skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reading this as a fantastically stupid misinterpretation of the technologies in play.

We're reading what some clerk wrote, in a game of telephone, as the defense tries to escalate this into utter confusion over what the fuck is going on.

Somewhere along the line, they name dropped a log analysis tool (splunk) to explain how, after the pixel/logo/image is requested and loaded, the request is logged (to apache http request logs on the server) and that those SERVER logs can be pulled and inspected...

THEN, an admin, with total control over THE SERVER can scrape those logs via querying for the pixel requests with Splunk, which enables highly granular queries against a log stream across load balanced clisters, or what have you.

A clerk would have near zero comprehension of the system architecture or the basics of http traffic and server monitoring, so, you know... You can expect some kind of authentic expression of breathless shock at the tale a defense attourney might weave, while they loudly complain... about... a fucking email signature.

This is a nothingburger, through and through.
While a little unfair, and Salesforce is a decent product with nice dev tooling (apart from the weird ancient Java ish custom language), but under the hood, it really is just a Oracle database per org.
What happens to the car when the computerized dashboard crashes or fails an update leaving it in a crashed state?
FastMail is an Australian company. With their encryption laws, I'd stay clear until they move all their staff and systems outside of Australia.
> It is ridiculous you're on the hook for IP infringement for gmo seeds blowing into your field

Incidentally, this isn't something that has ever been a real issue.

One farmer claimed it was, but it was pretty conclusively proven that he lied.
Absolutely not. Actually, I kind of reflected it in my concerns: it makes it easier for somebody who wants to push such a polemic (as yourself) to do so, but by no means it is universally true. I mean, it might be, if everything that your model learns is the number of cars on a highway. But there's absolutely no reason to assume it is. It might as well learn anything else about your private life.

You might be tempted to object, that it can learn nothing about your private life, since it isn't even known which device sent what data. But I think this is silly, because you forget the most important thing, which is to ask: what ever are "you"? The statement in question depends on definition of that, because if "you" means "your IP address", it might be true. But I never really was afraid Google is learning something about what is sent from this IP, because I don't believe the give a fuck.

It is much less apparent they don't learn anything about "John Doe" simply given the fact that the learning is "federated". But then again, this doesn't really bother me much, because I don't believe they care.

I think, much more probable definitions of "you" that might concern them, are a lot more dangerous, because they are a lot more "real" than your made-up (even if at birth) name which you probably share with 100 more people around the world anyway. Like, for example, "the guy, who every day makes a trip from Baker street 12 to Sesame street 30" (that's "you") and that he really likes Coke. And this is just the most simplistic one, there are infinite tuples of parameters that would define a specific person in much more meaningful way, than the IP or a name.

But, actually, I don't really believe they would try to identify you like that either. Well, they might, I just don't really believe they care about "you" in a sense that might be meaningful to you. What some entity like Google is likely to mean by "you" is probably several organisms, so you might feel like whatever they learn about "you" is definitely not private data. But I don't think this is less scary, quite the opposite, facts like "boys 13-15 y.o. that listen Tokyo Hotel and drink Sprite are likely to try heroine if recommended to watch RocknRolla" are much more powerful and useful (this is obviously a made up example, which you may replace by anything seemingly less dramatic, like "person, who buys A, B and C will also want to buy D"). Anyway, what really makes up a model that can control the financial markets and mood of the people isn't about your petty definition of "you", but a much colder, more meaningful one.

And when I'm worried Google learns something about "me", this is what I'm really worried about. And the fact that such a definition of "private data" wouldn't hold up in court because it "isn't even about a specific person" makes it only so much worse.
From my personal experience from helping actual homeless people and being one (with my family). I find the homeless population is struggling. The numbers are GROWING...all around the greater bay area (up to Sacramento, where I currently reside). The majority aren't suffering from mental health problems, which to me, is terrifying for our society.

If the US has a 'growing economy' what will happen when we start to see this recession/depression that many are saying is eminent? I can't help but agree with the world leaders that the entire global economy is very fragile.

We can build our way out of this but I'm skeptical that California could build it's way out due to the private interests of powerful people (even single/one home-owners).
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Having seen “General Magic”, I’d say calibrate your sentiments when you see it.
Aldi's where I get 90-100% of my groceries most months and I've had this experience with stuff like the teriyaki sauce and some of their granola bars, but I've learned to live with it. It's still so much a better experience and cheaper than any other grocery store in Pittsburgh. Aldi "gets" how I want to shop for groceries so much - no bullshit with multiple brands, membership cards, self-checkouts, having to buy in bulk to get a discount, etc.

