skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is tired sentiment. Yes, make a plan and get yourself out of it.

Situations don't change instantly which is why there are always comments about how it seems impossible - but like any other large goal you only get there with slow steady progress. No matter how bad you think you have it, many others have climbed out of worse. So it's not about choosing to starve but about making those tiny decisions that build up to will eventually get you out of that life.

Or you can choose to ignore all that and give up.
And we have a housing shortage because millions of people bet on that housing shortage and then vote for policies that worsen it.
Blood, sweat, and tears. How we built a Mac app and threw it away
https://hackaday.com/2013/12/31/case-modder-builds-lcd-windo...
To pick on a different company, every once in a while when I start Revolut (fintech mobile bank acount like thingy), I get asked if I want to upload my contact list so that I can easily send/receive money from my contacts. There is no option to "Never".
What terrible things?
America has a lot of long wide open stretches of road; the point is that things can still be gamed
Alphabetize your CSS, or get out
If current mental prostheses develop over the years into full-fledged brain implants or whatever, we can expect to lose the privacy and freedom of thought unless we defend the principle now. My files are my augmented memory.
Aaaaand.. that's why we have GDPR.
One fear is that Uber's mistakes will endanger the whole self-driving industry, by making people afraid. I'd say these companies are trying to separate themselves to avoid that.
Are the objects actually deleted or just set deleted=true in the db?
This isn't my area of expertise, but I think Gatling would serve your purposes.
Anecdotes are a problem only if someone is using them to arrive at generality/scientific explanation out of it.

In this case - the research is already done, people are just identifying with that.
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Not very much. I thought that my feed is better because I blocked everything, and then have been careful about not liking things.

However my other complaint remains. Clicking on my main feed, then clicking on a random friend, I'm not seeing most of what that friend posts in my feed.
I see what you're saying, and it's a fair point. I've never claimed capitalism is without its flaws. You say "people ignore the ugly history of capitalism but only want to talk about the ugly side of socialism," but more often I hear the opposite. I see socialism promoted all the time as this utopian ideal, and capitalism detracted as a horrible injustice, at least in my circles. So I suppose I'm more conditioned to call out the flaws in socialism as a reflex.

Regardless, I do think the past failures of socialist states are very important to consider, as they present concrete evidence for different ways it can go wrong. And I would make the argument that, given all that evidence, it does speak to flaws in the philosophy itself. Because in order for full socialism to occur, it necessitates an authoritarian takeover of the economy by the state. The state is supposed to represent the people, of course, but once they seize power to start managing property and the economy, well, now they're authoritarian bureaucrats with too much power. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" and all that. To me it's no wonder that dictators take control of socialist states so easily.

Then, even if the state does avoid becoming despotic, you still have to deal with the problem of a centrally planned economy being incredibly inefficient at creating wealth when compared to a capitalist market economy. The adage "you don't make the poor richer, you just make everyone poorer" in regards to full socialism seems pretty spot-on in my observation. Just look at Venezuela for a live example. In 2013 they were hailed as an economic miracle [1] and now, well, we can all see for ourselves how it went [2].

To me, the most prosperous economic model we've come up with is free market capitalism with some government protections in place, like anti-trust and consumer protection laws, and a basic social safety net. I'm open to debate, though. Are there any socialist economies you would point to as a success? What parts of socialist philosophy in particular do you see as being effective and worth pursuing?

1. https://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/hugo_chavezs_economic_mirac...

2. http://www.euronews.com/2018/03/26/colombia-s-venezuelan-mig...
If that was shipping today, it would be another 7-10 years for browsers to catch up. At wasm's current rate, it won't be available for another few years. The ability to make decent garbage collectors also looks to be very far out.

If you are writing JS today with even a couple years of experience, it's guaranteed to be used for everything until you retire (well, if retiring from a company after putting in your 20 was still a thing).
But, and this is the big but, they did it in such a way as not to be compatible with the Oracle one.
They are probably mocking their hypocritical, not "deplorable" religious beliefs.

That word IME is not used by anybody but the people complaining about it.

E.g. Judge Roy Moore in Alabama.
I have often wondered about the sanity of people who are using a blockchain based currency across tor. Admittedly, I haven't fully checked my assumptions here, but my initial thoughts on the matter have always been that I'd be amazed if it was a good idea from a security perspective.
That sort of rank partisanship can barely be hidden. It's discrediting. FB is clearly in the worse here, even if they were entirely within their rights while Cambridge Analytica was entirely not. What's legal is not always what's right.
The James Webb Space Telescope will be delayed for at least a year
> Uber's willingness to incur losses in the name of growth

What a delightful euphemism for predatory pricing!

