skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree - Russia seems to be a large source of these crimes and they are a bit too big to invade (without nuclear bombs it might be possible, but only a fool would invade given they have them)

We might seem some special forces go into action under cover. However it would be assassinations done in such a way that Russia either won't know who did them, or is willing to look the other way (the later implies something diplomatic).
This needs to be upvoted to the top so that we get some answers as to why this well-known history is not searchable via such a major tech company’s search functionality. It’s the top result via Google, why is Bing so bad at this?
Oh god. Perhaps a writer, like a solo startup founder, can often fall in love with their "great idea" (first draft) that is so "amazing but no one is special enough to get it." But then there's the uncomfortable truth deriving from averaging truthful opinions: it's between unpolished and horrid. The writer might help themselves by putting it down for a week or two... years, and then rereading it like someone else wrote it.

A former roommate's wife was a Hav-ard English prodigy and then editor at Penguin who actually got things done (I hear getting things done in publishing doesn't always happen). If you're in publishing then everyone pitches a draft and everyone wants a literary agent, correct? I think she eventually got burnt-out and left for family and writing on her own.

I don't know how I could bear the tortious, torturous ennui of playing with the other people's mud soup without wanting to shower and burn my clothes afterwards because it's not like many are even building mud pies, much less the Great Mosque of Djenné. My attention span is so limited (real ADHD) that a work has to be enrapturing with "Lost-level" antici---pation* to get through it.

* Let's do the time warp again.
Yes - in that I worried they’d not do the right thing
I didn't ask why they took it. I asked why it was given to them.
The article you just linked is about an exploit that allows you to propagate arbitrary data through the Airtag network, which is the exact opposite of knowing what goes into an Airtag message.
This article backs these observations with research data. Although, the evidence is inconclusive when the subjects have domain knowledge, it clearly establishes that the knowledge base is not likely help when bombarded with repeated illusory general knowledge from a fluent source.
I prefer to read hacker news through the hckrnews.com interface. It doesn't removed flagged content, and tells you what was killed.

Censoring articles on censorship by tech companies just ain't kosher.
Well, it happened instantly.
The Levitating Liquid Pendulum
>schools with 0% high school graduation rates.

If I were a parent I'd be passing out pirated text books at that point.
Exactly. It's not the tracking that is the problem, it's the lack of control/transparency. I want a personal data bank where I can decide who knows what about me.
I often say that the hardest program I ever write is "Hello, world".

Once the program is running, I can modify it to make it do whatever I want. I now understand its rules and am in the domain of ordinary programming.

But if a program doesn't even run, the set of things that is wrong is vast. And it's hard to Google, because the symptoms are usually something akin to "nothing happens". I can mess with things all day, many of which will make nothing happen differently.
I've been looking for a causal inference class myself. This looks like a very nice course, complete with video lectures. Thank you for posting this!
Try writing this in another language:

wget http://server{1..5}.com/file.txt >> /tmp/data.txt & wait && wc -l /tmp/data.txt

There's some pretty serious stuff going on there
> a query whose result updates every time the underlying data changes

Isn't this exactly what spreadsheet programs like VisiCalc have done since the 1980s?
Experiment: Navigating the Web with JavaScript Disabled
Yeah, I've seen that too. It's unbelievable that the press gave (and continues to give) him a pass.
Thousands of parallel Tetris games in GLSL shader
Ah, there's the problem with the metaphor! In real life, the game never really ends. Actions reverberate. 100 years is about the time between the civil war and the civil rights movement, obviously not enough time to wash away all the sins by time alone.

If you want to say we should start over and start a new game - maybe reset all the property and wealth in the country - sure, then maybe we would have less reason to talk about the current one.
The website has no relation with the law, and is not an authoritative source of information. It's not even a particularly good one. It's just a website run by some guys.
I'm reminded of "The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine." Sometimes this is a feature; we probably don't want frequent, sweeping changes in the legal landscape, or snap decisions based on emotion. But it also means that injustices are righted slowly, and sometimes too late, after people's lives have been destroyed.

"Justice delayed is justice denied." While this SCOTUS decision may vindicate Swartz, he never got the justice he deserved. Now it's too late for that.
It's not. From the article, it's 96.2% identical. 3.8% different.

"But they also reported that it was 96.2% identical to a coronavirus sequence in their possession called RaTG13, which was previously detected in “Yunnan province.” They concluded that RaTG13 was the closest known relative to SARS-CoV-2.

In the following months, as researchers around the world hunted for any known bat virus that might be a progenitor of SARS-CoV-2, Shi Zhengli offered shifting and sometimes contradictory accounts of where RaTG13 had come from and when it was fully sequenced. Searching a publicly available library of genetic sequences, several teams, including a group of DRASTIC researchers, soon realized that RaTG13 appeared identical to RaBtCoV/4991—the virus from the cave where the miners fell ill in 2012 with what looked like COVID-19.

