skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"screen.width" and "screen.height" will also get you the screen resolution without any need to estimate things based on where the window is positioned on the screen.

again, this is stuff that's been there since v1, and is table stakes for any sort of fingerprinting. it's just not useful enough to matter.
Insightful!

"So if you look at the gross national GDP accounts of the United States and Europe, they count economic rent as if it’s an addition to product, to GDP. Interest charges, late charges are an addition to GDP. The rise in the rents paid by people as the rents go up for their housing is all GDP. They’ve erased the entire thrust of classical economics distinguishing between earned and unearned income. And, of course, that is exactly what China, Russia, and the rest of the world want to distinguish.

They want to have an economy where people are productive, not where fortunes are made by being parasitic rent seekers making money in their sleep, as John Stuart Mill defined landlord rent and landlord capital gains. And as it turns out, the one thing that GDP does not report is capital gains. In other words, the increase in the price of wealth, the increase in the price of assets. Most wealth in the United States and Europe is not made, and certainly in Russia, was not made by producing more goods and services. It was by increasing the value of the property you had, the real estate property, the stocks and the bonds, the rent privileges that let you take the money you make from oil or nickel or diamonds or other products.

What is needed is a set of economic statistics that actually will tell Russia, China, and other countries how much that we’re producing is actual product and how much is overhead. The Western GDP and post-classical theory denies that there’s any such thing as economic overhead. Monopoly pricing is not an overhead. Higher rents is not an overhead. That’s the one thing that in ad hoc practice Russia and China are trying to minimize."
I think this is a good opportunity to bypass chrome and use a standalone adblocker, if you're forced to use Google or Microsoft (ad|spy)ware as a browser.
The True Purpose of Propaganda (2022)
You can still view it by going to old.reddit.com instead.
Someday soon we’ll just be able to sequence its genome and reconstruct it without needing to keep samples alive (and no longer have the risk with all the maintenance and security protocols that will entail).

Of course however we store that genomic code had better be on physical media in a sealed vault that isn’t even within spitting distance of anything with an internet connection.
LITERALLY marketing is all about creating associations and perception. That is basically marketing's entire purpose for existing. So to say "well its only media that creates an association because of XXXXXX" sure! Because that is marketing. Thus marketing in a nazi filled content site makes your marketing associate you witrh nazis!

Every movie of a dystopian society shows some ads in bloody places, you don't think "man, I wonder if that company really just meant to sell workout equipment, and in no way related to the purge happening below the billboard in that area all the time". Again, its just not how we work.

There's a vast difference between saying "I live in a neighborhood that has a nazi in it" and "i actively go and spend my money at a bar that is known for making it easier for nazis to hang out there and harass customers"
> Requiring third party app stores

No stores. Web install. Web first class. No "only Safari/webkit engine" limitation.

If Apple is so genius, they can solve malware with all of those engineering minds and dollars they have. They don't need to hind behind a store to do that. The tools and techniques are readily available and accessible for a company of their size and stature.

Permission layer, app runtime heuristics, and fingerprints are a start. They can do this. They just don't want to / have to, because they're currently Gods of the Phone Universe with unfettered and completely unfair control over "their domain".
OK but most business compete in a market. And the people they employ are in a labour market.

It seems that worse is better.

What we see is just another manifestation of the current economic paradigm. Waste is winning.

Making too many pairs of jeans so we burn tons of perfectly good new pairs daily wins.

Throwing hundreds of engineers on problems bashing out hundreds of thousands of lines of code sending megabyte messages between dozens of service instances in multiple kubernetes clusters appear to be a winning move. Otherwise someone would beat them, right?
Ask HN: CRM Data Enrichment API (Clearbit Alternative)?
We're building a data enrichment API for CRM or similar use cases, aimed at startups (affordable + great UX). Our goal is to offer a competitive alternative to Clearbit, with a focus on:

- Person Contact Enrichment
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Would love your thoughts:

- Must-have features?
- How important is integration ease with HubSpot/Salesforce?
- Desired pricing range?

Your input is invaluable to us, helping to shape a tool that truly meets startup needs!

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The issue I describe should never happen. It is extremely critical when a communications provider send another message than what it was instructed to.

Also, it is not rare. It appears from other commenters that this happens quite regularly.
The point is that you should be more concerned with the way common people will be abused.
This reminds me of all the businesses that tried to do fashion as a service, where you’d get a delivery every month and send back your used pieces from the month before. Only one nice survived is Stitch Fix and they have had some financial difficulties as of late
The bluster is mostly for fun, but I was rather set off by this statement:

> there is simply no 21st century music to be had.

