skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's for consumers to decide.

> But for the vast majority of people, their educated decision is to use free services in exchange for personalized ads. They see it as a deal or else they wouldn't be doing it.

Again, these decisions need to be based on knowledge which they don't have.

> Are 99% of consumers suffering any actual harm? They see better personalized ads, and yes, people are mostly aware of how internet ads "follow" you because we've all shopped for something and then seen a billion ads for it.

Yes, Cambridge Analytica or Brexit are perfect examples of that.

Adtech, incl. programmatic advertising not only enables but incentivises sensationalist, emotion-driven and biased content.

This is due to the systemic issues within the industry and in itself is a wicked problem: different actors in the pipeline are motivated by different incentives. Think of the sales teams in adtech companies, publishers, publisher sales teams, brands, users... What motivates them how are they rewarded for their work?

Sales people talk in terms of budgets ("We just closed $X.000000!").
What do brands care about? How do you translate the budget into campaign effectiveness? There's so much lost in the process, which is not a secret.

Now, publishers don't like advertising but rely on it as a revenue stream. Different ways of monetising publishing content are possible but this would render the sales people working for publishers redundant and those people not only have mortgages to pay, kids to send to school, but generally are fairly influential within their orgs.

Finally we have the users who have... their lives to live. We have the elderly people falling into scams fueled by retargeting (if we're looking for extreme cases). How well informed/educated are they?

I don't need to understand the every single part of my car to drive it. I trust that it won't randomly explode when I start it. Why?

The points I'm trying to convey (poorly) are products of the conversations with people ranging from entry to CXO level at ad networks, publishers, non-profits, then readers/consumers. I worked on several sides of the problem (publishing, ad tech, privacy).

My opinion is that you grossly underestimate the impact of advertising on our society. We've grown used to it and learned to accept the current situation as a norm. Bear in mind that advertising in its modern form has its root in behaviourism and that's for a reason.

https://twitter.com/HKingaby
https://twitter.com/ka_iwanska
https://twitter.com/DrRESmith explains how complex networks of actors, including the algorithmic ones (i.e. social media), can be used to increase polarisation.
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/
Just moved to a mac and I'm having the same experience you had. Never had issues with Windows or various Linux distros. Currently I have a pretty absurd Karabiner config to work around some of the issues but I still haven't ironed them all out.

Home/End always worked for me on Windows and didn't work for me on mac until I did a ton of tweaking.
Thanks! I've added "Insert Guid" merely as an example of how to bind a custom C# script to a menu item or hotkey:

<hotkey name="InsertGuid" menuItem="Insert &amp;Guid" isScript="true">
<!-- this is an example of a C# scriptlet handler -->
<![CDATA[
await Host.FeedTextAsync(Guid.NewGuid().ToString("B").ToUpper(), Token);
]]>
</hotkey>
The Future of Work Project
Neither do they seem to work in desktop Nightly.
Sure, that might tell you how it’s going right now, but in the end you just care about the total impacted.

And looking in the last 3 days is misleading since we know the pandemic hits in waves, at different times, across different countries.
One of the (two) core assumptions that Einstein made with special relativity is absolutely that the speed of light in vacuum ("c"), is constant in every inertial reference frame/coordinate system. This has been borne out experimentally and the consequences of special relativity are seen every day at any particle accelerator (for e.g. time dilation of lifetimes of particles).

The full equation is:

E = mc^2 / sqrt(1 - v^2 / c^2)

This is coordinate/frame-dependent since it depends on speed. Here, m = mass of the particle which is also the same in every reference frame. You could define an effective mass as m' = m / sqrt(1 - v^2 / c^2) but that obscures the point imo.

To address your point directly, when you say "as the energy to mass ratio goes up, the speed of light goes up", that is just not true both mathematically and physically.
But then you can no longer look out the window without puking.
Your theory on Google reader is completely false. This fake news
Is this the first time a video or image content hosting platform has been banned at the host url level by Twitter?
Should have known better than to wonder into a conversation about watches.

I know nothing!
The awesome list for Prometheus alerts was super handy and it also served as a reference for our own ones.
You could just use a keyboard with a forward delete key, like the larger keyboards that Apple themselves sell. It turns out they work! If you don't have a keyboard with a forward delete key, having a shortcut to generate that code seems kind of handy to me. But complaining that Apple makes smaller keyboards that don't include that key while still offering the same functionality at the fairly trivial cost of having to use a modifier is, you know, also a choice!
Escher-Ize Your Mental Models: Munger's Latticework Is Not Enough
G7 would be perfect for me if only it had NFC. It seems you have to go into the 300$+ range to get NFC.

