skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course the simple solution that we all know is to not collect the damn data in the first place. But marketing boffins the world over will never willingly do this unless it’s enforced by law, so we’re left with the user’s taking on the burden of clicking deliberately confusing stuff and not knowing whether they’ve ended up consenting or not.
I've always liked ExoticSilicon's design, but not until this post did I realize their smart bit of CSS for default font size:

font-size: min(max(1em, 1.3vw), 1.3em);

Which explains why it looks just right on my high-DPI Chromebook even though I haven't configured a big enough default font size for the browser.

This is going to be the default font-size for all of my websites now (preceded by a fallback for maximum compatibility of course).
Definitely agree! I've never taken a liking to SQL but using transpiler libraries has really improved the DX, and made me not dislike it so much.
With its plugin system, ChatGPT and/or similar models can also learn by actually running scripts in a terminal (or looking at recent webcrawl document, or querying an API) and viewing its output. The components are there, it works in principle, and this integration is currently ongoing.
But you can’t give an LLM the death penalty , so that’s going to be a problem if it can research.
Businesses: destroy the social fabric of the internet

Regulation, literally: do not collect people's data without their consent if you don't require that data for services you provide. Applies in equal measure to websites, banks, grocery stores, shit processing plants and nuclear power stations.

...

4ad: I still blame the EU, and it's a pointless regulation.

Edit: This comment really says it much better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567507
We're reaching a point where genuine posts are becoming indiscernable from AI generated ones. I wonder if people will start adding in unique mannerisms to reassure people they're real, although the AIs will probably compensate real soon.

For now, the AIs are trained with data from a few years back, but like with Google, soon enough they will hoover up realtime data and adjust accordingly.

For funsies, here's a comment on this article from ChatGPT:

> (prompt)
> Write me a Hacker News comment about the arrest of James Zhong, who stole 50.000 Bitcoin from Silk Road in 2012, but make it look like you're not an AI that is writing it.
>
> (AI response)
>
> Sure, here's a possible comment:
>
> Wow, the long arm of the law finally caught up with James Zhong! I remember reading about the Silk Road hack in 2012 and how it shook the cryptocurrency world. 50,000 BTC was a huge amount back then, and it's worth even more now. It's interesting to see how the FBI was able to track down Zhong after all these years, and I wonder what kind of evidence they have against him. Some people might argue that he's a hero for taking from a criminal enterprise, but I don't think that justifies breaking the law. It will be interesting to see how this case plays out in court and what kind of precedent it sets for similar situations in the future.
We've found that watercolour pencils are great in helping them with detailed art that might be beyond some children straight painting at that age.

Not books or games, and not sure where your child is at with her drawing, but my kids (similar age) have enjoyed following along with this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@artforkidshub

Creative games that we have and like:

https://www.thinkfun.com/products/gravity-maze/
https://www.thinkfun.com/products/sweet-logic/
https://www.thinkfun.com/products/rush-hour/

Clip Circuit: https://www.amazon.com.au/Advanced-Lab-Electronic-Clip-Circu...

We have a lot of GraviTrax also: https://www.ravensburger.us/discover/gravitrax/gravitrax-sta...
> Would you still call this a "voluntary arrangement"?

Perhaps not for the first guy to ever fall for this. But existing workers are still communicating with the folks back home, so prospective new workers now what to expect and what to believe and not to believe.

I agree that they aren't treated well; but we can't ignore that the situation back home is often even worse.
Anyone here fans of the good place? https://thegoodplace.fandom.com/wiki/Janet
I teach creative coding and maintain a site that has a list of creative tools (graphics, music, coding, writing, game-making) that are mainly free, and web-based. You can filter them by "easiness".

https://digitalcreativitytools.everythingability.com/

I made the site for university students, but I have tested/vetted all of the tools myself, often with my child who is now just 11. There are some activities you could do with her too. The Inspiration section might throw up some useful stuff for you both.

With regards to game-making, Scratch is a great starting point, but recently we have been really enjoying working with gDevelop - a free, no-code game engine. The videos on YouTube are great to get you both started. Twine (Chapbook) has been a fun tool for creating interactive adventure games, and this Zine-maker is ace https://alienmelon.itch.io/electric-zine-maker
> Having a clear cut "CALL TO ACTION" dialogue option which presents one positive ( don't track me ) and one negative ( track me ) option.

That is literally the requirement by GDPR

> Cookies/tracking banners on website completely obfuscates the choice.

