skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except the reality is that most people are in unions, covering them quite well (around 1.8 million[0] out of 2.7 million[1] in the job market).

Many jobs have a firing period of 1, 3 and 6 months, rising with the time you've been there. Sickness is a legal absence. Maternity and paternity leave is a legal requirement along with at least 5 weeks of vacation a year.

[0] https://www.business.dk/arbejdsmarked/flere-bliver-medlem-af...

[1] https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/nyt/NytHtml?cid=24821
There are already built in backdoors. What is going on here?[0]

[0]:https://thehackernews.com/2017/03/wikileaks-cia-mac-iphone-h...
To see what's most effective it might be better to watch how ad companies are selling their own services than to follow their advice. It seems like they're getting more through sales staff and content marketing and that online ads are only a small part of what gets them sales.
Math and physics are hard[0], but the rest of stuff is fairly easy. You can infer 80% from logic and experience, start learning from a high base. In any area.

[0] so you should avoid trying to reinvent the wheel here
It's plausible that a world of ad brokers (with many smaller ad buys) is better than a world of few but very large ad engagements, vis a vis the Chinese firewall. In that world, a single advertiser would have enough (purchasing) power over the newspaper, to the point where they could veto an article critical of that advertiser.
Yes absolutely. I think if you want people to give you their time and trust, you have to give them something of value in return. We're working on releasing more OSS as it really does help to bolster our business. In fact, we are even thinking of making Bx itself free, and simply taking a small cut when users receive payment for invoices raised on the platform.
What about HA / clustering, security mTLS?
Or there are multiple factors at play here.

For instance, Wyoming has an abnormally high per-capita suicide rate, so it's not hard to find articles that attempt to investigate the reasons for it (e.g. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/suicide-in-wyoming/). In this case, local culture and the higher rate of per-capita gun ownership is mentioned as likely reasons.

You also have the differences in the rate of death by drug overdose in different states (https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html). In a different culture, without access to firearms, people who commit suicide by firearm might otherwise turn to opioids to relieve their pain.

Questions like this lead to complicated answers, but fortunately we have access to more data than ever before and, with some effort, a few answers can be teased out for anyone that's curious enough.
As I understand, they refused to overturn the case mostly on procedural grounds. I find this somewhat reassuring.
It's a lot simpler to avoid Google though. I've been using DuckDuckGo for a while now and the switch was simple.

There's no network effect like with Facebook, hence less ennui about it.
> (b) There's one big difference between Facebook and generic advertising technology: the New York Times doesn't require you to sign up.

> (c) Ad tracking knows which websites I visit. Facebook knows which nude parties I attended in 2005

Facebook tracks you off the site and has been known to build shadow profiles of non-users.
Thank you for elaborating. Truly.

Is there any way I could continue this conversation via email or some other form of communication? I very much would like to pick your brain on some of this in a more personal form.

EDIT: my email is my username at gmail.com
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One just has to look at Chimpanzees or Gorillas to know that this is true. I suspect that it stops being a signal of sexual fitness though once it becomes effortless, and therefore worthless.
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...or, on modern systems: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Timidity#SoundFonts ;)
Article mentions reason, but very briefly: FOSTA and SESTA.
Google don't like officially mention it, some other sites, like craigslist[1] are more open.

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[1] https://www.craigslist.org/about/FOSTA
Nobody can get promoted for improvements like that. It would only garner goodwill with a tiny customer base and it’s not clear how that would translate to revenue or user growth on other products
The title should be reworded, I had to read the article's title to understand it.

Edit: and as I say this it was just modified.
So they’re hardly the only intelligence agencies in the world, so I don’t get why they’re specifically being pointed out unless you have some direct evidence.

