skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But is this really a tradeoff we're making, or just two trends? It's pretty glib to say "well, inequality is worse, but that's the price of better technology"; inequality is worse and we have better technology. From 1880 to 1950 technology got better and inequality decreased. "Globalisation" becomes a grab-bag term for a lot of different trends and movements, and I wouldn't want to get paralyzed into saying "well, if we hired workers directly and not through contractors, we wouldn't be able to buy cheap consumer goods made in a newly industrialized China."
I wonder if regulators will just decide the split up facebook.

It would take a ton of leverage and political goodwill across both the EU and the US, but i have no doubt it could happen.
Oh absolutely -- Facebook pissed off somebody with a lot of influence, and now they're paying the price.

That doesn't change the fact that Facebook is a cancer on society that sucks every piece of data it can get from its victims in exchange for an, at this point, poor end-user experience. I'd welcome a world where people have given up on Facebook, so I'm all for this push. Something something the enemy of my enemy is my friend, I guess.
The lack of investment in this field is absolutely ludicrous given the potential payoff. I suspect some amount of lobbying by entrenched power and fuel interests that would be rendered obsolete, but I think more blame can be placed on that awful meme that brainwashed a generation of scientists and engineers into dismissing fusion as a boondoggle:

"Fusion energy is 20 years away and always will be."

This shows how much damage a superficial catchy meme can do if it manages to slip in and override more nuanced and informed thinking. It's why I distrust catchy sloganish rules in other fields too, such as "premature optimization is the root of all evil" (leads to erooM's law in software) or "never roll your own cryptography" (discourages people from learning about how to create secure systems), etc.
$40/year for no ads, no data miners or data sharing...

As a point of reference, if you're in the US or Canada, Facebook would be losing money on this model, according to info on their investors' site [0].

0 - https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_presentations/FB-Q... (search for Average Revenue per User)
The majority of people behave by classical Pavlovian conditioning: they'll get addicted for what gives them immediate pleasure even if it brings them pain, misery and suffering in the long run. That's why we have so much obesity, tobacco, cocaine, opioids and global warming.

Facebook will keep thriving because it is to people what cookies were to Ivan Pavlov's dogs: instant gratification.

Btw, I closed my FB account 4 years ago.
> Quite a but harder, if you'll excuse me, to understand why you wrote more statements about him than anyone else in the thread, though.

Fair enough. If he wasn't in my face everywhere I turned I wouldn't have had to perform such extensive meta-analysis of his epistemology.

The problem with Peterson is that it's this aspect of him that's cloudy, and which frightens some people.

His actual "teachings" as it were aren't really that interesting to me, but I fully support the pragmatic approach to self-help he promulgates.
So it depends on what society considers to be "weaknesses". I was just arguing with someone who thought that Google was evil for supporting LGBT while having massive cultural influence as a company.
"fivethirtyeight" is a joke rag
Sure, but in the context of this article it's just embellishment to whip up the reader's anger at the supposed injustice of Uber and Lyft. It doesn't contribute to any fact-based arguments and it shows the author as incredibly biased against big business in general.
>inhumane labor conditions that characterized the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Hmm, I wonder what led to a labor market that allowed for those working conditions that ended in the early 20th century and returned in the late 20th century...
Indeed, there even was an attempt to produce an open source clone of Qt for KDE when Gnome was still getting started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_(toolkit)
The government regulation allowed the Uber on the road, so it may be a lesson in why government regulation doesn't work or provides a false sense of safety.
The 'alien megastructure' star just set a new record by going really dark
My thoughts exactly. It's great for an awareness of all those people I sort of knew or met once who are from a different city.

Facebook's ambient awareness creates enough of a connection that reaching out does not raise the question "who are you again?"

Plus, considering I have connections in a bunch of cities throughout the world, I can always ping them for coffee, a tour, or potentially a free stay.
It's about deterrence. Make the next Schlitterbanh's owners think thrice about safety and engineering.
Yes, there's a massive trend towards centralization where it's winner takes all, almost like unregulated private monopolies. Government regulation can't keep up and these corporates get richer and more powerful, at the expense of the businesses they "serve". We do seem to have reached a peculiar extreme of capitalism.
If that's true shouldn't we try to create an economy that doesn't actively reward those behaviors?
So anything which doesn't fit your prescribed narrative is bad journalism? That seems like you have a disagreement with external realities. I heard they make pills for that now.

You don't get a free pass on hosting deceptive ads because your platform is automated. Just like you don't get a free pass on any other crime by automating it. Further, when it's clear your staff is very aware of the illegal practice and is encouraging it by taking meetings with the people committing the crime, that removes any defense that the behavior is incidental to legal behavior.

