skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on your privacy settings, the local privacy laws in effect, and what you did over at your friend's place.

If you watched the episodes on a device connected to your Google account in any way I think the answer would be obvious.

Another reason you might be seeing ads for it is that you might've looked up an actor or character on your phone which Google linked back to the show.

It's also possible that Google noticed your account was suddenly shared by someone who showed interest in the show and "infected" your account.

Another possibility is that Google picked up on the show if you used a Chromecast on the same network to watch an episode; media controls are broadcast throughout the network.

There are more far fetched reasons. For example, if your location history is on and the neighbourhood where your friend lives is seeing a sudden spike in interest in Breaking Bad (watch parties? Idk), you may have been flagged as interested purely by geographical proximity.

It can also be a combination of Baader-Meinhof and your behaviour around the ad (looking at it longer, possibly unintentionally out of surprise) that reinforced the topic in your ad preferences.

Tl;dr, Google can learn a lot about you through indirect means. It's kind of their business model. Compare to the famous case where a supermarket knew someone in a US household was pregnant before the other family members did based on purchasing behaviour. It's scary how much you can tell about a person from their shopping patterns alone and Google has their hands in so much more.

None of this should probably be happening if you've disabled personalised ads (https://adssettings.google.com/), at least not on Google's platform.
Sunny beach town, Spanish mission, etc.
> In collaboration with Google, Microsoft and other industry players, Apple has been working on a new logon technology for web and other remote services called ‘passkeys’.

I don't think it will be Apple only. However, I am wondering what will happen to services like bitwarden [1] if it is available on other OSes as well.

[1] https://bitwarden.com/
How much traffic can you expect on that road? I rode on similar roads and it was actually quite nice.
It's more-or-less how QEMU system emulation works when hardware virtualization isn't available (it's even called "softmmu"). My understanding is that something similar would need to be written/adapted with knowledge of PS5 processes' memory layouts embedded into it.
I was under the impression that much of that is in military equipment.

The United States spends $700 billion a year in defense.

We spent a couple trillion in Afghanistan and it folded immediately. People in the government just took the money and fled.

https://www.news18.com/amp/news/world/these-afghan-ministers...
That's a good theory. I'm not on any social networks, however I do email her, so perhaps Google associates me to her via my contacts list?
> What's the point in paying for school lunches for kids who have no interest in learning?

Because the state requires them to be there anyway, so it's the state's responsibility to ensure they are well fed? Academic performance has no bearing on whether somebody deserves food.
try this www.reddit.com/.compact. No ads, a billion times easier to grok
We have gotten so use to these trivial changes that our expectations have renormalized. Desktop OSs are asymptotically approaching a fixed point.

Examples of modest but non-trivial changes:

- eliminate the folder-file system (or at least make it completely invisible to the user)

- remove UI distinction (but not necessarily the sandbox distinction) between web apps and normal apps.

- seamless mobile-desktop integration, so the user views them as just different form factors for accessing the same resources.

(There are of course much more radical changes than these that one could imagine.)
This might not be possible - there are many inputs into the model; it would be impossible to trace which one tipped the scale.

Better to make listening on the mic illegal, punishable by prison time for the execs.
>they don’t use the mic as many suspect

Unfortunately, there's no way to confirm that since the only phone out there with a hardware microphone switch is the Pinephone.
$20k seems a bit low

What's the market for this exploit, though? Who is going to pay never mind $20k but more or less anything for it?
This reminds me of a problem we had with a Windows NT PC app in the late 90s. We ran it with debug output to cmd.com window but didn't understand why there was a slow down. We discovered if we minimized the console window it went so much faster. This was the point I realized debug output can impact race conditions. Definitely an eyeopener.
You don't think Google has achieved a positive impact?

Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Chrome, Android, Cloud, Pixel, Nest, Fitbit, Stadia, Drive? Not to mention their other projects like DeepMind / AlphaFold?
I'm trying to understand what you mean with your point (2). How do you think that a crypto wallet works? Could you walk me through a step-by-step of how it would be possible to steal "my account"? What do you mean by "account", and what do you mean by "enabling payments for a site"?
I think the difference is, Windows has kernel-side windowing(!) and 2d drawing(!), while Linux only has kernel-side resolution switching.
There are plenty of desktop apps that are bloated and slow and plenty of web based apps that are fast and light. Thinking of Figma (web based) vs Adobe XD. The former "installs" much quicker, does cooler things, is more useful, more responsive.

