skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now here's me doing some back bending playing devil's advocate. If the image being optimized for UX resulted in the wacky scoring situation that lowered their ranking in search, would that also not be considered a bad UX if it's harder for users to find you? The team noticed the lower rankings, then investigated. They then realized why the ranking was lower due to the bad LCP. The investigation found that their image optimization was causing the bad LCP, so a quick change on that fixed the bad LCP. So it's not like they were chasing a metric for metric's sake. They did the correct optimization first. So again, I think calling it lucky is a bit harsh in this case. However, I totaly get where you are coming from and know that a lot of places will luck there way into things without ever knowing the why.
This was won by default since Cobra did not show. This is also a copyright claim on the authorship of the Bitcoin whitepaper.

I don't think this represents much other than "the defendant didn't show, so you win by default."
At least some VAX models supported user-supplied microcode and thus a customizable ISA. This could be used, for example, to implement a Prolog abstract machine directly on the CPU[1].

[1] http://hps.ece.utexas.edu/pub/gee_micro19.pdf
Everyone has doubts. Would love to chat about what you've done.

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I did not think there was any value, especially as it turned out to be a poorly written ad (or may be just one that was not intended to appeal to me).

Her partner's obsession with sales tax made no sense either, considering there are far bigger costs to consider for one's retirement budget.
China implemented capitalism. This lifted millions out of poverty. Capitalism is profit driven. I'm not sure what you mean.
It seems to me central to the character of British imperialism, that the domination of geopolitically important region is pursued not because of some inert ethnocentrism but because they believe themselves to be the bearers of a superior social order and that spreading it is the Anglo-Saxon man's burden. Recently this national pride has turned into xenophobia and their prime minister seems more a character of the Moscow Kremlin than of Downing Street. That he and the UK will have a role in the history of this century seems doubtful.
Also west Texas has lots and lots of natural gas. Most of which is wasted.

If you aren’t on the pipeline network it’s not really economical to sell so it’s flared.
>Wright won the copyright-infringement case he brought by default, after the website's anonymous founder, known as Cobra, decided not to speak in his defense in the proceedings in London.

...

>Wright was granted permission to take the operator of Bitcoin.org to court in April, even though the defendant's name and address were unknown.

So it's a pretty hollow "ruling".
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>If someone abuses your doorbell the solution isn't to install a hidden DNA and body scanner in front of your door.

The first thing I would do is look outside to collect information on who in outside thereby infringing their privacy.

>Also suggesting that an IP based rate limiter is the same as the surveillance in question is very disingenuous

Recording people's IPs is definitely surveillance.

>say medicine targeting erectile dysfunction, sexual or religious preferences, etc.
We may be able to connect drug sellers or churches with people if we know that information.

>But surely I should be allowed to covertly collect any data about you if it enables some savings for me.

Sure you can. Go ahead.
Sell ads based on time periods. "Your ad displayed here for 1 week for this much $$$". Then the only thing that matters is the ROI and it doesn't matter how many bots have clicked on it.
U.S. to add ‘X’ gender marker on passports
I think you didn't read my link; this is literally the first paragraph.

> Having more than three drinks in one sitting temporarily raises your blood pressure, but repeated binge drinking can lead to long-term increases.
Assuming universal vaccination, that specific strain is actually pretty much going to be wiped out. You're going to see other strains replace it, yes, but if we had in theory a 90% effective vaccine against every single strain of influenza we would be able to completely stop human transmission of influenza for a very long time.
i did some searching online for people getting busted in my state and really only found articles of dudes doing it at industrial scales in their garage. i dont think i found a single news article about someone's house getting raided and going to prison over some tubs in their closet. which isnt to say it doesn't happen, it just seems really unlikely. if you dont yap about it and your landlord isnt a nosy person you'll be fine. getting caught very likely means jail/prison time though.
But most cities in the us do not have defecation on the sidewalks.

Thus there is no need for mental shenanigans.
Prenatal test developed with Chinese military stores gene data
The CCP makes a trillion dollars a year off of the current status quo, they can afford to throw away billions as long as the trillion keeps coming in.
And that's on top of the actual service, which is $35/mo for 2 lines.

It still ends up cheaper than our previous unlimited plan because we just make sure to use Wifi whenever possible.

Fi has an unlimited plan, but it costs more and it doesn't include roaming (outside of country) data.

We've got a huge credit because we got deals on a couple expensive phones, but after that credit runs out (in like a year, I think) we'll probably re-evaluate.
no that is yellow, it is just a skin type her mother has it as well, I put it down to a mix of quarter dutch and 1/64 australian aboriginal
A 10% increase in synaptic density and strength can be good or bad. Are these new connections rooted and grounded in useful things that pertain to reality, or are they connections rooted in halluconations? Or what?