In July, as questions mounted, Shi Zhengli told Science magazine that her lab had renamed the sample for clarity. But to skeptics, the renaming exercise looked like an effort to hide the sample’s connection to the Mojiang mine."
I don't understand how that meshes with the previous paragraph

> The Internet makes goods and services in far-flung places accessible anywhere in the world. A teenager in Cyprus could easily order a pizza online from a local pizza shop in Miami and have it delivered to a friend’s house there. But the GDPR does not apply to occasional instances. Rather, regulators look for other clues to determine whether the organization set out to offer goods and services to people in the EU.
I'm afraid we are still talking past one another. When I said "rebuild", what i meant was that I have to rebuild the table layout in css using grid to make it responsive. If they added a css equivalent of colspan/rowspan for table-layouts, it would be much easier to do simple tweaks to tables in css. it's not the end of the world that it's not possible, but it's already part of the layout engine so it wouldn't be hard to add. (and the column-span property is unrelated to tables)
Whatever happened to the "vouch" option?

I wanted to, but it seems to be gone. :-(

[Ed. I see, flagged but not dead, so no vouching...]
Have you seen new construction that doesnt do this? All the non stereotypical urban development in america is vestigial. All old homes in old rich neighborhoods that could withstand the commoditization pressures.

Any new build I have seen are really sad large identical houses with barely room between them, selling for 600k+.

Its like the worst aspects of multifamily housing without the dense walkability of a village or city.
This. The discrepancy between GA and our data was always something I had to adress back when I sold AdTech.
Your counter-points aren't exactly award-worthy either. Aggressive federal prosecution does not usually result in suicide. The argument doesn't "desperately" do anything, much less avoid a conversation. It is distinguishable from arguments about COVID-19 deaths as they are completely different subjects. Sure, you could say it's not a nuanced argument at all, but that doesn't make it face-palmingly bad, it just makes it plain.

I've seen better retorts on Facebook, frankly.
If you can't hide your activity just pollute their data to the point it becomes unuseable. Give them data that makes them lose money.

Search random stuff you are not interested in and see them desperately throw money into the toilet.

Search plane tickets to Congo, saxophones, windsurf equipment, paintings of toucans... the most random shit you can think of.

Then you will start seeing ads for that, which is seeing the ad tech imploding in front of your eyes.

The more you do it and the more other people do it, the less profitable ad tech becomes.

Also search for stuff outside your demographics, like stuff for older people, so they get your profile wrong.
I highly suggest you guys checkout Decentr. They are building blockchain platform that allows individuals to have ownership over their personal data to exchange and leverage for economic benefits in a decentralized and secure way. I think it's false to say we can't collect data in a secure way therefore stop the data economy. We should be seeking to empower individuals with the ownership of their own data to create a true data economy.
Absolutely. A vegetarian/vegan restaurant being able to advertise exclusively to those people is one great example. In that example you're a new customer, but you've shown interest in similar products so you're much more likely of a customer(and better spend of advertising) than advertising to somebody on a carnivore diet.
It works in Spanish.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=hombre%20del%20tanque
I mean is this any different than a rogue appliance connecting to your neighbors open Wi-Fi or just partnering with a cellular network?
Farming in Switzerland is a completely different, smaller, culture. Think many small farmers working together instead of one or two big farmers per valley
Follow up:

Anatomy of a Linux DNS Lookup – Part II
https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/06/18/anatomy-of-a-linux-dns-l...

Anatomy of a Linux DNS Lookup – Part III
https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/07/06/anatomy-of-a-linux-dns-l...

Anatomy of a Linux DNS Lookup – Part IV
https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/08/06/anatomy-of-a-linux-dns-l...

Anatomy of a Linux DNS Lookup – Part V – Two Debug Nightmares
https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/09/13/anatomy-of-a-linux-dns-l...
Not sure of the history of the Ms, but it could come from French:
1000 = mille
10e6 = million
10e9 = millard
Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/ZpgGQ
Also, the government could have dictated any vague good-faith terms under the sun like "if you don't need the money, you must return it" and etc.

But the government didn't do that.
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Cloudformation is a better tool for infra.
You don't even know the guy is employed at Google. Tons of support is outsourced
I agree. Target is much more annoying; just as bottom-of-the-barrel, but they depend on pretending they're not.
Though each "Tetris" game is incredibly simple (no holds, no lookahead, no SRS rotations / TSpins), this is a basic Tetris-like game written in GLSL shaders.

