skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did that experiment this morning -- before work at home and on the way to work, my wife and I were discussing getting a new car, and spoke about a particular car brand that a coworker just purchased.

I just asked her to check her Facebook and she doesn't see any car ads. I checked too but didn't see any ads for cars or that brand, but I don't have the Facebook app on my phone (she does) and our Facebook profiles aren't strongly linked (i.e. she's not listed as my "wife", we just friend each other). She uses her phone for navigation while driving, so it was in a position to clearly hear us.

I haven't done any research on that car brand, but I suspect that once I do a Google search, then the ads will start flooding in.

So maybe this is confirmation bias in the other direction, but I don't see any evidence that Amazon Alexa, Facebook, or Google Assistant are spying on us. Though it could just mean that this particular carmaker doesn't purchase ads based on keyword spying
Android has two ways of PWAs currently, either as a more complicated bookmark (with the icon) or with Chrome generating an APK on the fly, Google signing it on the fly, and it then being installed.

Obviously, this is only available to Chrome, and not to any third-party browser (the EU antitrust commission is gonna love this).
Acording to https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/02/improving-... it will simply not be possible to access API you are not supposed to touch. Trying it will result in NoSuchFieldException/NoSuchMethodException.
Because this kind of processing needs to run fast, almost all resources and tutorials are in c/cpp, and security is not a concern.
Speaking of badware: last week I found Mac Afee installed on the laptop of a relative that I manage. I assured me that he had not installed it himself (I had not installed anything actually). Could it have come from windows updates ?
Google already has a few contracts in place for validating OEMs access to their services.

They just keep "forgetting" to include updates on the requirements clauses.
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you mean introduce a traceable side effect in the underlying dll/system-api? Sure that could work (many debuggers do that), but perhaps they are just not using the same API, or just find another way to stream the data without go through the same interfaces (idk, perhaps through browser APIs or they keep recording all time and just send portions of data which is locally inspected)... it is a good challenge and certainly observing the interruptions hardware could be the right way to go.

In the other hand that is a considerable effort for someone who does not usually work with this part of the stack... would you be able to introduce this changes in an android OS?
I thought what I was saying was quite a bit different. If one is using the Kelly Criterion, one needs to know what the probability of winning and odds paid for a win. Traders generally don't know these at all and only can find them out by making the trade and seeing what happens.

Of course when the Kelly Criterion is known and constant, one can make the optimal bets and get rich, but those situations don't exist in real life (unless there is some kind of monopoly or external force being used to make people take the other (loosing side) of the bet). The iterative thinking of the the Kelly Criterion must be part of a traders mindset, but markets never understood well enough to where this formula can be strictly applied.

A bit strange to see Taleb talk about a casino situation to explain his thinking. Elsewhere he mocks such "casino odds" view of the world as very unrealistic an bemoans that such a view will cause one grief if you use those ideas with "skin in the game".

ps. I've only read "Anti-Fragile" and some of his blog essays.
Whoa, dolphins are so smart.
Is Mattermost a viable alternative, and is it possible to bridge it with IRC and XMPP?
> Server side code is unreasonable to expect.

Honest question: why would it be unreasonable for us to expect server-side code to be open-source? Facebook's value lies in its brand and its infrastructure, not in its code, so there's no risk of upstarts taking Facebook's code and standing up a clone (which, even with the code, is way easier said than done).
There is no enforcement being made by Google, OEMs get to decide if they ship any kind of updates, even with Treble.
Moxie Marlinspike has a blog post about why protocols like XMPP aren't good enough to support modern messaging apps. https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

XMPP is an example of a federated protocol that advertises itself as a “living standard.” Despite its capacity for protocol “extensions,” however, it’s undeniable that XMPP still largely resembles a synchronous protocol with limited support for rich media, which can’t realistically be deployed on mobile devices. If XMPP is so extensible, why haven’t those extensions quickly brought it up to speed with the modern world?

Like any federated protocol, extensions don’t mean much unless everyone applies them, and that’s an almost impossible task in a truly federated landscape. What we have instead is a complicated morass of XEPs that aren’t consistently applied anywhere. The implications of that are severe, because someone’s choice to use an XMPP client or server that doesn’t support video or some other arbitrary feature doesn’t only affect them, it affects everyone who tries to communicate with them. It creates a climate of uncertainty, never knowing whether things will work or not. In the consumer space, fractured client support is often worse than no client support at all, because consistency is incredibly important for creating a compelling user experience.
Just rhetorically, if it's the response to your concern every time you write a post, then you need to incorporate why it's not a solution in your original post. I assumed you hadn't heard of Treble and was just about to point it out to you.
The moment that happens, that language would start diverging again. You have to unify culture in order to unify language, and that doesn't sound as good anymore.

