skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a whole industry that depends on tracking IDFA to function

And hopefully that will become "was" at some point.

> it is not about being creepy

The ad industry is a poor judge of what's creepy; their interests are not aligned with user interests.

> A 3 month period will allow all actors in the advertising industry to integrate and come up with solutions that protect the user's privacy.

The advertising industry has had a very long time to come up with solutions to protect the user's privacy. The only way it'll ever happen is if it's inflicted upon them. The less ready they are, the better.
My cat used to do this (but with low places, he hides in places like cupboards etc, he always figures out a way to open them) but he sorta stopped doing it once I started playing with him during the day too. We used to play only at night, because you know I had to go to work during the day. But due to COVID I started playing with him during my lunch break and he usually hangs out next to me the entire day now.

It goes without saying they might wanna be alone every once in a while... I think that's normal cat behavior.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24364512
Surprised that the Reverse Identity Theft xkcd has not been linked yet:

https://xkcd.com/1279/
I worked there in 2013. I very specifically remember getting a speech about how if we didn't believe that the company would be worth more than google, we should quit. Seems like that may have been a better option for a lot of folks.
Isn't the wider problem that people don't try to understand the internals? Some of us may read the code of modules we "require", but experience tells me this is a rarity.

For those that do, this isn't an issue, and for those that don't, this isn't an issue either. Their mental model may be flawed, but as long as the IO is the same, do they really care?

Concurrent mode isn't really a black box. Its just a shortcut to throw away work that would otherwise be invalidated.
This has to be one of the most uninformed comments I have ever read on HN.

Are we seriously going to blame ads for people buying stuff they need? I mean come on, this seems like a South Park episode, the Ads are self-aware and made us do it.

Current ads are not about facts? Please do tell when was a time ads were not about trying to awake emotions inside prospective customers? Check out The 22 Irrefutable Laws of Marketing by Jack Trout and Al Ries, a book old almost 30 years yet still holds today. Marketing (offline or online ads, it's all the same basis) has and always will be part psychological.

I don't know for you, but I would rather appreciate an ad about something which I found useful (a sponsored job posting in my field of work on Instagram) than get a random ad like the early 2000s ("This russian young lady can't wait to meet you").

While we might not like or appreciate ads from a technical perspective, it is beneath a developer's pride we must come to terms that ads are what puts bread to our tables.

Innovation and progress, especially in the internet age has occured thanks to the business potential of marketing and ads.
Two's complement machines can trap on signed overflow, or set CPU flags that can be tested.

MIPS compilers for C emit "addu" instructions for signed integer additions rather than using "add", to avoid overflow traps.

Using unsigned arithmetic for signed is not just so that C programs relying on the behavior do not blow up. When overflow behavior is reversible wraparound, the compiler more freedoms in rearranging a calculation. Suppose the programmer has written some a + b + c, and ensured that there is no overflow (when it's added left to right, as the abstract semantics says). If the addition mechanism has reversible overflow, the compiler can rearrange it to do the additions in any order. The result will be the same, correct one that (a + b) + c would produce.

But the idea that two's complement itself "wraps around" is mostly a myth. Two's complement has a fixed range of representation, and a result of adding two elements from that representation can be out of that range. In that case, the truncated value whose bit pattern corresponds to the unsigned arithmetic is not the correct result.
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Pine litter completely removed the smell for me.

Unfortunately it turns out that after years of use cats can develop an allergy to it, which one of my cats did, so I had to stop using it.

But it is by far the best litter at odor control. The bathroom basically smelled like a forest.
My cats get fed when I start making dinner. They're really mellow about feeding time, I think it is that there's only an approximate time and that it is tied to me feeding me, they don't get neurotic about it.

The worst stupid cat trick I've put up with was one who would dart outside if he got the chance. Problem was, he had never been an outdoor cat, was pretty dumb, and would immediately panic and hide. Once ended up talking to the cops about breaking into my own house when someone saw me crawling underneath after spotting his eyes reflecting back at me.
Well, except for all the 90s/00s Microsoft + Internet Explorer antitrust drama -- though admittedly Microsoft came out of it mostly unscathed, if a bit humbled.
I suggest re-reading The Selfish Gene and not getting caught up too much at the title, but actually paying attention to the content (as a high schooler it may not be easy to grok, especially if your school taught evolution wrong, even teachers often don't understand it). Dawkins never says people are always selfish by necessity. He says genes (not individual organisms) propagate as if they were selfish, but this is just a metaphor, if the metaphor disturbs you you can ignore it, the actual content of the evolutionary reasoning does not require using words like selfish.