The entire state of each board is stored in 3x24-bit pixels, processed by GLSL shaders and rendered using WebGL. Each "step" of the Tetris game can be seen as the GPU processing the pixels (the many 3x24 bit states) and outputting a new image (where the new image is the new state to work with).

The blog talking about this is here: https://medium.com/geekculture/launching-619-thousand-tetris...

There's a bot in the Youtube video playing all of the GLSL games in parallel: over 600,000+ games executing in parallel thanks to the magic of GPGPUs.

The GUI then takes the "images" (a giant block of 3x24-bit pixels) and renders them in the scrollable GUI you see in this WebGL demo. The .exe file probably does larger files, but the WebGL demo linked here should be sufficient for most modern browsers.

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For the WebGL demo, go to "common" and edit out the "#define no_AI" line to re-enable the (really really dumb) AI so that all the boards can be simultaneously active.
It only appears once the article is actually dead (as far as I've experienced). I have no idea why that's the case.
The results remind me of high quality rotoscoped characters. Like if the original Mortal Kombat got an HD remaster or something. They look good but not real.

If they do start replacing actors with these, everything's gonna look like a Ralph Bakshi movie.
I don't think the writer is being fair here because he is putting the lab-leak theory in the same category as the moon landing hoax. I don't think the situation is that simple. Both zoonotic and lab-leak are hypotheses and the evidence will slowly start pointing towards one of them. Why try to take a stand when one doesn't know enough?
"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"

Do you have a link for this?
Humans are 98.8% similar to chimpanzees genetically. That 1.2% is critical. Now viruses have shorter lifecycles, blah blah blah, but 3.8% is a huge gap to overcome.

Also, "circumstantial" doesn't mean weak. It means "pertaining to circumstance". For example, the fact that the virus's origins are in the same area as the lab would be circumstantial evidence that it was created in that lab.

Many circumstances can point to a conclusion. Even the phrase "the smoking gun" which has been bandied about in the discussion of this article, is an example of circumstantial evidence. Circumstantial evidence is opposed by direct evidence, which would be eyewitnesses, video/photos of the thing taking place, etc. And eyewitness is actually one of the weakest forms of evidence because memory is faulty. So circumstantial evidence is usually the evidence that convicts a criminal.

To illustrate that, I like to point to my two favorite circumstantial convictions, Hans Reiser and Scott Peterson.

They convicted Scott Peterson based on buying porn, a dye job, and selling cars.

The convicted Hans Reiser of first degree murder of his wife, Nina, despite not even having any direct evidence that she was in fact dead. They only found the body after Reiser himself led them to Nina's body in exchange for pleading guilty to second-degree murder.

A cleaned car, a missing seat, and some books on murder investigations were the evidence they used. Entirely circumstantial. And they deduced that Nina was murdered from those same circumstances.
see also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395028
I haven't met many engineers who can mentor well, period. My guess is your perception is biased. I know SDEs who prefer conversations remotely. An extreme example would be that there's no chance of physical harassment on Zoom. Another would be the "raise a hand" button seems to be more acceptable to use than actually raising a hand in a meeting, with the result that voices are heard that would otherwise not be.

And just fundamentally, think of the site you're on. How unimaginative. How big is your data set? Why can't your sample mentor well remotely? Are there bigger data sets or published analyses? What can you do to improve your model?

Or is it just that you prefer to work in an office, or you don't trust your employees?

Your argument is the "Think of the children^H^H^H interns" argument from the Cathy Merrill's Washingtonian op ed. [1] It doesn't hold water with anyone seriously trying to improve the productivity and happiness of a diverse workforce comprised of people who have different preferences for home or office; in person or zoom.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/05/07/cathy-merril...
The issue is (only slightly) more nuanced: while the executives collected bonuses, they did go for a few months without pay and their overall bonus' for 2020 were lower than in previous years.

It does reveals the reality of our managerial class--in a sort of distributed, quasi-feudalism they are entitled (legally and practically) to extract massive amounts of wealth from large corporate entities regardless of any negative impact on the company.

- Running the business into the ground (Target Canada)

- Running the business into the ground while underfunding the company pension (Sears)

- Lobbying for billions of dollars of tax dollars while cutting thousands of jobs (Bombardier, Air Canada)
Note:

"This is not an official EU Commission or Government resource"

Which explains idiocy like

> We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.

Is simply not on. You can't assume acceptance.
Articles that make declarations about how bad X is and then follow that up with empty calls to action like "We need to end X" to get people nodding their heads in agreement are common and cheap. What's your solution? Is there one?

Sure, you can draw attention to something bad, but if all you ever do is live off the drama and frantically declare that X "needs to stop" (I loathe that airheaded phrase like few others), what good are you? Who's going to stop it? Passive voice does not impress. When I need to eat, I eat. I don't say "I need to eat" and leave it at that. I'd starve.