As far as I’m aware, 0rtt started with Google’s QUIC. It’s since gone through a ton of academic and industry debate, particularly at the IETF level. It’s something optional to turn on, comes with notes on limitations and weaknesses, and major supporting vendors like Cloudflare have giant blog posts about how it can be used in only limited ways. How is this an intelligence crafted backdoor?
That's a one-dimensional view. We are not only consumers. We're also laborers, and citizens of a nation. If every other nation has tariffs, and the U.S. doesn't, then it's not a level playing field and industry and capital will leave, as we have seen. It's important to national security that the U.S. maintains its manufacturing base, and personally, I'd rather pay a little more for American goods if that means the working class doesn't descend into poverty, which is costly in other ways.
Yandex is cheap: https://disk.yandex.com/pay/tariffs/

Their 1TB plan is $10 higher per year than Google Drive. 10% higher premium to be free of censorship. That's not bad. Aliyun or OVH or online.net may even have something cheaper.
It may have been "hyped" by some, but it never had any true institutional or corporate penetration. It was always the "military language" with GNAT even being funded by the USAF directly. And in that field, it ruled the roost; and still has strong penetration as a legacy platform.
In my opinion, it would be difficult for the US to enter a widespread (5% population starve to death) famine.

The amount of dried, preserved, high calorie, long shelf life food that we have staggering. Crackers, soups, noodles, pasta, dehydrated soy/meat etc.

The only two reasons someone could starve to death is if companies deliberately hid supply of food for fun, or if they refused to eat those types of food for about 60 days, upon which most people die from acute starvation.

Malnutrition is more complex but vitamins exist.
The whiteboard script is particularly interesting: http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/whiteboard/index.php
does this have to do with that controversial bill that was recently passed?

wondering what the long-term, far-reaching ramifications might be. could this be a sample of things to come? (not to sound ominous or anything)
That's not the point, though. The point is that Ada lets us write without much extra effort:

1. Way fewer bugs in general.

2. Fewer severe bugs that become full-on crashes or hacks.

3. Fewer bugs we cant fail-saif on and/or recover from.

Not all bugs are equal by far. Just see Rust's panics vs C's donate-PC-cycles-to-hackers technique.
Home ownership is not a sign of being middle class.

"Middle-class income is between 67 percent and 200 percent of the average median income."
Yeah but it's also crazy how many pubs (the word is nice ;)) already had to close or at least merge which others. Google News made it quite obvious how redundant a lot of content is. Often articles are just exact copies of Reuters, AP, ... texts.

If subscription is the only solution, I expect more pubs to disappear. Being from Germany, if I had to subscribe to nytimes.com to read articles from there I'd stop reading them probably. Just pretending I would subscribe, I would also have to subscribe to 5 more US Newspapers, 2-3 UK ones and 10-15 German ones. NYT Basic is 1.75 € a week, Washington post 10 $ a month. That would be more than 140 € a month. No way :-) (Oh, I forgot all the commercial tech pubs I read)

I hope the publishers come up with a better model.
Yes, the math of real analysis is too difficult as a way to learn to read/write proofs. The easy way is a course in abstract algebra from a good teacher who is nice enough to read and correct early homework papers in proofs. Abstract algebra is usually just darned simple, e.g., proving things learned in grade school, so is a good place to learn about proofs.

As in my posts in this thread, before real analysis should be about three books in linear algebra, and that is also likely an okay place to learn to read and write proofs -- a course in abstract algebra with a good teacher as I mentioned is easier, still.

Sadly it's a fact that the academic computer science community has too many chaired, full professors who got their education in mostly just computer science, had few or no good math theorem proving courses, in their current work try to get deep into math with theorems and proofs, but, alas, consistently make serious mistakes in notation, how to state theorems, how to write proofs, etc. I saw the same thing, sad to see, from a EE prof working hard in coding theory. It shows. Apparently a person can get competent reading and writing proofs in some early, appropriate pure math courses or not at all.

Yes, real analysis, advanced calculus, differential equations, differential geometry, mathematical statistics, stochastic processes, etc. are way too difficult as places to learn to read/write proofs. Similarly even for more advanced material in linear algebra.
> It's certainly reasonable to take issue with characterizing address as a phenotypic trait, but the same can be said for "giftedness".

No it can't. Twins certainly do differ in intelligence, personality, income, level of education, patent count, adult SES, or pretty much everything which could plausibly be lumped into a term like 'giftedness'.

> Given that it is impossible to measure heritability directly, various estimation methods are the best that can be done.

??? Is it possible to measure anything 'directly', under your redefinitions of words?

