skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't typing the credentials of my bank, email, etc into a cloud browser run by someone else just as untrustworthy as using a hotel lobby browser? I might use a hotel lobby browser to look up directions or browse local attractions but I'd never log into any account knowing that all my keystrokes might be logged etc...
IMO = In My Opinion
now, do it for infinity
See that to me is the strawman...

"No thanks"

> "Aw, why not?"

> "Not really my thing"

and then the next line would be something like "It's a lot of fun" or "Straight/Cis allies are totally welcome" and if Jodie was like me the response is "I'm sure, but I just don't want to" and that's the end of it.

There is an oft-repeated idea that non-queer people are getting in any way harassed to alter their lifestyle by threat of accusations of homophobia, despite being unfounded.
My wife and I lived in many places throughout the US.

Compared to Silicon Valley, it's a massive bargain. Our house on the Cape is a "mansion" compared to what we could afford if we lived in Silicon Valley.

I even spent a few months living in Falmouth, near Woods hole. Homes were affordable, schools were good, prices were reasonable. Can you find a cheaper place to live? Yes, but it's all about your priorities. You can have a mansion in the middle of nowhere or a reasonable house a 15-minute walk from the beach.

Anyway, after moving around a lot in my early life, what I can tell you is that if you can't figure out how to be happy in a generally middle-class location like Cape Cod, you won't be happy anywhere.
The underlying problem is that people are capable of causing more damages than they can cover. If you cause a billion dollars in damages, but you don't have a billion dollars, who pays? Not you, for sure, because you can't.

Some of these have decent solutions. We want people to recycle aluminum cans, so we have a deposit which you get back when you take the can to the recycling machine. If you're too lazy to do that, now it's a means for the homeless to make a buck, you don't get your deposit back, and the cans still get recycled.

For other things the solution isn't obvious. You could require anyone who wants to operate in these industries to post a massive bond of their own money to pay the claims if there are any, but that's just asking for market consolidation. You end up with an abusive monopoly or possibly even nobody willing to offer a product in the market at all. The cure is worse than the disease.

In some sense what you need is the opposite. If there are a thousand competitors then there is no one company who can breach a hundred million users. Moreover, there is plenty of competition, so companies that get breached have to worry about reputational harm and customers switching to a competitor. Then you would expect the companies with good long-term records to take over.

And then we're back to the problem with credit reporting agencies. The problem is that the victim has no way to opt out of the system.

One solid solution would be to eliminate social security numbers whatsoever and otherwise put them out of business. The entire credit system is just a zero-sum bidding war anyway. Making it harder for everyone to get credit only reduces the bidding war for housing and makes it more affordable to everyone.
Have you tried? I'm pretty sure if you get it engineered w/structural calcuations and it passes residential building code, I see no reason why they'd reject it.
Can you name some of those consequences in "western society" you believe were caused by "coddling helicopter gov't" actions, similar to regulating advertising addictive products to minors?
I don't know why and I don't want to jinx it but I get no ads at all when using youtube on my laptop. Only on my mobile which is why I don't watch youtube there.
I don't think police should kill as many people as they do. They are way too trigger happy.

I was making an argument that the police is about as shitty for whites and blacks. It's not a matter of racism, but of bad policing. I want police to be better to everyone, not just black people.

If we don't address the root of the problem (and racism isn't it), you just end up with other Baltimores. For example just the other day I saw in the news that NYPD is losing officers at twice the rate since 2020.
How often are people switching between laptops that it justifies a $30/month cost?

If you are switching that much, just sign into freakin' Chrome and turn on sync.
if free will is to be believed, then it can't be modeled, right?
If anything, I kind of wish git had as many named stages as you wanted.

Its one of the nice features of Perforce but they screw it up by only allowing separation at the whole file level.
The first smoking rejected vs approved ad figure showed two pictures of people with smoke coming out of their mouths rejected and then one picture of someone holding an electric cigarette that was approved. The e-cig wasn't recognizeable to me, I'm not sure if those are great comparisons.

And with the second figure - with the gambling, drinking, and dating ads, I don't really get how the final one could be construed absolutely as a dating ad. "Find your gentleman" could be a service for connecting polite but lonely friends.

If these are representative of ads that they got approved and disapproved I think their methodology was flawed. It would be easier to look at examples of advertisements that explicitly minor-owned accounts actually saw on their feed that advertise adult services.
Why I Left My Job at Facebook in the Middle of a Pandemic?
Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19)
"only 4% of cases are provable one way or the other, and that those which are have a 50/50 chance of being true or false complaints."

Not prosecuted != not provable. Not provable != false.
Yeah, that's pretty much it. There's no real upside and you risk a lawsuit. There are plenty of other ISAs that will work and are licensable for FPGA development
I choose to spend my money on devices from a company that's explicitly and repeatedly stated that their mission is privacy.

