skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I attack if from a different direction. All these companies want to fingerprint your device and track you for really one reason at the very end: showing you a targeted ad. Now what happens if they can't deliver that ad (because you have an adblocker installed), well all that tracking and fingerprinting they just did is moot, because there's nothing actionable they can do with it.

That's my rather naive opinion, idk am I just being naive?
10 years ago my colleagues were astounded by my airtight bash scripts which formed the backbone of our deployment pipeline. I've come a long way since then, and I still learn new things about it regularly, so I guess I'm a bash expert.
That is true ;)
Hsi Chinping bought his degree paper from a ghostwriter, and barely showed for classes.

A practice deemed "almost" acceptable in the mainland among elites. People tell "for somebody already so high rank, merely buying a university degree is not really cheating"

I once had an argument over this 9 years ago with Chinese peers. The conversation came to "Maybe, if he was given a degree, and job even without a ghostwriter, then it may have been said he jumped the line."

It's problem with these people who genuinely believe that rank, and status is a license to violate things, and that is the reason to get it.

Out of all Westernised mainlanders exposed to overseas, or even out of the few who spent some years abroad, almost nobody gets past the superficial in understanding the world outside China. They are really a minority, among the minority.
> keeping my possessions to what can fit in two suit cases

I really want to do that as well while learning piano. Any recommendations for articles / checklists for people who want to live like this? Minimalism while having music gear seems hard. I'd love to do it with just one backpack, already did 3 week travels that way (but without musical instruments) but didn't have the opportunity to try it for longer periods of time with a complete setup.

Thinking about living in portugal as well.
Wow that's the first time someone has said that (other than my immediate friends and family lol), so thank you!

Mind if I ask what in particular you liked? I am interested about certain topics like education + improving access to opportunity + building cool stuff with tech + thinking about economic systems and incentives to drive success, but I also don't to come off as someone who just yells into the void about my opinions.
> One recent study claims an infection impaired-quality-of-life ratio of over 50% (https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/how-many-people-get-...).

Yeah, okay. I know anecdotes are not data, we're supposed to trust the Internet over our own eyes and all of that, but come on, do you think I'm dense?

I know over a hundred people who've had coronavirus at this point, this is clearly total nonsense.
i'm not sure i know anything about uigars, or china more broadly. i've heard things. that doesn't mean i know anything.
Every grant I received had exactly how the number of shares would be calculated. Typically a trailing 10 day average as of the closing on a specific date.
the people in Manchins district are reliant on coal and other non democratic agenda aligned perspectives, him acting the way he does isn't as simple as him catering to the rich....
Well, they do monitor snippets. There's a lot more going on here than meets the eye.

The problem is bad actors are really good at evading detection through obfuscation and dynamically serving different code depending on the IP address so the creative behaves normally if it thinks you're a server Chrome instance and does bad stuff for real people.

To make matters worse bad actors have automated their process, so when they discover they're blocked everywhere, they rotate to a new account, domain, change their obfuscated code to look different, and are back up in a few hours. This leaves everyone else playing whack-a-mole.

And even if Google sees through all of that, the code might never actually touch Google, but come from one of the many marketplaces or resellers being rendered through Google's Ad Server. For any given site, the list of what markets they work with is usually public. This site, https://techsparx.com/ads.txt, is doing business with way too many markets - 680 of which are resellers of other markets' inventory.

This means if you're a bad actor, you can evade anyone capable of seeing through your obfuscation entirely, select for marketplaces that have extremely poor quality control (I see a few), and wind up on this website.
Certainly not as old as Europe, so they'll probably get at least to that level.
You get put on a different list each time. :)
This is a much more palatable option than just wholesale debt forgiveness. I think there could be a lot of bipartisan support for a policy like this. It doesn't fix the problem entirely, but it finally frees people from the life sentence of their student loans. I would imagine the collection rates would be almost zero for any borrowers in this situation, anyway.
This is not an argument in favor of verbosity, it's an argument in favor of static types and type inference.

Keep the verbosity to a minimum while making the code easier to read, understand, and maintain.
The only solution to fixing the student loan crisis is the one no one wants to hear – end federally backed student loans, and make the loans dischargeable in bankruptcy. The economic brunt of a bad loan needs to be felt by the issuing bank, not be distributed among taxpayers.

When lenders get more stringent about handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars to teenagers, colleges will automatically have to scale back fees in order to get people to apply. No more 5-star hotel rates for shoebox dorms and cafeteria food. No more multi-million dollar pay packages for administrators and sports coaches. No more textbooks which cost $300 per class and need to be "refreshed" every year to prevent reuse. Prioritize lending for degrees which have a higher earning potential and so a higher chance of paying back. Favor students with a better academic record. Enforce a minimum GPA in order to keep getting funded. Issuing loans is a business, so treat it like a business rather than a social service with privatized gains and public losses.

