skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government isn't allowed to run political ads (by its own rules on impartiality) but they are running up a huge ad spend right now on supposedly non political ads. (See the latest Private Eye).
This isn't about paywalls vs free news, but ad money going to Google rather than content creators.
I can understand the advantage of a global player in a category like transportation. Being able to Uber anywhere takes a lot of the pain out of traveling.

But things like babysitting or dogwalking don't offer any advantages if they are globally available. You're going to need a dog walker in the same city, the same house, the same neighborhood. Most people would rather just find one walker they like and stick with them
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Miniconomy is not bad at all either.
Somehow they forgot to mention the Ukraine crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/13/ukraines-refug...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/freylindsay/2018/09/19/ukrainia...
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Good, I believe media outlets will benefit, unless Google deliberately undermine their business model in some way. As a deterrent for others.
kind of open source science that we need
> You don't have to like him to recognise injustice.

I never said otherwise. If you look at my comment history you will see that I am against the injustice against RMS.
I'm assuming most jailbreakers probably don't want to enable piracy, but just want to use apps that Apple won't compete with fairly - like Steam game streaming, or a browser built with an alternate engine like chromium.
Recent spam post here on railroad track gauges set me off looking for the US city where a lazy surveyor cut some blocks in half diagonally, resulting in permanent hypotenuse streets. Thought it was Charleston Or Savannah, but I can find no evidence. Apocryphal?
The only difference between a generic worker and a prostitute is that it is the human reproductive act itself that is being commodified.

Why is that particular act singled out? Humans need to do lots of things both to ensure individual survival and the survival of the species. Why is "the human reproductive act" morally different from, say, paying someone money to cook food for you? Why is genuinely immoral work (such as advertising) given a free pass?
The SEC has already failed miserably once in this exact role. What reason do we have to believe that even a fully-funded, well-staffed SEC could get the necessary _accurate_ figures out of China, and Chinese companies, to adequately perform this duty? Many Chinese companies have grossly exaggerated assets and earnings to the SEC before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Hustle
This tweet contains exactly four As, one B, three Cs…
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Yes, Anki works like this: You get the challenge, you think about it, you tap on it, get the solution, and then you provide feedback whether you were right and how easy it was to remember. This feedback then determines when the card reappers.
Excuse me, you find it ok that Google et al get all the ad money by republishing and publishers and content creators get nothing? And even go so far as spinning this into an EU corruption story, where the only alternative, and the one we're living through right now, is to rely on a monopolist for news?
You are sorry about what? I myself said that these stories can't easily be verified. I only suggested an alternative understanding of Aqua's post to tutfbhuf
HSTS Preload exists.
Where I am we call that false imprisonment and indict people for it...
I find it really awkward. Are they that blind?
You think there is a 100% that both are true? That there is no world in which they are not? Because I see a lot of worlds where at least one is not true. Moreover even if they are true, full self driving might take a really really long time.

All of this uncertainty needs to be taken into account in the DCF analysis. Time value of money, yada yada.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21099513

I certainly agree with you.
Reminds me of when news publishers tried to do the same in Germany and then lamented the drop in click through rate.

Lobbyists for magazines and newspapers got the EU to put this law into effect and I'm glad they're going to be the ones who suffer the worst. If your news story is so short it can be explained in a thumbnail and the two lines Google shows, you don't have anything of value to protect.
> Congratulations to the EU commission and the EU parliament on achieving the exact opposite of what they wanted to do despite being told this would happen and despite it actually already happening in Spain and Germany.

I don’t follow: what is happening is exactly what the EU wants. I fail to understand the comment here entirely. Until all countries are executing this law this is exactly what the commission predicted is going to happen.
On the one hand - I feel it is totally legitimate that the US take the view that they want a symmetrical arrangement in so far as 'if Chinese firms can access US investors then US firms should be able to access Chinese ones'.

On the other hand, this has the feel of trying to bully China into a trade deal that is good for Trump but not for the Chinese. It could also hurt investor confidence in the US.

Ultimately, its a tough one and while I think its a horrible path for the US to be pursuing, I understand why they are thinking about it.
I guess I'm coming from the perspective of having worked on terrible JS (serverside) code bases and then moved to modern PHP... I'm not calling JS a hot mess though. I'm sure there are great JS projects out there. It is really nice to use a framework again though rather than a loose collection of libraries..

> there's a lot more useful things to learn than another language & framework just for its sake.

Agreed.
> IMO, not being suicidal is far more being in denial than the other way around. Or, in the very least, thinking that life is some gift. It totally could be, but not like this.

