skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Take a look at their board of directors: https://www.iab.com/our-story/#board-of-directors

It's a mix of the major players in the digital advertising industry. Historically the IAB has taken actions that are good for the industry overall. It focuses on standardization/interoperability in the ad-tech space. It generally isn't a watchdog and doesn't regulate the industry except when the industry as a whole would benefit (e.g. self-regulatory programs that have no real effect but stave off state regulation).
> No more than a company founded by bankers is a bank.

Exactly. In fact, the most useful explanation I’ve found is to consider the label “tech company” as mostly a legal term, similar to how a bank is a legal label for a specific type of company (with the small difference that banks must be licensed by the government to conduct the activity of banking).

To intuitively understand the term tech company, consider the level just below it: the tech-enabled company. The distinction between a tech company and a tech-enabled company is exactly the same as the (legal) distinction between ownership and possession.

Tech companies generally build (i.e own) the primary means of production (i.e. tools, methods, raw materials etc used to conduct business). Exclusive ownership of a valuable means of production is generally a source of competitive advantage in most industries, until a new entrant with better economics emerges to disrupt the status quo.

Tech-enabled companies on the other hand, generally buy or borrow (i.e. possess) the primary means of production.

IOW, all companies can be placed on the tech-company spectrum depending on whether they build, buy or borrow the primary technology necessary to conduct business.

An example of a tech company: Boeing; an example of a tech-enabled company: United Airlines. UA cannot design or manufacture its own aircraft since it does not own the underlying tech (IPR, manufacturing methods etc) behind the aircraft it operates, instead it merely purchases from tech vendors like Boeing (and Airbus).

If UA decides that battery tech will be viable in the near future and wants to switch its entire fleet to all-electric aircrafts for instance, they must seek the legal permission of their tech vendors to modify their existing designs, since retrofitting will require recertification to ensure the aircrafts can still be operated safely. If they go ahead with such modifications without first seeking permission, they risk being sued by the owner of the underlying technology.

OTOH, if Boeing were to make the same realization regarding battery-powered flight, of course they would not need to seek any third party’s permission to make the switch.

Let’s say UA or indeed any airline wants to take its destiny into its own hands, what prevents them? Surely they could kick start their R&D efforts buying an electric aircraft maker like Pipistrel [3]? UA used to be a vertically integrated company known as UATC [0] but the USG found such an arrangement too powerful and anti-competitive, which led to the split into current day Boeing, UTC [1] and of course UA [2].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Aircraft_and_Transport_...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Technologies

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines

3: https://www.pipistrel-aircraft.com
Because penalties for bad behavior shouldn't come out of your tax burden? I dunno if that's what GP meant but it's certainly horrendously unethical enough for me.
For bugs that only manifest when compiled to WASM but not when compiled to x86 or ARM machine code (quite rare, but happens), or bugs in platform-specific code (for instance code which talks to browser APIs).

In typical applications, the vast majority of bugs should happen in the platform-agnostic parts, so debugging a native build totally makes sense. It would still be great if WASM would be as trivially debuggable as native code.

IMHO proper source-level debugging support in the browser dev-tools (or remote-debugging via VSCode) would make a lot more sense than debugging in gdb/lldb though.
Other replies were good. But I'll add my two cents.

Index investors are basically free riders off the information and research generated by active investors. Indexing basically works pretty well because the market's efficient.

An index investor just comes in and just pays whatever the current market price is and allocates in proportion to whatever current market valuations are. He doesn't even need to know anything about the underlying companies. "Microsoft? Never heard of it. But the market says it's worth 3.8% of all major American stocks, so I'll put 3.8% of my money in it"

Astonishingly, this mostly works out fine. In fact, just indexing is very likely to beat any sort of actively managed funds after taking fees into account. That's kind of incredible when you think about it.

And the reason it does work is because the active managers compete so fiercely with each other. They end up showing all their cards to the market. And all the information they have, and the research and the analysis winds up reflected in the publicly available stock prices. In effect active investors pay their managers big fat salaries to analyze stocks, and passive investors get nearly all the benefits without any of the costs.
Here's what I do:

Music: This is probably what I consume the most of. I have a physical music collection which is about half vinyl and half CDs. I'm slowly selling off my vinyl and rebuying the albums on CD. I have a small collection of MP3s (small enough to fit in an unpaid Dropbox account) which were purchased from bands too small-time to have released physical media. If the music was released after ~2000, I probably bought the physical media new, to support the artist--older stuff can be difficult to find new.

News: If I go directly to a news site, it's Mother Jones[1] or Pro Publica[2], and I donate $10 to each monthly. If I click through from an aggregator (such as HN) I view the content with browser-based ad-blocking. For sites that give a few free reads, I use the free reads, but don't make any attempt to get more. For sites that block me from reading with ad blocking, I just leave. I view this as fair use.

