skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, behaviour that is threatening enough to cause alarm is considered violent. This what this law says, which is fairly standard.

If you take part in a riot/violent protest you may be charged with a criminal offence.

This is the way it works in most countries, including the UK. There is nothing extraordinary there.

Being arrested or even charged is also not the same as being convicted.

Note that the definition also includes unlawful assembly, so the people involved would already be in the wrong.

I think some people are trying a bit too hard to excuse violent protests as if HK was somehow a special case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohrabacher–Farr_amendment

It was passed in 2014, and in 2016 case law was set including a complete prohibition on prosecution.
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I have thought for a long time that the best (and most cost effective) way to improve the quality of your pictures is to reduce camera shake. You could spend $1000 or much more on a new camera with a bunch more megapixels, or you could spend $100 or less on a tripod, or a monopod, and get sharper pictures with the camera you have. This advice works for a DSLR or a smartphone.
He says he's (reluctantly) doing active stock picking. He's a professional investor; I'm just some software engineer with a nest egg, which is 100% in index funds today. What should I be doing, as a schmoe who wants to save money?
That's actually a perfect example of a revolution resulting in a system that looks a lot like the previous system.

Mostly self-governing colonies with Parliament exercising some limited control over them turn into mostly self-governing states with a Federal government exercising some limited control over them.

Pretty much the only things that changed short-term were foreign policy and what kinds of imported goods were taxed.
What? The data that you've visited a mental health support website plus your IP easily takes you into GDPR sensitive data territory, and the rules around this are super strict: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/.

You absolutely should not be handing that information about people to random marketing companies without consent, let alone with informing users. In France, Germany & the UK I would expect that this is a clear & major breach of GDPR and who knows what else.

If you read the report, there's also sites where you fill in a quiz about your mental health & depression, and they forward that data to services like qualifio.com ('The leading Interactive Marketing &Data Collection Platform').

That's definitely concerning. There's no way this is reasonable behaviour, and we shouldn't accept it as such.
Well yes. Also, the fact that brains (not even just human ones) influence the real world’s organic evolutionary fitness functions does make it somewhat impossible to perfectly replicate in a computer.

Fortunately my point has no dependency on any specific fitness function, natural or programmed — my argument has been that the original claim “We can observe that cells/DNA are programmed to adapt to local changes; we have no idea how they make sudden jumps for a more efficient design;” totally misrepresented evolution, that in fact evolution totally can make sudden-looking jumps (a point which in retrospect I don’t think I properly justified, even if my list of examples was intended that way), and that it’s trivial to demonstrate this by writing a genetic algorithm.
The process I was taught for mushrooms that you can identify as an edible species was:

Day 1: Eat a small (1/4 tsp) amount and observe for any reaction

Day 2: Repeat

Day 3: Don't eat any. Observe for any reaction.

Day 4: Eat

The explanation was that individuals can have widely varied reactions to species others find edible. Obviously don't do this for something unknown.
You say

>Brave is certainly the most shameless tech company I've ever seen in my entire life.

without any supporting comparisons or an explanation of why.

When you say

>Shame on HN to repeatedly allow such a scummy company exploits its ranking algorithm again and again.

are you talking about people posting about Brave on HN and exploiting up-votes for it to gain attention? If this is the case again it is just a statement without any proof.
When people talk about data backups, they always say you should rehearse restoring your backups just so you're confident that the backups are complete. If you don't do that, you lose your data and your recovery fails because you never tested it.

Likewise, I guess it's easy to speculate from the peanut gallery, but I wouldn't be surprised if the backup generators just hadn't been sufficiently tested and maintained because, well, they're backup generators.
Would you be ok with it if your browsers at home, in the office and on your mobile phone always showed your bank balance on the top of the screen in a large font?

I assume most users would not. But they would be ok with their bank balance being shown if they specifically opened their bank website.
This looks interesting. I was confused about what the product does until I read this line under Suggestions:

"ShipIT takes a GitHub repository of your choice and creates a virtual profile that sends alerts about your Product Development cycle."

Is that the main function? If so, I'd personally move it to the main description under the title.

