skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I'm typically not a very paranoid person but I only have location services on when I'm actually using Maps to navigate.

My main reason is to squash the annoying notifications about "heavy traffic in your area" at 5:00pm. Yeah, I would never have guessed...
Yeah, that's not what happens though. Airlines have a strong incentive to put you on the plane and push back from the gate even if they know the flight will not leave for hours because it makes their "on-time departure" number look better.
2 Pi or not 2 Pi? (2015)
Curious to see the emphasis here on written 'charms' with words.. The long clash between native, oral cultures and The Word in a book brought us to the modern times in the West.. more clashes of paternal vs maternal, buildings vs natures' groves, monogamy vs plural families, and more.. are somewhat implied in this tiny and very one-sided glimpse from a bookshelf of history.

However, on an upbeat note, the Christianization of the Irish peoples may be said to be generally a happy, gradual transformation over centuries.. and there is no doubt that many hearts and minds have steered well in its social fabric since then.

May the Road Rise to Meet You, all people on this day.
Could you point to the difference?
Somebody speculated that the lawsuit was used by Oracle to establish firm boundaries in what can be considered a copyright infringement, with the intent to implement Amazon/GCE APIs for drop-in compatibility for their cloud offering. So they tried all kinds of ridiculous stuff to see what works/what doesn't in order to properly cover their backs while "stealing" other APIs.
That sounds like it would destroy the incentive to do a good job in the first place (and the incentive to donate/make endowments to your alma matter, why bother when that money will just be taken away?). Instead, why don't these univiersities roll their own money into expansion?
Resources don't plummet to zero. Prices rise gradually and people change their behaviors gradually. That's not a bomb.
Ask HN: Why is not allowing iMessage on Android not an antitrust violation?
Certainly seems like anticompetitive behavior.

Not having iMessage is by far the main reason I haven't switched to Android
The idea that they will use such data responsibly seems like handing a bag of candy to a 6 year-old and saying "Make sure to only eat one!"

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I can't imagine them managing the overwhelming temptations to quietly abuse the data, especially as time goes on.

Edit: I realize this is a crude analogy that glosses over a lot of important details, but it gets at the heart of my intuition on the matter. The lack of restraints found in the child-candy system seems to mirror very well the weakness of restraints found in the dynamics between government apparatuses and fancy tools.

For many tools, this is fine. But I'm worried about the long tail risks and externalities of large-scale privacy destroying tools.

I don't think this is exclusively an issue with government organizations. However, in America they are the only organization with the ability to forcefully restrict the actions of individuals and groups. So extreme vigilance is required to balance out this immense power. If a random company overuses a fancy tool, the potential damages are more limited.
Anyone have a good ELI5 of gRPC? It says it's a fast RPC implementation, but all the explanations of RPC seem very in-the-weeds.
To me that sounds more like an immediate presupposition than an argument. I don't see why I'd favor an explanation of "consciousness is computation within a special magic meat brain" over simply "consciousness is computation", at least until we determine that brains run on special meat magic, of which so far there appears to be little evidence. I'm also not entirely convinced by implicit promises that "we'll discover this later when our understanding of brains is better".
They do it because they can mark the plane as "departed on time" if it pushes back from the gate with the passengers.
A real hacker move would be to just leave Twitter and go to Mastodon https://joinmastodon.org
The alternative is that maybe the EU needs to move first more often?

Why are they so far behind that they aren't ever the first?
>Your black Japanese student would be considered "African American", which is beyond absurd.

No they wouldn't, for the same reason Americans don't call Africans "African American."
Sure, this is about a layman's expectations though not whether or not they have a sufficient reason.
As you said it's often not possible to explain exactly why an AI-based algorithm took a given decision (if it were we wouldn't need such a complicated algorithm in the first place), but this isn't necessary either. What you need to explain to the data subject is the purpose of the automated decision making, the data you use for it and the basic logic structure of your algorithm. Again, I can only recommend to read the guidelines issued by the Article 29 working party, as they will guide the implementation and enforcement of the regulation in the member states. An overview can be found here (the relevant document is "wp251"):

http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/just/item-detail.cfm?item_id=50...
That would be Nigeria, not Niger.

Two different countries.
The top five schools are all in areas with a lot of recent immigrants, of course. That's the best supply of smart kids from low-income households.
If you had read the article, you would have seen that it is the elites who are running these operations. The "liberals" are not the ones who are the elites, it's the ones with money funding this sort of thing. It very clearly names the contributors, I suggest reading it.

