skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how much is attributable to a declining marriage rate? is there a well studied ratio of marriage rate to fertility rate? maybe by breaking down the "funnel" we can have a better discussion of causes.
For those like me who tried to google this, the term of art is "sail bogey." "sail train" gets you a bunch of travel agencies.
Do you have a source for that? I assumed the lessons learned from SPDY and QUIC eventually went into HTTP 2
> I think you're being too harsh. Lots of marginal students are encouraged to go to college

Notice that "don't go to college if you're going to drop out" is NOT the article's fundamental claim.

That piece of advice would be above the author's criticism. But it also wouldn't get a single upvote, let alone make the front page, because it's prime facie obvious.
Note the existence of code in a repository (that even, "works") does not mean the demo presented at I/O wasn't staged or heavily edited.

Again, if everything is above board here, why isn't Google answering questions? Perhaps pose the question at TGIF? If they have nothing to hide, why risk looking bad by not answering?
How many friends do you have on there? Facebook shows you a tiny percentage of the content added to your network, including repeating items way before they have run out.

If the News Feed team is trying to show me what I actually want to see, and not what they think will get the most interaction, ad clicks or time out of me, they are doing a terrible job. I find that the items displayed do not give me an accurate view of what my connections are posting. Often when I check the pages of in-person friends, while Facebook has been showing inane political posts by people I barely know, I have not been presented with the actually relevant and interesting activity my (real) friends have posted during the same time, or more recently.

I have unfollowed, blocked, and hidden so many stories about guns and politics, yet Facebook manages to find new friends I’ve never heard of with similar stories for my newsfeed. Ever since 2016, at least, I feel like politics is shoved in my face every time I go to Facebook, provoking me to interact with strangers regarding my opinions in one of the worst venues that one can do that.

I think they may be chasing interaction, regardless whether it’s positive our negative. Another wild theory is that they want to gather information about members’ reaction to politics, as it is not as lucrative to record reactions to someone’s cousin’s baby photos. The other alternatives mean they are very bad at their jobs, so I’m not sure.
Unable to even see this, on iOS it’s just stuck waiting for a service worker to “install.” Why? I wanted a landing page, not just to go straight to the app. If I recall correctly there’s no service workers on iOS yet?
> We should be praising the companies that take the time (or implement the automated process) to send the rejection letters and not leave us hanging.

Its interesting that there is an article on the front page [0] right now singing the praises of Ghost (ironically named in this case) which does exactly the opposite.

From their careers page [1]:

> Unfortunately due to the volume of submissions that come in whenever we open a position we aren't able to respond to every single application, but if yours is successful - you'll hear back from us within around a week.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17082228

[1] https://blog.ghost.org/infrastructure-engineer/
> However, at least some states (probably most) require a minimum level of insurance from a carrier licensed in the state.

Don't most have a bond alternative to insurance?
Yeah, this is going to lose a lot of folks instantly.
Are you capable of looking at the source and determining in your head how it will perform? If so you should be leading this entire effort.
Create Histogram or Tree Map Chart, Managing Footer in Handout and Notes Slides
Sad thing is this has been going on since the late 1990s, back then they had lower level reps at AT&T handling law enforcement location requests manually. Knowing a few of them, it took forever for those former reps to get cellphones due to a fear of being tracked, having dealt with those requests.

I've also noticed multiple in that group will purposefully leave their phone behind & drive their older cars when they choose to have a tracking free day, even 2 decades later exposure to how easy it is to pull live location data still notably impacts their behavior.
There goes my hunch that it was rectified DC currents in the cavity.
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You have no evidence. Your supporting argument is a straw man about an unrelated device.
It's not really 'unnecessary' if you didn't account for the objectives of the GDPR in your initial design. Assign any moral attributes you like to it, if GDPR requires substantial tinkering with your product then it's reasonable to be concerned.
machine learning that automatically writes HDL programs to match functionality of x86 programs and are more efficient when executed on an FPGA than a general purpose CPU haven't yet been invented...

Nor do I think they will be invented soon. Machine learning is bad at doing discrete things, bad at things requiring zero mistakes, and bad at problems for which the answer can't be perfectly verified (due to needing to solve the halting problem).
I believe you, but I'm curious if you're using Windows 10? Also, what specifically is bad.

(I'm a Linux desktop user since '99, MacOS since 08)
Correct. During a dispute, there is no way around human intervention, unless A.I evolves to that point.

As it stands we just handle processing of multi-sig contracts
> It is cleary directed at large data-tracking corps, not single person IM apps.

