skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Okay I presume you've never worked in the ad or tracking industry

Yes and no. I work on tooling very similar to the actual, intended, use of the x-client-data header (aggregate performance analysis).

> because the data being sent to DoubleClick without notification is gold for tracking purposes

What does it provide that other data that is accessible does not?

> IP Addresses cannot be used to differentiate devices.

Ah, I see, so in the case of multiple logged-out but non-incognito chrome users in the same household, x-client-data could be used to better target ads to specific devices in the household, instead of the household as a whole. That's the "gold" here?

> - This "feature" was added sneakily. No notification, there's no user disclosure. Nothing. That just screams suspicious, given the value of the data being sent.

Sure, sort of, in 2012[0]. Doubleclick was added a bit later, in 2014[1]. The reasoning, at the time, is provided in the linked bug[2]. Sure looks nefarious. So was this an 8+ year scheme?

Now, there are (at least) two possible ways to look at this, either it's an almost decade long scheme, or alternatively no one on chrome had any intent of ever tracking individual users, and it wasn't even considered.

The bug also provides some more insight, doubleclick and GA serve different types of data, and that might matter for measuring things about QUIC.

> DoubleClick is in the whitelist for no reason other than ad tracking purposes. The amount of websites who make calls to DoubleClick and not GTM or GA must be vanishingly small.

Literally the first website I picked, CNN.com, has doubleclick sources, but not GTM or GA (at least as far as I can tell).

> and does not rule out use for tracking or advertising purposes

I will once again ask for a scheme by which the header is both useful for tracking or advertising, and isn't used for tracking individual users. It seems like you're claiming that Google is attempting to split hairs and say that tracking individual devices is different from tracking individual users.

I've explained before why something like x-client-data can actually be a useful privacy-preserving tool elsewhere[3] (since it allows you to join across a quasi-identifier instead of a PII-identifier).

[0]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/f89fdab...

[1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/64d617e...

[2]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=379341

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22244282
I'm pretty sure the alleged widespread voter suppression is supposed to accomplish a second term for Donald Trump as well as picking up some seats in both the Senate and House for his party.

Do you really believe that someone winning in the previous election is a guarantee that they would not try to suppress the vote in the current or future elections? If not, what point were you trying to make by bringing up the results of the 2016 election?
It is true that trying to make a website Javascript and CSS free is becoming a very limited proposition. The problem with pure HTML sites using SSR is that they have to assume the user-agent defines some sort of contract around features when absolutely none has ever existed. And browsers have to assume SSR sites will update behavior correctly when the user agent string changes, which also has seldom been the case. This is why all user agents still include Navigator, Gecko, KTML, WebKit, etc in their strings for regex to chew on.

The latest iPadOS, for example, purposely reports itself as a Mac desktop because too many sites saw 'MobileSafari' and returned a sub-par site experience based on a small mobile phone screen. But it actually goes beyond that:

1. It lets the user toggle the user agent themselves between mobile and desktop (iPhone and Mac Desktop style agents)

2. The browser will by default use a mobile user agent when rendering in a small form, such as a browser in a smaller modal window or a side-bar.

Client hints might provide a way to actually formalize a contract for SSR apps, if people participate and indicate what they need.
I’m not convinced that chain application and composition are meaningly distinct in anything but a syntactic sense if the language in question offers first-class functions and deterministic evaluation (eg no side effects). In mathematics, composition ($f \circ g$) is invariably described in terms of chaining f(g())—in fact, the composition operator is usually defined as alias for chaining. Yes, there are subtleties I’m glossing, but I don’t think support the thesis that function chaining and composition are significantly different at this level (i.e. the level of syntax and idiom rather than the level of Category Theory).
I think it is much because Common Lisp standard library was written in the keywords-fashion. I assume it could have been written also using small composable functions. No?
Bit low on contrast and flirting with over-saturation.
> It takes one of the egregious bad actors using the system to commit a crime worthy of public attention before the entire system is justifiably unpacked, banned, or considered a signal of bad intentions.

