skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if youtube isn't tracking me in malicious way, why would I pay them to stop them from tracking me?

but the error here is conflating a tool with a legal person. Google will track me no matter how much I pay them for any of their services, including YouTube.

the situation at the moment is that no-one believes that a corporation who offers a free service is going to not track you because you pay for the premium version. so (a) I'm not going to pay Google or Facebook to get the premium version since it is not going to be untracked and (b) Google and Facebook aren't going to detrack their premium services since no-one believes that's going to happen anyway - the value add is removing ads/playing with the screen off/etc not the absence of tracking.

the best you can do is pay a third party to offer you some service Google or Facebook offers for free, thereby reducing your exposure. for instance, Google surely knows the content of many emails sent to me, but not all of them, since I pay for email from another provider; or I'm strongly considering paying for a substitute for Google docs, except that I don't like unpredictable monthly USD payments.
It comes down to: Are people going to responsibly manage their family sizes at a family scale; if not then either we continue as is, or start going down a dark path.

A sticking point also seems to be: Are people who are having lots of children the same people who are consuming middle-income+ levels of resources?
I would be careful to attribute framework decision making to careful thought. This is more the regular organizational dysfunctionality. Either:

- The entire organization uses a single framework (and improves on it), which will lead to a bunch of teams grumbling that "We are only using X because of organizational pressure, while Y is much better"

- You leave freedom to the org to pick their technology, and hope/steer people towards certain parts. But you will have to accept some divergence from the norm

I prefer the second org, and luckily I am in such a place where we can use Go while the team next to us is on Scala, and we weigh in-house developed technology against publicly available technology on ROI.
How is fraud handled for TV advertising? Or print? This isn’t some weird new problem. The truth is that ad-tech wants to track you to make your profile more valuable, however, a less valuable user doesn’t mean advertising doesn’t work, it just means the bottom-feeding middlemen get a less profound payday.

Why not just flip the model from eyeballs and clicks to actual ad effectiveness? Newspaper car ads have this down to a science. They don’t count “clicks” of their newspaper ad — they see how many customers come in asking about a car in the ad.

If I have an airplane website and someone wants to advertise to people who like airplanes. I can suggest a price of $1000 and if the advertiser wants to spend the money, they do. I might charge $1000 because I have a lot of visitors or just because I want to. That’s the price I set for whatever reason I set it. If an advertiser doesn’t want to spend that, they can choose not to. If they want to measure effectiveness, they can do it by offering viewers of that ad a discount code or something. When the code is used, they know they got that customer from my ad. Once they’ve validated that their ad “works” and the acquisition cost works, then they’ll keep paying my rate — no bot influence at all. No real chance of fraud because there wouldn’t be any money in it. Publishers would actually have an incentive to sell your product because they want to justify their ad rates. No need for tracking either.

Advertising works and it can be both more effective and privacy-respecting. Ad-tech has turned vast swaths of the Internet into a cesspool. It doesn’t have to be like that.

If you are a publisher and have actual content humans care about, ditch the ad networks and start selling your pixels directly to relevant advertisers.

The problem is that the incentives for fraudsters and publishers are aligned under the current model: more clicks equals more money, the actual advertiser who is selling something gets to pay that fraud tax. Perhaps advertisers should start seeking out relevant content and offering to buy space directly, refusing to deal with “networks.” Their acquisition costs would go down, that’s for sure. Harder to scale, but so what, you have a higher yield effort for a lot less money.
Pretty certain it's the unstability.

In my experience, while Flutter may not be elegant because of Dart, it more or less just works.

