skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>without sounding like an adherent of the alt-reich?

Sure it is. That you must be an "adherent of the alt-reich" for being against it, is just a strawman of the woke "left" that alienates large chunks of both the right and the center (and large parts of the left, especially people raised and invested on the traditional, class and civil rights, based left).

>I don't care much for old-school racism or white supremacy

Very few do, basically fringe loonies. That's the whole point. Movements like the "woke" movement don't get big when most people, media, corporations, etc. are racist and pro-patriarchy and pro-religion and so on. That is, they would never have gotten big in the 50s or 60s or even 80s. They get big when most peopla aren't, when it's safe to the point that even Disney is "woke". It's basically posturing.

Similarly to how the LGBTQ activists were left all alone for decades, from the same groups (media, Hollywood, enterprises, print, etc. and often the very same hypocrite people that now pretend to be all about their rights. It's not because now it's more pressing to fight for them and more repressive than before - it's because now it's perfectly safe to be so.
You can't badly conflate two different claims and then use that as a reason to engage in censorship.
Is there a difference in your post's reach on Reddit if you have 1,000 karma vs. 1,000,000?
https://archive.is/kOFqE
> …serves no purpose for its users

It might be that one of the reasons they track link clicking is to determine “bounce rate” [0] to infer how useful the result is. That is something I would want to know if I were building a search engine and wanted to verify ranking accuracy. Though I would have thought there would be better ways of tracking this than url redirection if JS is enabled.

0: #5 on https://www.spyfu.com/blog/improve-google-rankings/ (I tried to find a more authoritative source but didn’t have much luck. If some one can find a better one, please share.)
I can't find anything about Trump saying this on TV, or in that WP article.

Also: https://www.justsecurity.org/63660/is-trump-a-russian-agent-...
Questions like this one from the article are also very common on /r/AskReddit:

> Without naming the state you are from, what is it famous for?

Hard to tell if that's intentional data gathering or just someone innocently copying a common data-gathering question format from Facebook though.
> whose children didn’t log on to the remote learning session (with their school-provided computers with school-provided cellular connections).

That's just laziness.
Easier perhaps to make it legal to increase the housing supply in a sustainable way (by allowing densification) and to stop letting people write off interest payments on non-owner-occupied houses.
Before the advent of the current crop of social media, online forums would post your post count and sign up dates. Posts from someone that has a brand new account and low post count were HIGHLY scrutinized. In some cases, needing mod approval before becoming visible.

My assumption is troll farms are buying accounts with karma to try and do an end around such a system. It wouldn't be hard on reddit/hn/or other vote based social media locations to pay extra scrutiny, even automated, against brand new accounts. By using established accounts, it makes astroturf detection harder to do. Now every account is potentially an astroturfer.
> You cannot:

> 1. Provide the products to others as a managed service;

> 2. Circumvent the license key functionality or remove/obscure features protected by license keys

I hope Amazon forks this too, steals all of their customers, and drives them out of business.
Indeed - talk about an old timer in the Mac ecosystem.

My favorite reply so far: "First job: fixing all the Radar issues you reported."

Ha!
You haven't made a point yourself, so honestly, I don't fucking know what we're talking about either. You came in with a hyperbolic comment that echoes the stance from the NoSQL community I've seen for the past decade. The one that basically says "We have zero fucking clue how to model our data so we're just going to jam everything into bunch of loosely connected JSON documents and spend the next decade adding basic SQL features from the 70s".
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But you don't get Android from google, you get a fork from the vendor which produced the phone you bought.

So you are paying (in many ways) for companies you payed getting it for free...

And maybe the cheapest level of phones would get more expensive.

But for many (most) Android phones (sold in the EU) the price increase if Android isn't free should be fairly small. (Especially given that google still gets a lot of other benefits from people using Android, I mean e.g. Google Play is still the default App store.)
And when no candidates will enact these policies, largely because of the monied interests elevating them to contention, how does the power to vote help?
I misinterpreted a tweet. Chris Harborne did not own the miner. His son (I think), Will Harborne, runs Deversifi, formerly Ethfinex.
There is a huge disclaimer that you must agree to when you purchase a Tesla vehicle before you drive it off the lot. One of the first things it says is:

> Warning: Traffic-Aware Cruise Control can not detect all objects and may not brake/ decelerate for stationary vehicles, especially in situations when you are driving over 50 mph (80 km/h) and a vehicle you are following moves out of your driving path and a stationary vehicle or object is in front of you instead. Always pay attention to the road ahead and stay prepared to take immediate corrective action. Depending on Traffic-Aware Cruise Control to avoid a collision can result in serious injury or death. In addition, Traffic-Aware Cruise Control may react to vehicles or objects that either do not exist or are not in the lane of travel, causing Model X to slow down unnecessarily or inappropriately.

