skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern cookie banners definitely are malicious compliance and most certainly are also violations of the GDPR.

All those companies could use less invasive methods of asking for consent, such as optional checkboxes in signup forms. Or a non-intrusive "click here to opt-in to tracking". The reason they don't do it like this is because they prefer forcing users to click "Accept All" using dark patterns.

Anyone complaining about shitty cookie banners is actually complaining about companies breaking GDPR.
For sure ! Thanks for the advice
It's essentially the techno libertarian dream - build a profitable business that makes the world a better place. Unfortunately, profit and making the world a better place are pretty diametrically opposed given that profit is the centralisation of power and most social ills are caused by power imbalances. The error libertarians have always made is thinking that the problem of concentration of power is solely an issue with the government and not an inherent issue with markets.
Wrong way, which part supported the claim it was true?

GP can't prove a negative. It's on the journalist to source their assertions.
Leo editor is my literate programming editor of choice.
"not sure this kind of consistent incremental upgrade work is attractive enough to volunteer FOSS developers."

It can't be possibly be attractive enough to compete with the billions of dollars that Apple can spend on this. The company has nearly $200 billion in cash sitting around. FOSS just can't compete with what Apple can invest on hardware development.
It was and it wasn't a joke in restaurants and mess halls on military bases. It wasn't an outright joke, but wasn't hardcore either though.
As long as there's a photography thread...

I'm going to Africa next year. I have been before, and taken a DMC-ZS60. It's OK but not great. By far the best feature is that it packs a tremendous zoom lens into a very small and light package, which is really a must for wildlife photography.

I would like to step up my photography game for my next trip without having to add too much bulk and weight. Once upon a time I had a DMC-GX1 with a 300mm lens and that worked well, but I found that even that was too big for me to comfortably lug around and so I got rid of it because I never used it. That camera is also getting pretty old. Has the technology improved at all? Is there a better alternative out there for a good zoom (300mm or better) without the bulk of a regular DSLR?

[UPDATE]

In case anyone is interested, here are a few shots from the ZS60:

https://flownet.com/ron/trips/Seabourn2019/Pages/422.html

https://flownet.com/ron/trips/Seabourn2019/Pages/496.html

https://flownet.com/ron/trips/Africa2022/Pages/303.html

https://flownet.com/ron/trips/west_africa_2015/Pages/707.htm...

https://flownet.com/ron/trips/west_africa_2015/Pages/950.htm...

And one from the GX1 for comparison. (Another advantage to that camera is a fast shutter!)

https://flownet.com/ron/trips/NWP2015/Pages/162.html
I came across one of these once without knowing about the phenomenon. It’s in Golden Gate Park near the intersection of JFK Drive and Transverse Drive. Water in the stream next to the road appears to flow uphill. Very surreal.
You can also prevent people from dying in a house by making the house too expensive that it's unaffordable for them.
Exactly my experience. I’m a big fan of self documenting code (intention revealing selectors, useful variable names, etc). But I also recognize (and include) the value of low noise comments that guide through the higher abstractions of the code; a sort of yen-yang complementary approach. So I was with the author through the first paragraph and then saw something that looked like Aspect Oriented Programming from the late 90’s complete with the weave and intermediate compilers.
I still miss Firefox's "View Image" context menu option. There is no suitable replacement. No, I do not want to open the image in a new tab. No, I do not want to use some janky extension that re-implements it but places the option at the very bottom of the context menu.
From what I can tell from this text, their solution to increase diversity is to add more dimensions on which to judge a candidate, since an infinite dimensional orange is all skin. In this way any given candidate could be judged as best so when hiring based on objective factors you can also give preference to diverse candidates.

Which seems to be a version of just arbitrarily choosing a candidate that you wanted to hire(for diversity purposes), but who wouldn't normally meet the criteria.
Well how did we convince people to stop throwing human waste out the window, pay for installing sewer pipes and using soap?
If you look at the history of longer establish countries in Europe, the SFH truly has become a luxury. Many families live in multi-generational homes with three generations, when someone marries the new couple lives with one or the other of the parents.
It was an interesting read, but it was super dense and hard to choke the whole thing down.. Maybe I just need to eat some more lunch though..
I thought this was going to be esports for Zork or Rogue.
I've got a rocket flight computer I develop d during covid and one of the top things people say about designing these is to add a flash chip to it. The ad card is great to store data and transfer it to a computer but during flight? No way can you rely on the contacts. So during flight, you save all the data to flash, then once landed, dump it to the SD card. SD card got loose? Beep in a special pattern and keep trying to connect to it, I come along , hear the pattern and hold the SD card in until it stops beeping and emits a "happy" sound letting me know it all transferred.

