skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 77 percent would stick to the regular ads version, while 23 percent said they’d pay not to have ads.

If/When 77% of its users leave Facebook, a substantial portion of the remaining 23% would be less inclined to pay for using the service.

Maybe it would be worthwhile to explore a freemium model where a certain amount of storage (photos, videos, text) is free but beyond it costs. Or it could be interesting to turn FB into a sort of MMORPG where certain activity costs or credits in some way. Without changing its path FB set to follow MySpace.
It's really a shame how some parents are essentially torturing their children by overfeeding, even though it might not really be intentional. In severe cases the results are as harmful as physical or emotional abuse.

Child Protective Services agencies need to get involved. In extreme cases it might be necessary to temporarily take away custody and put the child in foster care. But for most parents with obese children I think some mandatory classes on childhood nutrition and fitness could be a good start.
"The researchers said society needs to recognize that making night owls start work early may not be good for their health."

It's not that being a night owl means you are going to die sooner, it's that a society run by morning larks is detrimental to night owl health.
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Wall Street is massively betting on Tesla’s failure
Ok we can just take "cross platform" out of the title.
* That is a US company

* The ban affects US companies

* The taxes affect US citizens

* The laws affect US citizens

This has nothing to do with this decision.

What Canada is aiming to do is to force a non-Canadian company to follow Canadian law even if it does not operate at all in Canada.
Last year I got a brand new 32GB SE from Walmart for $140, locked for a year of $25/month minimum usage, although I'm just using it as an iPod touch replacement, i.e. not using it as a phone or paying monthly.
So, this is a microkernel.

Could anybody please explain me why microkernels are so great, when practically they do nothing more but push the overhead of switching threads to extreme? Basically, everything that program does requires waiting for scheduler to execute whatever service we send messages to. Disk, sockets, devices - everything. All of which is made in the name of memory safety.

On the other hand, unikernels that execute nothing but managed code (e.g. not code of CPU, but code for some virtual machine such JVM or .Net, which is forbidden to read other processes' memory on the syntax level) solve the same problem of protecting system memory, while carrying much less overhead. I guess this approach would be more preferable for creating a new mobile-oriented OS that requires good performance and low power consumption, no?
By contrast, I found that my Facebook dump was extremely devoid of information. Sure, a few advertisers have my data (but much fewer than in the article, < 200!). Beyond that, the dump contains very little information that I didn’t explicitly provide to Facebook (such as Timeline posts, images, etc). At most it assigned a very broad category to me (“Established Adult Life” — OK, duh).

Of note, it did not contain any record of phone calls or SMS conversations I’ve had. This is probably because I didn’t give Facebook permission to collect this data, when asked.

Of course I’m under no illusion that this is the only data that Facebook has on me. Based on my (even sporadic) activity they must be able to infer lots more (and then there’s all that tracker data). They just don’t make the interesting bits downloadable.
I had forgot the MS acquired it! Honestly it’s probably less bad than it was. Maybe in a few years we’ll hear about all the scrubbing they had to do to keep MS safe.
The point is that the "healthcare system" should be an emergent one where each person is maximally in control of their own destiny. The idea that a few wealthy, connected, buyable people could get to "define the healthcare system" is terrifying.
Try https://diasporafoundation.org
Totally off topic. The question is whether Google should be next after Facebook, not whether it's worse than Facebook. Reminds me of presidential "debates" where every question is just an excuse to trot out the candidate's favorite message whether it has anything to do with the question or not.
There were some high resolution photos taken of the moon a few years ago during a Chinese mission, worth taking a gander.
I should know what data they collect

I agree, and further more I decide what that information is and until I do the default is basically nil. We the people determine how this game is played, not "Advertisers".

I should have a Digital BILL OF RIGHTS.
I think wolframalpha is already pretty close to that. And, I must say, a lot more trustworthy than even stackexchange. I mean, if it gives an answer, you can generally trust it to simply be true.

And it never shows ads.
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Right, knowledge professions are actually innately geared towards being automated. However its worth noting that the higher levels of these jobs cannot be automated, as well as the human aspect of the courtroom (judges). Whatever algorithm you apply is going to need datasets (i.e) parking ticket cases so it cant operate on the higher end of the legal system. The judicial system also provides a place for the meaning of laws to be decided by humans, you cant automate that.
Please don't post shallow dismissals to HN, even if you're right. There's a cap on how interesting discussions that start this way can ever become, and it's simply not that high.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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There are no medical conditions which can make the human body violate the first law of thermodynamics.
I'm not a scientist, but it seems the various groupings of neurons yout enumerated are still hardware level, and not the software level.

