skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now when you click an ad, the advertiser knows which shampoo brand you use.

Next, when you click an ad, the advertiser knows which medical problems you have (because that's where they targeted their ad at).

Google has a data leak, and nobody seems to care about it.
I actually don't think I'm a representative sample. my comorbidities are unusual and I'm probably not at significantly higher risk for covid complications. I was just taking issue with the parent's implication that most health problems can be solved with diet and exercise. a lot of us struggle hard to stay healthy but our bodies betray us.
BTW, the key line is #45, or line #42 in the Rust version.
I’d love to hear more about that.
That other poster itt asked if you could post those arguments. I’d also like to hear those.
Information theory is a topic I’ve worked on before, while designing an AI.
I guess Lincoln would have had no such address, so no delivery.
I'm baffled too. This is why there is an RFC 1918 so everyone knows what's public and private.
Fact is, your article spends disproportionate quantity of words disparaging the behavior of the cynical satirists, compared to the aproximately zero words used to rebuke the Texas law which prompted that particular gambol of theirs.

It might appear as if you support Texas' stance on abortion, and want to defend it from some trouble-making Internet miscreants who dare to mock it.

You do not know every single one of these people or their motivations. Maybe for some, everything is "LOLZ", but maybe some are serious. This sort of community looks like something anyone could join, for any number of reasons.

(I'm aware that there are some groups out there who perpetrate real harm, like stalking and harassing individuals ("lolcows") who are selected by the group as a target.)
It has everything to do with it. Their open-sourcing stuff is just the modern form of the "embrace", and that open-sourcing being only partial is the very epitome of "extend".

The "extinguish" is obviously yet to come, but turning a blind eye to it certainly won't help stave it off. And trying to fog others' vision to it is... Less than a good look.
> it seems the strength of that password is really the strength of the whole system

Not quite. If you trust the HSM that WhatsApp is using the HSMs provide a defense against brute-force attacks that is infeasible with a mathematical key derivation function. For example even with a weak password you could limit an attacker to 10 attempts after which the key is wiped. This isn't something that you can do if your key is only protected my math. With a random 4 digit pin and 10 attempts you can only guess it 1% of the time. With a password you can brute force it until you get it (of course a password with sufficient entropy is probably still out of reach).

Of course trusting their HSMs is a huge if. There are also concerns about refreshing the attempt count (you don't want a brute force attack to wipe your key!) and synchronizing the attempt count across the distributed HSMs. (just enforcing the limit on each is likely to be sufficient though)
I wonder how many people who rely on Linux have truly moved to WSL? I gave it a try and I find real Linux vastly superior. Hybrid Windows+WSL apps, what is the point? Developing Windows apps with .NET is very easy and pleasant.

Don't get me wrong, I agree we should be concerned about WSL. But I think it's also very possible Microsoft recognizes developers that aren't developing with MS tech (ie anything but .NET these days) pretty much never use Windows and they are trying to patch that gap.
He's not my cup of tea either, but his bio is fairly impressive: https://www.stevesilberman.com/about-steve/
Hum, I just realized that those polar storms would turn easily into the hexagon if they just lose power (or would be covered by another layer of material over it). Both are probably the same phenomenon. More strong in Jupiter, less in Saturn. Tornados would explain also why is a tall shape

The hexagon should gyrate slower (with less energy) than the jupiter storms. Neptune should have also the same process but is colder I'm not wrong, so maybe it has less energy and is not so easily visible.
The advertising is larger and there's more per stop, but I mostly never notice since I turn the screen off. Some day I suppose they'll begin speaking.
I used to get a kick in middle school disassembling disposable cameras (unlimited supply since dad worked in a grocery store with a photo lab), charging the circuit, and discharging on coins.
I feel like Reddit drama is a few pegs less important than actual abortion bounties being ostensibly legal by a 5-4 SCOTUS decision in Texas?
It might not be true, but it is so revealing of the mindset of people who think that way.
How do you not learn?
Before, VC money was precious and merely being a VC was enough to get deal flow.

Now, so much money has been printed and sovereign wealth / pension funds are legally obligated make 8% annual returns that their only option is to go far out the risk curve, which includes venture capital.

As a consequence, VC firms are a dime a dozen and the existing ones have more capital than ever. It’s still an accomplishment to raise money, but from the VC perspective there are still only so many hot deals per year and they need to be hyper aggressive to win those most promising deals.

Put another way, the very top-tier startups now have their pick of VCs, can raise a lot more money on better terms, and for a VC to truly be an automatic “yes” for the founders they need to check a lot of boxes. This includes all of the usual stuff like industry contacts but as government has become far more aggressive in tech a legal / lobbying arm also makes sense.
I personally know several POC who chose not to get vaccinated because the CDC suggested at one point that for “social justice” reasons that POC should be vaccinated first.