Magnesium-L-Threonate (Magtein) also increases synaltic density but without hallucination. However it doesn't offer the serotonin effects of psilocybin.

Aerobic exercise regimens offer both, but without the hallucinogenic benefits of having a new perspective on things.
I mean, yes. In general, the problem these systems are trying to solve is "ugh, we have too much electricity right now, why can't we use it later" (in particular, areas with a lot of wind generation often have to stop the turbines spinning). At time of storage, the energy is essentially free (or of negative value, really; in the absence of storage the excess energy is a _problem_) so efficiency of storage is much less important than facility cost per MW.
> Sure, now lets try to apply that in practice with a kid angry at you for years.

That's called "being a parent" in my circle? I have a toddler that loves to throw the "you're not my friend!" at me when I cut off the TV and tell her it is time for dinner.

I never had a cell-phone until 17, despite all my friends having had theirs as early as the middle school years. Never mattered much in my case. I didn't have an X-Box 360 with Halo 2 and online gaming despite many of my peers having had that. Not sure why this is being seen as a "must have."
I'm curious of the mechanics of this, since the expansion of ice makes it a pain to manage.
Speaking as someone who lost an entire social circle because of conscientiously objecting to Facebook: yeah, good luck with that.
Children get upset when they’re not allowed to get a tattoo or eat candy for dinner. Hell, if they’re not getting upset regularly than you’re probably doing something wrong.
But Nature also has given us everything we need to survive. Just because it's also deadly doesn't mean it isn't kind. Compare the Earth's hostility to Mars. Despite all its dangers, Nature seems downright cuddly by that measure.
> A third world war would make the governments even more paranoid, scared, and intrusive, not less.

Exactly, and the consequences to the average person would be so severe that they would begin valuing privacy again. A lot of people in WW2 quickly learned that not having information about their religious or political affiliation public was a matter of life or death.
What an interesting social engineering project. How many Twitter accounts do you fully control with via your permission settings? Any interesting ones to manipulate crypto or stock prices?
I couldn't figure it out either. If anyone has successfully used the Willowfinch.com site, how do you get started?
>Until recently it was quite normal that stores wouldn't let you in if you were covering your face.

The point isn't that you can cover your face, it's that the recognition ability is limited to that one employee at the store. That means if you don't want to be recognized you can go to another store/town (yes, your face is still visible but unless you're starting a commotion you'll be forgotten in less than 24 hours).
they're legal to grow in Denver now I believe. Take a trip to find a person who grows in Denver and buy them. they're typically grown in very sterile ways that dont even involve manure - just grains or rice.
I reported some egregious behavior to Swedish DPA. I think I didn't even get an automated reply acknowledging the request :(
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"We the people" has been replaced by "We the lobbyists" or extending to "We the corporations".
I hope there are very few people with your mentality
My point wasn't that these things happen disproportionately in the west. It was that to imply, as the GP did, that these issues do not exist or are not problems in the west is both incorrect and damaging.

Corruption is a pretty good example. When it occurs non-western country it's called out and criticised but when speaking about western countries we dress it up in fancy clothes. In the U.S. it's "Lobbying", in the UK it's "Cronyism" or "Chumocracy". By redefining the terms, corruption becomes something that only happens elsewhere, in less "civilised" places, and not something that has to be dealt with at home.

Labour could be another, there's a huge lack of perspective in discussions around foreign labour standards where we will condemn the working conditions in China or India while ignoring the fact that these people are experiencing those conditions working in the factories of some of the wealthiest companies in the west.
well, I have ubo enabled too, so I remove overlays and blurs sometimes, my point is I don't care, I'm visiting the site once ever most likely, I just want to read the page and leave
How many kids do you know with a job?

Now that a lot of society is cashless, children need a way to spend their pocket money even.
I really don't get the confusion around JOINs...

Any JOIN is what the author is calling a "CROSS JOIN", with "ON" (which is optional) basically being a WHERE condition, and "LEFT", "RIGHT", "INNER", "OUTER" words only describing whether or not to drop a result if the left/right side of the join would be a NULL reference.

And, of course, a "UNION JOIN" is not a join at all, because nothing is joined.
New York city has a large republican area: Staten island.

While SF and cities like it vilify incumbents, they also vilify the opposition. In my city of Portland, no one will consider electing a republican because they have constructed strawman as to what a republican will be like (forgetting that the last Gop mayer of Portland was loved).

New York had a republican only 20 years ago.

LA was also revived by a republican mayor.

There's a pattern.

