skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
somehow reminded about procedure of requesting your files from, at least in some aspects, the pre-computer age incarnation of FB : https://www.fbi.gov/services/records-management/foipa/reques...

I mean it is is pretty easy to imagine that FBI functions these days may be contracted out to FB who would carry them out probably more efficiently :)

And another scary piece of imagination - watching/listening to Mark in front of the Congress commission, i basically felt like i'm witnessing Octavian in front of Senate from Rome ... The same situation of logic without moral restraints. The same mismatch between illusory and real power balances. Hail Augustus Caesar ... err ... the 50(or even high 40ies)-something President of US. And if we're lucky, there will be another after him...
It doesn’t have to. The only purpose of a paid Facebook is to place a value on the free version of Facebook, and thus stamp out the argument that people are getting their data taken without anything in return.

At last, anyone who complains about privacy could just be backhanded away with a simple statement “Use the paid version”. Assuming the paid version does in fact afford greater privacy and no ads and a tweakable feed algorithm and even analytics for your posted content. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Might actually start using Facebook again.
I would comment only about the wireless charging case: In medicine there is a wireless device to treat an aggressive form of brain cancer: TTFields. It is approved by the FDA [0]

It works by disrupting microtubules in the cell, a kind of micro-skeleton that gives its shape to the cell.

The TTFields electrical fields have a low frequency, very similar to the Qi wireless charging standard.

[0] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf10/p100034a.pdf
How wrong am I to equate "smart contracts" with a general purpose protocol negotiation thingie? Like TLS handshakes, but with code vs a spec? Or like a two party constraint satisfaction solver?
Most websites should be just simple, static text.
I hope Sweden and Germany can make a common DIN Deutche industri normen standard for charging electric vehicles on roads. There would be an added benefit if we could build rail tracks among the electric guidance line. Rail tracks to lower the rolling resistance, metal on metal vs rubber on asphalt. We would then have a hybrid car rail track which should make it easy for autonomous driving. The aim would to bring down the total co2 emissions of transportation. Building both in ground and above ground electrification of cars would be the best system as then cars can charge during good weather conditions and trucks can always charge even during winter time. A system with electric guidance in the ground is a bit vulnerable to snow during winter times.

Here is another more rail like track which can be used by trucks but not by cars.
https://www.scania.com/group/en/worlds-first-electric-road-o...

Rolling resistance coefficient c of rail c=0.001, dirty tram rails c=0.005, car c=0.02. Ie rails resistance is at least 25 times lower than rubber on asphalt 0.005/0.02.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_resistance
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/rolling-friction-resistan...
Even though it seems to have a bit different purpose as it offers more structured learning, I find Tiny Cards to be significantly more enjoyable to use than the main Duolingo app. The gamification does play some role in that, but I think it's mainly how the learning is organized.
> I must be missing something. Suppose I tell the provider I am going to pay them cash, directly; I will not use Medicare, Medicaid, or any other insurance. Are you saying that because said provider accepts Medicare/Medicaid for other patients, it is impossible for them to tell me ahead of time what they are going to charge me?

Yes. Medicare and Medicaid generally reimburse rates that are below COGS, so providers have to make up the difference with what they charge private insurers. If they didn't, they would literally go out of business - if you have to pay $100/unit wholesale to purchase a vaccine and Medicare only pays you $93 for the entire visit during which you administer the vaccine, you won't be around very long unless you can get private insurers to pay much more, to cover not only the $7 unit loss, but also enough to pay for all the overhead of running a practice (wages, office space, etc.)[0].

They'll make up the difference by requesting much more from private insurers, though they don't know a priori how much they'll get. In the end, private insurers typically peg their rates to multiples of what Medicare reimburses (for example: "we'll agree to pay 350% of Medicare's reimbursable rate for all reimbursable billing codes").