Clearly you think it can be stopped. Clearly you think it's not just an unfortunate malady of the age that we must bear. You think it can be fixed. Where's your proposal? How are we going to shift the tech economy away from surveillance?

The growth of the data economy is like the growth of finance. Neither finance nor data gathering actually produce anything. They can help produce something, inform or facilitate the production, but it's not productive in itself. In the limit, you're left with a hot potato economy where people gather data to sell for the purpose of gathering more data.

Maybe this is incentivized by the killing of the industrial base. Everything we buy is from China. All the US does is consume.
This applies to native plants (AKA weeds) as well. Dandelions and clovers are basically harmless native species good for the soil and/or pollinators but are treated like hostile invaders by some homeowners.
They went with a subset of C, its enough to write a working executable. Generally for a introduction tutorial to something as complex as writing a compiler a subset like what they presented in the article is enough to show how all the pieces work together to produce a working compiler.
Actually read the article. It’s so bandwidth-limited as to be useless
As frontend development has gone towards the "developer fontend", meaning complex technologies that focus on complex state management tasks with complicated configuring workflows, there has been a large number of people with layout, css and design skills that have been pushed out of implementation roles.

Many companies increasingly have workforces that split cross browser compliance and javascript implementation roles - the skill level required for frontend tools like react/redux creates a large barrier for upskilling devs.
"Foreign countries use data about our personalities to polarize us", Really? Maybe it's all your politicians does?
Are you on macOS? It seems most of the people liking them are on this OS (despite the article's author). I wouldn't be shocked to learn that all these Mozilla designers are using macs :)

Personally it's unusable on my Windows 7 computer. I know it's a dead OS but still.
Facebook suspends Trump for 2 years in response to Oversight Board
Or New Zealand police raid your house at the behest of the US department of justice
Sam's is more upscale than Wal-Mart, but in my experience it is very much the "Wal-Mart of warehouse stores" in that it feels less nice than Costco in the same area. I'm sure it varies, that's just based on the ones I've been to.
"We're concerned he will encourage violence again, so we banned him"

"...But we'll let him try again in 2 years when campaign season starts"

So, no consistency, and no foresight. What could go wrong
That's very disproportionate (but I think it's ridiculous that this is flagged).
>I haven't met many engineers that can mentor well remotely

Aren't there engineers who grow and evolve through the sort of "mentoring" (ad-hoc or otherwise) they get through remote open source contributions? To the extent that a github presence is increasingly a prerequisite for certain engineering jobs I wonder if this shift isn't already under way.

I'm not saying it's a direct or even desirable replacement for IRL mentoring, but it does seem like there is at least a rough framework in place for helping people grow as engineers outside of a workplace. It's a little more self directed and rough and tumble, but then work in general seems to be going in that direction over the last few decades.
Lockdowns and Correlation to Covid Deaths
The part of the EULA he violated was for objectionable and harmful content. The rules were laid out ahead of time in the EULA, sure, but the point that this can be considered censorship remains.
You're correct that the state aid was intended for employees, yet it was given to booking.com and not on the people's personal bank accounts. They were more or less free to do with that as they saw fit; the only condition was that they couldn't fire people for 3 months (did did fire ~25% of the work force after those 3 months).

In this case, they changed their own rules regarding bonuses on account of being an exceptional situation and that, apparently, these bonuses were desperately needed. How many of those 25% of people could they have retained if they didn't pay millions in "desperately needed" bonuses (not all were in shares btw)?

The original reporting[1] was fairly detailed with specifics, subsequent reporting left out some that; you know how these things go... There is some nuance here, but it's still leaving a really bad taste in my mouth.

But to be fair, I find it hard to blame just booking.com for this because it's the entire culture that's just rotten IMHO. It's all "free market" this and "no government interference" that but then also "plz government help us" when things go belly-up. When people point out the hypocrisy it's "for the employees, not the company!" True, but misses the larger picture IMO. "Running a business is no charity", well apparently it is because the tax payer will happily get you out of trouble with the "but think of the employees!" emotional blackmail argument only to have them turn around with "free market!!!" a few months later while swimming in their obscene and unnecessary stacks of money.

And to be clear, I'm actually quite in favour of the free market and capitalism (moderated to some degree), but this doesn't strike me as either.

[1]: In Dutch: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/05/27/booking-paste-bonusrege...
Ehhh I like to peruse the apps for new stuff I've never tried before. It's easier to impulse shop in an app than it is to bounce back and forth between aisles.

For example you might see a novel ingredient in the ethnic food section of the app, go look up a recipe that includes it, add all the rest of the ingredients all without putting on pants.
Not G, it should be k, of course. For a multiple of 1024.