skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why is it no easier with bundles? If I have a template with `<script src="{adtrackername}.js"/>` that I render into a web bundle on each request (relatively cheap), then each bundle can have random url names with no issues.
Good, but I am unaware of any good solution to the endemic AfPak area. This is IMHO a mirror of world trends: Africa seems to be getting better (if slowly), but parts of Asia are slipping behind. It's possible that the program is in an undeclared race: Can we eliminate polio before these areas get even worse?
Its the concept of the long tail. I miss

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-ua-on-...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/top-and-botto...

Without these three, its jarring to use Firefox for me. But there is no other user in the world with my browsing habits. After including the most used extensions, Mozilla is showing no interest in getting more extensions. It's quite frustrating.
> Code should be correct by construction, not correct by coincidence.

Glad we agree, if you're aware of how your compiler handles these things, you can construct it to be correct in this way.

It won't be portable at all (even to the next patch version of the compiler), I would never let it pass a code review, but that doesn't sound like an issue that's relevant here.
I'm suggesting let google run some root resolvers.

Not to rain on the sob story, but netflix, amazon and google probably pump out orders of magniture more bytes then these requests.

It's axiomatic. If my session makes 3 512 byte requests when I start browsing, and then I watch 10 youtube videos at 2K, then a netflix movie at 4K, how in the WORLD is the bandwidth from the 3 512 byte requests crushing infrastructure?

And if it is, let google or amazon or someone with a clue run the infra. Seriously - this makes no sense that THIS is the bandwidth killer out there. Apple updates - sure, those are monsters and a ton of people get them. DNS packets are pretty small by contrast.
In my language, evidence and proof translate to the same word: "bewijs".
Also interesting that the combination of bundling and signing would seem to make the GPL relevant to the web in a far more toothful way.
It's pretty reasonable for a CEO of a company this size to earn that much, especially when >70% of that compensation is in options.

Doubly so when the core business driver is government connections.
WebBundles can't hide content any more than a regular server can, and blockers can block individual resources from a bundle like they can individual URLs from a server.
>Software projects with our nation’s defense and intelligence agencies, whose missions are to keep us safe

Too bad the only government department concerned with that is the Department of Energy, and last I checked Palantir isn't a contract partner running any of the national labs.
All the specifications are on Sci-Hub.
Never has the phrase "first-world problems" been so applicable.
> But who's to say that Apple has your interests in mind, and not their own, and makes a choice for you that is actually detrimental to you and beneficial to them? Let's say, by locking you in, and preventing any competition.

If they didn't have my interests in mind I wouldn't buy their products (which is why I don't buy any more Google products, their customers are the ad companies, not the people who buy/use their products). Companies make products for their customers with the customer's interest in mind in order to make a product that sells the best.
Bill gates did indeed do "quite a lot of harm" to many businesses and I have cursed his name many times while wrestling with some Microsoft chicanery.

But that harm was done to competitors, on the business field. The people who became collateral damage could always go and get jobs at some other company. The companies suffered and sometimes died but such is the way of capitalism.

If the upside was that his money gets redistributed to the genuinely poor and needy, who don't have any opportunity to earn for themselves in some cushy IT job, then I'm personally OK with it.

(I forget the specifics, but a piece of ancient code we wrote included a dummy assignment to a variable called BILLGATESBOLLOCKS, to get around some MS devilment).
The important thing to realize is that they're a services company, not a software company. A services company that has lots of people who use software to deliver (somewhat) useful conclusions from data.

I don't think they'll ever be "stamping out software" with its associated margins like a SaaS or traditional software company.
This is virtue-signalling in its finest form. Palantir is a died in the wool Silicon Valley company but they don't want to burden themselves with the baggage that comes with that.
Its possibly also why mercury is still used in dental fillings white porcelain as well as the more commonly known amalgam fillings. In the US, men used to dip their fingers in lemon juice before insertion into an orifice as the lemon juice could make sores painful. An outbreak in Venice forced the Catholic church to commission some white marble statues and paintings for the public to aspire to, like Michelangelo and Da Vinci during the Renaissance. Bella Donna eye drops were commonly used in the US during the 1930's great depression to dilate their pupils making them look more attractive, but this could also have been to hide Argyll Robertson pupil, pupils that dont dilate due to being a good indicator of neurosyphilis. Sidenote. In medieval times, when testing out couriers for trustworthiness, Bella Donna was mixed into wax seals, the courier would be required to deliver said sealed parchment to a destination where travel time was known and usually to a dark location where the recipient would hold a lantern up to the couriers eyes to see if they constricted or not. If the courier had copied and forged the seal before melting the wax, the bella donna vapours would be inhaled when melting the wax, so it was a secret test or initiation. Secret societys still employ the old ways and the security services also have many tricks up their sleeves as well which have learnt over the years.
How is that different from having a template with `<script src="{adtrackername}.js"/>` that you render into your HTML on each request?
I don't want Apple exploiting their vendor lock-in and robbing other companies of 30% sales of a digital only product, even if it doesn't personally impact me. That is not strange or hard to understand IMHO.

