skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is falsifiable, i've explained elsewhere my reasoning, but i'll repeat it here: The same basic moral orientation that would motivate one to care about privacy would also motivate them to care about freedom. Apple's policy of not giving you sovereignty over your device is anti-freedom. However, the thing that explains both behaviors is self-interest. It's to Apple's strategic interest to focus on privacy, it's not to their strategic interest to focus on freedom. Therefore, the most likely explanation for their behavior is their strategic self-interest, and not any moral orientation towards privacy.

It's also been brought up by others that Apple discards its privacy morals when it comes to China. Which is another point in the "probably doesn't actually care about privacy" column. Occam's razor says the simplest explanation is most often true. The simplest explanation here is self-interest.
Same here.

I'm 31. My mom said... even when I was a baby, she would lay me down at 10:00pm, I'd fall asleep almost immediately and wake up at 6:00am like clockwork.

On the ultra-rare occasions I don't fall asleep...

Instead of trying to relaaax... first I tense the muscles, then relax.

The contrast is key. Tension, release.

It's almost like sticking your hand in bucket of room temp water.

If you would've stuck your hand in an ice bucket for 5 seconds, THEN put your hand in the room temp... different feeling.
Time to set a precedent then.
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/02/the_decline_effect_i...
FTC in the US.
Social Book Post Manager [1]

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-book-post-m...
This is a good idea, please make it happen (and allow more locations!)
I'm on the autism spectrum, and I like hearing about your approach.
> If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience; they would be the artists.

Games know what they want. They complain very loudly, when they get something different than what they wanted/expected.

Of course game developers and publishers again want slightly (or completely, I'm looking at you Electronic Arts) things. Developers want that artistic meaning, publishers want a lot of safe money, while gamers want to enjoy the game, they want the flow [0], the feeling of conquering a hard but not impossible challenge.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
> `renderToString` is taking 500ms

What baffles me is that this is a long time. In that time, you've got about a billion CPU instruction executions. If you include GPUs, they can render multiple frames of complex scenes to million+ pixel buffers in that time. And people are having trouble rendering a string?
If it makes you feel better, I had stopped reading your comment when I found that point, and posted mine. My original version was that "the article addressed your points".

I subsequently reread your comment and realized you made several other points. Oops. I then edited mine.
It is definitely not true for news and book publishing.

For news, consider things like the Chinese wall [1] between news and ad sales, the formal ad standards that news organizations will have, and the fact that at least traditionally, humans manually sell those ads, resulting in oversight.

For books, I'm not even sure what you mean. Book publishers sell books that they think will do well and, mostly, that reflect well on them. You can't just walk into Random House with a credit card and say, "Here's my manuscript, please put it in book stores nationwide."

Personally, I'd just ban all advertising. The economic-theory reason we need it, purchasers discovering better ways to solve their needs, has been made mostly unnecessary by the Internet. Now if you want to buy a foo you just search for "foo reviews" and you're off to the races. We'd figure out other ways to fund things.

As an aside, that justification was always a little... generous. Coca Cola doesn't spend billions per year on ads because they're just trying to reach people who've never heard of their products. They do it because they want to manipulate people into buying Coke. I say we can trust people to find unhealthy addictions all on their own.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall#Journalism
Most legal costs go to lawyers, not the courts. Capping lawyer fees at $X just means you can only get $X of legal representation.
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A user can run a custom curator. Alternatively sites could be developed that give access to the network and do their own filtering.

There are other choices besides authoritarian censorship, despite the popularity these days.
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Ah. I was wondering about that. Running multiple nodejs instances won't fix the impact of long-running synchronous methods in the event loop on other requests processed in the same instance. It'll just reduce impact, because you reduce the relative percentage of other requests being held hostage by a bad request.

Unless you can use your loadbalancing to split requests with a risk of long-running synchronously tasks away from instances doing fast work. We're doing something like this - we got some really ugly legacy code around, which tends to abuse and overuse the application servers JDBC pool regardless of how we tune it. This causes every other request on that instance to crash and burn. This becomes even more fun if a customer retries the same request 20x and the load-balancer does round-robin. So we route the bad requests to a single martyr instance and everything works fine again except for this broken old code.
Not OP, but back when Yosemite came out, there was a lot of buzz about privacy issues, such as:

https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/mac-o...

Don't know what came out of these things in later OS X versions.
There's a big difference between content aggregation (done by all search engines) and behavioral profiling (done by advertising companies, including social media).
> If a spreadsheet works, great. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

A spreadsheet works until it doesn't.

Maybe you load in past, say, 150mb of data.

Perhaps the last person to touch it linked it to a data or content source they only have access to.

Perhaps the person editing it has it checked out from a Sharepoint and forgot to check it back in.

