skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think best solution is universal basic income

I have said before here that I cannot imagine universal basic income working in the USA unless American culture changes drastically to favour heavy state subsidy of arts, culture and community centers. In the Nordic countries where a substantial portion of many communities are on the dole, the state generously provides concerts and theatres and social facilities so that those people have something wholesome to do, they don’t just all sit home and drink (some do, of course; you can’t win every time). What would small-town Americans do with their time if they weren’t working?
> I look forward to capital peeing in a bottle in solidarity with labor. :)

It does. Capital evaporates in risky endeavors all the time. It rusts by itself as well.

Sure interests arent perfectly aligned, but fighting capital is like fighting your brother for inheritance. Meanwhile, landowners see all that from afar, evict people into the streets, and those same people go pay taxes to get their food.

Capital is not the opressive.
The most important question is about "informed consent".

Yes, users consented to giving data to facebook. But they did so via a convoluted click-through legal agreement, which almost no one reads, and which denies Facebook access if you decline. Then they can use your data for what are human subject experiments.

If any other human subject experiment was proposed to a review board with that kind of consent form, it would be laughed out of the room, at best. No way would that be allowed.

"Informed consent" is what Facebook -- and other data companies -- should be seeking. We already have this concept for data and user protection in research. We should just extend it to the private sector.
Ah, so the biggest factor is behavior? People also drive recklessly in cars, but they more often end up getting other people instead. So we should encourage them to ride bikes.
How collectible medals and FB encouraged cheaters in the Mexico City Marathon
Uber for Unions :)
Also in the future technology should become more self contained. Factories for producing any other factories should become widespread enough for technological supply chains to be ubiquitous. Let's hope that we can contain the environmental footprint as well. Ecological collapse would be the true interruption/hiccup in all this.
Arrogance would do it for me as well.

I've worked with arrogant devs before (and anecdotally they've written some of the worst code I've ever seen - usually because they complicate the hell out of things because they think they are smarter than they are) and I loathed it.

Be confident in your abilities but don't be a dick about it and always accept the strong possibility that the other person may be right.

I saw a phrase I liked on here a while ago, "strong opinions weakly held" that summed it up nicely.
I once showed up to one of those MIT Biz-Tech mixers a few years ago and one of the presentations we had to sit through was an almost appalling peek at one of these tracking systems through the eyes of its enthusiastic business owner.

Afterwords we had time for open questions, and I joined the line. When it became my turn, I asked the owner about whether he had any ethical or moral qualms about what he was doing and he just laughed. He gathers data from hidden interactions with client websites (fashion brands, for this demo) to quite literally 'follow the customer around' and 'influence their purchasing decisions'. He was quite proud of just how deep into his shoppers' lives his product was integrated.

When I looked around the room during the height of this exchange, most everyone seemed indifferent and only a few seemed to acknowledge or validate my arguments. It was a supremely disappointing and depressing experience.
For the first time ever, Microsoft will distribute its own version of Linux
I get spammed by ICO offers every day almost from these people. Stopped logging in to claim my dollars since it is too much hassle to complete that captcha every time. Endless pictures of road signs and busses and roads...
Well, you should fix that, then. They're quite useful.
I had an interview once with a company that essentially wrote tracking libraries for Starbucks's app. Everything you mentioned in your post is pretty much exactly what the app did. Their nonchalance around their extent of tracking was chilling to say the least.
I always had a suspicion that cellphone companies were doing this...
> the suppliers of labor and capital are on opposing sides of the fight to capture the wealth the two are used together to create.

Opposing sides or collaborators? Like the sun and the soil working together..

Think of those that provide no labor and no capital yet capture great value. Those are the truly destructive.
I think the difference that is pointed-out most of the time is the scale at which FB operates.

Even if other sites are doing (fundamentally) the same, they probably don't have such a clear and overarching picture as FB does.

I don't disagree with you though. Having most sites track you sucks.
The particularly scary thing about Facebook and Google is that they can link it to your name/location/other PII easily. Your ISP is in this group, too.

Joe's Ad Tech Shop has a tougher time of that, even though they do build exactly the same profile.

Everyone wants to know what people do on their site, the big technological problem with all of the above is that the same companies do it across everybody's sites.
An Amazon warehouse being there is the reason they don't have many other options.
#4 is hilarious (unless you work for the team who gets that dev), that's hands down something you'd see on Silicon Valley.
This service was a big help to anyone who spent long portions of the day in reception-less areas.
Who owns the stock api Alpha Vantage?
The stock API alpha vantage gives the world access to data that would normally cost a company millions of dollars... for free.

