skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I respectfully but completely disagree.

The revenue to creators of in-video sponsorships are neither predicated by nor affected by whether or not I or anyone else watch the embedded advertisement. Because there is no way to effectively edit or remove the sponsorship, nor a way for anyone to monitor with a high degree of accuracy or certainty if and how much such an ad is viewed, creators are almost always paid a single lump sum to include the sponsor's message in the video. The amount they are paid is contractually based on viewership numbers achieved before they are paid for the ad or post the video, and any future sponsorship opportunities are simply affected by whether or not people watch the video with the included sponsorship and what click through rate is achieved.

The only people who conceivably "lose out" on anything here are the advertisers. But since I personally tend to look disfavorably on intrusive advertising, even this is not true in my situation.
> there are lots of programming domains where it's not really useful.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any.

Even if all you're doing is a simple CRUD app, alternating attributes on a list you're outputting to HTML is easily done with `if i % 2`.
This meme needs to die. Kubernetes is not overkill for non-Google workloads.

In my current work, we run several Kubernetes clusters via GKE on Google Cloud Platform. We're a tiny company — less than 20 nodes running web apps, microservices and search engines — but we're benefiting hugely from the operational simplicity of Kubernetes. Much, much, much better than the old fleet of Puppet-managed VMs we used to run. Having surveyed the competition (Docker Swarm, Mesos/Marathon, Rancher, Nomad, LXD, etc.), I'm also confident that Kubernetes was the right choice.

Kubernetes may be a large and complex project, but the problem it solves is also complex. Its higher-level cluster primitives are vastly better adapted to modern operations than the "simple" Unix model of daemons and SSH and what not. The attraction isn't just the encapsulation that comes with containers, but the platform that virtualizes physical nodes and allows containers to be treated as ephemeral workloads, along with supporting primitives like persistent volumes, services, ingresses and secrets, and declarative rules like horizontal autoscalers and disruption budgets. Given this platform, you have a "serverless"-like magically scaling machine full of tools at your fingertips. You don't need a huge workload to benefit from that.

As for LXD and the other alternatives, these might be great, but Kubernetes has vastly more mainstream adoption these days. That's more important than mere technological superiority, or everyone would be using OpenSolaris with Zones and ZFS these days.
I don't see ads being replaced or killed anytime soon. I think regulation and laws are needed where if I'm not using a Google or Facebook product they aren't building and tracking my profile everywhere I go both online and offline.

I mean these are massive spyware businesses and they should be called out as such.
Tell that to those forced out by skyrocketing housing costs a la San Francisco, and as I've come to understand, parts of Seattle.
I suspect this plays quite well in the key battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. That's the only thing he's going to care about.
If these things were declared in just css and not JS accessible, things would be better, as they were before.

JS has got too much access to too much information.

All styling declared and don't let JS interrogate style info from the DOM
But maybe it's better that candidates don't need the Rust Belt to win? How many voters are there, compared to places like LA and NYC?
"Applied" or "Numerical" LA would be better descriptors, yes.
Is there a paid upgrade for 256 color icons?
When I first took a bite out of Popeye's chicken sandwich I had two immediate thoughts.

1. This thing is delicious!!

2. Poor poor Chick-fil-A. Popeye's sandwich is much better. And I can eat it any day of the week.
"hereby ordered" = "hereby ordered"
Isaac Newton AMA on Twitter
So it turns out that the lead-tainted xylophone pictured in that article is sitting in my living room, along with the other items from that "Amazon's Choice" instrument set. It's all going in the trash and I'm never allowing any off-brand item from Amazon near our kids again.

(I guess the fact that the xylophone wasn't tuned to any recognizable scale should have been a red flag.)
I showed a link of some of the best people in the world squatting, but you're like "nah, I'm better than that". Well, all right then.
Yep I can tell you a ton of that stuff doesn't work across browsers (weird behaviour on Firefox due to me removing important a11y defaults being the main one iirc, Safari totally overrides a lot of input styles too).

Things like this are a great way to learn about the difference between browsers if you can stick at it too
The energy usage and slow down of your computer are relatively minor concerns when it comes to ads. The real problem is that ads use every dark pattern in the book to influence your beliefs and decisions, effectively taking over your very valuable brain cycles.

I think as this conversation evolves, we will find that there is an additional human right, the right for others to not use undue force to influence your mind. This whole battle is ultimately one to secure this right.
This isn't new. In 2011, a bunch of right-wingers (people we'd recognize as fascists) got one of the smartest people in tech burned out of Google in 6 months. They did whatever they could for years to ruin his career and may still being doing it. Executives stood by and let it happen.

