skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stand corrected! He is not a Michelin star chef; however, he does have a culinary diploma from a respected French cooking school and has racked up some significant accomplishments in the world of cooking and baking, not least being his epic series of books called "Modernist Cuisine".

From Wikipedia:

"While working as chief technology officer at Microsoft, Myhrvold took leave to earn his culinary diploma from École de Cuisine La Varenne in France. Myhrvold's early culinary training was as an observer and unpaid apprentice at Rover's, one of Seattle's leading restaurants, with Chef Thierry Rautureau. Myhrvold is the principal author of a culinary text entitled Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, released in March 2011, on the application of scientific research principles and new techniques and technology to cooking. That book, which earned a James Beard Foundation Award for "cookbook of the year" in 2012, was followed by the books Modernist Cuisine at Home, The Photography of Modernist Cuisine, and Modernist Bread: The Art and Science, all self-published by Myhrvold and with him as lead author. Myhrvold was part of a team that won first place at the world barbecue championships in Memphis. He has appeared as a guest judge on Top Chef."
CCPA tried this with the "Do Not Sell My Personal Information " requirement, but it was about as ignored as GDPR
There is a pretty big misunderstanding in your third point, and the article kind of laid the trap for an uncautious reader to fall into it: room-temperature superconductors, as an idea, are not a new or unusual concept.

The breakthroughs from CFS (the MIT fusion spinoff) are in specific production techniques and uses of known superconductor materials that are "high temperature", but not "room temperature". They are (excitingly) industrializing some well-established science.

The other 'recent breakthroughs' in room-temperature superconductors are similar to many accomplishments in the past, i.e., they were achieved under extremely high pressures, and do not operate on anything related to the concepts that Pais describes in his navy patents.

The Pais patents and these other works are not related; these new 'breakthroughs' do not grant Pais' work any bonus of credulity -- but lots of reporting out there relies on only briefly noting that fact, and hoping that readers may glaze over it and see connections where there are none.

edit: furthermore, the relationship between the patents and the videos as a concerted campaign has also been left for readers to make -- it's part of what makes this into some 'overall narrative', and what makes reading about these bits fun, but as I suggested in another comment, this background detail from the article on the patent process, I feel, begins to suggest concretely that the timing of all this UFO-ish stuff is (unfortunately!) just coincidence.
Google accused of search manipulation in third major antitrust lawsuit
It would be really cool to get an on-GitHub analytics for GitHub pages. I’d like to get view counts but don’t want to embed an external tracker in my blog.
If we're talking about Github, no, I don't think it's a clever hack. I think they've actually ripped out the offending usages.

The reason I find that believable is that their core business is selling a git server with bells and whistles. From Microsoft's perspective, Github doesn't need to be doing any marketing because they kind of are the marketing.
That eliminates anything with preservatives or anything that's vitamin enriched.

I've been baking cornbread from scratch a lot recently. Is that bad because the cornmeal has thiamin, riboflavin, and folic acid added and the milk has vitamin D added?
Let's add this one to the list...

https://www.jpost.com/omg/former-israeli-space-security-chie...
I think a lot of people are willingly misunderstanding this too
Neat! I was not aware of that.
Authentication is a solved problem; authorization is not. External authentication makes your system brittle, so I'm glad to see you can self-host SuperTokens for free.

I've been working on Enterprise Access Control (EACL) in my spare time, an embedded Datalog-based library with a uniform declarative Clojure API that lets you write grant/deny ACL rules in the shape: Who, What, Why, When, Where & How that goes a little further than Role & Attribute. Link: https://github.com/theronic/eacl

Will do a Show HN when I fix all the bugs and get it fast enough.

Tokens are an interesting approach to future-proof a young application against having to rebuild auth internally. I like your up-front Pricing Philosophy section.
>I wonder what is the primary intended role of Google's "Ethical AI" efforts in the first place.

I as well. Is their role to bring up adversarial viewpoints or to actually be adversarial? If it is the former, did her behavior cross over into the latter, and that is what upper management had a problem with?
it doesn't really make sense under the model where patents exist solely to incentivize private investment. I don't think that necessarily makes it absurd; at least, I can envision cases where the government owning a patent could ultimately serve the public good.

suppose the government spends a large amount of public funds on research that turns out to have a very narrow commercial application. if the findings can be freely used by a couple niche companies, it's effectively a subsidy to them. not necessarily a bad thing, but we might want the government to be more intentional about granting subsidies. if instead the companies have to negotiate a license, the government can recoup some of the public's money and allocate it to more research.
For now, some form of proxy is required (unless your application supports OIDC already, in which case, you can just point it to our OIDC endpoint), but we are currently investigating ways to streamline this process even further. Stay tuned!

