skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR

"Ultimately, to challenge Facebook, Google, and the many unknown players of the data economy, we must devise new business models and structural incentives that aren’t rooted in manipulation and coercion; that don’t depend on the constant surveillance of users, on gathering information on everything they read and purchase, and on building that information into complex dossiers designed to elicit some action — a click, a purchase, a vote. We must move beyond surveillance capitalism and its built-in inequities. In the short-term, that might be achieved by turning to basic subscription services, by paying for the things we use. But on a longer time horizon, we must consider whether we want to live in a world that converts all of our experiences into machine-readable data — data that doesn’t belong to us, that doesn’t serve us"

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I have no idea how we can avoid this - Google is so invasive it is increasingly tracking and recording everything about our lives. Gillian Tett had a good piece in the FT about how autocomplete in search fields influences our thinking.
https://www.ft.com/content/7dc8eae4-4d99-11e8-97e4-13afc22d8...
Google maps records any changes we make to our property for future permit/permissions comparisons etc - we have no control over this and little ability to opt out.
Volume boost is part of pocketcasts as well
Well, we could also shop at the thrift shop a little more often. Disposable cheap crap is central to Western culture.
>For me, science goes back to the root of the word. It originally goes back to the scalpel, which was used to divide living tissue from dead tissue. That which is objective vs that which is subjective.

The word "shit" has the same origin, btw.
Early stage startup accounting software?
How do you guys do accounting?
Also: "Statistically, their [marathon runners] odds of becoming sick were about the same as for anyone else in the race’s host city."
A way to stay sane seems to use Python3 pathlib and drop Python2 development.
> The end goal is to keep those people away, right? The end goal is to make sure absolutely nothing changes, right?

Don't think anyone said that. Quite the opposite. You read what you wanted to read, and arrived at that conclusion all by yourself.

> I find it all a bit too theatrical.

Yes, and you're on stage.
Apple hits all-time high on news of Buffett buying 75M shares
I think it's not a perfect round-trip due to differences in how the two standards encode certain characters. You will get a correct conversion either way, but the result of a round-trip might not be bit-identical.
Time to Skip Concrete As A Building Material (And Pollute Less)
Those propellers will cut you up pretty bad. Are eagle talons stronger than human flesh?
There are so much more OS out there than a plain 5.
Hey cynic
This depends a lot on the lineage. Most dojos won’t remotely throw a new person until they are sure the new person can take good ukemi.

I came to my current aikido dojo from a background in judo and jujitsu. I already had pretty solid ukemi—good enough to protect myself in judo shiai. But... my ukemi wasn’t remotely up to snuff for the intensity that senior members of my dojo are prepared to throw.

I only know this in retrospect because, with judo-level ukemi as my starting point, it’s taken me three years to get to the point where I can take most of our ukemi at intensity.

Most people never learn how hard aikido ukemi can be because they don’t stick it out long enough to be trusted not to get hurt. Again, I walked into my current dojo with solid breakfall fluency, but had someone popped on the chicken-wing variation of shihonage? I’d certainly not have been using that shoulder again for some time. Can I throw myself in an arcing breakfall when that happens today? Yeah, but I worked up to it with a lot of sweat.

Also, I’ll say that there are some lineages and dojos that do practice a very soft form of aikido. There’s nothing wrong with that practice; it’s simply that they are working on a different problem.

If anyone wants to try an athletically challenging lineage of aikido, I currently train in a dojo that is a mix of USAF (Yamada) and Birankai (Chiba) lineage. Yoshinkan aikdo looks like pure terror-sauce to me, but also looks to be high on physical / light on metaphysical.
There is a well documented precedent for this exact behavior being considered to be sexual harassment and having negative effects on the accused' professional life.

