skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Widespread government owned CCTV cameras have been widely recognized as a privacy threat, and you only need to look at countries outside the US to see how they are being used for license plate AND face tracking.

Speed cameras in the US aren't just radar, they photograph you, and even mail you a photo of yourself when you're caught speeding. This has lead to famous cases, like when a guy was caught speeding, and his home was mailed a speeding ticket of him in the car with his mistress, which his wife opened the mail.

Seems to me you're now hand waving away the long recognized danger of government surveillance, as in, actual danger, wherein government sanctions you based on surveillance, as opposed to theoretical dangers of someone showing you a Nike ad.

So while you're worrying about GDPR, this is happening: https://www.politico.eu/article/berlin-big-brother-state-sur...
Source? In the jurisdictions I'm familiar with, synthetic ETFs come with special warnings (even in the fund name), and they're definitely not the majority.
The second most surprising aspect of this is that there is such a thing as the Red Bull Music Academy, and the most surprising is that it has been around as such for 21 years!

I know they have been involved in "extreme" sports of various stripes for a long time, but I wasn't aware of any programs of theirs outside of that realm.
"...a 300B market."

Which market are you referring to?

Advertising? Search engines? Other?
I have this one and would absolutely recommend it :

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This isn't all that reassuring because it's easy enough to record license plates and figure out who they belong to later. It's like the bad ways of releasing an "anonymized" dataset that differential privacy is supposed to fix.
I haven't read all the comments in this thread but I do agree with the idea that this _could_ erode trust even more, ultimately being one of the 1,000 cuts that causes their death. I don't see a big problem with it in general or in the short-term and it's something that's been thrown around for years: why doesn't FB do dating?

In reality, you nailed my experience with dating apps (self + friends on them). Every single person I know uses multiple since the source of a date does not matter to them. They just want what they're looking for. The cost to use an app is so low and context switching is easy enough. And everyone hates on some or all of them...and continues to use all of them.

Many of the non-tech people I meet in real life don't even know the difference between an app and the mobile web. They know interfaces well enough to get the things they need done, done.

FB already has the social layer and lots of other data, so I don't foresee this as a terrible idea. Seems more like a small bet.
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They plug in to a socket in the glove compartment, and I don't think the rental is counted as completed until they are returned there. I'd naively assumed this was standard across the globe, but clearly there must be other factors to warrant not allowing you to remove the key.

On the other hand, the fuel payment card does missing - but at least Zipcar in the UK are efficient at refunding your own payment when provided with a receipt.
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If the service is unappealing, I will not use it, or use it less. So, there are trade-offs.
The whole Maven / Damore stuff at Google shows the strengths and weaknesses of this “one persona” approach. People in Silicon Valley bring their entire selves to work, they protest their own company when they feel it is not having properly, there’s something to admire about that but most people elsewhere are happy to keep work at work and not get too worked up about what their company is or isn’t doing.
Last commit to https://gnunet.org/git/secushare.git is from 2017:

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Just thought someone should start a company that lets people purchase the Finnish baby box worldwide - I know I would have if it'd been an option for any of our kids.

Looks like someone already has:

https://www.finnbin.com
https://www.finnishbabybox.com

Didn't expect them to be $300+ though. I wonder what the government is paying for these.
> Still, cars without reception become vulnerable in a few scenarios: ... when the vehicle battery dies. That last scenario was the one my family and I found ourselves in

This seems like a major detail that should have been mentioned near the headline. Even if they got into the car, they would still have been stuck because the car battery was dead.

Every new technology comes with its own unique foibles and failure scenarios. One can easily imagine the very first automobile drivers getting frustrated by how their car becomes a useless lump of metal within minutes as soon as they run out of gas. "If I just had my trusty horse, this would never happen!" Fear mongering around these new failure modes makes for a fun pastime, but fundamentally pointless, unless we also consider the benefits they bring to the table.
>Employee silence, an increasingly recognized phenomenon, can be costly for organizations. Examples include staff failing to speak up when workplace plans and procedures are riddled with inaccuracies or faulty thinking.

Or you know

1. The bosses don't give a shit until its on fire

2. The bosses still don't give a shit even if its on fire

Why say anything if your boss won't care? It's a losing battle after some point and your best bet is to give them rope to hang themselves. Then either the boss gets fired or you get fed up and leave.
seems like yugabyte, like postgres, also spawns a process per connection; thus requiring use of external connection pool
> Facebook Dating makes it easier to find love through what you like

I don't like Facebook... No dating for me!

