skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uhh - every tab I open in incognito warns me my activity is still visible to my isp my workplace and the sites I interact with.

Journalism really is pretty dead these days - tell us something we don’t know
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://futurism.com/the-byte/google...
Of course translational research is necessary with such results.
Explicit goal of developing cognitive enhancing therapies set by NIH would greatly help motivate such research.
I consider myself pretty far to the left on the political spectrum, but I also strive to be a fair-minded pragmatist, and I have to say the black-and-whiteness of these discussions do drive me crazy.

Mob justice isn't great. While I don't think the problem of "cancel culture" is nearly as pervasive as some claim, mob justice is clearly not the best mechanism for fairness and I have seen concrete examples of people being canceled unfairly, I have also seen examples of people who seem to derive a sense of fulfillment from incessantly pestering employers or would-be employers of their targets. "Bean Dad" was a good example of someone who was unfairly harassed out of employment. Al Franken also comes to mind.

HOWEVER, I think it's 100% wrong that the problem of mob or tribal justice is a phenomenon of the left. The aesthetic and mechanisms may be different, but consider the McCarthy era. Consider racial discrimination, sex discrimination, and religious discrimination, all of which are ongoing and rely on various forms of ostracization, in addition to having the power of the law and institutions behind them. The reason the left uses public call-outs as their go-to mechanism is that they historically, institutional power has been so egregiously biased against them that there wasn't much other recourse.
> Take all their advice

This site is horrible to take advice from. I would sooner ask why other people are doing things in a given way before trusting the HN hivemind to give advice on how to build a successful product.
Oh, now it makes complete sense.

Yes, government tender has rules. And if the decision makers don't follow the rules, they can suffer all kinds of consequences, including personal bankruptcy and jail time. Obviously they wouldn't bend the rules just because it would save government money and lead to a better outcome.
My favorite interview question is - how often do you delete node_modules directory. I find that the most experienced candidates will answer “every day”, which is the correct answer. I can catch people lying quickly if they say they don’t delete node_modules.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that notices these sorts of odd contrasts… and all I’ve ever been able to work out is that Its exemplary of current social norms in California and the wider USA more generally because things like pot growing becoming a grey area coincides with changes to laws and trends in these places.
VR/AR motion sickness is going to be an issue for a while. There was some hope with stimulation of nerves via the neck, but I haven't heard much from that.

The hololens sets were also trying to do a lot with Nightvision/Thermal capabilities, which also have the same issues oddly enough. Anyone that's worn them for an extended period will tell you that they suffer the same issues as AR/VR.
Just out of curiosity - why is this such a big deal? Personally, as long as the page has a good UI, I couldn't care less if it is being prerendered or not.
What do you think would stop him invading another country again tomorrow if there was a compromise? If each time he invades he knows he’ll get some compromise that is a little win, why would he not do it again and again?

Your solution extends the human suffering indefinitely. Not only the fighting - but because citizens of Russia are less free than others countries.
Because it isn't a backup. They put the database into a quiescent state on disk, take a file system snapshot, let the dbms resume working, and send the snapshot data via rsync.

This requires the cooperation of the dbms software to get the on-disk data quiesced. Then your snapshot has to go fast enough that the dbms doesn't end up with too many spinning plates before you let it start writing normally.
I'll offer 100-1 odds that this never turns into a human treatment.
> Then it reaches up to 30x with Google's AI-infused upscaling technology, called Super Res Zoom.

The implications of ai-based upscaling of photos in consumer devices will be interesting.

The judge presiding over the Rittenhouse trial was widely mocked for "not understanding pinch to zoom", but we have devices being sold today that will happily conjure up details where the source medium lacked the data to reliably do so.

> There's no way you can hold a camera steady for 6 seconds, but Pixel phones in effect can thanks to computational photography techniques

I've pondered the difference in software complexity and features between smartphone cameras, dedicated DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, and fixed lens action cameras like GoPros. It seems to me that dedicated cameras with swappable lenses provide the photographer with more control and flexibility, but the manufacturers don't seem to be leveraging software in the same way as the other devices.

The author explains that he achieved a similar result by manually processing a composition of images at different exposures, but this isn't automated in professional cameras like it is in consumer devices. I wonder why not?

At the end of the day, I agree with the premise of the article. The best camera is the one you have on you. It's nice having the power of a full-sized camera, but the size, weight, and complexity means it's not always the tool that's available.

