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The proliferation of irritating cookie consent popups on the web is ENTIRELY the fault of the EU "Cookie Law" 2009/136/EC (amendment to 2002/58/EC)

I repeat - the cookie consent popups, and the resulting de-sensitisation of users to genuinely useful warning popups - that's ENTIRELY the fault of the technocratic leadership of the European Union.

"Big corps" have to follow the rules or they will face hefty fines.

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Edit: the comments about the consent forms protecting against "spying" are disingenuous. Even functionality such as remembering user region, or allowing the website to improve performance and UX using simple analytics requires consent.
Also, non-tracking cookies (e.g. load-balancing, settings selected by the user) don't require consent. Still, many websites put cookie popups in place for those, adding to the noise.
Don’t say that. You will get called a climate denier.
At my previous workplace we had a mix of bare metal (most services), AWS (one service), Digital Ocean (misc), and GCP (BigQuery), and eventually moved almost entirely onto GCP, retaining just a bit of Digital Ocean stuff.

We found that all of these had significant caveats that required careful planning. We had a few instances of runaway AWS costs due to basically not knowing enough about AWS and we had to be careful to only use the "good" AWS products, Digital Ocean never had runaway costs but they did keep turning off production services because our use-case was not one they were familiar with (dev machines, off-site backups). Bare metal was a minefield, we found we couldn't reliably run Prometheus because it ate SSDs. As for GCP, it did require understanding the pricing and it was possible to shoot yourself in the foot with things, but no more than anything else.

There are going to be gotchas everywhere. Overall we had a great experience with GCP, to the point that the company has remained on GCP post-acquisition by another company who were mostly on Azure.
Will not get into pros and cons of any language, but in what world python is obsolete?
THE SE 1 was damn near perfect. Great size, no camera bump, headphone jack, great battery life, fantastic all-metal build quality, fingerprint sensor...
Suddenly you have two windows open with booking.com, they open randomly during the flight selection. Then you train Google captcha to recognize American hydrants and get a ban for "acting like a bot". The airline compensates the losses by creating onboard lottery.
Rotation wont really work unless the structure is gigantic (many miles in diameter) otherwise you will suffer from dizziness. Rotating spaceships like in many movies are probably making everyone on board sick.
> you'll be first to go when downsizing comes

But isn't that extra good since usually you get many months pay when downsizing?

So unless you spend more than that time on finding a new job, it's 100% a net good.
Well, that is quite top-down and organized. If it works, then great. But I wouldn't push everything into such a plan.

On the other hand, I've worked in such a disconnected 'bottom-up' org that after about 8 years, finally the CEO told us he didn't like the business model we had been developing and specializing in. The end result was like 90% of senior devs resigned. We were clueless. Maybe a little goal setting would have helped?
The claims is not as grandiose as your demand for it to stop
Maximum 1 year before a large company announces proudly they came up with an LLM that sets OKRs for the whole organization. In some ways it would be hilarious to see hallucinated goals the LLM came up with but that would also feel pretty depressing
That's not the fault of the GDPR. The point of the GDPR was to force companies to expose just how much they sell your data, and thus incentivize people to vote with their wallet and choose services that value protecting your data.

Unfortunately, corporate greed was too high, and the result are cookie banners listing sometimes >1k third-party entities.
I am doing some work with the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam. It's a rare book library with some of the most incredible and beautiful books about esoteric philosophy. I love it. Also know as “The Embassy of the Free Mind”

As you walk into the library, there is a big bronze statue of Marisilio Ficino. Ficino was peak Renaissance — he was head of the academy in Florence and hired by the Medici's to translate greek texts like Plato and the Hermetica into Latin, for the first time. He wrote a book called "De Mysteriis" (the mysteries) that is totally bananas.

Published 1497, it has never been translated. It contains a chapter on Ficino’s own philosophy on pleasure “De Voluptate”

The book got me to start collecting. My copy contains all kinds of marginalia… I’ve been translating the whole book with a scholar at Oxford. I’ve since built up a collection at the intersection of early science and philosophical magic. For instance, dellaporta’s “natural magic,” a book called “mathematical magic” from one of the founders of the Royal society, “arithmology” (a book about divine mathematics by Athenaus Kircher), “Secrets of Nature” by Anton von Leeuwenhoek (inventor of microscope), a book on “artificial curiosities” showing illustrations of steam powered autonomata from the mid 1500s, etc etc etc.

I think the themes of these books — consciousness, magic, intelligence, mathematics — all bring a peculiar perspective on our current AI Renaissance… so I want to use AI to help make these books more accessible and understandable
Really? That's an interesting world view.

