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> This may be a dumb question, but what _precisely_ does it mean to track someone?

I doubt there is one precise definition that everyone would agree on, as there are grey areas, but there are many things that are definitely tracking and some that are definitely not.

> If I give you a cookie when you visit without logging in, am I tracking you?

Without a login, without any PPI or fingerprinting, then that is not tracking in this sense. It is tracking the session but not the person (at least not yet, the information may be merged with other data later).

If you do not have an account but the somehow have your information from a source other than you (advertisers tracking people via fingerprinting or information provided by other parties without your consent) then that is tracking of the disreputable variety (anywhere between “erm, why are you looking through my window?” and “erm, why are you reading my diary?” or “why are you riffling through my drawers?”).

> If I give you a session cookie when you log in, am I tracking you?

If you have an account where you have given over some identifying information then it is tracking you as well as the session but that is fine, you've consented.

> What about if I log your IP address when you click on something?

On its own this is not tracking. Well, it isn't tracking a person. And there are valid reasons to log that information for later diagnostics that are nothing to do with tracking individuals.

> Or does it only refer to tracking people across different sites?

It does count tracking you on an individual site, though in those cases you have usually consented by signing up. But it is tracking between sites, usually without your knowledge at all never mind consent, by advertisers and even less trustworthy types, that concerns people.
What is noticed reflects reality. Gossip is really cool.
If you take the logical view that BTC et al today function more like assets than currencies, then an enormous number of actors in the equity markets are in the situation of buying an equity asset and benefiting if its price goes up (and often talking their own book as well).
> Of if you planning to serve lost of requests AND want users to feel low latency responce, you have no options: Rust, Go, C++, maybe something else.

That sounds like a lot of options. While I don't exactly like Go, that's very much the sort of things it was designed for, "stdlib-only" go will give you everything you need with pretty much guaranteed safety.

> Main fight must occur on the "C++ vs Rust" scene, but C++ certainly wont die in another 20 yers, so you happy using it for long-term projects.

The concern is less the death of C++ and more exposing C over the web, which exponentially increases the damage of any mistake you make (likewise C++ though likely with a lower exponent).
God I'm so sick of these articles. This woman spent literally her entire career focused on stories centered around black people, she spent her entire life shining a light on the black experience in america. That's more than fine, that's laudable.

But then saying
"You really cannot tell the true story or the full story if you are only telling it through the eyes of one group of people," she says. when that's literally what she did is asinine. What is with black people trying to have it both ways. They want to simultaneously speak for society at large and about the black experience in particular and that's okay but when white people do it it's racism. Double standards are double standards regardless of the value of your work
This is highly unlikely, but; What is someone guesses your duress password and triggers your fail safe commands to delete everything?
Maybe some Recently Watched feature of his OS or Media Player.
It's sad that we know we would have given up, but for them it's not even an option.
> That is not a good comparison. It's not ok to pass casual racist comments.

You are right. It's not, and I didn't mean to diminish my experience, only amplify how the OP's seemed much worse.

> Next time, I hope you build up the courage to tell your aggressors that you are not ok with racist comments.

I did, a few years ago! I also left that job and warn other minority groups vocally about the hostile environment there.
> Is it deflationary? Yes. So was almost all currency before the 1970s.

Do you have a source on that? As I recall deflation is associated with economic depressions, and from what I'm seeing it looks like the inflation rate has been almost always positive since the 40s.
Ok, so I disagree with everything else you posted but this is the most egregious.

> Is it deflationary? Yes. So was almost all currency before the 1970s.

Currency was not deflationary before the 1970s. It stopped being redeemable for gold at the end of Bretton Woods. That's not the same thing. You can see rates as high as +15% and as low as -12.5% in the early 1900s using CPI as a benchmark [1]. Gold isn't deflationary in the Austrian sense either, it continues to be mined meaning the supply continues to grow, and central banks could and in fact continue to adjust their supply.

> Do you stop buying TVs and electronics because they'll be cheaper in a few years? Not many people do. Deflationary currencies can work too.

That's simply not the case. [2]

[1] https://www.in2013dollars.com/current-inflation-rate

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deflationary-spiral.asp
> Your only legitimate point about them being really stupid is that they are slow.

And only really relevant to those that are reliant upon nakamoto consensus…

Even the former SEC head[0] trying to get in on the "scams"

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28271199
> Your only legitimate point about them being really stupid is that they are slow.

There are significantly more hurdles.

> It's the only hurdle to crypto having all the properties of a real currency. And it will be fixed.