Seriously, Facebook seems to be a tool for self-advertising (look at my wonderful holiday photos), while dating is more personal/intimate/truthful (in theory at least). How long can a relationship last that's not based on truth?
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Not really no. If you have only one online persona, then you'll only show one angle of your life, and the rest will simply become invisible to facebook. People are unlikely to change how they are, they'll just change how they use the tool.

Letting people show different angles of themselves through differently branded websites makes it much easier for facebook to build complete, thorough profiles of people.
Sadly I do not think that I will ever be able to afford it, just like I would not be able to afford a similarly performing Xeon box. :( My processor is from the Intel® Pentium® Processor G Series, a really cheap one.
I worked at a startup for 5 years. the company recently had been valued at 700Million but only had 1 secondary offer, where I sold as much stock as they would let me (15% ~ worth roughly 6k pretaxes).

And when I left I had more stock options than anyone else there. But, the fact that they didn't have more liquidity events and the fact that I couldnt sell more of my stock, is kinda of a red flag. If no one else in the market wants the investment (no liquidity events), it's usually a bad sign.
It was a pretty easy decision to not buy the rest of it. I think most of my coworkers bought theirs. Of course, it turned out they were all worthless.
I am very excited for this phone, but I am not sure about this approach. I think it will cause a lot of people to wait for the v2 release.
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Less concerned that there is a difference between ios and android, more that there is a difference in a quiet room vs a noisy room in both cases.

To your specific point, Shazam has to be activated (hey siri, what song is this?) on iOS.
https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/location-trac...
There are also a lot more liquidity providers than there were in the past, no? I know there are concerns that the high-frequency traders will turn off the computers in a crash, but if the index funds have to sell their small holdings at a deep discount, that’s an opportunity for someone to step in and buy them on the cheap.

I guess there are more legitimate concerns for funds that hold bonds or real estate or other less-liquid assets. But the solution to that is just, don’t put yourself in a position where you have to liquidate those funds in a crunch.
> > When an index fund investor sells, they’re technically selling their holdings in direct proportion to their weighting in the index. So there is literally no market impact.

Yeah, I wanted to highlight that that's not true. Of course there is a market impact, it'll go down. The author might have wanted to say that there is no differential market impact, ie all shares would go down to the same extent (so that there is no impact, say, on capital allocation), but even that is not necessarily true, it clearly depends on the homogeneity (or lack thereof) of the liquidity/elasticity on the other side of those trades.
Some people think NIT is UBI, and EITC is different. Some people think EITC is NIT, and UBI is different.

I'm loosely in the first group. While the goals and rhetoric and proposed levels are different, the math is pretty much the same for UBI and NIT, provided the UBI is funded by an income tax (which isn't all UBI, and IIUC isn't Yang's proposal, but is one sort of UBI). The cutoff observed in EITC was a compromise that (in my reading) made it no longer NIT.
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> For a small subset of customers (13), the unauthorized party was able to gain read-only access to their workspaces and click around in their accounts for up to a few minutes. These customers have been notified.

That implies that Segment employees, or a subset, have unfettered access to view their customers' accounts? That it didn't require positive customer assent to gain access?

I like Box's model for this: https://community.box.com/t5/Working-with-Box-Support/Box-Pr...
Good thing Live Transcribe is out.
This is made possible by people's inherent self-bias:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMqNRUILvHc
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It would help... for now. Like I said though - it will be expensive and onerous for both the employees and the company... and who knows what the next evolution in attacks will be.

No matter how good security gets, attackers will always adapt. Everyone on earth is now using YubiKeys? Now you need a process in place for when people get their keys lost or stolen. Or when your computer doesn't have a USB port. And whatever "I forget my password"-esque process that is will probably be much easier to attack/manipulate/social engineer than the keys themselves would be.
With aerobraking it's much easier to get to Venus, though, and every landing we've ever done on Mars or Venus has made heavy use of Aerobraking.
Methodologies are attractive for situations that are ambiguous.

Lawyers and pilots have a clear cut set of procedures. Pilots aren't inventing new technologies each time they fly, they're just driving the bus from City A to City B and worrying about occasional edge cases. Lawyers follow legal procedures and have their own built-in rules and processes; they're tested on these processes to pass the bar.