> reporting guide doesn't say anything

That's part of the problem: explicit behaviors are not called out, only the effect they have on the accuser matters.
Looks like that's a physical, not a virtual.
Well I'm all set then - that's the headset I have (and love) :)
The interesting question, which this article touches on is the following. Given that we don't have full autonomous driving--and won't depending on the environment for quite a while--what is the appropriate level of assistive driving systems? For example, as this article indicates, automated emergency braking seems to be a fairly obvious win. Adaptive cruise control probably is as well. But there may be issues with putting incrementally better systems into cars until they are really good enough to operate on their own.
I ran 173TB combined up/down last month without ever being throttled on their C2L instance.
I've run 583TB through it in the last 5 months. It even bursts to 2.2Gbps every few minutes.
They certainly used the data they had from their franchisees to decide where to put their apple stores.
It doesn't really matter which method you use for counting, so long as you're consistent.
Thank you for your feedback. I will add some bigger screenshots - thanks for this idea!
The demo should be working however - if you go to the demo and click on "Traffic" for example there should be data.
I just checked again and it works for me. Could you try again please? Thank you very much!
I saw empty demo pages as well. Turns out it tries to load a local /analytics.js file which my adblocker prevented.
Transgender problems in the USA
Hey, UtilityDave, all of your comments are dead on arrival (I vouched for all of them, as they seem well within guidelines). You might want to email the mods to get that fixed, as the only sin it looks like you've committed is not using your account.
Looks interesting. I’ve been thinking about self hosting analytics so this is timely.

I didn’t see any sort of feature comparisons available vs something like Matomo/piwik or hosted Google analytics.

One thing that has kept me from self hosting and just using Google analytics is that I feel like Google probably does a good job at filtering out bots and spam where I’d be more unsure with a less mature option. Would be interested to hear more if you have a moment, though perhaps I could run both for a month and just compare the data.
This was a popular strategy during the Egyptian uprisings recently. There are some very impressive pictures of helicopters blinded by hundreds of lasers from massive protest crowds.
I made it down to the Castrator Barnacle description and thought "you know what, that's enough of this article for today".
I like science as the orientation toward the creation of knowledge and art as the orientation toward the creation of affects [0].

[0] OED 5b: "A feeling or subjective experience accompanying a thought or action or occurring in response to a stimulus; an emotion, a mood."
I am in favor of checklists for certain critical tasks, even if they are repetitive and/or boring. I think checklists are underrated.
Can be more accidental. e.g. dumping full POST data in a more generic way (e.g. on exceptions) that happens to also be applied on the login page.
Maybe nuclear power for commercial ships?

Global navies have proved and refined nuclear power technology for their ships.

Why not apply this technology to the commercial sector, instead of carrying gallons of diesel?
http://crispr.mit.edu/about

Designing a good gRNA is quite straightforward if you compare it to any other bioinformatics tasks. Even designing a degenerate primer is more complex than this.
Hotdog/Not Hotdog made with Lobe AI training tool
Pioneer in Satellite Archaeology
Social Anarchist Futures
There is nothing on earth that would convince me that my toothbrush is an extension of myself. Nothing.
Peter Navarros Death by China is a good read too
Airbus uses them to move A380 parts around their factory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ_8xhCi72w
Kubernetes experience is very marketable, I believe.
Man, these Ars writers must be making a fortune taking kickbacks from Tesla shortsellers. It seems like they've done nothing but rail against Tesla for a month...
Yes, frankly. Blinding lasers are a pretty horrible threat that it’s hard to protect against. The only real way is to use cameras and screens as intermediary protection.
"I took a speed reading course... I was able to read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It's about Russia." - Woody Allen.
Xero.
If Xero is too complicated or too expensive - Wave.
If Wave is too complicated - an Excel spreadsheet just listing money in and out.
I don't have a printed source off-hand, but a law enforcement friend once described to me how wealthy criminal (narcotics) gangs work. Your average "dumb street thug" is a low-level throwaway in the eyes of the gang. They work through a series of intermediaries, to avoid the low-level guys knowing too much, very much like spies.

