skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple does not have to share their database with these third party companies

Also, those third parties don't have to take Apple's word. Equifax and Lexis-Nexis (named in the article) are selling a data product, which is undermined by Apple's bad behavior. Shouldn't these companies have an incentive to provide accurate data?

This is where it gets interesting. I looked up the products in question, and they are VERY careful to talk about streamlining workflows, and connecting you to previous employers without every making claims about the accuracy of the data provided by thos employers.

Equifax's "The Work Number can deliver an automated income and employment verification solution that streamlines the transfer of information between employers and verifier."[0] They do this "thanks to a powerful alliance partnerships with many of the top payroll and HCMs". They are clearly just sloshing data out of payroll systems into a proprietary database. You'd think they'd notice when a large employer overwrites everyone's title on their last paycheck, but they make no claims about quality control on this data.

The article specifically mentions Inverify, which is owned by Equifax. Their verification services page[2] also focuses on efficiency ("Throw it over the Fence"). They claim to "[gather] your electronic data and [upload] relevant information so you do not have to search for employee data from multiple sources." Note that there's nothing in there about quality control. I suspect Inverify exists to provide a services layer over the The Work Number data product.

LexisNexis doesn't make their offerings as obvious. I found this pdf for LexisNexis Screening Solutions[3]. They say "We have developed relationships with many employers and will make those difficult calls for you, thereby simplifying your job." One way they help make those difficult calls is that they "call and verify previous employment with each source." So that's a data quality claim, but they're still focused on just parroting whatever the upstream employer says.

You would expect that products like this would have rigorous, automated anomaly detection procedures in place. As an employer, I don't want to waste time figuring out why this otherwise great senior dev was an "associate" at Apple. I want my verification provider to, at minimum, tell me "heads up, Apple is a fickle and vindictive employer so you can't really trust this." Of course it would be even BETTER if they said "our professional assessment is they were a Level 4. We believe that because that's what the previous 200 paystubs and 4 W2 forms said before they screwed with the data after their departure."

If you're gonna build a terrifying data business, at least be good at it!

[0] https://workforce.equifax.com/resource/-/resource/employment...

[1] https://workforce.equifax.com/solutions/employment-verificat...

[2] https://inverify.net/our-services/verification-services.aspx

[3] https://www.lexisnexis.com/literature/pdfs/EXP_Previous_Empl...
I'd say it REALLY depends on the implementation model.

Non-intrusive adverts that are relevant to the content are something that I sometimes literally seek out - because they bring me information that I want, and may lead me closer to buying a thing I want. I've even been frustrated that an advert displays, and when I try to view it again to get more info, it's already gone. Sometimes, I buy trade magazines just for the adverts, or to scan the sponsors/advertisers guide at the back.

At the other extreme are popup/pop-over/slide-over adverts especially on mobile that we cannot get rid of. Those are not an exchange of a portion of my attention to support what I'm reading, they are a wholesale hijacking of my attention and holding hostage the thing I want to read/view. It is literally like walking into the store and having my pocket picked.

One model is completely legit, and the other is pretty much spam and legal constraints could be justified.
Part of me really wants to try to train an ML model to auto detect such comments. Every time I see a pattern, I think "ML might be able to solve this..."

But I know from experience that such feelings are often illusory.
These tools have EU versions of their services with servers in Ireland or other places so that the data does not leave the territory. There will be absolutely no consequence to these regulations.
eBooks just don't hit the same as their dead tree counterparts. Unless you can live-type LaTeX annotations, I need the paper for highlighting and scribbles.
IP addresses are considered to be PII so you need to either truncate them before saving or have a deletion routine in place.
The analogy in my mind was somebody like Mark Fisher. In hard left circles, he's a common reference point, and terms like 'capitalist realism' creep into the left mainstream. Outside of those circles, he's an absolute unknown.

