skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the so called "facebook pixel" allows webservice owners to tell FB about all the people interacting with their service. Next to page impressions and interaction events it allows to send the customers personal data (name, address, phone number, email and gender) to FB, so the interaction can be matched to a profile. Cookies, IP address and browser metadata are always sent due to loading of code from FB servers. AdBlockers kill that ridiculous violation of consumer rights.

However a good number of online services with user registration integrate some identity resolution provider that sends all customer data to FB among others on the backend in exchange for a link to the profile, if it exists, reasoning that automated stalking increases the performance of their sales/support agents.

Even if not integrated directly many use some crm/csm/lead/sales/support/stuff-tooling that gets a copy of all their customers personal data and then shares it with services they integrate in bulk. Registering for one service can thus create many "shadow profiles" with other companies the consumer never directly interacts with.

The consumer facing corporations are required to disclose such third parties in their privacy policies (and should strife to make such data sharing configurable by optin -> see consent), but often skimp on the data protection impact assessment, at most disclose why they share with some other company but not what actually happens with the data, and prefer to tell lies about how much they value privacy, while they don't actually care who gets a copy of their customers personal data as long as they don't have to pay for sharing it.

So if you regularly register with some fancy new service, then there is a non zero chance that FB has a "shadow profile" about you even if you don't have a FB account. Same goes for SalesForce, Google, Adobe and other players in the big data business.

Now in EU-vs-FB the megacorp stated they are not keeping data on non-fb-users because they are getting so much data about registered users, who are the people they are getting paid to show targeted content to by their customers, that they really don't care about people who are not on their platform. And since it would be illegal to profile them, they are especially not doing that. Rumors are this is a lie and FB is keeping huge data swamps, but i have seen no proof: so far there is a certain lack of whisteblowers.
Retail stores, banks, corporations, all price in fraud and risk. It's a matter of trading cost of enforcement vs. impact to core mission vs. money recovered.
While we don't have an exact handle on the risks posed by the vaccine long term, we do have reasonable bounds on what they may be. For example, it's entirely possible 0.05 - 0.6% of people who receive the vaccines develop long term severe negative outcomes. Perhaps that number is 3% - we don't know, but more unlikely. We can be fairly certain that number isn't as high as 40%. We don't have all the numbers, but we have reasonable assumptions - these are non integrative mRNAs that have a very short lifespan inside the body, so long term effects other than immunity are not expected. Of course, there is uncertainty in everything.

This is more uncertainty than the FDA would accept in the usual course of events - but this is an unusual time. The FDA has no adequate, approved, and available alternatives to the emergency authorization when faced with the pandemic. The investigational vaccine appears to be safe and effective against COVID-19 for the general population. Yes, the vaccine poses some unknown risks, but they are very likely vanishingly smaller than the very present health risks posed by the pandemic. For any given individual, they're much more likely to suffer negative health outcomes within the next 5 years from COVID than from the vaccine. Nobody is stating that risk to be zero. But that also doesn't mean "the risk is completely unknown so why even bother?"

How is the emergency authorization any different from an approval? If tomorrow an effective treatment for COVID-19 were to be approved or the pandemic ends, the EUA for the vaccine would be rescinded. Pfizer/Moderna must also track any adverse reactions more closely, and report them to the FDA on an ongoing basis. They also cannot sell them to private players - they're being provided to the FDA & their authorized parties. The vaccines are not licensed for COVID or any other use.
Which part do you perceive as "straight shooter"?
Are there any advantages of protobuf over using DER encoded ASN.1 ? The format looks very similar. It looks like they kind of reinvented the wheel here.
Best Buy has done a pretty admirable job digging out from what seemed like a surefire death sentence. Target and Walmart weren't dead, but Amazon was eating their lunch.

What they are doing much better at now is the hybrid e-commerce/brick and mortar that Amazon is struggling with. Whole Foods helped give them a platform, but Whole Foods are nowhere near as prolific as Target/Walmart/Best Buy.

For all the reasons mentioned throughout this post, Amazon has gone from my first stop to far down on the list when looking to buy something.
Do you know any doctors, personally? They aren't kindles. We can't have uighur slaves crank out an infinite number of them on a moment's notice.

Best way to get over this "basic right" business is to be a gainfully employed taxpayer with a sick kid in an american emergency room, and have to wait in line behind a slew of 300lb obesoids (mostly on medicaid) w/ (preventable!) diabetic complications.

