skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't agree that that’s necessarily evident from the titles alone, and reviewing the actual positions themselves is difficult

The impact of an advisor to the President is orders of magnitude higher than a random diversity head at a software company.

>the one he was described upthread as being in at the time of the memo could not have even existed at that time, since it was in 2007 and the position was described as being in an Administration that didn't take office until 2009.

Stop backtracking and shifting goal posts. Your original claim was "AFAIK, he wasn't global head of diversity for any organization when he wrote it, but only many years later."

He got a Ph.D in science and technology policy in 2005, was Director, University System of Georgia STEM Initiative in 2007, and headed the "equity for STEM" at Georgia Tech in 2011. This wasn't "many years" later, it was all within 4 years plus or minus.

He literally earned a doctorate degree in science policy, has been a DEI grifter his entire career, but magically didn't know the difference between Jews and Zionists LOL?

>The flow of time seems problematic for the throwaway accounts in this subthread.

Uncomfortable facts that go against the narrative.

>The premise of my post was that the post it responded to described an expectation of knowledge based on a specific position he held only much after the time of writing the piece.

Which I just disproved. He absolutely should have been expected to know these differences considering his education and work. QED.
Plenty of blame going around. This has been ongoing since Nixon, and has accelerated during Bush, and has continued during Obama.

I would not be surprised if the recent upticks are directly correlated with privatized prisons.
I'm the creator the of https://thegamingpub.com/. It's a weekly curated links newsletter for the gaming world.

Think of the Hacker Newsletter, but for games.
I think that's true of some people, but it's important to remember that all he did was violate the terms of service of a corporation that was (IMO) already behaving unethically and being poor stewards of the data given to it. (I am fundamentally opposed to allowing the result of scientific research -- especially when much of that research benefited from public funding -- to be locked behind paywalls.)

Swartz did not deserve to be driven to suicide for this. He did not deserve jail time, or to be arrested. At worst he deserved to be the defendant in a fairly low-stakes civil suit, and maybe even lose. But that's it.
Nigeria suspends Twitter operations, says it undermines its corporate existence
Thank you, Xi.
Show me a layout system that doesn’t let you break things in this sort of way, and I’ll show you a useless layout system.
or maybe it was written for the benefit of Congressional virtue signaling. The utility of bolstering the reputation of Federal Prosecutors via selective prosecution is just an emergent property?
Why Simone Biles's Historic “Yurchenko Double Pike” Vault Is So Groundbreaking
REBOL's syntax is in some ways very similar to Logo; perhaps we may yet see successful descendants in our own universe.
AWS hired 66 former US gov officials since 2018; half are from Dept of Defense
I don't know what's "pseudo" about cleaner floors and surfaces and better-organized merchandise. It's not just about decor. The Wal-Marts I have been to are a filthy mess, and it's clear no one cares.
> cookie tracking data has NEVER been associated with any leak or data breach that resulted in personal harm.

This is a very specific statement. It may be true. But, even if we accept for the sake of argument that it is, it's not quite the same statement as, "Mass personal data collection has never resulted in personal harm," which, while seeming quite similar, also happens to be false.
Walmart ultimately measures everything against lifetime customer value. They don't really care about maximizing revenue on a specific trip because most people come in to the store with a fixed budget of what they can spend anyway - but they sure as heck want you to return.

Fixed income customers see things like an ultra clean speed and efficient store as 1) intimidating and 2) overhead that makes prices go up and "wastes" their money.
If they're worried about Instacart, that might be why they deliver things I order on Sunday that afternoon even when I qualify for free shipping by ordering over $45 (or some amount).

I don't expect it for a couple days but if it's in the local store they have random people bag and deliver it within hours. Even on a Sunday.
I wonder what the attraction to attracting call centers is caused by. My guess is that it’s a low-capital way to bring in lots of jobs. However, unless these are totally different call centers than the ones in my area, those are pretty much all jobs with low pay and high turnover.
For iOS apps, there are a couple of hints you can look for:

How old is the version of iOS supported by the app? If it is something ancient like iOS 9, very strong hint the app is written in ObjC.

Take a look at their github page. Do they publish any popular iOS libraries? Are they written in ObjC?

Objective-C is also indirectly popular, by virtue of React Native being written entirely in ObjC.
"OVH, the largest cloud provider in Europe"

I wonder if this is a factual statement or just blathering. OVH had €600 million revenue in its last full year. AWS had $45370 million. If even 2% of AWS revenue is from Europe, then AWS is larger.
A few days ago I had to write a bit of code in C# with an int to string conversion, and since I never use that language and I'm not used to OOP I completely looked over the ToString() method every primitive type has, I wrote a dumb conversion like I used to do as a student in C. The basic modulo 10 loop thing. You know the one.

