skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like Scuttlebutt but there are still quite a few rough edges.

I don't really like that pubs work by me following them and them following me. When I open Patchwork most of my feed for any given channel is filled with notifications of people subscribing to that channel rather than actual posts.

But I do really like the adhoc, decentralized nature of it.
>> I think there are two contradictory conditions in this. The reality is that just because it saves lives doesn't mean it should be free.

If the economy can't support peoples' lives, what's the point of having an economy in the first place? Is it just so a very few people can accumulate most of the available wealth and leave everyone else unable to access vital goods and services?
The real question is - what is enough?

Should the top 1% be paying 100% of all taxes? 90%?

If we had a target we'd know how to get there.
You're dismissing the whole argument based on some hipster notion of noticing a trend early?
What browser are you on? new.reddit.com works just fine on updated Firefox... biggest annoyance is the lack of sidebars on subreddits, apparently they need to be enabled by the mods.
That wasn't my interpretation but I'm open to yours, thanks!
Maybe now they can buy a vowel. I say this only half as a joke. I recently had to use checkr. The first thing they ask you for is your social security number. Typing your social into a box below a misspelled URL isn't a super comforting experience
Well yeah, engineers should participate; not only as senators.
Organizer here. The link on the jam page has now been fixed.
This isn't just basic cookie tracking. They have an actual profile on you, without your consent, with the people who have you in their address book and even potentially your purchasing habits, from the data they purchase from data brokers like Datalogix. They maintain this profile on you separately from other users, and they make immediate use of it if you create an account.

That's why it's called a shadow profile.
This is important: Goldman Sachs ask who is financing medical innovation and what should be financed for best returns. They do not say the FDA is bad for business, it's the medical field itself that has problems delivering returns.
>The 'lock on radar' part is what all Russian missiles struggle with currently, a situation they hastily attempt to remedy.

Can I humbly ask you for citation?
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A competent adversary won't carry cookies between sessions, so there is no security afforded by it. These cookies are solely to track the general population.
Thanks. I haven't used windows for development in years and was not aware they went stale.
The hard truth where sometimes our feelings _need_ to be hurt early on to save our health (despite all of this modern social acceptance of unhealthy, irresponsible people who lack the self control to put the sugar down and consume less calories daily).
So are you supposed to write the whole thing using spans? Seems hard... maybe one way to pass the accessibility test (screen readers) is by putting the respective letter inside the span and set font-size to zero.
This is not a security feature you should rely on solely. Anyone who wants to stuff with multiple accounts, can circumvent this easily. So this is not a security issue. It is for tracking people, first and foremost.
Though it seems like it would be ok to say "ONE of the reasons we do this is security" because it really does seem like they can get some decent security stuff out of doing some of the things they do. It's probably not the primary purpose though, more like a happy accident?

Though I'd guess for people who don't follow any of this close (like the vast majority of people) hearing "this will make you safe" probably works quite well, and that's why he's told to say these things.
Not really: http://time.com/4865957/death-and-life-shopping-mall/
> But if I was running a Python team that had been effectively just trying to get the job done in 2.7 for over a decade I would have to admit that I wanted to switch for my own sake - I think it would be unlikely to make them that much more happy or productive.

Part of being a software engineer is keeping your environment up to date. Sure, I could keep using Node 0.10. But I'll get no updates for security or fixes for bugs.

If you're on a team that hasn't updated to a version that's supported, then you're neglecting one of the fundamental ongoing maintenance tasks involved in software engineering. If that's "too hard" to do over the course of a decade, then perhaps there's something wrong with your engineering culture.

Sure, you don't have to do it. But don't expect the rest of the world to continue to support your old setup. If you have to compile Py2.7 from source because RHEL doesn't come with it, that's fair penance for not keeping up with the community. It's just about the most entitled thing in the world to say "I didn't spend the two weeks in ten years time to upgrade to a newer version [using the numerous automated tools] and I'm mad that the world at large isn't making it easy for me to continue to not do anything."
FLAC support?
Well, I had specific things in mind. Example: it is hard to share deck lists on Reddit, but easy on mtgsalvation. This has a big effect on how those communities can evolve. So I agree that the tooling does help define the community to an extent. On Reddit, some of the time the tooling fits a community well. Other times not so much. That was my more my point.
Every week I still get a Quora Digest email, and every week, if I glance at it, I find myself asking "seriously, are these really the best there is?"

I'm sure they're algorithmically picked, but it seems to be heavily polluted with things phrased as questions that are really just rants/complaints, political provocatism, naivete, bragging and showing off privilege (interestingly, frequently tied with seemingly being very naive); the ones that depress me the most are questions being asked by people who clearly must have been incredibly sheltered and repressed. For some of those, I am glad there's a place like Quora for people to actually get those questions answered, but Quora itself doesn't seem to be great at highlighting interesting questions.
Frankly i think consumers value backwards compatibility as much, if not more, as companies.