Commentary: as a Tesla M3 owner, I'm aware of this and can confirm. When a vehicle is completely stationary in the lane in front of you traffic aware cruise control might not see it as an obstruction. TACC uses _changes_ in the image sent from the various cameras to determine whether you have open road in front of you or a vehicle or other obstruction. If there is zero movement TACC will sometimes not be able to tell there is an obstruction.
I doubt it, but I'm not qualified to comment on anything other than Western culture, so I didn't. :)
1.4 million comments on a single post? Holy crap! I was previously wondering on Reddit, what kind of vapid self-importance compels people to comment in threads that already have over 100-200 comments—when new ones go straight to the bottom and no one sees them afterwards. But this is on scale of some mental illness, unless I seriously misunderstand something about Facebook comments.
"What's your perfect fall day" does not strike me as a good security question

"How old were you when you got your first job" actually does seem like a good security question for many people. You're unlikely to forget it, after a while not many other people will know it, and it's a single number (whole number, most likely) so it's easy for a computer to parse (and hard for you to mess up by leaving out / adding too much detail).

Depending on what you respond to on social media, and depending on if you've got any accounts that use this as a security question, you might want to go back and force the account to use a new question ;)
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Time an volume take care of nearly all of those these concerns.

Instead of looking at a per package performance, you simply look at the average over time.

If the average target is move 100 packages per hour, you are looking at the average of 16,000 samples for one month of work.
I'm sorry but there's no such thing as a rural part of Bellevue. Regardless of however not-dense your particular area is you're still close to a major population center.
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Switching between this and Google Maps the answers appear to be, predictably in hindsight, Hawaii / Guam / American Samoa.
It’s all bot or paid traffic. Never heard of them before this article. This was a good quote:

“I’ve never heard an explanation of Ozy that made sense to me,” said Brian Morrissey, the former editor in chief of Digiday, a publication covering digital media and the tech industry, who now writes The Rebooting, a newsletter focused on media businesses. He said he was struck by the company’s claims, adding, “then you do the gut check, and never once in my life has a piece of content from Ozy crossed into my world organically.”
> Since it is a SQLite database, you can add additional tables etc, so it isn't a problem.

You can add additional tables, but you can't add support for additional tables in the past versions. This is especially true because sqlar has no version specified.

> I think that using separate archiving and compression is good, which would do these things. A separate program should be used for archive and for compression.

I've heard this argument a lot and I think it is completely false. Archival and compression should go together, otherwise you would get suboptimal results.

Archival then compression (i.e. the traditional tarballs) will disable random access to individual files and metadata. This hurts performance in pretty every use case except for the one-shot decompression. In particular this problem completely prohibits using archival then compression in container formats. You can reenable them by using random-accessible compression formats, but they are not common and less efficient than formats without that constraint.

Compression then archival is much better than archival then compression because it essentially mimics the combined compression-archival format (I have used .bz2.tar in the past), but this mode is unpopular so you need to manually decompress them. And it is harder to use different compression algorithms for different formats; you should put that info to the file name or the metadata, and that would be no different from compression-archival formats.

Some claim that the needs for solid compression demonstrate the problem of combined compression-archival formats. This is not true and even misleading. Archival then compression commonly results in worse compression than solid compressed archives even with the same algorithm. The gist of solid compression is a shared context for related files, so unless the archiver somehow reorders files it can't compete with combined archivers with solid compression. And if your archiver is doing that reordering, it is no longer decoupled from the compressor so it would be better to combine them. In addition to this, there are also alternatives to solid compression with different trade-offs, for example learned shared preset dictionaries (even zlib supports this, although unpopular).

> Also encryption should be a separate program from archive and compression too, I should think.

Yeah, I'm personally fine without encryption as it is really hard to get it right (for example, you should be prepared of metadata encryption and key stretching). I've listed it partly for the completeness and partly for the fact that it is probably the most approachable encryption software to end users.

> (However, there are extensions for SQLite for doing encryption, so it is possible to use those if wanted.)