Anyway I'm glad to know there's a cool lookup table trick out there, I never really get to use anything like that but it makes for a nice read.
Them being low paid is a political decision.
Yeah, I’d like to see Snowden exonerated, but the government hasn’t changed. They’re still vindictive about being embarrassed, even though it was clearly whistleblowing and, nearly everyone agrees, ethical.
>actually socially positive

>If you can more easily reach a niche audience, you can build better more targeted products.

in practice, these two concepts are incompatible. everyone has buttons that can be pushed with the help of detailed psychological profiles made by advertisers.

if you push those buttons enough times, it's typically unhealthy for the person and financially beneficial for the pusher all the while.
So until it gets flagged enough to become dead, it's in a kind of flag purgatory and can't be vouched for?

Separately, I'd be curious to know what systems are in place to deal with bad-faith flagging. There doesn't seem to be any mention of this in the Hacker News FAQ. Not saying that's what happened here, but it seems like a situation that would come up sooner or later.
While in theory a ruling 'fixing' CFAA is exactly what we've been waiting for I have two problems with it:

The first is a principled objection (and thus in some ways less important): the rulings below were probably correct applications of a terribly drafted law. The way to fix the law in a functioning government would be legislative.

But anyways I really want to share the second objection which is entirely pragmatic: if the only time we ever limit the scope of laws which are badly drafted like this is when we're trying to find some excuse to let bad cops get away with their behavior, then this will have two outcomes: first, bad cops will get away with their bad behavior more often; second, we will find that these precedents don't actually stick when it comes to protecting actual innocents. These are related problems because judges can always find some way to distinguish bad cop cases from innocent private citizen cases to ensure that precedents need not apply.

People talk about the first and second and fourth (... and fifth, sixth, tenth, etc.) Amendments to the US Constitution as being under attack, and the interstate commerce clause as being long dead. But like all stillbirths, no one likes to talk about the equal protection clause.
I've never heard "hey this isn't working, let's start over from scratch!" be called laziness before.
Somehow organizations get an immense amount of value out of tracking everything you do, say, think, and buy; everywhere you go; and everyone you meet. Two questions:

1. Why should they profit off of my data without my consent? (Hint: they shouldn't.)

2. Why is it so hard for me to get value out of it? Shit, if it's gonna be collected, aggregated, and analyzed anyway, I should just do it my damn self and actually get something out of it. It's like we need an open source community for personal data collection, aggregation, and analysis.
I think you are missing the key point there.

> However, the shared data block referenced by the two SharedArrayBuffer objects is the same data block, and a side effect to the block in one agent will eventually become visible in the other agent.

This gives you shared memory between two threads. Sure the entire address space isn't shared but I find it hard to deny that this is threading.
I've been reading more: from classics of nonfiction, i.e., THOTDAFOTRE#, and literature, i.e., magical realism, and just got into fantasy romance novels. Also, I picked-up some books by and about George Carlin, Snowden, Assange, Kiriakou, and Ellsberg.

I stopped paying attention to sources of short-form pieces that lacked depth, signal, or elucidation.

# The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I-VI
Regular search results for me are just wikipedia articles only, with everything but the top 2 being completely unrelated. How odd
Their claim is logically dubious anyway. It’s not the cookies themselves but all the associated data that cookiesnlet big tech associate to profiles. This claim they are making about cookies are not associated with a breach is highly suspicious and not a good faith argument IMO. Even if they are not directly linked, cookies and tracking tools exist in a system and don’t exist in a vacuum. They are the tip of the spear. Sure the tip isn’t what kills you, but having the whole spear rammed through you sure does.
Why do you think there was a choice? I don't see anything supporting that in the article.

The governments position was stated as follows:
it was more important to maintain a consistent government than to apply the bonus rule retroactively and without warning.

Seems like the company payback was entirely voluntary and this is an example no good deed going unpunished.
“There’s no censorship here. It’s actually <insert long-winded definition of censorship.>”

Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it’s not censorship.
The point here is that it seems extremely unlikely image search results is the actual result of a sift through the available indexed data. Meaning that some manual mechanism is responsible for the page being blank.
Yes, the small number of essential apps are why I need a smartphone on one of the two dominant platforms. As you say, it's mostly for "official business", and those apps are invariably free and typically provided by or used with some "official" organisation. I don't need them often, but when I do, there may be no sensible alternative any more.

If it weren't for those, I think personally I would be quite happy to have more of a "dumbphone". A digital Swiss army knife is a very useful device. A poor imitation of general purpose computing is not, and something like a laptop or a desktop workstation is a more suitable tool in that case.
> Honestly, I'm kind of sick of how bad a rap advertising gets. Now sure, companies knowing a lot about your personal life is creepy on an intuitive level, but the fact of the matter is that cookie tracking data has NEVER been associated with any leak or data breach that resulted in personal harm. The thing people SHOULD be worried about is stuff like the Experian leak, where credit companies collect your non-anonymized personal data.