At least as one gets older and just want to get that thing done that they always have (a certain big name author still writes using WordStar in DOS i believe).
Inventor is mentioned towards the end, as a potential alternative CAD package that might not have the performance problem.

Does anyone know if Inventor would actually be better in that situation?
Evidence isn't the same as conclusive proof. Yes, the different demographics meant that we can't conclude that any difference is due to Telsa's autopilot. However it is evidence that Teslsa is more crash prone.

It isn't clear whether the demographics of Tesla drivers are more reckless than that of other luxury brands or not, as you point out Porsche drivers might tend to be more interested in going fast than Daewoo drivers. For Tesla on the one hand you attract people who are interested in helping the environment who I expect to be more conscientious and maybe therefore better drivers. But on the other hand there is Ludicrous Mode.

But since Tesla could have had a lower or higher crash rate than other brands and does have a higher rate we have to update our beliefs in the direction of the car being more likely to crash by conservation of expected evidence. Unless you'd argue that a lower crash rate means that Tesla's safety features prevent lots of crashes.
What? No. They're not talking about logged out users. They're talking specifically about people who don't even have a Facebook account: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-11/zuckerber...
How far can Becky Hammon go in the NBA?
Clay Shirky pointed out a while ago that the power of the Internet to connect previously isolated individuals with common interests can have the downside of making that common interest seem more normal to those people.

E.g. if I'm the only Nazi I know, there's no one to buck me up and so maybe I consider that there's something wrong with my beliefs. But add a convenient subreddit, facebook page, etc. and I get to think that there are lots of us. (We conveniently forget about the denominator.)

This phenomenon is great for society when it comes to sufferers of rare diseases, the lonely, closeted gay kid in a small town, and cult film lovers. Not so great when it comes to racists etc.
Check Aphex Twin - Equation if you haven't already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xMuPWAZW8
You only have to go back a little over 100 years to a time when agriculture accounted for over 50% of human labor. Now it's under 2%. Yet unemployment is still under 5%.

While agriculture likely represents the largest shift in labor during the 1900s, there were a huge number of jobs automated away during that time. Assembly lines, factories, and automation have been displacing workers since the dawn of the industrial age.

75 years ago there were basically no information technology jobs, and now it represents nearly 10% of the workforce, or four times the level of agricultural employment.

In summary, I agree with you; freeing people from mundane labor will lead to an explosion of jobs for which people are better suited; jobs which are more engaging and fulfilling as well.

There are always people who fail to adapt and get left behind, but the rest of the world moves on. People like to work.
To a first approximation: you can install browser extensions (or modify your /etc/hosts file or a router up-the-chain from your device) to re-route requests to Facebook URLs / IP addresses to a black hole.

To a larger approximation: if a third-party chooses to share their information on your browsing habits with Facebook, that's not something you can control. But it's probably a much rarer, much smaller attack surface.
>Inequality may be a problem, but it's not an existential threat or even a primary concern to developed countries

If a single person's net worth is more than a medium sized country's GDP, we DO have a problem.

If you have $70B you can buy votes/governments (through "lobbying").

It is no longer a democracy, because a very rich person has many many votes, rather than one.
Meta-

It's a coded in-joke about en-coded jokes.

Pretty funny if you've read any crypto papers.
Or maybe just smarter politicians. Politicians aren't elected based on their ability to understand a wide range of technical issues. A lot of people in Congress campaigned on not understanding basic facts about reality.
Who would pass these capital gains taxes? Politicians, right? The same ones who can be influenced by lobbyists?

When these laws are passed, will assets be sheltered by accountants?

I know a Bitcoin millionaire. He avoided capital gains taxes this year by upgrading his Jeep. The money that would have gone to taxes, he used instead for upgrades, because of a loophole that permits upgrades to be taxed at a much lower rate.

They’re smart, the rich.
What always scares me away from assembly every time I try to learn it is that principle that makes code more dangerous or rigid or difficult to evolve, the more manual work you have to do in it. Like how it’s harder to refactor C code than Python because of how the implementation and algorithms get closer to each other the lower you get. And since assembly gives you almost nothing, changing an algorithm seems to mean massive changes. Which implies heavy up front design work. Which is contrary to the kind of exploration and experimentation I like to have in my side projects, especially video games, which is presumably the main type of program for NES.
Opening lines start like this

"Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen.

There comes a time when people at a technical conference like this need something more relaxing. A change of pace. A shift of style. To put aside all that work stuff and think of something refreshingly different.

