skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking it a step further it seems to be broken down:

Enteprise - Angular

Startups and Larger Agencies - React

Smaller Agencies - Vue

Angular is dominant because large Enterprises are slow to adopt and Angular is really great because it works so well and everything is packaged out of the box.

React is still new compared to Angular which is why Startups are adopting it. Kind of like how Rails was popular with the Startups a few years ago.

Vue is universally loved by Developers but is not backed by the big companies in the States (it's bigger in China apparently?). It's considered Indie in North America so it's relegated to low budget projects.
The loading of the Like button will give Facebook information about your user agent - it's like a tracking pixel. It's been shown that user agent information together with IP pretty much uniquely identify a user. You dont have to click anything
It's the difference between being a plumber and being someone who makes custom jewelry. Both are artisans of a kind, the one is doing production and trying to 'get the job done' the other is making one-offs that will have a vastly inefficient time:product ratio where a lot of the value created will be in the eye of the beholder. Both are valid paths.
Is there any successful social network that launched with a big splash? Big launches seem counter productive in social. You have a shitload of random people signing up, only to find that their friends are not yet on the network and they leave disappointed. Seems like grassroots marketing is the only way with social media
As someone who is just starting consulting, after 10+ years of development and a few product experiments, I thank you for sharing this article!
Can you give us the specific case in history that you are referring to? You can get back to met later if you don't have that information with you right now.
A large part of it is liability. In theory you could just send a self-driving boat out with a giant net to scoop up a few tons of marine life to bring back to shore and stuff in a processing plant. Or even better maybe make a self-sufficient platform that uses current to turn turbines and just scoops up fish, sorts them, and puts them on ice for cargo carriers to come by and pick up.

The problem is the same one as self driving cars on a more massive scale - accountability. When you have human bodies at every step of the process you have someone to blame if you "accidentally" kill a protected species, overrun your quotas, put tainted meat in the market, etc - if everything is operating on its own you get the same situation where self driving car operators are going to try to blame the software engineers if something goes wrong, while the company gets to take the fallout.

And the fines on illegal fishing are actually legitimate compared to the token paltry fines in other industries (depending on the country, of course).

The economics are completely on automations side here, you could get 97% good fish for a tenth the price with some substantial up front investments today. But that 3% false positive / sorting error case with the inability to blame line workers kills the business.
Yeah, I can't figure it out either ... what could possibly be wrong with giving drugs to an addict? They agreed to becoming an addict, so why shouldn't I profit from their inability to protect themselves?
You're clearly satisfied with yourself for not being a Facebook user, but your comment has no bearing on the article. Do you have an opinion on Zuckerberg refusing to admit any of this?
Thanks, enjoyed the article!
Though on this point:

> As you may know, in .NET CoreCLR (and Mono), the JIT has been entirely written in C/C++. That’s sometimes even a joke used by C++ developers to remind the enthusiastic C# developer crowd that their ecosystem is being actually ran by C++.

The CLR has never been only about C#. While C# may be the most popular language to target the VM, it will run anything that has been compiled to valid MSIL (or even emitted at runtime).
Not saying Google is a saint, but it's orders of magnitude better at privacy than Facebook:

- Malicious actors can't access most Google data has on you. Especially not by releasing psychological quiz app.

- Google is not tracking logged out users. New id is assigned to logged out users only for very short periods of time.

- Mostly compliant with GDPR for years prior to the regulation being released. The same can't be said for Facebook.

- Search results are much harder to manipulate by malicious actors than Facebook news feed ranking - based on the history of such manipulations.

- I don't work on either right now, but at the time I did Google had way much better internal access controls for employees.

Amassing personal data can be considered unethical on some levels, but amassing personal data can't be equated with being bad at privacy. Among "personal data hoarders" Google is by far the most coginzant about keeping that data private.
This is why when economists blame lost aggregate jobs on automation they are being disingenuous. If the government thinks that there aren't enough jobs they can just raise the minimum wage and increase fiscal spending, creating jobs until there are.

There were similar claims made during the depression. It wasn't about automation then either - it was about wealth inequality and a lack of aggregate demand.

Roosevelt then spent and invested in infrastructure - building stuff like LAX - until the country returned to full employment.
I am sorry, a terms of service for a website you have not created a account on? What has the web come to?

