skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reality is that I (and others who are complaining, as well as many who have resigned themselves to their fate) are happy to have a website "track me", certainly if the cost of non-tracking are having to click away an annoying popup, and think that people who compare a website wanting to know the number of their visitors to "hidden fees" are kind of being ridiculous.

I agree that wanting to know the number of visitors is benign and it is not abuse.

But saying companies should be allowed to track me (for whatever purpose) across the web without my consent is also pretty ridiculous.
> modern economists are masters of telling those with power and wealth what they want to hear

This is undoubtedly true. Do they have self-awareness around this? Or do they believe the things they say?
Fair enough. My friend and I play relatively small galaxies and both have somewhat beefy processors, so we haven't really noticed it slowing down outside the "hey where'd the weekend go" amounts of time it consumes.
Or it says more about the manipulative intentions of the companies than anything about a good law.
>But our laws must be quite bad because foreign companies seem to love breaking them

There was a great interview I watched recently on ABC. A gentleman was politely explaining why theres a shortage of produce in Australia at the moment. He explained how the government increased requirements on local farmers, but haven't set the same requirements on imports. So large aggregators set up shop in countries with cheaper wages, and less onerous laws, can the produce there and ship it into Australia while pocketing the difference.

The reporter conducting the interview was shocked, and immediately asked the standard question. "Should the government be seeking to impose penalties, or tariffs or some other kind of support"

The farmer shook his head. He said he didn't think it was an issue of penalties, or tariffs. He just wanted the government to put the industry back the way they found it. But the reporter literally didn't understand his line of thinking. And kept asking. 2 more times he answered. No. No new laws please, just let us compete on the same basis as NZ. The NZ produce is being eaten by aussies anyway. so there's no net difference. Just let his business continue.

So yeah I believe our laws are quite bad. For a variety of reasons. Mainly that the country is addicted to the idea of a great national project, and despite terrible results in these areas (National Energy Market (Debatable but I think it does a lot more harm than good), National Broadband Network, National Disability Insurance Scheme) governments of all stripes continue to smash anything that's right fit at a small scale to fit it into these dumb nasho boxes. I am just glad that the government of the day has forgotten about its pre election promise to disband all private fibre network providers and roll them into the NBN.
Article is paywalled, but in the introductory paragraph it says "we did not collectively predict the financial crisis" - that isn't the job of an academic economist and I'd bet that most economists could see the crisis coming a mile away. It is rather obvious that any number of crisis are coming towards us at any given time. Trillions in misallocated resources are not hard to spot.

The public, politicians, and to a lesser extent the media have very little time for anyone who is pointing out the obvious negative consequences of bad economic management. There are still regular fights over the minimum wage, which shows how much of an influence economists have over the public discourse. Whatever stance someone prefers, it is near certain that the economists have figured out a consensus position.

The real issue is that when the government is doing something poorly advised, there is a lot of money floating around for economists who will give poor advice that the politicians want to hear. They're Keynsianists when the Kaynesiyan strategy is printing money. Their all believers in MMT when MMT says print money. They aren't believers when rates go up, they're generally against economics then.
The EU doesn't tend to require specific implementations - the banners aren't a required implementation, either. It's just what the advertisers thought works best to get their desired outcome.

There was the DNT header. Few sites acknowledge it (and thanks to those who do!), and when Microsoft went against spec by setting it default-on in their browser, advertisers whined that they can't see informed consent anymore and just shut down the whole initiative. Note: Microsoft is also in the advertising business, so if you're into that, that might be another angle for your favorite conspiracy theories.

Finally, there's consent-o-matic, available as browser extension for various browsers, and it lets you state your preferences. https://consentomatic.au.dk/
Would it have been better to integrate that into browsers properly? Sure. But the social and economical dynamics being what they are, this is probably the best we can get.
You can rationally understand what's being said but you're not attached to it.

"You will die, don't delve over negative moments too much."

You can read this but have no experience of knowing you will really die. You might rationally understand it, but you experience no change. Yet when you finally realize you will die, when you truly know it, you act from a different place.

"You will die." is very generic and bland yet truly knowing it can change everything.
The standard for browser was called Do Not Track [0], but of course adtech killed it, there is another one now, but unless this is mandated by law or courts it won't go anywhere. Note there seems to be a court decision upholding DNT as rejection of consent [1], but this would have to be much more powerful and broadly adopted to work.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

[1] https://dig.watch/updates/german-court-affirms-legal-signifi...
What exactly is bad about the law that allows companies to do the annoying cookie banner?
It's not the right thing to do in a perfect world either. I've written quite a lot of software without any dependency injection with 0 unit tests that is fully covered by reliable, more than fast enough integration tests.

