skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I did enjoy his manifesto, I'm not particularly interested in convincing you to read it; I'm just wondering why, when your curiosity was piqued, you chose to avoid the available first-hand source, which you've answered though I don't find your reasons very compelling

But to address that:

>Terrorists who murder for acclaim aren't necessarily the most insightful writers cuz like if they were, they wouldn't need to murder.

Its hardly the case that insightful writing will naturally spread; you yourself provide an example of why it might: you know his murders had little to do with his actual arguments (if you believe his claims), but use it as a reason to not even consider the argument. More generally, a solid argument can easily be publicly ignored for reasons unrelated to it, including style, origin, author's personal traits or behavior, media lambasting, politics, etc. We hardly live in a world where reason alone is sufficient.

That he resorted to terrorism was likely an unreasonable escalation to popularize his writing is irrelevant in all ways I can figure to whether or not he his ideas were insightful, or better yet, interesting. And given the history behind the document (which apparently grabbed your interest too), it seems unreasonable to me to expect nothing of value from it. It might be wrong, but its clearly going to be interesting.

And pretending the bombings never happened, would you have read it?
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From the article :

"

"A lot of this is just putting numbers into some sort of algorithm, and if you're above you're good to go, and if you're below you're not," Heredia-Lopez said.

"

Does not seem like an astute understanding of credit risk. I would not be confident in the sustainability of this initiative.
I hadn't heard of this service before - all very interesting. I found another article on Wired [1] that gives a good overview.

It's unlikely to be an issue in the wide open spaces of these countries - but an autonomous equivalent of the ATC system for drones will be needed when Amazon et al. start doing these deliveries in first world cities. Do you know of any companies working on this problem?

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/05/zipline-drones-rwanda/
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Honestly, in the context of the thread, I see the comment as downplaying and trivializing the serious concerns raised by oasfboasbfos. Besides, I didn't insult anyone, but the company as a whole; it seems absurd to me to take personal offense. Every company has its fair share of incompetence.
Same question here but food delivery services. Too many!
This site has much broader metrics than just carbon footprint.

I don't see any indication that the carbon release from their major manufacturing subcontractors (e.g. Foxconn) is included.
Fine, but it seems like a terrible tradeoff for the drawbacks mentioned by oasfboasbfos.
One way to accomplish this would be reverse proxy layer with sticky sessions that routs some percentage of traffic to X and some to Y.
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I personally prefer privacy badger over both. You can't add trackers to Ghostery, and I don't much care about ads that don't track me (I don't watch internet videos, I might not have this opinion if I did), and any particularly annoying ads just get blocked manually in privacy badger.

On mobile, there unfortunately is no such thing (no user scripts on chrome or Firefox, no privacy badger either), so I usually just disable JavaScript or use whatever privacy browser I have installed (currently Firefox Focus).
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Counties don't have nearly enough power to drive changes, and there are also too many of them in the Bay Area as well.
I think for me it's mostly about not being in control over the content I choose to view.

I'm the kind of person who want involuntary ads to disappear entirely (so basically all ads on the internet). But at the same time I don't mind reading about new products, services, cheap offers etc as long as I can control when.

I look at ads in real life in grocery stores. Here in Norway (and I would assume elsewhere but I don't know what it's called) we have a wall at the entrance where people can put up things. It's usually missing cats, piano lessons, local cleaning services, etc. It's there at the entrance but you have to get close to read anything.

Maybe instead of ads disappearing entirely I just wish they were put in one place.
Agree fully to the "I think the discussion is more important". As a matter of fact, I (think) what I read on HN is about 80% of the discussions, and visit a mere 20% of the links. So keep m comming these Paywall links, I care not much about them.
>But most persons actually want to be influenced in their behaviours, it's the whole point of researching any subject in the first place.

No, people research to make informed decisions.
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As an example, I'm currently diagnosing an issue where an ad refuses to play in our player as it incorrectly identifies itself as being adblocked. We load the advertiser provided ad (really a DoubleVerify fraud protection module) which loads a custom video player which eventually loads the advertiser's media file. The DoubleVerify script is downloading a bootstrap JavaScript file from their server, which then randomly chooses some other JavaScript to eval to check for whatever they think indicates fraud. It's this JavaScript, dynamically downloaded from their server (possibly even dynamically generated) that thinks our ad player is an ad blocker.