Conversely, the worst thing you can do for the problem is forgive existing loans. What do you then do when universities jack up tuition even more and students run up a tab of another trillion dollars over the next decade and refuse to pay, knowing that the government will bail them out anyways?
I think you're right, also in the script's URL it's clear the name of the company that owns this particular script. If you know adtech companies good enough, it should be easy to spot.

Note: I also work in adtech, and my daily job is to maintain a library that has to load inside google's safe frame...
I have not ignored anything. The system is not sustainable and needs to be changed. It can be changed in an orderly way and it can also be changed in a disorderly way. However it occurs or whatever form it takes it’s clear to me that change will occur eventually. It’s not feasible to think that what worked 250 years ago will always work. The framers even knew that what they set up will need to be updated periodically since they built in an updating mechanism into the system.
Same here and there's nothing wrong with it. Do what you gotta do to get what you want. Sometimes your team's goal line up with yours, and sometimes they only line up 30%.

My goal personally is to get a promotion to Senior, a solid 20% salary bump and then cruise control like you are.
Airbyte closed a $150M round at a $1.5B valuation
> They have malicious intentions a priori because they treat controlling others with the same level of discipline as they would choosing which flavour of jam to put on their toast in the morning.

Not everyone advocating lockdowns is necessarily so flippant about it. Some consider the costs carefully. Please keep in mind that hospitals were being overwhelmed long before vaccines were available.

(FWIW I'm not defending absolute lockdowns since going outside with moderate distancing appears to have been safe at every stage of this phenomenon.)
what kind of bot even is this, gosh
> I don't have an opinion on that. Just want to point out that out of the previous 2500 years, China has been unified for only 500 years, and 300 of those 500 years was spent under the yoke of a foreign invader (the Mongols).

This is not true, Mongol rule only lasted for about 100 years.

Han dynasty lasted 400 years. Tang about 300 years, Ming and Qing together lasted about 550 years. All of that adds to about 1250 years of unified times. That did not count Qin or Sui or Northern Song, which are unified that just happened to be short lived.

I don't know where you got your numbers.
> At this point in the pandemic we've should have come up with models that factor in the externalities of lockdown and factor that into policy decisions. That somehow still hasn't happened.

What makes you think it hasn’t? I’m sure all lockdown decision makers are looking at these models along with models of hospital capacity.

> People say "things are pretty much back to normal" but parents with kids in school know this is not true.

My kids school life has basically gone back to normal and has been all year. It’s my WFH situation that is never “going back to normal” but I think that’s a positive.
Hesse is amazing. Which of those authors would you say reach the level of Hesse?
That's just an attempt to salvage meritocracy. The problem is that there is no single metric one could rigorously construct that encapsulates everything one needs for success, partly because 'success' isn't well-defined (there's no such thing as 'winning', remember?) and partly because even if such a metric were constructed it would rapidly become obsolete as one's personality and genreal society evolve.

In more technical terms, some spaces just aren't metrizable ;)
It's kind of hard not to log IPs when running a service over the internet. You kind of have to have their IP address in order to know where to send the info they want.

Further, logging an IP address has also been necessary for security--to detect DoS and DDoS attacks, for instance, as both involve many repeated connections from the same IP (though you can offload that to a service now).
1. There's also such a thing as cultural genocide, which forced religious conversion certainly qualifies as. Not to mention wiping out a culture is part of an overall genocide, usually it's the objective.

2. Oh, so the Chinese are just enforcing their population control law? Then what are the internment camps for? And why the Uighur birth rate plummeting far faster than the reported national Chinese birthrate?
https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-we...

"Birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60% from 2015 to 2018, the latest year available in government statistics. Across the Xinjiang region, birth rates continue to plummet, falling nearly 24% last year alone — compared to just 4.2% nationwide, statistics show."

3. The UN apparently does. Note that said treatments are apparently disproportionately targeted at various ethnic minorities.
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...

"UN human rights experts* said today they were extremely alarmed by reports of alleged ‘organ harvesting’ targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians, in detention in China

The experts said they have received credible information that detainees from ethnic, linguistic or religious minorities may be forcibly subjected to blood tests and organ examinations such as ultrasound and x-rays, without their informed consent; while other prisoners are not required to undergo such examinations. The results of the examinations are reportedly registered in a database of living organ sources that facilitates organ allocation."
Damn, I've been doing a bunch of exploring of this exact topic over the past week. This would have saved me a bunch of time. Unlucky for me it wasn't submitted last Sunday!