But it has no crunchbase base, no about page...

There is almost no information about the owner, or the company

Why is this?
I don't know if this was just an experience that I had, but peak MySpace happened right as I was hitting a point in my life where I really wanted to seek out new music. I found a lot of interesting/local/terrible/excellent music from MySpace band pages back then, and I'm not aware of a platform that I really think recreates the MySpace music experience.

Not sure if that was a very universal experience, but it does give you an example.
That says you need a JSON schema file, which is deciding the type up front and basically how Go works too.
If you want to compare the development of Moscow subway from 1935 till now and planned 2020 https://stroi.mos.ru/mobile/metro

And the map as a pdf
https://stroi.mos.ru/uploads/media/file/0001/61/81fbd34f4412...
Whatever we consider “data” right now quite simply needs to be thrown out, replaced by things that are MUCH more temporary (e.g. where even the largest “collection” of data becomes useless within a week). And, access needs to be explicitly revocable at any time by either party. There should actually be a difference between, say, me giving you “phone number” and me giving anyone else “phone number” (directly or indirectly). Heck, even for my street address I’d feel better if I only gave out keys that everyone had to cash in at the post office and let the post office convert it to my real house number.

There is no technical excuse at this point to have so many different bits of sensitive information floating around. And many of these pieces of information are permanently associated with you, meaning that any slip-up anywhere at any time can create a problem later on.
I've considered picking that up a couple of times from very positive reviews, but I'm rather concerned from having heard what the overall mood is at the end of the novel.

Ironically, perhaps when I find a sufficiently effective combination again, I'll give it a look. Thanks!
I'm familiar with the idea of voting with the wallet.

But not every transaction is a valid vote.
You may have designed it using only integers, but it's very easy to use it with non-integers, which will result in hard-to-diagnose errors. It should probably throw if a non-integer is encountered. Failing that, a huge blinking red banner at the top of the docs should explain the problem.
There's one thing that leads me to a no every time: if you use an acronym on your resume and you can't at least explain the abbreviation, I'm done. This is a specific case of a more general principle, but don't use words that you can't even define.
That may be true, but a couple of thoughts:

AFAIK: We don't know if they violated the plea deal; there is no due process; we only have the claims of an administration that is widely believed to lie. We can't distinguish a political decision from a legal one. (Please correct me if I'm wrong about the process.)

And it doesn't matter what the facts are, it's perception that counts. The appearance is that the current U.S. administration disregards process, fairness, honesty, and the rule of law; is an unreliable international partner; and particularly targets China. The ZTE penalty will be perceived in that context. Any leader must account for perception, whether they like it or not; I think we can fairly assume that the administration is aware of the essential nature of perception, is aware of the perception of this action, and has chosen it.
Well, I already have plenty of politicians representing me as a result of recent elections, and they belong to neither of the kind, as far as I know. Here in Germany we probably have few fat cats, but the 'great leaders' are political marginals. The politics are done by parties, which leadership periodically changes, and the government isn't run by a single person able to impose their will on other ministers.
None of these people work for Amazon. They are all Integrity Staffing employees. It is up to IS to follow federal labor laws and Amazon's hands are "clean".
It sure looks like Google is about to kill Inbox
I would love this feature if they found a way to implement it without draining the battery by listening constantly and trying to recognize 'Hey Siri' from all the background noise. It's especially bad when you play music nearby!
"Final thoughts: The web always wins. It defeated Flash. It killed Silverlight. It destroyed native apps on desktop. The browser is the rich client platform. The OS is merely a browser-launcher and hardware-communicator.

The web will win, too, on mobile. Developers don’t want to build 3 separate apps for the major platforms. Companies don’t want to pay for development of 3 apps.

The answer to all this is the web. We can build rich web apps – Progressive Web Apps – and package them for all the app stores.

Apple in particular has a perverse incentive to stop the progress of the web. It’s the same incentive that Microsoft had in the late ‘90s and early 2000s: it wants to be the platform for good apps. PWAs undermine that; they run everywhere.

My software wisdom is this: PWAs will eventually win and overtake native mobile apps. In 5-10 years, native iOS apps will be as common as Win32 C apps."

iOS developers made $27B last year writing apps for the App Store. It ain't going away, it's still growing.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/01/06/apples-ap...

Web apps are fine for quick and dirty apps where the user experience doesn't have to be great. Choosing HTML and Javascript for UX always means you're going to have a compromised user experience compared to native. Again that's fine in segments where it's not as important, but ultimately the best experiences are native and that's where the market is going.
I can't claim to have used all of Nirsoft's tools, or even half of them, but I've used more than a handful, and they always do exactly what they claim. Quickly, quietly, and compactly.

