skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noam Chomsky has been talking about this for a while. He gave a talk at Harvard* that discussed the threat of terminal war and mentioned this in his talk. Some might claim that 3x stronger hard-kill power is a stronger deterrent and can allow us to retire the land based ICBMs. It can also ratchet up tensions, and I'm going to lol all the way to the bank if the military gives up a huge source of funding. Inter-branch competition has
been that way since the inception of the nuclear program. Capabilities have been replicated wastefully at various points to keep people happy.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4675156/noam-chomsky-requiem-...

EDIT: It was actually at the unitarian church outside of Harvard.
> Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn't stop us once they realized that was what we were doing

The extraction of Facebook's social graph is the element I agree "finds comparison in the 2008 or 2012 races" [1]. But Obama's campaign didn't mis-represent its identity nor intentions to Facebook. Kogan and Cambridge Analytica did. Obama's campaign didn't lie about deleting its data when asked to (which, to my understanding, it wasn't). Kogan and Cambridge Analytica did. Moreover, Obama's campaign reported its backers to the FEC; Kogan and Cambridge Analytica do not.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16642536
> but because we aren't answering questions in the domain of mathematics.

And then one can ask “what is the domain of mathematics?” or even “does mathematics have a domain?”, questions which lead us into a “philosophy of science” discussion with no end in sight.

I’ve felt for quite some time that the fact that mathematics can model/answer some aspects related to physical reality is just a happy coincidence at best, which we shouldn’t insist too much upon, for fear of then risking to miss the forest because of some trees that absorb our view, like “isn’t this mathematical equation perfectly describing how galaxies interact billions of light-years away?” might obstruct from us the very dire truth that there is no math to describe what will be my cat’s movings around the room in the next 5 minutes (and it’s not for lack of trying, just look at the billions of dollars invested by hedge-funds into mathematics so that they could “model”/predict the future; I don’t think they’re scientifically anywhere close to that).
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> Two employees need to be able to have a healthy, discrete conversation about working with the boss without having to worry about a transcript of the conversation pop up in a performance evaluation later in the year.

If you are worried about this, the issue isn't Slack. I don't worry about my boss reading my slack DM's - I'm well aware of what process would be involved there (my boss would be fired immediately, and wouldn't even have access without Legal involved). If you're worried about your company 'snooping' on you that's an underlying, unrelated problem.
I'm trying to stay anonymous and am concerned I may have already revealed too much. Let's just say it is a technical role that involves coding and leave it at that.
>There was no consent

Voluntarily putting your info on a free site is the consent.

Would you also cry "illegal" if HN sold your post history, which they have tied to your IP address, which they can easily link to who you are?
On the other hand, borrowing in a foreign currency risks being ruined by exchange rates if the currency collapses. As happened to businesses in many Asian countries not that long ago. Also: Iceland.
I didn't actually argue that there was an expectation...

I only said that the comment I replied to relied on a purely arbitrary definition for what an invasion of personal privacy was... He argued that because "your company is not recording your activity in the privacy of your home or on the street" it wasn't unreasonable (or totalitarian), because the company was "protecting itself and other employees from potentially problematic abuse scenarios." Even though it's amusingly easy to imagine that a totalitarian regime would make the same argument for its own surveillance practices....
A very pernicious form which disproportionately harms the middle and lower classes. I’ve never understood hard left thinks this kind of thing is a good idea. I understand wanting to change gross inequality and reject runaway capitalism, especially the rigged cronyism we see today. Choosing to change things by engaging in failed alternatives though seems crazy.

I’m not being rhetorical, I don’t understand. If someone can explain it to me, or point me to some good explanations I’d appreciate it.
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While researching probiotics I came across a recent study that has found increased obesity in response to VSL #3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29493105. While I do not have any details on the study methodology, I think it is best to be cautious while trying out supplements.
Inflation is a tax on wealth but not income (which rises with inflation.) As such it’s a progressive tax since wealth is so unequally distributed. Close to two decades of low inflation in the US and Western Europe has greatly increased inequality. Hyperinflation is destructive and must be avoided but there’s a strong progressive case for increasing the 2% inflation targeted by most central banks.
I haven't used headphones at work to tune out my surroundings but I'm gonna consider it now, thanks.

Most remote programming jobs tend to be centered around web development or mobile apps. I'm not interested in mobile, and web, which is what I've done in the past, is losing my interest as well.

I'd like to pursue jobs that have more traditional engineering backgrounds, in other domains like embedded programming, so it's more likely I'll have to work on-site again.
I wish webdevs would stop this bullshit yesterday.