Maybe there really is no software level between hardware level and behaviours, but it seems unlikely to me, because I can think about abstract ideas using that brain.
Author claims to be privacy conscious, has a site that requires Javascript to render properly... interesting.
Exactly. The number of "This is all of the data Facebook/Google/etc have on you" articles I've seen recently make me want to bang my head on the wall. They absolutely are not letting you download everything they have.
In your worldview, can Autopilot ever malfunction? Because Driver is always supposed to be vigilant.

Clearly, by your definition Autopilot cannot malfunction ever. Then why go on raising the point that Autopilot didn't malfunction, when you think it will always be a perfect system, even if it decided to mow down pedestrians
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Exactly. It will never cease to amaze me how people are quick to place a high value on their own data which they create with no effort, but treat a free service as if it’s basically worthless.

Maybe we need a paid version of Facebook just to make it very clear to these people what the value of what they are getting in exchange for data.

Otherwise, if you want Facebook to make you money become a shareholder.
So if your hands are on the wheel is the autopilot still in control and you are not? I'm curious because if their telemetry says his hands were not on the wheel but they were, then did he just drive himself into the barrier?
This is broken. (Woke from a sleep, face-palmed. I have been in Windows IPC land and got my wires crossed, sorry.) In linux you can select on both the stdin fd and network sockets in a single call. There is a way to get a fd for AIO also. AFAIK the sync-only file creation/deletion stands.
To be fair, Zuckerberg likely hasn’t been spending that much time at facebook. Most of his time has most likely been focused on his attempted political carrier. Just because he’s failing miserably doesn’t make it less time consuming.
If it’s a car that doesn’t require human driver to have her/his hands on the steering wheel at all times, and it crashes. It’s the car’s fault. i.e it collided into another semi-stationary object when it could steer away or brake.

This should be a law.

#1 job of any self driving system is to avoid obstacles. If you can’t do that reliably, it’s a fail!
Yes, I am unable to use future information that I don't possess to form an opinion today.

>Apple has done things like this in the past, and people screamed about screwing over compiler publishers and so on, and then suddenly the Mac ran on Intel processors and everything they'd been doing clicked into place.

What "things like this". Can you be specific? Are you simply saying "People doubted Apple, and then those people were wrong". How about "People doubted Apple, and then they turned out to be right". Or just because Apple makes money, it automatically means they have never screwed over anyone?

>I don't know exactly what the reason here is, but I've been a user of Apple products for long enough to believe there probably is one, and that we'll know it at some point.

Oh there is always a reason. I've been a user of Apple's products for long enough to believe that the reason usually involves taking cash out of my pocket and putting it into Apple's pocket. I see no reason for me as a customer to empathize with the financial situation of a fabulously wealthy corporate entity.
Coincidentally as I was reading this comment thread you came to mind—your approach is clearly working!
The new version is very good for Chinese. It is giving me much more complex sentence structure.
It said the exact opposite:

"The researchers said society needs to recognize that making night owls start work early may not be good for their health."
Technically you are getting a split because you get the service. However, if you wanted a revenue split, Facebook would have to reduce the service you get, therefore making Facebook less interesting.
It is interesting (to me at least) to compare the "first update":

https://www.tesla.com/blog/what-we-know-about-last-weeks-acc...

with the "last update" (the one that triggered the NTSB reaction):

https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week’s-accident

as it allows to easily identify the "boilerplate" parts, but, more than that, the "first update" closes with:

"Out of respect for the privacy of our customer and his family, we do not plan to share any additional details until we conclude the investigation.

We would like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of our customer."

So, logically, either the respect for the family vanished or Tesla concluded their investigation (in three days time).
That's only in the US and Canada, globally it's more something like $5.

And you and I (and probably some more people of HN) would pay that. But 99% of the 2 billion people that use FB wouldn't.
No, they downloaded the portion Facebook is willing to allow them to download. This is absolutely not everything Facebook has.

Note the wording here, which is similar to the misleading wording Zuckerberg used to avoid honestly answering certain questions in recent days:

> “allows people to see and take out all the information they’ve put into Facebook.”

This doesn't include data such as:

- Data your "friends" have "put into Facebook" about you, which could include SMS/call records of your communications with those friends and various other details.

- Data Facebook purchases or collects from data brokers or public records

- Data Facebook collects on the broader web via "like" buttons, etc
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I hear is pretty bad performance wise compared to the JVM for dynamic languages.
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get a Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 with snapdragon 625(mido) and flash LineageOS on it (but don't do it on April 1st, and don't install Google's Play services)
Some things have been lost, though, and I'm not even referring to the usual claim about constraints facilitating creativity. Games of the 8- and 16-bit console generations, as well as all arcade games up until that point, were written with CRT monitors in mind and often used 'racing the beam' techniques. This resulted in games with extremely low latency, something you never find in a game of any sort today.

