skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cover your tracks implementation also breaks down uniqueness per category, per metric.

They are nice resources, but don't get too scared!

Frankly, both are exaggerating a little - e.g. including stuff like browser version numbers which only appear as unique as they do because the time-span they cover is long enough to overlap update cycles (AmIUnique even seems to have it cover the entire history by default??? That's just noise), yet not stable for more than a short period of time. AmIUnique includes the exact referer, which is likely not nearly as useful as that would make it seem.

Then there's stuff like "Upgrade Insecure Requests" and "Do not track", which is likely extremely highly correlated with browser version choice.

Both sites can't really tell you how reliable the identification is, only how unique you are at this moment. And that matters a lot, because if identification is unreliable (i.e. the same person in some metric has multiple distinct fingerprints) the end result is that for reliable overall identification a fingerprinter may need many times as many bits of entropy as a naive estimate might assume, especially if visits are occasionally sparse and thus changes to fingerprints may frequently come all at once.

Clearly over the very short term you are likely uniquely identifiable as a visitor. However, it's less clear how stable that is.
The 30% is like an inverse volume discount.
The girl had sex with a creepy manipulative dude and regrets it. I get it. She's obviously super naive. "Yup we can share an Airbnb, i'll bring the wine!". There's obvious sexual overtones there if you are in your 20's, no matter what any of you say. And having spoken at a conference does not put you in a position of power.

He's just a creep, they are pretty common, confident outgoing girls will turn down a creep every weekend. Does not warrant public shaming. I'd be pissed if some girl i texted "Wanna get it ;-8" on tinder, in a blizzard of hormones, three years back, decides to public and destroy my career. I'd be pissed and it wouldn't be fair. That said i'm glad she did, because he sounds like a complete tool. The perpetual conference go'er crowd is full of weirdos.
a bit off topic, but i can logically guarantee you that smoking takes at least 5 minutes off your life. It takes that long to smoke a cigarette...

You have to put things into perspective, why should you care less about living now then in 40 years in the future? Chances are your quality of life will only get worse etc.
In gdb you can put commands to be executed on a breakpoint; you can put necessary prints + continue statement there.
So... that's the "restocking" part. If I understood the article, the restocking part of the story is a little more speculative, and short lived. Underlying that is a >10% increase in consumer demand... possibly more in some (non-US) markets.

I don't understand why.
Lately I've been seeing an interest in revisiting Hypercads from the classic Mac OS, I wonder if it could be run here, I'm curious about using it myself.
there is no reason not to use flexbox if all you want to do is center something. and that sentence doesn't even need any additional qualifiers.
Building a house was never a problem and the huge costs are mostly artificial. The biggest problem is regulation and that you need to have a lot of money to convince local authority to grant a permission to build. It is out of reach for a regular citizen. You can't even build a mud hut without a blessing of a civil servant, and they hate when regular people want to build something as they don't have means to grease their hands.
Dangerous nonsense. HN people should know better than most that "models" are generally crappy closed-source programs running on secret data, i.e., they are not making any attempt to be science. It's casting bones wrapped up in a lab coat and it should be greeted with derision.

A recent example of one of these "models":
https://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/lockdown-and-mathemati...

IIRC, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi recently said that because the infected death rate was around 0.05%, it was basically impossible for a clinical study to show that one of these vaccines would improve the situation. They haven't been shown to help, and doing so is infeasible. I imagine that's why they'd like to try to shore up the situation with some fabricated computer nonsense that can be made to say whatever they like.
> There's enough food to make sure people die,

Too late to edit. That obviously should be "make sure people don't die"
I'm genuinely surprised it took so long to happen.

Many countries (China, Russia, Iran, etc...) have a giant incentive to escape SWIFT and US-centric control over value transfer.

IIRC, there has been effort by China an Russia to circumvent the petro-dollar jail. Why re-invent the wheel, when a system already exists for doing just that?

Or maybe nation states know something that everyone else doesn't wrt the actual robustness of crypto against state-sponsored attacks.
Skips the interesting question of how the LUT tables are made, but still nice introduction to the topic.

I guess to make film simulation, you could photograph bunch of color calibration targets (eg IT8) in different lighting conditions with both the film and digital sensor, and then try match them somehow. That is assuming the film is still available.
I completely understad why 9 ISPs out of 10 would choose to just do what's "least legally dangerous" rather than taking the Banhof route which is basically political posturing while taking a risk. Most of Telias customers and shareholders have no skin in that game, and would probably approve of the company taking the smallest amount of legal risk possible.
This isn't why, at all.
How do you know that? If the imported data pops the host process, it could take over the host and mount the phone read/write.
Does this allow me to finally test my websites in Safari?
The structure of grand juries makes it so that the defense is unable to mount a defense. The fact that grand juries often result in indictment has vanishing little relevance for whether or not it’s a fishing expedition. Further, no one is saying it is a fishing expedition. It’s a request for information that Signal isn’t designed to be able to answer.