A rapidly developed vaccine using new experimental tech, with an emergency use approval…and someone in our government suggests that the black folks should line up first. Talk about clueless.
Providing POSIX and Linux-specific APIs does actually place them into Linux ecosystem.

Programs bult for Linux suddenly can be run for Windows users. That's a boost in adoption potential for Linux programs (large part of the ecosystem). And adoption is very impotant for further development and success of software.

On the other hand, for Linux users this makes Windows more attractive - why not choose Windows for your next laptop, if all your Linux software runs there. That undermines Linux userbase.

But overall, I feel WSL is good for Linux.
Well, you also have to be /correct/.

There's some tension between correctness and clarity. Both come in degrees, and writing in the top right quadrant is rare. But holding correctness fixed, I think OP (and Feynman) are right that they go together -- ie Corr(correctness, clarity | correctness) is very high.

(In the general case, though, you may be right. Corr(correctness, clarity) is often negative. But one is a bit more important than the other... simple sentences are a dime a dozen. It's the true ones we care about; only then does clarity enter.)
There's no such reference to "external websites" in the ruling. I'm not sure why so many people are taking this logical leap.

The injunction simply references "directing to purchasing mechanisms". There's no such qualifier that the purchasing mechanism must be an HTML document displayed from web browser.
At my middle school we discharged them on our friends…
While you're right, unproven cures have been hyped to magical levels in order to rationalize not getting vaccinated.
From a fellow Tesla owner, thank you for your efforts in accelerating the transition to electrified transportation.
Those are the types of problems which I describe as "solving the problem is half the problem". Anyone can easily write the fixes to these sorts of problems. They don't because the real complication isn't the surface level obstacle.
Marion Stokes probably recorded a VHS tape of the news. Her estate left tens of thousands of tapes of TV news from 1970 to 2012. It's probably not lost, but it will take a while to digitize it all.
> Apple having competition isn't a problem. That competition selling me to that competition's actual customers--enabling difficulties and dark patterns that Apple does not--is a problem.

Then don't use that competition? It's not like Apple is special here. They've developed a reputation for not doing that, which is what you're relying on for them to not do it. Any other competitor could develop a similar reputation if they chose to compete on that level.

> For B2C interactions where I'm the C, I want the platform on my side.

And in what way is any of that untrue or different if a different store is allowed to compete on iOS.

> Why would your selection of Stripe ever put the platform on my side?

Why is the options Apple pay or Stripe? Why isn't it App Store + Apple pay or Some other store + stripe or some other service that attempts to put the same constraints in place?

For whatever reason, people only seem to see this issue in terms of straw man arguments. There is nothing unique about any one aspect of Apple or the services they run that some other service couldn't attempt to do the same or better, and maybe that might actually make Apple's version evolve to be better than it is, so I'm confused why people are so against this.
What is the missing mechanic here exactly? Theme implementation of RTL? Dashboard? Or something else...
Before I read up on it, let me guess: PHP or Perl.

Update: Oh damn. I took the primitive vibe as a sign the technology would be too. And well, it’s written in a language pg invented.

Other than that it does indeed seem very primitive, though (hosted on some Xeon FreeBSD server, for instance). The only (slight) magic seems to be in ranking/karma.
> So as long as you can imagine someone holding the view you are reading, it is no longer important to critically evaluate its veracity?

No, I don’t believe that.
Even still, the guy got a pardon after 33 federal charges and pleading guilty to one of them. The average person would never get even a hint of a chance at that (or, frankly, such a tiny sentence -- 18 months, 6 served before pardon).
When costs go down, and profit margin increases, the price point where a company can achieve maximum profit also goes down. This doesn't require altruism or stunts or a fixed profit rate.
The judge explicitly said, yes, they can (page 179):

The relief to which Apple is entitled is that to which Epic Games stipulated in the event that the Court found it liable for breach of contract, namely:

(1) damages in an amount equal to (i) 30% of the $12,167,719 in revenue Epic Games collected from users in the Fortnite app on iOS through Epic Direct Payment between August and October 2020, plus (ii) 30% of any such revenue Epic Games collected from November 1, 2020 through the date of judgment; and

(2) a declaration that (i) Apple’s termination of the DPLA and the related agreements between Epic Games and Apple was valid, lawful, and enforceable, and (ii) Apple has the contractual right to terminate its DPLA with any or all of Epic Games’ wholly owned subsidiaries, affiliates, and/or other entities under Epic Games’ control at any time and at Apple's sole discretion.

This may very well kill Epic's Unreal Engine business (at least on Apple platforms) if they no longer have the necessary licenses to use Apple's developer tools.
Complications don't start at phrases.

