skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see why you think I'm not educated on the topic. I, at least, can discern what's relevant to the question of which way wealth is transferred.

I am aware of the complaints about how banks process transactions in and out of customer accounts. It's a moot point for two reasons. First, the complaint boils down to whether a bank making a checking account available is also an agreement to extend small value, short term loans to people. If you don't try to float checks then you will not be hit with overdraft fees. It's as simple as that. Second, it's irrelevant where someone spends their money. If someone doesn't earn more than it costs to maintain their lifestyle their spending habits only impact how much they get from others, not how wealthy they are.

As far as preexisting conditions go, denial of coverage on that basis has been illegal for ten years. The only reason to bring it up is because you want to prompt an emotional response from people who are ignorant.

Profits and productivity are, again, irrelevant. If the question is "Which way does wealth transfer?" The answer is simple to discern and simply requires that we know how much it costs to survive and how much a person earns. We know both of this things on average nationally and wealth is transferred from the top 40% to the bottom 60%. I linked to the government report that demonstrates this.

As far as this unrelated statement goes:

>Your logic also offers zero explanation why wealth is concentrating towards the wealthy because wealth transfer would imply that, you know, it's actually going to the poor people.

Someone can create $1000/year in value, and another person comes up short by $300/year in survival. The first person transfers wealth down to the second person while still becoming wealthier. This is pretty basic stuff.
From February until October 5th, I lived at [NEMA](https://www.rentnema.com/) downtown in SF. I was in a 450 sqft. apartment, and it was $3270/month. I absolutely hated it. NEMA was fine, but SF is not for me.

On October 5th, I just moved down to Menlo Park next to FB. I'm in a 3BR 1BA which is $1850/month. It's much better here.
There's this duplicate post with more conversation, posted after this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21468592
But the article is wildly exaggerating the "nobody knows" gap of superbowl ads. There's an entire industry specializing in measuring the effect of "write only" ad channels and all the big TV advertisers spend a considerable fraction of their ad budget on commissioning those measurements.

Now the immediate, built-in metrics of online advertising have been eroding the business of that industry for quite a while. Those metrics are far more detailed, they boast low SNR and absolute precision as opposed to the murkyness of extrapolated trendlines in polls. It's very tempting to rely only on the built-in metrics then, and that's exactly where the problems the article is exploring are kicking in. Those old-school pollster methods that start with zero data and only measure the continual development of brand awareness plus the occasional campaign trace have something big going for them, which is that the little data they yield is universally relevant, whereas that ocean of numbers that is produced by built-in metrics can easily be a useless distraction or at worst actively misleading. Perhaps our would be wise for big ad spenders to employ some of that "zero data" brand awareness observation that could measure TV ads even when all the ad-spending is going online, into the realm of built-in metrics.
I'd like to think that any person or company who was hit by ransomware would act quickly to remedy point 3 and, as much as its ever possible, point 2 as well.
I find that as long as you start with the DB schema and core interfaces (system level rather than code level) and then move to framing out the general pillars of the code that you often will get 80-90% right. Refactoring will be a plenty but that is true in every project no matter the upfront planning. Just don't miss any edge cases which rewire your schema and you generally can keep a good pace on forward progress. Also it's generally true that the larger (see more complicated) the problem the more planning one should generally do.
So, basically we need a Systemd-docd.
How about an actual subscription as a "workaround"?

We all demand high quality journalism while not willing to make a contribution. Insane.

Same analogy as with software pirating (ah praise Erik Meijer for speaking up about this stupidity)
It's not the same. It's handing out coupons to people who are hungry and are looking for food; not people in the waiting area.
not a good time to be a foreign tech worker in the US
Intel messaging hits a new low
At first, I thought the US Department of State requested that the downtime occur during the revolution.

But how is keeping social media open to the masses a nefarious thing? Unless the parent is one of those autocrat supporters?
What Singapore does is not at all the same as what is talked about here. Singapore isn't building housing in the hottest areas and selling it for cheaper than a market rate, they are building their own housing and selling it at market rates to Singaporean citizens with restrictions.

San Francisco forces developers to have certain amounts of units that get rented out for half the normal price as a stipulation for building. This is directly counter to market prices in desirable areas.
> I'm able to refuse the state/hospital in California to take blood samples, right?

As sibling asserts, no you may not refuse. However:

> State law requires that parents are informed of their right to request the child’s sample be destroyed, but the state does not confirm parents actually get that information before storing or selling their child’s DNA. [0]

[0] https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/05/08/california-biob...
Peter Thiel expressed a similar well-stated opinion in an interview (can't find it right now) a number of years ago about alleged political censorship by universities.