You see methodologies for things that vary wildly like sales, military leadership, and of course, engineering tasks. Each project, situation, or client could be extremely different, and it's not possible to build a prescriptive how-to for each scenario. So you create a methodology and framework so that managers and leaders can quantify uncertain situations and build (and alter) their own how-to's.
This may feel weird to us, HN people. But perhaps it’s the good move for Facebook because a lot of people use it differently than we do.

There are a lot of people using Facebook as a serious communication platform (think your mum and dad, or your friends from high school). These guys aren’t hiding who they are much on facebook.

They’ll probably get way better matches on Facebook than on traditional dating sites.

This is not a competitor to Tinder, I see this as a serious dating site for shyer or older people.
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I misinterpreted what the issue was. alright. you just want a broader pool everywhere
If you look at their stock, its a third time they try to break the ceiling at $200 mark [1]. That's most likely how they were aiming this news.

https://stockrow.com/FB
No, not against those funds. Pass a royal decree that banishes all index funds from the face of the earth. The tons of derivatives written against the indices remain, unchanged.

Those derivatives might be "somewhat in the neighborhood of the funds" or something, but it's not analogous to mortgages.
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Except the meyers briggs claim is probably not true while the big 5 claim probably is.

> Personality types at least have a plausible mechanism - different processes in the brain. If you think about it, the idea that people have different mental processes is actually a more sensible starting point than the idea that everybody thinks in the same way.

Except the MBPI results show very poor repeatability and don't seem to be particularly predictive of anything.

As much as people hate on IQ, a large fraction of what an IQ test measures seems to be intrinsic. The same is true for e.g. the Big 5.

The percentile thing is not to be dismissed either. If we were to do the MBPI thing with IQ, then everyone under 100 would be "stupid" and everyone over 100 would be "smart" which is silly because obviously someone with a 99 IQ is much more similar to someone with a 101 IQ than either is to someone with an 85 or 115 IQ.
The "this time is different" crowd rides again.

Burry highlighted two simple truths of financial markets: people will buy shit they don't understand, and people who make financial products will try to earn a liquidity premium by transforming something illiquid to something liquid (which always blows up).

Most people (who I have met) who own passives have no idea what they are buying but are sure that buying passives makes them very smart. This blows up every time.

I also don't think Burry was making some bombastic claim about 100% of ETFs causing the end of civilisation. He was making a limited, reasonable claim about trends in markets. Yes, he generalised but, in my estimation, he has earned that right.

Simply, going from 0 to $300m+ earns you that right. Very few people have achieved that. Very few people have done it in the way he did (taking real risk). The views of a triggered financial adviser leeching off his clients don't hold as much weight (and shows all the self-awareness of a financial adviser to write a post implying they should).
Well, the problem here is that the market doesn't agree with you so it exists. I don't want to argue on the topic of justice (which is pretty subjective), but your argument should give a rationale what is the value of following your solution and why it is more beneficial to the society with an objective measures instead of giving a groundless dogmatic assertion.
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Meyers Briggs is a lot like miracle cures: People want to believe in something, that one thing that answers all.
Its not the same: someone unwinding broad positions could sell anti-cyclical stocks that did not fall too hard and keep the ones lowest.

Someone with index funds has no choice: has to dump the good and the bad.
> At one point, a disk read was CPU-bound.

That sounds impressive. Could you say more about how/why?
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Digital advertisement? If you count the overall value produced by online ads, it's probably even bigger.
The title is terrible.

The fundamental problem he seems to be pointing at is that notional replicating portfolios can work like an engineering marvel in good times and become inoperable in bad (liquidity) times.

There were many elements to the CDO crisis -- including bad faith by the rating agencies and a prolonged asset-price mania much beyond this stock-market rally. The simpler metaphor is the emission of vanilla stock options. In principle, a bank is only able to offer options because he has the ability to replicate it and neutralize his risk. But if market conditions diverge from the asset replication model, then boom you get LTCM.
I think someday we will think that index funds were pernicious but we don't understand entirely why yet.

If you believe, for instance, that there is an "S&P 500" bubble then there is difficulty turning that into an investable thesis. The S&P 500 is about 80% of the valuation of the stock market. If the S&P 500 pops, then relatively the other 20% of the market will go up, but how much can it go up?