The solution to the problems mentioned in the article is not "use technology X", it is about shifting focus on quality.
Journalists can be pretty good at reporting local events and uncovering the relationships between local people ("this property developer's husband made a big loan to that town councilor before the councilor suddenly changed his vote to approve a development"). Where they almost always fail is analysis and domain knowledge. Gell-Mann amnesia describes the failures of technical reporting.
Big semis can even suck you into their wake if you don't prepare for it when they just finish passing you.
I believe it's your phone's microphone
I am confident it did not, that conversation was out of my mind as soon as it ended, which was why I was so surprised to see it dredged up again in my feed.
You just put in a pile of all the data you know about the user and session into a pile of linear algebra (some ML-based recommendation system or whatever), and recommendations come out. In other words, I doubt they even know the reason for any particular one.
PostgreSQL was created by Michael Stonebreaker and Larry Rowe, neither of whom are imprisoned. Who are you talking about?
Dokku does this.

You either deploy from command line or something like a GitHub action (or CI).

Container 1 and 2 are briefly running concurrently, and networking is updated to point to the new container once it finishes its build phase, and passes any pre-defined tests (or after 10 seconds of running without crashing).
There was a private showing of the next episode of Better Call Saul yesterday at a film festival of sorts, the rest of us won't see that episode until July.

It's probably just trending topic and you fit a similar profile to people that would watch the show/Breaking Bad. My viewing habits are pretty stable and I noticed I get recommendations for The Wire even after resetting all my cookies as well as not logging in to my Google account
Here the definition is actually broader than FOUC just for the font part. It can cause rendering without any CSS
There is easily enough room for a bicyclist to stop on the side because there are driveways a-plenty plus utility pullouts. These things cannot do anything to increase the usable width of the road for a car.

I see a really consistent trend of people who feel it must be the case that the bicyclist must be justified in what they are doing, then go on to make assumptions that are wrong, just as you here assumed something about the road that is wrong.
Extension-fingerprints: Check how trackable you are based on browser extensions
If your developers already have a basic understanding of AWS, the APIs are more similar between ECS and other AWS services. K8s introduces an unrelated API nested inside other Amazon APIs. Imo ECS service setup is a simpler interface/API and the load balancer integration is very good.

K8s can go a lot of different ways depending on the type of LB and whether you opt for ingress and whether your ingress is cloud provided or runs in your cluster.

Same with logging. ECS you just configure a log group and get persistent logging and basic aggregated searching with Cloudwatch Insights. K8s you get ephemeral, unaggregated logs unless you introduce additional tools.

When I worked with ECS, it was originally setup by software engineers and it was scripted using the AWS SDK and worked almost exactly the same as the rest of the stack that used things like S3.

Starting with k8s would require learning a new SDK/API versus some new endpoints in the one you're already working with.

On the other hand, as we grew, we'd hit weird issues like ECS nodes going dead without the backplane rescheduling containers on working hosts (I think they've improved ECS agent health checks since then, though)
Beautiful! I hope it will become available for Firefox Mobile someday.
In systems complicated enough there could be no clear answer
how did you watch the episode? many streaming services, devices, or smart TVs track what you're watching.

or more likely, you googled something breaking bad related while watching or talking about it.

or even more likely, it's a coincidence. my youtube recommendations also had a breaking bad clip in them yesterday, despite me not watching it, talking about it, or thinking about it. better call saul season ended recently, and people are searching for breaking bad clips. it doesn't have to be more complicated than that.
I've heard of newsguard and ground news. Both are biased in favor of "reputable" sources who should have been punished for fake news and haven't (USA Today, NY Times).
Came to recommend this. This book was used in my undergrad discrete math class. I really enjoyed it and it paid dividends as I finished my math degree.
My gut reaction is that it listens to me, either directly or via some app, but I know Google has refuted this fact. I suppose this is testable too, so I tend to fall on the confirmation bias side of things.
> Finding someone qualified to go to for comment is not straightforward.

Not straightforward for the university press department? What could be more straightforward? Tell the university press writers to go talk to the university researchers they're writing about. If the researchers refuse to cooperate, then don't write the press release!
This goes both ways, the lack of the usual amount of data about you is a data point in itself.

`SELECT * from citizens where data_points < 50;`

And then somebody aims a botnet armed with zero-days in your direction. But yeah, that requires dedicated adversaries that actually notice you -- which is not a given, I'll agree.
I agree..especially with your first sentence. I still read encyclopedias and DK publications meant to explain science for kids. I learnt a lot of science concepts from encyclopedias as a child.

I find that today children’s education of scientific concepts is cartoonised and made into ‘fun’. These kids grow up to write about science as entertainment.

Any form of education should be challenging. Not fun. I am very taken aback and strongly disapprove of the American tendency to inject ‘fun’ into everything.

Example: learning Math should bring joy..not fun. If learning science and math is about ‘fun’, when the next fun thing comes along..learning would be abandoned.

I also believe that learning should keep one hungry and wanting more. In that.. it has to be a goal that is always a tad difficult to reach. America fails badly here. I can’t speak for other countries.

