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I'm skeptical of how useful ChatGPT would be for writing. Truly great writing is a painstaking process. Writers go through many drafts to craft great sentences. Read Hemingway and it's not at all apparent why. But try to write Hemingway? Forget about it!

Asking ChatGPT to rewrite a particular sentence over and over again, until it's perfect, does not sound like a particularly efficient or meaningful use of one's time. You've replaced the process of crafting a sentence with the process of crafting a prompt and the relationship between the two is non-obvious.

Now I suppose someone will actually try to do it, as some kind of writing exercise. Like that book written without the letter 'e' [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void
the other 9% just plain don't work
Are you sure that out-of-the-box GA requires it? I thought the only info it recorded was anonymised.
Well no true Scotsman and so on.

Even in old and established democracies, there's usually a large gap between what is said of the democracy, and what the democracy actually is and does.
I think we need a transpiler that allows writing SQL 2023, while having specific backends for PostGres and MySQL. What babel / TS did for JS

This will make the standard process a lot easier, as community can try out new features first before actually building a standard.

It really feels like they are shooting in the dark, with major focus on features and light on the actual DX of devs using SQL day to day.
You sound like you mostly write ORM-like OLTP data retrieval. As somebody who's been around analytical dbs for the last 6-7 years I can tell you that SQL falls apart almost immediately on anything longer than 20-30 lines.

It has many, many problems.

And the standard is one of them.
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Unfortunately big tech surveillance capitalists (which is different than "capitalist services", mind you) are court suppliers of IT services that EU institutions depend upon.

Edit: And as the sibling said, in many cases it may be restricted to analytics and simple 'reject' suffices, which is at least better than some of the intricate dialog designs.
There is also the Flow browser by Ekioh https://www.ekioh.com/flow-browser/ which is closed source and marketed for use in set-top boxes and smart TVs.
What info? My IP address and the pages I've visited inside their site? By visiting a site I know I'm giving that info to them, they can do whatever they want with it.
so basically the middle and upper middle class paid a lunch per day to fund the war into private coffers
> What problem, exactly, is a blockchain based social network trying to solve? Proof of origin? A conversational paper trail?

I would say the main interesting problem to solve is how to have a social network with a shared state without requiring a all-powerful central party like the existing solutions. Blockchain solutions allow a consensus about what is in the network without this.

If you don't care about the social network state diverging endlessly that's not a problem, but part of the "social" part of social networking is that users expect to see broadly the same messages or at least that all messages are drawing from a common well in the sense that I can choose not to follow a particular person or conversation, but if I do follow them/it then I see the same set of messages as others who are following. This is how we have a shared conversation.

Edit: Not saying this is the only or best way to do this, but it is one way and I believe this to be the problem blockchain social networks are trying to solve. eg these guys are building a blockchain social network and it's explicitly one of their goals https://www.projectliberty.io/
I mean, you could literally read what their banner says. E.g. Eu Paarliament

"We use analytics cookies to offer you a better browsing experience. You have the choice to refuse or accept them. Reject. Accept".

Those analytic cookies are not required for the functioning of the website, and those web sites are required to ask for your consent to gather any additional data.
> Given that both height and strength have significantly non-overlapping distributions between men and women, it's unlikely you'll see a woman in the NBA.

Doesn't NBA have a women's category? One would assume that you see only women there (in 1990s terms), right?
I'm not a fan of attaching third party things that work by reading the contents of what I'm browsing. I'd rather run a DNS based blocker but unfortunately those can't prevent cookie modal monsters.
The cup can be disposable just like a coffee cup can be. I think whatever the tea leaf ratio, if you bought all the ingredients and just made it at home, each cup should cost less than $1 to make and that would be if you’re not trying to optimize the unit economics.
GitHub got rid of their banners in 2020: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/

I believe there is also a lot of "cargo culting" where site admins copy what everyone else is doing without understanding the legal background.
Given that Logflare is a feature independent from supabase seems like you can use the logs independently if you wish!
Not without breaking the law.
How small is this population of negroes desiring to share public space with whites, and why should society need to cater to that?