Developing in React Native is mostly just debugging the framework itself and browsing through React Native Github issues.
Average is the worst case, as everyone has to deal with it. The chance of anything going wrong with a modern nuclear facility is astronomically low.
Kashmir wasn't exactly a peaceful paradise before the abrogation of the article. Stone pelting was a regular affair and long term curfew has been enforced previously in 2008 and after Burhan Wani's death. The Federal Government has to ensure security of the people to prevent bloodshed.
Rohingyas are genuine refugees that have been oppressed. That bill codifies that Muslims cannot be oppressed, which is a patently false observation that a supposedly secular country should not have to resolve to.
If you want to feel better, Australia also exports a lot of uranium afaik
I had a feeling something like that was lurking which is why the roll-up was visible but not distributed yet by Windows Update.

They were testing it for corporate users...
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Youtube is like a free Gallery, where anyone can display there artwork.
The content which can be supported by advertisement (for benefit of the artist and the gallery management), surely is to be decided by the gallery management, ie, Youtube, as they're not 'employing' content creators - they're just allowing free posting of content and allowing revenue generation through ad as an extra cream.

Content creators 'use' Youtube, they don't 'work for' Youtube... This is what people are confusing these days. (For eg. They can use affiliate marketing with a video, without any intervention from Google, and sharing the video on youtube)

Should Instagram pay for most viral posts? No right? - the user posted it for sharing. If, Instagram paid, as a 'Thank you and win-win' strategy to such posts - people would've lost it if some posts were demonetized.

Also, if anyone wants to showcase in a gallery where they are paid for it, Youtube provides the 'Youtube Premium' option.
I can say the same thing and just dismiss all your points. You are creating false equivalence between Hajj and amarnath. The Indian government controls all Hindu temples and derives revenue. So what is the problem in subsidizing these when the profit from these sites is used up within the country? On the other hand, Hajj spending goes out of the country and is a dead investment. And mind you, only Hindu institutions come under government purview by law. None of the minority institutions are touched.
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Bahnhof also build their own infrastructure using their signed up customers and hosting clients money. AFAIK, internet providers in the us don't and can't invest like this to improve speed and lower cost.
PBS News Hour is about as close as you're going to get in America, in terms of lack of strong political bias and emphasis on factual, 'hard' news.
Funny, I applied, 20+ years experience in C++, on mobile too, writing a competing product.. odd never got a call back ;p
I don't see any parallel. Khalistani separatism happened because Bhindranwale was propped by the Congress party to gain electoral giains. Who do you think the BJP has propped up now?
Serious question: How efficient would it be to use low powered devices for a static website, rather than traditional servers?

Load balancing, and scaling (adding more micro controllers) seems like a big win.

Would the energy per request be lower of higher on the low powered devices?
'Hinduism is secular.' followed by 'Hindu India'

How is religion even called secular? Secular pertains to character of a state, not of a religion.
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That is not an answer to the question you were asked.

"And where can I read up on google's infallible firmware signing strategy that you're implying has the ability to block exploits and bugs?"

I have no clue where on the scale of "state action" -> "bribed/coerced insider" -> "disgruntled ex google employee" -> "Elbonian strip kiddie" you need to be to "control that lamp", but I'm 100% certain that the reality is that the capability to revert this new lamp behaviour is not exclusively in the hands of authorised Google employees...

It's exactly the same as the current encryption bullshit. If there's a backdoor for law enforcement, there's a backdoor. If there's a remote way for Google to update the Nest software - there's an exploitable remote way to update the software.
A lot. Swarming in here.
Is technology widening or closing the gap between humanity?
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You're right, but that these millions dollars startups aren't able to do better than phpBB from an UX point of view is dazzling.
Smaller-scale co-working is also more affordable. You don't usually have a community manager for one thing. You don't impress people with fit-out or free beer or whatever. You just provide a likeable, reasonable space for people to share.

I co-own a 15-18 desk space and while we have churn, our setup costs were not especially high, we don't have staff (we are tenants ourselves) and we largely ignore the competition. We would be one of the more expensive spaces but uncompetitive on facilities/services - I think we have attracted people because we're simpler and quieter.
It's still an ally, more than the Chinese will ever be.