One thing that's killed me a bit is the core::/std:: split, when the core:: versions have the exact same semantics, or perhaps are equivalent for the things that they do implement (for example, the core version might be missing the serde parts, but is otherwise the same). There's a few crates I tried out that wouldn't compile with no_std, but with a simple text substitution, would work. I'm sure there's a million edge cases I'm not aware of, but if cargo or rustc could provide an option to just sub in the core version, that'd be really nice.
Stealthing and Gift Giving: Intentional Transmission of HIV to Sex Partners
Children born during the pandemic are not yet in school. This research makes little sense, measuring cognitive differences of 2 year olds is highly unlikely to be meaningful.
Is this post-retirement? Or do you have other sources of income? Either way, I respect the hell out of that move.
Just one point of view, if you stop ten people in the street and ask their five biggest problems right now I bet you find more than 25 of the 50 problems cannot be solved with money.
> This is likely a script that somehow avoided google's malware scanning pipelines.

Why wouldn't google just block access to those API's? I mean I guess that's what this sandbox did.
TypeScript is better than JavaScript, yes. But still it doesn't guarantee anything at runtime.
Fennel lisp is pretty popular in the Neovim community, actually.
I agree, I should have worded that differently. My point is an IDE isn't entitled to have yet another runtime which is not used for core functionality just because it is an IDE.

I call it outrageous because the task itself (uploading to App Store Connect) don't require a separate runtime. It's likely an artefact from the past or convenience vehicle for whoever wrote it; another example of developer's convenience trumping user experience.
Well, if it's specifically about taxing the poor - we could levy a higher tax on the ultra-rich and earmark how that funding is used.

FWIW I actually think you make a good point, but it's ignoring the fact that the ultra-rich are grossly (I'd argue an order of magnitude) undertaxed right now.
My sub-point is America would deny the validity of China's invasion of Taiwan regardless of whether China's accusations against Taiwan were accurate or not, meaning the accuracy of such accusations isn't relevant. The outcome is the same. People in the EU might roll their eyes and say "ackshully china is right and taiwan really is making nuclear weapons", just as they once rolled their eyes at America's bogus claims about Iraq, but what would/did that change? A fat lot of nothing.

But my main point is that if Taiwan wants nuclear weapons they can make their own, so there is no sense in America giving nuclear weapons to Taiwan. And if America did, that would provide China with 'valid' casus belli anyway. I think PRC spies would be no less aware of plans to import nuclear weapons than plans to make them.
> Basically gone back to normal

Do they have to wear masks? Do they have to socially distance?
I dunno, I've never had any complaints about bash's performance ... but I do appreciate the idea of a simple performant shell, as long as it doesn't break anything. I was annoyed to find many #!/bin/sh scripts broken in Debian 11 until I update-alternatives'd it to bash. There goes my performance, but hey presto now things work!
How realistic is it to get hired fully remote at this kind of comp if you don't live in the US? I'm British and live in the UK and I'm pretty sure I have enough experience to be making these kinds of high salaries if I lived in the US. Relocating isn't an option for me, at least not in the next few years, but I wonder, am I a fool for taking a UK-based job? Should I find a remote position with a US-based company and double my salary? Is that even possible?
Do you have a link about the Cholera thing? I am not really informed on the whole Yemen / Saudi
Addressing this point of yours…

> Every single situation had pros and cons, and none of them made me feel completely full-filled.

…I wanted to share this piece of experience that resonated with me back then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15107818

[Maybe we all need a little less balance — NYT]

The point being: I‘ve found that simply accepting no single way living my career has been able to strike a perfect balance _all at once_ already was a key piece that let me feel more at ease.

Your way of trying out a few different things at different times seems to not be the worst strategy in that regard.

I‘d say I‘m 80% happy now with my job, but I know there will always be parts I dread. And doing something different will simply trade them for others.
ipad games from the very early age
Yup. Also interest rates are a big factor.

In the 80s interest rates on long term treasuries were around 10%, so I imagine student loans were much higher. Very expensive to finance high dollar amounts with those kind of rates. Most of the gains in housing have been due to rates trending lower for decades, for example.

But I'd advocate a more radical change towards shorter term vocational focused programs (e.g. coding bootcamps) to college.

Many benefits to that, but shorter also means easier to switch professions if you feel you've made a mistake. Due to duration and financial commitment, college is hard to swallow twice through.

Really just need somebody in a position of power to advocate for this kind of radical change in education, to shift public perception and culture.
If you want to lockdown, you can lockdown, and now you are safe. You don't need others to do so, the virus does not travel through windows and walls.

As such the stance is definitionally illogical which makes it flippant - it falls apart under even mild scrutiny.

I've seen about a billion variations on it now, it just gets boring to bat them off. e.g. "if the healthcare system is overwhelmed, you'll die in a minor car crash, so don't go outside, then you won't drive your car or stand near cars, then you can't die in a minor car crash anyway, err... but lockdown though!".

