skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One (partial) way of looking at it is that modern advertising is a recommendation engine, but just reworked to be adversarial.

Because consumers know that advertising is an adversarial recommendation engine, restricting ads to a single place (like Google searches) isn't really feasible for the entire industry -- comparatively fewer people would visit that recommendation list because a large portion of them know that the recommendation list is adversarial.

So, modern advertisers are left with two options:

1. Insert their recommendation engine into other activities that users want to engage with (ads inside of or alongside other content).

2. Try to convince users that a portal for doing searches on their recommendation engine is actually a non-adversarial recommendation engine (recommendation engines where it's not always immediately obvious that advertisers can pay to influence results).

Closely related to 2 is in pairing their adversarial recommendation engine with a non-adversarial engine making it somewhat adversarial, but not so adversarial that users are willing to leave. For example, Google Maps does legitimately tell you about businesses nearby. It also combines ads into that system that are adversarial and that try to get you to buy things against your own best interest. But it's not so adversarial that the average user views it as useless, it still sort of works as a search engine. It's still food, it's just a little bit more poisonous than normal: enough to harm you a little bit, but not enough to kill you or to prompt you to stop eating it.
Probably :)
I remember JSF (Java Server Faces) and GWT (Google Web Toolkit). Both burned in flames.

JSF: main idea is to abstract away boundary between server and client. Turns out -- you really want to know where that thing is running -- on the server or on the client. So it turned into a fight against that main idea of JSF.

GWT: main idea is to forget JavaScript/DOM and write pure Java. Turns out -- you really need to know JavaScript and your DOM to write GWT. So it turned into a fight against that main idea of GWT.
Or maybe the facts support their statements.

Inflation is still mostly doe to energy prices. You get sustained inflation only after inflation expectations become self sustaining: prices up -> wages up -> prices up -> wages up
"Look, beyond a certain size, almost nothing you can do will save or destroy a company."

I wanted to reflexively say no, but then I remembered Equifax breach. Now that I think about it, I mostly worked for regional entities, but never really big ones.
I think you make interesting points that all became moot the second that a human dispute reviewer on behalf of youtube decided to uphold the penalty. That's an official action by agents of the company, not unaffiliated 3rd parties.
My layman's take is that it seems very similar to Log4j's vulnerability, but I don't really know for sure.
The classic quote on the topic is from Upton Sinclair:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
That's part of the criticism. The investor group was upset that the CEO built up way too much production infrastructure for what should have been viewed as a temporary bump in demand. Peloton is very vertically integrated committed to a ton of capacity they don't need.
Have we ever had inflation that was not caused by demand/supply issues? Isn't that kind of definitional to inflation?
Yes, of course. It's possible that the they will sue every single big company, but quite possible. I think it's a good way for the EU to build pressure against the US to revise the CLOUD act.
it's not the privacy-first analytics tool neither. It's a tool.

Matomo is the privacy-friendly analytics tool that comes to my mind anyway.

(I have nothing to do with Matomo other than I used PhpMyVisites a few years ago. It had time to change its name twice since then)
Jobs was never CEO during his first tenure.
> I'm OK with websites using self-hosted tools such as Matomo as long as the data never leaves their servers.

You might never know that they backfeed data into external analytics services. Under this assumption, wouldn't you need to stop using _any_ website, at all?
Exactly.

I disable my ad blocker on certain sites like Reddit, Twitter,or forums I visit daily. I want to support those sites and I'm fine with ads as long as it's done respectfully.
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No, this is not how consent works. Consent has to be informed and well-judged: If you don't understand what you're agreeing with, you have not given it (even if you say yes the other party cannot proceed as if they have gotten it).
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I think you may be misunderstanding the parent (I may also be misunderstanding though) - they're saying that with a new user (not a new product), you have no information for providing recommendations to them; you have no idea what they're interested in.
I am not sure that your metaphors actually work when talking about "Technical Debt" in the IT sense of the word.

- If the contractor finds asbestos *which was put in by the contractor himself because using asbestos was legal (and cheaper) up to 2 years ago"...

- If the mechanic that sold me my previously owned car without telling me that servicing would be more expensive in the future...

- If the lawyer who was originally part of the team that helped draft the old law...

etc.
And reading the data retention policy is not enough if it doesn't explain the extent to which the authorities in their country can wipe butt with said policy.

