skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before our daughter was born, the childbirth school we were attending told us that it's important that the newborn be rotated between positions (laying on left side/right side/back/belly) every couple hours. I thought, there's no way in hell we'll be awake enough to keep track of this, and not mess up the sequence. So I bought a wall clock to serve as an indicator, one that had no back (I wanted to put a color-coded, labeled card in the back) and was split into quadrants. Like this one: [0], except round. With that, it would mean we only need to check which quadrant the small hand is currently in to know which position our baby should be in.

And then we didn't use it much, because our daughter was unstable when on the side, learned quickly to flip between back and belly positions, and between all the other things that involved taking her out of her crib, it turned out this whole piece of advice about rotating baby position makes no sense in the first place.

So here's to a clear problem and a clever solution colliding with harsh reality. :).

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[0] - https://br.pinterest.com/pin/836684437002318403/
That's easy because its just P(x)^Y. So with a fair coin its just powers of two so 4 in a row is 1/16, which is... 0.125/2 or 0.050 + 0.025/2 or 0.0625... That's fairly easy because those kinds of numbers are very recognizable. 1/16th is also between 1/10th and 1/20th so the answer better be between 0.05 and .10 as well. Kind of simple but 125/2 I have to break up a bit to do it, I don't know it lightning fast, although I very much recognize it after I'm done.

And yeah, I don't really have ADHD and don't have dyscalculia. You said you have ADHD and sounded like you were describing dyscalculia.
Yup, my code is littered with WHERE true AND ...
I suspect it's a surprisingly easy trap many of us fall into. It's not about hiring someone without a need for their talents, it's that interview processes can amplify team weaknesses if the signal chosen closely aligns with the current team strengths, and as a result is less likely to fill skills and knowledge gaps.

And this is a sort of natural trap, since the skills we're best at judging are things we're already good at. I suspect these biases can happen at large and small companies. It's constantly on my mind that the signal we use for my interviews are too closely aligned with my own preconceptions, especially when it's a problem space I've spent alot of time in, and may be foreign to the candidate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_location_analytics
I use both gnu screen and dwm as full screen managers. The only exception is vim, where I have a split term: code one side - running program with error output on the other.

If I split the screen anymore it becomes both too fiddly and the panes become too small on my 13" screen. Does anyone use three or more split windows? If so, what's in them?
FWIW, Lua and AppleScript (and HyperTalk!) use(d) `--` as well.

(Edit: I think I misread “know” as “know of”; whoops.)
I don't understand how this view is still controversial.

I worked in fund management: I have never seen people who were so overpaid (myself included) for doing so little. Fund managers are a net negative cost to the economy, and they earn fees to do it. Most of them, particularly personal advisors, understand nothing about investing that most people couldn't learn themselves (the only exception are the big wealth management divisions at IBs, most personal advisors likely cost clients substantially). I actually worked in the personal space too, I remember billing clients regularly ~$20k for 20 minutes work...there is no world (even inc. our costs) in which our fees made sense.

I invest actively because I have literally spent 14 hours/day researching stocks for most of the past decade. For anyone else, buy an index fund. Your performance is still going to be good, there is no way that most people get a return on time researching stocks/mutual funds themselves.

VCs have a fetish for financial idiocy that I will never understand (perhaps that is required to be a VC, no idea).
People that deign network protocols love love big endian.

Which means on the software side you then have to swap everything from big endian to little endian. And you need to do that at the first opportunity so their big endian crap doesn't get loose in the rest of the code.
^ how I went from non-programmer to completely indispensable in just a few years.
The first bicycles didn't even have pedals, were used on rather bad road surfaces but apparently were still fun enough for some people to make multi-day journeys. It was bad but the best you could get without a horse.
I'm not sure that bursting at the beginning has much to do with the underlying tech but more with marketing.
AFAIU each Android manufacturer has their own ad-hoc battery optimizations and opts-in most apps to it by default and users need to opt out. It's a wild west.

I think stuff might work for a while when screen is off but if the phone lies idle for hours, apps get killed etc. and the phone checks for notifs only once in a long while.
Blockchain is a very generic term nowadays. E.g. A linked list is also a blockchain.
I see. So the one is a puzzle or game and the other is a choose-your-own-adventure story.
I think there should be an option where you either pay for content you consume on the web or targeted (aka efficient) advertising pays for it. All I care about is my PII information not to leak and be accessible to random people.

I don't see any other way and I can't see what these people at EFF are arguing for? It's easy to just keep saying no to everything.
This sounds suspiciously like the argument that coal mining should continue so as to preserve coal-miner jobs.
Not every web page has an associated strong commercial intent. Most sites, quality sites, would lose out to commerical junk sites if only commercial sites could make money from ads.
Personally I like leading commas for the ergonomics rather than the aesthetics. When I'm developing or debugging a query the first column is typically the one I'm least likely to change. I tend to build up the query from there, so the last columns are the ones I'm most likely to change or to comment out. Plus I find it easiest to interpret the result set when columns that I'm using as a temporary reference are at the very end of the row. So for the way I work, I've found that with leading commas I don't have to do as much futzing about with commas.