Here's the computer for reference:

https://github.com/AdamMarciniak/CygnusX1
I'm building out two step function flows with numerous lambda functions each to process a NACHA file (direct deposit). Something that has been done for decades in a single console app. The CTO had already made up their mind that this was how it was going to be before we even started.

It's kind of embarrassing but whatever, we are going to bill a few million to get it done. And that's just my small business logic team. It doesn't count the two or three user interfaces.
Economists generally work in a framework which predates Judea Pearl’s work by at least half a century. Causal inference was not invented by a computer scientist.
My advice would be to carefully construct an explanations of the scenarios when microservices do apply, and then explain why you are not currently in that situation. the best microservice examples I've ever found were for the addition of features to legacy systems, the ability to write minor additional things in alternate languages, and most critically, when the original code base couldn't be changed or was lost, and yet more functionality was required. There are valid reasons to add a microservice there are probably not good reasons to take a normal code base made by a modern company and completely shift to only microservices.
Even Doctor Manhattan couldn't catch them all.
What's smart are the companies doing it for their own interests ($$$), not necessarily the users buying into it.
I am also not a lawyer, but I definitely saw a lot of a behavior where one would CC lawyer cat, and start the email with "please advise" on emails that contained sensitive information but no legal questions.

It bothered me a little, but I also wanted to be able to discuss sensitive numbers in emails and also be productive, so I kinda ignored it.
> fuck it, ship it

This is a sub-domain of Fuck Users, Ship Excrement, or FUSE-Dev.
'Like where do you think all that weight is going?'

A vehicke that can survive a crash at 60 km/h and reach 200km/h and handle properly at that speed is going to weigh accordingly.
That annoys me so much, only downside of buying used stuff (to me), fake replacement battery specs.
Also, "!important" is a blessing when you're writing a user stylesheet to apply to someone else's website.
What forces you to use Wayland? Just curious because usually people are forced to stay on X.
This is a political problem/question, not a scientific one - nothing learned about this topic helps cure, treat or deal with the virus. Maybe the next one, but Covid's out in the wild.

I am curious, however, how the lab-origin story in that timeframe accounts for cases seen in Europe in late 2019 and purported cases earlier in 2019 for people who traveled to China or might have been exposed to such travellers. If this is true, it confirms that the virus was floating about (well?) before the current estimates for the market.

There was a "bad flu" and cases of viral pneumonia in the West in late 2019, long before there was any way of identifying what it was. By the time antibody tests were present, there was a good chance of nothing remaining to see. This might have been totally unrelated to Covid, or the initial strains spreading in a naive population.
And how much to defeat the USA after our failures in afghanistan and iraq?
Right there with you.
React is a screeching infant that has jaundice and a few other yet undiagnosed terminal illnesses.
I think Bay Wheels is quite a bit more than that if you want e-bikes. [1]

Looks like its $159 per year, so $13.25 per month. Then, your rides are $0.20 per minute for the first 45 minutes, $0.40 per minute thereafter, and an additional $2.00 fee for not parking at a station - stations which aren't always conveniently located.

I own an e-bike now that I ride longer distances - that a Bay Wheels bike won't make anyways but I don't consider that a fair comparison. Based on my old commute from the Mission to downtown 5x weekly:

- 1.5mi/12 minutes each way. $0 base + $2.40 assuming optimality.

- Hub on one side, no hub on the other, average $2.00 extra there, $0 extra back.

- Monthly fee assuming 40 rides per month is $0.33.

So for this commute alone we're talking $7.46 per day, $149 per month or $1788 per year. Add on a few grocery runs, grabbing drinks with friends, lunch runs, not wanting to park at a hub when you're in a rush, and we're probably in the low-to-mid $2000 per year price range if you really buy into it.

A VanMoof X3 is $2448 (or $88 per month) [2] It would pay itself off in like 14 months, or you can save 37% on the monthly payment vs Bay Wheels. Now you have something with almost a 100 mile range, a much better ride, that you can park anywhere. If it gets stolen, they'll also send out a team to pick it up via its onboard GPS, and fix it up for you.

My point isn't that you should or shouldn't get a VanMoof X3, it's just that the pricing isn't exactly a slam dunk in favor of Bay Wheels.

[1] https://www.lyft.com/bikes/bay-wheels/pricing

[2] https://www.vanmoof.com/en-US/x3?color=dark
> Marketing something as private/secure and spreading tons of misinformation and outright lies about the mainstream options doesn't make it secure or more secure than those.

That's true and relevant to Purism.