The appropriate response to "what is free jazz?" is "what isn't free jazz?" This is a joke, of course. Free jazz is crap; I like the old stuff. Same goes for prog rock. One cannot account for taste, after all.

Thanks for the Merzbow; I look forward to listening to it after the meeting I'm in. ;) But do note that Death Row is a record label, renowned for its production quality (wherein Dre would hire musicians to re-record backbeats that originated as lo-fi samples).

I must ask: do you look for new music? I do, daily, and I'm never unsatisfied. And, hell, I heard a sonata of Mozart just yesterday that I'd never heard before. So I'll say this: the back-catalog is so incredibly massive that one listener cannot hope to hear it all. It's much easier to be stuck in the past, than stuck in the present.

And I've been to several world metropolises, London included. A cohort of 70 high school students is a terribly small sample, whereever it may be situated. I didn't start really listening to music until my brother (a professional musician) departed for university.

edit: ah, hah. Merzbow is inspired by prog rock and free jazz. It's not bad; it's not my jam. Do your kids listen to it?
Definitely! Case in point, I reported a bug in the iOS ePub reader I was using (crashing on the iOS beta I was running), and the developer responded to say they were working on it.

Contrast that with the little bugs I’ve reported to Apple; they’ve not been fixed, and I don’t know if they ever will be. It’s disheartening and has undermined my trust in my phone’s OS and the company behind it.

What I know from years of dealing with customers is that listening to their problems and acknowledging them, even if you can’t fix anything, works wonders (1).

I once talked with a man who’d been utterly let down by our phone system as he waited outside to get his groceries: we’d told him he could come in early as we had his order done, but the system didn’t know that. When I went outside he was super frustrated, and rightly so. I heard him out and acknowledged that we’d dropped the ball, then asked him if he still wanted his groceries. It’s amazing how just being willing to listen can turn a situation from one where no one is happy to one that you can laugh about together (at how stupid software can be!).

1: part of listening and acknowledging is becoming the customer’s advocate and elevating as needed; this was something I did. Sometimes the answer was still “we can’t help”, but seeing that you did your best might be all they need.
He is from the same university where Lua was invented and still maintained nowadays. This Brazilian university has quite a history of awesome achievements specially in graphics computing...
Yes, and it's very likely that one or more components is now unavailable.
I did some searching but I couldn't find information about this. Can you share where you read it?
FWIW I didn't interpret that first sentence of the comment as criticism of the article.
Curious, do you think the mentality of buyers would be "I just paid, so it s 5"?

And I am glad you didn't do it. I personally find it so annoying. I am do ask for reviews but lemme use it for a while first?
I'd advise against that kind of shortening. If you use set -e, which you should, then

if [ a = b ]; then
echo "Oops!"
fi

will do exactly what you imagined, but

[ a = b ] && echo "Oops!"

will quit with an error if expression a does not equal expression b.
Why is it a problem if the API is published and works, eg there could be open source solutions? I'm in favour of better metadata etc.

(And are tiny and dormant companies going to need to do this?)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) creates a 1T parameter model reading papers

Quite interesting who is funding such a huge endeavor?
Lots of opinions over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38366729
I can't help but recall Steve Jobs introducing the PowerBook G4 Titanium:

> "Titanium! It's made out of titanium! Like the spy planes! This is an incredible material, it's stronger than steel yet lighter than aluminium."

https://youtu.be/bNHkrnU77m0?t=92
> (I am not antivax, I am just too lazy to get it)

Startup idea - vaccine delivery service. Pay a fee or subscription and someone comes to your house or workplace and jabs you with flu vaccine plus any travel shots required.
Ask HN: Website Speed Optimization?
There was a discussion yesterday regarding minification, and as someone who's obsessed with optimizing for speed, i figured i should post this question that i have been pondering for a while.
what are some innovative optimization strategies you have stumbled across, or/and use?

There is one that i saw on HN a few years ago, i tried to find it again but was unsuccessful, the gist was that they removed some non needed headers and saved a massive chunk of bw cost and gained speed.

I'll start, here's a few:

- enable gzip/brotli

- compress images

- minify css/js

- use of cdn

- link tag with appropriate rel, decoding, loading and fetchpriority attributes

- cache headers

- fetchpriority attribute on css, js, fonts and what not.

- order of js, css, and font loading in head tag

- use of defer attribute

- use of loading and decoding attributes on images

- get rid of 19 out of those 20 3rd part trackers every site seem to desperately need that defeat any or all of the other optimization attempts you are doing.
Not all talent is the same.

