skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone else find it absurd that the Government can own patents? If you consider the purpose of patents is to incentivize investment into research in exchange for securing a limited-time monopoly, then what is the purpose of Government owned patents?

Since Government exists for the public good, it should already be incentivized to produce research. Patenting that research so that people can't utilize it defeats the whole point.

What am I missing?
There isn't an obvious bright line, and that's probably intentional.

This is not legal language or legal advice, but the gist of it is "if you don't have it, can your website still do what it claims to do?"

For a site like Github, if you can't use cookies to maintain session state, you'd have trouble implementing login sessions, so that's pretty squarely on the essential side of the fence.

But moving into murkier territory, how about logging the IP addresses you signed in from? If you're using it to detect new login locations or new devices as a security alerting thing, then I think you can make a strong enough claim that this is essential. (Again, not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.)

What if a PM wants to look in these logs for how many unique users show up in each country? That's pretty squarely on the side of analytics, and is probably not essential.

But... muddying the waters more, what about if an engineer wants to query unique users to figure out how many more racks of servers to buy? I have no idea. I'd be asking a lawyer.
> How can Plausible Analytics count unique visitors without cookies?

> So if you don’t use cookies how do you count the number of website visitors and report on metrics such as the number of unique users?

> Instead of tagging users with cookies, we count the number of unique IP addresses that accessed your website. Counting IP addresses is an old-school method that was used before the modern age of JavaScript snippets and tracking cookies.

> Since IP addresses are considered personal data under GDPR, we anonymize them using a one-way cryptographic hash function. This generates a random string of letters and numbers that is used to calculate unique visitor numbers for the day. Old salts are deleted to avoid the possibility of linking visitor information from one day to the next. We never store IP addresses in our database or logs.

...

> In our testing, using IP addresses to count visitors is remarkably accurate when compared to using a cookie. Total unique visitor counts were within 10% error range with IP-based counting usually showing lower numbers.

From here: https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-cookies#can-you-g...
I wish there was a browser option "I don't care about being tracked" and that would get rid of all cookie banners (and, more often than not, full page popups).

This EU law comes from a good idea, but it's terribly implemented - it implies that everybody out there is a lawyer and can make sense and agree on multiple pages of confusing legalese, and this every time they open a new website. This is so absurd, and the result is that we're trained to click "ok" on everything and we're tracked all the same. Back where we've started but with more popups.
I work at a market maker, and what you say is mostly correct. However, I would like to add that retail customers get better prices not primarily because they move less volume (though this is certainly a factor), but because their order flow is significantly less toxic. Retail traders don't really know anything and their order flow contains less alpha, so market makers can quote better prices to them without getting run over.

It's very important for market makers to separate out order flows and assign a toxicity to each flow. This way, they can provide tighter spreads and better execution on less toxic flows while being a little looser for highly toxic institutional flows.
>"allow cookies if the browser accepts them"

isn't that the 'allow 3rd party cookies' setting ?
I have completed about 45 steps of this tutorial, totally love this!! Antirez is a total wizard. This is totally a no bullshit intro to C.
> It feels rather contradictory

You are confusing respecting people differences (e.g. neurodiversity, ethnicity, religion, nationality, orientation and so on) with accepting any behavior with choosing the right person for a given role.

This are 3 different things.
No different from ordinary C++ classes? (which are themselves more complex than what you need to suffer through with C)?

Seriously, here is just one taste of the intricacies of the COM: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/9190/Understanding-The-...

This is 90's enterprise OOP technology. There is no good excuse to use this other than technical debt.
So how does Github track usage and site traffic? That seems non-essential to me and not something you could completely manage server-side.
Man did hack Trump’s Twitter account by guessing password, ‘maga2020
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Hot Pockets are a rebranding of meat pies, which have been around since medieval times.
Oh! Useful tip, thanks!
But is it just about cookies though? If they log images downloads or anything else that is essentially what tracking cookie would do and often this type of tracking is used instead of cookies. Just because they don't process this data for analytics (or do they?) it doesn't mean this automatically respects privacy, as there is always a chance this data could leak. Do they store logs?
> If half of our food is ultraprocessed, then that's a problem with the definition of ultraprocessed.

Why? Just because we consume a lot of it does not mean it is not "ultraprocessed". We should be afraid of a name just because a lot of modern food falls into the definition.
i am also a "fan" of the home-made air purifier. we had a bunch of them around our house over the fire season this summer. it's helpful to compare the numbers:

https://igor.moomers.org/minimal-viable-air-quality

if you want to build your own monitor, i still have a bunch of PMS7003 sensors around. ping me if you want to grab one in berkeley
It's unfortunate that the article doesn't link or embed a singe audio example of her voice.

