skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Facebook’s central claim is that small businesses will lose revenues if they can’t use personalized ads. “Without personalized ads,” the company says in its ads and on its website, “Facebook data shows that the average small business advertiser stands to see a cut of over 60% in their sales for every dollar they spend.”

FB frames this in terms of small businesses having 60% of their sales cut per advertising dollar spent, but the practical effect is that FB's advertising simply won't be economical for many businesses who used to advertise. Those businesses won't "lose" 60% of anything — they'll just stop advertising with FB.

Of course, that might be bad for those businesses, who would lose an effective way to reach new customers. But if this was all happening at the expense of FB user privacy, then there is a separate benefit that this needs to be weighed against. That's the whole reason Apple is requiring apps to get permission to track users in this way.
I built this for Airbnb and Courier is creating exactly what we had to have dozens of engineers building for us full-time over a span of 7 years. We are still building it and maintaining it today, but if Courier was around earlier in the days of Airbnb, we would've just used Courier instead of build it in-house and maintain it ourselves.
> consider migrating from Disqus to a privacy-first commenting system. One such service is Hyvor Talk

I see blocked requests to doubleclick.net, which is a Google advertising domain, on its website. And then a lot more third-party domains that weren't blocked. Such privacy, much wow.
What exactly was the rational behind that?
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> In its infancy, the internet was an "island of sanity," a (socially and intellectually) secure enclave from the real world.

Just find another place on the internet with a barrier to entry that hasn’t been eliminated yet.

Back to Gopher and IRC I guess.
weren't they on the same Island with it in a bunker or something?
But the platforms have perfect knowledge of the text content of these conversations. It's not unreasonable to say they have near-perfect knowledge of the graphic and A/V content also - that stuff is easily automatically parsed at this point and they're likely already doing that parsing. Hell it's part of their business model for increasing the value of their ads.
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The procedure seems to have all kinds of benefits, but I think the name could've really used some of the good ol' marketingspeak. I bet a lot more people would be open to getting something like a "digestive microbiome transfer" than the more accurate but gross "fecal transplant".
Exactly. Just because more people are at the craps table doesn't improve your odds or give you a chance against the casino.
Previous optical disc formats reached critical volume from content companies.

Now that it's possible, they would much rather get the recurring revenue of you renting access to their content.
it's more that their morality includes compliance with the laws of the states they operate in. It always has, and they will buck those laws on extremely rare occasions, usually when they believe they are seeing a mis-implementation of the laws, and (when outside the US) usually by ceasing to do business in the territory (see: Google's pullback from China).

None of what we're seeing in Pakistan right now is new for tech company SOP. Google Maps shows different borders depending on the location of the originating query. Twitter masks certain tweets for users in Germany because some speech that's legal in the US is illegal in Germany and the penalties are harsh for propagating it.

It's a big world, and the US doesn't have a monopoly on law or ethics in the international community.
would the bar be responsible if they didn't intervene?

What state do you live in?

It's even worse for tech companies, because of the way people use these services.

As a completely hypothetical example that I'm in no way condoning, let's say someone in a forum posted a comment like, "I hate n-words. We should off them all." The comments in the forum degenerate from there, and include posts of the form, "YY black church starts service at 10:30 on Sunday." and, " Oh yeah, you mean the N-word church at XXXX South Whatever Blvd in Charleston SC?"

I think you see where I'm going with this. Taken separately, each of those comments is either non-specific, or not threats at all. But taken together, it's a different story.

Now, imagine this hypothetical tech firm ran ads on their forums. It wouldn't even matter whether or not they ran ads on the forum in question, because the very fact that they decide where to run ads would make them a publisher and ineligible for section 230 protections.
How long will you be able to sustain this? I have a fairly small site that has virtually no traffic, so I would love to use this but what happens if you end up with a large number of sites using this? And assume that the donations don't cover the expenses. Do you have a fallback plan?
I don't know why you use Disqus when there is an Opensource alternative: Glosa --> https://github.com/glosa/glosa-server
But when Remarkbox disappears, so do your comments? Is there no self-hosting version possible?
Your quote makes it clear that "to whom and what 1A applies" is up for interpretation. While the wording of 1A specifically only prevents congress from passing laws that restrict freedom of speech, it has been extended by the courts to cover the entire federal government, and state governments in order to protect freedom of speech.
There is no reason that in the future, 1A couldn't be extended further.
Closer to the new C
> You mean active current and historical crimes of Israel, surely?

I was responding to OP's precog-like prediction of future crimes, so no.

> Israel's apartheid state, crimes against humanity and international law violations.