Edit: We provide copyable instructions in-app for running OAuth Proxy via Docker, so that should reduce the initial setup time down a bit
For example, the country of Georgia: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/04/23/597780405/...
This is a very good point, thanks
Object Process Methodology (OPM)
In my post that was flagged, which was more directed to the demands from the ethical AI group mentioned in the article, I wrote:

> In this case, the ethical AI group is doing the same thing: demanding a manager not have a role with them, demanding (again IMO) unwarranted apologies from other people, and worse, demanding the rehiring of someone has shown that she has no respect for others in her workplace.

When it comes to Gebru, it was specifically these demands that Jeff Dean mentioned (and which appear to be uncontested) that I find toxic:

> Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken to and consulted as part of the review of the paper and the exact feedback. Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date.

And, to the contrary, I find it dishonest how much of the "accepted" media narrative I've read in this case is that Google is "trying to silence marginalized voices", which I think is not supported by any reasonable reading of the evidence.
Most web development is done to generate income, so that sounds wholly appropriate
It's not really about cookies but more about non-essential information gathering, of which tracking is a part, and some forms of tracking use cookies. So basically, three levels deep before we go from the law to cookies. Then again, people have an easier time talking about 'cookie popups' instead of 'information harvesting', which sadly hides the real issue.
I've seen this complaint about people driving around in cars with masks on.

Sometimes if I'm driving somewhere sunny, I might put my hat on before I get into the car... it doesn't mean I think I need it on while driving. Sometimes I put it on so I won't accidentally leave it in the car when I get to my destination.
> SSD prices are amazing

They've been pretty much flat for the past 18 months. I've been wanting a 2TB SSD since 2018 and I've been watching the price sit stagnant at ~$250 canadian since june 2019 (dropped from ~$600 in the year before that).
See, it is not all that difficult. Hopefully, this will be the first of many big websites to ditch the excess tracking.
Given first-to-file, it seems reasonable for the Government to defensively file on research that it's directly produced. Otherwise, you might end up with someone else filing on that research and then demanding the Government pay them to use the products of its own research. Moreover, just because you own a patent, you're not obligated to charge anyone to license it.
End-to-End, Transferable Deep RL for Graph Optimization
Wirecutter also has some info on this setup compared to commercially available options. tldr: a good HEPA filter will remove 99% of impurities, their box fan setup removed 87%.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier...
No, I mean uMatrix.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail//ogfcmafjalglgifnm...
Enough competition? Collectively, those two control 90% of the credit/debit transaction marketshare as of Jan 2020. Almost every move and change is mirrored by the other -- they don't even try to hide the fact that they practically operate in unison.

Almost all credit card companies have stipulations that merchants are not allowed to charge less for people paying cash -- forcing cash paying customers to pay the same price as those who cost the merchant a CC fee. This is basically a 3% tax we are all forced to pay on everything we buy.
“Getting AWS’ed”, that should go in the dictionary!

In companies I’ve worked at in the past, during every round of fund raising, as part of the due diligence, lawyers would ask for the licenses of all software packages we use. And when AGPL showed up in the list, they’d specifically ask how it’s integrated with the rest of the system, and evaluate it with more scrutiny. In hindsight, this makes total sense - they were just trying to make sure we were compliant with what AGPL calls for.

But the fact that AGPL software called for extra scrutiny from lawyers, became a stumbling block and added just enough friction to adopting additional AGPL software in the stack.

Now being on the other side of the table as an OSS product, this is painful to watch.

I don’t have a grand plan to solve these misconceptions yet. Hoping that publicly talking about this and driving awareness about GPL and AGPL might help. Open to ideas!
As it is a subset of math, CS belongs in the Math Department this better reasons than historical ones. It is too easy to mistake CS for what it is not due to it's name including "computer." Suggested to me a long time ago, it makes it easier to understand what CS is if instead it is thought of as "Reckoning Science." The computer in Computer Science is "one who computes or reckons." Also what helps conceptually is the famous analogy that a computer is to a computer scientist what a telescope is to an astronomer. Astronomy is not the science of telescopes, and likewise, Computer Science is not the science of computers, nor even as the word is most commonly understood (as "using a computer"), "computing."

Programming is a subset of CS, and Software Engineering is elevating that part of CS to match the monumental interest it attracts, to the extent of placing it fully into the Engineering Department.

