skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting up a wall in the middle of a busy street and then getting upset when people find ways around it doesn't make sense. The solution is either to remove the wall or ensure it cannot be bypassed.

Right now, it's just irritating for the average person and slightly inconveniencing those who actually break the rules.

This is the same situation with the cookie banner regulations. If the goal is to eliminate tracking, then making tracking illegal is the straightforward path (or make "do not track" actually mean something legally). Otherwise, ignoring it might be better. Implementing a policy that only frustrates the general public without effectively addressing the problem is not the right approach.

This is what the OP cannot understand.

EDIT: To the downvoters - I don't think you understand what the purpose of the downvote is on this site.
Google Adsense is doing sketchy shit with peoples data.
The old school phone network used in-band signaling for call setup/control. If you made long distance calls pre-90s you might remember tones after the call started connecting as an example. One of the most significant frequencies in that control setup was 2600hz (which disconnected the call in progress and left you with an open tandem trunk, giving full access to call routing functionality), made infamous by Blue Boxes, Captain Crunch, and the magazine of the same name.
I don't see people advocating for cookie banners; I see them advocating for stopping the tracking.
Having used iTerm2 and macOS for a long time, Alacritty in Windows with WSL2 and a Linux distro is a much better experience.
> Because people keep throwing huge amounts of money and content to Elsevier while asking them to stop making money.

Because the broken rest of the system (i.e. financials tied to "how many papers did you get published") incentivizes everyone to keep the status quo.

The entire academia publishing clusterfuck needs massive government intervention to dismantle.
Tell us how the body violates the 1st law of thermodynamics and you will earn a Nobel prize in physics.
It’s a very fair question - why all the downvotes?

- Never heard of the replication crisis in science?
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis]

This “quickness to put the knives out” is an unfortunate - but very prevalent - response pattern in HN.

Hypothesis: could it be a protection mechanism against the discomfort of cognitive dissonance?

- Why so or why not so?
> Work on a passion project, even just 30 minutes a day. It compounds.

I need to do this. I know my project (just a passion, not a side hussle or for income). Tell myself I need to. Then daily life gets in the way. 10 years or more.
Ask HN: Best Multi-Agent Frameworks?
Does anyone have experience testing the various multi-agent frameworks (E.g. AutoGen, CrewAI, Agency Swarm)

Curious to know what your experience has been and the pros and cons of each one.
I think this is one of the rare cases where the now-popular-and-often-misused word "gaslighting" fits perfectly: the companies are punishing users because of a law that protects them from data exploitation, then blame the law for protecting them. It's beyond evil.

On the other hand, nobody is entitled to free content on the internet. Hopefully people will become annoyed enough that they will stop visiting the sites of data exploitation companies altogether.
What's bizarre about it?
I guess the confusion is about advertising and tracking - the banners are about tracking not advertising.
> if it “just didn’t track” a large swath would no longer exist.

You say this like it's a bad thing...
Pulumi and Terraform are the two main contenders. Both are afaik bit different in their operating model
Should be easy enough for the server to detect when the connection is slow. That could be done now without having to update the clients and give them more things to process.
Using Google adsense absolutely meets the bar for doing sketchy shit with people's data.
How is this different than AI Awesome lists?
I mean if I am in the Sydney CBD I am there for work. I usually need access to a variety of suburbs, the airport and the CBD itself for various work engagements. I need to be on time, and spend ideally less than 45 minutes in transit between engagements.

When I am on my own time in Sydney, I have an opal card and will train everywhere possible.
> Reactions fill your video frame with a 3D effect expressing how you feel. Hearts, balloons, confetti, fireworks..

Great, just what I needed built into my OS.
And use of cookies themswlves don't demand these banners, nor that they be so obstructive. Just don't collect unnecessary cookies or PII, or put in a prominent banner that doesn't overlap the site purpose.
Given how economics (and science) are used in politics, not sure that would work. Usually economics are used to support an already made decision - then suppressing cherry picking is practically close to impossible.
"Google will quite literally have more TPUv5's than OpenAl, Meta, CoreWeave, Oracle, and Amazon will have GPUs combined"

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-gemini-eats-the-world-...
Everyone should be provided 2 of these when they graduate high school. They are useful for measurement and reference, a simple weight to hold something down, a holder for your writing instruments, a cheap toy when combined with a dowel, a bore when using a punch, and there are undoubtedly many further uses.
You're totally right. In a studio, a bit of downtime or crashing is not good, but used to be just a "fact of life".

Live? Different matter altogether.