And before someone goes, "but Europe!", I repeat that Europe is only a car or two behind us on the entropy train, and I say this with bitter sadness.
I wonder if anyone’s written a parser for this and applied it to a large number of songs. I would be curious to see how often each rule is used. On a related note, I would be interested to know whether the grammar is ambiguous.
But as far as making perf improvements to IJ itself, that actually would be meaningful: it would allow them to say "commit eeffaa takes 2m16.555ms" to perform the steps outlined by nvahalik, but "commit aabbff takes 2m01.222ms" and thus it's getting better for that metric

I wholeheartedly agree there will always be very weird setups on very weird source, but if they can make the 80/20 run faster, hopefully a rising tide will lift all boats kind of thing
No this is not the thing. My SaaS don't send anything. It works with data it synchronizes from one other source only. Now the customers can decide what part of the data to synchronize and it's possible to have everything turned off. Then without the data they really can't do anything with it. And these 28 customer have everything turned off.
Or just deduct the amount stolen from what we provide. So if it's generally 793M annually we send net $0 for the next 45 years.
So, I wasn't advocating the implication the original commenter might have been, but I think you're being pretty unreasonable in this post.

> let's put in perspective that those two suicides are dwarfed by the close to two million covid19 deaths so far

These aren't comparable numbers, so I don't see how it provides perspective.

You're comparing the global number of deaths to the number of suicides within a tiny population.

You have to use actual counterfactuals: you're currently comparing apples to oranges.

You'd need to compare the number of ADDITIONAL deaths if these folks weren't confined to these two deaths by suicide or, more interestingly, the number of additional global deaths we would have seen without lockdowns (not that total!) to the the global spike in suicide, if there was one.

(I didn't address your point about the employer's malfeasance because I don't feel like I have anything useful to say there. With that conceded, I am just responding to the other part of your post.)
The Customer Is Not Always Right
I would also be curious to know this. Maybe it's possible that non linearities of hearing make the time-based approach better?
Well, it doesn't bet that they'll "fail" exactly. It's simply betting that they aren't going to grow. The collective opinion of Wall Street is that the only value to owning Toyota or GM or Volkswagen stock is the immediate value: dividend payments, the value of liquidatable assets, etc...

But with Tesla, the bet is that in 30 years that company is going to own most of the market all these existing firms do. That may be wrong, but like I said it's clear that this is the bet.
The way I usually think about it is that it's like the Rust borrowing system but more powerful. If the compiler can be sure a type will be used exactly once, you could for example do automatic memory management by freeing the value directly after it is used. You can also fix a range of multithreading bugs with it, as other people have mentioned.

Finally, it allows you to express more invariants about your data through the type system, hopefully reducing bug counts. As an example, soneone could "implement" a sorting function as `sort xs = []`. This has the correct type signature, but is not a correct implementation of sorting. With linear types you could express that the output has to access the values of the input. (Of course what we'd actually want is to express other invariants for sorting as well, but full dependent types are still some ways off)
Atom + SLIMA seems quite nice.
Karl Hyde of the band Underworld had a process based around getting drunk in public with a notebook and later revisiting his writing. It was neither romantic nor necessary; he stopped drinking and continued to write just as well.

Sure, becoming dedicated to a craft is an act of (not necessarily negative) self-destruction and often fueled by pressing on our own wounds. But that’s not exclusive to a single pursuit nor a single vice.
This is much more than just your classic speed-only "cruise control".

You certainly couldn't drive with classic cruise control in a center or right hand lane (USA) for any extended period of time, at least not in normal highway-speed traffic where cars are merging in and out every few miles.
The unemployment schemes in Colorado and California have been a total disaster. I received a unemployment debit card in the mail - as well as a claim number. Called the state, filed a FTC report, and called the bank. None of them really cared or did anything about it.

In California - the scale of the graft was so bad that they have had to pause the program multiple times.

https://abc7.com/unemployment-california-edd-backlog-ca-wher...

Is it too much to ask for a government that both governs and is actually competent?
Unrealized gains are temporary in nature. Next year the pandemic could stop and the value of the company could drop back to previous values. Should the tax remain in effect in that case?

You'd end up with a system where volatile companies have their investors taxed more than non-volatile ones (as fluctuations create unrealized gains during snapshot periods such as end of year, despite reverting back to the mean afterwards).

Is there a reason why investors should be taxed more for increased volatility? Should one lose their wealth to taxation more aggressively based on the degree of the stock fluctuations?

P.S.: We shouldn't mix in general wealth vs income taxation. Paul Graham wrote an insightful article explaining the fundamental difference of outcomes between them - http://www.paulgraham.com/wtax.html .
> It has a Certificate Policy OID inside it, which is 2.23.140.1.2.2 for OV

Ah yes, thanks for pointing that out.

I'm not sure there's a practical distinction between EV and non-EV certs any more anyway. Browsers no longer show any indication of difference, and customers are not likely to inspect certs.

