skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DoubleClick became the world’s largest web ad broker and was bought by Google to shore-up their own AdSense + AdWords business.

Due to cross-site “third-party” cookies being disabled in modern web-browsers and the HTTP Referer [sic] header being unofficially deprecated the only way for websites and ads to work together is by either IP address tracking or visitor fingerprinting.

IPv4 address tracking is a blunt instrument that is next to useless when visitors are using ISPs with CG-NAT. But IPv6 makes every device addressable - and thus - followable. I imagine that eventually CPE (home internet modem and router) will offer some kind of IPv6 address randomisation system on a per-TCP-connection basis, though they’d all share the same 64-bit prefix (I think?) so it doesn’t mitigate per-residence tracking.

(EDIT: Ah, so IPv6 does have privacy protection by rotating autoconfigured addresses on a regular basis: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2014/12/ipv6-privacy-ad... )

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I do believe the end of third-party cookies is going to make internet advertising significantly less profitable and more and more ad-funded sites will either add paywalls or shut-down.

I’m surprised Google went this way, actually - I’d have thought a less-harmful way of protecting users’ privacy with balancing the need for attribution in advertising could be accomplished by, for example, auto-nuking cross-domain cookies after 24-hours.
... SFU had Sun Workstations running Red Hat. They replaced the Solaris machines. Did you go to SFU?
i wish there was some way to amplify or emphasize what you have said. this is the pitfall with preprints, then there is the pitfall of preprint supported by citation of preprint.

agreed we should warp speed, but not so warp as to pile hypothesis upon hypothesis.
The 2016 MBPs (Touch Bar, butterfly keyboard, Intel) are bad, but I hope they were an aberration. The M1 MBA is fantastic.
> You can produce 20% more by hiring one more person for your 5-person team, and nobody even has to work overtime. Forget it.

not to take away from the original point of the author, but unless a team/software/business is architected for scaling up-front, just adding another person rarely nets a linear increase in output, and sometimes actually reduces it
Ask HN: Advice for junior looking for remote work
Hi HN,

What advice would you give to a junior developer (and we're talking really junior - 1 year of experience) seeking remote employment. The majority of postings I come across are for mid to senior levels. Even the positions for more junior profiles want a non-trivial amount of experience.

Do I keep applying everywhere regardless of desired qualifications? Do I concentrate on personal projects?
Bauhaus was a German design house. The band was named after them. I remember seeing the band on Top of the Pops (UK) back in the day. Their videos etc were generally in b/w which echoes the design house which majored quite heavily in black, white and chrome. The music was pretty stylistic too.

Anyway, the Bauhaus in the article is the design house and not the band.
What a great suggestion! I had debated rolling over to wg as my VPN provides it, however hadn't worked out how to manage the Binding for the torrent applications.

This relieves me having to manage restarts when the VPN connection issues for example a new IP. I currently just allow some scripts to refresh things when the uplink changes.
Upland, blockchain-based real estate MMO, gets 100K+ highly active monthly users
> “have you confirmed this is illegal material?

Sadly, in the US prosecutors regularly mislead the court because our adversarial system of law is seen by many to obligate them to zealously prosecute their case up to the boundary of the law. (That the prosecutor should conceal evidence, mislead, exaggerate, right up to the point where any further and their actions would be an unambiguous crime)

As a result, there have been child porn prosecutions over totally legal material rescued only by the actress in question showing up in the court. ( https://www.crimeandfederalism.com/page/61/ )

At the end of the day, Apple's decision to reprogram their customer's private property to snoop on their users private files and report on them creates a risk for those users. The risk may arguably be small, at least today. But it is a risk none the less.

We don't need trillion dollar corporations snooping on users phones like masked vigilante crime fighters. Batman is fiction, and in even the Dark Knight when he spied on everyone's phones it was clearly portrayed as an erosion of his moral character out of desperation.
That's possibly a world record! Any reason for this?
I clicked that yt link and saw two friends with sense of humor busting each others balls. ppl are reading too much into things
Anyone who has feet that are able to walk to an ATM or person on someplace like localmonero? In places like Mexico and Switzerland there is no KYC, you just put the cash into the ATM or send to the address and take it out, there's no need to have an identity or bank account.
You can set up whatever frame of reference works best for a situation. We do it all the time. It's very convenient for us earthers to use a geocentric framing of the universe for our daily life, where the skies revolve around the Earth. We do it every day.

Such as the word "sunrise" is very geocentric. We don't even have a word for the heliocentric term for the same thing. We also use geocentric phrases like "jets chasing the Sun" and "sundials track the movement of the Sun", etc.
I think the scientific point here is that visual processing is not a one-shot process. Tasked with object detection, some scenes demand more careful processing and more computation.