But anyway, I think even that is beside the point. I think the point is that there are things Europe considers fundamental rights. And the concept of a "right" doesn't.. really.. make much sense if someone can go "btw we'll just violate it, click to agree."
Then why did Facebook lose 10b dollars from losing that tracking data on iOS?
> Imagine if you didnt actually have monitors, you just had a 3d space being projected into your eyes and everywhere you looked could be a space you could put something that would have otherwise been on a monitor.

Great point. I'll buy this, as well as mixed-reality being the future, instead of all-encompassing VR. But there's quite a way to go from here, and some very interesting challenges when you face the problem of communal viewing (co-worker taking a glance at your monitor, watching tv, etc.).

I'm very curious to see what thought (if any) Apple has given this, if they're not just rolling out another pair of goggles with a LCD display inside.

The slow but steady success of the Apple Watch proves that they don't have to knock it out of the park on the first attempt anymore. It's going to be interesting to watch play out.
It's hilarious
When I moved into my new home last summer, I built a gym in my garage, mostly using Rogue equipment. I then started doing an upper / lower bodybuilding split.

For cardio, I have an exercise bike that is hooked up to Zwift. I also jump rope and walk my dog. I try to get ~10,000 steps / day according to my Oura ring.

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Hah, it's a myth that Switzerland is so privacy oriented. They have laws saying that the Swiss intelligence services can access all data, so it wouldn't help.

And Switzerland is not part of the EU.
Advertising is not a 'foreign exchange for attention currency' (metaphor used by author).

On average, it's manipulation, brainwashing and commodification of well told lies.
But that isn't the real problem - the real problem with advertising is that it works.

Why is that a problem ?

Because advertising is manufactured demand.

Last time I looked at the 'Law of Supply and Demand' on Wikipedia some time ago, the word 'advertising' appeared 0 times in there. I've just checked, the word is there 1 time as the 6th item in a list. I think it deserves way more attention (pun intended) in the economic theory.

Just look at that simple chart. A positive shift in demand results in an increase in price and quantity sold of the product.

In other words, you can make people consume considerably more stuff they don't want by constantly nagging them with ads.

Given that 'stuff' are nature converted into object we temporarily use and discard, the result of this macroeconomic ideology - destruction of nature and change of climate in half a century.

We all know the names of the big tech companies who are exceedingly efficient at pushing up the global demand curve.

This business model really needs to stop.
> Instead, say: this is how long it will take to do.

You'd better have Nostradamus-level prediction accuracy if you're going to play chicken like that with every estimate you're pressured to give.
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I'm a runner who has also gotten locked out, and my solution was to install a keypad deadbolt on my front door ($100 at Home Depot). Never had a problem since.
> any data what-so-ever sent to a 3rd party without my knowledge or consent is too much

So do you want “we want to load JS from a CDN like literally everyone does, is that okay” popups on every website?
Edit 2: Now my tab groups are not syncing correctly. I have a tab open in one of my groups, and it keeps re-opening no matter how many times.

Apple really needs to dogfood their own browser if they want to get serious about fixing these bugs.
For those of you outside of the EU who would like to opt out of being tracked by Google analytics on web pages, install the browser add-on Ublock Origin.
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die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain.
Since the compiler is a harsh mistress, it's actually a very nice environment for refactoring. Use the compiler, and use strong typing. Enumerated types, switchn/case statements where you have to fill every case, most stuff is caught at compilation and then during the first tests when you enable all the checks. We're in fact far more agile in our Ada projects than any with C or Java... Small teams, 1 to 10 mloc code bases, lots of reuse and refactoring.
Curious about this; is it the patent clause? What would you have picked - mit/bsd?
Here you go again, being coy.

It's not an "also" analytics service. It _is_ an analytics service.

If a website poped a question saying "Do you consent to your visit data being passed to Simple Analytics for processing?", how many people would say Yes? Close to zero. Just look at the stats on 3rd party cookie refusals - when done easily, the refusal rates are in high 90%. People may be lazy, but they sure as heck know they don't want to be tracked IF it's actually mentioned.

So what you offer is a GA alternative that makes website operators feel better about themselves for not using the GA. The situation with the visitors remains exactly the same - the still getting shafted with something that none of them wants.

The only way to do analytics in a way that's respectful to the visitors' privacy is with an installable on-host software. That's it.
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I am frequently surprised by folks that are active fans of both. So, I don't think they are dead dead. But GWT, in particular, really helped cement a ton of distrust for any framework coming out of Google.