>Nobody is forcing you to buy an Apple product, and there are plenty of stellar alternative products from numerous other brands.

We want to fix things (even in companies that we otherwise might like) that we think are morally unacceptable. That's how progress is made.

You can advocate your own position too, nothing wrong with both of us doing so.
> As a side-note, lately I've been curious about what's actually been driving the cost of higher education. I know it's often cited as "administrative costs", but what does that actually mean? Where does the money actually go?

If you're asking about tuition? A few places.

Marketing, sports stadiums, student services (Counselling, mental health, etc), bureaucratic waste (Middle managers overseeing operations people), overbuilt facilities that serve no pedagogical value (Stained glass windows and large, pretty university grounds don't maintain themselves).

But that's just the half of it. In addition to tuition, most universities force you to pay for room and board, by living on-campus. Those fees go into paying for overpriced, poor-quality catered food, and overpriced dorm rooms.
A good point, since KU authors are paid per page read. Lots of fraud potential there.
Let's say Amazon kills Fedex, UPS and USPS. That's great! Now Amazon has monopoly/duopoly on logistics.
Snowflake executive compensation is even more eye watering. But yea seems like a non trivial portion of the total company revenue.
Doesn't Ghostery have privacy issues?
I would suggest further optimization, in that one should choose from ALL slice segments for the optimal coverage. We all know if nobody eats the rest of the banana right away, it's just going to go bad. Sure you think you'll make banana bread later, but you won't.
Banking websites are not the backend. Backend here is what the card issuers do / how the payments are routed. The level of scrutiny between those is very different.
Considering the article title references sacred geometry and so does the Lateralus lyrics, I thought it was apropos, if a bit silly. Guess some of you disagreed.
Many of those use cases probably shouldn’t be supported. It would cut down on fraud if we disallowed card not present transactions on unknown devices.
Why should she be?
Unlike these Silicon Valley carpetbaggers that seek to profit off people´s data, we have declined repeated opportunities to sell, collect, or mine data, and just patriotically take copious amounts of blood money from military and security forces
Ooh, can every employee with kids get a "parental benefit"? That seems like a good policy.
Verisign, the folks complaining did a wildcard DNS entry for ALL .com and .net domains called sitefinder! How can they handle the bandwidth for that (serving full web pages with lots of "partner" offers etc) but not 3 DNS packets?

Something doesn't make sense here.
Unredacted suit shows Google’s own engineers confused by privacy settings
It's no easier with bundles because you can do the exact same thing with non-bundled resources, cheaply too.
From one of my all-time favorite YouTube channels, Two Minute Papers. I highly recommend it to anyone who’s into very well made summaries of academic literature on machine learning and simulation
I read about some company recently (unsure whether it was Palantir - in fact Improbable is ringing more of a bell) that they put a huge amount of engineering effort into proofs-of-concept for many potential customers. Effectively half-solving every potential customer's problems could plausibly consume such a huge budget and could plausibly be labelled "sales and marketing".
The US also has this, but lower adoption rates of NFC wallets mean it's a pain for consumers to take full advantage of the system at a Japanese scale.
I think "mining" here is used rather carelessly.
In the quote, I think he intends it to be read by a general audience as extracting data from some external source, akin to scraping, i.e. mining a source for data. Maybe they don't do that.
But "data mining" is also a term for analysis which finds patterns or insights in a large dataset, i.e. data is the input from which more valuable results are filtered/composed/summarized. I thought Palantir was all about that.
Preparing a response to a DoD RFP costs a shitload.
I really hate how effective this framing is. Now we can bicker over the evils of government surveillance vs public surveillance.

