skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This claim on the Wikipedia is factually incorrect: "This data is tied to a unique identifier allowing Cliqz to track long-term performance."

That claim comes directly from Mozilla's support page on the subject¹:

> Firefox shares the following data with Cliqz to provide functionality and improve performance of the Cliqz feature for everyone:

> - Search queries & webpage data: This includes text as you type in the address bar, queries you send to certain search engines, and data about the webpages you visit and interactions with those pages, such as mouse movements, scrolls, and time spent.

> - Interaction data: This includes your interactions with specific fields and buttons in the Cliqz feature. This data is tied to a unique identifier allowing Cliqz to understand performance over time.

So, if that's "factually incorrect", you should take it up with your business partners.

> There are plenty of papers on the topic, independent audits, the code is open-source and the data can be inspected. HumanWeb data is 100% record-unlikable, we have no way to know if two messages received come from the same person or not.

For now. Things can always change, and promises can always be broken. It'd be a lot easier to trust Cliqz if it wasn't collecting such data at all, let alone sending it to remote servers with a pinky promise that it's anonymized.

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¹: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cliqz-recommendations-f...
> Am I understanding this PC stuff correctly?

No.

In general it's useful to consider that if you think someone else's viewpoint is ridiculous that you may have misunderstood. Here, for example, nobody has claimed "only white men should be represented under negative circumstances".
The WikiPedia page [1] has much more information and probably a better answer.

Also a timeline with different flags through out the years [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Europe

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Europe#Timeline_of_Fla...
Neither is good, but the former is preferable.

This is why being gay before 1950 was so great: because the majority of society got its way. That's why there was segregation in many places in the US back then: because the majority of society got its way. It took the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's to get the in-built principles and mechanisms which are there in the US system to protect the minority to really apply. And yes, it was in part the action of the national majority which got that to happen.

The usual reason why people say the majority should get its absolute way, is generally because they are in the group who would come out on top. That's a shortsighted view. Even the majority is human and gets it dead wrong sometimes. This is why certain human rights need to be inviolate. This is why every government needs some sort of mechanism which gives the minority out-sized power. The US just does it in this particular way.
Assuming that we remain bogged down by COVID for many more months / get a second spike of infections due to premature reopening, can we expect manufacturers to release new models and put dealers under additional new pressure to liquidate existing stock, or will they likely hold off and release 2021 models in 2022?
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Bitcoin nodes are distinct from lightning nodes. I was talking about the latter. Also I think "everyone" is a hyperbole - surely some people will prefer custodial solutions.
Have a friend doing dropshipping of real products. He mostly goes into amazon. Had a marketing background.

Key things if doing the real version of this.

1) In person supplier visits to vet them (yes, you need to fly to china

2) Amazon reviews are everything to these guys. So ad copy that is not too overblown (disappointment), amazing customer service etc. FBA.

3) Stick your own brand on the product and try to build that in a niche.

Lot's of seedy stuff also, but it does make really good money when its working for sure. These guys live in total fear of their accounts being banned / blacklisted (usually by competitors filing fake reports on them).
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears in public after ‘death rumor’
I agree in general. But XML as used in plists is actually not especially complicated, if you aren't trying to be a webbrowser and tolerate invalid input.

Your security-sensitive parser should not attempt to tolerate invalid input.

Probably you should not have multiple separate implementations of it, either.
Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat Consulting where my day job is 100% OpenShift.

The "custom" parts of OpenShift are things you're going to want anyways. They're also optional (to a point) but obviously Supportability will change depending on customer customization. A Container Registry, something to manage your Ingress (we have HAProxy and Ingress Controller), Metrics & Monitoring of containers, pods, and nodes using Prometheus, Grafana, and AlertManager, a logging stack that sucks in your logs from stdout built on Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana, supported Middleware, Apache Camel, AMQ, Kafk), Java, OpenJDK, JBoss, Tomcat, Spring Boot, node.js, Quarkus, Python, Ruby, PHP stacks, built-in tooling for CI/CD with Jenkins, Tekton. OpenShift can be run almost anywhere that RHEL8 can. We've started down the path of multi-arch supported Kubernetes too, first with IBM Z and others to come. We run OpenShift on Public Clouds, Private Clouds, VMs and Baremetal.
(Sorry if I miss your point or I wasn’t clear English is not my first language) I think producers that can selling directly on their website can be pretty legitimate (in theory they already know how to handle inventory and logistics).

