skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even with Google's auditing, there are sensitive things that Google (hopefully) can't detect, but others can.

For example, insurance claims. I hope Google isn't tracking enough information to test for correlations between FLoC cohorts and insurance claims, but insurers will have access to that info when customers visit their site to pay bills.

Perhaps they'll find they can more accurately anticipate customer's claims from their FLoC cohort, and use that to price new policies, thus indirectly pricing policies based on browsing history.
Perhaps, but is it that different from sellers selling only on some specific websites/stores and not the ones you want to buy from?
Did you try more than one viewer? It renders fine in Evince and in Vivaldi here. The 'bodies' of the pages are not regular text but images over that background gradient, by the way.
I never took a compilers course in college and came to regret that. Ten years later I started reading the Dragon Book, and realized how I could trivially modify the NFA regular expression search algorithm to solve a problem I’d seen in digital forensics and eDiscovery. The writing is extremely clear and easy to follow, and I now tell all interns to be sure to take a compilers course before they graduate. Well-earned!
Common /= stupid. The BBC pay very badly for presenters too, but especially for anything below that.

The British press is a big fan of misrepresentation.
Can we retire this argument already? Or at least show hard data to back up this tired claim—it’s been made so often, it should be doable by now.

From anecdotal observation, any big company mentioned on HN will have critics, apologists, critics of the apologists, and (perhaps most relevant) fans of the company who criticise their behaviours. Apple isn’t special in that regard, except it seems to draw the most fervorous irrational hate towards its users. It reminds me of meat-eaters who won’t shut up about vegetarians being annoying, while remaining ironically oblivious that they’re far worse offenders of the behaviour they decry.
This is actually a well done web app in my opinion.
You can disable javascript and the app loads just fine.
JS is used as a progressive enhancement to hydrate.
Probably uses something like NextJS in the background.
The HTML with inlined critical styles load in ~40ms on my internet.
Sure it could be "better" in terms of TTI from the JS side but at what cost?
After using Jetbrains Mono for a while, I switched completely to Cascadia Code (https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code). Looks great
Next question y'all should be thinking about: how many other fuses are smouldering right now?
> Apple has a strong anti-slavery policy

I’m not certain what “strong” means here. If it meant principled or effective they wouldn’t need deadlines extended because they would already not be slavery adjacent.
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Typography is a specific skill set, nobody said that it should be 'easy to understand'. Makes sense to whom - to web developer? He is not the intended audience.

If the font size would be specified using only cap height then the work of font designer on specific relationship between negative and positive space and line height would be thrown out. That would be a net negative for the state of typography on Web.

Again putting things into fixed size containers that do not adjust based on different font face is not a good practice and it is not what Web meant to be.
Giphy, incase you’re not aware, is now owned by Facebook..far worse than Getty when it comes to data privacy.
Sincere thanks for the link to the list of cases, it's useful info.

> As an analogy, this means that if I were Mr. Amazon and stole $20 from one of my employees, my fine would be half a penny, except that fine includes every other illegal thing I'd gotten caught doing that year.

That's no analogy. You're implying that every last cent of revenue earned by Amazon amounts to theft. Sure, take that line of rhetoric if you want, but it's not a serious discussion of the issues and doesn't do anything to help address any real problems for workers.

Taking the most recent case - the $61.7M fine handed down in Feb this year - that fine amounted to 100% of the money they were found to have withheld from drivers.

Which means the claim that Amazon can deliberately and continuously underpay and mistreat workers, write off any fines and "costs of doing business" and face no significant consequences is false. $61M is a lot of money for anyone, even Amazon, they gained nothing from it, and indeed would have lost a whole lot more money defending the case, as well as in their reputation among potential workers.

If I haven't made this clear already, I'm not for one second claiming that Amazon is free of any wrongdoing, that pay and conditions for Amazon workers are always adequate, or that the economic system and regulatory oversight mechanisms always function well. I'm just pushing back on the claims that every last thing that Amazon ever does amounts to gravely sinister assault on perpetually defenceless victims, and that they never face consequences for wrongdoing. Things can still be bad without having to be quite that bad.
The 70% is my issue with the article as well. That seems to indicate a 30% chance for the pandemic that actually happened, but that seems awfully high.
I’m not sure why are you downvoted — yeah the “rewrite everything in rust” hype is bad/annoying (and no, I don’t have any problem with rust), but systemd simply should not have been started in C. It replaced goddamn shell scripts so performance can’t really be a good argument pro, but a not too scripty managed language would have more than enough performance.
You can't match up the product with an actual user or person in any way.
I followed up and spent some time on media bias fact check, i found it really informative to see the far-left falsehoods. GMO foods show up a lot in the pseudoscience category. Outside of those, most falsehoods tend to be exaggerated stats, e.g. 70% of black inmates are incarcerated for minor drug charges.
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Which is weird in itself -

The probability of death for a healthy 30-something year old is lower than their probability to die in a car crash (1/10 to 1/100 of all cause mortality for that age group).

