skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wall-wall carpet, especially old carpet, is a dust factory.
Vitamin D in the UK
Demand for meat is driving deforestation–changing the soy industry could stop it
In timnits version of the events, as far is know, she asked to discuss the details of the internal review with the reviewers with the authors, as is apparently standard at Google.

The leaving Google and working on an end date is unconstested.

To me, unless we get the full email trail, these are he said-she said. But Timnit has less power (and can't even release the email thread because she's been locked out of her accounts as far as I know) and no-one I know who has worked with her seems to think of her as a vindictive person so until Google releases the email thread, I'm gonna slightly go with her version of the events.
No, it wouldn't be in the EULA. There are two parts of GDPR that would specifically go against putting consent to tracking in the EULA:

1. GDPR requires the consent check to be somewhere obvious and in plain language. That was specifically to deal with EULA's given to you in tiny legally compliant text boxes.

2. GDPR requires that you cannot make consent for non-essential usages of data mandatory as a condition for providing your services. Tracking only logged-in people for analytics falls into the category of non-essential purposes. That requires explicit consent, even if consent is not required to use the exact same data for authentication checks.
And yet services like doordash are receiving record revenues?
Linux was started by someone because they could, not because they were paid. Sure, if a project (like Linux) gets big enough, corporations will throw money at developers who work on it, but by and large, FOSS is done by unpaid people.

If the majority were paid, GIMP would be on par with Photoshop, Inkscape with Illustrator, etc. But they’re not on par because they don’t have corporations throwing millions of dollars at them like Adobe does.
Companies live and die based on their story [thread]
In WAP times there was no such feature as cookies available.
I started programming by writing WML pages instead of HTML. Good memories from those times!
Not awful, though the lack of USB pass-through makes for a challenge. You need to make sure to rune your QEMU with at least 8G ram or it is pretty bad. Good enough to build with anyways.
So if I write OfftopAPI as a service which basically deploys Cockroach for clients , but adds a thin Node JS API on top , is that ok ?

Feels like you could play a game of chicken with them. I know many big companies would probably stick to postgres with this in mind.

And also makes it feel like they might just change the license later
Indeed. I’ve considered selling mine though and buying one again when it all gets cheaper at some point.
Legitimate interest exists, and we use it at work. But because I work in the field of security, and for the sake of our infrastucture, we log specific informations and might drop a mandatory cookie at a time.

Everything outside that field cannot, I guess, be considered as legitimate interest.
Has anyone ever found the .tex etc source to this?
> How do you create the hash? If it's based on something that you can derive from the user (let's say sha1(IP address + User Agent), that seems pretty clearly identifying.

of course that is forbidden.
and that's exactly why it is really hard to tell if companies honor it.
more efficient usually means more fragile
Sounds good - though you can also use a Breadmaker to automate the same(ish) quality natural ingredient loaf.
That's why I was suggesting it be a fully US Postal Inspection sting. But yeah, they'd have little reason to start one, other than trying to scare porch pirates into giving up.

And yeah, with the current state of USPS right now, the likelihood of them doing something like that is practically zero. But I can still dream!
As China Tracked Muslims, Alibaba Showed Customers How They Could, Too
You can display ads just fine without using cookies. You just can’t track people across the web.

Also Spotify can easily require a free login and associate everything with that, no tracking cookies required. They just can’t associate your playlist with your web browsing habits.
I admit that the recent UFO <-> Navy <-> Pentagon special UFO division leaks and news can't be easily be dismissed like the usual history channel UFO stuff;

But, what's intriguing to me as a non-American is while NASA is spending Billions exploring space, Millions directly into trying to find evidence of life, so much so that a possible evidence of a gas which could only be generated through biological process from microbes could be considered greatest scientific discovery.

So attributing these UFO to Aliens doesn't make any sense to me. If not anything, America cares about its money right?
We’re using Keycloak.org which is a great product, easy to use, a lot of functionality (if you want to), deplorable “on-premise” and does offer everything what you expect from modern user authentication and management system. You should check that out, user auth is indeed a solved problem.
On a technical level how does this compare to Mozilla Persona?

Still sad that Persona died before it could gain some traction.
We fixed the typo in the blog title (shapshots). Sorry!
> The general public gets lock-in and surveillanceware. This is structurally elitist and classist and is AFAIK the opposite of what is intended.

You (and the other replies) are missing the main point of reciprocal/protective licenses like GPL:

To pass down freedom (including freedom FROM surveillance) to end users. Avoid lock-in and "tivoization".

You are probably thinking about weak/non-protective licenses. They are commonly used on locked-down systems like Android or cloud/SaaS.

Various developers and companies complained that that form of FLOSS has been coopted into unpaid labor for FAANGs.
Finally someone who knows this! Even (some) "SEO advice" blogs have suggested to just use local storage instead of cookies.

