skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to a recruiting talk by Two Sigma a while back where they discussed the same thing as an example of "look at this cool stuff we get to work on". They had slides with satellite images of some parking lot and showed how they could segment cars, deal with car-like things on roofs, map regions of parking lots to the right stores, handle different conditions like snow, etc.

From a technical perspective it's actually an interesting problem because there are so many things to consider. Really makes you notice how disadvantaged retail traders are, though. I think traditionally a lot of hedge fund strategies are kept pretty secret, but this one is so out of reach and technically difficult for most people that they don't really care if it gets out.
To add to this, information is power. When you give away information about yourself, you are also giving others power over you. This power can be abused in all sorts of ways.

Furthermore, there's no guarantee that the information gathered with all of this surveillance will remain in the hands of "the good guys". In addition to abuse by corrupt or malicious police, administrators, and politicians who may legally get access to this data, the data can be leaked to or stolen by all sorts of criminals, stalkers, bullies, abusers, pedophiles, etc.

Just about every week there's a new story about a massive data leak. It seems unlikely that data collected through mass surveillance will stay out of the wrong hands forever.

How many parents would willingly broadcast to the world the path their child takes to school, their schedule, and photos of their kids. How many people would willingly allow live streaming of their family's bedrooms and bathrooms? All of this surveillance could potentially prevent or solve crime, but most people still have some sense of privacy left, and a concern about ways information about them and their loved ones could be misused -- even if they don't think about it deeply or very often.

Unless, of course, they or people they know have been victims of harassment, stalking, identity theft, and other abuses of data collected about them. In which case they probably think about it much more.
Haven’t you lost all your 2fa keys at that point though? Decryption aside, that seems incredibly inconvenient.
What?

Hunting?

Foraging?

Peyote?

Mushrooms?

Willow bark?
I don't think I'd really call that a computer any more than I'd call an old watch a computer.

The some of the targeting computers aboard the USS Iowa worked in part by the same principles. (The Mk 8 Rangekeeper)

The continuous control mixing of the XC-142 tiltwing (1960's version of the V-22 Osprey) as it changed from vertical to horizontal mode, was all done with cams, gears, and levers.
Don't forget water-proof, and easy to make airtight bags with, too.
Precisely. It's unfair for the little guys, but lot's of stuff is unfair... such as most of high speed trading, and the people who use arbitrage to skim from the index funds that use predictable purchasing.
Sure, but the glorious thing about Anki is the scheduler -- every time you get a card right it will reschedule reviews further away, on an exponential schedule. And if you self-grade 'easy' then it gets an even bigger time to next review. The cost of throwing in a few syntax oriented cards isn't terribly high in the grand scheme of thing, and there are many other bits of programming languages that are amenable to memorization -- libraries, APIs, common datastructures and idioms.
They know the affected component is the battery, they could be trained to remove the battery itself if it does not look to be bulging.
5 to 10 business days to fix literally years worth of laptops is impressively fast turnaround. How long do you think is reasonable to do battery swaps en masse like this?
They don't handle it well. I worked on a service that had some severe technical constraints at a prior job. (Basically, we were hosting a vendor's network device to the cloud, and it really wasn't designed for it, and it also wasn't a really great device.) We had one customer that loved to blog about us. The customer wasn't being all that unreasonable (from their perspective) and the higher-ups knew about the constraints we were operating under, but they still panicked every time a blog came out about us.

More broadly, I think if you talk to any journo in the trade press, some companies can be incredibly thin-skinned about any percieved negative press, and threats and intimidation are very common for percieved slights. And the trade press typically rolls over because those companies are their advertisers. It's why you typically see so many puff pieces, how-tos and PR reprints rather than actual journalism.
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I'd probably recommend the initial Guardians of the Galaxy although I almost feel that's a cheat because it's not really a superhero film in the usual vein. Same with Deadpool.

