skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it is the norm (certainly taught as the norm) to profit by coming together in a transaction where both parties leave with more value it is also possible to profit by taking value. This can be done through outright robbery but it can also be done in more subtle (and legal) ways by making a transaction look more voluntary than it is. When one party is negotiating from a position of strength (employers) and the other party is negotiating with their life and physical well being on the line (employees, especially those on the lower end of the pay scale) then the first party can take more value and profit from the transaction than if they were both negotiating for a net gain in value.

So, somewhere along the way, largely by historical accident and inertia, we've decided as a society that it is ok to keep a huge portion of the population on the edge of desperation and that if they fall it is their own concern. Any moves to change this is seen as an attack on business owners and their profits. This is short-sighted since if people are motivated rather than forced to produce value there will be more people contributing to the improvement of the castle and fewer looking at the walls with jealousy and chip away at it whenever they get the opportunity.
that's a good idea
You can't have it both ways. Pick one:

1. Insecure systems: government can get in, but so can hackers.

2. Secure systems: hackers can't get in, but neither can government.

It's a binary choice. Like being pregnant. You are, or you are not. There is no try.
Broken up into what? It's not Facebook's monopoly over social media that's the issue being discussed.
Well, Irish or Italian weren’t brought into slavery, and locked up for >100 years.

If it was white people making it difficult for other races to get in, Asian and Indian people would have difficulty getting into higher classes as well.

Also, if I’m not mistaken, African Americans are 10% of US population. Since there were only 2-3 generations since the Civil Movement, even with 10% of each generation moving one class higher, the expected number of African Americans would be ~3% in middle class and close to zero in the upper class.
So saying that there are very few African Americans in middle class is not a sign of racism. Irish and Italian had 20 generations of a head start.
The license of the data should be able to infect any model that it trains.
Lawyer bots could cost local governments real revenue
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I can't speak to the complexity of managing a dockless system (and in particular, their profitability), but from a UX perspective, it's a total game-changer.

In my city, we started with docked, but after a dockless company arrived, literally no-one uses the docked bikes - why put up with the extra hassle of having to return the bikes for no user benefit?

The prices are already so low that I can't really see them being able to compete on price, so the only differentiating factor is ease of use, which dockless will always win on.

Also, in reply to a sibling comment, we have a pretty serious bike theft problem here, but they mostly don't bother with the dockless bikes except as a mode of transportation. Speculatively, perhaps most bike theft profits are in the gray market (i.e. Craigslist), where these highly-recognizable bikes can't be unloaded?
Couldn't someone just turn up at 9:01am?
Found via Pocket. The original title was too long for HN. I hope this abbreviation is up to the community's standards.
Sub-Prime Carmegeddon
What pissed me off is when you try to login using your google account, it asks permissions to access and manage files in your Google Drive.
> The answer is to give them a home

How condescending can you be? I guess that's solved!?

There are multiple 'types' of homeless, that I have encountered across multiple states. There is some overlap. Most of the homeless DO NOT WANT to have the responsibility (cognitive or financial) of a home, bills, etc. They believe that they are happy making do and tend to congregate in the same municipal areas. What do you think happens to the least intelligent of a society? Honestly, this population will only grow. On the other side, people who want help get it, as every camp and clearout includes copious social workers. You need 0 resources to get a medical and dental insurance in Washington State. Social services are offered everywhere the homeless gather, but unsurprisingly they don't usually take it.

One of the most common 'types' is the homesteader. The kind of people who live out in the desert in trailers have moved to more populous, relatively comfortable areas to live as they like due to the purchase/development of the areas they would normally squat on. This type of nomad living isn't strictly a mental illness, but it's also not an issue of housing.

The second 'type' is the addict. Now this isn't always drugs, although it almost always devolves into that. Some people are hoarders (an addiction) or pet hoarders, or whatever and slowly but surely are stripped of everything they have. Then it tends to turn to a replacement like drugs. These are also the most common criminal element. Stealing bikes, hoses, whatever to feed their various addictions and to give them purpose. Being homeless is boring.

The third type is the more sympathetic hard case. These are the people that are turned away from shelters, but won't let go of the dog they keep, which is all that's left from their previous life. They tend to accept help, but there's a shortage for even this sliver.

For now, making homelessness illegal in incorporated counties, without enrollment and participation in rehabilitation programs, this will continue.
Captain Kirk Signs Off on NASA’s New Journey to Get Closer to Sun
Funny, you used the term “regression”. People without stats 101 background will not know what you’re talking about.
Hey, thanks for reading.

The point I was trying to make is that we need to hold everyone to be accountable / secure. Just because no one is actively exploiting the data in a huge fashion (ie. Cambridge Analytica) doesn't mean it we should let go.