My job involves a lot of ELT pipelines though and the queries I'm writing are often to transform a client's data from whatever ill-conceived data model they've been using to a standard data model that we use for all clients. Those queries require a lot more "detective work" to get right than the queries that run against our standard data model. If I was just writing queries against the standard, I'm not sure I'd spend enough time developing/debugging to really notice any ergonomic benefit.
This time innovation is not coming from US or in other words US is not the only one leading on this. I hope this is okay with you guys :)
Yeaaaah, but I learned to make an app :)
Start from the assumption that you do not need any data from your users, and do not need to form an explicit relationship with them (like by having them create an account), and work from there. Treat it as a challenge - how to make your idea work under such constraints?
* Switched a couple of years ago from Firefox because of better dev tools.

* GPU acceleration doesn't work properly with Firefox/Linux (Dell G5 SE, Ryzen 4800H). Some sites I use daily, such as Google Maps, are painfully slow/laggy on Firefox.

* There's something about the Firefox's scrolling behaviour that I find really annoying.

* It works well across all platforms (Firefox on Android wasn't great last time I checked).

* It's the most tested browser. Many websites don't bother to test with Firefox.

* Chrome has the richest extension ecosystem.

* Some of the alternatives, such as Brave are not as trustworthy. Security is a bigger concern than privacy for me. Google has one of the best security track records.

* I'm heavily invested in the Google ecosystem, and I use dozens of their products. There's always a switching cost involved. Just changing the browser has a negligable effect on privacy if I'm constantly using the other Google services.

* Personally had overall an overwhelmingly positive experience over the last 15+ years I've been in the Google ecosystem. Google hasn't done anything to betray my trust so far.
Lost 72 hours worth of research data to forced update
I'm curious about the value of maintaining something like this verses using Firefox.
If your manager listens to the engineer who says "Kubernetes is awesome and does all the things!" and doesn't listen to the engineer who says "I think Kubernetes is a bad idea for this project because x, y, and z", then yeah, it's time to find a new manager. Good managers listen to good advisors.
Oh, I don't know anything. I didn't work closely with the Chrome team, and even if I did, I left Google years ago.

But I don't think my co-workers were evil, and though I didn't work personally with them much, I think the folks on the privacy and security teams know their business.

Public blog posts can be extremely difficult to understand though, I'm guessing because it's gotten so political. You can get a bit more from "intent to ship" emails on the public mailing lists.
It was definitely a conspiracy between Google and insurance companies and not that the feature was a security/privacy risk used by too few people to be worth investing in developing in a manner which eliminated the risk.
I'll donate too if published FLOSS :)
Honestly I have no problems with ad's

While I have no problem with the concept itself of advertising, I do have a problem with modern implementations of ads. Almost invariably, they are loud (vocally and visually), intrusive, obnoxious and almost coercive in their use of language. They are intended to dumb down the target audience, rather than enrich their targets' lives.

I do have a problem with everything that attacks my ability to think freely.
I do this style too, but think of each new row as basically a new table being added to the query (especially if it's a query, which may go over several rows and is indented):

from
alpha a
inner join beta b on b.id = a.id
left outer join gamma g on g.id = a.id
left outer join (
select z.id, count(\*) as cnt from zeta z
) delta on delta.id = a.id
where
...
Yeah I know that that's the origin of the meme (I mean, it's literally in the post), bit when it becomes a quip it still rubs me the wrong way when it's actually true, bit not in the good way.

I guess basically, I'd just like to remove the positive connotations with the term, and instead just focus on the actual virtue: working efficiently.

Of course, it's not a major issue. It's just semantics, and I'm not that much of a 'language matters' type of person.
'Ads you see on the App store or Apple News' and 'ads on the the entire web' is very substantial distinction, as is the scope of the surveillance involved. Another one big one is - you can turn the Apple thing off.
>> I managed to pass all the exams by learning all the greek stories. For some reason, every exam was translating short versions of some greek mythology.

The Romans shared the Greek pantheon and much of the Greek mythology, e.g. the Greek god Zeus was the Roman god Jupiter, the Greek goddess Athena was the Roman goddess Minerva, etc. Could you be remembering the Roman versions of the mythologies and deities as Greek?
It's unfortunate that people are downvoting you because "that's just how it is in stack-based languages". Maybe stack-based languages are indeed less readable than alternatives. Pointing this out should ideally encourage discussion rather than downvotes.