Settling on a "common" or "business" language, though, is entirely possible, and has been done many times in history. No language ever encompassed the whole world, and if one language has it's English, right now. Latin, Arabic, Mandarin, French, English, Spanish... The world has seen its share of common languages used within certain spheres of influence.
Could a technological race between warring tribes of primitive homo sapiens be responsible for the human intelligence explosion?
From age 12 to 17, I was a super prolific "poet." I had four binders full of looseleaf pages of all kinds of writing. I had also kept every note that my girlfriends had given to me during that time. Around age 22, I found them in my closet, and I was overcome with shame and embarrassment. I immediately burned them all.

More than a decade after burning them, there's a little bit of me that wishes I hadn't, but the feeling of embarrassment is so strong, I'm cringing thinking about some lines now. I would never want to show them to anyone.

I clearly remember writing some of it, the environment where I wrote it, the events that inspired the writing, the path my brain took (and how that path was determined) for the lines I wrote, the pain in my hand from gripping the pen too tight for too long.

I remember exactly how I felt then. But I am not that person. I don't like who that person was. I envy anyone who isn't ashamed of their previous writing.
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HK is not a tech startup place, programmers outside of banking and finance get paid very poorly compared to Shenzhen. I lived in Beijing for 9 years and found that, besides the air pollution, everything was definitely workable. I only left because when my wife and I were expecting a baby. Beijing has gotten better recently, though still too bad for the baby, while Shenzhen has always been better and comparable to Shenzhen.

China has plenty of its own talent and has been attracting back those who went overseas. While I agree that they will need to attract worldwide talent in the long run to fully compete with the USA, they are not in a bad place ATM.
Sure. By altering external factors we can make the agents do whatever we want. Perhaps the fact that B only brought $50 indicates his frugal nature, and suggests that he also has a better financial situation outside the casino.
There's an entire genre of science clickbait where the title is extremely noncommittal, and it gets upvoted because it jives with users worldview and self-rationalization.

"See, it's ok to be alone. That one study from 2011 of pizza chain efficiency suggests there could be potential benefits to being alone."

"See, it's actually a good thing to drink alcohol everyday as long as I do it 'in moderation'."
Consider kops. It will change the way you work with K8s, frankly. I moved from a Terraform/Ansible setup for Kubernetes to a single command in a Makefile that bulds a multiple master, production ready K8s cluster in AWS in 15 minutes.
Netsplits apply to networks, not gateways. From Slack's perspective, supporting IRC is relatively simple: send messages in UTF-8 and "send" files by sending the URL that Slack's uploading service produces.

IRC does have a lot of deficiencies, but they're well-understood and the client environment has adapted to them.
Agreed. I have never had as good of an experience with IRC or XMPP as I have with slack. Open protocols are still great for open communities, internet discussion boards, etc. but when you're a multi-billion dollar messaging platform and companies are using you for critical communication I don't see any reason to continue supporting them. They've actually gone a step further and put the accessibility features in slack and upgraded their api to support things people used to do on the irc channels.
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It is, however when building a mobile substrate tweak, you have visibility / access to the headers of every single system class. One could theoretically hook into any number of audio recording mechanisms (assuming they knew where to look ;) )
Systems languages looked quite different in what it meant to be unsafe before C took the keys of the kingdom.
Yes but again it's too expensive to support our data. We rent servers with 16threads 128gb ram and 250ssd ssd raid for ~$100/month.

The cloud option would cost thousands for the same resources.

I understand that small customers like us are not interesting to bigger USA companies. But it's still something I wish was possible
Fargate is generally available.
Maybe the number of clients were low, but they were the early adopters that the small companies need, but big companies hate (as early adopters have very different requirements).
That isn’t really an option though, is it? You can live by their rules on the streets, or live with a much more stringent set of rules in prison.
https://github.com/ekmartin/slack-irc
Reducing engineering capacity does not necessarily mean reducing the pace of a companies innovation.
That they are limited to seeing things that they are told to see is not.
This is terrifying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owqemRL1BMA
I think the committee will (and should) throw this proposal out of the window. Most of the notable C++ projects are already using Skia.
For the curious, there's some history to that parrot emoji:

http://cultofthepartyparrot.com
Why would we not just let the market for parking determine how much parking to build?

My wife and I live in San Francisco, don't have a car, don't have a garage. Are you saying I should be forced to pay for not just one, but actually two spots?

Square footage in San Francisco is extremely precious. If people aren't willing to pay for parking I don't see why it should exist, or why people without cars should be forced to pay for it.