It's tautologically broken. The basic premise is of "not doing X, in order to not do X".
Yeah, I have the same problem with Marijuana. Our apartment complex has a courtyard which has been destroyed by the stench of Marijuana. It permeates every corner, it doesn’t go away.

I have no problem with people smoking Marijuana but people need to be more considerate.
This is one of my favorite questions in the area of social/moral governance.

Put more generally: How much should we protect people from themselves?

In the not-so-distant past, I'm guessing, the answer to that for most people was: Very little. After all, adults are capable and expected to make rational choices and do so every day; for themselves, and the people they cate about. So giving them more options is just helpful...

But the past few decades have perhaps opened our eyes. From Kahneman & Tversky, behavioral economics and cognitive biases, to the smartphone
(and other screens) epidemic that rages everywhere the device is in use.

It's become extremely clear that "adults" are not very good at being rational and self-controling. At least when they are put up aginst corporations who employe armies of professional mind hackers whos sole job is to make them lose the battle.

So the debate isn't really Control vs. Freedom anymore. Its more like Protection vs. Jungle Law.

And still, though we've realized the stakes are higher than we first thought, the right moral choice is unclear. Perhaps the idea of protecting ourselves from commercial predetors should be seen as childishly quixotic as the idea of protecting Deer from lions. Especially since the "Lions" are us too. We (though in smaller numbers) are also the benefactors of these questionable actions.

But then again, no one likes to be prohibited from doing what they want, and that's a great, and fairly new, right that we have (with restrictions of course). We should be quick to hamper it.

Good question...
> Why do the Chinese people care so much about Taiwan though?

They mostly don’t. It’s not that big of an issue outside politics and loudmouths, which sometimes converge.

Taiwan is an excuse to add fire to patriotic indoctrination.
> https://youtu.be/aCdFec3uu_g

In what culture is this considered "macho"? He's acting like a little spoiled brat.
Does freedom have inherent value, or does it have to lead to something else in order to be valuable? This editorial seems to assume the latter.

For example, it suggests that the sole justification for alcohol legality is that it can have benefits in moderation. Notwithstanding the dubiousness of this claim, does anyone really believe that is why alcohol is legal?
I'd recommend reading up on why not all human subjects research requires informed consent. For instance, there are exceptions for human subjects research that takes place on normal educational practices. This carve out was made because of the difficulty of getting unanimous consent from all parents during normal classroom education. With greater oversight and full informed consent, a lot of educational research simply wouldn't happen.

So, to reframe this: "can you think of scenarios where institutional oversight could cause negative harms on society?" There are tradeoffs in ethical domains —and usually a lot of work has been done to find a middle ground.
They wouldn't, check the subjects of current brevet, bac and textbooks, it's just fluff.

One fault is the drop in teaching hours : https://www.reseau-canope.fr/musee/collections/cache/a65f40c... this is a schedule from 1952.

We are lying to kids and parents : https://twitter.com/loysbonod/status/1356128734508679168

Or Pierre Colmez writting : https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~pierre.colmez/lettre.pdf and https://images.math.cnrs.fr/R-eduire-les-in-egalit-es.html?l...
I don't see how the tyranny by a large minority is better than the tyranny by a majority. In either case you can find yourself in disagreement with the government. That's the very nature of government- enforcing policy, hopefully for the common good. How is the republic protecting people against that?
I would bet on the growth of notepads and smartphone usage by children 0-2 age. There are evidences that electronics and smart screens are destructive for the cognitive development of infants, while they are super easy to adopt by lazy parents.

Click on some YTube show and baby won’t bother you for the next hour or two.
In small companies, the ability to influence the CEO against poor decisions can make a massive difference
He seemed like a genuinely nice dude who came from humble background who tried to improve his life situation but failed to do so, but at the same time you're right there could be something I'm missing from only having a ~20 minute chat with him.

I agree that we're trending up which should feel AMAZING, but we're human so people's individual stories are what make us feel the most ;)

Also at my high school the metric for our school's success was 99%+ of the graduating class going to college, and it felt like pure vanity because it meant more likely than not tons of people going into debt and getting nothing out of it for the sake of "education"
Unless I'm missing something, "Kids born during pandemic" would not be affected by school closures. If anything, having more parents stay at home with kids, I'd expect to result in better outcomes,though maybe I'm giving parents too much credit.

Honestly, I'd suspect that parents are around kids more and noticing and reporting more.
I care a lot less about whether or not I see an ad than I do about the shadow dossier being compiled about me based on my browsing habits. So no, I don't think all the fingerprinting is moot. I'd rather see untargeted advertising than have my personal profile bought and sold.