Overuse of these words/concepts has turned them into buzzwords and has steadily devalued them. Works well for virtue-signaling online though.
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This is super neat, I've been looking for an experience just like this recently. I think I'll be spinning up a server!
GP’s argument is hinged on the premise that websites can “hear” everything posted. Just because a human doesn’t see it doesn’t mean the system didn’t. They already scan all posts for their targeted ad system.

Whether that’s a valid argument or not is up to you.
The cool thing is, if you were able to source the chips today, you could probably build a clone of this system yourself.
I share the same fear farmers have in regards to corporations taking over things. I have seen documentaries about how the 3-5 corporate monopolies in USA are abusing the chicken farmers. So I don't know if the Indian farmers fear about corporations are entirely wrong.

Having said that, I think the new laws are good for India. These are the arguments I have heard in favor of the new laws:

India introduced the current MSP related system back in 1960 to inspire farmers to grow those crops when India had a huge shortage of food grains, and was importing food directly from US (google 'ship to mouth india'). That is not the case now. India actually has a surplus of those grains.

Also, MSP covers only something like 15-26 food crops produced in India. For example, we all saw how onion prices dropped to insanely low prices last 2 years. There was no MSP for them. Just yesterday, there was news of a farmer in UP dumping 1000 kg cauliflower because of low prices.

Also, I believe this MSP cover is available only in certain states, which puts other states at a disadvantage. To make things complicated, there is a law that guarantees certain grains at low price for the poor. For example, the govt will give rice at 3 rupees to the poor. Govt has to buy the rice from the farmers because of the MSP system (say at Rs 20), and then in turn sell them to the poor at Rs.3 in a state which doesn't have MSP, thus putting the farmers in the non MSP states at a huge disadvantage.

Another reason I heard is that farmers are producing huge amounts of MSP crops such as rice and wheat because the price is guaranteed, while ignoring other crops that India has to heavily import (such as ground nut). The govt has to purchase the MSP grains no matter what, and the godowns have way more in stock than India could distribute (almost double or more last year).

Also, some of these MSP crops like rice require lot of water for cultivation, and considering the shortage of water in most places in India, govt wants to reduce the farming of such crops.
This is what Brave does if I'm not mistaken.
What do you mean by it? The browser itself? In that case, everything done in the browser could theoretically be pushed down a level from user space into kernel space, potentially saving a lot of overhead, no? The only trade of I imagine is the context switch you hit from doing everything in userspace, but as far as I'm aware, even browsers have to eventually hit the kernel for at least raw input output on the network.

Why not let the OS do more and more of the complicated technical stuff, simplifying the deployment of web apps because now we don't have to know a thousand different bloated libraries, just a slowly updating set of OS APIs.
I used to believe that 230 is a good thing in all cases. But I have absolutely no sympathy for the people who post others addresses or family members information with the intent of bringing harm. That is one case I think it goes way too far, and social media platforms should absolutely be held liable for that type of harassment which can cross into the real world. This bill seems like a good step in that direction.

And I do think platforms should be able to get sued and held liable for targeted violence against individuals that is incited on their platforms. The reuters article is light on information, but heres something that goes into a bit more detail.

https://royalexaminer.com/warner-announces-the-safe-tech-act...
I've never had any success at all with VS's edit and continue, even after tinkering some project settings to try to get it to work better.

To be fair, this was a few years ago now, maybe worth another look?
What's your resume look like and what stage of your career are you at? I moved over when I was 19 so happy to give my POV.
Honestly, I think rust actually prevents a lot of logic problems, but it's hard to quantify and a subjective feeling that I'm not sure how I'd even go about trying to "prove". Order of magnitude I'd say 50% less logic bugs than a language like Java.

Why? Just good language design. Things like "enums" (algebraic data types, not C-enums) making for type checked state machines, really strict typing, immutability by default, simple language semantics, good linters that people actually use, the borrow checker actually does usually lend itself to good design too, and so on.
It was a real product so no clue why they would come out with something to trick people. The Rokr was just a test of the market, could your phone replace your MP3 player? The Rokr wasn't a huge success mostly because the hardware sucked but it did show that people were interested in the idea of having their music on their phone. Once it was clear that the hardware was hampering the coolness of having music on your phone, that was a big green light for Apple to push forward with the iphone. If the Rokr had been more successful, maybe we would have seen more phones come out with iTunes integration and the iPhone would have taken longer to bring to market.
> Try not to shoehorn something that has no consensus into every legal issue.

Issues can be moral, legal, neither, and both. Presuming an issue is strictly legal can preemptively invalidate efforts to address moral aspects of the issue.