This guy is a personal hero of mine, and I'm proud to say I sent him a few bucks a few years ago to say thanks. I don't know how many others think to do so, but I hope it's a lot of us!
I'm not being sarcastic.

- They are highly reactive, pushing a lot of new changes publicly (I know that the changes don't actually change anything, but from a PR perspective they do)

- They are super apologetic and stand for their mistakes

Now, it's, of course, impossible to say today if they are going to get better re privacy, but they definitely make the public impressions that they will. And that's a good response to the crises they're having.

PS: This is a neutral observation of their actions
Search for truth in rubble of Douma and doctor’s doubts over the chemical attack
Everyone in California (which presumably is a non trivial number of people here) call your assemblyman and senator: http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
> Does it really matter if they didn't sell your information if they just used it to show you the same ad they would have showed if they had sold your data?

On the surface, that's actually a quite meaningful distinction.

But, less so when you consider that businesses go in cycles, and one day Facebook/Google/whoever could get desparate enough to decide they need some extra cash... or they could go bankrupt, and have it auctioned off...
Don't you think looking at only gun homicide is a bit restrictive? Their violent crime rate is definitely going up[0], which is strange because afaik most violent crime around the world is going down.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Sweden#/media/File:Sw...
I was born in the US, moved to Sweden last year. I live in an area of the country that seems to have been designated as a place to put migrants, and it shows.

People have different cultural expectations, and act accordingly. It's no surprise that meshing the two viewpoints is difficult. But the biggest disservice, IMO, is segregating them into their own communities. Here there is no incentive to integrate, and life continues as before--in some ways opposed to the ideals that Sweden tries to set forth.

You are what you surround yourself with. Sweden is far from multicultural, and prefers (well, kind of railroaded itself into) playing the "live and let live" card a little too ideologically without considering the long-term impacts. The one that is the most apparent to me is the way housing is handled, and how it affects not only migrants but any immigrant coming here for any purpose.
Well that’s a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Most sites that pay to advertise on Facebook are going to use the pixel for retargeting and conversion tracking. But only 25% of the Quantcast Top 10k sites use the pixel, and the number for the whole Internet is 0.4%.

I wouldn’t say that anywhere near most of my browsing originates from Facebook ads...in fact I’m not entirely sure I have ever clicked on one except to view competitors’ landing pages. I’m guessing that most other people don’t limit the sites they visit to those they are shown in paid Facebook ads either. So the overall numbers are extremely relevant.
You have it exactly backwards. The healthy people are in fact paying for the ill people (who typically don't come even remotely close to ever paying for the cost of their treatment/care). The real cost to cover healthy people is extremely low, they pay artificially inflated prices for their insurance that subsidizes care & coverage for other sick people.

In the US, 5% of patients represent over 50% of the cost of healthcare. 1% of patients are 20% of all expenses. The healthiest 50% represent just 3% of the healthcare system's costs - they're the financial offset group.

For downvoters that find facts uncomfortable: that's why the ACA needed to force all people to have insurance, it's a financial necessity to get as many paying healthy people in the system as possible to financially offset the cost of sick people if you want to try to make it work. This is healthcare system 101.
A straightforward tool for everyone is not "behind" a comprehensive tool for experts just because it does less.
Minimizing the probability of someone using Task Manager to shoot themselves in the foot is probably more challenging than adding an advanced feature to ProcExp.
These tools made my life so much easier when I worked as Windows System Admin several years ago! Thank you Nir Sofer for your work!!!
California's High-speed rail project faces federal audit
While Facebook and Twitter may not have collaborated on a protocol for distributed social networking, other interested parties have, and they've come up with standards like this:

https://activitypub.rocks/

Whether Facebook and Twitter end up supporting such a standard may well depend on how expansively the European Court of Justice interprets the right to Data Portability that is being introduced by the GDPR:

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/

Certainly when read in the light of existing competition law (not to mention the bad reputation Facebook in particular has right now, nor any cynical political protectionist goals that an EU court might have), it is possible that large near-monopolistic American social media companies may end up being forced to allow automated pushing of user's posts to friends on 3rd party competing websites.
> Many sites have Facebook share buttons that don’t actually load anything from Facebook unless you use them - they use a locally hosted button

This is incorrect. "When you load up your site with a host of sharing buttons you're – unwittingly perhaps – enabling those companies to track your visitors, whether they use the buttons and their accompanying social networks or not" [1].