Is is really that expensive to add NFC, or is it a marketing thing where it's considered a premium feature for product differentiation?
I agree with you, people shouldn't be removed, ejected, forced to move, etc from a society based on their race or at all for any matter (though we kinda collectively agreed that that's okay for criminals? Separate discussion I guess.). What is evil is forcing people to do things against their will, period. But people wanting to be in groups similar to them isn't inherently evil, and I think we need to get past that in conversation. E.g. right now I would definitely prefer to be with people I share common nationality, interest, culture with.

I fear we're in dangerous territory where all such distinctions and nuance are lost in the shouting, essentially making us all "evil" in some way or another.
Docker also maintains an endpoint you can curl

curl -L https://get.docker.com | bash

does most of the repo / ppa adding for you
What came first, the chicken or the egg? Is brain drain causing the atrophy of salaries or are shit salaries pushing common sense individuals elsewhere?
When you dig into it more you realize the second law of thermodynamics is more of a statistical statement and doesn't have the same status as say the laws of quantum mechanics or relativity.

It's possible to create hypothetical situations where all of the must fundamental laws are being followed but the second law of thermodynamics is violated (for example if there are many more 'ordered' states than 'disordered' ones). And there is some vanishingly small chance that it will be violated in our universe for a macroscopically observable length of time.

In practice you won't go wrong by treating it as absolute.
They don't work in MS Word.
It's an interesting question. Rowling doesn't "need" to be so prominently wrong on trans matters. She's got nothing to defend. Harry Potter isn't an especially enlightened work when it comes to gender, but I've always imagined that she thought of it as reasonably progressive for its time and audience.

As a feminist of roughly Rowling's age, I do see the way the visibility of trans issues have called into question some of the things I used to believe. There seems to be an essential aspect of gender that I had dismissed as purely socially constructed -- only it's somewhere in the brain, not in the genitals. It's important to acknowledge people's true gender, rather than trying to dismiss it as a mere artifact of society.

I could imagine that being a difficult shift to make. That comes from a different place as old-school patriarchy. The article is absolutely right that, having staked out a position, people will prominently "weaponize ignorance" to defend it.

But I'm still unclear on exactly where Rowling is coming from. She seems to be fighting something that just doesn't benefit her. If she thinks she's still working for feminism along 1970s principles, she's alienating a lot of allies. Even if she were right, she would clearly need to listen more if so many people she admires are opposed.
> Why not simply ban people who have crossed the line this badly for this long?

They'll just make another account and start over.

By explaining what the person is doing wrong, maybe Dang can help them be a more productive member of the HN community.
This smells like typical google. I naively signed up for GSuite for my domain earlier this year. After a week of ticket tennis with their support, they couldn’t work out how to fix me hitting gmail and it instantly redirecting to the admin console.

Also they require £30 payment (well $30 dollars with no other info on how to pay it in any other currency) to allow your org to create YouTube accounts now for some reason otherwise it throws an error. This is a policy decision.

Whole thing feels like an incoherent poorly designed mess.

I use O365 now which actually works properly so fuck ‘em.
I hate LinkedIn gurus with a passion
Really the "avoiding work" is fundamentally a motivated lie because they don't want to pay period but especially not during the retail and tourist apocalypse that is covid-19. It is as usual incredibly short sighted and stupid as the impatient reopeners think if they ignore the fire it will just fizzle out and people will continue shopping like normal.
> Sometimes plain ~. just doesn't work, depending on what state your connection is in.

I can't imagine what state that would be. It should work even if the remote machine is completely unresponsive.
Turmoil, yes, but internalized to the corporations impacted. One of the major impacts of the financial crisis a decade ago was the massive increase in private equity ownership of real estate. Groups like Blackstone (BX), the largest residential landlord in the US, may take a hit. Not covered in the article (but referenced elsewhere on HN lately), you're seeing even worse trends in retail-focused commercial mortage backed security portfolios. REITS like Simon (SPG, a mall operator) have been cut in half since pre-COVID.

Your question, though, is presumably around whether we'd expect problems with systemically important banks. Highly unlikely, for two reasons:

First, regulatory changes to their capital structures largely prevent them from holding things like CMBS on their balance sheet unless they reserve significant amounts of capital against it. This is what facilitate the rise of private equity landlordship: banks exited the business.

Second (and this has, largely, already happened) the Fed and other central banks learned their lessons well, and were swift and comprehensive about backstopping the financial markets.
Those laws require Chinese companies to have ownership stakes, sometimes majority ownership stakes, if not explicitly then effectively. That isn't "equal access".
Handling Slow Queries on MongoDB
So, is this Microsoft's iteration of a more modern jQuery?

