skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you imagine being diagnosed as being paranoid schizophrenic because you think there is some conspiracy to profile and target you with advertisements based on mental health? And your doctor must be in on it because instead of listening to you they just hand you drugs and tell you to take them.
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I don't understand why there is so much push back against the nebulous threats like targeted advertising. Advertising is unquestionably here to stay and it's hard to believe that people would rather have irrelevant ads to relevant ads. I'd rather Google figure out what type of TV shows/movies I might care about and only advertise those to me.

And if they want to aggregate large amounts of data about internet browsing habits to get a better idea of the types of customers which want certain things, I see that as only a positive since it helps steer businesses in the service of their customers. Data mining large sets of browsing history does this in an incredibly non-intrusive way.

I'm all behind auditing the data being used and sold for identifying features, but the cases where this has been a real and serious problem are sparse at best. The most serious threats have been successful hacking attempts releasing data which isn't controversial for them to collect.

That is, people are worried about Google telling Capital One your IP address is in the market for a credit card while hackers are walking out the back door with hundreds of thousands of social security numbers, names, addresses, and credit scores.
That right, there's three or so tax filing statuses with different rates https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filing_status. Presumably that favoritism in rates assumed an investment by the country in the children that naturally follow the union of a man and woman that are majoritatively fecund by a wide margin populationally speaking. Despite there being marriages that are inherently or voluntarily infertile when does the presumption no longer match reality is an interesting question. Put another way when is the married subpopulation not the primary group to which children are born.
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How about people who simply are commenting against what they consider to be bullshit?

I've commented here defending China on some issue a few times in the past. I have no ties with the country (except being on a business trip in Shenzhen for two months), nobody paid or even offered to pay me to do it. It's just I hate bullshit, especially when it becomes popular opinion. Just because China has serious issues doesn't mean it's the Devil and everything it does is evil. It's a country, not unlike Russia or the US.

(Particular things I've been addressing in the past are a) treating a billion+ population as if it was a small country, and b) blaming China for all cheap mass produced crap and its environmental impact, conveniently forgetting that they aren't doing it for fun, but to fulfill orders from Western companies.)
Net neutrality is gone, block all you want as an ISP!
I'm here, but I don't know what you mean. Could you elaborate?
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The account posting the photo mentioned they used a mirror effect in their original post. Your account was created two hours ago. Our audience can make of that what they will.
ClojureScript is beautiful! If only it had types :)
> It turns out people are diverse anyway and that's why not everyone end up in tech

That's true but also ignores the problem that many people drop out of tech due to discrimination or feeling like they don't belong even though they are interested.

"While a majority of the men in the study reported that their internship experiences were positive, women’s experiences were much more of a mixed bag, full of ageism, sexism, and not being taken seriously"

https://www.womenintech.com/mit-study-figures-out-why-so-man...
The legal hurdles are billions of dollars spent by corporate ISP conglomerates that have less morals than you do, and unfortunately that makes it more difficult to compete.
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When I read things like this, any quams I have about using ad/tracking blockers melt away.
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… and RDS has a multi-AZ checkbox which does exactly what it claims. Anyone who used it did not have a problem with this outage.
WeWork CEO returns $5.9M the company paid him for ‘We’ trademark
Part of a premium package. I would pay for something like NextDNS as part of a NextCloud based storage and apps, for example.
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Is there a PoC exploit for current firefox that would work if I set mitigations=off and enable HT on linux, for instance?
You obviously need therapy if you don't want the advertisements. /s
For a long time, the tax system actually punished couples for getting married. The reason is because it assumed that when married, the wife was a dependent on the husband. It was old fashioned.

When modern couples got married but both continued to work in their careers, the taxes were actually a bit higher on their incomes (mostly on high earners but also on middle class). This is described by my conservative family as "anti-marriage" tax policy.

However it could better be described as "pro-family" because if the couple has a child and the wife stops working to take care of the kid(s), then the tax situation becomes favorable in order to benefit the children.

It's old fashioned, but it made sense. With the changes to the tax code in the Trump era, I don't know if the situation still holds, I haven't looked closely at it.
Off topic: Why does that site not show the scrollbar? I use it to work out how long a post is...
A professed concern for code quality sometimes manifests itself in endless bikeshedding over small matters. At least initially, be a little bit skeptical of the person with one system behind him, who is determined to do this one right.
For anyone with a Canon lens collection, the Sigma MC-11 adapter works great with (many)Canon* and Sigma lenses on the A7III.

