Hacker News·4yGoogle Analytics declared illegal in the EU.
The Austrian Data Protection Authority has declared Google Analytics illegal in Europe. Google is "subject to surveillance by US intelligence services and can be ordered to disclose data of European citizens to them" Google users can, however, make a setting in their Google accounts to stop Google from evaluating their use of third-party websites.
InfoWorld·4yAngularJS reaches end of life
AngularJS reached EOL on December 31, with long-term support ceasing from the community. Users still can seek support from third parties including support services firms XLTS.dev and Perforce. The AngularJS source code still will be available on GitHub, via NPM, CDN, and Bower.
DEV·4yMy $646 mistake with PHP
I pinged the Places API 17,000 times in one hour. A while loop in PHP will run until it gets a false back. I was using the $response['next_page_token'] from the initial request which will always return true. The value that I put in the while loop always returns true and therefore sends the whileloop into an infinite loop.
80 LEVEL·4yNVIDIA's AI Confessed That It Will Never Be Ethical
The Megatron Transformer is an AI developed by NVIDIA and based on earlier work by Google. It's trained on real-world data – the entire Wikipedia (in English), 63 million English news articles from 2016-19, Reddit data with an amount of 38 GB. “This house believes that AI will never be ethical” was the topic of the debate.
Hacker News·4yYour app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A story from hell
Catima is only available on Google Play and F-Droid and will probably remain exclusive to these platforms for the forseeable future. The real problem with Google Play, however, is not the money, it is the incompetence of their support and moderation staff. It is possible to use the Dutch word “vrij” (meaning “free as in freedom”) into Google Translate to refer to things as being at no cost.