skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has tons of valid issues with their privacy, but honestly I don't think the ridiculousness of the Incognito Mode lawsuit has any merit.

The description of Incognito Mode was always very clear that the client wasn't tracking you, but servers could still track you. The fact that Google has another product, Google Analytics, that they offer any website developer that want to put it on their site, does not mean their original description of Incognito Mode was inaccurate.

Especially as a technologist, it irks me when I see journalists deliberately obfuscating what actually goes on with Incognito Mode.
Your comment and submission histories are interesting to read. Have you ever considered that you're wrong, and indeed obnoxiously wrong?
We typically accomplish everything we need in less than 5 hours of meetings per week. Most of our engineers get to spend nearly all day actually writing code.

An average week is 2.5 hours of "core" meetings

* 1.5 hours - 30 minute "standup" 3 days per week. Skip the BS status updates. Planning, team discussions, etc all happen in this timeframe.

* 30 minutes of retro (1 hour biweekly)

* 30 minutes of 1:1

We generally keep planning meetings pretty light. A _really_ heavy week will be 10 hours of planning. A light week will be 1 or 2 hours talking about an upcoming feature.

Everything else happens by individuals, asynchronously.
Where the permafrost melts it'll be a giant horrid swamp not particularly useful land. Not to mention every established interest will be stressed by the chaos of climate change from losing land directly to the economic chaos that big migrations and flooding/storms/droughts will cause.
As others have pointed out, this is well written.

I like to use a phrase that sums up alot of this: social media has given the village idiot a megaphone.

As the author points out, we can no longer ignore this idiot.
I'd argue there is more evidence for the lab leak theory than either aliens or reptilians; it's a tremendously low bar. There is not even flimsy circumstantial evidence for aliens, yet many people believe.

Yes knowingly abandoning the princinples of science in order to acquire money is quite the flaw. For whatever reason it is basically non-existent among grad students, but not uncommon among successful professors. It's almost like our institutions select for and reward this behavior.
You want a low center of gravity but also weight in the center of the 4 wheels of car, that's why most sports cars nowadays are 'mid-engine'. Weight in the center helps in turns since the car wants to rotate around itself.
Put it at the current date-time boundary, everyone equally unhappy!

In all seriousness, I get it. But the tradeoff versus what is available today makes a lot more sense overall.
As has been noted by other authors who have specifically addressed the first article that you cite, Japan's decline in heart disease despite rising cholesterol appears to be due to Japan's reductions in smoking and blood pressure[1]. RCTs have demonstrated, over and over, that reducing LDL cholesterol reduces cardiovascular disease.

1 = https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016752731...
> overregulation in North American and Western Europe.

Nearly all large construction projects have huge delays and go massively over budget, not just nuclear!

Weakening nuclear regulations (which ones?) will not solve the construction problem, because at best it will turn them into the other projects with big delays.
I've got nothing against Carnivore, but you confused Keto with Carnivore. You can eat lots of plants on Keto.
In an evil afterthought: If people still keep inviting to many others to meetings, make the filing of the justifications only possible using a special intranet page, and make your least capable intern code that page. That should sort it out. }:->
You’ll have to give a source on that because just looking up nutritional value of Kale (one vegetable) I think that’s a tough sell.

In fact kale juice alone is proof milk is not necessary.
Yeah, there's really no need for a long Twitter thread about some minor detail that can be summed up in one tweet.

It takes the author six tweets to get to the explanation. Like, get on with it, already.
I agree, it definitely takes a bit of time but to compare it to Mozart is ludicrous
I exclude man pages when I create systems with crunched binaries where I want to save space. The man pages are always available online. Its like djb's programs. They just refer the user to his website. I am not a programmer. I am the user. The small systems I create are for me and no one else, so naturally I make them according to personal preferences.
> No 25 dollar transaction fee

to be fair, in your case there was also certainly a transaction fee, paid for you by your merchant (and probably rolled up into the price of the product)
Unfortunately you fall in the same kind of trap. I would argue that it matters not for the argument. Whoever Your Guy is. The trap is the diatribe (my position is superior to yours) and it’s solution is better politics of inclusion. At least that’s how I read it.
Even more weird: most people think rare earth is rare as in: "there isn’t a lot in the ground and it is easily depleted". Whereas in reality, rare earth means that it is less common per cubic meter of earth than other minerals. But there is plenty.
I suppose one only has to adjust the line length by at most half a word per line. It's impressive, but it's not exactly iambic pentameter.
I think you're misunderstanding the GPL. From the top of the Preamble section:

> When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish)

You are free to modify Grommunio's freely available source code and remove any user cap limits, as long as you make your source code changes available.

In fact I'm fairly certain that Section 10. "Automatic Licensing of Downstream Recipients" protects your right to make this modification:

> You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License. For example, you may not impose a license fee, royalty, or other charge for exercise of rights granted under this License, and you may not initiate litigation (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that any patent claim is infringed by making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the Program or any portion of it.