Are we really going to go with an argument of that form? 'Cause I can sed s///g tha argument structure into all sorts of atrocity all the live long day. Nevermind the 10th Amendment being specifically designed to short-circuit arguments of that form into "It's allowed".
In a funny way, by dusty metaphysics I actually meant the great Swiss philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

In Genealogy of Morals he has quotes such as "Science is not nearly independent…, in every respect it first needs a value-ideal, value-creating power, in whose service it can believe in itself,—science itself never creates values." [1] using the word wissenschaft for science, knowledge-making, translating literally the German word. The point was that we are already beyond any dreams Nietzsche could have imagined, the dichotomy religion/science was merely a cultural artefact of the Enlightenment. Hence the replacement you mention is not even an issue.

As for "hardly knowing anything", just looking at the front page of HN right now: we are discovering new water sources on the Moon [2], new primitive cells [3]. We are improving, however knowledge is not about totality (omni-scientia, as the religious terminology would put it). Even if we were to condense all the knowledge in one place, hoard it, it would only collapse into a black hole, our universe is rather limited. Knowledge is about principles: we will never again have to worry about the sun not rising tomorrow because we made the god of Sun angry (although we should worry that the Sun will evaporate Earth in a few billion years, so I suppose Nietzsche has his point [4]).

[1] Two Genealogies of Human Values: Nietzsche Versus Edward O. Wilson on the Consilience of Philosophy, Science and Technology, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6978441

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35565553

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35537248

[4] 'Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history," but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die.', 1873, F. Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
>europeans people with no contact with non-europeans

I think you mean 5-10 countries in Western, Northern Europe right? Most of Europe is rife with corruption on every level and always has been.
Most internet businesses need tracking to survive, so it's more like either you click past a cookie banner or you don't get to see the content at all.
> Option (3) seems pretty reasonable to me.

Only if you live in a fantasy world. The EU outright did not want this as a "solution" so they rejected it. The UK is actually doing something like this at this very moment. The result? We're currently allowing dangerous food into the country.

Your descriptions of options 1 and 2 are total nonsense from the moment you use the word "sovereignty." Nobody's sovereignty is violated by making an agreement, any more than your freedom is violated when you abide by the terms of a contract you freely agreed.
whoa Property Graph Queries being added to the standard is huge imo
Is it me or did chrome dev tools get worse?
Yeah the last point makes sense. I wonder what the average Starbucks customer thinks. In my mind they’re just there for the routine and dose of a sugary drink, but I could be wrong there. That’s what I go to Starbucks for.
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Both approaches have merits and demerits of course, and could be combined too.

BTW, for GB/UK sites my own system publishes flags easily testable over HTTP (see foot of https://www.earth.org.uk/_gridCarbonIntensityGB.html page) and I used to test those on my cloud UK services when I had them, but I also used to defer non-essential work in servers all over the world at their local peak grid times of day.
Yeah, with my interaction with ChatGPT it just spits out general concepts that almost make it seem like it exhaustively covers the prompt, but from those concepts sometimes there'll be 1 or 2 that just won't be applicable to the reality of the real world. Large language model lacks the acuteness to anticipate any unintended consequences and that 1% of edge case is where things might truly matter.
It is not legal for webs to make rejecting cookies more complicated than accepting them.

In fact, the French data protection authority CNIL has issued orders to around sixty players that do not make refusing cookies as easily as accepting them. They have also fined companies such as Google and Facebook for making it harder to reject cookies than to accept them. The CNIL has ordered these companies to provide a means of refusing cookies as simple as the existing means of accepting them.

Also, under GDPR, it is not legal for websites to make rejecting cookies more complicated than accepting them. In May 2020, the EU updated its GDPR guidance to clarify that cookie walls do not offer users a genuine choice because if you reject cookies you’re blocked from accessing content. It confirms that cookie walls should not be used. Companies such as Google have introduced new options to reject tracking cookies in Europe after their existing dialog boxes were found to be in violation of EU data laws.

Now what I don't know is if users outside of EU get the evil-twin version of those popups when visiting websites. My experience browsing the www is just not as bad as many people describe because I usually get a "reject all" button or when "managing" the cookies, they are all disabled by default and I can simply save the options.
A related browser extension was posted here yesterday:

Consent-O-Matic: Automatic cookie management (au.dk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35562230
The comment you replied to said the opposite. They said:

> You need a rule of law, to tame corruption and no non-democracy has that.

As far as I can tell, that implies the only combination that's impossible is non-democracy and non-corruption. Ie all non-democracies are corrupt, but some democracies might also be corrupt.

Btw, I don't think that's even true: British ruled Hong Kong had rule of law, but no democracy.