The difference can be felt when comparing a game like Super Mario Bros running on an emulator with a typical LCD screen to running on original hardware with a CRT monitor. The emulated version is so sluggish it feels like you're playing underwater!
An additional concern is an attacker phishing a user’s email/Facebook password and downloading this dump to aid with identity theft or blackmail.
I find that an interesting thesis but I don't quite understand how it's true. Could you expand on that?
Ill pay 30$ a month for the right to privacy
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They do, in the form of photo storage, messaging platform, event/calendar planning, etc etc etc.
Since this Intel, which is notrious in their PR, I must ask: this doesn't sound too important , it's just that 2 partners adding some more Intel products to their distribution.no big deal.

Or am I missing something?
Well, and as you point out, the camera permission is arguably completely specious. Android should, if I recall, also have a photo picker so you can select a single photo to give to the app, rather than giving it global access to your stuff.

I understand why it wants contacts, to make it easy to add people, but again, it can be done in a "let the OS offer the contact picker" way, if we're making a privacy-respecting app.

If Google is expected to be the steward of protecting users, they should not allow apps on the Play Store which don't use the most privacy-respecting method possible to implement the needed functionality.
iEchoic congrats on the new design! Very slick and smooth.

Just a quick question. Are you using CRA with SSR (ie with nextjs or other solution?) for the new site? Or is it just a large SPA served from static html,js,css bundled?

Thanks
Matt
They will force you to update your battery? Don't let their bad policies cloud your judgment....
Ah nostalgia. Everyone here should look up the original meaning of nostalgia though to really understand this. It's so apt yet so crippling.
Pension funds have loaded up on risk
You didn't get the narcissism over the twitter spat with that urban planner?
Are there any better packages than Solidworks?
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A programming language is not just a grammar and semantics.

The whole eco-system and community around a language is what defines it.

To give a more explicit example, until it reaches parity with C++ on .NET/UWP tooling, it just means less productivity in spite of being a technically better and safer language.
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Privacy is an info coordinate on the Action axis and the Actor axis. There's the intended coordinate, and there's the actual coordinate. If an Actor performed Action at an intended coordinate, when can the actual coordinate be allowed to differ?

For example, Action (posting this comment), Actor (me). Intended (Action=High, Actor=Low), Actual (Action=High, Actor=Low).
I intend the Action to be publicly available over the internet for anyone to read, and it is unlikely Dang will delete this comment. I intend the Actor to be hidden, because this account is a throwaway and has no other identifying comments. My VPN's ip is in HN's private logs which are unlikely to be leaked.

Some scenarios are clear:

- A murderer intending for (Actor=Low) should have (Actor=High) and be caught

- Using the restroom intending for (Action=Low) should have (Action=Low).

Other scenarios are more nuanced:

- Offshore accounts (Actor=Low) leaked by journalists in Panama Papers (Actor=High)

- Business trade secrets (Action=Low) revealed during product liability trial (Action=High).
Your posts are pretty interesting. If you don't mind a couple questions:

- What range of services do you offer? Do you take care of broken bones? Long-term illnesses? What kinds of things do you refer people to a full hospital for?

- Are there many offices like yours around? How unusual is your office?

- How easily could you build an entire hospital on this model? What would the limits of that be?
How to PURGE NGINX cache on a cluster of nodes? Easy
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Yes, you can deploy an app anywhere (linux, windows, mac) as long as the FormBolt binary runs on that machine.
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Anecdotally, from poor people, people would rather be physically healthy and have a place to live, even if they are unfulfilled, than be malnourished or suffer from untreated chronic illness and likely be unfulfilled anyway.
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I definitely think auto-pilot is a really bad name. It should be “advanced cruise control”. Because essentially that’s what it is. Follow the lane and maintain distance behind a car.

Also unless certified on certain roads with clear markers, drivers should be required to have hands on wheels at all times.
Based on the responses I'm seeing from user lpage elsewhere in the thread, it sounds like you can establish lower bounds external to the AI aspect of the settlement layer, making it "at least as good". So perhaps the optimization is, in some sense, all upside?
SpaceX’s valuation is expected to climb to $24B
A while ago I wanted to try some NES ROM hacking but I couldn't find any tools for it that were really convenient - I ended up typing 6502 into some online assembler to copy the output into HxD and other processes like that. So, I wrote something more to my liking that was more like an IDE.

I couldn't think of a good name, but I was modding Kid Icarus at the time, and it's in .NET, so I just called it IcarusNet. It was primarily for ROM hacking, but as far as I know, it should be suitable for writing something from scratch in conjunction with tile editing programs and maybe other things you'd need.