JSF was trying to make handy components for JSPs. And made them unusable in the process.
Yeah that's not piracy then is it
I'm the creator of Fugu (https://github.com/shafy/fugu), if you're looking for an event-based analytics solution that is open-source, free and self-hostable. Fugu doesn't track unique users, just anonymous events.
I also offer hosted version if you don't want to deal with hosting (currently using Digital Ocean with their Frankfurt data center, but will switch to an EU company soon).
Inflation can driven by two things: the money supply and overall productive capacity.

Both are driving inflation.
Yep. I can remember the exact moment I decided to install an adblocker. I was on a comic site, and my entire browser got minimized, to show me a popup. That was it for me.
Preemptive scheduling. "Preschedule" sounds like a mistake / misunderstanding in the article.
Well what can I say… thank god for AdBlock! Keep your ads ;)
One of the things traditional Christianity has going for it is that any adherent is supposed to accept, at core, that they are not an inherently good person.

Doesn't mean everything you do is automatically terrible, but in many Christians it does encourage self-reflection and self-awareness, because of the knowledge that any given impulse you have may actually be a selfish one that's terrible for other people.

...granted, it doesn't always work that way in conservative US evangelicalism. Even there it does sometimes, though.

/rabbittrail
Tons of businesses still can't hire enough staff to stay open. Maybe unemployment numbers have recovered, but many people have decided they just don't want to work anymore.

Plenty of people will remember it this way. Many small businesses went bankrupt and an entire generation of kids had massive educational and social setbacks.

It's absurd to even suggest that everything is back to normal and everyone is A-OK with how things worked out.
That's like blaming the people in Flint, Michigan for drinking the lead-tainted water.
> The IP Address is NOT the only thing that makes this data into personal data.

Can you cite a reference for that? I fully believe that Google is using cookies for this, but that doesn't mean that the legal authority here isn't making the judgment on IP address alone. I believe a recent GDPR decision against Google Fonts was based on IP address alone. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30135264
Yeah, there are still plenty of drugs on the darkweb. Busting a few dealers doesn't eliminate demand, and in-person dealers don't have a "reviews" page for their products and behavior.
Do you have any recommendations?

Preferably one I don't HAVE to pay a subscription to use...
There are actual consequences: https://www.dsgvo-portal.de/gdpr-fine-database.php (I think I have seen one of those databases somewhat more official before)
Google seems not interested in interconnected third party RCS hubs anymore.

The current situation means that people who are directly connected to Google's own Jibe infrastructure can message carrier-operated Jibe deployments. But they can't message third party RCS networks or vice-versa.
Plenty of US organisations couldn't use a cloud service that loudly proclaimed to store the data outside the USA.
The best kind of businesses are those where the pipeline is distributed and each participant can keep telling themselves they’re definitely the good guys.
I think there's two things.

1. The school system has been broken for many years. Learning from people who are not passionate about what they teach is the main concern I have. You can easily tell the difference of "engaged" students who have a great teacher they will remember forever vs. "disengaged" students who will be able to tell you how bad their teacher was. I think Montessori-esq / curiosity driven schooling is the future given 2/3 the world is on the internet and there's actually exciting, inspiring, and engaging teachers around the world doing an amazing job. (i.e. Khan from Khan Academy really paved the way here)

2. These rules work because there's a significantly smaller portion of the population who truly knows themselves and embraces their eccentric characteristics. We typically lose our identity when going through a formal means of schooling because we want to fit in and thus be "average". Even those valedictorians are quite "average" outside of working harder to get perfect grades. How many do you know that went on to do the amazing things expected of them? Usually it's the people who were eccentric and didn't do so well in school.
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Not related to Phantom OS, but the OS running the Apollo 11 guidance computers had this same feature. In fact, the famous 1202 program alarms right before landing are related: a low priority task was overwhelming the system and the OS restarted to get a clean slate, continuing the high priority tasks where they left off:

“The software rebooted and reinitialized the computer, and then restarted selected programs at a point in their execution flow near where they had been when the restart occurred.” [0]

[0] https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.1201-pa.html
Something that's not mentioned here is this refusal to even confirm what you worked on also affects people's immigration status.

To approve I-140, USCIS requires a signed letter from employers confirming your title, experience and skill sets.

Most companies really don't like to give these details out for some reason, and it's always a struggle, especially outside tech. People manage by contacting their managers to past coworkers to attest this.

This is intended as a general observation and not about AAPL (I can't attest to what happens there).

Naturally, you can see how this puts pressure on visa employees to leave on good terms and be compliant knowing you might not be able to extend your visa otherwise.
Is that really the only reason behind GA being 'banned'? If google broke off Ireland ltd into its own company and that company simply 'licensed' Google products for $1, would they be in the clear?
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VR has found one problem to solve – exercise. Beat Saber is awesome.

