skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, the cynic in me wants to write "New Age web designers are stumped by lack of analytics while still refusing to look at their HTTP server log data."

I remember when the ONLY analytics were those you could derive by analyzing your http logs. Which have useful information in them. Things like source IP address (which can be geo tagged), a bunch of HTTP headers (which are full of information too), and a timestamp which tells you when it came in and from where. Not to mention session cookies which take zero javascript to implement.

I've been retooling my site slowly to only use these analytics (less the cookies) because I value people's privacy while browsing as much as my own. During the transition I've been comparing what I can pull out of the logs vs what Google's analytics gives me. Sure, Google can do wonders, especially if the person is coming from a browser where they are logged into Google. But, as the article points out, they miss everyone running noscript and/or other privacy enhancers like Privacy Badger from EFF.

I don't feel like I'm going to miss the Google added insights.
You'll need a separate ip address for each device then correct?
Winner’s Take All by Anand Giridharadas has a few chapters dedicated to B-corps. The issue isn’t that the b-corps themselves are bad, but that relying on a few good companies to fix the problems in the world isn’t going to work, because the bad actors will always more than make up for it.

Taking climate change as an example: 100 b-corps going carbon-neutral aren't going to offset the damage Exxon causes to the environment.

You can say we just need to wait until consumers change their behavior and let the market sort it out, but isn’t that exactly what we’ve been trying and failing to do? At this rate it’s all but certain that climate change won’t be solved via market solutions.

What’s better is forcing the bad actors to stop doing bad. Fighting to pass a carbon tax regulation or a green new deal is what we need, and bandaids like b-corps are often a distraction that tricks people into thinking we can consume our way out of the problem.
What framework do you use? I guess not Spring.
The top wealth tax rate is definitely higher than 0.3% in Switzerland. In Zurich it's up to 0.7%.

There is no capital gains tax for private long-term investments in Switzerland (with the exception of real estate). However, dividends are normally taxed the same as income from employment.
Small typo: "All metrics are based on visits, which is a browser [season] at a given day."
What?

He's obviously talking about the person in different contexts.

The person is a friend to them, but they are also a someone, and for Apple they are a customer.
I didn't know much about Steam before I bought the VIVE and yes, it's actually a very nice platform. One thing that isn't apparent - you can return any game for a full refund within a certain (fair) amount of time owned and/ or you don't exceed some (also fair) time-of-play amount.

It makes me more likely to try a game on a whim knowing and if it's not for me I can refund it without hassle. Great way to handle it, I currently own close to 100 VR titles and have refunded at least 20+ that just weren't for me.
We're so desperate for network transparency that we're abusing hypertext web browsers as application platforms, because how else can a machine in a datacenter put a GUI on an end user's screen today?
Yup, I do own a few! :)

That's very true that they're mostly obscure domains, but that doesn't make them any harder to buy. Most domain registrars will show you all or most possible TLDs that are available for your domain.

You are right though, it is something that would be harder for users to remember than a traditional TLD, but then again, it's only four letters... so I don't know. But still, I use mine for configuring servers or whatever other little thing I need (making incredibly short hostnames, email addresses, URLs, etc.), so I figured many others would do the same... but I guess not.
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He was pretty young and didn't have professional experience at large companies. I think naivety is a reasonable explanation.
Retirement benefits were always a terrible deal; no one should be putting all of their eggs in one basket. We should enable people to simply and easily save for their own retirement, without banking on totally-unrealistic rates of return that are never going to materialize.
> but it will do nothing to prevent the next company who knows nothing about you from trying to hoodwink you again

But what it does means is you won't leave until you get a good deal. And when's the last time someone left a good deal for a bad one?
Of course they are addicted to apple brand. People accessor-ize apple products. A lot of people buy apple because it is aspirational, same reason people buy skins in games and many times neither can really afford to spend that kind of money.

> Apple sells a $399 phone that is faster than any Android phone at any price.

Google Pixel 3A is similarly priced product , it has higher resolution(2220x1080 / 1337x750) better camera (12.2+8 / 12+7), lighter(147g / 148g), larger(5.6inch/4.7inch), larger battery, better processor, a headphone jack (like the jack or not, not having it means you need airpods headset easily another $150 compared to $20-30 I can spend on a wired headset.

And this is 2020 SE which Apple will typically for sell for next three years . Other competitors would have two more upgrades stretching the gap a lot more by 2022 when Apple will sell 2020 SE at the same price.

You can perhaps argue that form factor, processor or battery is actually better in Apple, but any objective reasonable metric Apple SE is not significantly better than similar android phones.