On purpose. In violation of GDPR.
"affirming"
Western expats might be second class citizens in the UAE, with some luck. As a worker from India in the UAE, you are far treated far below a second class citizen, sadly.
He needs to get fired. The job of a CEO is to steady the ship during temporary economic anomalies. The inability to see life and policy under Covid as such an anomaly and to get misled into a hiring binge demonstrates shocking incompetence.
Ah, another AI doomsday prophecy. Observability and measuring success are concerns in any evolving field. The "uber-advanced tech companies" you mention are actively working on AI safety. Let's not jump on the apocalypse bandwagon just yet. Humanity has adapted before, and we'll do it again. Now, excuse me while I prep for the robot uprising, just in case.
The problem is they picked the wrong parties to be responsible. It’s not the websites that are doing the tracking. The websites are merely asking to save a cookie. It is the users’ own web browser that is storing the cookie and sending the cookie back to these websites. It’s the browsers that should be regulated if anybody but it’s a lot easier to regulate the little guy than to regulate Google and apple.
It's typically used as a euphemism for a desire to be the opposite sex in some way or another. For example, if a male wants to be female, or even just sees himself as somewhat feminine (i.e. having some interests or behaviours that he perceives as being more commonly associated with women), he may announce that he has a 'female gender identity'.

The benefit of framing this as an identity (and one most often described as innate and unchanging) rather than a desire, is that it has a 'who I am' connotation instead of 'who I want to be'. Which has been useful in a broader cultural context in gaining acceptance for this desire, especially in the political arena; compare e.g. 'trans women are women' versus 'transwomen are men who desire to be women'.

Another useful property of gender identity is that it is unverifiable and unfalsifiable, much like the concept of having a soul. Therefore anyone can claim to have any gender identity, and there's not really any challenge that can be made to such claims other than accusations of deception or delusion, neither of which are considered socially acceptable, in most contexts. This also shifts the rhetorical ground from the material (biological reality of sex, sexual mimicry via hormonal and surgical interventions) to the metaphysical. So this also helps shield this desire to be the opposite sex from criticism.

Also, as it's usually defined as something like 'an innate sense of one's gender', there's a useful definitional confusion in that. Most people will just use their self-knowledge of being female or male to answer the question of gender identity, even though this is a different type of concept to desiring to be the opposite sex. So in this way, gender identity can be presented as being something everyone has, despite it referring to distinct phenomena.

In short, it's the centrepiece of a rather impressive rhetorical strategy to normalise and institutionalise the desire to be the opposite sex.
That “most users don’t care” line is tossed around by people all over the place and you righty point out that it isn’t true.

If my job relied on people giving up their data privacy I would probably continue telling everyone that line as well.
They wont be telling truth. Placebo effect is not effective in 100% of cases.

What this will do over time is that people will learn that doctors advice is optional - it might be necessary and good to take pill, because only antibiotics work on this sickness. And a lot of other advice will be optional to follow.
So this is the future? This is where the money is?
OP didn't necessarily specify digital games. There are physical creative/STEM games that they can buy online from a link.
Because Google owns the largest browser. The problem could only be solved politically.
That thing seemed really cool, but even at the time I passed on it because there was no way to save your work externally.
Well I'm not 7, but I'm definitely interested in that!
It's GDPR as in General Data Protection Regulation.
It's not enough that you "want to". You have to weigh your interest and that of the users against each other and would probably come to the conclusion that you can process that data for that purpose without consent if you aggregate it.
> capitalism reducing child labor over time due to it’s dependence on an educated workforce.

Dependence on an educated workforce is orthogonal to the economic system. Rather it's a corollary of scientific and technological advancement.
Bribing foreigners used to be legal for US entities.
You don't even understand the term but you're being so dismissive. Maybe read the full thread and then comment.

By definition their stance is 100% about "a big web". It's an ideology that the browser shouldn't become another OS competing vs one that it should.

And while one side of the conversation tends to see their approach as 100% correct, the history was people downloading random exes with 0 sandboxing to do 99% of what SPAs offer today, so there's merit to both trains of thought.
As someone in this space I can attest that AI teaching in most (UK) universities is generally poor on detail, abstract and behind industry by at least 3-5 years.

Not to mention that there is zero appetite from undergrads or postgrads to get into the nitty-gritty of it. To learn CNNs at the deep-dive level you need calculus, at least differentiation and integration. Calculus or even pre-calculus doesn't form part of the degree programme for most compsci BScs any more, because it is 'too hard'.

The way most students 'learn' AI is to use a method out of a Python library with near-zero understanding of how it works, and regurgitate it for an assessment.

