skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> …"<link to pdf report> (it's a good read, and there are a lot of things they object to even with only first-party tracking)"

Edit: It is a sorta good read… Just be nice if these sorta situations could more easily find some kinda valid balance instead of always escalating outta control to both extremes until laws have to get made… Lawmakers are rarely to be trusted to get these sorts of situations right anymore…

I've been using the Internet and networks long enough to understand how this stuff works. There's a certain degree of tracking that is literally unavoidable (without semi-extreme measures like TOR for one example at least) simply by the nature of how networks work. I know that by using any service online at all, I'm necessarily parting with some data about myself. Any data that's collected in that transactional networking sense I'm kinda largely okay with because it's just part of how things work by their very nature.

The stuff that bothers me is the excess of spyware, hundreds of kilobytes of tracking scripts, invisible pixels, browser fingerprinting, and other shady junk that's been bolted on by advertisers with no concern whatsoever for any harm it may bring to the network, the consumers, or often even themselves, as long as they make enough to cover the costs and make a profit. I understand the logic of it, but I don't necessarily agree with it in many cases. For me it's really all about how respectfully the entire situation is handled. Advertise at me in respectful ways, you probably don't get blocked (at least by me). Abuse me in any way, and I tend to get uppity with my adblocker and start thinkin' hard if I even need your site or service at all.

> "They don't pay you directly, but they pay the site you're visiting, and in most cases that's why the site is able to afford to create the content you're reading and show it to you for free."

See, the sites that aren't abusive with their advertising though actually find their way out of my adblocker for that exact reason. Because I'm fine with them making money ethically. Sites/services that implement abusive advertising practices not only get the ads blocked, but often get themselves blocked out of my "sites of interest". ;)
Of course they can use something else. The very vast majority just want to talk to each other, not spend energy moving as many people as they can to their preferred platform to do the same thing.
No, they didn't ban Trump for "opposing views", but for calling for violence and spreading demonstrably false information, repeatedly. They can document this, along with the dozens of warnings they gave Trump, and they will whenever Trump, after losing the first round instantly (terms of service say you must sue company X in the state where it is headquartered, you chose Florida, go away), refiles in the proper places, they'll do that.
not all consequences are equal thou
To be fair, I'm only going by your quote, so I don't know if it was quoted out of context.

That said, from only the quote, I find that it's a bad leap to go from saying that everyone has some beliefs, to saying that everyone worships something.

I think at this point some clear definitions of how Wallace uses the words is needed to even make sure we discuss the same thing.

Using standard definitions, off course, anyone still capable of thought (so ignore people that are brain dead and other edge cases), will need to make decisions based on partial information all the time. So someone might come to accept that the sky is blue or the earth is round, and won't continue digging deeper into it. Do they know without a doubt that it is true, probably not, but they can "believe" it to be true for practical purposes.

But that belief need not be firmly held, it can simply be based on whatever data they currently know and freely change as more data is revealed to them.

Now to jump to worshipping, you need an externality and the belief in that externality as something to trust in and follow, revere and adore. You need something that you can listen too in order to predict what actions will lead to the future you desire, and to listen too as what future you were meant to arrive at or other such things.

And that's where I'm saying no, some people don't need any externality for that. Some people don't need to believe in a higher meaning or purpose, some people are happy not knowing what the purpose of life if any is, or that there is one to begin with. Some people are happy just living life and being guided by their innate desires and their own thoughts and ideas. They don't need answers to "why do we do what we do, why do we exist, what happens after we die".

Similarly, some people don't worship anything. There is no externality they adore and revere in, that they delegate their life too, and their full trust in.
If you have a right to bear arms, but no company in the country's sells a gun, do you have the "right" to bear arms?

The answer is: no you don't. Because the government enables these companies to do these things that enroach upon your rights while making people like you believe you still have said rights simply because it's not the government proper doing it. The government and through lobbying can influence and control a lot of what you do without legislation you know.
Haiti wasn't a country then, so no, they weren't Haitian.
I have no idea. If this is real time control that could mean you keep running the motors in the switch long enough to damage something. Or maybe you go past the end of travel switch signal without reading it, the switch turns off and you never stop... There are a lot of ways real time systems can fail.

You are correct that 10ms is well within the margin of error for safety stopping a train, but it may be out of the margin for some subsystem in the control.
2: Why? Are there even any systems left on the planet that aren't past EOL but don't have emoji fonts preinstalled at the OS level?
Religion and Sexual Ethics (1994)
> Just because it has access to your whole machine doesn't mean it's going to convert into spyware and start keylogging you.

Never said it meant that. The problem is not with the existence of locally-run programs.