It’s a game of probability, of course, but it turns out that whistle blowers often suffer from “coincidences” and “low probability events”, and whenever that happens, I try to take note.
Was wondering just yesterday how much those book affiliate links made. Before reading my guess would have been way higher.
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Pre-systemd you actually could switch out the kernel on Debian - you could be running Hurd or the FreeBSD kernel, but the rest of the OS would still be Debian.
Agreed, rather than magic we should call it what it really is: a massive amount of introspection on the name of things creating implicit interfaces that reach across layers of the application resulting in some of the nastiest, brittlest, most highly coupled code you will ever write.
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> It's because everyone was allowed to speak that the message came across and won minds.

Eh, you need to revisit your history lessons. There was plenty of cancel culture against blacks and there was also A LOT of violence used against them when the black protested against it and against their treatment.
It looks like it uses Mullvad servers, but is otherwise its own software.

It uses WireGuard, an open VPN protocol, so it's not necessarily forever anchored to Mullvad.
I think seeing all the random items is collateral damage. It can possibly be fixed (only show purchases in the category that you referred?).

As the affiliate, the insights are invaluable. Imagine you hosted a sleep blog and directed people to a particular memory foam pillow. If you saw they ended up purchasing a different pillow, you could change the link to better serve your readers.

Or if you saw that they ended up purchasing essential oils, perhaps you’d want to write a post about using oil diffusers to fall asleep.

The affiliate link tracking is supposed to give you a better picture of your audience. Usually it works, but getting 50M views from every source on the internet is obviously a case where there’s no common “audience”.
Looks like he wanted to experiment different things, which becomes a lot more interesting when thousands of people are coming to your app. And he knew it was only going to be the case for a limited amount of time, so enjoying as much as possible having an audience was probably the best thing to do!
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I disagree. He does what he wants, we listen or don’t. I think he’s trying to increase use of FLOSS and nothing else.

We can have preferences for what he should do, but he’s unlikely to do them. And I don’t get upset because he’s not doing what I want him to do.

Many technical thought leaders are “bad speakers” but that’s ok with me because tech concepts are hard and I’d rather have a bad speaker with a good idea than a good speaker with a bad idea.

I can always view source to figure it out.

I think it’s a false dichotomy that people must be perfect in every way to do something as simple as talk about how he wrote emacs at a conference. We take what we can get and the author of emacs is not very charismatic. That’s ok, I want to learn about emacs.
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They probably won't be found. Needle in a haystack problem, compounded by the fact most Covid cases are minor and the major ones just look like atypical pneumonia if you don't know what to look for.
Reading the same text on twitter is unbearable.
That's just the activist philosophy. They believe in turning every workplace in a political battlefield and they will conspire to get all those who disagree with them, fired, and consequently take over the establishment.
Managers should take note to not hire these nutjobs.
Well, I provided high-profile examples of broadly popular groups that are in fact secular. These are the orgs I had in mind.

You have provided an unsupported assertion.
That evil little fecker just creeped the hell out of me.
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> for some reason "intermediate" consequences are just impossible to implement in bureaucracies or organizations in general

This is not particular to small organizations, it's a feature of the whole society. This attitude is one of the hallmarks of a move towards totalitarianism. There is no compromise possible, total defeat or total annihilation of opposing views are the only options.
> But one should not discriminatorily focus on what China did wrong early on while ignoring the early mistakes of Western countries like the US

this is wildly inaccurate. china single-handedly delayed world response by at least a month by jailing journalists, destroying samples, and lying to the WHO. comparing that to some degree of ineptitude in the US or anywhere else is nonsensical.
Show me the text where he has a bad idea about consent. And then show me how his statements are false.

I guess you refer to this text:

On MIT's internal Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) listerv, Stallman had seen the description of a protest of Marvin Minsky which said Minsky was "accused of assaulting" one of Epstein's victims. Stallman argued that "the most plausible scenario" is that "she presented herself to him as entirely willing" -- even if she was coerced by Epstein into doing so -- whereas the phrase "assaulting" implies the use of force or violence, faciliating what he calls "accusation inflation... Whatever conduct you want to criticize, you should describe it with a specific term that avoids moral vagueness about the nature of the criticism."

