skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess anti-GDPR won. So-called "Cookie popups" are about so much more than cookies. Looks like anti-GPDR marketing managed to make even technically-literate people unaware of their rights.

If you're using a menstruating-cycle app, GPDR will protect you against the app owner publicizing your name that you're pregnant, and thus protect you against anti-abortion mobs, if you wish to abort. A cookie banner wouldn't do that. Because GPDR is NOT about the cookies.

If we were to speak exclusively about tracking (which is, again, a very very small part of GPDR), even simply dismissing as a browser-side "feature" is yet another brainwashing win from anti-GPDR marketing. The number of ways to track people in a browser is infinite. From canvas rendering, to DRM, from cache leakage to window size. Hell, even the GPDR banners explicitly say so! Most GPDR banners now contains an option to allow site owner to fingerprint your browser to track you.

Considering the way we went with browsers (was it right adding so many features? I don't know. But the effects are there), we CAN NOT put this on browsers, it is technically impossible. If Google wants to prove the world that it is possible, fine, I'll grab popcorn. But at the moment they are not even trying.

So no, history has proven again and again that those privacy issues can not be handled technically. Only through regulation can privacy be preserved.
>What are your counter points it won't be a precedent?

That the US has extradited people from the UK for over 100 years.

>Slippery slope fallacy isn't a fallacy, if and only if it is demonstrated again and again as modus operandi.

I don't even know how to respond - maybe see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope ?

If you cherry pick examples - that is not how evidence works. The proper way is to take all laws, not just a few you think supports your case, and see how many have done what you claim is "modus operandi".

If the majority have not done what you claim, then more likely to not do what you claim.

Also, if laws are going to go where you claim they are, then Assange is not going to be the brick in the wall stopping it.
What features of democracy are you concerned with? It’s not hard to find employee-owned and/or cooperatives.

CHS, Inc up here in St. Paul does almost 40 billion in revenue as a cooperative.
> He's just another rich cringe conservative.

"Lorde Edge" is outstanding cringe. He's focusing on and making his image intentionally out of cringe. It's utterly bizarre.
Your link does not seem to support that assertion. I am very doubtful that a quarter of BC’s workers are in the technology sector, however you define it.
>> neighbours were telling everyone to just buy Microsoft

Healthy dividends and massive growth; you should have listened to them!
If you have N things producing data, and M things consuming data, you have a problem where each of the M consumers needs to handle all N types of input data, meaning you have to implement N*M things. But if you have a "narrow waste", meaning a common interface like JSON that all N things are capable of producing and all M things are capable of consuming, then you only need to implement N+M things (N things that produce JSON, and M things that consume JSON).
I don't have nor never have held any crypto currency and only follow the market with a passing interest and superficial knowledge (i.e. a long way of saying I don't know jack-shit when it comes to crypto) but I always figured that the tightening up of KYC would lead to an implosion of Eth, Bitcoin etc since they are traceable.

I further note that Monero seems to be doing ok-ish which is good news for those with funds already in the various block-chains.

The financial sanctions against Russian held funds and assets is causing a mad scramble to move funds out of exchanges (some of which are semi-fronts). After all, it happens to be a very convenient way of washing a few Billion.

The fly in the ointment is that the increased scrutiny from the various Fin-Regs is also shining a light on to those that use crypto (DNM's, Ransom-Ware Guys, Arms traders etc etc). Previously there was some degree of 'looking the other way' as long as the correct wheels were greased. The loss of Russian funds/backing is leaving a lot of exchanges' coffers looking rather threadbare. That the other sources of 'dark' money are getting jittery under the increased scrutiny means that this is going to end up in tears for a lot of exchanges.
You brought up the point of banning (restricting) all firearms. No sense arguing about assault weapons since that's a loosely based term. I think the fact that all the world's police use firearms should point to their effectiveness.
The Performance of Six Linux Distributions on the HP Dev One
I'm not sure I fully understand your point. Are you saying that because they wanted to be "different", they should allow behavior like this?
>I see so many websites – even club websites or private blogs – that have a cookie consent banner, but which wouldn't actually need one if they'd just turn off Google Analytics. I just don't get it.

Actually, most are probably not even correctly following the law since the cookies will probably be set before the popup is accepted. For most, people just assume they need a cookie banner. I'm pretty sure I've seen cookie banners on sites that had no cookies.
Indeed, Mercury has been phenomenal for us too. It's painful to use other banks now. How they've executed so quickly and competently in a tricky space is quite something to watch.

But the thought of them pulling a Brex-like move might now keep me awake at night... hopefully they would just add a monthly fee on before reaching that point.
I don't think he jumped the shark, more like the curtain fell down and there was not much there but marketing and crowd-work savvy.
The UK's strategy before leaving the EU - make the EU a terrible place and the UK a better alternative, essentially dropping the bomb and then leaving.
That's why they voted in favor of all those bad new digital directives back 2-3 years ago.