And that's just diagnosing a bug, now imagine if you were trying to find some malicious JS.
Yeah but it's a fork to work with Edge. But AFAIK Edge can work with all webextensions because it is using exactly the same APIs as Firefox.
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It's invaluable in several use cases, especially when working with external code that expects a tuple, when unpacking a tuple (a, b = c) especially when iterating over them in a loop (for a, b in c).

You have used some of these methods before. So are you bizzaro?

No. Nobody is bizarro for mentioning this, it's extremely handy and it's kind of in the name: namedtuple. Without this they are utterly pointless.
Is their distributed database code also in this same repo and goes through the same process?
This is not just because of traffic, but to get the original story. There have been plenty of times where the story was changed and edited after the initial post.
Google enjoys a classic natural monopoly. They had a category-winning search product when it mattered and their success has been built around that market lead. Microsoft has a long history of trying to tie them to monopoly abuse, for which Microsoft was sued by the DOJ. Not much has stuck in the U.S. but Microsoft has seen limited success in convincing (some argue lobbying or outright bribing) European officials to punish Google.
Exactly. Only yesterday, my partner was complaining about how the like icons on her FaceBook page had become animated. Mine were static at the time - clearly FB had put her in a test bucket for some 'do animated like icons increase engagement?' test.

FB does this stuff all the time.
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No, usually the ad blockers will block the SSP's script which (depending on implementation) is either responsible for managing the auction, or calling a server which manages the auction. In theory it's possible for the adblocked to miss the SSP but block the eventual winner of the auction and at least on the demand side, we don't pay out for the lack of an impression (not sure of the terms between SSPs and publisher as to which of the two end up eating the lost opportunity, but I suspect the SSP's push it back to the publisher)
1. That trickles down to mass media eventually.

2. They communicate to the few people who really matter —decision makers and their counsel.
> I mean really, when was the last time you ever accessed a namedtuple by index?

Yesterday. I use this quite a bit. I like non-named tuples as a data structure and use them regularly, and often partially upgrade a tuple to a named tuple.

Changing these sorts of things is what caused the Python 2/3 split, I don't think we as a community want that again for a while, so backwards compatibility for things like this that aren't _that_ uncommon should be a priority.
It seems like so much of the internet is reliant upon technology created by, and supported by, people who get little to no reward or recognition for their important contributions.

An idea (not a serious one, but a point for discussion): in civil society we have a government that collects taxes that are used to fund the vital infrastructure that allows the society to function. How about if all ISPs were to charge a very small levy to customers? This levy would go to an independent and neutral body to be used to pay for the salaries of those who are creating the internet infrastructure we all rely upon.

Obviously there would be many problems with trying to implement such a system across the entire world. Worth discussion though?

P.S. I have no doubt that this idea has probably already been thought of and discussed before. There is nothing new under the sun :-)

[edit: fixed fat finger typo.]
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Are you saying we could use a 1:1 threading model with growing stacks (by growing stack I mean a stack that starts for example at 2 KB and is grown as needed)?
maybe they could be incentivized getting a feature into adblockers that makes them a little more lenient towards sandboxed iframes as opposed to cross-origin javascript

maybe make it part of the "acceptable ads" requirements
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I can't be the only one immature enough to read that title as a double entendre.
75km radius according to their promotional material so they won't be covering the whole country without multiple stations to load supplies from. Big contrast with Rwanda where it looks like you can serve the majority of the country from a single depot in the capital.

My guess is they'll focus on a single mountainous area initially.
> and shouldn't (in my opinion) be a matter for Google to decide

... why in hell not? Google is not a government-supplied service. They're a private company. How can you be for blanket freedom of speech, yet restrict a private party from expressing themselves? Google already curates your experience for you - see the 'google bubble'. How come blanket-freedom-of-speech advocates don't complain about that? It's not like Google's decisions jail anyone or impound cars or similar.

For that matter, why don't blanket-freedom-of-speech advocates complain about Apple's 'walled garden'?

> that's a matter for the courts

That's a terrible way to go for social justice as a first port-of-call. The courts are not particularly available for poor or uneducated people. And in the US, public defenders have to be extremely careful about not touching political cases or they can lose their funding. The courts are overloaded, slow, expensive, time-consuming, confusing, and often enough don't 'get it right'.
Yes you are correct there. In the context of Node.js and using the mysql package, prepared statements do the job :)
Static type systems sometimes refuse to compile otherwise valid code. Type error is compiler telling "I can't prove this code correct with regard to some class of problems I'm supposed to catch". It does not necessarily prove the code is incorrect and would fail at runtime.

