skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really a genius level move by Google here. Get rid of the cookie, implement your own solution, make it seem somewhat unique and rely on other data to identify users and claim impunity since it's nothing to do with them.

So how about this, Google must not, and cannot implement FLOC without it being a cross-browser standard; that is to say if anyone of Microsoft, Apple or Mozilla veto FLOC, it's dead.

This is how standards are supposed to work. Google should not be given the power to make a thing (like AMP) and just force it upon everyone.

We MUST start regulating Google's every product development, I'd rather it get held up for a year in court before it sees the light of day.
The child of a friend of my girlfriend developed COVID myocarditis. He'll have heart problems for the rest of his life now.

He's a child.

This is why nothing less than total lockdown will do, even for a disease with a 99.97% survival rate -- at what cost comes survival?
I guess it's an opportunity cost calculation of convert vs. rebuild. Some affluent areas where the inventory of fancy lofts is low would likely support it, while lower-income areas it would be best to demo and build a giant tower of micro apartments.
I don't get it I thought k8s was like the perfect match for Go? K8s is even written in Go. I know that doesn't strictly mean it must be easy to use Go, but it seems weird that it wouldn't be K8s best experience.
I feel like you're just making up a strawman here. It's pretty clear (at least to me), that the people who want a dumb car are talking about things integrating with your phone or being displayed on a touch screen.

Personally, I really enjoy that with our new van I can listen to a podcast/music through Bluetooth and pause/resume playback through a simple touchscreen without having to fiddle with my phone directly.
I get downvoted for posting undisputed facts that conflict with Western narratives. I would get downvoted even more for my actual analysis.

I do like how often people seem to think that the only reason someone might contradict Western narratives if they’re getting paid to do so. I’m just a white dude from Ohio who wants an end to endless war and imperialism.
The article mentions some hospitalizations but not any deaths, so it still definitely seems safer.
Desplite the original title (HN's clarified it), the topic isn't technical writing as might be presumed, but writing on technology, and mostly the sort of pie-eyed, overly credulous and bombastically optimistic variety that's often found. Even, occasionally, on the pages on Hacker News.

The list is a set of tired tropes which occur with some frequency.

It's short. There are links to expanded discussion. The context is a 10-year blog of the author's on the larger topic of technology and technological criticism, and yes, there's a book, pay-what-you-can, CC-licensed:
https://gumroad.com/l/CWRfq

I might have added, substituted, or amended a few items, most especially that there is actually something of a history and philosophy of technological criticism, but that's me. The latter point is picked up in the blog at large and the book.

For an item I very nearly passed over on account of its original title, this is actually an intruiging find. Thanks to thomasbjeven for turning it up, and L.M. Sacasas for writing it.
>Yes some individuals care less than they should.

Is it really an amount of "care", or that some people just have an ability to not get bogged down by the scary stuff. There would be no X-Games at all if we were all wired the same. There are people that voluntarilly get off of their motorcycle at the apex of their jump to score some extra points. That's beyond insane to me, but to them it's part of the job.
Hopefully leaders can learn some empathy from this pandemic.

> everything about managing remotely completely sucks for me.

As an engineer, everything about working in-person completely sucks for me. I hate being around people, I hate hearing people, I hate interacting with coworkers face to face, I hate sitting in office chairs and desks, and I hate commuting.

> Videocalls. Whiteboarding. Interviewing. Strategic work. Reading emotions and connecting to people.

Again, these all completely suck for me in-person. I'm an introvert and I hate having to put on a happy face for the manager (my resting face looks anywhere from tired to murderous), I hate "sitting in a war room" pretending to focus while my time is just wasted by people talking, I hate traveling and waiting in a lobby for interviews when I'm already nervous, and I hate having to mime the emotions and interactions that leaders think are meaningful but that I just do because it's part of office politics.

Maybe you're an exception, and it would be great if you are. But I've had deep and meaningful relationships with people, fully remotely and text-based, since I used IRC as a teenager. I think in 2021 it's fair to raise the bar and expect managers/leaders to learn basic online communication to the level that teenagers were doing like 10-20 years ago, rather than shackle everyone to the office and commutes because leaders can't learn how to use slack/zoom
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Seems like a strange sentiment, evaluating a modeling approach based on historical analogies vs its own merits. If we're playing the historical analogies game, people were saying "not again" about Neural Networks up until mid/late 2000s.
I don't doubt it works.

In fact I keept a chewed up tennis ball and dog dish next to my back door for ages. No break in attempts, despite it happening to neighbors ... no dog, but it seemed to be enough ;)

Having said that as a more practical point if I were some super burglar (granted I suspect most criminals are not) ... I really think most angry dogs would happy change their mind and be your best friend if you just dropped some treats for them. They really wouldn't care what you did after that.
There was an APL keyboard.