So please explain to me how this statement is false.
I'm thinking more like the recent PHP repository compromise. I was thinking at some point that I may want to host my own git public repos, but they might not be safe. My solution could be to ask people to check my signatures.
There are thousands of wet markets throughout China. Even if you restrict your view to major cities only, there's over 100 cities in China with a million inhabitants.

There were 2 known locations in China where coronaviruses were being studied - Beijing and Wuhan.

Now apply Bayesian analysis.

This is before you look at the coverup and the history of diseases escaping from research labs all over the world and the documented inadequate safety measures in the Chinese labs.
Well. This http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation.html sells socket activation as the best thing since sliced bread, including for boot time. It has its uses for some rarely used services and for some startup order problems, yes.

About the DNS service, I remember a bug where the fallback behavior was not what people wanted (it was something that seemed to be a good idea to systemd developers but didn't work well in completely reasonable real-world configurations), and the developers rejected the idea that systemd's behavior was wrong. Can't find it right now. I have disabled it on my system as well due to a problem I don't remember. Maybe it didn't use my router's DNS server and went straight to the internet. Maybe I just wanted it to leave my resolv.conf alone.
From this paper that is specifically looking at scholars: "Fifth, because the scholars were not appointed until they reached young adulthood, our investigation was limited to adult mortality. The effects of shifts in infant and child mortality on the evolution of life expectancy were neglected."
In grad school, I did a project for a Shakespeare class that involved picking at how characters used gendered pronouns to see if I could find anything interesting. (I think I built an sqlite3 db from the playshakespeare XML version; I don't recall being able to _find_ another at the time--I think this was early 2010.)

One thing I remember finding interesting (if a bit unexpected and frustrating) was how many pronouns were implied in contractions. In the case of `
's`, the contraction suffix is even double-used for contracted forms of "us" and "his". I ended up having to get a concordance, skim it for potential pronoun-implying contractions, and then verify them in the text. I'm sure I missed a few :)
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I was born just 6 years before Edward Abbey died. He wrote about this problem long before I was even born. This problem is not new, and some of its causes have been well known for a long time.

He argues that the major problem is that the parks are too easy to visit. If you make people get out of their cars and walk a bit, you might stand to preserve some kind of semi-natural experience. If you pave a road to the rim of the Grand Canyon, it shouldn't come as a surprise that people are going to drive right up to it, get out, take a picture, and drive on to the next overlook. As I'm not going to do his words or argument justice, I'd encourage anybody interested in this to pick up a copy of Desert Solitaire.

If you do, and you find his argument convincing, your next task is to figure out how to sustain the communities that have come to depend on tourist revenue. I'm not talking about the seasonal folks that work for the NPS or a concessionaire, I mean the people who actually live in these places year-round.

You should know that Abbey is not writing from a disinterested viewpoint. He wrote The Monkey Wrench Gang, after all. Still, I find his words both lucid and prescient.
Influence on governments is really not at all comparable to being a government.
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If you do not have examples then it is obviously much less evident than you claim. "Social power" does not imply structural prejudice. Likewise, any past inequalities that still have effects today do not imply structural issues today.

Again, I disagree that there are structures in the UK that perpetuate racial inequalities.

There are social constructs that tend to perpetuates social inequalities but there are not based on race.
When systemd came out I started experiencing "I upgraded and now my system won't boot". When I got fed up enough and removed systemd (and eventually had to switch distributions as non-systemd became unsupported) that stopped happening. I'm sure there will be some sophisticated argument about how this wasn't really systemd's fault and was someone else's fault, but the correlation is pretty damn strong.
That’s not that compelling on its own given that you could already use var to avoid repeating the declaration.
Yeah, just now reading the individuals in the petition list, so many are contributors of GPL projects.

If the goal was to defend or strengthen the free software movement, then turning every conversation about the subject into a purity test on the founder's actions instead of on, well, free software seems to run counter to that goal.

And given the return announcement happened at the end of Libre planet without any of their organizers being aware beforehand, which FSF clarified as such afterwards, it telegraphs their awareness that it would be a controversy.
That's something that sounds like it makes sense but is flat-out wrong. See this graph (from the TFA): https://read.dukeupress.edu/view-large/figure/2454457/dem893...

A bit depressing that these lazy, swaggy, wrong hot takes are so often upvoted.
Or, to quote Ernest Hemingway, "Gradually, then suddenly."
True, but I think there’s “cancel risk” (or whatever you call it) to IBM were RedHat to do something like sell software to ICE or whatever is an action that people boycott/campaign on.

People were threatening Microsoft because of GitHub’s actions.