India and Europe where I have spent time do a better job in this regard, but my opinion about these places are dated.
How would the accelerometer ID work?
Great write up! I've done some walking there and really recognize the scenery description. My favorite drink: iced pineapple juice.
For a typical deployment, ECS isn't simpler than a fully managed k8s system, and doesn't have fewer new concepts. The wealth of concepts in k8s only comes into play when you're doing more advanced things that ECS doesn't have abstractions for anyway.

In ECS you have abstractions like task definitions, tasks, and services, all of which are specific to ECS, and so are new concepts for someone learning it originally. In Kubernetes a typical web app or service deployment uses a Deployment, a Service, and an Ingress. It isn't any harder to learn to use than ECS, and I find the k8s abstractions better designed anyway.

If you're already using ECS, and are happy with it, then there may be no strong reason to switch to k8s. But for anyone deciding which to use for the first time, I'd strongly advise against ECS, for several reasons.

One is that k8s has become an industry standard, and you can deploy k8s applications on many different clouds as well as non-cloud environments. As such, learning k8s is a much more transferable skill. K8s is an open source project run by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, with many major and minor contributors. You can easily install a k8s distribution on your own machine using one of the small "edge" distributions like k3s or microk8s.

While in theory, some of the above is true for ECS, in practice it just doesn't have anything like the momentum of k8s, and afaict there aren't many people deploying ECS on other clouds or onprem.

Because of these kinds of differences, all in all I don't think there's much of a contest here. It's not so much that ECS is bad, but rather that k8s is technically excellent, and an industry standard backed by many companies, with significant momentum and an enormous ecosystem.
If more people would think like you it'd be a great step forward, i.e. putting climate / biosphere health & stability and reducing animal suffering above their taste buds and being happy with 'good enough'.

Plant based meat substitutes are becoming better and better. Some folks can't tell the difference already.
If you enjoy reading about other people's bike travels, take a look at [1].

The site allows long distance cyclists to write journals of their trips while they are on tour, some of which had me binge-read them for entire weekends.

Also, the site carries a lovely craigslist vibe :)

Focussing on the match-made-in-heaven which are cycling & food, [2] chronicles the experiences of a bloke in his mid-20s, who ditches his job at an ad agency (as well as his girlfriend) after becoming enamored with cycle touring, and travels through North and South America in search of the perfect meal.

[1] https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/

[2] The Hungry Cyclist, https://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Cyclist-Tom-Kevill-Davies/dp/0...
Then should we really be building systems that complicated?
Maybe I should have qualified my statement. Regulation needs to happen around these Centralized exchanges and lending platforms like Celsius. So they don't over leverage their positions. DeFi should be completely decentralized (not your keys, not your crypto), but we still see middleman everywhere trying to extract value. If you are gonna act like a bank and be in custody of tokens that belong to your customers, then some regulation should be in order.
That's so much better. It was clear Google wasn't translating it literally.
You would expect it to consume quite a lot of power and/or bandwidth if the mic was always on.
there's way too much news in too many categories. i can't spend the necessary amount of time to become an expert in those areas. patreon and substack seem like a decent alternative to support and consume news in niches.
Imagine the computational resources needed to track microphone for all Android users.
A very thoughtful reply. Thank you. For the avoidance of doubt, you clearly do not lack morals yourself :)
Content ID'd by the accelerometer? How does this work?
You can try fingerprinting, etc. Ridiculous amount of effort to implement it. For little benefit.
>they don’t use the mic as many suspect

I know they claim they don't, but do you have reliable information that confirms this? Like experience on an internal team at Google/Apple?
Just so you know, over the past couple of weeks I've been getting clips of Breaking Bad recommended to me - which I think it's something that's just trending and it's getting a lot of views.

I think it's random coincidence BB is getting traction now.

(Before BB was The Sopranos clips)
This looks really great. Here's the installation guide that they make you put in an email to get to: https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11552529
Location-based tracking. In this case, your phone was on your friend's wifi so they know whatever that wifi was doing while you were there, you were in the room.

Unless you've already completely de-googled your life, this is the most straightforward way to link you to the activity. All it would take is for you to have pinged Google's servers with that phone just once, ever, and they've got it fingerprinted. So when it shows up on the same network accessing YouTube, they placed you.

One use of Google Maps, Google Home, logging into Gmail or YouTube is all it takes to compromise a phone.
As far as I know, it’s important to have outdoor air that flows under the roof in cold climates to avoid ice dams. Otherwise insulating the roof deck is just fine and possibly even advantageous.