Some people think that if I did dependency injection so I could unit test all of that same code, that code would be "better" in some indefinable way. In reality the code would just be longer (dependency injection increases SLOC). All other things being equal - longer = worse.

DI-all-the-things is a dogma hangover from the late 1990s when integration testing and end to end testing tooling was all poor, computers were all slow and people tended to write more of their own algorithms (rather than importing them). DI is now something that should be approached on a case by case basis.
And which commercial OS do you think is better? Windows?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66408996/python-not-foun...

> using a third party second display

Has always worked fine for me

> Docker sucks

This is Apple’s fault how? It also sucks on Windows.

> posix compatibility is technically there but isn’t really useful

What does this mean exactly? Can you find an example where it’s not useful? In my experience most of the command line applications I would want on Linux are easily installable via Brew and I can choose all the same shell environments as Linux/Unix.

> The thing randomly loses network and only rebooting fixes it.

On your machine. Not my experience with any Mac I’ve owned. That isn’t expected or common behavior.

> I reboot my corporate Mac more often

I’m going to guess this is because your IT department sucks. I never reboot except for OS updates.
> frankly putting a tax on land is more likely to return some of those unused lots to the city

This seems like a really dangerous justification, and frankly one that would be a complete no-go for me. You just made it clear that the goal, at least in part, is to make a tax so high that it more often goes unpaid and the city can take the land away from the land owner. They might as well skip the game and claim eminent domain.
It definitely happens where they don't give you a 'reject all' option, so you have to go 'select options' or similar and untick each one, or at least each category, and then 'confirm choices'.

As an aside, it's supposed to be as easy to decline as to accept; so if you give a 1 click 'accept all' then more than that (whether two or dozens) is unacceptable.
Well, not in my experience. I installed Fedora, which I think is fairly friendly distro, although the moment I wrote Fedora someone is going to say, try XXX instead. To those people I would say, I want to use linux, not distro hop linux.

I installed Fedora to actually stay there and ditch windows.

And I had several errors with this chip on my motherboard: Realtek ALC892. Mind that asking in Fedora forums was an extremely unpleasant experience, saying that my reports were useless. Which they probably were, because I am not a linux expert, and I do not know what is the command they want me to write to get an output.

That chipset is a decade old, extremely common, and not yet supported. The solution is to buy and use an USB soundcard.

The second problem is related to Wayland/xorg. I was using KDE plasma, with an nvidia card and the propietary drivers. The very latest driver flashed my screen which were useless.

I had to run a myriad of commands in order to install a previous version and not to get it updated, which again, it is not what I would consider ready for desktop. I should be able to go to the software center, be able to select any previous version (you cant), and click an option that says do not update this please.

So I manage to make them work, but they only worked fine with xorg, not with wayland. And then other apps, stopped working, with blank screens, because they are only supported on wayland (but can't use wayland with my nvidia 1050 ti card). If you report a bug, they will tick it with "not our bug" and so it is.

Honestly, the experience was horrible, and I did try to make it work the best I could and get involved with the community. Even here I can see I already see my comment with -4 points.

But that does not change the fact, that the desktop experience with linux is not yet ready, and closing your eyes and say it is, because you manage to use it. It will not help linux at all in the future.
I'd recommend you try OrbStack.
Interesting, a while back at $EMPLOYER while working in a PoC, I found myself in a situation where I need to take user-provided Postgres SQL queries and run them against one of our APIs. Roughly, I converted the API response to a `pandas dataframe`, I then parsed and transformed the query from the postgres dialect to the duckdb dialect using `sqlglot` and used `duckdb` to query the `pandas dataframe`, coverted it into `json` and returned it to the user.
There's a simple way to not have your rockets explode when trying to go to mars,

just don't build rockets
It's taking too long. At least 20 years now
> This is, I assume, penalizing aggressive driving that hasn't yet resulted in a citation or accident.

If there's no context about the situation then how do they differentiate aggressive driving vs reasonable driving?

For example if you're in a 2 lane highway and the left lane is clear but you're behind someone doing 40 mph in a 60 mph on the right lane, so you quickly accelerate and switch lanes to pass them. Super defensive drivers who happen to also go unreasonably slow cause a lot of problems and traffic.

