skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The person who reads both. My recent comments that came out overly harsh in terms of the initial criticism of HtDP's aesthetics, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16563160
So do you live somewhere that doesn't get very hot, or do you just have your AC cranked up all night?

Many places I have lived would be very expensive to keep under 68 all night.
> Python-like scripting

GDScript is nothing like python.
They are just preventing several potential headaches in their view. If I build something and I don't want end users to do X with it, I'm entitled to do that. If the user doesn't like it, the user can go elsewhere. Those are the terms I set as the vendor and you are free to not engage, you have other choices.

In short, you are still free to not buy their hardware.
"Any sufficiently uncensored user-content platform is indistinguishable from a porn site"
Well I used Google Translate, but I guess it's something like that. The french word is Charcuterie.

I haven't found a website in English, but here some pictures and classification (in french)

http://www.cuisinealafrancaise.com/fr/produits/boucherie-cha...

Searching was also the occasion for me to remember that french gastronomy is since 2010 "Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" :-)

http://us.france.fr/en/information/gastronomic-meal-french-5
People keep seeing "regulate" and reading it as "ban".

The UK regulates what you can advertise (no prescription pharma, for example) and extremely limits political advertising and spending. This results in a culture where local volunteers are important and you don't get weird lie-based adverts smearing candidates all the time. (The smearing is done for free by the press instead)

The only point at which I would say this was overreach was the period when Gerry Adams MP was banned from speaking on televion and had to have his words read by an actor.

WRT Facebook, a good start would be to guarantee traceability of ads, plus the ability to see all ads run by a particular entity even if they're not targeted at you.
Thanks, added to my book list.
I think there have been some valid points made in this thread about business models. Facebook is the least diversified company out of the big five when it comes to how much of their business model depends on collecting user data (and how personal that data is). At the same time, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft weren't just handed their business models. Each company decided to what (and what not) to pursue, and how they would pursue it. (Can anyone forget how utterly PUSHY Facebook was at getting people to use Messenger?)

At the end of the day we all checked off Facebook's EULA and Privacy Policy box and uploaded thousands of artifacts from our lives onto the platform. Perhaps it was a bit naive and overly trusting, but it was our decision. This does not dissolve Facebook of its ethical responsibility to not abuse customer data, but we, at the same time, shouldn't think that we're handing off our private data to some benevolent force that's just going to hold onto it without using it for their own gain.

TBH what disturbs me the most is how much data Facebook has on people's children. There's going to be an entire generation of people whose conception to high school graduation has been archived in Facebook servers, without their consent.
It wasn't a blessing to longshoremen (manual labor at ports) worldwide. That doesn't mean we should remain stuck in the past, driving horse-drawn carriages so the buggy whip makers can stay in business, but let's not gloss over the very serious downside to millions of people, their families and communities. Two thoughts:

1. I always try to remember: Capital can move and technology can change far faster than people can. The factory can move to another country far faster than its 10,000 employees can move to a new job, possibly in a new city. Shipping containers can be implemented far faster than millions (or more?) of longshoremen worldwide can learn new trades, find jobs, and return to their former incomes. I support innovation, but we should take care of the people who can't possibly keep up and who have little power over their fate.

2. If technology comes along that disrupts the careers of the politically weak, such as longshoremen, people say that it's just the nature of the game; that's innovation and they should take care of themselves. We just focus on the overall economic gains and are excited. But if new tech disrupts the politically strong, such as the music and film industries, then the technology is outlawed and law enforcement protects their privilege. Ironically, it's the weak who need that protection far more than the strong.

I used to think that we all should sacrifice for overall economic efficiency; that it's the rules of the game we all playI find it harder and harder to justify sacrificing the welfare of human beings for more cash, and of course I realized the 'rules' were made by a specific group of people to serve themselves.
Definitely quit Facebook. It will give you peace again.
My parents have very minimal technical abilities and they’ve always been paranoid about putting any personal info on a paper form and that extended to the internet when things moved online. They always left the birthdate field blank on forms. I was under the impression that most Boomers grew up being wary of privacy whether conservative or liberal, and it was GenX and Millenial who would give their data to anyone.
Poker companies participate in direct exchange of currencies, a social media company doesn't. A European social media company can have thousands of American users, make money off of them and not touch a single USD.
I still use a 2009 MacBook Pro daily - it only had the HDD swapped for a 128GB SSD few years ago, but it still runs perfectly fine and is quick enough for daily use/web browsing/programming.
Delicatessen means the same thing.

"Meat" in Europe, we learnt while we were there, doesn't really mean what it means in the Anglosphere. For us, "meat" groups up and basically means any animal flesh. For them (or at least: France, Spain, Italy), meat, poultry, delicatessen are all different classifications. Push the term "meat" down a layer in your ontology :).
With the government is passing laws like FOSTA giving private platforms huge liability for allowing free speech, the alt-right was just the beginning.