From a risk perspective, it looks like Visa is all-in on Cloudflare for consumer-facing infrastructure:

* Cloudflare terminates visa.com TLS, so it would be easy to swap an origin server without attracting notice, even if the cert was pinned or otherwise monitored

* Cloudflare also operates registered nameservers for visa.com, so they could issue DV certs at will

It looks strange, but it makes some sense. Visa deals with imperfectly-compliant handlers of cardholder data as their business, and they obviously have all sorts of risk modeling built into those relationships.

I'm sure they require Cloudflare to certify to a high level of PCI-DSS, and have carefully-apportioned liability in all of the paperwork.
I recommend HTTPS because it's easy to simulate and well understood. Also I like human-readable payloads.

Unless you need ridiculously low latencies and ridiculously high volume, you shouldn't worry at all.
Unless the AI was formed under a selection mechanism that rewarded something like kin preference, there's no reason to think it would care. The orthogonality principle is that you could have any level of intelligence furthering any particular goal/utility function; there isn't some level of computational complexity where e.g. a paperclip maximiser's utility function magically changes.

In the particular case of humans, our utility function(s) is(are) so complex that what we think of as our 'true values' can change (because our True values are some inscrutable tug-of-war between all the parts of the brain), and also we're hacked together by evolution, so just blindly trying to make a human smarter might change their values (or turn them mad, or cause seizures, or...).

But this doesn't have to be the case in general for intelligent agents. In principle, you can build an AI whose terminal values remain stable as it improves its intelligence. (If this is impossible, we're doomed.) So unless you explicitly built an AI to care about all humans, there's no reason to think it magically would.
Just throwing this out there - any highly regulated and/or political entity has the bottom-dollar solution for tech/IT. Got out of the education software sector because of it myself.

The problem is that it takes real budgets and effort to build these highly complex systems. It requires teams of competent engineers that are willing to take the extra steps to ensure the systems they're building/connecting are managed in a security-positive manner. When these sort of projects are bid out it's usually the bottom-dollar bidder and/or whoever has the most "good ol' boy" connections; this often doesn't correlate to the previously stated need for technical competency.

Also there's the problem of talent. Private vs. public sector development firms typically pay out on different scales for similar work/stress loads.

All of this is anecdotal but I'm so not surprised.
Not sure where this article was really intending to go... both writers mentioned were living in an era where heavy drinking would have been more the norm in society than today. Would be more interesting to pick a group of modern writers and see if this stereotype persists.

More generally, one could assume several things:

1) The stereotype of the tortured artist who falls back on whatever vice because they are misunderstood or don't fit in socially.

2) The economic challenges of a creative career leading to depression, with alcohol as a soothing balm.

3) The actual stress of the creative process, where the alcohol might act as a kind of catalyst akin to the "Balmer Peak" for programmers.
I use free vpn app with ads on my android.

Why they can
I know it’s different areas and backgrounds, but it would also make sense to start promoting/helping them grow other areas including technology and security.

Technology is an area that would help a ton and services/products can be exported fairly easily.

They clearly have capable people.
> Ergo, what we think of as AI is really the attempt to make one kind of human thought imitate all the others. From that POV it's kind of foolish, almost a fetish.)

That is a very interesting way to think about it!

However I disagree that it is foolish, simply because there's at least some amount of belief on the part of scientists that computers can simulate physics to any arbitrary degree of precision. If this is the case, then it follows that computers can imitate all of human thought (not just one kind of it), since humans are physical beings.
twenty years ago it was common to make this argument about investment banking. I know a bunch of people who went into investment banking, claiming to intend to quit after a decade. A few did, but most did not.

The problem seems to be that humans acclimate, and so spending ten years on an enormous salary puts most people in a place where they don't feel like they can live on the modest salary they'll have if they retire.
I think the movie ending is better. Sagan wanted some ambiguity but then copped out with the math thing. If Ellie had instead spent decades pursuing another "crazy" idea (like SETI was) and found the answer much later, then it would have been more satisfying (proving life, proving creator mystery - which is somewhat a contradiction for Sagan).

At around the same time, a group of religious NASA contractor folks I knew and had had faith conversations with where getting satellite imagery of Mt. Ararat. Those of us unbelievers somehow lacked "faith" but true believers like them were hunting for the Ark...
Have you checked your state's CHIP program? The income limitations are usually very generous, and the networks are usually far better than medicaid.
Anti-user, or anti-hacker...? Also, The Wii and DS were wildly successful, which was not long ago for a company founded in the 19th century.
> lack of protective barriers, and people standing right next to the race track

Makes me wonder what kind of risks we are obliviously taking today that will seem kind of crazy in the future.
Some real world examples with links:

- A safe streaming library where effects are guaranteed to only be performed once: https://www.tweag.io/blog/2018-06-21-linear-streams/

- Efficient zero-copy network communication: https://www.tweag.io/blog/2017-08-24-linear-types-packed-dat...

