skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they could get the same result by sending the header to GTM

Do you mean Tag manager, or some other GTM?

I also, and this'll be seriously counterintuitive, doubt that they could be quite as conscientious of user data if they were handled via GTM. To sketch out the concern here: Chrome telemetry that is not used to identify people and personal ad preferences/data tied to an individual user probably shouldn't be sent via the same channel or logged in the same place. They're used for different purposes, by different people, and likely have different infrastructural concerns related to storage and querying. In fact, it would be rather suspicious if chrome telemetry data was sent via Google's ads logging infrastructure. That would imply an odd level of co-design and coupling.

> sent to DoubleClick explicitly

And everything else owned by Google. It's not sent to Doubleclick specifically, which you never seem to acknowledge. It's sent to stuff that Google owns (and presumably, really just a large selection of things sitting behind the GFE[0]).

> For ad networks, including Google's own ad department, Chrome is like a candy store. Firefox and Safari have tracking prevention and cookie mitigations. Chrome on the other hand has undisclosed, impossible to disable ad network tracking headers being sent to DoubleClick explicitly. Chrome's cookie security is similarly a joke, designed for the benefit of ad networks.

Firefox does the same thing as chrome (via Firefox Telemetry). There's privacy tradeoffs between the two approaches, Firefox's allows the telemetry holder to reconstruct browsing data for a particular user (assuming the browser sends the data out of band to some central server). Google's approach doesn't allow that. There's also some technical advantages to Google's approach in terms of telemetry (both for Chrome and for Google sites), but those don't affect the privacy tradeoffs of how the telemetry is ultimately reported.

> Google didn't ever disclose this fact

You mean except in the Chrome whitepaper.

> "Just trust us, we won't abuse this!" is not good enough, considering the way it was implemented is already cloak-and-dagger suspicious.

But, like, it's not. The lengths you have to go to to make it appear suspicious (including lying repeatedly about how Google didn't disclose the feature) demonstrate how it's not in fact that suspicious. Yes, when you misrepresent the facts, it begins to sound suspicious. But that's because you're misrepresenting what was actually done.

[0]: https://sre.google/sre-book/production-environment/
So...they put the prices up by 20% or whatever. By definition, the amount they'd raise would be enough to pay the staff the equivalent to the amount lost in tips. They don't need to maintain the same GP margin, as this is pure extra revenue.
Pretty much all hotel chains require ID these days, even if you're paying with cash. There are also some state and local ordinances that require hotels to take ID of guests, so I doubt it's Airbnb's choice to do this.

Deletion is another matter though.
Seems like some of the appeal was the lack of moderation
To be clear, in California the tipped minimum wage is at least $13/hr state wide (and $14/hr for businesses with 25 employees or more). I believe in San Francisco, it’s also just strictly the same as minimum wage of $16.07/hr (and again for larger businesses, Healthy SF medical coverage is also mandatory [Edit: actually, providing coverage is, not Healthy SF, that’s just the cheapest coverage and so very common], and usually passed onto patrons as a 4% fee on their bill, though this isn’t dictated by statute).

So your universe already exists: every restaurant in the state of California already ensures a minimum wage more than 6x the federal minimum.
How can people fall for this trap of discussing Parler incident as a transgression of free speech? It was a vile specialized platform that fostered very particular anti-social, frequently murderous behavior. They had plenty of time to prove otherwise and they clearly did not care or did not want to.

Now they poison the actually good idea of free speech with their infantile appeal. In theory and in practice they are on the wrong side of history and everyone involved is less and less redeemable as they try to flip the situation and present themselves as victims of oppression.

Sure bad apples / users exist but calls for violence on Parler were systemic and we have proof now.
Are we making fun of Hey email?
You're going to have to explain what you're talking about.

Everything be replaced? What does that have to do with brain emulation?

Also I think you're implying that brain emulation will lead to more "unimaginable monsters", when it could very easily be the opposite: if you can't emulate a brain then an AI has to be even weirder and harder to understand.
Yeah I've never seen an increase in automated testing have the effect of laying off testers. Usually it results in testers moving up the food chain a bit: they get involved with the automation, help with things like CI integration, and find more time to devote to test strategies, documentation, etc.
Each time I order with Glovo I tipped with cash directly to the driver. The 'online' tip has to be one of the dumbest features ever and just stinks of something shady going on.
Sorry when I click your link I get an error. I know it is dangerous, and I intend to video it, hopefully it's a winning clip.
This list is ridiculous. It's probably someone entering a wishlist on a calculator to check the price (or a wildly optimistic 5 year forecast) vs actual requirements.
> Additionally, until this brand new mRNA vaccine technology actually demonstrated efficacy it was not quite so clear cut that we should put a huge proportion of our resources into making more of these devices, rather than explore different vaccine platforms.