Just wait and see, the loans you are getting ( not investments) are for Chinese workers. The loans are at 4-6% if the work isn't executed by Chinese workers.

That's not an ally
He really did get screwed. I feel lucky to have worked for a number of companies but never one that treated people so badly. But I also knew I have been lucky.
I took a look at Xamarin recently to see how far it had come, and the tooling is really impressive. They seem to do a great job of keeping up to date with iOS/Android SDK changes, too.

But when trying to find an example of a native-feeling Xamarin-based app for iOS, I was really underwhelmed. I tried to find one that was (a) well-known and (b) third-party (not developed by Xamarin or Microsoft). The 4 contenders were:

- UPS - 1/4 stars - All views of the app are awkward embedded web views. Every page has a full screen modal spinner.

- Outback Steakhouse - 1/4 stars - Not updated for modern iPhones, so the whole app is letterboxed. UI is completely custom, so didn't attempt to feel native. Crashed as soon as it tried to get my location.

- Alaska Airlines - 3/4 stars - Feels native-ish, nice "vanilla" design. Mix of native forms and web views. All UI related to searching flights & buying tickets is a web view. Every tap on the tab bar causes a full screen modal spinner.

- FOX Sports - 4/4 stars - Wow, impressive. Lots of native-feeling views with their own branded styling. The custom widgets feel native.

It was great to find one "hero" app for Xamarin (FOX Sports), but the fact that it's an outlier is a little concerning.
OP. This is almost exactly what I would have said btw. The food stuff, was nice. The hotel stuff, was nice. The violence was remarkably pointless. The whole "she's a good woman but just fell into the wrong kind of man's hands" trope, well he's done that so many times now, its just boring.

The Serialization just bigged it up too much.
The idea is that all LISP code is data that is easily altered, essentially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree encapsulated in parens.

LISP syntax is uniform,everything(functions,data,argument lists) is nested lists of lists like (list(list(list))), so that allows altering specific places "in-the-list"(place 1,2,3...) as form of meta-programming,

where normal syntax FOR( A IN B) would be written roughly as (for a b) where for is used as a function taking 'a' and 'b' as parameters, but in this form(where 'for' is just the first element of the list) you can have functions that "alter-the-list" by example (replace-first-list-element (for a b) replacement-part) returns (replacement-part a b).
Quoted directly from the article:

"The Journal investigation didn’t turn up evidence of spying by or on behalf of Beijing in Africa. Nor did it find that Huawei executives in China knew of, directed or approved the activities described. It also didn’t find that there was something particular about the technology in Huawei’s network that made such activities possible."

There were activities that infringed privacy, but (I believe) not attributable to Huawei hardware or anything. In the article it mentions Huawei employees helping the govt get malware/insider onto the Whatsapp group chat.
Not much more than anyone else. The few people with power in the world are already known. The parent comment highlights the flaw of moral superiority common in the tech/HN crowd where people tend to feel far more important than they are.

In actuality we're no different than the billions of others on the planet and no amount of Silicon Valley startup experience is going to change that.
"being able to prove they didn't delete it" is a somewhat higher bar that you probably need to at least consider before starting that lawsuit...

I've been discussing/arguing recently about whether being able to prove you've deleted the encryption keys for PII that you have on on long term backups/archives is something we'd want to explain to a judge or jury while the opposing counsel keeps saying "But they didn't delete the data! Show me when they deleted the data!"
You’re nit-picking when I think the analogy is clear but it doesn’t effect your credit if the company you work for declares bankruptcy, so the comparison to the company’s tech debt seems to hold up even if you push it.
I think "the tailor of panama" says much the same about the corrupting nature of the west on small economies but better. The follow on stuff about Palfrey (from night manager) I rather liked.
That would sure seem to be the case unless you see from where refugees are allowed. They are not allowed from all over the world, only areas dealing with partition or Indian history.
No shit, video games are political. They’re conservative
> To prevent what exactly? Political dissent?