Also, what about temporarily speeding to get through a yellow light because the alternative is to slam on your breaks and potentially get rear ended. Or coasting a bit above the speed limit because you're "keeping up with traffic" on a major highway with no lights.
I was just messing doing a bit of recreational programming, with my son. It was good enough for my purposes!
Tracking is certainly hidden if you're not a programmer, and is certainly a fee if you value your time. Not all people live in low-trust societies or desire to.
Paul Graham focused on whining about regulation as he always does
> The UK system is going broke, and Australia and Canada are weirdly efficient with their government spending and the US has no hope of matching them. I don’t think we could implement universal healthcare and education as efficiently as Italy. We are basically the richest Latin American country at this point.

I wonder what explains their being "weirdly efficient"?

The most obvious difference is the parliamentary instead of a presidential system (also found in most of Latin America). Maybe what the US really needs is a Prime Minister? [0]

There's a lot more ways in which the Australian and Canadian systems differ from the US (and also from each other), but I think that's the most obvious one.

Although that doesn't explain the UK's "going broke", since it has a parliamentary system too. Possible explanation: the UK lacks federalism [1], the US has overly strong federalism, Australia and Canada are more in the "sweet spot" in the middle of the federalism spectrum

[0] doesn't require a monarchy, a Prime Minister can coexist with a figurehead President, as in Austria, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Malta, etc

[1] ok, it has devolution, which while technically not federalism, is kind of like a very weak form of it
He’s so dull, come on / Rip him to shreds
Unfortunately it's unmaintainable and cannot be transformed without full time DevOps or SREs.
Which one? I got a gigapixel image of a nice artwork as a TIFF with little effort.
Yep, I use Alacritty both on macOS and Linux and I love it. Still not sure about Kitty, I hate Python scripting but might pull the trigger at one point, we'll see.
Sometimes we can get quite close to getting the curves (could always be different tomorrow, some measurement and modelling issues etc.), but they are not always as inaccessible as you make them out to be. For example:https://www.nber.org/papers/w22627 ; (financial) markets with a CLOB also give a somewhat direct view on at least parts of the curve.
This is fair, but hard to define. If you necessarily store data as part of providing a service, but don't use that data for (example) ad targeting, is that a problem? That's a service that cannot exist without data collection (examples being cloud storage), and a service that is valuable to users. Should we avoid services because of what they could do in the future?

Things like the DMA are addressing this well I think. The DMA aims to prevent sharing of data for things the user did not opt in to, that are outside of the product remit. So a hypothetical cloud storage provider could not use that data for ad targeting without getting an opt in from the user, but the user can still use the storage service.
The law is pretty crystal clear. In many cases the issue is that websites are outsourcing their tracking to ad companies, which in turn apply those banners indiscriminately because that's in their interest.

That being said, all the dark-pattern banners actually break the law. The problem, if anything, is lack of enforcement of the law.
OK, nothing to do with Rust ;-)
This came up on HN a while ago already. I tried it out and found that quadrupedal lying (fig 5) did help my lower back pain.
> … some sort of "sanity check" against the license server endpoint IPs does make sense.

No it doesn’t. If you want to verify the response from a given endpoint, cryptographically sign the response and verify the signature. TLS + hostname verification for the license server is pretty close too (with the proviso that you’re trusting the CA cabal to not let someone else spoof you).

There’s no world where it’s okay for software or even hardware to mess with networking or DNS.
> Not sure why it makes sense to complain about the EU and not the companies.

Unfortunately a non-negligible number of people in tech also have libertarian leanings, with a default “gubmint bad!” position, which makes them easy prey for adtech propaganda.
It’s unfortunate, if companies are okay not tracking you, that they care little enough about their user experience to use cookie banners.
Right. It would be interesting, though, if this new source of data for them only resulted in increases for certain people...and no decreases for anyone.
You are implying that strict anti-emission laws caused uncontrolled emissions by Volkswagen vehicles.

But Volkswagen was very discreet about it, and when uncovered everybody was against them. Website are being obnoxious, instead, and people accuse the law. Go figure!
no V.150.1 support?
what a ridiculous point of view.

do you think the same thing about laws against murder?