Being intimately familiar with a couple languages, I find it a bit frustrating how often single words can't be translated perfectly because of small differences in meaning. Google Translate also often gets confused with false friends.
Fascinating article. Shapes are amazing. It's just like how variables in static data structures are accessed by offset. Shapes are a fully dynamic offsets table that are made static again at run time by the optimizing compiler.
I think 500mg is a reasonable starting dose. It’s a vasodilator so too much would cause hypotension.
Great document, thanks for the link.

The document says that >97% of the blood-donor population in the UK has some kind of antibodies, either from natural infection or vaccines. This seems like an astonishingly high number.
Exception proves the rule comes from Roman law: if there is a sign saying you can’t park here on Saturdays, it means that you can park here on any other day.
I can summarize OPs post even more succinctly: Nepotism in google only way to get paid.
That sounds like the killer app. GPU passthru can be an absolutely gnarly undertaking with any virtualization system.
We live in a post-irony world where any utterance may be claimed to mean what it says or its exact inverse as the situation or changing winds of culture causes its author to see fit.
The palm hand writing system was amazing. Instead of trying to teach the computer to recognize everyone's handwriting, people - the users, adapted by learning a few very simple rules, to write notes. It took about 3 minutes to learn.
After 5 minutes of use, you could take down written notes, almost as fast as on paper -
which were digitised. You could do it without looking at the screen.
(20 years later old Palm users still have a few weird handwriting quirks.)
Looks like there are some demo videos on the author's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlRxRtGpHHk
Someone not following the rules?
In PayPal, any recurring payments and subscriptions can easily be cancelled on the centralized "Pre-approved payments" page:

https://www.paypal.com/va/smarthelp/article/how-do-i-cancel-...

The process can be done in the PayPal app, or on any web browser. It is just as easy as Apple's process, and PayPal doesn't charge 30%.

PayPal is not a bank, however.
I don't think it can ever make sense to have a "combination of prepaid travelcards". A human that is guessing what to buy in advance might rationally choose to do this, but the machine knows the journeys you actually took.

They're priced such that it's not going to make sense to buy more than one if you could figure out the correct one to buy (which the algorithm can), and the cap is always cheaper or the same price than an equivalent travelcard if one exists.

Suppose I make one journey from Amersham to Chalfont, it's £1.60 off peak, if I make this journey over and over I hit the cap (for off peak travel more or less anywhere) at £13.60.

Now suppose that randomly during the rush hour, I make one other journey, from Waterloo to Victoria, in Zone 1. That costs £2.40 and being peak travel it isn't included in my cap, so my total is now £16.00

I can do that twice, maybe it happens in the morning rush hour, and again in the evening, and between then I run back and forth between Amersham and Chalfont, in this case my total is £18.40.

But if I did the Zone 1 peak journey a third time, a new cap kicks in, for zones 1-9 any time, at £19.30 and neither kind of journey costs any further money, nor do most journeys anywhere in the network since that's all the numbered zones and any time.
Anyone could already do it with a few lines of code.

Edit: Seems people don't believe me, here's an article how to do it: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-dev-appconsul...
It's possible to have a basic bank account that doesn't have a debit card. It's usually used by people who have trouble controlling their spending, or have been convicted of fraud.
What `monospace` resolves to varies by platform and user configuration: you can change what it resolves them to.

As for browsers’ defaults, the transition away from Courier New on Windows (an objectively bad font, far too thin because they digitised it badly) is nearing completion; I think Firefox is the last one lagging behind (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713680 is stalled for mediocre reasons). On macOS, all browsers have moved on to Menlo or better. My current recommendation is `font-family: Consolas, monospace` because Courier New is that bad, and once Firefox resolves that I’ll be recommending just leaving it at `monospace` (though there’s a pain point over the monospace font-size thing, with browsers tending to default to 13px instead of 16px and it’s all unnecessarily messy and I want browser makers to revert all of that because it’s a bad fit for the web now and causes far more trouble than it potentially solves).
East CONUS makes it look like Texas has terrible air right now: https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/2...
HN definitely has a darker corner of these kind of things. I find it hard to understand why people need to reflect their own values upon others in the form of judgement. But it outlines the importance of behavioral interviews.
Rule of law does not have baked into it that laws are written by the mighty, or even that they can or will be enforced, consistently or otherwise. Merely that laws exist, can be made, and unmade, and should be followed.

After all, there was a reason the Founders advised that it was a great evil to put a law on the books that couldn't be reasonably enforced due to the tendency to deligitimize the authority in question.
Luckily I haven't clicked an ad in a decade!
Twitter in particular is a drug, most normalized among gen Z.

I don’t think anyone should use large social media platforms unless they rigorously curate their feeds, and limit their interaction to positive sum games.

Twitter is best used as a content aggregator where you follow a few elite accounts and consume their wisdom. Don’t get dragged into tribal fights over politics or darwinian fitness signaling.

