skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except they purchased their way into many of these.

Their advertising business was built on a number of acquisitions (DoubleClick, AdMob) - strategic acquisitions, surely, and they improved on them since - but it is not as if they bult the business from the ground up. The same goes for video streaming (YouTube - after attempting to create their own), and mobile OS (Android).

With Android in particular it can be argued that it would not be what it is today without them, but they also heavily leveraged their other services to promote and maintain control over Android.
We're specifically talking about whether "Firefox blocks many trackers, including Google Analytics, by default"
How do you deal with Zoom meeting fatigue?
A lot of psychology in this Nat Geo article explaining why we get so tired after Zoom meetings. What tools/ productivity tips replace Zoom meetings? Which ones mitigate Zoom fatigue?
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OxyContin maker to plead guilty to federal criminal charges
One thing that is upsetting to me is why aren't the doctors who received these kickbacks getting fines and or jail time? They knowingly took illegal bribes to give drugs to patients.
Because linkedin has been involved in a few lawsuits to try to stop people from user's data from their site. And the browser extensions they scan for are scraping extensions.
Totally agree on all points. I don’t think it gives too many hints at all, in fact it feels very much like a half-baked product spec that you’ll probably have to deal with on the job as well :p

Also the point isn’t to demolish the interviewee with a difficult question, it’s to get a feel for how they are to work with (and of course, if they know the basics at all)
> throwing them in jail

I hear this a lot - but what actual, specific crime did they commit that warrants a custodial sentence? What exact law or regulation in the US Federal Code did they break?

The evidence of their malfeasance is plain to see, but malfeasance itself isn't illegal - nor is harming the public-at-large indirectly through legal business planning and legal business deals. As it is, I don't believe there is a law against establishing corporate sales targets for harmful prescription drugs or fostering an internal company culture that encourages their overprescription. Nor do I believe is it illegal for drugs companies to give unintentionally misleading - or even intentionally misleading - marketing material to doctors and pharmacists because there's so much current legal leeway (for reasons I won't get into).
> not totally sympathetic that people who receive a court summons can't pay attention / treat it seriously enough

It's a little hard to pay attention to physical mail when you may be in a precarious housing situation, or un-housed.

> You're being summoned to a court of law for something that you did

People get summons for all kinds of things, and being summoned doesn't have to mean you did something. Plenty of people get them for "loitering", the crime of having nowhere to go.
There's a difference between how Google would define this, which is "No, we don't slant the organic results to benefit any company or product" and how the real world will see it "The organic results sit below ads which look like organic results, and various other boxes Google injects to promote it's own products".

Bear in mind, the first real search result these days requires scrolling to get to. Everything up top is either for Google products or paid ads that Google profits from.
Oregon Trail (1978)
> the only viable option

Let's not lie to ourselves. It's the option you prefer, not the only viable one.

It's also a lie to pretend that Google is any more evil than DDG. Both are capitalist corporations marketing a story to convince people to give them money (in this case, to convince you to make money for them). Neither of these organizations have morals, they have profit margins and consumer strategies. "Privacy" is just the tech equivalent of "Organic", a marketing tool to convince you to choose their brand. Eventually Google will get on the "privacy train" and people will completely forget they were "evil", just like with Microsoft. It's all so much Eurasia versus Eastasia.
This is not done only for consistency reasons. Cargo does not support building other languages than Rust well. When you have projects that span multiple languages, your build system needs to know about dependencies between pieces that cross the language boundary and also needs to know about how to produce libraries, perform linking, etc. On top of that, lots of infrastructure features like remote workers, build artifact caching, etc are just not supported by Cargo.

Disclaimer: I don't have insider knowledge of how stuff actually works at Google, but I've been using Bazel in cross language environments for a couple of years now and I have read the papers on Googles build infrastructure.
I don't buy this argument. You, as someone up-to-date on technology, have a choice. But if you think that the average middle-to-later aged individual has the knowledge to make this choice and avoid their influence, than I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
> sounds like hypochondria?

I can assure you that I have considered that. Still do. But ultimately, that would mean "learning" to not believe my own physical reality. I'm very much into intersubjectivity, but this is the one exception. That would be different if any of those doctors had actually seen me during an episode. The only time that happened however was when I was visiting friends. I had an episode while just hanging out there (holiday season stuff) and there happened to be a physician in the house when it hit. That guy never asked whether what I'm feeling was real. So it's that guy and me, vs a bunch of people who have never seen it happen.
Except Google didn't build those things except search.

