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> I'd say the W3C wasted a huge amount of time pursuing quests of purity (XHTML) over actually making the web better for users. I see the value in what they were trying to do, but it wasn't letting people do the things they wanted to do on the web.

Okay, let’s make a deal:

We both write a crawler that can fully reliably parse websites.

I implement XHTML1.1, you implement HTML5. We both get 1 month time.

What do you think is going to happen?

XHTML was a worthy goal – with it, we wouldn’t have a need to run headless Chrome for tests. We could parse the web, and actually use the data. OpenGraph tags would never have been necessary. We wouldn’t need to throw DNNs at rendered output of a browser just to parse data.

HTML5 is amazing for existing browser vendors, developers, and in the short-term, users. But everyone else loses. Horribly.
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Depends. Without knowing too many specifics here, I'd argue that if the account was deleted, Facebook should still hold onto basic info like username of the account that was shared with Cambridge. As far as I'm concerned, this is a legal matter now, and information about the parties that were affected are basically evidence.

Clearly there needs to be some line drawn, like not permanently keeping an archival of all information shared with Cambridge, as that would potentially cause more harm than good. Yet, knowing how many people were affected, and being able to identify if you were one of them, seems a permanently useful thing.

This of course is a bit idealist, I'm just answering the question on my idea of what should be done - not what will be done. Tbh, I'd rather see that data be held by some government entity and not FB at all, but I'm not sure who that would be, if they exist at all.
Way too broad.

DuckDuckGo's business model seems innocuous enough. They do no tracking whatsoever. They still target ads based on the search terms you're using on that particular search.

At a minimum, DDG should be allowed to continue doing that.

This might seem like nitpicking, the article does explain what it means, but if we wait until we see the "no targeting" language on law proposals, it might be too late.
I can make a self-driving train far more easily than I can make a self-driving car.

You are comparing two things that aren't equivalent. The living standard provides a lot more value than the old specs, and that's why they won.
If I remember correctly, that relationship was always weak. WHATWG exists because the W3C failed, after all - it was created in opposition to a situation that some players saw as hopelessly broken.

Given the substantial overlapping of players in both groups, these days, I actually find surprising that there is divergence. All major vendors are opposed, so who is actually trying to push for changes, and why? I guess I'm lacking some background here, I really don't follow "standard wars" anymore...
>retirees forced by bankruptcy judges to take benefit cuts

These people have already sold their services for a promised benefit which is now not being given to them. If there is bankruptcy it should come at extreme costs to the extent that the voters in the location feel pain equal to those who are having their pensions cut. Clawbacks, criminal convictions, liquidations, ensuring that the pain is not felt just by those who are having their benefits stolen and given to someone else.
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There is a formal process for that. First, a messenger must register with Roskomnadzor (a government organization). So if a messenger is not on the list, it doesn't have to share anything yet.
I have a feeling that this technology will do to crime what fingerprinting did back in the days.

Lots of crime being recorded on camera and data saved but we do not yet have the ability to process that information. Soon though, a lot of people are going to be arrested 10-20 years later for crimes that they never imagined they could be caught for.
Kafaka you get topics and partitions. Topics is a grouping of data, normally having a common schema. Partitions allow parallelism spreading the data across multiple brokers.

Data on a topic can be partitioned by a key so you can partition by user id resulting in all user events going to the same partition however there’s no functionality to delete a partition by key.

If each user has their own topic that you can delete you would end up with a lot of topics and Kafka isn’t great with that.

You also have the issue if event sourcing or doing DDD your events are based around domains/aggregates with clear context bounds. The domain is very likely not a user but may involve a user. Its a tricky modeling issue.

Event sourcing is about immutable events. You cannot change an event in the past as its already happened, accounts don’t use rubbers. The ability to go back and change past events or delete them breaks the laws and guarantees of an immutable event system.

It’s a difficult problem. I like event sourcing due to the properties it gives but it may not be suitable for some things due to GDPR.

One thing I have heard talked about is encrypting personal identifiable information in an event with a user specific key. When the user requests deletion you delete the key. The events don’t change they are still there however anything which identifies a user is unreadable.
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Valuations are based on financial analysis, not how cool or ultimately important something is. A casino could be valued higher than a hospital.

