skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two questions:

1. What does it matter if the creators of a website are aware that a user is using private browsing to view the site? In other words, what would they do with this information?

2. As it's possible to strip out referral information using other means, assuming there's a practical use for this "private browser user" information, what could the site creators do to guard against false positives?
A poster just above reports being unable to short USDT on Kraken, so that market may not be reliable.
Without being as vague, my main concern is that a pharmaceutical company could find value in business practices that put patients, even those with terminal illnesses, at an unacceptable risk of harm that the patient may not be cognizant of. If the company begins a campaign of fraudulent kickbacks to healthcare professionals we end up with a corrupt system in which we take advantage of patients and their families.

Medicine and medical research goes slowly and cautiously because we wish to protect people. To end this comment, I wish to go back to my statement that if this country goes in the direction of right to try, I sincerely hope lawmakers ensure protection of the patients that could benefit.
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It seems to me that much of the "class" issue is really about pride. I'm higher class than you, so I look down on you. Or, I'm more down-to-earth than you, so I look down on you.

"I'm OK with who I am, and I don't need to look down on anybody to feel OK about myself" sets you free from a lot of the games that are played in the name of "class". (It doesn't make it easier to feel like you fit with other people, but it makes it so that you don't have to try to move to (or stay in) some particular class.)
>They both have single-points-of-failure in their businesses.

Non-advertising revenue from Google combined with revenue from Verily and the other Alphabet companies was $15.5 billion in 2017, accounting for about 14 percent of total revenue, compared to $10.9 billion, or 12 percent, in 2016.

>They both have single-points-of-failure in their businesses. I predict this single point is going to fail catastrophically in the surprisingly-near future.

Strange how your predictions of catastrophic failure, in the near future, somehow missed all of the other companies that have single-points-of-failure in their businesses.
They’re signaling to management. Plain and simple.
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>Sometimes I wonder if I’m just going to be holding my AMZN stock until I retire.

An HN comments section is hardly the place to go into this, but I just can't let a comment like that pass unchecked, so forgive me! But a company's potential growth and the apparent rosiness of their future has nothing to do with whether you should be holding their stock. Those factors are taken into account with the current stock price. You are only justified in having such an attitude towards any individual stock if you are either a financial genius or have some insider information.
As I understand it, it would be similar to the situation when my savings account gives me 2% annually and I was able to take a loan at 1% annually. I wouldn't use my savings to pay off the debt, but the other way around.
Not far off. On big announcements for economic releases and earnings reports there are multiple pieces written and when the reporter gets the numbers (sometimes under embargo) they choose the piece, fill in the blanks, make some finishing touches, and send it out.

The market reactions however are driven by automated systems that get machine digestible metrics and reactions are programmed in ahead of time. The market literally adjusts at the speed of light.
> I feel deeply embarrassed whenever I hear people professing their irreducible faith in «science».

I have faith in the process of science in that I believe iterative addition to our knowledge based on evidence and ezperimentation is the best process we’ve found to adapt out understanding to changing circumstances and affect outcomes.

Why is that bad?
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Openness and liability seem to be largely orthogonal in practice. While I agree with the author that there would be little in the way of open-source software if its developers could be held responsible for any flaws, there is a lot of commercial, closed software that is almost as well shielded from liability. On the other hand, drugs are open in the sense that their chemical formulae are known, yet their producers carry considerable liability.

The complexity of modern processors is very similar to that of software, and this should be taken into account, but if Intel is summarily absolved, it is more likely to join Microsoft and Apple in the 'closed, limited liability' corner, rather than keeping company with Linux and GNU.
Now?

If you spend enough they always have.
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> “But if you go to Silicon Valley dressed like that,” he explains, “they’ll be like, this guy is a suit, he doesn’t dress like a tech person. That matters. The meeting is over.”

Odd how people in suits keep seeming to meet with our CEO then. I guess they all get kicked out? Poor guys.
1.6x is not "almost twice" and that's comparing the larger storage X to the base S8.
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What the bleep happened to *Work Offline?
In Google Chrome on the bus without wifi, navigate to history and click a link, it loads! Type the exact same URL into the bar, however, and ERR internets not found.