Banning encryption because bad actors use it is not justifiable.
> I mean how can they simultaneously hold creases in the right places but resistant to creases in the wrong places? How does the fabric know which creases you need and which you don’t?

how do shape memory materials work in general? in this case, heat is the stimulus, which returns the fabric to its pre-set state. it's pressed and treated chemically essentially converting the fabric into an SMM.
You act as if Facebook is the first organization in the history of time to have this challenge.

Where is the dividing line?

Somewhere between "The Sun orbits around the Earth" and "The Earth orbits around the Sun". Where the first is clearly not the truth, and the second clearly is for 99.9% of contexts.
I take your point generally but I think it's overstating it to say you learn nothing. Definitely the signal can be hard to isolate form the noise, but if it's a big enough signal you'll hear it.

For example: if sales fall off a cliff, it's reasonable to interpret that as "perhaps I over did it." and so on.
Bitcoin turn to be ugly currency, the price will slump very soon.
And thanks for the link to the loop monad. I didn’t know it or forgot. I don’t know whether to be delighted or appalled.
I had goals. Some of those goals I did reach but having goals and knowing how to reach them are very different things.

Thanks for reading.
Let's comment: awful decision. The "laws" are not equally important and as a user I would expect that their order reflects that. It never even occurred to me it could be done differently.

To be honest, this site looks like some designer's playground, not something an UX expert put together.
This deserves a discussion on the front page.
> George R.R. Martin uses Wordstar 4.0 on DOS to write the Game of Thrones novels

A much better modern alternative is the Alphasmart Neo 2.

* It was designed for elementary school children so it's decently rugged.
* It runs a long time (months) on 2 AA batteries.
* To get the text off the device, it impersonates a USB keyboard, making it compatible with basically every computer.
The existence of municipal police is a large part of the problem; the sheer number of police forces in the US is a huge barrier to effective oversight and accountability. A cynic might argue that this lack of accountability in routine policing is a deliberate choice.
Adam, Steve, have you considered building a marketplace for Tailwind UI, and focus more on guidance and quality control on the design side instead of building out all the components yourself?

It could help with the creation of interactive components for all ecosystems, like those that are tightly coupled to a specific ecosystem considering that it's not only frontend frameworks, but also backend frameworks that have their own LiveView version or way to do components now (e.g. Elixir Phoenix has Surface which is like writing backend React components, Rails has view components).

Supporting all those combination yourself seems daunting, and it would suck to see components for React or LiveWire/Alpine, but not other ecosystems that aren't covered by the skillset of your team.
That's true for a while, but companies churn a lot as new things come about. I can't even tell you how many travel/HR, ticketing, chat, and video conferencing systems my rather boring company has gone through in my tenure.

More importantly, new customer acquisition. At 500 a pop, someone like me could be inclined to give it a go, and I'm just one not-so-motivated guy. That's great passive income with a handful of customers. For 50? Not worth the effort since now I'd need a handful x 10. At 500 a pop, companies with way more resources will outpace and outspend you for that. Less likely for 50. Just my opinion.

* To be clear, the above is a hypothetical. I have zero interest in copying anyone's work, or really any side project at the moment.
It appears other companies are acting potentially childishly. That doesn't mean it's a good move for Facebook to act childishly.
Merchants often end up paying the cost though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_(satellite)
If you need to do some heavy work then an older system obviously won't do. Editing files with Vim, on the other hand, works just fine with something like a Core 2 or Pentium M.