> Applying those methods to geographic features will uniformly indicate that they are heritable.

They would indicate that there are between-family genetic differences, certainly. They would not indicate that they are heritable and it would be wrong or misleading to criticize heritabilities drawn from twin studies on this basis of gene-environment correlation. You can't simply lump together every kind of genetic pattern under your redefinition of the term 'heritability'.
But there do seem to be quite a few people at Google already working on random stuff that won't get them promoted.
> and yes, changing an employees contract without more consideration than "keep working" is abusing an employee

How is it abuse when it's entirely voluntary? The employee is not a slave. They can walk away at any time, or threaten to in exchange for concessions.

> There is no law that says the only job of a company is to maximize profits for shareholders

Nobody is claiming that here. You're assuming the only reason companies ever do this is to screw people over, when just as often it's caused by the company's revenues declining or costs increasing, requiring the company to do more with less or go out of business.

If the company can't keep paying you the same money for the same work, the only available options are to take what they're offering or leave your job. It doesn't help anybody to take away the first option.
Yes. Typically these programs are just better learning environments. Why they are reserved for the very technically gifted is a flaw in out romanticized societal belief that genius is the only way incredibly things can happen. Atleast in my opinion. Everyone can be smarter than they are, it's been hard to argue the efficiency of typically schooling for the past century but there's obviously great room for improvement. A great start would be teaching kids how to be happy, or even improving base education in impoverished areas. Lots of potential being lost.
I like this idea. I mean, how often do you see an ad for Facebook ads or Google AdWords?! They do pop up every now and again, but are infrequent at best.
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Is this really the whole story? To be honest, I haven't gotten the read that "money is flowing back into the US". a few points.

- Repatriation is one time. We will likely continue to run a deficit, tariffs aside.

- I'm seeing increasing news that ex-us investing is being favored[0], and that some of our largest purchasers of treasury bonds are considering scaling back[1]. Meanwhile, the EU has been pushing more and more for ways to get "their cut" via taxes and fines, although long-term impact of this is largely TBD.

- Although you link re: low unemployment (accurately) this only tells half the story, as labor participation rate continues to be heavily depressed. (~61%) [2].

- Finally, I'd also like to rebutt the "money flowing into cheaper states" but am having a hard time finding articles on the data I'd want, namely that most of the investing I had heard was in low-employment highly-automated factories and datacenters. (From a purely logical standpoint, the hiring advantages in a high tech economy of concentrations of workers isn't going away any time soon, and housing prices, despite tax changes, seem to align with this, although that may take a while to see a shift) I could certainly reinforce the assertion that poor states aren't in a great situation by the trend of needing to cut back to 4 days of school in some places [3] (A topic I'm surprised hasn't gotten more attention on its own, tbh)

I think my takeaway from this would be that I'm not so confident we'll see wage inflation, at least not _nearly_ to the level to which housing is escalating. It'd depend on a ton of factors, including population concentration, wage vs housing increases, employment changes, and black swan events, so obviously I can't make a holistic statement, but the points I list above make me much more pessimistic that the environment we've seen over the last 20~ years will likely continue, including the long-term crash-based financial cycle.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks-weekahead/glob...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/china-off...

[2] https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

[3] http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/22/schools-in-rural-areas-...
Fringe is clearly a vague predicate.
One way of defining Fringe is via the number of followers that can be mobilised for political action. E.g. in the UK the Tories, and Labour are not fringe, but CISTA (Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol) is. In the Weimar Republic the KPD was not fringe, but the Socialist League was.
And that's good.
Sure, these businesses were all built on $10K of capital. But what about time? How many months or years could have been spent working while building the business? That could put a lot of these businesses into six-figure territory when you factor in opportunity cost.
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I've seen the abbreviation used on building plans in USA, in the past ten years. It did seem out of place, but all architects have some screwy habit that makes their plans more difficult to read.

According to my grandfather, when he was growing up poor in southern Illinois in the 1930s, "toilet" was a crude word and people said "W.C." to be polite. Outhouses were more common than toilets, to the extent that old-timers then thought it was disgusting to defecate in the same building where one slept. Perhaps "water closet" seemed an appropriately exotic term.
The data protection act introduces some criminal offences. Here's a list: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/data-protection-act-19...

