skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If people are choosing "spyware" over a "paid" product, perhaps they just don't care about data collection that much. Isn't that the logical conclusion?

I think the idea that people would be able to even make this decision themselves is too optimistic.

> Objectively ads have added more money into the internet economy than ever before

Is that good though? Is there some actual value being created by this or is it simply that ad money has been flowing out of other places like print and TV, and into online advertising?
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a Stately Pleasure Dome Decree.
I suppose the models might theoretically at risk if the learning data can be extracted, but I don’t think this will practically happen because it’s so far different from current GDPR practices. Someone would have to prove their protected information is inside of a model before they might have a chance. After that, I am not a lawyer.
> Google has fallen victim to spam.

Google is intentionally dropping five year old results from the index and prioritizing five hour old results. They have complete control over whether they're doing this. Part of SEO is making five year old results look like five hour old results, which is something that Google did to spammers, not something that spammers did to google.

Google has decided that it is more profitable to make sure that somebody who types "chicken" into the search box gets either chicken restaurants nearby, or listicles and video covering the story on the news today about a chicken that scared away a bear. They've given up on depth.
> frowned upon in HN to talk monetization early,

it is?

Would you pay for a subscription to a social network without ads? Doesn't seem too far from an actuality
IAB's business model is broken at this point. The EU's point is that you can't rules-lawyer your way around GDPR violations by outsourcing the lawbreaking to a paid scapegoat company: having ruled the practices to be essentially illegal, this is going to end up being kicked up a level to the big advertising corporations themselves (by which I mean: Google, Amazon, Microsoft).
It seems like that's what's happening here though. The IAB appears to take all the blame while everyone else gets away.
Who exactly is this "r/wallstreetbets" that is riding high on this idea? Unlike other subreddits, WSB is very much not a hivemind. This did not happen by accident.

You can take a look at mention trends [0] and see that most people are talking about stocks that have no "squeeze" story behind them.

You can also take a look at the rules [1] to see that market manipulation (like 95% of the GME discussion that goes on) is not allowed.

Finally you can take a look at the daily thread [2] and note that within the top 1,500 comments, only two mention the word "squeeze".

[0]: https://www.quiverquant.com/wallstreetbets/

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/about/rules

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/silx0h/dail...
You may wish to run a memory test program; it could be due to RAM faults.
Another comment cited an SEC report that concluded that most of the price movement wasn't related to shorts being closed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30177747

Admittedly I am not sure that's directly related to the theory being referenced by you and OP as I am hazy on all the historical discussions.
The other comments are good answers to your question, but here's a fun little fact: if you actually want to directly read a 60Ghz signal, you actually need to sample it at 120Ghz to get it all! Good old nyquist.
You might be interested to learn that in languages like Coq with dependent types, the difference between type-level and value-level languages (almost) disappears! Check out the Software Foundations book [1].

[1] https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/
You must have some bad luck.
I use LO daily on Windows and macOS and have done for many years now, and have had maybe 2-3 crashes in total.

The document recovery has saved me in all of those cases.
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Are you suggesting that the information portrayed is false?
They have just been found guilty, that's what the ruling is, and the outcome of the ruling is they should delete data derived from the related data. The ML models took the data as input, I think it's fair to say that if they want to argue the ML models do not derive from it despite that, they should maintain the burden of proof.
I tried one and it's pretty disappointing. Plenty of room for improvement.
Does this app integrate with existing standards for social networks like ActivityPub or XMPP?
The core problem AFAICT is the academic worlds obsession with publication in the first place. If publication is the priority and at the heart of the reward system then plagiarism is a big deal. If the goal is producing useful results then it would be less of a big deal, though attribution still seems appropriate. If they would embrace replication studies as much as novelty this would also be less of an issue.

Seriously, the world doesn't need papers for the sake of papers. It needs useful information and confirmation that information published is useful. Or if not directly useful, at least accurate as documenting something.
Eh it started going downhill after the ControlTheNarrative 'GUH'
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn

> The aim of this area of MDN is not to take you from "beginner" to "expert" but to take you from "beginner" to "comfortable." From there, you should be able to start making your way, learning from the rest of MDN, and other intermediate to advanced resources that assume a lot of previous knowledge.
I worked for LiveJournal, which was owned by a Russian company and what our platform removed for “misinformation” was a nothing compared to what companies like Twitter do today. I know Navalny (A Russian dissident) account is still active whereas platforms like Facebook and Twitter have banned multiple elected US politicians. If you want to avoid censorship the Russian platforms are great places to go.
Yes, this would be incredible.
As much as I agree I think you also have to consider that things change, and what once was something that only nerds and weirdos used now it's the mainstream way of consuming information.