It's not a gift compared to what? Nonexistence?
Legitimately*

You dropped a word there.
According to the San Jose Mercury News, the Sterling Institute of Relationship has a "history of complaints" at the Oakland, California division of the Better Business Bureau, and also at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The seminar was described in Details Magazine as having a "cult like subculture." (Wikipedia)

Also this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Brainwashed/comments/1tb1cb/a_justi...

Classic case of cult business.
Combinatory logic [1] is universal and needs only 2 primitive combinators, S and K, as well as an application operator.
So 3 operators suffice for completeness without any convoluting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatory_logic
Agree. So how do we get more of the former category and less of the latter?
Several Google sites use user-agent sniffing.

I've seen comments from Youtube devs that say progressive enhancement is too slow, so they use the useragent to choose what bundle to send.
Ok, slightly misquoted from the head.

"but the most plausible scenario is that
she presented herself to him as entirely willing. "

Is the quote from EMS I mean. The one who started all this.
I don’t like your web browser, so I programmed a new one
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How Do You Build a Timeseries Data Pipeline?
Hello,
I’m trying to figure out what would be the best way to create a nice data pipeline. Right now the system uses timescale db. Everything is fine BUT it is no realtime. The reason is, one process is connected to a websocket, it inserts data in chunks of 5000 events. To insert them they must be enriched from an other table. So begote inserting the chunk the table from timescale is fatched, resampled so that the timestamps matched and then inserted to the final destination . The delay isn’t that big (about one minute). The question is more of more engineering curiosity if there may be a better maybe some design pattern or some fancy big data lake technology or whatever:) looking forward to any hint!
Out of curiosity: airplane receives the broadcasted properly signed packets with frame counter included. How does it know if the antenna broadcasting is the official one or one replaying the official at 2 miles south of the normal glideslope?
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It could be a severe problem in low visibility conditions.
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I am in favour of this.
If a site is doing the work of providing content (news, sport game scores, weather, ...) and Google passes by, scrapes the most important information and shows it on their own site, a large swath of users will never visit the content provider.

The one providing the content has rights to his content.
It should be a simple robots.txt setting (i.e. indexed but without snippets) available to any publisher and content creator in any country.
Thanks for the links.

I have seen that @medium link before; this is an informal survey done by a single person so there’s probably a lot of methodological issues with the survey. The third link is just a screenshot from that same article, so it is just as dubious.

The second link is quoting the actual article out of context.

Here is the entire article: https://archive.is/yse2

To wit: “Site-wide, two-thirds of male messages go to the best-looking third of women [...] women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium. Very harsh. On the other hand, when it comes to actual messaging, women shift their expectations only just slightly ahead of the curve, which is a healthier pattern than guys’ pursuing the all-but-unattainable.”

Point being, it’s men who only want the most attractive girls, and it’s women who are more willing to give a homely guy a chance.
> and content creators get nothing?

Axel Springer had to revert because their traffic and revenues plummeted. With your logic it wouldn't even have affected them.
That's how my system works, but when I'm using it I get up to 30 or 40 challenges in a session. I imagine that getting that many emails in a short time would be annoying, so the system I use would not immediately convert to an email version.

In particular, time gaps for a given "atom" can be as short as a minute or two when first working on it, and again, I can imagine getting emails that close together would be annoying.

But my system could be adapted and throttled. Is anyone interested?
> it's just that I don't want to add another 10-20EUR subscription for the 1/2 articles I'd want to skim

I've also been thinking about this, with all the paywalls I've been running into. I don't mind paying for quality news, but I'd prefer to pay one entity for a certain article/month limit for all (or at least most) paywalled news sources. The one entity could distribute my subscription money to the news providers pro rata, according to my consumption.

The current system of paying for one news source doesn't work for me, because I want to read articles from all over. I don't consume enough from one source to justify the subscription cost.
Generating all of our baseload power with renewables isn’t exactly a more plausible short-term solution. The energy storage problem is outright enormous. We don’t know that any of it will work because we haven’t done any of it at scale, that’s why we still have the problem.

What has been proven to work at scale is nuclear.
I wouldn't say never, I think you see substantially different behavior being rewarded in "metrosexual" cities and less stereotypical displays in leaders of groups that are aware they are unable to violate UN comittee rules, etc, to try to steal from other groups.
Is there any (significant) difference between sharding and load balancing?

It seems that in both cases the idea is to distribute (supposedly independent) requests between workers and one of the main difficulties is that requests might not be independent either within one stream (say, in the case of sessions) or between different streams (say, if they need to use one common state).
> It is true though that for whatever reason that I just cannot comprehend the majority of water sold in bottles in this country (Germany) is carbonated.

