skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

The law does not mandate websites to display a cookie banner. There are already "Do not track" settings in browsers. A website could choose to honor that setting and don't track you without ever showing you a cookie banner. But most don't.
Experiments are the part people fixate on.
Science begins with observation.
I build art using an M1 Ultra with 20 cores. Many times a day, I have all cores running for 5-20 seconds at a time. I have also never heard a fan running in my Mac Studio. Having a single core that runs at a crazy speed but is cooled by some crazy cooling fluid will not make much difference to me. I can see a single-thread game being helped by these processors, however. I can't see anyone being silly enough to run these in a datacenter all day long unless you build it in space.
„It‘s for your safety“
> informed decisions

And therein lies the false premise that makes the whole thing absurd.

Most people have no idea what "cookies" are, don't understand what difference it makes when you reject them, and are never going to learn - and we shouldn't expect them to! Leave the technical stuff for the programmers.

The cookie law only makes sense if you think that there's any significant overlap between "people who understand what cookies are" and "people who need help with internet privacy", for which I refer you to the Venn diagram in this comic: https://churchm.ag/eu-cookie-law-history/
The big two that come to mind are the emergency exit doors (power assist) and crew alerting (EICAS/ECAM).
I believe quite a lot of them have their paychecks depending on invasive user tracking, so no surprise.
Laughed out loud with the “Customer support tried to flirt with me when attempting to report the issue”, “I want to be your gf, you very smart” lol the print looks like Kik Messenger?
> You're contradicting yourself here. Is it just 'intellectual amusement' if this technology is as disruptive as you claim?

Let me be more clear: individual programmers are improving AI for its intellectual amusement, but organizations use it for its disruptive powers. Two different groups of people, with a bit of an intersection.

MOreover:

> Just to play devil's advocate, if there really were clear signs of this impending distruction, there could be some sort of international agreement to halt progress. Realistically, this will never happen.

Of course not, are you joking? There are clear signs of climate destruction as well with CO2 levels rising. Did international agreements work there? Nope, no flattening in the CO2 curve yet.

We are fundamentally destructive species, who cannot see long-term problems if there is short-term gain. The only mechanism we have on a global scale to decide what to do is capitalistic motivations.
What do you mean by "the original (now decades-old) law" ? The GDPR is 8 years old.
I'm guessing OP was referring to the average over multiple stalls.
very well spoken arguments for a fundemental need for structural diversity, not monoculture, on the net
> Even worse, this thread is full of armchair lawyers that will confidently tell you there's no need for cookie banners in particular cases. Nevermind that there's hardly any case law about this and each country seems to interpret it differently. Any actual lawyer would tell you to slap it on there to stay protected.

I bet the number of cases of illegal implementations due to insufficient consent are vastly smaller than the blatantly illegal consent implementations(i.e. those that make it harder to reject consent than accept it). Companies clearly don't care about following the law anyway.
That's because I wrote both of those articles, and this is the sequel to that blog post. :P
In my experience, people generally cannot tell the difference. It's possible that I'm at fault in my approach, though.
That's beside the point. If you are in favour of government intervention you should be all the more interested in good policies that have the intended effect.

Bad laws boost libertarianism.
2009 firefox icon was peak firefox, a shame they chose to jump the "everything must be flat and devoid of contrast and detail" bandwagon, same goes for the rest of the UI.
I don't want to be tracked either. But if companies can play the law this easily, I think it's a pretty bad law.
Go pull a bunch of grass, and put it in a pile. You now have a working pillow.
Fines for data breaches is one idea? If we want to disincentivize data hoarding, the main cost to data hoarding is data breaches, so we could perhaps penalize that.

This would have a different issue, specifically companies would no longer self-report data breaches, but it's just an idea. There are alternative approaches to getting to "don't track people without consent" that aren't a toothless stick by making it more expensive to track.
How about the "Bankers awarding Bankers award, inspired by Nobel"?
More interestingly, that article says:

> We are also committing that going forward, we will only use cookies that are required for us to serve GitHub.com.

A few pixels further down, on the cookie banner:

> We use optional cookies to improve your experience on our websites and to display personalized advertising based on your online activity.

I guess now we finally have a rule-of-thumb figure for what "going forward" means: 3-4 years, tops.
Especially when it was not in the beta version and introduced with the release candidate.

I do not have very kind words for Apple's dev teams today. Charitably I am trying to think that screwups happen, but this is bad and it is very hard to see how anyone thought merging it into an rc was okay.
If there are exceptions to copyright such as fair use, does that mean that there is no copyright law?
> but leaves a loophole

There's no loophole. There's just limited enforcement. Most of the banners you see every day do not match the requirements at all.
Yeah - its easy to explain and I'm not asking her for a justification.

