skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Websites, though, can still use analytics APIs, including things like Google Analytics, to track you within that Incognito Mode session. They may also be able to correlate you by, for example, matching your IP address.

Well, that’s kind of what breaks intuition about it. Compare to a burner phone. People expect that eg calling the same place with the same number will tip off the recipient that you’re the same person.

But what if every business fed a voice analysis profile of everyone caller to a central database — without keeping a voice recording, of course — and associated each one with a number. And imagine it was cheap for some people to access this database.

That would kind of break most people’s expectations of a burner phone. But that’s basically what websites can do.

So even if you know the general structure of how websites and Incognito work, you might still fail to appreciate how unhelpful the anonymization is.
Thanks also, I had the privilege to exchange with you on the linux-audio-dev mailing list a few times way back in the time of quasimodo and creation of LADSPA, I learned so much thanks to your dedication and knowledge about audio programming and how to create an useful api !
It would be nice to see a smoker-adjusted rate.
https://archive.ph/jMui0

(Unfortunately the aggressive ads, video ads, and registration requirement make the article unreadable)
It's funny because Google pretty much invented this model that users want and love. App Engine was launched in 2008, before GCP, before docker and before Cloud was a term, basically. It had a globally replicated persistence layer, job queues, auth, scale to 0, a generous free tier, a fully fledged local dev server and a single command to deploy, and all config lived in a single file. At the time it was really innovative, and attracted a lot of hip startup- and college grad types.

The reason people liked it is, imo, because it was a single product with multiple features. GCP OTOH, has been about decoupling (or loosely coupling) the product suite, and users are supposed to pick and choose from a giant array of half-products. Simply being aware of all products, their interoperability and predicting the cost is a full time job, easily (it's mostly large enterprise who can absorb that cost). There's nothing wrong with the pick-and-choose model, if your products are simple, low level, and interoperable. But the product suite has grown organically, seemingly without coherence, so there's very little in terms of paved paths to walk – it's so confusing. When a shining star like Firebase comes along (2014) Google clearly knows not to mess with it too much. But even Firebase isn't strong enough to resist the gravitational pull of the GCP behemoth.
because is almost impossible to fix, harden or make secure. it's not just the broken overall architecture, which eg enables write on read, also it's internal code. eg the various attempts to get FTS. it's worse than openssl, which gets all the FLAC
Only in very severe disease would that be the case. Many can become maimed & debilitated instead of just dying(e.g. Polio), and even those who come through "unscathed", the damage may just be hidden. You can see this with a lot of diseases like HPV, herpes(chickenpox/shingles) or hepatitis, where severe disease manifests well into adulthood. Many diseases have adapted to not kill the host and evade the immune system.

You also may just have chronic re-exposure or a failure to clear pathogens, which can be detrimental to an entire population. An example would be worms that don't get cleared by the immune system and for which the person is constantly being re-exposed to. You end up with cognitive and physical issues that don't kill, but reduce a person's quality of life.

Some of the hygiene hypothesis is around the immune system amping up its response due to parasites, and without the parasites present to attack it turns against the body itself. This is kind of what I am talking about. The people with amped up immune systems possibly handled parasite infections better when they were a common problem, but in a society where most people no longer live with chronic parasite infections, it manifests as allergies/immune disease. Living with chronic parasite infection is certainly not on the top of anyone's list to do, though helminthic therapy is something some people have tried to fix their allergy issues.

It is also incredibly hard to determine who has truly lived a "pure" lifestyle free from interference of modern conveniences, so that evolution can truly be the driving factor in their life. Civilization has disrupted evolution for millennia by now, we can't just look back a few generations and claim they were a "tougher breed" who were better because of their purer natural lifestyle.
"* Google" is part of "websites you visit" since the tracking asserted here happens only to the extent that you visit Google websites or when websites track you using Google tools.
Most companies are willing to invest just about nothing into education
It’s also quite dated slang. Pimp My Ride is decades old now.
Are tall women evenly distributed? I don't really know, but I wonder if having a hard time finding a partner in small towns would in some way push them towards cities, or something like that. Maybe there's something about the place you live, or the people you tend to be around.
I would love to see a project to raise optimized mice using the tremendous amount of research on them. Is anyone doing that already?
Adults today care too much what young people think
Amazing. I do think I get the feeling you’re going for here.

At first, I thought this was some type of choose your own adventure or text adventure.

Anyway, good stuff.
It doesn't mean that, it's literally in https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

In Comments

Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest.

Ask questions out of curiosity. Don't cross-examine.

Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more.