The language's developers themselves seem to agree that postfix syntax isn't always best: The syntax for the type "list of characters" is "List<Char>", which is not postfix. Compare ML-family languages, where this would use postfix syntax, writing this type as "char list".
Your question assumes that transparent, behavior-based, cross-site user interest tracking is somehow essential functionality for the web and we just have to find the right way to do it.

I think most people who are criticizing FLoC would challenge the idea that this class of functionality needs to or should exist at all.
IMDB, TMDB, OMDb, and the 10+ other services that do this all prohibit that.

I'm not trying to persuade you that stealing intellectual property is bad. I just thought it was funny that you'd whine about a $99 fee with one hand, while content-marketing an app that depends completely on someone else's data with the other.
I think your use of theory and terms is right but you aren't visualizing how it would work in the world where nearly everyone is passive.

Simplest example I cited already: it becomes obvious that company X will default in short order, but it's a member of an index and the market will "buy" it anyway: I can short it (by borrowing from the passives and selling it to them next time they buy the index) and never have to cover since it's bankrupt. That's a simple example of a single-player active skewering the passives.

You can try to figure out what this means in terms of tracking error but it's kinda irrelevant to my point.
Ha I was just about to say that. This sounds similar to what they did.
I prefer irrelevant ads because I learn about new things outside of my bubble.

Who knew that ship designers could buy special plugins for CAD environments? Even though I could have guessed it (In fact, I made this example up), it’s still fun and interesting to be surprised.
Stellar, apparently.
Vivaldi:

>document.interestCohort()

>VM131:1 Uncaught TypeError: document.interestCohort is not a function
at <anonymous>:1:10
It highly depends on manufacturer and phone settings. Some manufacturers have very aggressive battery optimizations by default to claim "look how awesome our battery life is!"
> Are the users just blindly approving trades worth thousands without even verifying?

People do. Many years ago I started playing an MMOG and the old timers were all discussing some incredibly rare new item. So I said I had one, and someone said he'd give me 100 million credits for it. For comparison, I'd just spent several hours grinding out about 10 credits. So I sent him a formal offer - some random piece of junk for 100 million credits - and he was so excited he clicked OK without reading what he was getting. He was so angry! He spent weeks spewing venom on the forums.

Of course, this wasn't real money, but in terms of time spent earning it he suffered a significant loss.
Shotwell seems no better, promoting cross-globe rocket flights by 2028 cheaper than business class plane tickets. Not space tourism, but a real commercial service starting then. It makes no sense.

Source:
https://www.vox.com/2018/4/11/17227036/flight-spacex-gwynne-...

They haven't walked it back.
Looking at the CSS classes, it references the procedence of the mathematician: (North) America is green, Middle East orange, Asia red, and so on. Tao is the only blue: he is from Oceania (Australia.)
I'm not really "for" monopobooze shops but there are solid reasons a government might want them.

Government run shops let you track sales by area in a fine-grained way.

They can be a more effective way to ensure rules around supply are enforced than random inspections / checks.

They let you change the rules (eg opening hours, id requirements, record keeping, banned drinker registry, customer limits) easily without an outcry from retailers who would no doubt claim that any restrictions are onerous and impractical.

They can be placed so as to avoid completely saturating low income areas with booze.

No price wars or loss-leader marketing strategies.

They mean one can buy essentials without going "near" alcohol. Supermarket sales can be an issue for problem drinkers.

Retail profits can go back to the community.

There are other ways you can achieve each of these points of course but monitoring, enforcement and change will all tend to be more difficult in a decentralised vs centralised system.
Take a moment to re-read the post from collyw above, it is full of common sense.
They have the right to demand compensation, but the appropriate way to do that is to gatekeep - i.e. don't provide access until the user pays (or promises to pay).

When they serve content with ads, they are not demanding anything.
So I've been trying to work this out. Previously I understood the idea "The passives are simply the average of the actives". So even if you had 99% passive, so long as the actives were doing their homework the system would work, but as you said you need to watch for exploits.

But then I had the question: When the world has gone passive, who is left as an active investor?

1. Wallstreetbets users who do poorly on average, and they are small

2. Highly skilled Hedgefunds like Medallion who do great on average, but they are small

3. ... the company using debt to buyback its own shares

So the key behind this entire stock market is that its a beauty contest where you need to make guesses as to what everyone else will do. But as active investors shrink with the increase in passive, what we are allowing happen is that the companies who use debt to buyback their shares are whats driving the market. Every dollar they spend on their stock is then magnified 100x by the big passive funds, and both 1 & 2 have no agency other than to try to get swept up in the winds.

I have not yet done the intensive research to understand how large 3 can effect a stock, does anyone here have any idea if this will be a problem, and if we are already seeing signs that this is happening already?
Given current and ever falling Firefox usage rates I find it hard to believe that the dropping of a platform by Mozilla is any kind of sign regarding the future of the platform.
Well, the BBC iPlayer does ask visitors to turn off their VPN, so your theory does hold water.
> isn't that a socially accepted thing?

not where I come from!