The problem is with outright saying (in the second row, first column of the table in the privacy policy) that they'll collect whatever they feel necessary for whatever requests come in.

As an example of how the privacy policy is worded, if a request comes in to know everything you typed between datetime A and datetime B, they would have to keylog in order to obtain the "Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities' requests".

The reasonable, standard way to comply with the law would be to instead take the content of column 2 and 3 of row 2 and put them in column 2 and 3 of row 1, and delete column 1 of row 2.

IOW, you collect data for the reasonable operation of your business, and you provide access to that data to authorities when given a warrant. You don't just say you'll collect whatever is requested of you.

> It sends very specific telemetry data home, and I think that's what this document covers.

No, that's part of what the document covers. Specifically, it's what the first row of the table in the privacy policy covers.

But the problem is not the first row; it's the second.
I listen to a podcast that often plays long snippets of verbatim Congressional testimony. Part of the reason why it is so unbelievably boring is because your congresswoman’s colleagues are wasting everyone’s time by asking irrelevant and repetitive politically-motivated questions in a fishing attempt for a sound byte to aid their re-election campaign.
My barn cat thinks a good interaction with somebody ends with a bite.

One time I was playing with her and I was being really careful not to provoke her to bite, eventually I decided to leave and she acted quickly to give me a tiny careful bite that didn't even hurt. It's like she understood I was being careful and she was careful too.

I have both of my house cats trained to do "special behaviors" to get fed (tapping with a paw in one case, head-butting my fist in the other case) This involves finding a behavior that they would do anyway and feeding them when they do it. Cats find it really meaningful.

I know I could teach my barn cat to bite for food but that's obviously a bad idea.
I was alluding to PC operating system industry but whatever. Yea it worked out really well Microsoft is only worth $2 trillion.

And try to work from home or remote work on your smartphone and not on your PC or laptop and tell me how productive you are. Or try to get any serious task done on smartphone except taking photos, browsing the web and writing notes.
My personal opinion is it's a net negative. But it's also a hydra of an idea that people are hooked on.

Cut the tentacles and they'll grow back with little issue.
Is vendor lock in really that significant, though? If it is to an organization I see that more as a management failing than a technology failing.

An example of where I'm coming from: https://www.outsystems.com/blog/posts/vendor-lock-in/

I think past vendor lock in wasn't so much about the technologies involved, but the inability of organizations to transform. If you have the right approach to application development/deployment/management there isn't a way any vendor can lock you in for any significant amount of time. I see more people wasting resources developing to avoid lock in when the applications they are developing won't live long enough to ever worry about having to move off of the systems they are developed on.

I'm not saying we should never be concerned about vendor lock in, but I think the concerns need to be balanced against the costs (and complexity!) of engineering everything to be immune from "vendor lock in".
I support mileage taxes on Electric vehicles. The whole idea of the gas tax (at least in the US) was a way approximately tax road usage to fund infrastructure. Why should predominantly well off ev owners get out of paying for road maintenance? If we want to discourage carbon emissions just tax carbon.
> Global and multi-zone deployments: User workloads on Koyeb need to be able to run in multiple zones. Kubernetes doesn't support multi-zone out of the box. Implementing multi-zone with Kubernetes requires deploying a full cluster per zone, with a dedicated control plane for each data center.

I’m having trouble understanding this. K8s worker nodes should be deployable across zones, regions etc. You can label the nodes with the zone id and use taints/tolerations to ensure workloads are deployed in specific zones/regions (if that’s what you want).
Every avenue? The right has Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, hundreds of local TV stations, and thousands of radio stations running conservative talk radio. They have no trouble getting their message out. On Facebook, most of the people with the highest engagement are right wing.
CODEpendence
Yes, this is a phenomena the internet amplified: unknowledgeable people confident that the little they know is already above-intermediary level.
>but my trust in governments being smart is kinda low

Particularly in governments run by politicians who agree with and were elected by folks that don't trust governments. Which means [that] government can't be trusted to maintain or upgrade infrastructure because that requires government to collect and spend tax dollars.

>my hope is all taxes from all those housing would be used by the government to upgrade the infrastructure and do something smart with it

"all taxes from all those houses" is likely not going to be enough to properly upgrade, let alone maintain, the infrastructure. I'm interested to see what those parts of Idaho look like in 5 to 15 years from now.
Owning Chinese Companies Is Complicated
This presentation is from 2013. It's a historical artifact that helped kick off the movement to fight distraction in its early days, not the state of the art thinking of the current day.

Obviously, a lot of the concerns it expresses are still very relevant.
i'd be down for giving tests to legislators of all the bills they're voting on for the day, with questions designed by legislative analysts of all stripes. that way, potential consequences are tested for, not just the contents.
+1 for csvkit because it is extremely useful when dealing with people who love spreadsheets to the point of insanity.
Once Great Britain was into surveillance even before EC formation and socialist since 1970s.