Books: If I had every paperback I've purchased, my collection would be huge. But after I read books, I only keep them if they're so good that I intend to re-read them (probably 20 titles in this category) or if they are reference books (probably another 40 titles in this category). Otherwise I give them away to friends, donate them to a library, or make the hard decision to trash them.

Academic papers: Many are free online. If not, writing to the author almost always procures a PDF or DOC file--academics receive little income from publishing, and are often surprised and happy to hear someone is interested in their work. Sometimes the author is dead, however. In general I have little objection to using SciHub, especially when research is government-funded.

TV Shows: I pay for a few streaming services (Netflix/Amazon).

Movies: Movies I tend to see at a local movie theater, or (less frequently) pay a one-time rental for on Amazon. I have some DVDs but don't own a DVD player, so I've only kept the DVDs that would be hard to obtain again.

Small independently produced video: The vast majority of video I consume is shorter videos (usually related to rock climbing). Where possible, I donate, usually through Patreon, but this is a spot where a lot of people don't actually give this ability. I've bought a few products (books, mostly) from video producers (where they produced the products themselves) but this is even less common than donations. So I don't have a perfect solution here.

Independent review sites (i.e. Consumer Reports): This one is a tough one. These sites are important to me (I see these as the user-serving, superior alternative to advertising for product discovery) but many depend on referrer links, and I tend to buy locally. I've made $1 donations a few times where that was possible, but it isn't always, and I don't use any one review site frequently enough to justify a subscription. So I'd be interested to hear strategies for this.

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/

[2] https://www.propublica.org/
Sad that Brave did not do their work correctly, the google_push parameter they are talking about is not an identifier. Otherwise it’s true that RTB should not exist and violate GDPR, but it’s so complex that even Brave was not able to correctly state the workflow.

See their release note (15 April 2013); https://developers.google.com/authorized-buyers/rtb/relnotes

“Starting in mid-April, we will begin assigning a URL-safe string value to the google_push parameter in our pixel match requests and we will expect that same URL-safe string to be returned in the google_push parameter you set. This change will help us with our latency troubleshooting efforts and improve our pixel match efficiency.”
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This is likely the best first stop for OZ info from a reputable source:

https://www.novoco.com/resource-centers/opportunity-zones-re...

The timing restrictions around OZ investments (180 days after cap gains event) make it a bit difficult and will result in lots of bad investments with non-experienced, first-time fund owners.

But maybe you have a connection to an OZ that you are familiar with and can rehab a property there. You should get help from a CPA and lawyer, but the basic process would be:

1) Sell stock and now you have cap gains
2) Setup OZ Fund XXX LLC
3) Fund the LLC with your cap gains within 180 days
4) Setup OZ Property YYY LLC
5) Purchase property inside the YYY LLC and fund purchase with XXX LLC
6) Rehab property within 31 months
7) Hold for 10 years
a) Pay original cap gains tax bill (minus 15%) in 2026 tax year (negative interest loan from gov)
b) Pay zero cap gains on the increase in property value over the 10 years
> Wouldn’t that problem be solved by simply setting both players seed value to the same?

Lets say drop 100 through 110 were unlucky SZSZSZSZ pattern. The faster player will come across the "unfortunate" pattern first and then lose. In contrast, the slower player will only be on drop 80.

The bag system ensures that high-speed play is possible for both players, and favors the faster player in all cases. A true randomized system would have "unfortunate" patterns which will eventually kill the faster player.

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With that being said: Tetris Classic competitions seed the two competitors with the same pattern. But similarly, Tetris Classic has no concept of "garbage damage".

In Tetris Friends / Puyo Puyo Tetris / etc. etc, you "damage" the opponent by doing a Tetris, or a T-spin (a complicated maneuver). Its actually a very good, very well balanced game (although some would argue that "combos" are a bit strong in the current iteration of the damage formula).
Panera is losing nearly 100% of its workers every year
this is anti-semitic
Not good hearing only "things" from biased people
Indeed, the "at a mere fraction of a UBI’s cost" claim is outright ignoring the economic cost associated with very high marginal tax rates. But Acemoglu also mentions the NIT, which would work a lot better than either. And, to be fair, the best-known economic models of non-linear income taxation imply that marginal tax rates on a NIT should actually be fairly substantial (60% or so would not be out of the question!), so as to keep the break-even point from getting too high; the rates just shouldn't be as high as 100% or more!
> One of the things "the cleverest engineers to walk the planet" would probably need to do is to increase consumers willingness to pay for good content by a factor of ~10 for e.g. online newspapers with quality journalism to be profitable, which frankly sounds near-impossible.

