skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be right that Google and others technically offer some tracking opt-out capability (mostly because they were required to by GDPR), but it doesn’t seem to work, because I still regularly receive targeted ads (relating to recent web activity):

... Despite having painstakingly turned off every available tracking switch from every service I’ve ever signed up to.

... Despite no longer using any services from Google, Facebook, and many others (except when I must via a link from someone else).

... Despite using privacy oriented browsers with all privacy features turned on.

There are so many problems with the current “opt out” model:

1. They do not make it easy to find all these switches. (And it seems intentional, though I can’t prove it.) In addition to there being no global “off” switch, they nest countless switches behind deep hierarchical navigation graphs, where it is extremely difficult for a human to reach every node without missing some.

2. Even when you find the switch, it’s not always clear which choice is the “most off” position, and some switches do not have a “fully off” position.

3. Many switches use extortion to convince you to keep them on: For example, sometimes you’ll be shut entirely out of a service for turning off a tracking switch with dubious explanations as to why they can’t operate the service without it.

4. Many switches will automatically and silently turn back on if you so much as visit the wrong link to their service. Sometimes this happens silently, and sometimes it happens via confusing “dark pattern” prompts.

5. Google isn’t the only one. You have to repeat this whole process for every other service you use (if they even have the switches available).

6. Despite all this, you’ll still be tracked by trackers that don’t need or want you to have an account with them.

The last item can perhaps be summed up by the fact that I still get very targeted ads for things I’ve been searching for on DuckDuckGo even despite all these efforts. Clearly trackers are still embedded into various endpoint web pages and are figuring out what I’m doing despite it all.

It’s an interesting experiment to try yourself: try to actually not be tracked via a regular or even fairly privacy oriented browser.

As far as I can tell, aside from getting into something like Tor, it really can’t be done: If companies can track you, they will. And they can. So they do.
The money a class pays for their access codes could finance a couple of years of DDoS instead.

Edit: Not really. Seems like a common DDoS attack costs about $20 per hour, and an access code costs about $100 USD. Each student could buy about 5 hours of DDoS.
How Do Non-VR Users Feel About VR?
What makes you think that CNBC is particularly hard on Tesla?
I ordered a 4GB from vilros.com Friday before last. It arrived the following Monday. I have never dealt with them before but was pleased with the process. Their inventory seems fairly limited to raspberry, arduinos, and accessories.
> The admission of willful ignorance here is rather astounding.

> then again I'm ignorant to the dress code or actual temperature of a typical automotive factory

That seems a bit ironic considering you said the above right after suggesting that the tent is actually better than the factory for the purpose.

Anyway, the tape not being used for electrical insulation or wiring protection but rather for structural integrity of certain parts that cracked still doesn't bode well.
>What should be the best way for people happy working with their colleagues or team but concerned about other things with the organisation to continue their good working environment and share their views? Maybe it's just a HR thing.

It's a corporate thing. Profits over ethics, laws, and people. That simple principle cannot be changed from the inside.
There is now a pure wasm version of TeaVM.
My idea was that graal could run in wasm and compile to wasm, the (only) benefits would be faster and smaller code.
I can't speak specifically to this case, but yes, that happens all the damn time. Higher-ups are protected in harassment incidents and the victim is retaliated against.
A 10.5 is an INSANE quarter mile time. That's like track prepped sport bike speeds.

No, it's not. It's what my old-man BMW on/off road bike will do (with a Cycle World editor onboard, not me). It's what the 1982 Honda 1100cc V65 Magna would do (with Pee Wee Gleason, professional drag racer, onboard) 37 years ago.

Pretty nuts for a car, though.
> The pricing for the higher margin trims offers amazing value for those focused on performance. Is there much competition for that kind of performance at this pricing?

if your definition of "performance" includes anything other than launching 0-60 a couple times, then yes, there are plenty of ice cars that offer the same level of performance at or below the Tesla price point.

even if all you care about is that 0-60 number, it comes with caveats. to actually get the advertised number, you need to wait 30+ min to heat up the battery, and you can't do it more than a couple times before performance degrades. it will be a while before EVs can match the agility and sustained performance of their ice counterparts.
The two women who claimed retaliation were organizers of the women's march. The common thread between them is that they were organizers of that event.

The claims of retaliation fell shortly after that.
Asbestos was a known harmful substance since at least 1970, but it took until 1989 to fully ban it. A lot of companies knew the risks, but didn’t care, which is why you see 6 figure lawsuits still happening, finding the companies guilty of negligence.

