skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get any of this on Android either, because I have almost all Google stuff turned off and replaced with F-Droid and open source. No Google Play Store, no Google Location Services, no Google Maps (ZaNavi instead), no Keep, no Photos, no Registration, no YouTube app. No Gmail (I use a Sonic.net IMAP server shared by all my computers, and K-9 mail), no Google account. Some of those apps bitch when you disable them that something will break, but all that breaks is Google intrusiveness.

Android without Google works quite well. Better than with Google.
I see a huge difference between "will violate my privacy if served with a valid subpoena" and "will violate my privacy to make money on a daily basis".

(And, for what it's worth, Apple has fought against a valid subpoena for iPhone data that they did technically have the capability of answering.)
Microsoft’s new drawing bot is an AI artist
I have Location History on (it's complicated to justify it in my own head, but I find the feature useful, and it's not like my phone company and Google don't know my location - at least this way I get some benefit from it). I have basically every other "history" item disabled on my Google account. I constantly encounter new features that I'm interested in using, but for whatever reason they require me to enable App and Web Usage History (or something like that) for my Google account, so I decline, as I don't want to open that can of worms.

The specific feature in question here is part of Google Maps and can be disabled in the preferences pane of that app. For one of various reasons I could speculate this particular setting doesn't persist across devices, so if I get a new device (or, sometimes after an OS update) I will have to go back and disable it again. It makes me angry every time.
I'd live in a big city if more cities and building architects cared about green spaces and noise. I'm glad people are doing research here.
Theres 3 different local / state governments to entice competition from with that setup, and montgomery county just lost Discovery which was a huge employer who they were wooing with a serious comp package. So you throw a spender like that into a competitive situation and you might get some insane offer.
This is absolutely what they're doing. It condenses quite easily even to:

import random
import time

while True:
col = random.randint(30, 48)
print("\x1b[{}m{}\x1b[0m".format(col, "Hello World"))
time.sleep(1)

Which is still pretty obtuse, but the "random colours" task seems hand-picked to penalize Python.

It neglects to mention that Fuze has virtually no utility beyond an educational curio, too, versus Python which is used for many, many things.
Oslo is aiming for 2019: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/04/oslo-is-on-tr...
I would really like to see this study reproduced in an engineering environment. I wonder if the same trend holds, just a higher set point.
I believe that is the current state of affairs. Notifications can be suppressed in Android apps, right?
Might have been fixed — works for me.
There are things you can do to help fight this. Donate some time or money to the Ubuntu Phone project. It isn't maintained by canonical anymore, but it is far from dead. More choices and options are what we need now. It is insane that there are basically two OS you can do.
There is absolutely nothing dangerous about Peterson. The perceived danger is that once unpopular ideas/thoughts are discussed in the marketplace of ideas, so to speak, and that they might win out. I'd much rather ideas that promote inhumanity be discussed in the open that driven underground and allowed to fester there.
Luckily, for people like you, you have the vast majority of the world's land area to work with. Cities take up very little space.
HTMLGoodies helped me make terrible Geocities sites.
How winners win: John Boyd and the four qualities of victorious organizations
It was probably a reference to this old piece of satire:

http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers

In this case, there would be lots of programmers in HPC field alone who want the micro and macro benchmarks to be good since they're squeezing every bit of number crunching they can out piles of machines they spent a fortune on. When I studied supercomputing, they were timing everything from latency of memory operations (esp NUMA) to context switches on CPU's to raw MIPS. The suppliers were competing on that stuff, too.
It's not (if you disable location history which powers these services).
What's the BTU of a dolar-sized piece of paper? What's the burn duration? At what inflation point is it more practical to burn bolivars for heat than it is to buy oil/fuel/wood with bolivars?
He reinvented interval arithmetic, it sounds like.

Funny. There was a project at Sun Labs in the early 2000s that way far down this road. Without looking at its specifics, I am still surprised that the patent was accepted.
They make money by showing me ads, so yes, I do. Just not in a direct monetary exchange.
Sure you're still tracked, but at least Verizon isn't creepily reminding you of it.

The blog author freaked out because Google is trying to crowdsource info about a place from people who are actually visiting it, which they know because their phone has location tracking. I think the author might want to step back and think about everything his phone can do before getting worked up over this one minor aspect.
This is fun.

Try drawing programmatically:

tools[7].paint(ctx, x, y);

then run:

$canvas.trigger('change.session-hook');

to flush your canvas changes to the server.
The problem is that everyone who answers this question focuses on price while completely ignoring latency.

