skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No. I assumed it was because they had already announced it.

You said it was already usable after I said that the link you posted showed that it was incomplete.

I.e: You made a claim that you didn’t know was true, but stated it as fact, even when you were asked to confirm it.

This is known as lying - saying something is true, when you don’t know it is true.

In this case I didn’t even call you on it - I just asked whether you were sure it was usable.

Your response was to immediately reply with a false statement.

A true answer would have been: “I don’t know, but I assume so because it has been announced.”

Because you do this, what you say simply cannot be taken at face value.
"It doesn't matter what the data is, it should be: - unique to a sufficiently small group of people"

"What you'd rather want is finding the largest group out there and joining it."

Presumably there is a threshhold for how large the group must be before the value of fingerprinting to advertisers drops.

That is one question.

Another question is what value to the advertiser is there, if any, in the data contained in the fingerprint itself (beyond its value in forming a fingerprint).

Hypothetical. User disables Javascript, CSS, does not send Cookies, does not send User-Agent. User only sends a minumum number of headers needed to retrieve the page. For example, Host: and Connection: only.

Putting aside arguments about whether or not this user is more or less "unique" than other users (the size of the group sending minimal data may be small), as well as any arguments about "breaking websites", is the data in the fingerprint valuable to advertisers.

For example, is the advertiser interested in guessing whether the user is using a Javascript and CSS-enabled browser that stores cookies, etc. Will the advertiser perceive the user as a more or less worthy target than another user due to the specifics of the fingerprint.
For Peru at least we have some data that shows their excess mortality is far greater than their official numbers:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/15/tracking...

Data as of Apr 1-Oct 31

Covid 19 Deaths: 34,446
Excess Deaths: 82,076
> "doing the matching in multiple places and making sure that we cover all cases in all places is starting to look like a maintenance nightmare"

That sounds more like an indictment of functional programming rather than Clojure specifically. I’m not a seasoned functional programmer but I often read glowing praise from others about the use of pattern matching in their code.

I’m also not a professional Clojure programmer, but I thought that multi-methods were supposed to be the solution to the expression problem [0] that both class-based inheritance and pattern matching suffer from.

It was my understanding that multi-methods are supposed to allow open extension of behaviour without having to do what you just described; track down every instance, and cover every case.

In the case of multi-methods, couldn’t you just co-locate the method implementations next to the data they are supposed to operate on? You should be able to add/modify behaviours without worrying about what the other data types are doing.

Honest questions here. Just trying to learn more about the real world pros/cons of these approaches.

[0] http://wiki.c2.com/?ExpressionProblem
Why would they use a constant seed? How difficult is it to use a time stamp?
Well for one it limits the max texture size to 2048px, when normally 4096 has support everywhere.
> You need k8s-savvy ops people, or really good devs who like ops stuff

They are called DevOps Engineers and it's a standard role these days.

And it doesn't matter whether they like it or not. In many organisations these days developers own their piece of work all the way through to production and are expected to provide an ops-like support for it.
A novel new EV its manufacturer says doesn't need charging
Or about page would be fine. As a client I would like to know the person behind the company.
>> The fact that the dashboards and alerts have a delay sounds like there might be difficult consistency stuff going on.

I think that's true. It's easier to measure usage and aggregate that data after the fact than to meter it in real time and stop at a limit. Those are very different things. What happens if you hit the cap while running multiple processes spread across a cloud?

One improvement might be to throttle things as the cap approaches but that doesnt really change the problem at all. Do that and have provider eat any overages should solve it from the user point of view.
Yeah, I recently discovered while evaluating Deezer that it doesn't function without scripts from facebook. So, I didn't subscribe.
Turkey: Europe's Top Destination for... Trash
Well maybe... it's certainly a different approach than being tracked, surveilled and served up personal ads.