Also, that quote on playing just dodges the question. Why is what we call "play" so pleasurable to animals? "Because they enjoy it" is not an answer. Why don't animals do other things for pleasure? And there are very good evolutionary arguments, but that's not the point now.
Are there inaccuracies around the portrayal of why and how the reactor failed?
I understand the objections to BMI comparisons at an individual level (though I believe people think themselves a bit too exceptional too often), but as part of a larger study, I would think it'd make a good additional data point, no?
Career lawyers can’t have underlying partisan motivations either?

This article is scant on real facts, instead it’s just more rumor and innuendo from “anonymous sources”. Which apparently is just fine even though in the majority of these stories once the bombastic claims are dropped and more facts come out later, revealing thatthe claims are either grossly overstated or outright lies it doesn’t matter because everyone has moved on to the next “ooh shiny”.

People used to ostracize organizations that take such continual gaslighting to performance art levels, but apparently its the new normal because “orange man bad” or something.
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The photographer was [name redacted]. His portfolio [0] has several posed portraits of famous people that might be considered less than flattering but which were clearly posed with their agreement. [redacted] has produced work for news sources across the political spectrum including The Telegraph (diametrically opposite from the Guardian).

It's certainly possible that the author didn't choose it but it is possible that Graeber himself didn't object.

[Edit - totally agree about the sadness of his loss]

[0] [link redacted]
C compilers use unsigned arithmetic even on hardware that offers built-in overflow traps for signed, two's complement arithmetic (no extra instructions required).
Well said. The problem is not bias but just the absence of any real content.

What happened in the world today? CNN: Trump is rude and orange! etc.
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I think your comment here perfectly illustrates exactly the problem I'm talking about.

>rather than the 10s of right-wing livestreams.

These aren't "right wing livestreams". It's people, at the protests, with cameras. Some of the bigger ones are people like Unicorn Riot, who has been active in Minneapolis for quite some time, and Regg Ikagnedo.

In some cases, the "press" end up being protestors themselves and end up fighting with the police. I really struggle to understand why you would cast any of this as right wing.
Ironically, BSD ps switched over to getopt() a mere year later, in 1990. FreeBSD ps then gained an -f option in 1997, but it doesn't mean "full". (-:

* https://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg?view=revision&revision=40675

* https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=31552
It's going to make the next Bilderberg meeting a little awkward for a few people after they do this.
Tiger Lake was announced by Intel just yesterday... Lots of new laptop models are going to be announced in the following days, all using the brand new processor. Tiger Lake has an improved CPU but also a much better graphics card compared to all the previous generations, and it seems it is comparable even with the nvidia/amd cards that are in many laptops. We're soon going to see some benchmarks, I hope.
Wow, this exchange between him and Brad DeLong is utterly bizzare.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164707
Yes something like that. Me sayings i know nothing about go didn't help. I at least knew about select.
Why would you need to put it in the sun? That would be a huge waste of energy, just stick it in a stable graveyard orbit, or just get it fast enough to escape Earth's gravity
This is complex...

Hot air can hold a lot more moisture than cold air. (what you said). However when you take cold air and heat it the amount of water in the air doesn't change, while the amount of water than the air can hold did. When talking about water in the air the important part is how much it can hold relative to how much it does hold, not how much it actually is holding.
>you have to suffix your search with "reddit".

Still, exercise scepticism. Reddit is heavily astroturfed.
How do you deal with things like fleas? We have nearby squirrels and a small yard and are sure the fleas we dealt with were brought in by outdoor lounging from our cat.
Nick checks out; I want to award HN gowld.
My understanding is that those actions were only capable of causing the problems they did because of specific design choices involved in the coolant and moderation systems. Is that wrong?
We do ours under a 506c, and given that we can create a new fund with any frequency, they also remain open to new investors. It seems the funding window is still that quarter. If you miss that funding window you invest in the next quarter which gives you exposure to a different window of companies. I feel like I’m still missing something here.
What is the indication that the industry which privacy is against its current interest to be able to come up with a solution which would completely redefine it? I have someone close that works in a massive telco and talking to them I do not think they would think oh lets not sell these data and lose a lot of money becasue there is another feasible solution.
The 2012 Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future report [1] literally said that:

"Ensuring access to dedicated funding – Current federal budget rules and laws make it impossible for the nuclear waste program to have assured access to the fees being collected from nuclear utilities and ratepayers to finance the commercial share of the waste program’s expenses.