Keywords article 13 or 17. Uploadfilters etc.
Well one difference is that the people who work in the government bureaucracies are still citizens, and are able to vote for or against the leaders that manage them. Workers don’t have a say in who manages the company or how they do it.
Nope, those are language extensions not defined by ISO C.

Any language can have such intrinsics as extensions, for example D, Rust, C++, Swift, .NET, Java (as preview).
Seems aligned with General Pershing's vision of “Infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars.”

Having a source of electricity that doesn't require diesel fuel can be advantageous. It's silent, with a lower heat signature too.
>I want to know how many people visited my website. So does every website

You can do that easily without third-party tracking cookies.
Because you are comparing yourself to other people?
There must be some clever meta-level phrase to describe the few times every year when someone learns about "Eternal September" and posts this link.
Ask HN: Anyone raised capital directly into a German UG entity?
2. Get humans to the Moon, if not to Mars

I think there is a misconception here, SpaceX does not send anyone to space, NASA, ESA etc .. does.

SpaceX builds rockets that's it, they don't train astronaut or have a program for space exploration or missions.
I would argue that the early adopters were inconsequential. They were too few in numbers to affect anything.

The internet created a culture on it's own, one that continues to be a challenge to integrate into society, because human nature weren't designed for it. It's a new environment, and our information processing capabilities and peculiarities lack the adaptation for it. The internet is a bold experiment.
>You can't just fire people for criticism.

Why do you believe that?
Since it's a free market - why shouldn't a group of people work together to improve their lot in it?
How does serotonin in a pill reach the brain then? :)

Is there some special delivery mechanism behind it?
There is some limited discussion here[0] which doesn't fully explain the prevalence of "tl" but suggests the word "atl" meaning "water" was very common and often combined with other words to create new words metaphorically.

[0]https://basketmakeratlatl.com/?page_id=1508
Elon owns 54% of the outstanding stock of SpaceX and has voting control of 78% of the outstanding stock of SpaceX [1]

So yes, for all intent purposes he is their employer.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-SpaceX-does-Elon-Mu...
Sometimes I forget how militarized the computer industry used to be, probably still is, in one way or another. For every Stallman and Aaron Swartz there’s a Grace Hopper dressed in military attire while talking about computers.

Sad, too, that I haven’t seen any news in here today about Assange’s extradition to the US, at least not on the front page.
...Can you not track how many people visit your site on the back end?
But we can revoke the "monopoly of force" whenever we* want, without violence. That sounds a lot like a "social contract".

* For some value of "we" which differs by jurisdiction:

https://ripplejustice.com/2020/01/02/prisoner-voting-uk/
Yes, it's a daft plan and it's unlikely to work if they press ahead with it (at least if you think "work" here has anything to do with protecting children). You know that. I know that. But the problem isn't how to convince HN, it's how to convince Mumsnet and the tabloid-reading grandparents.
I'm confused how data structures work in this language, and there's no documentation about it as far as I can tell. Is this going to be a Rust-style vectors+iterators system? It it going to use purely-functional concatenative structures? The first example you show invokes `map` and `sum` over an Array, but what is this code actually doing? Making a copy of the data in the array? Creating a mapping iterator?
Crypto Traders Turn Against Each Other in a Collapsing Market
To Build Dark Patterns, I Refuse
I'm surprised it was that late ...though that lines-up with when they bought PA Semi (https://appleinsider.com/articles/08/04/23/apple_buys_chip_d...)
I'm similar. I prefer a symmetrical trackball so I can alternate hands and give the other hand a rest. I have been happily using a Kensington Orbit [1] for many years now. It has a scroll ring surrounding the track ball which I also really like. Absolutely love this trackball!

[1] https://www.kensington.com/p/products/electronic-control-sol...
It should be mentioned here that "for cause" can be any number of things, including simply "attendence issues", which realistically can be any sickness of you or your children that aren't quite covered by FMLA. All this realistically takes is you plus your three young children getting influenza at different times in a span of two months. Or not working mandatory overtime due to child care issues.
by "According to Tesla (and SpaceX) fans" you mean some random tweet I read one time?
From the article:

"It's clear that Powell hopes the housing cooldown caused by rising mortgage rates will help to push inventory levels up. "

The Fed wants housing prices to fall and is hoping this will bolster housing supply in the short term since building inventory takes a lot of time.
I wish I had a 3D printer, because my hands are too small for my ploopy (I have very small hands). Going back to my EX-G for now.
I heard a conductor actually yell “BOARD!!!” over the PA system on CalTrain last month. It was delightfully anachronistic!
"proper software support" comes when the you get blobs and sources. Until now, only Google does it, the other rather ignore or refuse to release something
Sounds like these employees were really pushing it.