Now, how about something true and relevant to your post wrt FOSS:

> GrapheneOS only supports devices with proper security support for all the firmware, drivers, etc. and again there are no closed source kernel drivers.

Tell me about the license for the source of "all the firmware." And keep in mind you found it important enough to reiterate the point about "no closed source" for the kernel drivers.
Not my experience. With this phone, even doing basic stuff is painful. I still haven't figured out a way to listen to music.
Its kind of inevitable that things become unmaintained; everyone has different interests and priorities that evolve over time as people change jobs, start a family etc.
Maybe so, but we don't want to completely stifle the curiosity of new or junior staff. There's a time and a place though.
Check out Wavian. When looking around I read that they are the 'official' jerry can. I think the one consumers can get might be different if anyone knows that?

It is very sturdy feeling. Literally got last week so tbd on long term use I'm optimistic.

Though I had a problem trying to fill the two up at gas station. I'm going to try again I think it was just the pump or card was acting up since it also wouldn't flow into my car.
I have it (explorer edition), it's more powerful but right now camera does not work. Has a problem of waking from sleep too.

I've tried different setups eg. Manjaro/KDE (default), Arch/Mobian Phosh. KDE is more like a phone, Phosh is "more stable" and particularly my interest external display which is buggy.

Regarding battery I have now just started to remove them from the phone rather than putting it in Airplane mode because it still dies too fast.

The squad [0]

I have Mobian/Phosh running on SD card, see the 6 cores and 4 GB of RAM [1]

I use Tmobile for service cheap sms/call only plan

I don't use it as a daily driver yet, like install an email client and things like that. Was more interested in docked computing as a desktop. I know about Samsung Dex but I'm still onboard for a new OS, I'm particularly annoyed with forced bloat/permission issues (some understandable).

[0] https://i.imgur.com/5ngUibq.png

[1] https://i.imgur.com/A2x3x1t.png
Battery change is great, but wow the ride sounds noisy! I was under the impression that we could expect electric vehicles to be fairly quiet.
Take my intro micro class, or literally any intro micro class, and you will be treated to a chapter on externalities the leading example of which is unpriced carbon emissions which cause global warming.

If you can find me an intro micro class at any university in the United States which doesn’t cover externalities and use global warming as an example I’ll give you a dollar.

This is literally the fourth or fifth thing we teach students in their first class in the field.

Your comment is uninformed.
Good point, people don't realize it or admit it but being born with what society defines as beautiful features gives a person big advantages in life. It's like hitting the lottery as far as advantages vs someone that's not. If you're already wealthy you'll be able to buy those advantages for your kids. It will be one of the greatest inheritance parents can give them.
The Pinephone Pro's software support is will a WIP. It mostly works, but there are still quite a few quirks before I would feel comfortable using at as a daily driver. (For comparision, I have no qualms using a Pinephone or Librem 5 as a daily driver, I currently am using my Librem 5 as my main phone).
We used to go to one in Sonoma County. I would have thought these were pretty common but apparently it was one of only 6 listed in California on the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravity_hills
The worst of it is that price isn't even a good proxy for quality much of the time. I bought a chest-of-drawers for my daughter, chose one that looked about right and was about $350 - certainly less than a custom made piece but 3x as much as the cheapest option.

It was hands down the worst piece of furniture I've every encountered, never mind owned. It was like a stage prop.
Anti-vaxxers are under Russian propaganda influence?
But not satisfying one may cost a lot more than the other, especially if it's a small difference that's small to catch visually.
This is the comment I was looking for. “Microservices” as fashion is often a bad idea. As with any architecture decision you can’t just choose something that other people have called a “best practice” and pretend you did your due diligence, unless you understand why it is a best practice and know how it applies to your particular situation.
Can’t you set it on a gymbaled gyro to stabilize it?
You may be interesting in "Caker Cooking":

* https://cakercooking.blogspot.com/p/the-caker-cookbooks.html

Where "caker" is (Canadian?) slang for Scots-Irish WASP. A fan favourite is "Lime Cheese Salad" which has as its main ingredients: 1 large package lime Jell-O, 1 ¼ cup boiling water, 8 oz cream cheese.

* https://cakercooking.blogspot.com/2014/02/reader-recipe-lime...
Just a judge. So the main purpose of suing them was to make them lose money for cheating me, I didn't have high hopes. You gotta always make people who harm you pay a price, some price, the only thing is it can't be zero. Any time I am defeated I make the opponent's victory a pyrrhic victory. So in that sense I got something valuable out of suing them. Thing is, worker's comp lawyers that defend the employers generally price themselves saying, "if I don't win your case, it'll cost you nothing. You only pay me if I clear your responsibility." That sounds gross but it's good, it means they lost money unconditionally the minute I filed suit.

