skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like your post. It does conflate Privacy Sandbox with one of the specific proposals, however: "there still exists an algorithm which is fed a user’s browsing history and that algorithm is used to put the user into an advertising cohort. However the interesting change with Privacy Sandbox is that this algorithm is run locally within the user’s browser, and never actually needs to transmit the user’s browsing history over the internet. Instead only a code for the identified cohort is transmitted, and a remote ad server can use that cohort directly." is describing https://github.com/WICG/floc

Another component of Privacy Sandbox is Turtledove (https://github.com/WICG/turtledove), where advertisers can tag a user as belonging to a "interest group" and then later on can target ads against that interest group. Which groups a user is in is maintained entirely by the browser, and never sent to the server, And any ads that are rendered based on interest group targeting have to execute in a special "fenced frame" which prevents them from leaking information to the surrounding page or to the advertiser in a non-aggregated way.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, so I'm following these proposals. Speaking only for myself)
I've always wondered if a developer who gets shit done would be offended if I told them what they've done is shit.
I do all three, as well. I shy away from YOLOs but occasionally gamble on puts or calls. Basically, I have a Vanguard account for index funds / ETFs: long term investing. I have an Etrade for individual stocks: shorter term. My best stocks have been AMD, MU, FB, HUBS, PYPL. All are 4 to 5x+. HUBS is a 10x. You won't get those returns with index funds.
In Canada, it is free through public healthcare if it is for health concerns (e.g. if you are symptomatic). If you need it for non-health reasons, e.g. travel, it goes through a private company and the cost is 250 C$ (195 US$/165€) in Alberta.
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Using a contact form that sends you an email server-side is a good one, that way they never have your email (unless you respond).

I also had a static website at one point where I didn't want to add server-side processing for a contact form so I stored the email address obfuscated in javascript like:

["m","o","c",".","l","i","a","m","e","@","e","m"].reverse().join('')

and injected it into the page. It seems that most scraper bots don't execute javascript and with it split into an array they likely won't find it by scraping the js files either.
This is a little off-topic, but related: I've done hobbyist webdev for a long time, but only HTML/CSS/JS/PHP. I have an idea for a web app I'd like to build--would you folks recommend Rails or Django, and why?

I have very little background with either Ruby or Python, so the language choice itself isn't a deciding factor for me (although I have slightly more interest in Python).
It depends on what your definition of beating the market is, and how much you are investing. It’s probably much easier for me with my tiny net worth to beat it consistently than the funds of the two John’s you mentioned. If your definition is SP500, a retail investor could have just bought a Nasdaq100 basket and crushed “the market” over almost all of the last 5 years.
This can join the others - Olympic swimming pool, football fields, London bus, Empire State Building.
Whatever the word for it, the government should have provided and deployed the resources to vastly scale up manufacturing of each reasonable candidate (so say, when phase III trials began).

I link a working paper in another comment where some economists estimate that we left an awful lot on the table. The US less than the globe, but given the shared benefits, this would be a great issue for a wealthy country to take a leadership role on.
Yea, when I ran a factory, our team preferred the 4x10 to 5x8 by a long shot.
I'm a fan of Maggie Appleton's Digital Garden idea: https://maggieappleton.com/garden

It's a "ideas as a garden" metaphor, not necessarily a "product as a garden" metaphor, but the sentiment is the same.
There is something inherently true. The stock market goes up because the world becomes more efficient. What the world was able to do last year, it's able to do again and then some because we are better at doing it.
> In the end it's triangulation of a signal. No need for ML after all.

Triangulation works accurately in open space, however this use case is inside a home with signals being blocked, bouncing, or attenuated by walls, mirrors, appliances, etc. On top of that, the goal is to use as few BLE rx'ers as possible (meaning not one per room). Given those constraints, a trained ML model actually does make sense.
It is one thing to bring in some more workers to help you with research you don't have the ability to do. It is another thing to pay someone to make a report backing up a decision you have already made. It is another thing to pay someone to make a decision that you don't want to make, so they can take the blame. The first example is not why management consulting gets a bad name.
also wrote registrator which helped pioneer the technique of service discovery we see in so many cloud tools and platforms today.
Not on Medium or LinkedIn.
Imagine you're a VP, or even a C-Suite Executive...

Your employees get to make decisions based on what they think is best, what feels right. You don't have that luxury. Investors, the board, other managers who are vying for your position all demand numbers-based decision making and justification. So what do you do? You hire a well known consultancy to produce documents and data that supports your position. You can now justify your actions by pointing to what they've made for you. And, you have the added bonus of the sunken cost fallacy. "Well of course we took their advice, don't you know how much we paid for it?"
They can block these proxies. Thats why in the #IRanASignalProxy section they say to share in more discrete ways if you can.
One of the arguments in favor of having sustained, moderate inflation is that it forces people to invest for precisely this reason.