Whatever happened to the good ol' days of "Work Offline?"
E-commerce checkout codes, etc. are the only reasonable form of referral. In other words, if I give you something voluntarily that tells you where I came from, fine; otherwise, why do we have so much auto-leaking built into protocols?
IMO, only if you're using g++ or older versions of the standard. MSVC, clang and ICC have all supported the experimental::filesystem module for years at this point.
Yes it is. This is how corporations work in America. They provide the growth, jobs, innovation. Tim Cook will be the first to reiterate that the new tax law was long overdue and they are enthusiastic about it. Tax reform allows Apple to bring $252 billion in cash that it held abroad back to the United States. That's a huge number. If you're an American you should be ecstatic about this. A rising tide lifts all boats.
Those people are most likely also up to their eyes in debt, just trying to show off and keeping up with the "true" upper class. Most people in their 20s working jobs won't have substantial wealth, unless they were born into money.
If you think of ads (paid media: a portion of the marketing budget) as an investment that a business makes in hopes of boosting revenues enough to counteract the increased costs, then you can consider advertising an investment.

And the risk here is that we're seeing companies post strong revenue growth, and they attribute some percentage of that success to ad spend, when in reality their revenue growth may be completely decoupled from how many impressions or conversions they're seeing from ads.

That brings up an important question here - how many companies are still measuring the ROI of their advertising via "impressions". Because when you purely measure ad performance as a function of increased conversions (which is just another word for someone signing up for your newsletter, or buying one of your products, or subscribing to your service, etc) then you can get a clear picture of how that ad spend is flowing into your revenue. But when companies just spend $20 million a year hoping to get tons of impressions from pricey Super Bowl ads, they can't trace that ad spend back to revenue.

So the risk here of a bubble is mainly - are companies spending more on ads than they really should be to secure more sales? And will companies realize they could be spending half as much on awareness campaigns and get the same results? If they do, then you can expect ad spend to go down and the internet (which is largely funded by its success as an advertising channel) can expect to contract.
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We've updated the title from “Alphabet cracks $100B in annual revenue as advertising soars”. Quite the turnaround!
They could also just have bought 12 Epyc 64 core Servers to get equivalent performance assuming they are exclusively compute bound. If they are IO bound even just 3 nodes with 100gbit NICs would be enough to outperform the Raspberry Pi cluster.

If they really wanted to develop a competitive cluster they'd need at least a SoC with 4 A72 cores, 10gbit NIC, 8GB RAM, and a local 128GB SSD.

Edit: I misread the article it's not a cluster with 3000 raspberry pies. It's just 3000 cores. 3 Epyc Nodes are faster than this cluster.
Congratulations on the launch. Do you need a relationship with a specific bank?
The annotation is not even particularly smart. In supervised classification, labels are basically scalars, standing for... whatever the researcher means them to stand for. The class represented by the label can be as broad or as narrow as the researcher wants it to be. Even the relation of the class with the data it is supposed to represent is arbitrary and its choice entirely unprincipled and based on instinct alone.

Which goes to show that a) our machine learning models are dumb as bricks and b) they are as far from AGI as worms are from building a rocket to go to the moon, where their god lives (see all those holes up there?).
The main point they author is making is:

"the prevalence of a single, monocultural aesthetic that seemingly almost every startup and tech company and would-be industry disruptor out there has adopted, it’s worth wondering if there’s some other voice—or even a different modulation of this same voice—that could be appropriate."

This, of course, extends far beyond illustration (the topic of the article - the examples provided are striking). I would love to see more variety - especially for styling UI components because I think we can do so much better than Material Design/Metro or Bootstrap.
And people can disagree with the case you have made or are unconvinced by your arguments. Additionally, they can be selfish.

What is your suggestion on how to reconcile that with any definition of death?

Taken to the extreme, this would mean that cryonics would have to be both refunded by state and by insurance companies since it can technically put off actual death (information theoretic) somewhat forever, much cheaper than critical care.
Though most families of people in PVS wouldn't want that.
They actually did a study before making the change. Pretty cool.
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Adjustment is probably a better word to use here - correction implies that the previous state of a naturally fluctuating system was "right".
> This is interesting, as the majority of the publicity I've seen about the iPhone X has painted it as lackluster.

I'm pretty sure China alone made the X worthwhile.
The economist agrees with you.

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21735029-stockmarket...

"Imagine if advertising spending really did rise to 1.8% of GDP in America by 2027. Most firms’ costs would have to rise, cutting total corporate profits (excluding those of ad platforms) from about 6.5% to 5.7% of GDP, the kind of drop normally associated with a recession. Alternatively, imagine if the firms in the S&P 500 index (excluding ad platforms) bore all the additional cost of the advertising boom. Their combined return on capital would drop from the present 10% to 8%, at or just below their cost of capital. America Inc would go from being the world’s greatest profit machine to flirting with Japanese-style financial-zombie status"
They did know. Or at least there were papers about it back in the 90's.
Maybe they should help with the 18 trillion dollar debt
If you're lucky enough to have decent medical insurance I'd simply bring it up to your primary care doctor for a referral or sleep doctor in your area (you usually don't need a referral if you want to seek out a sleep doctor directly).