However statistically, there seems to be at least a weak correlation (negative) between corruption and democracy.
Performance of ChatGPT and GPT-4 on Neurosurgery Written Board Examinations
The ship hasn't sailed, it just docked at another port. Ok, you can skip ads with Tivo, therefore advertisers moved to the web where not only could you not skip popups, you had to actually interact with them. You're still forgetting that millions of people still watch normal television, and only a few percent of web users utilize any type of ad-blockers.
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(Yearly salary seems to me to be a US thing. Maybe it's an Anglophone thing?)
Of course it was innovative as the person behind the creation had to innovate to make it, as I understand the position.
This is not too surprising in my experience.

I've worked at an AI startup where due to the nature of our business we had exposure to a lot of different ML models and got to see how (mostly) governments and enterprises are trying to implement ML.

To be short, it's concerning. There are not good ways to measure success and mitigate failure, observability is a big problem.

As we delegate bigger problems with more responsibility to AI, I can see it going fatally wrong somewhere in the not so distant future. Something has to change about the way we build and deploy ML models, and it has to be accessible so all companies can implement it - not just uber-advanced tech companies.
Which is why it's a stupid law that has made everybody's lives worse, both the businesses and the users.
That sounds unlikely to me. Instead, I think a lot of society's problems are caused by sociopaths in positions of power. People like Putin and Trump didn't become the monsters they are because of additions or drugs, they were born that way.
> What info?

Any personally identifiable information.

GDPR is not a complex law no matter how shady businesses and clueless devs are trying to tell you. It's also been in effect for 7 years. You'd think it's enough time to have at least some clue on what it's about.

And yet we still have these inane threads on HN claiming it's about cookie popups, and people having no idea what info trackers collect.
I tried adblock but I turned it off as it was blocking things that weren't supposed to be blocked. Very rarely though. I don't know, it's like I almost don't see the ads, my eyes just scroll past it.
I blame the businesses for destroying the social fabric of the internet, and I simultaneously blame the EU for implementing pointless regulations that do not solve the first problem while making life miserable for its subjects.
Human psychology works pretty much the exact opposite of the way you just described.
> The UK was happy to honour the Good Friday agreement by not having border checks at its new land border with the EU, it was entirely the EU which had a problem with it.

This entire sentence is a lie. The UK wanted a "magic invisible border" on the island of Ireland. The EU explicitly wanted no border at all on the island of Ireland.

If you're not sure how that contradicts what you said, then I'm sorry that your English comprehension education failed you.
Microsoft is an American company, so the US can just forbid Microsoft from paying bribes.

Just like the US is using their clout to force people around the world to eg force French companies not to do business with Iran.

> I'd argue that it's a WTO problem, let's just cut of all ties to countries where bribing in any form is acceptable, leaving us with what?

As a compromise, you could target countries in which bribing is de jure _legal_, and worry about de facto later.
That was my cynism. Democracy seems to be used as a wildcard to say "we are the good people" awfully lot recently, which gets my attention.
What's preventing that is the large installed base of sites on the 'net. Quite possibly, the majority of web content has already been created (1), and it's getting worse as old sites are shut down.

Also, Safari is a thing (and personally I prefer FF for webdev, though Moz is certainly working hard to turn me away).

(1) those worth reading anyway, rather than generated content
These two statements are not incompatible.
Having a clear cut "CALL TO ACTION" dialogue option which presents one positive ( don't track me ) and one negative ( track me ) option. People choose the positive one.

Cookies/tracking banners on website completely obfuscates the choice. Negative option ( track me ) is presented as the pearly gates to heaven and easy to click. Positive option ( don't track me ) is presented as these mathematical puzzle where you must know what to click or your dog gets executed.

So yeah people care about not being tracked when presented with clear instructions to which one is bad and which one is good.
That's great if youre fine with it. I'm not. I don't want some shitty, 3rd rate, ad slinging company to know what websites I visited.
I agree it’s great. I don’t exactly see why it can’t be made in the West like that. I just don’t know if anyone’s really tried (would love to understand if someone has)
Drop me an email and I'll sort it out manually - mostly it works but it's not great. The app ecosystem for this isn't worth the hassle any longer and I'll retire that app when I get the new version out.
> if you start tracking with a user cookie what pages your users are viewing (statistics collection), then... you need the user consent

What about if you're Amazon and you want to show 'people who bought this also bought this' content? Then the tracking is necessary.
Your argument works just as well for any other company or organisation.