So let's talk about coding theory. There are perhaps some of you here tonight who are not experts in coding theory, but rather have been dragged here kicking and screaming. So I thought it would be a good idea if I gave you a sort of instant, five minute graduate course in coding theory."
I agree, but I also note you may be underestimating the number of competent adversaries in the world and the cost / benefit analysis of doing something like this to eliminate a large-percentage case of bad behavior.
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With today’s technology, yes. There’s good science being done right now that is much more efficient. And all our current approaches are chemical engineering, but I personally think organisms modified with CRISPR could be a better path. You’re just trying to get them to do what they already do, more quickly, and I think that’s in the realm of near-term science fiction instead of magic.
Zuckerberg is the one being disingenuous. By acknowledging cookie tracking or scraper tracking, he answers the question that indeed FB tracks offline usage, but only mentions the innocuous cases and fails to acknowledge the Shadow Profiles[1] they clearly have

1. https://www.dailydot.com/news/facebook-shadow-profiles-priva...
Do we still need GPS for precision targeting? How far can good, recent, satellite imagery, sensors at a wide range of frequencies, and dead reckoning get us?

Also, could one build a local positioning system that has a few ground (or even airborne) positions broadcast their position and a time signal, with the missile using that info to compute its position?
>In 2011, Schrems created Europe versus Facebook, which published the documents Facebook had sent him and flagged up where they didn't comply with EU law. He got in touch with the Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC) -- Facebook Ireland is the "data controller" for its European users -- and sent 22 detailed complaints showing how Facebook wasn't compliant, five relating to it allegedly not deleting data. He also complained about "shadow profiles", where Facebook collects contact information relating to non-users when users sync their contacts from other services.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/privacy-versus-facebook
Wow, thanks for pointing that out. This is my mistake!
I was commenting on gnicholas above, and this link:

http://www.readacrosstheaisle.com/

My bad, everyone :(
It's not an issue of international politics for a country like the U.S. to raise their own taxes. It's literally a matter of tweaking numbers. Of course there would be side effects if U.S. raised them too much or in the wrong way (eg. targeting small business owners instead of billionaires), but we're not even close to that point. Overcomplicating this is just rationalizing the status quo.
Given how things are taken out of context in today's media, giving a resounding Yes to an answer which requires a detailed answer is a bade idea. Congress/Senate hearings are not exactly CS101 class. So, it is better to be keeping answers short and maybe it comes off vague.

Politician clue-ness on the issue also doesn't help.
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I think they are using the accelerometer (or even microphone) to measure road noise. What appears to us as mostly white noise probably reveals unique road flaws such as cracks, concrete joints, potholes, dips, bumps.

Sample this data and feed it into a signal matching algorithm like Shazam...
An interesting aside: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-4-a-m-is-the-most-productiv...
The cost is immense (tracking of non-users) the benefit is low (being able to detect multi accounts).
Quality can be maxed out. The bang for the buck calculation is easily reversed.

Fighter that is impossible destroy and carries 4 medium range missiles can kill max 4 enemies per sortie and it can be only in one place at the time. In practice Pk ratio of missiles missiles etc. brings it down significantly.

If you get two cheaper fighters for the same price, they can cover larger area, loiter twice as much, carry 8 missiles and fly more sorties for the same money.
How does such a practice differ morally from consumer credit reporting agencies?
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It's a funny after-dinner speech (where some of the attendees aren't experts in coding theory), providing a somewhat tongue-in-cheek biography of Alice and Bob.
The absurdity of intellectual property. Artificially inducing scarcity with state violence
I sincerely cannot tell how this is different from the Music app that I already use on my iPhone other than the color-matching background stuff.

- Minimal design: The 'now playing' drawer in the screenshot looks nearly the exact same as the Music 'now playing' drawer. If anything it has more text for buttons than the Music app.

- Adapts to my music: The background color changes?

- Import my music: Ok, but with Music app I don't have to do that.

- Search artists, albums and songs: Ok, but I can already do that with Music app.

- Edit and reorder listen queue: Ok, but I can already do that with Music app.
If we really want to deal with Google's enormous power, we'll need to tackle the issue at both ends: political and technical. As for politics, it doesn't look like Google is going to be attacked the way it happened to FB - the CA affair was almost an accident. And Google knows better and will do everything to avoid accidents.

The second issue is technological. The competing search engines are not there yet, although they're continuously improving. Google got where they are not only by text search, but also extending the search categories horizontally. The competing search engine would need some smart minds to come up with something extra, something genuinely useful that would make people flock there.

Then there are all other parts of Google ecosystem that people depend on: Gmail, Adwords, Adsense, GA. And millions of Android devices. How to eradicate all that from our lives? It will take decades to complete - if we started now, that is.
Apparently the answer is, more than is being paid now.
Zuckerberg was not under oath, but even so, lying to Congress is a federal crime.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-will-not-be-u...