Iron Man is probably as good a choice as any for a standalone Marvel film.

One problem is that the template for a modern big budget action film, which includes all the superhero films, weighs things down with so many explosions and special effects and just non-stop action sequences that they're all a bit exhausting and tend to overwhelm any humor or character interactions on the screen.
> Android has for me been far better as a laptop replacement

Just curious, but how many of these are you using with any regularity ?

I have never seen a Samsung dex in the wild, even in hip coworking spaces, nor people seriously using android tablets, even less with a mouse and keyboard (closest to it was the multi-OS transformable laptop I think, but the person I knew owned it only used the windows side)
Oh yeah? Who did same day, fedex-overnight-to-and-from warranty work, and on what laptops?
Cheap equipment and population density, dealing with Indian companies is like testing your patience with their never-ending bid to seek even lower prices.
There is honestly no actual demand for something like that, I'd guess. Screenshots are easy, and your OS usually comes with a built-in tool. And how to use that tool (or find a tool) is a matter of typing "how do I screenshot on X" into google.

And if even this is still too "technical" for a user, I have seen people take literal shots of their screens, with their phone camera or whatever.
The article has it wrong with Safari. While ITP (Intelligent Tracking Protection) started in 2017 indeed, Safari has been blocking all third party (and thus all tracking) cookies since almost forever. Safari started to block all third party cookies in 2003 with the release of Safari version 1. [1]

Not only that, Safari also started to partition web cache in 2013, and it's still the only browser with such partitioning. [2] Without it, tracking doesnt even need cookies.

"If you only block cookies, you still have all the other storage and stateful things to worry about." - Safari ITP engineer John Wilander [3]

Also the spin of the article is slightly dishonest, simply turning off third-party cookies in Chrome achieves to negate most of the explicit criticism in the article. The author probably had the conclusion of the article in mind (setting up good Firefox against evil Chrome) before looking for supporting arguments.

It's a bit ironic. While mainstream media starts to discover the existence of third-party cookies, which had been a known issue for around 20 years, Big Tech tracking has already moved to first-party tracking, fingerpringing and cache tracking.

For example, Facebook switched to first-party cookie tracking in 2018. [4]

Everyone who wants to understand the dynamic needs to look into the relationship between Apple and ad tech, with Apple's recent counter-move being the addition of ITP 2.2. [5]

Since the release of ITP 2.1, even first-party cookies now are limited to 7 days, and all first-party cookies that are even potentially tracking cookies get deleted after already 1 day. [6]

Firefox doesn't play much of a role in this fight. In fact, Firefox never did anything pro-actively to make ad-tech sweat. The decision by Mozilla to block all third-party cookies in 2013 [7] was reverted in fear of Ad-Tech.

Mozilla is better at marketing than with the technology, and still hasn't enabled tracking-protection except for new users.

[1] https://twitter.com/brendaneich/status/982631777574338561

[2] https://twitter.com/johnwilander/status/1126191449161158657

[3] https://twitter.com/johnwilander/status/1126208457214836736

[4] https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/the-facebook-pixel-will-...

[5] https://webkit.org/blog/8828/intelligent-tracking-prevention...

[6] https://webkit.org/blog/8613/intelligent-tracking-prevention...

[7] https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2013/02/25/firefox-gettin...
I would have paid $$$ to see Roma in the cinema, after first streaming it to my phone via Netflix.

Cinematography genius!

Edit: I would still pay $$$
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Protonmail does those thongs to try and prevent bad actors or bots from making encrypted accounts to hide their shady tracks. Not for data collection that they'll sell for a profit. Don't be so glib as to state you can't see the difference.
Disgusting that supposed "hackers" and experts on hackernews advocate for single point of failures in the internet infrastructure.

The internet is supposed to be distributed. If the NTP pool admins go nuts, have a fight etc, I'm glad there is an alternative. You can generally specify multiple sources, this would be a new source.