*EF lenses, can't comment on Canon EF-S personally.
NeXTSTEP

I would argue that’s not widely used.

Apple's Cocoa can trace direct ancestry to frameworks originating in NeXTSTEP

Not sure ancestry counts.

printing

Ah, fair point, thanks. I had forgotten about that.

My original claim is incorrect.
Are you a lawyer? Because this take is quite remarkable, especially given that the overwhelming public sentiment is that McDonalds was heinously negligent, coupled with a lot of supporting but not entirely factual claims to justify that position. I feel like the same people who were jeering at the victim just marched over to sainting her and demonizing McDonalds.

The Internet extreme position machine. Everything has to be clear cut.

How McDonalds no longer engages in "corporate negligence": they put pronounced warnings on the cup that it's a dangerously hot substance. That's it. They did not lower the temperature (as is frequently claimed, nor is the temperature at all outside of normal industry standards, yet this is being repeatedly stated throughout this thread -- coffee, brewing with boiling water, is hot). You can get a searingly hot cup of coffee from most quick-serve restaurants today depending upon how freshly it was brewed.
This is a case where the solution is more warnings on things.

This case was, however, an example of bad brand management, and perhaps throwing good money after bad for something they could have privately settled early on.

This is certainly not a hill I want to die on, and generally arguing against the prevalent opinion (which is overwhelming the one that you and the GP have expressed, albeit almost always positioning it like it's contrarian) is self-defeating, however this whole case is fascinating in how public perception shifts.
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This is the typical old and wrong view about both the end of the cold war and other situations.

Revolutions, specially non-violent once succeed if the political establishment does not have the will or tools to resist.

The protestors in Europe and China were probably equally as brave. While in the Soviet system the elites had already divided and paralyzed themselves, that was the fundamental condition that allowed protest to be successful in eastern Europe.

The people in China, were simply shot down and 30 years after the CCP is in control still. The exact same thing could have happened in the Soviet Union, if the elites had not already crippled themselves.

Governments with modern arms don't fall to rebellions unless some significant part of the elite is either at least passive or actively supporting the revolution.
Maybe Carbon ads?
While I can't speak specifically to ReasonML, I have used Ocaml and Typescript extensively in https://www.jeroo.org/beta.

I used Ocaml to write the a (simple) custom compiler framework, which gave me the benefits of better type safety than Typescript.

Typescript was used with Angular to create everything else (the custom-bytecode interpreter and user-interface. Typescript gives me the advantage of good interop with Javascript libraries, mainly CodeMirror for the editor.

The interop with Ocaml and Typescript was pretty good. I just exported the Ocaml as a Javascript module using Js-of-ocaml with one exported function that starts off the compilation. Then it returns a list of a custom instruction object, which acts as a 5-tuple with all of the instruction fields.
The war on drugs is a racist policy.
Flow engineers communicated a few months back to the community saying that they do care, they just were a small team working on the project and had pressing issues at FB to solve first. They mentioned that Flow was really slow for the large-scale projects that existed at FB and so performance was the immediate concern and that ate a year of time after they open sourced the project.
> there's a reason millennials and gen-zers are horribly depressed and dying enough deaths of despair from drugs and suicide to bring down the average lifespan.

Are you saying marriage is happiness? I was cohabitating with my partner for 5 years before we married. There was really no difference in quality of life.
I rather enjoyed this exchange between you folks; thanks.
A while back I wrote a little Rust library that does exactly what you say: parses a regex to use as a text generator. It was a lot of fun, and really gives you an appreciation for just how much bigger than ASCII matching the regex world can be! Writing a constraint-based solver that uses the generator library sounds like an amusing project as well!

Link: https://github.com/CryptArchy/regex_generate
I think that if China forcefully suppresses HK, that will drive Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei--and to a lesser extent Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Australia--into a regional alliance with the US, a sort of ASEAN++/SEATO2. Its major agenda would likely be diplomatically evicting China from territorial claims in the South China Sea, particularly with respect to the "nine dash line".