Every morning at 6:30, I drive my son to the school bus stop about half a mile away. I do this in part to make sure he makes it there on time, and also because it's often well below 0F at that time of day. So, even if it costs $1 to get an Uber to do that, it would have to show up within a 3 minute window (time between when his morning chores are done and we have to leave), and it would have to wait 5-10 minutes for the bus to show up, since he doesn't want to stand around when it's -10F and blowing 20+ MPH. That's not a normal behavior for a taxi-type service.

This daily trip and my morning/evening commutes are the only scheduled vehicle uses we have. Every other use is unplanned and random. The nearest grocery store is 10 miles away. Now I have to plan my trips or wait for a car to get here, take me there, and then wait for another one to pick me up? Oh, I forgot milk. Call another Uber to make the 20 mile round trip again?

I can see this behavior being OK with people who don't have cars to begin with, or who live in very dense areas, but for the outer suburbs and rural areas and other places built with the assumption that people are driving cars, it's really not workable unless people's expectations drop considerably.

>it might be perfectly fine to leave taxis just parked way out in the middle of nowhere

Where are they going to park and who's paying for that parking lot? You can't just handwave these things away.
> Fair point. All I was trying to show was that currencies like the Euro or USD has greater than zero energy usage to create/distribute.

How many cash transactions occur in the world in 1 year? The number must be over 7 trillions assuming average person on this planet makes 1,000 cash transactions per year.

Now, let's divide 1 TWh by 7 trillions, we will get 0.14 Wh per cash transaction which is equivalent of having 60W light bulb switched on for about 8 seconds.

Considering one Bitcoin transaction currently consumes 345 kWh of electricity. That's equivalent of having 60W light bulb switched on for about 8 months.

So yeah, technically you are right. 8 seconds is not zero. But it's hell of a less than 8 months.
Their incentive is to make money by providing goods or services to customers, which is the same as every business. Go buy something from the department store, give them your phone number when they ask for it, and tell me you don't receive spam calls afterward.

Given all that Google knows about you, i'd say they're actually quite polite in how invasive they are. I'd much rather them have this data than 99% of the other companies out there.

It sounds like you basically just hate businesses that collect data. I'm sorry to break it to you, but there are a ton of them.
Tokyo's grid is much finer in the residential areas,and has a calm atmosphere. Manhattan's roads are highways everywhere. A great reduction in noise and increase in safety would make it more pedestrian friendly.
I, too, have a bit of experience with backpressure implementations in both Erlang and Pony. Erlang's "penalize the sender" doesn't work in many cases, so I'm not surprised that it's being removed. Erlang's remote distribution implementation & messaging semantics are Mostly Great but is definitely not Perfect.

1. Head-of-line blocking caused by congestion on the single TCP connection used for message transmission between any two Erlang nodes. This can cause major problems for apps control vs. data plane design, such as Riak and Lasp. Work on Partisan (https://github.com/lasp-lang/partisan) appears to be a substantial improvement.

2. If the single remote distribution TCP connection between two nodes is broken, then the first Erlang process to send a message to the remote node is, hrrm, well, borrowed/co-opted by the BEAM VM to connect the new TCP session. IIRC that process is marked unrunnable by the scheduler until the connection is set up or perhaps there's an error. If that process is really important to the functioning of your app, for example, an important system manager in the control plane of the app, then you have a very difficult-to-diagnose latency Heisenbug to cope with.

-Scott
Yet the author attempts to shove google js down our throats.

https://i.imgur.com/6AJLhnR.png
How? Everyone says there is an option under "Notifications" but I only see "People & places" and "Ride services".
... like having images and info on most of the restaurants in my town because the app bothers to ask and some people are happy to answer?

I think there's a disconnect here.
That's a great question, as are many others around taxing cryptocurrency transactions. A quick googling indicates that, in the US, gambling with anything of value constitutes gambling. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5362
Ha ha, slime. I bought a tub of PVA for my daughter, and now she is branching into bath bombs.
You can't really compare Venezuela socialism and Northern European socialism. The only thing they have in common is the word socialism. IMHO it is totally useless as it is used to describe things that are completely different.
I really don't see a use-case for A from the consumer perspective. Why would anyone ever want such a notification?

For case B we can see where scraping all this information can be genuinely useful.
Both location history and the notifications can be easily turned off on Android and Maps app. What do you mean about lack of control?
I could swear I read that the EU does not allow this kind of bidding war for tax reduction by companies, but I can't find it online. The US certainly allows it, which I think is a bad idea.
I am here pleading, begging Google to give me (and everyone else) an option to set up a free of cost, always on VPN something like {this} but which you can enable on any network all the time.

I don't mind Google having access to all my data as long as they are dominant. The problem in my opinion is the push back they are getting from advertising agencies (wsj is only a hired gun afaict)... I'm guessing one London based plastic company in particular is waging a war on Google. If I were Google, I would not share I formation about my property. It just doesn't make sense to share this information with your customers.