Listen to statements from Kashmiri leaders like Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah. They've routinely threatened violence over any attempt to the abrogation of the article. What do you think they would've done after the abrogation was anounced? And unlike other states, political dissent in Kashmir is not anywhere close to peaceful. It includes stone pelting , murdering policemen and what not.
It offers 6 bits of campaign ID with the intention that campaigns need to be bucketed. Maybe it could be a bit more, but if it was, like, 32 bits, it could be used as a user ID.
To avoid confusion here, I think we are talking about ceramic cistern lids and not toilet bowl lids as the parent quote actually mentions.

The post starts off mentioning cistern lids, and the title mentions cistern lids, but lapses into toilet bowl lid about the time the parent starts quoting.

"2 I was fixing the mechanism inside the tank of the toilet. The only thing left to do was to put the ceramic lid back on the tank"

So guys, still no excuse for not putting the lid back down when you've finished ;)
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Nothing's stopping you from registering your own trademark and selling whatever you happen to have on hand under that mark. Ownership of a trademark is free.

What is the difference you're seeing?
On the other hand driving schools in Europe sometimes make us drive with construction safety devices in order to check if we can drive without hearing anything. They also obstruct the middle mirror (you're supposed to be able to drive with just side mirrors).
> I am claiming you are rational if you act in a way you believe will lead to you succeeding

This is worse than what you were saying before. Even irrational people believe they are acting in a way that will lead to success, why would someone ever act in a way they believe will fail to work? There has to be some kind of external test of whether it is 'reasonable' for the person to believe that the way they are acting will work, right?

I mean lots of people do things like making hats out of aluminum foil to prevent the CIA from reading their thoughts, and they believe it works, but I don't think you can say they are acting rationally by any definition.
Companies claim to provide “fair-trade” data work. Do they?
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One bit of additional intuition: Since the square of a number goes up from addition by slightly more than it goes down from subtraction, perturbations increase the average of the squares. This is why the difference between the two quantities Feynman mentions is used to measure the variance of a set of numbers.

Since that’s still not precise, let’s compare the square of the mean to the mean square for two numbers a and b.

The square of the mean is ((a+b)/2)^2=(a^2+2ab+b^2)/4

The mean of the squares is (a^2+b^2)/2

Feynman’s claim is that the second is always bigger if the numbers deviate around an average (a and b aren’t equal).

So let’s subtract the first from the second. We get (a^2-2ab+b^2)/4. The numerator is equivalent to (a-b)^2. Since a square of a real can’t be negative, when a and b are unequal the mean of the squares is always larger.
>A very ancient inclusive and compassionate culture. Even the name hindu was given by Persians/Arabs.

What a complete bullshit of a definition. What are you even describing with that statement?

>The slogan was given to unify the nation and recognise the rich culture and heritage.

Why does the nation need unity? Why cannot rich culture and heritage not be recognized without a slogan?

>Stop with the nonsense please. I have even seen people draw equivalence like, Swastika-Nazi, Swastika-Hindu, Hindu-Nazi.

So you have no answer. Swastika is a Hindu symbol unofrtunately appropriated by Nazis.

>Why should a culture of thousands of years not roll back to the actual names for places which were changed by invaders? What has religion got to do with it? Should we also praise the queen?

Akbar was not invader, he was a third generation Indian. You are addressing him with 'invader' moniker because he was a Muslim. Simple. Well, ample number of Indians praise the queen. Punjab premier, Amarinder Singh, in fact has a portrait of his grandfather attending Queen Elizabeth's coronation ceremony which he displays out in the front.

>Having booked hotel tickets all over north east for my parent's visits, I would say please stop with your propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Line_Permit - You cannot visit Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh without ILP. So better arrange them for your parents. I have ample experience in North East.

>Unless you have been living there for some time. In Kashmir people who have been living for more than even 50 years didn't have voting and property rights.