And, the APL interpreter/compiler was weird. if you typed an F followed by a backspace, followed by an L, it would merge those into an E, as if they were typed on top of each other, like a typewriter.
COVID is still an unfolding disaster. I doubt that anybody really understands completely what it does.
The risk of death from Covid-19 is low in that age range.

But what about the risk of heart inflammation from Covid-19 in that age group, possibly with no other Covid symptoms?
> Most of the poor and middle (spare me the lecture about how someone grossing 200k+ is middle because they're unwilling to suffer a longer commute or live where the schools are slightly worse) don't have a mortgage on a house.

Please spare us the strawmen you're fighting in your head. Most US households own their own home (65+%). The vast majority of households with incomes above the median own their own home (79.4%) and even the majority of households BELOW the median own their own home (51.8%)[1]. So I'd also like you to spare us your made up evidence.

> Student debt is a thing but the amounts and repayment rates are so low nobody was hurting that much anyway (the guy who's 60k in the red for a journalism degree is not in any way typical).

Average student loan debt for a new grad is ~$30k. Hardly trivial.

> Even with stupidly high inflation a car loan will never make you money because you can't liquidate because you'd need to buy back in.

Is your belief that inflation is good for debt holders because they can earn money on the assets that back up the debt? The point is that debt is denominated in nominal dollars.

1: https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf
FLoC: micro market segmentation. Profiles versus data.

It requires on 33 bits to uniquely identify an individual. [0].

I would be interested to learn whether FLoC employed k-anonymity measures, and their report on it.

If I am retired, female, live in the 830* zip3, and own a sedan, it is probably hard to identify me. Add that I am Korean and am searching for thyroid cancer treatments on Tuesday at 8:43AM local, then I am way more identifiable. I don't understand how FLoC works, and how it gets around this type of intrusion.

The only solution I am aware of is to dramatically limit the category depth. But that sort of defeats the purpose of micro market segmentation. And that's a good thing, IMO.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/primer-information-the...
The Importance of A/B Testing in Robotics
Is it that bad compared to npm?
That's very cool. For my purposes, I'm less concerned with the server-side; I'm kinda hoping to put the music in the cloud somewhere and outsource server administration. In any case, these users are in no way going to be setting up server themselves. They don't know what "server" means and don't use the word in sentences.
Why is special about Tesla that makes them not a “normal” car that happens to be electric?
Yeah, I meant without the 'reporting back to a server'. Like for e.g., the website sends a 'package' to the browser - The package is built on the fly and contains all the dependencies. The package is then unarchived and files are opened in the browser w/o the server being involved.
Ford has chosen to grant your wish: https://www.ford.com/trucks/maverick/2022/ - a real compact pickup with hybrid technology available at the base price of $20k.
Record labels sue another ISP, demanding mass disconnections of Internet users
A Turing machine needs a discrete clock cycle, if intelligence requires quantum mechanics that has entanglement through time, that would be one example.
What I mean is that if thieves can defeat the lock on my door, it doesn’t mean my door lock is worthless. I still lock my door but I don’t rely on it exclusively for protection.
As an IC, I fully support extroverts going back to the office. I just want introverts like myself to have the option to never go back to the office. I don't understand why people think it's either one or the other
What do you mean by “spread through the bloodstream”?

Of course even in an IM injection, some will end up in the blood stream. The better question is the overall amount that stays within the deltoid vs that that travels elsewhere, and how the compares to natural infection. How does the virus deposit itself around the body vs. how does the spike protein via vaccination deposit itself around the body. As well, with the way the vaccine works, once it hits a cell, that cell will express the spike protein to the surface and that’s it, instead of contributing to further viral spread in the same region.
I have also been experiencing irregular heart beat and palpitations. Quite possible that I had COVID at some point.
{:ok, foo} is just the largely community adopted soft error pattern in elixir

call_service could just return response and remove the verboseness.

so it would be:

response <- call_service(data)

I don't know C# but would that code explode if there was an error, instead of in again the soft error pattern likely getting {:error, foo} ?

Regardless my point is that {:ok, bar} stuff isn't a language required aspect it's a community pattern if that makes it any better for you.
Being slightly more careful doesn't really help in this situation. They are slightly more careful. The smart ones are very careful. It's intrinsically dangerous. Someone suggested a tag out system and that just makes it clear to me they don't understand the mechanics at hand. Why more of them don't wear a harness, tie off, and the buddy system, I don't know, but that's about the only real way you can recover if you get sucked in.
There is one coming apparently but the range is fairly sad: https://www.mazda.com/en/new-generation/mx-30/ .
Who is only looking at one correlation? We all take into account the information we have. More information is better. If they had provided more information, it would have improved each reader's overall picture.

