skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, they have GREASE TLS bytes, TLS resume ticket, RLZ value, X-Geo header, UA header, JS APIs with persistent random values (which they do indeed use on adsense! This is why you get surprise WebGL code seemingly doing nonsense once a while in adsense ads)

This cannot be a coincidence. They packed Chrome with fingerprints to work around GDPR by combining fingerprints on their side.
> If they were behind Cloudflare or another DDoS protection website, you wouldn't even be able to tell they were an AWS customer at all.

This is non-sensical. AWS certainly knew they were a customer, and they were the ones that kicked them off. Plus, Cloudflare has deplatformed other customers before, don't think they would have wanted to touch Parler either.
The gradients on many of the fonts will make cool animations when cycling the colors [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_cycling
> We also could have invested single digit billions early on to build capacity for all of these different potential vaccines

As of the end of October, the U.S. had invested $18 billion to "build capacity," mainly by making advance purchases of vaccines that had yet to be produced (and had yet to pass clinical trials). See [1]. But maybe you're thinking of building capacity in a different way.

> We refused to risk any individual life in order to potentially save hundreds of thousands or more.

This is such an important point. In particular, human challenge trials, in which healthy, low-risk volunteers are infected with a low dose of the virus, could have saved tens of thousands of lives -- at a minimum -- in the U.S. alone. The case for HCTs, including the ethical case, is taken up in [2].

In a comment below, someone likens HCTs to the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study. The comparison isn't apt. In the Tuskegee study, people infected with syphilis were promised medical care that they were later denied. When they were diagnosed with syphilis, they weren't even told of the diagnosis. Those conditions are a world apart from the HCTs that Eyal et al. propose in [2].
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[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-10-29/inside-op...

[2] https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/221/11/1752/5814216
I’m using miniflux too, deploy with Docker take a few minutes and it just works.
Indeed, especially when you have an official/trustworthy solution. For example, you could gate off value-adds for paying customers, whilst still making them open source. Sure, users can remove the "paid user" aspect and either compile it themselves or entrust that process to a third party. But the majority of users would not do so because of the effort or trust involved. (This is similar to movie piracy. Sure, it's trivial to pirate movies and music, but the majority of people pay for them.)
Not just the technical issues, he took no steps to prevent deplatforming. I'm reading between the lines but I'm assuming Mercer et al didn't actually care about free speech as much as they wanted a place to spread Trumpism.
In which case you'd need to moderate your content to match your providers' T&Cs, or you'd need to moderate your ambitions to match your choice of providers.

But telling your owner that you can meet their desire to allow people to breach T&Cs, and that you can scale to the size of their ambitions, means you're either lying or don't understand the problem that you're solving.
Buddy you were the one who said you were running Netflix with that number.
Fair point, though as someone who manages two Chrome extensions, I can speak to the danger of building a company on that foundation.

For example, they offered payments through the Chrome Webstore for years. Late last year, they announced they were pulling the plug on payments, effective February 1.

They gave scant instructions on how to migrate your users, and they declined to provide you with the email addresses of said users, so that you might be able to contact them.

They didn't make explicit what would happen if you failed to migrate people in time (would they lose access to your extension, have free access forever, have it uninstalled from their browser?).

They also declined to notify the users that Google payments were going away and that they should expect paid extensions to have a new payment system and upcoming migration.

They also have new extension review rules all the time, and they occasionally nuke your extension for no good reason. [1]

It's nice to be able to reach people on Chrome, but it comes at a substantial cost.

1: https://beelinereader.medium.com/google-yanked-my-chrome-ext...
A key difference here is that Chrome could sell aggregated analytics data for performance testing and such, but not allow the ad company to get user-targeting quality data. With them in the same company, this is a nearly impossible barrier to achieve.
Related - recent Apache Arrow support in Julia announcement - https://julialang.org/blog/2021/01/arrow/
Favorite album probably You Must Believe In Spring. Days of Wine And Roses from Letter To Evan is my favorite tune at the moment.
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Disclaimer: I'm a MacPorts committer.

MacPorts uses GitHub too now. We maintain much more ports than Homebrew, and few of our committers have time to regularly go through the PR queue, so our community seems inactive. But actually, we just need more hands on PR management.

One important distinction is that most active ports in MacPorts have specific maintainers, and we usually put off merging PRs until the port maintainer approves. With more than 20,000 ports, it hard for the committers to test every change thoroughly, so we rely on our port maintainers to resolve issues and review complex PRs whenever possible.

In Homebrew, any maintainer could review and merge a PR instantly, combined with fewer ports to maintain, average time to merge would be much shorter.
"part of an energy game for you to expend more"

"you can probably do way with this without any lasting neurotoxicity"

I really don't understand what you're trying to say here.
i was banned from wsb for point out some post were literally illegal
My career since 2006 has centered around fandom and identifying exciting games in real-time.