Sure, but that's not actually written anywhere.
I didn't see any sort of methodology in how they get that data. While the article said it included both web and mobile app traffic, I'm skeptical unless they provide more data. Could be that usage is just moving more to the app than web and the counting is different.
>Do you think that merely by observing data you have right to it?

Yes, with some exceptions for actual copyright and the like.

>Do you not believe in any IP law?

IP law, yes, but I don't feel a user's entries into a website automatically qualify as IP owned by the user. The terms of many websites actually say that whatever you upload to them is owned by the website, unless a prior IP applied to it. I've only ever heard the claim that your name et al. are your inherent IP from "Sovereign Citizens" before.
I have no idea what this is, why would I wait for it to load?
We would care because the claimed forces of the EM drive are quite high (for space at least).
Fortunately, that means the "pie crust" name is still available for a Pike[1]†-Rust project :-)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_(programming_language)
†: I have a particular fondness for Pike, because it's derived from the first programming language I ever used: LPC. Anyone else an LPC hacker?
Good to see they're being proactive about reviewing possible applicants.
AFAICT, this is traffic for desktop web and mobile web. It doesn't include the mobile app. Who's to say people aren't just moving to mobile app?
I'm not a female, but don't mothers squeeze their breast while the baby is suckling to push milk through? How much force does that generate?
People keep saying this, but I flat out don't believe it.
For what it's worth, this is not generally done in the US.
Anecdotal, but I drink a beer in bed after brushing my teeth. No cavities in 39 years. I figure there is no sugar in the beer.
You have to respect the privacy of people in the same way you have to respect their lives. You can not harm or kill random people, you can not do arbitrary things with information about them.
Mind pasting the letter you wrote?
That would be a monumental case of burying the lede...

Surely if they had that computing power they would just be breaking crypto and stealing money all day long?
There's no restriction on the kind of optimization a JIT can do. Perhaps there's a current implementation tendency. In contrast, ahead-of-time (data- and platform-ignorant) compilers are restricted.
Thanks for picking that up!

I agree with you, we are exploring allowing law professionals join to become professional mediators and of course be compensated for their services.

The mediators could be spread around the world and they can even visit contract locations if it is required.
These services already exist but for large transactions, think international trade.
I think another way to word the question is that if they're so confident with the technology, why didn't they demo it live? Why the recording? And why clearly edited recordings?
If there is a complaint against my small software company, are there limits on how much I'm required to spend on defense? Do I have to travel to Europe to defend my company or will investigators from Europe travel to my location at their own expense? Will I be reimbursed for reasonable expenses if the complaint is groundless? Are there parts of the regulation that act like strong anti-SLAPP laws in some states?

Can my small company be trivially bankrupted by any sociopathic gamer skid with an EU address and a grudge when DDOS attacks fail?

"You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride."
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I've had a remotely operatable "smart Lock" for the last 5+ years, and at no point did it ever make things worse or harder.

On many occasions I was able to get a call from a family member to let them in, and there were many hundreds of times that I was able to lock or ensure the door was locked after I left the home.

I really feel layering is the ideal way to achieve this, as it means that any "smart" capability is easily disabled if found to be a problem, and we know that the underlying system is sound.

In my case I use a deadbolt that has a keypad, and they separately sell a zwave plugin for it that gives me local control, then I layer on an open source "gateway" that gives me control and notifications when away from the house.

If the gateway fails or is untrustworthy, I turn it off and the rest still works. If the zwave is found to be faulty, I pull it out and still have a functioning lock.

And until major vulnerabilities are found in any part of the "smart" add-ons, or until my lock starts unlocking on its own, it has greatly increased the security of our house, as well as increased my quality of life. No more getting out of bed at night to check that the door was locked, no more turning around to lock the door because I forgot when I left, and it was great when I was showing my last house as I could enable/disable the codes when I wanted, and get notifications when people came and left.

I'm not saying all new tech is good, just that this fear that "smart" (read "connected") is a bad thing inherently, and that the "traditional" ways of doing things, while perfectly fine for many, are not a panacea which can't be improved upon. The steam engine was great, the ICE was better, today's hybrid extremely-efficient engines are still better. Sure it's gotten more complex, but also significantly safer, easier, more resilient, and more powerful. In other words, complexity should be managed, not forbidden.
The photons would be the "finite propellant". (However strained a term that is.)
No matter what Signal does with Desktop, it will remain a standard desktop application, meaning it will in general be as secure as the least secure application sharing that desktop.
Since you can launch cubesats for comparatively little money these days, someone should actually launch one.
I don't understand.

