skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the HN crowd this is entirely obvious... to others, perhaps not so much.

I think we're on the same ballpark as calling lane-assist Autopilot.

Those who know, know. Those who don't, don't.

I mean "RTFA" arose for a reason, right?

Stuff literally needs to be "what it says on the tin"... and even then.
Not my area at all, but reverse-engineering file formats sounds really interesting. Do you have a blog by any chance?
One way is to just dump all the info like a reference. Another would be to write some of the stories describing the scenarios that forced you to learn this.

Take a look at Julia Evans’ writing for inspiration.

https://jvns.ca/
I worked at a registry when Conficker and co were big... you'd be amazed the amount of domain names we'd have to reserve every year to stay ahead of it. And that was just for the few tlds we ran.
I posted this article because “In Utah more people die from lung cancer than from any other cancer” is true, while “Utah has the lowest rate of lung cancer among all states” is also true.
Yes maybe, but would that solve any problem?
The costs of creating 100 of those hydrogen storage caverns is completely unknown. You also have to add the cost of power lines to distribute the power to the rest of the country.
Are you good at it? How long does it take to do 80% of the job? Do you freelance?
> whenever a user, including a user in private browsing mode, visits a website that is running Google Analytics or Google Ad Manager, "Google's software scripts on the website surreptitiously direct the user's browser to send a secret, separate message to Google's servers in California."

Which part of this indicates that the Chrome client contains code giving Google special privileges to track users in incognito mode that other websites don’t have access to?

>Google's software scripts on the website surreptitiously direct the user's browser

is referring to JavaScript. Any other analytics platform could (and does) do the exact same thing.
Can someone explain to me what org mode is? Is it simply a markdown editor?
I'm surprised to hear someone is developing current ncurses applications today in a commercial context.

At a former "disaster recovery" startup I had written a little ncurses tool for handling data transfers from pools of external USB drives customers would ship us to seed their off-site backups. This was something like 8 years ago now, and it was already a situation where literally nobody else in the company, new or existing hires, wanted anything to do with maintaining what was really a small ~1000-line C+ncurses application. I was on the systems/platform/backend/OS team and it was just a weekend hack to get us going with something ops could interface with via putty.

I can't imagine how much more difficult it is to find anyone with ncurses familiarity today, and few people seem interested in wasting time learning such antiquated tech. In hindsight I feel like I never should have written that tool in the first place, instead letting one of the front-end devs just make a REST API and web doodad for the whole thing. At least then it would have been familiar territory for practically every engineer they hired.
It’s a key value store. People complain about that it doesn’t have joins. It’s not a relational database. Just one example.

It works best as a simple document store.
> Notice anything off about the last one?

You can just use U+258A LEFT THREE QUARTERS BLOCK and inverse colour settings. I use U+258B (LEFT FIVE EIGHTS BLOCK) in my editor that way (inverse of what you'd "expect", to get 3/8th's instead of 5/8ths)
Also, speaking very specifically about Rails, every architecture is composed of design choices that make some things easy, and other things hard.

The default "Rails Way" has a particular dynamic around REST and CRUD that makes it very easy to "Extrude the implementation into the interface," and, "Extrude the implementation into the API." It's what accelerates building a thing the first time, but later on it can work against you.

JM2C about this, but it's what I have observed and have lived through refactoring on multiple occasions...
I for one do not understand that we do not share our discoveries with nature. After all these animal experimentations we have big debt. It would only be decent to give something back.
I think we already made stronger and smarter(with human brain cells) mice. What if make every wild animal smarter in the same fashion?
Can we also improve photosynthesis?
1. Foreign hacking groups are often beyond the reach of Western law enforcement. If a domestic threat had been to blame here, there would be legal/financial recourse for damage done. That's not the case here. Implicit in this article is the report of a new kind of warfare for which many Americans have no good defense against.

2. Standard editorial racism a la "The Oriental Threat".
One way is to just dump all the info like a reference. Another would be to write some of the stories describing the scenarios that forced you to learn this.

Take a look at Julia Evans’ writing for inspiration.

https://jvns.ca/

Also, https://rachelbythebay.com/w/

Providing the real life scenario makes the reference memorable - the human brain is set to remember things that matter and discard things that don’t. A story establishes the usefulness of the things.
Debates are about convincing onlookers, not the person you're arguing with. Online, in the pub, everywhere.
Actually, would be cool if incognito mode jumped into a VPN'd window... but it being inside a big tech browser, who'd trust it.

Anyway.
It may require more than 512MiB RAM but it certainly requires nowhere close to 3GiB. I used to have a 1GiB RAM VM CentOS 8 VM on Azure until recently and it had no problems updating.
> My parents never mentioned any help regarding postwar trauma being available in Germany.