Almost all neural network architectures process a given input size in the same amount of time, and some applications and datasets would benefit from an "anytime" approach, where the output is gradually refined given more time.

I understand the point you are making, but it's kind of irrelevant. The task is to produce an answer for the image at the given resolution. It is an accident and coincidence that the neural network produces an answer that is arguably correct for a blurrier version of the image.
You basically explained my view and feelings on the matter. I watched maybe 10 episodes per year on YT but once it went to Spotify, I don't watch at all.

Coincidentally, around the same time he went to Spotify, I started getting really annoyed at his butting in and his opinions on matters that his guests know a lot more about. I've caught a clip or two on YT in recent months and I skip over any parts where the camera is on Joe, so I can just hear the guest.
How much money is that worth to you?
You forgot the third kind of guest he has...

White supremacists and Crypto Fascists.

He just lets them talk unchallenged.
It does mean exactly that.
Cardinality doesn't have to do with "counting" necessarily. Two sets X and Y are said to have the same cardinality if there is a function f : X -> Y where f is a bijection. By bijection we mean it has two properties: that for all a,b in X, if f(a) = f(b), then a = b (this is also called the injective property), and for all c in Y, there is some d in X such that f(d) = c (this is called the surjective property). Set X has cardinality less than Y if there is no such bijective function, but there is a function f: X -> Y that is injective. Conversely, X has cardinality larger than Y if there is no such bijective function, but there is a function f: X -> Y that is surjective. All you have to do to compare the size of two sets is to look at the functions mapping one to the other. No "counting" involved.
As someone who grew up in Toledo, I get unnaturally excited whenever someone else is from there. Most people I encounter from Ohio (which in big coastal cities is also not that common) are from one of the big C's: Cleveland, Columbus, or Cincinnati.
I think you're giving Rogan too much credit if you think he even for a second would care about Freedom while staring at a 9 figure check.
Lung fibrosis reversed in mice using existing FDA-approved drug
Pfizer changed their mind and actually made good profits. Not that I think that this is inherently immoral.
My grandparents' dog would change the channels when he scratched himself and his dog tags would ring at the right frequency.
10 seconds is plenty of time to record IP addresses, do pixel tracking etc. Combine with data from a data broker and you probably have contact detail attribution.

heck, the payment processor plugin probably on that costume's site that's all they needed considering the email came from Paypal, which I assume you have an account with. an IP address lookup table internal to Paypal would do it alone.
I don't want to sound too callous but for those with families the cure for burnout is the terror of putting those that depend on you for their livelihood on the street.

Suggesting taking a year off work because you're tired of your job is an incredibly privileged (to the point of offensive) thing to say.
What do you mean by Layer 2 isn't composable?

My basic understanding after looking at this stuff off and on for a few months is:

1. Centralization and cost of transaction are inversely correlated.

2. Layer 2/3/4 can take care of smaller transaction where we don't care that it is globally immutable. (Nobody cares if your pack of gum purchase is known global... at least on a lower level local chain that you trust or care about)

And yes, all the "competitors" to Ethereum are all centralized voodoo... so besides scams who cares.
This tweet from Dustin Ingram: https://twitter.com/di_codes/status/1235707819955032069

I think this number is dated but its what I stumbled across.
This really takes the cake for misleading charts, devoid of context or controlling for other factors when drawing conclusions.
NIST Technical Note 1385 "GPS Receivers and Relativity" by Ashby and Weiss discusses how to solve the GPS positioning equations in a relativistically correct way. It turns out that since the frame of reference (Earth-Centered/Earth-Fixed) is rotating, it is non-inertial and you have to apply some corrections to do the job right.
Not if you want that level of comp

(Sorry if you were already aware and are saying more along the lines of "money isn't everything", but I wanted to make the point)
Yeah, I still personally think they got zero benefit from keeping the source closed. But as already mentioned up thread, some of their current investors might be a bit more conservative in these regards and they still need them to survive.

So oh well - at least we have something usable before some of the distros started on the PinePhone come off age. :)
The UK Is About to Experience a Catastrophic HGV Driver Shortage
It's harder to study now that torrents aren't the only alternative.
> There are some other interesting options out there, like the Framework Laptop or System76. I do also like the look of a Dell XPS or Thinkpad, but I don’t trust those companies to provide global support.

I will say, Lenovo for one is really good at global support if you get their better plans. That said of those choices I'd definitely lean towards the System76. They are solid as hell. Been using mine for the last year.
I got a few "Won't you get bored" or "I'd get bored" comments before I started my career break. I honestly don't understand it. I like software engineering (despite burning out), but there are so many other things in the world. I'm a year into my career break and I still don't get the "boredom" comments.
So pay with LTC or XMR instead? There are plenty of high liquidity coins with low transaction fees, these are just a couple examples. If the alternative is to not cam at all it seems pretty obvious, even if you are unbanked and get hit with 7% fees from an ATM or crypto-fiat in person moneychanger.

