skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
jerf is a well-known racist. He was being exceptionally polite in giving jerf the opportunity to pretend it was inadvertent use of language.

But I understand that you, too, are just trying to play games to pretend that anti-racists are the real racists. This is something that many deranged right-wing extremists do to entertain themselves.
I love the cover art on the paper. Sums up the issue perfectly. For those who will not read the PDF:

Google completed a series of transactions that allowed it to participate in every level of the ad stack. (#1)

Google leveraged its power in search advertising, in which it holds monopoly power to coerce advertisers to
use Google products to access the display market as well. (#2)

Google advantaged itself through arbitrage and cross-subsidization opportunities made possible by the fact
that it, and it alone, operates at all levels of the value chain. (#3)

Google withheld interoperability in order to disadvantage, foreclose, and punish its ad stack rivals. (#6)

Google designed auction processes that cement its own market power and raise rivals
costs. (#10)

Google kept key market information hidden to shield itself from scrutiny from publishers, advertisers, and
potential new entrants, suppressing otherwise natural competitive forces. (#14)

Google leveraged its control over the ad tech stack and Google Analytics to weaken rival sources of display
supply. (#18)

1. Acquiring Independent Companies To Cement Its Role Across the Ad Stack

2. Leveraging Market Power in General Search into Display

3. Designing Auctions That Facilitate Arbitrage and Rent Seeking

4. Cross-Subsidizing Competitive Functions of the Ad Tech Stack with Monopolized Functions In Order to Rise Rivals' Costs and Foreclose

5. Deceptive Gathering and Integration of Data

6. Strategic Disabling of Interoperability To Disadvantage Rivals

7. Withholding Interoperability to Steer Demand and Supply Through Its Own Exchange

8. Providing Exclusive Programmatic Access to YouTube Though Google's DSP

9. Retiring the Third-Party Cookie

10. Disadvantaging Rival Exchanges by Google s Publisher Ad Server

11. Undermining Header Bidding Through the Development of So-Called Open Bidding

12. Undermining Header Bidding Through Exclusionary Features of AMP

13. Designing Analytics to Steer Market Participants to Google Products and Prevent Entry

14. Resisting Transparency at All Levels of Ad Tech Stack

15. Obscuring Fees So That Competitors Cannot Enter and Compete Effectively

16. Using Privacy Laws as an Excuse to Hide Performance Data

17. Thwarting Publisher Efforts to Understand Source of Payments

18. Designing Attribution to Favor Search and Disadvantage Publishers

19. Raising Rivals Costs and Foreclosure of Existing and Potential Horizontal Competitors

20. Capturing Publisher Data in Order to Monetize Their Audiences

They are not looking at Facebook, Amazon, or other walled gardens as viable alternatives for those who want to place ads on the open web. There is only one "choice". "All roads lead through Google".
I didn't know Rawl, or really DCT -- so definitely both useful links

Someone sent me a link just now -- two subjective realities meeting for a shared experience. Sorry not philosophy in the dry sense. But still asking a good existential question, and disagreeing

Personally I think evidence is a necessity. A summation of all, or enough POVs, we must hope contains this evidence, or an indication of

I give you, a music video(!) https://youtu.be/lynwOb2ZiIo

Try like 1:10min -- 5min. Philosophy more properly starts at about 8:30
I have all 3 of these set to "enabled":

- Do not allow web search

- Don't search the web or display web results in Search

- Don't search the web or display web results over metered connections

According to the help menu for the middle one it states: "If you enable this policy setting, queries won't be performed on the web and web results won't be displayed when a user performs a query in Search.".

Although Microsoft's official documentation states these only apply to Enterprise edition based on: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/g...

You can see that setting listed on the bottom of the page, but it's not super clear because it's referencing an older version of Windows in those docs.