And I think the official encryption extension [1] is proprietary.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/see/
That is, until your boss says "Great job everyone! Time to get started on Pinball Fantasies 2"
What is eSports, and how do we bet on it?
I wouldn't be surprised if some of their shadowban logic was more lenient on accounts that had a lot of karma, to avoid high-profile embarrassing mistakes? Just a guess.
This is what the market is optimizing for. For the vast majority of people, in order to have anything nice, you will barely make ends meet. The market doesn't want to leave any income in your pocket, and it's getting very good at that.
How do you know where they contracted it? Given the variable multi-day incubation period, it's usually impossible to reliably determine the point of infection.
I noticed this part of the spec too:

> When the `ping` attribute is present, user agents should clearly indicate to the user that following the hyperlink will also cause secondary requests to be sent in the background, possibly including listing the actual target URLs.

> For example, a visual user agent could include the hostnames of the target ping URLs along with the hyperlink's actual URL in a status bar or tooltip.

Does any browser supporting pings actually do that??

Also the "Note" in that section provides a decent argument for supporting `ping`. Basically, users will have their clicks tracked anyway, but the `ping` attribute provides more transparency and a better user experience. Though the transparency part is debatable given browser implementations.
Especially great when combined with https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release

Also just ran across this, looks interesting: https://github.com/zeke/semantic-pull-requests
Getting back to your original posting:

First of all, my whole posting was tongue-in-cheek, which everyone else seems to have gotten.

Anyhow, does it makes sense that "A formal declaration of war" has somewhat more legal force than "An Atlantic headline writer declaring them a hostile foreign power" ?
If you have ebooks in a number of different ecosystems, perhaps kobo, comixology, kindle, adobe digital editions, pdf, actual epubs, microsoft word documents, then it's amazing having access to the official apps to read those file formats and connect to the online services.
There are certainly varying degrees of baseline consciousness.

I think you can pull many people out of their patterns into consciousness for a short time through the right engagement, but they'll just slip back into semi-oblivion when they go back to their daily life, social network, confirmation bias affirming news sources, etc...
I’m glad someone is pointing this out. The article makes it sound like the accused company is wrapped up in a lot of social justice propaganda. Hucksters like this CEO know how to leverage woke messaging to their benefit. Woke is good for business.

That their first instinct was to frame the excuse as empathy for an employee struggling with a “mental health episode” says it all. They know their audience.

Their YouTube Channel [1] makes it immediately obvious they do not have anything close to a consistent viewership audience of millions. Anyone who invested in this should fire their entire due diligence staff. Existing investors are the main idiots here, with Goldman only redeeming themselves at the last minute. YouTube doesn’t have much skin (no pun intended) in the game. Nobody is gonna pursue this further because it will look bad.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/OZY
Would the segment of users who respond to content-free posts like these have much of a reaction to a comment saying that?

I don't mean that as a snarky dismissal, but a sincere question. I know that plenty of people, especially among digital-natives, have instant negative reactions to being reminded of data collection. But the type of user answering "what was your first car" or "what do you call your grandchildren" do not strike me as having much overlap with the groups that are cynical about social media platforms.
Well the article notes that some amount of user demographic info is revealed simply by interacting with the post, regardless of the information provided by the respondent.

Secondly, this is almost like the email phishing paradox: to an educated user it seems like the number of people who respond with relevant information would be extremely low, but if the attempt costs you basically nothing and you get something useful 1% of the time, you're still winning.

"My perfect fall day is my memory of Aunt June when we lived in Connecticut in the 70s, before she passed away." In itself something like that doesn't seem useful, but there's a good amount of information in there if someone can correlate it with other details about your life.
I don't get this. I'm a Jellyfin user too, and I've never seen an option for a directory view in the web UI.

At least my movies are reasonably well-catalogued. My TV shows are still a mess because of how inflexible their naming policy is.
Scylla is not only about throughput. One of the values of Scylla is its reduced latencies or ease of maintenance.
Overview of reasons: https://www.scylladb.com/scylla-vs-cassandra

Disclosure: I'm an engineer at ScyllaDB.
Bold 9900 is the most productive phone I ever owned.

The keys were really tight together, but they carefully made the shapes so it was very easy to know which keys I was hitting without even thinking about it.

The touchpad was super accurate. The escape and BB buttons next to the touchpad plus lots of keyboard shortcuts meant I could really jam around the interface without going through zillions of menus or icons and whatnot.

The touchscreen made it really sweet to just click or rapidly scroll.

The overall size was easily small enough to fit comfortably in my pocket.

I think what it comes down to is that the use-case is for people who need to read and respond professional messages in a timely manner as the primary function of the device.

I wish someone would just take that exact form factor and turn it into a simple Bluetooth tool that connects to messaging apps.
Just a note for those of you who were confused like I was upon reading this article: the author seems to be using the term "affiliate networks" in an unusual way - they're calling Facebook pages with some kind of commercial relationship between them "nodes" in an "affiliate network".