For various reasons (including both logistical and legal ones), they can't present one bill to private insurers and a different bill to self-paying patients. The amount that they'll accept to settle the bill may be dramatically less than the amount they bill for[1], but they can't provide different bills up-front.

So, any provider that accepts insurance is basically incapable of providing you in advance with a price quote that represents what you'll actually pay, regardless of whether or not you are actually on insurance.

In theory, providers who only accept a very small set of insurances and accept no Medicare patients would be able to do this. But in this day and age, you're almost never going to find one of those providers - the overhead of accepting insurance is large enough that it's to their advantage either to accept several different forms, or to refuse insurance altogether. And once you're taking insurance, you basically can't refuse Medicare patients (logistically and legally: some Medicare patients receive dual coverage or receive their Medicare coverage wholly under private plans, and you can't turn a patient away just because you discover that they're on Medicare if you're otherwise capable of accepting their insurance).

[0] These numbers are illustrative; Medicare (in aggregate) reimburses 7% less than costs.

[1] If you're insured, every time you visit the doctor, you probably receive an explanation of benefits statement, which shows that they were billed $1000, but their maximum reimbursable rate is $300, and they'll cover $250, so you're required to pay $50. The difference between $1000 and $300 is what I'm referring to here.
They've already managed to use CRISPR to give color blind primates their full vision back...

http://www.neitzvision.com/research/gene-therapy/
Hashbase exists, and in theory most Dat web apps could do a read-only version for legacy browsers, but since the tooling isn't there, you'd have to work out something by hand. The Dat ecosystem has pretty bad support for polyfills and bridging to the HTTP web right now. Many Dat demos I see today just fail hard over HTTP, maybe with a best-viewed-in message if the dev took some effort, but in principle it doesn't need to be that way.
What kind of grandfather clause do you imagine? The law basically says that companies are allowed to make you prove it's your data you're trying to delete to deter people using it to delete that of others. They're also allowed to refuse or charge a reasonable fee if they can justify that the request is spurious, unduly burdensome, onerous, etc.

Yes, but obviously you've got nothing if you use an US-based service from the US. It's based around companies subject to EU laws, rather than any real notion of citizenship.
I wrote a reply, deleted it, walked away from the computer, thought about what I wanted to say, and am writing this.

I appreciate your guidelines and what HN is trying to do with its comment section. I enjoy the discourse here and I feel that it's one of the better places for discussion on the web. I also fully acknowledge that I have here, and in other comments, gone against the guidelines. Finally I recognize that you are an authority on this site and are attempting to correct behavior you find problematic/potentially leading to a deterioration of the level of conversation you're trying to curate here.

I still stand by my Allcaps(Tm) usage here. I will try to keep it to a minimum. Sometimes the proper response is yelling. Also, correlation is not causation.

Edit: Also, if italics are used for emphasis, which is interpreted as yelling/voice change, I see literally no difference except your opinion on how people should designate yelling. I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE vs I'm mad as Hell and I'm not going to take it anymore! just feels like the comment section version of Tabs VS Spaces.
Do you understand why this is an indictment of your hiring process, rather than of those people?
Might those tugs affect its learning?
I agree, the music was a little off-putting. They could have at least gone with a less in-your-face piece.
Glad to hear about the FDWs ... but wouldn't foreign keys be your friend here? What else would you need, really, to layer this on an existing DB?
What did you put in "Please summarize the type of information you'd like to find"?
Yea but why not make the url about:config just go to a configuration page of the browser for the time being?
That sounds almost dangerous.
> Not apps that need to work on shitty connections or devices.

Curious, why would you say that? I've only ever dabbled with Ember a little, never built anything production-ready with it. But I did have to maintain an Angular (1) app. And that thing was chatty as hell. I was the backend dev, and developed the REST api that our apps and this Angular bowl-of-spagetti communicated with.

Where ember has, built in, localstorage caching and even some cool REST-sync systems, angular has none of that. The closest I could get was angular-resources, which is a ORM-alike-approach to communicating with a REST backend. Proper HTTP-caching headers, Etag caching and so on, allowed leveraging the browsers-caching to avoid some calls, but Ember has a far neater and cleaner way to talk to such a backend.