This is not a new tension.
They are ordered to treatment. Many don't go.
I think the problem can be solved using taint analysis in JavaScript. Variables that can be used to fingerprint are allowed to be used locally but not are not allowed to be sent back over the internet. Any variables that are derived from these fingerprintable variables should be considered tainted and be treated the same way.
I've heard that it's not legal to force people into rehab. But I can't see why this can't be done under something like the Baker Act.

If you're physically addicted to drugs, you are to some extent not capable of making rational choices, and this means you are a threat to yourself and to those around you. Could this not be a legal pretext to detain someone (humanely) and bring them to rehab treatment? Seems like a better alternative than jail, and certainly a better alternative to letting drug addicts rot on the streets.

I'm also not a lawyer and have no idea what I'm talking about, so feel free to lay into me and let me know why this idea is wrong or even crazy.
Yea, or like YouTube's skip ad button.
Probably. IIRC most states are. Pretty much nobody who isn't a security guard or armored car employee who's actively working open carries not on their own property in any state.
Amazon Shoppers: This Is How to Safety-Proof Your Order
I like Chick-fil-A's wafers. They are so tasty. Its the main reason why I would go there.
There are regulated exports though which could be expanded easily enough I'd imagine if it came to it.
Government has asserted its own greatness since antiquity; consider how we address kings as "Your Majesty". Sometimes, the claim that the local government is great was encoded into law as required to be acknowledged as fact. In monarchies of the past (and sometimes of the present) denying the King's majesty was a serious crime called lese majesty.
Google DeepMind's co-founder goes on leave
What Is a Day?
That's awesome! And it even uses the 256 color/win98 icons!
Hampering the troll from talking had been thoroughly demonstrated to be ineffective, or even counterproductive. Again, what evidence do you have that deplatforming works? Deplatforming gathered momentum starting around 2013 and 2014. Since then, white nationalists and other bigoted groups have only become an even bigger problem.

Not only can I not see how this supports your assumption that suppression works, it actually demonstrates a positive relationship between suppression and these sorts of movements.

Especially when these groups allege a conspiracy to suppress them, the the last thing we should be doing is the exact thing that hate groups allege. When we start banning white nationalists sites, it makes lots of people think "oh shit, there really is a {Jewish | Globalist | Muslim} conspiracy out to get us."
How can something like an international megacorporation that holds SO much power over the lives of so many people be apolitical?
This press article is mostly void of substance.

Yes, Monsanto do everything, even semi illegal things to defend it's economical interests.
I actually learned they hired fake journalists.

But nothing about the real issue: is glyphosate carcinogenic and if so, how much compared to very common carcinogenics.
By far most independent studies (listed on Wikipedia) conclude that glyphosate is not or is unlikely to be carcinogenic.
This is solid evidence of glyphosate being of little worry, especially when we have far more worrying carcinogens in our everyday life.

The FTI-written letter declared that glyphosate “does not cause cancer,” accused the IARC of peddling “bunk science,” and threatened a reassessment of the NIH budget to ensure that the agency is “committed to only funding organizations that produce information and conclusions based on sound science, robust processes, and credible methodology.”
How solid scientifically are the IARC reviews? Nobody adress this real question.

Btw everybody talk about potential lives that Monsanto indirectly maybe killed.
Monsanto is often considered as evil.
But thanks to their scientific innovations, they feed the world.
It's difficult to realize how many lives they have saved or improved, but they are probably on the top 10 list of most impactful entities for increasing well being and diminishing suffering.
I disagree. In the interest of peace, I "tolerate" working alongside people who I know believe that, for instance, I will doomed to a fiery hell because I don't believe in their Savior. (I'm Jewish).

And you know what? I work alongside these people just fine! We talk about computer engineering at work, not religion. And everything moves along.

The problem with Google is they have a bunch of immature children who are not interested in "peace."
Follow this issue: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/issues/131
Outrage fatigue is a thing.
Agreed. I love OOP--C# in particular is my favorite language--but I always advise more junior folks to avoid inheritance in favor of composition and DIP. I do wish languages like C# would make it easier to implement the "delegating member" pattern so I don't have to rely on ReSharper to generate all the boilerplate, but it's a small price to pay to avoid the pitfalls of inheritance.
To me, the pain I've always had with OOP is the amount of things I need to keep in mind at a time when making a change, and also tracking side effects. That mental overhead takes me away from thinking about what my customer really wants with this feature, and slows me down.
From the article:

But governing Brazil is no easy matter, he concluded. “It is difficult to be president of Brazil because it is a president that has less authority,”

What Bolsonaro thinks or says has no immediate effect on what has been going on in Amazon for decades. It's easy to blame him, but then... what do we do? More laws? Who's enforcing them?
My Journey of Proving Myself to Myself and How Instagram Helped Me Do It
> can't do much here besides ask companies to do this