After more than two decades newspapers still haven't figured out that even though I want to pay for good journalism I cannot subscribe to every newspaper there is, and I am a user who actively wants to pay.

I already voluntarily pay for two newspapers and involuntarily pay for the national news-and-a-little-propaganda service. Oh, and I donate to the Guardian half the time I visit them.

If more papers allowed me to pay per view I would likely spend more money on journalism.

But I'm not going to have another subscription right now, thanks.
What practical consequences did Tiananmen Square have? You say it’s why they can’t just march into Hong Kong, but I don’t believe that. They can’t just march into Hong Kong because of the international condemnation that would ensue, and because it would wreck an economically valuable city. Both of those would remain true if Tiananmen Square had never happened. You say it’s a “major thorn” for them today; how? Domestically, it’s like it never happened. Internationally, they happily ignore pressure to do better on human rights. I don’t see any consequences that vaguely resemble what the protestors wanted.

The Prague Spring’s reforms were quickly reversed and the country was communist business as usual for decades afterwards. Crediting it for the fall of communism in 1989 seems like quite a stretch; for any successful protest, there will be failed ones that came before and provided influence. Does that mean that all protests are successful by definition when you look at a long enough timeline? Seems like a highly pointless metric if so.
It seems I need to add automatic restructuring to the structure, so it would maintain perfect lengths of DEQs
I had a similar situation in the early 2000's at NTT/Verio in Sterling, VA. They lost power because someone dug through a utility line and introduced a ground a fault into their system. They switched to generators and then against protocol (basically human error) tried to force override a transfer switch onto their other utility which ended up killing the generators. Eventually the UPSs were all drained, but we had to shutdown servers long ahead of that because with no AC, they were overheating. People were taking servers out by pickup truck to stand them up at their other offices and data centers. 48 hours of pain.
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>As more and more money switches from active to passive, we have more and more money relying on less and less intelligence.

That's assuming that the mutual fund managers who are being moved away from are all contributing their own unique information to the market, as opposed to repeating textbook business analysis techniques. If the fund managers that survive are smarter than the ones being replaced by indices, the intelligence of the market will improve.
There’s an equilibrium to be reached, for sure. The market just hasn’t discovered what it is yet.
> especially given that the overwhelming public sentiment is that McDonalds was heinously negligent

Citation needed. Anecdotally, every person I ever talked to about that case either had a profound eye roll or a shrug about how people will sue over anything.

If I bought a hammer and smashed my finger with it, should I sue Home Depot for selling me a hammer that was too hard and not warning me about it? That’s pretty much the basis of the McDonald’s case: they sold a hot beverage, some lady sticks it between her legs and it spills. A reasonable person could have foreseen that a hot beverage, stored in an insecure manner, could pose a spilling hazard and that hot liquids have the potential to scald. A woman in her 70s has been around enough hot liquids in her life that she should have known the risk of scalding. None of that is McDonald’s fault. It was just easy to manipulate the jury into the award by using emotion and painting McDonalds as some uncaring villain. That case was frivolous— but since it made it to the jury, the old lady won and now we all get to pay more when we buy coffee from restaurants to cover the higher insurance costs restaurants must now pass on to the customer.
Stanford Researchers Discover Ancient Die-Off Greater Than Dinosaur Extinction
Don't disagree with your point that this is overblown, but here's an important related point

"Your nines are not my nines" - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/07/15/giant/
I suspect the four days was how long it took to confirm that their particular EBS volume was definitely not recoverable. Soon after the outage ended on Saturday morning it was clear that some EBS volumes were not recovering quickly, and support's advice at that time was to rebuild/recover if you needed to still be online.

When a datacenter loses power like this, a few of the storage arrays will just not come back online. But another few will take time to run through their corruption recovery process, and it may take a long time and some service by a human (eg parts replacement, etc) before they can be certain a particular volume is not recoverable. Given their scale and the timing, at the beginning of a holiday weekend, four days is annoying, but not bad.
Except wasm isn't JS. It's yet another vm in the browser.
Index funds have become successful since they've performed well compared to active investment funds. Why would the active investors suddenly get better at guessing the future?
Won't publishers just outright block Firefox from displaying their websites and suggests chrome or others for "enhanced and better experience" ?

Firefox has a market share small enough that publishers and the ad industry could try to just reduce ff usage with a coordinated campaign.
The more sophisticated part of the argument is that indexes require overexposure to thinly traded stocks and that in a market sell off the assets linked to the index would see outflows, which require selling the underlying(s), which would cause a material price hit in illiquid stocks, which could cause a partial feedback effect as the index would then slip more.