"Bbbut, everyone does it. It's industry sop..."
It was a sample. Wansink's conclusion wasn't that the Joy Of Cooking got fattier, it was that home cooking got fattier, and Joy of Cooking was a proxy for that. So it was a sample from the larger universe of home cooking.
I worry more about this blending of life, work and passion into one miasma that is supposed to be consistent and all-encompassing, all the time.

Used to be, we had a work life, a private life, friends and activities that more or less never interacted. Now it seems people want all the above, all the time, every minute of every day. Google runs the workplace like they are mum and dad, and everyone wants work to solve all their life's meaning, rather than providing a living so we can find meaning elsewhere. This blending of all facets of our lives is partly why privacy is so skew-if (as we broadcast all the time), and why it is so hard for people of differing views to seemingly get along.

In my darker moments, I think a lot of the progressive stuff is a conspiracy by business to make everyone want to work 12 hour days - this idea is not helped by books like Lean In, or the way many modern workplaces invent ways to keep you at work longer and longer. In my less dark moments, I think good ideals have been co-opted or money making purposes, which is kind of how life seems to work.

All this leads to ideas like this, where people not only can't separate different elements in life from their life, but demand that all elements of their life conform to their pre-set ideals. I'm not sure who wins long-run between the VCs and the startups in a situation like this, but the long run affects of this blending of life into one thing, well I'm just not sure the animal that is a human being really benefits from it at all.

I really wish we could re-seperate out the spheres of our life, and not expect work to provide all our meaning, or provide all of the solutions. I wish instead that we could have a work life and a, for want of a better term, life-life, and (rarely?) the twain shall meet.
You are exactly why we should all be extremely careful with what we communicate on the work network.

By "you" I don't mean you personally of course, what I mean is IT in general.

You might be ethical enough to not abuse your new found privilege but who is to say that the next guy won't?

I believe all employees should restrain from posting personal and private things on a company network or any related device for that matter.

You never know how this data can be misused.
I suggest that all HN readers in the UK go to their local stores containing DVDs/BluRays, find a copy of "The Producers", and then contact the police immediately because the movie concerns a group of crooked financiers that include Nazism to profit. Explain to the police that you are deeply offended that anyone would attempt to profit off of Nazism and that everyone associated with the movie and the people that own and run the store you found the DVD/BluRay in should be arrested and charged with offending you.
Huh?

<a href="//twitter.com/USERNAME"><img src="twitter-dot-png">Find us on twitter</a>

And host twitter-dot-png yourself.

(edited to remove autolinking)
It is exceedingly rare in practice.
Following GDPR could be much easier. Simply delete messages ASAP. Best protection of private data is not storing them.
They have multiple layouts that they support - I prefer the normal list layout that shows the title and snippet.
Notarization is another great example of "the real world is strange to technical folks." There are a thousand reasons that notarization is a terrible process. There are minimal requirements to be a notary. Notaries have predictable seals. Ordering a fake notary stamp is pretty easy. There's no technical deterrent to backdating requests. Notaries are frequently employed by the people they're notarizing for. Notaries are not trained to recognize fake IDs.

Even the flimsiest of technological improvements could radically improve the trustworthiness of the notarizations, but by and large the system works, so there's not much of a reason to fix it yet.
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> Is this age and sex bias a silicon valley problem?

From my experiences a lot of SV's ageism is not really that they won't hire older workers on principle, it is just that most of their worker are young due to local conditions and like attracts like. By 'local conditions' I mostly mean cost of living, everyone I know who has lived in SV moved away when they got older and wanted to start a family.
How long did this take you? I was considering something like this and would love it if you could tell us about your experience doing this remotely.
Bye bye Facebook. I'm gone. Finally made it. Fear of missing out was keeping me from doing it. And for what? I was fearing to miss out on what? Being disconnected from whom? From people that I haven't met in years.
Not with that attitude.

Seriously, writing off any attempt at discussing or fixing the problem because "it's a pipe dream"/"network effect"/etc will ensure that you do end up going nowhere.
Here's a screenshot of umatrix, showing that it tries to load javascript from those domains: https://imgur.com/bvZzZsX
The other choice is to be equally effective, but with less explosive power. It's an effort to be environmentally friendly.
Has anyone else encountered the 25 minute ads? Mine was a full episode of some home-improvement show sponsored by Lowes.
How is that different from a 35 year old mentally handicapped sibling under your care? It's not a question of age, it's one of responsibility.
CA is a major customer of Facebook whose work has no free press implications. They can ask them to do whatever they want.
Isn't part of the complaint that Cambridge Analytica was instructed to delete the data by Facebook, and claimed they did, but in fact, that they did not?

What is to say Facebook itself or Google can't operate in the same way?
>The main problem is that users can't control their data.

Then maybe stop putting data on a "free" site which owes you absolutely nothing?