An unconditioned attic is not so great because it’s difficult or impossible to do a good job of avoiding leakage into the living space. Also, any mechanical equipment in the attic would like to be in conditioned space.
Because otherwise you end up with the jankyness of a game like Oxygen Not Included instad of the solidness of a game like Factorio.
They won't notice if your website looks bad: https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2014/04/customize...
Crypto is all smoke and mirrors set out to deceive people to spend their money and lose the lot. Sure there will be winners but that mostly isn't you. It's fool's gold. Now, the people who enable this. Well you just owned up to being part of the problem.
> 4. Forget about your career, rather for your team members, figure out how you will AMP their careers - more Autonomy, more Mastery of their craft, and more Purpose (AMP).

Is this good advice? I understand that that's the kind of boss we as ICs want, but from my observation, managers like that do worse than your typical career-oriented brown-noser who doesn't care at all about their reports.
Can someone please answer the question ... why don't companies just self-host the fonts? And why aren't people doing that in the first place?
"got connected to her wifi"
thats the reason you are getting the recommendation.
Youtube stores the data of videos watched using wifi and then tries to recommend other devices connected on the wifi.
Reason 2: have you talked anything about the show ? because it has been conspired and seen that google listens thru our microphone in devices and recommend ads even if you haven't searched for them.

tldr:
Reason 1: Wifi cache.
Reason 2: Microphone tracking.
Story time: I have disabled all types of tracking in Twitter, same for Amazon. Now, I bought a few e-books for my wife. Those are very girly books that definitely don’t fit my profile.

Twitter is now showing me kindle ads for those books.

Twitter has a menu offering to explain why I see it. The explanation says: Amazon wanted to advertise this to people in your region.

I say they lie… We need Blackbox monitoring against those behaviors with some legal teeth.
Really cool, I wonder how dangerous it is to have the rotors inline with the pilot?
Because it is harmless. The worst that can happen is a bad recommendation.
Ok! It was just the first thing that came to mind. As you ride more you become tougher too, I find that after the cold season the first two weeks I can get really sore from the saddle but after that it becomes a non-issue. Wrists are another item (you can end up with these if you're not careful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganglion_cyst) and I wear gloves even in summer to ensure I don't end up wrecking my palms.

The big trick is to keep your weight down, that makes a huge difference (for me, at least). Just a couple of kilos more or less and I feel completely different after a long ride (~70kg = everything is fine, ~75kg = I feel miserable).
Passkeys are an Open Standard.

https://fidoalliance.org/apple-google-and-microsoft-commit-t...
I've got a million of these, but one of the weirdest ones was when a friend of mine suggested we go to one of the islands northwest of Seattle for the weekend. The next day, I was googling "things to do in..." and it autocompleted to the island's name, even though it's a relative backwater compared to some of the other places around. Best I can figure is he googled it, they saw us in proximity to each other, then predicted that we were planning to go there.
Most white hat security researchers seem driven as much by curiosity and just a general passion as rewards.

When I worked with someone who was a point of contact for outside security researchers it seemed for many were just happy to get their name in the release notes.

And I’m not sure if you’re selling that you’re a white hat researcher anymore…
Happened to me except even more far fetched:

I shared a car ride with a friend for 20 min, and my colleague, being knowledgeable in trivia, mentioned an obscure historical figure that I couldn't even spell the last name of. I came back home, and on my Google feed there he was, the obscure historical figure with his last name fully spelled out in a biography.

I never connected to my colleague's network in any form (we were in his car); I didn't search for this historical figure (I don't even know how to spell the name correctly). And most definitely not a coincidence as I had never heard of this person before or after the brief mentioning by my colleague. I don't think my colleague searched for this person on his phone recently either as it was some trivia knowledge he randomly recalled.

This happened several times with this particular colleague as he likes to mention random trivia. I have yet to find a plausible mechanism for this phenomenon (unless it is an open mic).
And I believe what the OP and the article are saying in spirit (if not explicitly) - it's OK to break stupid laws in the interest of your own safety.

Laws are just a bunch of words that may or may not be on paper. Not all of them are equally useful or thought-out. Many won't be upheld in court, depending on circumstances.

In 99.9% cases, it's better to break a law than risk injury/death.
Canada's Digital Charter Implementation Act of 2022
You can load fonts with absolute privacy from google by not loading fonts from google.
Location. Bike store paid for ads in the city (or county)
Webcams aren't good enough
As a daily Bolt user I have two main guesses as to why they want everyone using the app.

1) GPS tracking. They want to know where you are at all times. The app makes this tracking easier than a webpage.

2) Upselling. The Bolt app has front and center upselling to their car rental service, their scooter rental service, and their food delivery service. All these services share the same account and payment info too. -- Do these exist in the web version? I don't see them on the screenshots. These upsells can be implemented on the web too of course, but that probably hasn't happened as it requires web apps for those services too.