Professorial research staff in most UK universities are light-years from AI within industry, and there's no clear path to that gap tightening, especially while universities are being run like second-rate consulting houses (don't get me started on THAT).
> Disregarding the fact that ~85% of machine learning academics do not have what it takes to be hired by OpenAI anyway

That's interesting, could you please elaborate?
According to the French data protection authority, "out-of-the-box" GA requires consent because they aren't anonymised: https://www.cnil.fr/en/google-analytics-and-data-transfers-h...
I use Matomo on Wordpress. Turned of cookie based tracking. It means sometimes a revisting visitor can not be discriminated from a new one. I don't care. But, now he is saying, I can enable the cookie if I want, without needing the consent banner?

And what about a privacy page? Indeed it does make whipping up a blog or so more complex. Although I usually use Hugo of WP, keep them vanilla: Now cookies required for just viewing content.

Some kind of tool would be handy.
GDPR and those data processing consent flows are about data collection and processing in general and not a specific technical means of doing so - it would also apply to IP addresses, browser fingerprinting, information manually entered (such as delivery address when placing an e-commerce order) or a hypothetical crystal ball that actually worked.
If you click on the cookies explainer you'll see that they actually use a shitton of cookies:

https://european-union.europa.eu/cookies_en

Instead of that cookie banner they could just not have visitors connect to all those 3rd party services that use cookies to track users!
You're reading an Irish website about "government in Ireland" to try and interpret UK law. Ireland is not a part of the UK or vice versa. In the UK, you do not need to present ID at any point to travel within the UK.

As per the Good Friday Agreement, this extends to the island of Ireland. In other words, you do not need to provide ID to travel between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. If you drive up the N1 / A1 dual carriageway (the main road between Dublin and Belfast), you'll see for yourself.

And on your driving license comment: in the UK, you do not need to carry your driving license with you at all. Traffic police are not going to stop you just to check you have one. Ever.
>So stop blaming "the EU" and ask yourself if this is the internet we want.

...Yes, thats exactly the internet "we" want. I don't get why it so hard to accept that people simply dgaf about privacy, and much prefer free products online paid for by ads. And there is nothing wrong with that, because for those that actually care about privacy, there are plenty of tools.
You seem to think that the EU should be imune from criticism because it tries to do the right thing.

No, when politicians make things worse and absolutely don't solve any problem they promised they will solve then they should be held accountable, removed from positions of power, and replaced with competent people who write better regulation.

Edit to your edit: indeed, the EU is mostly about making people miserable while convincing them it's actually better for them.
To me, for example.

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Here's an explanation of this expression from Phind:
https://www.phind.com/search?cache=bd161914-4d18-4758-b540-2...
Make it economically bad times, and the customer a shady actor. Will the company deliberately close and stop offering its services, despite needing to put food on the table? Or will the company just go along and do the coding for shady customer?

Now, put a lot of air in that thought-baloon and you will see how basically every for-profit will end up doing immoral things.
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I for one welcome our now Google GONK droid overlords.
Never got that kind of perspective. You read a book if you think you'll like its content. Period. Knuth's books are no different. You probably know many colleagues of yours that have never read a technical book in their lifes and still manage to be successful with their careers.

Just read the book if you like CS. Period.
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I guess OP is French, they use different word orders for almost anything, ie: DNA: AND.
Most people do not care because they don't really see/understand how it affect them. Just like most people probably don't care about HVAC regulation, welding regulation for system under pressure and other very technical field.

They will see the issue and care about it when something happen. We have a lot of regulation about welding under high pressure because we know from experience what happen when we have no rules (things go boom).

What happen when we have no regulation about tracker ? We get massive data leaks from poorly secured data hoarding company (hello Equifax). This is dangerous in many many ways: Identity theft, scam & spam, identifying people with certain political view, from a minority of some sort, etc...
GDPR does not solve all this issue, some company can still hoard massive amount of data about you (it is always scary to ask for a data extraction from Meta, Twitter, ... and how you have a "profile") and have bad security, but it does limit in how many hand this data circulate and how easy it is to gain access to.
If you are selling to a large company it is a problem. Its not quite as simple as you're saying.

And quite frankly the law is also complicated as with all other EU laws such as the cookie law. The interpretations vary and are not strict and clear. I have never seen laws in other western countries always blamed on the lack of interpretation.

If I was still in the EU I would simply incorporate offshore and operate offshore, it is more convenient but ive left
Why? Just store lists of bought product ids in its own database, then compute some statistics on it. Zero customer or user involvement is needed in that process.
The GDPR goes far enough and even prohibits dark patterns and annoying the user into accepting. Making the "decline" option harder to find is not compliant for example.

The problem is a chronic lack of enforcement that allowed websites (and entire companies such as TrustArc/etc) to implement these malicious pseudo-compliant solutions and get away with it, at the expense of everyone's privacy and sanity.
Dear God, the level of ignorance and passive aggressiveness in your comments is unbearable.