It's also trivial to exchange BTC to LTC (or other low fee coin), you don't even need KYC or in some cases to even use an exchange (atomic swap BTC-LTC). So the cam girls could take fees in LTC and then swap them to BTC once they have enough value to be worth the transactional costs.
The worst part for me was when Rogan started allowing people who were spewing obvious bullshit... to have his platform unchallenged.

When someone tells you who they are, listen. But I'd add this: When someone lets someone else speak for them, pay attention to who is in that group.
Inexperienced people are just cheaper.

There are two types of young software companies:

- Some companies hire a smaller amount of experienced people who really know what they're doing, know what they're worth, and compensates them appropriately.

- Other companies hire a larger amount of bright, motivated young people that don't know how to do anything, trains them up quickly, then tries to milk them for 1-3 years until they smarten up enough to leave.

I don't think it's as exploitive as it sounds. The young people get a slingshot early in their career and a good bullet point on their resume, and they're free to leave whenever they want. And most do leave in due time to do bigger and better things.
Goodstein's theorem comes with a function on the natural numbers. Whether we can prove that the function works correctly, and indeed whether we can implement the function, depends on how big we allow infinities to be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodstein%27s_theorem#Sequence...
Apple are already making higher margin on M1 Mac than on Intel Mac. Did you notice the higher discount rate running on all M1 product compared to old Intel Mac?

Those extra margin could have been repurposed to Service Revenue, getting Apple Care+ by default. ( May be having one accidental damage instead of two ). Just like how the Mac is putting money into services revenue for MacOS, iCloud, Map and Siris.

The consequence of that is instead of a possible lower cost Mac lineup with M1, you now have the same cost but longer warranty. Apple now also has an incentive to make the Mac last longer to minimise any AppleCare cost they get within three years.
In that case I highly suggest you stop what you're doing and buy $1-3M of term life insurance, depending on various factors.

I'm completely serious.
I don't torrent when I pirate anymore (or use usenet). Torrent stats might be going down because there are easier alternatives.
This is a good opportunity to point out (to everyone, not just this parent comment) that there is a lot of overlap between burnout and depression.

It's a common mistake for people to think that because they can identify the cause of their current state (work-induced burnout from a bad job, for example) that their symptoms can't be from depression. That's not true. They're not mutually exclusive. In fact, they overlap heavily both in symptoms and possible treatments.

The good news is that many of the techniques designed to address depression, such as CBT, self-guided therapy, exercises, and so on, translate quite effectively to helping with burnout, too. In fact, a burned-out person can pick up a CBT book or sign up with a therapist and drop right into helpful exercises to begin restoring a sense of agency, rebuilding autonomy, unlearning negative thought patterns, and other things that contribute to getting stuck in burnout.
You can see the European grids: https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/

On https://www.electricitymap.org/map you can see the transfers between national (ish) grids, and that the transmission lines aren't idle. You can slide the map to North America, but the data is very incomplete.
It is easy to stand at a distance and claim that it would be immoral to give booster shots when many countries don't have enough first shots. However, they (WHO) are ignoring the realities of the logistics problems that these countries have in distributing and shipping these vaccines that have stringent storage and utilization requirements. Those countries need to fix their medical distribution systems first to handle the volumes that are really needed for the vaccines that they have access to.
I have just quit a dev job at a corporate philanthropy whose mission "aligns with my values." It was more aimless, more cryptic, less meaningful, less "real," and less obviously impactful than any other dev job I've had. Every day was just a long, drawn-out feeling of "why bother."
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I would love to go about writing a toy operating system, but I only know Python, and I feel like I would need to learn a lower level programming language (Rust, C++, or C) before I could even start.

I wonder if it would be simpler building on top of one of the linux or BSD kernels (I've heard NetBSD's is pretty cool)
Prune instructs the parser to remove any elements within the extracted article block that look superfluous. This can result in false positives, so we tend to disable it when we've gone to the trouble of creating site-specific extraction rules.

Tidy determines if the source HTML should be cleaned up first with HTML Tidy - https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5. If you're parsing the source HTML with an HTML 5 parser, as we are now, it shouldn't be necessary any more (I think we actually ignore it now). We used it more before when we relied on libxml parsing, which often trips up on modern HTML.
Check out FreeGeek if you are in Portland. Offer it up to your local Buy Nothing group.

I am sure our HN ppl can recommend other places to send functional computer gear before sending it for recycling.
Such a delight to find prose that shines like a shimmering pearl in a mass of muddy water undistinguished from the silt. We are in dearth of writing that finds beauty in things often thought mundane.
The drop after switch makes sense. There's gotta to be significant number of people won't switch to Spotify just because of Joe Rogan's show. Half of them is about right.

