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> But DDG does not account for those privacy conscious users who may be using browsers that do allow this control. (Bias discosure: I use one and not for privacy reasons.)

> The DDG decision seems to encourage users to choose browsers that have privacy-unfriendly default settings or that do not make it easy or even possible to control what if any Referer is sent.

I can't follow your logic. That DDG provides their own method of circumvention for information leakage through the Referer header does not mean that it encourages browsers that don't have such features. That's like saying that a building that provides facilities for the disabled is encouraging people to become disabled.

> At the very least, it tries to resolve an issue that is a clearly client-side one and is best resolved there.

And you believe that that's going to happen? In a broad sense, DDG's goal is to promote privacy. The more it can help people in keeping their privacy, the better. I for one, don't control the Referer header in my browser even though I could because I'm lazy, and I appreciate DDG helping me a bit in that regard. However, I imagine that many users of DDG don't even know what a Referer header is, why complicate their search for privacy when DDG can help them?

> Correct me if I am wrong but storing "settings" with DDG requires a cookie and/or Javascript to be enabled.

> If this is true, then again this is not an improvement in privacy.

Why? You give me the impression that you think that any use of cookies requires the ability to track a user, but that's not so. A cookie is merely data that is passed with each request. If the server receives a request "please give me search results for foo and take the following settings into account...", that's not really privacy invasive. The server is not tracking you and remembering you, you're simply providing your preferences in each request as if it were the first time that the server had ever met you.

> One might wonder why DDG cannot provide an alternative search page with its form method set to POST. Users can then choose which search page they prefer. No cookie needed.

It does. It's in the settings. It probably does use a cookie, but there's no privacy reason to avoid it.

> Instead it sets the default method on its search pages to GET (perhaps leaking the query in the URL).

> How many users will bother to change the default? A minority of them, no doubt.

Like I said in the comment you replied to, the default doesn't leak to either. In the second link I shared, DDG explains how it uses a meta tag to set the URL that the browser should use for Referer. As I understand it, it doesn't even require javascript to work.
If you want to provide an industry life support, the normal thing to do is to just subsidize it. Importing people desperate enough to work for low wages in poor conditions seems both odd and explotative.

I personally lack a romantic attachment to these industries, but in general people seem fairly happy to support something like the dairy industry.
The term Immigrant Visa in US immigration specifically refers to a visa that would confer permanent residency (i.e. green card) upon entry to the US. H-1B is definitely not one. It is a non-immigrant visa. Immigration intent, e.g. “dual intent” that you are referring to is distinct from the fact that H-1B is a non-immigrant visa. It simply refers to whether you are eligible for the non-immigrant visa if you have a predisposed intent to immigrate permanently in the future. For example, if you are applying for a non-immigrant visa with non-immigrant intent like F-1, you are asserting that you do not intend to permanently immigrate at the time of your application. Dual intent visas do not have such restriction, thus you can apply for a green card without jeopardizing your eligibility for a dual-intent non-immigrant visa, but that does not mean the non-immigrant visa comes with the privilege or path of immigration in and of itself or confers any such benefit.
current state of the art LIDAR systems have unbelievably tight windows in terms of space, time, frequency, and pulse coding which collectively allow for excellent background rejection. In practice, this actually isn't that much of an issue. Sunlight and retro reflectors are more difficult challenges to deal with than other LIDARS causing interference.

More specifically, each detector is looking through a soda straw at a tiny spot in space, and rejecting anything that doesn't arrive within a narrow range of time, which also has to have the right light frequency and something like a pseudorandom code sequence which gets match filtered against itself.

In practice, you'd have to send the right wavelength of light to the right 1cm circle in space, send it during just the right few hundred nanoseconds, send it with the right pulse sequence (which one could determine but would be unlikely to happen by chance). Even if it happens once, it would have to happen many times at the imaging rate of the sensor to cause major issues...
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You'll notice that only stories that make some Republican look bad stay on the front page for very long. The American left isn't so much anti-intellectual as they are anti-inconvenient-facts, although the end result is largely the same.
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Finally some honesty so the society can start dealing with the problem in earnest. I hope the clear text honesty streak continues and that this is merely a beginning, because the world is upside-down and the society rotten from the inside under the pretense of such monstrosities as "civil discourse", "civility" and massive censorship in a bid to dominate and control.
That was mostly FOSTA, wasn't it?
What data breach? Is this talking about CA? That was like two-three earnings ago? That’s pretty click-baity title.
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> with a computational engine behind them the likes of which humanity isn't even remotely close to replicating

Let's not forget about human experience. It gives context to any visual perception, and can't be replicated by cars. We simply have access to a larger, more complex environment, and the environment fosters our intelligence. It's easy to overemphasise the brain to the detriment of environment, but in reality the environment is the main cause for the development of intelligence in the brain. The corollary is also true - a lower complexity environment will lead to lesser intelligence, no matter how powerful the brain is. Intelligence springs where agent needs meet with external limitations, those limitations guide its development.