> and other expressions that are anti-social and offensive in nature

So, anything and everything?
>Shanghainese is called a Chinese dialect, but it is a Wu language. It is not a dialect of Mandarin (aka the Beijing dialect), but it certainly is a dialect of a common "Chinese" language, even though it is a descendent of a language family that is not most closely related to Mandarin.

That's the problem isn't it? A language is assumed to be a dialect of another language just because it uses the same script, regardless of its origins or how mutually intelligible it is. Reminds me of how Russian nationalists don't consider Ukrainian or Belarussian separate languages, but dialects of Russian just because they're written in Cyrillic. Might as well say that English, Hungarian and Vietnamese are dialects of Latin, just because they all use Latin script.

Same with Lisps really. People see the parentheses and assume all of these languages must be very similar, even though they really aren't.
Using C you cannot get the advantages that 6502 assembly provides. On the other hand, to stay with towers of Hanoi, one can show that the simple mechanical algorithm that one can derive for it, will solve the problem with a minimum possible number of moves.
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To toot baggers' horn, he has a great video series where he does game development in lisp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82o5NeyZtvw&list=PL2VAYZE_4w...
>"hat's why he kept conflating post-visibility settings with privacy / tracking settings."

Indeed and if Congress had bothered to bring in some subject matter experts they would have been able to him out on these disingenuous answers and deceitful statements.

I'm sure Zuckerberg believes he may have won here but I think he lost in the court of public opinion. I think his testimony did him a lot of damage as it shows just how disingenuous and dishonest he really is.

I hope a lot of FB employees were able to tune in to these hearing so they could see their leader for who and what he really is. His scripted and willfully misleading testimony was fundamentally no different than the big banking or big pharmaceutical CEOs that get called to Washington during a crisis.
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So while your point was apt at the beginning of Faceboot's existence, at this point in time most everybody has been "gullible enough to use their free service". So the only current applicability of your point that anything Faceboot does is fine based on the idea that their users have consented in perpetuity.

Your point also does nothing to address the surveillance that Faceboot performs on people without accounts, or data they glean from sources other than explicit Faceboot usage.
So-called "shadow profiles" are built for people who are not even Facebook users.

I do not have a Facebook account, and yet my friends and family members have been prompted to tag photos of me with my name.

I did not sign up for a free service. I am not a Facebook user, I'm not "having my fun." And yet Facebook has collected enough of a profile on me to recognize my face in photos and know who my friends and family are.
> This is not true, and I've already told you this.

And as I've already told you, those statistics aren't remotely relevant to this discussion. That tells you the amount of money that's spent on research inside each region, not where the money actually comes from.

You've used that statistic in the past to "prove" that European drug sales could cover the R&D expenditures in the US, because $190B > $47B, but that's not a mathematically valid analysis. The profit margins in the industry are nowhere near large enough to absorb a $400B hit, which is what it would be if the US drug market had the same price levels as Europe.

Based on previous discussions, I can predict where you're trying to to lead this next, which is to claim that they could absorb that massive loss, because they could just take it away from excessive compensation and marketing expenses. Except, the numbers don't add up there either. SG&A is the largest expense in pretty much every industry, and pharmaceuticals are naturally reliant on personnel. Executive compensation is a drop in the bucket.

And, as you've already been told by others, pharmaceutical companies spend much less on marketing or SG&A expenses than most comparable tech companies do. Even if you assumed that marketing has zero impact on revenue (hint: it doesn't), or that pharmaceutical companies have a lower return on investment for marketing expenses than Google does (hint: they don't), cutting all marketing expenses would still not account for the difference, and that's before the massive drop in sales that would result.

Of course, once again, this set of statistics all entirely irrelevant to the original point at hand: regardless of where the R&D physically takes place, and regardless of the headquarters of the company that's conducting the R&D, the underlying flow of funds is disproportionately and predominantly reliant on the US market.
Mr Bean as Mona Lisa or Einstein on the $10 bill are perfect examples of that.
If you're still using FB/IG/WA you're complicit.
I'm from the Netherlands and Googling "munt" returns nothing strange.