Everyone's use case is different, but in many cases, older hardware simply isn't a limitation.
People here really underestimate the cost of a decent road bike.
If you don't have a bike already and want to only do indoor riding $2000k is best spend on an indoor bike not on a smart trainer + road bike. If you want a reasonable trainer you definitely want a direct drive, which rules out the snap so you are already in the territory of a wahoo kickr core or elite direto at about $700 and $1300 will give you the absolute bottom of the line in road bikes (not that one necessarily needs more for indoor riding).
Then come the issues of maintaining the bike, generally the indoor environment is not really suited for road bikes. On top of that the quality of ride experience is going to be significantly worse. The noise from a bike on a trainer is much louder than an indoor bike.

Now that said, should you buy a peloton? Unless you're interested in indoor spinning classes don't. Get a tacx neobike, the wahoo kickr bike or the stages bike. They are much better bikes and allow you to use any of the many training platforms out there (zwift, rouvy...). If you're just interested in indoor spinning classes, just get yourself an indoor spinning bike without all the fancy electronics.

I've been riding competivily for a long time and when I moved to Northern Europe from Australia and needed to get myself a trainer for winter, it still made the most sense to get the tacx neobike despite already owning 2 roadbikes and a cyclocross bike.
I've never really used rss as a power user, but a long time ago subscribed to some feeds and tracked them in an rss app. I did that because it seemed like at one point I saw the rss logo everywhere and it seemed like everyone was promoting it. I didn't use the actual aggregator to look at the combined feeds, but I did have it all set up.

Now I can't remember the last time I saw a site promoting or even clearly mentioning above the fold that they publish an rss feed. I didn't know HN published one until now.

That's why I haven't argued with anyone claiming it's dead. It seems like it disappeared.
I played around with transparent terminals over tranquil underwater videos for a bit. It was nice, but needed a bit too much resource.
named monty
Wonder how many cases out there are time locked for when the cracking tech catches up. A case where some pedos encrypted their disks come to mind.
Curious anecdote, some underground Japanese P2P networks have files with contents filled with references to Tiananmen, Tibet and the Uyghurs etc. probably to attract attention from CCP to deter Chinese users from downloading them.
Trump campaign courts QAnon, online conspiracy movement a violent threat per FBI
Can you imagine how long it would be taking him if he was distracted by modern computing?
Original title was too long. It was:

How the Trump campaign came to court QAnon, the online conspiracy movement identified by the FBI as a violent threat

For those who have trouble with the link:

https://archive.is/5jK4z
Just stuttering for me (ff mobile).
Right but a new prospect is going to want to evaluate $200/mo offering and see if that meets their needs. So you are loosing out on new business.
No one has a demonstrated effective PoS implementation yet (that isn't simple centralization). ETH will not move to PoS anytime soon enough to be meaningful, nor will any other cryptocurrency.
It's reportedly dubbed the "Commode O' Dragon", which I find greatly entertaining.
The only question I have is, If I make a personal website using this, will it show up on google when people search for my name?
I don't think its mostly bullshit -- but that for so long we used text formalism as a measure of truthfulness and knowledge of the author and now we see those things we hailed as the pinnacle of formal education to be so easily replicated.

We now learn that the truth and meaning was never held by those we thought it was held, not necessarily and not by the reasons we thought they hold it.
SMT sibling threads can definitely impact each other. It works great for common workloads. If you have a highly tuned workload with high IPC or want to trade off throughput for latency, disabling SMT can be a win. Disabling SMT also increases effective L1 and L2 cache which can be beneficial.
Those two are the precise reasons I left actually.
I absolutely hate this development. Admittedly within the genres and niches I listen to the album and the music itself is still the product, but I worry that this will change.

Concerning the single format: Going through and listening to my Bandcamp new release notifications is a weekly habit I enjoy. There are a lot of of those notifications and I gladly take the time to check them out, but I won't even listen to single track releases. I'm an album person. If an artist doesn't have enough quality material to compile an actual cohesive selection of his work and rather rushes from short-lived single to single, I'm not interested.

I'm even less interested in t-shirts, merchandise and live shows, though I get the appeal of the latter.
I don't understand tailwind. The entire point of CSS is to separate style from structure. How does applying composable utility classes to all of your HTML elements differ from the old days of using HTML attributes for styling?