If they lost the suit, that means they would have paid, and I would have given them the algorithm. Just because they had no sense of honor doesn't mean I didn't either.
I've had a USB flash drive failed after only 3 months in the Raspberry Pi before, so now I'm using a SATA-USB cable with a SSD drive, looking good so far.
If you've say through enough conferences, the ire is because the question usually isn't in good faith. More often than not, it's someone with whatever you call the personality defect that leads them to constantly needing to "show how smart they are" to the room full of people by, presumably in their mind, dunking on the speaker with their wildly naive "what didn't you do X?"

I've also say through Q&A sessions where a guy got up to the microphone to recommend books for the guy giving the presentation to read. It was uncomfortable.
Shai Agassi was on the cover of WIRED back in 2008 and college me thought he was going to save the world. Like a proto-Musk if Elon were actually in it to save the planet.
This seems to be the “popular” narrative but the actual truth seems to be much more nuanced. Labeling the senate as a block for example misses a large part of it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/s7p2dk/how_m...
Why? Everyone agrees it was a short squeeze that led to predatory pricing. It’s a much bigger social good to reverse transactions than to bring charges against all the sellers for price gouging.
But WebGL does put the users data at risk. WebGL is an attack vector for fingerprinting which is data about the user, that gets correlated with other data about the user to stalk them.
Adhocracy: The DAO of Life and Death
Facebook is probably one of the worst things in the world for a healthy society, yet it will not die a timely death, and it will not change its revenue model because it would mean death.

Google has created an intractable problem with global data tracking embedded into the architecture of the internet. Both Google and Facebook could get rid of the problem of online misinformation overnight. However, this would mean death.

Companies grow in size out of fear of death.

Would shareholders ever agree to downgrade their stock value, collapse everything, and start over from scratch?

What if, instead, Facebook or Google simply accepted death as a natural function within a healthy eco-system, and what if shareholders were somehow rewarded for allowing Facebook to die?

If Facebook was run like a DAO / Adhocracy, its death would be greeted, even anticipated. But corporations, like Wall Street, are not as flexible as a DAO can be. Corporations resist death, fearing it–so much that society itself could collapse before Google or Facebook would ever consider it.
I've noticed the same thing with my Pixel. It adds too much contrast in areas that shouldn't. Some simple shots of my pets in uniform lighting end up looking ghoulish because it turns their fur into this streakish blob of very dark and light areas. I've also had weird instances were it tries to "restore" fine detail on zoomed in pictures by inserting gridlike patterns on objects (very similar to images generated by a GAN).
I've heard of Waydroid
I hope he posts an update saying that the battery charge was a mistake and it had been at 49% not 99%. Otherwise, not even reaching 12 mere hours of battery life is... let's leave it at underwhelming
I would go further: literate programming is not just "much more than" commenting code, because you can do LP without commenting much. The main thing in LP is the idea/orientation of writing as if you're writing something for a human reader. This does often lead to more comments, but even something like "here's the code" followed by lots of code can be LP, if you deem it sufficient for your intended audience. (Earlier comment of mine about target audience and not over-commenting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29871047)

This works well for people who are writers by nature (like Knuth who's always making edits and improvements to his books https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30149221). One problem though (and there are several) is that because this is so personal, nearly everyone who seriously tries LP ends up writing their own LP tool (including the author of this post!).
That's the reason why I love flat earth.

Obviously the earth is not flat, or... is it? I suggest you take a look at all the flat earthers arguments, they can explain a surprising amount of things. I particularly like the one that explains gravity using a variation on the Einstein elevator thought experiment. I know it is all wrong, but try to let go of your preconceived ideas and look at their arguments for what they are.

What is good about flat earth is that it is a safe and well "documented" exercise in epistemology. Arguments are relatively easy to disprove even with minimal scientific knowledge, and besides ridicule, it is a harmless belief. I mean, flat earth doesn't suggest that you should kill people or anything like that.
It looks fake and unappealing to me on Asian faces, but becomes even more disturbing when applied to other ethnicities.
>It's worth noting that Singapore's average household income is around 1/5th that of Australia.

A quick Google shows an average household income of $116k AUD for Aussies, and $114k SGD for (resident) Singaporeans. Current exchange rates peg 1 SGD to 0.997 AUD.
My wife printed a few. They have to be relatively precise and it helps for them to be heavier than plastic so they react better. It is mostly disappointing and does not work without a lot of tweaking.
Right, but some of those desirable system properties are much easier and lower friction in microservices.

And others in monoliths.

Each has its pros and cons.
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