skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything on Android is totally moot. You can "turn off locations" but you don't know if it has. It also has a dozen other ways to track you when correlated with others, such as inertial, wifi, cell cgi, audio, magnetic, bluetooth, optical, pressure, etc; some of which are in the baseband and inaccessible to the OS. You can keep it in a faraday bag but it can still record and upload later.

Same thing could be said about IOS with the additional constraint that the vendor can do whatever it wants and we don't know what it's actually doing.

If you care about privacy just don't carry a phone.
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Not really. Say I buy Bitcoins in 2012 and sell them in 2014. I paid the very market value in 2012, and received the very market value in 2014. All this 'regret' with 'hindsight 20/20' fails to take into account that one cannot know how the market value is going to be in 1 month, 1 year, or any time table. That is why its speculation.
Is it possible for me to use a mailing list if I want to send HTML mail because it's more expressive and allows the client to rewrap emails to the width of the reader's screen? What if I want my 1:1 emails and forum/mailing-list broadcasts to be sent to separate user interfaces, rather than using a client-side filter to separate them after the fact? (I'm fine with top-quoting specific lines out of long messages, but would rather have threading capabilities when I'm replying to an entire message, so readers won't have to scroll past a second copy of the message.)
I have a .haus domain for personal use. I can send and receive email just fine, but I do run into a lot of apps that do some sort of misguided "validation" on the email address and reject .haus as an invalid domain. One retailer lets me use the .haus email address as a login, but once I log in and try to make a payment it requires me to enter a different "valid" email address to send the receipt to. It's very irritating.
It's all based on projections from upstream supplier commitments as well as prior customer commitments so very much subject to change in either direction.

I looked and couldn't find a name for it but there's an accordion effect that flows through supply chains after a big disruption. This is just part of it. The problem is that it's not an acyclic graph, e.g. chip suppliers need robots too, so it can take a long time to shake out of the system.
There's a project called "room-assistant", however you'd need to have multiple Raspberry Pis running it in various locations...

https://www.room-assistant.io/
Given the recent post and discussion on this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28547864) yesterday regarding the FDA oversight of the opiate epidemic, found this article relevant and a small encouraging sign.

The bankruptcy proceedings have been absurd in this case particularly due to the litigation shield for the Sacklers so a renegotiation would be huge.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-01/sackler-f...
I wonder how many BSD enhancements have disappeared into corporate source trees because of "fork and close".

(not that the linux kernel has necessarily benefitted from every corporate tarball downloadable from their website)
Conflict of interest is a totally legit business strategy!
That's probably because it's vanishingly rare that people physically arrested for securities fraud resist. That doesn't mean the threat's not there.
People are also against to see an ex-spy employed by a company that promises (to some degree) to protect their customers from the abuses of such governments—there is also a moral angle to it. "Daniel has a deep understanding of the tools and techniques used by the adversaries" because, well, he was one of the adversaries. It's like a private security company employing a former criminal.
Peter Thiel Gamed Silicon Valley, Donald Trump, to Make Billions, Tax-Free
mind sharing that project? I have a similar need.
Oh. As someone with a blog on a .xyz, this is disappointing news (but extremely good to know). Guess I should look at migrating...
I haven't seen anyone question why they would write such a blog post in the first place.

This might suggest that they have a potential buyer who is aggressively trying to convince them to sell.

This could be Mozilla, considering their recent partnership. But more likely either a competitor that doesn't want to see them grow too much, or someone who really wants to get their hands on the data. Like a three letter agency shell company or hacker group.
PS. I added Marginalia as a search option (even the default for now) in Firefox Nightly (on Android).
In case others want to, under settings for search, you can add other, then name, and then:
https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=%s
But why existing resources are not helping them?
It might be just my eastern european paranoia, but this just makes it easier for the authorities to put you into a place they want you to be, not harder.
I think the problem is that a startup is a far riskier proposal for a marketer than a dev. For devs we have a safety net in the most insane job market the world has ever known. Launching a failed startup is almost a right of passage for us.

On the marketing side, finding a job after failure is drastically harder, and you'll be set back years in your career since there's a lot more ladder climbing involved in marketing departments. By contrast launching a startup is a pretty solid way to jump your career from mid-level to senior dev.
I also resent that discord/slack are companies that own their platforms, whereas IRC/Usenet/phpBB/etc were all software anyone could own and operate their own instance of. Sure you can have your own discord server, but youre still subject to the whims of Discord Inc. While they may not have done anything notably bad yet(I think there was a mini controversy with wallstreetbets but I didnt follow that story closely), but it's still centralization where it wasnt there before. Would you be ok with X Corporation you dont like buying Discord for cash tomorrow, even if they promise not to change any rules? Or does it make you feel easy to think about what they could do ? The Microsoft offer certainly scared some people.
Ah wow, and ExpressVPN was also recently in the news because their CIO was one of three former U.S. intelligence operatives who "illegally helped the United Arab Emirates hack people".

https://twitter.com/josephmenn/status/1437885720169836544
perhaps it's a parsing error, like the bug yesterday about usernames may not end in MIME types? SMSC[0] is re-implemented many times.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Message_service_center
This reminds me of a Chinese company 360 (www.360.cn). It used to be a malware company and then turned into a antivirus company.
A toothpick also works fine.
The Google Play Store needs this as well...
> I'm longing for the return of the mailing lists.