There is still no evidence that 2008 had any foreign influence. The tactics used in 2008 did not include the sort of misinformation information warfare now being conducted.

In contrast, in Brexit and Trump's wins this article is claiming that there is conclusive foreign interference.

Regarding the establishment, the only propaganda campaigns I can see being waged are against the mainstream news (the ongoing fake news propaganda) and against the tech companies who I suppose are "new money" and not in with the oil and finance czars funding this sort of thing.

The article is really interesting, you should read it. It basically suggests that democracy has largely failed in the age of information warfare. Targeted campaigns by rich elites and foreign governments can now influence votes and psychology on a massive scale. It's no longer about "my side and their side." All of us are on the losing side here.
Let me guess before I Google.

Head of the Skunk Works was Clark "Kelly" Johnson? The Swedish engineer who designed SR71 BlackBird and who could "see through air"?

Edit - I'm wrong. The author is Ben R Rich, who is successor to Clark "Kelly" Johnson. Both served as directors of Lockheed Skunk Works.
I dunno, this seems almost like what those with vision do. They have a high-level understanding of what's cool and hip and what "should" be used to solve problem other people have had and they think that they can just copy paste it onto their own problem. Then the people who actually have to do the implementation are constantly questioning/regretting, "why was this decision made?"

I'm not sure it's something that can be filtered for, but I don't want to work in an org where technical decisions are made by those who's hands aren't dirty.
You're confused because the names are similar. I'm shifting the topic to Niger intentionally. I don't see how a country could experience 10x population growth in a desert.
I'm aware. I'm changing the subject to a different country.
I think you hit the nail on the head with a lot of your points. In particular:

>> 1. Smart, capable students have the "inferiority complex" of being surrounded by CalTech, USC, UCLA. They know they need to push harder to have equal footing when stepping into the industry.

I just ended my graduate studies at a UC school and had some miscellaneous encounters with CSU students, both undergrad and graduate. I found that for the most part they were just as capable as many UC students, but what set many of them apart was their maturity. This may be because many of them came from unconventional backgrounds, they were either lucky to be attending college or were attending college later on in life. At the same time, a lot of them felt like UC was a more legitimate college, or that they were somehow less intelligent because they were going to a state school.
I would like to take this opportunity to point out that the Stack Exchange ecosystem is alive and well, with some super nice and helpful communities like DIY or English
Geolocating the IP should be sufficient for that; no need for the phone to relay its physical location. I would think.
So this is another reason why as a business you want to keep minimal information on your customers. Not only does it respect their privacy, but it makes your data security compliance much easier.
I think a lot of people actually depend on the contents of their hard drive a lot less these days than, say, ten years ago, because so much is stored in the cloud - photos in particular.
Much less afraid of false accusation and more concerned with incidental data being used against me later, or being used to build a profile the police can use in some other way.
> This is a company that have been mass producing cars for only 5 years, it's normal that they are still catching up with the process.

this, getting a production line optimized can take years, especially if you are relatively new to the field and the company has little instituted knowledge at hand.

I know in Europe for instance, many plants that fabricate parts for the big three have been doing so since the early 50's, and thus have an amazing body of knowledge on what works and what doesn't in terms or producing high quality parts in high numbers. Tesla does not seem to really have this knowledge.
short: protobuf based (so relatively language agnostic) rpc mechanisms that communicates over http2

slightly longer: one writes a protobuf that gets compiled into a language specific server and client code. All you have to do is implement the server functions or call the generated client functions to make rpc calls.
Well, sure. But we know an awful lot about quantum mechanics, and we know quantum mechanics is spooky but appears to be contained entirely in the realm of the physical. Particles behave by laws that we can sit down and calculate. That's all materialism is- it doesn't insist that everything is determined by any particular set of physical laws, much less Newton's, which we know is incomplete. Maybe everything's a wave, maybe everything is a tiny vibrating string, maybe we're all holographic projections on a membrane. All of this is compatible with materialism.

Materialism is essentially a philosophical stance, that everything in the world is physical. It's not something that is likely to be solved empirically and it's not clear how you would even prove it one way or another. Anything as-yet unexplained might yet yield to a physical explanation, and insofar as physics is well-understood, skeptics can retreat into talking about mental states and so on.
The problem for me is it feels like the market (and Tesla to an extent) has jumped the gun.