>Or would it be better to only discriminate against dogs and not their owners? We all know how much the dogs use USPS.

I don't know what this means.

>why not take it on by promoting better dog upbringing?

I do promote that. I don't know where you're getting this from.

Back to the idea of harm avoidance:

Let's say we discover that the only factors that determine bite risk are how the dog is raised and how you behave around it. And let's say there is a non-causative correlation showing breed X has a high bite risk. Then it would be reasonable when adopting a puppy to not consider breed X a high bite risk, but it would also be reasonable to consider breed X a high bite risk when encountering one you didn't raise yourself, and therefore e.g. not allow your child to interact with it (or whatever precaution makes one feel comfortable). More information is better.
Definitely stop more uploads.

Deleting files is nasty but I don’t see an alternative.

But there must be lots of alerts if they do this!

Limit set separately for backups would make sense so you can recover. Even if your production limit starts chaos monkeying.
Unless I'm misunderstanding how this new feature is implemented, tracking pixels will still work, but the data that can be gleaned from them will be more generic (the IP address will belong to a proxy).

Senders that are using these pixels to measure engagement (as opposed to building user profiles) shouldn't have much to worry about.
I have an older Canon 5Dmkii, and it has a dial for shutter speed near the shutter release and also has a dial ring for aperture control on the back. I'm pretty sure the mkiii and mkiv do as well. I know the 1D I used in the past also had the same configuration of dials.

As with anything camera related, where to buy could be B&H, Adorama, Sammy's, or your local camera shop (if they still exist in your area).
Betteridge's law of headlines applies to this one. Though this quote from another article was particularly inexplicable to me:

> “This is another sign that Apple’s war against targeted advertising isn’t just about screwing Facebook,” Joshua Benton wrote in Nieman Lab. “They’re also coming for your Substack.”

Substack's whole appeal (at least to me) is that it's not bogged down by the seemingly mandatory ads, popovers, and autoplay videos that plague every other news site.
In fact, "if we had a good enough function" == "if we had sufficient funding". This refrain will resonate mightily in the willing ears of US congressfolk who want re-election and would rather talk about something other than Trump.

So welcome back to the future, and the $trillions the US spent on 20 years of space race and 50 years of cold war. The catchphrase that motivates the next 50 years of government/corporate funding will be...

They've got a Terminator and we don't.
On a semi-related note, I bet the number of "frantic" dogs is up these days. As more people stayed home last year, more dogs were adopted, but the owners couldn't properly socialize them with other dogs or even different people in public places or just by having guests, which I reckon is a big part of the problem.
> The automotive industry has a long long way to come - assuming it will happen at all - before they can be said to be responsible software vendors.

It's worse than that. The very best in the software industry has a reliability problem. And carmakers are certainly not among the best in the software industry.
> But it is unlikely that any mainstream competitor to EA would ever use such stolen data.

I appreciate them acknowledging this fact. It bothers me how many people think that leaking the source code of a game engine is an actual problem for the company.

Just because the code is available doesn't give you a license to use it. And the ones that don't care about having a license would not have used / payed for it in the first place.

Regarding knowhow behind modern engines, Unreal and CRYENGINE's source code is available on GitHub. Engineers often publish research papers about their methods and reverse engineering isn't as infeasible as one might think initially.

Also, speaking about Frostbite and what we've read about in the past (see Anthem), I highly doubt a developer can be productive using it while lacking official support.
You're kind of begging the question when you take "The 40 hour/week company will get more done" as a given, because that is exactly what's at stake here, isn't it? People upthread are theorizing that those extra 20 hours a week really don't make us get more done, because (to quote one of the comments above), "the rest is socialization, pointless meetings, lunches, or trying to look busy"
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I'll admit I did not even attempt to report anything. I didn't have any meaningful symptoms after my first shot (Moderna) and the symptoms I had after the second were pretty bad but also everything I expected based on what I heard from others. Chills, muscle aches, typical flu-like symptoms that lasted just about 24 hours.

So I can't speak to the quality of any websites. But I do not recall anyone before the parent comment saying they were actively discouraged by health workers to not report symptoms.
This seems obvious, really. When you're using a touchscreen you cannot "see" with your hand the same way you can with physical analog controls.

Touchscreens force us to look at them with our eyes to use them.
Will there be a way to turn this off as a user so I'm never included in any cohort calculations?
Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation Is Cryonics for Uploaders
As long as you are small enough, that's what everyone does. Pay taxes in your own jurisdiction, ignore foreign taxes.

At some point you may reach a limit where you need to file taxes in other places as well.

But as a one man operation that sounds unlikely.
Google can delay, I do not believe that even with 60% market share they are strong enough to resist permanently.