The commonly accepted usage is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_network
You can pull the data off of fb.

FB's targeting tools go to some lengths to only allow you to target by dems on fb and associated properties. These questions, plus profile views, allow you to extract the information for external use. Eg selling a list of <fb id, first car, birth year, favorite color, pet name, etc> tuples.
OpenWRT 21.02 supports DSA for select devices OOB (replaces swconf) and ships with a really recent 5.4 Linux kernel for all supported devices.

So going for a cheap, 2nd hand router supported by OpenWRT is probably the easiest and cheapest way there.
A bit off topic, but why do people conflate Elizabeth Holmes with Adam Neumann (and Travis Kalanick), completely different issues, one is fraud and the other is just a failed IPO that included some hyperbole, nothing more. No comparison.
that's exactly the comment I was looking for! xsv is super powerful and I think you might both draw inspiration from one another. I read above that tv reads everything into memory: maybe you can exploit some xsv tricks to avoid that. I feel tv looks great to visualise the outcome at the end of a pipeline, perhaps with xsv. I am no Ruby expert either, but this can become a cool Homebrew binary: people on macOS will use it too!
It seems that there is such regulation in place, in the US at least.
But regulation regards average loudness throughout the ad, so you can blast away if you compensate with silence.

I don't normally really like the YouTube channel Cheddar, but they recently had a video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmydvmxWUsE

Apparently its FCC regulation (I'm not in the US), and the FCC cannot create legislation for streaming services so they are currently free to do as they wish.
That kind of thing is a gold mine for data harvesting. Automatically: for each comment from a certain state, go through their commenting history to map opinions on whatever you care to search for on a state-by-state level. Way cheaper and faster than phone surveys, and also gives a radically higher value slice of the population (than those who would pick up the phone to answer a survey). And that's probably the least nefarious thing someone could do with that data.
This article is more than just "Facebook is bad". It's proposing a specific phenomenon the author thinks it's noticed, and digging into what may be behind it.
Thank you for sharing. What a beautiful talk.
Indeed, there's more to it than that. I haven't gone in-depth, so this is my very pedestrian understanding...

The very secretive spam filter has cut-outs for 'high value' accounts - this isn't really documented formally, but it's pretty obvious that posting limits are essentially nonexistant for 1M+ users, either by design or because they're well known to the mods...

The value of the high-karma accounts is that they're much more likely to be accepted for moderator applications. Get enough mods on a default sub, and you basically control the universe. That's very difficult, so the much easier way is to create legit-looking fringe subreddits with names like "newstoday" or "politicallyuncensorednews". Get enough of your smurf accounts to upvote those, and you can get to rising for /all. Get enough real bites and you might even get it to the front page.

I haven't really looked into this stuff for a few years, because it's frankly depressing. So my understanding will be a little off what the most recent networks are doing.
The article directly addresses this point and claims that the password is worthless, while somehow also claiming that the data they can scrape about you after you interact with them is where the money is made.
7 Tacos is a lot. Don't let someone you care about eat 7 Tacos, that's just enabling.
Your friends will see your comment in fb, so there is an incentive to comment even when there is already millions of other comments.
TSP = The Silents PC?
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The generic "without directly revealing PII, provide some detail which ML algorithms can use to determine the PII with a high degree of accuracy" is pretty clearly a product of intentional data gathering. The fact that is might get copied and organically spread is just a bonus.

This also goes for "the first letter of your last name plus the date of your mother's birthday are your <pop culture tag>".

Oh and all the cutesy little image processing tools like "what would you look like older/younger/as a different gender/if you were a cartoon" are there to train facial recognition algorithms.

Yet even supposedly sophisticated people fall for these.
I'm quite left-wing myself (check out my downvoted comments against capitalism, lol), but it's a simple fact that local civil-society has combined with local activism in much of the developed world to generate a nasty sequel to 60s-70s-style ultraleftism. Are they some second coming of Stalin? Hell no, but are they going to go to every single planning board meeting, run for school board, and screech nasty names at you when you disagree with their most obviously self-serving, power-grabbing hot-takes? Oh yeah, they've been doing that at least five years now, if not longer.
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Facebook shows comments from your friends highlighted in your feed.

So if one of your friends comments with the one millionth comment, you can end up seeing the post and your friend’s comment In your feed. So while no one can read all comments - your friends are likely to see yours.
Their search results used to be great before they started doing this. In fact, they've started to suck more in the past 10 years, though probably for unrelated reasons. As the Conchords say, "what are your overheads?"
You'd want to let them know that their service is functioning as expected? Okay.