They bought Android in 2005, Youtube in 2004? and all of their other, non-search successes.
Death to Bullshit (2015)
Edge. Which you will see increase in market share.
Ah, but of course. When you're not a subject matter expert what you think is a novel idea is something the actual experts have already investigated decades ago. sigh, oh well.
Checkout the book "Accelerate", it covers a lot of operation excellence practices supported by data, including shortening the iteration cycle (e.g. discovering bugs early):

https://smile.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Tech...
They dominated back during the "don't be evil days" not because they were evil, but because they were better. I don't believe for a second google ever had to play a single dirty trick or underhand tactic to reach the position in search they currently have, other markets maybe, but not search.
Yup. We are working to phase it out and replace it with better solutions, but it is there and working at scale (about 5 million requests a minute across the cluster, looking at graphs). Killing it slowly as we move load out of it. Pretty sure we've moved out 90% of the load over the last couple of years.
Therefore... what? Just give up? Or start over from a non-flawed base? Which is what? Still to be created, or does it exist?

And in your view, are the bases flawed because they are low level?
Disgusting.

It's here.

Mandatory vaccinations if you want to travel.

Mandatory papers if you want to travel.

On top of the mandatory lockdowns.

The Covid profiteers in all their forms are in full swing.

Profit lines and government departments never shut themselves down.

Disgusting.
Also, Venus conjuncts Mars in the first house.
Seems pretty trivial to automate too. There are an abundance of search APIs, content detection has gotten easier, and keywords probably get you 90% of the way there.
Evangelicals are Protestant so they don't really care about Roman Catholic doctrine. Even though they agree on many issues it doesn't mean the Pope would change their minds.
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> But in their case it seems they are not even trying to filter bots

We try very hard in fact :) We just have some work ahead to surface this better in our analytics UI.

For more detail: we actually assign a "bot score" to each request. Customers customers of our Bot Management product can use this information to block bots at the edge. We are working right now to show the distribution of Bot traffic in the UI so that anyone can see how we are classifying traffic.
I got a Synology 218. It does checksumming like zfs to guard against bit rot. and I didn’t have to spend any time wading through how to’s and blog posts to make it work, “just works” out of the box
> Google Play

But as I understand it, that isn't the topic of the lawsuit.
Instagram has - for me on iOS - always been one of the most stable apps out there and its backend is primarily Python
And when Google has another product that competes against mine, I have to pay Google to advertise against Google. How fair of a playing field is that?
Yeah, even with unbounded computational power, Nash equilibria are communication-hard; i.e., you need exponentially many bits for an n-player game to converge to an equilibrium, even when all players have unbounded computational power.

See https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.06580.pdf.
> On their phone, none of them use Firefox

As the world goes mobile, that by itself is disquieting for Mozilla.
The principal developer of Pyston commented on the JavaScript comparison recently [1]:

> This is a common view but I've never heard it from someone who has tried to optimize Python. Personally I think that Python is as much more dynamic than JavaScript as JavaScript is than C.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23247618
Many people into Bitcoin seems to be only concerned about the USD exchange rate. Even if people agrees that manipulation takes place, when it comes to Tether printing, it ends up inflating BTC, so clearly in their interest to go along. The speculative aspect becomes all-encompassing.
I’d like to recommend https://www.ecosia.org/
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How would you explain then that LuaJIT is so much faster than CPython? Even the interpreter of LuaJIT is much faster.

> The only way to speed it up would be to change the language.

What specifically? Most of your points are not related to the language. And even current Smalltalk engines are much faster than CPython (see https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm).
I think this guide mostly dates from 2017, when Palantir was rolling out Spark and Spark SQL code authoring in their Foundry data platform. It mostly targets their untrained "delta" and "echo" employees, most of whose jobs rotated around writing ETL code for customers. I have no idea why this glorified Quip doc was open-sourced.

Looking at the list of contributors on Github, I think I remember that the main author was actually James Thompson (UK), and not anyone on the contributor list. JTUK was called that because the company had another employee, based in the US, who had the same name. James Thompson (US) is now at Facebook and is a pretty cool designer. His astronomer.io media project from 2011 comes up on HN periodically.

Of the people listed on Github, Andrew Ash (now at Google) is the original evangelist for Spark on Palantir Foundry, and Francisco is the PM for SkyWise, Palantir's lucrative, but ill-fated effort to save the Airbus A380.
Some new therapies just inject a virus into the vitreous.
It isn't a conflict of interest, it's risk mitigation. Banks and payment processors constantly analyze which categories spawn the most fraud and at a tipping point they ban the category completely. This is why it's incredibly hard to fund an online casino account with a credit -- or even a debit -- card without using some shady 3rd party go-between.

This bit me with Coinbase 7-8 years ago when I was trying to buy $10k of bitcoin -- they'd only allow bank transfers, and only $100 at a time until you were "established". I gave up (and lost a lot of profit because of it).