Maybe you have another tool blocking it, or you've blocked it at the /etc/hosts level in the past?
You removed a vital part of the http protocol and you're surprised when things break?
It’s silly to say executives don’t set strategy and make decisions. That is absolutely what they do, come on with this culture stuff. The culture is an emergent property of the people and processes that make up the company, and executives indirectly (sometimes directly) influence who those people are and what those processes look like.
Do you have any better way of looking for sources other than Google Image search? Mostly I found the Charles Courtney Curran images on Pinterest, eBay (!) and several Chinese "art reproduction" sites. No closer to working out where it was sourced from.
It’s crazy to me that you ask this, as though “treat candidates with respect” or “give candidates fair due process to explain their past or background” or “avoid seeking out biasing information before giving a candidate a chance to represent themselves” need some extra justification to be considered as part of a “good screening process”.
In my experience they're one of the most useless and difficult companies I've ever tried to interact with.
Show HN: Wikipedia Inline Search
Reveal is at ~2:08:40 for those looking for it.
You seem to be changing the subject. Upthread, you argued that the judge bore a "large portion" of the blame for this shooting. Here you're just saying that judges need to be better.

I agree. But I still don't see how, if I ask you to let me commit a crime, and you say yes, that makes you more culpable than me. The word for that is "accessory", and it's by definition a lesser crime.
Users and developers are not different beasts. Users with source code are more likely to become developers. Developers are more likely to become users if they can tinker.
no one is saying the game is racist, just that a tiny subselection of cards that are a byproduct of less aware times
I grew up in Vietnam. There were similar positive attitudes towards overweight bodies. The country was ravaged by wars and famines. Overweight bodies mean prosperity. It's changing now in Vietnam, however. They're converging to views of other countries.

One thing to note is the way people acquiring body fat was somewhat different. They don't consume sugar and highly processed food. They eat a lot of normal foods. They have body fat but often strong and muscular.
Yes. All of the writing on my website is CC0 licensed (public domain). The robot I have been designing for the last 2.5 years is CC0 licensed. I design PCBs for fun and license them CC0. I have been licensing my youtube videos as CC0, and I just started a new youtube channel for my own CC0 licensed 4k videos of nature. Most of the content on my github is already licensed with some kind of permissive open license either CC0 or MIT/BSD licensed, though some of my older work is licensed GPL.

Intellectual property restrictions raise costs and keep people poor. 3D printers were $50,000+ until the patents expired, and now you can get a decent printer for $300. And books of course could be distributed for free. Every person on earth could be born in to great wealth if we simply allowed it.

Of course I do not advocate that we take income from hard working artists. Instead I advocate for a world where we make living so cheap that artists need little in the way of income for survival. Reducing intellectual property restrictions is one important factor in lowering the cost of living for all, and would make it easier for billions to benefit from the technologies people like me in the USA enjoy.

Supporting copyright means supporting the idea that we do not build a comprehensive library of all books accessible to all people. In contrast to the idea that every child born on earth should have access to a complete library of the written word, intellectual property advocates push for the impoverishment of the billions on earth who cannot pay tithing to book publishers and movie studios. It's quite the bold position to take.
Cool! How does your software compare to other similar tools like BigPanda, Moogsoft, Splunk ITSI?
so, is there any open-source alternative including a login manager and preferably supporting accelerated graphics - xrdp is no solution you can sell anyone today just from the looks of it? I suppose the state of this affair is, what is really killing Desktop-linux deployment - to my knowledge you can't setup a VDI-infrastructure a la Windows Terminal Server at all without buying into Citrix or various other vendors (at which any "clients can be cheaper with Linux" argument is just obliterated)
So you immerse and get the idea while skipping on the details and then you address the details. I will try this. I find that I usually go full force, get the idea then rarely come back to notes if I take any. It’s a bad habit that makes me a very poor communicator because I missing the labels. If I undwrstand something thoroughly that can form a metaphor, I can play with it in my head which kindof helps cement the idea.

Similarly, for programming I understand comcepts better by playing with some code rather than dryly following line by line on the text. I think it depends on the book, I found myself reading form SICP without much interruption. It’s a certain pace that I enjoy
Not me personally. I have two friends that did.