Brave is using cryptocurrency as an alternative revenue model for content creators than advertisements, and in some ways it's much more of a "white mirror" kind of tech.
Tee in Haskell using streaming-bytestring
If I can give an advice to the author. The structure of the article is not very good.

There is no best product analytics tool, the 3 products presented are all great products. Instead of saying "this product is the best". You should do,

- If you are in this case, use this product

- In this case use this other one.

- ...

If you are just a startup wanting to go into product analytics, any of this product will be fine
I initially assumed that the goat was tied to the fence in such a way that the non-goat rope-end could move completely around the circumference of the fence and not be fixed to a single point.
I know tech leads who consistently work 11 hour days. Different kind of work though.

Were you hourly?
It's like money. Welcome to money.
I'm not sold on the crypto aspect, but this seems fairer than beaming ads into our brains, burning our glucose reserves.

Noise has a cost.
And having discovered the goat, how do you put a tether on something with no size?
AFAIK you can't for that particular contrived example. The article probably mentions the batching of 50 queries just to give you an idea of pricing, not because it works for that example.

Still, even in the worst use case for Fauna I find that $7.50 for 2M queries with all the features it offers is still a good price (multi-region, ACID, realtime, FQL, authentication and authorization, etc).
even with firefox resistfingerprinting on, my browser has a unique fingerprint on the EFF test site
"I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin is too small to contain."

I can't formulate proper google search query, but I once read funny story where spies were planting a papers with a math problem like it written by a kid, very simple looking, but the answer had actually crazy numbers.
Although I have no use for it currently I am fascinated by Web-assembly (and PWAs). But is it actually useful? I understand why theoretically it is, but is it being useful in practise?

Answering my own question, a little, I use figma.com a lot. But the potential seems so great, and the available PWAs so poor....

Expecting this is a good place to ask
Anyone else think google will follow apples lead here? Seems like good cover to deal a major blow to an alternative advertising business model.
Monopoly doesn't mean what you suggest - it's different from a locked-down ecosystem. Every monopoly dispute comes down to defining the market in question. Whether the market is phones, tablets, smartwatches or personal computers, Apple's market share comes nowhere near close to being a monopoly.
Never tried, some people had success with NVidia GPUs. However, if you are willing to put your host in sleep and wake it up, then it should be much easier. Sleep usually resets the GPU and lets host drivers grab it.
You are correct. I remember seeing some goats at Oscarsborg Fortress and I was told that they were there on loan or on hire. Looked it up now and it checks out.

The articles in the two links below affectionately refer to the featured goats as the "coast goat commando", which I think is just lovely :)

https://www.oblad.no/badebyen/kystgeitkommandoen-til-oscarsb...

https://www.oblad.no/badebyen/umb-geitene-pa-sommerjobb/s/2-...

Both of these articles are in Norwegian but basically they talk about the importance of keeping the vegetation in check, and that the goats are great at this, as well as the social value that goats provide to visitors. The goats featured here are owned by a University and were rented out to the Oscarsborg Fortress.

There are pictures of the goats also in the articles.

PS: For anyone not familiar with Oscarsborg check out the following links for some info and pictures:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscarsborg_Fortress

https://www.forsvarsbygg.no/no/festningene/finn-din-festning...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Drøbak_Sound

Using the defence batteries at Oscarsborg Fortress, the Norwegian coastal defence successfully sank the German heavy cruiser Blücher on 9 April 1940, forcing the German fleet to fall back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Blücher
I guess what I am trying to say is that perhaps it's an inherently flawed model as evidenced but what just happened and, going forward, we should rid ourselves of such ties.

At the end of the day, we're talking about a super stable server distro with LTS. While many things are easier said than done, I believe this is important enough to the community that it could happen. My main concern with such a distro is security, a team developers providing security patches would be the most critical part of such an entity.