I mean, why not both? I simply cannot think of someone who dislikes tracking-as-advertisement and is pro central clearinghouses for more targeted personal information.

> Also, fact is that matching consumers with products that they like doesn't just have enormous business value, but is actually socially positive!

Only with the unstated premise that tracking _will_ happen and it's better if that tracking is done in a decentralized fashion. Sure, I can agree that there shouldn't be a monopoly at the focus on online tracking-as-advertising, but there's an additional argument that the space _should not exist in itself_. These arguments have been rehashed endlessly online and especially on HN so they probably don't bear repeating here, but the either or choice you represent is disingenuous.

EDIT: fixed a typo
you need an ABS( ) in there no or else the negative sign gets counted? Also some languages will write really big numbers or really small numbers in engineering notation (eg 10,000,000 becomes 10e6) but that's typically only for floating point types.
congress is set to burden millenials and gen z with more deficit that will be a drag on the economy, especially as boomers retire in masses and we have to pay their entitlements... And also crowd out private spending and add additional drags with taxes. :)
int->float conversion, followed by extraction and unbiasing of the exponent, also works for log2 and is more portable.
I don't think threatening to wield what we now know is a poorly constructed law to put someone in prison for nearly the rest of their natural life is the same as giving someone the finger. He faced up to 35 years in prison for doing what many of us consider an effort to make the world a better place based on his own moral principals.
If I make a post somewhere that there’s, comparatively, a tiny fraction of the audience of the main platforms, is that really a valid alternative?
> Weightlifting isn't football. But if you get huge enough, your size from weightlifting predicts success in football.

Yes, but I imagine most people that got (some theoretical) degree in weight lifting or physical science wouldn't lament that it didn't teach them all the things they expected it to about being a good football player, but that's exactly what we get with Computer Science and Software Engineering.

A good foundation helps with some aspects of good software engineering, or helps steer some decisions, but by no means does it necessarily teach good software engineering (some programs might have some classes). I doubt that keeps the students from complaining about how they aren't actually being taught specifically to program, just like they did when I was in a CS program a couple decades ago.

I wonder if the training colleges that teach programming actually focus more on good software engineering practices? If so, they might actually come out of those institutions better prepared for the low end of the market than CS grads. For the middle of the market, a CS degree might give a leg up. For the high end, I imagine personal drive to learn and aptitude has long surpassed whatever advantage a CS degree gave. From what I've seen, the most knowledgeable and respected and accomplished people don't seem all that heavily weighted towards having a CS degree over another one.
> Apple’s Find My/AirTags which was met with almost universal praise

That wasn't my impression. I saw plenty of criticism on HN.
"Marketing is manipulation and deceit. It tries to turn people into something they aren’t — individuals focused solely on themselves, maximising their consumption of goods that they don’t need"
> Also, fact is that matching consumers with products that they like doesn't just have enormous business value, but is actually socially positive!

Well, sometimes. But what people want is not always good for them or for society at large. Targeted advertising has a side effect of hiding what exactly is being advertised to society. There's obviously the extreme cases of "vices," but what about things like junk food? People love it. Targeted advertising can induce cravings that make people buy and eat things they know are not good for them. Or for another example, what about pesticides and gas guzzling trucks? I don't want all my neighbors' vanity being exploited in order to pollute my neighborhood. We can openly talk about what we all see on TV, in newspapers, or on billboards, but if I'm not seeing the same ads as my neighbors online, those conversations aren't going to happen.
This process was revised after the first round of aid to no longer allow the companies to give bonuses.
It would be interesting to see this system in action:

>> Personal Rescue Sphere (‘Space Ball’) Should the shuttle become compromised and unable to return to Earth, a unique emergency system is in place. Each crew member has a Personal Rescue Sphere (PRS), a 34-inch diameter fabric garment into which they can be zipped (Plate 1) (22). The sphere is then inflated with oxygen, and can be carried through space to a rescue vehicle. Each PRS has its own supply of oxygen, a window, and a small telephone. In addition to emergency decompression, the ‘Space Ball’ might also be used if the cabin air became contaminated, allowing a suited crewmember to vent the entire atmosphere and replace it. Simple and rapidly donned, the Personal Rescue Sphere is the final refuge in the event of a decompressive emergency.
Perhaps time for a new law concept: "jury by referendum".
This is a violation of the regulator guidance for the ePrivacy Directive. So I wouldn't trust anything on this site when they themselves aren't compliant with EU directives and regulations.
I'm trying to differentiate between data that is anonymized (cookies), and data that is not. I'm unaware of any data leak of anonymized data that resulted in any harm, but if I'm wrong I'd love to hear about it.
Fox News literally had a segment where Tucker Carlson and a guest ranted about how the metric system is a tyrannical globalist plot. I don't think they're interested in such standards.
But "[m]ass personal data collection" is a huge superset of "cookie tracking data"; the former encompasses all credit card information database breaches (such as Sony's), along with all government and healthcare database 'leaks'.
> Have we seen mass prosecutions under the CFAA at the behest of corporate interests?

