skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have the IP and user agent in some other system (for example, if the user hits your website again, or if they make an access request where you could verify this data), you could take the salt out of Pirsch and combine the three to regenerate your fingerprint, thus tying the hit data to the user. The fact that the salt exists entirely in-memory within a defined system (unless it were, for example, within an HSM which would be extremely difficult to get the salt out from) would seem to be irrelevant to the definition of personal data within the GDPR - although I'd be interested to see discussion of that. The data stops being personal data once you drop the salt entirely.

I'm also fairly certain that a trace of a single user from A through B (e.g. they hit the "payment confirmed" page at a specific time, having hit a specific product page before) could be correlated with a user in a purchases/shipping database and from there to a name and address, depending on the overall system Pirsch gets used in. Bringing separate datasets into the same tooling to query them isn't particularly hard. If it's used on a simple blog with no other tracking or systems that store this data, this argument probably doesn't hold water.

Pseudonymising data at the earliest possible point fulfils another part of the GDPR (to do with controls and protection of personal data), but doesn't in itself make something not personal data, according to the UK's ICO.

Recital 26 of the GDPR states - "To determine whether a natural person is identifiable, account should be taken of all the means reasonably likely to be used, such as singling out, either by the controller or by another person to identify the natural person directly or indirectly. To ascertain whether means are reasonably likely to be used to identify the natural person, account should be taken of all objective factors, such as the costs of and the amount of time required for identification, taking into consideration the available technology at the time of the processing and technological developments."

But the fact of the matter is that there is so little risk here that it's likely to be a legitimate interest for the vast majority of businesses, thus not requiring consent (but still requiring adherance to the rest of the GDPR on personal data), again according to the ICO.
I can't take Buzzfeed 'news reporters' very seriously given the recent debacle with Zerohedge and subsequent plagiarism firing of Ryan Broderick.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/buzzfeed-reporter-who-go...

This CDC piece by Vergano & Hirji is more of an opinion and perception article than 'news reporting. I worry that click bait sites like 'Buzzfeed'(ridiculous name) are taken too seriously, especially when there is so much great well researched and argued material online that is often dismissed as 'conspiracy theories' etc etc
A theory I've heard is that any kind of diet is useful for losing weight, because it forces you to think more carefully about what you're eating.

But ditto, I've lost 50lbs twice in my life and both times were basically just via calorie counting.
> without persecution.

I wouldn't be so sure. In practice, persecution can be insidiously subtle.
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I'm not going to be at risk. There's a difference between "someone in their armchair behind a computer screen" and looking at reports issued by the Government saying "CPAP is dangerous for people in the area" and raising a question about why it's allowed in areas that are regulated by the Government, like commercial airline cabins.
Wouldn't the EFF's extensions and uBlock Origin serve that purpose anyway?
Fair!

My general life philosophy is that you should give things a try. It will not work in most cases, but who knows, it might!

In this case, it clearly didn't. But it's not the end of the world :)
Well, in the same paragraph it goes on to say:

> ...and Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for their confidence in helping us finance our research via Epic Megagrant. This new technique was developed entirely in the open and implemented under MIT license, so anyone can take it for using in their own engines and games.

So there you go. Whatever Godot devs do, it's MIT and anyone can take. Epic gets an agile engine/team to do the research, and once a viable implementation exists they can analyze it and see it it's implementable within UE, should they want to.

Of course, I write this without knowing if Unreal Engine has SDF Global Illumination. Maybe they already have it, but wanted to finance a new alternative to compare against their own.
Not to mention C Market price of coffee per lb is $1 on average and selling below that means the basically work for free! The opportunity cost of some $$ to maintain or build up a farm and institute good farming practices for higher quality / yield coffee makes sense because benefits are realized YoY off the first loan !
Would you write this if your family was personally affected by a Covid death?

To directly answer your question, there are 3 reason to take Covid very seriously:

1. Saturation of healthcare resources. People who get sick with Covid are more likely to use hospital beds and resources, and for longer as well.

2. It is deadlier than other diseases such as the flu.

3. It is more contagious than the flu.
Did you answer the question?
Here we go again. It took less than 5 minutes for the above post to be down-voted by a progressive guerilla of HN. Some people simply can't stand facts...

This only confirms that offering anything of meaningful value to people here (with some exceptions) is exactly casting pearls before swine. Please, enjoy doing more of that and surely you're going to have high quality content.
It's not a phonetic letter; it's a symbol.

The real short of it is that it's a character that existed in another character set, and its role in that character set appears to be limited to "minor printing mark," the sort of role that would cause it to be rejected if someone proposed it as a Unicode character de novo.
Chalmers Johnson and Robert Higgs were making the case as long ago as 2006 that the actual US defence budget was obfuscated and was over a trillion dollars.

