skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think grouping all pesticides together and thinking about who uses "less pesticides" or "more pesticides" will lead to incorrect evaluations of pesticide safety.

Scientists should evaluate chemicals on a chemical-by-chemical basis. I found a study that talks about how using certain chemicals on the farm can lead to cancer for farm workers: "In summary, the epidemiologic evidence from a number of different studies now more convincingly shows that prostate cancer is related to pesticide use." This makes me think that, at the very least, organic produce is healthier for farm workers.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6276799/

edit: forgot a word.
I was quite surprised that on my iPhone 8 Plus with iOS 13 I was totally unique apparently. How exactly could that be possible if this is a device where I cannot install any plugins, change fonts, or really do anything to make it more or less different to another iPhone?
Please don't post insinuations of astroturfing to HN unless you have some sort of objective evidence to point to. This is one of the most common and most poisonous internet tropes around, so we have an explicit rule against it in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. More explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... if interested.

Edit: looks like you've done it at least twice before. That's too much. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here.
It's not just about design. For instance there is Canvas and WebGL for interactive content. Different GPU's draw things slightly differently. Someone creates a canvas in the background, draws stuff, reads it back and since your machine has a particular way of drawing things (because of GPU design, drivers, different browser implementations of the painting stack) you can be tracked. Same goes for audio capabilities. If you don't want multimedia, then fine, it is slightly easier. Then the server can probably try to track you with your upload / download speed, ping etc. They can tax your cpu to see how fast it is. Then they get your browser width / height. Combine them and you can be tracked pretty accurately. There are countless avenues for fingerprinting.
Well, it was originally for cost concerns, when you have a limited number of channels. eyeball Network tend to want down speed.
Ah interesting.

There are URL attributes that you can set to make the whole node clickable [1].

Do you need only one link per node or do you want the node's text to be fully blown/rendered html (i.e. multiple links per node)?

[1] https://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/attrs.html#d:URL
It was an attempt at standardizing a browser setting to opt out of tracking, but it was ultimately unsuccessful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
blink and webkit are diverging in not-insignificant ways. Is it really that important that various rendering engines have zero shared lineage?
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For me, it was Firebug not some noble agenda. Microsoft actually had some quite good debugging tools, but getting the tool chain setup was damn near impossible.
It was worse when flash and java were in common use.
> You'd hopefully have to authenticate and get cookies

Yes. When you use "copy as curl" a request, it copies the actual request as a curl command, including any headers (bearer token / cookie / whatever).
A meticulous analysis led to a diagnosis of diabetes insipidus
The question is how practical that mode of operation is on real network, or in other words whether it actually makes sense to run DOCSIS on network that can reliably support that mode (think various xDSL technologies that can push >1Gbps over <100m of what essentially is Cat5 cable)

DOCSIS is somewhat inherently asymmetric due to nature of the CaTV network. Even if the upstream and downstream channels would have same bandwidth, the upstream direction tends to have significantly worse SNR. Historically this was caused by splitters along the way, but also the cable modem is relatively cheap device installed on customer premises and thus has inherently lower transmit power and worse SNR than CMTS. This is the main reason why CMTS tend(ed) to have more upstream receivers than downstream transmitters.
In a previous job, we had a cross compiler that cross/decompiled a static x86 Linux binary to Java bytecode (with syscalls emulated in Java). Testing this on an ARM processor the Java version of a scientific benchmark we were using was significantly faster (1.6X) than the best gcc could do with the original C. This wasn't anything fancy our cross-compiler had done, but the JVM itself. This isn't a comparison to x86 hardware, just an indication of the effort put into the ARM based JVM.
Minority Report movie predicted eye iris identification. 25 years ago irises were thought to result in fewer false positive matches than facial parameters, but the latter has improved since then. A problem with iris identification is building a large database. Face images are collected by the government. DNA is collected by police and ancestry companies. Not so much for irises.
That's just not true. Although screens and radios definitely suck a lot of power, having the CPU handle traffic from all the connectivity better translates to better battery (especially in standby states). Also, the modems are usually built into the main SoC (i.e. CPU) these days, so node decreases translates to a more efficient baseband modem too.
Note the use of glyphosate as a dessicant is highly regional -- it's common in the Dakotas, Saskatchewan and UK because they have growing seasons that are too short for the crops being grown, but nearly unheard of in places like Iowa and Indiana, because the growing season is long enough for grains to mature and dry before the weather turns.
FWIW I see nothing wrong with your comment and I fully agree that it should be common courtesy to post a comment with a downvote.
I switched to 30d because with browser update cycles "all time" is kinda useless, imho.

> Content language 31.51% en-US,en;q=0.5

This is a default Firefox. I didn't change anything. Surely there's probably only Chinese that has more users of this language?

