skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, the nag to harvest email addresses was weird. It completely covered the article. I almost closed the tab without reading the article.

IMO: Get rid of it. (Or use a normal style that doesn't nag for an email address until you've scrolled a bit, and keeps the page visible while the nag is open.)

Why? People don't always read an article when they open a page. (I certainly don't.) By the time I saw the page I was totally lost from the context of what the page was, and the only reason why I didn't close the article was because the title on the Hacker News adjacent tab looked interesting.
I can appreciate the argument, but it still bothers me. Don't you think there's an argument to be made for educating the user, rather than reinforcing their misunderstanding?

localStorage is just one of many ways to track users. You could also store data in indexedDB, the new File API, installed service workers, or even the browser cache if you're clever enough.

If we start lumping all forms of tracking (storage) under "cookies", that's going to get real messy, real fast.
Quibi
Not that it was "dissent", per se, but The Federalist Papers were published under the pseudonym "Publius", and I'd say there has been a long tradition of anonymous or pseudonymous dissent.
You should entertain the idea that they claim they have a stronger responsibility to the principals of free speech than the communities you claim are harmed by their customers content.
"Publius" [0] might have something to say about that.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers
Your second paragraph describes the US more accurately than China, I think.
Needs? As in: twitter and facebook fucked up social structures and we need it?
Only if you do business in that jurisdiction.

I'm pretty sure some of the websites I'm running are breaking laws in about fifty countries, but I don't care because I don't live or do business there.
heh that episode of South Park is seared into my brain

> Two days before the day after tomorrow

> Bah gawd... that's today
Chrome extensions with 1.4M installs covertly track visits and inject code
ECS is a one of the possible designs of what we usually call "the gamestate" that is the dynamic structure that holds the game world simulation.

But the origin of ECS is Data Oriented Design, also known as DOD, that emerged as a reaction to the bad properties of OOP.

DOD is more general and IMHO more interesting than ECS.

I have not yet seen a satisfying implementation of ECS, it can be extremely fast compared to OOP approach, but also cumbersome when dealing with dependencies between systems and the ways to handle structural changes.

My take would be : learn the principles, do some benchmark, but do not consider any ECS implementation as gospel, this is not mature yet.

Use the ideas and principles to build a fast simulation in your own way.
I took civil engineering a long ago in college but diverged on my career. This is what I recall.

In reinforce concrete beams the bending causes compression on the top and tension on the bottom. Since concrete is weak in tension (maybe 1/10 of compression strength), the rebar at the bottom will carry the tension. When you do the design calculations, some approximations are made like concrete carries no tension on bottom half of beam and how the stress is distributed on the top portion. Then with iterative analysis you can converge on an solution. Then once you got the basic design, there will other rules like displacement, buckling conditions.

Here is an example design calculation I could find: https://civilengineeringbible.com/subtopics.php?i=32
Reminds me of those yearly engineering competitions where students build canoes out of concrete and race them: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_canoe
Are you sure about that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_graffiti
I do this with extension cords, bit of electrical tape and most potential yoinkers will think twice about yoinking.
Have you heard of Good Gym in the UK?

https://www.goodgym.org/
I don't think what you are talking about has happened in the last 10 years. And it was only bugs/deficiencies back before.

Browsers are incredibly careful, better designed than OSes. For example, browsers all shipped protection against spectre/meltdown within weeks of the vulnerabilities being revealed. Browsers are extremely conservative & some of the best engineered sandboxes on the planet.

If you could link to something, anything describing what specifically you think the threat is, what problems there are, I'd be most appreciative. This fear-centric conjecture you are spreading does not match what the intent of the browser is, which is to provide a tight secure sandbox such that a user can navigate anywhere at all and have a safe comfortable predictable time.
Cars don’t require a computer to function. You literally can’t print off a computer without a computer.
Thousands of Android apps leak hard-coded secrets, research shows
Nope. I said it too, earlier on. But no-one ever pays any attention to my words of wisdom:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32659058#32659107
Which is a weird thought process. Would a site rather get rid of 99% of its user base overnight (by making them go through identity/age verification) or change some basic privacy policies to be compliant with the law?
Such scheme is somewhat popular in agriculture where city dwellers come to work on a farm and are paying for the experience.
More like annoyed, because it is not something I can easily get into. But hey, still better than all those crypto/web3 posts.
Would you mind posting your AsRock hardware?

I was considering AsRock x300 mini desktop, but it supports only 2.5” HDDs. I am looking for two 3.5” HDDs, one NVMe and ECC RAM, low power CPU, around $600 or so.
Depends on how you define new. The Federalist and Anti-Federalist were anonymous. Rosicrucianism And other such philosophies come from anonymous sources (they dissented to the religious norms of their time). Basically since the printing press Western societies have had anonymous dissent.
Not really. Publishing anonymously goes way back. Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published anonymously.
This website blatantly misquotes Google's website.