They argue that if you add the budgets of the Department of Energy (nuclear research), the Department of Homeland Security, the defence-related programs of the the Department of State and international assistance programs (e.g. Israel, Egypt?), the Department of Veterans Affairs, NASA, the Department of the Treasury's military retirement costs (Military Retirement Fund) you can add 50% to the nominal defence budget.

[1] https://mondediplo.com/2008/02/05military

[2] https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=1941
I main Firefox on all my platforms. I would prefer to use it wherever possible over any chromium browser.

Sometimes I get forced to use a chromium based browser for specific sites. In those cases I use edge for Windows because it's built-in and can't be removed anyway.

If I was just commenting that I would prefer to use chromium for privacy reasons but it's not worthy of installing separately for the few chromium specific sites I need to visit.

I don't see how having a preference over this is downvote worthy. Isn't that the entire purpose of these kinds of threads?
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the US is an EXTRAORDINARY large country. It has a population >500x greater than the state of Vermont, a state with 630,000 people.
If we're making sweeping generalizations, then countries with stable benevolent governments who don't threaten their neighbors / the US and fund terrorism don't get invaded or occupied either. To be clear, I'm not saying every foreign policy action the US has undertaken in the last few decades has been superb.
If its any consolation closed borders doesn't bother them as much as the thais who are far more dependent on tourism. Or the singaporeans , who do far more travelling..
I don't know; this isn't a huge source of performance problems in the C++ version and I don't know much about how the go version works.
The obese and overweight will see these headlines and keep eating 6,000 kcal/day thinking "See! It doesn't matter."
What about Opera? it's also based on chromium these days.
It seems odd that you would ask this question in a forum like HN. Why here? Just asking.
epic's biggest competitor is unity. Godot competes more with unity than unreal engine, and therefore, it's a strategic attack on unity.
In the B2B world, 5 users is probably worth 500 B2C users :) Great job on getting those already! What was your approach?
The satellite data in this case is a kind of scrutiny.
Right, but the AHI is specifically to aid in initial and ongoing treatment. If you’re hitting a certain threshold of events with a PAP, it probably means you need more pressure, even if that AHI can indicate a fairly large range in reduction of sleep quality.
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I love it!

hashtagging is a really interesting idea. One feature that I plan to do soon is to offer a search function, so as well as people being able to search by area perhaps I can add tags to these so that people could search by trail names etc.
Yeah, I find the "calories in equals calories out" argument stupid not because it's wrong (it's basically the first law of thermodynamics), but because it's relatively useless, and because its proponents usually use it to imply stuff that isn't true.

For example, "calories in" and "calories out" are not independent variables. A reduction of calories in will normally result in the body lowering metabolic rate, resulting in a reduction of calories out.

Similarly, humans aren't robots. Any "solution" that basically tells people to ignore their hunger, one of the body's most basic physiological responses, is not a viable society-wide solution.
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> But my point is that I'm unaware of the stereotype

My point is that you being unaware of something doesn’t make it untrue. Especially something you admit to having no knowledge of the context of.
A lot of comments in this thread makes me wonder if Roam has successfully become an actual cult. Personal opinion, but it seems like Roam's core features are hard-to-invent (though all of those existed in different apps in different contexts) but easy-to-implement. Many early adopters are very unhappy seeing multiple alternatives pop up (some arguably offering better features) which subverts the 'my-notetaking-app-is-unique-and-better-than-yours' sense of superiority. I'm seeing people defending every aspect of Roam at a level that usually comes from cognitive dissonances.
Very much agreed. I’ve once tried to count calories for about a month out of curiosity. Having Fitbit and tracking all my (amateur) cycling with a powermeter, I could record calorie output consistently. But if you want to eat out regularly, it becomes extremely difficult to estimate the intake right IMO.
I can think of a way.

First to note you can easily find all patents with Microsoft as applicant and Michael Kaplan as inventor, eg via Espacenet.

So, it's possible the "frame" is the issue.

Suppose a patent was issued without Kaplan listed as inventor, or with others listed who did not have a role. Then a frame saying "thanks to $people for their [sole] effort on this project" could become part of a lawsuit (not necessarily in USA) for the right to be named as inventor; in UK for example a significant contribution can require that an employee is reasonably compensated. That can be worth $USD millions (eg recent case 'Shanks v Unilever and others'). Based on this even just the wall the frame is on saying "significant contributions" or something might make a court case work that otherwise wouldn't.

I very much doubt that's the reason, but it gives me pause that a missing detail might explain the whole thing. Kaplan wouldn't even need to be aware of it.