I'm terrible at following the news by the way :(
From the french version, same (23):

> envisage d'offrir des services à des personnes concernées dans un ou plusieurs États membres de l'Union

They just have to prove you are considering EU in your app. It can be anything. Like Having EU timezones, or a country input with EU countries is enough to prove intent to server EU residents. If you collect IPs via your web sever, you are infringing.
The only times I've used a bike share, it was because I was walking somewhere and happened to pass a dockless bike that seemed like a really good idea to just rent and use right away. These were invariable in places that would not have had a docking station.
How does this even happen?

How can the developers behind an endpoint like this not confirm/test that it requires permissions/authentication to consume? (I mean, look at all that data...)

Amateurs I can understand - but OKCupid has been around long enough they shouldn't be employing people of that nature.

Is there no code review process?

This is just nuts.
Low Frequency Intrusion – Is LFI a Part of Your Life?
Check my comment history. I can assure you its true as I will demonstrate in the near future. As for the security, you'd have no ability to penetrate internal aspects of it without physical and detectable access patterns. This is achieved using common sense design methodologies that are already proofed industry standards. Behaving as though securitization is theoretically smacks as a cash grab to me. If you have something valuable that you want to secure, magically you come up with ways to safely secure it.
C++ is only "fast" because people who care about performance use it and a lot of people who are good at compilers work on gcc/intel/llvm. If the LLVM team decided to spend 5 years making python "fast", I bet they could make it benchmark just as well as C++.
You can call your representative or vote/elect/run for a position.

I admire the libertarian sentiment on HN but I think it would be greatly beneficial to everyone to have more thoughtful, smart and balanced people running our Governments.
point is: AI is different than your usual game, in that the winner might appear randomly, and destroy the world if she makes a mistake. so i believe open ais points are warrented
You have to physically live in the EEA, or the company doing the data collecting has to be located in an EEA member country.

If any of those two, or both, covered. If neither, not covered.
Lab grown meat is being touted as more sustainable, since you don't have to raise an entire animal.

Also, wouldn't lab grown meat be more precise, like with normal chickens you have no idea what exactly what they ate, or how they mutated. But with lab grown meat it would be the same every time.
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I wish the EFF offered guidelines and a certification for companies to show they are following best practices for user data. I guess GDPR is the same thing but it’d be nice if some bucks went into the EFF’s pocket to fund lobbying on our behalf.

I have a data intensive startup and I would love to show we comply.
Slavery did not end. There are between 12 and 46 million slaves right now [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery
So what was the ultimate fate of the project? The 2018 follow-up post [1] says the boss was jailed for fraud, but doesn't say whether the project eventually shipped or was killed (or, even worse, is still in development).

[1] https://projectfailures.wordpress.com/2018/03/24/follow-up-o...
Because Woz has been a level headed guy for nearly his entire life and if you emulate his behavior you won't do too bad for yourself.
Introduction to Unsupervised Learning
This sort of comment is in line with their post history so no, likely not sarcasm.
Curious. Why? Do you have no other plastic items or remotes in your house? Are wood accessories so core to you?
No one's expecting to be able to use it right away. But maybe a Chrome OS (which is a modified Gentoo, after all) feature can be ported to another Linux distro.
Now's the perfect time. We're near the peak, so valuations are very inflated.
what a load of crap. so many people have escaped poverty in less than 5 years.
I'm wondering how they actually reverse engineered WhatsApp in the first place. Is there a specific type of software that does this or was it just built from scratch using already available information?
I've used FAT32, and yeah. I guess I got lucky.

> Also, I've seen ext* filesystems just as badly fragmented as NTFS ones in similar environments.

What kind of environment is that? I've rewritten terabytes of data over the same blocks, and never had any issues.
Don't waste your time feeding throwaway trolls.
I think some of that is that you're only spending a week or two in the country and they don't want you to remember it as the time you were stuck on the toilet with a constantly exploding ass. Even if it is not likely that you'll get sick, the potential is high enough that it's better to just buy some bottled water instead.
"Opt in."

If you can't sell your feature to your users, don't force it upon them.
This was my question as well. I believe the scope of this project is to interpret Python bytecode using Python.
Was this modeled after Belson's Box from SV? lol jk
They already do show you a static preview overlayed with the user's round profile photo after you scroll down past 4 or 5 photos on your timeline
What if all the lions in this planet think I couldn't stand killing a deer?
it's the power assist that makes it feel more like a scooter than a bike

There are many comments online about how awesome electric bikes are and many skeptical responses. I think the basic divide comes down to one thing: Has the person tried an electric bike? Almost everyone who has immediately sees them as awesome. Many who haven't don't get the point.