Hopefully before CentOS 7 goes dark in 2024 there will be viable alternatives. Right now, having to compile against custom libs not shipped with the distro (for example, modern OpenSSL) is a small price to pay for having another 3 years left to decide on best course of action to get off CentOS. Still, it's a terrible position to be in for those who upgraded to CentOS 8 already (as we were just about to do).
they push for yet another closed model for remuneration, their effort doesn't really fix the web, it makes it worse.

browser independence should be the first pillar of a real free web.
The pattern of holes technique in that link (MURA) is also used in UV lithography for IC fabrication (example: https://youtu.be/8eT1jaHmlx8?t=1543).
The Fruits of the Deep
Hmm... we still need that one guy saying light bulbs are an outdated housing paradigm and no longer supported on GNOME3, fifty people asking "Well, fine, how do I see stuff at night then?", a cricket and a tumbleweed, one more guy saying "Well screw it, I'm installing KDE!", another poor girl finding out her light bulb's closed-source firmware doesn't work with her home wiring, and one Linus Torvalds to throw a middle finger at the light bulb's maker.
I liked how if you go to vi the page has the following:

Did you mean emacs

A top ad placement for VI(trademarked) Vodafone and Idea which are now trademarked together! So exciting.

A top stories link -
Vi (Vodafone) launches Rs 948 family postpaid
plan with unlimited benefits: Check details
The Indian Express·14 hours ago
View all

Which is really great that I can keep up on all the news about Vodafone.

questions people ask about Vi, half of which are about editor and other half not.

at 100% zoom on my mac air I get half of the questions interestingly enough before I have to scroll down.

Wikipedia page about the editor

So I have to scroll down to see the first relevant hit, now of course it makes total sense that vi has other hits, also because in Danish it means we, but the dumb joke on the top makes it sort of silly, especially if I just followed from emacs to vi, because in that case I would think - huh, a vote for ranking results for text editor +10.

Maybe I'm just easily irritated right now.
> It is baffling why cloud providers don't have that option.

...is it? If a lazy dev leaves their corporate account open and you can bill it for their negligence, protected by the contract you already signed, you earn a lot of money. From a purely business perspective, it is stupid(!) to provide a stopgap for that.

Edit: to be clear I am not advocating one way or the other. But it is surprising that people are "baffled" by this obvious profit optimization.
I imagine most Japanese people just watch it on TV / record it. I believe DVRs are still popular in Japan. The 12th most popular TV/video product on Amazon.co.jp is a 1 TB Panasonic Blu-ray recorder.
Wouldn't "Black Mirror stuff" be the current way things are done with Google, Facebook, and all the other companies engaging in surveillance capitalism?

Brave is privacy preserving. Tips and contributions are anonymous.
COVID-19 has taken us so much closer now to a cyberpunk dystopia. The disruption of social life, the growing inequality as the wealth of the investor class grows to precipitous heights, the use of technology to avoid physical human contact as much as possible, we're getting there, no doubt about it.
Lesson learned by building an Esports Startup in 2020
Saurik Sues Apple for Anti-Competitive App Store Practices [pdf]
Yep; e.g., out of, say, 350 enrolled in first year, 300 might find it's "not their thing", eventually leaving a graduating class of 50. Or else, in some situations, the university finds that some of the students are "not its thing".
I have not watched Black Mirror. In what way is it similar? Can someone condense it in a few lines?
The problem is cost of support, including hard to quantize things like reputation.

It's one thing to do it like idSoftware used to, with silent releases done by one guy that were accepted as unofficial and you'd buy the windows release to get the missing files, and another to make a proper purchase of a game for linux with all kinds of expectations about it actually working.
The greening of the Earth is approaching its limit
You'd need a special rope to tie it as well, in addition to low-dimensional fencing and specialized grass.
The “problem” is if NOAA directly provides data to the general public then an entire ecosystem of companies that simply gather NOAA data and pass it along to the public suddenly lose money. Those companies then try very hard to limit distribution of NOAA data by NOAA while maximizing the government spending on accurate forecasts.