There are a lot of local businesses that I love but have one gripe with, like a great restaurant with an awkward wait procedure (Gaucho if anyone's familiar), or my favorite barbershop that's only open late one night a week, but I've accepted that they know more than me about how to run, and maybe it just has to be like this to be great overall.
> Nuclear is the only alternative on a scale that can actually replace fossil fuel plants in a reasonable time scale.

Why do you people keep saying that? It's not true, and it's obvious that it's not true. It's not true in two ways: renewables can do so, and nuclear can't do so (too expensive, too risky, too dangeous for proliferation).
> In 1990, Porat wrote the following note to Sculley: "A tiny computer, a phone, a very personal object . . . It must be beautiful. It must offer the kind of personal satisfaction that a fine piece of jewelry brings. It will have a perceived value even when it's not being used... Once you use it you won't be able to live without it."

That's a pretty good pitch.
> they combine varieties (like flavors of granola bars) of product in the same box. This greatly reduces the shelf space required.

I don't understand how this reduces shelf space, but there are no Aldi stores anywhere near here (nearest is 804.18 miles away, according to their store locator) so maybe I'm not understanding what they are doing. All I've got for comparison are the variety packs that manufactures often sell at the stores we have here (Walmart, Safeway, etc).

For example, if a bar comes in 3 flavors, and is sold in boxes of 6, a box takes up the same space if it has 2 of each flavor or 6 of one flavor.
No, federated learning is about training on the device not running prediction on the device. Training a speech model on the device would be hard, because there is no labeled data. We don't know what the user said.
Weather is a driving factor that one shouldn't overlook. SV has a massive housing problem. Let's not defer the issue. It's a substantial issue.
"Secure aggregation" doesn't mean a thing, because I would argue, as I did in another comment already, that "you" are not "your device".
I used to work at a grocery store deli. Every week, without fail, we'd sell 75% yellow American cheese and 25% white American cheese (and that's being generous to the amount of white we sold). I asked my boss why we didn't just buy more yellow than white instead of buying exactly one box of white for every box of yellow and she just got mad and said "what, you think you can do my job better than me?"

I still deeply want to know this mystery. It's obvious to anyone who works at a grocery store that certain items are way more popular than others, but grocery stores buy way more variety than makes sense. Maybe it's for appearance in some cases, but no one can see how much American cheese we have stocked at the deli counter, and it's true for the stuff stored in the back of the warehouse, too.
It would be nice if payroll and taxes was resolved on daily basis why not?

My first thought was that this is only necessary because they pay is so low.
So Flatcar is a fork of Container Linux with only changes to the terms and this is a fork of Typhoon? What the hell.
> inexpressive language like Python?

Could you elaborate on this please?
Have you ever been to the southern US? Specifically Mississippi or Alabama or even some parts of Georgia?
These two resources are a much much much bigger help:

- HTTP decision diagram (click around, every section is explained with links to specs) https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram/blob/master...

- Know your HTTP well: https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well
It was settled that a fetus is not a human being. Therefore it ruled abortion was not murder.

It has human DNA, it has a brain and heart with human DNA, it is life and is alive. But it is treated like a parasite by Roe vs. Wade, that is the crack in the judgement that would be attacked by a pro-life group that a fetus is a human being and terminating it is murder.

"And... here... we... go!" Begun these abortion wars have.
They would be absolutely compelled to by market forces. The entire ad-tech industry would be wiped out if something like this becomes more common. You would need an army of highly trained machine learning engineers to build complex systems that would work great but still be efficient. Guess who is the only company which has that army?

The cynic in me sees this as a great play by the Googz to cut the Amazon-adtech venture in the bud, and to establish and maintain dominance over the adtech business, and advertising in general.
New York State Senate introduces bill to make texting while walking a crime
I visited friends and went along while they went to the pediatrician. I do not have children but after this trip, the Google rewards app asked me if I have children several times immediately afterwards and over the next few months (it had not asked me that question prior to that) so I assume that Google was using either the routers my android phone saw or my location info to figure out where I was to target me for ads.
Canada’s first 'body farm' to open in Quebec
There is a BEP for updatable torrents:

https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html
I wonder if eating food from these super cheap places will shorten your life span compared to other more expensive and focused on healthy places. Basically, sure cheap is good, but how less or more healthy are these cheap supermarkets comparing them to on quality and healthiness metrics?
That not a good analogy dude
I don't know how banks in the US work. Do they give you "helpful messages" about what you can do with the stuff you bought at $shop?