But yes, clearly this is all just a character assassination planned by the lizard people. Definitely the only reason at play here.
Netflix Engineering – Pilfering Innovation
You can of course create a User and a UserDetails, the former embedding the latter when necessary.

I also see getting parse errors when APIs change as a positive thing. When you change an API, things do break. Learning what breaks as early as possible is good. It's not even about objects vs. dictionaries, you could use any structured composite datatype and the overhead you associate with it depends very much on the language.

Of course, for a quick hack I'd happily dump data into a dictionary and call it a day. But if I want to learn why it breaks 5 years later, having a clear specification of the expected data is much better even if it cost me an extra few hours.
Health Information Exchange on the Blockchain
Exactly. Infact, he was even pal-ly with Nawaz Sharif (the then PM of Pakistan and therefore India's sworn enemy #1). I wouldn't read into anything inferred from diplomatic compulsions.
I don't know how people can compare eating fast-food to using a social network. Is it really bad for you if you use a social network?
Sure, but that does nothing to prevent the person who invoke the debugger from inadvertently triggering prod alerts, possibly encouraging more folks to ssh in to see what's going on.
Being able to use the same amount of energy cheaper is only half the equation. I'd be more interested in what we can do with 10x as much energy at the same price, or 100x. Could open up entirely new industries or make things that are currently infeasibly expensive novelties into commonplace materials.

One obvious win would be desalination plants to allow mass scale water production in areas with little or no fresh water but access to ocean water. Right now that's only economically feasible in limited cases, to my understanding.
I like this idea a lot, however, as many others said, you need to be transparent with the scores. I was more confused after reading your FAQ. Additionally, the column where you generate retweet links is obnoxious (entire UI needs major work).
> I don't see this helping US SaaS companies, because once GDPR is in-place then I'd consider EU SaaS providers to be more attractive. It's a real selling point that your data isn't leaking or being mismanaged.

Does GDPR prevent data from being leaked or mismanaged?
I don't want to be a FB apologist (I uninstalled fb/messenger because of all this), but the text of the prompt seems relatively clear:

> Continuously upload info about your contacts like phone numbers and nicknames, and your call and text history. This lets friends find each other on Facebook and helps us create a better experience for everyone.

https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/opt-in_scre...

Granted, those six words are tacked on the end of a sentence, and given the intrusiveness of the feature should probably have been called out in its own opt-in dialog with its own switch. But it's not like they asked for contact access and turned around and used it for something else.
SSH Mastery (2nd Edition) Just get out
It’s not false.

If you didn’t pay, you are the product.

If you did pay, you may or may not be the product. But that’s not covered by the trope.
That's one legit use of a mixing or joining service.

Not saying there isn't tracability though those services (especially since we aren't ideal) since the point of the distributed ledger is tracability.

Something that was rather easy was depositing to an exchange, and just withdrawing; you lose the identity of the coins, at the cost of the exchange knowing the connection.
How can you recover “normality” from it?
So much this. Teams are probably smaller than we realize, and the really great people get shuffled around.

Got to pay off that debt one of these days, but 'not today' I guess...
We see most of these articles because we're in tech. The average user probably will see only a fraction of them, so it's not so much "piling on" as trying to reach as many people as possible.

It definitely seems like there's a media circus about Facebook right now, but that's mostly because for the first time, journalists are realizing there's a large audience for negative articles about Facebook. So this is probably months or years of articles that didn't get sign-off that are finally getting the green light by editors because there's actually a clear audience now (and maybe the media was afraid to step on Facebook's toes before?).
I know I won't reliably remember to log out of Facebook, so I just limit my fb use to whatever my backup browser is.
> We'll have to witness some hapless middle-manager undergo the same circus

According to The Guardian, Facebook said that "the company would be putting forward its chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer, or its chief product officer, Chris Cox."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/27/facebook-...
You mean nationalize a resource owned and 90% of value extracted by a foreign state-connected entity? You can only do that if you can withstand a war, coup or astroturfed revolution.

And it seems after the Arab Spring, you don't even need to do step 1 anymore. Got Putin quaking since 2011.
Or plastic, it doesn't matter. I wrote whiteboard to convey the meaning: Something you write on to visualize thoughts, often for collaboration. Not sure if there's another word than whiteboard for it.
The "entitlement" is from people who are frustrated that the open source software movement lacks such a fundamental piece of the desktop software puzzle.

The confrontation comes from the fact that one side insists the software is there (GIMP), whereas the other side view them as disconnected from reality since its use in industry rounds to 0%.
Very few of the current altcoins excite me. But I like Bitcoin and Ethereum (Ethereum partially for the reason mentioned above). The tokenisation of assets could be an interesting development.
so you are saying USA provides high quality standard of living for all it's citizens?
One of the best features of the Palm Pre was the slide-out portrait keyboard, it’s a shame everybody went the slate of glass route.
Okay. I take away all your money and then invest it. Fine with you?
If you look up the dudes nonprofit income it's like 300k. These people are either liars or incredibly nieve
Wow this is very surprising.