The Google website says: "Universities may nominate up to four eligible students. We encourage nominating students with diverse backgrounds especially those from historically marginalized groups in the field of computing. If more than two students are nominated then we strongly encourage additional nominees who self-identify as a woman, Black / African descent, Hispanic / Latino / Latinx, Indigenous, and/or a person with a disability."

The online article says: "the third and fourth nominees must self-identify as a woman, Black / African descent, Hispanic / Latino / Latinx, Indigenous, and/or a person with a disability."

Other sections of Google's website were similarly misquoted. You can see Google's actual website on this program here: https://research.google/outreach/faq/?category=phd

Google's actual statement is more akin to the little "underrepresented minorities strongly encouraged to apply" notices at the bottom of many job ads. Regardless of your feelings about it, nothing Google is doing here even brushes close to a violation of the Civil Rights Act.
Now do what % of people ever need rescuing by the fire service.
I have a website to host some basic static content and maybe a few pieces of text. I don't feel like this makes my life any more burdensome. Do you maybe mean that it will become increasingly burdensome to own a website that collects analytics on users, or something similar?
> If not Cloudflare, then someone else, that's the reality of it.

When has this ever been a valid excuse for bad behavior?
> much like the EU's GDPR resulted in paranoid legal teams adding "cookie banners" everywhere

Shoutout to this [1] firefox plugin that I rely on daily

[1] https://github.com/jannisch/cookie-popup-blocker
Oh, so like a forum full of people addicted to internet stalking?
I have one Mikrotik switch and it's the only device on my network that just randomly decides it doesn't want to DHCP renewal and falls back to some random static IP until a power cycle.

Since it's a switch that I rarely touch it's not a big deal, but "not polished" is putting it mildly for sure.

Price & performance is still solid if you just treat it as a VLAN-aware "dumb" switch, though.
> "A business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children"

This seems stupidly vague.
At some point it'll be easier to run it as TOR hidden service, on Freenet or I2P and stop caring about the bullshit legislation.
Does your personal blog collect information about users? If so, then maybe?
Am I correct to say that you're literally advocating for a nanny-state then? A state that is charged entirely with taking care of children (and by extension adults)?
> "Nazism is bad"

Yes, it pretty much is. Over here it's against the law to futher it. What's wrong with enshrining this principle in the actual law, that 1) affects the whole society, not just users of one particular corporation, 2) it's enforcement is dispensed by an actual court, not a PR department pushed by a twitter mob?
Yeah. By the time you're looking at stuff in the milligram range it becomes quite problematic to ensure consistent doses. I would be confident that I could get an *average* of 1mg/day but I would not be confident I could ensure every day was in .9mg to 1.1mg.
I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do - Gavin B
Calibre will convert it to PDF for you. Might be overkill.
No, there definitely seems to be a "there" there. I went zero carb for 6 months and I was able to continually fast for 24-44 hours at a time, always with zero hunger pangs after the initial "break-in" period, which seems to be about 2-3 weeks. Sadly I don't think the zero carb life is "doable" for me personally, because giving up pasta and pizza is a huge ask. Honestly I would rather die 10 years earlier than live a life with no pizza or carbonara.
God, why!?
tl;dr making it harder to exploit your users can lower the (already absurdly high) profits

Of course because this doesn't profit companies like Google or Facebook, they'll do anything they can to promote voices opposed to it. And because they control what most people are shown as "the Internet", they might succeed.

A properly working, democratic government is the only thing that can protect the society from corporations. If you trust the government less than corporations, it's probably because your government is shit.
So we should keep up Kiwifarms because something similar has happened on Twitter? Is that the logic? Instead of removing one of the evils let's keep them both up because fairness or something like that?
Midgard (Role-Playing Game)
40M is not a lot on a global scale actually. For many websites that target a global audience that would not be a big number to lose out.

Many US websites now block Europeans because they don't want to bother with the GDPR and I would not be surprised if the opposite starts happening too.
it's going to take quite some time to read it all since it's long and deserves the time but since it's soliciting early feedback here it is: research and quote all the works done over the last 10 or so years by others in this space!!

The topic of cognitive load in software development is far from rarely considered and in fact it's been somewhat "popular" for several years depending on what communities and circles you participate it on- and off-line.