Therefore a high number of type errors may also mean the type system is very strict and getting in the way very often.

BTW I prefer the type system to be a bit too strict rather than not catching obvious bugs and then having to struggle with a debugger.
I disagree. Regulators might read the output of a think tank. People like you and me are instead talking about their actions. Seems like a clear win for Google.
The problem changes from "tiny amount" to "I have to make yet another decision". Decision fatigue is a thing.

Something like bonqis mentions where the amount of attention I give to each page is automatically measured would be much better.
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I think you should follow your handle.
That was just an example, you could just as well change it to an injection on a different resource/field!
Cool, its open source on github
Code organisation. Classes are basically used as datatype specific namespaces.

In Haskell you have to deal with the possibility of record types sharing the same field names.
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Do you generate reports with how much was spent on each site? If I were using such a browser / add-on, that would make for an interesting reading at least once in a while.
There was a gun on the Almaz [0] space station.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz
Their acceptable ads policy turned into "pay to whitelist" which basically pissed people off on all sides. The advertiser's weren't happy about being held to ransom, the users weren't happy with ad blockers that didn't.
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So if you hear someone describe a movie as 'humdrum', you think they liked it and would recommend it?
It would be super if they were helped to achieve their EUR15K/month target, but after nearly three months, they're only a third of the way there (a situation that is made a little better by having a couple months worth of one-time donations).

https://gnupg.org/donate/
A modern equivalent, that I found uplifting to read about:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/jan/29/blind-backpac...
> To clarify, Rust has its own ABI, just like C++ has its own ABI. And just like C++, you can expose a C ABI if you want by defining special functions. In C++, it's an `extern "C" { ... }` block, and in Rust, it's a `extern "C" fn foo() ...` function declaration.

Ohh, Now i got it. But its pretty good thing to have anyway.
C ABI is the lingua franca anyway to communicate to any language, even C++.

> Adding C++ ABI support is a significant effort.

Ok. So if has its own ABI, im sure it would be a pretty hard undertaking to be compatible with C++.

I was guessing if maybe Rust had managed to squeeze and reuse the C++ ABI.. but sure, giving Rust is not that much alike C++ this would probably be a bad decision for small gains.

Thanks for clarifying.
... huh. TIL
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>>> Where release engineering gets interesting is how you handle the happy path vs. a breaking release.

It's simple. Never make a breaking release.
By "recent blatant attempts to shape the direction of our culture" is it fair to assume you mean firing the man-child author of that manifesto? I was thinking that had much more to do with controlling their own culture than forcing it on anyone else. They didn't make that a public thing, it blew up on them.
> getting Rust to use the C++ abi -- needs compiler changes and also has questionable benefits.

Yes.. Im sure is not worthy it overall.
India had a good run. The technical deficiencies and unsophisticated working environment would eventually result in failures such as these.
Nope. Churn (= number of lines changed) is actually pretty well correlated with bug count.

I don't have a precise reference off-hand, but I believe I read it in "Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It".

Obviously you'll probably get closer to what the software is intended to do, but it probably won't reduce bug count in the short term. In the long term, you might end up with fewer lines of code overall (which is also correlated with overall bug count).
Ah, interesting, I hadn't heard about that. Seems like it should work in Edge then, at least with minimal changes:

WebExtensions APIs are inspired by the existing Google Chrome extension APIs, and are supported by Opera, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. [1]

On the other hand the Edge version seems to no longer be very actively maintained, but the original repository[2] still links to the Edge repository[3] for installation.

[1]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Wh...
[2]https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/
[3]https://github.com/nikrolls/uBlock-Edge/
My browsing experience on a mobile phone stepped up greatly since I started using Firefox Focus. You don't even need to mess around with plugins because ad blocking is already a built-in core feature.
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If you justify capitalism, this entire story is mundane. I am surprised to hear so much complaint about a private employment termination. I guess it's just the sound of so many bubbles popping. It's like no one knew how think tanks work.
Are there any other projects of such nature?
After leaving the Ubuntu world a few releases ago because I was tired of having old Gnome releases and because I wanted Wayland because of its Hidpi support, I will surely come back :)
Trackers, beacons, telemetry; stuff to follow you around the internet and compile a profile on you.
You will be glad to learn about knowledge oriented institutions known as universities. The state funds many of them.
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Care to cite any sources for these "technical deficiencies" and "unsophisticated" working env?
"Partially upgrade a tuple"? What does that mean?
A lot of organization don't have continuous deployment because they can't risk breaking everything for any developers who is playing around. When they want to release, they review everything, test and go through QA.