It’s monkey games all the way down but we have the freedom not to play them.
rDrama commonly refers to itself as a "4chan retirement home"
Under 12, not 13
What is !!Con? I’m new here.
It's a 2013 documentary:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3089388/
Lab tests could show the cover up was added later than the rest of the paint.
Then go to medium. Com and write an article about just that. I am sure it has not been done before.
You can fill an anonymously purchased Oyster with actual coins at select locations. I used to fill mine with otherwise useless small change periodically. In this way the Oyster is not tied to a credit card, although of course TFL does have CCTV so if they really wanted to (e.g. you murder somebody and leave the card at the scene) they could trawl through the CCTV footage matching the times the card was used.
>Reading responses like this, more than anything, I am reminded of C.S. Lewis:

> Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one’s first feeling, ‘Thank God, even they aren’t quite so bad as that,’ or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally we shall insist on seeing everything — God and our friends and ourselves included — as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred.

> Increasingly, that’s where the culture war is headed, I think. Wishing that black was blacker, conviction that false stories reveal deep truths about opponents while truths inconvenient to their allies should be minimized, salivating over any opportunity to rage at the outrage du jour.
Time crunch, pressure to deliver while interviewing a large number of candidates, lack of feedback provided from the candidate, lack of formal guidance or training in what to look for, quality control over the hiring assembly line, sometimes people have a bad day, and so much more.
Damn, I wish I hadn’t used up my daily data limit reading this story. Now I don’t have any attention left for the real important stuff. I was outraged when that post about hummingbirds was on HN’s front page the other day for this reason.
The other concern is about genetically engineered glypohsate-resistant "Roundup Ready" crops, which facilitate increased and imprudent usage of glyphosate.
It’s no joke, but writing the code is not the hard part. Reading the code, understanding it, thinking through the states and control flow — those are the hard parts of software maintenance. I do it for a living. 80% of my billable time is reading and testing code. Once I know what to write I’ve got to the easy part.
In the article linked in the article[0]:

> In light of the many indications that supported the idea that the overpainting had been carried out by a hand other than Vermeer’s, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, supported by the expert commission, decided early in 2018 to remove the layer of overpaint.

[0] https://www.skd.museum/en/besucherservice/press/2019/a-new-v...
Until you add some teeth to "Congress shall pass no law" beyond wasting everyone's time, this is a largely symbolic gesture.
They do, as do Google, Amazon, and Apple. Guess what companies are paying top of market in London?
I know that there are built in workarounds ie default aliases and the case can be omitted. But it creates another set of problems related to documentation and code samples/conventions. The objects passing is great, but it is not enough for me, except for writing scripts. I guess there are ways to make it work fine as an interactive shell, but that is probably an extra customization and in some administrative environments it may not be possible.
Dithering is quite a tough problem, especially video.
One could run Linux and use Wine to run some Windows apps. On the other hand one can run Windows and use WSL to run some Linux apps. Depending on the individual's needs which apps are important to have access to the decision could go either way. This is why Microsoft is investing in projects like this - to tip the scales and lure more users to run Windows as primary OS.

P.S. And then there is Google which wants you not to care about OS as long as it could launch Chrome browser, and to use web apps instead of native.
Show HN: Laxis, your intelligent meeting assistant
> It uses a multi-threaded WASM (Web Assembly) WebWorker running the Scrypt hash function instead of SHA256. Because of this, it's less succeptible to hash-farming attacks.

That's a problem; captchas need a fallback mechanism for situations when JS is disabled.

(I think that could be arranged; e.g. in the no JS case, the web application just spits out some token, which the user must copy and paste into some program that does the work, and then passes the answer back into the web application.
Your were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should.

No, but, seriously this is hilarious.
I enjoyed your essay. I felt the C.S. Lewis quote was quite apropos.

One thing I'm not sure comes through is that the trolls are actually doing us a service by exposing the absurdity of that particular law, or whatever else the focus their attention on. What they pretended to be is entirely plausible, and because of human nature, will almost assuredly happen for real under that particular law. It's just too easy - you're in a bad relationship, trying to find a way out, she gets pregnant, gets an abortion, and you use the opportunity to break up and make some dough. Will that happen a lot? Probably not. Will it happen? I'd be willing to bet on it. It's that gray in the C.S. Lewis quote - there is always some black in it, more or less.

I think of the trolls more as bellweathers than anything else. They're just helping us see the logical extremes of what is going on.
Text: Most elephants are grey. Sometimes they can be white. They are definitely not black.

Headline: The Science is in: Elephants are White

Pushback: No, elephants are not white.

Twitter: NO ONE EVER CLAIMED ELEPHANTS ARE WHITE. or STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION THAT ELEPHANTS ARE BLACK.