There are finally some reputable electric bikes available for around $1,000 (https://www.propella.bike/products/singlespeed), but most people want transportation without having to deal with hassle on either end.
>I've found that OO is incredibly confusing to some people because there are many ways to do one thing. That can be a feature to some and a bug to others.

I've encountered such programmers. They're generally just mediocre programmers who don't put a lot of effort into upping their game. They typically don't find functional programming any easier.

>I've also found that OO requires a level of discipline (e.g. SOLID) that's almost impossible to enforce.

Enforcing SOLID categorically is a bad idea, period. And I think one of the worst things about OO is the copious dogma that has grown up around it. In that sense, you could say it's a victim of its own success.
developer mode in ChromeOS
If it's a part of conversation - like most of social media posts -, I would assume it's fair use to keep it. Like if I interview you, and I publish the video, you can't retract what you said. Why social medias should be different?
I think for the world to get to a state where nations with submarines are engaging in an actual war will be one where we will have bigger problems to worry about.
Only-slightly-relevant but fun fact: back around the late ‘90s the UK’s university network JANET lost its Internet connection to the US through a combination of a cable outage and some bad preexisting dealmaking and BGP config. In the end of course it got fixed and JANET got firmly reorganized, but for several days or weeks you really could reach most or all European servers from UK universities but not US (North American?) ones. My details are fuzzy because it’s not easy to find any information about the episode anymore, but it really did happen...
Obviously we don't know yet, but I would be absolutely shocked if they don't basically flag everything about well-known politicians as "political", and paying to boost something like that should fall under the new restrictions. It would be trivial for most large tech companies to make an automatic "political post" classifier at this point. The post "boosting" use case is a pretty easy target too because blocking someone from paying to boost something is fairly low-risk.
Open Container Initiative introduces the distribution-spec
"Yet in recent months, Dallas has become ground zero for a nascent national bike-share war, as five startups armed with hundreds of millions of venture capital dollars have blanketed the city with at least 18,000 bikes." -- https://archive.is/kczBY

It sounds like boom times for Dallas scrap dealers. No one who has ever been to Dallas could ever think this makes sense: Dallas and Fort Worth are about 80 km in diameter, and unpleasantly hot and humid for about half the year. No one wants to rent electric pseudo-scooters there.
Can you bring a bike lock and just lock the dockless bike?
Thanks for the contrary input. Always valuable to know what can go wrong and where cost can be sunk. What is your country of origin?
Wouldn't lab grown meat have no antibiotics since they probably won't encounter any random diseases.
I believe he's saying: without having to put the chromebook into developer mode. A mode that allows developers to do more on their chromebook, such as using a terminal, which is not accessible in regular mode.
All this says is they don't have control over their network and they're just bleeding out data everywhere. The primary takeaway especially with regard to the election tampering is that this (Facebook) is a huge, free, open tool to abuse and control elections.
I have to wonder how effective paying for a dating site really is. Presumably if you find a partner through the site you stop paying?

Aside from a token few they can blog about, what's their incentive to be successful?
> why put up with the extra hassle of having to return the bikes for no user benefit?

What about the extra hassle of finding and walking with your map to your dockless bike? (if you are lucky enough to find one close to you)

Also in both cities I lived, docking stations are everywhere, it has never been a problem (maybe once or twice a year when my usual docking station was full. Still, I just needed to go the next one, 5 min from there).
I suggested that approach, as well as having her file a support request authorizing it through her own Simple account. Apparently their parent bank's policies prevent both.

This was before they had the joint offering, so we had to request a new check. Now we just put stuff in the joint.
Somebody got paid to find out if water in plastic bottles has plastic in it.
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How's this any different from mindlessly listening to generic pop music and reading teen magazines?
One of the worst things wealthy people tend to do, is trivialize the reasons behind poverty. Why don't you "just get a job/save/fix your car/get health insurance" etc

Doing those 3 things is not enough. Even an unusually long stretch of very good luck can get wiped out by one unexpected event.
Usually people submit their written testimony to the committee members ahead of time so members can study/fact check the information and respond with appropriate questions.
This is a very ambitious project.

Aggregators like this can't control their own destiny until they become their own content platform. While navigating the long road to become a platform, they're at the mercy of changing API policies and rate limits of the different content platforms.

Instagram can decide at anytime to shut off access or remove an endpoint which will greatly reduce the user's experience.

It's also tough to build a unified AI to engage with so many different types of content. Most people will be familiar with the the UIs of the respective platforms which are already tuned toward content consumption. I do grant those UIs may not have the user's best interests in mind as they focus on hitting engagement and retention KPIs.

It is an interesting one though, almost an "adblock for over-optimized UIs".