{This} https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6327199?visit_id=1-6...
Ethics? What are they doing? Showing you ads for things you're most likely interested in while giving you useful service?

Don't like it? Don't use them and block their JavaScript trackers.
Why do you think whether your phone asks you if you want to send a restaurant review is in any way related to whether your phone provider is using your location data maliciously?

In fact if there's any relation wouldn't it be the reverse? If you're using the location data unethically, you wouldn't want to draw attention to the fact that it's being gathered.
I think they paid as much for google maps on their android phone as an iphone user pays for apple maps, right?
Your cell phone cannot function without actually knowing where you are (to some approximation) at all times. This information is known to the phone company, at the very least. The phone company almost always records and retains that information.
Similarly, you cannot communicate to anyone on the internet without using an IP address, which your counterparty must know and nearly always retains.
VC-driven Silicon Valley innovation is directly aimed at making money.

The fact that money making overlaps significantly with oppressing the underclass is not the fault of Silicon Valley, though SV isn't doing anything to help. It's a side effect of the fact that we are in an extremely demand constrained economy.

Demand constrained economy is a fancy pants way of saying "everyone is broke so they can't buy anything so why make anything for people to buy?" Below the upper middle class, nobody has any expendable income. That means there are few customers for things designed... well... for customers. That means entrepreneurs can't make money selling things to people unless they're luxury goods, and that's a tough market to break into. (Juciero wasn't such a dumb idea from this perspective. VCs aren't stupid. It was a gamble on creating a new luxury market for the top ~10%. Better executed it might have succeeded.)

As a result Silicon Valley (along with every other industry) must turn elsewhere for customers. Elsewhere is advertisers, propagandists, oppressive regimes, etc., hence surveillance capitalism. The other alternative is to try to find ways to crush margin ("disrupt" as its been redefined to mean) out of some existing industry, which usually means slashing wages and killing jobs and ultimately making the demand constrained economy problem worse.

The ultimate blame for this situation goes to Washington for pushing supply side economics in a demand constrained economy and to New York for abandoning productive capitalism in favor of financial gambling and bubble inflation.
It looks to my like it's a process to be carried out in hardware which is patented, and not the mathematics in question. It's a physical apparatus.

Even if it was purely mathematics, I think I would rather have someone patent it if possible and make it freely available than to leave it out and have someone else take a stab at patenting it, have the underfunded patent office fail to realize there is prior art, and grant the patent. Sure, you could effectively fight it, but until the system gets reformed enough to prevent most these abused, that's a lot of wasted resources (and having the patent lets them threaten others with it without actually bringing a case that could invalidate it).
I look at the ads they serve me so yes I do pay for their services, just not directly.
I believe this is what economics call Dutch disease.

And corruption probably, although that might not be unrelated.
If you stretch your definition to problematic but usabile, it’s certainly true for recent versions of Windows. Moreover, it’s likely been true for a few years!
All Venezuela shows is that a currency is backed by taxes, military power and the power of the economy behind it.

It wasn't a fleeting belief that caused Venezuela's hyperinflation, it was dutch disease wiping out most of their industry followed by oil prices plunging while demand for real goods and services remained static.

The level of spending outstripped the economy's ability to deliver, because the output of that economy is largely oil and oil suddenly wasn't worth very much any more (for reasons that had very little to do with venezuela).

Venezuela would be fucked for this reason with or without hyperinflation. Hyperinflation is simply a side effect of what they're going through. Gold-link their currency and people would be in just as much poverty thanks to their main export tanking - quite possibly even more.
Although many regimen in South America labeled themselves as Socialists in the last decade, they were more Populist soft-dictatorships.

They worked by swelling up the state with a massive patronage system and punishing any opposition (like not renewing public concessions of Radio/TV networks that criticize the government or imprisoning dissidents under pretext). All of this was made with special care to give everything the illusion of legality while raising corruption to unprecedented levels even for the region.

Chavez in Venezuela, Lula in Brazil, Morales in Bolivia - they made a lot of damage in the continent.
Maps app -> Settings -> Notifications -> Your Contributions (and uncheck boxes as desired).

The controls exist.
This issue reminds me of a key permission iOS gives control over while Android (even post-Nougat) doesn't:

The distinction between allowing an app to use location while the app is open versus anytime.

Android makes no distinction between these two states, which opens up the ability for many apps (not just Google's) to enable automatic stalking mode. Take Yelp, for example. I do want it to be able to access my location so I can easily lookup restaurants nearby. However, on Android, once you give Yelp the location permission, it'll start popping up notifications about things near your current location, which is just creepy. On iOS, you can restrict it to only be able to see your location when using the app, which is what I want for most apps.
I'll give you one definition of shitty that particularly annoys me: does the same or less than an equivalent made 10+ years ago, while running just as fast or slower than the old one. Advances in hardware seem to be mysteriously eaten somewhere.
The real question is: is this creepy or ingenious?