Reminds me of a colleague who named his new technology "spics" (it easy to pronounce and as an acronym is fitted perfectly)... Only after some weeks he googled it. It's changed now needless to say.
Yes, the Congressman's question actually was "Facebook has detailed profiles on people who have never signed up for Facebook. Yes or no?"
> it resulted in a lot of bad habits forming

What kind of bad habits did "resting" form?
No, the machine actually does do the cooking. There's an induction based heater that also mixes the food. Different sorts of raw vegetables are added by a hopper in a sequence that depends on their cooking time. Finally the mixer/cooker dispenses the meal into a bowl.
Except it doesn't matter if general goods and services get cheaper if life necessities like healthcare and residence have their costs ballooning out of control. That $8 minimum wage job in ten years might be able to buy you twice as many trinkets at the same price but that doesn't mean anything if you have no where to live for less than $3,000 a month in rent.

Thats not to say that you cannot make housing and healthcare dramatically cheaper and more efficient, but we simply are not doing it, and there doesn't seem to be nearly enough momentum to see change happen in that regard. Lives rarely get better without a good protest, but there is no uniform movement with only big wig opposition to fixing zoning laws or socializing medicine. Its all working class vs working class infighting between haves and have nots.
It's still private, it is no longer a secret. It hovers somewhere between being a 'public secret' or 'public knowledge' without the general public being aware of it because it hasn't been published yet. And in that sense the real world is very much different than the web, there everything that is not explicitly protected is published.
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I'll never forget this pull request. Just having these two `internal` keywords there would have saved $150 million dollars.

https://github.com/paritytech/parity/pull/6102/files#diff-8e...

A lot of people think "smart contracts" are inherently insecure. I personally believe that most of the "hacks" were very preventable, if those who had written the code slowed down to think about what they were doing.
I can’t see that bubble being sustained.
Hello,
Thanks for all the feedback.
I am one of the founders of Dissident and happy to answer any questions.

We became frustrated that many storage don't allow us to fully enjoy our content (I can't listen to my FLAC music on my Google Drive, even if I have 1To of storage there, I can't read my epubs on dropbox,...) so we decided to create our own desktop and use the most popular web viewers. We added the ability to do cross search and also move files from one service to another. For some services that allow it like Put.io we even convert torrents into files.

The idea is to have the same interface and features, no matter if you are on Box, Hubic or your Owncloud server. You can pin important folders and we let you know when they have been updated. We allow cross service search and cloud to cloud between storage, one of our most popular feature. We also added the ability to browse Slack, Facebook, Instagram, Smugmug or Pocket as a “file system”.

We decided to create Dashboard to browse social media (without the noise) and every Friday we work on Library to offer a free access to public domain content.

We want to create a nice environment to access our content. We don’t want to do advertising so we decided to provide the product for a subscription.

Few remarks:
We have changed our website copy to be less “marketing”
We are bringing back our email login (we agree with everything that was said here, it will be available shortly)

Regarding oAuth permission, we have always focus on effortless sign up (you login and boom you have everything setup) and, of course, we don’t store/sell any user data. But we understand what was said here.

We are looking to ask for less permission for login even if means ask more permission later for specific services (youtube, google drive)

We are still a work in progress and would love to have more feedback on the product.
Here is an invite code: DISSIDENT_HNEWS
I agree. They claim that the Boz memo was effectively a straw man argument. However, after reading the memo in total and the fact that they subsequently deleted it does not give the appearance of impropriety to that claim. As an organization I don't believe Facebook had any corporate values outlining their position either.
Wow, that's comical and sad at the same time.

I have a few friends that would always pass background checks in spite of having some issues in their past. Maybe this is how they lucked out.
> Its possible that some mundane examples will be automated

This is automation 101
This has already been blocked by a US court https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-court-sides-with-google-aga... so it's in the BC court to get modified.
That is more difficult than it may appear.

Sometimes you need people that are pretty immersed in a culture to know about these things and avoid shooting yourself in the foot.

Hyundai, for example, almost made the mistake of releasing a vehicle named Kona in Portugal.

Kona is a pretty harmless word in most contexts, but "kona" reads exactly like "cona" for a Portuguese speaker, and "cona" is slag for "vagina".

Oops.

They renamed it Kauai for the Portuguese market, IIRC.
I've actually run into a very similar example, I was prescribed a $400 dollar bottle of antibiotic eye drops, which my insurance fought and eventually paid for. I asked why that was chosen and if there were other options that I could pursue in the future. I was told that "these are your eyes and I'm not going to [fuck around] when it comes to your vision."

