skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ‘To dream of a world transformed by a reformation, or an enlightenment, or a revolution’, writes Holland, ‘is nothing exclusively modern. Rather, it is to dream as medieval visionaries dreamed: to dream in the manner of a Christian.’

Is the author seriously trying to assert that the process of societal improvement and the longing to live in a more just and fair world started with Christianity? That's a rather naive world view to carry...
It's a bad idea for the same reason all other variants of socialism are a bad idea: it disincentivizes productivity. If it's possible to afford housing and food without working, some percentage of the population that would otherwise be working will choose to stop working.
The article mentions a non handled case in a switch is flagged in Reason but not TypeScript. That is technically true, but you can flag an unhandled case by adding a default case which takes advantage of the never type

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39419170/how-do-i-check-...
He is building a successful business, it's just that that business isn't necessarily WeWork. I don't hold their stock, I'm not one of their VCs, what he and WeWork do is not my business, I have no quarrel with it.
You can't run most active management strategies on anything approaching the average passive fee structure. Additionally, you run into problems with scale. An S&P 500 tracking fund scales extremely well and could add several billion of AUM without having to incur additional expenses. A long only equity fund would probably not be able to do the same without hiring more people, building more infrastructure, etc.
Users have never cared that your site tracks them -- it's pretty well known that every web server ever logs pretty much everything. The problem is with third party tracking: I'm happy that you know what I'm doing on your site, but I'm not interested in you shipping that data to Google, who will then sell it to a few dozen advertisers, who then combine it with other sites' data and build some sort of profile against me.
The original question was "Is there any way to improve the matching of ads to the viewer without violating their privacy?"

Your answer is that we should match something other than the user, that happens to correlate with user interests. That is, by definition, not matching ads to viewers.
Salty water + open sea permanent wooble + life saving device made of a delicate tiny mesh of rustable metal

Looks like a great plan, can't see what could fail. Look, a big wave approaching by starboard... :-)
If the dude's actions reveal the twistedness, then the attack is not baseless. Also, keep in mind, the guy posed for that photo. It's not like he didn't know.
I can't separate what actually happened from the sensationalizing in the article.

It says the websites had Google cookies and others. OK, anybody using Google Analytics has Google cookies. Anyone using FB plugins has FB cookies. Yes, websites certainly have a lot of cookies these days, and the information inferred by use of these can be in a generic fashion to target and rank ads. That's worthy of scrutiny -- but this isn't what the article is about. What is the evidence of "mental health" being treated in some scary specific way?

The only substantial thing in the article supporting the headline is one charge that a site sent quiz answers to Player.qualifo.com -- which appears to be an unregistered domain.

OK, so what information was sold? When did money change hands? Is there any hard evidence that mental health information was "sold to advertisers", as is claimed in the headline? Or is this just bullshit they made up to get clicks?

For that matter, even if you wanted to do some evil psychographic ad thing, why would anyone sell that info to advertisers? What are they gonna do with it? Like, why hand them the literal data, when you could allow them to just bid on ads that may be targeted/ranked using your painstakingly collected psychographic data (a la Cambridge Analytica)? Why sell cow when you can sell the milk?

The fearmongering and disinformation around adtech and privacy numbs us to legitimately scary things being done that should be covered more.

Makes me think of this Blake Ross rant: https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-t-outsource-your-thinking-...
Perhaps they have become that because of their publicity.

But when all the financial gurus are recommending investing in traditional securities (stocks and bonds), and millions of people wishing to get a leg up in life obey their advice, doesn't that turn the securities market in general into an "overhyped bubble"?

The market behavior and health of any investment, no matter how theoretically sound it is, will be strongly affected by investors' behavior around it. So the fact that index funds are popular (and thus perhaps inflated/overpriced) isn't a knock on the fundamental idea. It's merely an indication of a particular market situation at present.
> This is exactly what happened in the McDonald's "hot coffee" lawsuit. ... But that's not the story that was spread by the shills...

Well, all of these changes (perhaps with the exception of industry standards) are IMHO irrelevant to responsibility of McDonald for the incident.
Indeed, this is called an "evil merge" [1], and here's [2] even an email with Linus mentioning it. I'm surprised the blog post doesn't mention evil merges by name, as this seems to be a prime example of why they're called evil.

[1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitglossary#Documentation/gitglossa...

[2]: https://www.mail-archive.com/git@vger.kernel.org/msg73938.ht...
American Here, sample size of 1:

Honestly, I don't think about Europe that much. America is huge (both geographically and population wise) and there's so much stuff going on nationally that there isn't enough bandwidth for most Euro stuff.