They are both bad and Palantir's wrongs are, if anything, far more apparent https://theintercept.com/2017/03/02/palantir-provides-the-en...
Ah interesting. OK I've clicked submit all.
It does not really bypass filings. You have to file a different form (not S-1) when you do the SPAC-merger. Securities law is not that stupid :)
Interview with Bifat / the Electronic Knights
So, supposedly, widespread power outages lead to measurable baby boomlets, rather than busts. With all outside forms of entertainment closed, I wouldn't count on there being a baby bust at all.
A Hot Drink on a Hot Day Can Cool You Down (2012)
When ordering multiple things you can opt to have them shipped together to save some packaging, though it might mean an extra delay. I wonder if at some point Amazon will have more lockers available in most communities where they could deliver items without extra packaging and they can be safely picked up by only the recipient. I would be willing to go a little bit further to pick up my packages if it would save some packaging/speed up deliveries.
I think at least a segment of (an, The?) economy grows from some kinds of unproductive churning. Maybe it depends how you define productive. I'd argue that gambling or gaming are not productive even though they are lucrative for some and fun for many.
They count them each separately.

> Palantir notes that customers from different parts of the same government department or company are considered separately (Palantir’s example is that the CDC and NIH are both part of the Department of Health and Human Services, but would be billed separately and are thus considered separate customers for the purpose of its calculation).
And conversely this undue pension funding burden is a talking point as well. A lot of companies would be in a good financial position if only they didn't have to worry about their unfunded liabilities.

Can someone clarify for me if this USPS pension thing is any different from any other organization that offers pensions? Naively, the requirement to "fund" pension liabilities pretty reasonable. How else do you guarantee pensioners they'll have something when they retire. I know here in Chicago we're in bad shape because of unfunded pension liabilities.
Seems factual, but raised my eyebrows a couple times. Comparing Vitamin D to steroids is completely gratuitous. Sure, they're structurally similar, but so are oxygen (O2) and Ozone (O3). Have you ever tried to breathe Ozone instead of Oxygen?

From the previous article:

> Unfortunately, we do not have a full unified explanation for how Vitamin D deficiency could lead to the list of diseases that are associated with it. We know the correlations are there, and we can show that the Vitamin D molecule has an effect on multiple cells and organs.

So if you are deficient (as most adults are), you should take Vitamin D to avoid those. It's irrelevant that we do not know pathways. This probably suffers less confounders than other health issues, because Vitamin D comes from the sun.

But in this article:

> A few readers have made comments like this: “I understand that the evidence for Vitamin D in healthy adults doesn’t really show a benefit, but I take Vitamin D because it probably won’t hurt me, and it might help.” This is a common sentiment regarding supplements, but not a statement that most people would make about metoprolol, or any prescribed medication.

It's hard to see how this sentiment isn't exactly correct, at least if you're deficient. Remember, most people are, so if you don't go outdoors a whole lot, you probably are.

I'm also surprised Vitamin K isn't mentioned. I take Vitamin D, but I've heard the standard advice is to always take Vitamin K in addition, which helps to regulate Calcium and avoid the issues described in this article.
Bill Gates got involved with polio via $100 million matching fund to Rotary International about a decade ago. It was one of the foundation’s early healthcare initiatives and leveraged several decades of work by Rotarians around the world...polio eradication was the major project of Rotary at the time.

Malaria is different in that there was not the same level of eradication infrastructure to leverage and different because it touches on drinking water and food chains in the non-human environment. Malaria is not mostly a vaccine distribution problem.
A Timeline of Information Control on Chinese Social Media During Covid-19
This feels like a "Less people are dying in the car crush, but now people are getting hurt from seat-belts" kind of problem.
You can have a kiosk mode in any OS without giving up freedoms for people who don't need to be straight jacketed. I don't want to beg Apple or Samsung or Google or Microsoft or anyone for the ability to program a computer that I purchased.
Nobody is forcing Epic to use Apple's platform though. It never used to be the case, that every device you own must be able to play every game you want. You can already play Fortnite on your PC. Apple cannot stop you from owning a PC, so Apple cannot stop you from playing Fortnite. Yes, Apple is a gatekeeper for its platform. But we've known this forever. Sony is a gatekeeper for the playstation, and Microsoft is a gatekeeper for the Xbox. If developers want the lowest friction possible when releasing games, use a platform where you can release your own store (which Epic already has).
Slightly OT, but I'd love to have a "tweakable" mutual fund. I'd love to cut out companies like Palantir and Facebook and sectors like O&G from my primarily index-based portfolio. Without being stuck with other people's decisions (and high ER) in an ESG fund or managing a whole bunch of individual stocks.

I suppose there must be a reason why we don't.
> Another way is to not give powers like this to governments in the first place. If politicians don't have decision making power at all over something, they can't harm the rest of us by making a bad decision.