And it's always the BS "they're evil" argument - when the posters contribute nothing themselves to progress.

Frustrating indeed.
> I'm saying Christianity fits "Believe only that for which there is evidence, and only for the time that there is evidence"

> 1. Good scientific evidence God exists

I appreciate the reply, but I'm afraid we're each now too far outside of the other's respective worldviews to convince eachother of anything.

I felt that the idea that there may be merit in a widespread return to theology to avoid existential dread was definitely worthy of a charitable response, but continuing further will be us talking past eachother.

Enjoy your weekend :).
> For CAR-T therapy, the common remark is “you know it’s working when the patient goes to the ICU” from tumor lysis

Why is that not also true in chemo patients?
If you're gonna use arrow functions, why not go all the way!

const radixParser = (radix) => (numStr) => parseInt(numStr, radis);
I hope Gitlab will fix this (it really should) but I need a solution in the meantime...
One distinction is whether or not there's a duty of confidentiality owed by the possessor of the information with respect to the source of the information (the "non-public" element of "material non-public information"). It doesn't seem here there would be any duty of confidentiality. Presumably the programmers in your example owed a duty of confidentiality to their employer or contract counterparty.
> Well, I tried it out. At least the IMAP is partially mitigated since you basically get a link to a separate web page -- the contents aren't embedded in the email itself.

Wow, so it kills your offline productivity as well, and of course make back ups and archiving harder. I know it's kinda of the point, but I haven't realized the implications of it until you said so.
> Indian creators on YouTube have pretty much surpassed every big name streaming company.

I think T-Series would like a word.

In all seriousness I think the proliferation of independent content creators is incredible. Maybe content is of lower quality, but it's more fun.
How is it that Berkeley can't run https on their webservers?!
I mean, presumably the people at data.firefox.com are data scientists; and presumably those same data scientists are used by Mozilla to answer any number of internal questions. So, like any proper data scientists, their response to "how highly should we prioritize this task for the public" is "let's get data on how interested people are in the report."
Well, I guess we’ll see if my script (that doesn’t even exist) grows.
Map ever calling anything with 3 arguments is absolutely strange and surprising and should be borderline offensive to most anyone familiar with the operation from ANY other language.
Bezos had a house there, I forget the percentage but distance to a CEO’s house is hugely predictive of new business locations.
> Your silly UI will ultimately never stop me from wiresharking my own cables in my own home and doing whatever the hell I want with any bits of information that enter my space.

Their silly UI won't, but what about HTTPS? Won't wiresharking your own cables only get you the ciphertext from the HTTPS session which would be useless to you without the ephemeral key?
I complained about it here, with a screenshot: https://twitter.com/juantreminio/status/1137563286319316992
Honestly I have no idea how their financials look like, I'm simply playing trends (I've even bought into BYND and exited at some profit). But one thing I do know is that the stock prices of AMT and SBAC do not look particularly different in the times when rates were going up (Oct 2015 - Dec 2018 [1]). Of course such behaviour could be just long term market delusions, so trade with caution!

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TB3MS
Are you being sarcastic? I can not tell

Did they ban guns in Chicago and Baltimore?
What was the effect?
That's just not true. Depending on your warranty you could have on-site service. In that case, the repair would happen on-site and maybe take an hour or two. In my experience, this even worked while traveling to another country. Sometimes manufacturers would also send you a replacement part and you could replace it yourself (happened to me with a failed hard drive).
I mean, you don't necessarily have to make it illegal.

1. It's from hedge funds, and you can invest in a hedge fund today and reap the benefits of their strategies yourself

2. There exists a gap right now, where a startup or data analysis firm could provide this kind of information to smaller investors through some kind of subscription model.

3. Ultimately the government itself could "level the playing field" by either gathering this information through other channels and releasing it (BLS or SEC style) or by replicating the strategies and releasing it.

