skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That doesn't mean that the term was originally void of meaning as you claim.

Historically it goes back to Post-WW2 German economist. You are also not using that definition.

The point is that the word 'neoliberalism' has gone threw a number of different definitions, and you are just focusing on one that was coined and almost exclusively used in a far left political movement, because they were unhappy with all classical liberals, everybody on the right and even the center left.

To be more exact the research shows pretty clearly that it was after the Coup in Chile where the left started criticizing that government any anything they saw related to it as 'neoliberal' and after that the term exploded and became ever broader in meaning.

There are a few papers that study the history and use of the word that you can search for.

> I beg to differ. Perhaps, conspiracy it's not the word, but very concrete policies have been imposed all around the
world by very powerful actors.

Yes but if you look at those then you will notice that is was implemented by a wide variety of different parties with different ideologies. The reasons given were also different in different places with different goals.

The people who recommend the polices also came from different schools of economics and different backgrounds.

If you sum this all up as 'neoliberalism', is a waste oversimplification that mostly serves as a political 'its was better before neoliberalism' and has not much content otherwise.

> Maybe they don't derive from the same basic ideas, but, for sure those ideas have been used to justify it.

Again, sure, but if you just throw all into the same 'neoliberal' bucket then you will never understand the differences between the wide variety of opinion on these things. Development economics has a long an complex history with many different economists giving their input, the 'Washington Consensus' was one particular idea written down by one set of people with a wide variety of opinions inspired by lots of different ideas from the history of development economics and economics more broadly.

This of course includes Friedmans and many others. Many economists would agree with part of the WC and others would agree with the idea but not with the way it was implemented. Others disagree with the whole approach. All of them are often called 'neoliberal'. The opinions are very different, labaling it all 'neoliberal' is only helpful for politics, not for understand the how and why of individual polices.
I was looking for Bernie quotes in particular. This is an idiotic article, but who cares what Mark Weisbrot thinks?
And that is why they default to on. If they defaulted to off, no one would turn it on, and they wouldn’t be able to hoover up the data.
> Read on a little bit more

How exactly do I do that? (I know that probably sounds like I'm trolling, but I'm not. It's a serious question. I never use Twitter.)
YES THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! I’ve been looking for the link for over a decade.
I have Maps version 9.69.1 running on Android 8.1. I see the following options in Maps' "Notifications" menu: Traffic, Commute, Transit, Navigation, Your contributions, People & places, Ride services, Offline maps, New on Maps.

From these, the "Your contributions" seems to have the majority of toggles that people are discussing in this thread (e.g. "Adding your photos", "Contribution ideas", "Questions about places", etc.).
Bezos has a house there. So we should rank these by where the CEO has a house.
I see... I used to think it's just WPF to be replaced with the old UI that was there until some version.
Who knows what they're thinking. Might be just playing numbers. Or maybe they only show that notification after you've been at that store several times which means you must really like it, and they're hoping that you go "why yes google, I'd quite like some pictures of this store!". It was my local supermarket by the way.
> I don't understand the point of the blog post then. Why is it so upsetting, if you have the ability to turn it off?

Because people like to complain. Especially when they're getting a free service (as in money).
"data that was shared with Google" seems like a stretch - it's closer to "data that Google took" IMO (I doubt most people would assume the default is that Google knows what restaurants you are visiting).

Then using that data to send you a request to, basically, do work for Google is just annoying.
As mentioned several times, disable Location History under Settings -> Google -> Location (on stock Google Androids you find that setting under Settings -> Location as well).
> Google are a deeply, deeply unethical company and all of their employees are complicit.

Your comment would have been equally relevant without including this statement at all. But as you did include it, you need to support it. What exactly are the ethical problems, and how do you justify carrying them over onto every employee? If you have a solid backing for those statements, by all means share it, as it would also be relevant, and probably a good discussion.
They provide an optimized non-SIMD generic implementation. The version I posted is similar, speed-wise, and it supports in-place base64 encoding/decoding (i.e. allowing aliasing, supporting the case of using one buffer for both input and output).
Another important factor not mentioned here is the practice of "curb cuts"

http://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2008-06-01...

I recommend the article (not just posting for a cite, it's an interesting one). But to summarize - SF has a lot of "curb cuts", sections of the curb that are cut out and lowered so a car can drive across the sidewalk to a driveway or garage. This prevents the sidewalks from becoming an inviting pedestrian space. First, pedestrians must be on a constant lookout for cars, or dodge cars that are parked on the sidewalk blocking the path. Second, it prevents the street scape from embracing the pedestrian experience, leading to what SPUR calls the "barren nature of the streets" in SF.

Ironically, these curb cuts break the street into small sections of curb that are too small for a legal parking spot, so there isn't really even much of a net gain in overall parking. The estimate I read was that each curb cut removes 2/3 of a street parking space.