They may be able to find something that works for a niche group of creatives if they can manage the challenges above.
I'm seeing some conflicting replies here regarding the Blue Card. Does it not require a degree?
I deleted it a month ago. Complete useless waste of time. It's filled with purely narcissistic photos. It can't possibly be healthy for anyone.
It looks like a marketing play. There are studies proving that Uber is increasing traffic and pollution (not even talking about workspace issues and drivers explotation). Bikes are eco-friendly and everybody like them.
I do wonder how they keep track of those things, I see them all over the place -- in front of houses in neighborhoods, "hidden" in apartment complexes, locked to random things, left in the middle of the sidewalk so you have to push it out of the way to go by (my favorite), left unlocked in front of the corner store so anyone can jump on and ride away, &etc.

Rarely do I see anyone actually riding them though.
It isn't a LISP :P
Engineering :p
Complaint to Facebook-Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (2009) [pdf]
You can change it often enough to be really annoying though. And Whatsapp bans users of third-party clients it can detect. At least the users I know stopped trying these things after a while.
The last time I ate at Applebee's the food tasted microwaved. I'm no chef but there is a subtle je ne soi quois about microwaved food (pasta specifically) and it was definitely present.
> Every time I spend some time pushing back

Eh...

You realize HN is not really the primary forum for this kind of debate?

> and perhaps I should let people believe in their crystals...

Oh, you're just a crank. Edit: And then after I refreshed you added an actual comment regarding the "leap of imagination" with a vague but distinctly condescending comment about something else.
> Check my comment history. I can assure you its true as I will demonstrate in the near future.

Oh, why didn't you just say that in the first place? Now that I have your assurance I can obviously agree with you that strong AI is a thing that currently exists. I concede to your clear and inarguable expertise and proof on the matter; best of luck with your demonstration!
i think this applies to programming issues as well. the IETF used to strongly emphasize 'soft state' protocols. Not that there was no state, but it was always associated with a timeout and went away on its own. A best effort cache - although alot of these protocols (i.e pim) depend on having some non-zero lifetime to work at all.

think about the additional bookkeeping and correctness issues associated with the destruction/cleanup path. alot of the time we maintain references and search structures so that we can 'properly clean up', when in reality we just want to tear down the whole world.

construction and destruction do have a certain pleasant symmetry, but since the destruction path is often less tested and error prone, and may double the work at hand, isn't it worth considering implicit destruction?
I thought Uber was cutting back and focusing on core competencies?
Different things can be bad for the same reason.
Hey! Thanks for the detailed reply. What I don't get is: ChromeOS is open source, so why do all these things only work on certain hardware? Isn't there a way to install ChromeOS on any laptop today and already use Anroid apps et al, without said machine being a Pixelbook?

I have a machine that is not an official ChromeBook and I'd love to install ChromeOS with Android support to try it out. But I've done quite some google-fu and could not figure out whether this is possible (and how I'd set that up).
Not OP but I use feedly which has hackerNews as a source. Minimal digging and I found this third party HN feed provider:

https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/
>For me, OO doesn't create code that is easy to understand. It creates massive hierarchies of inheritance and this creates complexity.

>I would much rather look at a single function to figure out what it does rather than having to go look for how changes in it affects the hierarchy of classes.

I don't deny that there are many people like you in the programming world who struggle to understand things that many others have no trouble at all grokking. But my observation is that there are far more people like me, who don't struggle with understanding OO code.

For decades, OO has been the dominant programming paradigm. And for decades, functional programming has been, as declared by many, on the cusp of taking over the world. And yet it never seems to happen.
This is just for enterprise customers where they wanted a snap-in mobile ecommerce app that integrated with their very niche ERP system you probably haven't heard of. It is just a software subscription agreement with no product site. I'm embarrassed to show on here anyway as its 5 years old now but you get the idea. My wife suggested I do this and it was low hanging fruit, meaning clients wanted it, there was no competition to build it for them as no one really knows that ERP so it was just a pretty easy step to decide. Peter Thiel said "competition is for losers" and I know what he meant in this particular case although on a tiny scale of very niche customers.
FWIW Repos like these that reverse engineer a proprietary API that post stuff on GitHub are usually taken down with a DMCA enforcement. The same thing happened multiple times when folks reverse engineered and documented the Snapchat API. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6083812
That's because the wealth and education level of one's parents is much more highly correlated to the wealth and education level of a child than any other factor. People who are poor and uneducated tend to raise children who end up poor an uneducated, regardless of race. Studies have shown that growing up in poverty produces measurable changes in the brains of infants.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

It may be en vogue to focus on race and identity has the major problems in our society, but all the data points to poverty and being the unifying cause - not race.
I presume building a second would cost far less.