I think #3 could be viable. We already require businesses to share very important and actionable info with the government, and since everyone does it, the risks of one firm having data leaked and another not are mitigated. (SEC requires public reports, BLS takes private data and aggregates it for higher level views) If the government required businesses to report data to them on a weekly or monthly basis regarding things that are being satellite tracked, they could release this information on a set schedule to basically demolish the ability of institutional investors to gain secret information to bet against the public positions
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Erm, the point is that with private companies performing the collection and then USG merely using the proceeds, it sidesteps direct constraints on the government like the Constitution.

And since use of that surveillance then becomes normalized in the commercial sphere, law enforcement feels definitively entitled to access the databases - imagine telling police they can't perform lookups in eg LexisNexis!
Adding Google Analytics is incredibly trivial in most cases, and gives the devs tons of insight into how people use their site.
Unlike the credit card case, these hedge funds are not affiliated with the companies whose stocks they are trading. In addition, the number of cars in a parking lot is not expected to be confidential. They are simply using available tools to make an observation, and using that observation to influence a trading decision.

I see it as just a quantified and scaled up version of, say, noticing more Tesla cars on the street, and choosing to invest. I think making something like that illegal would only be harmful to the stock market and investors.
This article is very wrong to confuse "material non-public information" with hard to acquire information like counting cars in satellite photos.

Remember the Matt Levine test: insider trading is about theft, not fairness.

When a company insider uses private company information to trade (or colludes with an outside party to do so) they are stealing material non-public information from the company for their own benefit. Nothing of the kind is happening when a hedge fund (or anyone else) acquires and analyzes satellite photos.

There is no expectation of fairness in the stock market. All sorts of people work very hard and spend a lot of money to develop proprietary information in the pursuit of stronger returns. There is nothing at all wrong wit this, especially because it means that in the end we all get more accurately priced securities.
https://secondmeasure.com is like "counting cars in parking lots" on steroids.
I really at a loss why decent browsers for "techies" cannot be better. I really like uzbl-tabbed even though it's fairly primitive and the code is getting older.

All I need in a browser is the ability to browse (tabbed) while blocking ads. Browsers anymore have become walled gardens what with their add-on web stores, garbage like Pocket, sync, etc. I don't want any of that. Browsers could all be more like the old-school Konqueror, in the sense that one could import ad block lists at will without resorting to visiting store. No telemetry. No built in search for a certain search engine.
There's no need to call Protonmail idiots in order to put across your views on the subject, keep it civil. Plus, it makes your argument look weak if you have to resort to name-calling.
Ok let me check with the help of this link that you given but if u take my opinion pre-made anki deck is not that much easy thanks for this link
To paraphrase this article - 'if we trust Sarah to vote as we wish on the environment, and Frank to vote as we intend on Finance', what I don't understand is how would delegative democracy work when it comes to working out the environmental budgets for that year?

edit: additional clarifications
So what is the city doing with $1.5 billion that you freed up?
Yep

That, and it's also almost impossible to run Windows 8 or 10 with a HDD drive, even for basic stuff like internet browsing, etc.

SSD is basically required now.

Sad, because Linux is still pretty fast with HDD for basic usage.
There's a whole marketplace where companies with so-called "Alternative-data" sell their datasets to quant traders. Satellite imagery of farms, passenger traffic through airports, all sorts of random, seemingly disparate data.
Unless you want to use your laptop to type, of course ;)

Nobody can beat Lenovo, IMO. The Thinkpad x1 carbon as an example. Lighter than a MacBook pro. More ports. A keyboard that not only isn't defeated by a single grain of sand, but is also just a delightful keyboard. Put whatever OS you want on it. Far cheaper.
If you load about:telemetry in Firefox, it will tell you what information is being collected, link to various documentation, etc. It also tells you whether telemetry is actually enabled right now or not, and links to the preference section where you can enable/disable telemetry.

The set of telemetry collected by default depends on the build channel: release builds collect much less data than nightly or beta.