> the Facebook pixel, a common target of the scorn of privacy advocates, is only in use on ~12% of the top 1 million sites

So only tens of millions of people whose browsing history is being siphoned off without their consent?

[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/03/social-sharing-buttons-that-re...
Yes, that's what I mean. Thanks :-)
I just wanted to chime in and say that I am a graduate of Web Development Immersive program (London campus). In 2014 I was crazy enough to put all my trust in GA (I didn't know much about them, except that they taught Ruby on Rails, and it sounded cool, and I wanted to learn), and go there from a different country to get the training. Turned out to be one of the best things that happened to me, ever! True, I did not have particularly high career expectations, nothing like making $150k/yr or anything that lofty, but I did hope that it would give me enough of a foundation to help me change my career and become a software developer. Which it totally did.
> In India, they still employ someone to sit on a chair in a lift pressing the button.

A culture of makework can be harmful in that it would push some people to do pointless jobs when they might actually do something beneficial for society (but perhaps not profit-generating) if they were given free time.

For example, I am fortunate to work remotely in a job that pays me a lot of money, but I am in a country with low cost of living. That means I only work 2–3 days a week. All the rest of my time I am busy with obsessively editing OpenStreetMap, writing the occasional journal publication in the field I trained in at university, and participating in the local arts scene as an audience or writer. I know that if I got to receive UBI, I would still be doing things with my time that are overall contributing to society. Please don’t make me sit in an elevator all day to press buttons instead.
Your wish is granted?

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-2334/

I mean, there are easy databases to look for these sorts of questions...
For over a decade Nir Sofer has enabled kids across the world to take their dreams of breaking into people's computers and make them a reality.
Okay, people here need to get out of their bubbles. This is the same with most warehouse/assembly line jobs.

Folks here are shitting on Amazon because it's relevant to their everyday lives. Walmart does the same stuff. I worked in one of their warehouses, loading trucks for a summer. These situations are not the exception.
I hope to hell this never catches on.

How will this work with short people and tall people anyway? The seat height would have to be adjustable. What about old people or those with other special needs? Children and infants?
You've presented a binary choice, but the reality is actually much more nuanced and complex then this. It is not a zero sum game, we can have blockchain solutions that are part of a wider push toward Web3 technologies where data is decoupled from the application layer, and this delivers more control at the user level over their identity and the use of their data. Most people don't/won't care to manage their data permissions and will opt into 3rd party centralized schemes where someone or business does this for them. Blockchain technology is part of a larger shift toward building agency for us as humans within our cyberphysical systems. In order for AI to truly benefit humanity, we have to include all of humanity in the process of training models, and deciding what algorithms we wish to manage various decisions for us on a daily basis. This has been happening for a while (algorithms managing decisions that effect us) but without any meaningful transparency. Most people will only care about the outcome, a la Cambridge Analytica, but in order to solve these problems we need some type of framework to manage our identity and connect that identity to our apps, through a portal that isn't owned by a company. Open source software gives us a lot of the tools and protocols to make this happen, and Blockchain technology, specifically self-sovereign identity, and the ability to link our identity to data and smart contracts, these are essential pieces to building out the web for the next generation. Blockchain tech was overhyped beyond measure, most ICOs were scams or will fail anyway, but the dust is now settling, as regulation reigns in the bad actors. The end result will unfold not in a huge explosion of the one killer blockchain app, but rather slowly, over the next 5 years, as part of a larger shift toward Web3 decentralized architecture, in combination with the existing cloud services that don't need to sell user data to deliver their value.
While(0), Why Macros Use It?
> The government should be concerned with the long term benefit to the city overall.

The government should first be concerned by not crushing individuals' rights. That is what Rule of Law is for. Many societies have been utterly destroyed by putting "the general good" as a pretext for policies.
Vancouver too. The Canada line expansion killed the vast majority of cambie's family owned / small businesses.
Sure, but using floats is still the wrong way to handle this. Much better to just decide how much accuracy you need and set up your fixed-point system to handle that. Additionally you might want e.g. rationals to handle any rate that multiplies amounts.
Ok, but...is there any particular reason to think IVF is not safe, other than a superstitious ookiness about the methodology of the thing?

40 years without any such indication is fairly strong evudence, IMO.
Here's the scenario: assisted reproduction allows infertile people to reproduce. If the causes for the infertility are genetic, the genes for infertility traits will become more common. Eventually, after many, many years, they may become universal (since they stopped being barrier to reproduction). This might happen faster than expected if there's a strong selective pressure for genes related to infertility for other reasons, or the treatments prevent selections for adaptions to newer conditions (e.g. pollutants).