skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Granted, blocklists (lists of tracking domains or URL query parameters) can be circumvented by a determined attacker. Indeed, I agree that blocklists aren't sufficient on their own for a browser to provide solid privacy protection. In my view it's critical, primarily, to have policies that enforce privacy, including such protections as state partitioning and fingerprinting resistance. That's exactly why I included tests for such policies.

However: I do think blocklists provide substantial, though incomplete, privacy protection in practice. And, importantly, blocklists are enforced by a number of popular browsers (Brave, DuckDuckGo, Firefox Private Mode, Firefox Focus) and popular browser extensions and other services (uBlock, ClearURLs, DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, Disconnect, etc.). These blocklists seem to work pretty well, at least judging by the ad-free experience they provide. So I felt that to give a more complete picture I should test for blocking.

I tried to avoid cherry picking query parameters or blockers. Here's how I arrived at the current selections for these two sections:

* Tracking query parameter tests: I tried to gather all the query parameters I could find; the list on the page was my full list at the time. (If there are suggestions for more parameters, I will be happy to add them.)

* Tracker content blocking tests: I used the list of the top 20 tracking entities from https://whotracks.me. These are, roughly speaking, 20 of the most widespread third-party tracking domains on the web -- they should be a high priority for any browser respecting privacy, in my opinion. I hope testing for blocking of these 20 serves to gives a sense of each browser's approach to third-party tracking scripts and pixels.
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"Light clients" is a term I've learned of recently. In the article, what are the specifics around "storage, bandwidth, and computation costs" for such a client? Is the idea we could all just have light clients running in the background on our phones with near zero impact?
Two weeks is ridiculous. But one of the problems with instant transfers is it makes fraud easy. In fact when Zelle first rolled out, there were several news stories of people who were swindled. Banks don’t just move slow because they’re old and stuffy — sometimes they have speed bumps to minimize fraud losses.
Yeah, I don't disagree at all. In fact I was on CBD for a while and it really did help me to almost eliminate my anxiety.

And yep, my beef with psychiatric chemical help is exactly that: I want to see more will to repair the system and not treat more and more patients.
acpid vs logind is another illustration of the trade offs involved when moving towards GUIfication of the bazar that is (was?) unix.

Basically the proposition is akin to a weapon exchange program: hand over your powerful but dangerous Turing complete configuration language in exchange for nicer looking desktops.

Who would not prefer a better looking desktop?
(Why is there a "nop" near the end? What does it do?)
Think of it like any other type of medicine.

I have blood pressure issues. I try to eat right, and exercise. I have my whole life. I practice meditation and slowing down and generally feel fairly stress free as well.

I do this to address the “root” cause as you would put it. Unfortunately in this area I also need a little help from modern science, so I’m glad I have access to it.
Did you dig into the excess death numbers? A big fraction aren’t covid related, interestingly.

No saying people aren’t dying of Covid, just wondering how accurate the numbers are? And is Covid as the cause correctly attributed?
yeah because then it wouldn't actually be doing anything
No mention of freenode going rogue, and Libera Chat?
> Why don't we build pre-computerized tractors?

Because unlike regular passenger cars the automation in tractors is essential for high yields. A farm that uses high tech tractors is going to beat out a farm with traditional tractors every single time. The days of the old boomer farmer are long gone; anyone who has managed to avoid getting swallowed by the conglomerates by this point has a pretty cutting edge setup that would make some startups blush. Drones, IoT, ML, etc. have been penetrating agriculture since the 2010s.

I think a better strategy would be to build open source tractor software for open source tractor hardware; some kind of "Linux for farms" coalition. It is very hard finding software people who intersect with agriculture people though which is what makes this a difficult undertaking.
I don't trust any research Facebook releases about the impact of their own platform and would take such with a grain of salt. There is no incentive for them to ever release negative results.
Note that LISTEN/NOTIFY only works with pgbouncer session pooling.
They were yet to be diagnosed when they went into hospital.

That’s my point. They are hospitalized (had a condition that required admission), but not because of Covid.
The counter is that only a small minority of people who graduate with a PhD get to do research in their fields after graduating. It's a disservice to them if they don't gain skills beyond research.

It's why many PhDs can't get jobs in teams like mine - they don't have the skills of people with lesser degrees, and while we're not against training new candidates, we don't want to pay them large sums of money when the guy who just had a BS degree came in with all these skills.
Maybe this is a little off topic, but I was curious to know why, when the Blackmagic pocket camera came out like 3 years ago, it was such a revolution/attention-grabbing camera? As in, people were like, this upends the dominance of ARRI, etc etc.?