"I give a Catholic school leeway censor its students or professors to have a Catholic bias. It's on the label.

"It's another thing for USC to censor on a political left or right bias, without disclaiming such bias, or even professing a lack of bias. It's simply a dishonest influence on speech."
>who connected to what mysql server and ran which queries

I'm pretty sure that is not really a hard task
> Cyclists are much more likely to be hit by cars when riding on the sidewalks,

Is this actually true? I haven't seen data one way or the other, so I'd be interested to know. I can see reasons why it could go either way.
Should anyone have access to the actual data at their company? I feel like this is an indication of maybe scrubbing the said data is a "must" before it goes into the hands of employees.

Then again, what type of side-affects would that have on the quality of the products moving forward.
Why would you think that MySQL is harder to get logs from than some custom in house database?
Totalitarianism has to rely on lies. If people knew the truth and especially if everybody knew that everybody else also knows the truth they would surely revolt. The Emperor's New Clothes.

The main lie about totalitarianism is that some people are inherently entitled to rule over others.

The extra totally crazy lies are kind of a Canary in Coalmine, does anybody dare to confront them? If not then the big lie about the power of the totalitarian government is safe too.
Not so sure you understand what means of production are. You cannot build more means of production without having access to means of production in the first place, hence the 'seizing' part.
Is there any credit card size yubikeys yet? Also, how come macbooks don't come with nfc yet? Carrying keys is not something I've done for 10 years or so.

What I'd really like to see is government ID that works somehow similarly how domain certificates work - you can either use your Id as yubikey or authorize/mint multiple additional keys using same certificate chain...

My country Id has a chip that requires you to run java applet in browser. Nobody uses that shit. Other options are logging in via internet banking (people are flocking away from traditiona banks in europe to monese, revolut and the like) or via SMS while using special SIM card (requires paid membership from oligopolic mobile providers). It's so modern that you are locked out from your government digital services if you live abroad...
If even 1 in 10000 people were spies...
What makes you believe this to be true?

You define an audience. You split it. You test and measure the result.

What component of that strategy doesn't work for new visitors? Many eyeball vendors (Google, Facebook, heck traditional TV and other media!) are set up precisely to allow for such cases.
Are you suggesting hiring employees to check every single listing on AirBnB? Does Craigslist verify every listing? For that matter, have newspapers ever done that with their advertising? AirBnB is a marketplace connecting buyers and sellers. Suggesting that a newspaper for instance send an employee to verify that an advertised car in a classified ad is precisely correct is a bit ridiculous but that’s what you seem to be suggesting with AirBnB. How is this any different than a student newspaper running ads for rooms for rent? On the hotel side, Booking.com doesn’t physically verify every hotel room listed either. Overstating amenities or even outright lying is as old as real estate and has nothing to do with “tech.”
But it’s not true by definition. If my property value doubles tomorrow, whether I want it to or not, my salary doesn’t double. So taxing me means I make less money now. I think we can argue about it, but you can’t say that my “lifestyle doubles” it doesn’t.
Yo...middleware is a thing.
My point is that your pedantry claiming as wrong a reference to one completely accurate description because another description, which is not exclusive of the one provided, also applies is, itself, wrong, and, further, that the personal insults based on it are, —as well as being unnecessary, infantile, off topic, and counter to the HN guidelines—also unjustified.
I don't think it's fair to generalize on a sensitive topic like this. People are already scrutinized enough when it comes to getting a working visa.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make, this just sounds like a generalization of what I was saying (although not all of California is expensive).
I smell a fall guy or two. What do you think the odds are that the token optics of this can be replayed as "standing up" for free speech? Not that what actually happened wasn't sketchy (it was) -- just that I have a sense this slap on the wrist will be enough for some to say "At least we can say we tried"
I haven't seen a platform that actually banned hate speech; they all allow such speech, as long as it's directed at acceptable targets (often white people or Christians). These platform's actions aren't about problematic speech, but about identity politics.

But in theory a platform could ban such content impartially. Should they? Should such speech be universally suppressed? I'd have to say no; if it were, who could criticize Wahhabism or Scientology?

Now I'd like to know what you think. Should "hate speech" directed at Scientology be suppressed?
> A hardcoded 1 second delay during a potential emergency situation. Horrifying.

As a controls engineer in the automotive industry, I can tell you that a 1-second delay for safety-critical systems is not atypical.

The expectation is that the normal software avoids unsafe operation. Bounding "safe operation" is difficult, so if an excursion is detected, there's essentially a debounce period (up to 1 second) to let the normal software correct itself before override measures are taken.