But if you choose to buy phones from ad companies, it's your decision.
What I find interesting in all your examples is it feels the cause for issues are power imbalances and racism.

The people calling the cops are likely the white neighbors on their black neighbors and not the other way around. In your nextdoor example, it's not just "bored housewives", it's "white bored housewives". I don't suppose you feel that black bored housewives are also posting those messages.
This reminds me of the Internet Explorer antitrust issue. Eventually Microsoft had to give users a choice on start up. Not sure if it directly led to better browsers or not, but it certainly didn't hurt. I could see the outcome being the same here where users will get to choose which store(s) they want on their device during setup rather than defaulting to the play or apple store
I concur with the sibling post. I have had similar experience with my colleagues. Thank you.
I've had several videos now where I get an ad every few minutes, and I'm curious how consistent it could be when none of the comments acknowledge it. Are you aware of different viewers getting different numbers of ads?
Yeah, my idea makes more sense if you omit the 64-byte limit; then the input can be an entire book.

For an ideal hash function, every output maps to an infinite number of inputs. I don't know if SHA-256 has that property, but God could just define the simplest ideal hash function and let people cryptanalyze it.
employees get a fair bit of stock. my friends at google have seen their comp raise 20 or 30 percent from the stock rise in the last year
Plenty of web APIs that offer native functionality. Apple will not implement them in Safari for obvious reasons. Apple will also not allow non-Safari browsers for the same reason. Apple knows that even simply allowing Web Push on iOS would noticeably eat into their services revenue.
I mean, free will isn't to be believed. But if you wanna, be my guest. If quantum mechanics is to be believed, then the model is certainly probabilistic at best, so you'll have enough wiggle room for it.
Yes. Society-wide we see an increased abdication of personal responsibility and general apathy. Increased mental illness. Severe feelings of loneliness and isolation brought about due to atomization by a government that's operated like a consultancy avoiding any liability or risk.
You may feel you're safer, but there is no proof that Apple implements better privacy practices than Google. There are a lot of different vendors that provide Android without Google services and you can also unlock your bootloader and install a custom ROM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_custom_Android_distrib...

Last, Google allows you to disable their activity history and other options that may be concerning from your Google Account. Apple has very few options to limit your amount of data sharing.
Unsurprising because FB is all about maximizing profits at society's expense. They'd happily get into human trafficking and child prostitution if they could get away with it. At this point, they have instead created hundreds of millions of attention addicts, outrage consumers, and manufactured sentiments for the purposes of commercial advertising. Oh, and the occasional genocide [0].

It's also curious that, to this day, cigarette companies target children even younger in developing nations. This also is terrible.

0. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46105934
It is possible for a company to do multiple things, sometimes even conflicting with each other.

Google is an ad company, and a hardware/smartphone company, and an enterprise collaboration company, and a cloud hosting company, and lots more.

Similarly Apple is a hardware company which is getting more and more of its revenue from digital sales, subscriptions and even advertising every year. They can and do track their users exactly like Google.

It is naive to think that any company at that scale has your best interests at heart. They will do whatever it takes to make more money, period.
> What the study shows, I think, is that other things being equal the person who sounds to be from higher class is likely to get the job.

In an interview where you're not allowed to evaluate "all other things".

In other words, absent any other information, people believe those from a higher class are more likely to be competent. Is that true? The link says nothing about it. If it is true, the hiring managers did a good job at estimating average competence from social class based on their knowledge (i.e. "bias").

It does not show that in an interview process where you are allowed to evaluate the candidate on factors that matter for the job, higher class matters at all (i.e. given two equally qualified candidates that are interviewed by an experienced hiring manager, the higher class one gets better offers/evaluation of competence).

And this is the bias that matters because it applies to the real world.
Chill, just add an even more powerful super computer to run your Mighty cluster
I have a couple of friends who worked at google. they're always baffled why I would want to block trackers and data harvesters.

And I'm baffled why they're baffled. Is the koolaid that strong and that permanent there?
My prediction: there will never be a bottom for facebook.
As a user of iOS, this is precisely why I go with Apple, and why I push my family to do the same. Particularly for the more elderly in my family, Apple's setup (by and large) prevents them from doing anything that would screw themselves over. Removing Apple's control removes my desire to be apart of that ecosystem, and I know that is true for many others outside our insular little community here.
I've always liked the idea that things are different in Star Wars because it's actually not vacuum, it's ether.

Until Episode VIII, where that vision was ruined for no reason and other stuff that made no sense happened anyway.
>"Find your gentleman" could be a service for connecting polite but lonely friends.

The money emoji and "gentlemen" is clearly associating it with sugar daddies. That would be universally understood in that age cohort, and in the higher part of that range, probably even clicked on often.