The guys at the top are much smarter, and are running in some cases multi-billion dollar operations. You have to be smart to be in charge of something at that scale, whether it's Wal-Mart or MS-13. I'm not saying the gang bosses are good, but many of them are smart. They have "technology teams" of sorts. After all, somebody thought to strap drugs to drones and experimented with payloads before sending them...
What if the causal relationship was reversed? Perhaps the success wasn't there in those areas due to a previously established philosophy concerning privacy.

Grasping and purely conjecture obviously, just putting it out there.
I cannot parse your verbiage.
> I believe you are overestimating the intelligence and "woke-ness" of the Facebook user community, and of humanity in general.

That's an extremely cynical and pessimistic outlook that allows for little actual improvement.

If enough motivated people blast their feeds with news about how Facebook users are being used and exploited, I could see enough Facebook users becoming "sentient and aware" to cripple the network.

It won't die completely, at least no right away (MySpace is still around, after all), but I think a dent can be made.
Found the fatty ;)

Ok, seriously.... math: if you eat 3000 kcal per day and lose 1 lb per week, you're burning 3500 kcal per day. This is quite a lot. It's near impossible unless you work out a lot and are veeeery muscular... or are impossibly tall... or, well, fat. (Or a combination of those.)

Take me for comparison: I am 187cm (6'1ish) tall and weigh 75kg (165 lbs), pretty much smack in the middle of the "normal weight" range. I like running, do about 50km (30 miles) per week. I count calories and let my wrist watch measure my energy expenditure 24/7. On rest days (mostly sedentary), I burn about 2100 kcal. To get up to 3400, I have to do some sort of hard run and some lighter activity in addition, or do a long run (18km+).

Now I'm not everybody of course, but you can't be that abnormal, right? So I'm not buying your numbers.
I dont its glib at all. And I agree with you.

The notion of a "startup" is all marketing and message anyway.
Local, Federal Actions Sought for Ocean Plastic Crisis
I wrote an essay a while ago about fixing Unix/Linux filenames here: https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames....

This is a big disconnect between "what most users expect" and "what systems actually do". Usually generally expect that filenames are sequences of characters - and today almost everyone expects that they must be in UTF-8 on a Unix-like system. That is not, of course, what most systems actually do.
That trick stopped working a while ago on desktop pc tho.
It seems it still works on mobile.
It is now a technique plateau, not marketing.
Marketing is always wide open when new tech solved real problems and improved life quality.
It's hard to call it capped out when we could improve a lot by reducing drunk driving and discouraging phone use while driving. Don't you think so?

"Humans are stupid, tech will solve it" attitude is missing the point that humans need to build, maintain and take care of tech. If humans are stupid, tech built by their designs and under their control will be shit too.
> Trouble is everyone I show [libui] to says "ugly" as their first comment. Everyone wants styled apps today with polished UIs

I don't think I'll ever understand this. What about consistency between apps? Sticking to the OS's native widgets and style will get you that. Do people really like it when each app has its own look?

Of course, I'm no judge of aesthetics. Being visually impaired, my idea of a perfect UI is something with high contrast and large text.
Homeschool Preschool Reading-Teaching Your Child to Read
> What could I do now to make myself more employable at startups?

Startup hiring is a fuzzy science at best. Apart from abilities it's a lot about what impression you make in the first few interactions with the team.

Before talking to the team, invest a good amount of time researching on the space the company is operating in. The problem space, adjacencies, incumbents in that space and their offering, know what's unique about the company and the product. Learn terminology. Understand key metrics. Go overboard. Know everything you can beforehand. Use this knowledge in your interactions with the team. Ask pointed questions. Recognise and complement if there is something clever about their positioning and the business advantage they have because of it.

You want to leave them with the impression that the guy is not just experienced but is sharp and understands what we are doing here.
And yet:
https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/991636171309625344

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/991752018338304000
Wow, I suspected you were someone in favor of Tesla and were exaggerating, but I just typed "ars tesla" into Google, clicked the news button, and you're not kidding.