I just don't get how everyone is on an uproar: "OMG they have my data! Which I voluntarily gave them! Which they are using for advertising/etc!"
With all the recommendations of mods, custom PCBs, sheds, cinderblock enclosures, underground bomb shelters, etc - the $5500 Tesla PowerWall doesn't sound so bad at all!

Edit: removed concern about deionized water.
> And honestly, one problem does not diminish another.

Yet, when compared, it is diminished. Loss of a privileged place in society doesn't hold a candle to the suffering of those who are still struggling to obtain one.

I didn't say those who disagreed with me were white supremacists just for disagreeing. I said white supremacists marched in Charlottesville because, in fact, there were people marching there, arguing for suppressing non-white minorities. Not that hard to grok.
I did some research on Operation Crossroads a while back. I'm not sure what the blast effect damage would be, but it would cause radioactive water to wash over the town. Several warships in the exercise were scrapped because they could not be cleaned as certain isotopes stuck to the metal.

EDIT: Of course, how much radiation exposure you're willing to tolerate is a risk assessment call, but it seems pretty unfair to the civilian population to take any significant increased radiological risk.

EDIT2: 100MT is the design yield of the Tsar bomba, the actual detonated yield was 50MT b/c the plane dropping it would not have been able to escape at the design yield. This is a very very big bomb if that capability were actually used. I assume smaller bombs would also be able to be used as well.
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1. I require more of an explanation as to what you mean by decrease scope. I could interpret that in different ways.

2. Sure, I understand the discipline necessary to prevent that is difficult in a team setting. I would say that likely at reaching that point something went wrong before then. That seems a tooling problem, not a language problem. How many languages provide features out-of-the-box that assist with discovering unused code without some form of third-party exploring that space?

3. In what way? What scope problems? I can think of several bad practices that lead to scope problems. I can think of examples of two people following two different best practices creating such problems.

4. I know it's not exactly a fair thing to say, but I don't have those issues with the example you provide. I'm sure there's plenty of examples of showing how to do it.

5. Flex. But, granted, old practices didn't handle vertical issues well because originally HTML wasn't intended for that.

6. In what way? Do you mean variables from a pre-processor or CSS custom properties?

I'm sure there are more, just like almost all languages have their quirks and issues that make it difficult to address if not understood. Do you have any other examples that we could discuss? Are there any specific use cases where you are having difficulties that I might be able to help out with?
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That's not limited to children, your parents with dementia may have diminished capacity. Age is a trap as not all 16 year old children are capable of taking care of themselves for a weekend alone, but many are.
True, I was only looking at regulations going forward, this wouldn't tell you at all what was exfiltrated in the past.

I'd totally support that requirement even tho it's a massive task (it's not like FB lacks the funds/resources).
Isn't this the point of journals? They communicate new knowledge, which changes the status of what is known.

There's a balance to be struck in how certain these things should be before being published, for sure. The p-hacking plague is a symptom of setting this certainty bar too low, or equivalently, the required level of novelty too high.

Things which stay constant are the job of standards bodies, and textbook writers... these are important too, but different.
I think it was deliberate, because when they did include advertising in search results, they innovated with text-only ads (and on an unobtrusive part of the page).

I recall that I grew to appreciate these ads - they were often relevant to what I was doing at that point in time. Much more civilised than the garish GIFs that were the norm at that time.
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It took three years. As I mentioned elsewhere, I tested out of a semester of work. Unlike undergrads, I was used to working year round, so I took January term and summer classes to reduce elapsed time.

While some remote students have been able to build quality relationships with professors, it is far easier if you are local.
One way to look at journals are that they are "ready made" reputation for those without their own. A new author can leverage the reputation of the journal to establish their own reputation.

On that basis, maybe the mark of a truly prestigious researcher is one who can post directly to arXiv? Rather than the highest accolade being for a paper in Nature, the highest accolade should be for a widely reviewed paper on arXiv?
As mentioned in this the linked article LODing is a big unknown. However the there are three aspects to the API that can be regarded as aiding LOD tracing. First trace maximum distances can be specified. Second miss shaders (those rays exceeding maximums) can generate more rays. And finally intersection shaders can be provided for non-polygonal LOD techniques (Voxels).
5% of the value held in the bank account of a poor person is worth more to that person than 5% in the account of a wealthy person, even if the absolute amount is less. Inflation is one of the most regressive taxes.
Grotesque. Inflation is a tax that is first spent by the government, from the government to governments interests. Its a terrible tool of wealth distribution, and to the extent that it behaves like one it redistributes from everyone into the pockets of those who get the money first.
How can humanism believe humans have free will if everything is physically determined? If we have no free will, we have no agency. It doesn't matter how much humanists assert to the contrary.