It is generally impossible for a parliament to pass a law that forbids a future parliament from repealing it.
Especially in light of what is happening in Pakistan, and India now. Polio was "almost" done there in all, but a few most remote, and backward areas.

And it was exactly because these tiny reservoirs were left, it came back to Karachi, and Mumbai.
It's interesting to compare palantir's risk factor on open source vs pivotals[1]. Palantir takes a defensive posture saying basically that their ability to not contribute to open source without running afoul their licenses is important:

Our platforms contain “open source” software, and any failure to comply with the terms of one or more of these open source licenses could negatively affect our business.

Where as pivotal says that being an active part of a vibrant open source community is crucial:

If open-source software programmers, many of whom we do not employ, or our own internal programmers do not continue to use, contribute to and enhance the open-source technologies that we rely on, the market appeal of our offering may be reduced, which could harm our reputation, diminish our brand and result in decreased revenue.

Like this makes sense, palantir is a closed source first kinda company and obviously a different value to its customers than pivotal. Kinda interesting to see that manifestation in the risk factors though.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1574135/000104746918...
I’ve run into multiple issues already with poorly designed forms on sites that claim to accept Amex that freak out when I enter my 15-digit card number, I would love to see the mess that adding longer numbers would cause.
You can't really draw a direct comparison between PRC and the US, and ask how China would react to a 'Chinese Chomsky'. Their respective conditions and rational incentives for population control are not very similar. The US (after the fall of the USSR) is a country who's stability has not truly been threatened by criticism and dissident voices, while China is a state which has been and currently is extremely vulnerable and threatened by instability, unrest and separatism, and is consequentially on high alert.

Reaction to criticism and dissidence not really a principled stand in the eyes of a state. The way the US clamped down hard on leftist political groups and organizations during the Cold War is rather the actions of a country believing itself to be threatened by instability and unrest. Political figures who fronted harsh criticisms against the government have routinely been assassinated or framed and arrested. COINTELPRO is a program which shows how political repression works the US when it feels politically vulnerable.
On desktop? They are working on it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/eay1x1/firefox_73_...

I don't know enough about mozilla's process to understand why bugzilla says it's already done, though.
We started putting armed police in schools to defend against school shootings. Not to intimidate students. The school officers here are generally older cops working part time with not much time left before retirement.

There still is a fundamental difference in the way that power is broken up in the US between states and federal and between different courts that are widely independent. You have a lot of levers to defend yourself if a state wants to initiate legal action against you. In China, you don't fight the CCP and win, ever. People often sue and win against the Federal Government.

There are many fundamental differences. We have rights to free speech, guns, due process, and hundreds of years of common law precedence to fall back on, in addition to a generally far more rebellious culture.

EDIT (reply to caraso): A lot, because if the surveillance is used against you, you have many levers of unaffiliated and totally separate branches of government to pull to come to your defense.
Just buy them off Russians ;D
How can you have a revenue stream from a search engine if you don't have a browser to view said stream? Therefore firefox is critical to that agreement. Google absolutely gives them cashola for being the default search engine. Most people never change that so it is about a 90% sure thing for google to make money from firefox users. The other things is they can point and say "see we have competition and we're friendly with them even!"
It has everything to do with people's perspective of the world: rich people cannot be good people. If you gain something, somebody else needs to lose something. So for a rich person to get rich, he must have taken a lot from other, "nicer" people.

Bill gates must really love swimming "uncle scrooge"-style in his billions. That's all he cares about. Everything he does must be to gain more billions, so he can swim in a bigger pool.

Bill was also super competitive, so let's focus on that and forget that he made his money providing value to users and businesses. It's better to act like he stole the money in an unfair way.

I personally feel very sad for a person that can't imagine that someone else could feel happy and satisfied by helping others, by having a huge impact on peoples lives in a positive way. I'm sure Bill and Melinda get more satisfaction of helping other people than looking at numbers on their bank account. But hey, that's not possible because he's rich, and therefore evil.
FDX booted them last year, their stock is way up now...there's a whole lot more to ecommerce than Amazon (though admittedly they are a huge piece).
The statements on never having paid and not intending to pay dividends is definitely a copy-paste :) I find the links in the summary to be valuable to check: letter from founders, use of proceeds, executive compensation, and summary with revenue&profit numbers. The CureVac S-1 [1] had lots of interesting details on the unique technology, methods, approach and early results, etc.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1809122/000110465920...