It could also be something as simple as the company wanting an excuse to fire him, and "photos of any materials associated with patents is a firable offence" being in his contract.
And the US as a whole is 500x the population of Vermont.
I’m not saying there’s evidence, I’m just pointing out that it’s a strange dichotomy to say that one one hand, we have explainable phenomena, and on the other hand we have extraterrestrial life. If we ever do find proof of it, I don’t understand why the assumption should be that it won’t be explainable.
Interesting! I'm really basing this upon my own experience with ads.

Were you able to get ROI positive ads? Would love to hear your experience!

The closest we got to it was while targeting super niche keywords on Google Ads.

I found personalized cold emailing to be much more effective :)
The other major factors in people gaining weight during lockdown are:
1. Additional Stress/Anxiety
2. Fridge proximity
When I did data center stuff for a large company the biggest cost was network - not servers. Specifically network security and redundancy.

Its amazing to me that this is all included for basically free except for Application level filtering by these providers.
There's no magic to the web: it is and always been pages you can access by knowing or finding urls. It's up to servers to decide how to serve things.

If that’s the case can I have your bank account user name and password so I can access that over the web? If you don’t want to give it to me, are you okay if I find your login information from one of the data breaches? I promise I won’t break into your house, I’ll just use it to transfer some bits....
I really need to read links before posting any comments. My bad. (Taiwan’s fried chicken is still really amazing.)
Last time I looked into it (when Chrome's update behaviour on Windows broke the proverbial camel's back), there was no good way to automate updates of plain/ungoogled Chromium on Windows systems.
> models who need to be a certain shape; football players who need to be heavy so they don't get lifted off their feet by their competitors; or dancers who need to be light so that they can get lifted off their feet by their partners.

I have never seen or heard about a professional diet based on calorie counting.

Every single diet is based on a prescription of nutrient types and quantities, when it's not a detailed prescription of food types and quantities. And the diets that end-up working are all revised several times after controlling by patient's health.
Loom.io is great for this!
Good suggestion, already on it ;) all 'gifs' are actually mp4s
Right. It's not a question of money, it's a question of competence and corruption. When you point out that government agencies are a revolving door of industry executives people think you're insane.

Just look at the FAA and letting Boeing 'self-certify.' That seems to be how the FDA does business as well.
Thanks for the explanation. I guess I should add a secret to the generated hash. That would prevent anyone without access to it to regenerate a similar hash.

As you said it's still a good idea to inform the visitors about the anonymous tracking. I'm pretty sure that most websites require a cookie note anyway, no matter how annoying it might be.
as a rule of thumb no proprietary browser is good on privacy.
I run IIFYM rather than pure calorie counting for lifting, but my response is that if you're running a pure calorie counting diet then it doesn't matter honestly. You should be weighing yourself and seeing if your current calorie levels are resulting in weight loss given your eating pattern. If they are not, lower your daily intake. People tend to eat the same general things on a regular basis so if food X has more impact than food Y and you are eating X regularly then you might need to eat fewer calories on average to deal with that.

Calorie counting is obviously a very coarse way to do weight management, but it's coarseness is it's strength in this context.
The country still refuses to wear masks. Led behind a president who refuses to wear masks. This is literally the minimum he could do.
Completely abolishing the FDA would have been an improvement in this case since the FDA became an impediment to testing, and would have saved money to boot. I’m not saying to abolish the FDA; I’m just saying that underfunding it wasn’t the problem.
It's used for every airline reservation you've ever made. Also, it's used here on HN. And in Grammarly.
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Garments and footwear manufacturering then. Its not as big as china. But if you're going to make garments or footwear its a real alternative.

China does a lot of other things. Vietnam is rather overweight on garments and footwear...
I control my weight. (I also am a co-owner of a gym, so I can't afford to be obese or overweight. It would hurt my credibility.)

"A calorie is a calorie" is a great way to control your weight. Really!

I like to go through "cutting" and "bulking" stages. I go from the bottom of the weight range for my height (around 145 for 5'10") to the top (170 for 5"10). And when it's time to cut, I reduce 3,200 Kcal/week from my diet and I lose a pound a week. It works _exactly_ every time. It doesn't matter what calories I cut. The math just works.

Now, sure, you can optimize this a bit. SUgar/carb calories are bad because they tend not to keep you from feeling hungry again and fat/protein calories are better because you feel full. But that's just an optimization.

Every person will lose weight at a calorie deficit. Every single one. Period.
Why don't you just use Firefox then?
What a lame strawman.