Tesla hasn't demonstrated enough self-driving progress (and imo, no one has yet) to justify the car's design to me, nor being a company with a 54 billion dollar market cap.

It's one thing if FSD was just on the horizon, but there are an incredible number of very hard problems to solve before we get there. Yet Tesla is designing a car that requires FSD for justification of it's interior and charging for FSD as a feature.
i don't think the grpc team pretends it's "new", and some presentations even mention (with humor) stuff like soap and corba (particularly the ones by ray tsang).
If, as you say, "very few people actually read" these "terms", then they aren't even actually part of the contract.
"This study compares the accuracy of human and computer-based personality judgments, using a sample of 86,220 volunteers... Computer predictions based on a generic digital footprint (Facebook Likes) are more accurate (r = 0.56) than those made by the participants’ Facebook friends using a personality questionnaire (r = 0.49)"

The fact that this is even close (let alone higher for computers) is pretty incredible. It is also quite scary for anyone with a public profile and speaks to the potential power that an organization with bad intentions or ulterior motives could have (ex: Cambridge Analytica).
CCTV and eye witnesses can’t give you the suspect’s name and address.
Searle might have be justified to ask this kind of questions in the early 80s, but more recent advances in neurosciences render the conscience-first approach to intelligence increasingly irrelevant.
How do you know this happens on every manufacturing line ever? I'm no expert, but it doesn't sound like something Toyota would do.
Is there some sampling bias with FOSS?

Most people working on a FOSS project are passionate about it. People working traditional, physically centralised jobs do it because they need money.
Maybe even use your hacker powers to spin up a Mastodon instance of your own so your friends have somewhere to go where they know the person running it.
How is that anything but abandonment?
What is actually in that GitHub issue does not match your story. For example, what we can see there is you providing an example with the concrete information all replaced with "(removed)", the other person asking for said concrete information, and you replying that you don't know it, even though you clearly did and removed it from your test case.
Google has been doing this for years, before even making public guarantees. There wasn't a separate policy for China when I left years ago and Gmail is blocked there anyway.
Earlier rpc impls had a bunch of issues:

- It was more common than not that these earlier rpc libs had no async support. And because language support for futures wasn't that hot back then, a ton of apps would come to a network tx and essentially hang until something happened. grpc doesn't have this problem.

- No major rpc impl (eg. corba, soap, rmi, etc) had versioning / backwards compatibility support, until grpc.

REST & the web won because the most up to date client is distributed to the user at each usage, which solved the versioning issue a different way. Imo, if grpcs works in the browser (see my later comment), then it's essentially better at everything.
>Just because we don't know the laws yet, that doesn't mean that it's magic.

This is a strawman often thrown up when the blind spots of science are pointed out.

Magic is a fancy word for something that we have no provable explanation of. Asserting "mind is material" seems like a hubristic explanation of an imaginary thing.
Has anyone else here made an active decision to not reproduce? Even with low birth rates in my country and small families being the norm, I still find myself being pressured to have children, as if my genetic code was critical to the survival of the species.
Sounds cool but hasn't been updated in months. Copyright still has 2017 for end date. Sort of implies project is no longer maintained.
For the record, the reason grpc uses trailers is because it uses http/2, not the other way around. It was expected that since the whole transport was completely new, adopters of http/2 would add trailer support. As it turns out, they mostly didn't. Particularly Firefox and Chrome did not expose trailers. This is even despite being part of the new Fetch API.
Two last things are not true.

China has not supported North Korean ICBM program. North Korea apparently has blueprints of early Chinese nuclear design, but they received it trough Pakistan. North Korea has received more help from freelancing Russian rocket scientists than it received from the China.

China is not allied with Russia. At best they are exploiting the conflict between Russia and US to get military technology transfer and cheap energy from Russia. Russians don't trust Chinese and the feeling is mutual.
It is a ceiling, but there are so many signals prior to hitting that ceiling that the simplification of the Malthusian growth model does not seem to have any utility.

Take for example US population density west of the Mississippi. No one needs to explicitly die of thirst. If water is the limiting factor, the cost of water is invisibly incorporated into nearly every cost people experience. If there were limitless water, the influence of other constraints would simply rearrange.
> While some point to galaxy cluster work by Fritz Zwicky in the 1930s, dark matter was truly “discovered” in the 1970s by Vera Rubin, who was studying the rotation of spiral galaxies. Rubin found that galaxies were spinning too fast for the matter we could see in them, yet they weren’t flying apart.