Some universities have CS degrees that are merely programming degrees compared to the better CS programs, which are usually made up of an equal amount of strictly advanced mathematics courses and CS courses which incidentally may involve programming, but learning to program whatever is merely a requisite of that course. CS is relative to Physics as a well-exploited tool. A lot of physics wouldn't be possible if not for computer science.

Whatever the job title may be, programming is an occupation, and salaries can range from median to lucrative. With the most lucrative salaries, programming is often a small part of a larger solution, but a fully necessary feature of the service of solving some big problem or related group of smaller problems.

When you think of a computer scientist, you should not think of a coder, yet coding is a tool they may exploit to achieve some goal, and that goal may or may not be entirely dependent on what is actually a telescope, an underlying physical computer. The really exciting rock n' roll computer science seems to be anything whiz bang, graphics and games, digital audio processing, AI, etc., and whatever language skills support those, so it is easy to confuse the goal being able to parse and generate various amounts of code with what all that coding work is helping to accomplish. IMO, weather modeling, modeling anything, satellite tracking, as well as informatics, are massively more interesting applications of CS. Help Desk, Desktop Support, Networking, Programming, Database construction and maintenance, and the rest of IT are all narrow and rather droll practical applications of CS, entirely practical, and they can pay well, a lot of the work is reasonably important (hospitals and air traffic control, really everything relies on computers). Web design is usually kept within a company's graphics or marketing department, yet many designers have escalated their job title to "developer."

Classifications can blur because CS is so damn useful, even without computers, but CS is not just the one thing it is most popularly applied to. It is all the things.

I think of a legit lettered and experienced computer scientist as the penultimate problem-solver, and they only add a computer as needed.
She probably has, but the heating module gives her a periodic reminder to clean it (which I then have to do because she can't reach it). It gets replaced every few years, I think she has a service contract :)
OpenAI Releases Robogym, a Framework to Train Robots in Simulated Environments
Yeah, people should start reporting these sleazy sites to their authorities if in the EU. I'm hoping that GPDR enforcement will eventually get up to speed.
Thanks for the valuable suggestions! Email verification is next on our list of features. We plan on providing an "active" method which requires you to verify the email to sign up, and one "passive" method which reminds you to verify the email from time to time post sign up (similar to many social networking sites).
> rofi [2]: This is a dmenu replacement with a nicer interface that lets you combine lists of commands in a single search window. I have it configured so I can search through my open windows by title or run any program from the same interface.

Note, this is totally doable in dmenu. I have a script that combines output from wmctrl and dmenu_path. This is bound to M-space for me.

If you have a script or binary that outputs a list of newline-separated strings, you can easily combine these, and dmenu will happily return the selected thing.

Here's what that looks like:

present-options () {
windows # Function to list open windows
dmenu_path # dmenu script listing binaries
}
What keeps back Mozilla to implement this setting and lobby for a general Web API for expressing cookie consent? As far as I can tell, their users would be extremely happy about that.
Would you mind explaining why?
I used to eat a lot of quick meals (mainly instant food like instant noodles or mac and cheese and the occasion microwave food). It sounds crazy and purely anecdata, but I found that processed organic stuff tend to have less calories than non organic food. I have started eating the less processed variant of food (brown calrose rice, wheat bread, and steel cut oats) and maybe that has helped(?). But one thing I cannot tolerate is whole grain pasta. That stuff taste like cardboard+sand paper to me.
Which is part of why, in a below, I mentioned how egregious it was to oversimplify foods to "processed" or not. There needs to be more information disseminated about what kind of convenient foods people _can_ choose and what the impacts are to your health are.

Most people would consider frozen or canned fruits and vegetables as more processed, and therefore less good, than fresh fruit or vegetables.

Although I do have a bone to pick with your assessment of why "fresh" produce tends to be less nutritious. While you correctly note that frozen or canned items are picked at peak ripeness, the fresh items don't have less nutrition simply because the nutrients "evaporated away". Instead, they have to be picked _far before_ peak ripeness in order to avoid spoilage. That means the plants just take in fewer nutrients.
Changes to Code Search Indexing
Those things operate completely unlike a SAR imaging satellite.
There is the "Do not track" option, but as I understand it's ignored by most websites. That's why I wouldn't mind a "Do what ever you want" option, and in exchange popups are removed.

That's how it was before and I'm not certain that it caused that much harm. Users can always block ads and third-party cookies anyway if they wish to do so.
$CRSR has been killing it this year as well.
Second order effects of increasing centralization in pursuit of manufacturing efficiency.