Apple is forced to deal with streaming companies, because they are not a large enough player, with big enough catalogue to dictate terms. Apple needs to license content from the same studios for themselves too, they screw over hulu, Apple TV is going to be screwed right back.
Ah,I replace the siding of the house, after adding more insulation. Besides being busy with physical work as a distraction, I try to focus on what my wife and my kids want me to do.

So maybe go help someone renovate a house?
>It's unfortunate that CMake is the least bad build system we have. You should probably still use CMake for multi-platform code. You shouldn't expect people to learn some obscure rival build-system just to work on your code.

What little C I write I compile with Makefiles, but I've seen many new C projects on Github using meson. It look better than cmake at a glance, and at this point in time isn't obscure either.
This is bad and will never allow the person to be free.

Merely the fact that an "alter ego" is needed points to the fact that the person experiences fear and anxiety towards something.

If he needs an alter ego to overcome that it is supression/dissociation. This will ensure that this person will never be free of it.

This only looks good on the surface, but in reality this will emprison the person for life.

Those who wish to come to the root of the issue will find many answers here:

Alice Miller: The Drama of the Gifted Child

Alice Miller: The Body Never Lies
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Facebook was also still taking a hands off with acquisitions like Instagram the time.
Sounds like an easy way to introduce a million loopholes and legalese trying to define research that is a “net positive” for a community.
Yes the line between "information leak" and "insider trading" sounds thin. Information leak sounds like a convenient excuse. The fact that the price jumped when the announcement was made, not when the leak first happened, shows the leak wasn't certain proof.
The Russians have a literal "Manchurian Candidate" in the White House, who is openly murmuring about a 3rd term and displaying openly totalitarian tendencies.

A report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee that just came out today clearly demonstrated that Trump received extensive and unprecedented levels of help from the Russians to get into office.

The Chinese are walking, talking examples of the book 1984 -- but that doesn't mean Russia shouldn't be focused on either.
That Pew study you cited is from 2012. It's an interesting read, for sure, but do you have any more recent studies? It seems that some factors that dampen economic mobility have been worsening since then[1] and the wealth gap has grown significantly since then, especially between the top 5% and the rest of us[2]

[1] https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2...
[2]https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-...
"funding other people's lives" is not enough? When the shipbuilder fires people, and the engine maker fires people and Larry fires the maintenance people who will fund them?
Are you implying this isn't important or impactful because he's a low-level employee?
Need to make a heavy criticism on the article but: Maybe don't link the competitor's trends page as trustworthy information?

Google's been known to artificially demote industries/products they don't like and promote the crap out of their own. I am not asserting that it's the case here but it could be the case and non-shit journalism wouldn't ask a biased party for market data on their competitor.
unless you flex your cryptoanarchist power and enshrine strong encryption into your architecture. what WhatsApp did. make it costly for the new owner to change their minds.
"Whether it corresponds to reality is not something that we know."

Given the operational stuctures have been followed through, it does correspond to the real world. The work done shows that very clearly - and the corona virus pandemic plus 30 years of Japan is corroborating evidence.

Remember a theory is a hypothesis with supporting evidence. Hence the theory of evolution.

Of course you'll be able to counter that scientific research if you know better.
FWIW it's quite simple to make fake IDs that pass FB verification. Not that I support making FB accounts, even fraudulent ones. I'd like to see a class action privacy suit, because in conjunction with their real names policy, FB is forcing identity disclosure simply to use hardware.
That's just who has better PR (been longer at it)
I'm reminded of this blog post from 2014. The predictions made here so far have basically all held true 6 years later.

http://assayviaessay.blogspot.com/2014/03/virtual-spaces-rea...

This action feels really connected to the coming Horizon virtual world thing -- which coincidentally is also predicted in the blog post linked above.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/25/facebook-horizon/
Some supervisors are threatened by someone's expertise, look for a reason to fire them, find one, get the support of management and take it to an HR hearing. This is one reason why a good HR department is required, and the lack of them can be a problem for the unwary (or opportunity for the psychotic) at a smaller outfit. They will / should defend the company against a news story of employee bullying.
I think focusing on “self-made” is a red herring. No one is truly self-made. The point is, a good portion of the top wealthy people were not born into families of the top wealthy people, 1 generation ago.
Doesn't OpenJDK solve your worries about JVM and Oracle being litigious?
That was my reaction as well. Also, a lot of the most interesting corporate research these days is done by quasi-monopolies like Facebook and Google.
All I can say is whatever, man. The semantic web and all the RDF tuple goodness we were supposed to get is mostly a dead dream. Make whatever works for your users. Accept that things aren't going to be pure and perfect. If tables gets me to where I need to be, then that's what I'll use. Worked 20 years ago, works now, will work 20 years from now too.
Corporations still do invest large sums of money into long-term projects: most acquisitions as well as buildings are amortised over a decade or so, which is about the time-frame I would expect research to have, on average. Airplane and car development also comes to mind.