Their defense is “we didn’t know!”, but luckily judges are seeing through that.
Tell people not to "bring whatever politics to work" is explicit endorsement of the status quo. There is no neutral stance; everything is political.
She was active in organizing the petition drive that successfully pressured Google to keep Kay Coles James off the committee. [0] [1] [2] [3] [4]

[0]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/01/google-ka...

[1]
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/04/google-employees-call-on-...

[2]
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/04/leftist-googlers-kay-cole...

[3]
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/05/google-drops-heritage-fou...

[4]
https://www.newstarget.com/2019-04-06-leaked-emails-suggest-...
Sentry Error Reporting for Ember.js
At Hasura, we recently released the preview of Remote Joins that allows you to join different GraphQL APIs. So, all you need is a graphql wrapper over your DB/sources (Postgres comes in-built) and you can then join whatever sources.

https://blog.hasura.io/remote-joins-a-graphql-api-to-join-da...
Disneyland Makes Surveillance Palatable–and Profitable
This is the big point.

It's true that it is not normal for employees to be able to speak against their company (or express strong opinions publicly).

Yet Google has always prided itself on being different in having outspoken employees.

This is why it looks bad for Google when it's just business as usual everywhere else.
The article omits the really obvious solution: don't use all these cookies on your site. Many of us use google analytics for convenience but in reality there's really no reason for it on most sites. Basic login or technical protection measures are all perfectly fine - so storing an IP to make sure you're not getting ddosed is not an issue.

This law is not aimed at the average homebrew website or restaurant menu page - it's for the big abusers, like Google.
I think it’s actually a very savvy strategy to protest from
within. It’s too easy for Google to shrug off or ignore public criticism. They’ve done this for decades with virtually no repercussions because they hold a monopoly on their core business - very few people are going to ‘delete Google’ no matter how much you disagree with their policies.

They do not have a monopoly on talent and they are actually fearful of being no longer seen as the #1 workplace option for top candidates. Protesting as a Google employee gives you much more leverage than an outsider will ever have (unless you have the $$ to buy off a handful of senators).
That's for a solar eclipse. I don't think it applies to a lunar eclipse.

Regardless, I'm sure the couple addressed in the letter will have a lovely time.
> (Your favourite princess now in Emacs!)

Pretty sure they just had Elsa in mind.
> I mean, they can be, but is there any reason to believe they are?

Yes, there is: women stepped forward.

> Have male leaders of similar protests been treated better?

Men either haven't experienced the same, or they are keeping their mouth shut.

In both scenarios, women should be supported. If men step forward, so should they. They didn't so far (or at least, not in large enough numbers for such a protest to be reported), so based on the data we have available to us, the problem affects women way more than it affects men.
Webpack gives me the screaming heeby-jeebies.

Last time I looked, there were minimisation plugins for Gulp/Grunt, etc that would package JS up.
But no one supports using an arbitrary domain, like your own hosted OpenID Connect.
Let me just suggest that you may be too narrowly focused on the legal status of the information. This is indeed important. But, as I and others have noted and given examples of, as a practical matter there's a big difference between information that anyone in the world can mass download to a computer and information that requires someone to show up in person at a clerk's office and pay for a paper copy.
Are you perhaps forgetting that this person was involved in organizing the women's march? Do I actually need to find a source for US law suggesting that retaliation against women reporting sexism is in fact illegal?

This is basic compliance training for any US employment, and the EU has similar laws. Where do you live and work that you don't know this?
Since this is causing such an uproar over privacy, instead I'd like to pose some ethical questions:

- Would you be willing to receive a basic living wage for sharing your information?

- Do you think some people's information is valued at more or less than your own and why?

- Would you be willing to receive payment for sharing your information that is valued at what the market dictates? Why?

- Based on the previous question, does your opinion change if the payment was enough to be a living wage (though still varying based on market demands)?
Not like Ford, vw, gm, etc, they're all good.
mkoryak, your task today is to write us a for-loop that lets us isolate people conducting protected workplace organizing so we can fire them.
The article doesn't include any boycott statements for other countries, are the German workers calling for one?

The US strike looks like a flop, with less than 100 protesting and (according to Amazon), only 15 people striking [1].

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-says-15-workers-strik...
I disagree, the article was pretty decent. And it had some nice images.
“Whittaker also publicly denounced some Google decisions, including the appointment of Kay Coles James, a conservative think tank leader, to an AI ethics board. Google soon nixed the board.”