Also, banks and credit card companies are highly regulated. Google is not. I guess it should be.
This is bullshit. Don’t be a creep. Period, end of story. Hire and promote fairly. You won’t have a problem.
East Timor aims to be first plastic-neutral nation
So overpay for someone else’s labor?
Learn a musical instrument.
Without deep work you will get nowhere.
Music teaches really deep work in an obvious manner and the very satisfying reward from it.
That is why children should always learn an instrument.
Sure, the traits are typically insect tolerance and herbicide tolerance. I guess I’m giving BT short shrift. Many crops have both traits.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetical...

Upwards of 90% of all major crops (corn, soy, cotton, beets) have BT, HT or both. Other GMO crops and traits are dwarfed by scale of this mass cultivation.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/DataFiles/47649/alltables.x...

Notice that traits like drought resistance don’t come up at all.
My disturbing encounter with the mind of PETA
I assume you're a woman?
Well, I really would like to say "no" to all of them, but somehow I don't expect to be given an option.
Employing+QUIC+Protocol+to+Optimize+Uber's+App+Performance
yes. also, though globalization is a two-edged sword, in this case it might have really helped the consumer with something the consumer really needs.

i mean, the ACA might have additionally:

* made it mandatory for US insurers to reimburse for care given by selected medical providers operating in selected foreign countries

* allowed nurse practitioners to operate in all 50 states

* eliminated barriers that, in effect, prevent doctors from foreign medical schools from entering the US and obtain a medical license

* allowed US patients to order pharmaceuticals from Canada or other countries

* allowed more pharmaceuticals which are already approved in foreign countries to be used in the US without additional FDA approval

these sound like desperate measures, but many many US patients are actually quite desperate
Futurama Theorem [pdf]
https://unbound.com/how-it-works seems to suggest they handle this. Perhaps email them?
Individual politicians have to muddle along balancing many factors and operate within a system which unfortunately requires loads of money to compete in elections.

Some politicians are more to blame than others: those who bend the country towards "one dollar one vote" instead of "one person one vote". Those who lend them ideological support are as bad or worse.

This maddening win by the agricultural lobby over public health is an the downstream result of privileging corporations over individuals.
Dude, this is so rare. Don’t spew some red-pill bullshit.
Show HN: Keyboards for Africa
Care to explain the solution? I tried to read the website but they don't say. (!)
#NotAllManager amirite?
I’m a man who has enthusiastically managed, hired and promoted women for years.
Thank you for such reassuring message.
You can put as many words as you want in quotes, but if you can point out a specific flaw in the secure aggregation paper, either in the algorithm description, or the math, it would be taken a lot more seriously.

It's like your responding to the Bitcoin paper by saying "proof of work" doesn't mean a thing because "hashing" isn't "money".

There are papers published, critique those specifically, instead of relying on a handwavy respond to a comic.

https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub47246
Nanotech MERS vaccine has success in laboratory
It is quite possible they have been pushing the limits of what can be done with our chemical age and are now reaping the unavoidable consequences. This makes me think of permaculture gardens that look absolutely wild unless you understand the requirements to grow a target plant naturally include the other plants involved that help regulate the system.

In the very first paragraph they say "..has evaded all efforts to contain it..". I'm guessing every effort to 'contain' it involved shooting for the same output level that may no longer be easily obtainable without resorting to extremes. That which cannot be sustained won't be.
I would say, yes, in their documentation.

If you follow the semantic descriptions given in their architecture manuals, can you infer these insecure behaviors?
And experiencing it is much much much more different from seeing a video of some cherry picked road segments.
Doctors say hepatitis linked to heart issues
What if Google understood the more meaningful you but couldn't track it down exactly to the real you? Or is that impossible to achieve technically?
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It should be, honestly. The solution is simple to execute. DM me, not kidding, If you want some scenario coaching.
This crash occurred in circumstances that met all these conditions: the road is a divided highway, straight and flat. The surrounding landscape is almost featureless, and there are no overhead light gantries or signs. The crash occurred two minutes before the start of civil twilight, but the weather was dry and clear - in other words, almost the perfect conditions for spotting a truck right in front, so there are problems with its performance even in its natural environment.
Wordmarked i could see this happen
Universities have a captive audience, they can take the time to walk you through incrementally.

Most websites and online communication don't have that luxury. It's interesting how the comic works well in these situations, while still pushing a long-read format. Google did the long-form comic thing with Chrome too and I remember reading it page-to-page back then.

But at the same time, is it a good idea as your primary website homepage as it is here? Which would be unusual if there was anything more to it like documentation, code, etc. Right now this website is clearly in an educate-the-public mode only which is how they can get away with this being the primary content.
> Those are some really weird sales then, what use is the sale if nobody knows about it?