Yes, but it is now the 21st century.
Yes, good, you're getting there. Now... put them together...

Inflation is driven by consumers having more money. This means that more can be charged for the same products and the consumers will begrudgingly pay. This means more will be charged.

This is why giving ~50% of US net-taxpayers free cash caused inflation to spike.
Trying it out again now, this isn't Vim, it's an entirely different product. It doesn't have command editing mode q: nor q/. It doesn't use Vim's regexes and doesn't support \v (which is probably good, Vim's regexes are very bad, but it's still not Vim). There is limited support for windowing, I mean not really support at all, because this is a better windowing system that Vim (:h CTRL-W_J). Although I am surprised `ctrl-w +` works. Of course no support for Vim plugins like surround.vim. Vim out of the box is not a usable editor. H and L seem to be busted and scroll the screen.
You claimed something was there, the burden is on you. The allegation is Google, through a combination of data collected from you Incognito browsing session and non-incognito data collected from other Google apps that happen to be running on the same device could be enough to deanonymize you. There is nothing at all alleging they use Chrome. Even the most egregious X-Client-Data header is called out as specifically as not sent in Incognito.
It doesn't show a problem. It shows using the technique in the linked article to get a border without the background colour showing on both sides of the line.
If the burst were very close, it would be. Most are from other galaxies, so the intensity is much lower (fewer photons) even though those few photons are still very high energy.
"Did they ever provide a simple push notification service?"

Yes, it's called FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging). One of the Firebase components that is available at no cost: https://firebase.google.com/pricing.
Not loading. But I'd be interested.
I think we largely agree.

FWIW, I'm not against using energy, I'm against wasting energy.
This is just the tip of the iceberg now that half the internet is about targeting emotions, including empathy for profit. Outside of the first world you can make a living by throwing puppies into the water and rescuing them. Most of the content you see on the internet is acted, in China and India in particular tens of millions of people are employed to participate. Your grandmother might end up being scammed over the phone, but you are just as gullible when it comes to being preyed on by the ad industry or donating.
You could, though the combined setup of two heat pumps is still subject to the theoretical limits of a single heat pump. This particular law holds for any conversion from work into a temperature gradient (or the reverse). Any setup that is more efficient would violate the second law of thermodynamics, which results in a nigh infinite supply of energy.

You can make heat pumps 10x more efficient by using 10x smaller increments of temperature, but then you also need to pump each unit of heat 10 times so in the end it doesn't cost less energy to make a bigger temperature gradient.
I’m hoping that when the revolt happens, the monetary system will collapse and I won’t have to make any more mortgage payments on my home.
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They are different files, just using the same S-expression based format.
Thanks for the paper link.

There are risks and there are benefits. Managing the risks to get the benefits is the game.

My sites only use cookies for user preferences preferences and client-linked session tokens, so I am not too worried.

A different way to mitigate the risks is by only storing information that does not need to be private, remaining small and un-interesting, designing for transparency and auditability, and keeping a close eye on those audit logs.
What does it mean to 'act your age'? The author says people used to act older than their age and now they act younger. Maybe people prefer informality to the Mad Men pretense of charm and authority.

They also say older people are reluctant now to assert their authority.

This just seems like a call for a more rigid hierarchical society based on age that I don't want. I agree that people try to hard to please others, but I don't think using age or 'seriousness' as an organizing principle is the solution.
I didn't know this channel. Are you the author?
Not that I disagree with you about whether the average person realizes it, but it's not just a risk because Google has JavaScript trackers on your porn site. Google could just make a deal with the porn site to access their server logs and correlate data that way. The fact that you disclose information to the sites you visit means they may, in turn, disclose information to whomever else.

As a totally non-web example of this, as of 2017, "Google’s third-party partnerships ... capture approximately 70% of credit and debit card transactions in the United States." https://adwords.googleblog.com/2017/05/powering-ads-and-anal...

When you buy something with MasterCard, in person, with a magstripe or even an old-school carbon-copy imprinter, MasterCard can go give that data to Google.

I think the incognito warning could say "Websites you visit, and anyone those sites share data with" to draw attention to this, but I'm not sure if that's quite enough. I'm leaning towards the argument from this article that "incognito" itself is simply a poor name.
Sure, but that's a much smaller group. The historical argument is that the rise of the environmental movement in the US coincided with the postwar boom. Yes, some people became very wealthy during that time, but millions of people became wealthy enough that they started wanting things like national parks, clean rivers, breathable air, and so on.