We have recommended a partial remedy that should be implemented promptly by the Administration, working with the relevant congressional committees and the Congressional Budget Office. A long-term remedy requires legislation
to provide access to the Nuclear Waste Fund and fees independent of the annual appropriations process but subject to rigorous independent financial and managerial oversight."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120807061024/http://brc.gov/si...
> Ads will definitely not disappear, only the tracking aspect.

Ads without tracking are an even less effective business model. We don't have to make ads stop working entirely, we just have to make them sufficiently ineffective that they're not worth paying enough to make ad revenue worthwhile.
I'm not sure about PostGraphile, but Hasura I know transforms a graphql request into a SQL request that can return the JSON response expected as part of the GraphQL spec. I believe that's the reason that Hasura only works with PostgreSQL, since it has the necessary SQL functions to generate arbitrary JSON objects.
> However, this hand off is more difficult to achieve with Linux (can't just open slapdash:// URLs as easily as you can on OS X and windows).

Isn't this exactly what xdg-open does?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-utils

https://askubuntu.com/questions/527166/how-to-set-subl-proto...

I suppose if you want to support text mode (ie use from mutt without running a gui) - you'd have to use mailcap - but that assumes the login flow works in a text mode browser like w3m...
Most of your points are very good ones, but one thing jumped out at me - in my experience, 12000 BTU 110v mini-splits aren't that hard to source, nor crazy-expensive, in the US. Super worth it, too, if you can manage it.
Clion added support for Makefile based projects back in July.
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/makefiles-support.html
Hydrogen can be a practical fuel, but you need energy to extract it, which could very well be nuclear
In my experience, it's 1). scooping regularly, and 2) change the litter when it first starts to lose the potency.

The only time I had a cat smell problem was at the start of the quarantine, and my litter delivery got delayed. I still scoop regularly, but the remaining litter had obviously been less effective in containing the odor.

Since then, I've had a double-buffer for cat litter supply.
I wish this essay wasn’t littered with emojis :(
It's not easy. The protester seen from the front in one video could also be a murderer seen from the back in a different video.

Harmless protesters are safe in the USA. They don't need to be covered up. Covering them is effectively an acknowledgement that they are not in fact peaceful.
Pedantically, the overall bandwidth in that scenario is exactly the same as the recording bandwidth of one backup tape. Since bandwidth doesn't scale.

The data transfer rate, however, scales linearly with cardinality...
GPT-3 is absolutely insane.
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and what happens if I unmount and remount it? something like:

<div>
{isLoggedIn ? <LogoutButton /> : abcd }
</div>

and I change the value of isLoggedIn. Does the state reset? I'm not asking for a solution, just pointing out that even a 'simple' hook like useState has its small quirks.
There is no evidence that there is a "high probability of leaving you with permanent damage". What you are saying is all based on some anecdotes. Take Covid seriously, assess your risk based on actual data. Don't spread misinformation.
It's useful to note that this study doesn't need to stand on its own as evidence. It contributes to a growing body.

As most of you may have already seen, there is a lot of observational evidence that people with low vitamin D have the worst C19 outcomes. Obviously, correlation by itself doesn't mean causation. But it is a hint.

On top of the hint, we already have dozens of RCTs that vitamin D supplements suppress respiratory infections.

https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583

And now we have this study. Every study and line of evidence has flaws, which is why you look at the totality of the evidence.

From the evidence I've seen, low vitamin D is a bigger problem in modern societies than vitamin D toxicity. Vitamin D is available OTC and many people use it apparently responsibly. I would expect that to continue with appropriate messaging.