Obviously Marx was a lot more influential than Fisher, but you actually see this phenomenon all the time: consider Foucault, or Zizek, or even Said, or Fanon. They are absolute giants amongst certain groups, and absolute unknowns outside.
Clementine.

I can indeed do most things with a few keystrokes, including queuing and finding things in the playlist (by filtering).

It's not as lightning fast, but it's fast enough. It supports several playlists and has other niceties.
> Well, someone/thing has to set the stage for another war that will "dig us out of recession."

Recession and inflation aren't the same thing, in fact, they are more opposed than aligned. The current inflation accompanied, and has in part been driven by, the rapid economic growth coming out of the COVID slowdown.
It baffles me how convoluted and complex the webapp attacks have become over the past few years.

I think this is an effect of bug-bounty hunting, which has pretty much opened the research on those topics to a massive community.
A lot of the actors you're listing actually have datacenters and/or cages at french DCs and/or racks at french ISP PoP
I should have a right that you should not save my personal information longer than needed. Now what?
> No offense, but you have probably not been in software development for 25+ years.

You're wrong about this.

You and I see things differently.

You see things as never being new and "plain old X and Y again".

I try to see things with fresh eyes, yet still with the benefit of my 25+ years in the industry. I try not to make assumptions that limit my thinking about something. Some might call it a beginner's mindset, and it has served me well.
I went to college in the late 70's, I was 6'5" and weighed 180. Then again my metabolism was crazy. Now I weigh 215. Clearly my one data point proves all...
What?

> Advertising is an attempt at making the customer pay for stuff.

Yeah that's who's supposed to be paying for things?

It sounds like you're maybe alluding to a kind of advertising that's unavoidable by just existing in the world, like billboards or bus ads or something, but I don't think that's what we're talking about here.

Or I guess a product that you don't know is going to have an ad, you use it, then bam an ad. Sure, in some way that's kind of like taking money without your consent.

But once you know a product uses ads, you can just not use it because you don't like the way they charge you for it.
> Not funny.

I don't think the parent comment intended it to be funny, is sounds like a tongue in cheek criticism of an ethically suspect problem.
Houses are acquired in cash all the time. There is no legal requirement to tie oneself to a mortgage, if you already have the means to pay the price in full.
I see. Fair question. I might adopt this if I'm ever applying for jobs that require frequent travel.
No, they claim it under legitimate interest for fraud prevention and have a data deletion schedule.
> I've been doing web dev for 30 yrs

That would be impressive, since Mosaic is only 29 years old at this point :)

I don't thinking people are reinventing server side rendering. Rediscovering it, perhaps. It has always been here, along with plain old HTML and PHP. The modern toolbox of JS-based toolboxes exists for a reason: all the things that you can't do (or can only do very clunkily) with server-side implementations. That hasn't changed.

What people wanted from a web page in 1994 is so utterly different than what many web pages are expected to do now. If it's a spiral, it's one that is spiralling out, not in, as the scope expands significantly.
there's a difference between a service and a tool. do not blur out this distinction. thanks.
The US is not 'the West', but it's certainly an example of the

> extremes in the behaviors of people with Western, liberal-individualistic belief systems

I can think a of few similar non-US examples of the above behaviors, but he's already answered the original question.
Core features of crypto are a severe detriment to crypto holders: if you lose your passphrase/private key that money is gone forever* and if you get scammed you have little recourse outside the legal system. If you can solve those two things I'm more likely to get on board. As far as I know, they can't be solved, so to me it's a non-starter.

* unless you put it in a third party service, that likely isn't insured for the full value of all deposits
> "Employee" is a term fraught with legal and other liability in it's use (think Uber drivers - are they employees or contractors?). HR departments will refer to everybody as “associates” to mitigate risk. If Apple wanted to confirm employment, but not divulge titles, they could say associate.

But yet if you call these services while the person is still employed, they absolutely will divulge titles.