And Zwicky found that galaxies were moving too fast for the matter we see in clusters yet the clusters weren't flying apart. This seems exactly analagous to Rubin's discovery so it is not clear why the author considers it not the true "discovery".
Dennett does a pretty good job (to my mind) of undermining it in Consciousness Explained: you can read part of the relevant section on Google Books [0].

Or this SMBC [1] summarises the argument pretty well, if somewhat sarcastically.

[0] https://books.google.co.uk/books?redir_esc=y&id=d2P_QS6AwgoC...

[1] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-chinese-room
The population is so high we need to stop having kids, and the population is so low we need to import low skilled workers, and the job of the future will be fully automated.

Modern policy is a cognitive dissonance minefield.
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The species will be fine. Its your phylo-genetic tree you have to worry about.
For "effectively", substitute "as effectively", perhaps? The gradient is there, for the most cases.
NYC is home to one of the biggest Hasidic communities in the world. You can hardly get more conservative than that, and they seem to do just fine.

Also, the perceived mainstream culture of a city should not lead you to ignore the presence of ample subcultures within that city that are opposed to it. In those big cities, it might be hard to be a conservative if you still insist on having liberals be the main demographic of your social life, but if you actually seek out those with similar views to network and build community with, then the conservative population of definitely NYC and probably even SF is more than big enough to live your life among.
This looks cool. Basic graph theory is one of the "superpowers" in our toolboxes as software engineers. It's useful for entity relationships, data flows, data structures, etc.

What would it take to get something like this to work on a phone? I found I was unable to add edges, though the graphs ran mostly fine (Firefox Android).
> If Twitter can't handle being taxed then Twitter should die. That's capitalism.

Alternatively, the US could create retaliatory trade tariffs against these countries.

Let the trade wars being. I wonder who will come out on top.

Or even better, some of these tech companies could simply ban all users from these countries and point to the new tariff as to why.

I wonder how much those voting citizens would like it if they lost access to the most popular social networks, ect for a couple days?
It's too bad your comment is buried so far down in the conversation, because this is probably the most insightful point I've seen on the internet today.

And not only do we do this, we have to.
Yes, but reading the official guidelines should clarify this ([1], p. 14 ff.):

> The controller should find simple ways to tell the data subject about the rationale behind, or the criteria relied on in reaching the decision without necessarily always attempting a complex explanation of the algorithms used or disclosure of the full algorithm. The information provided should, however, be meaningful to the data subject.

There's also a detailed example in the document that should make it clearer what kind of explanation is required (and what is not required). Again, personally I understand that it's not clear what exactly will be required here, but titling an article "Will GDPR Make Machine Learning Illegal?" is just an attempt to garner attention by instilling (unfounded) fear.

[1]: http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/just/document.cfm?doc_id=47963
It's actually complicated to know where your mailbox is. Even if you knew its current locations, Gmail rebalances the N replicas across X data centers all the time, based on a number of factors.
paid hours and flight hour limits aren't the same thing. The FAA says flight time starts when the plane moves under its own power. So once it moves away from the gate, even if it's just to sit on the tarmac, it still counts as flight time.. and pilots have a limit on the amount of flight time they can log.
Or he just hasn't upgraded -- I know I haven't. But, you're right. I've mostly moved on to other tools. If I'm using GIMP to edit something, the source file is never going to be XCF. Sorry guys, nobody uses XCF and pros don't use GIMP. A big win for professional users would be CMYK support, not the inability to save non-XCF files.

Let's face it. Chasing non-existent professional users at the expense of your actual user base is pretty darn lousy UX.
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I'm a long-time FOSS advocate; but I don't see this. I read the Open Source example to suggest that interested participants can overcome the disadvantages of remote collaboration. Oh, and getting (and giving) tiny slices of time from The Right Person overwhelms the utility of lots of time from Random People.
First it must be known that the empire is surrounded etc. etc. and each edge (of the empire) covered with natural features appeals to cunning barbarism.

I.e. they're at the gate.
But that applies to everything. Surely you're not that much of a reductionist that nothing people say can move you. "I have never loved you" is also just some vibrations in the air.
This comment is right on point. In building construction, the structural engineer is typically the architect's client. The challenge is always to seek the compromise that promotes your partner's agenda, without compromising the structural integrity.