To be clear, I'm against parking maximums as well. If people are willing to pay for a spot, let them do so!
yeah but this would be obvious (can be seen easily) as it will require some "entitlements"
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First of all, the minimum wage is popular with the crow. So it's a good tool to win votes.
Second, a high minimum wage drives out low skilled workers. So high skilled workers have less competition. Third, companies who already pay more than the minimum wage generally favor raising it to their level because it would drive out competitors that cannot afford to pay that much.
No, it was more likely the diffusion of technology (agriculture, writing, the wheel, and so on), not the competition between civilization, that led to humanity’s intelligence explosion.
Aren't they contractually obligated to comply with CTS / VTS in order to get the Google Play stuff? The Chinese OEMs and Amazon Fire line opt-out, but pretty much the rest of the Android ecosystem opts in.
Objectively untrue, given counterexamples I've seen from Google insiders.
Wow, thank you for such a detailed answer!
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Privacy Badger is a good alternative.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-refuses-request-for-infor...

>"This exemption protects from disclosure records compiled for law enforcement purposes, the release of which could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement activities. Since Exemption 7(A) protects the records from disclosure, we have not determined if other exemptions apply. Therefore, we reserve the right to assert other exemptions when Exemption 7(A) no longer applies,"
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Am I alone in not really caring about my privacy that much? I understand many people care about theirs, and I fully respect their right to their privacy. With that said, I could care less how much data Google/Facebook acquire on me. For now, all it is for more targeted advertisements.

My tune would obviously change if that data were used in more malicious ways. But as long as it is advertising targets, I personally don't care.
Layoffs? Oh snap!
Not to mention that Chromium takes a performance hit when accessibility is on – that's why it's off by default. But both Safari and native Mac apps are always accessible.
> How much distilled water does it take to cause "harm"?

Read the quote again. I said lack of electrolytes is harmful, because that's what you asked. I don't believe that distilled water is harmful by itself (though if you take it and you don't know that you need to take in minerals from other sources then it could be harmful purely through negligence). I'm just trying to answer your question.

> But since I just found out today that the entire Navy provides only distilled water to it's sailors. (think 3 months under the sea in a submarine with only distilled water)

But sailors are also given vitamin supplements (to prevent scurvy and a variety of other diseases). I'd be surprised if they aren't also given some form of mineral and electrolyte supplements, to combat those problems. I don't know why they'd provide them distilled water though.

> A commenter further down says distilled water causes stomach cells to explode and diarrhoea.

I'm in agreement with you that this comment doesn't make any sense.
> We can enact laws to prevent the practices we as a society decide are unacceptable.

The trick about laws is that they are only as strong as their enforcement. The larger an organization is, relative to the enforcer, the easier the laws are to game.
Because maybe we shouldn't treat human beings solely as economic goods? Sure, the market exists, but it's not like some giant metaphysical thing with laws that bind us the way that the laws of physics bind us. It's okay to do the thing that's more "inefficient" if it better promotes human welfare
As I am just getting into gtk-based UI programming, I have not found any good overviews how to do things "right" to get the best performance. Could you give a pointer to where I could find information how to efficiently draw with cairo, including some pixel data?
Sure, but they must have 200-300 people actively developing hats.
It takes a lot of memory to slowly and jerkily send plain text over the internet, and not quite keep up with typing when autocomplete-ing usernames, you know. Stop expecting so much of your computers /s
I tried that when my last phone died. It didn't work.

From what I saw trawling the XDA forums, there's a small percentage of bootloop victims who have all cores affected and not just the big ones, and I was part of that unlucky few.
I've never heard of anyone being prosecuted for writing open source code.

It would be a direct affront to the First Amendment, and it would be remarkable if the US government ever did this to anyone residing in the US, let alone someone residing in other countries where different laws apply.

I could maybe see the Chinese government taking such action, but it has much less influence globally than the US, and a relatively small portion of open source contributors reside in Mainland China.

>>It would not be too difficult to pass a law prohibiting consumers to knowingly trade on non-registered exchanges I'd think.

Such a law would be widely ignored. Just look at illegal filesharing.

Ultimately digital currency will force the US to decide whether it's a free society, or whether it mandates that people transact through centralized gatekeepers. Hopefully it will choose the former.
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I would think it's pretty clear by now that "companies" in general have no morals. The only time a company won't take an action that would make them money is if that action is illegal. Usually.

I mean, if corporations will spend hundreds of billions lobbying governments to pass obviously immoral laws in their own favor (net neutrality anyone?), why would you assume they give a shit about Gary, the Redis expert they hired and don't need anymore?
>I'm very disappointed to see that Slack has decided to go the way of every other messaging service and move away from decentralized and standardized protocols

If every major messaging service eventually does this maybe those decentralized and standardized protocols are the problem.
The article is not misleading at all if you actually read it. It can only be considered twisted because the narrative contains non trivial details, which I don’t think the author could have avoided considering the facts at hand.
This works for sure, but only on jailbroken devices.