Which means that something that for you as the 99% tail is not good anymore doesn't matter for my mom that doesn't even know what you're talking about as the web being different before. It's the digital version of the old "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded".

That being said I believe a major part of the problem is the asymmetry between consumption and creation of content. If creating content was somehow harder you would find way less auto generated attention grabbing websites.
> Modern humans are (again, according to YNH) the homo subspecies with the ability to switch. That said, we're not that good at it.

Our species is very clearly lacking a crucial ingredient for our continued evolution: the ability to align our actions (and motivations, and rewards), on a societal scale. If we're still here in a hundred thousand years, I think the anthropologists of the future will look back to today as falling before some critical phase transition in the way our collective consciousness operates. Whether that's a hive mind, or some technological approach to consensus (which I'm almost loathe to say out loud given the Baby's First Computer approaches we're coming up with these days), or just us all waking up and realizing that we should be living life in service to one another, who knows. Our contemporary penchant for individualism, while producing many interesting emergent artifacts, is causing us to eat ourselves alive.
> making them liable for a fine of up to $32.3Bn per year

> their fine is 250k euros

massive disconnect between reality and imaginary worlds.
It sounds like he's worried his customers will decide he's not needed anymore. Like, if their perception is that they only call him when layout and style changes are needed, and they can now (somewhat) do that themselves.
It's because we usually treat data as a singular abstract concept when it is technically the plural of datum which is a singular piece of information.
> Couldn't some of them have some more unique and wacky super-expensive hobbies just to shake things up

Like space travel maybe? :P
I've been using gRPCurl for years and, once you understand gRPC and Protobuf, it's pretty easy to use and can be scripted in many ways - https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl.
The bureaucrats and agents don't cooperate. Your surveillance data ends up locked on the drives of agencies with no power to affect your life.
Yes, I feel the same. And the same can be said for those who are unwilling to repeal remaining laws. It is disturbing that MPs in Singapore regularly refer to Section 377A of the Singapore Penal Code as "dead letter". If it is truly dead letter, why not skip lunch, and repeal it?
Lol it must be tough being so tough all the time
I mean the article basically has no info at all in it. It could have been written by an AI.

Can anyone update me on what the guy is doing now and how much money he made, when he sold, does he still hold any, etc.? The actual interesting part of the story.
Yet No alternative have arrived to ads, people are used to free software how do you circumvent these things ?
Thanks for the informed reply.
Yes. That is what the source said and the interpretation "it is targeting a very specific type of content: medical mandate protest coverage" is unclear from that source.

A recent change to the system to tamp down on resharing copyrighted data would catch those kinds of streams in the "blast radius," so to speak. Such a change would not be targeting that very specific type of content the GP comment describes. The source does not support that interpretation with sufficient evidence.
Updates and associated checks should not be done by each application itself.
> This is a bit circular. People would rather use a free service than a paid service. So long as free services exist it will be hard or impossible for paid services to exist or thrive.

Of course. If a paid product wants to thrive it needs to be better. People do use paid search engines, email, maps, etc. most people don’t because most people don’t value it that much.

> There's no reason that we should have to make this choice. We don't have to live in a spyware dystopia so that we can have cheaper internet services. This spyware economy is less than 20 years old, and we should throw it out.

I don’t think there’s a dystopia. If you want to regress you can do so alone. We have irc and bbs that won’t track you. I’m sure there are also some plain text sites you can peruse.

Not really understanding why you want to change things for others. Just change it for yourself and then you’re good.
Astro is one of the areas where compsci and physics PhDs can come in and be helpful. The underlying data model of the universe is far more amenable to data processing than biological data. I was a biologist who switched to astro for a while and I was totally blown away at how "easy" it was, especially the data processing. The scientists were typical in their data analytics ability (roughly the same level of ability across many fields).

Once I visited the astro folks at Caltech and they were light years ahead of everybody else in every tchnical dimension. But that's CAltech for you.
Hello, I'm interested to help! My email is in my profile.
Can the site deny your access then?
It is all about China.

They also somehow managed to censor Audrey Tang of Taiwan (another computer scientist turned politician) live on video-link.