As a side note, this could be useful for a small project I have in the future. There is a competition that I'm participating in located within Kern County, CA called 59 Days of Code[0] — a tool like this may prove useful for basic organization. I'll suggest it to the team members.
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Study contradicts common practice of tailgating at traffic lights
Correct, it's having a partner that has an impact on our wellbeing. Also, last time I checked psychology textbooks having children had a neutral effect.
I don’t understand this statement. If your application is developed with fault tolerance, this is independent of any SLA.
5Gbps, 10Gbps, and 20Gbps seem like pretty clear names to me.
I get constant, intermittent stutters when scrolling on FF. On three devices. Sorry, I just want a browser that works. I don't imagine this is a problem for everyone, but I can find reports of it and no fix.
All types of investment in every country is subject to financial repression.

You could own gold, but wait ! any gain is taxed as income ( not capital gain ). Carrying it around has stiff penalties.

"You invest in how we say you invest" - Uncle Sam.
One of the most fun rides I ever had was after swapping my bike for a riding buddy's 250 Ninja for the Friday lunch ride. I flogged that thing like a rented mule trying to keep up with the bigger bikes. Riding that thing close to the 14K redline in every gear. Give the handlebars the slightest nudge, and that <400lb. bike just lays on its side, hammer the throttle at the apex because that tiny engine isn't going to spin the rear tire up.

Try that on a ZX-1X on public roads, and they'll be pulling dental records to identify your body.
Agreed, this is so wordy, this is what I got,

> Google claims to prevent the many companies ... from combining their profiles about those visitors

> Brave’s new evidence reveals that Google allowed not only one additional party, but many, to match with Google identifiers. The evidence further reveals that Google allowed multiple parties to match their identifiers for the data subject with each other.

BTW, many comments in here seem quick to agree w/this headline given how buried the details are. If someone has better detail, please share it.
I think some of this slowdown is due to reaching "peak sensor". Much of the frenzy back in 2007-2012 was due to big advancements in sensor technology, namely, low-light performance. But now, my Fuji X100, which came out in 2011 still shoots great images, even in low light. And my Fuji X-H1 will be very adequate for the next 5-8 years.

As camera sensors became better, the need to replace them with the next model diminished.

Much of what camera makers are now producing are features on top of already great sensor technology. I don't think most consumers care about these additional features.
Even with detailed screenshots for this, the number of steps would be mind boggling for an average web user.

BTW, could you please create a Firefox extension for your site? I see that you only have a Chrome extension.
I probably sound like a shill too but while there are definitely many valid complaints, I still feel like being in the ecosystem makes my life a lot easier. I don't have to do any hacky workarounds. My favorite one that I discovered last year was sharing WiFi passwords. I was at my buddies house and asked for his WiFi password but we both have iPhones and it automatically asked him to share the WiFi password with me. It was a beautiful experience.
Sure. The important difference between us is I believe guns start and end as consumer goods.

All of the other things they serve are better handled through institutions and organizing.

The combinations of the two, organizations with guns, that becomes a much more plausible threat to peace and liberty because it affords an opportunity to exploit a power dynamic which could lead to tyranny.

Yielding to the wisdom of crowds with weapons mean that fear and threat become larger tools of society building than reflection, collaboration, listening, and creativity.
Brainfuck with Salesforce and Lightning
New startups or small businesses. You're right they want control but they can't afford tons of money to sink into iterations with a professional designer (also what makes a professional designer nowadays?). With this they get to see tons of variants of a logo that feels right to them with ease to make adjustments. Yes, they might be a bit soulless but it'll look sleek if you have a decent eye for design and application. Always ask yourself and test it with will this look good on a website, business card, shirt, whatever you need.

I'd argue these little generators can produce better looking mathematically sound logos that are cheaper than dealing with a back and forth when you hire someone from upwork, 99, fiverr, your local college student.
The discussion of this on the Bogleheads forums, a community dedicated to low-cost investing primarily via indexing, provides an interesting counter-point to Burry's opinions: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=289284
> The block might appeal to users, but is potentially worrying to publishers

Yes, let's have pity on these poor publishers who are relentless infiltrating and measuring our online lives so they can squeeze a few more bucks out of the data grab.

Trackers have gotten insidious. I have privacy badger and on one particular news site there were 36 distinct trackers. And somehow they're still getting around the blockers because I'm getting ads and suggestions correlating to some activity I did on a completely different device.