I'm a devout believer that sports fandom is all about wagering emotion. The more of your heart and happiness you "bet", the larger the payout when your team finally succeeds.
Most Silicon Valley darlings run disaster recovery exercises simulating setting up a datacenter from scratch in less than 24 hours (not that Parler should be compared to any of these companies, clearly)
Wait... You wrote it with him? Are you Dave Bayer? That's amazing! What was it like working together? And absolutely fantastic paper! I have so many questions lol
Finally, a Private Stock Exchange (CartaX)
Work on it in your free time while you work a day job to keep the $$$ flowing.

Also spend more time validating if people will pay for your product.
Not entirely sure if its a comparable case, but first thing that comes to my mind is 2011 PSN outage[1].
I guess any change of that magnitude should take an unprecedent effort to resolve.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outag...
Exactly. At the end of the day, it is all about the money. If something isn’t making money, it is bound to be canned/changed sooner than later.
> I assume by your description that you do not consider identity politics to be a contributor for polarization?

I don't even agree that the category "identity politics" exists, or that it's a meaningful distinction.

> It might just be a coincident, but from my perspective, the more aggressive rhetoric and polarization by the right coincided very close to period when the political discussion shifted focused towards gender and race being the top political issues by the left. I could be wrong, but what I remember of before that period, the political discussion was mostly on wars, taxes, social support, and abortion. Scandals had occurred before during elections, but no where near the scale and impact that we have seen in the last 10 years.

Orrrrrrrr the right was exactly as ruthless and shrewd as I described and they shifted the narrative so any topic addressed on the left would be seen as divisive? I grew up in the state that held the capitol of the confederacy and "rebel yell" was a normal staple of our summertime parties. No one had any problem with statements that there was an historical racism problem in the country (even while saying racist shit) until it was defcon 1 must shut down discussion of racism on Fox and [friends intentionally lowercase].
I would rather remark on their remarkable ability to stay online, and even do that on the open internet.

Baghdadi would've fired Matze too.
There are so many good ones, but my personal favorite is Moonbeams for a more slow, contemplative sound.
Labor is the most expensive component.
The sets & equipment are peanuts by comparison.
Is this anything but political theater at this point? Site visits should have been allowed immediately when the virus was reported. Instead China suppressed reports, and avoided investigations by third parties until a year later. By now any signs of a potential leak of the virus from this lab could have been erased.

The failure to hold China accountable here (for keeping the world in the dark, for not shutting their ports early, for previously denying visits) is remarkable. I think it is a direct result of the politicization of the virus in America, where partisans fixated on Trump kept trying to disassociate the virus from China and tried to prevent any blame from being directed in that direction. Somehow no one seems to mind naming all COVID variants based on their locations however.
Oh, don't worry, they also managed to get the nginx default page up on their api domain: https://api.speak-free.com/

Really great technical work all around.
Indeed: if it were so great it would have moved into the tree by now.
I read this as an indictment of tech firm culture, not of the actual merits of saving lives vs saving bookmarks.
For arbitrary constraints it's problematic. Suppose you have a programming language capable of expressing a filter `(shuffle_result) => valid`. On average across all possible such functions you'll need at least `factorial(n_cards)` bits just to express the filters.

Of course, many special cases you care about can be expressed much more simply. E.g. with the adjacent-suits example you can deterministically generate such decks pretty easily by appropriately composing uniform integer partition sampling, uniform combination sampling, and uniform permutation sampling. For a standard 52-card deck you can basically lay out suit#1, then suit#2, do a little finicky magic to make sure suit#3 is placed uniformly in such a way that a solution exists (at least one always will), and then fill the remaining slots with suit#4.
Why didn't Rebekah Mercer put money into Gab instead?
Better. When I create notes they're abridged with the important parts in my own words and I usually include a few links for reference. With researching on google I'd need to find the proper search phrase and content again (not always one of the top links) and then I'd need to read through it all.
Folks will have pretty long sabbaticals that just happened to end on January, 2021 :D
Their linkedin employees page didn’t have that many infra people which is not surprising for a stack so heavily leaning on managed infra. Just hiring/contracting that expertise in such a short time would be monumental task. Guess they’re one of the unlucky ones who learned the value of infrastructure team (the hard way)
Comcast gives you a /60 block that you can assign multiple /64's out of.

My computer rotates out IPv6 addresses every 30 minutes using SLAAC with privacy addresses.