Not nearly as advanced as NESMaker (very impressive from the looks of it) seems to be, but maybe a middle ground for someone who wants to write a game more to the metal but also wants something more graphical with the same "one click assemble/run" mindset.

Comes with instructions for a sample project to make an edit to a freely available ROM in less than 5 minutes.

https://github.com/ldyeax/IcarusNet

Since then I've heard that license might have some problems for software, so I'll change it if the need arises.
And part of the ACA capped profit percentages of the insurance companies, meaning that in order to increase total profit they need to increase revenue and spending quarter after quarter.
It does cut both ways, but that doesn't justify your "let people say what they want no matter how awful it is" conclusion.

At the margins it's certainly hard to tell sort-of-bad content from not-so-bad content. But that doesn't mean we can't find pretty clear examples. Banning child pornography, for example, doesn't seem to have harmed freedom of speech much.

You also ignore that what speech we allow influences what people will say at all. For example, if we allow violent threats and harassment (which are both definitely speech), this will be used to silence voices. And in the American context, it's pretty clear which voices get silenced. Which voices have been silenced for decades and decades.

So in practice, somebody will always be silenced on some topics. The question is more who gets silenced, and what kind of environment for discussion we want to create.
I think you kind of gloss over the core issue that most people have with drug prices. I don't think most people have a problem with pharmaceutical companies pricing drugs such that they pay for the R&D costs (or more generally the overhead) of the company plus some reasonable profit margin.

The problem is that with the inelastic demand inherent in life-or-death treatments, there is no incentive for pharmaceutical companies to stop there. If pricing a pill at $200 could cover costs and provide 30% profit margin, why not double the cost and make a 50% profit margin? Or triple the cost and make a 60% profit margin? With inelastic demand that is governed only by a person's ability to pay, rather than their willingness to pay or competition, the demand drops far slower relative to the increase in price compared to normal supply-and-demand economics. It's the tendency (or at least perceived tendency) of taking advantage of someone's desire to live to extract as much money from them as possible in order to increase profit margins that people tend to have a problem with. This is called exploitation.

I think it's a bit disingenuous to spin outcry over how expensive a drug is (in a relative sense) as being a simplistic outcry over a drug just being expensive (in an absolute sense).

That said, it's possible that some of it comes from the fact that R&D is so expensive, and a pharmaceutical company never really knows how long their drug will be bought before some other company discovers something that outperforms it. I am by no means an expert on pharmaceutical company economics.

EDIT: And the above argument is just one possible argument to make if you assume that drug development should be a function of capitalism in the first place. There's another viewpoint that drug development shouldn't be a responsibility of capitalism at all, in part because perverse incentives often times unavoidable in capitalism are especially unethical when applied to people's health.
This Elon Musk-approved AI documentary is mostly bluster and scare tactics
Not quite. The paradoxical fact is that if you pick a random point in time, it’s expected that there is 20 minutes between that point and the next block. Even if there’s already been 20 minutes since the previous block!

Edit: woops! See below.
Very nice! One thing I always loved about Nintendo games is that you can usually just pop them in and start playing. No dragged out tutorials, setups, etc.
> One of the biggest problems with ember of course, is the breakneck pace of change. I think it's slowed down somewhat recently, but keeping up with it can feel like a full time job sometimes, if you get stuck behind for too long, it gets harder and harder to update your codebase.

If there's somewhere in the front-end world where this is not the case, short of going back to jQuery spaghetti, I'd love to find it. We're largely settled in with AngularJS, having caught it after the crest, so that is largely settled, but everything around it is moving and breaking and deprecating things left and right. I always feel like we're standing on quicksand, just waiting for some bower or npm package to get yanked out from under our feet.

Compared to the back-end, where things move at a much, much slower rate of change, it is a little maddening to see the churn in JS-land. I have NuGet packages that I use all the time that haven't seen more than minor-minor version updates in three years - and that's fine, they work, they're stable, there's no reason to burn it down and flex it all around every three months. But that's also a benefit of being in the Microsoft ecosystem, where backwards-compatibility is prized.
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If you mean the web app, then yes - apps can be cloned and then merged with a single mouse click. This is done with snapshots.
This is something that wasn't 100% clear to me either. People pay money to your wallet address. You verify the amount, etc, and then forward the payment to my wallet. If the person pays in Ethereum, I receive Ethereum (not USD or something), correct?
Disagree with comments below blog. A Dilbert comic dated 2013 was not yet "classic" in 2014, and arguably still isn't. Classic Dilbert is 1994-ish vintage.
A microlight? That could probably land going crossways across that runway!