If one believes this to be true, one necessarily believes that illiquid index constituents are overvalued today relative to their actual enterprise value and will, at some point in the future, be sharply undervalued as a large number of computers controlling trillions of dollars attempts to implement a for loop shoveling money at you.
The author mentions DefinitelyTyped:

"DefinitelyTyped typings amount is just insane and it will take time for ReasonML to match them."

I agree it would be nice to have an expert analysis of a reasonably-sized application, but that is a rather large undertaking. And frankly many devs aren't experts in two "competing" ecosystems. If you spend the bulk of your time in ReasonML, you're apt to fall behind on TypeScript's recent developments. What you see as bias may just be simple ignorance.

I've just started playing around with ReasonML in the past week, and everything the author has hit upon has been relevant. Writing reducers in ReasonML is a treat. But, the language server isn't nearly as good and there aren't many annotated libraries, so I have to fall back to BuckleScript's JS interop support. The interop system is well-done, but it's extra overhead I wouldn't have to deal with otherwise.
Hell, just start by filtering the open bugs for stale pull requests. Find the handful that look relatively self-contained and get in touch with the dev who wrote the patch and go from there. A lot of times they just assumed nobody gave a shit and will quickly revise the patch if there was a problem with it.

Better yet-- buy a few meals for a dev to write a tool to generate this data for you.
One thing you do have to realize is, the Chinese are very good at keeping up the appearances.

While there are local elections, there's usually no right to stand for elections. These so-called elections, generally has only 1 candidate, or a few that are all communist members, with pretty much the same views. "Elections" where people can't stand to be elected freely are not elections, they are just some elaborate ceremony to rubber-stamp government official appointments.
Shouldn't the fine be larger than how much they make, to deter them from doing the same thing in the future?
That’s so messed up. What do you think of advertisements for drugs in general? Have they been helpful finding treatment for your condition ? They are illegal where i’m from i believe (i’ve never seen one myself except in the us).

Btw, this reminds of this absolutely hilarious story i think i first heard of here on HN: https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking...
Much of the market gain is around handfuls of stocks like FAANGs. And our leader has issues with 4 of those.

So there is a very closely coupled lever to the market.

I wonder if there are high speed shorts triggered by twitter already.
One more related recommendation would be James Gleick's Chaos book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos:_Making_a_New_Science

It is a good introduction to Chaos Theory and complexity science and a nice read alongside GEB.
I understand, but I believe it is obvious now that technology like this cannot be legislated away or controlled. The moment that people discovered that ML can be used to generate fakes was the point of no return.

There's not a single thing in the chain of tools and knowhow required to produce this that can be kept out of the hands of malicious actors.

The best course of action now is to rapidly educate people of the implications and hope that the initial wave of abuse will be without too many casualties.
Tl;dr Brave (a chromium skin) is learning how Google services work as they work to provide more than a theme, plugins and scamcoin. Luckily, the Brave team are true blackhatters, as evidenced by this ridiculous clickbait going viral on HN. Sigh..
I don't see how you would "debug directly the rust code" without debugging the wasm binaries. Wasm is a compilation target for rust. To be clear: You compile rust directly to wasm, it's not like you compile your rust to a binary and then convert that to wasm. I do not believe there is an intermediate artifact.

As for your second question... there's motion towards making wasm runtimes other environments, like devices or server-side. Kind of like the JVM or CLR, but closer to the metal (e.g. no garbage collector). The advantage of the server-side is the same as node.js, sharing code with the client. The advantage for other environments is a portable file format with performance characteristics closer to native. My impression is that the reception is less enthusiastic than wasm in the browser.
my wife focused on her instagram for her jewelry business for a while. it took about 1 day for her to realize that phone photos were totally inadequate for the quality she wanted to deliver. I'd be surprised if any pro instagrammers really used phone photos for the majority of their work.
From the description, and given who developed it, is this basically a way to run a Traefik instance per node and have the instance dynamically configure itself using the Kubernetes API? Or is there more to it?
Google has been violating GDPR from day one.
Or that they start every comment with 'I'm an employee of X'

They might just say, 'That seems silly!', 'You're a nut', 'Do you have a source other than yourself'. Or they might just downvote stories that have a negative effect on their income.

You've got 100k people working at google and many of them are going to be active on this type of forum. The same goes for the other big guys that have a ton of employees
America’s Orthodox Jews Are Selling a Ton of the Products You Buy on Amazon
Why not use independent review sites? Those exist for a lot of categories of shopping.

I'm not sure one exists for prescription drugs or mental health services, though--that would be an interesting idea.
Yes, the structure is sensitive for that and benefits a lot from using reserve(). I need to add automatic restructuring to maintain perfect k.