There's no risk mitigation happening. It's just "you're no longer one of us, we don't give a shit".
This is uBlock Origin (the good one) and not uBlock. Info https://www.reddit.com/r/ublock/comments/32mos6/ublock_vs_ub...
This piece was written in 1993. Bill Hicks was well-known in the States at the time. And if his TV appearance frequency is any indication, he was certainly appreciated.
The fact is. Not every company can be a $12B company. Peloton might be a super successful $1B company, who slowly tries to creep into new areas for growth.

And it sounds like Blackwell understand this, and instead of pushing for Peloton to focus internally on its product and get rid of the extra fat, they want a fast sale to a not-really-smart company. So they can at least get some ROI

People talk about monthly fees being high or fair, thats not it at all, Pelotons prices for hardware and membership or completely fine. What they did do is

* Pouring money into building their own factories (even Apple doesn't do this at their scale, they pay Foxconn)

* Building a full fledged apparel brand

* Hiring way too many engineers, FAANG level org size

* Having their own warehouses and delivery full time employees

No other company does this. I'm not sure what the long term plan was, maybe they become a white label manufacturer for other start ups? It failed, badly

You do not need 14,000, or 11,000, or 3,000 employees to do what Peloton currently does (again, maybe they had grandiose plans in the pipeline). If we want to compare proprietary hardware + Android + online streaming service. When MIRROR was bought out by Lululemon for $500M, they had 200 employees

I have a feeling no one has offered Foley more than $3B for the company, and i'm being generous
> how does that not also violate French data protection?

The regulations don't ban collecting IPs (nor any PII). They just regulate it to the point that it must be deemed necessary according to certain criteria. I would imagine linking an image may be fine in 95% of cases, but what it would mainly depend on is the logging practices of the image hosting company. Their business would be bound by EU regulation if they are choosing to sell service to an EU-based website, and it's likely that image host that would be liable for compliance.

It's worth adding quite a lot of the regulation here is tied to company size, revenue and scale of data sharing in general, so if you are for example a small business/non-profit you're very likely to be fine either way.
Hang on, I thought we were talking about Linux here.
Basic due diligence is not a lot to ask. It's their job.

This was a documentary + major written piece. Not a quickly copied press release pumped out for clickbait.
You can use it to shoot yourself in the foot.
That makes a lot of sense, thanks for the explanation.
Are these the same experts that said that he'd fail at reusable rockets? This is all I heard from "experts" for a decade, and now SpaceX is how the United States gets to space.

The Washington Post has no credibility with me.
GDPR also applies to the real world. That store is definitely not allowed to share data about your shopping habits with some third party without your explicit consent. For example government departments in Germany have to aks for your explicit permission beforehand if they need to request/share data with a different department.
Apple was clearly a cult company when Steve Jobs was CEO, and I feel like they continued to work as they did by inertia.
I can absorb a 7% inflation rise. I have friends who can't. I can't just look at myself in isolation; I care too much about people to do that.
> It’s unfair to criticise an organisation for failing to change something it has no legal ability to change

The BBC is the government one way or another. So given the ministers are effectively the CEO then they are the ones who should be adapting as they have the control and report to the citizens who are analogous to shareholders. So yeah I can criticize the BBC for failing to adapt and do things that the people in control are able to do.

A government controlled corporation should be held accountable to the people, and the people obviously don't think the license fee is fair given the modern avenues of entertainment consumption. I mean charging a license fee for watching YouTube is absolutely insane. The government did not produce any of that content, individuals did, it's not even their infrastructure. Essentially the government could charge a fee for you emailing a family video to a friend.

It's archaic, unfair, and unsustainable. Make it a real tax, allow advertising, monetize BBC content on other platforms, charge subscription fees. I mean the options are wide open, behave like a competitive corporation or tax it. All of this is under control of the people who ultimately operate the BBC.

So yeah, first step is to wake up and abolish the license fee as it's just loopy so as much as I dislike BoJo, objectively he's making a bold and inevitable move which is perhaps motivated by his desire to stay in power.