One is a project manager for a small construction firm. Last time we had lunch together he told me the industry is ripe for some good software, but the owners don’t want to buy it. He started working on a free and open source tool.

The other ran so far away from software none of us are sure where he went. He’s vanished off of all social media and only occasionally answers texts.
It’s true that pixels aren’t most accurately modeled as squares, but they should still be centered at (0.5, 0.5), because you want the center of mass of a W×H pixel image to be at exactly (W/2, H/2) no matter what shape the pixels are. Otherwise it shifts around when you resize the image—perhaps even by much more than 1 pixel if you resize it by a large factor.
The exploit used a modified video which caused Tails' video player to reveal the user's real IP address. Does anyone know how that could be done? Does the video contain a redirect of some kind to an url that causes a bypass?
I'm not entirely convinced that these highly-debatable "micro-aggression" corporate PR articles coming out are written in good faith. There is obvious, systemic aggression occurring. Articles like these seem to be planted to create comments like yours, which detract from the real issue at hand.
Two fascinating observations I've seen others have point out that are worth pondering:

- One of the first things they did after seizing six city blocks is setting up a border and controlling who enters the CHAZ

- How would the media have reacted if right-wing groups had commandeered several city blocks of any American city?

This is super interesting to watch unfold.
Optimizing Roblox: Vulkan Best Practices for Mobile Developers
Has anyone noticed a substantial rise in people noticing skin colour ?
If you’re going to abandon REST design principles, then you’ll eventually end up with something that pretty much does what GraphQL does. At that stage why not just adopt a more fit-for-purpose set of design principles?

Keep in mind that I’m only really advocating for it as a query language for HTTP APIs (which as a side benefit has some nice existing tooling which you may or may not find useful).
Movies next please! Ban Django Unchained, Moonlight, Australia, Zulu, In Embrace of Serpent, The Fellowship (orcs, elves, dwarves, oh my!), The Cabaret, La Dolce Vita, Black Hawk Down...
I thought R&D was mostly research so I found his comment clarifying.
With Google taking 32%-49% of ad spends [1], and perhaps even more as AdMob appears to be undisclosed (although let's assume in this range), if competition could cut this take in half while maintaining equal targeting efficiency, we might see an explosion in growth of niche businesses. If the cost reduction resulted in a 50-50 split between higher publisher revenue and decreased ad costs, then that ~12-24% higher revenue plus 9-16% advertising cost reduction would make a ton of businesses with LTV:CAC ratios on the margins vastly more profitable. Even more importantly, they would be able to reinvest earnings on a far tighter cycle back into their businesses.

The vast, vast majority of young businesses do not have access to institutional capital, fueling their growth through positive unit economics. Relatively small changes in costs and revenue relative to margins can have huge effects. For example, an ad-based business with $1 CAC and $2 LTV, where 50% of the LTV is earned over the first 12 months, 25% in the first 3 months, takes a year to see it's ad spend returned and break even, at which point it can reinvest that dollar for new customers and start the cycle again.

With 15% lower ad costs and 20% higher revenue, the LTV:CAC becomes $0.85:$2.40, and assuming the same earnings-curve, at three months in $0.60 has been earned, and $0.85 in under five months. That means this business, and those like it, are suddenly able to grow at over 2x the rate as they could prior to such a breakup.

As much as many people hate advertising, it is still one of the primary channels for people's wants/needs (often unknown) to get matched to supply, and thus removing a monopoly and increasing the efficiency of this matchmaking could stimulate explosive growth in new and existing products and services that can't currently cost-effectively reach their customers. Ultimately, this would be a great benefit to everyone.

As a final note, this is relatively loose thinking and doesn't account for second-order effects like increased ad spend competition with increased revenue, but I think still an interesting thought to get out there, as I think the gist of it still holds.