You’re also just speculating about the nature of the crime, but saying it confidently, like, oh, this is definitely true. You don’t know.
The Death of Jean
No, they are not convicted of monopolising until they lose an antitrust case. That doesn't mean they aren't monopolising right now, it just means there hasn't been a verdict set against them for illegal monopolisation. Cases such as these (and discussing cases such as these) will help in mounting evidence against Google for abuse of their monopoly position.
Something to pee into
Having a list of "best names ever" is always inappropriate in a professional setting. But unless it is purposely being done for, say, racist reasons this is really just people being silly. The appropriate action is to tell people to delete it and not to do that again then to move on. End of story.

It's sad and scary that we've reached a point as a society where this can even begin to become such an issue and where a company like Basecamp can be dragged into the current inquisitionist atmosphere. Best wishes to DHH and team.
If you are on Google do a regular takeout [α] in preparation for a future ban. It exports everything. Easiest way to back it all up and gives you time to wean off Google.

α: https://takeout.google.com/
can i point out that mortality isn't the only statistic. Health is just as important. I know 70 year olds who are sick and weak, and 90 year olds who are fit and healthy
Not sure, but it works great on modern Wine.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23981583
There's no such thing as “The Perl Community”
Some early Nintendo games needs the “rectangular” pixels in order to display obvious circles (like images of a moon) as circles, other games needs square pixels.

You also see that graphic design for icons and graphics being done on square gridded paper for many early games and graphical workstation.
Fillout whatever you want :)
I honestly don't understand this argument. Please help me do so, because I keep hearing it.

If you're doing crimes, you're paying for them. Now the police, the argument goes, lets white people walk away with warrants. In the same time, they let less black people walk away. Is that the argument?

This might be true, but my problem is the letting people walk away in the first place. I don't want the police to do that at all. If the crime is not too bad, then don't emit warrants to begin with. But if there is a warrant, then that should be enforced.

I don't see how not enforcing warrants for black people or criminals of any color will make things better. It won't make things better for the society at large or for the black community. I believe the hard working black people also want less crime on the streets.

There is a problem with longer sentencing for black people, from what I heard. That is not a police issue. Police violence is a police issue, for all races. But police trying to arrest based on a warrant is not an issue, even if it devolves in violence.

What am I getting wrong?
I don't think this news is correct. I was unable to find any official corroborating info about this.
Not really, I am pointing out data privacy means different things to different people. From my experience many are surprised how easily a users data can be obtained. There appears to be a misconception with some that Apple fights legal battles and refuses to comply with law enforcement because Apple believes so strongly in data privacy.

One example: There was a person harassing people on facebook in a small local community. Sending obscene images and making threats. To solve the crime local law enforcement ended up compiling a list of just under 20 possible suspects.

Hoping to match an iCloud photo to a post on facebook a warrant was issued for all 20 users data. Apple sends an. encrypted file with all the data and then another email with the passwords

Long story short the offender was caught however almost 20 people’s data was looked through by local law enforcement. I stress local because this is not some federal agent solving a major crime but just a neighbor police officer who sends his own kids to the same schools as these other innocent people.

Disclaimer: I assisted law enforcement on this case and a couple of others.
Nobody counting skin cancer deaths and saying "this is completely avoidable and dying at that age is abnormal" back then either...
China is working on digital yuan. It is currently undergoing field testing.
"It’s simply invalid science"

So the whole peer review comittee was asleep, but you are here to tell us
Sadly I don't have "my own programming language", and even if I did, I think this is an unsolved problem in language design :P Interesting question, though; I'll think about it.
CLI Streaming Player
So I made a CLI Streaming that leverages FFPLAY to stream Your YouTube playlists right from your CLI. Will add other providers in coming days.

Your views appreciated.
The law is something you turn to when things go extremely wrong. I spend very little time worried about the law.

I worry much more about how to ensure that things go right.

The problem with wondering where the law draws the line is that if you look for guilt, it's easy to find it. It's easy to take offense, to escalate offense, to dig your grave deeper.

I worry much more about cultural trends. Laws are written by people and interpreted by people. The same law that twenty years ago was used one way can morph into something else. What was once a protection can become a cudgel.

The law is certainly needed. But this problem won't be solved with laws and court cases.

It will be solved with mutual respect and civil discourse, which is why I chose to reply to you.