Even pulling photos off is a pain compared to a smartphone or GoPro, which just connects to wifi and automatically uploads everything.
They’re so critical of Google they go to work there every day to further the company’s interests.

This is plain apologism.
Your mobile website certainly should require as little javascript as possible. You don't know what app the user is running in the background on what phone, so your tests on high end devices do not represent the experience of your visitors. There is no need for these drawer menus (often slow) or complex interactive filters that need 50 AJAX calls. Also the cookie consent modals have become the bain of mobile web experience, especially when they pop up 5 seconds after the user started to read your page on mobile phone. Don't use a modal dialogue, just make a page with the cookie consent and then re-direct to the requested page. What works on desktop don't automatically work on mobile just because you slapped a few media queries in your page.
We're not going to stop maintaining roads. They exist for military defense as much as they do for road trips and trucks.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Highway_System_(Unite...
It was all healthy until polyfluoroalkyl contamination spread around the globe, and now rainwater is toxic and so is the soil.
Firefox runs its own cert store so you can do precisely this.
As others have pointed out, that's pretty nonsense. When you open an "incognito" tab it says right there:

"Your activity might still be visible to:
Websites that you visit
Your employer or school
Your Internet service provider"

Not exactly ambiguous or misrepresentative. It's for browsing porn without your spouse knowing. That's about it.
I like your alternative phrasing for #2.

Thank you again for the interesting discussion.
I use a swapfile, and hibernate frequently (after iirc 2h of suspend, so sometimes multiple times a day). Does take a bit of setup (by far the most supportive of people arguing against Linux in favour of macOS/Windows thing I've done) but works well now it is.
I absolutely agree. Moreover with any Google products you will never know when they will shut it down or hike the prices like they have done countless times.
Futurism is well known for suck clickbaity articles. See [1] as an example.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32844740
A person with your skills are good in any devops/sysadmin role, because there are many devops who hardly know how to code. Wish someone hiring manager can take you on some contract role, then convert you to full time.
You're right, after researching, mentions of the hygiene hypothesis all attribute the epidemic to decreases in exposure in infancy, and possibly decreases in exposure in the mother as well.

But I did find where I got that from, for whatever it's worth, George Carlin:

> When I was a little boy in New York City in the 1940s, we swam in the Hudson River, and it was filled with raw sewage. OK? We swam in raw sewage — you know, to cool off. And at that time, the big fear was polio. Thousands of kids died from polio every year. But you know something? In my neighborhood, no one ever got polio. No one. Ever. You know why? 'Cause we swam in raw sewage.

(from https://www.businessinsider.com/george-carlin-why-we-need-to...)

[edit]: I do wonder if, because I have no reason to doubt it's true, what being exposed to sewage-infested water did is provide some sort of vaccination, by means of exposure to very low levels - insufficient for infection - of pathogens including polio. After all, that kind of analogue process is what early vaccination was.

[edit 2]: that might still be completely off, I mean, reading about it I understand that at the time, 10x as many children would die by accidents, and 3x from cancer.
I actually equate it more to if deployed they won't be a full time use thing, like most night/thermal optics. If used for short engagements it'll be much more palatable. Most service members I deployed with had issues with existing tech and varied lengths of time they could go before disorientation/eye fatigue set in.
Because recent distributions have enabled it by default. I hadn’t used swap for a decade or so since acquiring 16gb ram, but one day noticed a new swapfile in my rootfs.
This, but replace

lobbyist -> military contractor

politician -> high ranking military officer

out of office -> retired from active service

and you now know why some contractors seem to continually get ludicrous purchases despite poor performance.
Not surprising at all. These tech journalists find some out of context quotes from internal Meta communications and write click bate articles all the time, and it can be pretty frustrating.

I think it's good to have a critical culture of our own products - otherwise we would have blind spots!
I think you can go look at sociological experiment about crowd estimation, you might find a response: while those experiment are mostly done in the US, they are often replicated in metric countries. (i don't have any clues about the response to be honest)
Americans Are Too Fat to Donate Their Bodies to Science (2017)
From a perspective of a coder on a team, I think that strategically selecting which novel things to learn is a good thing career-wise. Fun aspect aside, one gets paid to learn new stuff which can later result in better future opportunities. As an example, as a junior dev back in 2015 or so, I was told to use one of the very first versions of Swift to develop a production-ready mobile app. Was it fun? Totally! Did I learn a lot? Absolutely! Did we almost trash the project and had a massive delay because of the early bugs, problems, refactoring with new updates, and because we were still learning? Hell yeah! The final payoff was pretty good for developers, but not for the final business objective which was getting a product out ASAP. Our users didn't care about what tech we used.