What I wanted to highlight was that nowadays given that producers can sell directly, or through Amazon if they can’t handle logistics, dropshipping has become irrelevant.
Btw. what happened to the XO-4 order? (I couldn't leave a comment on that post of yours because I found it too late)
What makes you feel he is not deserving of criticism? I am not from the US either, but the guy has made a mockery of himself. And it's not just media distorting the facts - a lot of the times, he makes himself look a fool in videos, where he is simply talking without interruption.
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Someone with no actual experience in a team environment using Lisp just made that up, wrote it up into a glib article and that turned into a famous meme that gets trotted out about semi-monthly on HN.
Is there much (any) gopher community left?
What is "the problem space" here then?
I don't know what that is but just having all html pages merged into one would be enough and super useful for me and my printing purposes, and probably good for web UX too. Keep up the good work mate
Are there previsions regarding hiring people in Brazil?
This might be me missing some awesome projects, but I haven't heard of many other projects with Urbit's scale of ambition and scope.

WWW is so powerful, everything exists within it. There's not much competition at the OS layer, and virtually none at the protocol level.
> What makes you say that?

The article says so, at least implicitly, in passages like this one:

What we are doing with rights management information
is simulating Colour in a computer-sciencey way. But
lawyers will seize on the possibility of doing this
kind of simulation and say, "See! You admit it! You
can recognize the Colour of bits after all!" and then
conclude from there that all the other rules they want
to make (such as "Red Troubleshooters may not walk
down Orange hallways") are meaningful in the computer
science realm.

My view of the typical legal attitude towards DRM schemes and the like is similar.

> I would expect that the law (or the judge enforcing it) cares more about the reasons people use the software and what they get out of it in the end than about the specific bit strings.

The law is also supposed to care about the people who created the bits in the first place--after all, the purpose of copyright law is to encourage creation of works. But the law as it is actually practiced does not do this at all; the parties it most consistently favors are, as I said, large corporations whose business model does not include fair compensation to the original creators.

I agree that, viewed as an actual legal strategy within the context of our current legal system, OFFSystem is daft. No court is going to agree with the legal interpretation that the creators of OFFSystem claim to be using. But I view that aspect as simply an illustration of the fact that you can't fight legal mumbo jumbo with more legal mumbo jumbo. The proper response to draconian legal doctrines with regard to DRM is to remind the legal system what it is actually supposed to be doing, and to refuse to accept the arguments that DRM proponents offer in the framework of copyright law, which basically amount to saying that they have exactly the same rights as the actual creators of the content, even though their business model treats those creators as expendable cogs in a machine. That's what I mean when I say the law needs to change: it needs to stop taking the claims made by large corporations promoting DRM and the like as presumptively valid, simply because they have maneuvered themselves into a position where they can show a piece of paper saying they "own" the copyrighted content.
I love my code. Whether it's 6 months old or 20 years, I can readily understand it, and prefer it other people's code by a wide margin.
It's sad that as a society we've allowed those who are serving their time to be exploited, but this is a good way to fight back, and hopefully make exploitation of the imprisoned a less lucrative market for unscrupulous actors.
Entertainingly, dealership owners are notoriously Republican-leaning. Perhaps they just need a bit of help staying true to their free-market ideals some times.
Want to talk about conversions? Look at the complexity in ICE vehicles vs. electric.

Let’s just look at fluids:
Oil
Cooling
Brake
Transmission
Differential
Power steering (although more and more ICE cars are coming with electric, so this is waning).