On the contrary, the existence of nuclear weapons makes significant conflicts between large nations less likely, as both fear nuclear escalation.

Just a year ago, Chinese and Indian soldiers engaged in a free-for-all melee at the border using nothing but sticks and stones. Both are nuclear states, and they feared an escalation to a proper armed conflict if actual weapons were involved. Pakistan and India, also both nuclear states, have a localized conflict in Kashmir that has been ongoing for decades. However, neither state dares to fully commit to a decisive military intervention there. If Russia didn't possess nuclear weapons, it's not unimaginable to think that the US would have intervened directly in Ukraine, maybe even with boots on the ground. The US and Russia have been in conflict for the last 70ish years through proxy wars, yet neither has thought of pushing the big red button.

I believe that nuclear weapons, terrible as they are, bring about peace to a certain extent, as long as rational actors are involved. Nobody wants to die in a fiery ball of plasma.
I was absolutely useless in my previous company. Waste of time.
Crypto would first need to catch up with all the features our banking system has like account recovery.

Besides that, the banking system is already optimized due to the capitalism behind it.

Btw. The crypto bros tell you that this doesn't matter because you should use lightning anyway (what an irony)
The movie? Yes, they glommed a bunch of Gibson into that movie.

But Gibson has had a thing for bridges for a while. Its a thematic device he uses, cleverly, to dissect classism.
Flawed? Sure, although every language has its flaws, some more than others. Deeply flawed? Not really. Obsolete? Lol, what. It's top 3 most popular languages.
These MBAs deserve eating toasts with strawberry lubricant instead of jam, spread thinnly of course.
It seems to be showing the recognised territories in dark green and contested areas in light green (e.g. for Russia, Crimea is also in light green, although interestingly not Eastern Ukraine, and IIRC the West of Guyana was shown in light green for Venezula).

These things are always slightly arbitrary, e.g. why include Taiwan but not, say, Somaliland (both are unrecognised by most other states but de facto independent).
I wonder how long one would enjoy the view of that sunny day when all the visible light, infrared and high radio frequencies coming our way are turned into high energy x-ray and gamma frequencies due to the doppler effect.
As with everything else, it's all about incentives. If well-crafted software made more money, then all we'd have would be craftsmanship. But it doesn't.

There is plenty of software which has to be reliable and without surprises, and that is where you will find craftsmanship. Except that doesn't usually make as much money as "big tech", so it won't pay as much and that is the problem. People want to have their cake and eat it too - spend countless hours on problems that tickle their intellectual curiosity and sense of achievement, while also being paid handsomely.
Was not Servo a super nice thing it would allow better multithreading through Rust's power as compared to old, ancient C++ that everyone and her neighbour says it is so bad?

What happened exactly to Servo? Why it was discontinued?
BlindShell sells a phone for vision-impaired users, with support for popular assistive apps, plus audio for NFC tags, https://blindshellusa.com.
I remember. They were amazing. Sun SPARCs came with those. Really
pleasant to use.

I wonder whether you can still get mouse mats like that and whether
they improve (or even work with) modern camera based optical mice?
One caviat I'd like to add: what the right and wrong people are depends a lot on the bus, the destination and the driver. Otherwise, I fully agree!
Bitcoin miners want to run as often as possible.in Texas they got paid when they don't run.

And this takes away any motivation to solve problems and invest in storage etc.

It would make more sense for the energy company itself to do this but never with some other company.

Nonetheless it's a myth that we constantly have so much unplanned overproduction.

Don't forget: Bitcoin market is disconnected with the energy market.
This page keeps crashing for me on iOS Safari. Is anyone else experiencing this?
why not both? Have the table column autogenerate UUID if insert does not have one or else insert if it does. This provides an added flexibility for scenarios mentioned in the comments.
Using Brave helps put money into the clown's pocket. Money that could be used to, for example, to fund homophobic initiatives.

Using Javascript does not.

This distinction is important to many.
Except .. there’s no effective authentication protocol in place to verify that a specific person is indeed in a specific role (or is indeed person they claim to be).
Really cool project, now available in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/atopile
No.

In fact it's not a “cookie warning pop-up”, it's a cookie consent pop-up.

And there's an easy way to get rid of that pop-up for companies (big or small BTW): stop using cookies that require user consent: that is, stop harvesting people's data.
Yep. It keeps refreshing on me on Firefox iOS. Super annoying
That makes sense.

But I work at a startup with no startup benefits and yet all the negative sides.

Once I end a project/make some progress, or even before that, I am handed another project/responsibility.

I can barely breathe.

With that, the unhealthy obsession with warming your chair for longer hours is mixed.