Incorrect, the president controls the defense apparatus, which can label any country they wish a "threat to national security", which according to laws enacted since 9/11 can prevent American companies to do business with other countries. In the post 9/11, trumpian world, economic freedom depends on the mood of the president.
I suspect you aren't familiar with NYC from the 70s through the mid 90s. It was as bad then as SF is now. Giuliani completely transformed Manhattan and made the streets and parks usable again, and they stayed that way for a while. It's going downhill fast, though. Penn Station and Port Authority are turning into shooting galleries again, there are encampments growing, bodily waste on the sidewalks, and plenty of harassment. Give it another few years of hands-off policies and it'll be as bad as the west coast cities.
If you have access to an iPhoneX and some patience, Scandy Pro is worth a try: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scandy-pro/id1388028223?ls=1
Lets put it this way: I have no problem with the assassination of Anwar Al-Awlaki. The ultimate solution: killing leading figures of dangerous philosophies, should only be used in times of war. (And the USA is certainly "at war" with extremists like ISIS and Al Qaeda).

I don't believe we are "at war" with white-nationalism. We are certainly not at the point where we should be imprisoning or killing people, yet. But I do believe we are at the point where we should seriously be considering to take down their websites and fire them from our workplaces.

The general hope is to clamp down on the philosophy and hamper them, so that this issue doesn't grow into an "open war" situation. One side has already demonstrated a willingness to spill blood on the matter, so we are marching closer and closer to violence on this issue.

There was a time when we could hope for better tolerance. But unfortunately, we're at the point where we need to be seriously considering our "strong soft-options": censorship, website bans, propaganda, infiltration / counter-intelligence, and spy-games, and other such tools.

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Ex: I HOPE we have tasked the FBI to infiltrate white-nationalist websites, not only to keep tabs on them but also maybe try to grow into leadership positions within white-nationalist groups. Full on infiltration / spy-games need to be going on (if they haven't happened already).

This is the least we can do in the wake of the El Paso shooter, especially since other political options (ex: background checks) seem out of reach.

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Note: Martin Luther King Jr. was subject to this kind of infiltration. This is literally the FBI's job: to infiltrate groups within the USA, keep tabs on influential figures who might be dangerous. Its unsavory, but only through infiltration can you figure out who is dangerous, and who is safe.
are you sure you aren't letting your kids near "active drug users" when you take them to family gatherings?
Of course it’s feasible. It’s just marginally more expensive. A combination of tighter labor, environment, and safety regulations, and a higher cost of living.

The tariffs are exactly what will spur the investment in US manufacturing, and the marginal benefit of manufacturing in China and then shipping the end product halfway around the world eroded away.
No because China will continue to devalue the Yuan like they have been, negating much of the tariff effect.

The only solution, and a much "simpler" one (because it does not involve myriad scrutiny of which products to apply tariffs to and how much, etc.) is devaluation of the dollar. We've been here before, where US domestic manufacturing faced pressures as dollar was too strong. The Plaza Accord [0] involved Germany and Japan taking measures to increase their currencies against the dollar (in some ways successfully in some ways not). But it did result in a few years of dollar devaluation.

A better way currently, given that there isn't the same coordination or appetite for China or others to allow their currencies to rise too much against the dollar (because they don't want to sacrifice their domestic industry) is for the federal reserve to bid for gold, at a much higher price. This will diminish the dollar and treasuries role as reserve and increase (which is already happening) gold's place as premier nuetral reserve asset (see global central banks declining purchasing of treasuries, increasing gold purchases, and decreasing $ fx reserves over the last few years).

The US can either run the global reserve currency or close its trade deficit. They cannot do both [1]. Weakening the dollar and bidding up gold will solve a lot of the trade imbalances affecting the world [2] as well as devalue the massive amounts of debt overhanging the US and world economies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord

[1] https://qz.com/1266044/why-does-the-us-run-a-trade-deficit-t...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/16/opinion/elizabeth-warren-...
It would be interesting to see what other goods and services were introduced at around the same time as all these different iconic menu items. Higher priced versions of the existing goods and services with marginal but well-marketed perks?
What did you use to learn F360? I’ve been meaning to get started for a minute. But when I have the time I tend to forget to fire up 360.
Every NIMBY’s Speech at a Public Hearing
Debugging machine learning models Fixing data-related issues
WA is a shall issue state. As long as you pass the criminal background check you get a concealed pistol license.
You are asking the wrong question: How do they Find you?! Make your projects easy to join and contribute. And do Some marketing. Check e.g. the great book The Art of Community, cc licensed so you can check the pdf on https://www.jonobacon.com/books/artofcommunity/
Just knowing that the person is the CTO of adroll is enough. Let them speak their piece but it's basically a "this comment was paid for by" disclaimer.
"hereby ordered" means exactly nothing without legal authority behind it. The President can't just "order" companies to randomly do things. I mean, he can, but they don't have to comply, and there's no legal penalty if they don't.
In theory, could that be used on a block of random matter and a, say, banana, so that you can get lightspeed transmission of banana-ness?
Listen, I'm not a fan of Trump but that was taken out of context. Go read the full quote. The statement was more "no one has done this yet, I'm going to do it" and not claiming any specialness.
> It's hard to just pick up and switch when you are so entrenched.