Was it just the resolution available for the price point at the time? How did the company achieve it, and why weren't any of the major camera manufacturers able to do that up until that time?
I work with sex addicts. I've been very surprised (and skeptical) that suicide and various psychological breakdowns weren't being reported as being higher since covid hit.

At least in my little bubble the emotional and psychological struggle has escalated greatly in these covid times of increased anxiety, destroyed routines, and much deeper isolation.

Everyone's trying to cope, one way or another. It's hard to watch.

I personally keep trying to shake the jadedness, getting sucked into technical work for the numbing blanket of my mind, I want to look my family members in the eyes. To be present with them.

It's... kind of working.
Is there a type 3 error? If not, or if the question is as meaningless as I suspect, why would anyone ever want to use "type 1 error"/"type 2 error" rather than "false positive" and "false negative" (or the other way around, I refuse to look it up)? Is someone golfing research papers, trying to save two characters here and there?
prank? you just made my life easy
This is entirely upside down.

In the meaty past, humans gathered in offices in close proximity and tried to appear busy during "core office hours," which were often more than 40 a week. Many people wrote about how most of that time could not be spent doing valuable work, but everyone kept the act up.

Now, in the days of plague and distance, we don't need to fake all of that and can focus on accomplishing valuable things.

The problem is that many managers grew into their positions playing the politics of meat space. They "provided value" by being very visible to people. They are having a hard time now that we're all starting to question their previous value.

This entire piece is garbage.
When people say stuff like this, I wonder what they think the state of the art in web3 innovation is. Do people just see the monkey JPGs and write off the whole technology?
I'm sick of people pretending that they know more about brain chemistry and human behavior than the thousands of professionals and the decades of research devoted to the topic, but here we are with your dismissive posts. Some people eventually get off the medications. Some can't function without them. Your attitude is akin to being upset because once a paraplegic is in a wheelchair that they never just get up and try to walk again.
Boeing can't afford to make missteps like this because Airbus will eat their lunch. I don't think JD has a duopoly partner to keep itself in check.
> "upstream and downstream" in microservice architecture.

Those terms are used in relation to dependencies and who consumes what. It has nothing to do with microservice architectures.

This article seems to talk a lot about... nothing. I don't really see the point it's trying to make - we use technical terms not to be human friendly but to be technical. We're not writing for children or for laymen all the time.
the worst part is, there's no way around it. if you're trying to motivate any individual or group whose desires are not fully coherent, no matter what your intentions and ideology are, any effort to incentivize and document performance approaches Borges. by transitive property the incentive is to create appeasing documentation. the strain of the actual loses out to the efficiency of the plausible.

this is, i think in part, why there is a modern desire towards "local" products and personalities in media, and full diy cottagecore fantasies. it is the only way to at least convince yourself that you could confirm authenticity, even if that is a delusion, because anything else is obviously superhuman in scale. at least you can assign responsibility to a face at a farmers' market, even if they're no less hired than the person minding self-checkout at the grocery. at least a parasocial relationship with a social media personality feels realer and more responsible than traditional mass media, even if they're delivering the same talking points.

the winner of this paradox will be either an anarchist culture relentlessly dismantling everything and enjoying the unknowable, or a vertically integrated police consciousness that simply is/does everything and doesn't need to convince/believe anyone else.
Honestly I can't imagine any group of companies in the tech space being more resourceful than 10,000 neglected teenagers with nothing but a computer and a bad attitude. Especially after the former tells the latter that they can only do "approved" things with their computer.
> Medication CAN lead to a much better quality of life for many people.

Yes, it can. But if the underlying issue is that society and social structures are fucked up, and that's what's making people depressed, then a proper cure has to involve fixing society.
Huh?

These people went to the hospital and were admitted for X. X being any number of medical conditions requiring hospitalization. You can be admitted for the reason “person is sick”, you need some diagnosis or complaint, however vague

They later tested positive for Covid.

How is that misinformation?

If people come to the hospital with complaints of fever or breathing difficulties, they can do a covid test prior to admission to determine if they are positive.

I’d say it’s misinformation to claim those people were hospitalized because of covid, which is what the original reporting suggested.
FX: An interactive alternative to jq to process JSON
More pontification and intellectualization of matters that people have no first-hand experience of, as is HN's wont.

As someone with over 20 years of mental health issues who refused medication for exactly the same reasons - "sucking it up," trying to address root causes, meditation, spirituality, exercise...

... none of it worked. You could easily spend a lifetime trying to "root cause" the source of your malady and return empty handed, as I have. When the bills need to get paid, and your options are psychological collapse or some chemical attenuation of your mental state, I think the choice is clear.

I agree that it's sort of twisted that modern society is structured such that we need to constantly medicate ourselves to cope with day to day existence.