I'm simply stating that here we are told is a top grade, highly-orderly brain with a great love of art, and artist herself - what a combination! And yet the arrangement of images and interior decoration is colour co-ordinated - and badly!

Its far from congruent with my expectations. The picture of the tree with misplaced branch is actually offensive to me - I would be getting rid of that picture.
In this logic it is totally unfair that I am not allowed sell drugs while I could make a lot of revenue from it.
The customer support gave me a good laugh. Thanks
The law punishes companies, not private citizens. If lawyers are overreacting or companies cannot discern between essential tracking and non-essential then perhaps they are the incompetent ones.
I switched over to Bing after being offended by Google (google knows better what i am looking for even if i double quote it). But using Bing is like going back to old web (ironic isn't it). The UI is clunky, it trys to be shiny and glorifies itself on every single step. Copilot/GPT is everywhere. The results are sometimes better than Google but I can not handle all that UI soft-porn and have gone back to Google (someday I'll be offended enough to subscribe to Kagi's $5 per month).
Correct me if I'm wrong, aren't but IP addresses are considered to be "personal information" and therefore collecting them is "tracking" under the GDPR?
Fun fact, they are illegal if they require more clicks to reject than accept; so this is not a consequence of the law anyway.
I need high spec hardware in low order quantities.

I need it in a very custom arrangement.

I need it without 10 layers of sales muppets trying to upsell me.

I need it delivered quick.

Supermicro.

Also they seem to do a bunch of off label stuff for other parties. I found one of their boards in the router of a small network hardware provider.
This is interesting.

Is there any standardized AST for SQL?
The ePrivacy directive, mostly referred to as "Cookie law" is from 2002.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=celex%3A...
Similarly, I was shocked to learn that models of aeroplanes don't even account for the possibility of the plane being blown up mid-flight by a stray anti-air missile.

It seems aerospace engineers are just like priests and counselors in the courts of ancient kings.....
? There are already multiple software using the (L)GPL on the AppStore. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source...

Hell, webkit which is the base of all browsing on iOS is LGPL.
I don't think a browser setting would make any difference. The setting would have to be either "I don't want to be tracked by anyone ever" or "I'm ok with being tracked by everyone all the time". Everyone would just choose the first setting. But just because someone has that setting doesn't mean you can't ask them specifically if they're ok with being tracked on your specific website for some specific purpose. So then you're back at the cookie banners.

(Also, if a lot of people did choose the 'everyone all the time' setting, that would arguably be a poor outcome, because it's unlikely that this is really what people want.)
Can anyone point me to the primary source for the theory that underpins the Fed's policy of interfering with interest rates (instead of letting the market decide)? At best I understand it's Keynes, but last I spoke to an economist, they said he was only concerned with fiscal policy, not monetary.
Yes, this is a must! A newbies-focused roadmap would differentiate it from other linksites.
Newbies would benefit tremendously if they can grasp every keyword, and not get overwhelmed. This site could really be the starter platform of every AI enthusiast.
To maximize neural efficiency (and minimize embarrassing leaks) ~99% of economists should believe the gospel which they preach. While being quietly open to sudden changes in their theology, whenever reality yet again proves their creed disastrously wrong. Said changes, of course, are strictly a matter for their ~1% "Most Senior and Revered" priesthood to decide.
Something which happened post 2009 was the economists, especially krugman's major failed predictions, was that we do not live in a free market.

The entire 'gamestop' thing was about proving this and they utterly destroyed a few brokerages. ESG is basically dead at this point.

There's a political movement which has failed, it's crescendo was in 1989 but is strong even today. It's the movement which is destroying South Korea and Japan. Some of Europe, especially Canada.

We're watching the last bit of their existence in politics. They will soon migrate to being a religion where they belong.

Its not that the economists dont know what they are doing, they have a martyr political movement ready to burn everything down as they stop existing and this makes economics quite hard when you dont account for this.

Luckily, it appears that Canada will be the beacon of freedom in the future.
Can you migrate data from Firebase database to PostgreSQL or similar?
Glad to hear you enjoyed it, it was a messenger called "Line"
Nope, there is a fundamental difference that people who point out this analogy ALWAYS fail to acknowledge: AI is a mechanism to replace people at work that is largely considered creative. Yes, AI may not be truly creative, but it does replace people doing jobs, and those people feel they are doing something creative.

The typewriter, the printing press, the wheel, never did anything of the sort.

And, you're also ignoring speed and scale: AI develops much faster and changes the world much faster than those inventions did.

Your argument is akin to arguing that driving at 200km/h is safe, simply because 20km/h is safe. The wheel was much safer because it changed the world at 20km/h. AI is like 1000km/h.
Slovenia does have a cookie law, explicitly stating that setting cookies in browsers is not allowed unless permission is granted beforehand. But it's up to interpretarion whether enabling cookies in the browser counts as permission.

http://www.pisrs.si/Pis.web/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO8611 -- 225. člen (piškotki)
It only took two minutes to find at https://www.schwarzkuenstler.com/ and I'm sure I can find a dozen more in half an hour.