It would be great if we could pursue a consensus on this while it can still make a difference, even in the absence of perfect data. It was a mistake in the early US messaging to downplay the importance of masks even though we didn't have perfect data on it.
Amazon has huge warehouses in lots of states which means they have political power to threaten pulling jobs from districts or states. Google is a much softer target.
Thanks for that link, it kind of already shows its age (2014), it was from a time when people still believed that capitalism was worthy of being defended out in the open (and when calling someone a "leftist" was still seen as a coming from the "center", not from the other political extreme). Interesting how fast things change.
"command-tab switcher, select the app you want, then hold down option and release command"

bingo! thanks! :)
The BBC is not 'wrong' - it's maybe just superficial and doesn't have enough detail.

The anecdotes about 'lying press' on this thread are misleading. 'Respected' news entities do not just 'make stuff up'. Definitely no the BBC, they have standards.

The problem with the bigger agencies is narrative bias, and yes, if 'within America' the narrative is pushed to 'one side' hard by the local press, then the international press will be influenced by that, but it's not as bad.

Edit: got to CNN.com right now and give some examples of their 'blatant lying'. Because they're not. Editorial bias, of course, but 'making up stories' - this is wrong. The onus would be on you to provide evidence they are doing this consistently.
I agree that our current tooling requires more "rocket science" than it should to do ordinary things. I'm not sure how to fix the entire industry, but the first step to solving a problem is admit there is one.

Early cars were hard to learn, drive, and maintain. Over time they got better via trial and error by manufacturers. The desktop IDE's of the early 90's were like this, but got better over time (until web ruined their market). However, the web is still stuck in 1903: simple things are esoteric. Perhaps because too many other things about "cars" keep changing? Something is wrong. CRUD web dev is a mess.
This was true in USA too. They took pretty good care of the scientists who knew enough to call out unsafe conditions, but laborers etc. at e.g. PGDP were regularly exposed to poisons and radiation. EEOICP was put together late enough that many of the affected workers had already died.
Can you write off just the exercise price or the fair market value at time of exercise?
You can always teach your cat to poop in a toilet. This doesn't take much effort to teach them. Remember to leave the toilet seat cover up for them.
A furnace doesn't remove moisture.

Steam heat is radiant which feels very good. Nothing to do with moisture added, steam heat is almost always a closed loop so no water is put into the air.
How frequently do you clean yours? Not empty the litter or change the tray, but actually clean the inside?
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> same kind of thing that has drawn the price of PV down

A nuclear power generator is a complex beast, that requires a ton of material, of very different kinds, worked into some detailed and non-repetitive patterns. (Have you looked at a steam turbine?)

PV is a simple pattern of a few different substances, repeated over and over again.

Even if scale was all going into the PV price, nuclear will never be able to achieve the same amount of it.
I don’t understand why the person that hands you the food gets 20 percent yet the person who cooked it usually gets nothing.
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say YouTube's value to a certain political campaign might have played at part in bumping up Google's priority. Apple and Amazon do not have a similar propaganda^w free speech platform that has to be kept on a short leash with similar urgency.

Obviously that wouldn't never happen in the U.S.A. - the DoJ's dealings have been entirely professional, non-partisan and above-board.
If only a method for permanent disposal of carbon dioxide emissions from gas plants actually existed.
Bring him to the box, and verbally encourage him. 70% of the time, he'll poop.
Important to note that surviving is something else than 'making a full recovery'. It's an obvious improvement, and it clearly shows in the day-to-day statistics, the ratio of fatalities to positive tests has been - very slowly - dropping.
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How many pecks is that?
These are not dumb questions at all. The really dumb questions are the ones that aren't asked.
It most definitely would, but measuring body fat percentage would be better.
> what specific anti-trust laws

The specific anti trust law would almost certainly be section 2 of the Sherman anti trust act.
With logical coupling, if two entities are changed together many times, they get a shorter distance.

distance(e1, e2) = 1/c(e1, e2) if c(e1, e2) > 0 otherwise infinity. c(e1, e2) is the count of times e1 and e2 have been changed together.

I have not implemented the spatial entity in v0, as it is a bit tricky to identify the exact file that introduced a bug from a fix commit. For now, only the files modified in a bug-fix commit are put in the cache.
I obviously can't force him to poop. But I bring him to the box at approximately the same time every day, and he kinda eventually gets it.
I've had never problems with any battery drain with Signal on phone without gapps

much more annoying it's unreliable message delivery especially when your switch frequently between wifi and Mobile data, there are some other issues, but they killed it for me with PIN code nag