skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For news, consider things like the Chinese wall [1] between news and ad sales

Literally the second line of the two lines of the linked section talks about the (increasingly common) cases of it being breached, a natural consequence of increasing ad-blocker usage. Also, everything in the example you're giving relies on old distribution methods, not "news". There's no longer a line between news and "random website who publishes information about events", and I'm not sure how anyone who hasn't been living under a rock for the last 15 years could be naive enough to think otherwise. For God's sake, Buzzfeed was a Pulitzer Prize finalist a year or two ago!

> 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."

Amazon is the largest bookseller in the country IINM, and you can very much give them a credit card and start selling your books nationwide. Again, you're confusing increasingly-unpopular (for market reasons) distribution methods with types of media.

The very existence of advertorials is a refutation of the notion that there's any principled way to legally distinguish between advertising and other forms of information, even less so one that wouldn't be riven with loopholes (cf limits on campaign spending and Super PACs' technically-not-for-the-candidates' spending).

> Personally, I'd just ban all advertising.

You seem to be confident that you have a definition of the word advertising that would be robust enough to implement this without enough collateral damage that it wouldn't be trivially unconstitutional. What is your rough proposal for what that definition would be?

FWIW, I generally agree with you that advertising is a collective-action/net-loss problem, but I think you may be falling into the classic trap of "this thing is bad, we should just wish for it to disappear and hold all else equal".
based only upon personal experience but consistent with your "paperweight hypothesis," the build quality seems lower than it was three or four years back.

and i think maybe Apple has squeezed component suppliers too hard. some components (e.g. power supplies) seem to be junkier than in the past.
That's more a problem with the executive branch than the agency itself.
Except for git stashes :(
I was just going to say I never experienced any performance issues using a Gigabyte eGPU with the latest MBPro as well as an Intel 7th gen NUC. For $699, it’s the cheapest way to get “desktop like GPU performance” on a laptop or small factor PC.
0-RTT is defined with a PSK (pre-shared key). There are two ways you might have a PSK. The only one that would come up in a web browser as they're constructed today is a "resumption" PSK, agreed between the two parties during a previous connection.

For the Internet of Things it's also envisioned that some devices might know a PSK at the outset to use TLS rather than some custom protocol to secure their traffic. Maybe your lightbulb controller knows a PSK for the lightbulbs baked in at the factory. But it's not expected that web browsers will care about this case.
Facebook has lists or do you mean it should be more intrinsic to the social network like Google Plus was?
Poorly aimed headlights and mostly people driving with their high-beams on are my biggest annoyance.
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How do you take it down with a centralized system?
There is this: http://www.internationaldockingstandard.com
Are there any plans for Linux release?
Also, he can't really use Facebook for it if his target audience is the people who stopped using Facebook (they wouldn't see it).
That's actually bad advise. Nothing worth learning will be finished learning before you run out of joy for it.

The best example from my experience is learning songs in a foreign language I'm studying. First you listen to a song you really enjoy and partly understand. Then you sit down and translate it. For most songs this will not just be tedious work, but also take out some of the joy of this song, because if you understand it you realize some of the text is outright stupid. That's normal.

Then you go and learn the song. That's not hollywood romantic stuff, with exciting background music and action heavy cutscenes. That is sitting down and repeating line 1 until you hate it. Then repeat it a few times more. Then do the same with line 2. Then do the same with the combination of lines 1 and 2. Then line 3. Then line 1+2+3. Then line 4. Then line 1+2+3+4, [...] then repeating line 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8 but sadly by doing that you completely forgot line 2 and you always reorder line 5 according to your mother language's grammar instead of the one used in the lyrics.

In the end, you really hate the song. And you sing it quite badly if you just spend time learning the lyrics and no time on the melody and composition of the whole thing. When you can really sing it for other people to enjoy listening, even the slightest bit of magic for it will be gone for you.

And only after you done this multiple times and you start to have a collection of songs, ready to apply to different circumenstances, able to apply the feelings of the moment for a unique interpretation of your own, then you will find joy in it again.

And I can promise you, if you can get to that point it doesn't really matter anymore if in the beginning it was something you enjoyed or not. You made it your own, and that is what is much more enjoyable.
Facebook the company, not facebook the application.
I prefer http://ohshitgit.com
What is up with these personal attacks on Zuckerberg? He is a decent person like any other just doing the best he can. If people weren’t so vicious there wouldn’t be a need for privacy in this world.
It would be very very very very boring. There would be very little entertainment, at least no professional entertainment. It write all be small amateurish stuff. But you wouldn't know about it, because it couldn't be advertised.
It's whatever the people who are not in power say it is.