It is definitely in Google's best interest to act like FLoC is necessary to remove cookies, but I don't take their marketing at face value. They care about being competitive with Apple; they were even forced to pretend to care about advertising IDs after iOS's recent changes.

:shrug: pretty much every other browser has rejected FLoC as well, so I guess we'll find out if Chrome is really able to just go their own direction. But I think this is one of the rare instances where people are overestimating Chrome's power.

I don't believe Chrome's team would be doing any of this at all if they didn't see the writing on the wall about where the industry is going. My take is that they're trying to get in front of an inevitable industry-wide change to mitigate it's impacts on their core business. It's not out of charity or real concern for user privacy that they're proposing any of these compromises, Google would be perfectly happy to stay in a world with 3rd-party cookies if they thought they could get away from it.

A lot of their recent proposals start to make sense when viewed through that lens. See their effort to propose a standard where 3rd-party sites can be treated like 1st-party. See also their increased efforts on moving away from URLs for domain scoping. See also Manifest V3. Google is scared about this. The are scared of the situation getting out of their control.

And even if Chrome is powerful enough to resist removing 3rd-party cookies forever, I'd almost prefer they do that. It'll make it easier to get people to switch off Chrome when it is objectively less private than every single other browser in meaningful, easily demonstrable ways. And we do need to figure out a way to break up Chrome's stranglehold on the web anyway, so every reason helps. With the addition of FLoC, Chrome will already be less private than other browsers since FLoC is a strict privacy downside over just removing cookies. So it's good for that loss of privacy to be even more private, and to remove Google's ability to hide behind a confusing narrative about how actually their fingerprinting vectors are good.
> Personally, I really enjoy that with our new van I can listen to a podcast/music through Bluetooth and pause/resume playback through a simple touchscreen without having to fiddle with my phone directly.

I'm not sure what your point is. I never said that no one wants these features. Obviously there are many that do.
Not to mention much cheaper wind and solar with battery bridging.
The problem with this is that auto companies are not software companies. They may have good engineers there, but they are hamstrung with a culture that considers software as an add on cost center at best.

Perfect example: I have no way to report software bugs to Honda. I've found a few and collected detailed reproduction data. The best I can do is give it to a sales rep in the service department and hope they send it "up to corporate".

Compare that to Telsa, which has bug reporting built right into the software in the car, as well as bug bounty program.

And then there are updates. Honda found a bug where the speedometer would just crash and not show your speed anymore. This is was pretty bad, but I had no idea about it until I went into the dealership. There was apparently a recall but I would have had to find that myself, I didn't get a notice. Honda has no built in facility to notify people of software updates and recalls. And then once I found out, the only way to fix it is for a dealership to apply the update. There is no over the air update and no way for me to apply it myself.

Car companies need to learn how to be software first, or things will get very dangerous.
Offer the product for free, but sell support. (No developer finds this option appealing.)

This is new to me - do developers really not like providing paid support for their product? It's one of the easiest way to make money! The whole of India's IT industry makes money this way - the annual maintenance contract is a tried and tested business model. Even I've made easy money by doing light sys-admin tasks on VPS for clients.

And I also feel you are missing a major point - not all developers are natural entreprenuers who know how to make money from their product. There is a big learning curve to figure out all the business stuff and often many developers don't have the time or inclination to do so.

And yeah, SaaS provided a great way for companies previously averse to GPL licenses to really make money from it without adhering to the open source spirit behind it. And that is why all GPL software needs to be relicense under AGPL.
Mazda hasn't sold a production car with a rotary engine in a while, I believe since the RX-8 went out of production. Due to the nature of rotary engines they inherently have worse emissions (more like a 2-stroke than a 4-stroke) and while people have been hoping for another production rotary from Mazda it's unclear if they will build another one or not.
Inflation is good for corporate debtors, too, which is why governments around the world are so generally enamored with it.
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One feature Plex offers that I don't see from anyone else is the ability to install their media server software on the router itself. IMO this is a super simple and cost effective way to distribute your media. Most routers already come with a USB port and USB thumb drives are way cheaper and don't require any additional hardware/setup like a NAS. Only issue is that this appears to only be available on one router:

https://www.plex.tv/apps-devices/#modal-devices-netgear-nigh...
Semver is one way, but yes.

It annoys me when libraries "clean up" (churn) their codebase when they should've thought more carefully about designing the interface (the contract) before publishing it. Code churn often creates more pointless work for N library users. I swear that most code churn is to make a project look "alive" or to give people something to do / job security.

Deprecate slowly and have semi-automated user code fixups and notes.
I feel like this was misread. The statement appears to say that he doesn't think they will completely displace manual driving of cars for considerable time. And that SAE level 5 arguably expects more than we expect from human drivers (many of us would not be safe driving in whiteout conditions on a windy mountain road).