His show is just one of many in my queue. I won't go through the troubleshoot of using two apps for podcast just because of him.
> And how do you propose that all of these evil regimes are going to get their images into the NCMEC database? The hash DB will only include photos that are in NCMEC and a second countries’ CSAM database.

I am russia.

I take actual child porn from my vast kompromat databases (perhaps sent to me helpfully by facebook), or have my agents make some more themselves. They have many talents.

I use adversarial modification to make the child porn match many images of gay pornography popular with the peoples of my country. I add these modified images to my child porn to my databases and also ship it off to the relevant agencies in other countries. It's obviously child porn, so of course they add it.

Apple staff forwards me matches, the images look pornographic and they hit the database. Failure to report child porn you discovered is a felony, so they will error towards reporting.

If for some reason apple doesn't forward on enough of the matches, I hack their severs, kidnap their staff, or simply order them to provide the data they are already collecting (on penalty of not being able to sell in russia anymore). I can continue to use the pretext of searching for child porn to do all this with a smile.

I think this is all obvious enough, and I'm sure the people who work in this business are smarter than we are, have capabilities we can't imagine, and can come up with even better attacks.
Conservative hoaxers face $5.1M fine for election robocalls
I also have a family and don't have the luxury of taking a year off of work.

But I also think it's possible to recognize that someone else is in a different position with different life circumstances, and not be offended by them sharing their experience.
Better to phrase it as “surviving a COVID infection yields immunity”. It seems analogous to a single mRNA dose, particularly from Moderna. Further vaccination, or I guess surviving a second COVID infection increases protection. Antibodies fade over time, but there hope that the memory b/t cells let it reappear when needed. And I suspect next years booster will fight delta directly. I would think people would be interested in whatever might keep them out of hospital, and hopefully be willing to protect those they interact with.

And hope you don’t end up with an a overly aggressive response to COVID triggering a cytokine storm. This is one of the big reasons to get tested with flu-like symptoms, and why steroids are a go to drug.
More about that harassment from Wish (ContextLogic Inc.)
This reminds me of some advice I got from a grad student as an undergrad -- "It's important to not care TOO much when doing research. Most things don't work out the way you expect and you'll always be disappointed or even biased when you are looking at your data."
Reading all the Nolo books and taking your community college’s class on business law will help. Also, look for webinars on upcoming regulation by firms and ask questions. It’s not something you can really hope to master and you’ll probably only ever be a curator/selector of phrasing to use, at most, but you can become fairly fluent.
More or less. There's cells that remember how to make the antibodies, speeding up the response to a second exposure even long after the initial exposure.

Having lots of antibodies when exposed can maybe prevent infection or lessen severity, so it isn't a complete non-concern that they fade.
> I strongly urge to get a team together to help.

As someone struggling with how to resolve my burnout, I'm eager for all suggestions. I don't understand this one, though.

What sort of team are you talking about? How can someone in the depths of burnout cope with having to assemble one? Who should be on it? What are their roles?
> how can a judge tell a business where they can be and how many they service?

UC Berkeley is a state agency, not a business.
One interesting outcome of this lawsuit, whether it's successful or not, is that any future sort of artwork like this will be produced with GAN-based technology such as https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/. Why risk questions of human consent when humans can be taken out of the loop?

Someone might even monetize it by running a GAN service that, for a fee, hashes all an image's GAN inputs plus a snapshot of the code and publishes the hash in an Ethereum block to prove that (1) the image really was produced synthetically, and (2) it was produced no later than a certain timestamp. TODO: include keyword "NFT" for maximum hype.
You don't need to have illegal images to create collisions with them. You just need someone with illegal images to publish hashes.
I know we're supposed to only contribute commentary that productively advances the conversation, but the thought that keeps bubbling back to the top for me is "lol noob, you sold out; you got what you asked for"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sounds like the equivalent of the `d8` tool in V8 Javascript engine. Not sure if `d8` shipped with Chromium/Chrome though.
False dichotomy. You're not going to enable an honest debate by going straight to fallacies.
Of course plenty of people reading it cannot afford that, but that doesn't make it "unrelatable" to the rest of the HN readership.

Lots of people in tech or programming fields can get paid >$80k per year. Spend some time at that salary, and be thrifty, and you can save up many thousands after a few years. Easily enough for a several-month cushion.

No, not everyone can do this.

But people here also write about their MacBook Pros, and many people can't afford those either. (Indeed, for the cost of a high-end MacBook Pro many people could afford to take a month or two off.)
I feel that, I’m not a lazy slug by any stretch but my company seems to be fine with me and other devs working 40-45h per week. I still get the stress, frustration and weeks of listlessness, then I read these articles about 80h weeks and feel even worse.