It's also worth noting the UK govt' spent $5.1bn on the BBC last year, in contrast Sky operated on $5.2bn in revenue. There are clearly some huge inefficiencies at the BBC that can be remedied internally without government approval. Bemoaning $5.1bn as not being enough is garbage. I mean, ITV operates on $2.1bn in revenue. Cutting back the waste seems appropriate to me.
That does not justify advertisement. The problem you describe could as well be solved by a neutral third party actor (could even be a public service) providing impartial news about the kinds of products that exist in the market.
Care to compare the average BMI of citizens of both countries, a known major factor in someone getting sick. Having a lower BMI protects more against this disease than being vaccinated.

Its know fact that Europeans were immune to some of the diseases they brought to America that nearly wiped out Native Americans. Therefore its not unreasonable to think that different populations will have different levels of response to a disease. Perhaps South Koreans were more likely to be exposed to similar enough corona viruses in the past to garner them enough protection this time.
> It’s trivial to verify someone’s position at Apple with a reference check.

Only if they left on good terms.
I think it's personal data because you can track a visitor across multiple visits. Based on that identifier you can connect all the other data points from a visitor. I think that's not privacy-friendly at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme
Flipping through IMDB, we have:

1. Death Race 2000 (1975), same director & lead actor as #3

2. The Gumball Rally (1976)

3. Cannonball (1976)

4. Smokey and the Bandit (1977), same director and lead actor as #5

5. The Cannonball Run (1981)
Sorry to nitpick, but since you wrote it 2 times wrong:

it is cash, not cache.
The fact you called it a stationary bike is kind of telling.

There's two kinds of people:

People who actually know what equivalents to Peloton hardware cost

... and people who think the hardware is overpriced

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Powered slatted treadmills started at around $15,000 when the original Tread launched at $4,000

Spin bikes can be $200... they can also be well over $2000, and the Peloton has more in with the over $2,000 models than the $200 Alibaba special.
Indeed. Every single technical choice has tradeoffs. It's just that some tradeoffs are non-issues for narrow use cases.
A world without advertising is - by and large - a world of entrenched megacompanies that dominate their space without fear of usurp. It's a world where the only viable politicians are popular actors.

Like it or not, advertising is an important way of spreading new memes in a liberal society based on voluntary exchange. Banning advertising is a recipe for stagnation.
Ask HN: Cheapest way to store a small amount of items
I'm planing on traveling rather extensively later this year, and I'd need to store some computer parts and mementos. We're taking maybe some graphic cards, a couple of old books and 3 hard drives. Everything else I'll donate to Goodwill or so.
If push come to shove I'll just get a public storage unit, but I'd rather avoid that.
What's are a few of your travel fantasies? Would love to hear that...
You can start here. This is just a single case, one of many that are similar.
https://lviv.tsn.ua/ru/sud-vynes-prigovor-22-letnemu-lvovyan...

BTW, your link does NOT say anything about a sentence for a smiley. It says she did post a smiley, among other things. That's what is in your story.
I would have agreed with you in the past. And I still do when it comes to defending a lot of the BBC content that doesn't come from the news department.

But BBC News is just so bad and utterly corrosive that I'd abolish the entire institution just to get rid of it. Yes I know other UK media is all as bad or worse, but none of them have the public standing or institutional power that the BBC has. I don't think there's any way of reforming the news department at this point. It's not just a matter of a few bad shows or bad 'journalists'. The entire ethos/mission of BBC News is fundamentally broken. They don't know how to do journalism as a public broadcaster, and I don't think they could ever learn how. Certainly not within the current media culture in the UK.

This incident isn't a one off. It's typical. The only unusual thing is the program got cancelled and they actually deleted the article - usually they double down for weeks and refuse to admit fault. I'm guessing that's only because crypto isn't (yet) a partisan culture war issue in the UK media.
I upvoted you because you highlight an important confusion of two distinct questions:

1) Is removing citizenship a just punishment for some crimes (such as joining a faction at war with the UK)?