Nazism is a well defined ideology with its own symbolysm.

If you wear SS paraphernalia and glorify people like Hitler or his collaborators then yes you are a Nazi. If you just think that the "whites" are superior then you are only tangentially related to the Nazis but what you are is a white supremacist.

So be careful when you call people Nazis, because following your logic if you don't like Communism you're also a Nazi.
And if you fold a napkin in a weird way with the correct lighting it might flag it as a tiger too
No, the original is Journaux de voyage, Gallimard 1978, ISBN 2070298531
I think the defense leaned on the part where the owner of the service basically allowed him to keep it, plus cooperation; if the judge rules him innocent (e.g. while he exploited a bug, the then-owner did not press charges and rewarded him), he might get the BTC back, but this time cleared of any crimes. Meaning he can cash in and walk free.

Well, relatively free, his face and name are known and if he is exonerated, everyone will know he's a multi-billionaire and the life of himself and others are in danger.
Right, but this is not the fault of the people working on crypto. The (good) people working in crypto are working based on principles and values. The ones people keep talking about are the ones working to find a way to make a quick buck without any actual value built for society.

I spent a good part of the last cycle (from 2018 until mid last year) working on an open source self-hosted payment gateway for crypto (https://hub20.io). Even with my ridiculous ideas for how to run marketing and promoting my work and doing basically everything possible to stay away from the radar of the scammers and hype-riders, they were the ones getting to my matrix room and coming up with proposals for "partnerships". The quickest way to get to disappear was by saying "If you think that my project is such a good idea and so valuable, how about you sponsor my work on Github? I'll take even a contribution of the smallest $4/month tier as a signal of interest. If you do it, then I'll listen."

Chalk this one up to human nature and our lizard brains, I guess.
It's not that I wanted to give brands the benefit of the doubt, but that I believe there are other hurdles and significant obstacles independent of corporate profit considerations.

Many consumers are familiar with the concept of Ah (amp-hours) as akin to a car's gas tank, where the more amp-hours a battery has, the longer it can power a device. If you buy a video camera, the brand's 4Ah battery should allow for double the recording time as their 2Ah battery. Right?

Which would you rather buy, a 6Ah cordless power tool battery for $79, or a 5Ah battery for $89? The batteries are the same size and weight. Depending on the application, the 5Ah battery might outlast the 6Ah in use.

You're at the home center and see three power tool batteries on the shelf - all are 18V and rated at 3Ah, but they're different physical sizes. Which is better?

With a bit of research on your phone, you learn that the batteries are built with 5x 18650, 5x 21700, and 10x 18650 Li-ion battery cells, respectively. All three 3Ah batteries are the same price. Does this help you choose?

Power tool battery selection is not as intuitive as looking at a 20W USB charger and simply knowing it will charge devices at a faster rate than a 5W charger. There are enough "what battery should I get?" questions in my inbox and messages folders, as well as all over online forums, for me to believe the confusion has gotten worse over the years as new overlapping technologies were introduced.

Many users don't fully understand that there can be huge differences in power capabilities. A 1.3Ah battery and a 12Ah battery of the same voltage and cordless system are going to deliver very different levels of power. A lot of tool users learn this the hard way. It's not their fault, as a 12Ah battery might be simply advertised as delivering more than 9X the runtime.

With many more options available, I'm sure many users will pair cheaper brand name batteries with pro-level tools and expect everything to work well together. Who will they blame for poor performance? Themselves and their choices? The tool brand? Or the battery brand?

In my opinion, if user experience concerns can be addressed, and numerous technical obstacles flattened, companies "making profits until they get regulated" will be the easiest hurdle to overcome.

If you want to better understand why replacement batteries cost so much, look at different brands' sales and promotions. The Makita XGT circular saw kit (GSR01M1) is $299 right now across authorized dealers, and you get a free extra battery. The same 4Ah battery (BL4040) is priced at $199 to $219, each. So that's $299 for the kit with a total of 2 batteries plus a saw, charger, and tool bag, or $398 for just 2 batteries.

Based on this type of retail math, I'd say replacement battery prices are set to balance out the promos.
Haha. So was i. Doing the eternal ephemeral work of the Internet. None of us has any idea what any of it means—we’re just repeating it.

How do we know we aren’t the AIs? o__O

as these words

Etched forever,

in tombs of stone

Look on my works ye mighty and despair, etc.
Energy production by source in Belgium (last 5 years)
Yea, sounds like parent is trolling
Or RGPD as in "Règlement Général sur la Protection des Données" (French).