The strength in numbers is worth a lot more that asking a few zillionaires to make it happen single-handedly.
Debates are about checking that your own views are indeed correct.
I knew reading the guardian will yield some stomach churning content, but this gem here tops the charts:

“ Guardian Pick
Looking forward to watching. I do still see the mirroring similarities between the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and Britain today. ”

Here this person “sees” “mirroring” similarities between the soviet union and britain. And thats the guardian’s top pick. You cant make this shit up.
>Maybe that's just a bad example, but without knowing exactly how much skin is tolerated, that's just a normal law pretty much everywhere.

I'll counter that. I think it is a really good example. Everyone has public decency laws - but we probably don't think about looking them up. It is entirely possible many of us are currently breaking the law on that front without knowing it.

By handing the government a list of everything we have worn over the past X years, we are giving them the ability to prosecute us on all past violations.

This is what makes the app dangerous- we are handing them a list of many past activities that they can use to decide if they will prosecute us on.
I know that ads sometimes get injected for some people, but it has not been an issue for me.

I see loud and intrusive ads on Wikipedia already, and it's why I've started using wikiless instead.
Surely if they don't have that context, then it's even less likely they'll be able to roll their own optimization to fix the issue without swap.
Australian Civil eng. here. We’re fully metric.
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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and we end up having to ban that sort of account as it's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yep the lesson a lot of people who claim 'no swap is better' need to learn is that your OS is always swapping, even without a swap file. The lack of swapfile just removes some flexibility in how that's handled.

The OS will page in files that are being accessed regularly. Without a swap file you don't stop the OS swapping between memory and disk, that'd be pathological since disk access is that much slower.

Instead what not having a swapfile really means is that you are telling the OS "anything allocated ever on the system is more important than disk cache".
I think too much what young people care about.
Ah, gotcha, I see the connection now.
There should be a set of VFS hooks so that a filesystem can offer up pages of swap to the kernel without an explicit swap file. I remember tinkering with this around 2000, but I didn’t get very far. I would love to see this explored.
Minky / MiSTer FPGA / Amiga
> The CDC did fine with what they had to work with to be honest.

If that’s the standard we have to live by after the most devastating pandemic in a century for the most developed country in the world, then there is not going to be any lessons or improvement when the next one hits.

The CDC didn’t (still doesn’t) have a full picture of mode of transmission of the virus (aerosol vs others). They kept saying it’s not airborne when all being said it looks like it is. Their focus on hand washing in retrospection seems like not a productive strategy whatsoever. The whole mask fiasco (first saying it isn’t recommended and then a straight up 180) caused the public in rooted mistrust and then their PR umbrella did a poor job addressing and admitting any failure. Their PR branch effectively did nothing to earn trust of a large swaths of public who didn’t buy into vaccination other than often resorting to name calling and gaslighting the debate further which is absolutely the opposite of what you would want to do in that situation if you really want people to get vaccinated. Many occasions they did slow walk backs and often no oversights on grants and revolving doors setup within these agencies with FDA and other pharma industries.
Calling everyone criticizing you “anti-science” is a great way of not learning any lessons for next epidemic.
There is a lot we can do better.
Googlers deploy software on production systems on Day 2 of their on-boarding training. I've never worked anywhere that had as straightforward and usable developer tools.
I mean if not me, then someone else will do the some, probably even worse than me.
I think it's a great idea! Go for it!

Web 2.5 is a thing.
Is that ruby code?
I don't see any drawn boxes, just syntax-highlighted code?
> no reasonable person

The standard is would a reasonable person and the answer is absolutely not. Among non techies people assume that Incognito/Private Browsing provides less protection than is actually offered. You go into private browsing when you don’t what sites you visit to show up in your browser history, that’s it.
Thanks for the link.

we obtain 4.00253176 as a certified lower bound

How intringing it's strictly just above 4 !

Maybe it has to do with symmetries. The proportion of symmetric polys in successive generations goes towards zero. I suspect that this 'pollutes' the asymptot.

About published research, I just glanced at the little I found, (as I often can't do more than glance, being limited in Maths.)

Also I prefer to go at it naively first.
Those words are far too kind!

Most of the credit goes to my co-founder, Andrew, and the whole team who gave nothing short of everything to build it.
List of Bug Bounty Writeups
WorldWind Kotlin – A 3D Virtual Globe API for Android, Web and Java
It's not that simple. Imagine something leaking memory running on parallel with something bursty. For example your browser leaks, but you run a big grep|sort in the background. Or have some GC runtime which allocates in batches and just decided it needs another chunk to manage.