Ingsoc even have TV set tax and the suspicion on owning TV set is valid base for search warrant.
95% of workers are thinking about quitting jobs – burnout number one reason
You neglected to mention any of these fundamental rights. Can you tell me one of them so I can debate you that it’s not fundamental?
Ditto with this. If my reddit account and SMS messages every intermixed, I would be a very very unhappy camper lol
More info, from the same author:

https://lupyuen.github.io/articles/pinecone

Aside:

This is another interesting example of the "convenience" of centralisation of source code control around a single website: github.com.

The author seemingly never has to search competing source code control websites or hardware manufacturer websites. Most everything he references is found on github.com

Pine64 required all nutcracker entries to use github.com

Is it worth pondering that a company founded on the idea of not releasing source code to software users, instead copyrighting it and enforcing copyright through the courts and law enforcement, as a means for selling software (licenses), is now in control of accesss to all this open, freely avaialble source code.
Your right, this legal "hack" would probably be frowned upon by a judge, but it does demonstrate how silly it is that the literal carrier is not the one considered the "common carrier".

It would be illegal for Facebook to arbitrarily prevent someone from accessing Facebook, and legal for Comcast to arbitrarily prevent someone from accessing Facebook. And back to my original proposal, if Facebook and Comcast came to some sort of deal, perhaps Comcast could block unwanted user on behalf of Facebook.
2-3 hops (JOINs) is well within RDBMS territory, no?
Lensii: Sort your photos by how good they look
I was looking through some of my old travel photos and I literally had 1000+ per trip. I’d have loved to share them or pick some out for wallpapers or whatever, but I realized I don’t want to sit here and look through that many…

So I started working on something that would pick out all the good ones for me.

Would you guys find this useful?
Using the same numbers, 3,824,456 people worked their entire lives to fund the USA's military for 2021.

https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/26...
I think this is just looking for controversy. Obviously, the filters are trying to filter out porn.

They probably aren't setup to filter hate speech.

It makes total sense that phrases like gay, lesbian, etc that refer to and describe sexuality are going to get frequently filtered out by an algorithm looking for sexual content.

I'm sure their algorithm needs a lot of improvement. But the comparison between white supremecy sites and LGBT sites is moot.
WeWork is not a landlord, and actual landlords would never give away their land / space so cheaply to WeWork such that WeWork could afford those losses. I do not see what kind of moat WeWork could ever have to justify being locked into it, which means they would always end up being a useless middleman if they tried to monopolize and raise prices. And even if they succeeded, then the landlord would just raise the price it charges WeWork.
Why 'ancient'? That doesn't appear in the original title, nor is it an appropriate description for a 71 year old book.
How does this not apply to any other financial instrument that I might buy? I buy a stock, sell it to buy another stock, tax event. Sell any ETF to buy a house, tax event. Sell mutual fund shares to buy an ETF...oh, you get the idea.

IOW, what other things makes this ETF unique amongst the gazillion other instruments I might buy with my account holdings? Because capital gains is not one of those things.
I must admit, I don't understand why Gibraltar doesn't have this status within the UK. Falklands et al too. Especially now, in the post-Brexit era.

France and Holland do as much with their otherwise-described colonies abroad.
Maybe that is because the United States is more conservative than you assumed
It blows my mind that the CDC can issue rent eviction moratoriums, and that this is completely legal.
I bet it will fail to deploy properly. But I hope not.
>We only need so many sociologists and critical race studies professors and political scientists.

Yeah, and the number is 0.
Can you name a “natural right”?
You've correctly shown that maximizing the likelihood is equivalent to minimizing cross entropy in the discrete case, but frankly that is unrelated to your claim that the equivalency doesn't hold in the general case. As noted in the sibling comment, the generalization to the continuous case is evident when viewing the empirical data distribution as a mixture of dirac densities.
Correlation does not prove causality.

Filing the case is reasonable on its own. Leveraging the fundraising opportunity it creates is normal politics. Insisting the core motive IS fundraising is mind reading.
Hi Evidently team, congratulations on the launch! I like a lot what you are doing. I work primarily with time-series data. I hope we will see in the future a module to handle time-series problems such as forecasting. Also, please include integration with Google Colab. My colleagues and I work extensively with it, and it is the platform that we use to test new libraries. Otherwise, keep with the great work!
This is beautiful and spot on.
The solution to things like that (and we are nowhere near that) is antitrust law. But we are nowhere near that state today; the far right dominates talk radio and owns tons of local radio stations, and has Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN to get their message out, as well as lots of content on Facebook and Youtube even if those platforms ban some things.
Genuine question: Why is enforcement so difficult? Let everyone declare their primary residence and give property tax credits based on the number of occupants (with pass-throughs for rental properties, etc). Everyone has an incentive to declare a primary residence and it shouldn’t be too difficult to find people declaring multiple.

