skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because anyone disagrees that equality of choice and opportunity is the idea

Yes, this is something I've noticed. How when he talks about equality he assumes the premise that everybody is talking about "equality of outcome" rather than "equality of opportunity" which may be the case to a certain extent, but nobody that's actually studied inequality to any serious degree believes this.
Honestly, advertising in general is probably a net detriment to society. This is especially depressing when you consider how much money goes into it.
How do you tell you have reached "normality" or whatever state you wished without perturbing the quantum system?

(Yes there are some tricks like observing phase angle while changing velocity etc. Used in quantum cryptology.)
1 in 1,357,338 could easily be 10,000+ devices considering how fast these fingerprints change and how many users are out there.

Geographic location is a much larger issue.
No problem. Sorry for my delay in responding.
Dear Zuckerberg,

If we consented to this and were still genuinely surprised, its an indication that the consent was not sufficiently informed. This is your problem, not ours. Most of us Average Joes just don't understand the scope of what data collection is possible when we give you access to our phone's features - especially when you couch the access request for quite innocuous and even helpful features.

Worse, we don't really understand what can be done with this data. That you can take location data and will use it to infer where we live and work - that you could use it to categorize us according to race and religion - these kinds of possibilities just never crossed our minds when you asked for our location to share with nearby friends.

So, no, we did not agree to this - we were not well enough informed to agree with this. To paraphrase a meme: You might be legally correct, but you're an asshole.
Geo-location is the scary metric, peoples habits / when/ where is a trove of data, it can be analyzed much more deeply.
> - Color to transparency is a single button

This is huge. I've used Pixelmator because I liked its UI, but even simplest tasks like this one were unnecessary hard. I kept Gimp just for this.
And when we complain about usability issues and lack of features in those programs (such as GIMP!), we're told that there are lots of open source alternatives; for instance, look how slick Krita is!

And thus the cyclical debate continues for another turn while a competitive raster editor remains unavailable in the open source ecosystem.
Of course they can, there are several competitors in that space, and if you order from eat24 or ubereats, you'll often get a menu that directs you to their preferred service.
Yes, of course I read the article. If there was political will, Facebook would pay taxes in the UK.

The article I linked to in my comment showed that FBK paid (slightly) more taxes in 2017 than in 2016 following a public outcry.

Political pressure and HMRC's best and brightest could surely find ways to make Facebook pay a just level of taxes.
What is IG?
Hey try this:

https://www.kununu.com/us
> Facebook's shutting down of organic reach was devastating for publishers:

Facebook makes algorithm changes to reduce unpaid reach and squeeze more money out of business entities on the platform regularly, almost as soon as the complaints from the last round of changed have died down; it may be a contributor to background frustration especially by small businesses (for big businesses with established brands, its a barrier to their competition) but it'd probably not as big of a contribution to the present controversy as direct political features of that controversy, where the left is upset at the impact and therefore everyone involved, the right wants the political focus on Facebook rather than the other parties, and privacy advocates are angry at everyone involved, but particularly Facebook as the direct custodian of the data, about the mechanisms which allowed it to happen, which leaves everyone mad at Facebook for one reason or another.
"Firebase’s core product is a real-time database service. This means that your users do not need to refresh a page to see updates to the state of the application and it"

"Once you have your Firebase project, provision a “Cloud Firestore” database"

Cloud Firestore is a traditional NoSQL DB and is not the realtime database product.
If I trust any company with JetBrains it would be Microsoft. But they already have top notch products...I'm using PyCharm and Visual Studio Code side by side now and it's like VSC has like 10% of the menu options yet does everything I want it to do. Something like macOS versus Windows in terms of simplicity vs features.
Facebook revenue 2017: 40.7 billion. [1] Facebook 2017 user count: 2.2 billion. [2]

A simple division doesn't tell the whole story, but gets us into ballpark territory, call it $20/user/year. It's probably something power-distribution-ish, with a few whales clicking on the most profitable scams and mesothelioma ads, and a long tail of people who are below average. Much like with what network TV actually makes per eyeball-second, it's actually shockingly easy to outbid advertisers.

One of the reasons I kinda look askance at the whole advertising ecosystem is precisely that it seems like nobody is even trying anything else despite the fact it seems like it ought to be a very swift and huge boost to Facebook's real revenues and stock price if they could convince people to give them $50/year. The obvious offer to me would be some sort of all-inclusive cloud storage service for photos or something, which, I mean, they're already doing. The fact that this seems to be unthinkable is what makes me start giving a bit more credence to the idea that there truly is some sort of ulterior motive at play here. Even just "here's $34.99 for the year, facebook, remove the damned ads! and now that you don't need it, stop tracking me" would probably make them a shitton of cash, even without any other changes like giving you back more control over your feed now that you've removed their incentives to manipulate it for their own advertising gain. Where's all that notorious capitalistic greed?