When I was a kid, my parents would only buy carbonated water. Still water was available from the tap. Today, I stopped buying even that, I can carbonate my water myself.

As to why we buy so much bottled water: Marketing. Some waters have a distinct taste, but at least for me, it’s just a matter of getting used to a different tap water taste when moving.
Note I said your "cold washed clothes". If you wash at 60C, there's no (great) need for additional sterilization.

Wash cold, and your just evenly distributing bacteria from your dirtiest items to your cleanest items...
Microbes Help to Track Time
Well, many people described RMS as a creep. And when the accusations are true, that for example he told women they should date him or he kills himself, than that is valid.

He openly advocated against criminalization of pädophiles. That gets you the term pedo, even though not fair, it is playing with fire.

And if it was indeed a case rape, in the sense of exploitation of a minor by minsky, who felt the rush of lust, which the other sides asume, than he is a rape apologist, if he says the most likeley scenario is, that she presented her as "willing", as this is, like I said, the common rape defence.

But like I said, I allmost don't know any actual facts, except that the whole discussion was horrible, as most people did not know nor wanted to know facts, before judging.
I tought this was https://www.rudder.io/en/
They can apply for permanent residence rather easily after working here for 10 years. This influx started in 2014 because of war, so I'd expect the permanent residence permits to hike in 2024. Also there's a shortcut if you can find any Polish nationality ancestor
(and it's quite common as Poland and Ukraine were one country for half of their history).

From anegdotal evidence it doesn't seem that the influx has stopped, 5 years ago it was rare to hear anybody speaking Russian/Ukrainian on the street, now it's a daily ocurrence.
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Except the SEC has given Chinese companies an exemption from normal oversight. I agree that there shouldn't be a blanket ban - but the companies should have to follow the same rules as everyone else.

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/06/china-and-the-u-s-stock...
The bottleneck for us (on that instance) is not postgres but transformations. Transformations are tiny snippets of javascripts which convert the event from Rudder JSON to whatever structure (JSON, keyval etc) that the destinations expect. We also support user defined transformations - functions defined by the user to transform/enhance the event.

Currently, transformations are run in nodeJS. So, for every batch of events there is a call into nodeJS from go and that is slow. We do batching/parallel-calls but still.

I think, postgres gets us > 15K/sec throughput.
From the Google employee who posted this: "If your computer is on OS X 10.11 or later and you haven’t taken steps to disable SIP, this issue cannot affect you."

To find out if your machine has SIP enabled:
csrutil status
Could you please explain to me how Google is making money from showing a brief excerpt from a linked website. Especially "all the money". Before you answer, please consider where most of Google's revenue comes from. Is it from showing things on their search page or is it from their ad network? Making money from the latter requires people to actually click through to the site.

Maybe I am missing something, so please enlighten us.
http://windy.com
I'm sorry, I don't have a clue what you're talking about.
You might be browsing the internet in an echo chamber. Javascript gets almost as much flak as PHP for the same gobs of terrible Javascript in peoples memories.

Both are old languages and both had years of low quality devs cranking out terrible stuff.
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EU is the nightmare for every startup with all that laws. No time to develop the product, because there is a lot of bureaucracy that take all your time.
Your reaction is over the top IMO. I'm quite perplex about this law myself but I think you're missing the point.

You comment reads a bit like "the workers wanted a raise, now they're on strike and they get less money than previously, achieving the exact opposite of what they wanted to do!" It's technically true of course, but I think they hope that Google will suffer enough from this decision that they'll have to reconsider in the future. Alternatively, they hope that people will still want to get French news and will move to other websites which will accept to give money to the news organizations.

I'm really not sure that it's going to work on either count but on the other hand it's clear that many EU constituents (those who actually pay taxes and employ people in the EU) felt that something had to be done.

>the absolute contempt they had for young people saying they we're entitled children trained by internet giants to expect free things