I've been working on a Docker Cloud alternative for awhile now. I'm aiming for something that kind of balances the convenience of Heroku with the Docker experience.

It's still in beta but if anyone wants to check it out it's at: https://codemason.io/
On the other side, I learned GIMP as my first graphics editor quite easily, while I got lost every time I sat with Photoshop to do even the simplest things.

I work in a team of two on a game with an artist that uses Photoshop and as I sometimes look behind their arm, I see lots of UI conventions that GIMP just does so much better and easier, especially when it comes to selecting and placing stuff around. However, I do envy some of the features like live effects on layers that would actually make my life as GIMP user so much easier; and using effects in GIMP generally isn't as pleasant as it should be.

For me it looks like both come with their own strengths and weaknesses and both would benefit from copying some ideas from each other.
Laugh all you want, but I just got done talking to one of these NC pig farmers yesterday and he is in the process of converting the sewage into methane gas for electrical production. Local, community electricity, with a lower CO2 footprint than Methane!!?!
I think you've come up against his particular brand of "pragmatic truth". It's true if the end result is good. You may not have found the meaning you thought you would when you started following his teachings, but perhaps you have improved your life. In the pragmatic sense in which Peterson wields the term (echoing William James), this is "truth" and thus "meaning" has been realised.
>It will be impossible to re-populate land up to six miles from the Chernobyl

There are still humans living within the exclusion zone, still humans working at Chernobyl where three reactors continued to operate after the accident, the vast majority of gamma from the site is from an isotope with a half-life of 30 years, and the background radiation within the exclusion zone is provably less than the background radiation you find when living in high altitudes.

Chernobyl was the absolute worst case in that it had no containment whatsoever, and Fukushima was an absolute worst case for a western reactor in that it couldn't SCRAM and cool properly with multiple backup systems failing, but the implication that large tracts of land are uninhabitable for tens of thousands, or even hundreds of years is patently false.

In addition, there are no attributable deaths to either accident among the general population. Radiation doses in both cases were very low in the context of the general population surrounding these plants.

The fact is that more people died from the sudden evacuations and stress of relocating than died, or will die, from the radiation levels.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted this much. You raise a very good point about the nature of morality in advertising. Most ads are designed to convince people to make a decision that is against their best economic interest. And just because facebook is really good at directly targeting people who are most likely to make such decisions doesn't make them particularly immoral. Just more talented at it. But fundamentally speaking, it's just like the scams we see advertised on TV shows with the dumbest audience. It just feels worse when the statement becomes "we've found that John Foobar it an idiot--go take advantage of him," rather than "people who watch the Kardashians tend to be idiots."
Plotting an X/Y scatter chart with lines linking the points.

Fit a polynomial trendline to a chart.

Choose the number of decimal places when showing a trendline's equation. Copy that equation, without re-typing it yourself.

Apply the solver to a nonlinear-but-continuously-differentiable system of equations.

You know, the stuff I could do in Office '95 on a 120MHz Pentium.
> With facebook actively scraping phones for contacts, calls and messages, embedding widgets on third party sites and what-not. in a way we all really are forced to be facebook users.

This is one of my biggest concerns. Facebook has shadow profiles on people that aren't users, including my kids. It's gross.
Yes, but stocks/bonds is basically giving money to companies so they can do useful stuff with them. So, they are still in the economy.
The people easily conned are the ones that think they can't be conned.
Yes, it's tragic. but she crossed the road where she shouldn't. She made a mistake, and a tragic indicent happened. And like this, everyday.
> It has another nice advantage over Rust's system - you have have pre-releases of major versions. Rust doesn't really have a way to do that except for releases before version 1.0.

Semver has a specific way to indicate that a feature is a pre-release, and people use it. The second post on /r/rust is advertising a pre-release of the next major version of rand: https://crates.io/crates/rand/0.5.0-pre.0

(Yes, this is before 1.0, but 1.5.0-pre.0 would work just fine too!)
Having your money in stocks is having it in the economy. Buying a stock is loaning your money to other companies who use it to get stuff done, which requires hiring people and paying them.
New wearable scanner tracks brain activity during motion
> USPS benefited from national mail logistics only being available to government level endeavors.

What Kool-Aid are you drinking? The Post Office didn't benefit from anything, it was mandated because no such service yet existed.