Alas.
for proof of stake, the cost is roughly:

- download a hash-sized state root every block

- download the set of validator signatures over that hash and verify each signature against the hash. if using aggregation-friendly curve, download the aggregate signature and verify it against the root.

- for each state fragment, download the merkle uncles and compute the root hash and verify that it is the same as that signed off by the validator set.

so yes, easily within resource limits for having them running all the time with near zero impact. Find My has comparable impact.
If it does, it's miniscule. I have been running it for years on fairly busy databases without any issues. The value provided is huge.
> I'll join the chorus of the other sibling commenters here by expressing skepticism that any medication will at all help with anything.

“at all help with anything” sounds pretty absolute to my ears, as does the wording in basically every other sentence in what you said, but I’m glad to be mistaken. Though I note the person you responded to barely mentioned medication, and you seemed to find it necessary to denounce it in the strongest terms in a reply…
> At a certain point there is no value to cleanliness if there isn't any increased productivity to show for it.

"Productivity" isn't the only value that matters.
Second this, especially if you're doing web development right now. SQL is great (start with analytic-type query), or even dig deeper into the SQLAlchemy/Django/whatever ORM you're using.
I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed reading this since I read the post that it's responding to earlier this week. Found it really refreshing to see this discussion develop that way, and in plain english. I was indeed left wondering if there was a solution to the lazy user aspect for widespread adoption of crypto/web3, since it did seem to be a complete blocker for widespread practical adoption. Neat to learn about light clients and zk-SNARKs!
I think of it exactly like you said. Apparently my root comment was worded in a way that people thought I'm sitting on an extreme. I really am not though.
The aircraft operator could be leasing the aircraft as well, in which case the lessor (typically a giant financial org) has a contract with the aircraft manufacturer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_lease
I guess customers don’t notice your product is no longer as good as it used to be, but rather they (suddenly) notice the other product is now far better than yours.

That makes it hard to convince people to buy your product again if you try to re-improve the quality.

“No really. We’ve been intentionally making it crap for the last few years! We can make it better like it was.”
> so we now have a cronjob that runs VACUUM ANALYZE each night.

Doesn't autovacuum typically handle this automatically?
If you’re shooting 4K, you have to be calculated with your lens configuration to actually get that resolution at the sensor. After that kind of effort, cropping your shot in post is going to be a silly step to take.
Citigroup: World is dividing into two blocs – the Plutonomy and the rest(2005) [pdf]
Whole countries locked down earlier, cutting the waves and death count to negligible numbers. They opened up in summer 2020, but later closed early again.
> It just made me realize: why don't we have a public system that if you want to do something new it needs to be brought forward for public discussion and public policy to be set first?

Like....some type of legislative system...where they hold hearings and make laws about them?

That would be sick. Some startup should definitely disrupt this space. They could fund it by charging yearly subscriptions, maybe collect them every April or something.

(Jokes aside: this is supposed to be the job of regulatory agencies, but because industry has grown so powerful and been unchecked for so long it doesn't really feel like anyone has any teeth left to stop corporations like JD anymore).
I work professionally as a colorist and the blackmagic cameras aren't professional cameras. They just don't look nearly as good (especially in difficult scenarios) and the footage is far less flexible than arri, red, or the high end sony venice line.

The only projects that use them in my experience are low budget music videos (I'm talking very low budget - typically sub $10k) and documentaries. Occasionally you'll see them as a C cam for higher end jobs.
> The issue is that it's too easy to forgo all of that and scroll through tiktok for 12+ hours a day

That's because social media is deliberately designed to be addictive. Zuckerberg et al know this, but don't care, because all they care about is their proftis.
However, if you jump through those hoops, you lose certain functionality, namely Apple Pay and the ability to run iOS apps on Mac.
I want to point out to unfamiliar readers that use-after-free in a rust generational array is a logic bug, where as use-after-free in just about any other non-rust context is undefined behavior. Rust's safety is helping here, not by preventing the bug altogether, but by severely limiting the damage it can cause.
Perhaps some concrete details or examples of the inappropriate practices would be more informative for the purpose.

What's often lacking is that not everyone knows how to identify occurence of harassment or discrimination. There are bold cases, but too often it's made subtle, yet systematic to appear almost 'acceptable'. This is especially hard in workplace, as it may be mistaken for 'culture'.

So, identifying such practices is what needs some self-discovery, perhaps explanation. Yet more to it is that harassment and discrimination are heavily defined in legal terms (in US at least), with protected classes etc. This makes it even harder to firmly claim it, even though experientially it may have taken place.