Just goes to show how carefully orchestrated all this is.
We certainly cannot prove that perception changes everything. The greatest mistake physicists continue to make is using common words that mean particular things to refer to something utterly different. “Observer” is as fine an example as any. The resulting misinterpretations, even by physicists themselves, were completely avoidable without launching the quantum fluffery industry, but here we are and remain.
This rural road has some 20 homes on it. There is absolutely zero chance a local ISP decides to dig up the road on their own just to bring fiber to those 20 homes. We don't even have cable internet here.

I don't understand why people complain that I'm not supposed to use Starlink, when it's the only good internet option I have, and the same price as a much worse performing 10 Mbps option.
Wouldn't he still be very rich?
I was just hit by this - can't deploy, can't sign in, and can't access logs via cli tool.

Fingers crossed everything is fixed soon.
Verizon is now doing this. If you opt out, they add new categories of tracking and then opt you back in:

> Custom Experience is a rebrand/spinoff of Verizon Selects, which customers were automatically enrolled into when they used the Verizon Up rewards program. Verizon Selects is being rebranded Custom Experience Plus (and anyone who was previously a member of Verizon Selects automatically gets moved to the new Plus program) and the standard Custom Experience program is being branched off of it, which allows the company to track many of its customers’ data use who do not actively opt-out.

Google's move feels similar. At least do a prompt of the user if you think they would want to opt in. Don't just opt them in automatically on your own.
A slightly related rule that I've been trying[1] to follow: Only vary one piece at the time.

- Learning a new language? Pick a problem you know very well.

- Solving a new problem? Pick a language you know very well.

- Trying a new front-end framework? Pick a backend you know very well.

And so on…

[1]: I say "trying" because it's so easy to try all the cool new things at once.
The reason all that works is people drive to what they expect. In such conditions you might hit a human standing on the road, no human would be there in the first place, only other cars with flashing lights. As such so long as you stay in the correct lane for your direction of travel and go slow you don't need to see because there is no real danger most of the time. Most of the time...
The few times I have engaged with recruiters in the past I was immediately ghosted afterwards.
I don’t get what the authentic self is though. They used to take a screenshot every couple of min with cam. I thought something like animating that would be neat and an authentic self. It allows you to do what you said and still be closer to the phrase.

A cartoon self that has limited options isn’t authentic though. It is pretty pointless for me. Note. I have used the app extensively.
Care to describe your favorite subreddit before it rose in popularity?

For those who were not involved before this all happened.
The issue isn't that I'm personally inconvenienced, this is not about me. It's that the internet is dominated by ad-based companies, and that is not a good thing?

I propose that we try to move humanity past this way of generating revenue, because it's wasting productivity and resources, encouraging shady behaviour, and leads to less freedom overall.

We have social networks manipulating users into staying on the platforms as long as possible, scrolling down infinite feeds, to expose them to as much advertising as possible, thus wasting productivity.

We have big players such as the IAB and its members tracking and spying on users to obtain more data to sell, as an alternative revenue stream to charging for their services.

We have quality journalism disappear in favour of whatever generates the most clicks, in order to expose more readers to advertisements. YouTube stars pushing hidden ads on children. Advertisers crossing ever more boundaries of privacy, by aggregating data from thousands of companies, with basically no oversight by anyone.

That is the issue. I think we should do something against that, and I think "something" may be to nudge the market into another direction, from ad-based to transaction-based revenue sources.
US January Jobs fall by 301K- expected gains of 200K
> There was no way the calling code could have prevented this in any way.

It could have prevented it by not making the call in the first place.
They already know where you are to a sufficiently high degree of precision with GPS. The battery matters to you, not to Google. Wifi ads next to nothing for Google.
Karl Guttag is a very experienced and interesting person. "The AR Show" has two very good interviews with him the cover a lot of ground on displays and history of computing.

https://www.thearshow.com/podcast/111a-karl-guttag-part-1
https://www.thearshow.com/podcast/006-karl-guttag-pt2
Google in a better era would have noticed this and used it to improve results. I don't think Google cares about good results anymore. Just profitable results.
Why would I want Google to store my search history? I can look at my search history just fine with my local copy on my web browser.

(Web browsers store previously visited websites)
> If you're not familiar with Northern European culture, I'm quite sure the companies can expect literal inspectors in their offices expecting clear answers to where the data is and what was done with it.

zero chance of this ever happening.
Because many fact checkers are ex reporters!
> a whole international industry, legislators across the planet, entrepreneurs, employees, voters, users and clients disagree.