Sorry for being so blunt, but at some point we need to name the problem.
This is BS, it states 3 cents for France, but most people have unlimited plans for 20 euros here.
I’m sure that’s exactly what they do, but that’s not insurance—just prudent risk management.
old.reddit.com is the only way to browse that site. I really don't think I will be able to stay the day they pull the plug on the old version.
I think it's a little like learning how to play a piano. You can sit down and teach yourself or you can look for help from a teacher. Either way works although I think most people benefit from some guidance.
Wechat is basically everything for mainland users.

Need to pay registration for car? Wechat

Need to verify covid screening to enter the country as a resident? Wechat

Need to request a taxi? Wechat

Need to pay your electricity bill? Wechat

EVERYTHING is done through wechat.
Ideas in statistics that have powered AI
Depends on the type, my friend went green.

But if you’re sure that’s good, that sounds unique
Imagine you have a shop window, your shop is closed - lights on all the time, burning electric as it is your advert to the customer base, showing your wares.

Now if you add a sensor to detect if somebody is looking in your window and turn the lights on in the window - only when somebody is looking. Well, you would save electricity in lighting usage.

However, you detection system would be a surveillance based system t0o aid advertising of your wares.

So any ban - needs to be well defined. Defined as identifiable surveillance, else small edge-cases like this will potentially fall foul.
These days a cell phone is often pretty much required to reasonably access some essential services.
And yet it doesn’t look like highly educated but low paid people are the main source of instability. Kids wanting to take down statues do not cause more instability than football hooligans, and as such can be easily handled by the police.
Trump, Brexit or other forms of populism (say Le Pen, AfD, ecc…), which are the main source of political instability in the West, identify their enemies in the “intellectual urban elites” and look for support in the mythological “disenfranchised white working class”.
Xbox actually recently came out with an Xbox branded minifridge and it immediately made me think of this. Sounds like it's an april fools joke but Im pretty sure it's legit
"No. But you can walk in to the forest and pick them."
If you live by such forests. I happen to now (and do), but I haven't always had such a luxury.

And again, lots of folks don't have the luxury of growing.
Just because there are other "legal" options doesn't mean much: These are going to act differently than what you get in Amsterdam.

I have no doubt that breathwork can make altered states, but I very highly doubt it is comparable to drugs. And again, this isn't really going to prepare you for, say, truffles in Amsterdam. If you don't like breathwork, you can just stop and do something else. If you don't like where you are at on drugs, you just have to wait.
If you read the entire thread from the top, you will see that you are making a point that has already been acknowledged by everyone contributing to it. Bringing it up again merely loops the discussion back to a point where it has been before.

The fact that they are making bold claims about potential applications is sufficient to justify Kaibeezy's reply to riddly.
>Just do the right things.

And that is exactly what they did. The right thing they ( Tim Cook ) thought was to extract as much money from their product line and user.
How's the air up there?

The UK government's been half-heartedly trying to offload Gibraltar for decades now, but the local populace have pretty much unanimously set against any such effort, especially after the Border Closure brought about by the less than wonderful post-Franco Government.

The Britain you're railing against hasn't existed as it does in your mind in 60 years.
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Couldn't this argument be made for literally any online service that involves a camera?
How did this get to the front page of HN? It's very poor quality and almost every comment has a negative sentiment.
That is a big problem but kindof a separate issue. He may have been targeted because he was critical of the government but it's really hard to argue that he didn't do anything against the law. Maybe he should have whistleblower protection but his case isn't as simple as persecution solely for being critical of the government which is what this thread seems to be about.
> All you need to guarantee synchronization of primitive values in Java is the use of volatile

I think I know what you mean, but that's a very dangerous way to word it when speaking in public. It would be more correct to say that "all you need to guarantee reads are protected by memory barriers is volatile."

The distinction matters because, to someone who doesn't already know all about volatile, the way you worded it might lead them to believe that `x++;` is an atomic statement if x is volatile, which is not true. That's a specific example of where things like atomic types are necessary.

(For the curious: https://www.baeldung.com/java-atomic-variables)

I think maybe what you're missing about what I'm saying is that I'm trying to mainly talk for the benefit of people who don't have a solid understanding of how to do safe and performant multithreading. Which is the vast majority of programmers. For that sort of audience, I tend to agree with dragontamer that "just use a mutex" is probably the safest advice to start out. Producing results faster doesn't count for much if you're producing wrong results faster.
> The new frontier is that they use your engagement data not just to "suggest" the next movie but to design movies that will keep you engaged.

Personally, the opposite has been happening in my recommendations. I've been switching over to Netflix less and less as its library thins, and the replacements seem not as compelling... can't even remember the last time I watched a full movie or TV show season on Netflix.

Guess I'm not the target demographic :( but it's not like I personally pay 'the Netflix bill' anyway.