I never did sound live professionally, but I still perform. I don't even have third-party plugins in Mainstage anymore.
Yeah, I’m not sure legislators should be on the hook for malicious compliance, though.
The interesting point of this article to me is not the positions but the sleeping surface. Due to my newborn I’ve been sleeping on the floor on a thin yoga mat for over three months and my back and joints feel great. The pressure from the hard ground is like stretching while you sleep. Took a few weeks to get used to it though.
As a person who is generally suspicious of regulation on the grounds that it is an always growing beast (rules do not get revisited enough and rejected when they become an unneeded complexity), this viewpoint is spot on for me.

And while the main visible results today are bad (cookie banners of various levels of annoyance) it is bad mostly due to existing dark patterns and encourages changes in the right direction. Will those chances come and, if so, when, is to be seen. My 2c.
Indeed. Just because it is widespread doesn't make it okay. We should not allow greedy companies to set the Overton Window of acceptability.
Please do not bring American two-party politics into this, especially in a way that has nothing to do with my comment and provides no insight or opinion beyond "liberals bad".
Switching to Airbus is not that easy, because they will be at the end of the queue and the queue is years long.
It also shows that most people don't care and just want to get on with their day. We know that companies are collecting more data. Now what?
> NEVER criticize, blame, or complain.

Hard sell on HN :)

This was also one of the more interesting points in Dale Carnegie. Wish I could live up to it more often.
The reverse of what you said is true.

DIY desktop market is smaller than ever. You can see this in the number of discrete GPU sales which has drastically declined over the last 20 years[0] save for a few crypto booms.

Gaming laptops are now more popular than gaming desktops.[1]

If you disagree, I'd like to see your sources.

[0]https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9hGBfdHQBWtrbYQKAfFZWD-120...

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20220628032503/https://www.idc.c...
> Almost all websites make money through ads

The EU regulation does not prevent ads from being shown, it specifically targets tracking. No tracking > no banner > everyone is happier > go ahead and show all the ads that are required.
Yes and no? To some extent, sure. As an example: But if companies or people went out of their way to comply with a law that is clearly not complying with the spirit of the law, just the letter of it, are you really responsible for that? Or are they because they're doing everything to not comply?

Let's say you make a law to reduce working hours from 40 to 37 hours except in "emergency situations". Now a company will force employees to sign off on "emergency situations" every week or they'll be fired. They're clearly not complying to the spirit of the law? Is it really your fault when you make a law like that? I'd say only to some degree, the people trying to abuse every loop hole are much more responsible in this case.

Companies using dark patterns, hiding the "reject all" option behind an additional click (which even is illegal) and even trying to collect all data possible are much more responsible than the EU's law. Oftentimes they are collecting data just because, not even thinking about it, because they'll add GA to their WordPress site without even looking at it or whatever. That cookie banners have become the standard around the web is sad because it just shows how much everyone is trying to track you.
I thought about including the whole thing, but then I decided that doofenshmirtz being as google-able as it is, anyone who was curious could easily find it.
> an overabundance of sugar in the diet

That's literally the first point I listed.

> and lack of anything that resembles a decent food culture.

Yep. I mean, I'm European so I'm a bit biased - here over the pond, we associate American food culture with "tons of fat and sugar".

> It is absolutely possible to maintain a quick and healthy diet on low budget - there are infinite reddit threads and substack articles on the topic.

It is, if you have the resources: a car to get to a place where healthy food is sold, most especially, and time and energy to cook.

It simply is not possible to drag oneself out of poverty by the bootstraps. Most of these "live on a frugal budget" peddlers are highly privileged: they can afford to buy in bulk when stuff is on sale, they can afford to store bulk supplies without them going bad, they can afford to drive a lot just to get the best deals. Take these three points out of the equation and most "frugal" influencers get revealed as patronizing scammers who I believe have zero right to exist and bullshit others on the Internet. And the politicians who reference to these bullshit peddlers should be thrown into jail and be served nothing more than dry bread and water for a few weeks, just to get some humility into them.

I'm sick and fucking tired of all of that. Fix poverty instead of patronizing those who are in direst needs.
Quantifiable metrics are useful if they're credible, certainly.

But does it seem likely, to you, that a 7B-parameter model would outperform a 314B-parameter model? Given that we can look at the chatbot arena leaderboard and it's dominated by proprietary, 70B and 8x7B models?

A well regarded and modern model like Mixtral 8x7B, which is ranked 13th on the chatbot arena leaderboard, scores 72.7 'Average' on the open LLM leaderboard - and yet 'pastiche-crown-clown-7b-dare-dpo' scores 76.5.

To me, that sounds too good to be true.
> NEVER criticize, blame, or complain.

(Constructive) Criticism is what advances our development as a species, not sure why that is a necessarily bad thing
My pick right now is "Feeling good is better than that “third” slice of pizza."