It won't. The real value of a currency (and any other tech, really) is enforcement. Cryptocurrencies don't have that and won't have that.

> Yes. But that doesn't mean the technology doesnt work.

Yes, it works. For scammers.

On cryptocurrencies in particular and on blockhains in general these two posts are evergreen: https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/ten-years-in-nobody-has-c... and https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustle...
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One paper I’ve seen in rural California reports numbers split between vaxed and unvaccinated. Those numbers suggest the unvaccinated are infected at a rate ~ 100x the vaccinated.

Additionally, most days I’ve seen suggests that vaccinated parties are still less likely to end up in the hospital.
Are USD and company shares really so different from poker chips? (Not to say you don't have an excellent point)
Shocking to see how most criticism is just hand waving “technical and social issues” without citing any details.

And when they do those “issues” are almost all out of date and ignore current technology. Crypto uses too much energy ignores Ethereum converting to PoS in six months. Crypto has no practical use ignores $150 billion in decentralized finance applications today. Crypto is too slow and expensive to transfer ignores super high capacity L2s and rollups that are processing tens of billions in transactions today with essentially zero costs.
There are 0-day no maps for potholes. There are no 0-day maps for temporarily disabled traffic lights, road construction, accidents etc.

It takes at least decade to build up something like Google Maps, but a lot of the data is already out-of-date.
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Sure, and you will succeed where countless others have miserably failed because ... ?

The PowerVR driver is the oldest of the bunch, has been a FSF priority project for like _a decade_ and has produced exactly 0 usable results (but a lot of prototypes!), and the hardware was of such popularity that it is the one used by Apple before they looted Imgtech. So why expect a usable driver when tens of people have failed on literally more popular hardware? What's different this time? The planets are better aligned?

For the people who expect to ever have a RE'd driver that is on the level of Intel or AMD's, just go and use any of the existing RE'd drivers on your favourite ARM platform, and check for yourself. Try Etnaviv on a Purism for a couple days. If you think the AMD drivers are crashy, or slow, or use a lot of power..

And ironically poster was complaining about potentially unstable Wi-Fi, which is several orders of magnitude easier to RE than a GPU.
Even if this is not an advert, he could have done better research and put a more balanced view. Are there prior work similar to this? What are the risks for the companies approach? Will it really provide 30% better efficiency? In current form this indeed looks like an advert, whether intentional or not.
The "it was all designed by Apple so can't be outperformed in parts" has got to be a trope at this point.

If that's the case why is Chrome able to put benchmark Safari on my M1?

Not to mention the OS shouldn't be the bottleneck for anything performance related in a desktop type system anyways.
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Place phone in pants pocket not shirt pocket.
I wonder if this is a new phenomena with wireless charging or if other phones could have caused problems and were never tested.
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I don't think the Taliban are stupid but some articles "glorifying" them are. There was one talking about how drug trade and road tolls are going to turn Afghanistan into an economic power house...
The boring, memory safe, option seems to be Java, but I haven't touched java for web stuff in a number of years. Is the performance much worse than Go? Go seems to be really nice for web stuff, afaik it's one of the things it was designed for.
A philosophy that is cargo cult, as it was hardly ever followed on commercial UNIX systems.
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Our core business is served by an apache module written in C++. I don't particularly like apache but writing an HTTP server from scratch is deceptively hard, especially in C. We took a quick look at nginx but found it hard to figure out. We also use microhttpd to give us an entrypoint where we can pull stats from small programs.
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People browse the internet laying on their back. I am placing that phone on my chest quite often while doing so
Do Australia have a car tax?

If I look at the rules here in Sweden I find that EV owners also have to pay a car tax as any other car owners. They do get the first 5 years as free as tax bonus, but after that they pay just as any other car owner. The tax is a base value (~36$ per year) and then an additional value based on the emissions and attributes of the car.

Car ownership is taxed because there is road usage, parking, health care, and other costs associated with car ownership. There are also pollution created by the wheels, oils, cleaning products, and so on. To be honest, 36$ per year seems pretty cheap as a base value considering all the cost to society and should probably be raised when more cars become EV and less money is gotten from gas and car taxes. The alternative is to raise other taxes like income in order to fill the gap in the budget or lower the budget of road maintenance.
Make gas at bottom of ocean, under pressure. Bring it up to the surface (low pressure) and run it through a turbine. Plug that turbine into the machine making gas at bottom of ocean. Not exactly free energy but very efficient. Harvesting the weight of the ocean to help generate hydrogen gas.
Headcount is probably the more appropriate number. Original commenter's claims on whether it's gone up or down aside, there is some minimum number of managers for a number of employees, and of support staff for same.