San Francisco tends to get high walkability scores, but the experience is notably worse than many other dense cities. I realized this after living in Paris and Manhattan. There is something much more relaxing about streets when you don't have to dodge cars, and the streetscapes in those places are far more attractive (the link above shows some examples of why this is the case).

I'd say it hit me especially hard once I had kids (I live in SF), when the experience of dodging cars crossing the sidewalk became scary rather than just irritating. I realized I had to grip my kids hands pretty hard when walking on the sidewalk, because it is a perilous place for kids who can't be seen. I had a close call or two, when my kid ran ahead and a car was pulling into a driveway. Fortunately, the driver was alert. But again, this is the sidewalk. It's incredibly depressing that in a supposedly progressive, "pedestrian friendly" city, kids in most neighborhoods are less safe on the sidewalk than in a crosswalk, where they are at least visible.[1]

SF gets high walkability scores, and in some ways, it's deserved. It's certainly better than the exurbs and many other US cities. But these scores don't count the curb cuts or experience of the walk, and honestly, the curb cuts have really damaged the experience in SF.

[1] Edit - leaving this up since it was in my original post, but this isn't necessarily true. I feel the sidewalks are perilous, but I don't have evidence that sidewalks in curb cut heavy areas are more dangerous than crosswalks.
That was called the petro or something, i think it was only meant to be for oil trading and not a national currency.
Are you paying for the reviews?
Nachtwerk en gezond afvallen – Hoe pak je dit aan and gezond eetschema?
I'm sure they're still tracking you, they just don't show you it. ;)
Slack comes to Linux as a snap
Why not?

How does a logical fallacy become okay if it is in response to the same logical fallacy?
HiDPI Screens and Modern Web Development
You are explicitly asked about that feature when settinng up your phone for the first time.
I think travel between HQ and HQ2 has to be a nonstop flight for it to be viable.

The cities sorted by number of nonstops to Seattle per day:

Los Angeles 23
Denver 18
Chicago 14
Dallas 12
Washington, D.C. 7
Atlanta 6
Newark 6
New York 6
Boston 5
Austin 3
Nashville 2
Philadelphia 2
Raleigh, N.C. 2
Indianapolis 1
Toronto, Canada 1
Miami 1
Columbus 0
Pittsburgh 0
Montgomery County, Md. ?
Northern Virginia ?
What does one's wealth have to do with how dense of an area in which one prefers to live?
Of course. Note that my first comment is literally pushback against the poor perception...
The day Americans stop believing in the dollar, the exact same thing could happen (However I don't see how that would be the case now).
> spying

[citation needed]

> data hoarding

Collecting data is "deeply unethical"? So then the census and hospital and anyone else who collects data are unethical too?

> tracking

You can disable location permission on everything.

> privacy issues

[citation needed]

> their incentives are highly misaligned

How is bringing you the most relevant data "misaligned"? That is their incentive as an ad company. Showing you things that you will like.

> encourage unethical anti consumer behavior

[citation needed]
Accidental infringement is possible whether you've read the patent or not. I was once told not to even mention the possibility of the existence of a patent as that would be evidence used to go for triple damages.

Perverse incentives indeed.
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And yet Manhattan is an economic powerhouse, so apparently plenty of people are okay with these restrictions. If you aren't, don't live there.
Kind of funny most of them have airports. Really makes you realize how much the traveling salesmen problem(route optimization) is embedded in everything they do.
reCAPTCHA is a freaking nightmare, it's gotten worse and worse, it often has me go through two or three pages worth of image recognition puzzles before letting me log in. And since it's used on non-Google sites, it's nearly unavoidable.
IIRC Wine is still typically installed as a i386 binary these days, so 16 bit compatibility is still an option.
T-Mobile calls out other networks’ 5G ‘hype,’ but it’s the worst of all
I agreed with everything you wrote, until near the end where you said "but also in the US". Forget about politics, but economically the US dollar is still the strongest and most stable currency in the world. It has competitors (which is good!) but I have seen no signs of problems in the US dollar. Inflation has been low in the US for long, probably way too long.
Unfortunately this argument fails -- there are twice as many whole numbers as there are odd numbers right? but they are in 1:1 correspondence

0 <-> 1

1 <-> 3

2 <-> 5

:

so the odd and whole numbers have the same cardinality: there are the same number of each.
Because there’s only two options, and only one at the low end of the price range.
Growing pains on the way to a true digital personal assistant.

The industry has to figure out how to deal with privacy concerns, because a digital assistant which is continuously aware of your location and what you're doing will be tremendously useful. It's a little friend in your pocket that we won't be able to imagine living without.

Traffic jam ahead? Got you covered.

Can't remember someones name? I've got it here.

Need to remember the name of that great you discovered last time you were in this area? Got it here.

Looks like you need an ambulance.. it's on the way.