The worst morale failures in history have been perpetrated by governments.
That depends on whether the weight matrix for the model is sparse or dense. If it's sparse, then a large swath of the path quickly becomes 0 (which could still be considered "visited", though pretty pathological).
3 days ago San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, which claims that crime is down in the city, had to disband their meeting because their internet connection was vandalized.

https://twitter.com/AaronPeskin/status/1645896541893439489?t...
>Tech bros love to whine about "The EU cookie policy" that simply doesn't exist the way they imagine it. All these popups are the most radical way to interpret the explicit consent demanded by regulations when sending data to a 3rd party. An ongoing provocation by the ad/tracker industry to blame their ruthless data hoarding on the EU.

The official EU website has one of these annoying pop-ups. Are they part of the provocation? https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en
GA collects insane amounts of data. And you might have to disable a lot of that collection manually https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9019185?hl=en#zi...

And even then it might not be strictly compliant due to Schrems II ruling
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This should have been solved technically, not politically. Why not set cookie rules in the browser settings, and handle at http standard level?
Portland is interesting. It ranks Portland, Tennessee and Portland, Indiana above Portland, Maine.

https://pudding.cool/2023/03/same-name/?place=Portland

Weighing wiki length more heavily seems to produce better results.

Aside: there are several Portlands that don't seem to be ports (they're not on oceans or rivers)?
Consider this as a game advice but not a technological game.

> they know video games exist and want to use them. Because so many of them are low quality, parents may have to seek recommendations like this thread.

But also they know that a not-advised-by-parents games do exists as well and they are pretty easy to reach on the same device which can run every link or ebook from this topic. Tiktok/insta/whatever will magnetize them and this addictive bond has to be considered.
People are definitely aware of them. The trouble lies with how easy opting-out is. Many websites have included options to just opt for the "compulsory" option. The only concern now is how many of them would willingly provide that option.
> Most internet businesses need tracking to survive

Of course they don't.
No one likes these consent modals, not the EU, not the companies, not the end users.

But they're good.

They're making the negative externality visible. We had developed an ecosystem where as soon as you clicked on a webpage it would spaff your personal data to third party brokers and infest you with tracking across the entire internet. All driven by marketing and sales departments. All driven by a capitalist free market.

The regulations changed nothing other than to make people annoyed by this. Good. Take that anger and direct it against the god damn companies building this stuff, many of the employees of which are on this site. Stop whining about the EU, they're just holding up a mirror to the abject horror of tech.
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Initially it was worth "only" 600K, I think he might've gotten away with it if he cashed out at that point.

I wonder if the clock resets if he converted it to real money after those five years, I mean selling stolen goods is a separate crime from stealing, isn't it?

I think the best thing he could've done is to move to a country without an extradition policy with the US. Then of course comes the challenge of cashing out BTC that's been marked as stolen, but I'm sure there's ways and means. But for 3.2 billion, someone can live like a king for the rest of their life. It's just that because it's marked, they won't ever be able to go home or go where they want.

It sounds like one of those "will you press the button" catch-22's.
Don't confuse cookie laws with data laws
You don't think affording free education for majorly ridiculously hard working students is going to pay dividends? Please explain your cynicism
I've got a picoscope and it's not something I use very often at the moment. I've not looked at tablet stuff I'm afraid. It's one of those areas that's probably moving very quickly in terms of tech. The Picoscope is probably superceded at this point too. Sorry not to be more helpful!
My fear with yet another transpiler is that we start working on layers of tech. I like Postgres for its directness w/ the DB. You query, you get it.
I think it's pretty impressive to see how most devs are rapidly evolving when it comes to Web Stack. It's an evolution and really good to see how modern technologies like API make it so intuitive to work. Really good read here.
Yes. What it does is that over the course of life, people will learn to not trust what doctors say.
You do realize this removes the "merit" element from a system that is supposed to be merit-based?
This is a fundamental truth everybody needs to understand.

Not my idea, heard it somewhere. That the crucial difference between a human being and AI is that if you show a 3 year old kid one picture of a cat, a kid can recognize all other cats. Was it a lion or a tiger.

You can feed ML 5000 pictures of cats and it can recognize a cat in a picture with something like 95% confidence.