Jesus no. Please, just no. There is a reason why people are favoring Discord, Slack, Facebook Groups and whatever else over the old strongholds (mailing lists, IRC):

- anything email based (including usenet) requires you to expose (at least) your email address to the general public, meaning you will get hounded by spam

- mailing lists (by design) have to break common anti-spam schemes and it's difficult to get the workarounds done correctly, so you'll end up fighting your spam filter all the time to read the emails you want to read

- mailing lists require strict moderation to avoid people abusing it for spam, which leads to issues when the sole moderator goes off on holidays and no new mails come through.

- mailing list management tools are often enough a pretty horrid/inconsistent mess

- for each mailing list you join (and want/need to stay in longer), you have to setup folders and filters in your mail client/provider, and you have to follow the incantation of the specific mailing list to opt out, whereas IRC and Discord make organizing and leaving easy

- mailing lists and many IRC channels end up being publicly indexed in Google which may or may not be in your interest

- many mailing lists and IRC in general restrict incoming content to plain-text or limit file sizes which means it's hard to enrich a question with screenshots, videos or binary files.

- mailing lists are asynchronous and don't support different modes of communication that do not require exposing your phone number publicly - it's not (easily) possible to have a quick call to quickly solve an issue, yet a 1 minute phone call can transport much more density than wasting half an hour playing email ping-pong

I'm sad about IRC though given that there hasn't been any major reaction to Slack and Discord, which led to an erosion of its userbase and then the final implosion of Freenode.
Those are all fine to me, and I'll follow up with a "how do you know that's right?" if needed. Looping over all valid values in one interval, testing for membership in the other, is kind of a red flag. A predicate that is incorrect and not caught by testing might be a very bad sign.
The issue is if you're doing something illegal that you don't know are illegal, but are one of the small number of people in the geofenced area. We don't even have to be guilty, the police just have to _think_ you are guilty for them to make you have a bad day.
It's a bit hard for them to figure it out when they're one of the main culprits and depend on manipulation for profit.
How are you doing the crawling without getting blocking? -- the hardest part.
So instead of taking me at my word, you assume the opposite of that, that I in reality do understand what you mean. Pot, kettle etc.

No, I truly still don't understand what you were or are suggesting.

Have you moved the generation software from your machine to serverside behind the colophon page, making it no longer static?

If you don't want what you apparently consider an uncharitable interpretation the easiest way is to provide more room for another.

Please ask someone in your life to read this exchange and give an outside perspective on it. It might be eye opening. Or you'll have confirmation that I'm just winding you up, or whatever it is I'm doing.
I think there are generic non-surveillance reasons as well. Whenever an industry gets big enough (tobacco, oil, advertising) it can have enough momentum and capital to have its interests protected by the state to a degree that anything short of an energized mass movement will fail to see these industries regulated (a good example of such a movement having some success is tobacco.)
I am the author.

> which do JIT "compilation" in the business-logic/abstract sense of the term?

If I understood what you said correctly, you mean translating something to SQL?

The problem this paper is trying to solve is how we can generate binary code fast. If your target (i.e. the stuff you want to generate in the end) is not binary code, but some high level representation like a SQL text, then I think it doesn't have much to do with the technique in our paper.
I agree with you, but ultimately you can't impose your values on other people (at least not without force), and so we gotta just let people be people.
Yes, technically you are correct.

But I hesitate to bring that up, because I don’t believe there is ANY moral ambiguity for the use of firearms for sporting purposes. Ambiguity only arises in the face of human conflict.

I will defend the ownership, possession, use and carry of firearms on the specific grounds that they ARE tools with the express purpose of hurting, maiming and killing. The specific justification in the US Constitution for citizen ownership of arming of a militia. I also oppose the use of professional militaries as I believe they are corrupt. Fundamentally professional armies have an incentive misalignment: fight for pay, not, fight for something “virtuous”. Therefore “don’t bite the hand that feeds”.

Moreover, the rights of the first amendment can only ensured by the use of force, ultimately, by those exercising said rights. The first amendment is meaningless without the second.

We can count the rounds fired this year alone probably number great than the whole conflict in Afghanistan, all lawful use, but I want to highlight that a GUN is useful being a GUN, not a hobby tool for target practice. If it’s merely a sporting device, well then you should be happy when they take away the guns as we still have airsoft and crossbows for sporting purposes.