Edit: So after looking into it a bit more, and specifically the section in the documentation about extracting components, I understand where they're coming from a bit better. Extracting repeated compositions of utility classes into reusable components or named classes is exactly how I use other CSS frameworks such as bootstrap or foundation. I'm seeing the major difference between tailwind and other CSS frameworks as being the lack of pre-defined UI components. The minimalism is obviously a big advantage for performance, but otherwise I still see little difference between Tailwind and other CSS frameworks.
What is a good alternative to reCaptcha that sites should use instead?
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-t...
What to Sell Online in 2020
How to Find Profitable Products to Sell Online? These are the Best products to Sell online with High Profit Margins!
Another similar Pi-based KVM is TinyPilot: https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot/

The author was able to use the MJPEG output of the USB HDMI capture devices to get low latency video.
I actually have a pretty good day job. I just have a lot of spare time. I'd rather be working on a side project instead of watching Netflix.

Thanks for reading!
Use of wifi during blackout? Wifi does not work during wifi. Only over the air comms are secure. Any wired connaction is tapped
Was that article written after Trader Joe's responded to the petition? Or did Trader Joe's respond to the petition as part of that article being written?

Anyway, it's possible NYT wrote that article knowing it would be a hot-button article and would be shared widely by anti cancel culture people.
Here's a fun fact. A current Winnebago[1] of similar design to the one in the movie weighs 18,000 lbs, and 31' x 12' x 9' which is within the capability for Falcon 9 to both carry it in its Fairing (43' and 17' diameter) and to put it into low earth orbit. Falcon Heavy could put it into GEO Synchronous Orbit :-)

[1] https://www.winnebago.com/models/product/motorhomes/class-a/...
I agree, but also any real life product manager will likely have major stakeholders who can only comprehend what's happening or where the budget/time is being spent if they see it in the form of a gantt chart.

In the end, it's just a tool in a box of various others.
Here's a different perspective on it:
https://examine.com/nutrition/does-red-meat-cause-cancer/
I dont know, I support this action. I'd rather defund the USPS then the police force. Rebuilding the USPS using solid business fundamentals would be good for everyone.
JSON you say?

https://jsonfeed.org/
I wonder what they'll do with their money and success.

I'm reminded of LogoJoy - a single founder company that started sucking in huge amounts of cash revenue, which the owner spent on employing people and offices and growing a company and getting investors who recommended they rebrand, destroying much of the value and revenue of LogoJoy. I bet that founder is wishing he stayed a single person company and just banked all that cash. https://betakit.com/looka-lays-off-80-percent-of-staff-as-fa...

So I wonder which way these guys will go. Will they bank the cash and buy houses and have a quiet and happy life, or will they spend it on employing people and growing a business and getting investors to try to make more money?
> We also said “no” a lot in our first 5 years. It wasn’t worth the overhead.

OP here. I'm grateful to hear that you also said "no" a lot. I do sometimes feel like I'm declining a lot of additional revenue, so it makes me feel more confident about what I'm doing to hear that you did the same for a few years.
I guess we'll see if they can pull a rabbit out of a hat. A lot of folks didn't think battery electric cars were going to be possible either. And... Landing freaking rockets on barges in the ocean? I'm no fan boy, but I'm also not going to be a naysayer on this one.

Starlink lets SpaceX make use of cores with long launch records that others may not be willing to risk their payloads on, and SpaceX can also use those launches to test other risky maneuvers. So... Perhaps there's some other value in Starlink that we're not privy to.
This made me jump. You make one excellent point, with appropriately shocking language:

When I can’t do what I want with my phone, I may as well be leasing it. Hmmm.

But I don’t believe Apple’s business model is to spy on me.
I’m not sure mob rule is better than a corporate entity in this regard.
Yes, but NYT's original article said they were removing them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/business/trader-joes-peti...
> people on the right value loyalty

But loyalty to whom? To your group or tribe of course. The group as a whole can be highly immoral raping and killing other groups. So loyalty does not mean morality, even though as you suggest it may be the case that "right values loyalty".