This is just an anecdote, but I was pretty convinced that from all the JS-frameworks, ember had the "get data in- and out of a REST backend" solved the nicest, fastest and cleanest.
Toys ”R” Us receives billion-dollar bid for its profitable Asian business
How about a reality check?

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/04/12/the_wo...
Adaptive Cruise Control seems even better.
What happens to this once NFTables takes over? I'm still using iptables in production, but I'm wary since my understanding is that iptables is sort of deprecated in favor of NFTables
This site will leak your password to everyone unless you donate Bitcoin
> WASM - which is similar to the LLVM-IR.. but more crossplatform-y.. I think? (can someone confirm?)

Yes.

> So I guess going forwards WASM is the new crossplatform bytecode and not necessarily tied to the web - right?

Yes. Andreas Rossberg and other chief WASM people are touring conferences with talks called more or less "WebAssembly: Neither Web nor Assembly". It's a misnomer.

> I don't really get if WASM has memory-managment / garbage-collection by default

It doesn't. I'm not up to date, but last I heard the best that was offered was "at some point there will be APIs available for calling into the browser's runtime to get GC'd objects" or something like that.
Exactly my problem with Duolingo. It is great for Vocabulary, but in the end it's just knowing it by heart, and I was suprised there are no real courses explaining you the synthax of a phrase or some other advanced rules.
There was also a rapid and noticeable shift in "public opinion" on Reddit in regards to Facebook/Zuckerberg from overwhelmingly negative to slightly positive just in time for Zuckerberg's hearings. I also suspect the worst here.

I've also personally been receiving downvotes here on HN for posting undeniable facts about Facebook (and the data collection practices of other ad companies), but that could just be a result of the numerous FB employees on this site trying to pull the wool over their and our eyes on behalf of their employer.
> Over simplifying?

Which makes it dead simple. Not easy, simple.

If you want obese people to lose weight you want instructions making it not complex.

"Should I learn a new way to eat food, new recipes or start cooking for real? No thanks."

"Oh! I can just eat less and switch to 0 sugar soda; no need to make my life harder? Let's try this"

Once they have learned to eat less you can add the trick which is you can stuff your belly with 2lbs of veggies and get less than 1k calories. But for people used to the 5mn in the microwave way of cooking it's an added hurdle.
Don't most bird just go to sleep when blindfolded ? Or is it just an idea that got in my mind ?
Hackage.haskell.org is down
The author does not say "work in a text editor", only "use". Considering she's including text editors on mobile devices, which the majority of America will utilize today, that's not a particularly bold statement.
I used it to learn basic Spanish before a trip to Spain, and do feel that it helped. However, I'm coming from a specific position in that I already speak French and studied Latin for a long time. It was absolutely sufficient for me to pick up a basic vocabulary, with my general knowledge of Latin-derived grammars helping me fill in for its weaknesses on that front.
Dude, this ain't a webapp. It's a car, our lives are in her hands.
Maybe of some kind, but not the same.

I'm reluctant to introduce mechanical postings for anything because it's important for the content here to have variety and not be predictable. And also to be related to the people in the community.
Can anyone recommend any particular enjoyable home brew games? I can see a few already listed in comments, but it would be nice to gather up a short list.
A few people I've known with criminal histories only managed to turn their lives around by scraping a business together for themselves, going into home contracting (handyman, exterminator, etc.). They had done time for stuff like narcotics trafficking and manslaughter and were never going to be hired by any employer otherwise.

Then, in the vein of technological progress, services started popping up encouraging potential clients to do background checks on contractors. You wouldn't want to let a former criminal into your home to do repairs, after all.

I don't know how they're making it these days.
The media has become a "click maximizer" due to its hunger for data.