No, we defend firearms for what they are and justify them on that use: Force, or the threat of force.
I think we are lucky to have Peter Thiel.

Remember who funded the leading fusion company, who funded spacex, who first raised the alarm about possible war with china, who funded longevity in the dark times when nobody wanted to help, who funded MIRI when nobody else was really thinking about AI risk.

Who exactly is this Chafkin guy? I think he got famous from profiling Elon Musk and now is going after his friends, it is just entry-level backstabbing from a piece of shit careerist.
This. 3 kids here in a 3 bedroom house (~1100sqft). One in high school, middle, and elementary. It works, although another 500sqft would give us some more breathing room.

Since my boys are teenagers now, I spent the pandemic building a rather nice lofted bed setup out of baltic birch ply for their shared room. It gives them their own personal space (had them help design use cases) and more privacy than most kids in the world have. One is autistic and hypersensitive to the others habits, but I was able to mitigate 95% of that with visual blocking, acoustic materials, and a HomePod mini for pink noise.

You make do with what you have. Some of son’s friends live in 5-10M houses, some live in trailers, some in apartments. I think they all understand that, while they probably want more, they’re lucky to have this.
>what would be the technical basis?

Just the sort of thing you see in the real world. It's much easier to lock down access for a network with less people using it.

A network with more people starts to find all the edge cases where your lock-down rules break legitimate things, which results in calls to your boss from people with the clout to make you change stuff.

Similar for reporting, alerting, etc. Volume and variety of traffic can force you to be more lenient in larger networks. Or lose any real effectiveness because your signal/noise ratio is now bad.
Unvaccinated hospitalization and death rates are roughly 2x higher with delta.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Transmissibility and virulence tend to be linked via in-host replication rate (viral load). It isn't quite that simple since if the virus can better evade in-host immune responses then higher viral loads could be better tolerated by the host, but generally transmissibility and virulence are expected to move together. It isn't clear that D614G or B.1.1.7/Alpha involved enhancements in virulence, but delta's advantage in transmission over Alpha does seem to come from increased viral loads, which causes more severe symptoms.
One of the places I worked as a contractor recently, I could not get to abc.xyz on the work network. I tried some more xyz websites and none worked.
you're thinking of ED
I'm not a fan of Facebook, but it's not a bad idea. I think Facebook/Instagram being present is poisoning the well on what might be a good idea.

In a different context, you could use a similar tech to suggest opposing viewpoints. "We noticed you've been watching a lot of flat earth documentaries. Why don't you take a look at the other side of the argument?". Or maybe on Reddit "We noticed a lot of the threads you've been viewing are overly hostile. Why not relax for a little bit over on /r/chillmusicandducks?"

I also wouldn't mind a system like that on days that something terrible has happened. The stuff that happened in Kabul was terrible, but I don't think I would've minded a nudge to go remind myself that there are happy things too.

It's not like they weren't already collecting info on what you look and for how long anyways. I don't really see a change in privacy here (it was abysmal to being with), just Facebook leveraging its user data to maybe actually help users for once.

I give it 3 months until they realize it impacts engagement numbers and replace it with a toothless version that doesn't help, but also doesn't impact engagement.
already happened/Happens.
It is interesting how vague the timing for the booster shots is.

I had my last shot in 2010,and was told to get one in 10 years. When asking my MD, she told me that the rules changed and it is now a shot at 20, 40 and 65 yo. (and I think this is it).
Oddly enough, one of their screenshots shows a URL[1], but that url doesn't actually work if you go to it.

https://glass.photo/royhandy/e8ewjkla
Lessig's point isn't what you're making it out to be. Lessening the length of copyright isn't endorsement of wholesale piracy.

Artists need food, shelter, and comfort just like everyone else. Those things cost money. Even an artist who feels a need to create needs enough funding to survive and get materials. Great works of art require funding. This is particularly true for things like movies and video games - you can have some smaller indie passion projects, but the kind of funding for AAA games or blockbuster movies doesn't just appear out of thin air - it requires a return on investment. If piracy was widespread and universally acceptable, this content would not exist.

Again, AAA games aren't a couple of passionate friends. George on the engine team doesn't want to spend 2 days hunting down an obscure collision detection bug if they're not getting paid.
Lessons learned from running GraphQL at scale
Have you ever worked on multivariate tests?

Testing is how you learn and quantify how much something is disliked, or used, or leads to conversions. This is the perfect fit.

I prefer the 1-column layout (user since it was rapgenius.com). If they got angry emails from their users about their UX, and they decided to set up a test to improve it, that's not in the spirit of degrading the UX.
In the "Definitive Guide to Embeddings", in the figure "An illustration of One Hot Encoding", the "One Hot Encoding" table doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Am I wrong?
Zero prediction power is an extremely exaggeration.