Following from the above, I think it's important to distinguish two different aspects of the novelty - one is completely new tech ('global' - new to everyone) and the second is tech that's new to the team that is about to use it (let's call it 'local').

Global: That's the hole we got into using the first version of Swift. The team got stuck with problems that no one has ever had yet and we had to invest our time to solve them. The biggest risk was ending up with a completely new problem and no guarantee that anyone on your team will be able to solve it. There is no Github issue for it and no helpful stranger on Stack Overflow. It's pretty bad if it happens in a critical area. From a project perspective, I'd say it's better to wait for someone else's time and money budget to iron those problems out first if you want to increase your chances of having a production-ready product within a predictable timeframe.

Local: This comes with a different set of risks. If you're working within a larger organization, how many other developers know this newly introduced tech? If the team that has introduced it quits, will there be anyone able to pick it up? If your project is on a critical deadline, do you have enough time to let developers get up to speed? I'd think about this decision from the perspective of investment.

Ironically, I have also experienced the reverse - some companies use tech so old that developers have to learn it as something completely novel. The only dev that maintained the codebase might be retiring and the option is to rewrite or hire a person with a spark for archeology.
Until you have had to work with complexity guzzling junior developers who cannot help but chase the new sparkle, consider yourself lucky to be working on a stable codebase that is readable. It sounds to me like the team has turned down some of your ideas that you feel would make the codebase "better".
Note that for now and up until now, it is widely considered that coverage wise, Verizon > ATT > T-Mobile, and so mobile network pricing still reflects that.

I doubt T-Mobile would be selling its services for less if it had the same coverage Verizon and ATT did, so effectively T-Mobile is selling an inferior product.

Both Verizon and ATT tried to pull off a Comcast and tried to go vertical by acquiring content makers to avoid being just a dumb pipe, but they both failed miserably and ended up with a ton of debt.

ATT failed much worse though. They paid $50B for a satellite TV broadcaster in 2015. It was already obvious that streaming was the future. Either extreme corruption or astounding incompetence.
Gamma Ray Burst GRB 221009A, Astronomy Picture of the Day 2022 October 15
This. Is there a company where everybody's so bright eyed they don't find anything to improve? That would sound almost like a cult to me...
My favorite programming niche is SEO optimization. I really like optimizing pages and see the traffic grow.
They're $29K per headset delivered. The other $150K per headset is the usual program costs.

It's an ultra-high-risk project because there are huge gains to putting EVERYTHING electronic for a soldier in one headset. The GPS, the maps, NVGs, some kind of limited FLIR, replace the existing RWS UI systems for weapon sight video feeds, a replacement for the 80s era MILES "lasertag" training gear, replace everything a soldier carries that uses batteries or a computer chip right now. The problem with that huge gain is its now a huge risk, one blue screen or one "cyber incident" and that soldier is back to WWI level of tech across ALL categories.

The other problem, which seems obvious in retrospect, is the invention of the "swiss army knife" did not eliminate the manufacture of all other hand tools. In fact 99% of manual labor does not use swiss army knives because dedicated hardware is so vastly superior. So its an interesting technological achievement to build a "soldier's electronic swiss army knife", but our opponents will be using dedicated tools that individually will be vastly superior to our soldier's swiss army knives. This turns it into a battle between vastly superior hardware vs theoretical gains in reduced weight, simpler logistics because there's just one thing, and possible gains from integration. Which will win on the battlefield? I guess we find out in the next big war?
> you should deliberately pick and CHOOSE what's OK to break

Absolutely. Unfortunately this is harder to do in a Next.js world, because it’s obscured by abstractions. Life was much easier when you were clearly writing regular HTML and enhancing it with specific JavaScript because the whole thing was deliberate. With JavaScript frontend frameworks plus server-side rendering, the default is to be unaware of all of this stuff and you have to go at least a little out of your way to do it properly.
3 hours of continuous use sounds pretty good. I could only take about 15 to 20 minutes of wearing the first widely deployed night vision googles (AN PVS-5).
In the US, especially with federal money, this would be ample justification for a congressional inquiry and a potential fraud, waste, and abuse claim.

The usual outcome of the investigation is uncovering a bunch of people just saying that they were doing what they were told to do, and no one taking the common sense approach of looking at the current vendor. It might push one or two incompetent middle managers into retirement.