If the moral aspect of an issue has universal consensus, there is little to discuss. This criteria shuts down meaningful discussion of ethics.

Edit: Laws follow from values, especially in democracies. As values change, eventually laws change, including the constitution. The gp was raising ethical considerations for us to consider. To me it seems like you discount and trivialize these concerns.
Ask HN: Where business, technology and design meet?
Recently I was wondering about moving forward with my carrier / changing it a little bit. I have strong algorithms, maths, optimization and automation background, 13years CS experience, 9 professional as a mobile dev. I delivered huge project e.g. app which was preinstalled on more than 50mln devices.

I would like to ask you where / how can connect with business and designs to build products? Technical founder, CTO for small companies are probably roles I am talking about. I am based in EU if that matters.

What is important I would like to build / improve my business expertise.

So where business, technology and design meet?

Thanks for insights!
Migrating from Disqus to Glosa (Opensource)
The whole reason we have electronic voting is voters didn't do so great in the 2000 election, either, purely with paper ballots. They didn't punch holes correctly, or bubble in dots properly. A badly-designed paper ballot may have confused just enough voters in just the right place to swing the entire election.

So ballot papers really aren't understood by everyone. That 2000 election is still dubious. It didn't turn into the dumpster fire that this one did, because the personalities involved didn't stoke it that way.

In 2020 there was no way for it to end well. There would have been equal arguments over paper ballots. They shot out hundreds of equally ludicrous conspiracy theories, not one of which was accepted by a court. There were thousands of other contests being decided, and all of them somehow managed to be run without controversy.

There was no way for justice to be seen to be done, and any arguments for or against electronic voting are moot.
Did they actually attack? I haven't come across any news about that.
>The answer is yes. Yes, they would be liable.

under what legal theory? A quick search says no. https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/3671/at-what-point-d...
It probably depends on what you want?

If you like treating your Mac like a very MacMacMac pet, a pm designed for Mac is probably better.

If you'd like to treat your Mac like UnixMac livestock, you probably want a cross-platform pm.

Using Nix means the core of my dev needs are met by config shared between my NixOS and macOS systems, with some idiomatic unshareable bits around the edges.

(I don't want to trivialize the gaps or over-sell Nix here. Nix forms a foundation for accomplishing this, but I do still have non-trivial bootstrap scripts for macOS.)
I see so as an Intel user I'd better stay away from mac ports if I want to use software only published on brew. I probably won't buy a new computer in the coming 5 years, so arm isn't relevant for me at this moment. But good to know for the future.
>how is that not augmented reality

Again, if that's how you want to define augmented reality then we already did it much better on phones.

A smart watch achieves the goal of a passive HUD better than Glass did.

Whats left is a head mounted camera and I don't find that very compelling. The tradeoff between wearing glasses and having a much worse camera vs not having to use your hands to shoot a photo was not good enough in that device.

I mean, you're free to like it. You have to admit that its not just me who thought Glass did not have enough compelling features. Hasn't the market spoken for Glass?
I'm in that same boat. Homebrew irks some people, but for me it's always just worked to the point that I just don't have to think about it, ever. That's what I really want from a package manager: to be able to forget that it's there and start taking it for granted.
How does it "command you how to use your computer?" A brew formula is a simple ruby script that lists the packages dependencies, and calls "make; make install". Typically it allows you to set any autoconfig vars and remembers them for next time. This is literally just a thin layer of abstraction over grabbing the tarball and installing the software yourself.

Also brew does not stop you from installing a piece of software literally any other way you prefer if for some reason you don't like what the brew formula is doing, including just creating your own tap.
I can see all kinds of tags being helpful for people who are contemplating purchasing decisions.

Black, Female, Veteran, Local, Small, LGBTQ, or other ownership/categorical tags are all information that people might use to guide their purchases.

If Google thinks Google’s customers (the advertisers) want these tags, Google will provide them.
Homebrew has clear value even if you aren't a developer. It's the best way to install a whole lot of software, not just dev tools.
Do people who work on Septic tanks (or nightsoilmen) and such share a common profile in regards to their immune system?

Or is transplanting a requirement?
Hah! You're not the first person to refer me to that.

It's entirely coincidental, but I love that I share the same name. For purely selfish ego reasons I wish it had succeeded.
"I think many religious Jewish groups fuel the Zionist sentiment in the Israeli government exacerbating the conflict with Palestine. Their influence must be curtailed"

Boom!, 10 months in jail for antisemitism.
Whatever happened to "alleged" in such headlines? Is even the old leftie 'Graun' towing the party line now?
Interpreting your comment as sarcasm would be plausible given the subject, but anyway, your parent is probably talking about http://n-gate.com/fosdem/
This reminds me of a brief fling that I had with a SuperPET back in the 80s. [1] 96KB RAM and an enormous ROM (48K!) with all the Waterloo languages (microAPL, microFORTRAN, microBASIC, microPASCAL, microCOBOL) in it!