Anyway, assuming a 3% inflation rate, the original $1K still turns into $30K after fifty years.

It's also worth pointing out that most people in the states qualify for Medicare Part A after they turn 65. Even if they don't, the average monthly health insurance premium for someone who is 70 is around $550.

So going off of your example, the original $1K purchases around four-five years of health insurance after inflation. This is a good deal.
A lot of people talk about that, actually. I've heard it several times and it comes up in most of these discussions. However, doctor's pay is not enough on its own to explain even a small fraction of the cost problem. In reality it's an issue permeating every single component of the system, each one making a small contribution to the overall pile. I've heard of this situation being called "cost disease."
> George Bataille had a theory that excess and pointless expenditure...

Have you got a link or reference for this that I can explore? I'd be interested in reading what he had to say here.
The 1999 soundtrack for Tarzan by Phil Collins was also recorded by Collins himself in English, Italian, German, Spanish and French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m03Wcfx8dPE

For a more extreme example, Pocahontas' "Colors of the Window" in 33 languages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLKD8tIMlV8
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It's almost as if Real Life is analog and not digital.
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Yeah, they need to replace those carrier pigeons with something more akin to an interconnected, world-wide network of sorts... Hmmm
It does if they’ve driven zero miles
>invocation of his (Mir Jafar's) name, in fact, is today treated as a slur, meaning a disgrace to a faith, or disgrace to a nation

This is in fact a well-known couplet of Allama Iqbal's (quoted here: https://twitter.com/asadowaisi/status/968861690388336640)

>With the help of the conspirators from the Nawab’s court (all of whom he bribed)

That's not even the half of it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omichund where Clive had _two different agreements_ written, one promising Amirchand (Nawab's retainer) a share of the loot for turning traitor on which they forged one of the British signatures when the real guy couldn't be found or wasn't willing and the real one which cut the traitor out of the bargain
You might want to mention some sources in case people are interested in reading more on this theory.

Namely: Peter Zeihan. I'm a fan of the guy - his logic and rough predictions certainly seem to be bearing fruit over the last decade. If he's right about the coming decade we are in for a bit of a bumpy ride.
... Creating a central point of failure / censorship?
Short sellers who put out reports like this represent only a small fraction of short selling. Most of it is done by large hedge funds like Melvin Capital, who just short.
It matters because a low enough miles driven would show insufficient data.
Do you think this is affecting insurance companies' profits?

>Insurers that sell individual and small group health coverage must spend at least 80% of premiums on medical claims and quality improvements for members. No more than 20% of premium revenue can be spent on total administrative costs, including profits and salaries. For insurers that sell large group coverage, the minimum MLR threshold is 85%.

>Insurers that fail to meet these guidelines (ie, they spend more than the allowed percentage on administrative costs, for whatever reason) are required to send rebates to the individuals and employers groups who had coverage under those policies. From 2012 to 2019, under the MLR rule implementation, insurers rebated $5.3 billion to consumers.

https://www.verywellhealth.com/health-insurance-companies-un...

Insurance Companies probably see these extra costs as a good way to meet their spend targets.

I was not able to find any source but have heard that the government is giving healthcare providers monetary assistance for Covid-19.

Looking at those two factors and no-one has any reason to try and control cost.
Even single-mode needs repeaters along the length of the cable to get across an ocean. I guess you could use multimode and a lot more repeaters, but that seems more expensive and more failure-prone.
I think I get what you're saying, I think people would read too much into them though. The results are very dependent on the type of program you have. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 10s of percentage point differences in benchmarks between various examples.
Got a new one in there, you can try again now.
this is fine and dandy but when you have a state actor operating with such offensive tactics like india is currently engaged in kashmir, there isnt much these "proxies" can do. sorry.
the idea of these proxies is all fun and nice but when a government can just whitelist the entire fucking internet and none of these nonsense works

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/15/internet-parti...

https://thewire.in/rights/kashmir-internet-white-list-net-ne...

https://thewire.in/rights/modis-thought-control-firewall-in-...