When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is, but don't be gratuitously negative.
However it's worth noting that the invasion caused at least tens of thousands of deaths and probably hundreds of thousands of deaths in North America - because the US and Canada built the Alaska highway to counter the Japanese; and that project spread illnesses to such as TB to native people who had never encountered them before; with a staggering deathtoll amongst them. Also not reported during the war.
> My recollection is that progress on Firebase stopped when Google bought it, and I haven't followed it for almost a decade.

Firebase launched an alpha in April 2012 and got acquired in 2014, so I'm not sure how you've stopped following it for a decade because it's only existed for about that.

> 1) It used to download the whole state (write history) upon startup. Did they ever update it to send a snapshot, or a partial view of the data with lazy-loading for additional nodes?

Yes, that feature shipped in 2014.

> 2) Did they ever provide a simple push notification service? That was pretty much the only thing missing to be able to run Firebase without another server.

Firebase integrated with Google Cloud Messaging in 2016. Cloud Functions (which was also 2016-17) allowed operation without a server.

> 3) Were node aliases/shortcuts ever implemented, so a node could be a reference to another node? That would have greatly reduced the need for a SQL JOIN alternative.

No, the guidance was to duplicated data across paths (when Cloud Functions existed, folks used them).
1) wine is not an OS (or a VM), so you can’t “run wine under qemu” (not directly)

2) you do not need qemu (or any other emulation layer) to run wine
There was an old Stanford site with some basic interactive tools to visualize "electromagnetic particles". In one of them you would just sling electrons around a neutron and watch their orbits.

I credit it for being one of the reasons I learned to code because it made me think about how cool it was that somebody built that. (I was ~9 years old.)

Now I think I'll have to go finally reimplement that site from memory! I'm sure I can brute force the math with the help of Copilot :P
It was such a success that Canonical will be making it the default shell on Ubuntu 69.04 LTS.
For those who want to use a GUI, but don’t want to say they use a GUI.
Counting macronutrients is a pretty poor way of comparing foods. They have different amino acids, fats, trace minerals, and vitamins, and are digested differently in the body. They don't even smell the same or behave the same when cooking.

This isn't some kind of pro-meat screed, either. It's just not true that they are equivalent culinarily or nutritionally. They are a pretty good approximation of beef, but they're not the same.

If the Whoppers seem the same, it's because Whoppers are junk food, and Impossible meat is kind of just vegan junk food.
Living in a country that has a lot of natural radon in some places, very definitely yes. New houses over here must be built in a way that mitigates radon exposure, unless that particular region is low-risk.
This is literally the answer. My brother's a data scientist at a large health insurance company and this is a subject we've discussed at length. In short, because of the large Mormon population in Utah, the state has shockingly good statistics on a very wide range of disease incidences, health-related quality of life outcome measures, etc. With respect to health and longevity, it pays not to drink, smoke, or do drugs (surprise, surprise).

Other interesting tidbit – his health insurance company (and I expect all others) took a substantial hit 2019-2020 from the initial phase of the pandemic. Come 2021-2022, large proportions of the unhealthiest segments of the population had passed away; covid + comorbidities puts you at a much greater risk of dying than covid alone. They integrated this fact into their modeling and, given that these people would no longer require care (e.g. dialysis, ER visits), predicted that utilization would go down substantially and, now providing for an overall healthier population, the company would be more profitable that year relative to pre-pandemic years. This turned out to be an accurate prediction.
so I'm looking at Oracle's docs

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E37355/html/ol_srbackup...

while it doesn't allow you to delete a subvolume (i.e. what a snapshot is built off of), it does seem like one could conceptually just overwrite it via send/recieve? perhaps its a bit smarter and doesn't let snapshots be modified, but I'm now a bit unconvinced that it can be viewed as simply an "append only" interface.
Not for the amoeba!
> 2. Google's Alleged Collection of Plaintiffs’ Data

> Plaintiffs allege that Google collects data from them while they are in private browsing mode "through means that include Google Analytics, Google ‘fingerprinting’ techniques, concurrent Google applications and processes on a consumer's device, and Google's Ad Manager." Id. ¶ 8. According to Plaintiffs, "[m]ore than 70% of all online publishers (websites) use one or more of these Google services."

> Specifically, Plaintiffs allege that, 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." Id. ¶ 63. This message includes six elements, each of which is discussed below.

[...followed by a lot of detail on what gets tracked...]

https://casetext.com/case/brown-v-google-llc

So there is client-side telemetry which completely de-anonymizes and geolocates you and Google tracks you in incognito mode everywhere that Google Analytics is deployed (~70% of the web). If you use incognito mode and visit porn sites that use Google Analytics, then Google has your complete de-anonymized porn surfing history in their databases. This is not what people are led to believe is happening by the incognito warning message.
I've read that vitamin D can play a role in cancer prevention at a cellular level. Our bodies synthesize vitamin D using UVB in sunlight. You'll notice that most of the states at the bottom of the list (except DC ?!?) are sunny places, so I wouldn't be surprised if that is a contributing factor.
Have an endorsement!