"Come up and see me sometime"
https://youtu.be/xY9QxFDwiL0?t=40
yes where is my RTX 3080...
I think the idea is that if Facebook cut off all access, more people would be aware of what was happening and push the government to reinstate it. It could be construed as “bullying but through the populous” depending on who you ask.

The big problem with the “cutting them off” strategy is: if it’s a dictatorship, the people may not push back for fear of death
I'm confused.... AFAIK the biggest ad company, Google, doesn't share your private info. It's not in their interest to do so. Instead they keep it to themselves and then offer ads by categories so as a 3rd party I can say "Please target this ad at 'video game players'" but I can't ask "give me the names of video game players"
Hi y'all! Airflow PMC here!

Feel free to AMA about Airflow's new features/the roadmap going forward!
I do think logically, if supply is ample (greater than demand) than the return on scalper investment may drop below the point of being worthwhile. Transaction costs and the risk of no longer being the preferred direct retailer could result in scalping losing you money. As long as demand readily exceeds supply, having the in-demand item gives you the power to collect a greater price on that item.

If it's evenly matched, scalping would likely be a minor, potential problem, but not to the scale we're seeing on all of these gaming items.
I don't know what general principles people are arguing for here, but the facts at the heart of TFA relate to someone laying down an ultimatum to an employer — "do these things or I'm going to quit" — and the employer replying "sorry to hear that buh bye."

That accepted conditional resignation (as someone mellifluously put it in an earlier HN discussion) is being interpreted by some as a firing. Having read the original letter, it sure sounded like a conditional resignation to me and, as a manager, I would've done my best to get the writer of the letter out the door ASAP.

Keep in mind that as an IC, I once worked for a company that imposed a 10% across the board pay cut without consulting me. I resigned the day it was announced, because my compensation is a term of employment mutually agreed to by my employer and myself, not something imposed upon me. So I've been on both sides of this.

As a general life rule, I go nuclear on people who play hardball with me, whether I am the manager or the managed.
There has been nothing more awkward in my life than achieving all of my lifelong goals. It is a rather wonderful problem to have, but still a problem. I'm not going to brag about the details, but in practice I set out to achieve some difficult goals as a teenager, and dedicated my life to them. It worked. I have everything I wanted. Now what? I've spent the last few years unsure of what to do with the rest of my life, and it is like being a teenager again as I flirt with new narratives. I'm only now just starting to settle into what I see as a "decade long effort" on a new set of goals.
Chinese traditionally uses「X」and『X』for quotation marks but i have also seen “X”.
Google’s Fitbit acquisition wins EU approval
This is (mostly) based on EU law; entities that set cookies and track user data are required to get opt-in permission from users before doing so, and if the user declines, the entity cannot offer a degraded service.

At least that's the idea. In practice, almost everyone just throws up a banner that says "fuck you, we're selling your data as hard and as fast as we can," with no opt-out available, but they pretend that this is compliant with the law.
Interesting quote.

> Every one of Pais' recent inventions depends on what the inventor calls “the Pais Effect,” described in numerous publications by the inventor as the “controlled motion of electrically charged matter (from solid to plasma) via accelerated spin and/or accelerated vibration under rapid (yet smooth) acceleration-deceleration-acceleration transients.”

Since it all seems to boil down to that Pais Effect, I wonder what details there are to analyze what it actually is. Rather than critiquing the designs, that effect seems to be the thing to look at.

Edit: found another article, which quoted Pais on what that effect is.

> Mr. Tingley, do realize that my work culminates in the enablement of the Pais Effect (original physical concept). The Pais Effect comprises the generation of extremely high electromagnetic energy fluxes (and hence high local energy densities) generated by controlled motion of electrically charged matter (from solid to plasma states) subjected to accelerated vibration and/or accelerated spin, via rapid acceleration transients.

> Such high energy EM radiation can locally interact with the Vacuum Energy State (VES) - the VES being the Fifth State of Matter (Fifth Essence - Quintessence), in other words the fundamental structure (foundational framework), from which Everything else (Spacetime included) in our Quantum Reality, emerges.

> The Engineering of the Pais Effect can give rise to the Enablement of Macroscopic Quantum Coherence, which if you have closely been following my work, you understand the importance of.

I don't know enough to figure out if this guy is some modern Tesla or another kook.
Ladder logic already exists and was designed for documenting and programming asynchronous clock-less computers. The problem is that it's like programming C++ in the early 90's where every hardware vendor sells you their own proprietary implementation.
Yes, I read the definition. It does little to clear up confusion.

What constitutes a synthetic flavor? Is vanilla extract an example or do you have to go further than that?