Left values empathy? Surely yes, but I would rather say the left values equality of all human beings. Empathy follows from understanding that we are all the same, and should therefore have equality in our dealings with the society.

Loyalty is selfishness. You help those who have helped you in the past you don't care about those who have not helped you in the past. Loyalty is mob-mentality
Money laundering involves the intentional hiding of the origins of funds obtained through criminal activity. Attributing the source of funds as being criminally obtained is difficult if tumbling is done effectively. If tumbling was reason enough to be suspected of money laundering, so would splitting a $100 at a gas station.
Parts of vs Code Are Proprietary
Did you look into Status?

https://status.im/

https://github.com/status-im/status-react

https://github.com/status-im/nim-status-client
Sadly, WeWork. They make you have to call in to cancel your subscription (I have the cheapest possible one to squat a office every now and then).

Wish they’d just put a simple ‘Cancel’ button, being a ‘tech’ company and all.
I'm not sure I know what to think about the auto-edit HN did to this title :)
It's a matter of time when free self-hosted neural networks trained for translation will appear.
OP here. The main reason I don't put up prices for existing customers is because this is how I'd want to be treated as a customer.

Perhaps I'm not making the best decisions to maximise revenue, but part of the pleasure of running my own company is running the way I feel is right to me.
I think that only applies to very few labels. Bandcamp isn't some kind of exclusively niche underground store. These days all kinds of big, critically acclaimed labels and artists sell through them.
It's not really switching it off as such, it's more that you have to "long-term empathize" with the person you're helping.

Setting a broken bone or popping a joint back in to place will hurt right now, but the consequences of not doing it will hurt the person a lot more over time. So you do inflict pain on them right in the moment, which is certainly unpleasant to do, but in the hope that the overall pain and discomfort for them will be significantly lessened.

At least that's how a friend of mine (former firefighter) put it.
Just to be clear I am in favor of providing free IDs and allowing the use of said ID, a driver's license, passport, etc for voting.

You say that no one would have an issue with such a proposal but then list the argument I have heard from multiple people of why this won't work.

How is someone supposed to get an id without going to the DMV or some other government office? The government doesn't have a picture of everyone so people would be required to go into an office to get one. Some people are unable to go in due to the reasons you list.
Theirs 2 sides to every story. The Democrats and the press are doing there best to whip up a fear frenzy over a strong flu wave that's really only killing people who were already sick. If that wasn't happening no one would give a shit about the USPS and what's happening for the better there, in my opinion.
Some like Germany safeguarded salaries instead by ensuring that workers remained employed. That's to say that they recompensed firms for salaries on condition workers remained employed during the lockdowns.

The US should have more leeway because it has the world's reserve currency.

I haven't worked it out but I'd like to hear why the Fed or Treasury (let's just say federal govt) couldn't simply replace lost real estate loan payments by adding to banks' balance sheets.
Crypto may not have been founded based on malevolent intent, but the majority of its initial usage was definitely used for so.

In my time exploring Tor pre crypto boom 2017, I noticed markets of CP, Illegal Weapons, and Illegal services such as hitmen all operating under Bitcoin.

And I'm willing to bet that, since its inception till now, the number of transactions that was used for crime is greater than the number of transactions that weren't.

And I'm also willing to bet that the majority of the transactions that was used for crime, was to purchase drugs.

I do think we need to be concerned about Bitcoin and how it is a crime enabler.
TypeScript: What Are Generic Types?
Show HN: Search PeerTube Videos
Well, you still aren't addressing why it can't be disabled.
I don’t get it either. Start putting css in the style attribute while you’re at it.

BUT! This proves there isn’t a “right” way to do things and developers have differing preferences—enough to make 7 figures of revenue.