I’m curious where you think this price model isn’t allowed under the GPL.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

(I am not a lawyer.)
From the Guardian:

>Her lawyers argued that internal HSBC emails and memos showed she had been upfront with senior HSBC staff about Huawei’s relationship with the subsidiary accused of sanctions-busting, Skycom.
Indeed, at a hearing in August, the judge in the case said that the case against Meng seemed very unusual. No one lost money, the allegations were several years old, and the intended victim, a global bank, knew the truth even as it was allegedly being lied to.
Heather Holmes, associate chief justice, asked: “Isn’t it unusual that one will see a fraud case with no actual harm many years later? And one in which the alleged victim, a large institution, appears to have had numerous people within the institution who had all the facts that are now said to be misrepresented?”

I don't really care about the rest. Selling US computers to Iran is not illegal where Skycom was operating. It's a travesty that the US gets to prevent people from selling things to Iran even if they are operating outside of the US.

Even if Skycom was wholly owned by Huawei, the US should not get to impose their power on actions that happen solely outside of US territory.

But beyond that, the entire case is clearly a political ploy by the Trump and the US administration following to extract concessions from China. Using extraterritorial "offences" to prosecute someone for purely political reasons stretches the credibility of the US legal system past it's breaking point, and morality is not even a question anymore.

To be blunt, nothing of what you said even contradicts who you reply to. It amounts to taking the US government at their full word not only in facts but in spirit too.
I don't know. Translating haikus across languages so that they remain haikus of equivalent meaning and beauty seems vastly more impressive.
My last corporate gig-- I spent 6 to 8 hours in meetings. All of my development was done as overtime.
Probably New York State's model is required:

1. Spectrum/Viacom contracts with NYS to install internet for all rural NYS citizens

2. Spectrum/Viacom committed Über-Fraud by taking the money and running while making only "token" installation that weren't even rural (e.g. some "installed" rutal locations ended up being in urban Brooklynn and this was published to the state)

3. The state discovers this fraud and prosecutes resulting in Spectrum/Viacom being "permabanned" from doing business in NYS forever (one of the ONLY things Cuomo did right).

4. Spectrum/Viacom cries like the weak corrupt bitch that they are but Cuomo tells them to suck eggs. Unless they pay a massive billion dollar fine. They crawl back and pay the fine.

5. Cuomo then takes the money and pays Spectrum's competitors (and Spectrum in a highly restricted set of regions) to install "Fiber EVERYWHERE!"

Now on nursing homes, getting fresh with his female staff and biggest of all, the SAFE act, Cuomo himself should be perma-banned from politics forever. But on this one did the right thing - once, only once. One out of a dozen bad acts is not enough to redeem him.

Now I have multi-GB/s fiber - better than what I could get in Silicon Valley. Though I still have ZERO cellular - I literally have to drive 10 miles for marginal LTE (1 bar service) and 40 miles to get 5G. But that's OK.

Thankfully that also means there will not be any self-driving EVs near me any time soon (the technology is unviable right now without a data-center connection with better than 10 ms latency which is only possible with 5G - LTE can never do better than 30 ms).
New York Hospitals Face Possible Mass Firings as Workers Spurn Vaccines
Personally, I just whitelist SSH access on the firewall (UFW and/or AWS SecGrps). Everyone on the admin team has a static residential address. On the road, we use ZeroTier.
Quite a few companies I've worked for have raises budgetted by department/business unit/whatever. The average may be 3% over the department, which means only a few people get to have an above average rating. If everyone does an amazing job, everyone gets 3%. Usually I've found that translates to a few people getting a great rating, and other people getting a good rating, because there's only so much to go around.

My last company, only 2 people in the department could get the highest rating, other people were passed over, including myself. I warned my manager about this, but not surprisingly we lost quite a few good people because the market is good for devs and its really easy to get a solid increase in salary. Especially if you get passed over because corporates are going to corporate.
It's just weird how often a discussion on something on SO ends up with someone complaining about overzealous downvoting or closing of their perfectly reasonable question, but no one can ever actually post a link to it.

To me that says they're not telling the whole truth about their own behavior.
Marelli makes some electronics for Ferrari, but Bosch makes a lot as well. For example, Ferrari has used Bosch fuel injection systems and ECUs since the 80s.
As someone technical, I agree. Especially with a bit that it’ll serve mostly lawyers. But I won’t be surprised if Google loses this lawsuit.