By analogy, the environment is like the training set and the brain is like a deep neural net. A deep neural net with a poor training set is not going to be accurate. That's why DeepMind, OpenAI and others have focused so much on artificial environments (games) to train agents - they know that environments are the key to training advanced AI. A mere dataset is like a static environment where nothing new happens. Research is transitioning from datasets to simulated environments for the next step in AI. I'd even go as far as to track the evolution of AI by the evolution of environments and environment models.
I recommend roswell https://github.com/roswell/roswell .
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It’s a tenet of responsible journalism to allow those involved in a story to comment on it. Which is why mainstream news stories so often contain a line about “XY did not respond to a request for comments” or similar.

While journalists do choose who to talk to when seeking, for example, experts in a certainty j field of science, politicians are regarded more as the holder of their office, and not evaluated individually.

When they are lying or incompetent, the reader needs to be able to see so for themselves using the reported facts, I. e. “Show, don’t tell”. Anything else would rightfully be accused of editorializing.
Canada is points-based. These guys you have in mind lose on one category and win on another category. That's why points-based systems work. You get to say "Speaking French in my country is as valuable as if you held a Masters degree from here". There are so many bases to add up to the value that anyone with that skill would almost certainly make it.
Sure they are. The latest openpilot is easily on par with Tesla Autopilot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5m2yS23dl4
100%. I expect a class action suit from consumers.
Although sometimes the depth of field settings are misconfigured in your human's config files, making those 576 mega pixels pretty unhelpful.
Can someone tell me this, if H1B visas were stopped then what will happen? Won't all these companies just set up operations in India/China?

Or will they expand in US itself?
It's especially bad on mobile. On my iPhone SE, the top is a banner promoting their native app, then a top navigation bar and their logo. The bottom is an ad for the paid membership, a dialog for Do Not Track info. The tiny space that's visible behind all these craps is.... the irrelevant hero image. I can't even read the title!
Steam is only a distributor and package-manager/launcher. It's up to the selling company whether the game will have DRM-mechanisms. As I read, half of the fames are already DRM-free, not sure whether it's really true. There is also GOG which is a store dedicated to selling only DRM-free games.

Sadly, they have their own package-manager/launcher too. Same goes for blizzard, twitch, EA, epic games... Sometimes I wonder ifvthe world wiuldn't better with sone kibd of centralized digital-content-managment platform, and all those stores and launchers just tap into it.
> A vast majority of Indians grow up in an environment with lack of privacy in personal life. Imagine 3-4 people (or more) in a family growing up in a 2 room accommodation.

That is a good perspective on how your social life in the real world indirectly effects your online world. Thanks for sharing
It won't happen any time soon or even ever. There are already talks of a Universal Basic Income by two major parties. They need this kind of infrastructure to roll out their scheme soon.

In short it will be mostly activist rage on Twitter, and beyond that nothing much actually.
Show HN: A new discussion format for Streaming services
One of my biggest gripes with online streaming services like Twitch, Youtube Live, FacebookLive is that it is often hard to track a single discussion while presently watching a stream. Rarely is it possible to have deeper discussions in the often chaos filled chat rooms that are present in most large streams. Additionally, new people who join the stream often have no context on what happened before they join! I think Twitch is the most mature and popular out of those three platforms, so I've focused primarily on Twitch. My goal is to give the broadcaster’s community a place to discuss relevant topics without having to leave Twitch, allow people to use Twitch features like emotes and bits, and gamify the experience at the same time. I built an extension onto Twitch that aims to resolve this problem.

What does StreamThreads do?

StreamThreads is an interactive extension that allows both the streamer and their viewers to create and view discussion threads on your Twitch channel. These threads are shown in a “feed” similar to Hackernews or Reddit that is dynamically ranked based on when it was created and how many upvotes it has. The streamer and their viewers can also write comments in the threads, making for interesting and engaging discussions. Users can upvote and downvote threads so that popular content on a channel’s thread feed is ranked higher. There are multiple ways that you can sort the threads: by most/least popular, newest, or trending! The more upvotes that someone’s content receives, the higher their “score” is. Who doesn’t love internet points?

Where can I learn more or install this?

Here: https://www.twitch.tv/ext/6m9q387smmtyvzmsxmexd7swr89lke-0.0...

Where can I see an example of this being used?

You can see an example of it used on this channel: https://www.twitch.tv/chalupawhale

Let me know what you guys think!
> Expect the consequences to be fairly immediate: More in-person time with friends and family. Less political knowledge, but also less partisan fever.

