skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is impossible for me to take this post at face value coming from a director at Google. That old saying about getting someone to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it comes to mind...

That said, the actions they've taken are concrete and verifiable, and this is a pretty explicit promise. I believe it has less to do with privacy as a goal and more to do with avoiding regulation.

* And another post on the front page indicates that Google is changing the way they track anyways, likely at little-to-no cost to them. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26328428
I'm not sure if you're aware, but this is a very US thing. In Europe it's not even uncommon with laws against discriminating on these grounds as well.

An entity as ICANN should not necessarily be based on US norms.
I always wondered what it would be like if Mars and Venus were swapped. Would Mars be warmer, or would it be even more devoid of atmosphere? And would Venus (with its greenhouse gas) be a more livable temperature if it was in Mars's orbit? It still wouldn't be survivable due to the atmospheric composition, but I was just wondering about raw climate.
Noticing anything from NMN? Why not NR?
It's hard to tell, for example is alchemy ancient chemistry, or something else?

It is true though that certain topics have been around so long that the study of X is itself a study.
Against the “Noble Lie” – Covid-19 Edition
“Every publisher must be forced to continually publish every item that exists in their catalogue, even if the publisher themselves finds that item embarrassingly racist. Otherwise, the SJWs win.”

Seriously this is just incoherent. Dr. Seuss himself amended some of his past work while he was still alive because he was embarrassed by his earlier racism. His estate is certainly allowed to make similar decisions. It is not censorship.
Daily meat consumption is probably something people can gauge with a high degree of accuracy. People in developed countries are probably all-or-nothing unless they are actively trying to reduce their meat consumption while not being vegetarian.
It's been verified:

https://vaviper.blogspot.com/2019/06/from-onion-study-reveal...
This is the most curious part: hiring those two individual researchers, who clearly didn't have an understanding of the nature of public communication, was incredibly naive and asking for disaster. There is no other outcome. It kind of implies a total lack of understanding of human nature on the part of those doing the hiring. "What were they thinking?" is the only thing that comes to mind.

It's a very, very tricky thing to do to hire your own public critics, that has to be done very carefully and with a lot of parameters.
Out of the goodness of their hearts no doubt
I love this blog and I discovered it because of how frequently it's posted here on HN so thank you all!
Here's Chrome's technical page for Privacy Sandbox: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...

The bit you're quoting sounds like the WSJ trying to describe https://github.com/WICG/floc. That depends on the browser choosing to support the API, yes.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
People, for some kind of reason, really like their laptops. They also have more brand recognition, thus the "bragging right" part, when you get your new X1/Macbook every 2 years.

And if you still work on your laptop but have your personal server box as a CPU slave, that still leaves some issues. You might be able to do your build steps on the machine, but your IDE still runs on your laptop, so that needs to be beefy enough -- never mind auxiliary applications like browsers, Photoshop, CAD etc.
Also, it's quite hard to get a slow laptop with decent ergonomics, unless you buy used (not that much an option for companies).

Also, once you go headless server, it's better to just put it online anyway, as you don't need 24/7 access
Says more about how hard it is to design tests, than it does about this particular test. Lots of reasons for delayed gratification. Not all of them mean "as smart as humans".
Endpoint compliance at your “fingertips” – osquery scale 2021
If we are just looking at numbers with no units attached there is no difference. As soon as there are units, a difference arises.

I will collect 12 apples 5 times. The 12 apples are the multiplicand and the 5 times is the multiplier.

The answer retains the units from the multiplicand.
I mean, if this is due to some patent threat from Intel, then the company we should be wary of is them.

Apple gains nothing by “pulling the trigger”.
FB and Instagram are infested with dropshipping scams.
People, and organisations, self-censor all the time. It may be problematic, depending on the circumstances, and the external pressures and forces which lead them to do so. In this particular case, I don't see anything overly damaging about the cause > effect: "many people are not comfortable, and do not enjoy, reading crude racial caricatures" > "we'll stop publishing some books which contain them".
Yet they just passed BTC's daily transaction volume (regularly) . Like it or not, BCH is about to eat BTC's lunch and good for them. They've earned it.
Sure, insert any other similar tactic in place of a short ladder and I'd be interested in the discussion of why or why not it should be allowed.

I'm also interested in discussing whether or not ETFs should exist. I wonder at some point if you just kind of eliminate price discovery and prop up zombie companies.
I am a little curious why Google did not just announce that they were getting behind the system that Mozilla and Apple started talking about a year or 2 ago? (Or at least that they were working with them on something)

Otherwise like many others this makes me think that Google is still doing something fishy here and I don't trust it.