I'm surprised not to find any mentions to things like:

- the Team Topologies book by Skelton and Pais, published in 2019 where they cover the topic. Particularly of note here is the fact that Skelton has a Computer Science BSc and a Neuroscience MSc

- the many, many, many articles, posts, discussions and conference sessions on congnitive load from the same authors and connected people in subsequent years (I'd say 2021 was a particularly rich year for the topic)

- Dan North sessions, articles and posts from around 2013/2014 in which he talks about code that fits in your head but no more, referencing James Lewis original... insight. E.g. his GOTO 2014 session "Kicking the Complexity Habit" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqgwHXsQA1g&t=510s a quick search returns references to it even in articles from 2020 https://martinfowler.com/articles/class-too-large.html

- Rich Hickey's famous 2011 Simple Made Easy talk https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/
> This isn't a political action group that takes donations and lobbies. It's a site where people's personal information is offered up to anyone who wants it, knowing that many of those people want to do harm with it. The owners and moderators know all of this and both allow and encourage it.

I don't think that specific passage was in reference to KiwiFarm's paid plan.

> Yes, this should be an issue for law enforcement. But this has been going on for years and nothing has been done, in spite of many efforts being made and many people literally going into hiding due to harassment from this site.

This is the specific contradiction I'm trying to avoid. It feels incredibly odd to me to look at a coordinated campaign of harassers and think "it should be easier for organized groups of people to control the conversation". You can look at my comments in this thread or in others, I'm totally cool every time hateful shitbags are taken off the internet and I fight back when they're defended. I'm just not in favor of any broad policy that puts one organization in control of speech.
I wonder if they could make one from Iridium now. Now that would be flashy.
Vault is not able to provide guarantees similar to an HSM.
What happens when the web app decides to send the server the entire contents of the localStorage every time it loads? Now we are back to emulating cookies with localStorage.
Court Orders Telegram to Disclose Personal Details of Pirating Users
Why can Microsoft seemingly not commit and stand by decisions in the way Apple does?
That’s a distinction without a difference IMHO.

Local storage (or Cache API, IndexedDB) + Service Worker = Cookies (simply add a header to every request)

Local storage + DOM manipulation to add search params with the stored content = Cookies (apart from first navigation)

And on the flip side

Cookies set using JS + Ignore cookies server side = Local storage

It’s almost like the object/closure equivalence.
What in particular? Happy to share what I can.
That is all useful info, thanks.

For the enterprise offering can you give a rough idea of pricing without having to book a demo etc.?
I just don't want to live in a world where my trans friends get relentlessly harassed and cyber bullied until they kill themselves. Can I have that?
I’m talking about HTML templating, not templating SQL statements.
The name is a bit unfortunate in an international context - "Samen" can be translated to "sperm" in German (also "seed")...
> Considering California has 40M people, that's not a cohort businesses can shut off from the internet.

As someone who lives in a 447-million European Union and who keeps on getting HTTP 451 responses from various US-based services and websites after GDPR has gone into effect, I can't help but chuckle at your comment.
It’s actually relevant since it’s one of the only sites on the web where you can express an opinion like that and not be removed
Which CDN are you using?
Does Russia have to invade Ukraine? Does it have to keep killing civilians?

They could put an end to this today, but they won't, because the loss of face is worse than the loss of life.
Only if you have a nexus in California.
No one in the history of the internet has ever gotten downvoted for criticizing modern parenting.

I do not, in any way, support this bill. It's idiotic. I do, however, have some sympathy for parent who are not technically savvy, do not know how to block unpleasant content from the internet, and do not watch their kids all the time. If they did watch their kids all the time they'd be called helicopter parents so there's really no winning.
According to some commenters here (eg rayiner) this is simply called monsoon. The damage that conservative, right wing thinking does to the society, environment and a person's brain is preposterous. Not even the example of Nazi Germany can cause conservatives to course correct.
> Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing?

tldr; no.
One measure for code quality should be the effort to make a minor change to code, or to fix a simple, common bug.

Can a developer who is familiar with the code, effortless make a change in an area where change was expected at the beginning?

Assuming a typical, minor bug that turns out to originate from the usual suspect places in the code (database query, logical error, incomplete implementation of a requirement, off-by-one/calculation error). Is it usually easy to narrow things down, and to spot the error?

That means the lead architect should regularly try implementing minor features or fix minor bugs and/or pair up with colleagues who do, and draw conclusions about the code accordingly.
Can you show some of these comments where Chinese people get butthurt because people shit-talk Chinese companies? Are those comments here on HN?