First off, that's not even food that would be digestible by a human. Secondly, reasonable people don't say all calories are equal, but that estimating TDEE + calories eaten is the best calculation to make for many people, in terms of accuracy vs effort required.
In general the unreal engine has had voxel based global illumination for a long time and in fact was where it entered the mainstream. It added signed distance field stuff a few years ago as well.
For many and perhaps most state-of-the-art models, the answer to "why?" is "because it works."

As a practitioner, I would say Deep Learning is a trade. The more you work with these models, the more you develop intuitions and habits for things that work and things that don't, like a sculptor who learns to craft beautiful or functional objects by chiseling stone. ("Why did you hit the marble that way?" "Because it works.")

If we want to be more generous, we can call Deep Learning an experimental science, because some researchers working with deep models are truly doing methodical, tedious, experimental work and documenting it for posterity. They and everyone else, including me, hope that we will eventually be able to answer the "whys." But there's no guarantee, a priori, that we will find satisfactory answers.

Quoting Rich Sutton: "the actual contents of minds are tremendously, irredeemably complex; we should stop trying to find simple ways to think about the contents of minds, such as simple ways to think about space, objects, multiple agents, or symmetries. All these are part of the arbitrary, intrinsically-complex, outside world. They are not what should be built in, as their complexity is endless; instead we should build in only the meta-methods that can find and capture this arbitrary complexity. Essential to these methods is that they can find good approximations, but the search for them should be by our methods, not by us. We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered. Building in our discoveries only makes it harder to see how the discovering process can be done." (Source: http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html)

Quoting Geoff Hinton: "One place where I do have technical expertise that’s relevant is [whether] regulators should insist that you can explain how your AI system works. I think that would be a complete disaster. People can’t explain how they work, for most of the things they do. When you hire somebody, the decision is based on all sorts of things you can quantify, and then all sorts of gut feelings. People have no idea how they do that. If you ask them to explain their decision, you are forcing them to make up a story. Neural nets have a similar problem. When you train a neural net, it will learn a billion numbers that represent the knowledge it has extracted from the training data. If you put in an image, out comes the right decision, say, whether this was a pedestrian or not. But if you ask “Why did it think that?” well if there were any simple rules for deciding whether an image contains a pedestrian or not, it would have been a solved problem ages ago." (Source: https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-guru-computers-think-...)
> Any "solution" that basically tells people to ignore their hunger, one of the body's most basic physiological responses, is not a viable society-wide solution.

But people have lost track of what hunger is!

They tell you they're hungry but really they're bored / depressed / just used to eating constantly even when not actually hungry.

They need to ignore being bored, which they think of as 'hunger' so you need to tell them to ignore their 'hunger' for them to understand.
Not entirely, that won't replicate Firefox's containers. (Also suggest Cookie AutoDelete extension for the privacy-focused.)
PPP does include labour. Whether or not it adequately reflects the share of labour costs for the Chinese military I don't know.
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Well the other, easier way to do it is have a diet program that you strictly follow each day. That way the calorie counting has been already done, usually by a professional. That way you just have to eat what your list says.

I have found it impossible to count the calories I eat (and consume) each day but following a program is much easier!
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While it certainly would have helped, ideally things would be set up so that political leadership isn't needed to override everything in a crisis.
May i ask which one you use?
- Audible/Overdrive/LibriVox (I get through a lot more books per year listening to audio books as I do the dishes, etc.)

- Trash poker (Neighborhood/hiking trails are so much cleaner now, since I bring it with me wherever I hike and pickup trash)
Definitely hard. I've tried different cold emailing approaches and the key differentiating factor was follow-ups.

Lot of people ignore the first cold email, even if it's personal. But when you follow up, they appreciate the hustle and give you a chance :)
Gotcha. I hope that you're going to find more reasonable options in your location. In Europe there's no problem with that and never has been. X1 is a rather expensive machine (and not that great to be honest - I have one provided by my employer), so maybe even a MBP with other OSes might be an option in your case. I know a couple of people who went that way (although it's kind of funny ;-).
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His blog post said "The second one was after I was granted a patent that I honestly believed never should have been issued." If he posted the photo of the patent in an article where he simultaneously made that remark, that combination would be extremely damning evidence in any patent trial and could lead to the invalidation of the patent.

Although, on re-reading his statement, the firing wasn't the taking a picture of a patent, but including some ("infamous") art in another blog post.
> the advice I try to follow is: Eat whatever you want, just make it yourself.

This is categorically bad advice. Anyone that has an obese friend that’s into baking knows why. It’s very easy to make incredibly unhealthy and calorie-dense food at home.

I understand the sentiment but there is nothing about the process of making your own food that makes you a more healthy person. It all depends on the ingredients and the amount.

It’s obviously better to eat healthy takeout every day than it is to cook home made french fries for dinner.