Edit:
For anyone curious what I am talking about https://webkit.org/blog/8943/privacy-preserving-ad-click-att...
Or maybe there's a foreseen flaw in bitcoin.
It's based on public-key cryptography which can be broken by quantum computers. Those don't exist yet (at least not in any form relevant to cryptography in practise), but I think they will by 2140.
The people in that thread need to loosen their tinfoil hats. Namecheap didn't steal anything. dnd.quest is certainly one of the most wanted among everyone who was buying a .quest domain. Do these people not understand just how many people there are who are thinking the same thing as them?
Hell, we can barely get people to wear face masks in their neighborhood grocery store.
The problem is that SVG doesn't AFAIK support layout constraints - you'd have to essentially recreate flexbox and grid in JS, and God forbid you wanted to make the design responsive!

I agree with you in principle that SVG is a better match to app UIs, but we'd need a good layout story for that to happen. And I'm using SVG for much of my own application interface!
> including the raw Linux ALSA sound API, which typically allows only one application to access the sound card.

If the raw in that sentence is not meant as a special qualifier and this is meant as a statement about ALSA in general, this is wrong. I recently read up on this to confirm my memory was right when reading a similar statement. In fact, ALSA had just a very short period where typically only one application accessed the sound card. After that, dmix was enabled by default. Supporting multiple applications was actually the big advantage of ALSA compared to OSS, which at the time really did support only one application per soundcard (without hardware mixing, which broke away at that time). I'm not sure why this seems to be remembered so wrongly?

> Speaking of transitions, Fedora 8's own switch to PulseAudio in late 2007 was not a smooth one. Longtime Linux users still remember having the daemon branded as the software that will break your audio.

This wasn't just a Fedora problem. Ubuntu when making the switch also broke Audio on countless of systems. I was active as supporter in a Ubuntu support forum at that time and we got flooded with help requests. My very own system did not work with Pulseaudio when I tried to switch, that was years later. I still use only ALSA because of that experience. At that time Pulseaudio was garbage, it should never have been used then. It only got acceptable later - but still has bugs and issues.

That said, PipeWire has a better vibe than Pulseaudio did. It intends to replace a system that never worked flawlessly, seems to focus on compatibility, and the apparent endorsement from the JACK-developers also does not hurt. User reports I have seen so far have been positive, though I'm not deep into support forums anymore. Maybe this can at least replace Pulseaudio, that would be a win. I'm cautiously optimistic about this one.
Strongly agree! I searched for "scroll" in this thread to see if anyone else is complaining, I hate it when websites overwrite the scroll behavior, it's like I lost my control over navigating the website.
I wonder if the concept of general availability from GPL is applicable here. If ICANN's DNS system wasn't generally available, like, say, invite-only system, maybe they would be in their right to moderate based on feels.
It's a good time to pivot. Google is one ad-block away from loosing 70% of their revenue [1]. They should adopt the model that DuckDuckGo uses [2] and offer ads based on search query vs user data tracking.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266471/distribution-of-g...

[2] https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-revenue-model/
Lego is a great tool for this.

I also taught prime numbers by handing out (round) 1x1 pieces and told him to figure out which ones could be made into squares.

The teacher was surprised when - in the middle of a more convoluted explanation for primes - he just said "primes are numbers that can't be arranged as rectangles".
I think supporting the low latency usecase is a goal, but not the only one. As far as I understand it pipewire provides configurable latency.
Certainly - we don't enable something to be done that couldn't be done before.

We just make bot-building accessible to more people. Ideally, that means more helpful bots, but it could result in a more bad bots too, if we're not mindful.
While I agree that taking some B12 supplement is probably a good idea for a lot of people, I don't think statements like that can be made so readily.

For one, nutritional studies tend to point to whole foods being the way to go to gain the nutrients required by your body because of the vastly complex interplay of absorption and the related catalysts. And in many cases, it's easy to overdo it on specific vitamins, especially when they're isolated and concentrated. (https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h..., https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/WYNTK-Consumer/)

Secondly, I'm not sure what your first statement is intended to mean. When I eat meat, it's from usually chickens, turkeys, some fish, crustaceans, and occasionally western pig and cow (and even more occasionally, game animals).

As always, it's something each person should go over with their doctor—especially vegans or vegetarians who don't want to begin (or return to) eating meat.
>> I’m proud that Amazon is one of the greatest success stories of the last 25 years

That is a very modern american trend. In the past, citizens were proud of inventions. Germans were proud of BMW cars. Americans were proud of American rockets. The Japanese were proud of their electronics. Now Americans are proud of having the best mall, the most profitable distribution platforms. Ok. Cultural values changes. Maybe I'm old but I would rather be proud of technological innovation than marketplace innovation.
Multiplication over the reals is commutative. Matrix multiplication of non-square matrices isn't. Multiplication in a Ring isn't necessarily commutative. Other algebraic structures also have non-commutative multiplication.