Which doesn't make the concept any more valid than if the opposite were true.
To me it feels like BP CEO Tony Hayward's PR non-apology "apology" tour.

South Park captured it pretty perfectly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D01NHPnLrVs
Let's not forget employee stock options. They're designed to make improving the bottom line everyone's interest.
The current vim plugin from VSCode uses neovim under the hood, at least for some operations
> He is a decent person like any other just doing the best he can.

Do you know him personally? If not, what indication has he given to make you so sure of that?
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The explanation of HIBP went a tiny bit overzealous...

> For example, the website of Australian security expert Troy Hunt, haveibeenpwned.com (“pwned” is how elite, or “l33t,” hackers, or “hax0rs,” spell “owned”),
I have some hate toward Oracle because I have worked in databases and because I have learned unix with SunOS (and also because Oracle has ruined the security reputation of java applet). Concerning Java, I do not understand. It seems they are blocking updates for non paying customers, but at the same time Oracle is removing differences between OpenJDK builds and Oracle JDK binaries. Is Oracle good or evil (concerning java) ? Is java future doom ?
Rejecting replays by remembering the conversations you had previously forever is permissible in the standard and even called out as something an application can do. It's not required because whilst it's trivial for a toy web server anybody at scale can't do it.
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> That sort of mechanism doesn't map nicely into the Linux interface paradigm (unless you do things like exporting kernel routes into the hardware, but that's borderline absurd).

Not absurd at all. Cumulus (which I cofounded) does exactly that. There are >1000 customers, including several of the largest cloud operators in the world.

It works really well in practice, since you can just fall back to the kernel for non-fast-path stuff like ARP. IOS/NXOS implement ARP (and everything else) themselves. We can just use the kernel's implementation.

The idea is essentially to use the lightning fast forwarding ASIC as a hardware accelerator for the networking functionality the kernel already has.
Comparing genomes to computer operating systems [pdf]
Maybe the 56 cents is worth more for them than the possibility of some hours of downtime to set up the site on another server.
Book Review: ANSI Common Lisp
It took a bit of work, but I got 4.6 working with Json.NET and a few other external dlls.
Also :

- Handle DMCA notices and law enforcement requests for taking down illegal content.

- Hackers compromising accounts.

- Private data being compromised because of Wordpress like security bugs.

- Spam / Bots spreading junk and fake news.

- Permanently deleting content.

- Concerns around terrorism, grooming, child pornography etc

These problems will become major headaches at scale.
Both. Indeed. My frames of reference are Swiss dark chocolates and pralinés.
But that's no longer (non-technical) user friendly. Ghost is on the other end where they host it for you and if you get reddit or hn hugged it's still going to take your site offline, you just won't pay for it, but you get a pretty heavy charge for the convenience. None of these solutions would work for me.
In aggregate all the employment just represents society. There is a difference between engaging services and employing someone, and the heavy preference for engaging a human as services is part of the problem. It is no different from engaging a human as a good. If we all play by the same rules, then the contours of the market are not unfairly balanced toward one player. The market and social life are not distinct; contract law should protect all stakeholders as you mentioned.
Do any of those SF/NYC companies hire remote employees?
Mate I wouldn't really worry about Switch support. Even if you could port your game to Switch, Nintendo has a tight ironclad gate on the "indie" titles that make it in the store.

And if you're thinking homebrew, the only thing you could run your game on would be a Switch devkit.
Soda tax didn't go well here in Chicago. Obesity is strongly correlated with poverty.

Love the plastic bag tax though.
I have a loosely imagined regulatory solution to the particular problem of secretive data brokerages and user targeting. It works at follows:

* Targeted ads are required to include both a declaration that they are targeted to a user and what criteria were used to select the user.

* Ad and data brokers are required to provide a chain of discovery detailing where the individual ad or data entity received information that contributed to the targeting of the user. (I think this was hit upon in TFA, but it was difficult to get through with the focus as it was mostly on credentials and PII).

* Firms which hold user targeting information and information on individual user preferences are required to allow users to have their records removed from the firm's database.

I'm sure this seems punitive to the companies it would affect, but I'm not sure that's a problem overall. It allows people to control the information that is collected about them and puts the onus on the companies benefiting from that information. If user targeting really does help in product discovery and user preference marching, then the ad and data companies will be rewarded, and the price of regulation will be the cost of information transparency. If it turns out that users really don't want to have dozens of companies tracking their every move then the advertising business model will be starved and make way for companies with more innovative, user-friendly business models.