It’s got nothing to do with government supporting it’s self and 100% to do with legislated corruption that’s dependent on public officials playing their role.
A good opportunity for education is not 'spoiled' , it's fortunate.

'Spoiled' is the Lambo in high school for the kid with bad grades.

Moreover, most private HS are not considerably better than good public schools, there are advantages but not giant leaps there.

Much more advantageous is private College, but it's somewhat more competitive and at least partly meritocratic.

These kids are not from massive homes, with baller cars and 1M follower instagram accounts. They don't have chefs, their Uncles are not Senators. They live in the suburbs in slightly better than normal homes, their parents drive Audis and they do their homework. They had braces as kids, and never had to worry about healthcare. Their 'Dentist' father is not 'connected'. They are really not that different from most kids, other than they never have to worry.
I remember this being debated already in the 1990s, when the press wanted to start writing "internet". I think it's still the Internet (proper noun) and nothing has essentially changed since then.
Another solution is to click on every damn ad you are shown. Millions of people doing this to billions of ads will collapse the value and make this kind of advertising a waste of money.
dude just buy an android.

I really don't understand all this hyperbole on this subject. Somehow everyone on HN decided to become democratic socialist only when it pertains to App Store commissions lmao
It's ever worse for services like AWS Cloudfront.

One of your competitors could just rent a cheap server on OVH with uncapped transfer and incur you $10k in cost in a few hours.
Yeah my bad, I meant 100 gallons per day, or 3000 gallons per month.
Instead of timestamps, use the browsers built-in secure random number generator. Anything else can be guessed/computed.
That is flatly incorrect. The market in question is the $150 billion mobile applications market, of which Apple controls 60% worldwide, well above the threshold for regulatory attention in many jurisdictions. The jurisprudence varies regionally on what "enough market power" means, before you may be accused of having abused it, but (for example) in Europe this starts at around 40%.
Brave's ads don't leak your consumer profile to the advertisers. Only Brave themselves know who's seeing what (and even then, only client-side, unless they push a malicious update one day.) Advertisers only get to know how many impressions they got.

By contrast, every credit card with "rewards", retail loyalty card, or coupon app (e.g. Honey) you've ever signed up for is — very explicitly — selling your consumer profile to advertisers/market research companies. Then, to make you interested in being on the other side of that deal, they take some of the money they make from those data-buyers and pass it back to you as rewards/points/offers.

If neither of these business models already existed, and both were pitched at the same time, I think it'd be the second one that would put people in mind of dystopian speculative fiction.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25369552
Ask for your money back.
> OH, thank God!
- William Preston as Depth Gauge in Waterworld (1995)
Just for accuracy purpose, I never transferred ownership of the extension in the Chrome and Opera stores -- I considered this would be a breach of trust. The extension in Mozilla's AMO was not handled by me at the time.
Using space utilization data to optimize your workspace (with examples)
I know folks love to hate on Apple for keeping iOS locked down. Some of those folks like to say it is anti-user or anti-customer.

I respectfully disagree. As an iOS user who interacts with android devices daily (and used to be primarily an android user, Moto 360 watch and all), I really like that it’s locked down.

Yes, there are things I can’t do, like run v8, or have a built-in IR blaster, or sell my attention.

What’s more important to me is what hostile actors (Google, AT&T, Verizon) can’t do. My phone doesn’t get malware, it doesn’t show me notifications that can’t be dismissed (I don’t know how android users tolerate this), it doesn’t prevent me from removing apps like Facebook (also something android phones like to do), and it generally doesn’t let app developers get away with nonsense.

If anything, my biggest concern with the state of iOS is that it isn’t strict enough with the larger players. From the the business side of things there are some self-owns on Apple’s part that I won’t go into.

Tl;dr please stay the f* away from my iPhone, I chose it for all the reasons you hate it.
Could this change anything in the states?
What is wrong with fines?

I am not sure what you mean with 'Nigerian prince', but since a lot of e-mail scammers claim to be nigerian princes I will assume you meant that.

