30-day or fewer retention policy impinges on article 17 one way or the other, nor do I see how article 6.1 gives any protection on the topic of the default Apache HTTP access logs (which include IP addresses).
> I'll believe this when scientific papers start appearing in the form of reflowable HTML.

YES!

It's 2022 and in spite of the often-praised superiority of LaTeX, we are still getting paginated PDFs on ArXiv, instead of responsive text that reflows on different screen sizes. PDFs were great to read when I was still printing papers. For reading on screen they are quite inconvenient.

Many publishers have come around in the last decade and offer HTML versions of full papers (after you get through the paywall).
Id consider RT if I was serious about audio.
Before I could enter USA as EU citizen, I had to register via VWP in 2005 and 2006, got interviewed/screened (including my fingerprints taken) by airline as well as border control (fingerprints only by border control). As part of VWP, I had to state I did not take part in WWII on the Axis side, etc etc (I was born in the 80s...). I'm not sure what the requirements of Americans entering Europe were or are, can't imagine they were/are as strict. Going back, guy looked at my face 2 times, and I was allowed in. Its nice living in a free country like The Netherlands, I thought. And yes, we did have terrorism threat back then (Muslim extremists).
I realize this is a joke, and that you're jokingly elevating Jira's user-unfriendliness to the "evil" level of active environmental destruction.

But given how many genuinely evil SaaS companies there are, I think it bears clarification that Jira does not do anything more evil than being a shitty product that people are forced to use by their bosses. They are not, for example, potentially responsible for the eventual collapse of civilization (which cannot be said of the Facebooks and Googles of the world).
Assuming the content is in Japanese this is probably the expected result though.

For international websites it would be good to follow the users chosen language. But if a website doesn't have a english version(or other alphabet based version), expecting alphabets in a captcha is not very reasonable.
They don't appear to yet support any connections to real world money. The merchant api appears intended to connect to a bank that supports Taler, but no such banks yet exist.
You could fairly trivially swap the battery for lithium ion with a usb-c charging circuit[1]. You can get li-ion batteries in almost any shape and size so surely you can find something to replace the old battery.

[1]https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002953903622.html?spm=a2...
There are statistics for head injuries incurred riding a bicycle, but some find that these alone do not show the full effect of making a helmet mandatory.

The Dutch Cyclists’ Union is particularly vocal about this¹. Their take is that creating a culture where wearing a helmet on a bicycle is normal has a significant negative effect on health in general and safety by raising the barrier of riding a bicycle.

When you need a helmet, you have to lug it around even when you're just popping out for some groceries. The effects of mandatory helmets in neighbouring countries show that these have a non-negligible effect on participation, leading to fewer cyclists. For cyclists however, there is safety in numbers; motorists are more considerate of cyclists simply because they are everywhere and part of the normal roadscape². There is also the simple weighing of risks: head injuries are, comparatively, very rare. The energy devoted to making helmets mandatory are better spent in improving road safety by different means.

For children the risk of head injury occurring is simply higher, which is why you will see many children wear helmets in the Netherlands until they reach their teens.

1: https://www.fietsersbond.nl/ons-werk/fietsers-en-veiligheid/...

2: Almost exclusively low speed roads; up to 30 km/h within built-up areas, 60 km/h without. Faster roads tend to have separate cycleways near or parallel to them and prohibit cyclists from using the roads themselves.
> "Monthly articles with special depth on specific topics from industry experts as well as features to get more out of the MDN Web Docs" ... "includes the ability to use the MDN Web Docs offline, to create your own personal collection that you can access from any device, to be notified of changes to certain articles, and themes"

I'm not particularly impressed. Does anyone really want to pay for the modern version of Linda.com, when we're swamped with free tutorials and blogs already...?
I think at this point it should be common wisdom that anything and everything can and will be adapted to yet again introduce a power imbalance. The people who supposedly rule people -- a-hem, sorry, they manage them (heh) -- don't like it when the worker has influence of the process and especially the costs and schedules.

So they'll co-opt any newfangled trend into plain old serfdom. And they do.

As another commenter said, we should take page from the lawyers. A lot of them manage to convert bosses into paying subscribing customers.
Check out Gemini, its format is even more limited than Markdown, and it's TLS-native unlike Gopher.