This is a very high valuation for such a capital-intensive high-risk company.
A title like that on a page that literally has targeted advertising smack dab in the middle of it.
Specification vs Documentation...
I'm saddened, but not surprised, that every post you're making in this thread is greyed-out.
I just get regular reddit when I click that, did they turn it off?
I'm not aware of any serious FR or Object Tracking system using gait successfully. It is discredited as useful.
If only we got to replace them with small shell scripts. Instead we're going to get blockchains.
Does your new employer have a data science or machine learning team? Is there any way you can position yourself to work on projects/products that involve those teams? If you have interest and aptitude in ML, perhaps (i) do whatever you can to learn what these folks have already done, and what they're working on now, (ii) offer a helping hand, or even just ask them for a training set for one of their production models, and see if you can replicate or beat the results.
This is only if you treat healthcare as an economic good, it should be considered a social benefit rather than a cash cow.
This looks nice! The homepage confused me for a while until I saw I could scroll down and not try to click on the blue open link like a donkey.

Also, probably the only feature I use with evernote as a paying user is its OCR and search engine.

But, true, the UI is not fantastic for that kind of tool.
Regardless, the point is that the parent's satirical accusation of hypocrisy is invalid because it's using the same word "hack" for two very different meanings.
The readme is very terse, but exciting. Can anyone elaborate about the ownership model?
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That's the trick: to sway your attention to the good without considering the bad.

The bad here is scope creep of the surveillance network, particularly in a totalitarian regime. But once you've acquiesced to the "good" parts of it, you will rationalize the bad parts unless you think critically.
>Ride-sharing, like a fry cook, was never meant to be a life’s career ambition. Jeez people. Folks are complaining that a fry cook can’t afford to buy a house and an Uber driver doesn’t get a 401(k). Wake up and smell the coffee.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could make a living being a 'fry cook?' When you leave work you could just kiss off and go have dinner, go bowling or whatever.

Each day would be self contained. There wouldn't be bad dreams tossing and tuning you because your project isn't going well at work.

Why do we celebrate this race to the bottom? There have been such stunning increases in productivity, so in theory we could all work a few hours a week and enjoy 1950s living standards.

Would that be so bad?
And if we were all using XHTML1.1 now instead, yes, your parser would be easier, except all the richer content would be in flash, and all the web apps would be desktop applications, and you wouldn't be able to parse that at all, even with a full browser.

You are acting like everyone would just stop and wait for you to make your dream implementation that's ideal - that's not how the world works.

WHATWG was an admission that we can't stop it, so we might as well embrace it. Embracing it has resulted in browsers being far more consistent, and new features being a shared part of the web platform, and not siloed off in plugins and other platforms. That's why W3C is irrelevant now.
My experience with most / all paid services has been grievance free. Admittedly in the case of Netflix I only use it on my smart TV; I have no experience of how it behaves on other platforms.
The living standards winning is something we should see as tragedy, not as something good.

We’ve made parsing the web something that only massive corporations can do. We’ve made building a browser so complicated that even Opera gave up after the complexity of HTML5, and we’re now left with only 4 major browser engines, of which 2 share a significant amount of code.

Do you see an innovative ecosystem there?

We’re left with a web that can’t be parsed, we’re left with a web where, to run Selenium tests, we have to run Chrome headless, because nothing else can even attempt to render websites anymore.
Blocking rules are not perfect. For example, DNS resolution is done by Roskomnadzor and the lists are not updated instantly (usually they are updated daily or several times a day). If you change your IP address faster than lists are updated, blocking effectively doesn't work.
It's the aspect of personal choice that you're skipping over. Uber drivers made the choice to apply to work as "independent contractors" and agreed to the terms. A bastard child has no agency in the arrangement, but a mistress likely did agree to the arrangement. There's no fair expectation of the latter to be retroactively or otherwise considered a legal spouse, nor is it just for a contractor to sue to force others to change classification.
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I wonder if insurance companies do anything towards funding cheap "unsustainable" cures? Seems like it'd have a high ROI for them.
Is efficiency/automation what company wants? I am in the process of selling a inventory SAAS for medium size retail companies that helps them reduce a lot of labor everyday but I have trouble selling it. The companies don't see the value, they already have people doing this labor and I have seen that they are much more interesting in selling more that efficiency in the process. This at least for medium size companies.
That kind of law has so many vested disincentives to getting passed that you might as well give up on it. There are already fiduciary obligations written into the law. Those need to be enforced.
An i.MX6 SoM more like, running Linux. Uses an Apple Lighting to USB3 camera adapter to connect to the iPhone.
I think Elon's plan to make cash for Tesla is to produce a lot of cars. The margin on each car is decent, the problem is Tesla isn't making enough of them to fund its gigafactory/Fremont build-out and all of its service centers and stores. If they increase the revenue due to many more cars being delivered, that's the ticket Elon is after.
No, it represents the people who know how to write laws to mean one thing to a lawyer and another thing to the AI.
That seems reasonable to me. Would you want your programming language to compile code that has a syntax error?
I mean, I live in fear now that going slightly over the speed limit I'll be caught. You never know if the police are nearby, so in public you live by the letter of the law. I don't understand how this changes that is all :)
The HTML5 person's crawler will parse some significant fraction of real websites, and the XHTML one won't, because people write HTML5 and not XHTML, even if you as a tool vendor would greatly prefer otherwise.
We have cameras that image right through fabric, so, forget burqas. Such cameras are used to identify terrorist by seeing right through those face scarves and ski masks they are often seen wearing.
That is stupid.