On the other hand, facebook can check (at least on IOS) easily if the device is jailbroken and behave differently.

You can also patch binary and inject some code, (probably swizzle AVAudioRecorder methods) for the same effect.

In this case, Facebook can check binary integrity, and change behavior accordingly.

So this is kind a cat and mouse game.
Only for ECS, not yet EKS/Kubernetes.
Everyone knows that orders are executed fairly on SEC regulated exchanges, right? Ehhh, not really.

It's important to look back on Flash Boys and recognize the reality of regulated exchanges. Ultimately consumer demands will drive the ethical operation of any exchange.
See my response to the other comment about them using private APIS. Basically, we would have to try and guess which APIs they were accessing under the hood.

But you are right, this would def be a considerable effort for someone not in the jailbreaking space. I would love to hack it up, but unfortunately haven't dabbled in JB dev since 2011.

That's why I posted the comment to HN. In hopes it might inspire someone in that space to build it. Might also be worth jumping in the theos IRC channel. For someone with the toolchain already set up and a jailbroken iOS device, the code is actually pretty trivial.
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So I'm making weird, postmodernist curries, pho, and tacos? Fun!
This is super shitty.. the only reason to use slack was that you could escape from the shitty web/electron crap. Good bye slack.
Is there a progression to this one might follow?
It's just a bug, why is everyone in the thread acting like Amazon is killing babies?
Or you could get a used Pixel 1 on eBay for ~300 euros
Making caramel and butterscotch were some of the most terrifying kitchen moments the first time. It was quite clear to me that the mixture I had going there was quite a bit hotter than the boiling point of water (the water had all cooked off). The thought of a sugar burn was concerning. But it all turned out ok, and we had some delicious syrups. Just had to be careful.
That's a really cool visualization. Do you know if anything like this exists for the European grid?
NYT is portraying this issue as a technology race when it's really just a surveillance infrastructure conflict of interest.

Qualcomm and Broadcom make closed source basebands, which are used (backdoors) and abused (zero-day exploitation) for spying via wireless ISPs on behalf of their respective parent governments.

If Broadcom acquires Qualcomm, it may become easier for some governments to locate firmware vulnerabilities which can either be fixed to prevent U.S. surveillance or exploited to expand local surveillance powers.
By tools, what do you mean exactly? The only tool you require on the OS-level is a screen reader, and it talks to the native Windows APIs depending on what application you are using. If you are referring to the different accessibility API implementations like MSAA, UIA etc. that is not something that should at all impede a native app of any kind, so what exactly are you referring to here?
I've yet to find one, which is unfortunate because I am a much bigger fan of irssi.
>>I, for one, welcome our PonziCoin-banning overlords.

That's a pretty totalitarian outlook. You're not content with not using cryptocurrency yourself. You want to prevent everyone else, with punitive measures, from using it too.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sy0UTISbahc/UCcCsEogQDI/AAAAAAAABp...
But why "required" to agree? If I know that I don't want other add-ons to call that extension, why can't it use it as it behaved before, that is, without effectively having to "agree" and "accept" telemetry?
> Afterwards it's client developers' problem

Riiiight. And how many clients do you know that have that? Or read receipts? Or file sending? Or... Or...?

There’s basically just one client that supports modern XMPP features. So no, it’s not the client developers’ problem. It becomes the end-users’ problem. And they will abandon XMPP in favor of solutions that don’t have tgat problem.
You're not alone. If we're talking unintended consequences of privacy invasions, I'm more inclined to not like something like letting people add you to groups without your permission (e.g. when people were outed by being added to a gay choir group on FB many years ago).

I might be biased because I run ad campaigns on FB and the data is helpful (more efficient than Snapchat or Twitter where they have less data on you).
1) FB doesn't listen to you.
2) Why are people getting so upset for seeing relevant ads? Ads is what pays for many of the services we use for free, would you rather see obnoxious irrelevant ads?
I saw their webpage, and this jumped out at me:

> full metal body

Metal bodies fuck with my synesthesia—the feeling of metal on my fingers makes me ill—so that's a total dealbreaker. It has to be plastic.
Which is a little surreal. I think I get the same way though. It really freaks me out, but there's not much I can do about it, so I'll laugh it off. I don't use social media (although I'm still on Reddit), and I still feel this way.
wee-slack is the reason I switched from irssi to weechat.
Sad, but true.
I won't mislead you by pretending to be an economist or expert, but you should look up the "business cycle". As the name implies these booms and busts happen pretty periodically. In the past it's been approximately every decade.

As for the magnitude, I can't really speak to that much. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable will chime in.
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