While you can identify the /64, there is no guarantee that it is a single user, just like in IPv4 because of NAT there is no guarantee it is a single user. It'll identity a household, but that's it.
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Some say snark is my native language ;)
I disagree with you on every point. Capitalism has lifted far more people out of poverty than charity. Its not even close.

Society should not remain poor and underdeveloped just to adhere to your religious beliefs. I just want to point out one last thing:

> It's very different. With an interest bearing loan, if the company doesn't work out, the lender will come after the borrower with the full support of the law, taking not only his principal, but the interest on top, destroying the latter. With an investment, if it doesn't work out, then the investor has lost his money and is not owed anything. It's risk sharing.

It's absolutely not different. A loan which receives interest in the form of equity is still interest. The lender provides capital in exchange for ownership over the company. Instead of being paid in cash, the lender is paid in equity that ideally becomes more valuable than the original loan amount. That is in no way a charitable act. Also you are not necessarily personally responsible for a loan to your business.

I bet you have never used a credit card, opened a savings account, worked for an employer that has debt, rented a home, rented a vehicle, bought a mortgage, taken a loan for education, made an investment, or ever have any relationship with a financial institution. /s

I'm still waiting for the name of a society that operated without debt or interest.
Is there any investigation into Robinhood for banning purchases after its largest investor acquired Melvin's short position?
Absolutely embarrassing. Are we seriously at a point now where we can't have a George Washington or Abraham Lincoln High School?

What's next? Renaming our nation's Capital?
This looks a lot like WrapAPI[0] which I found a while back researching for Postman Galaxy hackathon. How are you guys different?

[0]: https://wrapapi.com/
There's no "they". It's distributed and owned by no one. But, to your point, theoretically, it could become the world's reserve currency. ;)
> "The choice of axes is arbitrary, so we’ll pick something useful for our purposes. We’ll say that Y is up and X and Z are horizontal, and all three axes are perpendicular to each other. Think of the plane XZ as the “floor,” while XY and YZ are vertical “walls” in a square room."

As someone who works with CAD/CNC machines on a daily basis, this is torment. XY is the floor and XZ, YZ are "walls". Same would go for a 3d printer. They're not that arbitrary.
[I work at Google, not on chrome]

The current text of the whitepaper is

"The combined state of these variations is non-identifying, since it is based on a 13-bit low entropy value (see above). These are transmitted using the "X-Client-Data" HTTP header, which contains a list of active variations"[0].

The X-Client-Data header is still described as non-identifying. You're reaching for controversy where there is none. I've had this conversation with GP before[1], and it's always unenjoyable, because it's like talking to a conspiracy theorist. There's no rational basis for Google doing what you and they suggest that Google is doing. And you're willing to take events that aren't actually evidence of any kind of malaction (like rewording a document to mean essentially the same thing) and try and draw nefarious conclusions out of those things. Like, why?

If you start from the assumption that Google is acting unethically and is entirely untrustworthy, there are tons of other approaches they can take to do fingerprinting that wouldn't be detectable at all. If you're logged in, the entire conversation is moot. If they wanted to track you, they have your google account. So this only matters for logged out users, and even then, the value is marginal even if you assume Google isn't using any other form of nefarious tracking.

And again that all assumes Google is openly lying. If you don't include that in your threat model, well, then, Google probably isn't lying.

[0]: https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#mediad...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24040675
True agile has never been tried!
Going with another major scale cloud provider was definitely poor planning there
Doesn’t seem like a very good ROI....
Not true. https://www.spacejam.com/ Has been up and unmodified since 1996.
It varies, but I've never been to a supercharger with nothing (unless it's the middle of the night).

In Washington, a lot of superchargers are at Fred Meyer stores (think walmart supercenters). Ones that aren't are usually next to a hotel or diner. The one in Wenatchee is next to Starbucks.

I've never had an issue finding a bathroom near one, which is really my biggest thing.
Six years ago Slate [0] were trying to convince people not fall for the reality TV shows pushing beach-front property on what some people would call "rubes". I find it hard to think that these shows aren't helping those already invested offload their assets before they become harder to sell (which doesn't require the water to be lapping at your front door, just a higher frequency of events like this [1]).

[0] https://slate.com/technology/2014/08/beach-house-reality-tv-...

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/21/australia/australia-coast...
Management: The Non-Obvious
Take your chances with any of the inexpensive USB microscopes. I remember being thrilled as an adult to pick up one of the old Intel QX3 microscopes for photographing small parts. Anything you get in that vein will be much better today.
> Microsoft is fast becoming the good guys.

Are you not familiar with Windows 10's ads and invasive tracking?
Not sure what will happen to rabbitmq distribution on Debian/ubuntu. Probably will rely more on packagecloud now.