Germany is a bit litigious w.r.t. internet or privacy, so the combination---cookie consent---is a doozy. Nearly every German website that does anything will have a consent notification, and the slightest misstep (e.g. using Google Fonts without asking permission) can be punishable.
> I'm a citizen of a small EU country that has voting power in the EU parliament near zero percent. They should do better, indeed, but what can I do.

You can bring this to the attention of other EU citizens so that they too badger their representatives about this. It's not like any individuals vote in a larger EU country is worth more than yours.
well, if you respect the do not track setting and therefore DO NOT TRACK, then just remove the banner. You have not obligation to tell people that you do not track because you do not track.
Just been in Europe last week (I live in US): you have no idea what a nightmare internet is in Europe. You are only seeing a side effect here.
So credit bureaus have access to our credit history, compile and sell the reports without our consent and control. And now our cars share data so the same is done with our driving habits? The present is grim, and the future will be more so unless we step up and force lawmakers to pass laws to protect our privacy.
This is the real critique of the labor theory of value: Smith and Ricardo regarded nature as effectively infinite and the economy only being powered by people doing things.

Sitting in the ground the coal has no value, when people dig it up and put it in a steam engine it goes from 0 value to the value of whatever got produced.

Where did the coal in the ground come from? Don't know! How much is there? Probably a lot. What happens to the acrid smoke from the steam engine? Goes somewhere else.

EDIT: because I know someone is going to insist that the value of coal in the ground is accounted for in mineral rights: there were none in Smith and Ricardo's day.
> Land value taxes don't destroy natural land. They'd probably preserve it.

Consider a farm on the edge of town. Without LVT, the incentive to sell could be considered positive; i.e. the farmer may sell when they're offered sufficient money for it. With LVT, the incentive to sell could be considered negative; they will be charged more and more in taxes from the state as the town develops up to the boundary of the farm until they can no longer afford _not_ to sell. That means that there is a built in sprawl function to LVT - towns will continue eating up the countryside as their centers push value of land up around them.
You can also partially opt-out: https://optout.lexisnexis.com/
> why would I care about power consumption

Environmental impact maybe? Higher power usage = more heat = more noise?

There’s a bunch of other cases too.
Not cp but I would say it's the scale and timeframes
How much “should” it cost?

$90 is too much but $20 is just right?

Why?
> How do you personally distinguish between "this is an apocalyptic mistake" and "this is a step in the right direction" ?

Good question. The first step is to analyze each technology individually, rather than usual analogies :)
These techniques and mantras for grounding yourself in the present are useful for panic attacks and anxiety, but being honest about your past and future direction are more powerful.
This seems reasonable to me: if you do things that statistically correlate to being more likely to cause an accident, why shouldn't the insurance company charge you more? And since it's a relatively small group of drivers who cause the most accidents, if we could identify them the majority would see their rates drop.

It's an interesting topic, and it would be nice to see more details on the accuracy of the algorithm, but as a conservative driver likely to benefit, I like the idea. If everyone pays the same for insurance regardless of risk it's a terrible deal for those less likely to make a claim. The debate should be about the accuracy of the approach, not the concept.
> It just means there are limits to our knowledge.

Sure there are! But, do economist acknowledge such limits? This is the question!
Money as Addiction
It also begs the question what would make someone spend time on their birthday to post such a list on Reddit.

Of course I'm violating advice #1 here.
everyone's at best a temporarily embarrassed surveillance capitalist
Boomer wisdom.
These do not sound like competent companies, if they cannot even classify the tracking that they initiate as essential or non-essential
And it's a super sane implementation. A simple yes or no.
"A task which can be completed in few days i.e less than a week is generally a tiny task. It could be a bug fix, a simple crud app, a server setup etc. Ofcourse if you have something which takes more time or are not sure, don't hesitate to proceed, that becomes a medium tiny task or a big tiny task :-)"

That's not tiny. Tiny is 1-2 hours work. Tiny is something like changing a hardcoded text string in a codebase or changing something in a properties file.
> I assume they just don't care about exceptions, and just correlate past data to actual claims to adjust their actuarial tables

Yep, IMO that's a problem in general. So much is based on case studies in aggregate instead of individuals. The same thing happens with medicine (at least in the US).

Just because 200 people in 1 study demonstrated that X year old Y gender people who live in Z have 7.8917% more likelihood to be in an accident vs the average population which was determined by 20 other studies doesn't mean you or I have the same percent.
> Companies could easily avoid any cookie banner. Just don’t track.