I can't really disagree with that logic.
But this is how Fuchsia is as well; these handles are pretty much equivalent to file descriptors, except for how they get numbered/allocated (though for C library compatibility, there is a per-process file descriptor table to map between file descriptors and handles).

Even on UNIX like systems, you can't read or write on every file; for instance, you can open directory, but you can only readdir on that, not read from it. But they are still file descriptors like everything else, so you can call dup(), fstat(), pass them between processes on Unix sockets, etc.

There are plenty of other operations which can only be done on certain types of files in UNIX-like systems; for instance, you can only recv() or recvmsg() on a socket.

The difference is that in Fuchsia, more things have handles, and so more things can be treated consistently. For instance, jobs, processes, and threads all have such handles; so instead of getting a signal that you have to handle in an extremely restrictive environment in a signal handler or having to call wait4() to learn about the status of a child process, you can just wait on signals to be asserted on the child process using zx_object_wait(), which is the equivalent of select() or poll(). This means no more jumping through hoops to get signal handling to work with an event loop; it just works.

Of course, the other difference in Fuchsia is that there is not a single namespace. Every component in Fuchsia has its own namespace, with just the things it needs access to; there is no "root" namespace. This is good for isolation, both for security reasons and reducing accidental dependencies, though I do wonder how much of a pain it would make debugging and administering a system.
The thing about lawyers is that they're often able to create work for themselves. They can lobby for laws that create opportunity if automation affects them too much. They can create class actions out of nothing and recruit their clients. They're also the ones that write the laws, and you can always expect that the rules of the "game" will always favor those with the most input into those rules.
> Could somebody point me to a technical explanation of why it's sometimes non trivial to just compile your app against x86-64 and call it a day?

"In 32-bit programs, pointers and data types such as integers generally have the same length. This is not necessarily true on 64-bit machines. Mixing data types in programming languages such as C and its descendants such as C++ and Objective-C may thus work on 32-bit implementations but not on 64-bit implementations." [1]

It's non-trivial to ensure every developer writes portable code multiplied by the varying degree of skills for developers.

In a language like C++, assuming the size of an integer is 4-bytes, or that the size of all pointer types are the same, can introduce hard to track down bugs, which may result in 64-bit versions of apps to be unstable.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_computing#64-bit_data_m...
Ask HN: Do any consumers prefer targeted ads?
I generally have knowledge of what sorts of goods and services are available for me to buy. I am told long before interesting new product offerings that they will be released.

On the other hand, I find it incredibly creepy when ads follow me around the web for something I searched for or looked at.

Then Tuesday Mark Zuckerberg testified before congress that many users would not like to see less relevant ads. I am very curious if there are groups of consumers out there who actually prefer the targeted ads, because I haven't met one and would like to hear why they feel that way.
You keep stating this as if it were a fact, but did it occur to you that delineating what research spending in fact contributed is complex?

Medicine is perhaps the industry that most exemplifies one with large confluent streams of money from public, private, and charitable sources involved at different levels of training, research, and practice.
Yes, this is exactly what I was getting at.
Brexit / Trump's campaign designers pretty much admitted manipulating the masses using Facebook feedback loop paired with big data analysis. Putting it more bluntly, it's a massive scale brainwashing. It's hard not to see the potential of pretty shady usage of such power.
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So I've been making a music player app called 'Doppi' for years now, I wonder if it served as inspiration? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/doppi-offline-music-player/i...
I was very impressed by the one with the large book added next to the person in the grass. The curvature of the pages changed to be more gentle.
In litigation, the cost of a decade of life can be valued at a million dollars or more. Saving the life of a 45 year old for $85,000 isn’t “price gouging” it’s a huge bargain. And taxing industries that create those outcomes, like we do with industries we want to discourage (such as alcohol or tobacco) is economically irrational.

Of course you expect the pitchfork-toting mobs to be irrational. But that’s not a basis for arguing in favor of something as a matter of sound policy.

Trying to set drug policy ignoring the economics of human life is like trying to design an airplane while ignoring gravity. You can’t will physics into submission through moral outrage. There is, as far as I can tell, no proven correlation between scientific talent and altruism. If you make it so you can’t get rich saving lives, many of the best and brightest will go work making better advertising technology instead.
Obligatory:

https://xkcd.com/1323/