> The letter upset many staffers, Ms. Shotwell [SpaceX's President] said, saying they felt pressure to “sign onto something that did not reflect their views.”

> “We have too much critical work to accomplish and no need for this kind of overreaching activism,” she said in the email.
I think this is already the case for a lot of people who code in JS all day. Once in a while, they need to do something simple in a shell that requires to have a look at the syntax.

I bet someone coming from JS background wouldn't have to check how to do `ls().map(whatever)`

But they will definitely need it to do `for d in */ ; do whatever(); done`
Jacobin: private capital is BAD. Why? Because it's part of evil for-profit capitalism! Seriously, that actually appears to be the thesis.

> Instead of waiting to see what Google or Amazon hand us, technology is produced by communities and collectives to serve very different needs and ends.

You can already do that - right now. But it's easier to write a whiny diatribe than it is to learn how to program though, isn't it?
Oh neat, it's been a while since I've checked in on this project! I hope they find enough success to move on to other configurations. I saw a nano version floating around at one point, which was literally just a ball without buttons.
On the Drama and Power of Dialogue
If you need six months of expenses, you likely got laid off, which means your stocks are likely tanking as well, and it takes longer to get a new job. A cash or bonds emergency fund is perfectly logical. Six months isn't even that much money; in a normal 2% inflation year, that means you're losing less than 0.01% of the amount each month to inflation. The peace of mind is worth that, isn't it?

Personally I have 2 years in cash because I like to take 6+ month sabbaticals between jobs, but even that is a negligible amount due to my expense/income ratio.
> I don’t understand why you think crypto funds don’t arrange the same kind of “oversite” you describe.

Because they don't. Because it's a wild west. TradFi has it's failures as well - but that's "whataboutism".

DeFi is collapsing in real time and we'll probably see oversight and regulation around this in the near future.
I've had several Credit Union accounts across different states. They vary in quality and services.

One has great internet banking, remote check deposit, Zelle, and I can always talk to a real human on the phone when I need to. (Bonus: hearing my hometown accent). Nearly every financial product I need is there. And, I trust them, with cause.

My other CUs have fewer services and would not function as primary banks.
Nothing to link to yet, sorry, but we really just followed the "standard procedure" - it basically involved writing a C API to our business logic, which wasn't all too bad for us as the actual API surface we need isn't huge. You could of course circumvent that and use another IPC mechanism based on your preferences.

In the end, we get a dylib that we can call like any other. A big pain point is debugging the generated native code, which isn't impossible but best to be avoided. I'd recommend having a good logging infrastructure in place and building abstractions that let you debug and test your .NET code without the UI layer.
> This company survives on public funding via NASA.

They are doing something NASA can't do so I think NASA is getting good value for the money.
Illegal policies are not enforced by courts. For instance, forced arbitrarion clauses, no discussions of wages, non-disparagement (Does your company say you aren't allowed to say negative things about the company, whether online or otherwise? Again, this probably violates your right to discuss working conditions), confidential information (if it violates your right to discuss working conditions), or social media prohibitions (if the company social media policy says you aren't allowed to discuss or disparage the company in social media, that may well violate your right to complain about working conditions)
Very interesting, would love to see something similar for what we know of the Mayan deities and beliefs too.
An rct with n=40 is better than the junk non-controlled studies that inexplicably get funded and accepted by journals but probably meaningless for something involving something as subjective as mental health.
That no different from any margin loan
BYD and Tesla were founded in the same year...

Beyond that, there is also XPeng and NIO, which aren't as large in scale ad Tesla, but are scaling significantly faster than Tesla did and are much much younger and definitely qualify as "at scale".

So, clearly, scaling a new car company isn't something Tesla was the only one to do in its era.
> in the eyes of the media

Everyone can see his tweets, public statements and interviews. Musk is doing a great job embarrassing himself without the help of “the media”.
It's completely outrageous and there is still no momentum to undo it.
Yeah but what Musk means by it is freedom from consequences.
Of course they do! I am one, and my level of trust is not pretty.

And it is no more pretty when it comes to private entities handling things.

Both serve profit, not people.

And there is massive corruption.

Those do us no favors.

The answer comes from us, the people. That is what the law says. The propaganda is all about everything but that.

See it now?

There are places in the world where government is effective and it performs the tasks the people need, want and appreciate. Corruption is low.

Ask those people and they will tell you their mistrust is of money, power, and threats to democracy.

Our propaganda talks about our democracy all the time. People who study this can tell you public opinion has almost zero impact on policy. That is not democracy.

Americans know these things, and their trust is low, as it would be for anyone in similar circumstances.

Americans seek answers and there are none to be had amidst the propagandized national discourse.