Emulsifiers are things that actually get used in regular cooking. According to https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-does-emulsify-mean-480592.... egg yolks and honey are both emulsifiers. Based on how that sentence is phrased, you'd think that an emulsifier is something synthesized chemical that the average chef has never heard of.

Hydrogenated oils and soy protein isolates have long been recognized as things to avoid, so their inclusion in the list is not a surprise.

Like I said, the definition is overbroad and does little to help someone like me actually identify things that are very bad for me. I already know eating a bag of Doritos for dinner is not a great idea. What sort of food items do you typically see these nutritional monsters hiding out in? Are they so awful that they shouldn't be enjoyed even as a once-in-a-while indulgence?

The article specifically mentions Coca Cola and Mars, among others. I mean golly gee, thanks for the big brain insight. Are there people out there who didn't know that soda and candy bars are not paragons of nutrition?
Was she fired over the paper? Or was she let go because she, with a position as a manager, told other people at Google not to participate in the DEI program because it was useless?
HN has high proportion of "tech" people. Tech people old enough to have lived through "birth of Internet" or into 80's hacker/phreaker culture will know of MAE West and MAE East. These people, upvoted for nostalgia and to express comradery with poster.
Well, to be fair, before Robinhood came along it was still pretty standard to pay huge fees AND have your order flow sold. I wish they had been straightforward about what they're doing instead of explicitly lying on their website about where their money comes from, though.
I use this bookmarklet to quickly get rid of cookie banners and other banners / stickies :

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
> Yep they do. They don't do it they don't get paid. They decide to do it, they get paid. They can count the difference in revenue and profit from those two alternatives. I

I happily censor everything the government demands. Yet I do not get paid anything. Hence your logic is proven to be false. Specifically you have made a fallacy of omission.

Your perspective on what a sanction is indeed is too narrow to be very relevant. But you didn't answer, anyway. I guess you're against them as long as you can make the choice easy for yourself? But now stop dancing around and consider sanctions which restrict other forms of trade besides medical supplies.
If you live in the NE US, consider a visit to Cherry Springs State Park[1] in central Pennsylvania. It's rated by the International Dark-Sky Association[2] as one of the best places in the eastern U.S. for stargazing. The sky view is spectacular, and being so far from the eastern urban sprawl it's such a peaceful place. It makes a great escape from the city, being only 5 hours by car from NYC.

[1] https://www.dcnr.pa.gov/StateParks/FindAPark/CherrySpringsSt...

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Even if you don't want to rehash it, I feel like making concrete statement of which of her actions you feel were toxic is more constructive than vilifying her personally. Contrapoints made a good video on cancelling that highlights the difference between critique and cancelling, and there's a big difference between saying "she publicly accused Yann lecun of using his platform to direct his fanboys at her" and "after what she did to lecun, it's obvious she's a toxic person". In the latter you

- leave open to the imagination of the reader what she did (which might be more negative to them than how they'd react to her actual auctions)

- attack her person, not her actions, which is a big difference even pg wrote about iirc

- make it impossible for the reader to rationally engage with your point, since all you share are emotions
> The US probably doesn't want China or Russia trying to duplicate his work.

Many would argue the exact opposite: that these patents are nonsense intended to squander adversarial resources spent on vetting them.
But wouldn't that consent be in the EULA? So long as they only track logged-in people, they'd have agreed to that.
That is interesting!
If they're not using Google Analytics anymore, it's probably time to remove the request to 'gascrolldepth.js' from the blog as well.
You folks might just be time limited on the reply - HN puts some brakes on "too fast" commenting
A corporation is not obligated to keep you employed nor should they be outside of a legal contract. I’d prefer it stays that way because I don’t want to be compelled to work for anyone or have them be compelled to hire me. They’re two sides of the same coin.
I don't think your points are totally wrong. I especially think that your points hold water if you were to feel the need to set out to build your community fork or competing hosted offering in the next couple of years. Secondarily, I think that if your company had the resources to staff developers to build out a whole hosted offering, I can tell you that CRL would love to be a partner and understand what's going wrong. Maybe that's unacceptable for some sort of other reason but it's not obvious to me what that is. Yes the license means that real-time development of the project, on some level, relies on coordinating with its developers, which do, on the whole, work for a company.

All this being said, it sounds like you've got a better vision for how projects like this should get funded and built. How should society fund projects like CRDB? I think there's a very wide range of reasonable answers that fall in different parts of the fantasy spectrum. For now, in 2020s American capitalism, the BSD license approach, at least to my tastes (which are hecka biased), feels pretty good.
This is awesome, love the grid that moves around with the cursor.