There's the more mild ads, sure, but the worse ones are really where the issues lie, like the blatant gambling ones.
As of writing this, there are 266 deaths below the age of 18 out of approximately 75M people in that category. A separate study indicates the majority (75%) of those also had one or more underlying condition.

The fear mongering that has lead to children being cut off from all human contact, being cut off from any meaningful education, is truly sickening.
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It's not quite so black and white as that.

It's possible to run open source android phones (including without google play services) which protect your privacy pretty well. As part of android allowing more consumer control, there's a larger culture of open source apps, so you can get further with fdroid. Open source apps are usually pretty unlikely to compromise your privacy and harvest data.

On iPhones, it's true that the phone itself doesn't track you as much, but there's other downsides. You're unable to use firefox+ublock origin, so far more websites on iPhone will track you. There are fewer open source apps, so it's quite plausible you get tracked by more apps individually. There's no ability to uninstall default services whatsoever, again unlike android.

I think for the default user who doesn't make an effort to search out privacy-preserving software, an iPhone will probably harvest less data.

However, for someone who knows how to run LineageOS, install ublock on firefox, and install apps from fdroid, I think you can get a phone that harvests less of your data with android.

I also think that there are enough distinct data-points on each side of this argument that it's difficult to claim either is better with certainty.
That's funny... I'm a cryptocurrency investor, and I can't interpret complex financial data, either.
> for witnessing a senior manager repeatedly mute the conference call to make racist remarks about overseas staff.

This sounds like the perfect opportunity to have your phone in your shirt pocket such that the camera just barely peeks above the cuff of that pocket. As long as you are in a one-party-consent region (most states, all of Canada), you can have some pretty juicy stuff that HR can make “go away” with a golden parachute of sufficient size.
Youtube Vanced. Google can't expect my $10 when they take all my data for free.
Apple runs its own Ad network for app advertisements. They conveniently do not need to deal with iOS 14 requirements when it comes to using their users' data to target ads and track app installs in their own network. Can you say monopoly power?
Oh I think it every year lol. :)
They'll flip the nanosecond it suits them. Their commitment isn't valuable or enforceable or anything other than a dodgy sales pitch. Really.

They can encode it in contact in a second and choose not to.
You said that “objection” “to the very existence” of gay people “is far and away a position held by those who also profess conservative political values.” I don’t think that fairly characterizes people with socially conservative values, such as my aunts. That’s not a straw man, that’s an example to address your core point.
I'm curious which government regulation would cause increased mental illness/loneliness? I mean, I'm sure somewhere it's happening because of gov't, but to say it's the main contributor instead of problems like lack of access to good therapy, cultural shifts in how you talk to people, etc., in my mind seems largely a misplacement of blame.
Seriously. The basket is full of delicious edible things and... a pinecone?

The theory presented is either missing some background knowledge we need to understand it (pinecones were highly valuable to Romans? I dunno) or it makes no sense.
That maybe so, but those are a lot of different areas to cover. Perhaps specific examples, trends, and/or causes would help support each claim.

For example, how is it the government's fault, in particular? Is it only the government's fault? Are there other contributing factors or trends? It comes across too much like oversimplified scapegoatism rather than a reasoned explanation.
there is proof - recently researchers showed google phones send an order of magnitude more data to the mothership than Apple does.

Of course that's at this point in time. Tomorrow Apple could turn around and be worse.
I know he has another book out which wasn’t available when I bought this one. I’m actually involved with a winter hiking program which is how I found out about this one because I’m usually involved with leading winter trips in New England.

To your point, I agree and think I touch on most of them upthread. Weather is definitely an an important consideration. She hadn't mostly been involved in making tough calls.

And, yeah, she had opportunities to bail after driving up from NY. But clearly she wasn't going to do that prior to seriously going for Adams at which point it was too late given the weather.
I wonder if this is automated. Somebody wants to advertise _something_ to a demographic and Facebook doesn't have any sort of checks in place; or, they do have checks, but the ads lie about it and Facebook doesn't validate it.

I wonder how many requests for advertising to a given group they have. I imagine it's a scary high number.
If you are still unsure of the why, then you have had a fortunate life. There are many times you will get a set of "instructions" where somewhere something is wrong or incomplete, but you won't know that until you've worked your way through them. Ikea comes to mind. It is often very helpful to read through all of the steps involved first to make sure you actually have all of the parts/pieces you need and to make sure they make sense before starting. So I say again, that if you've never run into one of these situations, then you've been lucky.
We're on the cusp of independent artificial intelligence and it's incredibly lame.
I don't know what the law is in Germany, but here in California the threshold for alcohol isn't intoxication it's incapacitation. What happens if two intoxicated people have sex with each other? They're both simultaneously rape victim but also rapists?
Okay, can you give an example of evidence that you would accept in this specific case?
How do you figure? Http proxies support various common cache invalidation strategies such as hash-TTL and ETags
> It is naive to think that any company at that scale has your best interests at heart. They will do whatever it takes to make more money, period.