Supposing the $10 value in the article were changed to $6 or $8 or $12 or whatever the correct value is, do you dispute the author's overall point that a huge corporation burning investor money to secure a monopoly and undercut more efficient municipal transport is a bad thing?
Does anyone actually use the Oracle Cloud? From my attempts, it's only full of misery and broken tech.
This reminds me, does anybody know what's up with Geohotz's comma.ai?
i honestly would think that Belkin would be worth something in the billions. they are the qtip of computer cables.
Hardline stance, over-the-top, pretty funny. I do find alphabetizing to reduce the time it takes to think while writing CSS.
Failure of Windows Mobile is big reason of UWP failure. UWP make less sense on Desktop as it is mostly less featured/Buggy version of perfectly good normal Windows app.
I sure hope so. That decision definitely needs to be appealed. I very much hope it's overturned. (The industry has pretty much assumed - and acted - that APIs were not copyrightable, and that's worked out all right. Suddenly shifting to APIs being copyrightable is going to cause some change the rules under existing activity, in ways that it's hard yet to define the full scope of.)

But even if it's not, the decision needs to be appealed. Right now the situation is that APIs are copyrightable, but only for sure within one of the US Federal Court districts. In the other districts, they may be copyrightable. Or they may not be. If they aren't, then we have different law applying in different districts until the Supreme Court decides to resolve the issue. A Supreme Court decision now, one way or the other, would at least give resolution. (If they decide that APIs are copyrightable, then we'd have different law in the US and Europe, but at least it would be the same law everywhere in the US.)

[Edit: Apparently this isn't in a district court, it's in the Federal Circuit, which handles patent cases.]
I think its always worth clicking on random ads to feed random interests to these guys. Yup I'm really interested in Peruvian pottery and Polka music. If its on an interesting site that you want to give revenue, even better. Would be nice to have a bot do it in the background.

EDIT: mesothelioma is a great search. Highest pay per click by ambulance chasing lawyers.
Mozilla's new Firefox extension keeps Facebook locked in its own sandbox
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That doesn't make it the right time to publicly announce "we wouldn't have killed someone here, look how great we are".
What a sweet site! May I ask what SSG you're using?
Except that he is actually literally talking about drag/cross-dressing which is not the same thing as transsexualism, as you'd know if you'd clicked the link on that line:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/01/victory-d...

Unfortunately I must say I think you're looking for reasons to be offended, which never helps any discussion.
well I'm pretty sure all these ways to delete your facebook stuff will only soft delete it.
I mean it's way more sane to do:

UPDATE picture SET date_deleted = now() WHERE picture_id = ?

instead of actually deleting it, because so you can recreate something if people deleted their stuff by accident.
Means facebook probably still has your data.
Every account should get its own container.
This is a bit of a let down and suggests to me that either they are not confident in the tech arriving at scale any time soon or they are not serious about directly challenging Uber. These are expensive vehicles and not custom-designed for a self-driving transportation service. I would be surprised if they were much cheaper per ride than Uber in cheap markets.

If they were serious about taking on Uber/Lyft soon I would expect them to be willing to make a bet on a long-life, extremely cost-focused custom vehicle. Maybe this is a stop gap to keep proving the tech until someone else (Uber?) gets impatient, licenses their tech, and spends the vehicle capital.
Paul Graham wrote on HN a few years back something to the effect of "never in history has making the consumption of a resource more efficient resulted in less demand for it over the long term".

With regard to human labor in particular, people have said of nearly every major breakthrough in mechanization or automation that it would destroy all the jobs, and every time, it has done no such thing. There are people saying "this time is different", but heuristically speaking, betting against a long historical track record is probably not a good bet.
Car is likely to hit object. Car hits brakes.

Not to say on a closed course you might not disable it, but fundamentally new self driving tech on open roads? Redundancy is an important part of reducing risk.
I didn't realize that Mozilla started charging people for Firefox.
The author sounds like a caricature out of an Ayn Rand novel. "Traditional taxis already have a sensible limit to minimize congestion"? "Fairness fees"? wew.
This is not profiting, this is self preservation.
I think its more of, if you want to depict something with the minimal number of strokes, you really have no option but to look for the key, defining traits of the object. In that fashion, both the AI and the artist must operate similarly, simply due to the limitations implied by the task

But depicting those traits is another matter. You can render a chin meeting the hair in all sorts of ways; but your choices are limited to your aesthetic preferences, and your ability to draw that form.