Facebook is not important. It has no impact when it's broken.
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It's a bit sad that the article does not describe the "why"...
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There is nothing special about a think tank. They're just some people who write position papers for money. It's 1st amendment protected activity.

That's right, the best I have to say about it is, it's not illegal.
I think namedtuple is a terrible hack that never should have been (at least not this way), but changing it is going to be a PITA.
Looks great! But we need to have METAMASK plugin installed and some ethers in your pocket ;)
Sure, but how about 0.2c? Carrying your fuel with you has some pretty serious limitations for anything short of a fair chunk of your mass being anti-matter.

However with the lasers you leave the fuel at home.
and Microsoft is neither micro nor soft. This is not a deep observation.
Astute observations.

However, do dating services ever do consistently better than chance (whatever chance means in such situations)? Plenty of Fish IIRC used to publish lots of stats.
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There is a trivial solution to this problem. If you don't like ads, just start paying for the content. Don't support publishers that use advertisement as their business model. Alternatives exist.
There might be other startup opportunities here. Our postal service at least has this where they has to deliver letters 5 days of week and cost can be pretty high https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
My thoughts exactly. If put in one place, maybe they would start competing for attention by increasing their quality. Because today's ads are at their lowest quality possible.
1. I was not aware that smart meters do not provide (near) real time data in the US. In that case your product makes sense of course.

2. Interesting. I have not considered that case before.

3. What makes you think so? Of course it's not simple but overall our results were positive so far. For example we were able to identify the exact movie being watched at any given time at one of our customers (https://134.147.101.39/media/nds/veroeffentlichungen/2012/07..., unfortunately only available in German).
This is all inside the scope of private employment. Freedom of speech never entered into this equation.
Almost. We get updates every two seconds.
here are the culprits, never even used them.

Stackup: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stackup/dpinfolakh...

LINER: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/liner-private-webp...

note to thy self: DON'T INSTALL WHAT YOU WON'T/DON'T USE.
Similarly, I have consistently supported James Damore — not because I agree with his views (though he makes a much subtler and better-supported case than the subsequent media hysteria would have suggested) but because at some point in the future the next real social breakthrough will come from somebody who pipes up and mentions some hitherto-unnoticed and probably controversial point. In shutting him down in the way they did he was pushed towards the open arms of the right and alt-right media who are more than happy to use him, and the treatment that was reserved for him, as proof positive that the ”mainstream media” is manipulative and beholden to a particular mindset to which they are unequivocally biased.

I've been the lone voice (of reason, I'd like to think) in many a crowd, and unfortunately a social environ wherein the immediate reaction is basically an immune response against the errant ’fool’ is both typical and deeply sub-optimal.
It just looks like something akin to superscript to me. I did not associate it with ©®™ at all.
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It means that if you have a data structure that is represented by a tuple, you can switch the creation call with a namedtuple of the same size, keeping the tuple API, therefore not breaking any older code that may rely on it, while at the same time providing a cleaner interface (using the attribute names) to newer code.

Of course, old code should be upgraded to use attribute names, but it's really convenient to be able to upgrade it painlessy.
A few years back I spoke at a conference about my product. I made some humorous, slightly disparaging comments about the Google-owned competitor.

Two days later my site disappeared from Google SERPs with no ostensible reason. I later found out there were Googlers in the audience for my talk.

Correlation is not causation, so no proof, just suspicion.
I'm immensely shy but relatively good at pretending I'm not. I can't imagine finding that characteristic attractive? I suppose some people want a wallflower?

Do other shy people look for a partner who is shy?
What a complete hatchet job.
The tile of this post seems like a non-sequiter.
Why would a company not do that?
If you trying to project your own ideas,
a part of that process is killing competing ideas
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As Bunny famously remarked: ”You are not storing your data — you are storing a probabilistic approximation of your data”.
They deprived them of property without due process. I'm not okay with that. Justice, social or not, is a matter for the courts. Otherwise, it's known as vigilante justice.

Freedom of expression is more than just a matter of meeting the barest legal requirements. It's an ideal, to be aspired to and inspired by.

Google didn't just curate content they linked or hosted, they took a domain name away without due process. It's obvious that you're okay with that. I'm not.