skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In fact, a lot of people will say to this, "if you don't do anything wrong you've got nothing to hide". They welcome it.

The usual rebuttal I see to this mindset is "well, there's so many laws out there you're bound to accidentally incriminate yourself for something minor".

Is that the real concern here? Are people more concerned with autonomous monitoring itself, or the potential outcomes/implications that come with it? I'd love to understand this mindset. (As an aside, I've always advocated for modernizing/reforming laws so that doesn't happen, instead of blaming news tools that help law enforcement do its job.)

I think we can agree there is some amount of potential benefit of this kind of pervasive monitoring (right?). I also think we can all agree there are potential downsides as well. In an ideal world, I would think we'd take an approach that minimizes the downsides while maximizing the upsides, but if people are actually taking concern with the loss of privacy to autonomous programming (i.e. non-humans), I have no idea how to measure how "good" such a system is.

(As an additional aside, there's obviously potential for misuse by human actors, but that seems like a separate issue to tackle as well: everything has potential for misuse, and needs the proper precautions and safeguards put in place to ensure it isn't misused.)
Apple's HomePod Also Sucks for Privacy
As a Python developer, I just stay with pip and virtualenv, but I share the smh/wtf sentiment here. The data science folks enjoy conda but I don't see that being useful to me anywhere else. I feel like every other year someone will invent a new pip env.

pyvenv (see comment section, edited) is now deprecated and venv is recommended (shipped as part of Python 3.6 installation) is another confusion. Lest not forget the confusion of distuilts and setuptools is like argparse vs optparse in the past (which are both horrible). The experience of using pip and pypi (now Warehouse) is much better than that of Ruby and of NodeJS, but these "2-in-1" tools are just ridiculously "creative".

As always, pro-tip: consider using the following to ensure
environment is loaded properly when you are deploying production

/full_path/env/bin/python myapp.py --workers=3

over

source /full_path/env/activate && python myapp.py --workers=3

The latter is fine when you are doing local development in your terminals.

If you go on #python IRC channel, every year a group of helpers will collectively recommend one of the above and then perhaps a different one the following year, so please do yourself a favor, just stick to pip and virtualenv.
I am very well aware of the natural rights theory developed during the age of enlightenment.

We have given up our natural right to kill another person. I am suggesting we should give up our natrual right to bear arms.

The idea with natural rights has always been that we have unlimited rights (and actually enumerating them can be problematic) but we give some up to live in a society where we can pursue life liberty and happiness.

I am saying Americans via their representatives should give up their right to bear arms, remove it from being enumerated, and then allow strong legislation that outlaws weapons just like we have done with murder. If an amendment is needed then so be it "Congress HAS the right to strictly control guns in order to protect life".

Does that make sense?
>You cannot reply to a reply to one of your comments for a certain number of minutes, which increases based on some relation with nesting depth.

Is this the 'you're posting too fast, please slow down' message?
It comes down to, do you care more about development, or do you care more about your users, and the app's ability to fit in with their chosen desktop, follow that desktop's paradigms, etc?
Is your argument that one is better off to run $(potentially dangerous command) with sudo privileges because it’s also risky to run it without?
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The habit of assuming customers want bags seems like one way to characterize much, of not most, of the problem. I get the impression it’s seen as a common courtesy for some, or a gesture. Maybe nothing more than a habit, maybe less than that.
"One of the big concerns from this change though is that some doctors are claiming you don't rehydrate fully in a short period of time this way. Fighters weigh in the day before a fight, so they're peak dehydrated roughly 24 hours before they fight. There are claims that it takes the brain many days to fully rehydrate after a weight cut if you're not using IV's, so people paying attention in the sport are really worried that brain injuries are going to start going up."

I have always been skeptical of this notion that rehydration takes hours or days or whatever.

First of all, practical experience shows that mucus, urine, sweating[1], etc. very quickly revert to full hydration. You can go from dark yellow urine to clear urine in less than two hours.