You could cap the number of occupancy credits per sqft to keep things reasonable.

It would also help with things like state taxes based on primary residence.
> A "legally viewpoint-neutral Twitter" would be a Pyrrhic victory for proponents if Twitter could still restrict user's visibility to direct subscribers/replies only, denying the public part of its platform.

I don't agree. I think that would be a huge victory. It would certainly not be pyrrhic in the sense that we would lose anything.
When every EULA in existence contains a "despite everything we just said, we can actually just do whatever we want if we decide we want to" clause, why would you expect a contract to be binding in any meaningful way? Companies this big simply won't enter contracts that could potentially cause real damage if broken.

And good look suing a company with billions of dollars. Even with a strong case and good lawyers, they will drag out the process and all the court costs will make it impossible to finish, unless you also have billions of dollars.
elasticsearch wasn't ever GPL or AGPL to my knowledge. it was Apache licensed, and then they switched to SSPL.
There was a young teen girl who was bullied into killing herself which she did by drinking bleach (a quite horrific way to die). I don't remember how much of a hand the 4channers had in the actual bullying but after her death she was relentlessly mocked and made into a snide and pitiless meme that has thankfully died out by now.

There has been a long slew of young girls (and some boys) who have been tricked into sending explicit photos and have had their lives ruined over it in connection with 4chan and sites like it.
I didn't realize anybody still remembered Digex.
>And arguably lots of non-technical roles benefit from social science / humanities studies.

If by "benefit" you mean "are filled with busywork and the latest cultural biases and performative ceremonies", then yes :-)
Oh wow, that's from 8 years ago. And then it got leaked outside of Google 3 years ago it seems -- this article [1] provides a ton more context.

Just for context, and before people start accusing Google of hypocrisy or anything -- these slides never represented an official (or unofficial) Google position or anything. They're not PR. They're just a single employee's opinion in slideshow form, an opinion he was trying to build support for internally.

Whether you think it made any kind of impact is a fun thought question though.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/10/17333574/google-android-p...
Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No such right exists. Can you name one?
Other libraries are usually self contained though, unlike JS libraries which contains dependencies and then those dependencies has dependencies etc. Probably has to do with JS lacking a standard library so it is a pain to do anything without including dependencies.
True! Given a ~Dirac comb~ mixture of Dirac distributions

c(x) = 1/n Σ_i=1^n δ(х - x_i)

and some function f, you can express the sum of f over x_i as

Σ_i=1^n f(x_i) = ∫_-∞^∞ dx’ f(x)c(x - x’)

If f were a log probability, this would be indeed be a (continuous) cross entropy:

Σ_i log p(х_i|θ) = ∫_-∞^∞ dx’ log p(х_i|θ) c(x - x’)

However, this isn’t generally how we think about likelihood functions, since there is nothing gained from expressing a simple sum of log probability densities in terms of a Dirac comb. Indeed, every ML text/paper I’ve read only ever refers to “cross entropy” in the context of the cost function for one-hot categorical random variables, since the formula for cross entropy is immediately present in the likelihood function. Cost functions involving other random variables are simply called “cost functions” or just “likelihoods” if the author comes from a stats background.
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You are incorrect, and if these suits ever reach court, the defendants will demonstrate that.
More likely to happen: Apple's IP addresses get allowlisted.
It would not have made it to the front page in the first place if it wasn't Trump. People file spurious lawsuits that get dismissed instantly all the time.
Thoughts on Async/Await Conversion in a Desktop App
I think it might be more reasonable to look at this like air to air refuelling, rather than a petrol station. Either the tanker or the satellite or both must spend a significant amount of fuel to align their orbits and velocities precisely and during that operation they are likely unable to perform anything else.
Isn't this an area where gamification and machine learning could actually be useful, if applied carefully?

If people are competing for CVEs, then why not work out a way to better differentiate them them through scoring and make this visible. The goal would be for attention to shift to the scoring instead of only a CVE count. Offer both views of the world, so tools could still fall back on the problematic listings they get today.

Apply machine learning to classify CVEs based on the reputation of the reporter, blast radius, or other criteria. Use that to drive community review and scoring.

I would not see this a panacea because it brings a lot of challenges (a la StackOverflow), but it would be much better than what we have today.
I almost want the unfurling to get stuck, just b/c SpaceX launching a manned Starship out to a LaGrange point to hotfix it would be super cool.