I mean, if anything I agree with this statement, except I'd put "free" between quotes. The ad-driven business model is a cancer as far as I'm concerned.
London's tate modern did a similar thing. At open ended black chamber. You blindly inched forwards to the back wall feeling as if you were about to trip over something. Then you turned around and realised with the light coming in the open end it actually wasn't that dark on the way out, its just there was nothing to pick up the light. https://www.studiointernational.com/images/articles/b/balka0...
They already can, they just leave the meta tags with an empty string and nothing will show up.
Timeseries Data Pipeline
Hello,
how do you guys handle timeseries data that depend on other data tables?
Right now Im using timescale db as a store. BUT when inserting events an other table must be fatched where prices are resampled on application side to match and enrich the events before they are inserted. That is done in chunks. Works fine. But there is a delay of about one minute. Is there some design pattern or data technology to handle such use case? Thanks for any hint!
Well it won’t come back on in that case (the modified firmware will fail signature check.). But as you say you are still safe, just don’t unlock the device before reboot.
There are going to be drastic changes to our ways of life, and without any action it will be much worse later. But don't trust me, please read the latest IPCC and IPBES reports and make your own mind.
Agreed, though I don't think it's a matter of laziness. Language is ambiguous (garden path sentences, etc). Redundancy is necessary to ensure clarity, assuming your goal is to be clear, rather than to entertain.
In order to display ads Google needs users to use its websites. Google being able to offer news snippets on his website is a feature that drives traffic and therefore drives ad impressions and therefore revenue.

It's like saying that Google doesn't benefit from GMail because people reading mail doesn't make them money.

I guess an other way to answer this question would be to say: if Google doesn't care at al about previews, why did they develop the feature in the first place and then fought against these laws instead of just removing it as soon as people started complaining? Clearly they do deem them valuable enough to go through this whole charade.
Its too bad windy dropped the 3D map view / globe. Looking at the poles was mesmerizing and insightful. Oh well. Happy landings btw.
This would have been a logical part of robots.txt from the beginning. Under an earlier Google this would probably not have been allowed to escalate this far.
Sharding is about splitting up the data in groups; in this case, the idea is that the web nodes have some local state, reducing the need to hit the databases so much:

"If all the clickstream clicks from the same user or state-change events from the same workflow or whatever go to the same host, you can hold the relevant state in that host’s memory, which means you can respond faster and hit your database less hard."
Full self driving will happen.

Yes, and so will nuclear fusion. But it will take much longer than anyone thought.
If you think "The Patriarchy"^TM exists, you have a very simplistic, univariate understanding of reality.

You're associating causality for whatever negative things happen to you in your life, not with your own set of circumstances, choices, or human agency, but rather with one single factor-- some ethereal 00.00001% group of conspiratorial, ostensibly straight white old men... with whatever happens to you in life.

It's an absolutely foolish conceptualization & mentality. I'm afraid life is a bit more complicated than that, dear.
Haha, it is https://www.rudderlabs.com Unfortunately, we haven't done anything re: SEO/SEM. I think we have no-index on our website (default with wp-engine) - would fix it.
I'm not denying the mutual benefit of the Marshall Plan. Of course it was a great help to Europe in the post war rebuild.

But had Europe not been an opportunity market for US industry then I suspect the Marshall Plan would have never happened or maybe I'm just cynical.
Google has also started classifying non-news sites as being news sites and no removing snippets from them. I have already had to manually change the designation in the Google Search Console on a couple of sites that I look after this week after Google flagged them. I'd recommend that site owners check in the search console to see if they are affected.
I looked at jobs in Poland after a visit there. Everything was super cheap and it's a beautiful place. However, once you were on Polish wages, things were not super cheap any more.
> Decety

What an apt name.

I wonder about the damage to public this unintentional deceit will bring...

Go science! After all, a retraction is part of discovery.
I agree with the gist of your comment, but:

> If your news story is so short it can be explained in a thumbnail and the two lines Google shows, you don't have anything of value to protect.

Major scoops that require many man-months of digging can often be summarized in just a headline.
GPS replay attacks only need to delay a signal by a very small amount - after all, a radio signal travels 300 meters in a microsecond. And the GPS C/A code has a bandwidth of 1 MHz - 1 microsecond per bit.

Neither frame counters nor timestamps are sufficient to robustly detect a replay attack that delays the signal by a fraction of a single bit.
That's not a very useful observation. Rents decrease in areas without jobs. Incomes increase in areas with jobs. Therefore country wide rent grows slower than GPD per capita as more people moveto the cities.
> I don't think the US has ever really been that subtle about maintaining capitalist free market dominance.

Excuse me for my ignorance, but what makes US' economy a free market capitalism?

Definition of free market: "in economics, a free market is a system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and by consumers. In a free market, the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government or other authority and from all forms of economic privilege, monopolies and artificial scarcities."

Correct me if I am wrong, but this most definitely does not seem to be the case. There are regulations, price controls, subsidies, tariffs and other government interferences with freedom of ex­change that distort the market.
"in contrast to rich city states like Singapore."

You mention city states in the plural sense.

Tell me-- What other city states would you be referring to? I doubt you have others in mind-- in which case, you shouldn't be speaking in plural in an attempt to exaggerate your argument.