Toddlers seems to enjoy the procedurally generated content though; maybe they're mistaking toddlers randomly bashing their screen for audience engagement?
Physical storefronts have over time learned how to optimise their presentation to achieve higher conversion. Initially it was experimentation with layouts, with time they added cameras which helped understand customer behaviours.

This expertise is commonly outsourced to physical marketing companies who dispatch "merchandisers" to your store to help optimise your layout to fall in line with the layouts they have designed based on the experience they have doing this for many different stores.

Some companies would actively seek out target customers, give them cash to conduct surveys for market research.

The barrier to retail taking this to an extreme is physical obstruction and money. It takes time to experiment with layouts, you have to pay people for their insight. It isn't practical to have a Moogle which has cameras analyzing most physical storefronts around the world.

It's a really complex issue as online retailers do make money from online advertising companies and it often matters to them, but the proliferation of the chosen advertising providers few means that everywhere you go they have a presence listening for your user actions.

With that said, these companies don't really want to know you, they just want to ensure they are able to serve relevant ads to someone like you. Collecting personal data is a consequence of there being no other way to group data into uniquely identifying profiles and get those insights on the interests of those profiles.

More often, these companies explicitly don't want to know you. Personal information is a massive liability.

Attempts to anonymise the data are difficult as you will need some kind of unique primary identifier, but you can infer a lot about an identity from seemingly unimportant things like browser resolution.
I've read your other replies to this thread and your argument does not seem to be made in good faith. This whole thread is about surveillance based advertising being bad. In no way is using an IP address in a firewall a form of surveillance. It isn't. The IP address isn't being associated with any other data, it's just some numbers floating in space, disconnected from any human being. There is no association with that IP address of what you like and don't like, what you have purchased, what links you have clicked, or anything else. It's just in a firewall, and that firewall rule could be blocking an entire CIDR block, especially in the case of IPv6. But even if it were surveillance, that's irrelevant to this discussion about the ethics of surveillance-based advertising.

I'm not going to waste my time further on this thread after making this one last point.

> This just slows down bot spam instead of testing if someone is a bot. Someone posting spam to your site once a minute is still annoying.

Google CAPTCHA is trivially bypassed all the time. Do you really think it isn't? Sometimes using services like Amazon Mechanical Turk, sometimes using simple computer vision. It doesn't test whether someone/something is a bot either... it just tests whether they can pass the CAPTCHA. It certainly doesn't test whether they're part of a DDoS, nor does it test their intentions to find whether they are good or malicious. It's just a CAPTCHA, but it also uses a lot of surveillance... and as I said, I have mixed feelings about that. I didn't mean for this to become the point of the thread, it is definitely off topic.

The idea of Proof of Work CAPTCHAs is that you can actually make it more expensive for an attacker to solve those than it would be for the attacker to solve Google CAPTCHAs. Obviously, this is still an area of debate and research.
> I know everybody on my block, even the homeless people.

What I find hilarious about bay area residents is that they'll say things like this as if it's at all unique to the area.

In reality, knowing your neighbors is common throughout the country
One possible reason is that 4 weeks are 28 days, which is less than 30 days, their minimum.
>Tencent is doing this to comply to Chinese laws.

Tencent, like all major Chinese corporations, is just a thinly veiled extension of the Chinese state. And I'm sure someone will try a "no u" about Facebook etc. effectively being extensions of the US government but that doesn't change the reality of how all major corps in China operate.
If Facebook isn't able to make money from moderating such content, then there's no reason to think they would do it.

Might a real name policy have toned down the communication that lead to case Tenacity https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/99 , though?
The article doesn’t emphasize the impact made by new technologies invented in pursuit of this prize. For example, this contest was a motivating factor for the creators of Apache Spark.
Not sure if you're already aware, but attempts at making nuclear jet engines (for the purposes of putting on a jet aircraft) were attempted in the 50s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion

Allegedly, Russia finally managed to get this working in 2018, with a nuclear powered missile having "infinite range", although there appears to be no real open information besides Russia saying "we have it" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik
> You’ll notice in the app that you can specify how many notifications you get per day, further suggesting that it’s not tied to stress indicators in vital signs.

You make a very compelling point that an option of choosing how many times you get notified is suggestive of it being random/unrelated to vital signs, and I actually didn't know you could set this (I see now mine is set to 2 times a day).

But I still maintain it's more than that, it does use some measurement to trigger a notification, and the max limit exists so as to not burden the user with these notifications lest they start becoming a source of stress themselves.

The reason I'm so strongly convinced of this is that I seem to almost be able to trigger it in a sense, this all first got to me when I realized that notification would appear when I thought about something particular in a certain way during a rough time. Anyway, I'll be paying extra attention to this now and will report back with results after a couple of days! :)