Hopefully they can find an alternative to publish latest binaries as it takes time for upstream Ubuntu to move to new rabbitmq and erlang release.
> There's a lot of net positives in that IMO, and this whole "but it's not ACTUALLY open source" is a distraction borne of inflexibility and a lack of creativity.

Being "flexible" and "creative" with the truth is just a fancy way of saying lying.

Are you seriously arguing the ends justify the means, where the end is some cloud saml business and the means is misrepresenting the licensing terms of your product? That's probably the lowest stakes ends justify the means argument i have ever heard and is pretty rediculous.

At the end of the day, if you can't operate your business ethically and with integrity, then no, its not a net positive. This is true for pretty much any business venture, but its especially true for some random cloud offering competiting in a market with many other competitors doing roughly the same thing. The way you talk about this stuff you would think you were trying to solve world hunger.

> If you won't have that conversation until we strike open source from our website I understand.

Why do you think i'm interested in that conversation at all? I have no stake in your company, i don't care how you structure your IP, if you succeed as a company or if you fail. I do however have a stake in the open source movement and care deeply when parasites try to profit off it without fulfilling their obligations to the movement.
It would be a good thing for users and developers, because it would mean that the app stores are using their customers' money as efficiently as possible.

I don't particularly care if better efficiency means that Apple and Google are forced to adapt and compete, and as a result, might be less profitable than they were when they held a duopoly in the mobile app distribution market.
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Mine is Some Other Time: The Lost Session From The Black Forest

I can listen to that album without ever getting tired.
This. Absolutely this. We used a second location and provider.
If you can't tell which party is which... one of them thinks Mexicans are rapists (or it's okay to insinuate that) and called nazis "very fine people" and so on. You can assume from the full stop that the other didn't do any of those things.
Very weird

Maybe the ancients are right and the soul resides somewhere in the liver. Don’t laugh; people have led normal lives with giant pieces of their brain removed, but nobody has survived the death of their livers. The former fact; normal people getting by without much brain tissue, at least, ought to be the end of the argument: purely Hebbian models of the brain are obviously false.
> I want to do a pulse check to see how common

You're not going to get that without a poll. Do a poll

The format of your post is going to mostly get affirmatives and thoughtful advice.

BTW, I do not wake with anxiety.

The root of all suffering is the mind. So, you got that right.

If this is something you want to change you'll need to work on it, obviously. There are many paths to the solution you seek as it is a perennial problem of intelligence.
There are numerous solutions to this problem. Both historius & pinboard provide full text search on any link that you save.

https://historio.us/
https://pinboard.in/

Their note taking leaves something to be desired, so perhaps Beam could provide some value add in this area.
Or maybe with the recent election results they're not even trying hard to get it back on, I guess
NESHouse: An open source implementation of ClubHouse in NES style
Cloudflare fronts gab without issues afaik. I agree with parent comment that if they didn’t parade it so much they could get away with it
Default prefix of Homebrew is now /opt/homebrew on macOS on ARM, which should not conflict with MacPorts anymore.

For macOS on Intel, MacPorts does not play well with Homebrew because it took /usr/local, so ports built from source might use Homebrew files and break.
Google's identity signal that they have given themselves access to works across cross-domain and cross-device. First-party cookies do neither.

I would strongly prefer that everyone restrict themselves to the capabilities of first-party cookies. But it's still true that Google is not holding themselves to the same restrictions that they're trying to enforce on other parties.
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I bought this on CD when it first came out. There is a big fold-out with gorgeous cartoon paintings by Jim Woodring. It's worth having the physical object if you like the music.
> Chrome - we own the world so use our browser with its proprietary extensions and only works completely if you hand over a Google account.

I've never logged into a Chrome browser with my Google account. What am I missing? I know you do have to log in if you want to purchase certain Chrome extensions, but now that Google killed their payment infrastructure, this seems not to be an issue anymore.
Speakers corner used to be an American belief but censorship is now in fashion.
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Facebook and Instagram are using your contact list for their purposes and running their algorithms on all your photos for their purposes.
Uh huh. At least based off the classical definition, “an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region.”, about 80% of Wyoming, most of Utah, and Montana at a minimum count. Some of that is federal wilderness, but the vast majority of it is not.

Even here in overdeveloped California, the majority of the Sierra Nevada and Northern Coastal range easily counts, as does the ranges in the Mojave.

Federal wilderness designation is an administrative one to apply certain rules to a portion of federally controlled land, not a classification of the remoteness of something or a statement of how untouched it is. Technically the moment you step off Yosemite valley floor you’re in federal wilderness - try to not get distracted by the 1500 tourists staring at you or the 10 giant busses idling in traffic 100 feet away.
eBay may not allow DTKs to be auctioned since they were loaned not sold in the first place.