The reality is that their products are the best because they are able to crowdsource the masses for practically free.

Google Maps- How do you think they are so good with traffic and or know when a place is busy?
[Google admits it tracked user location data even when the setting was turned off](https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/21/16684818/google-location...)

Tensorflow- All those captchas you had to type and click? Yeah they were used to digitize books and build an amazing clean image dataset.
[Google Inc. Acquires Carnegie Mellon Spin-off ReCAPTCHA Inc.](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/google-inc-acquires-carnegie-mel...)
(https://techcrunch.com/2007/09/16/recaptcha-using-captchas-t...)

Some of it may be unethical, because they do not do a great job of explicitly stating what they do with your data, but some of it may be for the greater good.(intentions are not bad.) An example is traffic. I think in this case, I would like them to know so that they can warn/tell others, to save others time.

It is the wild wild west when it comes to data privacy laws in the U.S compared to the E.U, because there are none and (currently) it is easier to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission.
As far as centralized companies go Google is one of the better ones. It's unfortunate that so much power accrues to only a few entities. But slamming Google is like slamming a side effect of a bigger problem: many markets are naturally winner takes all and vertical integration confers enormous benefits.

I don't see much of a way around this but many feel stronger regulations to protect consumer data should be enacted to safeguard us against bad private actors. Saying "I'll use something else" isn't always a viable solution.
European socialism works. Bolivarian socialism totally does not.

I think the critical difference is that Bolivarian socialism believes something that European socialism does not. It's something like "all profitable companies are stealing from their workers" or "companies don't deserve profits" or something in that neighborhood. Therefore Bolivarian socialism regarded it as justice to expropriate profitable companies, so that the profits would go to the people via social programs. But they didn't know how to run those companies that they took over. And even for the companies that they didn't take over, the expropriations that they did destroyed incentive to invest any further in Venezuela. The net result was that there wasn't enough money coming in to fund the social programs.

European socialism, in contrast, merely taxed profitable companies, and only taxed a fraction of their profits - something around a third is typical, I think. This left employment, profits, and tax income operating normally.

The lesson seems to be that if you go into socialism with too much of a victim mentality, placing too much of the blame on "them", then you take so much that you destroy the economy.
I have Google Chrome turned off, and it works fine. I have Fennec, loaded via F-Droid as my browser. You have to have some browser, but it doesn't have to be Google Chrome.

One thing that seems to help is that, when I get a new phone, I turn all this stuff off before connecting to anything or even putting in a SIM card. So Google never gets a chance to control the phone's connections to the outside world.
Where I come from, socialists tend to be seen as boring maintenance workers of the welfare status quo apparatus, more worried about incremental improvements to paternity leave benefits than enacting any sort of revolution... I guess they could use a Bolivarian spice-up.

In all seriousness, the only left-wing politician I can recall singing the praises of Chavez was Fidel Castro, and he was a hard-boiled authoritarian himself, as well as completely out of sync with the mainstream of European-style socialist parties.
Id be careful using this as google crawls (well specifically it indexes) using headless chrome you could block googlebot when you don't want to.
Practically-a-book-review: Luna white paper
It's too bad they dropped the Detroit area off the list. Hardly any traffic compared to these other cities. Fantastic airport with many direct flights to Europe and Asia. I am kind of glad though. We don't need the stress on our infrastructure or the rapid rise in real estate and salaries Amazon will bring.
Both? I experienced nothing anywhere close to the egregiousness mentioned in the media. But TKs ruthlessness, long work hours ethics was always omnipresent. It wasn’t so much top down mandated to work hard but the culture was there. Paradoxically managers at times would have to push the employees to take breaks, vacations etc. I personally relished that environment but understandable how those would other commitments would find it hard. Our compensation structure also encouraged working hard (and all the stress, burnouts and disappointments that stemmed from it) so even if an employee had all the freedom to leave work at 5 pm and do other things, unless you were ultra-efficient in the 8-9 hours at work (which some of the best engineers I worked with were), there was always a risk of missed incentives. In short, it felt like a great company for those who could manage these trade offs. For all others, it was stressful.
Practical Management Lessons from 'The Last Jedi'
"Google are a deeply, deeply unethical company and all of their employees are complicit."

...

"My phone now asks me to review this restaurant every time I come home ..."

Why are you using their products (specifically, their phones with their ecosystem built-in) if they are "deeply, deeply unethical") ?

Every single step you take while your phone on is giving them more data and building their resource base.
I would have to double-check but I believe I got those kind of notifications even with location history off (maybe from recent Google Maps search terms and Google Maps activity?).