Well, since lots of my friends and all of my family live in different countries, I'm sure the consequences for me would not be more in-person time with friends and family at all. In fact I may lose the connection to lots of friends forever. I'm sure I'm not the only one in that situation.
Japan plans to hack into millions of its citizens’ connected devices
It should be noted that while quantum computers in this regime don’t outperform classical computers, they still can do sensible calculations. Aside from the toy calculations like producing a Bell state, it seems that the “Hello World” of quantum computing is becoming calculating energies of simple molecular configurations, like dihydrogen.

Given that it’s computing something via a bonafide programming language, I don’t think it’s unfair to call it a “quantum computer”.
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yeah, twitter users are notorious for how much they love jack and twitter
Sheryl Sandberg: Teens 'Consented' to Putting Facebook Spyware on Their Phones
I'm not a big fan of that kind of moderation style at all
I know you probably hear this all the time too, but for a lot of people Facebook is functionally "the whole internet". It's incredible how effectively phones and apps have siloed the internet.
Tesla cars, with the sensor packages they currently have, do not have a path forward to Level 5, despite the marketing claims of Tesla. Claiming that their cars have all the hardware required for Level 5 is a flagrant lie, which they can get away with for now because they've given themselves plenty of outs to avoid ever having to deliver Level 5 capabilities (when they fail they can blame inadequate software or an unsuitable regulatory environment.)

A word on that software: As it currently stands, they are delivering software that enables Level 2 capabilities. This is sometimes called "hands on", as in your hands should remain on the steering wheel and your eyes on the road, ready to take control in an instant. According to Tesla, drivers are to keep their hands on the wheel and pay attention to the road; if the driver fails to do so then they are at fault for any accident. However Elon Musk contradicts this company policy and has promoted the system as hands off on national television. Why would he do something so irresponsible? Because misrepresenting the hardware and software capabilities of his cars helps him sell cars. He knows the hype for self driving cars is at a fever pitch, and stretching the truth helps him profit from that hype.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-breaks-tesla-autop...
I'm just going to say one thing: EasyEngine.

If you need help managing/setting it up, I can do it for $15 a month + DO cost - or AWS/Google/Azure.
I'll manage your stack, depending on time to migrate, there might be like $50-100 for migration.

I'm looking to start a WP management service, and hosting company -- mainly to get some MRR during my slow months.

I'm currently a Full stack laravel/vue/react freelancer.

For reference, I ran a political blog during 2016 w/ 100k hits an hour for a few weeks (traffic died down a ton), but my site wasn't functional at all on shared hosting.

After easy engine on DO's lowest tier, everything just worked. Nginx + redis cache is amazing.

Just drop me an email : patrick @ zvive.com -- linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/patrickcurl
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That's why.
Mastodon/Diaspora seems like a pretty good fit for a small and tightly-knit community like Old School Revival D&D. (Granted I had to Google that acronym to find out what it was, so I can't claim to know much about the subculture. :) )

A few other smaller subcultures have gotten a foothold on Mastodon; it's far from a ghost town. Another upshot is that unlike anything else you listed, it's decentralized and federated, so your instance could never be taken down.
The more information they have the better it is for me. The reason that I use insurance is to lower the variance significantly while only slightly lowering the expected value. Now, if they had an oracle that could see the future, then there would be no point in using them. But that is not the case now, nor do I expect it to be the case any time soon.

Currently I want the insurance company to know what my expected value is properly so that I can get a rate that is appropriate for my needs. Of course I would prefer that they make a mistake and assume that my expected value is lower than reality, but if they make to many mistakes like that then either they will go out of business or raise their premiums.
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That responsibility is on us though. We must be the masters of our own minds. That isn't to say it's not challenging, and some companies seem hell bent on making sure their workers are as ineffective as possible.
Jus soli is a civil rights issue. Jus sanguinis has led to many cases of intergenerational oppression. Giving up jus soli would be like giving up the Civil Rights Act.
I would assume people who love WeChat are much more culturally accepting of surveillance given that most of its users are Chinese. Therefore I'm not sure whether a direct comparison makes sense.
That's anecdotally false. I've had Google use synonyms for words I put in quotes instead of the words themselves.
Google+ was one of the few places on the Internet I could go to be alone. Everywhere else seems so damn full of people.
> To prime your intuition a bit, consider how woman and minorities more than doubled the work force from the 1960s to 1990s with no loss in jobs or lowering of wages.

Is that actually true though? I remember reading / hearing in podcasts that now it takes two people working full time to get the same lifestyle we had when only one member in the household was expected to work.
Which I suppose is fine if this app was only installed in the US. Was it?
> American's used to be able to support large families of 4+ kids with only 1 working parent. Now you have households with both working and they can't afford to have kids.