And suppose we were living in an alternate universe where that was an option... how different would the news stories of the past week look? There's non-monetary reasons for this too.

(Compare with Netflix, for instance. I pay them real money. They get lots of real preference data. It would totally be "monetizable" levels of detail. But there's basically nothing they could possibly do with that data that's worth more than the ~$150/year I give them, and trying to start stuffing ads in my face runs a marginal risk that I'll just leave that is probably not worth it. Maybe when Facebook first came out, subscriptions were out of the question, but they are clearly an option now.)

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/277229/facebooks-annual-...

[2]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
Haha, that would be pretty hypocritical of us! Check out the source to be sure we aren't: https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook, and if you really want to be sure that's what we're deploying, use your browser's dev tools to inspect the code (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questi...).
"w" & "last" are first for me. Then "top" and "uname"
I use Remember the Milk for everything.
https://www.rememberthemilk.com/
I use both the iOS app as well as a command-line client found at
https://github.com/dwaring87/rtm-cli
yes, noscript is a must, however not enough against fingerprinting
Ubiquiti or Mikrotik

"prosummer" brands
Exactly. I make most of the money, not them. And the day I reduce their hours significantly because I bring AI into the platform -and one day I will-, I will make even more, and they will make even less.

I don't think I am individually wrong to pay market rate for their work, and keep the surplus, but the bigger question is, while nobody is wrong, including AI, where are we going as a society? What will be the consequences?
> I really don't think what people think Facebook does to their relationships actually maps at all to the actual impact of Facebook on their relationships. ... I'm 22 years old ... today I simply keep a list of the two-dozen or so friends I actually want to keep up with. ...I consult the list ... and give them a call. ... just remember that humans interacted for tens of thousands of years without social media, and decades with only phones and letters. You can do the same.

I'm 40 and I think you're misrepresenting what things used to be like. It used to be very easy to lose touch with people.

People would move, change phone numbers (and not have mobile phones with phone numbers that might remain a constant) and you wouldn't know. Or there'd be acquaintances or even people you'd call friends that you never had their contact details in the first place (it's more of a deal to ask for someone's home number and/or address -- or provide your own -- than to become Facebook friends). You likely kept people's numbers on paper, and if that was misplaced at some point you could easily lose any way to contact people.

I've lost touch with so many people I've known over the years. A number of these being people that had been good friends, who I would have liked to keep in contact with, and others who were less close but who I'd still like to have some sort of contact with.
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I would say: yep, pretty much. Generally abusing "weaknesses" is considered evil, and the likeliness that something becomes considered a "weakness" seem to depend on how much damage can be done by abusing this trait.
So what good is keeping the coins in separate addresses then? An earlier poster implied that you should keep separate addrs to avoid people knowing how much you have in full - but if you still have to wash the coins to separate accounts, what good is that? You're still washing all your coins - how many addrs you have seems like a side detail.

The only thing I can think of that separate addrs gives you, is that you can have a small amount of the coin in an address that you use for daily transactions. Meaning each transaction doesn't need to be washed, because you don't care about that address.

Am I missing something?
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I agree that those are reasons for the INTENT behind regulating/licensing taxis. Certainly in the past those things may have been more important. However, with the improved access to information that people now have through their phones it seems a lot less necessary.

- to keep traffic down
I don't know if limiting taxis actually ends up limiting cars, but limiting cars is certainly the definition of keeping traffic down.
- to ensure a minimum standard of vehicle
I've actually been surprised but the people driving Uber X usually have nicer vehicles than most taxis I have taken.
- to ensure safe, well-trained and responsible taxi drivers.
Licensing drivers provides responsible taxi drivers? Yes, tell that to the people that have to pay cash because the credit card machine is 'broken'.
- to ensure a fair level of income
As far as the fair level of income, taxi companies are taking their cut. How much do the drivers actually end up with?
> A CLI framework - Used urfave/cli. Same thing with dep ensure -add. Except I realised that the last release to Github was eons ago. August 2017 IIRC. The code I needed in particular had been released in October 2017 and since then had many commits to master. I just added a constraint to my Gopkg.toml file to lock the pulling to master.