Section 55(1) DPA unlawful obtaining etc. of personal data

It is an offence to knowingly or recklessly obtain, disclose or procure the disclosure of personal information without the consent of the data controller.

There are some exceptions to this for example, where such obtaining or disclosure was necessary for crime prevention/detection. Section 55(2) sets out four defences to section 55(1).

If a person has obtained personal information illegally it is an offence to offer or to sell personal information. Section 55(3) makes the contravention of section 55(1) a criminal offence.

Section 55(4) and section 55(5) DPA create offences of selling and offering to sell personal data. For the purposes of section 55(5) DPA an advertisement indicating that personal data are or may be for sale is an offer to sell the data.

When prosecuting DPA cases as per the case of R v Julian Connor (Southwark Crown Court, 19 May 2003) prosecutors should remember to adduce evidence that the individuals named in each charge were alive at the time their data was obtained, and as per R v Buckley, England, Wallace and Moore (Winchester Crown Court, September 2003), the prosecution has to prove that the information was data within the meaning of Section 2(1) of the DPA.

There are no custodial sentences in respect of DPA offences and no powers of arrest; all offences are punishable only by a fine. Search warrants are available to the Information Commissioner by virtue of section 50 and the powers outline at schedule 9 of the DPA.

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Maybe off-topic to your original need. But I've always wanted / needed a utility that can de-duplicate media (images, music, videos) that I have scattered around which are the same thing just at different qualities/resolutions.

I get that for music and video this is actually quite challenging but images - - I would've thought quite easy? I've tried a few tools which claim to do this over the years but they all fail rather miserably / require a paid upgrade to do it better (although what is demonstrated in the free version is never impressive enough to consider paying).

Might be a good project for myself in my spare time, but wondered if anyone knew of anything obvious I was missing? FSLint and stuff is great for general filesystem de-duping, this is a slightly more complex case.
no, not really
you don't see users getting smarter about ads. trust me.

you see your close circle of acquaintances getting smarter about ads.

the general population is going downhill, by all metrics we have access to. In one case, people were trying to access a (fake) bank site, which had ads. it was an ad scammer that bought mistyped domains and cloned the homepages, in an automated way. and very badly. yet it had millions of impressions, most with several PVs from same user showing that they did click around.
For those interested we implemented from scratch a subset of these commands as a REST API service available to call at request from any programming language.

https://pixlab.io/cmdls
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Indeed that is true. But stories like this have emotional salience, because they happened to real people. The jobs that didn't get created in the first place don't have that same resonance, because they're for theoretical people. But the harm is no less real. And the important question is that we at least try to empirically evaluate the question of which is worse, rather than simply indexing on the emotional resonance of anecdotes like this one.
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They still have their cookies and follow your every move, especially if you have android phone.
What is scary is the unregulated way in which massive amounts of data can be used to sway public opinion so easily. What is even scarier than this is the way in which those in power can use massive amounts of data to sway public opinion without oversight. The very notion of a republican form of government may end up needing to be reanalyzed.

Forget concentrating on Google or Facebook. There is a larger concern. If multi-national company A collects massive amounts of data and sells it to company B to use to influence elections in country C then in what way are C's people in control of their government? Especially if A and B are based in another country.
What seems to have happened was that Google shifted focus from sorting the web to delivering the "zeitgeist" of the present.

Perhaps because more people were likely to search for whatever was on the news cycle than some arbitrary piece of info.

Never mind that Google's earnings comes from ads, not search results.
I can see all the major cloud storage players doing the same. But there’s always Firefox Send!
Good start.

2 comments on your site:
1)it takes too long to load. Speed it up.
2)Graphic design, as much as I thought, in the past, was a minor part of web page design, it turns out it's VERY important. People love pretty, whether they admitted or not. I would put a bit more work on that.
Ask HN: Why does every country have its own antivirus software?
Does this mean governments don't trust antivirus software from other countries? Is there any proof of antivirus companies being involved in malicious activities/spying?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_antivirus_software
Isn't that what Microsoft Access was?
Make sure you don’t overpay with your privacy
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