"Brexit seems like a mess" and "Boy the G7 didn't seem to go well" are the most recent thoughts I've had on Europe.
Wasn't aware of Picovoice. Just tried the live do they have on their website... wow, it's... not great! Even if I spoke as precisely as possible or/and put on an American accent, it was way off the mark.
Here are some ideas:

- If you have a call with your doctor that probably is specialized in that specific condition, that metadata would be good enough to guess that condition.

- Some doctors send appointment reminders via email, if you use gmail that would explain the youtube ad

- If you use the wifi/gps at that doctor office, and some other patient also uses the wifi/gps and they use google to search for those conditions, that would be enough to link you with them. This could be any website making the link and tying all those people as similar.

- Close friends and family that research about your condition, would also point to you having that condition. Would probably use google to research, that would explain ads on youtube. They would also see ads for that and actually even might click on them because they would be interested on it.
The more interesting question is, if there is an index fund crash, will the actively managed funds benefit from it, or crash right alongside the index funds? How much are actively managed funds contaminated by stocks that are in index funds? (That probably depends on the type; a small-cap or emerging markets managed fund will probably be mostly clean of the indexed stocks, but a managed large-cap is probably full of them.)
I get your point, but checking in security keys is cause to rotate keys, not to rebase and force push.
I'm not sure if I like where this whole WebAssemby thing is going. On one hand I'm thrilled to the prospect of Python in the browser, on the other this seems like a huge layered mess just waiting to trouble those poor devs.

I actually enjoy creating plain server side rendered web applications with just a dusting of client side Javascript where it makes sense. The development flow is simple and debugging is easy.
Most in Demand Skills for PHP Software Engineers
There is a free download available for this paper available from the publisher at that link until September 10th. A lot of folks I have spoken to have missed this when looking at the website.

This was a 2+ year collaboration spanning four different universities, with input from experts all over the world. We hope it is useful to others.
While that can work with self-contained libs, quite often Rust WASM code uses wasm-bindgen/web-sys to talk to JS/DOM which makes in-browser debugging the only reasonable way.
It absolutely is... but clutching pearls about toy advertisements at this point in history doesn't really add to the conversation.
The best passive way to approach your situation, is probably what you already know: gradually keep investing passively with the savings from your income. Over the long haul that has a reasonably high probability of turning out well with very little intervention on your part as a non-professional.

There is also nothing wrong with adjusting the ratio of cash vs equities that you're accumulating (eg the share of your income going into the market vs going into cash in a span of time). It's the exact same safety vs risk lever that is commonly utilized in adjusting equities vs bonds as you get older. Some will call it market timing, it is not, as you are not attempting to time a top or bottom. With recession alarms going off in most global economic data, increasing your conservative posture is nothing more than being modestly prudent (and it doesn't have to be an extreme adjustment; if 100% of your net savings is going into the market now, changing that to 75/25 or 50/50 with cash, is entirely reasonable). Even Warren Buffett has turned hardcore conservative with this market, he's buying nothing and sitting on a $122b record pile of cash that is very much annoying him (by his own admission). The reason for his behavior, beyond the obvious blaring economic data, is that the valuations are terrible vs the growth we're seeing (both macro economy and corporate earnings); right now investors are paying a steep premium in most cases for the value they're getting. Buffett doesn't like the price he's paying for the value he's getting, so he has gone into bunker mode, as he has done prominently several times in the past. The simple, non-professional approach to that move, is to just make a reasonable adjustment to how much cash you're accumulating (which can obviously later be deployed if an opportunity presents; in the meantime you're likely to see a very modest inflation debasement to the fiat).
Depends on where your interests lie. Personally I find that forum insightful.
> If that part of my understanding is correct, the part that's really interesting to me is whether we can know these true statements to be true, despite them not having proofs.

There may be proofs, just using different fundamental axioms. The finding is that there is no initial set of axioms that by themselves allow proving all provable truths.
This log [0], right? Did you miss in the article that it's the `google_push` identifier that's being used for syncing between adtech companies? If you search for it (AHNF13KKSmBxGD6oDK9GEw5O0kvgmFa3qM30zpNaKl72Og), you can see it being included in requests to lots of different adtech firms' domains.

[0] https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/files_2019-9-2/sample_p...
The GBI would have to decline gradually as your income rose, not all at once, as marginal income tax brackets do now.

Say it gives 1000 a month to someone earning 0 a month, and grants 500 a month to someone earning 1000 a month, and nothing to someone earning 2000 a month (shortly followed by the positive tax rates for income beyond that).
Nice!

This would be slightly more legible if there was a clearer distinction between the tags introducing each item and the text of the item itself.

Also, it would be more usable if the dates in the URLs were numeric and international-style (ISO-8601 / xkcd-1179).

But nice!
Certainly not the case with GDPR either.
I would bet the farm on him having sent his grandparents packages from the internet years ago or filled out some sort of paperwork and forgotten.