Now it’s moved on to sex workers, harm reduction communities, marketplaces, and more.

If the next step is liability for “false narratives” and “disinformation”, open and free discussion is dead, under the boot of the arbiters of truth.
The CNIL in France, created in 1980.
I think the solution to most problems in the economy is to limit how big companies can get.
Dxvk 0.40 released
Saying that China Uncensored is "journalism" or a news site is terribly misleading. They're a propaganda channel first and foremost and their only goal is to further the Falun Gong's personal platform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tang_Dynasty_Television

This is their parent company and due to their onesidedness I wouldn't trust anything that comes from their mouth. As well as I wouldn't trust anything coming from the mouth of Breitbart, InfoWars, or any news site from China itself.
When you think of a shipping container, think: API.

A shipping container is simply 8 knuckles (vertices) at a known distance, rigidly connected, with total weight within certain constraints. There are a number of objects that meet this standard; not just closed boxes with big doors at one end, but open frames, trays with big end pieces, tanks in rectangular frames...the possibilities are enormous. And they interconnect with a bunch of other devices (truck beds, railcars and each other on ships are just the most common.

Of course like many a standardized API there are several variants to choose from (more than just BSD vs SysV or emacs vs vi): the standard 40' length can be 20, or 53, and there are high top ones larger than usual. But actually not that many degrees of freedom.
Generally what's good for US companies is good for the US and its people, I'm fine with a legislative response to the equifax breach, something along the line of mandated disclosure and penalties for lax security but we are in the midst of a global battle and so our tech firms must be protected and not assailed by our gov't.
Google built an algorithm that promoted Alex Jones 15 billion times to vulnerable people. I wonder are they systematizing established marketing influences, or are they creating a new era of conspiracy theory prone populations because those types of articles have better click-through rates for ads?
You started to make an argument for how "regulate" doesn't mean "ban" but then immediately cited how Rx drug ads are banned.
'Replying a few days late because I just found out about this release and wanted to agree with parent for future readers.

I used to be on KDE a decade ago, but have gone through fluxbox , macos and dwm since. When switching back to a linux DE, I first tried KDE but small bugs and heterogenous UI on major apps put me off. GNOME3, although I had only heard bad things about until then, is fucking fantastic.

now browsing, email, contact, calendar, media I do in GNOME and the rest in emacs. It's an insane pleasure. GNOME3 (at least on arch) is really stable, customizable to the point where I don't really need anything more.

The only downside I've found so far is that I can only send calendar invites from Evolution where I'd rather send them from the calendard. And I don't think I can accept them with the 'new' mail app, have to use Evolution there as well. Evolution is super powerful, but the UI is starting to get dated... And I miss being able to delete and insert pages in the default mac pdf reader app.
EDITED: Obviously not trying to argue that the Earth is flat, but flat things can still cast round shadows if they're, well, round

(ORIGINAL: Obviously not trying to argue that the Earth is flat, but there are round things that are also flat)
This makes sense... because muscles contract

The cold water grabs the brain's attention. So the brain doesn't let the mind latch onto thoughts... energy contracts rather than scatters
1) requires a doj investigation and high court ruling, not to mention your particular case "social media share" is without precedent
A disk will also cast a round shadow in some cases.
This suggests trying “scared that my wife and children will be executed if I do it wrong”.
What Facebook privacy policy allows may surprise you
Glad you like my work; thanks for the kind words!
I actually love the idea of teaming up with some people to do some random hacking. That sounds like a super fun interview! But it also sounds really time-consuming for the team members as well as the candidate, especially if the time goes flat
They have names, phone numbers, locations, calls history and who-knows-what about people who have not signed on Facebook. They just take all these data from your friends' smartphones contacts list.
Before I started CPAP therapy, I was in a lot of pain. Car accident didn't help. I just dragged on wearing down little by little. My apnea got worse to the point that my partner was worried I wouldn't start breathing after stopping. The first day after I felt a lot less pain. I was still very groggy, but I hadn't felt that good in a long time. It took a while to get up to full speed and feeling normal. Months of barely sleeping took months to recoup from. I still like 9.5 hours of sleep. When I start to decline in performance or hit a wall, that's usually what I try to get back to first, because that's just hard to get squeezed in so I get less usually. Then checking if I'm getting enough exercise and calorie intake.
>Isn't this true of almost any industry which lets you put out information? E.g. news publishing? Book publishing? Blogs?

Advertising is not information. If it were merely data being exchanged, we wouldn't call it advertising. Advertising is the part that changes one's mind. See: https://www.etymonline.com/word/advert

>I mean, what exactly would you do, ban all communications?