>The reason the government wants to keep blocking full access to the internet in the Valley is its fear of civil disobedience.

and the ban is still in place although it is on high speed mobile internet today.

https://thekashmirwalla.com/2020/12/high-speed-internet-ban-...

not to forget there were reports of CISCO being brought in to build this fucking firewall
From my experience misinformation is not moderated much. Saying something rudely is. Tone is more important than content when it comes to moderation here. I have sympathy for the moderators because is much easier to tell if something is rude versus if it is untrue. However the downside is that you can post lies and vile comments as long as you are polite about it.
https://medium.com/@cmaitchison/are-you-a-software-gardener-...
Atlassian got +142% in 2 years. So wasn’t it undervalued 2 years ago? Did ARK help see that?
That would be illegal in Germany: your regular work hours must not exceed 8hrs per day.
I'm from Germany and here it's exactly the other way around.

Public health insurences (there are over 100, but they are all organized in an umbrella organization) give out licences to doctors to be allowed to practice on publicly insured patients. The doctors get some amount of money they can spent on patient-specific prescriptions, but in general the doctors only prescribe the active ingredient. When the patient goes to the pharmacy to get their prescription, the pharmacy looks up the insurence and hands the patient the medicine that the insurence dictates. A doctor can prescribe a specific medicine but has to pay for it themselves (mostly from the money the insurences previously provided, see above).

Insurences check about 10% of all hospital bills and just don't pay what they deem unnecessary. Hospitals are therefore careful not to do things the insurences didn't approve of. There is an open catalog of therapies that the public insurences will definitely pay and how much it may cost, so it's not a secret.

They will also push for modern treatments if they reduce recovery time and have less risks.

There is a lot more to the system but that's the gist.
You are probably getting paid less than you could be but your billable rate is likely substantially higher.

Not great links but you get the gyst...

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/revealed-mckinsey-partn...

https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-McKinsey-charge
It usually starts with an investigation by the attorney general who responds to customer complaints alleging fraud and deceit etc... Sometimes things are kicked off by a local news channel sting.
I feel like this answer to "how to make government censorship of private communications over the internet impossible" is more complex though than just "use element/matrix"

It seems like both signal and matrix choose "Human-meaningful" over "distributed" on Zooko's Triangle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle

Matrix is federated which I'd argue is pretty different than "distributed". Certainly the fact that federation is built-in makes matrix more resistant to lazy censors who are slow to block popular homeservers, but a concerted check-any-IP-and-if-it-seems-like-it-might-be-a-homeserver-then-block-it action by a censor would be harder to deal with.

Wouldn't a truly distributed/secure/really-super-hard-to-block protocol rely on non-meaningful addresses (i.e. public-key-derived like a tor hidden service) and some kind of interesting mesh setup (i.e. like tor) to route and deliver messages?
Oops, try the new one, sorry!
Iran is already blocking Tor. In general, if Signal provides some central way to use Tor together with Signal, the Iranian government can just run it on their machine, and block every IP address that it tries to connect to.

Iran can block these proxies, too, but this way there isn't any centralized listing of proxies. This proxy setup is simple enough that a single person could run a proxy for a few dozen of their friends, and the Iranian government might just never find out about it.
No, this is a complex problem, requiring a complex solution. One of the problem's key themes, however, is a dehumanization of previously very human-rich interactions. Anything that brings back a dose of that humanity is a step in the right direction. Certainly not a cure-all, just a small contribution.
The heart of the article seems to be:

"Over the past 12 months core personal consumption expenditure rose 1.5%, higher than the 1.3% expected. Admittedly this is still low, but it’s likely to go up a lot further."

That's pretty meager stuff here. The Fed is still trying to get inflation up to its target of 2.0%. Monetarists have been warning about inflation since the beginning of quantitative easing, more than a decade ago, and it still hasn't happened -- at least not in consumer prices.

The feared inflation is happening, in the stock market. That's the Fed's real problem: the money they're printing has gone to inflate a stock market bubble. The S&P 500 P/E is nearing 40. The last time it was there was 2001 and 2007, right before big crashes. When the Fed tries to take the punch bowl away, it's going to hurt. A lot.

That's the reason to change strategies, not consumer inflation. Consumer inflation remains low because consumers don't have money. The Fed probably lacks tools to give money to consumers -- pumping it into the stock market just makes people trade stocks to each other, not start new companies to create new jobs. The executive and legislative branches have an effort to pump a meager sum into into actual consumers and that might cause inflation, but it won't be enough to cause much.
In very crowded situations you end up with something closer to the ant-like behavior. Your visibility is reduced to your immediate neighbors, and theirs is similarly limited. This prevents the deliberate movement you'd see in lower crowd situations, or where people are very familiar with their surroundings.