Edit: autocorrect fucking up words that autocomplete originally predicted correctly.
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I will repeat my previous post:

I expected a non-conditional apology but there he is blaming on a single app being able to extract data.
We dont want apology for the breach, we want apology for collecting all the data for so many years. We want to FB to delete the data they have collected even if it means a massive reduction in advertisement revenues. But I guess none of his algorithms can foresee the end of FB.com in the western part of the world.

Good night sweet prince.
Democracy. Real democracy....dies.

I disagree -- I think what we saw in 2016 was democracy. We saw the effect of giving stupid people the same amount of political power as everyone else.

It's indisputable that some people are more easily gathered and led than others. We can borrow the term "network effect" to describe how these people come to wield excessive power in a democracy. But these voters don't serve their own interests. They are the players in a competition among billionaires, religious leaders, and state-level actors to see who can raise the biggest army of intellectual zombies and herd them to the polls.

At some point there will have to be a conversation about how sustainable this practice is.
Which countries don't have income tax?
Development resources are pretty limited, for now it seems fine to use the right tool for the right job; there are plenty of E2EE chat services that can be used, and if there’s significant interest, a norm for favoring one will likely develop (like with imgur and Reddit, for example).
Is Tesla in crisis?
Absolutely. I have a 5k iMac and I love everything about it except I made the mistake of getting the 512GB SSD and I already need more space. But I'm fucking stuck with it. So now every few weeks I have to go hunting for things to clean off of my disk.
Wait. What's weird is that they already closed the vector that CA used three years ago when this was first reported. From the NYT interview from earlier this week, what FB is working on now is a feature that'll let you see what apps may have been able to see your data through a friend. I'm curious what else they're going to do.

I wonder if Zuck's gonna be like "Fuck it, no more apps. Fuck apps. No one can see your data but us and we're going to lock it down 100%."
(Syntax highlighting for the git patch is broken.)
That sounds to me like rearranging deck chairs on the titanic. Corporate culture is the direct result of the business model of the company. You won't see facebook promote decentralised privacy, it's not going to happen just like you won't find anti-oil protests within the management of Exxon-Mobile, or a push for rail based public transport within the headquarters of Uber.

Corporate culture is a structure build on-top of their business, nobody has ever changed their business to adapt to their culture, they just get a rebranding and hire a PR team if the two happen to run into conflict.
This has been an issue for some time, tracked in (https://github.com/onivim/oni/issues/1568) and (https://github.com/onivim/oni/issues/405).

Unfortunately is not an easy task to accomplish at the moment, due to the way vim scrolling is tied with the terminal approach (line by line), does not seem as a hard block though and hopefully can be improved.

Since most of the time you are scrolling with keybindings when using vim this may not be as big of an issue for most vim users (I never had issues in my experience), but certainly desirable to fix as it's a dealbreaker some.
I have not yet run into anyone who could deep-dive into the details of what they're working on and talk about the good, bad, and ugly, who turned out to be incapable of coding. Maybe I've been lucky, but I think it's pretty hard to fake that level of knowledge.

For remote developers I do deviate slightly and I actually ask them to do a little coding, but that's because it's always someone in Hyderabad and the cultural differences make a deep-dive conversation with body language a lot harder to pull off. So I ask them to whip up a demo program that scores a game of Bowling, take as long as necessary, and bring the results to the interview and show me what they did. Not much but it works (and scoring a bowling game is actually not a bad test -- not as trivial as it sounds, but doesn't take a whole evening of work just for an interview).
I also don't think it's ad hominem to mention his reputation (in this case, because he earned that reputation himself), but I want to mention that this piece completely mangles its description of the whole reproducibility crisis [1] and you would have to look elsewhere for a genuine discussion of the issues. This article isn't it.

[1] The key example I think is this: he talks about the "decline effect", that you do experiments and find effects that later disappear ("When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe."), but completely misses the point that when a low-power experiment finds an effect (with a correspondingly large type-M error), it is not the effect that declines, the effect never existed in the first place, it is the experiment that was done poorly and should be discarded. It would be the most boring banal statement possible to say that scientific ideas can only be found by well-conducted experiments, but he doesn't do even that.
Instagram and WhatsApp worked fine before they were part of Facebook.
> Construction of this data set consumed millions of compute hours

It's great to see such datasets shared publicly. I hope it achieves the intended purpose and spurs innovation in protein folding.
> What would breaking up Facebook look like?

Crack it along its social graph(s) or separate the platform (which would become a regulated utility) from the advertising business.