I never really wrote any ASM for it though, but it inspired me to write a p-code based runtime that had 16 bit registers for the 6502.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET#superpet
That comment makes no mention of the first amendment.
Is China really limiting Internet though?
Obviously how a social media platform moderates itself has virtually nothing to do with 1A. Limiting or eliminating section 230 would place more legal liability on the platforms over users' content. They would have a much greater incentive to limit users speech whenever there is the slightest risk of putting the platform in legal jeopardy. The fact that social media platforms aren't considered "publishers" means that the financial benefit for having a quasi free-speech community overrides their legal risk.
If section 230 disappears, it will likely mean HN will also disappear.

Also HN is high end marketing as an input for Y Combinator's founder program, if there was no business of Y Combinator funding it, it would not exist.
Interesting that they left out socketpair() and sendmsg() for file descriptors though.
Lead developer at Coral here (so some experience :P)

Coral is more suited typically to larger organizations trying to power multi-site community tools. It has a powerful moderation system that's all open source! It's probably overkill for a static blog or small site.
$0.99/TB replicated with Cold Storage seems pretty compelling to me.
This seems off - based on most interactions Googlers and especially ex-Googlers, arrogance must be a practical requirement to work there.
I think that if you are producing a real device based on a compute module, you should not be using Rasbian Lite, things like Arch, Ubunti core, etc. are more suited for the purpose.

There is no real iot-style security in Raspbian lite, so before you get mad pver microsoft eepo being added, toy should be sorting that out
I think you've implicitly rejected the thesis of the book, which is of course your prerogative as a reader, but the way the comment is worded makes it unclear whether you realize you've rejected the thesis.
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No real backstory I guess. I found Homebrew unpleasant to use for a lot of the reasons gone through in this thread -- mostly just the "rolling distro" nature of it -- so I was a dedicated user of MacPorts. My experience is probably further biased by the fact that I was using the package manager on OS X to deal with Python stuff at the time, so the versioning issues definitely bit me. But at some point, using MacPorts just started to feel like swimming against the tide.
Thanks for the feedback. We'll look into it asap
It's especially strange to me to see such future-blind thinking in the message board of the world's most famous startup accelerator.

The Last Mile's website (https://thelastmile.org/about/) lists not 100 graduates, but 240 "returned citizens" who have successfully rejoined society, still with a 0% recidivism rate. This article said they only have 100 or so graduates, and the article was published in January of last year.

Assuming the article's graduates are the same thing as the website's returned citizens, that means that The Last Mile has managed to produce about 1.4 times more graduates in the past year than in the entire previous 10 years combined.

Healthy skepticism is healthy, but to dismiss this program's meteoric rise, huge potential, and noble cause without even a cursory attempt to understand them is being intentionally obtuse.
hn with the dismissive, lowbrow, comments.

you realize that because they're in prison there's this other thing that prevents them from graduating to a job... namely their prison terms. just so we're clear: that there have only been 100 grads that successfully didn't return to prison doesn't tell you anything about how many finished the program and haven't been released yet.

moreover, a small program with limited funding running in a few prisons not solving mass incarceration isn't anymore surprising than a thumb in a dyke not preventing a flood.

instead you should be saying/asking/imagining: what would the completion and recidivism rate be if this program ran in all prisons. or even better: what would the incarceration rate be if this kind of vocational training were available for free in all poor neighborhoods.
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So you are arguing citizens need more guns?
It probably helps to recall that Apple had been on the brink of bankruptcy at the time, and as a hardware company, gambles their future every year by ordering inventory.
Exactly. Not all farmers are protesting. It can be good for some, but it's definitely risky for people who are already doing well with the existing MSP system. But social platforms show you what you previously liked, and people get conditioned to not see both sides of the coin. It can be good for poor states who are already throwing their crops due to low MSP rates.
> One of the worst aspects of a SPAC is that it's essentially a grab-bag purchase since even once you know the company being bought, you still don't initially know whether it's a good investment.

Yeah, and you also don't really know if it will go through. What happens when a SPAC claims to be merging with the company but the deal never materializes?

It feels like a weird system of gambling instead of investing in that sense.
Good luck with that unfortunately. I can't remember the last time I joined a company that didn't run a background check on me.