This business model is toxic and I really hope all the companies using it either pivot or go bankrupt.
It seems to be 'an open ecosystem for privacy-preserving, AI-first computing'?
Hong Kong Government Withdraws Extradition Bill, a Key Demand of Protesters
It's probably the French-descended version, like thinking and pensive, or belly and stomach
When people invest money into index funds, then the funds must spend all that money buying the shares of the underlying fund companies. So that creates tons of buy orders for the underlying stocks, which creates the buying pressure, which makes the prices rise. As long as more money comes into the index funds the prices of underlying stocks will keep rising. But the higher the prices of the underlying the more money needs to come in to buy them at those prices.

What eventually happens is that there's not enough new money coming in for index fund buy orders to maintain the bottom of the underlying prices, which means that the prices start drifting lower, the popular financial press goes nuts, CNBC/FoxBusiness/WallSt Journal/etc blast it in the headlines and the same way goes the other way. People start selling their index funds, which makes the index funds sell the underlying which creates a massive wave of the sell orders creating a downward pressure, which in turn puts brings the indexes lower which makes press go screaming more which causes more people to want to "protect their test egg" by selling the index funds they had.
One simple explanation is that US corporate management is generally the best in the world. American multinationals tend to outcompete European and Asian multinationals, even within their home markets. These findings are especially true when it comes to IT heavy industries, like finance.

What you'd expect is that any sufficiently globalized industry will ipso facto be dominated by American companies. Unless there's a compelling X factor that counterbalances the management differential. Like Japanese craftmanship in autos. Or the French culture of haute couture in luxury goods. But finance is sufficiently homogenous across cultures, that this probably isn't the case.

[1] http://www.people.hbs.edu/rsadun/Management_Practices.pdf
[2] https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Americans%20...
You only need the marginal investor to be informed, so it's not clear that you couldn't have a much higher percentage of passive investment (say 90%) and only a small amount of active investors who are providing price discovery.

The bigger problem is that most passive investments are not really passive - for example, choosing to invest in a "passive" S&P 500 ETF over a "passive" Russell 2000 ETF is an "active" investment choice (preferring large cap over small cap) so valuation errors and bubbles could develop in segments of the market, even if constituents with an index are all fairly valued relative to one another. These valuation errors could sustain for a long period of time, because it takes much more money to correct a valuation error in a huge market segment than it takes to correct a valuation error in an individual stock.
Shhhh, if it seems magical, call it "AI" or you don't get funded.
Why robots will soon be picking soft fruits and salad
Indeed.

I'd also add that:

> half-truths that were used to put cookie warnings on nearly every site on the internet

The half-truth here is that half-truths were used. Cookie warnings are "this site spies on you" warnings (you don't need them if you only use cookies for making the site work), which were introduced as a strong suggestion for the industry to get its act together. It didn't, so now we have GDPR.
No it isn't. Please tell me how you achieve security without storing hashes in a DB? The default is only for those who'd prefer not to run their own DB. You are welcome to run your own DB if you want.

Why are you so upset that other people will be using a feature you obviously won't? Why are you upset when this leaks literally no info that your github repo doesn't already?
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That's the essence of it.
Take a look at opportunity zone funds today.

You can pull your money out and pay zero capital gain taxes for seven years. Then get a 15% discount on your capital gains at that time. All returns you realize from the fund are capital gains tax free.

The benefits end this year.
I checked the sample log provided.

Below is the google_gid for different publishers, there is no proof of overlap, they have different google_gid for same person. Which is exactly what google describes. [1]

I don't understand what Brave claims.

d.agkn.com CAESEP-S3Zs5f0_kq11XTCZP_mE
id.rlcdn.com CAESEPpf2T4-2AsAR_4rer3RfNs
image6.pubmatic.com CAESEB9H3qdV26kxEiz-BJ_TY-M
pippio.com CAESEJyqG1Pg1j-_scqW8kDzTkg
token.rubiconproject.com CAESEE1DyZ245WggYaQZEWpQWI8
us-u.openx.net CAESEPIJ9jHcY2j4jK3-DPmfar4

[1] https://developers.google.com/authorized-buyers/rtb/cookie-g...
One big problem is that ad fraud is rampant. Knowing a person is really seeing the ad is very important, which tracking helps you confirm to a certain degree.
Taiwan is actually independent though. If Taiwan ever needed to "protest" China it would likely be after a large portion of their population was killed after somehow starting and losing a massive pseudo-proxy-war between China and the US.
Don’t advertise falsely?
Looks like we're well on our way to a somewhat overly complicated reimplementation of thin binaries[1]

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.108...
How would they access location data unless authorised by the user?

