skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Start with the Manhattan project, and work backwards from there. Operation Paperclip may have been a failure, but that was after the war. Any modern electrical engineer's professional lexicon is dripping with the names of the titans of our field. I assume the same is true for physicists, because we electrical engineers stand on the shoulders of physicists every day.

But don't take my word for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szil%C3%A1rd_...

This article describes the letter that Leo Szilard wrote to Albert Einstein, in 1937, which Einstein essentially put his existing scientific prowess behind as an appeal to expertise, and forwarded it on to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In it, he enumerates some of the latest discoveries Enrico Fermi has been finding in Uranium. The letter simply supposes that if these scientists in the US are discovering the possibility to induce a chain reaction in Uranium, it is a safe bet to assume that the Germans were "peer reviewing", if you will. Another factor Einstein lays out is all of the known key Uranium deposits around the world: Czechoslovakia and The Congo, among others.

Einstein/Szilard have the foresight to deduce that the Germans stopping all public sales of Uranium in Czechoslovakia, along with the very short human network from those Czechoslovakian Uranium mines to the German leadership, is extremely compelling circumstantial evidence that Germany has already started their Manhattan Project, and have all the benefits of incumbency behind them.

How did the US close the loop faster than the Germans? We hired Hungarian refugees fleeing Europe, who ran absolute circles around the rest of the known universe in Mathematics. Any modern student of mathematics can easily recite their names:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-conside...

And then in its usual cosmic sense of humor, the universe brought Kurt Godel's incompleteness theorem back around the eternal golden braid, and brought us the Cold War.
What permission does the user give FB in terms of how FB can use the messages?

The message might "disappear" after a few seconds, but at that point FB may have already extracted the information they want from it, information they will use to further their business.

Assuming users want some sort of privacy, from whom is it that they want their messages to remain "private"?

Will there ever be options in FB "privacy settings" such as:

[ ] Do not share with Facebook

[ ] Do not share with advertisers, political campaigns, etc.

Absurdity aside, the mere feasibilty of this is itself debatable.

Do users want their messages to remain private from companies like Facebook?

How about from FB's clients, e.g., advertisers, political campaigns, hospitals, etc.?

How about from the rest of the general public?

We now know as confirmed by FB that this user data has
been shared for years. Perhaps FB can argue this was "informed consent".

However users can change their minds in light of more information. They should be able to revoke that consent going forward.

Will all that "leaked" user data FB has intentionally shared self-destruct after some period of time? Unfortunately, no.

It seems to me that, in the main, the parties that have the greatest incentive to monitor users messaging are in fact companies like FB and their clients.

They have a financial incentive that is in the aggregate far greater than any individual (petty criminal, etc.). Collecting user data has become their business. "It is literally just what we do." Period.

Finally, thanks to the explosive growth of single websites into vast monopolies like Facebook that extend their reach into nearly every corner of the internet, they, the companies behind these websites, are in the best position to do it.

It should be self-evident but maybe needs to be restated: These companies cannot protect the user from the company itself. The amount of trust required of the user depending on these websites is simply mind-blowing (from the perspective of someone who has lived in times when no such trust was necessary).

Thats only an opinion. I respect any disagreement and welcome karma subtraction as a means to express it.
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The "fire in a crowded theater" example comes from a court case that allowed the government to imprison somebody for advocating against the draft, and it's been used to defend government overreach ever since[1].

What's interesting is how the same argument for allowing more discrimination would be laughed off the stage as completely meritless and bigoted. But the situation is exactly the same! Organizations are allowed to discriminate against protected classes when it's a bona fide occupational qualification or the organization is a private club, so surely there's long precedent for allowing discrimination in specified circumstances?

Somehow almost everyone sees how this argument is totaly facile in the context of discrimination, yet it gets trotted out over and over when suggesting further restrictions on freedom of speech.

[1]: https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
Does your message data actually get sold to third parties?
Sounds like interlingua.
Yes, they have far less users, but they also have a much longer history when it comes to user tracking and measurement in the name of ad targeting. Although I think the big difference is they can't do network analysis.

This said, Comcast (which owns NBC universal), has been able to use cable boxes to improve ad targeting for decades, trace that back to internet usage, and apply it to models already built for NBC usage. A

n even more powerful one though is Verizon, where with their now acquisition of yahoo can use that data as well, which is combined with both all of the home data collection comcast has, but with 80+ million mobile users as well.
> It does not distinguish between facts and opinion

Neither does the author of this piece, apparently.

> Courts cannot become fact-checkers

Why not?
Gotta love it when people downvote proven scientific facts.
Putting money on a blockchain is not inherently more abstract than keeping it in a bank's database.
> shamelessly twisted facts and spun deliberatly misleading narratives, even on their front pages.