One could argue that these things aren't "multiplication" even if they are "products" since they don't satisfy all the properties of multiplication over the reals. But it is common to call the use of the product operation "multiplication", at least in cases where there's only one product operation to use. EG Geometric Algebra has Inner, Outer, and Geometric products, so calling them "multiplication" seems less common IME.
If America had proper workers rights and labor laws, suddenly these “superstars” would disappear.

I wonder if this is actually true, looking at how much a company like Amazon rakes in. They have cash to spend. They could probably spend it towards living wages & safety measures for their workers & still have a hefty sum left over.
The mathematical term is "product". It's a product.
This is a good sign, however I can't read any actual concreate, real, effective, actions here..
From the article:

Some primates can delay gratification, along with dogs, albeit inconsistently. Corvids, too, have passed the marshmallow test.

Having had a couple of human children, I would definitely not claim that they are anything but extremely clever, but then so are many primates, dogs, and corvids.
Btc is what it it is because it is NOT centralized.

pos = centralization risk.

pos = shitcoin.

If you want to read in depth: https://voskuil.org/cryptoeconomics/cryptoeconomics.pdf.
Many modern ML algorithms aren't clear on how they make decisions even if you have the code generating the models themselves.
You sure? I seem to recall some kind of mass hysteria happening fairly recently, made it was the first signs of his coming
So is every book that has gone out of print censored?
Their source seems to be this website

And NewsGuard, https://www.newsguardtech.com/
Thank you for the pointer.

Seems they have already fixed it.

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24721/files
Could be. One of the top 10 biggest generation plants in the world is natural gas. And smaller plants have an issue - they're nearly net zero return (profit). So not a lot of investment reasons to build them.

Solar is net negative, so there's that against it too. We've screwed up the market with subsidies and laws, so its hard to tell what the right answer is.
Yes, I understand it will cost them money. But I urge that we look forward to a world where black-box algorithms don't decide which information we see, and on which basis.
That is the sort of explanation I expected, but when I read the article, it presents a different causal sequence, in which photosynthesizing plants become ineffective, not because of increasing temperatures, but because of decreasing atmospheric CO2, as a result of its photodissociation. [1]

As presented in the news article, there is no explanation for why the apparently still-abundant oxygen does not react with, for example, the increased methane flux that the article also mentions, or just the carbon that has been liberated by dissociation, to maintain a CO2 level adequate for photosynthesis.

I don't doubt that the researchers have answers to these questions (quite likely the one you gave) but something seems to have gone missing in the creation of this news article.

[1] The article actually says "due to the gas absorbing the heat and breaking down", but AFAIK, CO2 is pretty resistant to this. Perhaps this is a garbled version of CO2 reacting more vigorously with rocks and soil at higher temperatures?
There were times when if you said something critical about the establishment, you were simply disappeared, never to be seen again. And it still didn't stop the ideas from spreading, it only gained you sympathy from the population and converted more people to your side. You can say that the goal is this or that, but it doesn't change the fact that 64% of Republicans said that they are extremely/very concerned about the censorship[1]. Which sort of confirms what I am saying, people will be more sympathetic to you if you got censored. If you're a serious political activist, I'd expect you to perceive the censorship not as a disaster, but just another opportunity to further your political goals. Which doesn't mean that it's dishonest, censorship is bullshit and they're right to feel that way, but politics is still politics.

1) https://twitter.com/KSoltisAnderson/status/13646149211163443...
If you want to get canceled, say that Vladimir Vladimirovich was obviously partly confessing when writing a story about Humbert Humbert.

Hiding in Plain Sight: Nabokov and Pedophilia https://www.jstor.org/stable/40754944?seq=1
Imaginary numbers are not so scary if you just think of them as 2d vectors with a different multiplication operation added to it.
In a world where the sounds of sports on TV is not even the true sound of what's happening in the stadium because it's boring, I highly doubt they would pay a single penny for what would probably be a highly disappointing wind-like monotonous sound.
> Brave Search's index there will be informed the activities of participating Brave users, in terms of the URLs they search for or click on, and adjacent web resources that don't require extensive crawling.

> Brave also envisions users taking a more active role in their search results through a filtering mechanism.

"It allows different groups to run their own sort of Turing complete filter rules, sort of like ad blocking rules in the search service and not in the browser, to have a community moderated view of the global index," he [Brendan Eich, Brave founder] explained. "It's called 'Goggles.'"
> the entities who actually acted in bad faith

Then RH can sue them. As the consumer interface, the buck either stops with them, or they pass it along.
> In Lolita the pedophile is explicitly a creep. He's the bad guy, it's an exploration of a sick mind.

Nabokov explored infatuations with "nymphets" in multiple works, Lolita was just the most famous. This has led many (even big fans of the writer) to assume that Nabokov did feel a certain attraction that he apparently never acted on, though this observation does not imply that he or the works deserve condemnation or scorn.
What if in the future we could examine the contents of a particular rock from space? Have instruments sensitive enough to detect the remnants of Vogon breath from their visit millions of years ago?