They will have you come in for a visit to talk about your symptoms and evaluate you, then usually they'll schedule you for an in-home test, which means you get a little device to take home and strap to your chest. It'll have a pulse-oximeter you connect to your finger, and an air flow meter that you run to your nose using a nasal canula.

If this isn't conclusive or something else seems to be going on they will bring you into the lab to sleep with even more devices connected to you measuring brain waves, muscle activity, etc. These usually look like a hotel room so it's not too uncomfortable.

I wanted to get a head start on my own so I set up a camera that has night vision to record myself since I happened to have one. (Lots of home security type cameras will have a night vision mode.) It wasn't particularly conclusive, I couldn't really make out that my breathing was stopping, but it did make me realize I seem to wake up and move a lot. Additionally I was surprised to learn I sleep with my mouth closed, since I've always gone to sleep with it open.

There are options I've seen online from various online CPAP stores to order an in-home test as described above, I don't know how reliable they are, presumably they mail you the kit and you mail it back.
Since the X is very expensive, “top selling” doesn’t necessarily mean “most units”. Maybe they sold more 8s for less overall.
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I find it hard to equate deploying and maintaining your production environments to assembly.
Curious why swarm isn't in that list.

How many services / nodes are you managing?

I found the docker swarm learning curve to be very sharp but plateaued super quick, maybe a month of reading docs and bug reports then I was up to speed and don't really run into day to day issues.

Once your prod is setup and you've worked out all the hard decisions around stack and how to do things, getting Devs up to speed is really easy because all they need to know is how to read the docker compose reference.

Even less of any issue learning everything now too because they redesigned their documentation (wording etc as well) and it's much clearer, gotchas are explained etc.
This is absolutely true, and obvious to anyone open-minded who has spent time in those countries, but good luck trying to have any discussion about the downsides of immigration in the US without getting shouted down as a racist.
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>That only makes sense if you're consuming roughly the same amount.

In our culture's case, in general the amount each one ate doesn't matter -- whether one had steak and the other just a salad, the salad person can very well still go on and insist on paying for everybody else. Nobody would care about "a 15% to 30% difference in cost" (the person paying for everybody wont feel it's a burden, and the persons having their meal paid, wont feel like imposing).

It's not about achieving some perfect balance or fairness in any particular meal -- people genuinely want to treat others, and enjoy taking turns doing so.

It's only longer term one would care for patterns of behavior (the person who after so many meals with others never volunteers to pay etc).
For those confused as to why half the comments have "misspelled" referrer, here's an interesting bit of history:

The misspelling of referrer originated in the original proposal by computer scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker to incorporate the field into the HTTP specification. The misspelling was set in stone by the time of its incorporation into the Request for Comments standards document RFC 1945; document co-author Roy Fielding has remarked that neither "referrer" nor the misspelling "referer" were recognized by the standard Unix spell checker of the period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer#Etymology
Prototyping YOLO or the other DNN means just run detector and see the boxes. Of course training these systems is clearly out of reach for this kind of abstraction technology, not to mention modify and develop something new.
I've been programming computers since the time they came with two 5.25 inch floppies with green text monitors and have seen all UI paradigms since then. Maybe I have a right to have a point of view?

The standard desktop design paradigms were built by programmers for programmers - a lazy way to approach things leading to clunky to use software. The dog eat dog world of the web and rise of touch has forced us to turn to designers to play a huge role in simplifying interfaces and flows.
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Agree. They did sell a product that doesn’t do what customers expect though, but I assume customers weren’t misled by that either simply because Intel don’t put performance figures on the boxes (and the theoretical performance is unchanged - it might be different if a manufacturer would e.g disable half the cache or cut clocks 15% to fix an honest design mistake)
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I read somewhere your body likes natural 1.5h increments. I've found if I hit those numbers my days and nights go much better. I always slept 9h/night until recently. Now I mix in the occasional 7.5 hour night to no detriment. Even do 4.5 and 6.0 when necessary (early flights/etc).
> What do they count in iPhone revenue? “deferrals and amortization of related software upgrade rights and non-software services.”

Apple Care, iPhone Upgrade Program, etc

You can imagine why the numbers would be different for iPads. Also, for people who are on the iPhone Upgrade Program, they are required to have Apple Care as part of the deal, so that plays a role as well. It drives up the ASP.