Chromes addresses aren't pulled from a magic ether, unlike most of Google's offerings, they're exclusively things you've entered.
Today’s governments and hackers might have compromised our data management but Utopia is in Town now , with the utmost objective of PRIVACY for all with no backdoor access to 3rd parties in its Software ecosystem.i have been using utopia for 1.5 months now and i am of opinon that its going to change the way how we communicate , soon.
Microsoft has an actual underwater data center for energy efficiency purposes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17244525
There were two faux-sophisticated takes. "See, I told you they were spying on everybody!" and "Everyone already knew they were spying on everybody!" Both were from the same group of conspiracy theorists who believed the US government was spying on everybody even after Snowden's massive leak showed they weren't.
In my experience, putting CD into place makes a significant improvement to the SDLC only when automated unit tests are a part of that life cycle. I have never seen the benefit of implementing a system like Jenkins if the only automated testing portion is 'does it compile without error? Yes? Then, good to go!'. Without the automated unit tests it just doesn't seem like a worthwhile endeavor to me.
Rust was created to solve's Mozilla's problems with C++

Go was created to solve Google's problems with C++ and engineering at scale

The fact that TypeScript wasn't created to solve a big issue internally at Microsoft is exactly what makes me skeptical of it and personally I view it as a trojan horse, just like VSCode. Sure, today it is done for benevolent reasons, maybe, but what about tomorrow? What if that trillion dollar market cap starts tanking? Then The benevolent VSCode and TypeScript ecosystems become levers to pull in the great big machine.

I would almost feel better if I knew it's stated explicit purpose upfront and what Microsoft's long term goals to monetize the ecosystem/platform were, because then I know what I am signing up for.
Exactly. If you need more performance, there's always something you can tune.

It would be especially awesome if this could be enabled at runtime so it could be turned on when thing specific tasks, like rendering or compiling something big. Even better, it would be nice to lock that to specific processes (i.e. enable it on a few cores and lock privileged processes to those cores).
Every single cost is. The only thing corps are taxed on is profit if you pay a fine you made less profit there isn't some hidden bullshit.
I don't think this feature is very well-known, in fact I've seen it mentioned before, thought "how useful! I will absorb this into my brain now" – and promptly forgot about it.

I think there is a critical mass of advanced git features required to be really fluent in git, and there is a sizeable fraction of everyday git users who simply haven't made it all the way there yet. Some teams have at least one person who has enough git features under their belt...

To recognize when merge conflicts are being haphazardly made unnecessarily, to be really particular about the shape of the git commit history and be aware of what merges can make those conflicts, to occasionally show the rest of the team some of these tricks or bail someone out when things go haywire, but at least in my experience spreading all of this knowledge to the rest of the team is a long slow process.
You don't need parties to have elections, just like how elections within a single community or organization don't have political parties, just candidates and fractions (voters/executives with different opinions).

As for the values of the CCP, consider them like the Constitution in the US or the values of the "founding fathers". People don't get to change those either in any direct democratic way (but through a slow, ideological and legal process).

Besides, 1 party vs 2 parties alternating seems hardly much of a difference...
Even in these cases, however, there are usually architectural methods for mitigating this kind of failure. In the case of EMR, using transient clusters with state stored in durable file stores such as EMRFS and vanilla S3 is one such option.

It is inevitable that systems will fail. The best the industry can do is work to reduce the number of failures and understand failure modes well so that they can be planned for. AWS does a very good job of this in my experience.

Regardless of whether applications are hosted in the cloud, on premises, co-located or in some hybrid configuration, it's important to design for that inevitable failure and keep business decision makers in the loop while doing so. Understanding requirements around RPO and RTO are extremely important in developing an architecture which meets the needs of the business, yet is still cost effective.
> This came our of nowhere as social programs were not mentioned before this line. It's basically fearmongering at this point.

Perhaps he did not spell it out explicitly, but this is what Andrew Yang's policy proposal is. Since he is the leading candidate on UBI at this point, it makes sense to address how he plans on handling it.
> This means you would have to live in a country that neither imports nor exports meat at all.

This does not address the issue which is the high demand for meat. This "solution" seems to be forced diet change. I believe it would create a black market for meat instead.
Friendly reminder that this is all to show you "targeted ads".