> You don't see people protesting doctors being corrupt?

You don't?
Really?

> Quite the opposite, people praise them

Because the vast majority of them help people in dire times.

And also because if they save people or don't, they get paid anyway, so what would the vested interest be, except it's their job?
I just wrote to you the same thing the parent of your post did. You are missing the part of the scenario where "everyone" except the one player is passive. Both I and the poster broke down the mechanics step by step for you...
Many things are wrong probably, here are some I can think of: it is extra data for more accurate fingerprinting, it is not really an alternative to tracking users because companies using it doesn't mean they'll stop tracking you, it's likely going to become another de facto web standard imposed by Google and used in conjunction with other tracking methods may more accurately reveal your browsing habits and history because it reduces the guess/search space from the whole web to a handful of websites in your cohort.
Android allows side loading apps, no need to pay for Google's store and the service it provides.
> they are using stealing from a candy store as a metaphor for how a certain amount of behavior that a company doesn't like ...

It's a bad metaphor, a better metaphor would be reading a journal and covering ads with post it notes.
There are plenty of good products that only get discovered because of advertisement. People aren’t constantly searching for every single one of their pain points at once.

One day, you may have a need for a product, and someone who previously solved your need can’t afford to make the product anymore because only a small percentage of people realized it was a solved problem.
But there is also a theoretical reason not to believe things are so linear. The body is designed to react to stress, and a minimal amount of stress can even be beneficial, because of the way the body reacts to it. At least in some cases this is unequivocal.

- Muscles must be stressed and sustain damage ("microtrauma") before muscle growth occurs.

- DNA must be damaged by UVB radiation in order for the body to create melanin.

- Allergen immunotherapy works by exposing the body to larger and larger amounts of a substance which causes an allergic reaction. This process is clearly nonlinear and involves hysteresis!

I'm not arguing that ethanol is beneficial to neuronal health, but rather that the body can maintain homeostasis under stress, to an extent, as it does in so many other systems. For alcohol, we know that drinkers develop a tolerance. Heavier drinkers are able to produce enzymes more quickly and in higher numbers, and greater amounts of alcohol can be eliminated at a time. (Sufficiently heavy drinkers are still sustaining higher levels of all concerned chemicals, of course).

Ethanol exists naturally in the body, in small amounts (~3g/day), as a byproduct of fermentation in the digestive system. We're always producing a small amount of the enzymes which convert alcohol to acetaldehyde, and then acetaldehyde to acetic acid and acetyl-CoA, and so on. Is it such a stretch to imagine that the body has a feedback mechanism to deal with variations in these levels, and that that mechanism is effective at preventing neurotoxicity for small enough variation in these levels? At some point I think to argue there is no theoretic way the body regulates these low levels of ethanol, you'd just be arguing that living, itself, is neurotoxic.
Found this on Wikipedia, but there are some very important differences.

> In April 2007, Akon drew criticism for an onstage act which included simulated sex with Danah Alleyne — a 15-year-old girl at the time who is the daughter of a pastor and sister of Crime Watch host Ian Alleyne — at the Zen Nightclub in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago as part of a fake contest, despite the club's claim to have a 21 years and over age requirement
Wheres the IPv4 address from? Because if it's AWS, that's gonna be rather useless.
Recently, yes. Wasn't really the case for most of the lifetime of Android project, at least if my memory serves. Also even today, the application section is barely usable as it is.

Contrast that with e.g. the task manager on Windows. It's not a pinnacle of UI, but it's easy to use, communicates necessary information, and gets the job done.
I wouldn't entirely agree. It doesn't change often enough, leading to easy fingerprinting scenarios[1].

1. https://github.com/WICG/floc/issues/4
I don't think that's how impostor syndrome works? By definition, someone with impostor syndrome is a high performer but they attribute their success to luck, thus they think they are a fraud.
We just take turns picking the weekly movie.
Disabling FLoC is reactionary, performative, and honestly, counterproductive.

Ad industry: "Look. We listened to your concerns about ad privacy. Here's a solution that gives you everything you want. Now we can serve interest-based ads without tracking you across the internet. You win."

Brave: "We don't want a solution. We want to be sanctimonious and angry!"
I’m not interested in having a discourse about rights vs. privileges and the debate about gun control.

You have a lot of passionately held beliefs and I think this is the downside of placing asides like animal rights and gun control in the middle of your piece about Bitcoin. Because the focus has shifted away from the core subject you wrote about and people are tempted to argue about topics that society just can’t decide on.
That's the point. An asset can't crash in a 100% passive market because the funds buying the assets are obligated to do so without any discretion. The point is that such a situation is unrealistic.
This has not been true for me. I have discovered interesting things in Facebook ads that I would not have discovered and bought otherwise. (They were obscure Kickstarter projects)
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