Bug or user error, hitting delete to remove a point tries to navigate back in the browser. Maybe a preventDefault() missing there?
I think what GP was trying to say is that it's difficult to prove that, especially since it's longer term. It just requires better framing, i.e. Priority support on software package used.
GitHub's Balanced Employee Intellectual Property Agreement (Beipa) 2.0
Commits are shapshots, not diffs
What you’re asking about is essentially why hasn’t anyone started a civilian SIGINT/MASINT company. The main reason is cost and governments. Most civilian devices are compliant to some country’s emission standard, and don’t have a lot of spurious emissions outside of their fundamental frequency, and only use the power necessary to complete their function. Detecting these things from space is crazy hard. When your field of view is wide, you have a ton of similar signals stepping on each other. When your field of view is narrow it takes a lot of time to look at everything. Overcoming these basic problems is why the major powers of the world have to spend billions of dollars to do it. And even if you managed to fund and develop a civilian capability, you have to get permission from a major world power to launch and operate. They don’t like competition- this is why civilian space imagery has limited resolution and why Capella has to limit their resolution. Civilian SIGINT would have to be limited to the point where it has no commercial use. If civilian SIGINT were able to measure activity at factories it could measure activity at military bases and track military movements.

While it would be cool to have the capability, it won’t happen soon. Not because there aren’t people smart enough to solve the technical problems, but because nobody has navigated the political issues. The people with the resources to do so are happy enough with the money they are receiving from the governments of the world.
No that's not how it works at all.

Source: work at a hft market making firm
Check out /dev/lawyer if you are interested in the topic of balancing paying bills with open source. I think he covers that topic nicely and deserves more traffic.
Extradition typically relies on an action being a crime in both nations. Refusing to disable accounts critical of a government would not be against the law in America, and we also have no extradition treaty with Tunisia. She couldn't do squat.
I actually judged her more for the stuff she championed in the Green New Deal bill. You know, that bill is supposed to make America energy conscious and follow the rubric of Germany’s energy plan, but her and proponents of it (ironically) polluted it with ideology (broad ideology too):

(H) guaranteeing a job with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to all people of the United States;

(I) strengthening and protecting the right of all workers to organize, unionize, and collec- tively bargain free of coercion, intimidation, and harassment;

(J) strengthening and enforcing labor, workplace health and safety, antidiscrimination, and wage and hour standards across all employ- ers, industries, and sectors;

(O) providing all people of the United States with—
(i) high-quality health care;
(ii) affordable, safe, and adequate housing;
(iii) economic security; and
(iv) clean water, clean air, healthy and affordable food, and access to nature.

I’m a developer, and I’m in the cult of Agile whether I like it or not, but for the love of god these people do not understand how to scope something that should be a clear fucking deliverable.

Like, no, don’t bring sustainable housing, living wage, or healthcare into an already contentious debate about energy ambitions of a nation.

So in her I sense a strong anti-compromiser, and I see the same Trumpian demagogue in a different suit.
We charish the idea of democracy as a from of government that allows a large group of people with widely divergent views to come together and live under the same roof. Generally a business or corporation is not aiming for the same thing, either profit or market share.

An autocratic or authoritarian governance is great for getting results but not so good for consensus.

For most people in the country, they can change jobs to find a company that they like working for, it is much harder to change countries.
The Plantower PMS5003 PM Sensor is unavailable to ship to the US on aliexpress https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32944660534.html
Do you know of another supplier that ships to/within the US?
> However, take some of the science positions in the book with a grain of salt. The author is notorious for being directionally correct in his opinions,

I've read it and I agree. Although he does admit in the beginning that there basically is not much conclusive facts about sleep, hence his motivation for writing the book. It's implied that what he is saying is fact, and its a lot more correlation than I think panacea.

> It's also commonly known that people get less sleep than they think they do.

A few things IIRC from the book:

- The specific number is irrelevant as long as its "around 7~9"

- If you're lying down / resting this still "counts" (its not as impactful, but still beneficial)

If people don't want to read the book, the JRE podcast is actually pretty good at summarizing whats in the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig

Good high level points about what to do to get to sleep (5 things):

https://youtu.be/pwaWilO_Pig?t=3011
That will have a ripple effect in other parts of the org with similar political opinion, ultimately destroying the reputation of Google in the eyes of the general population of the same political leanings.

My prediction is they will put new processes in place, perhaps put the team organizationally in a different place from under Kacholia, apologize louder and clearer, but probably not take Gebru back.

It's quite unpredictable though! The disagreement is too big, there will need to be some more explicit closure to the issue than what we have already seen.
Ask HN: How are performance reviews conducted in your company?
I'm curious to know how different companies do performance reviews and your opinion on them