Forgive me if I don't get what's happening here. The coffee maker broke last night.
I used to follow a lot of reporters. Even if I agree with the reporting, I noticed that there was just too negativity in my stream that was overwhelming. Everything was just amplified every day and yeah, I agree it's an outrage generating machine. A couple of weeks ago I unfollowed a bunch of blue checkmark accounts (including many reporters), and have also found it's much more pleasant.
You really don't need any special for a computed property. I'd start with a simple getter:

class MyElement extends LitElement {
@property() value: number = 42;
get valueSquared() {
return this.value ** 2;
}
}

If the value is expensive to compute you can memoize it in the getter, or set it in update.
The shortcuts are meant for applications using readline or readline conventions (so tons of command line apps, but also lots of Cocoa apps).

Firefox and Word probably are not in that category (don't know, I use Chrome/Safari and Pages).
So is anybody floating the crazy idea of giving every reasonably healthy person a dose of the common cold as a poor man's vaccine?
Do you guys know if it's possible to generate self-standing C++ code from Julia code? (i.e., code that you can then compile into another project, and will not require any interpreter to run or anything like that)? And if it's possible do you know how good the generated code is (in terms of speed)?
Is it just me or is the first thing you want to to see and try the damn things out?

Ctrl+F "Demo" - nope.

I think I found them eventually under "Component Explorer" - but that's in the secondary nav and not in the main menu.
That's irrelevant tho, Excel isn't meant to be Outlook so why should it also be able to send email straightforwardly? The fact you're even able to send one thru VBA to me shows it is not "too simple for complex tasks", albeit probably ill-suited in this case (and many more, but that's besides the point).

And while the calculator might be marginally faster if you exclude start-time, Excel is still perfectly fine for your use-case it only requires to type one extra symbol than the calculator, namely "=1024*436[ENTER]". Hell, it's probably faster to do it in Excel if you already have an active window. I don't see how it could possibly fulfill the task in a simpler manner.

Is R a bad statistical tool because I can't use it as Photoshop?
Yeah, the title should be changed.
Super duper Orwellian given what we know about the NSA, GCHQ, GCSB, CSE, ASD and other Five Eyes shenanigans from Snowden.

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes#Organisations
I got an email yesterday reminding me to take care of my classic sites.

The converter theoretically converted the sites, but they went from being a perfectly useful, although basic looking site to looking fucked up and broken.

It’s an anti-feature to do this. It’s sort of free, so I can’t make too much of a complaint.

But it’s a reminder that nothing Google lasts. I just needed a simple list of google docs 10 years ago for a project. The saddest part is remembering how I felt to have that tool available to me back then. I never expected that Google would turn into whatever they are now.

“Organize the world’s information, in a Zip file, in a private cloud folder, making it not useful at all.”
> You can always come up with a sinister motivation for a good act.

You can also come up with a beneficial motivation for a sinister (or at least, not morally positive) act. (This is the one Google employs.) Google is a corporation, and it exists to extract money effectively from others to make it's shareholders rich.

If a corporation says it is doing something for the good of the public, it's because looking good has positive value for the corporate brand. To some degree, there is also value in convincing employees that they are benefiting society as well: They work harder and above requirements without you having to pay them more, and they'll defend and advocate for their employer on social media for free. ;) That, of course, also has a positive value for the corporate brand.

I definitely think the revealed internal emails (from all of Big Tech) will be exciting to see. It wasn't a surprise, for instance, but the emails about how Kindle purchases in iOS were shut down by Apple because of an Amazon ad about how Kindle books could come with you from iPhone to Android was very, very blunt.
Road to Genius: Beginner No.8
Are you arguing that the national intelligence agencies of the US are incapable to properly assess technical national security risks?

Or that it is completely impossible that any widely distributed proprietary software developed in China could pose any national security risks?
> it takes me about ten minutes to come up with a better plan?

Because your plan doesn't please campaign funds, interest groups, and voters in a bicameral legislature and a long electoral college selected President .... and skate past 200 years of federal and state laws.

There's a reason why Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin were able to achieve things quickly.
Title is misleading. The actual article headline is "Exploiting Android Messengers with WebRTC: Part 3"

Also, this exploit didn't just affect Signal (it affected Google Duo too, for instance), and it appears this has already been patched in Signal:

> This exploit was performed on Signal 4.53.6 which was released on January 13, 2020, as Bug 376 had already been patched in Signal by the time I finished the exploit. CVE-2020-6514 was also fixed in later versions, and ASCONF has also been disabled in usrsctp, so the code that caused Bug 376 is no longer reachable. Signal has also recently implemented a feature that requires user interaction for the WebRTC connection to be started when the caller is not in the callee’s contacts. Signal has also stopped using SCTP in their beta version, and plans to add this change to the release client once it is tested. The source for this exploit is available here.
Honestly, compared to the ongoing methane releases from some of the worst offending dams, the concrete emissions are negligible.
Nikola discloses its only revenue source: building solar panels for its founder
Except this is not for password hashing.