Second, what mechanism could there possibly be to restrict water absorption in your body while dehydrated ?[2] I don't think you could slow down rehydration if you tried to[3]. Your body doesn't have to digest it and it can transport nearly immediately outward to every tissue (as evidenced by nasal mucus production which reverts as quickly as your urine color does).

I think it's just bro-science and it's surprising that it is so persistent (I have heard it in the gym, at basic training, in the fire service, etc.) because immediate, practical evidence contradicts it.

[1] I am not talking about heatstroke, etc., which are separate issues.

[2] The only thing I can possibly think of is stuffing yourself with very absorptive food prior to rehydrating ... which would be odd.

[3] Assuming normal water with normal mineral content. Obviously, distilled water will cause problems.
Sure, it does act as a stabilizer, but IMO it affects discussion style much more than opinions expressed. Which is, to me, is a good thing.

Rudeness and pointless ramblings get downvoted quickly, which is likely a model learned quickly by newcomers. Arguing an unpopular view is unlikely to get beaten hard -- I do not recall ever getting more than -3 or so on a comment (but maybe I am just a conformist).
Rovio stock takes nose-dive after profit warnings
GM did a nice job there. They have a good solution to the "expecting the driver to watch and take over" problem. Their system watches the driver constantly to make sure they're in position to take over, but doesn't require a hand on the wheel. GM is also more careful about when to allow the control system to engage.

Tesla's crashes on "autopilot" have mostly been in situations where the system should have detected an obstacle. Four times, a Tesla on autopilot has slammed into an obstacle partly blocking the left edge of a lane. All those crashes were in freeway situations, where Autopilot is supposed to be reliable. That's inexcusable. Tesla's radar has inadequate resolution for the job, the vision system doesn't really recognize fixed obstacles, and they don't have LIDAR. So they don't detect big things like fire trucks and street cleaning trucks that are mostly on the shoulder and partly into the lane.
We should call it the InterPlaNet if that ever happens.
I'm curious why I'm getting downvoted for this, it seems to be a pretty clear comparison to me.
I just have latest Python installed and the nice support on Visual Studio.

https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/python/
An experience redesign (vs a reskin) is saying you have something new good enough to justify disrupting your user's existing routines.

It's not clear to me what that new thing is in the new Snapchat UI. It seems better consolidated but less consistently sorted/organized. But for direct communication with friends, it's not really that different.

If anything, the redesign feels like an attempt to protect the core feature of Snapchat - the direct communication vs the spammy broadcasting - at the cost of a temporary hit to revenue. I don't see how it would make them more money in the short run.

I honestly have no idea how a celebrity would use the app, so it could easily be much worse for her, but that direct experience probably isn't relevant. Snapchat isn't Twitter. Twitter and Instagram seem to be dominated by "influencer" type stuff, which is why I practically never use them - Snapchat is better for talking to people I know. Trickier to monetize that, though.

Regardless, thanks to modern metrics ("spying" if you're uncharitable) Snapchat is doubtless aware of all the changes, so we'll see if further changes come or if this was just complaining-about-change.
Why I don’t like it is 3 fold: 2 major and 1 minor. The first is that my friend list is
1. Person I just Snapped
2. Person I just Snapped
3. Person I haven’t talked to in forever (but just posted to their story)
4. Person I haven’t talked to in forever
...

And there will be times I snap a person and go back on the friends list and their gone! Like they just don’t show up anywhere I have to search them to see if they opened my snap.

Second is that I have people (like family) who I don’t snap much but still look at their stories. In the new version I actually have to search them all Individually which is awful.