Prior to the Office of the Postmaster General being established, postal service was disjointed and limited at best in the colonies. In the 1600s you had 2 routes in the colonies, Boston to England and Boston to New York City. It was prohibitively expensive and limited largely to business and government communications. In the 1700s the Imperial Postal Service was extended to the colonies with fixed rates and taxes included, and it was incredibly unreliable.

The Post Office was born out of frustration, one of the founding fathers ran a news paper and the Imperial Post couldn't even deliver papers reliably. The Post Office was mandated by the founding fathers under the principle that everyone has the right to secure, efficient, reliable, and affordable mail service.

With the advent of the Interstate Highway System and many other technological advances over the prevailing 200 years, the Post Office was actually able to reduce costs and turn a profit.

During the civil rights movements of the 50s and 60s, the postal workers began protesting and striking because work conditions and compensation. They eventually won the right to unionized. In response to unionization the Postal Reorganization Act (PRA) of 1970 abolished the Post Office Department and turned the Post Office into an independent agency that was excluded from the US Budget.

One could argue that the PRA was the start of union busting tactics employed by the conservative government in power to bankrupt the post office. It doesn't help that every conservative government since then has enacted some sort of constraint upon the USPS that isn't mandated on private services. The most recent being the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 which required the USPS to switch from a Pay-As-You-Go to a Pre-Funded model for it's retirement plans. That's akin to your mortgage company calling you up and saying you'll need to pay off 100% of your principal next year.
Aside from everything, I find it remarkable that the media are gunning for facebook right now (referencing all those shady algorithms / shady partnerships etc etc) to the extent that facebook is a 'dirty word' and yet the newspapers are evidently quite happy to accept payment for full page ads in their publications from ... facebook.
> LICENSING

What about LICENSE and COPYING ?
But people from around 25 years ago (and to this day) have always been accustomed to this "form of spying". If you walk into a store you are typically followed around by the store staff who are always there to help you in case you aren't able to find something you are looking for. Technically this is a "form of spying". But we do not protest. We instead label it "hospitality". Once you become a "returning visitor" to the store, the store staff get to know you really well and treat you like a VVIP. This is nothing but analytics in the real world. It just so happens that the information collected about you isn't as structured as the virtual world.

I guess by conflating multiple terminologies into one basket we are probably doing ourselves a bit of disservice.
He clearly condemns fascism, anti-semitism, etc, and is mostly individualist. I believe he doesn't directly address /pol types much because they haven't been literally inches from his face, whereas identity-politics people have been, as well as surrounding lecture halls carrying on and breaking windows to intimidate him and his audiences. He certainly condemns the worst alt-right ideas.
UK MPs demand Zuckerberg testify on data row after he offers deputy
I'll elaborate a bit more on it.

Let's look at the 70s, 80s, and possibly even the 90s. During these periods it was acceptable for most people to not know how to type, as usage of typewriters and keyboards were limited. But as society more and more adopted—and then relied on—computers and keyboard, it became increasing a necessity to be able to type. Back then you could get a job without typing skills, these days, it would be increasingly difficult to do so and you'd definitely be hampered by your inability to operate a computer. If you can't find a job, you'd be an outcast, and thus society has now developed a reliance on being able to type and use a keyboard (and thus a computer).

As with Facebook, if society continues to rely on it for social engagements and developing connections with people, it will soon become a necessity to use facebook in order to participate socially or keep in touch with people. That's the trend at least. The difference with Facebook however is that it relegates a big part of society to a single company, and cedes control of social interaction to a black box of software and algorithms.

So the slow progress of Facebook towards necessity is thus like the slow physical progression of my gun to your head: they're both making something become a necessity by limiting your options, whether it's taking a mysterious pill in my hand or becoming a social outcast.
Well.. Between the economy, the health sector, the infrastructure, the political developments, the education, the state of civil rights, the widespread religious influences at all levels of society and a culture of armed violence ...

Who's to say that the US, by and large, isn't a developing nation?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-develop...
You need to just remove it from your phone. I promise you won't miss it. I did this a few years ago. It's freed up so much more time to Reddit.
They allow non medallion cars aka the black private car service cars but I think you needed a medallion to pick up a person hailing a cab off the side of the road... ie you didn't call the car service to come pick you up.

With uber they're still not picking people up that are physically hailing them. They are relying on technology aka smartphones to get around this.
The gig economy has barely begun. It won't be in full force till I can see quest/gig markers in mixed reality. Ironically I think to implement a gig economy to this extent we'll have solved the problem of merit to the point money is much less influential. It could very well reverse the tide of egregious wealth inequality. The challenge is to build systems which can securely aggregate data on a person's subject matter expertise. The better we can estimate categorical competence the better we can make opportunities visible.
WebAssembly will probably not take off anyway, no one want to dev in C++ or equivalent for web you know.