Perhaps the person editing it left it open on their computer and forgot about it being hosted on a shared drive.

Perhaps the business critical sheet is hosted on someone's desktop.

Fundamentally, spreadsheets are cocktail napkins. It's fine to sketch out a basic idea. It's a terribly risky approach to run a business from it.
What do you mean by filtering?
> If I view a computer as a means of accomplishing some other goal and not a tool that I need to think about much or to modify, but where the existence of such liberties can negatively impact my goal then your version of freedom makes me less free.

How, exactly? Are you saying that the burden of potentially unlocking your device in error, even if Apple makes that a convoluted, explicit process makes you less free? If i'm misunderstanding your argument, let me know. If i'm not, I think we both know it's totally silly.
[EDIT: I'm afraid this only applies to men]

Sexual activity also triggers hormonal activities related to sleep. Or, to quote someone: "Sure there may be a certain outcome, but that's not why we do it"
> This is an industry that sells influence at scale.

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>* Before the inevitable comments, yes advertising works, yes it works on you no matter how much you think otherwise

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Show me the lift (in other words, prove it).

I'm extremely dubious about any claim related to digital advertising having direct effects over a baseline.

It is easy to make a claim that it changes the millieu, to appeal to second order effects. So, prove it. Show me the academic papers. Show me how those papers generalize outside of the specific economic/operation structure they studied.

I mean, look at Google Search. When searching, the top link is generally an ad. My (admittedly biased "no it doesn't work on me no matter how much you claim it does") experience is that I _always_ skip the ads. Even if it is for the company I am looking to purchase from. Because I am averse to digital ads. I can't trust what the ad is selling isn't skeasy. I am not the only one who does it. So is digital advertising being supported only by people who are easy to 419/Nigerian Prince scam or something?

On a tangential note note, this is Amazon's burgeoning issue with its Marketplace and third-party ripoff sellers, now that eBay isn't on top.
There is no contradiction here, state of the art systems use both DNN and HMM (Kaldi, for example). It is GMM (Gaussian mixture model) that was replaced by DNN, HMM is still here.
Have they deleted Facebook's Messenger from App Store yet for the way they bully people into enabling access to contacts? No? They could kindly quit bullshiting us then.
If the CEO of a tobacco company say cigarettes do not cause cancer, should should consider this statement valid?
Since then, due to the bad press i suppose, Oracle has decided to open source most of these features (the others are retired).
The Java Flight Recorder is not yet in the OpenJDK but AppCDS is already integrated in 10.
There's a game called Banished that has cycles to it unless you are careful. The economic model is complicated enough such that if some event hurts your ore miners, then your ore output drops, when your ore output drops then your blacksmiths farming tool output drops, when the farming tool output drops your food output drops. When your food output drops, your food stores drop your people start starving. It can cause a population of hundreds or thousands to drop to a few dozen. But all the infrastructure you built for your large city becomes a burden at that scale, and it take longer to grow to your old size than it did the first time.

What I found fascinating is after playing for a bit you can start to see these cascades start early and try to stop them and still fail. All you can do is try to efficiently route resources as you watch your entire city fall into decline.
Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated (2010)
Post I was replying to said (hyperbolically) "ban all communications".
The AdoptOpenJDK releases are also TCK certified.
In the MSFT/AMZN transaction, doesn't the value pass through USD on the way? If I use ShapeShift to convert BTC to LTC, USD isn't involved.

Not saying it affects the situation, but it is still a different type of transaction in the way that a lot of laypeople would think of it.
I see, so the problem is that the data sharing is opt-out instead of opt-in? This seems reasonable, although I'd be concerned about a law where J. Random Codemonkey puts up a free game on his website and gets prosecuted for selling the analytics data.
Further down the thread there's a link to (all of?) their posts on archive.org, i think
Hm, I'd guess, it's latency to backend servers. Cores are plenty fast for just about every language.

If you have a good network between systems, each request of any form to a backend service will introduce at least 0.5 ms of response time due to datacenter RTA, so once you hit 250 queries, that's that. And 250 queries are just one n+1 problem somewhere.
Well, 1 could also be taken care of by Congress passing a new law. But I think the more interesting alternative is Zuck deciding to do it on his own. There's no reason he couldn't create a nonprofit and give it the "natural monopoly" pieces. That would certainly include identity and the social graph, and maybe a publishing interchange.

Then Facebook could step back and compete on the non-monopoly pieces. The client, of course. But all the add-ons. Groups and events and marketplace and whatever else. Google, Twitter, Amazon, and probably Apple would probably quickly create their own social clients. And would also join some nonprofit advisory board, which would help to set protocols and standards.
Sounds dodgy. If I give you a free refill to see how you react, I go to jail?
What a gift!