More info on "under oath": https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/penalty-for-lying-to...
JPMorgan Sued Over Cash Advance Fees for Cryptocurrency Purchases
It's a sequence of videos.
There are still great software like discourse for building communities. I think focused communities built around forums have plenty of room to grow as long as people keep building tools like Discourse.
From the article:

> Perhaps it would be a better idea if we looked for strong keys. In fact, why not look for THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE KEY. Then we could all standardize on it.

I think that's what Debian did with their OpenSSL :-)
They try to get salary, but often don’t get it. I’ve been asked for salary info on former employees. Equifax also owns a company called theworknumber, which your employer voluntarily provides with salary information.

The standard language in background checks gives them permission to obtain it through any means, including asking your bank how much your direct deposit is, or asking your credit card company what your stated income was. I haven’t heard of anyone attempting to use those means, but technically they could.
I don't know how successful they were at confiscating existing fortunes, but the point is that they were extremely successful at preventing new fortunes from being accumulated.
He actually mentions both in the original quote (if Bloomberg was sourcing to the section of the hearing I assume they're sourcing from).
The thing that's worrying is that America and Europe are the only places where inequality is so small. Visit India or Africa once and take a look there.
A couple of problems with the idea of "incentivizing" individuals to keep the cost down, by forcing them to pay more of the cost out-of-pocket (ignoring the moral question of whether people with less money should in fact receive inferior health care):

People will pay almost anything to stay alive and healthy, or to keep their loved ones alive and healthy; few people are willing to turn down the more expensive option even if the increased benefits are minor, and even if it means going bankrupt in the process;

Health-care costs are not very transparent, and bills are often computed after the fact; it is much easier to find out the price and quality of a washing machine, than the price and quality of a doctor. In other words, shopping around (assuming you have time and energy to do that while sick or dying) is not easy.

Rich countries outside of the US manage to spend much less money per capita on health care than the US, with similar health outcomes, and with a much lower rate of people forced into bankruptcy by medical expenses. They don't do this by pushing more of the cost of care onto the patient. Perhaps we in the US should try to learn from them.
But what's the alternative?
Oops! Pasted the wrong link. It's not letting me update either.

Here's the correct one:
https://gitlab.com/youngwerth/ray-tracer/tree/performance
Congratulations on the launch!

Suggestion: Add credit-card processing. As a developer, I would benefit from being able to implement a single payment integration that let my customers pay how they want to. Credit cards are the obvious biggie, but it would also be huge to be able to e.g. receive European bank transfers as a US-based business. My dream "OmniPay" would also handle PayPal, Venmo, etc. as well, all with one integration.

Much as I'd like to try accepting cryptocurrencies, I'm definitely not going to manage multiple payment processors to add support for what (I would suppose) would be a tiny fraction of my business.
The Obese May Die Sooner *
(* when living in a skinny persons world)

It seems like the article was saying that a morning persons world is naturally healthier, not that morning people are somehow afflicting non-morning people
Last time i read anything about that, those computers were still largely self-managed (though with a in-office wiki for collected solutions).
This came up in the RachelByTheBay thread the other day[1] about how she got started... My computer progression started with a Vic-20 (3kB of RAM), followed by an XT (640kB), followed by a Pentium 133 (16MB of RAM). While the Vic and the XT really taught me a lot about how to write lean & mean code, the Pentium really acts like my baseline for what a resource-constrained GUI system can actually accomplish. I could surf the web and talk in multiple IRC rooms quite comfortably (woo mIRC!), probably with ICQ running as well. The fact that Slack is currently idling with an RSS of 1.3GB is bloody offensive in that lens. 81x the memory footprint of the entire machine I used to do all my web browsing on.

I really like your idea of encouraging people to try getting code running on older machines. I really understand that someone who didn't cut their teeth on a 3kB RAM machine won't have the same appreciation for constrained memory computing, and I think your suggestion is a great way to introduce them to it.

Thanks for the thought!

[1]http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/04/learn/
People on welfare in the US are by defacto struggling, I don't think it's a meaningful data point to say that they don't seem very happy.
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Randomness already has nothing to do with (western) society. Modern healthcare and society in general allow for the survival and reproduction of individuals who would have simply died a few thousand years ago. The whole concept of "survival of the fittest" no longer applies to our species.

There is nothing wrong with this - as you said, everyone wants the best for their child. The big question is, what exactly _is_ the best? From my point of view, it seems that if designer babies were to become easily available, the average parent would just look on Facebook as to what the latest "influencers" fancy this week - and that would make the world an awful lot worse.