Companies play arbitrage with the costs of doing business in different countries all the time. Union issues at your plant in Mexico? Close it down (taking a "loss") and switch production to India, or China. It happens all the time as externalities change the profit equation, companies will and do react accordingly.
If their homeless population is far less dangerous and destructive to the lives of all the other citizens that live there, then they're doing _something_ right, even if their homeless population is somewhat bigger per capita.
OOP says pretty little on inheritance over composition, but I do agree that inheritance became the focus of a ton of OOP/Java/C++ curriculum and I think we're all feeling some backlash from that.
You need to drag specific operation(s) from Operations and drop them into Recipe. And then supply input(s) in Input tab. You can also check the Auto Bake icon in the bottom.
Some guy on IRC told me they made a world scale DNS server work because of sqlite.
Thank you for the "useful" feeeback :)

Maybe you can do your own so you can tell us the GiGa TrUtH about modern GUI frameworks.
http://archive.is/xtfde
Then maybe it's time for governments to evolve because why AREN'T they being oriented toward collective and individual well-being, which would include healing?

And I never claimed leaving people to their own devices was a healing modality, either.

We need to expand the concept of responsibility to be aligned with reality. I'm at least partially responsible for everything that hapoen to me after this next breath. Same for you and yours. And I am also partially responsible for everything in happening in the world. Same for you.

Let's start from this perspective and redesign government to be something everyone can love and that is loving. Right now, it's a pretty gross construct that harms way more people in much more severe ways than drug addicts, petty criminals, and people struggling with mental issues.
While interviewing candidates at my last gig, I was taken aback by how many of them confused consistency with isolation in databases. Most who came from a Mongo background did not understand isolation at all and confused it with consistency.

Concepts such as Optimistic locking and Pessimistic locking are also not well-known any more, either, much to my dismay :(
The "order" does not have legal power, but it's not illegal for him to say it.
Publishing of everything generally public. "To publish" is literally "to make public": https://www.etymonline.com/word/publish

I'm aware this is an uphill battle. It may well be a hill I choose to die on.

For further thoughts / arguments:

Many of the arguments for Sci-Hub generalise to all information. This piece also specifically invokes the arguments of the CUNY Graduate Center and Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel laureate economist) on information as a public good:

"What the academic publishing industry calls "theft" the world calls "research": Why Sci-Hub is so popular"
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4p2rwk/what_th...

Generally:

"Why Information Goods and Markets are a Poor Match"
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2vm2da/why_inf...

"The Medium Is the Message: how the technological and revenue environments shape content"
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/278e2o/the_med...

"Forbes asks: Why do programmers hate advertising so much?"
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/24107v/forbes_...

"A Modest Proposal: Universal Online Media Payment Syndication"
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1uotb3/a_modes...

"Specifying a Universal Online Media Payment Syndication System"
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2h0h81/specify...

"Richard Stallman's "Internet Sharing" content syndication proposal (2012)"
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3p0bp6/richard... https://stallman.org/articles/internet-sharing-license.en.ht...

A general problem of advertising, not otherwise addressed, is that it tends to produce shit content. Though this essay doesn't directly address that, it's very much a Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User dynamic:
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...

Another is that advertising tends strongly toward oppressive rather than liberating informational regimes: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6b32jo/what_ma...

And problems with other proposed payment alternatives, such as micropayments:

"Repudiation as the micropayments killer feature (Not)"
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4r683b/repudia...

A general bibliography on publishing and media:

"Media, Advertising, Sustainability, Externalities, and Impacts: A light reading list"
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/7k7l4m/media_a...

TL;DR: I've been thinking about this for a while.

Mind: getting to public goods payment is going to be difficult. I don't deny that in the least. Partial approaches may well be a viable path there. Sci-Hub, ZLibrary, Library Genesis, the Internet Archive, libraries (public, offline, online), file-sharing, samizdat press, #pdfme, and other measures are appropriate.

And "how do authors/creators" get paid: UBI/GMI would be a good start. Performance/lectures are an option. Publishing-as-a-shingle (in the professional advertising sense) is an option. Patronage and grants are presently used and have a long and storied history. As discussed in the essays above, both technology and business model effect the forms and types of works created. Advertising has been tried and found wanting.
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They can provide a way for people to pay to view their content.

How many people just manually skip these sponsorships?