I'm not even an American or in the US... (all time it was just below 30%, not teal-colored, but already orange..)

Also why is the JS result for Content language 35.40%?

Whereas my list of plugins is 46.2% (higher value seems better) - but I'm absolutely sure there's at least one uncommon one among them...

Hardware concurrency 16 is really interesting, 3.32%, probably all fellow Ryzen users.

TLDR: Surely there are some of those properties where it absolutely makes sense to avoid the uniqueness, but others seem a bit like bullshit metrics.

But on the other hand, my user agent (OS+Browser) = 7.37% is a really good sign for me. I find this a very, very high percentage. (Ok, it's Win10+Firefox, but still...)
The referenced article was discussed last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18977460

and a bit at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13079341
Remember that you are unique in the list of visitors to this website. That is a limited group. You are probably unique anyway, but the numbers here are not acurate.
Don’t drive in the snow without a winch.
Precautions are appropriate depending on dose rate. If dose rate is high, there is risk. If dose rate is very low, there is less risk. As far as I'm aware, radium does not seep through wounds and sweat but does get into water and dust which can be inhaled or ingested.

Again, if high dose rates get in your body there is risk.

Sounds like these people need some health physicists and probably better PPE and training.

We should avoid blanket statements of danger that do not have dose rate numbers in them.
To elaborate a bit: people like Marcus tend to overload/move the goal posts with what the word “understand” means. I kinda feel like in a world where we have perfectly conversational chat bots that are capable of AI complete tasks—-that if these bots look like Chinese rooms under the hood, he’ll still be complaining that they don’t “understand” anything.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that if you think something that doesn’t “understand” anything can do what GPT-2 can do, then maybe your definition of “understand” doesn’t cut reality at the joints
user_pref("webgl.enable-debug-renderer-info", false);

for Firefox.
Priorities, right? I wonder what their business would be like if they had the foresight to not make the split so lopsided.
Another great service would be one to advertise my products on or disseminate ideas with. To like minded, or just interested people. I’d pay you a monthly service and will keep up my inventory. Customers would build up a profile of things they are interested in being subjected to.

You could help them get to know themselves better, or find what they like by asking for information that they’re comfortable divulging.

Just please don’t combine those two products in one, for the love of god!
Click the article. The guy asking on Superuser says that fiber services like Century Link have symmetric upload speeds.
I'm having trouble following the negative modulo wording or formula. It says % and %% are identical for unsigned integers then below defines it as

a %% b == ((a % b) + a) % b

If that's the case I can't figure out how they are identical for unsigned integers. Or is that example only a hint for how it would work with negatives?
Open a private tab and the cookie is not there.
> Most Chinese people have no so much medical common sense

Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN. I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Large internet forums are prone to bursting into flames when what sounds like national or racial putdowns appear.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22147151.
This seems like a bizarre point of view - AppKit may not be getting as much investment as some other elements, but the overall platform has received massive investments.

What would Apple be doing differently if they weren’t hypothetically trying to hold back tools for thought?
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I really dig that about emacs. Having a programming language that is geared toward text processing is super useful. Doubly so when your editor is extensible in the same language.
If you're learning Chinese, it'll be much less readable than your native language too. This is simply not an argument at all. Once you get used to it, reading clojure is easy. I'd say it's easier than any other language by far. Not only that, once you've worked with clojure you may wonder why all the other languages even bother with their superfluous syntax. At this point, if I had a choice, I would program mostly in clojure. The unnecessary, superfluous, verbose, and often boilerplate of other languages always makes me question why I would use them, write four times the amount of code, and still not get nearly the experience and software quality clojure can provide. I highly encourage you not to judge a language, and language, before actually learning and using it.
Does he have anything to do with it now, though? I thought the site was sold a few years back.
Calgary to Toronto is a no brainer. Every Canadian learns about the TransCanada highway. I seriously wonder about their claims.
I like the idea of a paid social network, that removes tracking and ads, focusing on quality engagement versus quantity.

There are a few of these already, what makes this one unique?
On a related note, apparently the game Pandemic has seen a spike in sales. A bit of dark humor always shows up.
I recently finished https://quantum.country which covers the quantum search algorithm (and which I highly recommend)

So I really enjoyed this article (by the 3Blue1Brown guy) since it discusses a clever physical analogue of quantum search
Could you help me understand where I’ve gone wrong here? I think there’s some miscommunication going on.
> "1 big core (from the regular Core architecture lineup) + 4 little cores (Atom), how the hell did they even want to make that?"