This helps prevent occasional random glitches or temporary edge cases from resulting in a system over-reaction, like applying the brakes or removing torque unnecessarily, that would annoy the driver and potentially cause unsafe operation themselves.

Obviously there are still gaps with that approach. But there is supposed to be a driver in charge; and the intent is to prevent run-away unsafe behavior. It essentially boils down to due-diligence during development.
I don't think it's the same thing for Disney to create fantastic to CG animation, and Disney to buy Pixar.

They are doing both (creating and buying). They bought Pixar, but are also making movies internally that are comparable in quality like Frozen, Big Hero 6, Moana, and Wreck it Ralph.
Tesla will unveil its ‘Cybertruck’ electric pickup on November 21st
On first glance, seems to be moderately advanced, somewhat unusual, at least fairly competent, maybe better than that.

Starts with a typo for expression (1); calls it (5) where it is only on page 5.

Starts with a classification problem and seems to get some interesting and likely useful mathematical (probabilistic, statistical) results for what I've seen elsewhere only with heuristics.

Does prove the Lindeberg-Feller version of the central limit theorem.

I would have guessed that there would be some material on exchangability and/or resampling but didn't see anything.

Looks at the Breiman LASSO technique in regression.

He seems to do a lot with one of my favorite authors and papers:

Talagrand, M. (1996). A new look at independence. Annals of Probability 24, 1-34.
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I suppose for sites that only allow one, you can store their backup codes in bitwarden behind you multi-key service. Still annoying.
Why should I subscribe to some publication I've never heard of or read? Any idea?

People need to stop pushing unpaid ad links here to their fringe publications.
So how would you envision a modern programming language to look like accounting for all these differences?
CRDTs are very interesting, powerful, and simple datatypes. I've experimented with a Go CRDT DAG, and it was simple to implement. The much more difficult part with a CRDT is message routing. Even with routing, managing network membership is a tough problem. There are multiple approaches, like Gun's superpeers, or Gossip protocols, but this remains a very challenging aspect of using CRDTs.
I'm looking forward to seeing the first startup in the Uber for Beards space.
Advertisers have many tools to measure "ghost ads" aka "people who haven't seen an ad but would otherwise have qualified for all your target criteria". See https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2620078 as an example.
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I imagine most of the tech spying/IP theft doesn’t even happen on US soil. Let employees in e.g., China access your internal network — what could possibly go wrong?
Someone needs to have access to the data...
Someone has to scrub the data, though...

Agreed, data governance is important for any company to get right, but someone has to have DB access in order to manage it. When you factor in that so many companies derive revenue from the data they generate, then it gets harder.

If you’re Twitter, how can you build the services you need as an architect or data scientist without the actual data?
What kind of stuff do you teach? Do you enjoy teaching at least?
I respectfully disagree with the suggestion that this is immoral.

Sentry is granting you a license, for free, to do anything you want with the software except provide a commercial competitor to their hosted service. People using the software for free may still decide to contribute code. This is not a one-sided relationship here. Both parties are getting something of value.
Thank you both for the answers!
It might be because of my blocker addon but the article linked isn't paywalled for me.
B.S and poorly researched. It's like Jeff Sessions wrote it.

>Well, just take a look to the north in Canada, where marijuana has been legal nationwide for the past year. It’s >black market pot trade is still way stronger than the legal sector.

>As a matter of fact, a recent report from the Associated Press indicates that nearly 43 percent of the country’s pot >consumers continue to buy weed from illegal sources. And doing away with the black market is the entire reason that >Prime Minister Justin Trudeau set out to legalize weed in the first place.

>Yep, that’s right, another massive fail.

Did they take into account massive shortages? The poor roll out of dispensaries, what was it, 25 store fronts for the whole province of Ontario (15 million people +). Folks would order and wait 4 weeks to get it. Poor quality, high taxes, dry and stale product if any was even available. 3 times the price for product that was shit.

California's problem is the bureaucracy which is feeding the black market. Licensing, taxes, etc. Dispensaries can't even make any money because of the cost of doing business.

Nothing like Guberment creating the problems and then trying to convince everyone that it just isn't working. What a crock of shit.
Slim to none, the article claims they accessed info of people close to the murdered journalist.
there is a group of conspiracy theories around the idea the all those "scientific occultism" and "psychological warfare" ventures continued in the USA among programs such as MKULTRA and others (say the theories) not yet declassified because they were more successful.