If this was true, Google could have just hired everyone who failed and rejected everyone who passed the interview?

If Google started doing that, the company would collapse pretty quickly.
Most people don't know the names of the worst offenders.
I'm also curious about C API access from JS.

One thing I was hopeful about when I first read of Deno was ability to interop with native code by making FFI/bindings available in Rust, and then package to a native binary.

That didn't pan out, and I don't blame them, but I'm still hoping to be able to write native executables/shared libs in TypeScript and use C FFI.
Run by Luke Smith, an admitted neo-reactionary and possible white supremacist who writes like a 4chan reject.
Yeah, if they'd read and critiqued at least some of the papers, we would all be more informed rather than outraged.
I said cameras on computers, as in connected with a wire. I worked on such systems all the way back to the 1980s. There was a type of card (that I designed once) called a frame grabber. You connected a stock 1v video signal to said card.

The coffee cam was such a thing. It wasn't a "webcam" as in a thing made by logitec sitting on top of the LCD monitor, connected via USB. None of those things existed in 1993. But cameras on computers did, and had done for years and years. Heck even video phones existed.
It's also possible that it's the other way around: a certain "common denominator" + algorithms that chase broad engagement = mediocre results.

The real trick would be some kind of engine that can aim just above where the user's at.
Why Zillow Group is de-emphasizing location as a component of compensation
> initial email open rates rose from 70% to 86%

I know this is common knowledge, but it still really creeps me out that companies can track this.
What about .app domains?
Ah you're right, the vehicle queuing behavior is more complicated than the peds and I hadn't read that in enough detail.

Yes, agreed the state could be broadcast and that would not be nearly as complicated as multiplayer sync'ing.
I don't see fizzbuzz here as the full measure of someone's ability. Its a filter. I have had many candidates make it through phones screens who seem quite capable only to start working through a series of problem solving questions and they cannot do it. People with job history that suggests they should easily be able to.

With no specific language requirements (pseudo code is totally fine) and they can't even write a for loop. We ask to see how they approach the problem, not to get a perfect answer. Ask questions about it, talk through your reasoning, work with us on it. Not worried about off by 1 or specific syntax, just getting to know them and how they work through a problem.

We tried hiring a few people who didn't perform as well on this, and it was a mistake every time. And anyone who had no problems with it was always a good hire.

Now, obviously there is a problem with the screening process when people who can't actually write a for loop get through it, but until that is fixed, you have to filter them out somehow. How have you approached that in the past? I would honestly like to know how to fix it.
Heard from support that replying with negative responses are likely to shut it up.

They track the rate of negative feedback and high negative feedback will kill it over time.
From an exterior perspective of a parked car certainly that would look like the case. The interior software in an operating Tesla has very loud warnings as soon as the first firewall breaks between cells which according to multiple incidents happens at least 5-10 minutes before enough cells hit critical temperatures that the entire vehicle becomes fire. Far more warning than an ICE fire.

There's probably a case to make that there should be an effort to provide better, similar software warnings for parked/"off" vehicles to signal emergency services with that extra lead time.
Looks like we have a VPN duopoly forming:

- Kape with Cyberghost, PIA and ExpressVPN

- Tesonet with NordVPN, and allegedly a couple more most known, but there is no strong proof, so I'd rather not list them here.
SARS-COV-2 is not one-size-fits-all virus. It rewrites itself frequently and can affect two people with similar pre-existing conditions entirely differently. This is the main cause of misinformation and hysteria vs. e.g. the common cold, which has relatively well-understood and deterministic symptoms.

So in theory, both could be true, and also neither. We simply don't have enough data to say definitively how it really works long term, so any speculation is just that - speculation.

What medical experts can do is be realistic about what to expect from vaccines, recovery, herd immunity, etc. - which they've done quite well. It's other forms of media, "fake" experts, etc. that bolt on more guarantees to vaccines that cause an uproar when they are broken, the biggest one being that vaccines prevent re-infection.

The thing I've noticed the most throughout this pandemic is that people are incredibly short sighted. Explaining how vaccines work, and how they help to prevent spread and variant breakthrough in communities, collectively, is something that people can't seem to accept. They're too concerned with "well it doesn't affect me, so why bother?" without realizing that by getting vaccine they help to end the pandemic sooner, which does impact them directly.

Everyone is tired of the pandemic - medical staff especially - and people not getting vaccinated despite having pretty strong data right now that there are minimal-to-no side effects in the general case is ultimately prolonging the pandemic since new variants keep emerging from mutations in, presumably, unvaccinated individuals spreading shit around.
OpenVPN running off your own NAS. Why would you use anything else?

(Except for getting around geo-blocking, of course)