Many of those must be changed on a routine basis. Changed. That means old has to be drained and disposed of and new fluids have to be made to be used for replacement.

Look at all the parts in ICE vehicles that need replacement/maintenance - spark plugs, air filters, PCV Valves, accessory and timing belts - those are pretty common, but there are just more moving parts so more to potentially break beyond that stuff.

By comparison, electric cars are extremely simple. Brake fluid and windshield washer fluid are generally all they have. There are far fewer moving parts. If there is a transmission, they are dramatically simpler/less complex. Yes the battery packs are liquid cooled but it’s a sealed, non-serviceable system. The lead acid batteries in my ICE cars are sealed too.

This is one of the biggest reasons electric cars aren’t popular with dealers. Car dealers survive on maintenance, not new car sales. Fleecing people on used cars (buying or selling - most people suck at dealing with used vehicles) can be a significant source of revenue, but nothing beats steady service revenue. Hell just try to get a modern car that doesn’t flog you to see your dealer for routine service - whether it’s really needed or not.

Electric cars have dramatically fewer service requirements and this has a substantially positive environmental impact - has to. If you don’t have to create a bunch of stuff on a routine basis x millions of vehicles then there isn’t much of an environmental impact, eh?

That said, I still think current battery tech isn’t practical enough to totally supplant ICE vehicles. Electric cars make great commuter vehicles - except with the pandemic most people are teleworking :) Maybe the new Samsung solid state batteries will finally tilt things where electrics are a no-brainer.
> I am a dropshipper and average margin on products I sell is 60-100%.

Name checks out.
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I'm an experienced iOS developer (native apps) with over 6 years of commercial experience. I also did some small contracting gigs in Ruby on Rails few years ago. I don't mind working with a time shift (US timezones).
Fair enough - it's just an interesting, yet somewhat scary trend me and my friends have noticed.
Isn’t it a good signal that you might not want to work for them?
WHO Praises Sweden for Resisting Lockdown Despite Growing Covid-19 Cases
Valve drops VR support for macOS
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It seems to be all the rage at the moment...
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In addition to the WebKit requirement on iOS, I was curious about guideline 2.5.2, which governs downloading and execution of additional code. (I've worked heavily in this area, so I am really interested in where you're planning on taking this. If you're OK with it we can move this to email so we're not spamming the thread.)
You're assuming the definition would be broad enough to cover "anyone." Maybe it includes something like "belongs to a recognized news organization," or some such. What are your press credentials? What if you were no longer "recognized"?
There is an LED lighting system alongside the walkways, at floor level. It probably isn't original.
The reason is, apparently, nothing. There are some weird conspiracies that people take too far about this and that but nobody ever declared any reason for 12. It's like reading a high school literature interpretation of Moby Dick out there.
I hash the password with a one-time server salt in the client (instead of HTTPS) and I use simple HTTP comet-stream for real-time data (instead of WebSockets):

http://fuse.rupy.se

HTTP/2 has the TCP head of line problem which makes it completely useless.

HTTP/3 is trying to be more nimble, but it's a protocol! Ossification is a _feature_ of protocols; for TCP it allows the backbone to evolve without everyone re-implementing everything over and over again at the edges!

The solution is to make TCP like UDP instead, by allowing sockets to not resend missed packets.

Another real solution is to remove the network kernel on linux.
Haggling is acceptable in Canada/USA with most large purchases. Cars, houses, hand-made furniture, bulk purchases, building leases, etc. Haggling is generally not accepted only when it doesn't scale well, which also has the advantage of greater transparency and fairness in those cases.

In line with the above, private sellers are generally amenable to haggling because it doesn't matter that it doesn't scale. So when buying a used anything on Kijiji, haggling is expected, particularly if it says "OBO" (or best offer), but not if it says "firm".

If the price is set semi-arbitrarily at the time of purchase, like some U-pick auto junkyards, the person setting the price is right there anyway, so haggling may be acceptable.