Third is minor but I find the friends list cluttered and difficult to process. Stories, Streaks, message notifications, scores, Bitmoji, names all cluttered into one single line item.
:D I can talk about this topic for days, only stopping to hydrate and eating every twelve hours. It's my pet peeve.
rural route carriers, who are generally independent contractors working for the USPS to serve low volume highly-dispersed routes, (what used to be called star routes) have provided their own vehicles since forever.
Should he have also complained because he slept on a real mattress and not an Air Bed, as advertised in the name?
Wow the toxicity on that thread is appalling. I feel like I need to a tool when hiring people that automatically shows me their github comments with the most reactions.
I don’t understand how it’s useful to poor farmer in Zimbabwe when crypto transaction takes hour and cost is equivalent to $20 which is their monthly income.
> Saving the environment didn't matter, but 5p does? People didn't know plastic was bad before? They didn't care?

i think it simply does not register, until something flips the switch. "money" is a powerful trigger. people pay special attention to what it is connected to.
Rural delivery has always been private vehicles. Carriers with spouses who have good jobs buy right hand drive Subaru’s. Everyone else drives some hooptie mobile.

A lot of farm spouses used to do this gig. A moderately reliable car and a mechanically inclination is a key to success — cars need brakes every 3-6 weeks.

USPS in general started buying more low bidder commercial vehicles because their package volumes have increased and the bespoke, cheap mail trucks were too small.
I think there may be a degree of thinking like "if this really were a problem, then the costs would be visible or pushed down to me by now", and then the 5p charge (and the routinely-forced conversation with the cashier) was finally that.
And depending on when you define the "launch" of the internet, it's 10 year anniversary was in 1999, square in the AOL timeperiod that the parent comment was talking about.
Well the money for the tax cuts for the rich has to come from somewhere...
It's poorly disguised marketing for Kylie Jenner. Look at the "influence" she holds, wiping out $1.3B from Snapchat value! Wouldn't you want her to support your {thing}? Imagine how much value it would bring your product.
I already trust self driving cars more than random motorists.

Slowing down the deployment of self driving cars is likely to cost far more lives than it saves. The difference is we don't create national news for the several people that will be killed today on America's highways.
what is the environmental cost of staying in the hospital? Coliform bacteria are found in half of reusable bags and E. Coli are found in 12%.

Reusable bags weigh 40-50 grams, one time use bags are 6 grams. I'm for finding bio-degradable plastic replacements, not because they take up landfill space (who cares, landfills are very safe), but more for the bags/plastics that don't find their way to the landfill.
Kylie who?
Let's go into that a little more. Are you thinking that "exclusively for kids" is the message, and that you have to appeal to the demo to keep them?

Another major user hostile feature is viewing anything on Instagram: the images (main reason to be there, eh?) are hard to zoom or save. The videos have few options like speed or captions. They almost revel in "here's your fixed size picture frame, enjoy our choices".
And then there was this solution before GPS...

https://www.fastcompany.com/3047828/who-needs-gps-the-forgot...
ARPANet was around long before AOL.
I signed up for an account and plan on trying it out later, and I just want to say: thank you for explaining what your newsletter is, and for making it opt-in, instead of opt-out.
I appreciate you sharing that more for their shared-source licensing model than anything else. I don't have many examples of paid source to draw on in those discussions.
Amazon Inc. Paid Zero in Federal Taxes in 2017, Gets $789M Tax Windfall
I wonder what the latency is going to be, in particular for intercontinental traffic. Will it be better or worse than with the submarine cables we use today?
They would gain a massive fleet of self-driving cars overnight.

Remember, Elon doesn’t think like other industrialists. I fully believe that he views profit as little more than a tool to reach his other goals.

Also, having worked on autonomous vehicles, my opinion is that LIDAR is really overrated, and if compute power is an issue, that can be a straightforward modular upgrade.
Why wouldn't I just run the desktop app on my work laptop?
> The best option is to stop using straws.

Hey, I completely agree with you there!

> CO2 is the primary concern.

Why?

> Storing waste is not a problem in most parts of the world.

I didn't say anything about storage space. Storage of waste isn't even close to the primary reason to avoid plastic waste.

> The amount of steel it would require isn't important.

It absolutely is, even if you only care about CO2. This statement contradicts other things you said. You can only make claims about one being better if you compare how much it takes to produce.