about fraud?
The economic models are concerned with accurately modelling the impact of normal/expected events/variations. The event you propose is not one worth modelling (being impossible).
I don't think aircooling is going to do it for these – though even watercooling can become loud if stressed. I guess phase-change heat pumps are the logical next step. Peltier cooling is of course totally silent, and enthusiasts dabbled on it already back in the 90s – not sure how common it's these days outside astrophoto imaging rigs. But you can fairly easily get temperature deltas of around 100 kelvin with a Peltier heat pump. You'd still have to dissipate the heat somehow, of course.
Plasma blocks all EM radiation. That's why livestreaming plasma views is so incredible, not just because views themselves are nice.
I think the expanded pie argument is probably valid to an extent. If costs go down, demand goes up. Also, I suspect new entrants to the field will start to slow as it won't be as lucrative as it once was. This is exactly what happened after outsourcing threatened wages in the 00's - followed by insanely high compensation in the 10's.
It’s the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. There’s a reason people will always call it something shorter; personally I don’t trust myself to spell Riksbank properly (I keep wanting to put a j in there like it’s Dutch or something), and the media have zero incentive to report on it as something like a “Riksbank Prize” because no one will pay attention.
The purpose of knowledge is to give you enough confidence to invest/participate in a market.

The trouble with tools is so few offer any predictive power at all. You just get drowned in data and options. They're all so heavily dependent on context (the important variables often difficult to identify) and survivorship bias that I think their main use is to reassure us to stay on the ride.
I think that's selection bias. There's loads of economists studying all sorts of things and the vast majority are nowhere near the halls of power. And a lot that are listened to are selected for saying politically palatable things despite their lack of credibility. Probably the most influential economist of the last 50 years is Art Laffer and it's because he can draw nice charts validating tax cuts are a good idea. He has almost no academic credentials behind this.
The reality is that most people don't want to be tracked:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/facebook-adverti...
It is a balance though. I do not like my property doing this type of reporting and I equally dislike someone else's property reporting data about me (e.g. a speed camera). But I do want everyone that uses a public good for which we pay together (roads) to follow certain rules and I want those rules enforced. These two preferences of mine are in conflict, as it is usual when considering the "commons".
I used to work at an online video advertisement company, you'd be horrified how much information we tracked across all the ads, especially since the ad was played with a special media player "plugin" loaded inside the other media player.

This is how ad companies can sell premium views, don't show cosmetics to men, increase car related ads to people who has watched other car related ads and so on.

There's no such thing as server-side "private browsing".
The typical pattern I see is:

- bright red or green “OK” button that opts in to all tracking

- muted “save settings” button

But aha, gotcha, the default settings still have a bunch of tracking enabled, so you have to uncheck all of those, then remember to press “save” and not “OK”.

In the worst ones there’s an artificial delay when you uncheck one of the third-party boxes, as if it has to file a form in triplicate for the unusual request of not immediately sending all your account info there.
Most consent banners are produced by a relatively small set of providers. As such, https://consentomatic.au.dk/ does a decent job of submitting your preferences and pushing them out of sight.
>But what effect does firing rockets - or, for that matter, massacring a thousand civilians in their homes - actually has on the outcome of this conflict?

Why do you feel the need to lie about what happened if you're convinced about what you are saying? They did certainly not massacre a thousand civilians in "their homes"(stolen land & homes of Palestinians living next to their concentration camps). IDF soliders are not civilians, reservists who are armed and ready to fight are not civilians, settlers who engage in belligerent occupation are not civilians. If you subtract all of these legitimate military targets including those who were killed by the IDF itself, you have the clear evidence that a bunch of resistance fighters have an infinitely better ratio than the Israel which is on trial for having committed genocide.

>It's one thing to justify something as military necessity, but it's hard to see any in Hamas' actions.

You say that unironically about khamas, but don't apply the same criticism of Israel, who engaged in barbarism and the kind of evil that makes hamas look like angels in comparison. What "military necessity" was there for israel to murder 14k children and starve them to death?

> It certainly doesn't get them any closer to getting what they want.

The world has now woken up to Israel's evil and most people recognize it for what it is, a genocidal apartheid ethno-state hellbent on destroying the natives by any means. Zionists have lost control of the narrative, so I'd say that does indeed get the resistance somewhat closer to getting what they want.

>Furthermore, realistically, the best that Palestinians can hope for is some form of two-state solutions - "from the river to the sea" is not going to happen.

Speculative, dismissed. Israel is a paper tiger, so I'd say there is a very realistic chance of "from the river to the sea" happening.

>But it's that much harder to argue for a Palestinian state if Hamas are the ones running it, given the kind of governance they have demonstrated internally, and the kind of brutality we've seen on Oct 7.

So let me get this straight: After a single day of inflicting on the brutal settler colonialists a fraction of the pain which Israel has been inflicting on Palestinians for 75+ years, you claim "it's hard to argue for a Palestinians state" but you see no problem in granting that to Israel!?
You are NOT a serious person.