I still think this is a well written article though.
That is why you hunt when you are "out of fuel": you can try to hunt just after you eat, but when you fail you get to try again while "out of fuel". (Out of fuel in quotes - presumably the body has enough energy stores for a few more hunts even when it didn't find anything to eat the day before.)
Thanks for the feedback. That would be an explanation that adblocks block the analytics.js file - I didn't think of that. Let me quickly do some modifications - I hope that it doesn't get blocked anymore. Thanks for your help.
Certainly we're expecting sales to slow as smartphone sales plateau, but why is it happening in China first? Is it a leading indicator of slowing growth? After all, smartphone purchases are most decidedly discretionary.
Here's a video of the lasers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAfagq8PjpM
While my (running) experience is similar, I alao believe it's possible to over-train. That is, it wasn't a single event that did the wearing down. The single big event is what finalized the lowering of the immunity threshold.

So that looks like the fault of the ends (read: the event) was actually led by the means (training).
As a shameless self-promotion side-note, I have written https://trackingco.de/ too, which is kinda open-source too, but has a hosted version which is free while it's beta.

But mine is much simpler and has much less features, mostly because storage is not cheap and I wanted to optimize to it.
I think the hate for aikido is mostly due to the delusions of many aikidoka that their martial art does effectively address self-defense.

I trained in aikido long enough to get a shodan, and what made me leave the art was seeing my instructor trying to teach some utterly ridiculous knife defenses to a prison guard. The guard didn't stay in the class long (thank God), and my gentle questioning of the instructor (had he actually practiced these techniques against a resisting opponent?) fell on deaf ears.

Indoctrinating students with the belief that they are learning effective self-defense when they are not is morally indefensible. It gets people hurt and possibly killed.

No martial art can perfectly recreate the real-world conditions under which it be used - not without compromising student safety - but some disciplines do a better job than others. To claim that aikido has flaws that are equivalent to many other more realistically-taught ones (krav maga, some schools of systema, judo, bjj, etc.) is to indulge in false equivalence. There is simply no substitute for a resisting opponent, even if the resistance takes place under sport-like rules.

In science, no models are perfect, but that doesn't mean that the historical geocentric model of the earth is equivalent to the modern heliocentric one.
More like Tesla's shitty marketing finally drew a short straw
Winer's argument seems to be that he owns a number of sites that don't need the explicit security that HTTPS provides (a blog archive, for example), but that shouldn't affect how Google and the rest of the web view whether or not the content is trustworthy.

Knowing him, as long as the private keys to S3 don't leak somewhere, it's harder for me or anyone else to impersonate him and take the site down or start posting BS.

As for something that couldn't be moved, I suppose if the original source to a site was lost or corrupted and all that existed was a bunch of pages generated from a tool, it might be harder to migrate. Proxies help, but that isn't going to cover all bases.

You would have to figure out how to reverse transform that content into the original. Which might require a tool that can't run on modern hardware, which is a whole other headache to deal with.

The simpler non-technical answer is memories fade and people eventually die, so you need to plan for that too at some point and make sure somebody else can take over when that happens.
This is the weirdest critique of an app I've ever read on HN. Overcast isn't tracking users enough?
New axial flux electric motors pack more EV power in a smaller package
I think that depends on the willingness of the attack copter “to attack”. In this case they are not in a war, thus unwilling to escalate, in a war sitch, I’m sure they’d fire back. (Neutralize the source, in parlance).
> In the end, the smallest minority is the individual.

Stop reading Rand. Start reading Hegel.
Tiffin Girls School Pupils  Invited to Buckingham Palace
Phones have omnidirectional antennas.
One that ignores the entirety of human psychology, probability, and what we understand about motivation, reward, and healthy socialization.

Technically you could successfully perform your own neurosurgery at home with a spoon and a dull butter knife...
There would be a lot of latency between components. They would have to be hooked up with some sort of world wide network, some sort of inter-planet-net
> Maybe nuclear power for commercial ships?