That's the source of deeply rooted things as discussed above.
Do you have any support that it’s not a myth, other than…”a lot of people are saying…”? I mean, burden’s on the one making the claim, not the other way around.
I don't know what physical issues exist but there are immense challenges with these projects, not least of which is that you often have to do most or all of the work before you can get any benefit. You then have old trains that need replacing as well, driver training, maintenance training etc. Oh, and you also need to find a workforce of several thousand skilled workers and mostly do the work at night so that you can still run a train service.

In the UK, they recently electrified a lot of the Great Western mainline and decided to go with a cheaper/quieter type of installation method - auger drills iirc - for the pillars (why not), but at certain points, they started finding large granite boulders from the original railway construction which wouldn't be drilled, which meant new plans, new equipment, new training and loads of cap-ex when they were still years away from service. They also found tonnes of electrical system conflicts which meant whole signalling systems being replaced even before they had life-expired.

I love trains and I love modernisation but most of us underestimate the enormous amount of work involved in an upgrade like this.
You mean, a company where the workers have more power? A unionized company?
Depends entirely on the regulatory framework. Up until now crypto has been largely unregulated. With regulatory I don’t think it will be as volatile/attractive.
I own one; it a normal FDM 3D print, with ridges and all. I assume PLA, but could be ABS.
It's Not Even Noon
A lot of cookie pop-ups you encounter are not even remotely required under GDPR. They are a mostly a form of malicious compliance from the ad-tech industry that want the restrictions lifted.
"Right to speech freely doesn't give you magical protection from consequences of your speech."

You are correct. Money and power does it, though. Your boss won't get fired for talking badly about you, in general, but you can get fired for talking badly about your boss.
> The corporation does not exist for that and is a conduit for revenue exclusively

As god decreed. Was that on the 5th day? I lost count. Corporations are human creations and as such are malleable.
A free market is, by definition, free of collusion.

People with large capital don't need to collude - they already have tons of power as individuals :)

It's like the term "free market" is a thought terminating cliche or something.
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Because Union and Government are, of course, as everyone knows, unmistakeably, just another name for the same thing...
> A lot of people (myself included) really respect SpaceX and I think that's the last pillar on which Elon's reputation stands. Tesla honestly isn't that interesting and there's a real chance it gets eaten alive as other car manufacturers have caught up.

Build quality wise? Definitely, Tesla has a lot of issues there which the established industry has ironed out and perfected over the last hundred years.

Other problems? No way in hell the others can catch up. The old guard of automotive manufacturers simply is too stuck in their old ways - they have to manage the expectations of dealerships (as the only service most electric cars need is brake pad changes and Teslas are sold online, their existence is threatened) and suppliers (your average ICE alone takes something around 1000-2000 distinct parts, whereas electric cars need far fewer for the drivetrain), and no automotive manufacturer has anything resembling a history with developing modern software and it shows everywhere.
This is an interesting story about Turkish region locking with a strange "Nintendo isn't actually the worst" message tacked on.
I don't think that's what he means. Clearly sometimes you just upset people, however you can be careful to minimize it.
What I am talking about is essential for voting or UBI. One person one account.

It isn’t just for kids.

The hardest part is to make sure that the certificate issuing authorities aren’t corrupted (eg by having a self regulating organization like FINRA) when they give out certificates — since those represent free cashflows or outsize voting shares.
Sue Big Oil
They handle it gracefully. As per their write-up[1]:

> In addition, Total Cookie Protection makes a limited exception for cross-site cookies when they are needed for non-tracking purposes, such as those used by popular third-party login providers. Only when Total Cookie Protection detects that you intend to use a provider, will it give that provider permission to use a cross-site cookie specifically for the site you’re currently visiting. Such momentary exceptions allow for strong privacy protection without affecting your browsing experience.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-pr...
It looks bad. You can, legally.

But after so many events of signalling support of free-speech, I think it is massively embarrassing.

(I am neither a Musk fan nor a hater)
Most of those can actually be performed by independent repair shops if a dealer is too far away - but in the USA, that's pretty rare.
I’m already seeing a slight correction in Austin, TX. I get an email with an estimate of value from Redfin once a month - last month it was around $640k (up from the $320k I paid for it 5 or so years ago) and this month it was 600k. Before this month it had steadily climbed every single month since the pandemic rebound.
There are many worker coops that operate as a democracy, some of them quite large. From manufacturing to food service to coding to agriculture, they are in nearly every sector.

Maybe this is news to you, but the arrangement isn't that uncommon.
There were billions of dollars funding work on paid network traffic prioritization in the 90s and early 2000s. Then the whole field was banned in 2005, and it evaporated. The ban was lifted in 2008, then reapplied, then lifted again in 2014, then reapplied in 2015, then lifted again. Vast amounts of money flowed into and out of the sector at each reversal.
It becomes corruption when government regulators do things favorable to an industry and then shortly after take cushy positions in said industry. Regulatory capture is a very real thing and, IMO, a much bigger reason for modern problems of governance than "government bad" or "corporations bad".