... to be able to imagine wild scenarios.

I'm guessing you're a fantasy writer...

If not, I've never seen a more obvious sign..
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Oh, this is awesome. Can't wait to try it. Thank you!
You pay for your apartment, it’s reasonable to expect privacy.
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Mentioned elsewhere in these comments but they got deleted for violating a no-cryptocurrency that medium added a week ago.

also they never wrote about cryptocurrencies, they're a free alternative to things like patreon, and only accept payment directly through the bank (i've used them once)
I've noticed that too and I make it a point to stop programming or doing anything that requires stimulating brain activity for at least an hour before going to bed.

Try watching a good show that doesn't require too much attention an hour or two before your bedtime. Putting your brain into a passive mode helps a lot. (Do not watch Game of Thrones or any complex/stimulating show or it probably won't help!)
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> "At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right."

I agree and think Apple promoting and implementing it in their products is wonderful. But most of the world can't afford Apple products and therefore are effectively denied this human right.

It would be great if Apple could provide a low-cost line, probably under a different brand name, that implemented the privacy technologies in otherwise basic phones, laptops, etc. Or maybe license the privacy tech to someone else who does that. (I realize it might be much more complicated than what I describe; for example, the security tech could be too tightly integrated with the rest of the product. Would they have to license iOS? A stripped down version?)

I'm not complaining; it's not Apple's job to solve this problem created by other phone and OS makers. But they could make a big impact and I don't think it would take sales from Apple products; an otherwise cheap phone with Apple's boot security subsystem isn't going to compete with an iPhone.
Mark Zuckerberg apologizes in full-page newspaper ads
Your alternate hypothesis is that the companies collectively spending hundreds of billions of dollars per year on advertising are not getting anything for it? Why don't you take a swing at proving that?
I'm sure some advertising "works" on some people, but I've met some of the people who buy the advertising on behalf of big companies that produce consumer goods, the people who decide which advertisers get the big contracts and which campaigns get approved, and those people were not exactly of a scientific bent. I think it would be very easy to con them, and probably they get conned a lot of the time.

Also, I can think of a couple of cases in which I was planning to buy a product, but changed my mind because of an advertisement for the product. In one case the advertisement made me consider a particular aspect of the product, which lead to me reevaluating and choosing an alternative product. In the other case the product was an alcoholic beverage, which I liked the taste of, but the advertisement made me embarrassed to be in any way associated with the product. In a way that proves that advertising works, but I would guess it's a lot easier to influence people against something rather than for it, even accidentally. And this is perhaps very relevant to political advertising, which often is "against" something.
Ignoring all the ad hominem about Jonah Lehrer here -- I recall a number of other discussions on HN about how the scientific method and science are different, how something is broken, about the irreproducibility of studies, about reversion to the mean, etc. Don't be distracted by who authored this piece.
Great script.
The API is pretty easy to use.
Could be integrate to many projects
Don't worry about sleep too much. Let it be.
He didn't expect them to be willing to pay that kind of money, and he was right. But if they had countered at $10M or even $5M, and waved a check under his nose, do you really think he wouldn't have taken it?
I thought there was something about selling/buying an asset of the same class within a certain period not triggering a tax event or something? The thing that tax-loss harvesting is based off.
I'm a wary of Android only in that I'm so used to the Raspian ecosystem, but I will check it out. Thanks for the recommend!
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Author here - that's a great question on VSCode. I actually tried really hard to get my 'Vim workflow' to work with VSCode - even creating a plugin for relative numbering. I'm a big fan of the work that the VSCodeVim / VSCodeNeovim teams are doing as well!

There were two challenges I faced:

1. Performance - I'm very sensitive to typing latency. I wanted to leverage Neovim to its full potential. IMO, there is a tremendous benefit to having the buffer management delegated to a native layer (similiar to what the Atom team is exploring with Xray). We also use a canvas renderer for the editor surface, unlike VSCode/Atom which use the DOM. We still have low-hanging fruit to address in terms of performance, but we gain significant benefits from this architecture, vs other electron apps.

2. Functionality- I wanted to explore some new input methods, inspired by browser plugins like Vimium and cVim. I also wanted to explore ways to gamify the editor experience and make it fun to learn modal editing and become more productive. I found VSCode's API's limiting in these aspects, and wasn't able to realize it within the confines of their API.

I believe VSCode is making the right set of trade-offs for their user base - there is benefit to the sandboxing of the APIs as it helps lift the overall quality of plugins. Every editor is a different exercise in trade-offs, and I wanted to explore a different set, targeting a more niche group.

The VSCode team has done awesome work and we've been able to leverage several core components - their language server client, their snippet parser, their textmate highlighting parser / engine. It's wonderful that they are contributing so much to the open source community. I hope to hook up their debug adapter protocol in the near term, too!