The quasi-anonymous nature of crypto means that fraud is rampant. For better or worse payment processors and banks have decided they'll make more money banning crypto unless the whole transaction is within their ecosystem. It's not great but I get it.
> when the big guy gets knocked down, the idea that being big is bad in and of itself.

This is not pure schadenfreunde. I like the free market, not dogmatically, but because it gives you choices. Breaking oligopoly is thus good for the future
We're not even talking about evidence here. I'm saying this claim is false:

> The initial claim was that Facebook is currently acting to suppress one political view. This claim is false, based on that political view being the dominant view on Facebook.

I'm saying that both can be true at the same time, independently of each other. Try this example:

- Quadrant 8 of the city has the most incidents of graffiti

- The police spend the most time preventing graffiti in Quadrant 8 of the city

Both of those could be true independently of each other. Neither proves the other true or false. One could surmise that the reason police spend so much time preventing graffiti in that part of the city is because it has the highest rate of incidents of graffiti, just like maybe Facebook censors so many conservative news stories because they are so prevalent, but that is not necessarily the case.
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We all know how initial ETAs get thrown off rails as the project progresses (software). What are some effective strategies to communicate ETAs/deadlines to internal and external stakeholders?
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> If Corporations are people, and they commit felonies, maybe the US can assume control of the corp?

"Corporate death penalty" was a term people used to a use a lot.

[It turns out it's already a real-thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_dissolution), but push-back from shareholders in response to attempts at accountability predictably led to nothing happening.

I think the response is to make shareholders more legally, and especially unescapably, responsible for the companies they jointly own. Ignorance and the fact that _no-droplet-blames-itself-for-a-flood_ should be an excuse[1].

[1] Though I do think about how this might discourage _activist investors_ that willingly buy shares of immorally/amorally-acting publicly traded companies and then attempt to steer it in the right direction - so perhaps if we could exempt voting-shareholders who can demonstrate a clear and consistent voting record in the public good to the extent that their shares permitted them to then they would escape prosecution?
I did at one point long ago.

But now I kinda wanna do that so I can see ZFS on a 68K machine.
AlphaZero?
I hope you find the help you need whatever that may be. It sounds like a really difficult thing you're going through.
So, I think it's totally reasonable to wonder how this state of affairs happens, I appreciate the question. As it does seem like not the way I would act, it does seem like something surprising.

I would not jump to conclusions about being sympathetic or not without knowing more about what is behind people acting this way though.

One guess I'd have is... well, the people entangled in the criminal justice system are largely an overrepresented subset of our population, the poor, who usually haven't just had ONE interaction with the criminal justice system. I'd guess that they may kind of give up and think no matter what they do they are screwed, it's all so incomprehensible and beurocratic anyway, the amount of effort they put in in the past (or have seen their peers put in) doesn't seem to be correlated to liklihood of good outcomes, and poor people are actually usually really busy trying to stay housed/fed/employed/sane/alive.

The way to find out, of course, is not guessing but talking to some people with court dates and people who have missed court dates.
Starting the article with the history of “but you know what’s better?” just reinforces that there’s always a level where discipline is important. We will never reach the end of the “you know what’s better” cycle. So discipline itself, though not a particular discipline, is something a good programmer always needs. (Which is true of every other craft/skill as well.)

For the record, I do tell people they should learn C so they have a better idea of how computers work. That emphatically does not mean I want them to start writing actual production code in C, unless there’s an extremely good reason (and that hasn’t happened for me in a decade or two). Advising people to gain a deeper understanding of their tools is not “hazing”.
> Another important distinction: this is Francis voicing his opinion in a documentary, and not an official communiqué such as an apostolic constitution

Exactly. This pope has said many controversial things. For example this: https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2020/04/pope-francis-censo...
The same that say corporations are people tend to also be proponents of the death penalty. I wonder how that would work in practice.
I'd rather give them my phone number than live in fear that the next time I get pulled over for a speeding ticket will be a lethal encounter.
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Yup that has been my experience as well - if you read someone's stored procedure it's pretty easy to tell if they're a "relational thinker" or an "imperative thinker." People who embrace an RDBMS will tend to use constructs like CTEs, windows/partitions, set operations, they'll do their conditionals in the projection (i.e w/ CASE statements), they might use a CROSS APPLY to do a transform over a "collection", etc.

Whereas people who are "imperative thinkers," who just treat the database like a giant excel spreadsheet, will use flow control for branches, cursors for iteration, tons of temporary variables, etc. Without fail the iterative thinkers wonder why they need monster CPUs for their DB server and it's always pegging one core. Well of course the query planner can't optimize your code: you told it how to get the data, rather than asking for what data you wanted.
What Is DeFi?
Do I read it correctly that it won't pay out crypto, but will only accept it?