Gopher might have won if students had ~/public_gopher directories, but it was not to be...
> At a large enough scale, I agree that there's an impact to locals. But don't tourists also boost the local economy, the travel industry and introduce different cultures themselves? It's not such a clear case that this is all negative.

And tourism is planned into this with the way zoning permits work. But AirBnB skirts those rules. Also the negatives of losing housing in a city far outweigh any financial benefit that could come to it, especially as most won't be reaped by the people that are being forced out...or it will be taken from them in terms of increased rent because the supply is much smaller.

> The lack of regulations is an issue of local governments not catching up to tech companies, as usual, not Airbnb.

Or it's because AirBnB actively lobbies against it and refuses to enforce rules, saying it's up to the individual providers. They facilitate it, and often most things on AirBnB are illegal and against the zoning laws of whatever building they're being used for.

> What if those tourists do eventually become locals after staying at an Airbnb? Are you against migrants as well?

What a ridiculous question. Obviously I'm not against migrants. I'm against tourists thinking they have a right to live like locals.
> The locals do benefit financially from tourism. Markets like Airbnb's simply accelerate this, which of course introduces issues, but governments should carry more of the blame for this than a company that disrupts the hotel industry.

> The locals do benefit financially from tourism. Markets like Airbnb's simply accelerate this, which of course introduces issues, but governments should carry more of the blame for this than a company that disrupts the hotel industry.

The locals benefit nothing from AirBnB. The landlords do, sure, but the actual residents and regular workers do not. If anything, it makes matters worse as rents are driven up, or they have to move further away from work. In the worst case scenarios, the town just becomes tourist-oriented and there's no other jobs left. That's a horrible thing as if the tourism ever dries up, the town is left up the creek.

But also tell the locals they benefit financially when their local bar closed down because the landlord thought it'd be better to make it a shop that caters towards tourists; or when all their neighbors move out because of the rambunctious drunken tourists coming in at 2 every night of the week; or when
their landlord decides to evict them/up their rent because the landlord knows they can make more on AirBnB than renting to residences.

It's a wholly negative impact to everyone except those people who own the AirBnBs, who are often skirting multiple regulations, facilitated by AirBnB itself. It is a net negative for the city, and I know personally that housing crisis in at least one country (Ireland) has been facilitated by it, as the amount of houses on the market in Dublin doubled during the pandemic when tourism was shut down.
Gorhill managed to get uBlock to block CNAME masked domains, so surely this wouldn't be that out of reach for an adblocker?

Good luck getting this to work in google chrome though.
Given the choice, I don't think anyone would spend their lives living in a dorm or youth hostel, or a homeless shelter, or a tenement block with communal facilities that would rapidly fall into disrepair (I mean, look at the state of various housing projects and slumlord setups now and imagine if the same setup with communal bathrooms would actually be better kept than that).
Wait are you really suggesting that the Airbnb programmers thought "guys, we need to stop low-IQ people from using our site"?? That's crazy.

> explicitly advertises that their methods can keep out "low-skilled workers" on "human fraud farms"

Uhm yeah. They're trying to keep people from human fraud farms (who happen to be low-skilled workers) out. It's not a weird elitist conspiracy to keep all low-IQ people from society out.

Why is HN so full of paranoid conspiracy theories?
Nah... Windows never gets vintage. It's just old and clunky. ;-)

In order to be "vintage" in retrocomputing terms it'd need to evoke a different time. Windows 2000 is... just Windows, but with less bling. It's not like an Amiga, with its idiosyncratic OS, or a BBC micro, booting up to a menu of what ROM's were inserted in the motherboard sockets. Or even modern zOS, which workflows that are kind of based on stacks of punch cards and tapes, even though both are virtualized and abstracted into tiered storage and everything runs on freakishly fast hardware.
Fed's Brainard sees case for U.S. central bank digital currency
We are destroying ecosystems on land as well. Everything is connected and there is no free lunch — the answer isn't to completely stop doing one or the other only to greatly increase impacts on the other parts of the biosphere, it is to produce food with sustainable, science based management, which is absolutely possible in the ocean.
The EU had some great time not long ago but it lost its way. Now apart from GPDR what was the last good news you heard from this EU? Was it about automatic censorship filter? About Frontex turning into a military organization designed to help people die at sea?