Maciej Cegłowski has some really good essays and talks (unlike most programmers who do talks, in his case they're kind of the same, especially if you use the transcripts) that touch on this. They are similar, but have enough variety of angles to be worth going through:

http://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm

http://idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm

http://idlewords.com/talks/build_a_better_monster.htm

http://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you....
What Kind of Libertarian Are You?
Firefox on Android has plugins (such as uBlock). I assume it's the same on iOS.
From the article it sounds like both .onion and .is domains are safe for the time being. The .is domain should be easier to use.
Thanks! No SSR here, just an SPA (static html/js/css) served up via CDN. We do use code splitting to load bundles progressively to keep the bundle size down.
Alligators do. Not sure about birds
Data Warning: 100 MB.

Viewing the header illustration for more than a few seconds crashes my iPad Safari tab. Scrolling until it is off the viewport prevents this.

EDIT: Dev Tools reports 74.8 MB transferred with an ad blocker. The illustration is a single 69.2 MB gif.

EDIT: 101 MB in total when you scroll to the bottom. Three more gifs: 18.1 MB, 7.1 MB, 4.7 MB.
.NET already has a great string implementation in both the Framework and Core runtimes. If you're talking about manipulating strings in C# itself then the upcoming Span<T> and Memory<T> types will help greatly. Some of the new sockets implementations are already using these new interfaces.
To clarify a point on which there may be some doubt, the hiring process spelled out in quite certain terms that were in no way, shape, form, or manner less than completely clear that a criminal history was not an bar to employment. These were not empty words. The people clearly did not believe this, and made their own personal, individual choices to be dishonest with us.

I absolutely understand how this was a fault in the hiring process. The hiring process of the company should have been much more patient for background check results. That way we would have caught that we were being lied to earlier. The nature of the roles in question - and the access to private and sensitive material involved - required us to care about the pasts of the candidates.

Is it possible that you consider the flaw in the process to be of a different nature? Such as that there should under no circumstances be any interest in a person's criminal history in any hiring process?
Amazon Does Not Believe in R&D
Likely not. It takes only a very small number of instructions to implement an interpreter for a Turning-complete language, and then you can create arbitrary behavior by passing different input. The number of necessary instructions is shockingly small, if using something like Binary Lambda Calculus or Subtract-And-Branch-If-Negative.
I'd personally much rather pay higher fees when there is a high network volume than constantly paying fees for the privilege of using an ATM, or servicing my online account, or processing a wire transfer, or reissuing me a debit card or checkbook, etc. For merchants, fees are outrageous indefinitely.

Here are a few recent articles on millenial interest in crypto [1] [2].

[1] https://www.finder.com/why-people-arent-buying-cryptocurrenc...
[2] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/millennials-are-afraid-sto...
Ask HN: Is there a website / service to follow Podcasts, hosts and guests?
Also curious if any such site allows us to meet like-minded listeners.
Personally, I think any experiment that publishes plots and not actual raw data should be defunded and decommissioned immediately.
The entire world of media is so frustratingly rotten - from YouTube to TV, advertisements to documentaries, movies and music - everything is so goddamn noisy.

An exception to this is - YouTube channel “Primitive Technology”. It’s beautiful, it’s successful and this is what content should be. Unadulterated. Why isn’t media like this anymore? There was a thread about Disney’s camera techonogy in the 50’s and it was so well produced (see my comment history). People spoke with clear enunciation and intent. The world has become a chaotic mess and the only thing I want to do is meditate and get the away from constant bombardment of my senses. I don’t want HDR. I want good content, I don’t care about the material qualities (although 4K moon video makes sense because resolution is the content in this case).
Google new update?
hello any one let me know new google updates ?
According to comments here we've apparently taken pictures of these before, but I didn't know that and it's amazing seeing an actual photo of something so dramatic.
okay, but what if there is a home robot with significant dexterity for generic tasks exists for other reasons. would you stop its owner from using that for tree trimming?