This field is small and nascent enough that there are really only a small number of people who can build something like GPT-4.
Yes, but it does not allow your to modify it, replicate it, or make it your own. The entire philosophy behind "free" software and open source, etc.

In this case, it's highly likely that one or more components on those PCBs is unavailable now, so you need this source code to update what may need to be updated to be able to keep things alive.
> EU ruling that youtube isn't allowed to block adblockers

When did that happen? Link?
> The point could have been made much more forceful by not releasing the report but holding it over Altman's head to get him to play ball.

Given how Altman has responded to things throughout his career and in this, I fail to see how doing this would result in anything other than the same outcome: Altman won't be moved by that, but consider it extortion and move for her removal from the board, regardless. In the end, he wants criticism or calls for caution stifled.
git reset --hard is actually dangerous, because it throws away local modifications that were not yet committed. To undo just the commit and not the work, you should use git reset --soft (to undo just the git commit) or git reset --mixed (to undo both the git commit and the "git add"s leading up to the commit).
> 2. Would it be possible for some random developer to put in a PR to the upstream Chromium project, to introduce one or more Manifest V3 capabilities

I don't see why Google would ever allow it, unless some new regulation from EU or other gov. bodies mandate it.
Given how many smart people are confused by Git, and how many times Git's behavior needs to be explained in a way that often raises as many questions as it answers, it seems to indicate that Git's model is not at all intuitive and doesn't map well to how people generally use it to get work done.

These are all people who have no problem understanding all kinds of other technologies and building complex systems from them.

It's not quite in "a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors" territory, but when this many smart people have difficulty understanding something, I think Git is to blame, not the people.
> > I just had a nurse tell me yesterday to not take the flu vaccine because she said it doesn’t prevent flu

The flu vaccine is notoriously kinda like shooting in the dark because it's hard to predict which strain will dominate the winter.
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So the guy opened a company, 5 months later it got destroyed by crazy dictator and santions. He moves to a new country, starts a new life, and opens a new company there. Now tell me he is sponsoring the war or something like that based on these facts
Snaps. Why? Please Stop
Not speaking to any inaccuracies as I haven't watched the video, but my main hesitancy is that he's not a mathematican, his videos aren't reviewed prior to publication, and Godel's work is very subtle and often misunderstood.
Just don't use the third party app store if you're worried about scams. Requiring that apple permit 3rd party app stores does not force users to use said 3rd part stores.
You can install rust toolchain with https://rustup.rs/ in 1 minute, and git clone some project to see for yourself.
It's impossible to answer your question directly, as it depends a lot on dependencies and language features.
Reminds me of McCafee
The lawyers probably cost less than the rent.

And one side has the cash from not paying rent to pay lawyers and the other side is short the same cash but still has to pay lawyers.

So-sue-me is a well worn business behavior.

Good luck.
Stores is synonymous with side loading. Pedantically your website could be considered a “store” for the single app you distribute for it.

And the threat surface of the iOS sandbox is so large that it’s impossible to secure everything everywhere the first time. Every iOS jailbreak since at least iOS 10 starts with a sandbox escape exploit and executed via a sideloaded app (besides the single hardware exploit found in recent years, checkm8)
The jabra headsets seem to insist on Bluetooth when in calls, reducing the quality back down to terrible
In Western countries the place where you are the most likely to catch a disease or infection are hospitals.

Especially I think most 'nasty' infections are actually caught in hospitals.
I see it more like coupons, you escrow $1M and b/c companies go bankrupt, management change etc. in the end you keep some of the money.
The fact the spores were treated with bleach and were still active means that you treating the fabric with the same biocide will not kill the spores.

Spores alone survive the bleach. Spores + fabric will survive the bleach. Hence treated fabric cannot be considered safe.
Bidding error sees Finnish day-ahead power price tumble to -203.40 euros/MWh
I’m sorry but I didn’t understand it from a landing page
As other have commented, diversion from other less good press they've been getting lately
Well, I can't load the workflow. Installing the missing nodes requires restarting comfyui and it seems persistence on comfyworkflow's cloud isn't guaranteed anymore.

Also this website is pure single-page garbage. Everything is super slow, can't ctrl+click on a link to open it in another tab, etc ... An UX nightmare.