That is, a stadium exit is not like the exit of a thousand workers from a factory at the end of the shift. The factory workers (ok, not always) know their path and may have an action to perform on exit (punching out) which establishes a tempo. A stadium exit is more freeform and people are less familiar with their overall exit plan. So they jump into the stream and go where it goes. They have to move as fast as the crowd behind them pushes them or faster.
Back when I worked on a rotating 8 hour shift schedule in a NOC, we had a very thorough introduction on how to handle such a schedule, plus the health effects and tips on how to deal with the sleep cycle changes and so on.

There were regular medical checkups, we got hazard pay and the NOC had a workout room, massage chairs and everything.

Even with all of that, it beat the hell out of me, and I was doing glorified office work, no hard physical work at all. The average graveyard shift security guard or warehouse worker will presumably have none of those benefits, and will be so much worse off.
Tor has a very similar proxy setup that can be used to get around blocks like this.

https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/bridges.html.en#Pluggab...
The problem with this is that Signal is a huge success right now where other federated chat platforms have fallen. Sure, something like Matrix might win the war eventually but by being centralized Signal shipped and is providing a useful service to millions of people today.
The wealthy can't convince you they deserve wealth if they are dead. Does that make more sense now? The idea is that all the words in the world can't hide the truth of a situation and what ends up happening as a result of said situation.

See how well, "Why don't they just eat cake?" turned out.
It looks like this is blocked upstream by the language server protocol not passing the current selection for hover requests [0].

0: https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues...
Perhaps because COVID is not more prevalent at night? Or maybe GP feels that walking ones dog at 11:45pm is safer than walking it when more people are outside? Or perhaps they are sociopathic maniacs who look for nonsensical regulations they can violate with impunity.

Who cares why, and what business is it of yours?
If the issue is pricing transparency, and that it’s “not a thing”, we could maybe make laws requiring pricing transparency?
That still means 35% of people are happy giving others serious electric shocks if told to by an authority figure?

Not as bad as 65% but still pretty bad!
I don't think that's the point being debated.
American culture is optimized for consumers. When you're a consumer, it's a great thing: customer service, return policies, payment methods, and the entire process of buying stuff is leaps and bounds above somewhere like the European Union.

When you're a worker, though, no one particularly cares about you. If a CEO can squeeze more profit out of his workforce by forcing them to work odd hours at the drop of a hat, he's celebrated for it.

We really need to shift this balance in the opposite direction.
Yep, try the new one! Thought I would limit the first invite but it's already expired.
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Rust analyzer gets really close to what the IDEA family of IDEs provides, but it's just not there yet.

Personally I'd have preferred more community investment in an IDEA plugin.
Hi Mike,

Can you talk about the tradeoffs or relationship between active learning and weak supervision from your point of view?
Dang: why is the favourite button hidden like this?
_My_ source code is invaluable. It's open, public, free to reuse under the GPL. It's a complete implementation of a painting application used by millions of people. It's a huge amount of knowledge readily accessible. You won't be able to buy something like this for any sum of money, so it's free.
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I mean, you should pay for the diagnostic time, which is usually $100 or so.
There used to be (~20years ago) a catscan website where people posted images of their cats as taken with flatbed scanners (when those were a thing). It wasn't uncontroversial.

One of my favorites was a color scan taken in multiple passes with filters. The cat was not stationary through the whole process
> I did answer, because the internet started off as your proposed experiment. It didn't work.

It worked great for multiple decades until "social media" applied algorithms that promoted controversy (i.e. anger-inducing hyperbole and conspiracy theories) to increase "engagement" and sell more ads.

That you can find an ASCII swastika or goatse on Slashdot which is instantly downvoted to -1 (but not actually removed from the site) was never a real problem. That Facebook put QAnon at the top of your mom's feed was a major problem.

But then we get calls for censorship as a response to problem created by bad moderation.

Notice that there is a difference between voting (where the community determines prioritization in a decentralized way but nothing is rendered unavailable) and censorship (where some fallible central authority is deciding what people are not allowed to know).
There is some incentive, but when you tell someone you can only make a profit of (for example) 10% of what you pay out; it warps their incentives.

They don't want to bankrupt themselves, but they can raise rates and keep more money when they pay more.
We can do better than Shibboleth.
Dear Martin Luther (the original, who translated the bible into the masses’ language, not MLK),

We’ve done it, we’ve entirely democratized information ;) Now wealth is transferring to those who make best use of it.
Once captured, the regulators coerce the market, through mis-regulation, into one that more effectively captures consumer value for certain producers.

Is the price of specialization and sophistication the movement of decision power away from the source of decision quality information? I find it paradoxical to use regulation as a response to the fact that "it is unreasonable to expect every consumer to be an expert" in that it is likewise unreasonable to expect regulators to be expert in the context and values of each individual consumer.