"I've done 3 cross-country road trips and this captures everything I remember about Kansas excluding the IHOP in Wichita where we met an overworked waitress nearly running the entire place."
Enough of talking about them, then :)
https://casetext.com/case/brown-v-google-llc
I've been using Firebase since 2016 in production. Still have a couple of projects there but I will not start another project with Firebase.

I would only use it for quickly prototyping something that I'm 100% sure will be trashed later. Otherwise there are just too many issues with it for anything remotely serious.
SST (https://sst.dev/) has been a game-changer for me, it makes serverless bearable.
The 'Talkie' was a little surprising.

"Someone here?"

Yes, I'm here.
TikTok made money from getting Syrian refugees to beg in livestreams
You're truly in Cambridge and you make such arguments about Americans? There's this collection of stories and myths I've heard about that talks about casting stones, planks in eyes, etc that comes to mind. We might as well just play the Anglo-Saxon bad and Anglo-Saxon fault cards together.
rich people love soup!
Co-founder of Trump’s media company details Truth Social’s bitter infighting
Honestly, I do not really think most online commenters want to convince anybody of anything. For most of history, discussion of current events by normal people has just been venting to your likeminded friends in the pub. The problem I think is on the part of people who expect convincing rhetoric in online conversations.
An Uneasy Use for Apple’s AirTags: Tracking a Loved One with Dementia
Stable Diffusion Inference on iOS
https://archive.ph/3WjOd
first that's not what she said. she said given what the cabinet and western intelligence knew they considered it the right approach. and second, in hindsight some writing was on the wall in 2014.

however back then Germany was between a rock and a hard place for our energy supply and we simply added a new supply channel, in addition to US LNG and Saudi and Qatari LNG.

https://youtu.be/yR0wsWrs2yY
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone review – documentary from Adam Curtis
Not yet fully determined, but the current circumstance indicates that it's likely an electric spark from a battery that ignited emergency fuel in a nearby generator room.
I've built up folios of RSS feeds over more than ten years, and continue to curate them. Every day they throw up a fair percentage of content I'm not interested in, but that's easily ignored, and the good stuff is excellent.
This is a really neat concept. Fairly simple, but great execution. I'm digging the camera roll feature.
> Or, more likely, life inspires art.

Or maybe: both are true (to some degree) simultaneously!

> Remember that "paying close attention" should not mean focusing on the interesting coincidences.

Exactly - this, and also all the other things.

> This sheer quantity of events means that coincidences are pretty much guaranteed to happen on a regular basis — paying close attention just means you notice more of them.

I am suspicious of the word "just" in this sentence, it makes an otherwise fine sentence seem necessarily incorrect. What did you mean by it?
Why are we conscious? – BBC
New research is changing our understanding of the origins of consciousness.
How does this compare to Tiingo or openbb?
Note that Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming also have relatively large LDS populations.
The fact that a web site can query all those things in that site is utterly ridiculous. Web technology is out of control.
The ESP32 Bootrom (2018)
> Thanks, this is exactly what I meant in a much better formulation :)
The vaccine isn’t therapeutic, it just doesn’t confer total immunity like some vaccines, mostly because COVID mutates frequently. Are you thinking of the monoclonal antibody treatment?
Off-topic: I'm toying with GPT-3 and I used it to extend rockmeamedee's comment: https://gist.github.com/cool-RR/12b0fc8106f6df18925de632f2b6...
Digital cameras are shipped by sea to avoid/lessen sensor damage they would be subjected to 7 miles high from greater cosmic radiation.
Back in Eastern europe, usually in the summer and by the seaside or in an usual sunbathing setting, older people with various ailments such as rheumatism cover themselves in black mud and keep it on for hours then wash it off. Some of them are also practicing nudism as well, this part is quite funny. I never knew if there was an actual benefit from it, and still am somewhat skeptical though I’d give it a try if I had the chance and need. Could as well be a bucket list item. At the same time I think we’ve lost some ancient treatments this way and when it comes to the immune system, seems to me it’s on the better side if it’s stimulated rather than overprotected by isolation from exposure sources. I have a kid in preK and they’re sick quite frequently and it’s quite a normal thing.
You have a great point. I think you could agree your point would have been made better without the cheap shot to score points against woke bogeymen.

