skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, the external company bookkeeper doesn't know which of the hundreds or thousands transactions are done by me. He doesn't even know how often I bought something.
And even if, that knowledge is nothing compared to the millions of data points of services like google analytics.
Avoid censorship with this one weird trick: Print the information in a book, and put it in a library, or even on a school curriculum, if you can. If anyone tries to remove the book, then we are back to the dark ages of book banning or even burning. You know who else burned books, right?

On the other hand, if the book is prevented from being published or stocked in the first place, if school or public libraries simply refuse to carry it, teachers don't assign it, or if the information is not in book form, nobody cares.
I suspect the disagreement stems from the idea that to remove advertising we have to find another way for people to pay for services which are currently ad-financed. It neglects other options such as those services getting banned and ceasing to exist because they're not economical.

Or perhaps, if ads have any positive value at all, capturing that value in a less adversarial way and financing things we want through that. E.g. if we had an objective recommender service that made the economy more efficient we could tax it somehow and distribute those taxes to economically marginal but desirable services.
I highly respect the workers of sewage treatment plants, because I could never work there, without having my smell sense removed.

But there are differences to the plants, I think you can make them enclosed and allmost smell less.
But the one in my area does not have that tech and they stink.
That’s misleading. Yes efficiency drops as the ambient temperature drops, but they are still quite efficient below freezing.

For example here’s one of the units I run at my home: https://ashp.neep.org/#!/product/56518. It has a COP (coefficient of performance) ranging from around 4 at higher ambient temperatures, down to 1.8 at 5f. So it’s just over half the electricity input per watt of heat output for me to run my heat pump at 5f.

There are newer units and units designed to run in cold environments that achiever much higher COP below freezing than my example above.
Is it true that Swiss consumers do not use group texting features? I would think this would be a huge disruption if done in the US.
some kinds of ads are pretty bad, and some are fine.

consider the standard alcohol ad showing a bunch of cool people drinking the product and having a great time. this does nothing to educate the consumer about the product and serves only to inspire FOMO. the implication is that you too could be cool if you drink bud light.

on the other hand, some ads do just sell the objective qualities of the product. one of the all time most successful ad campaigns at a previous employer was a factual comparison of features and prices between their product and that of a much larger competitor. it worked because it really was a better deal; people just hadn't heard of it yet.
Although your reply is buried beneath a lot other comments, I do think you are right on this! People that prefer book learning and listening (passively) to a teacher have an advantage with the current teaching methodologies than people that prefer hands-on learning..
Microsoft will be storing EU users' data in the EU: https://blogs.microsoft.com/eupolicy/2021/05/06/eu-data-boun...

Will this enable them to comply with the requirements?
I couldn't agree more and I too am shocked by how people continue to believe we live in a simplistic demand-supply economy.

We live in a supply economy that fabricates demand by means of marketing. And there's an additional amplifier: social demand. My neighbor has it so now I want it too.
U.S. Inflation Accelerates to 40-Year High
All demand beyond necessities (fixed demand) is manufactured. The problem with advertizing is that it became ubiquitous and lost all function (product discovery, comparison, brand recognition etc.), now its just self-referential self-replicating garbage that spreads across the Earth on all surface areas like a weird semantic plague.
I stumbled upon this paper and my first reaction was to make fun of it on hacker news for being yet another stupid NFT claim.

But, if you look at the authors, they seem to be smart people. They come from places like Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School or Centre for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law. If you read their paper (sorry I did not find a version without paywall and the version I read is linked to my employer) they make some valid claims how a blockchain or NFT-like system could alter health information systems in a good way. Reading the full paper is not necessary for my point of the discussion. I argue and would like to discuss it here, that we increasingly see that buzzwords are used to hide well understood problems.

The authors know that giving data access to the right people and keeping the wrong people from accessing it, is hard. Additionally they know, that giving patients control on who has access to their data is even harder. Getting patient data out of proprietary systems and enable true interoperable data exchange in the medical domain is super hard. Yet, still they claim that NFT-like systems could fix all these problems. So they fall for the trap that the problems were "hidden" by yet another buzzword. A smart contract will allow us to regulate who has access, the blockchain will offer transparency and control, storing the data in distributed system will increase availability. These problems are still hard problems, some might even argue that solving them in the "blockchain" way might even be harder than solving them with "conventional" technology.

Am I to pessimistic or is this trend something you think about, too?
Only does DNS blocking
Why would Blackwell buy into a $12B company in order to make it a $1B company?