Christianity, on the other hand, easily explains free will and agency.
> You're right, it's important to note they are more powerful and exercise more control over the lives of their employees than many governments, though employees often have the same opportunity to leave their company as they do their government (none).

Especially when they're also dependent on their corporation for healthcare and retirement...

This is exactly my point, it's effortless to compare corporations to government, especially in this context. For the other comment to base his argument around the word "totalitarian" seems nothing if not disingenuous, given that the meaning behind the word is clear.
Yeah, when I looked at the title, I was confident I've seen that before, but I hadn't.

You might say I had a case of, ah, never mind, bad pun.

On a serious note, I understand there's only a finite number of words, but a limitless number of software project - and yet surely there are still enough names that aren't used for something well-known and widely used. Yes, the DJVU and Dejavu are spelled differently, but it is the same word.
I always love that argument. Because it reminds me when I was 5 and my mom said "Just because everyone else does it doesn't make it right." If your argument is one that a 5 year old is making, you might need to reconsider.
>income (which rises with inflation)

At least up here in Canada, inflation-adjusted wage growth has been negative in the past two years.
This reminds me of a favorite twitter bot that adds the same caption to every _New Yorker_ cartoon: https://twitter.com/newuniversalcap
We could have had at least five more years of classic Beatles albums if they hadn’t split up in 1970, just based of what songs they went on to write. And probably longer owing to the creative atmosphere and competitiveness within the group setting.
> it's kind of amazing that he has a job

No less than as head of a research lab at Cornell, in one of the top 10 applied economics schools in the world.
The predicate at the root of this thread is "starting to file lawsuits or take legal action", against researchers.

Maybe a better way to put it: it's hard to see how any of the examples in this article would be addressed by Dropbox's VDP.
Only if you peg your own currency. If your neighbor devaluates their currency, your will naturally devaluate yours.
I just cleaned out my "connected" apps, and found like 4 quiz apps that I don't remember at all with full access to my personal info and friends. Back when they launched login with facebook I used it like a fool (also Spotify at launch ONLY launched with it). I knew this had happened, but its more like now the consequences are coming much more into clarity.

> I disagree that it's "the end of Facebook", though

If they do what they say and publically shame the apps in a way that people would see, it might. It would be hilarious for them to put up 100 logos of apps on the top and say oh yeah by the way all these apps have been taking your personal information, with lovely trustable names like "e-quiz" and "sofunni"
CA didn't represent anything to Facebook. They never created an app. They bought data, years later, from Kogan, who had created an app. Kogan violated Facebook policies, but there again, he didn't "misrepresent his identity [or] intentions" to Facebook. You didn't (and still don't) have to represent any intentions to Facebook to create an app. You simply create the app and agree to the platform terms and conditions. You're framing this as if CA & Kogan created some kind of special relationship with Facebook under the guise of academic research, and that just isn't the case. The only app in this situation that was granted special permissions or where Facebook knew the true intentions was the Obama app, and it's arguably worse that Facebook knew what their intentions were. That's because they knew that about half of the users involved -
95 million people out of 190 million - would never have knowingly allowed their data to be used to help Obama, but they allowed it special access anyway.

As for Obama's campaign not being asked to delete data, all apps were required to delete data that they came into possession of under the pre-2014 policy. Those were the terms they agreed to when they deployed the app - especially one that was allowed special access to the entire US social graph (where no other app would have been). So if Kogan violated the policy, so has the Obama campaign.
Yes, we don't focus on admin related features atm. Elasticsearch head or Elasticsearch HQ [1] are good options for doing this.

Fun fact: We actually started out with elasticsearch-head, but realized it was really hard to hack on (this was ~2y ago) and decided to create Dejavu. Imo, the key difference is we have focused a lot on how to get the data indexed (mappings, bring your CSV/JSON files) and have the raw data visualized (via UI based filters or DSL queries).

[1] https://github.com/ElasticHQ/elasticsearch-HQ
I miss the diversity in web design back in the day. From blinking, colorful and seizure-inducing to very dark pages with little torch gifs. Weirdly enough every website now looks the same (ok maybe we have 3 archetypes of web design) even though the number of sites has grown exponentially for decades.
Privacy badger only lists: Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin as trackers. Though I see that it is using google APIs, but PB doesn't think it is tracking.

Though interestingly the DDG app says "3 trackers blocked" and only shows twitter being blocked.
If it mattered to me, was necessary, and i was in the right legally, then I would need to.

Each country has its own laws covering this situation.

Giving someone personal information still restricts them legally irrespective of what they think i've consented to or their own definition of consent. The legal system has its own opinion.
NEETs, hikkimoris, basement dwelling neckbeards, every first world country probably has a term for it, and stereotypes associated