Examples?
You can have thousands of packages in a single Nixos installation and if 200 of those packages directly or indirectly depend on some library L, you usually only need one copy of L to fulfill those 200 dependencies.

In contrast, if you put each package in its own container or VM, then you end up with 200 copies of L.

So, the different technologies have different strengths and weaknesses. One weakness of Nix is that it is harder for most people to learn or to understand than containers or VMs are.

Some people use Nix or Nixos as part of their process for building containers or VM images.

(I wonder whether there is any build system that uses containers instead of file names containing cryptographic hashes (like Nix does) or chroots (like Arch Build system does) to "enforce package isolation" during building.)
Virtually every language that uses the Latin alphabet follows some version of this plan for spelling vowels, not just Germanic ones. There is a reason the International Phonetic Alphabet uses the 5 basic vowel symbols /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/ this way.
> I wouldn't call it crappy, it's actually quite brilliant.

The New Oxford American Dictionary defines technology as "the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes". If the application does not fulfill the purpose, the technology is crappy, regardless of how brilliant the science behind it is. The author is not saying that the science is crappy but that the technology -- i.e. the application for the practical purpose -- is.
The irony here is the subjective nature of the article itself conflicts with the headline. Still it's a somewhat fun read but if you're into this stuff then you probably know the material already.
As one simple example, I burn easily in the sun vs most people I've known. Maintaining healthy blood levels of Vitamin D via the sun, is both risky (cancer) and time consuming for me. It's essentially impossible to fully offset the sun via food-derived VitD. That's especially true if you believe a healthy VitD blood level is closer to 50-70 ng/mL than ~20-40.

Vitamin D3 supplements to the rescue. Prior to supplementing, my blood levels were at 5 ng/mL, very dangerously low (despite eating a diet that regularly includes fish and eggs).
My favorite Lehrer story is... every one of them, really.
In a study of college athletes, males were deficient in about 40% of the vitamins and 50% of the minerals required. The female athletes were better but were still deficient in 29% of the vitamins and 40% of the minerals RDA.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2129155/
Yes, that's what I'm getting at. If you delete a linked list's nodes through the normal way of doing it, nothing goes wrong. If you do bad things to it bad things will happen.
Ha, this just confirms what I thought to myself but decided not to comment on, reading some other recent Facebook-disaster post here.

Mark has a different Facebook. I bet he doesn't see ads, unless he wants to. And, come to think of it, when he or other blessed entities delete something, it's really gone. Come to think of it, I wonder whether their data gets scooped up by the various monitoring and collection tools that are doubtless built in to the product and its administrative interface.

Are they really dogfooding their own product, at this point?
Can you provide more perspective on this & how well it can likely recognize subvocalized words?

I'm wondering if someone won't find a way to do this remotely. I'd like to think that impossible, but they managed to do some very odd things like finding heart rates from pictures, so I can't really say that they couldn't somehow find a way to pick up the signal remotely and I'm curious how good the current tech is from someone who as actually used it.
How is that OK? O.o
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I can see lots of potential problems with that, for instance you'd have to rely on the sensor data of that other car and you'd have to believe that other car telling you the truth. Lots of griefer potential there.
It’s not clear that throwing money at the problem will fix it. I don’t know if critical thinking is even really taught in school.
"Killer" does not necessarily denote murder nor violence.
My research might be wrong here, but I thought the 2nd amendment was passed in 1791, whereas Mannlicher didn't design the first successful semi-automatic rifle until 1885.
Exactly. The article implies that bargaining position is the deciding factor here.
Bargaining position is ENTIRELY defined by economics.

How many options does the company have to fill the role you are applying for? How many jobs do you have the ability to fill? What is the compensation level for those jobs?

In a pool of workers, on a sheer measurable and presentable skill set...do you stand out? Networking, creates a connection that helps you stand out so when a company is taking job applicants they have a supply of people who stand out and a supply of "general workforce". Standing out can just mean an existing relationship, a recommendation from a trusted person, or some other type of quality that makes you a preferred candidate. There is a more limited supply of "preferred" candidates and those folks will be more aggressively sought after (and compensated). We'd like for it to be all about skill, but businesses are run by people and many people place a high value on trust.

When it comes to the more general pool of candidates, that pool is a whole lot bigger and if you haven't worked your way into the preferred group for the company then you do have very little bargaining power...meaning there is an ample supply of people who can fill the role.

This article, despite the title...doesn't actually do anything to change the reality any more than publishing an article titled "2 + 2 is not actually 4" disproves it. The content has to prove the headline...and it doesn't.
We should implement browser extensions that randomly go to sites in the background, and create so much noise that the ISPs can't get any signal from us.
Sorry! I just used their headline and didn't add anything.
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I mean, we already know that the first amendment doesn't (and should not) apply to some forms of speech; slander, libel and incitement to violence are all things that we (as a society) have decided are forms of speech that should be regulated.
> using a full featured RDBMS is not necessary

But what kind of overhead postgress adds comparing to sqlite?