Does this mean they will amass a large amount of coin to speculate with in the market as they see fit?
I have just not learned anything from this. The way China got there was working hard and developing its industrial and scientific capacity. I don't think at this point the US has even a military upper hand over China. If there is a hot war, China will be able to produce weapons quicker than the US can assemble a coalition against China, and at the same time China will stop supplying every vital export to the USA. The only way out for the US is to do what it used to do in the past, which is to develop its industrial and scientific capacity. There is no way to solve this problem through war.
So I hear this... but it never seems to make sense to me.

Conservatives and liberals are in a vaguely 50/50 split population wise, and one would expect them to flock to news sources that cater to them.

Liberal news media seems to have more total sources available, however, the conservative sources are larger. For example in TV it's NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN vs Fox. but last month Fox News hit record numbers, and was the most watched primetime network.

> No conservative I know or have heard from feels like Facebook is on their side.

So as a conservative, I always thought Facebook was a place to read things from my family & sources that I follow directly. I didn't imagine them to have a 'side'.

This view of conservative america as some kind of embattled minority is very strange to me. We own the Senate. We own the presidency. We are the majority of the Supreme court.

We are not the underdogs.
Cool to see low-end finally get an upgrade to the old Cortex A53: a "new" (it was announced May 2017) Cortex A55 core. I mentioned this chip in a recent discussion on single-board-computer's cpus[1], in relation to Odroid's $50 C4 which uses the same chip & their much beefier 2.4GHz A73 $63+ N2+[1].

I realize the ethernet is the primary thing a NAS tends to need. Still can't be a bit disappointed that this board doesn't have USB3. Seems to be the chip, the S905X3, which multiplexes USB3 and PCIe on the same pins: you've gotta pick! And they use that PCIe for SATA, so there's no pins for USB.

Alas alas, PCIe switching is just too expensive. It'd be so nice for some small PCIe switches to be more robustly used. And like, why not more pcie micro-IO hubs? Big desktop CPUs talk to platform hubs that have a bunch of SATA, USB, PCIe on them. They have no where near enough bandwidth to the CPU to support it all at once, but it allows for good expandability. Systems like this would benefit so much from a ~$8 platform hub, whose uplink is a PCIe lane or two, and which exposes 4 SATA, a USB3 root & 4 port hub, and 2x pcie x1 links. One of the notables from the recent "Turing Pi 2" was discussion of how to attach a bunch of peripherals to a micro-cluster, and they discussed their shying away from PCIe, which I started some discussion on[2]. I think the hub would do them well, but any old PCIe switching, especially with NTB, would do them a world of good, but is just regarded flatly by most of the world as "too damned hard" and/or "too damned expensive". Enough "alases" in this post already, but it would be so enabling to see us get better at "small" pcie.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24813668

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24830084
Summary:

> The CommonPass system, backed by the World Economic Forum (WEF), is designed to create a common international standard for passengers to demonstrate they do not have coronavirus.

> However, critics of similar schemes point to concerns over the sensitivity and specificity of the tests in various countries amid fears over greater monitoring over people’s movements.
A real habeas corp-us.
Hm, ok, you're right - there was regulatory capture in place at that time, but when the phone companies started running lines in the first place in the 1800's, they had to work around the local regulations at the time as well. Worth noting that the AT&T breakup didn't involve restricting the artificial monopoly, but limiting the power of a single entity to control the market as they had.
Not meaning to attack you, but is it fair to say that your evaluation is entirely subjective?

Disinformation campaigns aim to change your lens of how you view, process, and store those evaluations. The experience you have can also be explained by having your heuristics changed from disinfo.
Your last point is true but they weren't measuring learning rate, they were measuring cognitive performance.

I don't think chess was chosen because it's the best proxy, I think chess was chosen because of the sample size and data available about players and games and an almost quantitative model of performance during each game (optimal moves). Poker would also be valid or sudoku or many others but there's usually a certain amount of chance involved in most other games and the impact of that chance is hard to estimate.

I appreciated them focusing on chess exactly because of the third point you mentioned. It's a fairly even playing field in terms of learning opportunities.
I'm finding more and more that i want to move to a Chrome fork (Brave) but TreeStyleTabs (Sidebery) keeps me with FF.
Cargo works well for building C dependencies, in my experience. I haven't really needed (from Rust) to depend on anything written in Java or some other random language, so my experience there is mostly non-existent.

Advanced "infrastructure features" you're describing just aren't important for most companies that aren't Google-scale. Compile time on CI is plenty fast without that, in my experience using Rust professionally.

Your mileage may vary, of course.