Just no.

Both the e-privacy directive and the GDPR are very broad in their articulation and never mention specific technique's, technologies or anything like that. A good example is gdpr article 32.

Fun fact: the e privacy directive (which defines the cookie rules) isn't actually passed yet and technically you don't need cookie banners how they are now. Purely informational banners would be enough, but the directive already _should_ have passed but was delayed, and since gdpr spooked everyone, everything and everyone is using cookie banners now anyway
> You still personally expect people that eat less processed foods to be slimmer on average than those that eat more, right?

Not if you consider low-fat low-sugar cereals like "Grain Berry" as "ultraprocessed". All you're doing is making it harder for people to craft a useful diet.
Range without an antenna is around 10-20cm. I was able to hold my RPi next to my ceiling fan and control it, but obviously that’s not very practical.

Theoretically you could exfiltrate data with it, but if you have root access to the RPi already then I don’t see why you wouldn’t just use Wi-Fi.
"154,000 residents evacuated from the communities surrounding the plant due to the rising off-site levels of ambient ionizing radiation caused by airborne radioactive contamination from the damaged reactors." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_di...
Truly inspiring man !
Well there have been a bunch of UFO videos circulated as of late, which if taken as legitimate seem likely to incorporate such inventions.

It goes without saying that these patents and the release of such complementary "UFO" videos wastes some amount of time assessing their authenticity at the very least.

I have no opinion on whether it's an effective tactic or not. But it does seem like one must assume it at least adds noise to be filtered out.
Was all-caps necessary? Or maybe a link instead?
(1) There are lots of different exchanges and trading venues, not just one.

(2) Electronic market makers have expertise in order execution and have invested huge amounts of money in software platforms to automate it, which they're effectively renting out to broker-dealers.

(3) Some of these firms have other sources of inventory they can clear trades against.

There are probably 10 other more important reasons I just don't know about.

What I think it comes down to is that order execution is a big job, and being able to effectively answer the phone and run the right billboards and TV ads is also a big job, and firms like Citadel and Virtu are good at the former and firms like Ameritrade are good at the latter.
Link to the GitHub repository:

https://github.com/skovaka/UNCALLED
I did find amusing that one of the talking point is to not have to trust AWS with your auth, but you offer a SaaS.

(I haven't read details of the SaaS, maybe all data is still hosted outside of your service, but I would doubt it.)

Not a problem, but a bit of a contradiction. OTOH, SaaS does alleviate some pain.
I stopped collecting, prior to Goodreads being "a thing."

My guess would be immediacy of access and, often, cost. I have some books I have picked up for rather cheap which go for no less than a hundred dollars now. However, the immediacy is what I would like to concentrate on for the rest of this comment.

From the daydream of an extra day off this month to the wish-fulfillment of superpowers, we think about who we might evolve into if we only had a little more time. This extends to woodworking tools and soon-to-be-dusty exercise equipment. And so the presence of an unread book, a DVD still in the sleeve, or a CD still in cellophane wrap becomes a subtle nag as you walk past it day after day. It says ...

You could still be this person.
If the E.U. can require such popups, it can certainly required that this “do not track” options be honored.
Have you ever been somewhere like FOSDEM? Next time walk around and ask people if this is their full time job. In most of the rooms I’m in, it’s everyone’s corporate full time job and they’re there on corporate expense accounts.

It’s just not the case that most projects are just random hobbies these days, and it’s bad for the movement to keep pretending it is. It’s grown up and corporations invested - that’s a good thing!
"Ciabatta is an Italian white bread made from wheat flour, water, salt, yeast and olive oil, created in 1982"

NINETEEN EIGHTY TWO!?! I had no idea that was so new. That's interesting. I wonder what else is out there I just assume has been around forever like that.
You sound like the guy who wrote this:

"We're not going to lie to you. Your privacy isn't our priority. It's not even close. Not because we want to track your every move. But because we simply don't care. We'd rather spend what limited time we have actually improving the web site. We're into taking pictures and adding content, not obsessing over what your dog had for lunch so we can sell it to MegaEnormousBigCo. We're not tracking you. We're not tabulating you. We're not folding, spindling, or mutilating you. Seriously, your personal life is not important to us. However, you may or may not be of interest to the people who advertise on this web site."

https://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/privacy.php
The cookie banner is NOT regulated by the GDPR.

It's related to the ePrivacy Directive, which is deeply intertwined with GDPR but a separate piece of legislation. It's not clear whether the GDPR's territorial applicability also holds for ePD. France in particular is drawing a divide between GDPR and ePD, because ePD lets them fine Google directly but GDPR require they mediate through the Irish DPA.
No, it just means those ad-supported sites cannot use cookies to spy on you in the name of personalized ads. They are still free to display "generic" ads including content-related ads. Same as old school TV, radio and print ads really, which couldn't track me either but sustained those broadcasting companies and publishers well enough.
This is a great question, and one that SCOTUS ruled on [1] earlier this year. I had hoped that the decision would result in the people who were wronged getting their money back, but it would seem not.