It's not like the GDPR was one guy's idea that got formalized into law overnight. It's has its roots in existing data protection legislation that is decades old as well as previous, failed attempts (ePrivacy directive aka cookie law), so there's equally a significant number of people who disagree with nonconsensual data collection.
I'm pro Tesla anti Musk. If Musk wasn't a lying asshole it would be different.
Look at the logo. Looks like a play on Cobol being "ancient" technology and unit testing being something "hipster".
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Humans do not do just fine - look at the statistics of car accidents. Humans refuse to admit how bad they really are at driving.
The overly optimistic part was in how the photos were timed and angled.

Here's the original pair of photos:

https://mobile.twitter.com/QAGreenways/status/14726871949889...

And for comparison a webcam overlooking the location:

https://www.worldcamera.net/en/webcams/europe/belgium/237-br...

That "best shot" is obviously from before the renovation. If you look at the current state(live), most of the trees are gone - there's one row and a few closer to the middle, but that's it.

Worst part is that there's a perfect explanation why this happened - greenery requires maintenance and is therefore expensive.
Whoopsie daisy! I'm sure IAB's err was a total storm-of-the-century, couldn't ever have been expected, failure of their otherwise iron clad commitment to honoring and respecting digital user privacy.
They lose all the data though. They may have avoided some name smearing but it's the data that they really want.
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I think it mostly stems from him knowing exactly what he was talking about. When you see CEOs in these hearing.. you have to wonder how close to the work (e.g. algorithms) they actually are.
Pressure your government to vote "no" on policies you don't like or pressure your government to initiate other legislation. They have the power and responsibility.

And yes, I personally would like to have a stronger EU Parliament relative to the Commission and Council. However there is no reason to let the national government escape with "it's EU law" after they approved it. (And yes, Council doesn't require unanimous vote for most items anymore since the Lisbon treaty, thus it is possible your government voted "no", but that then is democracy and they have to convince other governments ...)

(Just a side note: I like GDPR and think it is to large parts good and push my government to support it)
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I guess a system of enemies trying to debunk each other might work better than sources trying to be neutral. Enemies might work harder at finding flaws and errors.
genome sequencers are sensors distributed around the work producing 15PB of intermediate data a day. If desired (IE, smebody had the capital and operating) it could be many multiples of that.
I read a streamer from the Truck protest in Ottawa was getting hit by this.

Hope Youtube doesn't become just another mouthpiece for only government approved narratives like TV.
Cities of 70k people are not rural... Starlink is better suited for rural locations.
This. I don't publish code I think is useful. I realize that's contrary to the open source ethos, and that many people would consider it hypocritical that I would then use open source without compunction - but I view open sourcing as a choice, and closed-sourcing as an equally valid choice.

What I would never do, or never use, are restrictive/copyleft licensing terms. There don't begin to be enough hours in the day to spend even one second arguing about copyright with geeks. You get dirty, and the pigs like it, etc.
If the theory is debunked, does that mean DFV basically lost a lot of people a lot of money based on false assumptions?
Y'all are looking for quantitative Quality measures. Good luck. If you aren't sitting on top of Spend informed by actual company history, you're hosed, and most places are hush hush af about that.
Ask HN: When onboarding people to a startup, how do you talk about legacy code?
We recently received an SBIR Phase II grant, and while there's not money for new employees yet, it's got me thinking about how I'm going to onboard our first technical hires (currently just two founders, one technical, and a CEO).

As our codebase has been developed over close to 10 years under one developer, it's acquired a lot of cruft, and also uses technologies that are fairly dated now. We're planning to do a rewrite of the codebase with our OEM partners, and I'm deciding what to do about the legacy code.

Do we:

- Take what architecture decisions worked and use the corresponding documentation to develop a new design?

- Transition the code base slowly from legacy to new (and hence inform the new hires how the legacy code works)?

- Start completely from scratch and retire the legacy code before bringing the new hires on?

We're going to have about 18 months at a minimum from the first hires to having a product in hand to bring to market.

I want to avoid using people's limited resources on technologies that I know we're going to retire, and just want to see how best to go about that.

How have you handled this transition in your experiences?
I hate these types of articles.
They don't rely an a good scientific base and are essentially FUD.

Who knows what these patients were smoking with all the synthetics recently coming up due to missing legalisation.
Most versions of Windows, Cent OS and Ubuntu of the past decade or more, and even Mandriva. But not mac.