I can't believe this is true.

The Pfizer and Modern vaccines were clearly in the top 10 last March and April. How could you argue that given 10 months and a billion dollars each we couldn't double our microfluidic device capacity for these two vaccines.
I don't think we could have done worse.
98.8% of our DNA is identical with a chimpanzee, and 60% common with a fruit fly.

I am personally interested by the 'RNA Computer' hypothesis which posits an additional layer of differentiation in computations performed by interacting RNA.

I have also read of experiments where memories (learned behaviors) were transplanted by injecting ground-up neural material. Flatworms were the subject I think.

Of course this is all near the edge of mainstream, but I think genuine science demands openness to new ideas.
Unfortunately his inlaws didn't cancel the service and I was unaware of how bad the connection is. Now it's too late to cancel and he is locked into a contract.

Ps. I also considered the drone idea but he needs a more solid solution than a drone draping an antenna, I would either like to mount a yaggi or the entire modem sealed in a tupperware with drain holes.
Ever since evil-mode came out, it's got a great text editor.
Please read through the comments on the blog. Info content is very high.
Right, but in the article they said they don’t care about graceful shutdown.
How to run Apple-1 on emulator
Stacker (YC S20) lets anyone transform spreadsheets and databases into web apps
Wow, that are really high requirements. Stackoverflow was able to operate on a lot less servers in 2016, they had e.g. only 4 database servers.

Is there any analysis why parler did have such high requirements? Or what they did exactly to have such a high bandwidth?
Yes, IIRC dang mentioned once that a 'second chance' feature exists where a mod can give it a second shot if they decide it's interesting. I think it's essentially discretionary and it doesn't edit the votes, it just makes the submit 'new' again, like resetting the clock, so the submission has another shot.

I suspect you were getting downvotes for your first comment because it sounds like you're complaining about submitting the same thing and not getting traction, and then somebody else's submission getting it later on.
Yeah. About that...
They don't have to build a data center from scratch. Plenty of hosting providers (yes even "cloud" ones) in the country or outside it would take their business in an instant.
https://www.apple.com/rss/

Open this on an Apple or android phone. On iOS this will even prompt you to open the App Store to find a feed reader (#1 is still Feedly).

RSS icons were ubiquitous like fb and Twitter icons a few years ago, and anyone could use them. It wasn’t a geek thing, it’s just a market that faded.

I’ve never had the feed icon not work on a phone in the last 10 years or a typically installed browser on Mac or Windows.

I mean this is an absurd conversation. RSS was invented around 1998 and then it was an obscure “geeky” thing.. the only reason we’re having this tedious conversation (and arguably why you’d have had the opportunity to be involved in an RSS startup) is because it had a striking rise from obscurity in the late oughts.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/GYQJTJ7Vdhud/

Second dose sends victim into anaphylaxis shock.

Every doctor and nurse who administers the vaccine will be tried as a war criminal.
It's likely similar to that bias where attractive people also progress faster in jobs. Even if you're not personally attracted to them, you still have that bias.
> if you could change a person and make them incapable of murder, would you not do it?

I should have commented earlier in this discussion that you are presuming an awful lot of certainty about something where I don't think any such level of certainty is even possible. How could you possibly be so confident that some brain procedure would really, truly make a person incapable of murder? And would do so without impairing their capacities in any other respect? I can't even put myself in the position of imagining being in that kind of state of knowledge. So I'm not sure I can even respond to questions about what I would or wouldn't do in such a state.

Furthermore, my comments in this discussion about tyranny are based on historical knowledge about past societies where people have held beliefs like the ones you describe--where they really, truly, honestly believed, with certainty or even with what they thought was a high enough probability, that forcing other people to do something, or forcing some kind of treatment on them, would achieve some obviously desirable social goal. And in every single case in history that I know of, those people were wrong. Not just sort of wrong, not just a little bit off--terribly, horribly wrong; lots and lots of people dying wrong.