And in the corporate space, various training simulators and visualizations are popping up.

Facebook's "metaverse" sounds like a shitty version of VRChat with people you don't like.

And buttcoin grifters throw the "metaverse" buzzword around only to get you to buy into their ponzi schemes, pure and simple. There is no "there" there. And the "ideas" they're throwing out in their bullshit whitepapers are horrific. They want to financialize every moment of your life, invent artificial scarcity in a world where infinite copyability is the main advantage (if the words "virual real estate" don't sound utterly dystopian to you I don't know what to say…) and so on.
If this is the result of a lot of very marginal people getting pay raises and $1600 checks, it would show how much of the real economy rests on slave wages.
"Perfect market" is a technical term meaning one where "buyers and sellers are so numerous and well informed that monopoly is absent and market prices cannot be manipulated". A perfect market would not help this problem.

The notion that perfect realizations of Econ 101 concepts would produce outcomes everybody likes it both wrong and quasi-religious. It's like saying, "The perfect knife would never cut a human." Nope.

If anything, the whole purpose of advertising is to create market distortions. Look at Coke vs Pepsi, for example. Billions are spent yearly to manipulate consumers to make choices that differ from whatever the natural marketplace outcome would be.
I haven't been to the hospital in years, so clearly the news about long wait times at the ER are bogus.
Cryptocurrency is much hated here because many people got scammed and lost money in tech.
> You can't tell people; here is a dial, you can pick 'fast and you're screwed later' or 'slow and careful now'. You're setting yourself up for failure; they cannot pick 'slow and careful', because that's not their job; their job is to quickly deliver value/outcomes/whatever.

That sounds a little crazy. If you applied this same argument to money, you'd conclude that their job is to spend money as fast as possible in order to deliver value, and the debt that builds up is accounting's problem, not theirs. No successful business works like this, so clearly the logic does work if it's presented correctly.
I wasn't talking about myself. But men might increasingly not have the choice, if they want to have children. That's also by design of the laws.
TL;DR: check out Brad Traversy's youtube video tutorials.

It depends on what you want to code.

I am going to assume web development and building some variant of websites and web apps since it my wheelhouse and there are a lot of jobs out there paying decent for this right now.

Assuming this is what you want, I'd really watch and code along with Brad Traversy on YouTube. He's even got a "Web Developer Guide for 2022" video that just came out that goes through a high level overview of what a modern Web Dev should know and learn. He's a great teacher and some very cheap and great courses on Udemy.

I created a detailed list of his tutorials with times and costs on what I would reco for learning HTML, CSS, and Javascript as a comment to someone's HN post. I'll find it and add it here for you.

I really have ZERO affiliation with Udemy or Brad Traversy, I just really like his method of teaching, and as a 10+ year web dev veteran, it is very refreshing to see someone clearly teach intro and advanced topics clearly.

Good luck.

EDIT: found the link to the list of my reco'd Travesy tutorials for Frontend Web Dev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30177167
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Please explain why you think that, because it seems completely unrelated and off-topic.
^ I thought I should clarify: the reason I'm making the point about relative deltas in speed is that many people ITT seem to think they can leapfrog the tricky question of tech debt by just saying "well, we should all be better engineers, and then we'd write the better-of-the-two implementation more quickly".

And that's just not so. It doesn't matter how fast or quick-minded the engineer is in absolute terms. I've worked with some of the best engineers in the world, and they still took on tech debt (albeit in an intelligent and considered way), because simpler solutions are still faster in relative terms.

Tech debt will forever be a rational choice so long as there's a comparative advantage - so to speak - in taking the simpler path.
I think PTC has upgraded to Ada 2012, or so I hear.
> Along the way I've also adopted a new mental model for advertising

AKA a coping mechanism
This sounds a lot like https://tunnelto.dev/, which I've used and generally like. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know what, if any, the differences are, though.
I don't think we are alone though.

Where I work, they pick the highest inflation ( Canadian company). So we get the highest inflation from Canada or Belgium.
My student debt is getting a little cheaper! Unfortunately, the next time I need to buy a vehicle those gains will be wiped out.
I wonder who are people more afraid of exposing their private information to: the USA or their own government.
>as long as the data never leaves their servers

This is kind of ridiculous in the cloud era, isn't it?

The analogy with external accountant up this thread is a good one. It's not about where data are processed, it's about how it's used.
Could they house their data in a separate company that was founded in Ireland and is not an Alphabet subsidiary to get around this?