It might make peleton live longer but it would lose a lot of money for their LPs
There was no Note 21
> I'm looking at those "sign in with" widgets that run social media code in my browser

Arguably, they provide code that can be run in your browser, but your browser chooses to run it. And since your browser is a user agent, you choose to run the code by way of installing and configuring a browser that makes that choice by default.
> Many people legitimately would like to have Thing/Service but don’t know it exists

Sorry to burst the bubble, but that's *the proof that adv is manufactured demand*!

People interested in having something will find a way to know about them.

I think people are confusing the idea of advertising (AKA publicizing) their products or skills, with the advertising market we have today.

They are not the same thing, they only share the same name, for historical reasons.

It's like comparing Risk with WW2.

21st century advertising is nothing but bad news.

If I want a pair of shoes I like, I go to the shop that sells them.

If I don't know those shoes exist, I will live happily, because I have no fabricated need to fulfill (and most probably if I'll know about them it's because a friend is wearing them)
Agreed, no reason <script type="text/javascript"></script> couldn't be <script type="text/python"></script>.
And then all the native APIs would be exposed in a lowest common denominator kind of way.
Why do the German people allow their government to do this kind of stuff? Do they want it?
"Covet"? "pathetic"? "someone else has it"? You are taking this too close to heart and/or paying too much attention to the ads.

For example, I just went to wired.com and saw:

- Many ads for some sort of business-related website, looks like an mix of Slack and Google Calendar with some extra bells + whistles.

- A Outbrain block with junk like "Top 25 photos of..." and "You would be surprised about ..."

While none of those was interesting to me, none of them made me feel "pathetic" either.
I have pi-hole, and while DNS filtering does eliminate a majority of annoyances on the web, there's still a large amount that I need uBlock for.
There are cases in which sharing without asking is legal without it being required by law.
> Rustic has a slight issue because it can also hide things you are looking for, and if you let it get to be a mess it won't "tell" you like Bauhaus will, it just feels nasty and oppressive without as being obvious why, but it has a lot of flexibility.

That's one of the reasons I like minimalism: it makes it blatant when a room is overloaded instead of being a well-decorated environment where setting something down is equivalent to throwing it in the trash (except you can re-discover it six months later).
> I've a feeling it would require a fair bit more work to maintain with simple changes having quite a large spread through the codebase due to the strong typing

I'm porting my Rust codebase to async, and that is SUPER infective: This lead to change everything, everywhere with the exception of the "pure" functions.

And yet, the process is super boring: I get +1000 errors, start from the bottom, change this to that, now +400 errors, continues, now 0 errors, run test. Done.

Something so big will be a nightmare on a dynamic lang, and even in C# or similar (ML lineage FTW!)
Do you think some laws might apply to private investigators and how they do that work?
Telegram was lauded by our (Germany's) public broadcasting channels as an important tool for protesters to organize against the current regime in Belarus. They apparently do not like when it happens at home too.
That was not my point and I didn't want to make my message more complicated. This point has already clearly been made by my parent comment.

I agree with you though.
I had a background check at an employer, not for a sensitive position, who, when unable to verify employment, found my Facebook and reached out to someone on there (who happened to be my partner) to see if they would "confirm" what they knew to be my job.

That was after their initial email to me:

"Hi, we're about to start your background check. Just want to confirm that this is the correct email address for you?

Are these also the correct details for you? [And proceeded to list Full SSN, address, DOB]."

Like, I'm really rather glad that this actual _was_ the correct email address. But in any case I was furious. On both counts.

In credit to my employer, once I reviewed these two things with them, they fired the background check company.
Yep, our local Honda lot has functionally been sold out for 2 years. I've resigned myself to driving my current vehicles into dust.
Why limit it to the EU? Shouldn't every country have their own AWS, Azure and Google Cloud?

I think we underestimate just how difficult it is just to replicate existing services, let alone keep up with the innovation.

It's like the Argentinian effort to stimulate its own computer manufacturing by banning Apple products.
Yes but European is not, please don't be obtuse. You don't stop being European when you leave Europe, and you don't magically become a European the moment you get off an airplane onto the subcontinent.