I have only fairly recently worked out that how food makes you feel is at least as important as how it tastes.
Clearly implemented by non-European developers: <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Finger-counting&o...>
I would venture it wasn't AI but the slowly declining relevance of academic economics in the policy sphere.
did they try to make it a standard for browser? I tried searching but I couldn't find anything
It's a really interesting article that skipped my reading list! Any other good recommendations from HBR?
Yeah, when I read lists like this, I mostly just think: "That's it?" It's very trite and uninteresting, and frankly if I make it to 72 and my advice is similar to this, I will feel like something has gone terribly wrong. If all the wisdom I've acquired in life is indistinguishable from a Hallmark card, then I probably lived a pretty boring life.
Yes there is. More specifically, it’s the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002/58/EC, which each member state adjusts their own laws to follow. It’s published here:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

The relevant part:

> Article 5

> Confidentiality of the communications

> 3. Member States shall ensure that the storing of information, or the gaining of access to information already stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is only allowed on condition that the subscriber or user concerned has given his or her consent, having been provided with clear and comprehensive information, in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC, inter alia, about the purposes of the processing. This shall not prevent any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide the service.

If you want to argue that companies have a legal alternative to showing you cookie banners, then by all means do so. But don’t say there’s no law because there clearly is. This is a misleading and inflammatory headline.

Edit: Yes, I read the article. To draw a distinction between “must obtain consent” and “must show UI that obtains consent” is of no value unless you want to write an article with a shocking headline.
Do you have an ad blocker installed on your browser?
ALP: Adaptive Lossless floating-Point Compression (2023)
It's hard to not be cynical when you read stuff like "Envy is like drinking poison expecting the other person to die." which is like 2 different inspirational quotes taped together, I heard this one about hatred rather than envy.
Besides SAM junk what else is not available through APIs?
The biggest issue with Ubers financial practices (other than, not having much money) is that in the US they can also provide car finance, and can take the car payments directly from the trip payment. Its got a whiff of the company store about it. As far as I am aware none of their competitors do this anywhere.

Considering the low value proposition of the Uber app, I am relatively surprised that theres no strong open source competitor with a very modest sum going to maintain the app. Such a hypothetical competitor would now also be allowed after ubers entrance.
That is absolutely “doing sketchy shit with people’s data”.

So you need to tell people you are doing that, so they can consent.
> Seems similar to the JVM situation

Oracle was relying on behaviour that was POSIX valid so I don't see how it is "incorrect code".
How does it show that? Most people I know are annoyed by this and click on "reject" (if they can find it), but for a lot of non-technical people these banners are just a given because they don't even understand the problem. Doesn't mean they don't care
The most likely explanation is that the same person posted it on their previous birthdays too.
Mass media caters to the popular demand, so what you see is likely a mirror of average lay interest in the economics (or, broader, in any knowledge about how the world works). For example, if a person believes that government is ought to get him, he will only read and watch the information that fits his belief, because chasing other opinions will just emotionally ruin his breakfast or a coffee break.

Media is the entertainment, not the university where you go to change your world view.

The reason some peope try to use media for non-entertainment is because other forms of knowledge lag months and years behind the present moment - so we have to extract knowledge from the entertainment. You can see it even on HN, where opinionated and anecdotal articles are regularly submitted and get to the top. There is no way to filter out accurately reported data from the entertainment pieces which were upvoted because they are relateable and fun.
There are now several good lines of evidence for dark matter, at least:

* rotation curves of galaxies

* cosmic microwave background fluctuations

* gravitational lensing of galaxies which would otherwise have far too little mass

Whenever a "no dark matter" proposal comes along, I do a quick ctrl+f if it even tries to address all three lines of evidence. This doesn't seem to be the case here.

Don't get me wrong, this could still be an interesting approach to cosmology, but IMHO it's not ready for widespread coverage to a possibly-not-so-informed audience until it tackles all three.
Oh the good old elder’s wisdom, as useful as a fork in a soup as always, do not complain, do not criticise, what a wonderful dystopia
Boeing Tells Airlines to Check 787 Cockpit Seats After Mishap on Latam Flight
Canonical Kubernetes
> - Upgrade to Windows 11, our most secure operating system ever!

This one should be in comparison to Windows 10 wrt benchmark.
It's not just caching. AFAIU there are also built-in optimizations and reuse happenning which don't require user input.
I might be old-fashioned but I think being able to read a simple supply and demand curve is still worth the time spent learning it.

You can deduce (obviously not with 100% accuracy, obviously) the effects taxes, subsidies, shortages and surpluses will have on the price, supply and demand.