Drawing is a highly mechanical process; choosing what/how to draw is a curated one.
Steven Seagal and Bitcoiin Founders 'Exit' as ICO Ends
i get the feeling of some people here calling for bad taste, but mobileye ceo has been a long time proponent of playing it safe, underpromise, warning against the theoretical limits of modern technics, and has claimed for a very long time that fully autonomous driving wasn't doable in a near future ( proof of that in the numerous videos you can find on youtube).

i guess it's only fair for him to speak up one more time now that his fears has materialized.
To me it's more like copyrighting the standard height of a door.
Even with multiple wallets, the point is the same that your Bitcoin address is tied to your complete transaction history and account balance. Your Bitcoin address is just an alias for your real identity. If (or once) your Bitcoin alias is tied to you, you have zero privacy. Through public meta-analysis you can get a pretty clear picture of the spending habits and maybe even location of a Bitcoin address. Or, a purchase of a physical product where you give your home address and your Bitcoin address and your alias is linked to your actual home (albeit in the records of a 2nd party). But still, it's not hard to imagine how non-private Bitcoin is.

And following someone to BofA doesn't exactly give you much if any information about them. Even if I gave you my checking account number (which is on all my checks), you still can't go and access my financial records without doing something illegal.
Penn State secures building automation, IoT traffic with microsegmentation
There was a section of the presentation on this; ipads can now have multiple accounts (showed a pic with all the students in the classroom; tap on student picture and log into any iPad), now 200 GB iCloud storage per account (up from 5 GB), new tools to batch create Apple IDs (1000/second with the management tools), etc. Apple’s definitely working on these aspects.
> Who cares what manufacturer they use?

The fact that they're trying to market premium self-driving cars is interesting, because as you say there is no obvious reason to care. After all if they're all going to be driven exactly the same way and have an almost identical safety profile, what difference does it make?
I agree. But suppose the difference mentioned (1 sec) is true. That's such a large difference that what they call for (formal outside verification) sounds pretty reasonable. This debate will always be hard since it will involve deaths, with AI and video involved.
To learn Rust?

Also, where do you get that the performance is the same? I didn't see any benchmarks.
Ask HN: How do you deal with Product team blaming Tech team?
Hi HN,

* Main platform team is laid off 8 months ago

* CTO quit 6 months ago

* New CPO comes in 3 months ago

* Minor business dev team asked to take over main platform - no documentation, minimal turnover

* CPO committed new features to investors without consulting tech team

* CPO asks Team Lead what is needed to make it possible

* Team Lead pressured to execute and commit to impossible deadline

* Misses it, is getting blamed for underdelivery

I am a young programmer working as a tech lead for a startup. I've never been this stressed my whole life now that my team has taken over the tech of the whole business. This blaming cycle has happened 3x already. We always get surprises on tasks because legacy and we keep on breaking things.

I desperately need advice how to deal with this. My family is suffering as well because the work is eating my time for them. My salary is above average and difficult to find work like this and that is why I don't want to quit.

Thank you in advance
When you've fucked up at that level a bit of humble pie goes a long way towards smoothing over the various ruffled feathers. There wasn't anything to win here but there was a lot to lose.
I don't recall politicians ever having problem with setting up gerrymandering, way before Facebook was a thing. It doesn't have to be exact on the individual level, for its purposes plain old voting patterns data is more than enough.
I completely agreed until this point:

>Of course it would be trivial to have a log of recently given permissions and an ‘undo’ option for each of those.

No, that's not trivial. It's not hard, but it's pretty far from trivial. Trivial would be removing the "not now" functionality from this question.

Maintaining a list of permissions and implementing the ability to undo them from a common area doesn't sound trivial at all to me, even if that only meant "no permission in the future".

If you were designing the app from the ground up to support that, it'd be a lot easier. But it still wouldn't be "trivial".

I went to go find the definition of "trivial", but I didn't get what I expected, and I'm sure it isn't what the author meant, either. "of little value or importance."

I was looking for something along the lines of "taking a negligible amount of effort". And I don't think implementing an entire interface and storing a list of data for it is trivial, let alone the part where you can take actions from that interface that potentially have system-wide ramifications.
The future is now I guess. Just wish it wasn't leading straight to a dystopian 1984 like world.
Why is it a 'similar situation'? They fed the same footage that the Uber system had access to.
Someone flagged the comment before I could post my response, but here it was (re: Google didn't save Java on the client):

Java on the server was not in decline, but Java on the desktop was declining, had declined. Applets were dead, very few success stories around Java Web Start. And the main three 'consumer' success stories for Java on the frontend were Limewire, Minecraft, and IntelliJ/Eclipse. As a consumer facing technology, Java was a complete failure. No sane person wanting to ship a commercial, consumer app to end users would consider Java as a first choice. I have been a Java developer from the day HotSpot Alpha was released, I say this as someone who loves the platform.

Personal Java failed. I worked for years on J2ME apps, Java on high end Nokia Phones, Java on Palm devices (Ghost VM), etc. All these platforms amounted to nada. Flash was far more widely used for front end user facing apps than Java. Ditto for Visual Basic.