my rule of thumb is simple, if a job only exists because of some amount of cognition needed with fairly simple decision making it will be gone regardless of the low pay. also, some higher end jobs like investment management are already getting automated given that they follow the same meme. its just that their cognition/pattern recognition tasks involved sifting through balance sheets (e.g. NYSE:AIEQ).
Facebook debacle shows downside of its customer-free business model
Part of me is dumbfounded it's an actual study, but part of me is unsurprised at the same time
Reasons You Should Use Private Search Engines
Everyone who works at Fb does.
One of the effects first noticed in CS papers maybe 20 years ago is that binary heaps should NOT start from the beginning of a cache line, which is what most programmers would assume would be a wise thing to do. We're always told to align to cache boundaries. If you don't move the root node to the end of a cache line (or at least toward the middle, depending on line size and node size), traversing the heap will touch more lines, since the sibling nodes you need to compare will often/always be in separate cache lines.
Right, when I’m learning mathematics I hate how they force you to learn math notation.

Learning a romanized version of a language is not learning a language. Sounds in one language don’t map neatly to English sounds, and beginner language learners who use romanization always have pronunciation issues because their headspace isn’t in the language, it’s in a romanized variant of that language.

What’s the point of learning Chinese or any other script language if you don’t learn the script?
It would be truly amazing to have ipfs built into browsers, it'd very quickly expand into other areas.
Well I don't like it but I understand why they are doing it. I prob would get model Y after a few years of it being out, not sure I would use autopilot much.
There are dozens of us. Dozens! You need to search for programmers that have problems in the microsecond to millisecond scale.
ACM Committee Consideration of Facebook Data Compromises and Related Issues [pdf]
So you have to install a custom web browser? Why don't they offer an extension as well? Also, IPFS is built in Go and pretty fast this way. From what I can see, most of Dat is built in JavaScript.
This is lame in comparison with the cosmic smiley face: https://www.space.com/28512-cosmic-smiley-face-hubble-photo....
I skimmed the piece and couldn’t find what their product is. Is there a product here?
Just to be clear I was responding to the OP's statement "One nation does NOT have the authority to dictate what a company can do outside of it's borders and concerns". This is incorrect - a nation regularly forms laws on what its companies and citizens can do outside of its borders and concerns.

Now what you are staying is something completely different from the OPs argument - you are stating "Google is not a Canadian entity so neither Op's or my arguments matter". I am not a legal expert so I have no idea but the statement that Google "does not operate at all in Canada" seems misleading as I know that Google has offices based in Canada. They have Canadian citizens working in Canadian offices under a registered entity so I am not sure why you are saying that Google "does not operate at all in Canada".
Randomly generate a C (or JavaScript) program
Trump Weighs Rejoining TPP
Well, to be clear, I agree with them that the I, Robot film is not in the spirit of the asimov stories precisely because it invokes the zeroth law without any of the counterbalances Asimov built into his stories from the very beginning.

Daneel and Giskard's interventions are scary, but in the end they do appear to be truly in keeping with a species-wide application of the first law, in that their attempts to 'preserve humanity' were not just a rote idea of "keep humanity alive at any cost" but to preserve the components of humanity that they didn't themselves understand like individuality, creativity, and a drive to learn and explore (very star trekky really).

If I want to get too deep into the subject, it seems like a robot that interpreted the first law so narrowly would never be capable of developing a zeroth law to begin with, because its focus would be so intent on a narrow idea of what a human was, ignoring social concepts altogether (as for eg. Solarian robots do).

To be fair though it has been a REALLY long time since I've seen the movie.
Why undertakers are worried
Airbnb's Chinese Rival Xiaozhu.com: House Sharing Has Taken Deep Root in China
Not everyone wants to deal with lots of teardown notices and other possible fallout.
I use DuckDuckGo almost exclusively
I go with Redreader.

It may lack some niceties, but i find it gets the job done and is open source (and was originally built to cache sub-reddits).