That is so 1950s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah
According to Apple's privacy page[0]:

> Siri and Dictation do not associate this information with your Apple ID, but rather with your device through a random identifier. Apple Watch uses the Siri identifier from your iPhone. You can reset that identifier at any time by turning Siri and Dictation off and back on, effectively restarting your relationship with Siri and Dictation.

So it looks like it keeps the same ID until you turn Siri off; if you turn Siri back on, you'll have a new ID.

[0] https://www.apple.com/privacy/approach-to-privacy/
No economist agrees with Tim Redmond, who is a millionaire homeowner on the westside who unfortunately is very good at couching his own financial and personal interests in the veneer of progressive language in order to co-opt groups like SFTU into working against their constituents' long-term self-interest.

High-end condos don't generate jobs. They provide housing for the jobs that are already here and the new ones that are being created every day.

Raising the inclusionary zoning percentage to 50% will simply make it financially infeasible to construct housing. The City's own study confirms this. Tim knows this too, and that is why he advocates for it.
B-2 can do that because it is purpose-designed to avoid radar detection, and because it can remain a considerable distance above the target, letting gravity and aerodynamics do the last bit of the work in guiding the bomb to the target, which is generally building-sized not person-sized.

How do you propose that we stealth a drone that has to fly literally right to the target's face?
What about increase in RMR after building more muscle mass?
>> A lot would be solved by outlawing targeted advertising.

> Seems impossible without outlawing all advertising. Advertising in the nytimes over some other paper or advertising on fox over cnn are all examples of targeted advertising. You'd have to make people randomly choose advertising spots from all of media. Doesn't seem feasible.

Not the OP, but I think he has a good idea stated over-broadly. Let me fix it:

A lot would be solved by outlawing profile-based targeted advertising.

If Facebook can't use you profile to individually target you, the advertisers are left to target the mass of "Facebook users" like they target the mass of "NY Times readers."
Price - traffic is included (while GCP/AWS charge a lot for it, and a sudden surge in traffic could lead to an unexpected bill), and the server costs a fraction of what a small server would cost on GCP/AWS (except for the shared-CPU instances which I found to be slower than Scaleway once the throttling hit).

If you want to run a business, Scaleway's lack of reliability (servers often sell out etc.) may be a problem. If you're a hobbyist, the potential bandwidth bill from GCP/AWS is a show-stopper, and the Scaleway servers are more than good enough for many applications.

Regarding the slowness, are you talking about CPU speed, I/O, or network?
That's the point: I'm pretty sure that somebody will create automated driving technology that's better than humans within the next decade or so. But it won't necessarily be Tesla. If I had to guess I'd say Waymo is likely to get there first. And as I say in the piece, there's good reason to think that Tesla's incremental approach—start with ADAS, evolve into full self-driving—may be an evolutionary dead end because humans are really bad at supervising a driving technology that works 99.99 percent of the time but gets in a fatal crash the other 0.01 percent.
Thanks. I actually wear contacts most of the time--which is when I need readers. They're the ones that beaten up because I'm always taking them on and off and sticking them in pockets.
I'm mainly thinking many companies in the tech industry can earn huge profits due to (1) It's easier for software companies to achieve huge global scale than physical companies and (2) Potentially amazing economics. Marketplaces, network effects and high fixed low variable costs = Winner take most.

The sunglass/sheet/etc market is not winner take most.
Yes, exactly that. Thanks!
I also prefer not to work with people with such bad views but I think I could. However, I also want to work with women and PoC and as the object of someone's hatred, it would presumably be harder for them; their absence would be worse for the organization, themselves, and me personally.

My starting point is I don't think what you say or do outside the workplace should have bearing on your employment. Lots of people have bad, crazy ideas that don't significantly affect their performance.
So pirates will be able to steal nuclear material? What happens if a container sinks near a popular beach? I doubt people want these kinds of risks.

I’d expect gas and diesel to be used for airplanes and ships for a long long time.