("absurd" is a strange word to use; it might be nicer to educate without condescension).
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/john-bogle-has-a-warning-f...

> Bogle pointed out that as indexing increases to a certain point, it opens opportunities for active investors to exploit inefficiencies in the pricing of some stocks. But past that point, wherever it might be — somewhere beyond 75%, in his view — the market could become a dangerous place.
Because humans are social animals, and far more people seem to have a need for social contact than to see their own creativity come to life, as evidenced by what most people spend their free time doing (not writing code or books, but enjoying time with family and friends). A creative social activity viewed as an enhanced social activity instead of a degraded creative one is perhaps the perspective you're looking for?
I recognize that my situation is not normal. But I see people around with me with much more who are still hunting for more.
Many people view marriage as just a religious function, but it's really a legal one. It's why you have the "power vested in me" by whatever is the governmental law authority of the area.
It really is an amazing example of a healthy pattern becoming dark after awhile. Google spent years establishing themselves as the best search engine, to the point where you would want to click on the first result. Then, they slowly start adding ads, but the ads look like ads and people can easily ignore them. Until one day, someone at Google realizes that if the ads looked more like actual search results more people would click on them - meaning Google could make more money.
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AWS gives you access to redundant resources inexpensively. If you have your application in a single AZ, you’ve elected to bypass the redundancy.
I’ve noticed this as well. Would love to see some analytics on this.
So explain why even first aid officers and social workers were charged with rioting?
I encountered this method during highschool (around 2005), though I can't remember if it was part of class or independently during class time.

I think it came about because a couple of us were determined to prove trees could be used without recursion, as at the time it was a daunting subject for most of us and the teacher wasn't very good at explaining it (how does it stop??/etc). The idea is based on applying a doubly-linked list - something that was part of the class work - to trees.
Vegebot is the first robot that can identify and harvest iceberg lettuce — bringing hope to farmers that one of the most demanding crops for human pickers could finally be automated.
The term "fake news" originated in the late 1980s and applied to corporate packaged media presentations, "VNR" and "ANR" (video/audio news releases), and the term continued to be used for such through at least 2007.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fake_news

The practice is an old one, though the term is largely a 20th century development:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fake%20news&ye...

(I believe that the 1940s spike had a different connotation from the 1980s-1990s usage.)

The term became massively more widely used during the 2016 US presidential campaign, and its popular meaning shifted under a misuse assault to "news I don't like", though that strikes me itself as a disinformational tactic to water down the term:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news
Ask HN: Presto vs. Spark SQL for Adhoc Analysis
I have used Spark and found it to be scalable and Spark SQL seems good for ad-hoc queries too.

But most companies use Presto for there ad-hoc analysis. Why is it so that companies prefer Presto over Spark SQL for adhoc analysis
True and irrelevant. If you're displaying ads based on site content, you are matching ads to the site content, not to the viewer.
Curious how this one has changed on the internet.

From a UK perspective I'd always thought of it as a case of crazy pay-out. Why does this one women get several million dollars (although googling reveals this number went down a bit on appeal)? Especially if others had a similar experience. Either there should be a limit on the temperature of hot drinks, or there shouldn't.

The fact a warning is deemed adequate seems weird too, people will actively try and avoid spilling a stone cold cup of coffee on their lap!

It feels to me like the internet moved from shilling for big burger to shilling for big law firm.
Probably not a "plan". As President one can usually legally "release" classified info on a whim, and if T is allowed to do something on a whim, he typically will.
Hmm. I thought marriage was fundamentally miserable but still better than the alternatives. Actually, please don't disrupt my worldview, thanks k bye.
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So is this a thing now? That all new high-valuation tech companies of the last generation (Uber, "We") have to have some shady founder/CEO thing going on?
My little brain can't keep up with too many things either, which is why I only use statically typed languages.

Dynamically typed languages force me to keep type information in my head, and that's just not a good use of my brain when the compiler can be so much better than me at this.
Thanks gavinray!
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False dichotomy. What about social disintegration?
Carrying it around has stiff penalties.

What are the penalties for carrying bullion?