On Windows you don't have oom at all because it trades that solution for just swapping forever until either you can't do anything or manage to kill the right app yourself.
Even though the beam of the gamma ray burst is incredibly focused, it still dissipates as it travels, like a searchlight beam (or even a laser). Nearly all GRBs that we detect are from really far away and so are not a threat. If one happens "nearby" and it was pointed at the earth, we'd be cooked! But they are extremely rare events.
That map makes it looks like the borders of Missouri were decided based on radon risk. Which is not what I think actually happened when they drew those borders.

So, no, don't believe your map.
Hi Max! This looks fun to use. Can you share what gave you the idea? What use case did you envision when you built it? Can you tell us what it does on the backend? Are you using the GPT-3 API? Also, in terms of privacy, where is the days you type in processed and/or stored? Thanks!
'Cus they were from India?
Yeah American adults care way too much about the thoughts of young people, which is why this is not the oldest congress in history, the current and previous presidents did not start office in their 70s, and millennials are never accused of eating too much avocado toast or killing any cultural institutions beloved by older generations.
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I think they're two different, related words. Featuritis, the condition of software having too many features, is caused by featurism, the underconstrained and overemphasized pursuit of features.
I substantially agree with you but would contend that effectiveness should have included transmissibility. If it is the case that it was not studied, it does seem that some of the messaging and assumptions about vaccine mandates and/or passports is questionable. I maintain, however, a lot of skepticism that transmissibility wasn't studied initially based on this one quote about "moving at the speed of science."
You know, I'm reminded of a topic that I brought up with some friends of mine just the other day.

I hope this doesn't come off as sounding "preachy" since I've been warned by the mods in the past for "preaching". I think it does fit the topic though:

"Food will not make us acceptable to God. We are not inferior if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat. But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak."

1 Corinthians 8:8-9 (HCSB)

I see it as something to the affect of, no matter what time we look at the world, posturing of some sort, over some reason, carries an inherent risk of: belittling those who do not do as we do, while artificially glorifying our own position, through a means of self-defined terms and metrics. That there is a push to not just to do what is right because it is right, but instead to do what is right because of how it makes us appear.

I think that there is a matter of arrogance, pride, and glory that each of us needs to struggle with on our own terms, to find a means to humble ourselves and show humility to others. Some way of reminding ourselves that our "greatness" (good + extra works) is merely a thing that is defined by some arbitrary, outside force of what is right. Instead, we raise ourselves up because of whatever stick we use to measure by.

I'm not even sure if the people who enact this kind of rhetoric perceive their own actions in the heat of the moment. There is a sort of self-induced high we get through "going the extra mile" by insisting on be not just right, but extra right.

I hope that makes sense. It's hard to really put into words; it sounds kind of pseudo-intelectual. I just mean something like: if a man is sitting in a chair, he is not raised up off the floor just because he pulls upward from the legs of the chair. I think it's a thing we're all prone to doing. It really seems to be a matter of recognizing the risks of that thing, and being able to say "I was wrong" and turn away from it when we finally see the error.

I hope that the sorts who push for this voluntary segregation stuff do see the severe error in it. I guess I just still have some kind of twinge of regret in even holding them accountable for it, because I have absolutely tried to posture myself as better than everyone else many times, for very little reason or incentive - I just had the luck of it not making it to a national/international spotlight.
Well, terminally the alternative is always violence
Summary:

- Google Chrome won't track you in Incognito mode.

- Google Analytics javascript (if added by the webmaster to their site) will track you in any mode.

So the lawsuit is saying, "Google promised us that Incognito would let us browse privately, but Google is still tracking us". To me, they're really muddying the waters here, because clientside Chrome doesn't track you, but, doubleclick on a website, will still track you.

According to this lawsuit, Google's biggest sin is saying "Now you can browse privately..." but when you open Chrome Incognito it clearly says "Your activity might still be visible to websites/employer/ISP"

Kind of a weak case for the plaintiff, and a weak article (engineers joked about the icon? and wanted to change the name? It's definitely a shitty name but this article makes it sound like this a smoking gun.)
Cross domain tracking should be straight up illegal (or at a minimum completely opt-in only) along with sharing of consumer information between companies. Yes it might make things from a consumer stand point less convenient in some odd cases, but we deserve more control over our information that companies collect.

In the event of an acquisition a consumer should have complete legal authority to decide whether there information transfers to the new company, and it is opt-in only by default.
Yup, and it's getting worse. This is largely driven by drought and the dessication of the Great Salt Lake. The dust pulled off the basin is also toxic due to heavy metals (most notably arsenic), industrial and agricultural runoff, and the remnants of algal blooms. Here's one recent article covering the topic: https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2022/6/29/23188005/opinion-t...