A pristine planet has value beyond 'I want this' IMO - it is an opportunity to perform experiments in an almost perfectly isolated test tube.

As a human, I also find it beautiful. As you say though, this is an anthropocentric view.
But students pay, if you get a higher paying job because of your education you will end up paying more taxes. The danish marginal tax rate of 56% is not hard to hit with a STEM degree.

And why are you assuming that its the middle class that gets most out of this?

The fact that you get free education with a stipend makes it very low risk for people from a poor background to try it out. If they had to take on dept it makes it riskier if you dont complete or dont end up with a high paying job. Its not like UK dept is forgiven if you dont get a high paying job.
It took 15 years to find the origin of the original SARS, but indeed it took a few months to pinpoint the intermediary species (civets). Now I don't know about SARS but many people infected with SARS-Cov-2 have no symptoms or mild symptoms, which means the virus might circulate for a while before it hits a major population centre and blows up, which would make finding the source more difficult.

They have already found virii in bats in Yunnan that are 96% similar to SARS-Cov-2 so it seems probable that the origin will be similar to the origin of SARS.

Certainly the consensus is that the virus is natural despite you and others implying that it might not, which is nothing but FUD at this point.

SARS origin:

"Around late 2017, Chinese scientists traced the virus through the intermediary of Asian palm civets to cave-dwelling horseshoe bats in Xiyang Yi Ethnic Township, Yunnan" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
It's the extra layer of convolution. It's necessary in a browser, but when circled back to the server, it's vestigial.

With Deno, you're using a classic OOP inspired superset of JavaScript, transpiling it to JavaScript, and running it in a JavaScript engine on a server. That's only necessary in a browser.

On a server, if you don't want to use JavaScript, you can just directly use a classic OOP language, and dispense with the whole extra frontend transpilation abstraction.

Unless you're a frontend-only webdev, and, understandably enough, you don't want to learn a classic OOP language, which I believe is the real reason.

Or, at least I hope so, because the only other possible reason is mass obliviousness, and that's horrific.
> if I look up the specs on a pair of Bose QC-35's, I won't get internet-stalked with ads for that specific pair of headphones for the next 3 weeks whenever I pull up a weather report

The WSJ seems to be describing https://github.com/WICG/floc, but the kind of remarketing you're describing is what https://github.com/WICG/turtledove is intended to support. Advertisers would still be able to run that kind of personalized ad, but the browser API would not allow them to learn your browsing history in the process.

(Disclosure: I work on ads and Google, speaking only for myself)
What about every other book that is out of print?

Self-censorship also?
Somehow Facebook got the idea that I would be into non alcoholic drink mixers. They showed me so many ads for this class of product that I would absolutely never buy. It was like half a year of those irrelevant ads. Facebook advertising is a dumpster fire from my perspective.
heavy bombers reached their ceiling, i think with the b-52. developing new bombers, as far as i can see, is a criminal waste of resources, post Cold War.
I wish you were right, but IMHO you need to take the devil's (racist's) advocate position here. Even an average not-really-racist but-slightly-prejudiced ("non-woke") HR manager can look at this and go "oh, Google got f_cked so hard for firing these two minority members... I really don't want to possibly end up in that situation"... and, even if that's certainly discriminatory thinking, it's not "wrong" on the pure logical level. And even worse, it's unlikely to be noticed and very hard to fight. The decision not to hire someone won't come with an explainer why, and proving discriminatory practice there is quite hard.

... and the HR manager may even do this subconsciously! In that case noone is even aware discrimination is happening. (Which is why blanking applications is so important!)
My guess is that ICANN knows full well that he's going to appeal the decision and win and they are probably fine with that. It gives them coverage to respond to intellectual property interests, and the governments they hold sway over with "See! We tried!".

It's an unfortunate waste of registrant fees in expensive legal consulting, it's a waste of people's time, and it demonstrates the power that IP holds within the ICANN community.
It's good to see some more critical analysis around GitOps from those that have used it at length, not only the initial hype benefits type of article.
Engineering the Boundary Interface Between 2D and 3D Materials
DDD has the same foundation as Agile:
Complex problems (domains) require explorative and iterative aproaches (like science always did), complicated or simple domains don't need that.

And if you don't know the problem - then don't start doing anything. If you don't understand yourself well enough and cannot isolate a logical model, than stop, too.

For me, that's both timeless wisdom, and nothing special.
Example: Russiagate

We also have a President who is a known serial plagiarist but suddenly all the fact checkers have disappeared. It's hard to believe, based on his history, that Biden's not scoring some Pinocchios.
Reflections on 5 Years in the Enterprise