I am so exhausted. I can barely do anything else.
This is an equivalent of your call being eavesdropped, EU forcing the operator to remind you every 60s that they are listening and you getting upset that the EU made calls so annoying.
How about quickjs or tauri?
There is no trust in the words “we tested this internally.”

Apple employees can rate it as an old project among themselves, while it is more convenient for everyone else to rate the product from the moment of publication.
It means "printed circuit board assembly" so yes.
4. They are required to make the web usable which makes points 1 to 3 irrelevant.
The popups make things even worse, because people automatically click on "Agree to all", which permits far more than would be permitted without a cookie banner.
Who's down to build a open-source, web-based office?
My elderly parents especially have problems with buttons that need 2 steps to press them. E.g. in Whatsapp if the other party wants to start a video call, a small button will pop up that just shakes around and needs to be pulled up.

They usually don't even notice that button. And if they do, they certainly don't understand that it needs to be pulled up...

Another big issue is that buttons and input fields are often not clearly recognizable as one.
Sites can't rely on password managers and will make TOTP mandatory, cf github.
> The radius of the sun is about 696,340 km

Arguably, the entire heliosphere is part of the Sun's atmosphere, and it reaches well beyond Pluto. If I were in a relativistic spaceship, I think I'd want to apply the brakes well before slamming into the heliosphere.

What do you call the heliosphere of a star that isn't the Sun? The stellosphere?
Also unfortunate are the use of a heap segment representation, and sbrk.
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What about

> blushes I-i-i sometimes get nervous cough if maybe it could possibly be ok with you could we maybe do it with a phone call, whoops, I mean e-mail!! nervous laughter

Some recruiters may find it cute
So basically, the current iteration of the AVP is the Apple Newton: you can kind of see where the product could lead to but right now it's held back by the realities of current technology.
Taiwan and Kosovo would be some other examples.
US announces new Visa restrictions to curb global spyware industry
The statement was present tense. I don't think there were wars being waged at the time. Also when coalition of dictators A say they want to wipe small democratic country B off the map and attack it then I'm not sure A and B are equivalent and moving from an A to a B is hypocrisy.
"Even if this study is a lie, and storms are not getting more intense, we will still need to take your right to drive a car"
> The NewScientist headline is terrible

Indeed.

Increasingly so is the New Scientist publication title.
This might explain why scambots routinely try this approach on messaging apps (Telegram/Whatsapp/you name it). As in, send an absolutely out-of-the blue message like a table reservation, wait for the predictable you-got-the-wrong-number reply and use that as an inroad to strike a conversation.

To me it always seemed like such a dumb attempt to lure people in, but perhaps other cultures might honestly read this as a genuine social relation.
Basically EU made sure you are aware that you are being spied upon, that your personal information is being harvested and sold for marketing........and you get angry at the EU?
Mozilla found it will be easier to change gecko part per part once the initial tests with Servo was done and successful.
Or how about mandate the option of a open-sourced customizable UI plugin? This opens up competition again.
and make it rubberized, please. so that I for once can use a phone without case
I think the idea is that after certain tech piece is getting regulated, giants will use this as opportunity to push for some replacement which they will get to influence.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/20/23801435/google-chrome-pr...
The same way you enforce any other standard. Companies with 100m+ MAU apps are easy targets.
My score was 7/20.

I enjoyed it; I like that you can use this without entering the country name, i.e. do just "Check" -> "Correct"/"Wrong". This is such a fast and rewarding loop, reminds me of flash cards or spaced repetition apps.
You're missing the point. The law didn't take into consideration that people are awful and as a result not only didn't accomplish its aims of either reducing the amount of data collected or making users aware of data collection, it made the act of using the web worse.

This is the problem with feel good laws like this. You always have to write laws assuming that those negatively effected will be bad actors that will try to subvert the law. That's just human nature. People want to keep doing what they're doing.
> It doesn't ring true for installed software anymore — "virus scanners" have gotten to the point where they just work for most people

... by allowing software from big corporations not matter how user-hostile it is while randomly flagging/deleting harmless software make by individuals/smaller groups who have not paid the protection racket.

The AV industry is a scam.

> desktop software is more difficult develop (for your average hacker wannabe)

Desktop software can be written in the same languages as webshit and more.

> and has far less valuable data to go after

All data available in browsers is also available to native programs running besides.
I think the better way for me would be to form some (really, any) kind of association to more African countries, most of which are a total blur to me. Most other countries I could say something about.