I'm broadly sympathetic to your viewpoint, but this isn't accurate. Children are fundamentally not expensive. The problem is that couples believe they can't afford to have kids, not that they actually can't afford them.
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Yes it did. I used to use them to keep my games at the right speed.
The Mozilla developer has an @chromium.org email address?
Actually, this is exactly a scenario in which a sync.Map would be useful. Typically, you would use pointers to atomic integers as the sync.Map values in a case like this.
>>If Michael Jordan wins the scoring title again this year, we won't win a championship.

In the 1990s, in cricket, we would see something like this from Sachin Tendulkar. He would reach 90s, then eat 8 - 9 overs to just get his century. Net result was, he would continue to set new records for maximum centuries scored- but the team would lose.

>>This is also related to the big idea popularized by Moneyball.

It's fairly obvious to arrive to this conclusion. Having a team full of super stars doesn't win you things. Though this is counter intuitive to understand- Quality exists at various other levels apart from heroism.
No obvious downside for now. Discussions about Facebook are usually too shortsighted and look at timescales that are too short.

Large detrimental downstream effects and people's perceptions and trends all happen on timescales on the order of magnitude of a decade. Give it a few years.
> since lots of my friends and all of my family live in different countries, I'm sure the consequences for me would not be more in-person time with friends and family at all

I have lots of international friends and family. Keeping track of important dates–and calling, not texting–on them and sharing pictures 1:1 via iMessage or Signal or whatever is plenty to maintain ties. In fact, it's probably more meaningful than liking each other's pictures on Facebook. With that returned time, you can now focus on your in-person relationships, which study after study show are vastly more important for our emotional and mental health.
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>Humans also have 576 MP quality eyes

yep, resulting rich details simplify stereo matching a lot. Instead of complicated algorithm it allows our brain to just run simple displacement match in extremely parallel fashion natural to the brain.

>The idea that you can throw a cheap camera in a car and think you can achieve the same always seemed strange to me.

it isn't strange, it is just a bit early. Running 1MP stereo on a single core P4 in 2004 was just pitiful. These days a 20MP sensor costs under $30 and 16-32 cores is having much better time with it (using GPU is much cheaper and several times faster - it is just that i have these workstations around with good CPUs and no GPU to speak of. Tesla for example does run powerful GPU for their cameras.) So, scroll forward another 15 years, and we'll have nice stereo with something like 200MP sensors. I honestly don't see how lidar can do even just 4MP at minimally usable 30FPS in any foreseeable future (as probing at 150m is 1 microsecond per pixel).
The real tragedy here is the destruction of Reader for a failed and ill-conceived product.

Had Google used the passionate Reader community as a base to build a high quality content based social network, they would be a powerful force in social and could have an enormous positive social impact.
I use wp-stateless to offload images, and cache-control to serve most of the content through CDN. (I also put a serverless reverse proxy infront to mixin other stuff on a common domain). I get great performace off shared hosting. https://corepox.net/devlog/simple-extensible-performant-low-...
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I recommended the static approach but if someone is willing to manage it for $15 a month and charge under $100 for migration, I'd go with that. You wont have to learn a new tool or figure out how to migrate.
Racial diversity is a proxy to background/idea diversity since different races come from different backgrounds and have different ideas of reality. Organizations are pushing all kinds of diversity, not just one based on color. Race just happens to be easy to measure. That doesn't make it wrong, it is somewhat in the right direction though it might not be optimal.
> which is a Lisp on the Python platform

'a Lisp' is a practically useless term, when you expect that usual Lisp code will run or even being able to be ported. It's incompatible with any other Lisp. Which makes it an island.
> I would assume people who love WeChat are much more culturally accepting of surveillance

Or maybe they have no choice. If car companies only make black cars, it doesn't necessarily mean that black is everyone's favorite color.
The only way insurance becomes pointless is under absolute certainty of future events. If you merely have personalized calculated risk using all the information available, insurance still makes sense. For example, you have total information about yourself, and there's a minimum price you'd be willing to sell car insurance to a copy of yourself, and it makes sense for you to buy it, too.
That's the same argument the southern states made for their plantations.

Do you support slave labor?

If you want to support an industry, you subsidize it, you don't import workers to work for breadcrumbs in terrible conditions.
By this logic, any increase in productivity is bad because it reduces labor scarcity. That's just not how it works.

> if we dropped 10 million software engineers in Silicon Valley from around the world, guess what?

Guess what, we'd get a lot more overseas clients as they wrestled with the labor shortage abroad. (Although, the real problem would be the humanitarian crisis in housing 10m more in SV overnight, ha)