You can also see exactly what data Firefox engineers can see at https://telemetry.mozilla.org/ -- there is no special behind-a-login view for this stuff that I know of.

Disclaimer: I work on Firefox.
That’s a good point. The regime in Berkeley only kicks in after the first time the property is leased.
Do you mind if I ask what apps these are which you can't find modern replacements for?
Your last point has been exactly my sticking point with most/all of these films. We went as a family to see Avengers: Age of Ultron, and about halfway through, my then-7-year-old son asked me when it would be over. It's just too much overstimulation, far too little plot. Star Wars: Rogue One was an identical film experience.
As a (mostly) outsider, I’ve never understood why JavaScript is so popular in web dev circles. There are so many awesome compile-to-JS languages these days (ClojureScript, PureScript, Elm, ReasonML, Scala.js, etc). What makes people want to use JavaScript instead?
Sure it's harder, and it will not stand up in a court of law probably. But there probably have been and still are a ton of spies, national and industrial, who do exactly this, memorize things.
Why do they never target the areas teeming with highly organized crime, like Washington DC, Silver Spring, or Northern Virginia?
I use a pre made anki deck for medical school. I add some cards myself now and then, but it's sufficient. I review all the new cards once, first, and that way I've "learned" the material.

The other thing that helps is if you first read the source from which the anki cards were made. In my case, it's a specific set of books/questions.
The companies involved are Taiwanese, not from mainland China. The libre community couldn't avoid Taiwanese chips even if they wanted to, which I don't imagine they do.
I find it somewhat interesting to what lengths traders go for profits. Cue people who explain how this makes the markets more efficient.

Something I'm wondering about though: The article makes it sound like this is some new unfair advantage of the big traders. But isn't this an old game? If you can afford to acquire and process the data you're likely going to beat the other participants. That was always true. I don't see what's qualitatively different here. Is there?
Hmm good point.

Which makes me think: will we ever have enough?
I doubt that actually happened since Second Measure exists.
It's not the point. Most "information theft" is people not realizing that they shouldn't share the information. If someone is dedicated enough to exfiltrate information they'll just take a picture of the screen. But now it's really clear that that's what they're doing.

Source - same discussion years ago at Microsoft when Windows introduced this at an OS level to prevent screenshots of confidential mail.
You had those "Frontpage includes" that IIRC search engines had no problem parsing.
Hmm, tried it out just now (Win10) and I´m getting a ... timeout! Go figure... (location is Brazil btw)
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The downvotes are just for mentioning "Betteridge's Law of Headlines." 8-10 years ago on every headline that was phrased as a question, it was like every 3rd comment. It adds nothing, and I still reflexively downvote it without any particular malice.

A) Everybody has heard of it (or can hear about it from somewhere else), B) nobody cares if a particular headline comports with it, because C) it's not a law, just a funny observation somebody made once that definitely doesn't hold anymore because headline writers are familiar with it, too.
You can also use the mouse in the cod+tab switcher (if you didn’t know already)
The better question are either of these basic junk browsers better than Vivaldi(which uses chromiumm, and has far better built in features, most of which you can't even get as shitty web extensions)

Firefox no serves its purpose, it has zero addons that are exclusive to it (most of which made it far better pre quantum garbage) ... it devtools aren't beetter than chrome... it does nothing better because it's jhust a chrome clone in all but its backend code... which has ceased to be any of value to any third party developer wanting to make the default experience not shit..

Mozilla are clueless, Google well they don't give a fuck because they have a stranglehold on the normie noobs who don't know any better for a ux workflow in a browser etc or can't be bothered to try anything else.

So no Firefox isn't any better, in anything really
Of course you do. You developed that service. Maybe you should mention that in such posts...
A few human powered aircraft have flown but it's just barely possible. Only the strongest athletes can produce enough power.

https://www.fai.org/news/thirty-years-longest-human-powered-...