Start by acknowledging the problem. Dodging it hasn't worked. Then we can learn more about it, how it works, the complications of it's side effects (like directly incentivizing privacy abuse) and come up with hopefully a sufficient and efficient solution. In short, we would do Problem Solving, very different from the other option of Not Trying.
Are there any games reviewers out there who actually enjoy the play aspect of games without any hand-wringing?
It was more or less the basis of my PhD in epidemiology that I dropped out of: https://joelkuiper.eu/academic-publishing (Most academic publishing isn't academic (and how to deal with it))
You still run with the same naive and expensive boehm garbage collection sweeper that Unity has always had (since 2005?). The machinations some Unity developers go through to avoid allocating memory and inadvertently triggering a sweep are worse than the old days of just managing your own memory manually in C and C++.

Why they have never hired a team to simply create a reference counting fork of their object system is beyond me. Their GC is the reason Unity games have a reputation for running with inconsistent choppy frame rates. You'd think fixing that would be top priority.

But they have never committed publicly to a timeline to fix it, and it is a glaring weakpoint in their runtime environment. Possibly worse than any other, besides the insane and broken way they designed their "prefab" concept. Those 2 flaws have led me to call Unity the "Javascript of Game Engines" in the past. It's not quite that bad, but it's close.
<IAmEveryone attr=“suck my dick”>

operating devices owned by an employer
is strike one. It’s not your personal
property. You didn’t buy it from the store,
you give it back when you quit or get fired,
right?

</IAmEveryone>
Silicon Valley, huh? I wonder how many trackers appear on the Bloomberg page. Let's see ...

14, according to Ghostery:

* Doubleclick

* Lotame

* Scorecard Research

* Taboola

* SailThrough Horizon

... and nine more.

In the unlikely event anyone from Bloomberg is reading this: fuck you, you hypocrites.
The hands-on NLTK tutorial
How about "everybody's doing it for a good reason"?
It's disheartening how, while that generation of Macs from late 2000s to early 2010s is holding up (and perform quite well) as long as they don't suffer significant physical damage, models from the past few years are so limited in upgradability/mod-ability, they'll have the same paperweight fate of mobile devices.
The hands-on NLTK tutorial in the form of Jupyter notebooks.
A company gets to decide what business it's in (Facebook and Google have each explored several), what its ethics are, and how these ethics apply. For example, Google is in a substantially similar business, but it is interesting to contrast Facebook's pattern of behavior with Google's.

Google isn't a paragon, and it's alarming (to me) that Google is building a universal panopticon too. But these two companies, despite the similarity in their business models, appear very different with respect not just to how they collect data, what they collect, how much they sell, and what breaches or not-breach breaches have occurred, but also how forthcoming they are about all this, and whether they act like they've got something to hide. Facebook used tricks[1] to run their iPhone app in the background when requested not to, and only backed this out when the new iOS “battery shaming” feature outed them; they uploaded Android call history with text that mislead the user into thinking they were just uploading contacts. Google has made mis-steps and knows a scary amount about us, but I don't recall this kind of systematic boundary-pushing and post-discovery obfuscation and denial.

Or contrast Lyft and Uber.

These differences in behavior aren't from a difference in business models. They are from differences in “corporate DNA”, or culture. Zuckerberg was a teen when he wrote these messages[2], but most people I know don't speak or act like that even at that age. Some people advance to a different moral stage even at the end of, or after, their teen years; it looks from a longer pattern of evidence, only some of it recent, like Zuckerberg and his company may not have done so. Yes, business incentives are a factor, but explanations don't begin and end with “money made me do it”.

[1] http://pxlnv.com/linklog/facebook-background-data/

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-mark-zuckerbergs-se...
Because I stumbled the last days over it and found it really a pleasure to workin with; the medium editor is completely usable in your own projects.

https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor
Competition keeps organizations honest. It forces them to conform their beliefs to reality and discard whatever is incorrect or counterproductive. It's the only mechanism we've found in thousands of years of institutions that preserves the valuable correspondence between belief and truth.

When an organization becomes big enough that its survival ceases to depend on the correspondence of belief with reality, other concerns take over: usually, primate-hierarchy status games. And these games escalate until the organization fails or people die, depending on the organization.
> operating devices owned by an employer is strike one. It’s not your personal property. You didn’t buy it from the store, you give it back when you quit or get fired, right?