Advantages are clear:

- more advanced functionality is available when you need it.

- pgsql likely has better performance comparing to sqlite
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You must see the faces of everyone when using my computer (is more effective this way!) they discover it can move the mouse cursor between MONITORS!

(I have 2. A TV and Screen. Somehow not connect that both are monitors...)

The face of disbelieve is amazing. It impress the girls everytime. Is super-effective!

---

A better anecdote was when I was in an incubator years ago. I was located in front of the main big-glass entrance. My monitor face it, so everyone that get in see what I was doing.

And suddenly a dozen or more of kids get in in the exact moment when I was moving some screens around the monitors...

WHOAAAA!!!

Everyone say!
I think you're burying some assumptions about what is and isn't "code" in there. Prolog is declarative; so is Lustre. For that matter any sufficiently mature Lisp project is going to have developed an internal declarative DSL that the actual programming gets done in.
a key difference here is the data structures behind the scenes, dont you think? FB built a state-of-the-art pipeline designed for graph analytics, and sold that as a revenue source. Meanwhile, the ISPs spent money on attorneys to secure favorable legal terms, and the "moron count" inside the company is likely quite high.. A zillion streams of sequential records are more like the 90s data warehouse situation, not FB graph search.
Yes, but its not a 577 HP track-tuned roadster. I can drive my 320 HP manual sedan quite smoothly as well. There are some cars where:

a) you don't want to drive them smoothing because that's no fun - even for just the exhaust note &
b) It's actually difficult to drive them smoothly because of the torque/HP.

It doesn't mean you are a bad driver, it simply means you've adjusted your driving style to match the car you are driving.
This is what happens when there are only major two political parties. After contributions to the right candidates on each side of the aisle, money left over to stand up astro turf political parties, buy TV stations, newspapers, and magazines. Plus they get it all back in tax breaks and approved contracts.
It's also dumb because it gives them incentive to just move to another country that doesn't care.
Incidentally, macOS, whose CLI is derived from BSD, does in fact have /bin/bash.
TLS relies on trusted certificate authorities though. I don't think it was ever intended to be trustless, in fact you specifically get warnings when a trusted certificate authority cannot be found for a given cert.
Hours after Zuck deletion scandal, Facebook announces new unsend feature
> As a rule of thumb, anything that represents an alternate source of authority in China will be targeted and oppressed.

to be fair its the mistake that most autocrats make in not seizing control of religion. Religion is often the one available source of dissent. As the Shah learned in Iran; its a terrible mistake to make.
Seems to me that there's this bipolar relationship with blockchain, and now that the manic period is over, we're going into depression. Instead of being this magic solution to all these problems, now it's some hideous failure, and I think both viewpoints don't really see blockchain for what it is.

If you're a journalist, now is the time to be extremely critical of blockchain and cryptocurrencies if you want some easy popularity.
Networking may help the individual get a better job (usually at the expense of someone else getting that job), but it doesn't fix anything about the larger problem, which is the failure of wages to keep up with the cost of living or respond to demand for labor.
Probably not the message data itself, as you would still have to parse it to gain insights. But the insights mined from it, definitely.
I don't understand this and your maths is wrong - it would be 15%? But also the $100 per hour job will just get more complex in a different way and will still take the same hours per day, at possibly some higher efficiency of output.

It's like saying because React has made people more efficient at building bug free user interfaces that we can all relax in our jobs as there is no IE6 to support. Instead we all know that the UI has just got more complex, interactive and shiny.
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And credit cards are not currency, they are instruments of debt. Debts carry a risk of default.

Thus comparing credit card fees to currency transfer fees is not apples-to-apples.

Comparing bitcoin to the cost of writing a check is apples-to-apples.
There was a class action lawsuit in 2014 in regards to Facebook selling private chat data. I am not sure what came of it.

But it wouldn't surprise me in the least.
I am starting to do some tech course reviews and notes. Here is my one on react
Also there seems to be no problem with users who submit opinions instead of answers.

Q: How do I do X extremely specific thing that I need because I have an unusual case that needs this specific thing.

A (top voted): Why would you want to do X? You shouldn't do that. I clearly know more about your problem than you do because I assume everyone on here is a college student and not a developer working with a large mostly static codebase. You should do Y instead. It is much better.
Spanish native speaker here, but I know a little of German.