This entire thread is a response to a claim about Europeans, and I took pains to draw out that distinction. Yet here you are talking about Europe. Why?
Telegram has ads as of a few months ago, because Durov can't personally fund it anymore at its current size.

https://promote.telegram.org/
Crypto = unregulated digital currency. NFT = Beanie Babies.
Blockchain itself is a tech that has some interesting use cases but is largely overhyped.
Oh no I get the context just fine. What you're missing is that "should be self-hosted" is outside the realm of the average business, and it's not realistic to put this as some arbitrary requirement to check the "privacy" box.

You're clearly a tech person so maybe it feels self-evident or easy for you to do that, just like taxes and law seem self-evident to accountants and lawyers, but the average business owner doesn't have time or money - or the skills - to figure all that out on their own, so they hire a service provider.

Do you think accountants and lawyers come to the business and work on their computers exclusively? No, they receive copies of the confidential business data and work on it within their own business environment.

And do you think accountants and lawyers don't include "privacy" in their pitch?

How is that different from analytics saying "we will keep any data you share with us private, and for your use only".

Based on your argument, as a business owner I should purchase and co-locate my own server, because even if I self-hosted my analytics, I'm storing that data on a third party server owned by my hosting provider!
You've struck on the fundamental problem that the FPGA industry has been trying to solve for 30+ years - how to get an FPGA into the hands of every developer, like how GPUs have propagated to be essential tools.

Nobody has come up with a good answer yet. Developing for an FPGA still requires domain-specific knowledge, and because place & route (the "compile" for an FPGA) is a couple of intertwined NP-hard problems development cycles are necessarily long. Small designs might take an hour to compile, the largest designs deployed these days ~24H.

All this to say is that while they are neat, nobody has found the magic bullet use case that will make everyone want one enough to put up with the pain of developing for them (a la machine learning for GPUs). Simultaneously, nobody has found the magic bullet to make developing for them any easier, whether by reducing the knowledge required or improving the tooling.

Effort has been made in places like High-Level Synthesis (HLS, compiling C/C++ code down to an FPGA), open-source tooling, and (everyone's favorite) simulation, but they all still kinda suck compared to developing software, or even the ecosystem that exists around GPUs these days. You'll often hear FPGA people saying stuff like "just simulate your design during development, compiling to hardware is just a last step to check everything works" - but simulation still takes a long time (large designs can take hours) and tracking down a bug in waveforms is akin to Neo learning to see the Matrix.
iOS can now directly translate. Just long press on the text in any app, even if it’s in a picture or screenshot.
> The difference between a user story taking a day or 3 days is negligible compared to its business value. Companies and their leaders care about revenue and costs. They care about customers and growth. They care about time to market.

Um, taking a day vs 3 days is huge. Because the cost of each task is now 300% of what it should be.

Time to market is also absolutely impacted by technical debt, for the same reasons.

Describing this to company leaders in ways they understand is pretty straight forward.

"If we take a week now to fix this problem, we will be able to do 3 times as much work in the same amount of time going forward."

Maybe delivering this feature in 3 days to the important client vs 8 days is important enough to put off the needed refactoring from a business perspective, or maybe not. But now the business leader has enough information to understand the tradeoff and make a decision.
that's nonsense. memes do not rely on advertising to exist, and as advertising is a service (that costs money) it's the biggest wallets that benefit the most from it.

hell, look at Facebook and Google, both advertising companies and I'd argue two of the biggest and most entrenched.
> Has Intel done anything with Altera? I’m curious.

To me Intel taking over Altera and removing the Altera name was a mistake. I don't associate the name "Intel" with FPGA's nor do I think they have a real interest in them beyond server acceleration. To me, Altera and their product line are dead.

I don't know what AMD will do to Xilinx but I hope it isn't more of the same hype driven nonsense of ML/AI/Crypto/Cloud chasing. And it will be sad to see the Xilinx name disappear.
Imo that was the main goal.
> Probably makes sense. I'm not super familiar with Telegram, but to know a channel is doing stuff that's against German law probably means that someone with access to the channel reported it to authorities.

Avocadolf's channels are public, you could access them on the Telegram web UI even without an account. The German government has tried to get the channel shut down for months now, after Hildmann fled the country and engaged in Holocaust denial (which is a crime here).

The problem is that unlike all other major social networks, Telegram refuses to comply with German laws (in particular the NetzDG) and has refused to name a contact person for the authorities so that egregious violations could be stopped. I read an article that claimed the only form of contact between German authorities and Telegram used to be a bilateral anti-terror coordination with the US FBI, which makes sense given the common problem of radical Islamist terrorism.
Seems to be in the Flask application:

> I wrapped everything up in a small Flask app to serve a simple HTML form on a Raspberry Pi. Clicking Submit launches the start_process function as a background process:

Clicking submit is establishing intent. Once intent is established, then it uses the timeout to detect when they've gone, and, later, their return.
https://archive.fo/MQrpR
This looks interesting, I bookmarked it.