OK, it's possible that there's a low-profile outlet for releasing news of upcoming discount periods, and I just don't know about it. However, I can list several effects of the sale that occur whether or not shoppers know about it in advance of coming to the store:

- You might choose to buy more of something than otherwise, since it's cheaper right now.

- As a special case, you might have planned to buy zero of something, only to increase that amount when you notice it's on sale.

- You might choose to buy a discounted item in preference to the non-discounted item you were originally planning to buy.
consumers have to have a job and an income in order for them to actually be consumers.

people who work for the wages amazon pays in fulfillment centers cannot afford to live in amazon's own home town, which has now become a massive homeless camp.

all of this "inefficiency" in the market, when eliminated, is not going to become money in consumers pockets. its going to become money in Amazons pockets, especially as Amazon becomes a bigger and bigger monopoly.

most people do not own any kind of stock, so the benefit to the stock market will not help them.

it also obliterates the tax base of every single town in the united states, rendering basic services like education and road maintenance completely un-funded -> this is essentially a lowering in the general standard of living for the entire country, for the theoretical fulfillment of a 19th century economics model where supposedly the pinnacle of human life is buying cheap products.
I receive lots of such emails. In most cases, I just end up with one series of emails from another person who shares my first initial and last name... such as one person's credit card payment emails, another person's cable television bill, another person's sports team updates...

But for about eight years I received numerous emails for some town council member in England. At first, I replied back to explain the misdirected mail, but they kept coming. Meeting minutes. Town council activities. Pamphlet distribution arrangements. A message from a member of the British parliament.

Then one day, I'm not sure what happened, but it must have clicked with them. I received a "test" email addressed to both myself and the actual intended recipient, in which it was explained that they presumed they had the correct address all along because the mail didn't bounce.

After that, the messages stopped. I kind of miss getting them now, but I'm glad they got it all sorted out.
It seems like the path forward is clear. Sandberg:

> "The thing is, it's not enough," she says. "It's really important to not harass anyone, but that's pretty basic. We also need to not be ignored."

There's no need to walk back any part of MeToo to solve this problem, just to keep pushing forward.
But if they die?
So 60% of male managers admit they aren't good managers. Good. Step aside then, and let others more capable than you have a chance to prove themselves.
I think there's some fear in the back of everyone's mind, because they hear about their friend/coworker being accused of harassment, and they can't believe that they're that type of person. But many people are. That's the reality. All we can do is try and change the reality.
My 2 cents is... don't give up. Make sales calls. Aim to get 100 rejections (makes rejection a metric to aim for, really, so less pain?). Then you get a better view of the market and the real pain points.
It's not just Safeway. I see the same thing at Walmart with 2 liter bottles of Dr. Pepper and Diet Dr. Pepper. I've never seen them run out of Dr. Pepper, and frequently see them out of Diet Dr. Pepper. This has been going on for years, but I've never seen them change the relative amount of Dr. Pepper and Diet Dr. Pepper they stock.

Same story at the vending machines at the office building that my company used to have an office in. The vending company stocked the drink machine with 2 rows of Pepsi and something like 8 rows of Coke. The Pepsi was consistently sold out by the middle of the week after the machine was filled. The Coke? Maybe 10% of it was sold by the time they came around to restock. But they never figured out that they should add more rows of Pepsi and reduce the number of Coke rows.
Seriously, don't be a dick is pretty easy to understand. I've met so many brilliant female engineers that I can't imagine what toxic bullshit causes people to think this way.
Given its crystalline structure, it’s actually less edgy.
I have a theory: your initial post, in isolation, is funny and interesting. However as it accretes more replies and becomes the biggest thread in the topic, people downvote it because they find the entire discussion annoying.
A female coworker of mine just recently shared with me that she was treated like this in her previous workplace. She felt alienated and as if she was some kind of harlot ready to ruin the lives of her male coworkers. She’s happy to not be in that workplace anymore.
You don't speed up checkout because people care about faster checkout, you speed up checkout because people care about lower prices and faster checkout reduces fixed costs, or increases revenues allowing you to lower prices.

If checkout lines are supply constrained (eg. there are always lines) then increasing speed increases throughput which increases revenues.

If checkout lines aren't supply constrained (eg. there are empty checkout lines) then you can reduce the number of open lines without increasing wait times, reducing your headcount and driving down your labor costs. If you lower your labor costs you reduce your semi-variable costs and you can keep the same contribution margin and lower prices.