I no longer have a Facebook account or even the email account that the Facebook account was tied to.

They still have data on me though.
I think that's the point they're trying to make.

It's already easy to track someone down but it requires manpower, which limits the scope of tracking and requires the tracker to have a real motivation.

What's scary about mass surveillance is tracking of anyone and everyone for any reason at any time with very little required effort.
When writing for diverse audiences there are ways of dealing with this.

Footnotes.

'Click for conments'

etc
And Jabber doesn't require your phone number and doesn't copy your contact list to the server.
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Generally speaking, I consider the combination of overly strict rules and relaxed rule application one of the most dangerous manifestations of authority abuse, because it leaves to the single person in charge of applying the rules the decision to do it or not. So the criteria to prosecute people are not decided any more by the public political discussion, but by the individual decisions of some random guys in the police forces. This mechanism often masks responsibility and allows for ad personam treatments, which I consider strongly unfair.

Rules should be valid for all and applied uniformly.
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Example company. I think they are a data agregator for smaller local private sector networks. https://www.tlo.com/
"...with large fines or even removal from the public airwaves for repeated violations" <--- removal from the public airwaves?

That's sounds like the author is thinking about television broadcasting. Although we might say that mobile phones use "public airwaves", almost all ISP services deliver Internet connectivity over some cable or fiber optics.
I find it strange, if not alarming, that nobody is talking about how backpage.com would still be up if Net Neutrality still existed.
No, it wasn't simply a question of backwards compatibility. The W3C wanted (wants?) to pursue its own quixotic vision of a semantic, machine-readable web. One in which the needs of human users, browser user agents and use cases like web apps was of incidental importance at best.

The HTML5 spec effort that gave birth to WHATWG wasn't simply about documenting backwards compatible parsing, it was about vendors like Mozilla and Opera wanting to evolve HTML in a way that added actually useful new features, something that W3C had zero interest in at the time.

Nowadays, the W3C's behaviour seems to be driven entirely by an institutional desire to justify its own existence, and protect its revenue stream and its self-assumed position as the one-true source of web standards, by engaging in bad-faith practices like taking standards produced through the hard work of others, removing all citations, making breaking changes, and publishing it as a competing "standard".
It sounds like you're looking for an internship (8-12 weeks, between semesters) rather than an apprenticeship (often multi-year).

The three fields you're particularly interested in are pretty different. For each of the three, what are you doing right now, that demonstrates to a potential intern host that (i) you are motivated to improve in that area, (ii) you might be able contribute something of value during your internship, (iii) you might be a good future permanent hire in that area?
> It's common on Reddit.

> It's common on the Internet.

FTFY :^)
The future socialist authoritarians masquerading as "liberals" envision for you. It's already almost as bad in the UK where you are picked up by the police for saying things that offend people who are stealing the whole country away from the native population.
Really? Because then I would just take on young healthy patients and refuse to take on sick ones.
> Do you see an innovative ecosystem there?

Yes! Everyone says that the specification approach is what was severely limiting innovation, and when they took the living specification approach instead that's when web innovation took off again.
I can't be the only one that prefers targeted ads? I mean, I'd much rather see ads for watches or sneakers or whatever else I've been looking at buying that ads for dresses, birdcages, or house paint or whatever else I have precisely zero interest in? More so, if these ads are supporting the businesses that show them, I'm happy they're there and I'm happy that they make some money when I click on that pair of Nike that I'd really like but haven't pulled the trigger on yet.

I also assume by 'targeted ads' the meaning is ads on something like Facebook / Google retargeting? There's nothing that stops "scam companies and grifters" buying ad space on websites directly - sure it's a little harder, but you can always sell your snake oil using the banner ad on that 'alternative medicine' forum where people voraciously chat...
it would be bad for the profit margins of the 1%
Who thought the future would be giant chemical rockets (100x BFR?)thundering around the solar system? Transportation infrastructure for the solar system, Rail Road Tycoons of space. The potential is immense.
You’re assuming XHTML1.1 would never have evolved further, never have gotten more content.

And Flash, despite its flaws, would have been a much better starting point for rich content than the ecosystem we have today.

Many of the features Flash provided are only available in browsers today through babel.js transpilation. As result, we’re stuck with a language without stdlib and broken syntax.

We’re stuck with a document model that’s impossible to work with or parse, and with impossible layout management.

If you want web applications, it’d make much more sense to port the Android layout XML format to the web than to attempt to use HTML5 for it, because HTML5 is insanity for building applications.

> and all the web apps would be desktop applications

I don’t see that as anything bad.

The web is for documents, and lightly interactive content. All the rich applications on the web are opaque to any crawler I could write anyway, as I just get "You need JS to view this React app". Desktop applications would be just as parseable, except they would also be less of a resource hog.
That's a straw man. I explained that I meant that a slower builtin floating point TYPE doesn't matter. "If you really care about cpu raytracing performance, you need to write handcrafted simd code and C# default float handling is of no consequence to you."
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I'm pretty sure javascript heavy pages would exist even in a strict parsing world.
This is just as bad an idea as banning encryption to stop terrorism.
But that does not scale for elite globalist AI and robotics based total domination control of society. When you have human investigators you have a human weak link that could turn on you. Robots and AI don't ask questions .... ever.
The barrier to entry is extremely high. There are regulatory hurdles, hurdles to being taken seriously, etc. You need authorization for human trials, you need to get published, you need to convince insurance companies to pay for your product.
Nope - that's not true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_research#Privately_(in...

Private R&D is around 60% - however a large part of that is making minor changes to existing molecules in order to obtain fresh patents.The bigger, riskier research is done by the NIH and other publicly funded bodies. See

https://marianamazzucato.com/entrepreneurial-state/

Also - the quality of privately funded research is much worse, with non-reporting of negative results, data dredging and other dodgy activities being routine - see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Pharma
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The surveillance AI knows nothing of the difference between malum in se (crime!) and malum prohibitum ("crime"). The pamphleteer protesting local corruption and the strongarm robber are caught in the same trap.
A lot of those tabloid amateur videos are actually second and third hand copies of tabloid amateur videos created by bots.

There's also a ton of bot-generated podcast spam on YouTube where bots will pull podcasts from feeds and then dress them up with cheesy video content.
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To me, an investor seeking dividends has objectives that are misaligned with the capital structures typically beneficial for startups of the type associated with Silicon Valley. Dividends provide regular cash flows to investors at the cost of a reduction in the working capital of the business. Nothing wrong with that, it can be a good fit for businesses that maintain a steady size or expected to have linear growth. However, those are not characteristics of businesses typically considered by Silicon Valley venture capital type investors. That sort of money seeks compounding growth. Rather than extracting dividends, the goal is reinvestment of cash on hand to further fuel growth. These investors seek returns based on an increase in the value of the underlying equity (i.e. shares of stock). Amazon's historic lack of profits and ever rising share price provides a good example of this model...Amazon kept getting bigger by reinvesting revenue and putting more assets on the books and Amazon's shareholders made capital gains by holding the shares. Most investors are not really suited to Silicon Valley type startup investing. Likewise, most new businesses are not really startups in the sense that they are structured to provide returns via compounding equity growth. This doesn't mean that the investment terms are bad. It just means they may or may not be suited to your particular case. Good luck.
you are totally failing to consider the coersive power employers have, especially at the low end of employment.

When every job you can get sucks, what are you going to choose to do if the terms are massively unfair and inequitable? starve to death?
Yes, and before that there were maybe 1.5 viable ways to render flash content.

Then you need to take that `.exe` and try and pull out it's content. Game, app, whatever.

We have a web that can be parsed, with difficulty, instead of a web without half of the content we want to parse.

The web was being replaced - this is what saved it, like it or not.
I imagine not too many devs have the option of a pension like I do so I'll relay what was told to me about my pension. ~4.5 years ago I was told along with all the new hires in the room we would be the last generation of new hires with an option for pension. I opted not to take it as that said to me this would be the hardest to fund pension ever. Really my matching 401K and superior insurance do the trick for me even if the returns aren't high. After the '08 crash I've hedged against private stubbornly and admittedly have been pretty jealous of other benefits devs in the private sector get.....until now.