If you aren’t technical and understand difference between client and server, you may not know that while using one Google product, that claims to be incognito, other Google products are still tracking you. That’s how internet is designed to work, but when one company controls clients and servers, it can get confusing to a general public.
The internet wouldn't have died, because there always were and always will be actors without a profit motive.
Tricatel factory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-x9Eidqnw8

from Louis de Funès The Wing or the Thigh/L'aile ou la cuisse (1976)
>I absolutely consider xdg-decoration to be the common ground because it gives behavior similar to Windows, X11, macOS, BeOS, and just about every other platform out there.

No, not really. On those other platforms you would link against the toolkit.

>If someone’s X11 WM doesn’t give them window borders, that’s fine: they probably have a lot of apps with no window borders, that’s probably the point of their WM.

Same thing with Wayland, except typically apps are expected to draw the window borders there.

>Sorry, but GTK 3+ apps will look wildly out of place in any tiling WM whereas apps using xdg-decoration will be just fine.

Every time I used a tiling WM, almost every single app looked and acted wildly out of place. A tiling WM is simply not an application platform. I've honestly found that tiling WMs are only good for arranging terminal windows, they make most other GUI applications behave badly.

>Consider the following: any compositor can choose to support xdg-decoration and get automatic support, apparently including for libdecor. It is definitely defacto common ground, because every other compositor becomes a special case.

No, this isn't true, you may be confused as to what xdg-decoration actually is. If you don't implement xdg-decoration and you use libdecor then the behavior is the same as if xdg-decoration turns off the decorations, libdecor will draw its own.

>However, it is not even close to how ridiculously non-native Nautilus looks under KDE; it’s simply no contest. It looks like a funny VMWare Unity Mode demo rather than interoperability.

Yes, apps that don't follow the KDE HIG will always look non-native. Try to run windows apps in Wine and it will similarly look out-of-place. Try to run some old Motif apps and they'll look weird too. If you want to get an app that looks and acts native in KDE then you would want to use the KDE frameworks. Why complain about this when you're use an app that is intentionally designed for a different platform?

>I’m also well aware that Wayland is built to not require something like xdg-decoration, but we’re at an impasse because you view that as a feature and I view it as a bug.

So it doesn't really matter if either of us view it as a feature or bug. From the perspective of the window manager, decorations are still an optional thing just as they were in X11.
I'd say that port scanning is attack prep. When you port scan me I take an adversarial stance. Certainly volume plays a role in determining whether scanning is abusive or not.

There are differences between walking by and noticing a door, knocking on a door, trying a key in a door, trying to defeat the lock. Before you can break the lock you have to notice the door. I haven't met any friendly door knockers on the internet.
> There’s also evidence it cannot possibly (...) have occured naturally.

I feel this claim is simply not believable nor possible to take at face value, given that in order for a proof of impossibility to even be considered you need supporting evidence and a falsifiable model, which you have none.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_impossibility

Given this, do you have any reference that supports your assertion? I'd like to hear your rationale to claim that something like this is outright impossible.
"Incognito" isn't even that suggestive of a name. Compare that with e.g
"Full Self Driving."

If I go to a party incognito, I don't expect to leave no physical trace of my presence.
Meng is returning home. 1:0
I lead frontend development on a medium-sized US eCommerce shop for a few years. We prefetched JS bundles for likely page hits (e.g. grabbing category bundles when users land on the homepage).

It improved performance a decent bit, though the far majority (>85%) of the site's users are on iOS, so RUM didn't show a big effect.* Hopefully the Safari team brings that to a stable release soon!

*also why I dislike the focus from web.dev and family on CrUX. Fully 2 of the 4 Web Vitals are unmeasurable outside of Chromium[0], and CrUX only includes reporting from Chrome users anyway... I really wish they had delayed the SEO impacts of this stuff until there were usable analogs in competing browsers. That that caveat is not surfaced on Lighthouse/PSI reports does not make me happy either.

[0]https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web-vitals#browser-support
> blocks away from a major virology lab

Make that 33 km: https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=fossgis_osrm...

Further more, phylogenetic, epidemiological and pneumonia excess death data all point to an epicentre in Huanan market and an initial spread north of the Yangtze river. See figure 1 in this article: https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0092-8674(21)00991-...

It took a couple of weeks for this virus to spread south of Yangtze and reach the district where Wuhan Institute of Virology is.
Ireland looks pretty big there compared to the British mainland, and Scotland pretty diminished.

Funny how those parts are also disproportioned.
Calling remote work "distributed" is a buzzword. The work is distributed to different people, whether they're in the same building or not. The physical distance decreases the communication bandwidth between them.
And that, ladies, gentlemen, and otherwise, is a wrap.

Face it: any financial transaction media are fundamentally a critical component of national sovereignty. The DeFi dream is nothing more than that. A dream. A costly dream that will cost pursuers dearly as soon as the glacier of the regulatory edifice moves.

The far more concerning bit from my standpoint, is that CBDC's seem to be the excuse the financial system has been waiting on to clamp down on cash.
You can't call your license FOSS if the code isn't entirely gratis to run and distribute. It's the first requirement defined by the OSI.