[1] https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/180195?hl=en
I definitely did immediately after seeing this. Being neither an academic nor representing a recognizable name brand company, I don’t know if I should have my hopes up too high for getting access soon, but I certainly hope so. I’d love to play around with this and push its limits for some creative hackathon-style side projects!

Just wanted to add:
It’s amazing all the negativity in this discussion. Whatever happened to the creative tech community who loves to push boundaries? Isn’t that still part of the hacker ethos, isn’t this still hacker news? Just because a tool has the potential to be used for bad doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be excited to find new ways to use it for good.
This only makes sense for prioritizing the performance of individual processes, not scheduling a system of cooperating processes.
>It's sad to see the law moving further and further in favor of corporations either way

Are they? Or are companies just becoming more careful when it comes to the letter of the law?
Article from 2018. I imagine most compilers etc. have already accounted for this?
It seems you've done your homework choosing Vue.js and narrowing down the backend choices.

I myself know/use way too many languages/frameworks. I do very (most?) often choose Vue/Go and stongly recommend this combo. I also use Ruby/Rails at my day job.

Go is mature enough but isn't as comprehensive as the Rails ecosystem. Rails is a good framework but still has a deep learning curve. Most of your back-end will be simple database/json requests. It's easier to be self-sufficient with Go, with Rails I always feel like I'm using so many things I don't fully understand.

There will be enough Go libraries for doing the common things you will want to do.
JSMidi: Make Music with JavaScript
What is wrong with selling technology?!
This is one of those things where a surprising fact isn't astounding, but just makes me think the definitions are badly chosen. After all -- of course if you pick definitions in weird ways, you get weird results.

In this case, yes, it is true almost-everywhere, meaning that there the set of points where it is untrue has measure 0. And yet intuitively the function is increasing and so we ought to define "having a derivative" in such a way that shows that it is increasing. All this definition has done is crammed all of the increasing-ness into points that are vanishingly rare, so you can't find them. But they still exist, per _my_ definition of increasing!

I would instead choose to define "having a derivative != 0" in a different way, that captures the idea that, over any interval I choose, the function changes. Nevermind that the function becomes constant as I zoom in to a point. All that shows is that evaluating at points must not be a great way of modeling this.

Of course I'm not sure if that works exactly. But this is the reason I can't get enthusiastic about analysis: it seems like a bunch of silly definitions with silly consequences, with little relation to the actual mathematics of our universe that I care about.
There are literally tens of thousands of M:TG cards. Removing seven of them is hardly "ruining" the game.

Besides -- most of the cards being removed had already been out of print since the 1990s. They were effectively irrelevant to most players.
Legit excited about this: Maidsafe release SAFE Network Testnet Vaults from home
After the release of the Baby Fleming shared section 6 Maidsafe have been designing, planning and implementing some new features that take the network forward on the road to beta. After a number of internal testnets they say they are now happy to announce the first testnet (in a long time) with vaults from home.
that's funny :)
Why is it not justified, beyond a moral belief? Seems rational that people would strive to make as much money as possible.
I live down the block. Anyone can wander in. If you're a local politician or an unfriendly news org you might be yelled at by protestors, but that shouldn't be a surprise.
The best information on this topic I’ve come across is contained in Mortimer Adler’s “How to read a book”.

Highly recommended if you’re doing any non-fiction reading.
Yes, same basic concept. Display a fill-in form to guide the user in filling out the command parameters. The main difference is that the OS/400 display a text mode form (5250 block mode terminal form), whereas PowerShell Show-Command and MPW Commando are both GUI tools.
Arghh it's that site with the "Yes I love humans" / "No I'm not human" popup obscuring the screen after a few seconds again. It's kind of cute, but my natural response to that is back button. I don't know what it's trying to say. Can't be just me it puts off like that. What a shame, it seemed like a fascinating article.
EUA Authorized Serology Test Performance
Those asks seem pretty incompatible with property law and the legislative process. You can't just unilaterally demand something like rent control and de-gentrification measures. The city government shouldn't even have (and probably doesn't have) the power to meet such demands.
Maybe an area you want to carve out an exception for are benchmarking tests; i.e. tests that ensure that a function runs faster/slower than a certain speed. In this case, you probably need more than 100ms of testing for accurate results.