Exactly. And Apple makes money of privacy. It's their thing.

Google's business model is based on abusing my privacy.

Apple's business model is based on securing my privacy.

That's why I use Apple stuff and won't touch Google with a 10 feet pole.
I hope this means they'll re-eval their policy on 21+ cannabis related ads. huge market potential
The iPhone and iPad transmit their fixed and unchangeable hardware serial number to Apple every time you open the App Store, like a permanent supercookie.

Apple has just as much reason to harvest your personal information and track you in their App Store as anyone else.
I was going to agree with you, noting that it’s in a basket of fruit (with an offering of foods) but humans have used Pine nuts for food since prehistoric times (per Wikipedia). It seems the simplest explanation–it’s not that Romans didn’t know how to draw pinecones, but that a particular Roman had a hard time representing a pinecone in a mosaic.
If he's a freelancer then he probably got more than 270 pesos in advertising out of this.
Fat server, thin client might be an attractive model for businesses if all they had to do was issue cheap laptops and reap powerful hardware performance. But Mighty only targets web applications? How many slow web applications do people use as a core productivity tool anyway?

(While writing this I realised I already had an example, and it's Notion)
I misread this as Idaho banning race science i.e. race realism and pseudoscience. Disappointed to see that they're actioning on critical theory courses, following the trend of conservative states tightening down on critical thinking and advanced studies courses.
I specifically buy Apple products because I trust their App Store. I trust Apple with my information. I’m counting on these guys to get out software I download from the App Store. And I trust them to protect my privacy, better than anyone else.

You’re calling them anti consumer. But that’s wrong. This is why I give them my business, and if they bowed to pressure so people can execute whatever software on my device, I’d exit the Apple ecosystem and buy a $300 phone instead of a $1000 phone. It’s actually that simple.

Edit: Sitting at -2 votes because people don’t approve of my consumer habits. Censor people you don’t agree with instead of having an actual response. Okay.
This article is big news, because it shows that Google will permanently yank your Android app if your website violates AdSense's secret fraud detector! If you're running Google AdSense ads and you have an Android app that you care about, take down the ads immediately and switch to another vendor.

AdSense is the product where Google pays you for running banner ads; they can and frequently do kick people off of it for secret reasons. When my company was kicked off of AdSense back in 2010, I wrote about it extensively. https://www.choiceofgames.com/2010/08/were-banned-from-googl...

Google will never tell you why they ban people from AdSense, and there's no effective way to appeal. (They have an "appeal" process, but what are you supposed to write in the appeal when the charges against you are secret?!)

At least we can still publish Android apps, right? (We now run Facebook ads instead.)

But Google's email to DroidScript saying that the DroidScript app was removed from Google Play Store for "Ad Fraud" says otherwise.

Publishing status: Suspended

Your app has been suspended and removed due to a policy violation.
Reasons of violation
APK:206 Ad Fraud
App violates Ad Fraud policy.

Surely Google could have just revoked DroidScript's access to Google ads, while allowing DroidScript to ship on the store, like they did for us.

If Google ever yanked our Android app over "ad fraud," we'd have no recourse. We've appealed our AdSense rejection a dozen times over the last 10 years and we always get a form letter rejection. We have no idea what they think we did wrong, and we never will, so we can never fix it.

Thank god we don't run AdSense ads anymore. Based on this, I never want to run them again!
I have ~800 applications installed on my phone and there are fewer than a dozen of them that I would not immediately uninstall were they to send me a push notification. I don't buy that "no app developer" can avoid using FCM, the overwhelming majority of applications have no use for them besides spamming users with desperate pleas to return to a screen that can serve advertisements.
It's absolutely automated, but it begs the question, should it be allowed to be, particularly when dealing with minors? It seems crazy this case slipped through to exist when Facebook has been around for so long.
Let’s not pretend they do these things as charity.

Chrome is open source because, as a fork of WebKit, it has to be. For other things, they use open source to drive adoption.
Why was this downvoted? It seems like a reasonable comment.
Why put pine cones in fruit baskets? Nobody eats pine cones, do they?
> They'll flip the nanosecond it suits them.

Like when Apple dropped end-to-end encryption on iCloud because FBI asked them politely.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
Presumably the area of WA where Microsoft resides.
shading Venus from too much sunlight would be easier than fixing Mars' low level of sunlight.
I seek this asinine take everywhere around here. Opening these platforms doesn't kill them, it forces them to compete.