Privacy issues abound, but possibilities are endless and people _want_ these features. At present many of the benefits from a smart phone that we have become accustomed to are only possible because of data harvesting. Perhaps as hardware continues to evolve, and these features commoditized we can convince organizations that we will actually pay for the services if we can have greater control over our data.

Thanks for sharing your views on what is "creepy". Not everyone agrees (as can be seen from the comments) and I have a feeling that what feels creepy today will seem normal tomorrow, but your concerns are valid.
Yeah, I've made pixelated-looking games for browsers before, and setting the extra CSS property is something I frequently forget to do!
That's much worse for tons of reasons. The extreme version of that is a guild system and a bunch of secret societies, which is basically why the ancient world never industrialized. Egypt, Greece, and Rome had the basic knowledge for the industrial revolution (including maybe even electricity, search for Baghdad battery) but it was locked up in cloistered priesthoods who kept it very close to their vest. In many cases leaking such knowledge was punishable by gruesome death.

Offering an alternative to that is why the patent system was created. The idea is you publish and in return get a monopoly for a short period of time. Of course the system is abused (all systems are abused), but the reasons for its creation were actually quite "liberal."
The blocky part of scratch got open sourced. This is what it’s built upon.

So to answer your question. Yes very similar to scratch. In fact it transpiles to a JavaScript like language as well.
Why in Python?
After 14 Years, Facebook Appoints First Non-White Board Member
WhatsApp Business App
That only actually prevents it if:

(1) rotations are most often exactly one of the periods on which goals and evaluations occur (that is, understating growth that at least meets the goal never is expected to help you by making it more likely you can plausibly claim to meet a growth goal the next period), and

(2) the rotating top-level officials have some other structursl disincentive to form a class identity and class norms (stack ranking where the top slice promotes into a national administration group and the bottom slice is demoted out of regional leadership, while the middle group remains, for instance, would do this, since everyone would have a strong incentive to make everyone else's results relatively worse; OTOH, this incentivizes an opposite kind of misreporting, so it's not really a solution.)
My guess is that doesn't turn off tracking but now you just won't be notified of it.

I admit though, as a user of the data, I find this very helpful. Google is absolutely brilliant at give real time traffic information to roads and businesses. You want to know if Costco is busy right now, they'll tell you. Accident getting there going to cost you 5 minutes, they'll tell you that too.
I wonder if I could get Dark Reign running on this ...
Again, most advanced democracies simply tick all boxes. Why? Because if a proposal is made that would increase turnout or make it easier to vote, you shouldn’t be able to come out against it without looking like you are protecting your own interests (and no one should survive that politically in this context). So:

- auto registration

- unrestricted early/absentee voting

- official Election Day on weekend or made public holiday.

It’s not that hard. As for your question “will it significantly change?” - I’m not sure. But it won’t make it worse and it will at least give an impression that someone is trying to make it easier to vote. Significant improvement shouldn’t even be necessary in this case. Just improvement or even percieved improvement (democracy is as much about a feeling of empowerment as it is actual empowerment).
The U.S. Fertility Rate Is Down, yet More Women Are Mothers
> If there was a single option that offered all of this at a reasonable price, you would see a lot of people moving to this.

No, people would still go for the free product, killing the other option.

If Google charges $1 per month for no tracking whatsoever, I'd bet that the vast, vast majority of the population wouldn't pay.
React: most easy way to manage a spinner for a deeply nested button
How would you define "idea people"?
Apple says no to app that detects net neutrality violations
Uber massively empowered the underclass by destroying the taxi cartels. Lyft exists because of Uber. Even if one argues that Uber deserves to be punished for its various sins, the revolution they helped spark will improve transportation over time. Just demolishing the medallion racket alone is a vast improvement for the underclass, of which pretty much all taxi drivers belonged. Pre-Uber, Taxi drivers were more like indentured workers, with between little and zero hope of ever owning or controlling anything. Medallion prices in New York City reached $1+ million before Uber tanked the scheme.
Have you tried Brave?
I am hearing a lot about Brave. Give it a try. Hopefully, that will end your search.
Depends on whether you've opted into Location History or not, which is the master setting for most of Google's persistent location-based features. You can check the setting here: https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols
> A lot of people enjoy their quiet suburban neighborhoods and don't have any particular desire to live in a dense city

I don't think there is any limited supply for suburban neighborhoods.

But there is a supply problem for dense urban living with lots of services within a short walk, and public transport to work. Demand is higher than supply, which has made prices high.
They're using it as a way of increasing their ad revenue by getting free data from their users. How is that not spam? If I send you unsolicited emails asking you to give me photos of products you use which I'll then sell ads for and keep all the revenue, would that not be spam?