That number may be larger or smaller, but it exists. An organization can't function effectively with 1,000 people reporting to one manager. (See: Valve)

Note: from what I can find, it historically and currently hovers around 10:1.

If we're talking about profits though, headcount matters more, because it requires the other things. If you can run the same revenue on 100 people as you can on 1,000, you save on their salaries, but also on the salaries of all the management and support the extra 900 would require.
Former top officials seem to have a nose for this. [1]

> Former acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks has resigned as the CEO of Binance U.S. after just over three months. He cited “differences over strategic direction.” Meanwhile, Binance is facing regulatory scrutiny worldwide, including in the U.K., Malaysia, Japan, Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Thailand, Germany, and Lithuania. [editors note: that list has since grown]

> And only really relevant to those that are reliant upon nakamoto consensus…

Regarding speed and efficiency, yes, they principally apply to PoW coins.

[1] https://news.bitcoin.com/binance-us-ceo-steps-down-crypto-ex...
First the pornography comes, then the child pornography. That can even be minors sexting which is not a criminal network but it can still get you in trouble.

Politics has a way of turning into violent threats, pictures of nooses, etc.

Then there is the spam, actually that comes before the pornography.
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Ultra high voltage DC ultra long distance submarine cables.
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Well done! It also made me think GitHub should do more to highlight the license in their UI.
> When Dorothy Butler Gilliam arrived at a wealthy Washington woman's 100th birthday party the doorman told her she couldn't enter via the front door. "The maid's entrance is around the back," he explained.

Just reading it boils my blood.
It's a PSA: if you have an implanted defibrillator, don't keep iPhone 12 in a shirt pocket. No need for any more drama than that. Reminds me of antennagate, to which Jobs responded: "Don't hold it that way."
A whole generation of blacks could not get decent jobs for reasons like that. This generation gave birth to a new generation with less opportunities than they could have had because of the opportunities their parents got denied. It takes long time do undo the damage such profound discrimination causes, and it requires the heroic effort of many individuals like this reporter.
I just extracted the audio from the sample mp4. Each data record seems to be a lead-in tone with a frequency of 3.6kHz, followed by something (data?) followed by a lead-out tone with a frequency of 3.6kHz.

The spectrum of the "something" is broadened, suggesting a modulated signal, though it does have a strong peak at approximately 5943Hz.
Australia is the 6th largest producer and 5th largest exporter of aluminium. To me that fits well within the statement “one of the world’s largest”

Of course Australia also sells a lot of bauxite to China.
I don't think the seized US surveillance equipment is actually going to allow the Taleban to view the social media data of people anywhere.

Perhaps if a watchlist fell into the open, then you wouldn't want to be discoverable on social media via normal means. (ie, if someone finds me on a list in the US embassy, I'm safer if I'm a ghost on social media.)
Translation: we took the fun part out if building Lego and gave it to a machine...

Seriously, though, I have a real-world problem which needs a solution: given the roughly 3000 loose bricks in my son's Lego collection, tell me which ones go with which sets? Thank you - we can take it from here.
Java makes you think about its GC. "What i must do to prevent GC wake up". Always re-use allocated objects and so on. Or you turn off GC. So, you got C++. But with C++ you write smaller code (considering C++11...C++20 standards) compared to Java, so why you need "bloated C++-like language (Java is) if you can use C++".
Arcade tickets then. What are they worth? Who knows, see what you can buy with them.
Currently living in one of the poorest and least populated states in the US, where EV ownership is near nil, and there are plenty if chargers in my town. If this isn’t the case where you live, you could always help encourage your local businesses, government, and other entities to consider installing chargers. They sometimes just don’t know there is any interest.
One way to pay into her college fund...
Salty much?
>>On that same note I see you desperately want to believe it started in China.

No, it is a clear fact that it started in China. The only open question is was that a natural transfer or a lab leak

I believe it was a Lab leak from China, and that china should be held responsible for that.

Now I freely admit that my bias is anti-china, I believe the government of china is one of, if not the single greatest threat to individual freedom in the world today.

I do care about US, I think the US is the greatest nation on the planet. I think the US for all its faults is still a Beacon on the Hill for individual freedom, though we are losing that as the government try;s to make us More EU like with very limited freedom.

To call the US totalitarian like China means you are willfully ignorant or or soo opposed to individual freedom/ pro collectivism that you do not even know that totalitarianism is anymore
> Canadians and Australians are beneath Americans. We "know" this in our heart of hearts.