I've been on the Internet many years and see a lot of people getting butthurt when they read about China excelling at things, and generally the Chinese themselves are next to non-existant, at least here on the Western side of the net.
Some nice tidbits. Thank you. Follows the general theme here of allow them to shape a narrative and character with less focus on the rules.
Although I'd agree there is a difference I think these issues are closer than you think, for example if Cloudflare was providing network services to a website dedicated to spam, trolling or harrassment. These things in many jurisdictions are not illegal but many companies will refuse to support them because they are actively bad for business (driving existing or potential customers away, making their own products worse, etc.). Ideals can be great but trying to apply them without considering the effects, intended or not, can lead to poor results
What is the practical implication of this anywhere beside eg 4chan? Almost every place with any quality of discussion requires logging in.

In theory anonymous and instantaneous commenting is an ideal of free speech. In practice it repeatably seems to just become wasteland.
This is very true. I track my calorie intake for this reason. There is no possible way for me to exercise enough to burn as many calories as I would like to consume. In addition, it helps me make healthier eating choices especially when "bad" food is so inexpensive and readily available.
Damn, Dall-E really lost its competitive edge overnight when Stable Diffusion was released. They dropped their prices across the board in response, but honestly I think it still isn't enough to save them. The magic of open-source competition.
Will not definitely join the WApp group.

Will not share my phone number with a bunch of strangers.
I'm not sure about that, I think the main difference is that in the past the concept of identity was not as rigid and well-documented as it is today. Additionally there were way fewer ways to identify someone, either in real life or through their writing. I don't quite want to say 'security through obscurity', though.
Stick with the example on hand and not make stuff up about 24h shifts.

> Surely that can't be the intent of those words.

Then why is the labor board ruling the way they are?

The workers used to work OT and then none of them do. That certainly causes a reduction in output. I could see it not being concerted if this was over the corse of a month (or maybe a week) where they all independent arrived at the conclusion they didn't want to work OT but everybody on the same day (ignoring the alleged letter) is a forgone conclusion.

This would be like enforcing a dress code the day after people wear a pro-union shirt into the factory. Sure, the dress code doesn't explicitly say it's to stop unionization but the fact that it occurs the day after makes it a forgone conclusion.

> They're about trying to prohibit slowdowns, which are a sort of soft strike.

Interesting word (strike) to end the sentence with. However, it doesn't matter what the layman's term is, Strike has a legal definition and that's all that matters. Is there a concerted activity to reduce output? Yes, collectively none of the workers are willing to do OT anymore starting the same day.
This site loves authoritarianism. Look at how quickly comments get flagged if they go against popular thing. Heck this comment, if not already shadow banned, will be removed within 3 hours of its posting, provided your comment rises high enough.
As with many of these types of laws in California, I suspect they are deliberately vague.

If people/businesses have to guess at what's compliant, then they will often choose the most restrictive form of compliance out of an abundance of legal caution.
Legally the biggest issues are non-competes and IP/trade secret laws. These vary jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but at least within the US are usually part of any severance agreements. Pretty much every member of the team who tried to rebuild it would have some risk of being sued and the company could be sued as well.
If you mean the cookie banners, it's the result of GDPR not being enforced strictly enough, so companies can use the banner to pretend they're not breaking the law.
I think it’s worth taking into account the username of the person defending the humor.

Fwiw, I have an extremely dark sense of humor and I’m not arguing in either direction when pointing out the handle. I do find Rogan problematic, however.
Yes, that has happened repeatedly before. People have been killed by swatting. In the United States of course.
Well, it's democracy at stake. Doesn't it justify everything? Because if not, this example is not the biggest issue.

Anyway, a bit of hypocrisy doesn't hurt.
So we have to support hardware that does not work well unless we update at least 3 times a day? What next? Only install with the TPM firmware present?

How about choosing quality hardware that works? Companies with policies friendliest to freedom?

This entire discussion just seems like a non-problem, during installation adding wifi firmware is 1 extra click, most graphic cards work for 2d without the firmware. Debian stable release is so delayed, how can you argue you want it to support the latest hardware? Why wouldn't the person just choose another distro with the latest bugfixes for it's dodgy hardware?

Months ago bought a 2021 onemix4, everything worked with Debian and Guix
I guess you never consume content that is considered adult.

This law doesn't appear to cover content, just what information you are supposed to collect about your users.
"We Specialize In Wood"
Yeah if I was a device and someone called me a printer I tell you hwat!
The beauty of all is that it actually seems we are underestimating current methods of AI. The noise (especially in this community) is very high though, so I suggest everyone just look at the experts predictions from the year before and compare with what we have achieved.
It’s their own self-definition. They call themselves a camera company.

That’s the justification for the investment in hardware, in AR filters, etc. They do “camera stuff”. To be fair, their camera stuff is good… their attempts to increase ad inventory (in app professional content etc) are not so good.
> lower maintenance because you only have the SSH CA public key to setup on all machines

This is hardly "lower maintenance" than pushing updates to the authorized_keys across servers.

Or having servers poll for such file.