Can you recommend a competitor ?
Looking at:

- https://www.thinkdiffusion.com/

- https://rundiffusion.com/comfyui-workflows

- https://flowt.ai/
Thank you so much! It's all done in After Effects, with some Photoshop work for more complex graphics. The voice over was kindly provided by my wife.
I've been collecting these deplatform actions over the years. Only 2 so far in 2023 that I recorded:

https://github.com/paradite/awful-deplatform
Flag them and/or email the mods. That actually works whereas the meta exhortations mostly don't and just beget more meta.
What advantages?
That very much depends on the code you're compiling. The factors that come into play are monomorphization (which means the compiler builds one copy of the code per type it is called for), procedural macros (which need to be fully compiled before being able to expand code using them), whether complex type shenanigans are used, etc. etc. Absent that, Rust will compile roughly as fast as C nowadays.
Shouldn't the title be "Ex Unibus Pluram"? AFAIK, shortening "ex" to "e" is only allowed before consonants like in "e pluribus unum".
The point was to not overvalue the superiority of humans, not that chess engines didn't exist.
This is precisely the logic behind qualified immunity: "you can only jail them if they knew it was illegal, otherwise they get a slap on the wrist and politely asked to stop". It sounds nice in theory, but the inevitable result in practice has been total immunity for all lawbreaking, because of a compliant court system which sets the bar for "should have known it was illegal" to be impossibly high. Maybe at one point before we knew this it was possible to argue for QI in good faith, but now we empirically know it's an unworkable standard and should be scrapped.

Besides, civilians get the "ignorantia juris non excusat" [0] principle, and the rule of law means that everybody, including government officials and law enforcement, should be held to the same standard.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat
This keeps happening again and again in all online marketplaces. Be it amazon, ebay, app stores, etc.

This NEEDS to be regulated. If thousands of companies make a living in your marketplace, you simply can't be allowed to take destructive unilateral action against their business without due process.

One guy reviewing tickets in a random location worldwide, working for minimum wage, takes a 30 second look at your case and closes down your account. Your company loses millions and goes out of business before any dispute even gets processed (If they even have a dispute system)

This is simply an insane way of doing business.
> Back at the White House, Johnson would howl through the halls, “If I can move ten thousand troops in a day, the plumbers can certainly fix the bathroom the way I want it!”

Considering the fact that this is essentially true, I find it extremely dubious that it took them 5 years to solve the problem. Surely just making a carbon copy of his shower at home wouldn’t take more than a month or two.
> Requiring third party app stores

That's doing a lot of work. There's "... to be usable" but also "... to be automatically and unfilterably merged".

They are very different situations. What specifically are you concerned about? I'd guess that latter but you seem to be defending the former as though it is the latter.
Interesting. I used to think along the lines of most of the other responders, but seeing the ritualized nature of the response I'm starting to think this is our generation's "you don't know how to use a band saw".
I’m a developer and I’m happy if I have a vague idea of how the software I work on functions. I admit that for almost everything I have no idea hier it works.
According to pcwalton appears avoiding monomorphization on its own may be unlikely to yield substantial gains [0]:

> I doubt that a hypothetical version of Rust that avoided monomorphization would compile any faster. I remember doing experiments to that effect in the early days and found that monomorphization wasn't really slower. That's because all the runtime bookkeeping necessary to operate on value types generically adds up to a ton of code that has to be optimized away, and it ends up a wash in the end. As a point of comparison, Swift does all this bookkeeping, and it's not appreciably faster to compile than Rust; Swift goes this route for ABI stability reasons, not for compiler performance.

> What you would need to go faster would be not only a non-monomorphizing compiler but also boxed types. That would be a very different language, one higher-level than even Go (which monomorphizes generics).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38224941
weird coincidence - I just had C diff. I was healthy before it, had not taken antibiotics in years, so I suspect what caused my c diff was years and years of taking pepcid. Long term antacid use are one suspected cause of c diff. Doctors like to act like antacids are pretty safe and you can just use (abuse?) them for years without consequence.

I went on a bender reading about c diff when I had it. The antibiotics for it have like 70% or less success rate [1]. The gold standard is a drug called dificid. With insurance my dificid was $1300, $4000 without insurance. There is a manufacturer coupon that makes the drug $50 with insurance - just a heads up if you ever find yourself in the same situation. The other antibiotics are not that great (vancomycin and metronidazole) and have more side effects, from my reading.

Fecal matter transplant (FMT) [2] seems to have the highest success rate [3]. There was recently a FDA approved drug for FMT called vowst, but its expensive as well. The whole science and process of FMT and FMT donors is super interesting and it will be exciting to see the developments in this field in the coming years to see what other things FMT can help out with (IBS, etc...). Its frustrating that FMT, with its high success rate, is considered a last resort method to cure c diff recurrence - it seems much safer than the general population using novel antiobitics with not-great success rates in preventing recurrence.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3867563/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6RBfoITbls

[3] https://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/digestive-d....
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No, attempting to prevent money from flowing into a country which is actively waging war against neighbors is not racism.