You cannot buy real estate in Himachal Pradesh as an outsider. Period. It doesn't matter how many years you have been living there. Ample experience there.

>I am a Hindu and I am a nationalist. I don't want to kill people or put them under oppressive regimes like sharia. Being a hindu makes people evil? Is that your deciding criterion?

Mis-direction. Consolidation majority under name of religion is religious nationalism.

>Are you confusing India with Pakistan?

Search up Mukti Bahini in Bangladesh, LTTE in Sri Lanka, Balochistan/TTP militancy in Pakistan. Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.
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You're denying expulsion of Kashmiri Pundits? There is a dedicated Wikipedia page on their exodus: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_of_Kashmiri_Hindus
Quine had three classes of paradox:

> A veridical paradox produces a result that appears absurd but is demonstrated to be true nonetheless. Thus the paradox of Frederic's birthday in The Pirates of Penzance establishes the surprising fact that a twenty-one-year-old would have had only five birthdays if he had been born on a leap day. Likewise, Arrow's impossibility theorem demonstrates difficulties in mapping voting results to the will of the people. The Monty Hall paradox demonstrates that a decision which has an intuitive 50–50 chance is in fact heavily biased towards making a decision which, given the intuitive conclusion, the player would be unlikely to make. In 20th-century science, Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel and Schrödinger's cat are famously vivid examples of a theory being taken to a logical but paradoxical end.

> A falsidical paradox establishes a result that not only appears false but actually is false, due to a fallacy in the demonstration. The various invalid mathematical proofs (e.g., that 1 = 2) are classic examples, generally relying on a hidden division by zero. Another example is the inductive form of the horse paradox, which falsely generalises from true specific statements. Zeno's paradoxes are 'falsidical', concluding, for example, that a flying arrow never reaches its target or that a speedy runner cannot catch up to a tortoise with a small head-start.

> A paradox that is in neither class may be an antinomy, which reaches a self-contradictory result by properly applying accepted ways of reasoning. For example, the Grelling–Nelson paradox points out genuine problems in our understanding of the ideas of truth and description.

> A fourth kind, which may be alternatively interpreted as a special case of the third kind, has sometimes been described since Quine's work.

> A paradox that is both true and false at the same time and in the same sense is called a dialetheia. In Western logics it is often assumed, following Aristotle, that no dialetheia exist, but they are sometimes accepted in Eastern traditions (e.g. in the Mohists,[12] the Gongsun Longzi,[13] and in Zen[14]) and in paraconsistent logics. It would be mere equivocation or a matter of degree, for example, to both affirm and deny that "John is here" when John is halfway through the door but it is self-contradictory simultaneously to affirm and deny the event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox
well, I don't see Google ads so I don't know what the content is, but no-one knows that I bought a coke after seeing an ad for a coke at the train station. but it still works. the effectiveness of advertising is an empirical question.
Or the other variant, "Never wrestle with a pig. You both get covered in muck, but the pig likes it." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/08/pig/
We could be working on distributed systems and analytics engines to - say - chew through all the protein mediated DNA/RNA expressions.

That would cost a few pennies in engineering skill and we might even find cures to things that might kill us or our loved ones.

But no, we’re throwing these opportunities away trying to be the next overvalued IRC skin.
The 2017 Abel Prize was awarded to Yves Meyer (no relation) for his contribution to the theory of wavelets. This is worth a read: https://www.quantamagazine.org/yves-meyer-wavelet-expert-win...
Wool carpets on hardwood floors. I see plenty of dust outside (construction?) but very little in the house. If I don't wipe the table for a week, I can't tell other than animal foot prints. I leave windows and doors open hours every day. At work the office seems about class 100k, but I guess the aircon system if filtering well enough.

I don't doubt it's possible to create such an environment, but it's not "natural" or environmental other than in the sense of what you choose (as much as circumstances let you) to live in.
I read that differently in light of the section heading "These Days Are Gone".