So I believe the complaint about "short-termism" has become a bit too popular. It's great to prop up your bona-fides as a cynic. It's less good at explaining actual behaviour.

Instead, I believe research has simply become less profitable over time. The decades from about 1920 into the 1980 were a time of extraordinary rapid successes in the hard sciences: the scientific method had been established, and industry, finance, law, transport, and communications all made sudden jumps into modernity, allowing scientific institutions as we know them today to exist.

If you read about the history of physics, for example, you'll see photos of the entire class of 192x at some German university, and every single person on the photo later won a Nobel or had at least some minor unit named after them.

We have continued to improve institutions, infrastructure, and our ability to broaden the chance to get into the sciences. But, unfortunately, it's almost a rule of nature that progress slows over time. That's sort-of soothing, actually, because it means we aren't entirely incapable of prioritising easier thing.

Government-sponsored research can continue at higher prices. But private, for-profit endeavours have a very specific point where expected returns turn negative.
There is some tooling around this that makes it a little less painful, for example with okta i use a tool [0] that i only have to worry about once a day usually, and it's not as painful as okta's own tooling.

However, it does require some understanding, standardization, and general competence from those around you as well.

[0] - https://github.com/jmhale/okta-awscli
Isn't it just a re-skinned Chrome?
Good advice in other comments. If you are looking two years out you have a lot of time to get experience. The summary here is write code, learn about some existing open source projects, try to make some contributions, and work on your English communication skills.

1. Higher level English skills are really important, for both understanding the requirements and getting work. If you can read and write well enough to be on hacker news that might be a good indicator.

2. I have an impression that some frontend jobs are in higher demand in terms of numbers of jobs and maybe less technically demanding, might be better for beginner jobs. But frontend (ui) and backend are pretty different. I imagine frontend could take more personal interaction to adjust things, which emphasizes English skills even more.

3. Backend jobs are going to require more understanding of systems concepts (like OS, C++ and Java concepts); this is not a knock on UI, it's just different things are emphasized. There may be more opportunity to do longer duration work on backend.

4. You've got two years to build up your experience and resume. Programming contests look nice on a resume, try creative problem solving (i.e. maybe do a coding problem a day (or 2-3 a week), start on easy ones.

5. A lot of programming is looking at existing old and giant ugly code bases. Finding an existing open source project or two and making some pull requests to add new things is a great resume & experience building. This can be hard and time consuming though.

6. Your resume and experience will be crucial, that first job can be hard to get. Especially at the beginning think about what you get out of a job in terms of resume building, it's not just money and experience.

7. Ultimately, your ability to write code and read the code in existing systems are the things that will power your career.

8. Be professional. Don't get in flame wars on your public profile or github account, don't attack people's religion, race, ideology, country, gender, etc. If you don't understand something, ask questions, don't flame people. "Can you explain this (whatever thing), I don't understand the problem" goes a long way to establishing you will be a good person to work with.

Good luck! This is a lot of stuff, but you have two years, just work toward these things.

(edit - formatting)
No. I'm not going to give them what they want. There needs to be a lawsuit.
There's no realistic escaping planet Earth. Indeed this is a reason so many wealthy people become philanthropists. When someone truly has enough wealth to be free of any monetary anxiety, their concerns tend towards survival/preservation. Both of self and sometimes of humanity. It's ultinately self serving, in that they recognize that humanity's problems can negatively impact their own situations. Broad economic, societal, and environmental failures are probably the biggest risks to their powerful positions. And some do indeed look to ways to escape planet Earth.

I'm not saying that governments don't need to act, just pointing out that the motivations of the wealthy may not be what you expect.
I'm not sure if this is true for the G700s, but many other Logitech mice store the configuration on the device itself, which lets you configure it once and then get rid of the software or use it on computers or OSes where you've never installed the software. This is true for my G502.
I recently switched from using Chrome to Firefox. Next on my list is probably to try to wean myself off of using Google search. Getting my email off gmail is going to be harder and not sure what the best way to do that is.
> It wasn't economical to develop those.