Many people hold strong beliefs that conflict with the strong beliefs of others and engage in open debate rather than walk-outs. I can only assume Whittaker realized that her views would not prevail, but felt that she was nonetheless in the right, and therefore resorted to alternative means of pressing her point.
I don’t see how you get “vigorous denial” from the mild words Tesla said in its response. It’s like we didn’t read the same article. And you amp it up with “always”... is that really necessary? Your comment is adding heat and noise, not much else.
A small tangential comment: In the README you mention octopi. Although not wrong as per the Oxford English Dictionary which lists octopuses, octopi and octopodes (in that order), normally it is better to use octopuses.
The site appears to been hugged to death by HN. The rate of such incidents makes me wonder whether there are good reasons for so many websites not to use CloudFlare or if it's the result of plain old incompetence of the respective webmasters.
Bicycles were one of the first items that an individual acquired through disposable income.
Let me just suggest that you may be too narrowly focused on the legal status of the information.

When we're ostensibly talking about records that were made public by law, I think that focus is 100% warranted.
According to Glassdoor the average "programmer" salary in the Netherlands is 60.000€ ($67.000) [0] compared to 74.000€ ($84.000) in San Francisco [1]

[0]https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/netherlands-programmer-...

[1] https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/san-francisco-programme...
Probably a naive question, but would it be possible to use drones instead of helicopters for this?

My thinking is they are significantly cheaper to buy and fly, and presumably much safer for pedestrians too. Maybe they could also form a mesh network to avoid a single point of failure.
Elon Musk's Neuralink is promising big news. Here’s what it could be
"The rate of diarrhea was 12% in the low-dose group, but only 1% in the high-dose group."

That alone seems like a good reason to administer high-dose Vitamin D!
Amazon Aurora Wins 2019 Sigmod Systems Award
It seems fairly ridiculous to suggest that Fuchsia is not a real project. It wouldn't be the first OS Google has built.
I hate the profiteering feeling of the Canadian resalers. I want a Pi plus a case and the heat sinks that I think are mandatory. To get that they want to sell me crap I don't need like yet another SD card and power supply. Suddenly the price hits $100CAD and the sexiness of the low price is gone.
> it seems like the fault is on society for allowing and encouraging the market to do so in general

I agree, but there's no underlying constant that humans act rationally or in their own best interest. I don't think the market can protect rights, period. And putting a price on them marginalizes the poor even more.
lightbringer and mistborn are in the queue!

if its not too intrusive, what do program you use to listen to the files? syncing between devices?
I finished our very niche ORM for PostgreSQL from 15 years of MySQL only and must say that I have been able to do much more ‘peephole optimising’ (not sure if it is applicable but I mean very specific, very postgres specific optimisations vs what I could do in mysql) and especially for bigger datasets with more ad hoc querying PostgreSQL has helped us. Also, I like the codebase better; I did lot of work (proprietary) on mysql internals and I found it harder to work with. Maybe that changed but I guess not.
The Allwinner H2+ and H3 CPUs are used in sub $20 and sub $10 boards such as some Orange and Nano PIs though they seem to be very different beasts sound wise from the Raspberries.
From page 61 of the Allwinner H3 CPU data sheet:

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2.1.8.1. Audio Codec

- Two audio digital-to-analog(DAC) channels

- Support analog/ digital volume control

- One low-noise analog microphone bias output

- Analog low-power loop from line-in /microphone to lineout outputs

- Support Dynamic Range Controller adjusting the DAC playback output

- Three audio inputs:
-Two differential microphone inputs
-Stereo Linein input

- Two audio analog-to-digital(ADC) channels
- 92dB SNR@A-weight
- Supports ADC Sample Rates from 8KHz to 48KHz

Support Automatic Gain Control(AGC) and Dynamic Range Control(DRC) adjusting the ADC recording input
The temperatures you listed are close to freezing (sometimes below freezing). Are you sure working in a tent at those temps is "pleasant"? The chances of the tent providing the same levels of climate control as the factory building are close to none which is why workers had to use the radiators against company policy. And the policy makes sense given the clear danger of a fire.
We need to weigh the purposes and drawbacks of policies and try to strike a balance in practice. In the case of public records, the purpose presumably is to fight corruption and maintain an informed electorate; the injury to personal privacy a major drawback.