Students asked for white people to not come to the college for a day, a white professor disagreed with this, the students called for him to be fired.

Pressuring people of a certain race to stay home seems wrong, and I don't think the professor is shitty for standing up to it.
Please consider the source before claims. This is become a very important step today esp. when a financial incentive exists. Aurelius Value have made or inflated other claims of this nature before and have been sued by companies for Short Seller Attacks. This fact should discount any claims or "research" they publish or assert.

This article should never have been published by Bloomberg based on Aurelius Value previous attacks. Either the Bloomberg article was auto generated from seeking alpha scrap, the reporters are incompetent, or the listed reporters have a relationship with Aurelius Value.

Now about the case:

The court filing is behind a paywall, but the case is listed as civil suit for unlawful termination. The case is NOT a criminal case nor is the case related to "smuggling a bomb" on a civilian flight. You can file anything in court. It's only a filing with a case number. There has been no judgement, trial, or any hearings listed other than it being entered into the court record. Also, there is a thing called FOIA that would backup up some of these incredible claims that a real research firm would request. So yeah it's a well planned and timed Short Sell Attack.
Is the internet even a net benefit with this current trend towards turning everything into clickbait or some other psychological experiment to get traffic and harvest data off of it? How useful is the average website now compared to what the internet was like in the 2000's?

Even if it would all be a net benefit, why is it ok for all of these companies to be so misleading about it. No one out a simple EULA, for what is happening with the data. Hell half the agreements just say that the companies can do whatever with the data, but an average person does not have the ability to parse the output of the legal teams of every company they interact with every day. The only way this could get even close to an equal footing between users and companies is if every single person was a lawyer
> You are required to comply with the laws of your country, not those of other countries.

No, you are required to comply with the laws of any country you do business with. This applies to any type of business, and I don't see why "it's on the internet" appears to be the main counter-argument.

If I buy something from you (via snail-mail or on the internet) and it doesn't follow the requirements of the consumer law in my country, I can ask you to comply with the laws of my country. If you refuse, I can report you and you will be fined (if you don't pay, then you can have your right to do business in my country revoked). In practice most cases won't escalate that far, but the principle is the same.
> Now, we recently saw for 1.1.1.1 that something so badly abused as to be poisonous can be reclaimed anyway if the people using it go in with their eyes open

I kinda missed that part of the story. ref?
I think city living in SF is super great for people who can afford the extra cost. Right now you have 2 kids in a 2 bedroom, and at some point that is going to be pretty cramped for everyone. Also the number of families that put a strain on the system is pretty stressful. For example, getting a slot into the school lottery for Lowell High is crazy competitive.

Yet, I agree, nothing beats walking them to day care and then to work and having a dog to play with in a park a few blocks away. Having access to some of the best food in the world and lots of evening family friendly events is quite a perk and a dream.

Another thing though that I hear a lot, people who choose to live in the subburbs here also find the "unique" culture of SF a bit much for a kid to get exposed to so early. A bit too gritty and real lol, but I applaud you for being so open.
> Because what is the alternative

Wouldn't a better alternative be to design a messenger that complies with GDPR? Simple user accounts that can be deleted at the request of the user, peer-to-peer encryption (and where possible, communication), a "storage cabinet" for each user where encrypted data end in when the user is offline (with an encryption/decryption key that is generated client-side and transmitted while both users communicate) and can easily be deleted and i think this covers most uses.

This is just an idea that i came up with right now, but if you start your design with the goal to store as little data as possible and anything you store needs to be both encrypted and easy to delete, then i believe you can come up with several ideas for most issues.

It also helps to see this as respecting the users' privacy and giving them control, as opposed to a development burden :-P.
a) Since there is a patent (Replacement therapy for dental caries [1]) it means many/some people should be able to make the product on their own.

b) How many more stories (and what kind of stories) of nefarious obstacles erected by the FDA are required until there is a large-scale sentiment to either abolish that agency or severely limit its (unconstitutional) powers? [2]

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US9260488

[2] https://fee.org/articles/abolishing-the-fda/
> Module level bindings and class and object attributes are looked up in dictionaries.

Depends on __slots__, yes?
This data is meaningless because:

1. There is no benchmark and we need one because SimilarWeb is based on a panel. The less people in that panel, the less total traffic to any website.