From some perspective, the EU is much better than my local corrupt/authoritarian government (France) and effectively serves to keep french abuses of power in check (though it always takes 5+ years of litigation to reach the European Court of Human Rights or the ECJ). But in even worse-off countries like Hungary the EU is essentially powerless against human rights abuses.

Also in France the EU had zero negative impact because the EU is more or less controlled by France (and a handful other countries) so the neoliberal anti-social policies are usually already in place before they became mandatory on a european level, but in some EU countries the EU is the reason your kids can't study, your cousin lives on the street, and your grandma can't afford healthcare. I'm thinking about Greece among others here, where EU has put enormous pressure on an entire country to pay for banking shenanigans and created enormous suffering for the entire population just to pay of a few french/german banks who can well do without (and without whom we could do well, as well).

So it's not exactly one-sided. And in fact, we could make the argument corruption and anti-democratic policies in the EU (anti-social regulations, proposals ignored by the parliament which has very little power compared to the commission) is part of what's led to the new rise of fascism across Europe. To keep Greece as an example, people massively voted for Tsipras a few years back, but under Troika pressure he took away all his campaign promises and sent the riot cops against the local population just like the previous government. So now they have a right-wing authoritarian government who's cracking down even harder on social services and launched a military assault on the only free commune of the capital (Exarchia) where life was a little less worse than elsewhere around the country.

Is it supposed to be that hard to keep only the good stuff and say fuck you to bankers and other suit-and-tie people?
They saw a city disappear from the map in a matter of seconds and did not surrendered. After the second bomb, some officials tried to kidnap the Emperor, in his way to the radio where he would do the surrender spech so they could continue the war.
This is a good exposition of a normal dynamic in the public markets. I don't think it will be as dramatic in the private markets because spirals require liquidity and regular price updates neither of which happen in private markets.

That said the idea that once you think you know how to do a strategy (whether that's in bond trading or in growth rounds) its utility decreases as everyone copies it is very true, and a key aspect of how markets get efficient.
We're presumably speaking about a shared bathroom in your home, not about travel accommodation. It would infringe upon a fundamental need for privacy that people have: having a space that is yours alone, where you are free to do whatever, without being observed by others.

I've seen some (studio) apartments that have a private bathroom that outside the front door, but still inside the building. I would very much dislike this: to me, it feels like it would break my private space, forcing me to allow for the possibility to run into others each time I go to the bathroom.
It's a problem pretty much everywhere I guess. I've been almost killed 3 times in the last two years, and every time it was a car driver breaking a law.

From what I've gathered it seems car drivers are annoyed because overtaking cyclists requires more thinking than following the white line, and envious because cyclists don't have parking space problems and can just get off the bike and switch to the sidewalk.

Some people feel entitled to more rights on the road because they paid more for their vehicle.
https://www.comparably.com/companies/mozilla/executive-salar...
That goes for any "unconventional" outdoor sports really (i.e. anything that's not footy or horses). North is always up for crazy random shit, but good luck explaining paddleboarding or mountainbiking to someone in Cambridgeshire.
Unless it's a big site that will get targeted specifically, custom solutions can be made without being such a hassle. Lichess have you move a chess piece. Forums I've used have had a simple question ala "what is 4 + five". A newspaper has a question based on the article before you can comment to prove you read it.

These are much better for the users, you share less data with Google and others, and are fairly trivial to implement. Easy to circumvent, but spammers aren't looking at you specifically.
I don’t think you need a special reason to have both an ID card and a passport. The ID card is only valid inside Europe though.
Non-RF MOSFETS can be about 2000 watts for 10 cents... [1]. RF transistors aren't substantially more difficult to make either. They're only pricy today due to low volume.

[1]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32993849971.html
Proof of work. I wonder if these mental exercises do increase IQ.
Got you, thanks for the link! I've been meaning to write a small native GUI app for fun but all the current options (GTK, Qt) are so large, it's a bit daunting. So I was full of hope when reading the original comment ^^'