I did not sign up for any product promotion notifications, so if I receive any it's spam.
If they can't be computed, what are you planning on using them for?
The biggest problem is going to be with the useful transcendentals.
That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is:

They're an advertisement company that profits from showing you the most relevant data and things that you will like.

It's all about perspective. You can take anything and spin it to be nefarious if you try hard enough.
> he obviously wants to destroy our way of life.

Uh huh... "our way of life" that really only came into existence after WWII. Strong Towns focuses a lot on how cities used to be in the US, and points to that as a pretty good model. They grew incrementally, both up, in, and out. They mostly grew thanks to local, smaller efforts rather than mega projects.
It was this bad before? Interesting.

Seems the common trait between the "capitalists" and "socialists" causing these problems is corruption.
Jane Jacobs pointed this out in 1961: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Am...
The Most Important Design Guideline
I read a while back that local governments would significantly artificially inflate their manufacturing, construction, spending, and raw materials numbers. There were dozens that seemed so far fetched they were easily spotted as fake by a professor that did little research.

When you have govt officials who are forced to increase growth and you'll look bad/fired if you don't and no authority is safeguarding this, then these actions seem fairly logical.

Interesting to see how perception is sometimes as good as reality.
I think the novel part is in the encoding of the error in the bits of the value. It's hard to see how much value this patent really holds.
A spokesperson for Kalanick told Bloomberg the meeting “ended on a positive note.”

especially for the driver...
Purism's Librem 5 would be a better effort at this point.
IIRC 16bit code on a 32bit version of windows runs in 32bit mode with some thunking for selectors. The issue is more that HANDLEs can have values up to half the sizeof(HANDLE) and supporting 16bit would have significantly harmed the value of 64bit code or required special consideration of where a HANDLE was getting allocated. Then you have to deal with a 64bit process creating a HANDLE and giving it to a 16bit process. Very quickly it turns into a corner case nightmare.
I feel like the last time I tried it wanted me to install some things and there were some errors on Mac? I don't totally remember though, but it wasn't smooth sailing last year or so.
Getting back to it myself. Ultimately my past successful works have have never been intended to be. And I enjoy them still, upon rediscovery. So not much to lose except the feeling of being redundant. It's good to stay current but also habitually create with minimal inhibition.
Same thought. Having 1 year to play the H1B lottery is not ideal, and they really hired lots of economists lately, most of which have this issue.
Chiming in as another person who got into web development thanks to Neopets.
Ask HN: Is there a captcha service that is intentionally hard?
I'm looking for the most difficult challenge-response service. Recaptcha is really hard but eventually goes into trusted mode regardless of settings. I want something even harder. Essentially my goal is to force users to solve a puzzle of some kind prior to proceeding to the actual page. I could build something myself but I really don't want the system to fail or have loopholes.
To this day I will still cite how Neopets' pet pages were my introduction to the creator's web; later MySpace would help me accumulate some spare lunch money. The good ol' days. =)
> many markets are naturally winner takes all

I don't think this is true. "Winner takes all" is a predatory behavior and it is only possible with enormous concentration of wealth. Otherwise markets become full of small players and fair competition.
Neopets is probably the first place I encountered random item drops - I remember half the cybercafé freaking out when someone randomly found a Paintbrush.
Then maybe certain socialists should stop propping them up as good examples of socialism.
Are billboards or radio stations or television channels unethical to you? Because they are also trying to "manipulate" you into buying things.

Advertising is not inherently unethical. I want people to buy my product so I need to raise awareness of it, encourage people that it is the best, make them feel like they need it.

I would even go so far as to say that Google's default anonymized model makes this far better. My preferences can be used to serve more meaningful ads to me which makes everyone happier. Eg, I was searching for tent reviews online. Saw an ad for a tent from a brand I had never heard of. Looked up their reviews and bought that tent.

Unfortunately, they are a lot of bad actors in this space. Google is actively trying to weed them out. They are deeply incentivized to rid the internet of them because it means less ad blockers and less spam and more money for them.

Any website you visit or app you use is going to collect some personal information about you. How many times have you questioned why you need to turn over your email to a stopwatch app. At least with Google's default-anonymized model, you are opting in to a fairly sweet deal. You volunteer things you are interested in so that Google can serve you better ads and keep the internet free (in the dollar sense) and the information you provide is not reversible back to you.

Doesn't sound too unethical to me especially because it is all one big opt-in.
They are getting more as 1 for 1 replacements, though.
If you're only going 10 over just like everybody else you belong in the right lane.
it's far from an ideal solution given they keep changing the lists

I only seem to find out when people complain that the site is down from certain parts of the world
That may work when inflation itself is the problem, but the country is otherwise holding together.

Venezuela has serious problems. One neat trick won't save them.
Has anyone credible confirmed that this might be real?
It's a cellular telephone -- they need to know all the cell towers near you and direct your phone between them. It's a rough area but my phone provider definitely knows I'm at work right now.