It was, if you run the numbers. There's over a billion of cases of common cold in the US alone every year, people have it 3-6 times a year, every year. The economic loss is insane. If you want to target just the coronaviruses for starters, 20% of common cold is caused by them. People with comorbidities and weak immune systems die from common cold too. And yet we don't have a vaccine. Nor do we have a vaccine against HIV for example. Vaccines are hard to do for some things, and C19 could easily be one of such things. What I find especially pernicious is that people don't realize that it's _not going away_, ever. It's going to be seasonal now.
What if I told you that there are people who make "web applications" that aren't beautiful or "designer" quality?
More like the walled garden Apple App Store approach. Except this time it's a company with a bad track record of tracking you.

Steam is already the Steam of VR, btw. They have the flagship title (Alyx) and Oculus exclusives aren't necessarily compelling enough to make it a deal breaker.
This is the kind of thing I'm talking about with unmentioned externalities.

Biking is the most energy-efficient form of transportation, if you ignore the fact that to get such a result you have to make bikes and make steamrollers and concrete mixers and tarmac and roads first.

> Another relevant answer to why biking is useful is that it extends the range of accessible daily activities around 10x compared to walking. You can bike further than you can walk in a given period of time.

But not 10x compared to walking + bus or walking + taxi or walking + train, and not without added inconvenience of biking; and also not if you've built your environment so plenty of daily activities people want are close enough to comfortably walk to.

> So one of those hidden externalities you like to account for @jodrellblank, of walking vs biking is that walkers require more food consumption to sustain a daily commute of a given distance compared to bikers commuting the same distance.

And walkers require paying more taxes for the infrastructure to subsidise bikers.
LoginRadius might be able to point you in the right direction
> Hiring devs has some big advantages, but also a lot of disadvantages too

I'm curious on what or those from your point of few.

From the disadvantage point I can see: It won't be easy to figure out what they should work on. I think if you have a foundation which has sponsors that pay for dev-time, those might also want to see the issues and features prioritized that they are interested in. However devs might have different desires on what they want to work on. That's kind of true for every environment, but I guess it might even be more true in an environment like Rust which attracts a high amount of smart, creative and passionate people.

Now this can obviously be dealt with via project management. But I think that still might not exactly be what some of the Rust contributors hoped to get out of a foundation (getting paid for working on stuff they like).
I would love to run a university course like this, but I am too afraid of getting the Nintendo banhammer half way through the year.
The technology behind Filecoin is very impressive. I can’t wait for the mainnet to be released so I can continue to use S3 as I always have. :)
Assume 0.1% wealth tax applied after 1 billion in wealth.

Sell your startup for 1billion.

Put it into market returning 7% for 60 years.

You'll pay 779 Million in taxes.

Your money will earn nearly $50 billion in that time.

That is 1.51904% of your wealth.
Interesting. How mature is Pony?

Is it used in production?
We are far too stupid to not fall for scams. It's better that the government "protects" us. /s

Seriously though, this is messed up. Crypto is similar - CoinMarketCap has a program where you can earn tokens by watching a few videos, but look at the list of restricted countries: "Belarus, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Mainland China, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, United States of America and its territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands), Zimbabwe."

Why the f are we on a list with Cuba, Iraq, Iran, China, North Korea, and Syria??? America is not free
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I think you have some very distorted concept of democracy. I don't know any definition which includes voting by where you shop.

Also I note that the strategy to paint the political class (as opposed to e.g. the business class or some "new" political class) as all corrupt is a common strategy by totalitarians to undermine democratic processes.
I was referring to physical space. I work on a macbook, game on windows, but I'm still sitting in the same chair for either task :)
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PostgREST links are broken. Here is the correct link: http://postgrest.org/en/v7.0.0/
Unless he put the promise in the sell contract, in which case he can sue Facebook and stop them from doing this nasty move, he should be getting all the blowback he's getting and more.
Is this a significant differentiator with GCP? I log into gcloud with the same identity used by the web console and the rest of Gsuite.

I read the article and wondered why they don’t simply grant object access to a group of users using their existing identity, but I’m not as familiar with AWS as I am with GCP.
Life on Mars will always suck hopelessly compared to life on Earth. It's a terrible cold desert where you can't breath.
Firebase's free tier is enough to run a small startup on. The 1GB database size is small, but if you're only storing simple structured text records rather than media it goes a long way.
A property tax is different from a wealth tax for several reasons. Wealth is constantly created and destroyed. Land, not so much. Wealth can be easily moved around the world. Land can't. Wealth can be hidden to evade taxes. Land is hard to hide.

These differences mean that a tax on wealth tends to encourage wealth flight, tax evasion, etc, while a tax on property tends to encourage more productive use of the land. For example: An empty lot in the middle of a city would be taxed based on its value, which would be quite high. The owner would be incentivized to either build something that creates value or sell it to someone else who would do the same.