Your definition of "racism" is far too narrow if that doesn't count as a racist statement to you.
> Where's the irony?...Never have I ever been harassed while wearing sports or hiking clothing, including accidental trespassing in countries where I barely spoke the language. Can't say the same about the outfit I mentioned, while doing nothing wrong.

I think the OP is likely referring to the recent incident [1] in Georgia in the US where a black man was chased down and killed while he was jogging on the street in, guess what, T-shirt and shorts.

I am aware that your recommendation is possibly about Germany. It's still ironic, and in my opinion your recommendation is ineffective.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ahmaud_Arbery
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China is already reverse engineering that equipment in order to clone it. It's actually negligent what the US did. The world is now more dangerous.
> Hacker News is a place for rational, informed and open minded discussion.

Yes, which is why quacks like Jordan Peterson shouldn't be bought up here.
There will be more than 10000 who will die prematurely due to obesity, smoking and alcohol use every year. Strick measures would definitely reduce these numbers considerably. I wonder why we don't implement them?
F# does exactly this, except it understands the rules of units cancelling etc.
Does it also work the other way around? If not, then US citizens are disadvantaged when abroad.
BAC need to be under .04. It's worth mentioning that any marijuana use is instant disqualification, even if it's prescription. All sorts of medical conditions can be disqualifying. Even stuff like high blood pressure or COPD.

Then you have things like one must be 21 to cross state lines, and 18 to get a learner's permit. Some criminal history, like felonies, will prevent you from getting a license.

So it's a bit more than not being on the verge of a diabetic coma. And if those restrictions are a good idea for personal vehicles, then why not do that for everyone?
I highly doubt most devs check the license of every dependency 3 layers deep from their UI framework. create-react-app, vue-cli sets up several hundred dependencies. If you tell me >50% of devs investigate each dependency manually, or run a license checker on that, I don't believe you.

Where I work for we have automated license scanners for this reason. They would flag such a use. But this open source project, and apparently 467 other cases, missed that. Maybe the contributors assumed the author had done their due diligence, maybe they just don't check in general, it's hard to know.
My #1 wish with all of these is decent footnote support. None of that manually tinkering with superscript numbers.

EDIT: looks like it got added here https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes/pull/704

Take my money!

EDIT 2: darn, the footnotes in markdown still need to be manually incremented. Why can't it work like auto-incrementing numbered lists already do?
It probably can be done, if someone hasn't already done it; put the bricks in a bin that pulls it through a conveyor belt, which uses image recognition to determine color + shape, matching that up with known lego pieces. And the list of parts for every set is stored online somewhere as well.

The difficulty is that some bricks will look like other bricks, close enough that the image recognition might be accurate. But, some margin for error is fine.
It's really just moderation in general. It's a long term, never ending issue. I think the big platforms employ thousands of moderators.
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Classic coiner response - the defensiveness, the lack of substance.

But you're pointed in the wrong direction, friend. I've made a lot of money in crypto. That doesn't mean I don't see it for what it is, or think it should exist. In fact, I think you'll find the same is true of a lot of critics. Bitfinex'ed for instance.
> Former top officials seem to have a nose for this. [1]

They must see it all the time with all the rehypothication going on with sovereign paper on clearing house desks (and that's just what they see in their jurisdiction), so what's another "scam" on their resume.

> Regarding speed and efficiency, yes, they principally apply to PoW coins.

There are PoW chains that don't use nakamoto consensus algos…
>85% of all trading volume is ersatz counterfeit dollars. [2] It really is an open question just how big this market actually is. If it wasn't there would be a Bitcoin ETF. This is in fact the reason there isn't one.

Can you explain this? I'm interested in what you mean.
It's the difference between 30% fucked and 75% fucked.
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Yes and of course their peers who are hackers. But certainly not other IT staff they may work with unless they’re very lucky IMHO
> That would mean admitting the anti-vaxxers were right after all.

I'm not sure I follow how?
In terms of content which domains have been affected by the 2021 update?
Actually this would be quite useful not for the traditional role of comments but instead to debug program flow.
> But as the twitter thread shows, lots of people can do that.

Only seen a few videos there but they all seem to have a distinct-but-not-fully opening and closing of the eyelids happening at the same time - when the eyelids close, the pupil grows; when they open, it shrinks.

Which suggests a certain amount of autonomic reaction to changing light conditions rather than controlling the pupil itself? I guess you'd have to demonstrate it without any eyelid movement to control for that.
Which law are you talking about? C-16 is nothing like this.