So when you describe a scenario in which you say you know, with certainty, or even with high probability (you threw out a figure of 90 percent in another part of this thread--I'll respond more specifically to that there), that you could change a person and make them incapable of murder, by some sort of brain surgery or some secret ray that they can't perceive, or by any means other than convincing that person, through discussion and argument, that murder is wrong, I simply don't believe that's actually possible. So I don't factor such impossibilities into my thinking about what I should or shouldn't do.

> Is it OK for a parent to have their child circumcised? Or have their ears pierced?

Personally, no, I would not force either of those things on a child without their consent.

Circumcision is an edge case because there was a time when circumcision was widely believed to be desirable for health reasons, but that belief is now thought to be false. If a parent sincerely believed it was necessary for health reasons, I would not say they were wrong to have a child circumcised. But such beliefs should be checked very carefully--more carefully than, from what I can gather, people checked the belief about circumcision during the time when that belief was widespread.

> Would you not elect to have your ability to murder removed?

As above, I am unable to even consider this as a real possibility.
As someone who has lived an hour away from Ann Arbor for his entire life, I find myself wandering over that way on a regular basis. As a teenager in the late 90’s and early 00’s the siren song of Pinball Pete’s, Middle Earth, Michigan/State Theaters, and Wizzywig (ESPECIALLY Wizzywig) were irresistible. I don’t remember how I came across monkey.org but I do remember there was a kind monkey who had scanned a great many of the menus from restaurants around town in a time when restaurants didn’t “Internet”. Ever since then I’d poke at monkey.org if I was really bored, and it’s been my go to test website.

So, thanks monkey.org :)
Hi all, I’m working on an app to help find and delete duplicate or near duplicate photos. I’m building it for my dad to help him consolidate all of the redundant family photos he collects, and I’m trying to do it quickly before he completely runs out of space on iCloud. I hope it’s useful.

It’s been a lot of fun to develop, and finally gave me a chance to try out Mithril.js which is a pretty sweet piece of minimalist software.
Why does natural infection allow us to rule out VADE while challenge trials don't?
Elon Musk Admits Tesla Has Quality Problems
> Web advertising was a $319 billion dollar industry in 2019. Does anyone wonder who may be lobbying their government to scrutinize Google and offer themselves for interviews for articles like this?

You do know that Google is a web advertising company first?

If they're proposing something, you can be damned sure that it was vetted first by people who know how to use it for ad tracking - because that's literally their bread and butter.

Chrome will never: ban 3rd party cookies, tell which sites track you etc. They're not going to shoot themselves in the foot without a plan.

There is no situation where Google will actually care about privacy, since their whole business model exists on the fact that they know everything about their users so they can target ads better.
I am truly amazed that the world's (top, second?) richest man runs a company that cleared $7.2 billion during a global pandemic year, but had to steal $62m to make its books look clean.

Whoever participated this should lose their jobs, and be prosecuted. Really scummy move!
I wish this kind of concept was aspired to by more political parties and countries for their citizens. It seems something that lives only in a small world of the internet for those who achieve it.
You are citing phase I data to support an implication that "clearly" phase 3 data was going to be positive. That is not how it works in real life. Many many many drug candidates look great after phase 1 and fail to become approved drugs.

Also, we did double our microfluidic device capacity. We more than doubled it. We increased our capacity by something like a million fold. Before these vaccines (first of their kind), there was no commercial scale capacity. This has all been invented in the last year. There was even a chance that achieving such capacity would not be possible. It is fairly common that drug candidates that look promising in phase 1 or 2 simply cannot be manufactured at scale with the quality required to ensure consistent safety and efficacy.
Haha that makes loads more sense, thanks!
I have already said elsewhere that I disagree with you about "what most people take to mean free will".

I will agree that "poor wording" was just my opinion and you are free to simply ignore it.
I'm Sam, co-founder of Stacker. Since we launched on HN last summer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24037118) and the batch ended, we've grown to be used in over 500 companies.

One of the key things we've realised from our customers that they've got a lot more data that what sits in their Airtable or Google Sheets. They all also use numerous SaaS tools that master different parts of their organizations' data: things like Stripe, Hubspot, Xero, Quickbooks and many more. They also sometimes have a production SQL database that contains critical customer information.

So we've been focused on expanding our product so we can incorporate more of our customers data and will be adding new data connectors through this quarter: we're starting with SQL, Stripe and Intercom. We want to enable anyone to snap their data together across whichever systems its stored in, and then create the most productive interface for them on top of it.
If you stand for freedom of speech then you must stand for freedom of association; as "I stand with you" is a declaration of support. Speech isn't only vocal, it is all communication.