I'm guessing the idea was adopted from ARM since they have had mixed-core chips for years now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE Probably the best known line of devices that use them is Samsung's Galaxy S series of smartphones.
> This is only true because people who aren't paying attention to their diet will naturally eat more when they exercise more

Because you are hungrier when you induce a calorie deficit, which is why this is such a consistent finding. It's not just poor choices / bad decision making / psychology.

And using willpower to control your intake and cause it to be less than you are "naturally" hungry for sounds a lot like dieting.

Which is why exercise without "controlling your diet" generally does not lead to weight loss in free-living individuals.
Android put Chrome over the top.
I'm sure your terminology is right in the context of nuclear engineering, but I think the headline is right in terms of how most people will read it: oil wells produce radioactive waste in the same sense as they produce oil
Very strange. Given HK is the 2nd most affected (and most affected last time) why it was not mentioned.

As regards to the source we really hoped it is not from the lab in Wu han, one of the few la e in the world with category 4 lab handling sars etc.
> Aside from the small size, I hate it. I can't think of a time when I bought a new computer (including phones and tablets) and was immediately underwhelmed by its performance. It is so slow.

Put Linux on it and it's not so slow anymore. With 4GB of RAM you can even run the GNOME desktop (for its touch friendliness) with few or no memory issues, without ever hitting swap. The 'tablet' experience is vastly better on recent versions of GNOME than it ever was on Windows 10, and easily on a par with the new iPadOS. It actually turns tablet computers into a form factor you can use professionally.
Local news said it is eating bamboo rat.
Even if they had they missed mobile as well, so IE likely would have suffered a similar fate.
How will an open protocol help prevent this search issue in the future?
> Not so much for irises.

High quality selfies might be sufficient to build a database. But since faces are larger features that don't need close-ups they're commercially more useful.
Or just take the multiple choice test, get a ham radio license, and buy a $30 radio and a $10 antenna.
Good points.

In Australia, they also pride themselves on eating kangaroo meat. Can you imagine people eating a little baby Joey kangaroo?

But nobody bats an eye at this, or claim the Australians are backwards for propagating such a practice.
Free.cloudbrowser Not Working?
hey look i know little to nothing about internet or browser-esque things but i use this on my school chromebook because i am 16 without a phone, i opened a ssl server reader thingy and it said it is expired
its pathetic but i need to use this, i cant really go into too much detail but it is the only way i can truly get ahold of my friends. why is it doing this? also something about security came up but this was the first time it ever ever did
I don't precisely follow the text either; it looks like that formula computes ±(2a)%b.

Perhaps it's a typo for

a %% b == ((a % b) + b) % b

Which brings a negative modulus into the range [0, b)
I'm not entirely convinced that intel with their 10nm (equivalent to TSMC 7nm) will be able to catch up in time to the transition to Intel 7nm,TSMC 5nm unless that process is shortlived. The first 7nm processor, the iPhone XS's A12 was shipped back in fall of 2018 but intel has yet to ship a widely released 10nm so far.

The next process could flip for Intel or TSMC as each process has it's own problems, but for now I would put TSMC much further ahead of Intel in the Intel 10nm/TSMC 7nm battle.
At 2019 SIGGRAPH a Chinese software company was creating free unique 3D avatar characters for whomever voluntarily stopped at their booth. They probably archived your face photo and badge ID for future research and other database uses(!!!). Other booths could probably collect face and badge from walkerbys, but not of the quality of someone who voluntarily submitted to their pictures taken. I realized this shortly after getting my avatar (-:
I'd suspected that having JS completely disabled would make my fingerprint more distinct, since presumably few people have it disabled. However, on visiting the page with JS enabled I received a 100% unique fingerprint. Any one of the following identifies me uniquely: WebGL Renderer, List of fonts (JS), Media devices. Then there is a long list of properties which can be sniffed with JavaScript that identify me with >99.9% accuracy. When I disable JS, there are 108 browsers with the exact same fingerprint as mine.

That prompts me to reconsider my policy of blocking JS. Until now, I've been blocking only third-party JS. Now I am considering blocking all JS by default.
I have the 8GB / 128GB SSD variant and I haven't had issues with its performance, though I came at it from the angle of replacing an Android tablet as that market has dried up.

I've found it pretty pleasant for that use case, and even some light coding on it during the holidays at my parents. Compile times are not great and I've been meaning to set it up so I can use VS Code's remote feature to use it as a frontend to my home server, but actual interaction in VS code and completion etc. is totally acceptable for Rust and JS.
Certain pesticides may hurt farm workers by causing cancer. Whether those chemicals get washed away or not does not change anything for the workers.