The most harmful effect we know now of the passive funds is that they have a strong incentive (when they vote their shares) to discourage competition. If they own both AT&T and Verizon they would rather both of these be profitable at the expense of consumers rather than work hard to gain market share for one or the other.
This effect does exist, but changes to indexes are public, so this information is mostly included in the price already.
No inconsistency.

> > We’re just seeing a shift from closet indexing to ETFs and other index funds en masse now that investors have wisened up.

Some active managers used to (clandestinely more or less) copy the indexes, but investors move away from active managers into passive funds.

The prices are determined on the margin, by the remaining active investors. That's all consistent.

> index funds are still the best choice for a retail investor

Yes, index funds or index-linked ETFs. Agreed.
Am I correct in thinking that the last mile delivery solution from Amazon strictly relies on independent contractors or do they have corporate trucks/drivers?
1. There's utility in information compression. Extraversion encompasses a lot more than "talking to people"; it encompasses things like positivity, social proactivity, energy level etc. If you say "someone is more extraverted than 99% of the population" you can make a lot of inferences other than "likes to talk to people". The Big Five aren't everything, but they convey a lot.

2. There are theories underlying the Big Five; the Big Five and its variants are so well-replicated and appear in so many settings that they have become something to be explained, which is generative. E.g., there's a theory that extraversion basically refers to basal level of active, positive emotion, neuroticism refers to basal level of negative emotion; agreeableness to empathic ability processes etc. Maybe these are or aren't right, but there are non trivial theories about them that are very elaborated. You just don't hear about them as much necessarily because you don't hear about the Big Five as much, and because there are multiple theories for the Big Five -- as opposed to the Myers Brigs, which is tied to one account.
i seem to recall something about some carbon technology recently that is supposedly the next big revolution in semiconductors, and might revive Moore's Law? I wanna say it was about how carbon nanotubes can be used as an excellent semiconductoer, and because their width is at the atomic scale, they can result in even smaller transistors.

or something to that effect. Not sure where I read it tho. Maybe on here
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I like Patrick but in a few cases his inexhaustible optimism makes him overlook stuff that he shouldn't overlook.
Calling someone disingenuous is a fancy way of calling them a liar, which is obviously attacking the person. It breaks another guideline, too, in the most literal way possible: "Assume good faith". You have no way of knowing that exabrial's view isn't sincerely held. Since most people's are, that ought to be the null hypothesis.

Disingenuousness isn't a behavior—something somebody says or does—but a state that one has to infer. I think what may have happened is that you made that inference, or it made itself, so rapidly as to not to notice that you were making it [1]. I say that because you used this very interesting phrase:

> so prima facie absurd

On a non-siloed [2] site like HN, one commonly runs into views that are more divergent from one's own than is usual in real life or on the siloed internet. Once the distance between some other view and our own exceeds a certain limit, this other view strikes us as more than just wrong. It seems absurd, impossible that anyone could hold it sincerely. This is not a pleasant experience; it feels a bit like being assaulted, and there is an immediate impulse to push back with a force that goes beyond just counterargument. This is natural and we've all felt it, but it's the moment that the HN guidelines are asking all of us to interrupt. For thoughtful conversation, people need to hold steady until that initial reflex passes and there's a chance for a slower, more reflective response [3] to kick in. This is a skill that can be learned, and one can think of HN as an experiment in having a large group of strangers work on learning it together.

Most views that seem absurd to us are not absurd in any universal way, but are legitimately held by people who we just normally don't talk about these things with because they're not in our strongly-connected component [4]. HN is an experiment to see whether we can have thoughtful conversation between components. It's easy to do that within one's component, but hard outside it. The question is whether we can do it enough for a richer overall graph to develop, or whether turbulence will shatter what few edges we do have and cause the whole thing to break down and become disjoint.

1. I don't mean to pick on you personally; this applies to all of us.

2. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

3. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

4. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20886068 in this thread for an example.
True, and would be a concern if Google had a litigious history of being a patent shakedown artist.
My mistake, good to know. The syntax really looks like string comparison rather then actual pattern matching.
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I would be interested in the latency time of this.

I know that people who speedrun need the least amount of input lag and as it is wireless I wonder if it holds up to speedrunner standards.

For Smash Bros they don't even like to use the Nintendo Pro Controller because of the input lag and most opt for a cheaper corded controller.

It seems like a nice product for 99% of the market who want the nostalgia without the need for low latency.