I believe that if job environment makes one feel uncomfortable for whatever reason, it makes sense to try to identify the situations for one-self, and if it persists, especially involving rank-mismatch, the healthiest way is just to change the job at the earliest occasion. Companies that allow such environments just have the ingredients for that. Fighting it is still an option, just it will be a scarring battle no matter the outcome.
The only bit about SystemD I'm not fully sold on is D-Bus. I love that everything is exposed via D-Bus, but the C API is incredibly difficult to reason about. I've tried writing some higher-level bindings for it and it's still pretty difficult to get right.

Perhaps at some point they'll switch to something that's established instead of maintaining their own IPC protocol.
fascinating thank you. The Find My analogy is thought provoking - a background service that creates a useful network. What does the light client world look like once complete, I wonder
The excellent PR opportunity is going to be the spectacular images it produces in 3-6 months time. I have a feeling some dark grainy photos of tin foil unrolling will pale in comparison to what the device will actually product
> Infrastructure providers can lie to the user about blockchain state

Lying implies wilful deception.

Instead what ALL providers will eventually do is implement moderation. And they will do so because (a) they will be legally required to and (b) it makes users happy. And unless the spec can address this requirement Web3 isn't really going to scale.

And we've already seen such moderation with OpenSea so this isn't some contrived situation.
> Unsigned binaries were recently deprecated entirely on M1 Macs.

Except bins signed by self-signed certs are still treated basically the same as unsigned binaries were before.
Because it is not necessary to cook as a way of satisfying hunger. You could go to an eatery, or order food (which is probably the most time efficient).

So the decision to cook might be informed by other factors apart from a strictly utilitarian one.
Isn't this where corporations are considered people comes in?
Had many friends in my neighborhood who either went to the same school or played the same sport that were walking distance. But yeah there were a few friends who lived on the other side of town where I’d need a ride to get to
You're still missing the bigger point: whether you're using Discord or IRC (as a service or not) if the server/network is taken away from you, your entire community has to almost start from scratch or pick up the pieces regardless of the platform being used.

You'll all still be displaced and will have to gather again elsewhere.

It's also complete bullshit that IRC somehow saves the day when it falls short on all the same points as Discord does with regards to saving messages, which it also doesn't do for, PLUS it falls short on some other critical points: too much client choice is a bad thing; it's complex to set up and is something you have to administrate; you have to keep it secure; IRC servers get targeted by (D)DoS attacks all the time - it's a hobby for some arseholes; people new to industry don't know what IRC is and are simply going to find it confusing; most of the teenage population on the planet is using Discord already (and as a primary communication channel).

IRC is dead. Get over it.
I think it's clear to everyone that Knuth's style of literate programming didn't achieve any sort of mainstream adoption.

However, this article doesn't mention a newer form of literate programming that has gone mainstream. Notebooks! Whether it's jupyter, colab, whatever the Julia one is called, etc. People use literate programming all the time for data science and machine learning.
> Want to plant some seeds? They have to be from a given source.

IIRC this was the major source of Monsanto's controversies, they claimed that their seed genomes were covered under patent law and farmers were not allowed to grow more plants using the seeds from their existing plants. They'd have to buy more seeds from Monsanto every season.
agreed the author has a great way of making complex topics more approachable. I wonder if there's a good/simple explanation of zkSnarks out there, I don't have any idea what they are despite seeing the term often.
I lost you there because you missed the word I qualified veganism with. Yes, plenty of people are probably vegan for practical reasons, but within upper social class voluntarily forfeiting certain goods conveys status because it's a sign of purity and frugality and religious cleanliness. In the US in the form of literal Puritanist traditions. Don't smoke, sleep on a hard mattress even if you're a billionaire, it's why Zuckerberg loves talking about living in a crappy house for ages, and why Musk loves talking about how he sold his material possessions and lives in a container.

Caste discrimination and trying to snuff out lower caste members by seeing who observes a vegan diet is prevalent in Hindu communities because it happens to be the case that Brahmins observe vegetarianism much more strictly.

Also important, class and income aren't the same thing. Your bohemian artist who lives only off ethically sourced food and earns half as much as the meat-eating, smoking blue collar union guy is broke, but not poor.
this is like saying that TLS won't work because of moderation
The job of HR is to hire people. So HR absolutely loves job hoppers, even depends on them. Given this system, this reddit story is the logical conclusion.
I only see one upset person here and it's not me.

It will help if you read more slowly and if you don't get outraged during the process. Then you'll see that not one thing you said was something that I claimed. I never said not even one of the things you claim that I did.

A bit of a puzzling comment you posted, man.

Another hint: those thousands of professionals have a perverse monetary incentive. Food for thought. Some do good; I've met a few. Many others simply look annoyed and just hand you a prescription. We should do something about the latter.
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That's the problem. Your best recommendation is to sign up for a third party service just to use IRC. That's awful UX.