But I think most importantly, it gives you another tool for analysis of a situation. To be used along with all the other tools you're familiar with
Using anything Google on your website without asking for consent before loading it from Google, is in my definition quite sketchy. It may be either uninformed, no conscience, or not properly thinking about the ethics of ones choices, or whatever, but it is definitely not right and not ethical to do so. I am quite happy with regulations coming down on people and especially businesses, who continue to do this.
I've found this to be useful to solve that problem. https://www.tunabellysoftware.com/balance_lock/
To me, this seems like engagement clickbait targeting PG to promote an infotainment product (CTO coaching/course):

>there is no cookie banner law

There definitely is. The article explicitly states this:

>you need my consent when you want to track me

"tracking" here means storing data:

>store information in a visitor's browser is only allowed if the user is provided with "clear and comprehensive information", in accordance with the Data Protection Directive, about the purposes of the storage of, or access to, that information; and has given their consent (wikipedia)

The actual directive also explicitly states this

>consent may be given by any appropriate method enabling a freely given specific and informed indication of the user's wishes, including by ticking a box when visiting an Internet website (32002L0058.17)
I was referring to the parent comment "The official narrative here is modern slavery with undocumented migrants". Some of the people working in these hand car washes may not have the legal right to work in the UK, which makes them ripe for exploitation.
As a costumer, I'm glad they skirt the rules because they provide better service for cheaper, and I certainly hope that traditional taxi parks go out of business, because compared to Uber and other apps they're horrible.
The bad old days, when things were slower and unencrypted. I'm glad we have TLS (almost) everywhere these days but I'm not so impressed by how badly the "new" web performs.
Do we know what we’re doing? Maybe we should stop calling the “Nobel Prize in Economics” a Nobel Prize.

It’s an award financed by “Finance”, not the Nobel foundation.

The existence of the prize is was a public relations coup for banking, that’s it.
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As a reminder, it's the same people in tech we're trusting to build things like chat bots, "AI", cars that try to drive themselves and rockets that try to land themselves... etc.

You have to admit that if these same people can't be trusted to follow a simple "do not track" directive, humanity is in big trouble.
I would expect that most companies would be ashamed to publicly state that they sell your data to hundreds(!) of data providers and they would fix this before they had to disclose it. But nope, apparently the money is too good. And blaming the government is more convenient.
Since this is around the 5th time this sentiment has been expressed in this thread, I have to ask... are cookie banners really so frustrating? Oh no, gotta click one, maybe 2, more buttons...
Hate this way of thinking where the government (with seemingly good intentions) tries to stop something but leaves a loophole where all our lives are made more tedious and then people defend it saying the companies should just not do it, well we needed the law in the first place so it's a bit silly thinking to suggest they stop doing it after the law, no?.

If the cookie law was written properly then it would have just been a browser setting that had to be respected and this whole thing would have been completely transparent to the end user and they would have benefitted by default.

Instead through incompetent government employees we now have cookie banners for the rest of eternity on almost every site and they're not even standardized so worst sites like where journalists publish can have more and more obtuse ones.
IMO Windows Terminal is amazing

Good design, great performance, great text rendering

Has tabs, themes, quake mode, a settings UI, and keyboard shortcuts (that you can rebind)

On macOS, I like iTerm2 a lot!
Is Toyota still the largest US automaker by sales? Curious they were not mentioned in the article.
Of course not, I was just having a laff at tech's expense.
Isn't this why Taleb dislikes economists?
The deliberate, bad faith misunderstandings of the tracking consent and GDPR stuff on here reminds me every time exactly how many people are apparently content to work for and shill for adtech.

Working for Lockheed Martin or RTX is a more moral choice than working in adtech IMO.
They arent a plucky underdog, they are a very large monied dog whose interests align better with the consumer than cabcharges near legislative monopoly.
A site can keep logs of user activity to help optimize without tracking my personal data. As soon as a company needs to track me, it's doing more than "optimizing its website"—it's using my data to sell me stuff or selling my data to third parties. And I'm glad it needs permission to do those things.
>"tracking" here means storing data:

Yes, without any consent. For instance logging in a site, doesn't require the warning.
I don’t think even supply and demand is reliably reproducible in real world conditions, at least not in the way vinegar + baking soda is reliable.
Vatican Shadow is probably the most infamous example, it had resonance even outside of the local scene. It was probably the point when their usual "We don't take a political stance" position didn't fly at all.
VC/DC: Silicon Valley wants its cut of US Military spending
China does not ban YouTube or Instagram because they're foreign, They have some very onerous rules about censorship, which I disagree with, but are applied equally to all companies operating in China, including Chinese ones.

A good example is that google is banned but bing is not, and tiktok is also banned in China because they don't follow those laws.
Showing adverts is not what requires them to ask permission.
> if they can find it

If it even exists!
2 more buttons x the number of websites you visit a day x the number of time the website forgets your choice? Yes, they are quite annoying.
Its a thought terminating cliche. A law being a law doesnt end an argument. If the law shouldn't be, we are permitted to continue thinking towards its removal.
I've heard it as "Holding a grudge" instead of envy/hatred, which makes more sense to me.