By that logic, your landlord could install a camera in your bedroom. It’s their property after all, right?
> Recently, using [..] plus sign before terms became useless

Unless it came back at some point, it wasn't very recent - it was intentionally removed in 2011 due to their using "+" for their social network.
This message would not appeal to conservatives, mostly because they would not believe it. All of the narratives about the speech restrictions that replay over and over in their "bubble": Fairness Doctrine, Citizens United, campus speech codes, etc., are about limitations to conservative speech.
How China became a global power of espionage
I guess an art collective could really be a group of people who can actually use some kind of decentralized social network. Especially in countries where there is censorship. So a decentralized network and some kind of control over what you post (like high quality pictures of artworks, and the copyright is really unbreakable). On top of the needs of an artist from a capitalist standpoint (need to protect your product, the artwork) there is the ideological-political one. Most artists I know are very political and leaning towards solutions that are liberal and are implemented despite of governmental agencies as well as big corporations.
I'm not too sure what exact freedom this minority of users is after. Does granting the ability to load a custom kernel require zero engineering effort from Apple? Including doing it in a way which won't leave the door open for the FBI, and whoever else, to break in?
Great questions.

1. I used Keynote and then ScreenFlow

2. The dentist's site HTML/JS actually chooses to include the iframe pointing to the user's identity server, our platform does the rest.

3. The user's data is stored encrypted in other areas, as well. They themselves can decrypt the data and grant keys to access it as they see fit. Our platform handles the rest.
This is my favorite podcast of all time. It's completely fascinating and yet, as with other history podcasts, it puts me to sleep in 5 minutes. I listen to them over and over to catch bits in those 5 minutes.

You get to learn thing like the connections between father/pater/vader and brother/frater/bruder (f/p, th/t/d, b/f), the reason many plurals with 'f' become 'v' (elf/elves, wolf/wolves, half/halves), why 'x' at the beginning of the word sounds like 'z' but in the middle of a word like 'ks'. Or how some languages have more than singular/plural [1]

Unexpected word connection: 'c' in Latin/Spanish to 'h' in English: century/hundred, cornu/horn, casa/house, caliente/hot

Unexpected word connection: 'w' in German-to-English words and 'g' in French-to-English words: warranty/guarantee, warden/guardian (also seen in English/French: William/Guillome, war/guerre)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Localizatio...
NETVC slides - Thor update and AV1 comparisons – AV1 bitstream is frozen
Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement
Is Big Business Really That Bad?
Some interesting concepts to consider:
K-anonymity,
ℓ-diversity,
t-closeness.

From the paper (https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/bio.2014.0069) I wrote a while ago:

While the risk of re-identification (of a record or individual participant) might be virtually non-existent with synthetic data, one could predict unknown attributes of a known individual, given an ideal model of synthesis. In other words, an attacker could find unknown attributes of some individual with a certain probability by looking for the closest match in the synthetic data. This is known as attribute disclosure.

There are several methods for quantifying attribute disclosure, most notably t-closeness, which is defined as: An equivalence class is said to have t-closeness if the distance between the distribution of a sensitive attribute in this class and the distribution of the attribute in the whole table is no more than a threshold. A table is said to have t-closeness if all equivalence classes have t-closeness.

In short: the distribution of a particular sensitive value should not be further away than a distance t from the overall distribution.

Using the t-closeness metric circumvents issues associated with k-anonymity and ℓ-diversity. Briefly, k-anonymity states that a certain attribute class should be present in at least k records, which introduces ambiguity in the data set. However, if each of the k equivalence classes are the same, properties could still be resolved simply by elimination. The ℓ-diversity metric circumvents this problem by adding a further requirement: in addition to the class to being seen in k records, these records must have at least ℓ ‘well represented’ values. But if an attacker knows the real-world distribution of values, then attributes could still be disclosed with a certain probability, simply by combining different data sources
And a very silly article it is too, because the confirmation bias is absolute.

We never hear of talented artists whose careers were sunk by job slavery, because their stories will never get media attention.
The part about ad campaign transparency was good though. Corporate facebook page data doesn't seem accessible at all. Is there an API for this data that I don't know about??
In some cases, it isn't. This would be one of those cases - tax increase because of the spending increase required for a new department, little benefit in practice, anti-free market, etc.

It's a culture issue, not particularly a regulation issue. Fining companies for doing with data exactly what they say will be done with data in their ToS (Granted, ToSs are a terrible concept - they are legal and enforcable depending on how the government is feeling for the day, though) would allow the government to effectively shut down platforms it didn't like by fee. Proposing a department to "Calibrate and Levy Fines" upon media is bizarre.

The proper thing to do would be solely focusing on educating the populus, or alternatively funding the EFF to do it for them.
I wish the creator of dadgum started a no-frills blog hosting business, a Medium competitor that loads in milliseconds due to text being the medium.
org-mode is even less standard than markdown. The one and only editor for it is emacs. I haven't seen another implementation that is even close to complete.