Services that chose not to host Parler were exercising their freedom of association; they were _communicating_ that they did not wish to support Parler.
And do not forget the fact that you cannot delete any of these apps, and IIRC Gboard (Google's keyboard) requires Internet access, does it not? In any case, I disabled all Google apps and replaced it with alternatives. I should just root my phone and delete all of it, but sadly I need "Courier Services" and whatnot. Google is everywhere, you cannot even get rid of it.
>How is that inherently harmful?

Aside from collected data being used for other purposes besides advertisement, when efficient, it allows charging the individual more than they "should" be paying. If an industry "knows" that your washing machine broke, it "knows" that you would be easier manipulated into paying a higher price (sorry for the simplification and the amount of quote marks).

>Doesn't charging a large sum for something offered by an ad mean, that the ad provided something of value to the user?

If a user was to be compensated, the payment for watching the ad is most definitely coming out from the product price in the end, so on the big scale there is no compensation.

>potential for the collection of that pervasive data to negatively impact the user and broader society.

Absolutely agree.
Implying Parlor ever had free speech. Their CEO would literally check other accounts (e.g. Discord) of Parler users and ban them if they came across as too liberal.
A “standard for declaring dependencies” is, itself, a build system without the execution engine. The execution engine is not actually the hard part about making a build system. So, what you’re asking for is really just a standardized build system.
Anyone Notice Google Down
Anyone notice Google Down? I cant access any google services right know (Youtube/Google.com/Gmail.com)

I'm checking from Indonesia. Using VPN from other country just fine
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Are you talking about grex.cyberspace.org?
> Ponder this.

Everything you're saying is old hat to anyone as familiar with the literature on free will and cognitive science as I am.

Nothing you are saying is in any way inconsistent with the view of free will I have been defending.
Who owns the message? The sender or receiver? That is a question that bugs me once in a while.
How dare they try to verify people before allowing them to stay in a complete stranger's home.
Honestly, since eshell is the only example I can think of, I’d say that it’s more than fair to consider this a flaw in eshell.
It's pretty easy to compile the documents; it's all just R functions (rmarkdown is a wrapper around knitr and pandoc). I've been writing Rmarkdown docs for many years in Emacs without hiccups (or without hiccups from rmarkdown::render, anyway).
We did "waste" billions of dollars on a number of possible vaccine candidates that didn't actually pan out. See, Merck and Sanofi and GSK. Primate models are great (best we have), but we didn't "know" these things worked until end of December. It's beginning of Feb. I know the world is on fire, but things are moving fairly quickly. 1.34 million vaccinations a day in the U.S., from zero at beginning of Dec. That's pretty good. With much luck, the plateau in the vaccination rate this week gets resolved and we manage to hit 2M/day by end of Feb.
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You're absolutely right, given the premise that we tip to incentivize good service. In reality, we tip so businesses can advertise an $18 meal for $14.99.
That's mostly due to the tip's cousin, the sales commission.
Which makes sense, as it aligns well with the PWA concepts.
Good. But unfortunately there seems to be little chance of them ever actually being broken up. They're more powerful than the government of their host country at this point.
Story about Amazon's lumberyard game engine
Not sure why you're being downvoted, but this is absolutely true. Nobody likes tipping culture more than career waiters and bartenders. People are more inclined to part with their money when they can see the face who receiving it. This may not apply for online deliveries though.
In a way promoting non-convoluted code. It's a property of the language which is like a side effect. Kind of reminds me of Ruby except Ruby was too dynamic to achieve it. C# is very readable too.
I am on the same page with you. But I've also decided to focus all my strength on one thing for the next 5 years just improving it and making it the best product for my customers.

Right now it's so easy to make apps with amazing frameworks like Vue and Laravel that anybody can create something in a week or sometimes even a day[1]. We indiehackers are never short of ideas and shiny objects. I too was part of that movement and I created many projects, one or two even won out Product hunt proudct of the day and started making money too. Alas the fame and fortune was short lived because I was just too distracted and never focused on building one thing.

I never took the step that is much more important than launching the product. It's the boring day-in and day-out sales and marketing part. The content writing and the lead generation part. The SEO part. The thing that acutally brings in the revenue part.

So anytime I have an amazing idea for my next project. I just quietly put in my Google docs and get back to my main focus. I think this is the only thing which will finally help me succeed.

[1] https://24hrstartup.com/
But what about the people who have actively just been shortchanged out of 61.7M USD in tips? Surely that' the topic here?