2. Most likely cause is more app usage and less desktop usage.

Also can we please stop using SimilarWeb as some sort of authority reference? Their panel isnt humongous. Despite the fact they pay Chrome extension owners and later hijack the code to track everyone who installs it.
Satellites already use Earth's magnetic field for stabilization and manoeuvring, but we do it using devices which are orders of magnitude simpler and cheaper than the "EMDrive". They also generate more thrust. On the other hand, because they work by the known and proven laws of physics, rather than hand-waving, we already know that they'll only work in orbit of a planet with a magnetic field, and not deep space (or if you prefer, we can calculate just how useless they'll be in deep space, because there is an ambient magnetic field out there, even if it is tiny).
Um, not entirely new. At least a couple decades back I read that there was a layer of soot deposited as soon as the Ancient Greeks discovered how to smelt/extract silver from local ore. They consumed vast forests doing just that, and the deposit could be read in Greenland's ice. Athen's Golden Age was at its base an economic change, they were crazy rich from all that silver, and their Owl coinage was very popular.
I thought when they were "flying teakettle" they were using water as a reaction mass, and the Epstein drive was an unexplained reactionless drive? At least in the books, haven't seen the TV show.

Iirc, there's some mention of pre-Epstein fusion ships that needed even more water.
Climate Change / Waste Management / Many "Green" issues
Sure, that’s the point of chargebacks. Everybody knows this.

What is the point you are trying to make? That you’re too dumb to not buy from “random sellers”?
>I wouldn't give away my personal observations stemming from something I did publicly and for free.

No, you'll just sell it to the highest bidder. And enough people do this in such an underhanded way that the EU decides to regulate the shit out of you. So maybe you should have asked permission before recording identifiable people's behavior or otherwise earned their trust. Instead of being shady and myopic about it.
Because men are more likely to want to have sexual relations with someone who's good looking and/or young?
> For small businesses it’s practically impossible to be in compliance for all laws.

This is just ridiculous, patently false and making an excuse for reckless behaviour. Only specific laws apply to your business domain and if you aren't complying with them then you are wilfully breaking the law and putting your customers and the general public at risk.

Own a cafe ? You should be cooking in a safe manner. Sell a car ? It shouldn't kill people. Run a website ? Make sure your user's privacy is respected.
They vary wildly. Some states (washington used to be this way when I lived there) don't require insurance for motorcycles at all. But yeah, private companies can often make their own rules.
> don't use desktop secure messengers at all. Desktop applications are incredibly risky, far more so than iOS mobile apps are.

It's risky to use an open source OS. If you are serious about security, use Android or iOS. Instead of direct ssl connection to XMPP server, it's much safer to send all your data with Google Cloud Messaging. /s

Desktop computers are currently the most open sourced, least opaque, least spyware, non gps tracking, non "microphone always listening for 'ok google'" computer average person has. Why do you suggest that iphone is much more private device?
Does anyone with telco experience know if MVNO's can set their own policies in this regard?

It seems like there's room in the market.

(Ask HN about this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17088252)
Interestingly enough I have the complete opposite reaction. I find the various AWS consoles to be fragmented and obtuse compared to GC, which feels pretty organized to me.
> Electron means you're one XSS away from remote code execution

So, electron is the new flash. I'll be avoiding that, then.
> Even if you hold just an IP you need to document your procedures, change privacy policies.

So don't hold IPs if you can't be bothered to know where the might end up and if you don't want to update your privacy policy. Why would you?

> My point is that having negligible private data is no less compliance burden than having a lot of private data.

And no data means no compliance burden.

Note that holding data already has costs associated with it no matter what you do: you need to secure that data, you need to back it up, you need to process it and eventually you will need to get rid of it. All of those cost money and effort.

> You mean i ve had 2 years to attempt to interpret a vaguely written law.

As laws come the GDPR is surprisingly clear. I was quite skeptical until I actually got a copy of the draft and I was positively surprised. They actually got it mostly right, there are some minor things that I would have liked to see different but on the whole I am not complaining.

> Actionable information is just now coming out, and even that is contradictory (cue this topic).

The hysteria is ridiculous. Anybody that has spent even so much as a couple of hours on this subject - and from a somewhat serious point of view rather than the ridiculous fear mongering - knows enough to not have written a silly blog post like the one on display here.

> Even the EU parliament's website does not comply yet.

That article was not exactly enlightened to put it mildly.

> First, that is a directive, not a law and compliance can vary widely.

Yes, but if you did take it serious then you are well underway.

> Second, gdpr requires new procedures which means it requires amendments anyway

Yes, there is some overhead. But this is mostly to ensure that the law will not be ignored like what happened with the DPD. As you say 'it was a directive' which many companies interpreted as 'can be ignored'. What they failed to realize is that if you don't self regulate after a directive is issued that there will be a version of the directive with teeth that has the strength of law. Congratulations, we are there.
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