The problem isn't that some tiny website somewhere uses fingerprinting, because they can't follow you around the web.

The problem is companies like Google tracking people around the internet. You can fine them if it turns out that they use fingerprinting techniques to track people. Seems pretty straight forward to me.
"You literally cannot do business with Apple customers."

This sounds rather hyperbolic. Sure, if you want to do business with customers through Apple's platform then you need to abide by their terms, but you can do business with them.

On the surface it feels a bit like complaining that you can't do business with customers through Stripe, because Stripe has Ts&Cs that you need to abide by. Apple's situation is more complex, but I think the underlying reasoning on this specific point is the same isn't it?
Thanks for the correction, you're right, I was thinking about their Blue Moon lander, which is slated to have BE-7 engines.
Monopoly is not defined by market share.
It's also fundamentally untenable in a world where the purpose of the ads they replace is to pay for the content you're viewing.

The web needs a real solution to the problems ads present at the moment, but we're unlikely to get one when the dominant browser vendor has deep interests in keeping users trackable.
Really sad to see f.ex. Arianespace still launching with the nearly 30 year old Ariane 5. Soon EOL now, but I don't think the Ariane 6 is even close to what SpaceX is doing at the moment. And I think ESA have started muttering about both capabilities of the rocket, launch price and the slow development.
I'm sure they might not have had silver spoons, but maxing out your credit cards is a luxury that people have when they don't have families to support (not to mention moving to SF). I'm not just referring to your own children, but if you have parents that need help, or siblings that need help.

For example, if I was in these 3 gentlemen's shoes, I would have not maxed out my credit cards, because my parents were entering their 50s and they didn't have gold plated health insurance from government or a F500 company, so I knew I had to play it safe and be ready to be there if and when they need me for assistance with healthcare expenses.

I don't mean to detract from any of their achievements, surely they put forth effort into getting into the right schools, studying the right subjects, and focusing their energy on something that netted them a very high ROI.

The purpose of my comment was to shine a light on how being in a position to max out credit cards in SF in the first place without greatly negatively altering your family's trajectory qualifies you as "normal" in a very restricted sense of the word "normal".
> Say what you want about Apple here

Okay.

"A shitty company uses its monopolistic power to forbid another shitty company to apply its shitty business model".
Just because lots of companies do it, doesn't mean it's a good thing though, does it?
Sorry find was me mistyping "fund".

Btw what infrastructure are you talking about? Water, electrics, roads or sewage I'm guessing.
> You understand how VPS/EC2 etc work. They are also multi-tenant architectures

EC2 basic instances are multitenant, but there are such a thing as EC2 dedicated instances (and dedicated hosts), which run on single-customer reserved hardware.
Accomplishment is not linear to time spent.

The longer you work, the more tired you get. Working for 2 hours is easy. Working for 4 hours requires a break. Working for 8 hours requires the lunch break, and a few minor breaks. How often can you see people socializing or reading web during the 8 hours? With 2 hours, you would just do your work, and go socializing or reading web during your free time.

On the other hand, sometimes you get work-related ideas when not working. With 2 hours a day, you would usually come to work with a very clear idea of what to do. When I work on my projects in my free time, I often realize that taking breaks more often would actually make me more productive, because I would have thought about a simpler solution before having written a more complicated one.

Also, people use some of their free time to learn new things related to their craft. Working 15 hours a week would give you a lot of free time.

I agree that with 7 times more time you accomplish more, but definitely not 7 times more. Maybe 3 times more. And your private life would probably suffer a lot.
Ahh, I guess I should have been more specific. I can also select the footnote toggles by tabbing, and toggle them with the keyboard. But can’t select them in a random-access way with link hinting (I mentioned vimperator), because they are not links nor something else, such as an input field, that gets a hint. So that's a slight advantage on the side of using some kind of link for the footnotes. But really, this just shows me that link-hinting systems should include detail toggles as targets.