I haven't researched any of this; this is just my intuition from experience.
I'll see if I can do something about this, I am using react-big-calendar
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There was recently a guy who did a helicopter tour on YouTube [0] where he flies over Dodger Stadium and points out that although there are no baseball games, the parking lot is completely full with new cars.

It's crazy to see. They are putting them anywhere.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzD5u_fLo70&t=1407
https://theoreticalminimum.com might be a good starting point.
Sympathetic to the focus argument, but the cheapness thing? Are dealers negative overhead in some way right now?
UK Comedian Mark Watson is doing a 24-hour livestream raising money for charity
Like the title states, Mark is raising money for several charities affected by the COVID-19 situation. I know it's slightly off-topic on what's usually on HN, but the pandemic has affected society on all levels and this is for the better of our society.
Mountain bikes with knobby and even studded tires exist, and a great thing about bikes is that they're relatively inexpensive and don't take up a ton of space.

I know many people have beater cars for winter, so have a beater bike instead.
I haven't felt a lot of incredible changes in the last ten years. In 2010 I had an iPhone 4, and I don't think there is a major qualitative difference between it and the latest smartphones. The computing performance may have improved since, but apart from loading increasingly bloated websites faster and allowing for higher-quality photographs, I haven't felt any major changes.

Otherwise, the changes in lifestyle since 2010 have been incremental at best. 10 years ago I could buy most things online, watch YouTube videos, consulted Google maps, had smartphone text, audio and video chat. Now I can watch videos in 4K and the internet connection is faster, and although computer graphics have indeed improved, it is nothing like the leap from 1990 to 2000.

The only new exciting development is virtual reality, which is unfortunately still fairly niche.

There is a larger difference from 2000 to 2020, but you could do a version of the above in 2000, only in a more inconvenient and expensive manner than today, while they would be largely impossible in 1980.
(Disclaimer: I'm not a medical professional, and I don't lay any claim to being authoritative. This is mostly anecdotal.)

I suspect the difference in HCQ and remdesivir dosing studies mostly has to do with the classes of drugs those are. One's an antimalarial, and the other's an antiviral. There might be more of a priority to explore what existing antivirals could have an effect. There could also be a sheepishness in wanting to conduct those studies with HCQ given that we still largely don't understand how it works.

That said, apropos HCQ being associated with less mortality in advanced cases: As an antimalarial, it has some interesting immunosuppressive properties. Notably, it's used as a treatment for lupus in order to temper or moderate the kind of immune responses seen in those patients.

I imagine that there's possibly some sort of (fatal if left untended) immune response that manifests in advanced COVID-19 that HCQ happens to keep down. Writing as an asthmatic who's had his fair share of IV antibiotics to deal with some truly gnarly bouts of pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome is no joke. Any little bit to keep folks off ventilators is truly helpful.
Sorry, should have been more specific. I wasn't talking about latency bufferbloat induces in other streams. But extra latency in any stream with packet loss.

I meant stream of the receiving party would effectively block on any lost packet. You can't read past what you don't have yet.

Imagine a stream that consists of 10 packets, and for simplicity that each packet takes a second to send. (Real life scenario would be about several orders of magnitude more packets and similarly shorter packet transmission times.)

You receive packets 1 and 3-10. Thus in one second the application can see data from packet 1. But application's read is going to block until you also receive packet 2. Reception of packet 2 can't happen until 8s is spent receiving packets 3-10 and additional 1s resending 2 (plus whatever it took to send the ACK).

So data from packet 2 would be 9s late from receiving application's point of view.

Bulk transfers would approach maximal possible transfer rate because sender lost no time waiting for ACKs, but this would be pretty bad for something like remote desktop or streaming video.

No sane general purpose network stream protocol would implement this policy for obvious reasons. But you'd sure get high bandwidth for file transfers!
Heck, writing this post is enough to be at least a 1.1x dev. I don't subscribe to the whole "x developer" thing, but this is an amazing list