Companies can easily not deal with EU shenanigans. Just leave the EU. actually: many do.
Tata joins hands with PSMC to build India's first 12-inch fab
The single best thing that Uber did to taxi companies was it eliminated this bullshit in so many places. I live in Edinburgh, and prior to Uber this sort of stuff was rampant. Now, all the private hire and black companies have apps, accept card payments, are clean.

I'm Irish, and on my last trip to Dublin, I ended up with a €70 taxi. The driver wouldn't take card, so he drove around until we found an ATM, by which time the meter was €75. I paid him the €70 and he left me at the ATM, without a receipt for me to claim reimbursement.

I have absolutely no sympathy for this nonsense.
It also makes portability a pain. Switching from an app with Firebase calls littered through the frontend and data consistency issues to something like Postgres is a lengthy process.
> What you can decide is what part you want of it.

Or, you can build a revolution to take it down...
You Can (Somewhat) Reliably Measure Change Failure Rate (2023)
Live rendering and error reporting for LaTeX
The population that matters politically is not the general population.
I agree that things are often ephemeral to some extent.

I'd say modelling trading impact and trying to optimise around it is actually quite intense modelling of supply and demand at times.

But have you actually tried to establish elasticity and run experiments to that end?

In all my time in industry, I have mostly not seen efforts to do that, but when people did that it actually was quite successful in increasing revenue.

Fixed the link - thank you.
Makes sense, closer pronunciation.
High Sierra broke FAT32 files over 2GB which was similar levels of fun.
> AI seems to be the ultimate example of "shoot first, ask questions later". We have no idea how AI will effect society

You know, you say this, but we had massive changes after personal computers and the Internet and the iPhone became a thing, and no studies to my knowledge were produced before any of these things were introduced. All of the predicted effects were only positive, because only good actors were involved in creating them, but as we now know, a lot of downsides also resulted, mainly because of bad actors and perverse incentives and simple human psychology.

The progress of the last 40 years seems to be a validation of "Be careful what you wish for"

I used to bike 5 miles to a library in the 80's (as a teen) in order to learn anything. Now it's all on a device in my pocket that I might have killed for were it available then. But of course, it's not just the phone, it's the ubiquitous cell network, the (wired) Internet, display/memory/cpu tech and everything else that all makes it possible. Can I spend "too much time" on my phone? Sure, but I'm also hyper-aware of that tendency now. I've learned to cope with the downsides, while gaining the advantages.

I tend to believe that tech becomes available when we're ready for it, and that the positives always outweigh the negatives. (I'm still on the fence here regarding arms.)
> That’t not "doing sketchy shit with people's data"

Of course it is. If you add AdSense to your website you are letting Google track your users in exchange for a cut of the profits. Of course you should have to warn your users that they are being tracked at the very least.
On certain databases, yes

We only scanned for firestore, which is a NoSQL database, conversion tools may still be possible, a good firebase alternative would be https://supabase.com, but please set up RLS, its IMO much easier then Firebase.
the better version i heard is never complain never explain
My company recently announced a game, and we launched a website for the game. There's no ̶t̶h̶i̶r̶d̶ ̶p̶a̶r̶t̶y̶ e:tracking cookies (I didn't make the site, but I do run it).

Our US based legal team told us we needed a cookie banner if we were going to have visitors in the EU. I pushed back, but I lost, and ultimately it's not my fight.
I've stopped going to Ars Technica exactly because their cookie pop-up lets me know that Condé Nast wants to share my data with at least (according to the popup) 159 partners.

They have so many "partners" that their cookie popup comes with a search bar.

56 of their "partners" want my precise geolocation data!

16 "partners" want to actively scan my device!

101 "partners" want to "match and combine data from other data sources" (I can't disable or object to this)

102 "partners" want to identify my device. I also can't object to this.

The only way I can really object is to close the tab, so that's what I do.
It's been a few generations since Bretton Woods, today's true believers have been soaking up the prevailing consensus since high school.

No need to convince yourself if it's all you've ever known.
That make sense in case of need and assuming most of the plane didn't select the option. But if you selected it, and they swap, are you reimbursed (with all the potential additional costs)?
How arrogant to assume your position should be the default one, and people who don’t agree with you are - of course - easy prey for propaganda.
I'm quite often waiting in line for self checkout. In theory people with only a few items go through, in practice people will sometimes go crazy with it. And of course some customers can be quite slow or get hung up so it isn't really predictable.

Drives me nuts to wait to take care of myself. I think they should give you a scanner gun you walk around the store with, then I can just leave.
> We are fundamentally destructive species, who cannot see long-term problems if there is short-term gain. The only mechanism we have on a global scale to decide what to do is capitalistic motivations.

So if AI destroys us as a species and...

> There are clear signs of climate destruction as well with CO2 levels rising. Did international agreements work there? Nope, no flattening in the CO2 curve yet.

Seems like we're in good shape?

If the end game is destroying ourselves, looks like our long term "problems" are solved.