2) Should the removal happen at the whims of the Home Secretary, without the safeguard of a fair trial?
I have a simple question.

Are cryptocurrencies supposed to be good currencies, or good investments?

Because you cannot be both. The purpose of a good currency is diametrically opposed to the purpose of a good investment.
It's not pretentious if it's backed up by skill. The way he could deliver lines that he practiced and workshopped for literally a decade was masterful. Saying that that isn't hard is what's pretentious - go up to an audience - a sometimes adversarial audience, and tell a joke sometime.

And he didn't say he was a, "little dark poet" while sitting around in a comfy chair with some literally intellectual, it was part of a bit. He said it while bending down, looking through a small opening made between his thumb and forefinger, with a nasally screech in his voice. Like, "this is all I am, this little turd". And we're all that little turds too, that he's looking at, through that opening.

That's good stuff.

Anyways, "It's all just a ride"
And black is supposed to make our lives easier?
And the GDPR forbids them from writing that information (e.g. "the privacy nut bought apple juice") down or passing it to a third party without your explicit consent.
I find your answer a bit intrusive, to be honest. Let's just stick to the subject matter instead of telling each other how unreasonable or uptight we are, okay?

Yes, "written in C" is an issue for me, for two reasons:

* I really do want to do rapid prototyping and testing hypotheses regarding MUA UX, and C is just not suitable for this end.

* I keep reading about security vulnerabilities in common mail software caused by (among others) buffer overflows.

I don't think that MUAs benefit from C the way system software (such as the kernel) does. And compared to MUAs that run in the browser, I think that the bloat introduced by using Go or Python is still justifiable. Fortunately, there already exists a MUA written in Go (namely aerc).
I don't think the issue has been as definitively settled as you have been persuaded to think. Let's take a look at the claim "if there is a 'platonic mathematics', we cannot have any direct experience of it" (I realize this is probably a paraphrase of a fuller argument, but it is what I have to work with here.)

Firstly, note the word "direct" here. If it has any relevance, then the authors have assumed the burden of explaining either that there are only direct experiences, or why indirect experiences don't count.

Secondly, what are the premises here? If this is supposed to be axiomatic, then there is literally no reason to either accept or reject it, and claims that the issue has been settled are just statements of belief; otherwise, the argument needs to have premises that are not begging the question in some way. As it stands, this claim is not an argument; it is more of an intuition pump.

Metaphysical discussions tend to (always?) end up as being about the meaning of words like 'real' and 'true'. Whether such discussions can really tell us anything about what must be true is arguably the most meta question in metaphysics.
Increases in average lifespan in the 20th century are almost all due to the huge decreases in child mortality.
Not even. If you don't take the roundabout route, they will definitely often use what Wikipedia calls "weasel words" to directly explain their thinking, in "plenty of" other anonymous people's mouths, in the passive voice.
The amount of overhead that comes with using a cryptocurrency is a bit nuts to me, huge 20GB+ Blockchain files that need to be on ssd storage, and the bloated and unstable software that goes with it.

The fees are also huge in some cases, it costs a lot to send or exchange it. And it can take a long time for transfers to complete.

There a few things that benefit from Blockchain, but the majority of projects would be better off without it imo.
You do, but not user’s ip addresses
I've never seen the FAANG acronym written that way anywhere ever
Very much the same, here. One thing people may not realize is that 90mph in a 1980's Porsche feels a lot different than, say, 90mph in any car built today. A few months ago I got one of my old porsches back on the road. Feeling confident it was finally running ok, I punched it when a light turned green. The noise, vibration, smell and feeling from that vintage V8 was unreal. I felt like I was flying but I look over and a mom in a minivan, driving normally, was right alongside me.

Modern cars are safe, clean, and amazing.