What's wrong with spf13/cobra?
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thanks for this input. During my research I encountered several existing solutions but most of them seemed a bit overkill for my purposes (testing kubernetes in our company). So I developed a really lightweight solution.
E.g. with dex and kuberos one has to set up two additional services just for something simple like ldap auth (ok, with kube-ldap one has to setup one additional service too^^).
On the other hand I really like the advantages of an oidc-based login (automatic token refresh, natively built-in to kubernetes...), so this will probably be a way to go when our kubernetes setup is going to reach maturity.
I never signed up, yet I know Facebook has data about me anyway. How exactly did I "agree to this"?
I was with you every step of the way, then suddenly you were defending incest and I was like “how the hell did I end up here?”

Also, while “many” is a subjective term, I don’t think you’re using it correctly here. The idea that you should not regulate sex between consenting adults in general is very popular, but most countries carve out exceptions for sex work. Not saying they should, but many do. And I definitely think the incest legalization lobby must be very, very small, even though it probably has a sympathizer in the Oval Office.
Flagged. This comment is so awful, ignorant and offensive (especially to actual victims of sexual violence!). Wow, how on earth does someone come up with such a ludicrus, insane oppinion. Please learn what words (e.g. violence) mean before attempting to use them in conversation.
None of your reasons besides keeping traffic down necessitate restricting the number of licenses. And a "fair" wage will be determined by the market.
Bootstrap doesn't event define a design language.

I'm glad that there's a good UI lib that integrates with React at this level.
Yes, you are quite right. My question was poorly worded.
Not so long ago, Zuckerberg said it was "crazy" to think that Facebook influenced the US election. I don't think he's quite so confident of that today.
Instagram I imagine
Advertising is the art of manipulating people into spending money. When they are made to spend in a way that is harmful to themselves or society, you could argue that it's evil, and I would.
I'd go farther and say the economic system we have which elevates people to demigod status pretty arbitrarily and is ravaging the Earth is by extension evil. No one with any sense has control sufficient to stop us from spiraling into cataclysm or at least an unnecessary dystopia. Malicious advertisements don't have any right to exist, they just happen to be allowed because of our prevailing principles.
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> Why? If WASM has access to the DOM, and it's competitive in terms of performance - why would JS still by the goto? At that point, people will just choose whatever language they want, I don't see JS having an advantage there any longer.

Because of the built-in garbage collector, only non-garbage collector languages will actually be faster on WASM (so not that many of them) and the JS ecosystem is already so big that you would need a lot of work to match it in its current state.
An alternative option for PS is not same as being feature parity replacement of PS.

PS is a commercial image editor owned by a company with billions of dollars and many years worth of commercial development and improvements - it is used by a very specific group of users with specific needs and specific skills. And they don't mind paying a hefty fee for it.

GIMP (and other similar OS projects) is for everyone else, who wants to do light image editing in an amateur setting without having to pay a large amount for it.

Having said that - GIMP has some very powerful features that are as good as PS, but not a feature parity replacement of it. Nor do I think GIMP has the funding or the development mind-share to achieve that.
In 1575 the Danish king gave Tycho Brahe an island and funding for an observatory in order to keep him in Denmark. This transformed the land from a Crown property to a feudal domain, of which Brahe was the lord.

Tycho took control of agricultural planning, requiring the peasants to cultivate twice as much as they had done before, and he also exacted corvée labor from the peasants for the construction of his new castle. The peasants complained about Brahe's excessive taxation and took him to court. The court established Tycho's right to levy taxes and labor, and the result was a contract detailing the mutual obligations of lord and peasants on the island. Source Wikipedia

Serfs have rights under the law. Gig workers have none. The only thing they can do in order to earn rights is to sue to be treated as an employee.

The article gets it wrong. Traditional employment is an evolution on the master-serf relationship. Gig employment is lower status, akin to wandering laborers with no land or family. Gig workers wish they could be serfs.
I'm not a fan of Peterson, but from the bits I've looked into I find the part you highlight most attractive.

I come from a deeply religious (Evangelical) background, and in some ways, perhaps, my situation is 'worse' than yours because I never left because I felt that it was burdensome. On the contrary! I loved much of it and in hindsight the structure and social life it provided me might've been extra-valuable in light of my Asperger's. I just couldn't believe it, and moved to another city, country, etc.

While I'd like to say I figured it out in the interim, I'm still very much working on that. However, I found that at least on the personal level, zen buddhism has filled a significant part of that void, and if you haven't looked into it I can highly recommend it.

I've not looked into the more social aspect of it, though. That's high on my list. I'm bracing myself for a degree of disappointment, because I often don't really like the 'woo-hoo buddhist types' that I run into who are or claim to be buddhists. But I have no real evidence for that.

Nonetheless, despite my ongoing 'search', I feel zen has provided enough that I feel I can be some degree of content without running back to more 'traditional' religion (and I have considered that, up to going back to an evangelical church).

If you're interested in discussing this further, don't hesitate to send me an email.