- Safe manual memory management and prompt resource release: https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-02-06-safe-inline-java/

- Explicit API design to guide developers on what function to call next when implementing a protocol like TCP: https://www.tweag.io/blog/2017-08-03-linear-typestates/

- Add correctness proofs to already existing algorithm implementations like merge sort: https://www.tweag.io/blog/2018-03-08-linear-sort/
Changed from http://learn.hfm.io/fractals/fractals.html. Thanks!
Only the software that directly competes with Apple own software. So for example Spotify was denied access to the special APIs for a while, browsers can't use their own engine, Apple apps can bypass firewall rules but games with lootboxes are welcomed because they don't compete with Apple and a 30% cut gets in Apple's pockets.
Drive AI (now acquired by Apple I believe) used to have LED matrix displays that communicated that way with other road users. I recall seeing them say things like "waiting for you to cross" or "driving autonomously" with an icon.
That is literally not true. In cases where male parent files for custody, he is very likely to get it. As in, in those cases there is slight statistic bias toward male (it is slight but still exist).
It can be anonymous and you will have to present an evidence that certain transaction belongs to you only when the situation requires it. Government can ensure information split at the time of registration and then dictate that only warrant can allow to link the 2.

Anyway, the ability of governments to identify their citizens is technological problem. Overall during our history we agreed to potential of being identified by governments. Tech brings new tools to them. I wish they could adopt them quicker.

Overall we shouldn't be afraid of new tech and more reliability. But what we need is the system that will be future proof in terms of balance between individual and big entities even if their technological ability to identify you is near perfect.
I'm pretty convinced there are a lot of sellers on these third party marketplaces that arrive with a truckload of Widget A - once Widget A sells out, they're gone... on to the next thing or rebranded and selling Widget C. Especially when you're selling a low-margin plastic commodity item.

If you don't get support while they're still actively selling YOUR widget, good luck.
For me, it’s usually house stuff. If something breaks or needs maintenance that I can’t handle, it’s often a chore lining up contractors to get it surveyed and repair. Other than that, I’m also curious what people’s life admin stuff is.
>Among those behaviors, a new report finds, is an explicit agreement from Google to work with Facebook not only to divide the online advertising marketplace, but also to fend off antitrust investigations.

>The final version of the suit made public last week (PDF) alleged that Google and Facebook signed a secret agreement in 2018 that "fixes prices and allocates markets between Google and Facebook as competing bidders in the auctions for publishers' Web display and in-app advertising inventory

>"For the most blatant agreements not to compete, such as price fixing, bid rigging, and market division, the rules are clear," the Federal Trade Commission's competition guidance explains. "The courts decided many years ago that these practices are so inherently harmful to consumers that they are always illegal, so-called per se violations."

Wonder how they're gonna get out of it this time
And why excactly, all the world has to send information about every international transaction to the USA?

No wonder they have no money for a new computer and controll system, if they are working like this.
If I have an extra-productive day, where I accomplish more in 8 hours than I normally do, I don't expect to get paid more. I'm paid a salary, not per line of code.

The Thread Parent has cut down the hours that they are working, and cut their pay accordingly. But they also happen to be consistently more productive in those hours than they used to be. It wasn't a condition of their cut hours that they are required to work more productively, they just happen to be.

(Yes, ideally a good organization would reward this with a higher monthly pay. But that's a separate issue. I get paid the same as another developer in my position, even if one of us tends to be slightly more productive.)
How is that not what humans do?
A king of landfill
I don't share the same optimism. Many people already stare at their phones while driving on the highway (I especially enjoy jolting them back to attention with a friendly honk), I'm not so confident they'll pick up on the subtleties of autonomous driving.
Not to mention ppl use adblockers
Nowadays

Hahaha
You’re very kind, thank you. That’s business! The upside would have been high, so I accepted the risk. Still alive, still have most of my health and family. I’m a fortunate man.
Okay, I have to throw out my naive theory here: I believe economy is actually function as religion for governing a modern society. Religion has been keeping society work, stay stable, and find purpose for citizens in history; modern economy does exactly the same, it meets our needs for fulfillment, lead people to behave in certain manner, and keep countries stable. They are vital for our society. You can tell when economy is good, everything is rosy, and people are nice, there was no polarization. It ignites our greed and then fulfils it, we feel happy and willing to follow its lead.
That's the best part of remote work imo

Especially if my meetings are condensed into TWTh, I can have a 3 day workweek at FT salary with proper planning & practices.
That was kinda my response as well. If telemetry altogether is using more than 1% of your cpu time you have an architectural problem perhaps.
Build Your Own Brutalist Estern Bloc
The stereotype doesn't come completely out of nowhere though - Cormac McCarthy: "If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it's drinking."[1]. Of course, he did some of his best work after quitting drinking, so it's definitely not true that you need to be a drinker to be a great writer.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/19/magazine/cormac-mccarthy-...