I suppose you could categorize these close to "Hitler retired in Argentina" and similar "Nazism went on" conspiracies.
I found one which works most of the time and helps specially with the captchas, have you tried proxycrawl?
> Well, also, any of those categories should trigger braking themselves. You can't hit vehicles or bicycles.

A bicycle on the side of the same lane will typically move in the same direction and stay on the side. Thus the car has to overtake.

That is different from a person crossing the street.

You always have to make assumptions, about elements in the path. And it has to have an option to handle the worst case.
Yeah I would like this for a yubikey I leave plugged into a machine, like my desktop at work. That way I don't have to fish the one I carry on my keyring out of my pocket and remember to bring it home.
How do I sign into a Google app on my iPhone without signing in for ALL apps?
I like to use the Google Voice iOS app on my iPhone to make and receive calls. However, if I sign into my Google account in the Google Voice app, suddenly all the other Google apps (such as Google Maps) also know who I am. I don't like this, because Google Maps has no business of knowing which Google account is using Google Voice on the same phone. How can I avoid this?
> who connected to what mysql server and ran which queries.

Let’s say I’m a foreign spy who happens to be the company’s DBA. Audit logs don’t really help you there since it’s not particularly noteworthy that I was in the DB.
this will make a lot of listings go away, specially if you have to wait for them to come and verify
Maybe it could be a house or other asset bought for a less than market amount or sold for a greater than market amount.

Example: https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/04/08...
Who does the scrubbing if not Twitter employees?
Not necessarily. There's nothing stopping an entity from suing you in 5 years for your use of Sentry in those intervening 3 years.
> It’s both problematic for privacy but also crucial for measuring ROI.
Worse than that: buyers would have to not only trust the ad-network to not make up impression numbers, but also every single content provider.

But that would easily be solved by edge server ad splicing. Much easier to trust the CDN than a scrappy content provider. I really don't get why that hasn't been a thing for at least a decade. CDN business just going well enough as is?
Somewhere near the very bottom of the article is this gem. Emphasis mine.

"And it wasn't because it was working for them. ... But there was one group of advertisers with a valid reason to purchase own brand name ads. Not that they were any more effective for this group, but because their competitors were "crowding them out" by buying ads that targeted the brand owner's name (so you search for "Bestbuy" but a sponsored ad for "Walmart" tops the list).
This can enable Walmart to steal 20% of Bestbuy's organic search traffic"

In other words, even if a lot of people figure out that digital advertising is worthless to increase sales or whatever, they might still buy it for defensive reasons .. It's a win for Google/FB either way
Rather they might be sympathizing because it might be inevitable for others to generalize like that.
The rich don't lose, they leave. Worth keeping in mind. You can't actually change inequality (see: France, South America) you can only change where billionaires live.
It sounds like keeping housing prices stable rather than expecting/encouraging housing prices to skyrocket indefinitely at everyone else's expense would solve both problems, no?
Would it be nefarious if the State Department asked Twitter to stay open during a hurricane? Or on Election Day?
I think we should make a distinction between platforms and publishers. A publisher curates content according to their opinion, to the extent that when they publish outside opinions, they add a disclaimer like "Opinions expressed herein do not represent those of the publisher". There's no such disclaimer on reddit, Twitter, or Facebook because people understand that the posts aren't coming from the platform. These sites aren't a place for the owners to express their opinion; they're a mechanism for the users to communicate.

And when the mechanisms of communication are privately owned, freedom of speech can't exist if the owners censor those mechanisms.

Platforms (as opposed to publishers) should be treated like telephone companies or the mail or ISPs. They shouldn't even read the messages they carry, let alone censor them.

On the other hand, sites aren't required to be a platform, but if they choose to act like a publisher then they should be held responsible for the content they publish.
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With organisation and efficiency, providing basic needs to people is way easier than you think. With the wealth of a single rich country, food water and shelter (which are already in excess in rich areas) can be distributed to them. So given how possible it is without any real downside to you, your argument for not helping people essentially boils down to "i don't care about them".
So, there are a lot of reasons to think ads might not work, and a lot of reasons to think surely market forces would punish companies who spend $$ on ads that don't work. Which to believe?

Well, reality check: do the ads you get shown, work? For me, almost never. It's either:
1) the thing I was google searching for anyway, or
2) the thing I bought online yesterday, which I therefore definitely don't want and won't want for a long time. This even happened with things like cars and house air conditioners, where someone who's recently made a purchase is the LEAST likely to want it.

I can think of a lot of reasons for ad-supported companies (which includes news journalists) to want to claim that ads work better than they do. I can think of reasons why executives want to believe ads will save them, when they won't, because actually improving your product is much harder than spending VC money on ads.
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