To your point though, we need to stick together as humans, from every country, because the common person from China has more in common with the common person in America than either common person has with those in power trying to split us up by race and ideology. Divide and conquer doesn’t work if you don’t buy in to the divisions!
why should we try to persuade or change minds?

are we happier now that we can reach millions of minds? or were we happier with smaller circles of family and friends? is there a great injustice that needs each and every one of us to play the persuasion game?
Hell no, absolutely not. There is a process of grief, and it hurts, but it should, and escapism is not the right answer. I would come back to haunt anyone doing this to me. Keep me in your memory the way I was, don't replace me with a drab fantasy. No AI can reproduce my lousy personality anyway.
It wasn’t known if it would or not. But the fact that it massively reduces risk to the virus is a giant win. What’s wrong with that?
https://librepcb.org/compare/
Where are all the robots in manufacturing?
Here's a short piece we (https://www.tutorintelligence.com) wrote explaining a common misconception about what domestic manufacturing actually looks like in 2022. This definitely surprised us as we made the shift from working on robotics in academia to industry, so hopefully others will find this interesting.
> So there is client-side telemetry which completely de-anonymizes and geolocates you

This is not supported by the quote you posted.
> I've been screaming from the bottom of my lungs for ages that [insert opinion] only makes sense

There you go.
I'd argue (and this is the point of the lawsuit) that Google being a third party spying on you on 70% of the websites that use Google Analytics is not being adequately disclosed by the warning message in Incognito mode. There is no "oh by the way we de-anonymize and geolocate you and we have your entire porn surfing history in our servers, cheers mate" notice there. The vast majority of internet users would expect that their IP would naturally leak to the porn site they visit, and that seems to be what the warning is about. It doesn't suggest at all to the average user that Google is watching all your activity across all the porn sites you visit--that doesn't become an obvious risk without a lot of specialized knowledge (which most of the readers here probably know, but which 99% of the rest of the world doesn't, which makes that interpretation highly deceptive to the average person).
Someone was actually building a decentralized commodities exchange, and used a couple of Cookbook contracts to build out their infrastructure
PMs never get promoted for saying "Yeah the product is solid we don't need any more features."
The real pertinent reason to regulate and to get noscript/basic (x)html web portals (at least on "critical" online services) is that "javascript" requires a grotesquely and absurdely massive and complex web engine, including its SDK.

The only web engines today are blink/geeko, financed by google(vanguard/blackrock), and webkit financed by apple(vanguard/blackrock). They are all written using c++ which has also a grotesquely and absurdely massive and complex syntax, and better not have a look at the compilers... aka double the pain.

In other words: "javascript" = don't have "big tech" controlled software? no web for you!

hard truth: bazillions of online services can work perfectly without a "javacript"-able web engine (javascript alone is some work but several orders of magnitude less), namely basic (x)html forms can do wonders... and actually they were!! But web dev tantrums and planned obsolescence got involved.

The only way out of it is very strong regulation, and I am personally seeing lawyers to seek noscript/basic (x)html interoperability on "critical online services".
Many good sci-fi novels deal with GRBs and their threat to life? I know of Diaspora, what others?
Intended accordingly to the technology, not marketing
A .no-js class is sometimes handy too, instead of or in addition to .js-only.

I don't like using <noscript> to detect absence of JS, because browsers that are blocking JS (e.g. whitelists), or even blocking some JS and allowing others to load (e.g. inline vs same-domain vs cross-domain vs tracking-blockers), haven't actually disabled JS, and won't necessarily render <noscript> even if the JS won't load.

But there are similar ways to achieve the same thing which don't suffer from this problem. Unfortunately to cover all cases they are complicated, using combinations of inline <style>, <script>, document.write, similar lines in externally loaded scripts which only run if those are loaded, and DOMContentLoaded to do the right thing if a synchronous <script> did not load after all.

Once it's done it works, but it's not trivial to work through all the cases.
How exactly does moving the goal posts to now argue that cancel culture doesn’t exist support your original claim that powerful people like McCarthy are the ones doing the cancelling and always have been? You’re contradicting yourself. It’s hilarious to argue with a first-hand account that something happened with what is essentially ‘I think your problem doesn’t exist because I define the thing you said as not a problem and nobody rational would have that problem.’ Arguing that cancel might be trivial in some cases completely fails to demonstrate that it’s not sometimes serious. We know it’s sometimes serious, just ask Harvey Weinstein.

> I would personally make a distinction between “I was fired because of X” and “My friends don’t like me anymore because of X”.

Good for you. Contrary to your claim, that’s not a distinction that was made either with “cancellation” nor with your own example of MyCarthyism. And again, you’re failing to capture the fact that most people’s social circle involves co-workers, and what the cross-over effects are between work and personal life. You’re also failing to capture family and church and neighborhoods and loads of other organizations of people where being ostracized can and does have a meaningful impact, for good or bad.