It saves money to have everything co-located.

It also amplifies the magnitude of physical-world disruptions.
The real intention behind this move is even worse: It completely negates the purpose of end-to-end encryption, since unencrypted backups can be easily accessed by governments or Google anytime.

The quota exception was so that people wouldn't be discouraged from backing up to Drive since it would no longer "cost" them any storage to do so.

Fun fact: Apple has effectively done an equivalent loophole by storing iCloud backups of your phone (including Messages) WITH the encryption key on their servers. So they have everything they need to read all your data.
Actually no, nazi action does not have a good side. Nazism is bad, through-and-through. Any benefits it purports to have for the people it doesn't kill is predicated on the murder & oppression of the people it does kill. You are a nazi apologist and should think long & hard about why you believe these things.
I just got home from waiting for a 3080, got there over an hour before opening, and they still ran out before I could get one. This is something like >3 mo after release.
well it's legal to create a hash and save it inside a database to count unique users. if the hash is not connected to any info that would identify a user (btw. user agent is some kind of identifing stuff) it is fine.

what I wanted to say is that cookies are not illegal by gdpr means and gdpr does not make a lot of stuff illegal, it's just that SAVING personal information or information that could identify somebody needs explicit permission.

edit:
another thing ip addresses, by german law you are required to save it, when a user can register on your site and your site allows users to submit data. because authorities force you to give them out when a user did something illegal. (§ 7 Abs.1 Satz1 Nr.4 TKÜV, https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/tk_v_2005/__7.html) In germany it's basically: fuck the privacy if they harmed our law! or at least you need a way to "activate" saving ip addresses.
* cryptoarchaeology
> EU law requires you to use cookie banners if your website contains cookies that are not required for it to work.

No it doesn't. EU Law requires you to not harvest data at will, and you either must have a basic functional requirement (i.e. 'remember my login'), or you must ask the user if you can have their data to profile them so the advertisements can make a few percent more money (yes, the whole profiling thing doesn't even add that much to the bottom-line!).
> but I don't know if that can really happen at an international level

It already happens, look at all the countries with peacekeeper forces such as Uruguay
They've sort of been caught playing with people's emotions before, although there is also an effect where Facebook look particularly bad because of how un-(self)-selective their userbase is. Everyone has a Facebook account, there are very few features to let you use it like a traditional (say) forum.

Debate on Facebook is effectively the Dunning-Kruger curve directly to your screen - not exactly that people are stupid as per se, but the level of knowledge on display is very small.

The trendsetters aren't really on Facebook anymore, too. I absolutely love memes, and there are still good, creative, meme groups on Facebook however it's literally only a matter of time before the group gets shut down because of some unexplained reason. This once again has the effect of moving anyone willing to use their brain elsewhere.

They definitely need regulating but they are also a victim of their own success.
Yes! If you use cookies for essential functionality (like keeping track of logged in status), you don't have to do anything. No banners, no annoyance for your users.

I dropped all third-party crap from my site way back and haven't ever needed a cookie banner.
They don't need a real reason, because being known to respect privacy coincides with their incentives
Docker Hub is not "hardcoded as the only registry you can use" its just the default, you can add stuff from any registry.
Where are raspberry pi made?
Would it be possible to set up a global cookie exchange? Some sort of browser plugin that lets us all swap tracking cookies?

Sharing is caring.
Seems like a good method and actually more accurate than they do... seems like they just do a hash of IP.
That's awesome! Losing weight makes you feel better too IMO. It's weird but grocery delivery has made it easier to cook healthier. I can see my options better and maybe I'm less tempted because of the way groceries store stock their shelves?
True, but I've taught non tech staff to use docker desktop to run qa and demo environment.
Google grants $3M to the CNCF to help it run Kubernetes infrastructure
I had Microcenter build me a new PC a couple of months ago, and supply was only a problem for the very newest top-of-the line stuff. Everything else was okay. Since I didn't really need bleeding-edge, I had no issue.
It's fun to think about what this could mean. Can you defeat gravity by somehow energizing matter to affect its spin and acceleration? And if so, could this not only be a technology for space travel, but potentially be an explainer for something like dark matter - maybe there are parts of galaxies that are energized differently than we assume, thereby affecting their gravitational pull?

I'm sure this all sounds dumb, I'm not a physicist, but it's fun to think about.
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. If you generate a random identifier but save that identifier in their cookies and send it back next time, also pretty clearly identifying.