It's also the only requirement that I disagree with
There weren’t actually any issues with Incognito Mode. It was a manufactured crisis from people who wanted to claim that Incognito Mode was misleading about hiding internet activity from upstream network providers when it clearly explains otherwise on the Incognito Mode new tab.

I don’t even know what the Incognito Mode opponents even wanted. Built-in free VPN service? Total removal of Incognito Mode?

Google didn’t have any nefarious intent or actions in this. I don’t see why it would be wrong for them to downplay exaggerated allegations.
When there are so many excellent languages to choose among, a trivial distinction can almost be a relief.
Smells like an unpatched critical vulnerability.
Shame on the US for misusing the law to achieve its geopolitical objective of handicapping Huawei. Funny how HSBC, the bank that Meng supposedly defrauded, never said they were misled.
> Not really. You're pointing to production costs, but production costs just define the price's lower bound, not the price itself.

I was replying to a comment about how intensely competitive these markets are, and how that means margins are driven down. If your business is operating at a very low margin, and costs rise, you will necessarily raise prices, because you are already operating on the price floor.

Low margin businesses are defined by the price floor (the cost) being very close to, if not equal to, the price sold at.
Interesting read but they lost me in the last paragraph before the conclusion where they recommend a specific brand and dose of cholesterol supplement.
Not only stack but all roles from devops to devsecops to QA to performance and loads testing.

Seems they want to replace one team with all responsibilities
as zip and pdf downloads ... ugh
> Greenpeace Energy is selling methane generated by electrolysis from wind energy.

Greenpeace Energy was founded in 1998, started selling gas in 2011, and purchased that first electrolyser in 2018[0].

As of 2020, the gas they were selling was about 1% hydrogen[0], 99% fossil imports. In 2021 the major change was to add 10% biogas to the mix.

[0] although they've been feeding-in hydrogen since 2014

[1] we'll just trust that it is indeed all wind-powered electrolysis.
It is reasonable to assume that you won't be tracked by Google when you're incognito in Google's browser.

Edit: Here's some empirical evidence: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/12/private-web-browsing-not-as-...
Yes, I remember this being a big point of contention with scientists going both ways. I saved this link [1] with the quote:

>“I should mention that after discussions earlier today, Eddie, Bob, Mike, and myself all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory,” Andersen added.

Although that was from Jan 2020 and I'm sure more evidence has come in since then to shed more light.

https://twitter.com/WendellHusebo/status/1400098956747718660
This article looks like it might be a scientific paper, but look closer and it contains a promo for

New Beginning's Sonic Cholesterol supplement

which is a product from a company called New Beginnings Nutritionals

https://www.nbnus.net/shopcontent.asp?type=About-Us

which is a scheme for taking money from the parents of autistic patients.

> New Beginnings Nutritionals was co-founded with Lori Knowles-Jimenez under the guidance and direction of Dr. William Shaw, PhD. Dr. Shaw is the Director of The Great Plains Laboratory, which specializes in the biochemical testing of metabolic disorders for diseases such as autism, PDD, hyperactivity, inborn errors of metabolism, and adult disorders such as depression and chronic fatigue. He is a PhD. biochemist that is world renowned as a researcher and speaker in the field of autism and related disorders. Dr. Shaw has been actively involved with both the Defeat Autism Now (DAN!) and Cure Autism Now (CAN) groups and is a board member of the National Academy for Child Development. He is the author of the books: "Biological Treatments for Autism and PDD" and "Autism: Beyond the Basics" that has helped thousands of parents seeking answers for their children on the autistic spectrum.
Those “Joe Scmoe” landlords are mostly graduates/victims of real estate guru nonsense who over leveraged themselves thinking of how rich they’d be in 5 years. I have no sympathy for them.
The mainstream theory about dietary fat, cholesterol & CVD that started in the 1960s is mainly based on epidemiological studies, not randomized controlled trials. Additionally cholesterol is used for many bodily functions, including maintaining cell membranes. Cholesterol is so important that the brain produces its own.

Yet, some doctors are very enthusiastic about pushing statin to people who have high LDL-C but are not sick.

Because of studies like tho following, I decided to not believe in the mainstream cholesterol narrative:
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/6/e010401
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512433.2018.1...
I use Reeder to follow the sites I enjoy reading e.g. slashdot, ars technica, xkcd, swift and golang blogs, some sections of the NY Times, etc.

I never read social media feed. For Twitter my Tweetbot client is configured to filter out all retweets and I use a 'mustered' list for the people whose tweets I don't want to miss.
Would you like some shepard tone with your hyperbolic geometry, sir?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9VMfdG873E

Unfortunately this is not such a good example of a shepard tone, as the fade-ins of the high-pitched notes are rather audible. You can listen to other examples on the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone