skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please be more charitable with your interpretation if you want to debate the merits of what is being claimed.

> they sell their ability to know everything about you to anyone willing to pay for that information

This does not actually claim they will sell you a copy of the raw data. That is Google’s “crown jewels” and they protect it fairly well, although not always perfectly.

In the past you could see the query on a referral URL. In the past you could see PII coming through this way as well. You could target ads against this PII, etc.

But anyway, what Google does is let you target ads based on their absolute knowledge of the user. What you are Searching for, where you are Searching for it, etc.

Google tracks you incensently so that they can more effectively sell things to you, or sell others the ability to sell things to you.

But increasingly it seems that Google tracks its users just because it can. Just in case that clickstream or that app history or that voice recording might become useful someday. Google tracks you like a paranoid government might track its citizens, afraid that some scrap of data might come back one day to be useful in its almighty question for [control / dollars / training an AI / optimization / whatever].

The nominal cost of storing one more piece of metadata is zero, the potential future value seemingly limitless, and perhaps the fear of Management asking for some piece of data you didn’t think to record is so great, they seem to just record all the things.
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>And who cares what prominent people think?

Well, I happen to value Glenn Greenwald's analysis of the impact this prosecution will have on journalism a tad more than unsubstantiated comments from random people on Hacker News.
I'm sad to see that you feel that way about the language; since I had exactly the opposite experience. Objective-C is a beautiful (if syntactically verbose) language, and I prefer it to C++ as an "object-oriented C". I'm actually curious what you tried doing with the language, because

> I found a mediocre and pretty error-prone language.

makes it seem like you didn't get a chance to dive down into the runtime and how the message-passing model works. FYI,

> Apple unceremoniously flushed it down the drain...

this is not true at all. Most of the code that Apple themselves writes is Objective-C.
Nothing unusual in India, it's a regular scam over there: https://www.improbable.com/2018/07/27/update-on-association-...
> why is it a problem to have a maximum deductible?

Because it means I get to choose between $500 a month with a $6,500 deductible, and HSA-compatibility, and $150 a month with a $8,000 deductible. The latter is a better fit for my risk profile.
It doesn’t work for me. I still get channels I never want to see constantly coming up everywhere.

It’s quite annoying because I’m trying to help actively train my preferences and it’s as if YouTube will not let me participate in that.
So, as the article says, the majority of the facts about the story are true, and the things that make it memorable -- the 'embellishments' -- have dubious sources and rely on eyewitness accounts only. Pretty much like most other stories like this (Check out the inaccuracies in the Apollo 13 movie, for example).

How exactly does that debunk the entire thing?
Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cable...

Sweden has pretty much zero credibility when it comes to extraditions requested by the US: https://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-...
I googled for the response curve, and it's pretty impressive.

As I understand things, during the 50s, amplifier power was at a premium. 25 Watts was a lot! So it made sense to design highly efficient speakers, hence the large radiating area of the Quad. Today, amplifier power is dirt cheap and tiny, so you can throw a lot of power into a less efficient speaker, and still get decent sound plus possibly better off-axis response in a multi-way system. This gives the advantage to cone speakers.
Fair point as applied to browser-based adblockers. In my case I use Adguard, which works as a proxy on a PC/Mac, or a VPN on android. AFAIK Pi Hole would just be duplicating what I already have. Worth considering though when my current Adguard licences expire.
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I bought a raspberry pi and ran pi hole but it keeps turning off for some reason. I guess I got a faulty raspberry pi? But when it does go down all my browsing dies because no dns requests could be processed. So I went with running it in a docket container on my nas instead.
Native Android controls:

http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Rio/en/FireMonkey_N...

With more native Android controls coming in the future.
Amazon: Let Them Eat Robotics and CS Education
Tech elite are taking to silent vipassana retreats
What is the expected lifetime?
I imagine end users could then configure their routers to use udp port mapping to point all dns queries at the local dns resolver.

Then, app developers could https tunnel out to a well-known ip running a dns resolver, I suppose.

At that point, end users could configure routers to block all outgoing ip’s that weren’t recently returned by the local dns resolver.

And so on. It is an arms race.
Always worth doing the dimensional (units) analysis first
> I don't think people realize that JSON doesn't actually have a querying system at all, you have to deserialize it to an object to use.

You don't have to deserialize it to an object, you just do that because it's convenient in Javascript (and other dynamic language). It's a feature.

Now try using XML like an object, what do you get? A DOM. Which is fine if you wanted a DOM, but I don't want a DOM. I don't need XPath or any of that stuff. These are tools to deal with the complexity of XML, which I don't have, because I am using JSON.
Do wish they'd come up with an HA strategy.

I run mine on old, low-wattage PC hardware that cost me about $30 all-in and boots in 20 seconds, so at least I'm not at the mercy of unpredictable mSD cards or an ESXi server that takes 10 minutes to start launching VMs after a power outage.
> A 35 stories building with 1 bed-room condos can host up to 700-1000 persons. I'd bet lots of SF tech developers will opt for a very small high tech condo with amenities (pool, gym, library...) than the crap that is right now.

Sure, but you'll induce demand. As SF prices drop, think of all the people who will move in from (mostly) the East Bay. Prices will drop, but not nearly as much as you think without 100,000 units.
Do you have disaggregated stats that demonstrate this? Because a lot of that tech sector output isn't in the US. Sure, Intel may design their chips here, but they're manufactured internationally. Partly in the US, but also Ireland, Israel and China. So that doesn't count in favor of our industrial output index.
>Refusing to comply with official decrees and get banned altogether?

You can argue about motive and whether China would even let them compete but isnt this is what Facebook/Google have done for a decade? HN dislikes these companies lately so somehow Google is still the one that gets the most flak for China while Apple and MSFT do whatever is asked of them to operate there.
> And I haven't ever seen anybody write a long JSON config any differently

It's not people to have to worry about. It's the machine generated code. But now that I think about it more, YAML is a bad example since it's a superset of JSON. So a machine could generate really ugly YAML too.
I don't think this is really true, those conversations just aren't on Facebook. Like my family has a signal group and my friend group has a signal group people post random stuff in. I would prefer better options, not really sure what will ever be right. Honestly email is underrated, the granularity in who hears your discussion is pretty straightforward to use.
I thought we were talking about "harm to the owner" of some IP, not making the world "a better place for everyone." A judgment or evaluation of what would be "totally fine" ethically for the whole world is a different discussion, I think.

I don't feel that the arguments you're presenting would be persuasive to the companies whose secrets are revealed. But, I may well be missing something. In any case, my takeaways from this discussion are:

1. You believe these companies don't have a solid legal case, that they cannot prove "harm" in the legal sense.

2. You believe that the system of protecting IP the US currently (in theory) embraces is sub-optimal for the well-being of the world.
Seems like this is something machine learning would be very good at, given that commercial visuals look very different from “real” show visuals
I think your intention behind recording the notes and the relationship between you and the other person is important when determining if it is creepy. Also if you have a natural deficiency in memory or attention or meet a lot of people it might be particularly useful.

Full disclosure, I take notes on the people I meet so I can better interact with them. Or that’s the hope anyway.
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We have 11 nuclear powered aircraft carriers in service in four more on the way. No money for healthcare.
I would try a different power supply and outlet, if you haven’t already. Personally I use Diversion, which does more than pi-hope and is available for Asus-WRT Merlin firmware. Http://Diversion.ch
The inflation adjusted GDP has also risen by more than a factor of ten. Inflation adjusted dollars is not an effective comparison. A country's economic output, even when measured in inflation adjusted dollars, is not static. Pointing out a rise in inflation adjusted dollars and failing to put it in context with GDP is very naive. The US Military as a percentage of GDP spending is not especially abnormal when compared to other active militaries.
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>This does not actually claim they will sell you a copy of the raw data.

That's fair. That was my misreading of their original comment. I'm so used to seeing this misinformation I took it as just another example.

>But anyway, what Google does is let you target ads based on their absolute knowledge of the user.

That's right. The page I linked from Google is actually very transparent about how it works.
As a performer, and an occasional attendee, what people wear doesn't matter. It's the music that's important. But wearing slacks and a button down seems right for the room.

That said, I'd encourage anyone to go to a concert wearing jeans vs not going to a concert. The music is what's important.
Thank you, you said it better than I would have.
Is that really the case? Let's say Amazon paid all salaries in cash. Also, for simplicity let's says employees view cash and stock compensation as perfect substitutes. Then the addition compensation has to be funded by Amazon - if it won't do so from cash from operations or debt, it has to come from raising equity: Which in effect is the same as paying employees in stock.
yep this is the only way we're going to be able to drag linux into future, where maybe one day it actually will be year of the linux desktop
No its called comparing capabilities and results just like the F22 is superior to the SU57 no matter what propaganda says
If I remember correctly, client OSes that know about multiple DNS servers will try the other if one fails, so just have two and announce both through DHCP?
Because the vast majority of people have coverage through work and the fear of unknown changes in coverage is greater than (potentially) saving some money. Throw in Medicare (old people) and Medicaid (poverty) and I think you’re somewhere around 85% of the populace covered.

The vocal minority of people who do not have health insurance through work, not receiving subsidies, not receiving Medicare, and not receiving Medicaid are the ones clamoring for universal healthcare. Just because they’re loud doesn’t mean they reflect the will of the masses.

Vocal minorities don’t win elections. They just get a lot of news coverage.
Moscow did a very similar thing in 1990s and 2000s, allowing to build huge swathes of 25-32 story buildings. It allowed for quite accessible mortgages, with the cost of the buildings being moderate.

It did allow for significant growth. It also put a lot of strain on public transportation.
And yet you have literally done the same exact thing in reverse - in XML, the exact equivalent would be <key>value</key>; you don't need any extra attributes, either.

Well, until you do need some metadata for that key-value pair. Which is why even in many JSON schemas it's pretty common to get something like { "key": "key", "value": "value", ... } (where ... is usually empty in practice).

The problem with MSBuild, for the most part, isn't XML - it's its own data model (which is not XDM, by the way).
Many of these articles exaggerate the price of healthcare in the US. I'm an independent contractor and pay for my own health insurance. My wife and I together cost less that 500/month (universal care would take way more in taxes) Checkups are covered, prescriptions are mostly free or very inexpensive, and if I do have an emergency, I don't need to wait 6 months to get treated, like in the UK or Canada. I also get some of the best doctors in the world.

A good test of a country's quality of healthcare is where people that don't have to worry about money go to get treated....that's currently the US.

It has problems, but sacrificing quality for nationalization is not the solution.
That drops rent in the East Bay too so I don’t see the problem. And there’s no way prices in SF don’t drop at all with that’s much construction.
As far as I know audio levels in commercials are different too. I don't know the exact number, but I seem to recall reading some time commercials are usually 30% louder or something. They are definitely noticeably louder than most shows, except maybe sitcoms.

ETA: Looking it up it looks like America has laws about this now. I'm in Canada I'm not sure if it's the same here.

And on further reading, it seems like advertisers may be using excessive compression to artificially boost loudness and skirt the law.
Privacy is very important but its just a drop in the ocean compared to environmental disaster. Google tracking you browse the internet seems unimportant compared extinction.
I'm not positive but I believe it works by blocking the request which means an alternative route would be used and defeat the purpose.

Edit: if that's not the case I still think applications round robin also defeating the purpose.
Takahashi at the Granular Convolver Lecture (Berlin 2018).Discusses convolution & SuperCollider.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMXpJY2ilIs

Article with more info: https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/09/the-granular-c...
Every time I ate pork there they always bragged about how it had been fed garbage T_T When I researched it later, it turned out that in the US we stopped feeding leftovers to pigs a long time ago due to health concerns. Laws were passed stipulating that garbage be boiled before being fed to pigs, but that made it too expensive so everyone stopped doing it.
> wonder if having all the property being some silly multiple of wages is the best way to do things.

You wonder? It's a disaster.
Jumia does have competition from home grown African companies. A good example is [1]Hubtel. The difference between Jumia and its competition is funding. They managed to reach a billion dollar valuation thanks to funding rounds from AXA, a french insurance company and Goldman Sachs. There are very bright developers here who have awesome ideas but getting access to funding can be very difficult. That said, technology is helping Africa leapfrog. M-PESA is a service that allows people send money from their phones. It's widely used and developed in Kenya.

I believe in producing what i consume and consuming what i produce but it will be impossible to shut out foreign investment while we build our own.

[1] - https://hubtel.com
learning rust might teach a javascript programmer a lot about performance that they can apply to their javascript. learning f# or rust might get a c programmer comfortable with ADTs which one can leverage in C with a little work. i do agree though that taking this too far can just be a waste of time. maybe pick up ONE new language outside of whatever domain you are currently in, see if you learn anything useful.
Sounds like a lot of tech startups, where employees own the majority of the shares. It just happens that some employees (the founders) have a larger share than others.
Neither Coca Cola nor Apple are exclusive to one region. Jumia's WHOLE operation is in Africa. That is a very important difference, don't overlook it
HyperOpt is a library for hyperparameter optimization, my comment was about algorithms. From the homepage of hyperopt:

"Currently two algorithms are implemented in hyperopt: Random Search Tree of Parzen Estimators (TPE)"

(TPE is a Bayesian Optimization algorithm)
> Your income level is a superb indicator of how much of the planets resources you are using.

Not really. Your spending level is. One can have high income and reinvest or you can spend money you don't have by borrowing.

I'd agree that income level is correlated.
Housing demand, despite what NIMBYs might think in the Bay Area, is not infinite at any price point. Eventually all the people that want to live in an area do live in that area and equilibrium is reached. For much of human history, that is how the entire world operated - there were no zoning codes constraining the ability of developers to build buildings for those with the money to afford them, and the king would almost never find reason to deny permits - more people in more central location meant more trade skill labor which was much more easily taxed than subsistence farmers.

You build for density until you hit the actual physical limits on density, and then you have a claim to the infeasibility of housing everyone where they want to be. We are so radically far away from such a threshold it is laughable, in much the same way some purport our understanding of the universe is nearly complete, or that we have near total mastery of our planet - neither are remotely close to happening and are just hubris on the part of those who can't comprehend how much more there is left to do.

We could have cities hundreds of stories high, entire populations housed in glass pyramids taller than Everest, population densities in excess of a hundred thousand per mile. And that doesn't need to imply poverty, squalor, or suffering - we are fully capable of building dense well. It is an independent knob of consideration that only shows correlation today because of cultural motivations and social pressure to make dense housing suck to punish the poor because only the poor live in dense housing because dense housing sucks.
Two big factors are among the causes:

- Majority of city (outside old towns) built after WWII with an emphasis on brutalist 60s suburbia.

- Prop 13 and the NIMBY revolution that cemented it in for the long haul.

It's only in the last five years or so that extreme economic pressure has enabled new buildings over two stories (gasp) to be built outside downtown, while NIMBYs scream bloody murder.
This raises a question, how much does the cancer that is advertising & analytics consumes in terms of electricity and engineering time that could've been put to better use?
Actually I find that with my high ductable Health Plan, my visits did not change price. And you failed to mention how you get to save/grow/spend your money tax free. I made 12% on my HSA last great and didn't pay a dime of tax.
You're right, I can tell you as a broke college kid I never thought of any of that, but I sure should have...
Because Americans think it will be about as effective as the VA.
I used to work in the NHS, and it has a lot of good points, but rationing is an inevitable part of care when "everything" is free at the point of use:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/elderly-go-blind-as-nhs-i...
Nuclear powered aircraft carriers are cheaper than diesel powered aircraft carriers.
Honest question - with such an emphasis and desire for security in the home network, how is the Alexa justified?
Try a different power adapter. The Pi3b+ is better than older models, but can still pull 2A at 5V.
Apart from the power supply mentioned, is your temperature fine?
Why Fringe's Finale Marked the Decline of Sci-Fi on Network TV (2013)
things to check:

- better supply

- temperature (heatsink / fan ?)

- sd card fault
Not sure exactly what your point is. Chongqing has a density of 960 people per square mile according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing.
A DOM is just a tree (and deserialized XML is not always W3C DOM; indeed, in most modern languages, it usually isn't). Deserialized JSON is also just a tree. And even if you deserialize JSON by eval'ing it from JS, it is still deserialization - you're just happening to be reusing the JS parser for that purpose. But any parser is fundamentally a deserializer from the language syntax to an AST.

So you're really saying that JSON deserializes to something that is a more natural fit for the language that you're using. And it's true in many cases; but also not so much in others, like when you're dealing with 64-bit integers, or dates, or all those other things that JSON doesn't spec because "complexity". In practice, it just means a proliferation of incompatible ways to represent these things, and utterly insane deserialization behavior in corner cases when implementations try to be "smart" to transparently compensate for JSON lacking something (e.g. https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json/issues/862).

Conversely, if you are writing in a language that has integral support for XML - say, XQuery, or even VB.NET (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/program...), the complexity is mostly not there. At the very least, if you control the format - which you have to, if you're in a position to decide what to use - then you can certainly stick to the subset of XML that is not anymore complex than JSON.
According to the below link there is not a correlation between eye movements and lying

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/34068-eye-m...
The point of contention here is whether a beautiful ideal of aiming for pure truth as separate from psychological and social-cultural influence is sufficient to talk about real-world projects carried out by real people and the movements formed by those individual projects which developed through bitter and personal disagreements. The three people who helped us understand the effects of society on our thought are highly respected for their insights in helping see through this ideology: Marx, Nietzche and Freud. Each has helped us understand the genealogy of modernist consciousness. I say it's ideological because at heart it is: our motivations don't come from nowhere, even if they are pure. When we look at projects like the Enlightenment we have to step back and use critical tools (read: all the social sciences), rather than take what we see read from authors at face value.

An example you might like more is Bertrand Russell's assessment of Aquinas, in which Russell dismisses Aquinas as a philosopher because he claims Aquinas actually started at his conclusion - to prove God exists. But Aquinas, of course, claimed to start from where he should have, with the rational investigation of the world. We can say a very similar thing about Descartes - how did Descartes establish the existence of God within two paragraphs (I'm not joking) of establishing the existence of his own mind even after throwing out all preconceived notions?
Starry's $50 High Speed Internet Service Comes to New York
What's the speed cap, though? Doesn't it turn whatever your connection speed is into "only as much as the pi can do"?
I meant two PiHole-based servers. But a "blocked request" is an answer, and would likely not trigger a request to a different server, but I wouldn't rely on that being entirely leak-free.