For example, password checking functions should be slow, and extremely hot/performance sensitive functions should be fast.

Of course, you should have fairly wide margins to avoid flakes.
Sure! Changed from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFRWDuduuSw.
You might look at what Jamie Dupree has done.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/15/health/dystonia-jamie-dupree-...

He uses a text-to-speech system that sounds more-or-less like him.
I relistened to snippets from the course and I think my previous comment about banning for most of history was wrong though the title still right.

I was thinking of the formation of the Kings Company and Dukes Company but they were after not before this. From what I've gathered from relistening to snippets from the course and a bit of Googling the actual answer is lack of demand. London was abandoned for hundreds of years after the Romans left, then there wasn't a big interest in the arts for a long time because of other priorities like being regularly sacked/plagues/etc. I do know theatres were still kept out of the city proper once they started popping up but I can't find why other than again fear of plague.
Its called middle management, the backbone (or bane) of any bigger comnpany. Guys up there have no clue about average joe the coder/doer/whatever, maybe a vague view on distribution of teams. Anyway if you don't earn cash to the company, you are just a necessary cost (which state is to be evaluated often)
My “typical” side project is making wordclocks [0]. But my neighbor is a dentist and needed a sneeze shield for his office reception counter. So he and I came up with a design for a wooden sneeze shield stand. I’ve since put them on Etsy [1] and sold more than $1k worth in the last month.

I use some of the tools I bought for making my clocks. It makes me feel good to be able help a few small businesses.

[0] http://www.finewordclocks.com

[1] http://finewordclocks.etsy.com
For me, XPRA has been a revelation for how I use Linux remotely. It's the GUI version of the "screen" command.

For those who haven't used it and want to try it, you install "xpra" on your Linux box with "yum" or "apt", then fire up an xpra server with "xpra start" (or "nohup xpra start &"), then make a note of which extra display it has added (like ":1"). It's not replacing the display manager (as far as I'm aware).

Download a windows client from xpra.org, then connect through SSH. Once connected, you get a small icon in the Windows taskbar with lots of menu options. Under the "Start" option, you have sub-menus which give you access to all the Linux desktop programs on the target machine.

For example, I use XPRA to connect to my Ubuntu 20.04 laptop and run "Start -> Accessories -> Terminal Emulator". It opens an XFCE4 terminal on my Windows desktop, looking as if it was a native Windows application. In the terminal, I can type "thunar" and a new Thunar file manager window will open on the Windows desktop, or "xemacs" for a text editor.

It's very fast because it's only sending 1 window at a time, not the whole desktop. I can disconnect, then re-connect and the windows will re-appear as I had left them.

It's not perfect (some dialog boxes don't respond to mouse clicks), but it is worth playing with.
The biggest challenge when superstar engineers become executives that I've seen is they need to switch from being the person with all the answers to the person with all the questions.

Failure to make that switch leads to dysfunctional organizations.
White is the color of death in (tribal) Africa, because people are afro-Africans and skeletons are caucasian-colored.
I've been using a bungie chair from Container Store. It's not super fancy, but, surprisingly, hasn't been causing much pain.
It’s only a bad habit if you don’t go back later and make sure you grok it.

Reading through can give you an understand of the larger picture of what the author is saying which can help you when you go back and re-read the part that you stumbled on. This might be especially true if you feel like it’s a point where it’s gotten too unwieldy or complex. That may be a sign you don’t yet have the necessary basis or metaphor for the idea as presented.
Define diversity?
The name and art for Pradesh Gypsies wasn't the problem. The card text was the issue -- it had an ability which could temporarily reduce the strength of an opponent's card, invoking the stereotype of a thieving gypsy.
You seem pretty sure of that.

How do explain all the people that have those things Raz didn’t and are still assholes?