The article has Aaron Swartz in the title, so yes. MIT and JSTOR lobbied the feds to pursue Swartz and there are many more examples.
Can an admin update the link to https://protos.com/nft-market-bubble-popped-crypto-collectib...

Edit: actually it looks like this is a dupe from yesterday. Sorry about that!
That’s why boards hire “executive compensation consultants” to bless what they want to do anyway.
Things like this make me more and more want to remove the Section 230 clause shielding companies from lawsuits.

"Section 230 has enabled platforms to absolve themselves completely of responsibility for policing their platforms, while blocking or removing third-party speech — including political speech — selectively, and with impunity."
Like the featured article, HN threads - then and now - are pretty low-key in regards to participant introductions. Usernames are just text, no flair or qualifiers so the focus is on the speaker's content itself. `libria` is free to converse with `cperciva` as an equal peer which is nice, because most other IRL forums I'd be acutely aware that's not the case ;)
It doesn't have to be that way, but that's typically the most profitable strategy, because most products actually suck.
> as They Might Be Giants reminds us

Remind me where they remind us? This is the crucial content I'm here for.
Given the outsized effect of flags in comparison to upvotes, I’m of the opinion that Chinese national HN members, and some subset of “no politics evar” crowd is more than enough to flag these to just shy of being dead.
I get zero image results for "tank man" on DDG
That’s a despicable comparison.
Sure it's not as cold and the US and Europe, but saying Brazilians "use swinsuit all year" is inaccurate.
Pretty sure that both instances you're talking about (Huawei/Megaupload) are perfect examples of parent's point --- the US is capable of enforcing laws outside of its territory, the EU is not.
If you do a Bing search for 'tank man tiananmen' the bubble of suggested searches in the upper row shows the actual image.
Could possibly be because his policies have been carried on by every single president after him. It's not like the Democrats stopped the wars he started. It's not like Trump did and Biden doesn't seem to be stepping up to do so.

They've all been doing essentially the same thing. The only way the parties really differ is in the lies they tell to get votes.
I think this is partly explained by "we need to move quickly to help", versus taking time to design and implement some sort of means testing.

I will note that PPP loans in the US are loans, and are only forgiven if you can link the funds to employees' salaries. The percentage of the loan that can be used for owners' salaries is also capped.
Agreed, I an I think there is a dangerous precedent here for "selling" fear via movies. Entertainment as mass propaganda to enable the passing of unjust laws.
Swartz set up a laptop surreptitiously plugged directly into a networking switch in a controlled-access closet on the MIT campus to which he did not have authorized access.

Importantly, Swartz's prosecution would not have been blocked by the SCOTUS decision in Van Buren because they make a distinction between improper use of computer access and improper access of a computer: Swartz did not have authorized access to the networking switch.

However, if he had used Wifi, to connect to the MIT networking, the charges would have been unsustainable under the Van Buren decision because guests were permitted on the MIT wifi network (and he had a JSTOR account through his Harvard employee account), and his use of it would merely of been improper use at best (since he effectively DDOS'd JSTOR for other users and got MIT's IP range blocked) rather than improper access.

EDIT: Note: a friend pointed out that the DDOS'ing of JSTOR could technically constitute a crime under the CFAA, depending on intent. In Swartz' case, the DDOS was an unintentional side effect of trying to download too much data at once for archival purposes so malicious intent was missing, but someone doing the same thing for the purpose of preventing access to the system could still be guilty of a crime.
Videos tab shows no results for me
Wow! That's a surprise to me! Could it be because they are pulling other engines' results? Or is this purposeful?
"tank woman" and "tank guy" returns lots of results.
“Mass” is kind of an important word there. Swartz and the “many more examples” are still essentially rare and isolated incidents.
Notice the use of "novel virus", you gave an example where a known virus escaped. SARS-COV-2 was not known before the outbreak in Wuhan.
Shows up the other tabs (just not images)
This is the point I feel most as well. I think this trend of burning attention is both destructive in ways and depth we don't completely understand yet - possibly making unrecoverable damage to our society on ridiculously large scale - and a blunt exploitation of the bias to consider attention as an infinite resource / not a real cost.

Personally I dislike also the "tracking to show me what I'm most likely to buy" but this itself (assuming such thing could exist in a vacuum, which seems unrealistic to me) has an inherently limited impact.