It doesn't help that most of Africa is basically only in the media if there's a disease or war or something.
It's technically fine, but tempo instructions such as this are often just rough guides, rather than an accurate BPM target.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo#Basic_tempo_markings

If you check the Wikipedia article for the piece itself[0], it explains:

> Musicians and philosophers discussed Cage's instruction to play "as slow as possible" at a conference in 1997, because a properly maintained pipe organ could sound indefinitely. The John Cage Organ Foundation Halberstadt decided to play the piece for 639 years, to mark the time between the first documented permanent organ installation in Halberstadt Cathedral, in 1361, and the originally proposed start date of 2000.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible
What is your proposed policy alternative?
Just like family and friendship groups, Facebook groups are silos like local areas, hobbies, political leanings etc. ICQ requests really were surprising connections
Agile (TM) is orthogonal here. If you have too much work, you have too much work.

If anything, agile at least makes it possible to revisit parts of the software and fix them at anytime. No need to be in the same requirements/design/implement/test phase to work on something.
But also in many cases asking for a refund itself is a waste of time, money and nerves. Another thing to consider is, what is worth negotiating for. +20% on your salary? Absolutely. 10% off a cupcake. Maybe not.
I mean, there is no "objective" list of countries everyone agrees on, nor how many are there in total. You're gonna upset some people regardless of which definition you choose.
Also, Estonia is closest to Finland, which makes sense since the languages are close.
That's an excellent question and as you rightly highlight depends on things like ∂T/∂t that are perhaps a bit harder to control

In practice, however, most electronics is fine (!) with the right materials – even a relatively bog-standard gaming CPU [1]...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ln2+overclockin...
"Show HN" is intended for people to show off projects that they hacked together, not for publishing your content-marketing/SEO spam.
Precision of temperature readings improved over time
Would you mind sharing the cookbook or excerpts from it? I'd love to see it.
Last job I worked from home with monthly trips down to the London office which was okay.

To go back to the office 4+ times a week I'd be looking for something along the lines of:
- 6-hour days without the pay cut
- Significant pay rise
- A product I'm genuinely passionate about

I just hate the commute and I do not believe anyone who had an inner city or outer to inner city commute who says they miss it. Sure it's fine some days when it's nice, everything is on time and it's not too busy, but most of the time it's grim.

I do think people romanticize what the office was like pre-covid. Only last week I was reminiscing on all the times we would complain about the lack of communication between teams, and that was when they were all sat in the same building.
That is not unfortunate. That is bad design.
Just like in Poland. And it’s also the reason why Poland and Turkey were top 2 countries for many years in contactless payments adoption. We were using it en masse as early as 2010-11.
> how to skillfully outmaneuver bullshit interfaces and dark patterns.

I hate how accurate this is, especially on mobile
> This has been studied at least on paper by militaries.

I thought these weapons were real and deployed. Specifically, I understand that hypersonic missiles don't really need an explosive warhead; a hypersonic tungsten rod would make a bigger explosion than any conventional warhead.
I think it’s more likely Meijer did a good job. AFAIK, both Google and Apple (mostly) rely on third parties to give them indoor map data.

https://maps.google.com/help/maps/indoormaps/faqs.html:

“What does it mean to be a partner with indoor Google Maps?

Google Maps Indoor partners can include their floor plans and labeled layouts of their venues in Google Maps for desktop and mobile. Visitors can see indoor maps on their mobile devices to conveniently find points of interest in supported venues.”

https://register.apple.com/indoor:

“Easily create detailed maps of your indoor spaces and let visitors see where they are right in your app. Organizations with large public and private spaces like airports, shopping centers, arenas, hospitals, universities, and private office buildings can register for the Indoor Maps Program. Indoor maps are built using industry standard tools and require only your existing Wi-Fi network to enable GPS-level location accuracy so visitors can navigate your spaces with ease.”
European paint companies still working in Russia despite claims of withdrawal
Nope. (Also IANAL)

- EU Cookie Law is "tell people you're using cookies". And with GDPR it became "if you use that data strictly for the operation of your website, you don't need anything at all"

- GDPR is: if you want to collect more data, and track people, and sell/send people's data to third parties, you have to ask for their consent in a clear unambiguous manner, with opt-out being as easy as opt-in.

The industry's response to that [1]?

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We value your privacy.

1498 partners

We're building a profile on you

GDPR made us do it

Agree to all

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And the gullible devs gobbled that up and blame the law for their own industry's failing.

[1] https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1733421877119324609
But I'd rather they ban eavesdropping not make my call really annoying.

Not a well thought through law and clearly needs an update to restore usability to the web

Yet you are happy enough to stop at "the intention was good".

I imagine you smiling happily every time you have to click "set cookie preferences ... reject all".. ahh good old EU looking out for me, how wonderful they made things.