[1] https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/06/opinion-analysis-justices...
However they cannot use data that allows to identify an user (such as an IP address) in their analytics, unless the user has granted them explicit consent to use that data for the purpose of analytics.

So my understanding is that there is a big difference between this and "they just don't use third-party analytics".

It would be super nice if they clarified this in the blog post. Maybe by adding something like "We do not use personal data in our analytics".
No. I'm not free to pay nothing. I'm free to pay:

* My IT guy $200 per hour. If maintaining a technology takes a day a month -- which is wildly optimistic -- that's $1600 per month

* The organization which developed the tool e.g. $50-$200 per month

* A random outsourcing organization $10-$50 per month

By making your software free software, I will still pay you, but I know that:

1. If you do decide to spike prices, I can go to the off-brand company or to my IT guy. You better provide better service than the off-brand at lower prices than my IT guy.

2. If you do go out of business, I can go to my IT guy.

It's all about power dynamics. You don't have the option to f- me, and by having taken away that option, you've made it more likely I'll buy from you. It's often just simple good business.

Oracle's business model is largely about buying up companies with large locked-in entrenched bases, spiking prices while lowering costs, and milking cash cows as the cows gradually die. They did that to Java and a few others. Free software means I can't get Oracled too badly.

Some companies take a middle ground by e.g using open APIs. For example, AWS has services which have better price/performance than free software, but maintain compatibility. I'll be more likely to use those than proprietary alternatives because if AWS decided to Oracle me, I can switch to the free software version. There are systems like git, where essential business value is free software, so I can move my code out and around if Microsoft decides to oracle me, but where there is a significant proprietary value-add.

Your value to customer goes up with:

100% free > hybrid models > proprietary

Your barriers to competitors go the other way.

This isn't just signaling. It's power dynamics. Companies send out false signals all the time. This is a hard barrier.

The right business model depends on your market and technology. I've mostly done free software, and that's mostly a matter of choice -- I've picked businesses where 100% free makes business sense.
> Citation needed. Not all fats are created equal.

Filipino diet, consisting of fresh chicken, fresh pork, fresh fish, and fresh rice will lead to heart attacks at relatively young ages.

Nothing against my family or heritage. But these things are known. Balancing it out with some "processed" canned veggies for +Fiber intake can grossly help and improve overall health. And cutting out the fatty Lechon (aka: "Island Pork" with the apple in the mouth) helps too.

Also bad air quality, bad water quality, etc. etc. lead to other issues. But diet is clearly a problem IMO. Even if it is a fresh chicken and/or fresh Lechon/Pig (which really is quite tasty, and barely processed at all)
Hmm I think I've read something about it elsewhere and they also use more parameters than just the IP. Not sure.
WSL1 was more or less the reverse-equivalent of WINE as I understood it, more or less a translation layer for a subset of syscalls, the approach is awfully limited from the get go. Not sure how using a VHDX or partition would solve that. We'd be back to square one, with things like containers being unusable again.
You are putting it almost exactly how Matt Levine puts it.

I would just sneak in the point that, to my understanding --- and the previous commenter would know better than I do --- one of the big information advantages institutional traders have is simply the knowledge that their order is the first of 1000 identical orders they're about to follow up with.
My friend, read the post you're replying to again. And get off your high horse, too.
>If you strap a HEPA to an axial fan and seal it, the fan runs effectively "empty", i.e. it displaces only little air which most likely even doesn't pass the filter

This. I tried a 3M MERV 12 filter taped to the intake of a cheap $12 box fan and the airflow through the fan went to effectively zero. The fan actually was pulling more air from the front of the fan around the sides of the fanbox than through the filter. Increasing the fan speed just increased this backflow. You are spot on with a radial fan being what you want here, and I notice that basically every commercial air purifier uses such a fan.
Billboards, newsletter ads, flyers etc won't track whether you look at them as well, and last time I checked print advertisement still kinda sold.

Tracking is not necessary to show ads. Certainly there are business models which depend on this, but hey who says our society benefits from those? Targeted advertisement and free informed democracies don't mix well IMO.
So, xz isn't as much of a compression algorithm as a compression container format (which is a big reason why it generates slightly larger files than directly using the lzma tooling, and also the reason why a lot of people dislike it for solving a kind of weird problem); why not just add a filter type for zstd to xz? Adding this support to zstd when we already have this awkward container format to solve this specific problem in isolation seems like the wrong abstraction.
The push/jump illustration holds just as well if you are at the edge of a pool. You don't need death on the line to understand the difference between who is making the decision.
Do you know of podcasts in the same space as NO RULES RULES?
Small building pieces of it are being included in each release, including this one, not sure when they will finish.
Is it fair to categorize the pitch here as "a simpler AWS Cognito"?
Not all cookies are born equal.