That said, it may get fixed for the next round of bids. It may have long term change depending on which congresspeople were involved.
How much would you be willing to pay for such a policy?

I'm personally willing to pay $0. That's just anecdotal, but I suspect it's not a wise investment for most people. And if only the likely-to-be-canceled are willing to pay for the policies, then that's not a good risk for the insurance companies.
> Google's engineering grunts

Ouch. Someone envious, maybe?
To hell with monetary gain. It should be prison time for executives and board members.
I'm reading up on history of modern money. I could say economics but working of money isn't talked about much in economics circles.

That said these are my current readings.

1. The Currency of Politics [1]

2. A Treatise on Money [2]

3. Towards Anthropological Theory of Value [3]

4. The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Order [4]

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58933308-the-currency-of...

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7637190-a-treatise-on-mo...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toward_an_Anthropological_Theo...

[4] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58986869-the-rise-and-fa...
In my opinion one should refrain from any managed service that can’t be self hosted.

Not clear to me why the authors don’t use managed Postgres. Supabase is close enough I suppose. Personally I don’t see what you get with supabase vs an Orm and vanilla managed Postgres.
Ridiculous personal blame-ism. Do some travel around the world and see the damage that the American military or western capitalism has done in some places. Or what the oil industry has done to the planet. If I judged everybody by their hypocritical involvement in injustice, I'd have no friends, and I'd hate myself to boot. (Ok, those two might already be true, but...)

Solutions to systematic problems require a systematic approach. Personal blame solves nothing. I chose to leave Google, and I took a huge financial hit for it... but I wouldn't reproach anybody for staying there, especially around here where the other employment options aren't so great.
It is funny, marketers often get a bad reputation for being unethical or intentionally misleading, but I would say, more often than not, if you look behind the curtain at a company you would see similar emails from marketing asking for something to be changed or updated because they are uncomfortable with the way they are being asked to position a product.
The new fortune in the Titanium Economy
The CLI complaints, while relatable, are pretty minor. It seems they believe shell scripting is a dirty hack. But in that case, why not just write a clean program to pull the values in the form they want from the API or SDK?
Microsoft Bro got your backdoor all secure
The writing on this case has been so bad I haven't been able to figure out if Google is being accused of tracking users in incognito mode by secretly saving searches or history to profiles, or just giving the false impression of total anonymity.
I'm a little confused -- it sounds like you've read the book, but it also answers all of your question. If you haven't had time to finish it, do!
It's also not clear how quickly heat can be extracted from the bricks. There were decades of research on energy storage in molten sodium-potassium nitrate because it's a liquid so your output is always very close to the temperature of the salt bath. Clay is not a great heat conductor.
> Maybe people experience consciousness so differently, for some it's "invisible", and for others it's undeniable and obvious that it exists.

Indeed. I have seen it proposed by hard problemists that people to whom it is "invisible" may in fact be p-zombies.
Even if the film was made by a non-white non-American muslim, the implication of their reasoning would be that any white/American/non-muslim wouldn’t be able to properly understand the film.

This comes close to denying that there can ever be an understanding between cultures at all.
> think of how professional wrestlers often cut their scalp on purpose

Wait, what?

(I am even hesitant to ask as I'm not sure I'm ready to hear the answer, whatever it might be.)
As a side-project Firebase user, I empathize with it being slowly consumed by GCP. I don’t have the time or inclination to learn GCP for a side project. I opted for Firebase because it had a great developer experience.

As time toes on and more and more Firebase features are redirected to GCP equivalents, the DX value prop is being drained out of the product and I’m left not even understanding my own infrastructure. I’m thankful the author pointed out Supabase, it seems like a great alternative.
“ One Ukrainian commander said Friday that “fighting without Starlink service at the front line is like fighting without a gun.” “

I had not appreciated until now how much having internet during war is so empowering.

Certainly the Russians had no idea that this was going to be a capability. I’m still surprised that Starlink has rolled out so quickly when it was only a concept a few years ago.
It sounds like Oracle
That's a horrible heuristic. All you are doing is selecting for engineers who have failed to fix the problem like you have failed. Misery loves company, eh?

I have decades of experience, mostly work in JS, am often in the top 5% on StackOverflow and very rarely need to delete node_modules. Neither do most of the people on my team. Some of our junior devs reach for that sledge hammer out of frustration. Which is fine. I used a lot of sledge hammer when I was first learning PHP too.