If HK can be portrayed as the model of what PRC does to dominate, suppress, and assimilate lesser economic powers, and its occupation of Paracels and Spratlys as an overture to securing absolute control over all economic resources in the South China Sea, the neighboring nations will likely line up behind the US to discourage a hot military war, and then do everything they can to close ranks diplomatically and economically to keep PRC from taking pieces of their pie.

The mass-internment of Uighurs is also likely to spur the Muslim populations of Indonesia and Malaysia to wrongfoot China diplomatically and raise international support for sanctions.

China's main crime is carrying a really big stick, and speaking loudly instead of softly. If a country uses its strength too much, then it starts creating problems that only greater shows of force can fix. All that work on soft power in South America and Africa could go straight down the drain.
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"Marriage is miserable. But not as bad as divorce or never getting married."

Is that the idea?
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Lots of android system/userland libraries are written in C or C++. Stagefright is but one example of a high impact vulnerability reachable from SMS/MMS on Android.
Not necessarily. I'm more criticizing the alternatives I mentioned. And more broadly their lack of stable relationships, either with romantic partners or families.
> Well, even if you're making 6 figures your friends and family probably aren't all making 6 figures, are they?

Of the (anecdata) pool I'm sampling from, the most anxious / depressed tended to be the most well-off. Personally, coming from the mixed background / lower-middle side, the non-traditional types seemed to fair better, such that I would anecdotally ascribe value to "blue collar suffering" as providing some measure of anti-fragility. But that's far into speculative territory.

In all honesty I'm fairly anxious, but I also can cope or at least mask as necessary. As I've previously expressed, I'm sure it's more a confluence of factors than any one item causing or precluding.
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One thing that I haven't seen mentioned here is how amazingly good the metering is in phones. Perhaps it's the vastly greater compute power available on phones that makes this possible, and I find that my Pixel 2 XL does metering better than any DSLR or P&S camera that I've owned. Tricky lighting situations like shooting partially into sunrise on Haleakala were nailed by my Pixel 2 XL.

Another thing is how much better the displays are on phones for proofing photos. My RX100vi's display (my most recent camera) pales in comparison.
> Revenue and business impact are ALL that matter.

Sure, but only until your up-and-coming competitor eats your lunch because everything got taken over by a-hole MBA and PMP-types, everyone cool leaves, and the only people doing the work are disinterested consulting companies charging you through the nose.
Ah, noted, sorry.
EMR seems kind of legacy from AWS's perspective these days. Probably very profitable, but they're seeming to try to push you towards things like Glue and Athena.
So how can one actually use one of these systems? I'm familiar with pocketsphinx, where you download it and then run procketsphinx_continuous and it prints a transcription of the microphone. Or Julius, where you write a grammar and run it with that and it prints the output. The process for DeepSpeech seems to be along the lines of "get access to a machine with ten GPUs, find a huge dataset, train it, and then run that somehow" - are there compiled models that can actually be shipped as part of an application?
That's a very misleading article. 'Took over the world' isn't exactly going from 42% to 52% of market share...

Also quite funny is "Coming out of the crisis, U.S. banks quickly raised capital and shed risk" and the chart below showing that it's actually the European that cut the assets they are holding to 50%, while the US banks actually increased theirs... Granted, asset != risk, but it's a pretty good proxy here.
As far as I can see work experience is more important so if you land a Google Summer of Code and / or a couple good internships a bachelor is fine.
Kudos for the traefik team. I've just started to use it an is amazing.
Isn't that only Fulltime employees? When I worked part time for a grocery store, I did not get benefits like insurance. If somebody only drives for Uber 10 hours a week, don't they only qualify as a part time employee and only get those meager benefits?
The topic is investment banking (not retail banking) but both RBC and TD Bank entered the US market by buying US banks. And this is exactly what I said European investment banks tried to do.

>Europe also runs a trade surplus with the U.S. so it's unclear where this macro trend you think exists comes from either.

Financial services are only a small part of the economy compared to e.g. raw materials. But I'm not an economist/accountant so I don't know where it comes out in the wash as regards trade surplus when a UK subsidiary of a US company makes money in the UK.
I remember once live debugging a web app in production. We asked the user to go try to reproduce the bug and when it hits it, the debugger opened on the exception, we took a look at the stack, found a small issue, fixed it and made the debugger to continue. The page rendered without even terminating the thread that had received that http request. All the user felt was a delay until I've pressed 'continue' on that fixed method in the debuggeer.