I personally think there's a very valuable role 'us' ex-evangelicals/ex-religious folk can play in this growing sense of emptiness that I see all around me, and that I see turns people to various 'extreme' movements that all strike me as rather less-than-stellar (alt-right, extreme SJW, rabid marxists/anarchists/whateverists). I'm still often shocked at how many nonreligious folk around me simply do not understand the sense of community that, among other things, a church can provide. It's like talking to someone who has never been in love!

EDIT: Let me add that I don't immediately have anything concretely against Peterson either, and the article kind of confirms my suspicion that he's a bit like C.S. Lewis, which I consider mostly a good thing. I would not want to deny anyone the positive role Peterson could play in their lives, in the same way that Lewis played a very important role in my life. Peterson makes me uncomfortable in a way Lewis usually didn't, but that could be because my point of entry was, well, being deeply religious.
It's scary once you start considering edge cases. What if the machine learning accidentally and unknowingly discovers that people with a certain mental illness are more prone to buying product X, then starts massively promoting product X to people on Facebook who also have the same mental illness because of shared traits? We should be careful with advertising to vulnerable people.

This isn't even touching on the capability of nation states of nefarious groups manipulating populations on a large scale like Cambridge Analytica have likely done, which uses the exact same data advertisers use.
We've changed that title to the (presumably) more representative subtitle.
Is it me or is Lockheed Martin trying to take over the world? They are producing their own semiconductors, moving into radar and now defining new markets to make money from.
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Hmmmm... maybe I'm underestimating the number of non- and semi-technical people following HN.
I do see the current debate in the general public as (at least potentially) healthy and long overdue, I just felt that here on HN this wouldn't really pass as "news" in the literal sense, and that by now everyone here would have gotten the meta-story that "the normies" are waking up to the reality of surveillance capitalist business models...
I am sure certain members of the Gov won't forget the lack of his appearance (and the impression it gives) so who knows if it was a good business decision or not, down the line.
> I should have chosen a better name, it didnt hit me at first :/

What about "LocalDuckDuckGo" or "LocalStartPage"?

Also, what about "localoogle"[0] (name registered[1] now, coming soon)

[0] http://github.com/Symbian9/localoogle

[1] http://i.imgur.com/QTSmKae.png
We changed the title above.
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Yes that's right. Also, the code can be inspected here: https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook. For non-coders, if you are concerned about us using your data (we won't!) you can a) trust us, b) ask someone to check for you, or c) go to the page, turn off your wifi (so you aren't connected to the internet), generate your archive and download, close the page, and then click back on wifi... easy peasy :)
Microsoft is very, very far from "desperately trying to stay relevant" in the realm of business software but I also wanted to point something else out which pretty much wrecks your argument.

Have you ever been to Twitch.tv? It's perhaps the biggest thing in gaming right now and guess what desktop OS everybody runs there if they're not running a console?

Oh and if they are running a console, guess what half of those consoles are?
Uh ok, but ss -atpn isnt very readable on my terminal due to linewrap. Anyone with suggestions ?
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This is just a small issue (if it is an issue at all) -- maybe do something with the name to distinguish it from Textile the markup language?
Interestingly, Debian/Ubuntu has standalone packages for most of the boost libs that need to be compiled.
Zuck could be "persuaded" of anything I'm sure to placate the scapegoating whiners of the western world. The thing is if you're vacuous enough to invest a lot of yourself on fb you are equally vacuous to join the pitchfork mobs at the prompting of mass media.
Just wanted to say thanks for your work! It's my favorite crypto out there and the more I learn about it the more I realize how solid the tech is.
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How so? It's how essentially everyone used to do it.
Preface: I know nothing about this.

How can it "produce more energy out than energy in"? I don't know if I am not aware of what you mean by that, but that doesn't seem possible?
Please don't take a baity title as an excuse to pour fuel on national/political flames on HN. That's exactly what we don't want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's harder than just shifting the economic system. The problem is that human beings (or at least a lot of them) willingly and almost instinctively follow psychopaths and narcissists. As long as that's the case then these behaviors will be rewarded in any and all economic systems. The rules for how money moves around do not change human psychology.
You have positive, neutral, and negative. This doesn't fall under positive or neutral.
Qualcomm/Broadcom was mostly just political grandstanding
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Your experience != fact.
Can one of the mods explain the dramatic killing of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16687588 its a perfectly valid discussion with an article by a reasonable publication?
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A well-timed cat poster can have the same effect. The problem is, if there's little substance to the message, the effect is short-lived. The key to running a good cat poster business is spacing out the shallow messages, you can even reuse them if they're slightly reworded or just spaced far enough apart.