Also, why is it important that non-organic produce be just as healthy as organic produce?
China has quarantined 35M people. Could it backfire?
And replace it by Client Hints. How does that prevent fingerprinting?
Can't be that hard, considering Firefox allows for blocking Canvas fingerprinting in its settings, and the site indeed shows that my canvas data is shared with around 6% of the users, so definitely not unique.
In defense of social media, the first two weeks of the revolution in Tunisia (the start of the Arab Spring) were completely absent from international media. That taught me a lot about journalism. In the current crisis in China, social media is a very important element in interpreting official reports. It's also important for unpicking PR and marketing fantasies. As we say in Australia, keep the bastards honest.
panopticlick said my chrome browser was not unique.

this tool said it is.
x86's age and complexity give it a significant disadvantage. Both the cache coherency model and the instruction set incur a lot of overhead to do at speed.
> For example copper sulfate, used as organic fungicide.

Why would one need to test for copper? The trace amounts of it that one would find are good for you. I mean, it's used for water piping in homes even.
I am looking into this too. Looks like it's `font.system.whitelist` but I'm not sure of a "generic, common" list to add there.
If you don't want to pay a subscription, a good option is a Personal Locator Beacon (commonly abbreviated to PLB). Another advantage they have is that the batteries last for 5 years or more, and usually send a stronger signal (this was a couple of years ago, don't know if it has changed). The disadvantage is that they don't do messaging.
Why is this not considered misleading and regulated?
It's a sign that moderation mechanisms and user mechanisms sometimes produce different outcomes, which is true of every aspect of HN, and is why moderation is necessary in the first place. I wouldn't draw specific conclusions about gender issues from that. Gender is a well-represented topic on HN, and has been for years. Some people feel it should be more so, some less so; that is also the case for every prominent topic, and doubly so for divisive ones.

We didn't unflag this article. We turned off the software penalty called the flamewar detector.

There's nothing odd about your comment being downvoted. Other users are still reading this thread just like we are. As for why they downvoted, perhaps they felt you were prosecuting the point in a repetitive way, or that the discussion has gotten too meta. Those things attract downvotes because they quickly get uninteresting.
Rocket Lab's first launch of 2020 is for the NRO, the US spysat agency
I still don't understand why DSL connections have the same issue
What services are people using to run continuous integration for ARM? I see Travis CI has an alpha. Azure Pipelines doesn't host ARM instances I think.
I can't remember which but either Firefox or Chrome only send a standard list of fonts.
Here’s an example of some I found the other day. Each one of those white dots is a well pad where they cleared the land for a drilling rig to work. If you look closely you can see surface pumps on many of them. Some have storage tanks as well. This entire region (the Permian Basin) is pockmarked like this.

(31.6643861, -103.0348924)
Dropped pin
Near Winkler County, TX
https://goo.gl/maps/J2zi8VwD2QjKUpbk8
Indeed, I didn't write "user agent string"; I wrote "user agent".
This is sort of what Flutter claims to be.
A ham radio is good to have, but in many remote places will be useless if you can't reach a repeater. I would definitely take a PLB and not rely solely on my HT if I was going somewhere remote.
Let's assume the worst-case scenario. It has a high mortality rate and is spreading with a high reinfection rate. Other cities will lock off shortly like in china.
What are the steps to survive?
How do you think the world will react?
Will this lead to collapse? At least in the first step for tourism.
> The problem is that on Twitter they’ve become more like activists rather than journalists/reporters.

They've always been activists. Twitter just makes it visible to the public while in the past, their biases were shielded behind the fake PR-driven reputation of an institution.

The first newspapers in america were created to lie and spread political ideology. And that has been the case ever since.

"As for what is not true you will always find abundance in the newspapers." – Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle." – Thomas Jefferson

I wish everyone was taught about the history of the news industry. Also, I wish every media company was forced to notify/warn their audience on who founded the company and why. Like how cigarette and tobacco companies have to put warning labels to notify their customers of the dangers of the product they are selling.
Been hosting my project there for the last 8 years. During these, I have at least two times failed to have enough money on the bank to pay their service. Instead of shutting me down they prorated it for the next month. With AWS and GCP I would still be trying to talk to a human. Thanks linode!
This includes battery level which I think is pretty weird.
I suppose you see no problem with Amazon selling knockoffs as namebrand?
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Censorship in the modern context typically just means discouraging a particular type of tool or specific tool trait. Platforms like Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter are just social tools that are in a persistent stage of development after all. And given their broad use cases I'd argue they're some of the most versatile tools in history behind simple machines and electricity. The same could even be said of previous social tools like the telephone and the radio. Not that no regulation is good either, but it seemed worth pointing out since it's unclear to me why you're making a distinction between social tools and other types of tools.
I have heard of seeding DNA id snippets in materials to prevent counterfeiting. DNA read and write technology is now robust and cheap.

When I googled 'DNA stability in ethanol' I was surprised to see that it was being used to store DNA, albeit at cool temperatures. So that might work.