I'm trying to find sources on tons of CO2 emissions per ton of plastic & steel, and as a non-expert using Google, it's hard to pinpoint. But I get the feeling that metals are 2-3x the CO2 emissions of plastic. A steel straw would be much heavier than a plastic one, so based on this guesstimation, I'd expect CO2 parity for 1 steel straw to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 plastic straws. If I'm anywhere close to accurate, that doesn't seem like it takes very long to beat plastic on CO2.

If you think I'm wrong, you'll have to demonstrate it by showing how much steel it would require...

> What's important is how much energy it takes

I don't buy that blanket generalization. Energy is a highly debatable potentially misleading issue, and doesn't necessarily have a high impact on C02, if renewable energy sources are used like hydro & solar. We might be emitting CO2 by burning coal today, but we don't have to burn coal in the future.

> You also need to factor in the energy and water it takes to clean the straw and the likelihood of damaging or losing it over that time.

Sure, fine. That changes the average life of the straw. Let's say it's 1 year instead of 10. For someone who uses one straw per day at lunch only on work days, we'd have to compare the carbon footprint of 1 steel straw to about 260 plastic straws. Even for CO2 emissions, the disposable ones are at a pretty severe disadvantage any way you look at it.
>solving the problem with Lidar isn't revolutionary per se

Solving the problem in any capacity would be revolutionary. Autonomous vehicles operating in a commercial capacity on public roads technically don't yet exist.

There's the old saying 'it's easier to optimize a working system than it is to get an optimized system working',

Outfits using Lidar (and using about an order of magnitude more compute than what's going into Tesla's HW2) are much closer to solving autonomy than Tesla, and in time these systems will get cheaper.
Digg died basically overnight after a redesign. It happens.
Biogas can be generated by fermenting sewage. All buses in Stockholm run on it, it burns extremely clean and is carbon-neutral since it utilizes carbon already in the present carbon cycle.
> I've said quite a few things that have either scored low or negative, even if they sane and cogent and direct

You may not be the most unbiased judge of that.
didn't click the link, is it just a picture of a money?
Lions and Bears : Humans aren't a threat. Sharp teeth through the neck are an effective defense against a malicious human.

If the hypothetical malicious AI gets built, your JDAMs will be about as advanced by comparison as a pointy stick against an M-16.
Szabo is not another cryptocurrency talking head. He proposed smart contracts a decade before they became a reality.
didn't click the link, is it just a sack with a dollar sign on it?
Considering the stock rose nearly 50% after last earnings... It was bound to fall.
> I have yet to see much in the way of concrete harms from the supposed privacy issues plaguing online advertising.

I haven't heard of nation-state level repercussions but the persistent profiling has already bitten a few people in the ass, such as the case where Target's profiling of a teenaged girl and their subsequent marketing betrayed her pregnancy status to her parents.
> on the heels of a tweet from Kylie Jenner, who said she doesn’t open the app anymore. Whether it’s the demands of her newfound motherhood, or the recent app redesign, the testament drew similar replies from her 24.5 million followers. Wall Street analysts too, have begun to notice, citing recent user engagement trends noticed since the platform’s redesign.

So if it crashes even more, can we safely say it was caused by some of the "similar replies" on this HN thread? ;)
Looked at the scroll after this comment, Nope..
Hi!
We have quite a few languages on our plate, but it's very likely we'll work on Brazilian Portuguese before the end of the year.
Ask HN: Facebook feed removing Ads after loading
Hello,

I have been noticing for some time my facebook feed when i load, it shows me some ads in the feed and within a second they disappers. It looks like some hack done by facebook. Anyone else noticed it and know why it is behaving that way? Or is it my adblocker which is removing ads from facebook feed?
Keep in mind that their CFO (a former Wall Street Banker) keeps a careful eye on costs and spending:

"CFO Ruth Porat is pushing Google “creatives” to bring their costs under control."

http://fortune.com/google-cfo-ruth-porat-most-powerful-women...
I'm honestly don't know - what's political about 1965? What happened in that year?
Maybe you were right because they seem to have removed the video.
I contacted them about using their services for my existing Delaware C Corp that I originally registered using incorporate.com . They told me that the company must be opened through them for them to manage it later.
> Ask a woman in Afghanistan where all her money is considered property of men.