My biggest blocker is the "statistics" part of M/L, knowing what algorithms to choose for various cases.
All the dates on the front page in that list are summer 2021. Which both of you seem to be saying, so I'm not sure why you're arguing with each other.
I guess NFTs are being used mostly for money laundering. No one in their sane mind would buy NFTs with their hard-earned money. Not sure if regulatory authorities get bribed secretly with bitcoins to keep quite and not do their job.
Does signal have one-to-many communication? (like telegram channels)
My feeling is that before the Russian revolution, Marx was just the last of a long line of luminaries in the socialist tradition, a tradition that had almost never been a part of a government, had never commanded a great deal of support, and was generally illegal.

I also think there's no thinker like Marx before Marx. No single thinker was so influential to a revolutionary movement as Marx was to the communists. Rousseau doesn't come close.
Quantity has real concrete measurable effects that exist irrespective of the philosophical problem of classification. If I have two acorns I know I can potentially grow two very real trees. They are countable and that directly relates to the effect they can have on the world. I like to think that maybe every tree is one tree, or that all trees are part of a unity of "plants", but practically speaking seeds and trees are countable entities no matter how I classify them.

If there are two planets, we can discuss philosophically that one might be a "moon" and not a "planet", or in some sense that the planet is "continuous" with the space dust or whatever. But the existence of two distinct bodies in space will still create very specific gravitational fields from their interactions. Tides are different if you have one vs two moon, Lagrange points etc.

As for electromagnetic fields, I am not smart enough to make a judgement on that. They are described by complex numbers, but does that mean they reflect a physical embodiment of complex numbers? Or is it just that we require complex numbers in order to resolve their behavior into something measurable? I love to learn about electricity but sadly the math is beyond my ability.
Setting aside whether it is a good practice or not, if all of these agencies know that Apple does this, then it becomes a de facto meangingless term.

If this has been an ongoing practice for a while and an agency is not aware of it, then it is a bad agency to work with.
In lieu of a study that answers this exactly, we could extrapolate the general risk of covid to get a sense of how different age brackets are affected.

That is, given people over 50 make up 93% of severe outcomes, I wouldn't expect young people to exhibit significant levels of heart damage or other types of "long covid".
Denmark plans to allow US troops on its soil
So this is exactly like in sects? You leave and automatically you just “were not that important”… Even if you were the CEO?

What if Tim leaves? Or has he signed a permanent contract? Is he afraid to leave?
"Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for 900 MRR!”
Another ZeroTier user. Runs on few devices flawless.
There are multiple shortages going on. For leading edge chips going into phones and GPU's maybe we wait for our game console or new phone a few months. But there are also shortages for automotive sensors, microcontrollers, power delivery controllers. Not buying a new phone isn't going to solve the IC shortage for cars or white goods.
> philosophically, is there really a way we can claim that advertising makes you want things in a way that's wrong, as opposed to in way that causes enjoyment just like when you normally want things?

Sure, just look at all the decades of cigarette advertisements and the tobacco companies paying Hollywood movie studios to include their brands in films. That's engaging in subtle mass manipulation that resulted in untold millions of people suffering and dying.

But this is less of what bothers me about ads, because I do agree that desires are largely from social influence anyways. If you don't have the right skillfulness you're still subject to being influenced and lost in what Buddhism calls Tanha.

My main objection is advertising steals my attention without my consent and actively works against me in order to try and get me to pay attention to something that isn't what I'm trying to pay attention to. Say what you will about Banksy, but I'm always reminded of something he (they?) said about ads which resonates with me:

"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs."
That is not possible to do on normal hardware.

Lets say you have a SSD with this kind of encryption. I would just mount it as read-only or clone it first and work with the copy. Also the code that does the deletion could be just removed given the fact that any trustable encryption code has to be open source anyway.

And finally if you give out a password that would destroy the data (or attempt to) you incriminate yourself since you show you have something to hide and you attempted to destroy evidence.

Encryption with plausible deniability is way better. You give out a password that actually works and the only thing they have against you is the fact that the drive has lots of seemingly free space. But they cant proof that the free space is actually encrypted data.