I would like to store a cookie or a client-side cert to remain logged in, but not the other cr. Granted, they could use that cookie to track me, but this is what GDPR is about.

IIRC, Internet explorer used to ask you for each cookie, circa 2000. These pop-ups became more and more common with time. The web would be unusable with those nowadays.
> I'm curious: why is ignoring too much relevant research not a good reason to demand retraction? Isn't this one of the most common embarrassing mistakes that inexperienced researchers tend to make? I can fully understand if Google does not want to associate itself with work that might be viewed by the wider research community as shoddy.

For starters if the academic content of the paper were shoddy, that is what peer review is for. Secondly, if it was really about the paper lacking some new context, why did Google demand retraction while refusing to share why? That's what doesn't make sense.

It seems like there's some missing context in the situation because on the surface Google's actions don't line up with their stated reasoning.

Notice how in Jeff Dean's email he made no reference to the fact that they refused to share the reasons for the retraction with Gebru in that first meeting. He also skipped over where Gebru asked for the reasoning and a manager read it to her rather than letting her read for herself.

I just don't understand the secrecy and cageyness if the only problem with the paper was some academic omissions.
Whether they complied in other ways is irrelevant to whether this case is non-compliant, and the point was about reuse of cookies for analytics, not marketing.
Yeah - I'm not sure what GP is referring to, most new cross platform games that come out are xbox/ps/pc and very rarely will you see a linux or OS X release.
I am always waiting that the splash screen of gimp writes 'the gimp is sleeping. Guess you gotta wake him up....'
I've always been curious as to what did compel him to wear a sackcloth and live as a pauper...

He's also got the MacArthur back when a megabuck was real money.
Krisp – Mute background noise on calls with AI
Yea for those that do not trust a third party, we also offer a self hosted version in which all the data is stored in your own db.
IB Pro is the reason I used the word "virtually". :P
> Google then cut off her corporate access and terminated her employment immediately, ergo, firing.

It's also unreasonable that she will get to choose her leaving date at her own liking.

When wanting to part way, either side has the full right to choose an earlier date.

> If someone says, do this or I'll jump

This is not a great analogy. I actually would go as far as saying people who use this analogy have malicious intent.

When death is involved, everything else becomes secondary.

Let's look at a small example. Say I'll commit suicide if you go and see your kids today. Now it's only one day, and you (as a decent person) will probably skip seeing your kids for one day to save one life.

Now if I say I'll quit my job if you go to see your kids today. You would probably say "Then, please quit."
Title should be "Github admits abusing users with non-essential cookies".
> Should people be expected to object the local government and local laws, even if they seem unjust?

People are expected (though not necessarily predicted) to do the moral thing.

> Besides the fallacy of composition, what makes companies different from people?

In their purest form, companies are basically AI entities made of people engineered to replace the human conscience with bare minimum legal compliance, in order to sociopathically pursue maximum shareholder value.
Though I don’t have a need for this currently, a Segment for payment processing sounds interesting. Wish you had linked to your product in this post.
Found this guide a couple of days ago[1]. Looks awfully convoluted and impractical. Good if it works, but I personally draw my line of acceptable minimum functionality somewhere between "working" and "practical". This is a bit much, and has a couple of pretty bad gotchas, unfortunately.

[1] https://github.com/rpasek/usbip-wsl2-instructions
> ... processed food makes me crave food even though I'm not hungry...

That is, processed food doesn't satisfy. We keep thinking it's going to, but it doesn't. (Or rather, it does, but only for a very short time. Then we want more. I've started to sometimes question whether I should take the first hit, because I know what's going to happen.)

A cynic might suspect that the primary point of the processing is to make the food sell more of itself.
If it makes you feel any better, the US government seemingly can’t tell either.
I disagree, the latest consoles have a historically weak launch lineup and don't run the full steam library, mods and all. On a compute per dollar comparison, sure they are a fantastic deal, but in terms of gameplay experiences per dollar they don't do nearly as well. They are like locked down budget computers, and it's almost as hard to get them at msrp as gpus too.
It's not "lost", it's a hedging tradeoff.
I always look for that - and the 'deny all' button.
They do not have a 'legitimate interest' to track the hell out of me.
> how do I find that tight-knit community

Start from the related Reddit, and work your way out.

I also like Hackernoon as a starting point.
Microsoft Office is much better than the competition (including both LibreOffice and web apps like Google Docs). It's a great shame to say, but if I'm really honest with myself it's clear reality. Using Windows sucks, but Office is seriously so much better than everything else that it's worth it.
You are mistaken, it is a key-value store. It just adds a ton of layers on top of the K/V to offer SQL capabilities.