Yes, clearly the solution to this problem is BTC, NOT some kind of other reform or liberalization.
Programming gene and engineered-cell therapies with synthetic biology
"Swing, QT, GTK all look different depending on the OS."

They're supposed to. They're fitting in with the OS's native look and feel. And that's a GOOD THING.
This sounds amazing. Looking forward to trying it out on my rpi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlaNet
Show HN: A political vote and finance data explorer
it's a JS developer. what do you expect?
Thanks to some bad luck my father has been in the hospital more than half a dozen times in the last couple of years. He has always been given IV fluids. This week he went in for pneumonia, just coughing and shortness of breath, and they put him on an IV. I never thought twice about it until today.

Having a needle in your arm for hours is not pleasant. My dad doesn't heal so quickly these days, so he's going to have bruising and tenderness for a week where they put the needle in. Watching my dad go through this, and my girlfriend's brother who has mental disabilities a couple of years ago, and now realizing it would have been a lot more comfortable for them if they'd just let them sip on some Gatorade seriously pisses me off.
To the best of my knowledge, she was in good health before she developed the infection. Her body mass index was in the normal range, and she did the recommended amount of aerobic exercise (150 minutes, moderate intensity / week).

It sounds to me like an intern over-reacted to her dehydration, and over did it with the IV fluids.
5 Steps to Take Control of Your Data Online
Heh, cool :) Thank you for that link.
Hi!
Keep an eye on our Medium: https://medium.com/snips-ai
We have a few technical blog posts out there already, and a few more coming.
> Their decision to limit the initial problem domain is genius

Is it? It sounds like "If you can't think of an answer, change the question."

That's like Microsoft saying "We can't keep viruses out of our computers, so we're not going to try. Instead, we just won't let them access the internet anymore."*

(*Yes, I know that pre-internet C-64's and Apple ]['s had viruses, too. Work with me here, people!)
I don't follow Snap well enough to know the cause of the dive, but they did release their first ever annual report as a public company this morning:

https://investor.snap.com/financial-information/sec-filings
Taking a Timeout from Poor Performance
I'm from the area, so I definitely know that there is great food there, from little local delis to the best middle eastern food in the US.

I'm just not aware of a great local pizza tradition. And for me personally, Buddy's Detroit-style pizza (I grew up eating it) doesn't meet that standard.
The financialization of commodities is exactly why everyone you listed is in the situation they are in.

How does Bitcoin's financialization actually help anyone you listed?
That's a reasonable way to do it. Keep the front door unlocked on guest swaps, keep the key inside the house.
You miss a package manager layered on top of the one already in your OS, one that's seemingly run by people with no clue what they're doing, is rife with security issues and can break your entire system as we saw today?

I have no clue why a sane person would run npm.
Tesla claims every new car already has the necessary hardware, and they're already pre-selling the upgrade. They could very well be lying, of course.
What is with this phrase "one weird trick"? I see it used constantly in all kinds of spammy marketing.

Do the marketers really somehow realize that the word "weird" makes the speaker seem like an impartial reporter, or makes people more curious about the trick?

Because it's freaking "weird"! I wouldn't think such a word would work like gangbusters but it keeps being used. And it's almost always spammy marketers.

"One weird trick to do that thing you always wanted to do."
> transfer times, are getting too ridiculous

Then I got good news for you! the RobinHood app's transfer times are infinite, because you can't transfer the coins out :).

They never let you hold the bitcoin--all buys/sells take place on their system. I imagine they did this to avoid a lot of challenges that come with being able to transfer coins out.
And if you didn't like the notion of 1/2 karma, you could flip a coin to determine whether to subtract 1.
How does one contribute to the code running HN? I read the site almost exclusively on my tablet, and I would love a "open links in new window" settings option and would be quite happy to help write the code to make it happen.