Thank you for pleasantly surprising me with this comment. I was about 90 percent certain I was making a terrible mistake and would regret replying.

I chose to bet a certain way, knowing the odds were long against it going well but it was the only bet with some hope of furthering civility rather than deepening the yawning chasm that so often stands between us and a better world.
https://playground.diagram.codes has timelines, flow charts, etc. all live updated from text.
should the introduction not be 0x0? the very first value is skipped.
You could rephrase your sentence and replace "higher social class" with race, gender, religion, or member of my favorite club and you'd have the most base -ism ever. This sentence is the root of almost all discrimination.

"Therefore, if you do not know anything else about a group of candidates"

Then the solution is to know more. Often our stereotypes (higher class) mask deep incompetencies or stop us from a deeper evaluation of the talent. You substitute accent, mannerisms and fashion for evaluating skills, aptitude, experience for the false assumption that in general will rule over the specifics of the candidate pool... which leads to horrible hiring practices, dystopian culture and worse.
What Snoop Dogg’s Success Says About the Book Industry
They are great! We use their public beta CTX images. When we contacted them, they said the blended CTX images will be out of beta by end of the year :)
"Disembodied" means I/O interface is reasonably clean and not entangled, it does not mean there is no I/O.
which android can force update or remove if they have to.
There's a bunch of isolation that you're already paying the price of.

Your OS already has a layer that checks, when a process tries to open a file or access a bit of hardware, whether you have permission to access it. Your CPU has a layer that checks, when you try to read or write a given memory address, whether you have the right permissions. And so on.

A lot of sandboxing amounts to making those existing checks more restrictive - telling the OS "If this program running as John Doe asks to open a file, instead of treating it like John Doe treat it like someone with no files at all" - which is no slower than what the OS was doing anyway.

The sandboxing that comes with performance penalties is generally doing more than just sandboxing - for example, Ubuntu's 'snaps' have sandboxing, but they also duplicate a bunch of libraries for compatibility reasons.
> Many countries (China, Russia, Iran, etc...) have a giant incentive to escape SWIFT and US-centric control over value transfer.

While this is true, they also are petrified of something they themselves don't have authority over. I don't think the hesitance is surprising, these are governments that are obsessed with controlling most aspects of their citizens lives.
There is no abstract security benefit from updating some software, updates just changes things. Software security is like a bubbly shell with holes and no thickness, patching a random hole means nothing.
Not necessarily. Some of the most brilliant and hardworking people I know have a background that is anything but "high social class".

They are like that because they have something to aspire to.

Meanwhile high social class people I've met are generally dependable, but that's about it. Perhaps because they never had an incentive to think outside the box.
Gandi had a major outage a mere week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26862162
Really? Wow. Maybe washing machine would have been a better analogy :)
Here it is again, cowards. If you hit 'flag' instead of responding, you are a soulless wretch.

Dangerous nonsense. HN people should know better than most that "models" are generally crappy closed-source programs running on secret data, i.e., they are not making any attempt to be science. It's casting bones wrapped up in a lab coat and it should be greeted with derision.

A recent example of one of these "models":
https://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/lockdown-and-mathemati...

IIRC, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi recently said that because the infected death rate was around 0.05%, it was basically impossible for a clinical study to show that one of these vaccines would improve the situation. They haven't been shown to help, and doing so is infeasible. I imagine that's why they'd like to try to shore up the situation with some fabricated computer nonsense that can be made to say whatever they like.
> people need to work on their algorithms for sure.

Do they?

Most adspace buyers are utterly clueless about how Google algorithms work.

The flaws the OP describe are real, but my bet is 80 to 90% of adspace buyers have no idea of the shortcomings.

Nor do they care BTW: the ROI on their ad dollar when spent on GOOG is so much higher than traditional channels ever were that they just set the drip in place and never look back.
Sure, it's very credible that a general tendency will remain if other sources of information are available. The unresolved question is what weight is assigned to each preference.

If a hiring decision is influenced to 0.01% by speech and accent and 99.99% by whatever you deem reasonable criteria, then what do you learn from filtering out the latter?

And of course, decisions like this need not have linear behavior in reality either. A gross mismatch between different indicators could result in significantly worse hiring manager opinions than the (weighted) sum of the individual aspects.

Imagine that a candidate shows moderate (but sufficient) aptitude but then tries to disguise it with "high brow" rhetoric. In isolation using such speech may be considered a positive, but in this case it will be probably be to their detriment.
> Delayed destruction (either on another thread or batches) removes the possibility of safely using RAII via finalizers

No, it doesn't in general. Delayed destruction can be used selectively only for these object graphs that could cause large batches of deallocations, and only once you find by profiling that you really have a problem. Most object graphs are not like that, so don't penalize the average case for the edge case you might even not have at all. You can still use synchronous deallocation on the objects where immediate deallocation is needed. Secondly, I bet delayed deallocation on a background thread happens a lot sooner than waiting for the next GC to happen and to call the finalizers (which may never happen). With delayed deallocation the system knows how much there is to deallocate. With tracing GC there is no such knowledge until tracing is over.