Why is this so difficult to grasp.
No AirBNB was/is getting CRUSHEd in china because the monopoly power of the companies already present. You have to understand that competition in China is like a childrens playground, with the CCP being the parents.

They will choose the winners and losers, but they will do so by balancing their own metrics, which has China's economic power as no.1 priority.

Only know is Airbnb doing more OK, after moving servers to china, making local joint ventures, changing their name to a chinese one etc. etc.
I read that small businesses' ad spending account for over 90% of Facebook revenue.

If there is one thing you don't want to be right now, it is a small business owner fighting to bring employees back to work in an unsafe environment while operating at reduced capacity. What's the incentive for the employee to return to work? Jim Cramer said it well on CNBC when he asked how he can compete with the federal government to bring people back to work:

https://youtu.be/qG_Nq7kIojI?t=367

This is Jim Cramer we are talking about. He can probably even afford to overpay (and outbid the federal government) for a while to bring back his restaurant staff. Regular small businesses don't enjoy such advantages.

When these small businesses start rolling over one by one, there will just be a lot fewer small businesses left. And those who do survive will probably shrink their ad budgets.

I once heard a funny comment: Google shows you ads for stuff you know you want to buy. Facebook shows you ads for stuff you didn't know you want to buy (search intent of course). I would say search intent will drive ad spend for the foreseeable future. Plus, if it is a secular bear market for small businesses, ad rates on Google would also come down for those small businesses which do make it out alive at the end of COVID.
They were but fixes didn't make it downstream.

> This research showed that many applications fall behind with regard to applying security updates to WebRTC. Bug 376 was fixed in September of 2019, yet only two of the 14 applications analyzed had patched it.
I can recommend Peter Smith as an author; I was part of a small reading group with him while we were all getting to grips with Cambridge's Part III Introduction to Category Theory, and he's definitely good at identifying the difficult bits and breaking them down.
It says that the jobs and/or payment are bad enough that people would procrastinate actually taking them when unemployment is sky high.
If it were so, how is it possible for the Google employees to tell them apart?
Trying to explain inequality or arguing about the performance of current practices are by no mean justification of anything.

Also, it's important to remember that he was fired. And this is central to the whole thing.

IDK, that may be viewed differently from the US, but from my pov it's clear that he was persecuted because of ideological reasons, painting Google as a reactionary organization.

And that's specially bad because Google is extremely powerful. Another stone in the bucket to mistrust Google.
I was looking at the code it looks optimized, will do a couple of tests later maybe combining this as the main webcomponent controller with something like tailwind css makes sense, but just using this plain look and feel I don't think it's viable at this moment but it's a good structural start I would say. Was looking forward to do this with lit so maybe I might test this and see how the code looks, from a code output perspective it looks promising let us see this with something like snowpack.
Till now Lit looks a lot easier to use and all let us see how it goes.
To my understanding, the point of this system is not actually how its default component looks or how rich the default components set are. It's to provide a framework to create Custom HTML Elements (which are browser native?) that we can re-use across projects with different front-end frameworks.

e.g., Creating a React Button component using Fast Button like this:

`const ReactButton = () => <fast-button>Button</fast-button>`
It's important to remember that (at least as I understand it) gravity is a unique force in that we don't have a quantum explanation for it, unlike the other fundamental forces. Figuring this out will probably be important to or related to understanding the mystery of dark matter.
Make your own water filter and never buy drinking water again
Yep. If these same fishermen will break into your country and then break into your house, it will be a bit late to enforce law. Dozens of wars we know started this way.
The 10^25 stated in the article may be mistakenly using the very similar number for joules of energy created each second by the sun (10^25).

Could they also be using a number for a specific type of neutrino?
We need to be making it possible for people to earn a living safely. We need to be focused on creating new work opportunities that work in the current climate.

This "waiting for things to return to normal" looks pretty dumb to me. I think the stimulus checks and other relief funds are smarter than just throwing a third of Americans out into the street, but it's not really a long term solution. A long term solution is the economy needs to adapt and we need to create work opportunities and reshape work with more of an eye towards germ control.

I've been trying to write down some of my thoughts about how we move forward in a sensible way. For example:

Earlier this year I wrote about a work opportunity I know of and about my opinion that this model should be borrowed for other kinds of work. That piece is here:

http://writepay.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-textbroker-solution...

I also wrote about my thought that more eateries need a contactless takeout option similar to Little Caesar's pizza portal:

https://projectsro.blogspot.com/2020/07/pizza-portal.html

I'm very frustrated at the kinds of things I see other people saying. We need to stop framing this as an either/or thing: Either we protect ourselves from the virus or we go back to work.

We need to do both. We need to figure that out. We aren't even trying. This assumption that we need to choose one or the other is part of the problem. It's not true.
Last fully intact ice shelf in Canadian Arctic collapses