You can fight back by providing fake and bogus data. For example, there are browser extensions that do this for you.
Ex-photoj here, I just bought a 2012 Fuji mirrorless for £110 with WiFi to instagram with. Even this area is becoming cheaper to get into. This camera spanks my iPhone XS for photo quality. Now. But give it a couple more generations...
having worked with both I think each lends itself better to different projects. Amplify gives you the option to work both with REST or GraphQL, however you then have to go through all the steps of setting up a CRUD api. That part comes out of the box on 8base, with things like relational filtering, pagination, etc.
I'd suggest just reading about it instead of spewing ignorant nonsense, this is the whole problem with this exact example, it takes like two minutes to read but no one ever does:

https://www.caoc.org/?pg=facts

I'd like to note:

> Liebeck’s case was far from an isolated event. McDonald’s had received more than 700 previous reports of injury from its coffee, including reports of third-degree burns, and had paid settlements in some cases.

> Mrs. Liebeck offered to settle the case for $20,000 to cover her medical expenses and lost income. But McDonald’s never offered more than $800, so the case went to trial. The jury found Mrs. Liebeck to be partially at fault for her injuries, reducing the compensation for her injuries accordingly. But the jury’s punitive damages award made headlines — upset by McDonald’s unwillingness to correct a policy despite hundreds of people suffering injuries, they awarded Liebeck the equivalent of two days’ worth of revenue from coffee sales for the restaurant chain.

> The chairman of the department of mechanical engineering and biomechanical engineering at the University of Texas testified that this risk of harm is unacceptable, as did a widely recognized expert on burns, the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation, the leading scholarly publication in the specialty.
I think his point is that most index funds are weighted towards large caps and ignore small ones. With more and more money pouring in, it creates an inflation in value there whereas the small caps get ignored. That is the most logical interpretation I can draw out of his statement (although I am a 100% index investor myself).
A single entity holding 99% of anything will absolutely have an impact on liquidity which absolutely impacts price discovery.
Should work on OpenShift too right?
>a page that's broken in Firefox

I honestly don't think I've seen this in years, and I load thousands of pages weekly. My adblockers break sites sometimes, but not FF. What kind of weird-ass sites are you visiting?
I can't wait for the GDPR--after addressing the most egregious privacy violators, to get around to these data-wigglers:

"we are committed to protecting the personal data of our audience", please click the big green button to forfeit any protection of your personal data.

They know darn well that's not how the GDPR works. Either block the EU or shape up.
Going beyond images with basic video for the web
> Peloton is also iffy as far these five factors go, but then again, so is Apple: software-differentiated hardware is in many respects its own category.

Do you think your example fits into the author's definition of "software-differentiated hardware"?
I think this article was debunked heavily here: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/czfml2/google_h...
https://www.mdrc.org/publication/effects-marriage-and-divorc...

First, children who grow up in an intact, two-parent family with both biological parents present do better on a wide range of outcomes than children who grow up in a single-parent family. Single parenthood is not the only, nor even the most important, cause of the higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, juvenile delinquency, or other negative outcomes we see; but it does contribute independently to these problems. Neither does single parenthood guarantee that children will not succeed; many, if not most, children who grow up in a single-parent household do succeed.

That, coupled to the fact that marriage improves stability. You have less incentives to overcome disagreements and other issues if not bound by law.
It's not clear that it's possible to build a successful, long-term business by shouldering all the long-term risks of owning office space, and leasing it out at short-term rates to startups.

In that situation, the smartest move is to plunder your investors and shareholders for everything they are worth.
A community consisting of people patting each other on the back for being so much more clever than everyone else is rarely boring to the participants.

The fact that this explains a majority of self-selecting communities is purely coincidental, of course.
Index funds definitely have a free rider problem.

Warren Buffett lucidly pointed out that the average performance of active investors will be....the market average. You cannot, by definition, have a majority of investors beating the market.

And once you add in fees, index funds produce above average performance, as they have low fees.

So far so good. But, the index funds are free riding on the decisions taken by active investors. Active investors do a useful service to the world by moving capital away from inefficient companies and towards efficient companies.

If the market gets worse at this capital allocation, we can expect overall lower returns.

In other words, there's average market performance but also the factor of efficiency in capital allocation.

This is related to but separate from what Burry talked about, I think. His central point seemed to be that valuations were based on very thin trading, and that when money is taken out of index funds, it will be very hard to find sufficient buyers without a large drop in prices. Add in to that complex derivatives etc used in making all the etfs work.

That bit is somewhat beyond me though. Anyone got a good analysis of how that may play out?
online advertising is pretty low on my list

The threat that Google's tracking infrastructure represents is not limited to ads. If they stayed in their proverbial lane and used their panopticon exclusively to sell me things, many of us wouldn't mind as much as we do.

But they lend the power and reach of their machine to governments, whether it's China looking to smoke out dissidents, or the NSA PRISM program, or even the DEA itching to score another weed possession arrest, Google gladly and happily does whatever governments ask of them, frequently with no warrant required.
Wework is not a tech company...
Stop buying into the narrative. Wework is a landlord nothing more nothing less.