In the books of "Dora the Explorer", usually the letter "i" in Spanish is replaced by the sound that makes "ee" instead of the sound of "e". So your first list should be

"ah, ay, ee, oh, ooh"
Your funds are not really at risk of permanent loss in either case. The difference is what happens in the short term. Also it’s not true at all that debit card losses are limited to your balance. Banks will approve transactions that put you well into negative balance and charge overdraft fees.
>isDeleted: true

This is entirely why I dont delete anything now.

I feel like there are some blackmail companies that are web crawling looking for deleted comments and posts.

Or if they dont exist today, they will in a few decades.
This is a bit rambling, but I always find that whole genre of literature ("highly effective habits" style literature) to be really fascinating, mostly because it doesn't totally make sense to me.

My thinking has always been that the Gates/Obamas/RBGs of the world didn't overly concern themselves with trying to emulate previously successful people. Not that they didn't take lessons from them, but that it wasn't so overt. No sense of, "if I just imitate these 5 behaviors of Andrew Carnegie I'll be successful".

And maybe indeed the problem is that those individuals weren't just trying to be successful for the sake of being successful, which is sometimes the feeling I get from reading articles like the ones mentioned.

Obviously, I could be entirely wrong or missing the point of literature like that. And as the article notes, there's some generally beneficial advice in there (living below your means, for example).

Still, it seems like if your goal is to become the next Madeleine Albright, you should emulate her by not trying too hard to emulate her!
If you love this you should also follow @sarahjeong. Hilariously eviscerates cryptocurrencies for sport.[1] Smart (Cal + Harvard law), unafraid and one of the best up-and-coming tech journalists IMHO.

[1] https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/953419544516747264
> I think people are slowly becoming smarter news consumers, more skeptical about what they take as fact

They really, really, really aren't. Look at the polls.

> Once they begin questioning one news source, they begin developing general critical reasoning ability

They don't question news sources. They write off anything that doesn't contribute to their happy little world (or very unhappy little world, whichever).
These are excellent points. It's completely a bandaid.
And I am saying that is NOT the optimal solution.

In the past we didn’t have many technologies, and we used centralized providers who did things manually. Was that better? You can throw more democracy at a problem. But technology to decentralize it is often better for everybody.

I see technology as enabling UPGRADING, not downgrading. The proof is in the pudding: will people choose it over the existing systems.
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Paddles are very cool. Warlords is one of the top titles my kids played growing up. They liked having 4 people get in on a simple game.

Grandkids are just about there.

I went and got a 6 switch model, modded it for a better composite signal display, and it works pretty great on newer televisions.

One can notice the lag over a CRT playing Warlords though. It's not a big deal, and on my HDTV, it's basically a frame. The kids don't seem to care. Makes sense, as they've been dealing with that latency all the time.

Making games for that machine is very challenging and a lot of fun! I've written code for it a few times. Enjoy your rewards as you get stuff working and moving.

You know, the paddle could be spiffed up a little to make it more relevant, and maybe expand on the scope of paddle games at the same time.

Push and or pull paddle for action, emphasis. Offer more than one button.

Old school paddles are done with a linear variable resistor. Those actually work great, when clean and used fairly regularly, but they can't also be effective spinners.

Traditionally, spinners are done with an encoder similar to old ball mouse devices.

Those could be combined, the paddle using an absolute encoder, not a relative one to start. This is very important, as being able to return to a given screen position, given a specific motion, actually matters a lot! The Warlords game is playable without this, but something like Kaboom isn't so much.

An absolute encoder, coupled with a clutch so the feedback can be disabled for spinner mode, could work just fine as a spinner, we just handle the rollover in software.

Maybe even take a page from the 3D space type devices, and allow the paddle shaft to be moved like a joystick.

Turn, upward pressure, button A or B, allows for a whole lot more, while keeping the direct, simple interaction of the paddle front and center.

If I had time... that's the paddle I would make.
Tag them.
Oh cool, now it is the big ISPs. What is the Guardian coming up with next?

"The ISPs surveillance is nothing compared with the NSA"??

How are people waking up only now? Snowden happened in 2013!
I’m his political opposite but find his body of work some of the most astounding I’ve ever heard. His melodies are timeless. He’s a near virtuoso on piano-if you take away the words, which are easily the best satirical lyrics in the English language-you will still have a great deal to enjoy. It is because of him that I simply can’t enjoy acts like the Capitol Steps or Owen Benjamin. Tom Lehrer simply said it all better six decades ago.
Of course. The fact that wages are suppressed is known and expected. The author fails to mention the theory of sticky wages. Why? The author is making a political statement about wage policy. In doing so lets you assume that wages should be related to supply and demand, but they are not. Wage levels are sticky and lag behind changes in the supply and demand for labor. Good news is that you can expect wages to increase in the relatively short-run, from which it seems the author (and most everyone) would benefit.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sticky-wage-theory.asp