The stack was Pharo Smalltalk using Seaside remotely connected using VNC
- P2P or bill payments in Canada can be made to any email address and received within 60 minutes for free.

- Splitting a bill or requesting payment in Netherlands is trivial, because the banks all allow you to generate a URL and send it to anyone for instant payment.

These are instant in the U.S., use the Zelle app.
It can be helpful to take a page out of gamedev / film production worlds, and create a knowledge base or "bible" as global source of truth. But again, this is a centralized solution that does not really scale well as stakeholders multiply.

More importantly I believe is in having consensus on who plays the role of "director". Having a single voice that is universally acknowledged as the final say. A Mycroft Holmes type character so to speak. Creating the digital equivalent of a data curator and strategizer may be worth pursuing.
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This looks very cool. Kudos!

If you can share this - what kinds of organizations are you targeting? What do they care the most about?

I have a background in graphic design and computering, and I find it hard to envision the customer. They want a logo, want full control, don’t want to involve another human, have a price point below Fiverr? But maybe you’re serving people that I can’t see would need logo services.
Firefox CEO was not forced to resign. Stop lying.
Hi all, as a weekend project I created a searchable "Who wants to be hired?" post. You can search by text and also filter based on remote and relocate.
They are discussed in the article.
The reason the McDonald's lawsuit is framed that way in popular circles is because it is easily fits the mold for a frivolous lawsuit.

1. A woman willingly purchased hot coffee from McDonald's.

2. She spilled it on herself.

3. She sued McDonald's because of her injuries.

Those three things are true no matter which circle you ask.

A lot of people I talk to, even when given all of the facts of the case still consider it a frivolous lawsuit because they place almost all of the blame on the woman.
this is exactly why i view surveillance and advertising as attacks on my personal autonomy. advertisers will use anything and everything against me, whether or not i ever consented to anyone knowing or using any of my information.

if i'm surveilled, anything i do can be monetized and that monetization directly and seriously harms me and exposes me to risk that i did not opt into. if an advertiser knows that i am mentally ill on the basis of my search queries or other data which they illegitimately procure without my consent and against my active objections, they can target me for exploitation with an arsenal of dirty psychological tricks designed to get me to buy their products. if i am like most people, in the long run, they will win because i will buy at least one product which they have forced onto me.

in other words, if i am forced against my will to view a targeted advertisements, it is an inexcusable and unprovoked attack on my right to refrain from economic activity that i do not wish to undertake. it is an attempt at coercion using weaponized persuasion. it is not an attempt in good faith to improve my life or to help me.

this remains true whether that advertisement targets an area where people are explicitly exceptionally vulnerable, such as in the case of mental health, or something more mundane, like my love of fast cars and nice wine. however, in the case of mental health, it may be such that the act of targeting someone with a relevant advertisement genuinely makes their condition worse. so, as we all knew all along, these advertisements are actively, maliciously, and viciously harming people for the sake of a few clicks.

the bottom line here is that advertisers and advertiser-enablers are long overdue for their comeuppance. i'd support a ban on targeted advertisements, but that won't happen legislatively. GDPR and similar laws are a start, but they don't go nearly far enough to punish transgressors. i'd be more satisfied with criminal liability for advertisements exploiting protected classes of PII, but we'll see how things evolve.
Your reading history backwards. You assume that while 1970 protest, leads to 1980 protest and that lead to the fall of the Soviet Union. However that is wrong way to look at it, the right way is that in 1970 the Soviet Union had the will do stop the protesters, but not later. Those things mostly have to do with the discussions and political institutions the elites were working in.

The protesters in late 1980 might have been larger and more popular, but if the Soviet unreleased it might, it would not have mattered.
That's not what you links said. Would you like to correct your assertion?
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With all the software fatigue these days, I still don't know the answer to this. It is a really hard problem. Perhaps it is something that cannot be generalized enough to sell as a SAAS etc ? I mean yes we have tried the JIRAs/confluences etc but they were so hard to use. I have the same problem right now with our team. Yes, I have looked at the notions and what not.