Mergers offer four broad categories of synergies [1]: demand-side, supply-side, political and administrative. Airline mergers are usually about demand-side synergies. Having more market share gives you better data about future trends. It also gives you pricing power. Media/telecom mergers tend to rely on supply-side synergies: prices won't be raised, but content suppliers can be squeezed for distribution. When Lockheed Martin bought Sikorsky it acquired lots of employees in Connecticut [2]; that bought them some bulldogs in the Congress. (Administrative synergies are mostly B.S.; they fall into the "you have an accounting department, we have an accounting department, combined we can have just one" category and were mostly disproven in the post-WWII conglomerate boom.)

Facebook is a super aggregator [3]; it has both demand-side and supply-side monopolistic synergies. Cracking the demand side means users go to sleep with a Facebook account and wake up with a Facebook No. 3 account. (Or to sleep with an Instagram account and wake up with an Instagram account.) This worked for AT&T and could be done today (at significant expense to Facebook's shareholders as it was to Standard Oil's, AT&T's and Microsoft's). Cleaving social graphs is complicated. But we understand graph theory better today than we did in AT&T's days. Bonus: require an open inter-operability standard if these networks want to interconnect.

Cracking the supply side would involve taking related advertisers and hiving them off into a separate advertising company. The Facebook platform left would be a natural monopoly, regulated like a utility, serving dual profit and public roles. (Messenger, Instagram, M, and other relatively-discrete products would similarly be spun off.)

TL; DR The novelty of breaking up a Facebook is superficial and finds precedent in antitrust enforcement history.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/synergy.asp

[2] http://www.courant.com/business/hc-sikorsky-connecticut-2016...

[3] https://stratechery.com/2017/defining-aggregators/
This: "Pass an American GDPR."
If only they weren't so damn heavy. A significant proportion of the mass being shipped is often the container itself. There are efforts to make an equally strong and almost-as-cheap container out of composites, but unfortunately nothing has caught on yet.
Please help me understand. You're saying the NYT has some agenda to keep artists from quiting their day jobs? If so that seems implausible.

For many artists there is no other choice. Art won't pay the bills but for a small few. I for one enjoy the freedom that comes with having a day job. I don't have to worry if people will like my art (because it doesn't need to make money) And I often get good ideas for writing and music when completing some monotonous task in the office.

About your first edit... I think it's absurd to think you need to be jobless in order to question society. In fact, having a job gives you a front row seat to everything wrong with us.
My Quest for Home Automation, Part 2
Sorry I only remember Cadbury's but there were other brands. As for taste in the UK and America, for the American market Lindt chose to adulterate their standard Excellence recipes to adjust to local preferences; consequently some of their dark chocolates sold in the US became inedible monstrosities.
Germany’s 28-Hour Workweek
And if people weren't thieving we wouldn't need locks on our doors either yet here we are.
Advertising is a classic case of the prisoners dilemma.

In short: Advertising is very effective and worthwhile if you're the only one with a product in that space. As soon as others enter it just becomes an arms race backed by mountains of money with questionable results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#In_econom...

Why spend all the money on questionable results? At risk of coming off as glib, perks. I worked in a field tangential to advertising and all of the money is very useful for throwing parties, signaling success and status, being able to invite clients to large events thatyour advertising is involved with (think superbowl), etc.

For some reason HN at large prefers a more conspiracy leaning attitude toward advertising which you can see in the top comment right now: "Anyone with a credit card can start changing how people think and act." This perspective believes that advertising is like a brain ray that persuades people to do whatever they say - that targets have limited agency over their own thoughts. It's very appealing to assume everyone is a gullible sheep (except yourself, naturally) but that's not the reality behind advertising spending.
Because I'm familiar with HN's penchant for being black-and-white about things, I'll preface this with: I think advertising is very much a net loss for the world and would be pretty happy if it all disappeared tomorrow, magically ceterus paribus. I just don't think that it makes any sense to redefine a word instead of actually addressing a point you disagree with.

Yea, and "villains" are just farmers (https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=villain)

Come on man, there's no way that you don't know how dumb it is to pretend that the etymology of a word is more relevant than its modern definition. '

> Advertising is the part that changes one's mind.

You can't just assert something insane like this without any attempt at backing it up. Advertising is 100% information being exchanged; it may be subjective, but the dirty secret that everyone ignores about epistemology is that all "knowledge" is socially-constructed. Thank God we've (generally) agreed on a few high-quality sources like the scientific establishment, but it's hopelessly naive to pretend that you can find the line where something ceases to be "real" information. And clear lines are incredibly important in legislation, particularly when there's a trillion dollars of incentive to find loopholes.