To answer your second question - we'd like to support VSCode plugins at some point. They have a great ecosystem of plugins. We support their snippet syntax and textmate highlighting syntax, but hopefully we can have more a complete compatibility story. Still have a lot of work to do on our plugin story in general :)
What is the sweet spot of Oni? If you're looking for a full-blown IDE with vim UI on top then the vs code IntelliJ Visual Studio does reasonably good job at that.

If you're looking for a beefed-up version of vim as an IDE spacevim has a package manager and a curated set of over 200 plugins dialed in to work well together for gvim or terminal.

I'm just trying to understand the differentiator
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Indeed, the best solution.

Interesting enough, I find separate web crawling as a service and search engine as a service, but not both?
Chocolate keeps me regular.
Folks already have, at Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google.[0] The issue isn't showing lift, it's having sufficient power to know the test you ran isn't cherry-picked or BS.

[0] https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/jl2545/4550/materials/lewisr...

Also, the onus to prove the claim that digital marketing has an effect is not logically on the interlocutor, but on the claimant.

Knowing many marketing folks across many industries, their incentives aren't usually tied to incremental lift but rather gross channel volume. So if they can cannibalize from more effective sales or advertising channels they do so, without qualms.

I've heard the claim like grandparent comment has made before for years. Yet, when pushed, it is suddenly a golden cow. This is concerning, precisely due to the figure you cite of billions of dollars.
I'm very impressed by that game and was hoping you'd have more of a positive endgame note ;)
The government needs to fix the problem that it's so difficult to know what you're required to pay without just paying the maximum guess (and then pay more ahead of time to avoid penalties). I've reported an instance of 2 conflicting statements in 2 separate IRS forms to the IRS, and rather than clarifying what was required they referred me to a tax advisor, who also didn't know the answer to the question. So we took the more liberal guess, and filed. And then had to rework it anyway because the law for how much tax I was required to pay in 2017 changed in 2018 anyway. The principles that we consider "rule of law" don't seem to apply to tax law.
Ha very cool. Though who pays for storing the data then?
I think the same way. In the end, advertising creates harm to people. Put aside the numbers, and vacuous phrases like "creating value to the shareholders". The net impact on advertising is harm to people. It's about using tricks, potentially with very harmful side effects, to manipulate people into buying your stuff.

Sometimes I imagine how a world without any type of commercial advertising would be...
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Is 4chan truly heavily moderated? I've never really used it, but it certainly has a reputation of anything goes.
There are a lot of details about Facebook that scare me, but the line between good and bad aspects is very thin. Usually it is a little easier to tease out my complaints.

Influencing opinions isn't in itself a bad thing. Even being influenced to spend money isn't necessarily a bad thing. Being influenced with political ideas is on face first impressions a good idea and I might call it the first step towards understanding.

The combination of scale and selectivity of the Silicon Valley majors seems like it is creeping into a difficult place though. I've always been quite interested in American politics and it is curiously hard now to identify what the message directly to voters is on Facebook. Advertising on Facebook et al is relatively private and personalised vs a newspaper where everyone gets the same ad.

Also an issue here, once politicians get involved in identifying 'bad actors', there is a real risk that their political opponents get identified. Any regulation should proceed very slowly and thoughtfully.
We use Jekyll and it’s just awesome.
Is there any way to do a 0RTT request for a completely new connection/session?

I mean, if I want to get weather data from let's say NOAA, so a simple GET / HTTP/2, why would I want to send any PSK? Let the server send the response and the Server Cert and the client can decide whether to trust the reply or not.

CloudFlare only "allows" 0RTT for GETs, for example. Is that different, or they also need the PSK?
Peter Thiel will fund another go.
Interesting he is using newspapers, he's trying to persuade the older folk. The people most likely to be in government and the most likely to be voters. Got to give it to him, he's smart.
There's a podcast that's literally just this. Some guy reads nonsensical stories in a monotone.

10 minutes or less, guaranteed, every time.
I don't know much about the Arab countries, but Russia is perfectly happy with its own state-approved versions of Facebook (Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki).
Sounds like homebrew Pranayama

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranayama
This sort of sounds like the Europa Universalis series, where history affects the various countries you can play. There's nothing stopping you from trying to reverse the decline of Byzantium upon the onslaught of the Ottomans, but the deck is certainly stacked against you...
...They pay taxes... wtf :'D
Proxybench, a tool to benchmark different mitm proxies
Talk about "bespoke".
Server side includes. It does everything required and doesn't bloat and doesn't change. I've been using them since the geocities era with hand-written static html content. Easy to mix and match.
You owe income tax on the value at the time you earned the income...

If you later sold it for more, you owe tax on the gains.