I think it’s reasonable that a lawyer at IBM identified this area to message whatever is supposed to be right and talked with RedHat to coordinate signing or whatnot.

I think it’s weird that corporations make these kinds of moral/ethical statements.
The UK act says I (P) committe an offence if

(a)P offers, promises or gives a financial or other advantage to another person, and
(b)P intends the advantage—
(i)to induce a person to perform improperly a relevant function or activity, or
(ii)to reward a person for the improper performance of such a function or activity.

The definition of improper broadly boils down to

> the test of what is expected is a test of what a reasonable person in the United Kingdom would expect in relation to the performance of the type of function or activity concerned.

Tipping at starbucks, or tipping a barman, or tipping a hotel member holding open a door, is certainly not what a reasonable person in the United Kingdom would expect.

"Tipping" is quite normal in the US. "Tipping" is quite normal in many African countries too. If you don't tip, you'll struggle to get any service (when you're running a project or whatever). It's a whole can of worms when normal activities in a country require a small payment.

Note also that if I tell my local project manager to make it happen, I'm on the hook for it if he "bribes" someone just as much as if I did it myself.

I'm sure the intent of the law is to prevent UK citizens from paying money to bypass bureaucracy (I had a very painful process importing some equipment at an airport once, they did not want to give me a receipt for the $1500 I wanted (and was supposed to) pay, they just wanted $50 to waive me through, or to stop me from paying an official $200k to let me build a pipe through a village, or whatever.

However it also means it's harder to make their project run smoothly in Guatemala ("Oh yes you can unload your lorry of course, this paperwork seems fine, but unfortunatly I need to check with my manager and he's currently out of town for 3 days. cough."), and means that you'll be subjected to a lengthy search at an airport (just long enough to miss your flight) for no reason unless you donate to their orphan fund or whatever.

I struggle to see the difference between that (which wouldn't be the case in the UK) and tipping a postman (which again I've never seen in the UK). The former I assume is illegal, the latter not, but it's not clear.

By enshrining English exceptionalism in UK law does seems rather off to me -- basically "treat all countries as if they were Britain, salute the Queen, and up the East India Company"
Which is great until your power/internet goes out, and you need to make an emergency call from inside.
They didn't say lab produced. The prevailing theory among those that are suspicious of the Wuhan lab is that it was a natural virus being studied in a lab from which it escaped.

Also, Occams Razor has nothing to do with 'who gained' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
If it's time series data check out the timescaledb extension.
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Depends on the device. I don't take my TV out for walks.
Divorce insurance. Because over 50% of marriages end in divorce. And 2 out of 3 divorces are filed by women. And 90% of child support payments and custody favors women. As well as alimony. A windfall for women. Economic hardship for men. Insurance would make this more equitable.

Divorce insurance would cover the costly financial, long term costs of divorce.
I had the privilege of working with one of the individuals who is featured in one of the iconic protest photos from the 1990 capitol crawl. I'm not as old as this person, and my personal experience with disability, and all of my professional experience are post ADA/AA.

Listening to her story about life in the 50's and 60's and her experience with being (in her words) "institutionalized in hell" was just startling. It really put things into perspective for my professional career, and honestly, I can say that one day had more of an impact on my personal and professional trajectory than most other things I've done.

It's still socially acceptable to mock and discriminate based on disability. People do it all the time. It's just. I don't know what the word is. Terrible doesn't seem strong enough. It's ridiculous.

I don't know that there is a reason for me telling this story, other than to agree with your last sentence.

The problem that I've run into, though, is that those individuals who really could make a splash - in my profession (higher ed), these tend to be folks on the autism spectrum who do not fit into stodgy, higher education 'conventional' expectations - do not have the know-how or the tools or the want to make a real flashy impact. They're afraid of social and economic consequences for speaking up. About half of my job is working with these folks to change systems and modify work/study spaces to implement universal design; for me, neuro-atypical universal design is the hardest to pin-down.

That's what makes being sued all the time such a pain in the ass. It's always by someone who is self-diagnosed, and someone who leans into the 'perceived' part of disability definition. Maybe I'm getting too in the weeds here.

Anyway. Not really sure what the point of all of this was, other than to say, thank you for the discourse. I appreciate it.
How can I read a play with lots of hyperlinks to help me understand old English words, insults, and jokes? Or even better, commentary available to help better understand a passage?
Why though? I can’t see any advantage to wrapping the startup code in a Main method from a maintainability standpoint.
I'd strongly recommend switching to FreeBSD. It's pretty similar to Linux of 20 years ago: some things might require a bit of manual configuration, but it's rock solid after you've done that.
How about people look at his original statement, and show how what he said is false.