> Most modern implementations of refcounting end up having a cycle collector, anyway, which also means you can end up unexpectedly paused, removing another touted advantage.

That's why Rust doesn't have a default cycle collector. Reference cycles are IMHO a non-issue in practice. There is no point in paying for cycle-collection by unpredictability of the whole program, when it helps only with edge-cases.

> In general, GC implementations (including initially-refcounting) tend to converge over time in both performance and features.

I'd frame it differently: all-purpose one-size-fits-all memory management solutions are almost universally suboptimal and easily beaten by solutions which give more control in programmer's hands. Rust is about providing that control about fine details and giving you a set of handy tools. The toolset might be slightly harder to learn initially due to borrow checker and lifetime rules, but over time I didn't notice any productivity hit from that (actually quite contrary, but this is a different topic).

And somehow, even without me doing any heavy optimisations, my Rust programs tend to use 100x less memory and perform way faster than my Java programs. How can it be explained, when I have much more Java experience than Rust experience?
Popular Card Game Taught Me Why Modern Capitalism Is So Screwed Up
It's worth pointing out the very important part about how it's being calculated.

From the link (below the chart):

> "Before May 2020, M1 consists of (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions; (2) demand deposits at commercial banks (excluding those amounts held by depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign banks and official institutions) less cash items in the process of collection and Federal Reserve float; and (3) other checkable deposits (OCDs), consisting of negotiable order of withdrawal, or NOW, and automatic transfer service, or ATS, accounts at depository institutions, share draft accounts at credit unions, and demand deposits at thrift institutions.

Beginning May 2020, M1 consists of (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions; (2) demand deposits at commercial banks (excluding those amounts held by depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign banks and official institutions) less cash items in the process of collection and Federal Reserve float; and (3) other liquid deposits, consisting of OCDs and savings deposits (including money market deposit accounts). Seasonally adjusted M1 is constructed by summing currency, demand deposits, and OCDs (before May 2020) or other liquid deposits (beginning May 2020), each seasonally adjusted separately."
I was much more concerned about my beef consumption before watching this WIL video. It put things in perspective for me. The efficiency of beef production in each country, how water and land use calculations are done, equivalent nutritional value compared to other crops was very interesting.

It doesn't negate the moral problems with factory farming, but that wasn't the intent of the video.

https://youtu.be/sGG-A80Tl5g
I generally recommend a small @media print { … } block in your existing stylesheet, rather than a separate print stylesheet file

Does it really matter anymore with HTTP2?
We can't use maths to describe our digestive systems adequately, but we do it for particles.
Please show any study which "struggled to show any benefit."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3591312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5153448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4699551/

Etc.

Studies range in effect sizes, but all the ones I read in March 2020 showed significant reductions in flu infection rates with masks. There were nice studies on cloth versus surgical versus N95 at the time too (summary: surgical and N95 were similar in performance, and much better than cloth, when used without full hazmat).

We know a lot more, specific to COVID, today. But that was best available evidence in March.
The “debugger” keyword in Javascript is similar. I’ve used it frequently!
But VAT on buying a yacht or taxes on properties are easier to avoid.

Also the avoidance on things like laptops might be small, but they typically can't be done by the people at the bottom end of the income spectrum.
In my city (non US), the police block a bridge over the river, stop everyone, and check the levels of alcohol in their breath. I don't make a fuss about it, because it probably keeps me safer as a lot of idiots won't drink and drive because of this being done regularly.

Deal with it. The police stopping you is not them thinking you are a criminal necessarily.
I keep wondering, not even the fucking pandemic has managed so far to set some people’s priorities straight.
> Create a separate account at the same company for the other purpose

fyi this is against Google Ads's terms last time I looked into it. You can do it if you've got the secondary account registered as it's own legal entity but one Ad account per entity
This is already a validated market segment - Citrix and other terminal services that global companies use. Only this is more hardware agnostic and does not need complex deployment.
Finding and Losing the World’s Oldest Art in Sulawesi
I don't think it's generally sound life advice to outsource thinking to others.

In addition, judging by the topic, this was a sociology department study. Social studies are hardly even science, and the practitioners aren't exactly renowned for their statistical skills. I'm much more confident about my Oxford Masters of Science degree in math.
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