The relevance of the Swing comment is the people complaining about the fragmentation of Java's write-once-run-anywhere promise, which was always more of a promise than a reality. If you want to make a viable mobile Java, you had to remove Swing, Java2D, CORBA, JMX, and a ton of other JDK libraries, which is exactly what Sun did with the various profiles as well. But once you do that, you have "fragmentation"

If Google had not produced Android, I can bet the leading platform today for mobile development that is not from Apple, would either be Xamarin based C#, or some scripting language like Lua or Python on top of a Linux widget toolkit. Java would not be in the mix at all. Or perhaps it would FlashMX sitting on top of Linux (ugh)
We really won’t know what happened until the NTSB report comes out, but I’m not convinced this was an object detection failure. It seems really possible to me that the sensors detected the bike-walking person as a bicyclist, and a bicyclist in a different lane is not a reason to slam on the brakes. They might have just forgotten to add a rule that a bicyclist in a parallel lane is a reason to brake if it’s perpendicular to you.
GDPR only applies when the user doesn't give consent. This dark pattern is about obtaining that consent, not about using the user's data without consent.
Ethical codes aren't legal standards for professional organizations. You can be disbarred for legal but unethical actions
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It is unlikely facebook deleted anything. Just all the stuff you did is marked as unavailable to the public. It would be kept because it is still profitable to sell the information about your private actions to other corporations.
Here's NPR.

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/25/596805347/how-does-cambridge-...

Relevant quotes from Betsy Hoover the Obama 2012 online organizing director:

"So the app that everyone's referring to in this moment was an app called Targeted Sharing. It was an app that we created on Facebook that fully followed Facebook's terms of service. And any individual could decide to use the app. When they clicked on the app, a screen would pop up that would say what data they're authorizing the app was giving us access to and exactly how we were going to use that data. And so at that time, it was totally legitimate on Facebook to say you're giving us access to your social network. You're giving us access to your friends on Facebook."

"...So, you know, we got your list of friends. And then we matched it to our model, our list of voters that we didn't build with Facebook data. We built with voter history and, you know, all of the other data points that Democratic campaigns use to build models. But we matched the data of your friends to that model and then reflected it back to the person who had authorized the app..."

Sounds very similar to Cambrdige Analytica imho. In addition I don't really think that exploring how deep the rabbit hole goes is deflection, rather showing how much more pervasive this practice is than people think.
I definitely see this with Go decisions too, but I think that same "pigheadedness" has also been a driving factor behind a lot of what makes Go so effective to work with. They've thrown out an awful lot of stuff, which sometimes makes me bristle but I usually have to admit they were right.

I think they threw out a bit too much, but that's only a problem if the gaps don't get filled or the compromises aren't adequately explained. What's left is a very pragmatic selection of extremely useful tools that can be used to cut a tonne of working code very, very quickly. I can't say I always like it, but I benefit tremendously from it.
No, it's $450 for consumers, $388 for education
It breaks things like "sign-in with github credentials" in CIs. But you know, these should be exceptional, therefore the default should be to load third-party content without cookies. The problem is that some content is loaded without your having to click on something (where you'd have a chance to right-click and request loading with selected credentials).
Do you know about `comm`? Given two sorted files it will show you in three columns.

* unique lines to file1
* unique lines to file2
* lines common to both files

You can pass it various options to suppress any of the three columns.

I once had an interview at Facebook where one of the problems was easily solved by `comm`. I found it funny that the interviewer, or anyone who reviewed the interview question, had never heard of it. I was a good sport about it though, I ended up writing a janky Perl script that roughly implemented `comm` to solve the problem, which (modulo Perl) was what they wanted me to do.
An advertising company and the various communications platforms.
Ha! Thank you F5 key in Sublime for doing this for me
You can have some required tests but those tests will be a part of the approval process, not all that pass the test get the approval but anyone that fails the test goes hope in shame.

The test could have basic things like a car stopped in the middle of the road, a fake person that is fallen on the ground, a tree on the road, a big stone on the road, a big hole in the road and other similar tests.

You can change the obstacle types and sizes so tests differ.
The company will not be allowed to use a different software fort this tests so at least you can test that the sensors are good enough and that the software can handle basic things.

This tests would be like the medical tests a driver must pass before starting the driving school, we can trust Uber like companies to perform this tests inside before putting the cars on the road for public road testing.

If the tests are too basic I am sure clever people can find even better tests to stress the sensors and software before allowing the dangerous tests on public roads.
What you do with $2.5M. The position of FU (John Goodman, The Gambler).

https://youtu.be/xdfeXqHFmPI
Congress REALY needs to pass strong privacy regulations.
In the linked article by the OP Java is faster than Rust in every scenarios.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r15&hw=...

tbh benchmarks are not that useful, but it shows that GC languages are very fast in the web space and it's even more true when you add client -> server latency in the mix.
Nearly a third of tech workers are ready to #DeleteFacebook