Adding a cost to get the information is one way to adjust this balance— it ensures that the person making the request values the information for some purpose, at a level higher than the imposed cost. Then, when you pass regulations about appropriate and inappropriate motivations for using this information, there’s a standard against which the judge and jury can compare the proffered reasons for accessing the data.
I ran the older OpenID protocol for years, but over time, everyone stopped supporting OpenID. Stackoverflow was the last big provider that dropped it entirely. Sure we have OpenID Connect (which is OAuth2 based) and this project mentioned both OpenID/OIDConnect and how it expands on it, but the problem is getting people to allow support on their websites.

I think the only places we may see support are newer Fediverse servers like Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, et. al.

Here's my previous article on OpenID:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/the-decline-of-openid/
There are two narratives:

1. These people are rabble-rousers who will never be happy and are disrupting the work environment at Google.

2. These people are highlighting legitimate problems within the company and are trying to enact positive change.

Take your pick. But be aware of both narratives. And be aware that neither of them is unreasonable.
Hot hatches aren't supercars!

The instant acceleration and drag strip performance means it's closer to something like a Dodge Demon than a Ferrari 488. That's OK, it's just not realistic to say it's something it's not.
I highly recommend Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/
Consider adding a server/daemon with jobs and scheduling. This would let people copy and reconcile data between systems, or prep data at night, etc... It could also save indexes and table statistics between queries.
It's disingenious to say it's just tape. Here's a paragraph from the article:

> Five people who work or worked in the tent in 2019 said they would frequently pass cars down the line that they knew were missing a few bolts, nuts or lugs, all in the name of saving time.

There are many more things discussed too under the heading "Other short cuts"
I did that intentionally cause I think octopi sounds kind of cute :)
My point is that the files don’t contain DRM; they use a standard encryption format with a key that Audible gives you (your ID.) You could lock your own audio using the same formatting without installing anything special.

It would be DRM if Audible locked the file to their player with a key pairing that only they knew and refused to provide the user or forbade them from accessing via usage terms.
THe process is similar, you would convert to csv and then use the \copy command to bulk insert the data. In pg 12, the copy command has grown a lot of very useful features like WHERE filtering, so if you get the chance go for 12:

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/tech-preview-improvin...
"Don't pay out millions of dollars to people who were asked to quietly resign after harassing employees" is major entitlement?
From what I've seen in documentaries, the entired world was thrilled.
> What did the "Open Research Group" at Google actually build?

Have you made any effort to investigate who Meredith Whittaker is on your own?

Her work on AI ethics was much appreciated and celebrated precisely because she was a distinguished contributor. The cultural aversion to building weapons is not novel thing in that culture.
It's not a matter of 'hot topics' or 'politicization'. Workers demands for fair compensation in general have a long history and are a central part of the relationship between employer and employee. If you think the fact that siblings might experience different economic outcomes has anything to do with this, you've (most charitably interpreted) misunderstood the topic.
Almost same content but w/o free article limit:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/16/20695964/google-protest-l...
Besides the script, the training is needed because they fly real low, and particularly in mountain zones (it is the same for the Giro d'Italia [1]) there can be a lot of obstacles, particularly high voltage lines, that may be badly signaled or have been changed recently.

[1] curiously enough one of the pilots for the Giro d'Italia has been for years Gianni Bugno, who won the actual race in 1990, here is an interview (Italian, but not too bad via Google translate):

http://www.manualedivolo.it/index.php?option=com_content&vie...
> by hiring a bunch of mid-tier Java programmers

Replace Java with Go (not much of a change, all things considered!) and that's exactly what Google seems to be doing. It's a big problem for them in the long run because it does mean accruing a mass of technical debt that will not necessarily be easy to get rid of. You'd expect "smart" folks in a tech-oriented enterprise to do better than that, especially if they're unutilized otherwise, but it can't be easy to do that sort of management at Google scale.
Outperform on what tasks?
Why are we posting selected shorts from a 3rd rate medical-related website? Orthomolecular.org?

Care to visit their list of "orthomolecular" doctors? http://orthomolecular.org/resources/pract.shtml

This is one step away from homeopathy. Get this shit off HN please.
No but I didn't realize it wasn't open to all. The source document is https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...

Could you please flag my submission so dang or sctb can delete it? I can't delete it anymore. Thank you for letting me know. I apologize for the missing body.
That's definitely our plan for the future!
They also supposedly left out bolts/nuts:

> Five people who work or worked in the tent in 2019 said they would frequently pass cars down the line that they knew were missing a few bolts, nuts or lugs, all in the name of saving time.

With other things mentioned under "Other short cuts" too
The Pi can network boot.