skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The subjective nature of the term creepy is exactly what is important here because it all depends on context. Most people would consider it creepy when Target knows their daughter is pregnant before they do. [1] I would also bet most people would be perfectly happy if Target figures out they have a new puppy and starts sending coupons for dog food. Those things are fundamentally the same when it comes to what data is collected and what process predicted it. However the human element of privacy makes those two situations worlds apart. That human context is what is important and why it is so hard to come up with universal algorithms or rules that can adequately handle any privacy situation.

[1] - https://consumerist.com/2012/02/17/target-figures-out-teen-g...
> What, exactly, is the point of commerce in the first place?

Very good question. The point of commerce is that people be able to buy other people's time willingly for a rate they voluntarily negotiate. When you can buy someone else's time you save time for your own self to do something that interests you. Everyone time you fill gas in your car you are buying perhaps 0.5 seconds of a guy who chose to work on a Oil rig in Alaska and 1 second of a government servant in Washington DC working for Energy department.

As long as people have free time there is never a problem of mass unemployment unless government makes it a crime to work on voluntarily negotiated terms.
I didn't know Global Entry was available for non-US citizens... oh, my country is not on the list:

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-...
> I wish physical movement was somehow integrated with software engineering more.

Just drink a lot of coffee so that you're forced to get up and go to the bathroom every 20 - 30 minutes. (Or mint tea, if you want the same effect without the caffeine.) As a bonus it will also prevent Parkinson's.
We'll get there, but they're still having to do spacewalks from the ISS; despite having some robot help there.
Yeah, for profit miners have a built in incentive against doing such an attack, since it destroys the value of their own assets. But there’s still a danger from a well funded government or corporation willing to take a loss to destroy one of the currencies.
The EU seeks compliance, not lawsuits.

As a small actor, chances of getting fined in an initial grace-period where things are sorted out is literally zero.
>implying humans have ever been to the moon

This will never happen, at least using conventional technology. It's just a fantasy to placate the masses. After another decade or so of CGI videos, they will just say that Kessler syndrome has made spaceflight impossible, or they will create virtual reality simulation environments to fool people into thinking they are traveling in space, when they are really in an underground military base somewhere.
Space reality shows are the future!
I don't disagree exactly about missing a control for the placebo, but I think a control for a placebo is logically impossible, and therefore nobody has ever, or can ever, measured a placebo effect. Does that mean "there's never a placebo effect"? That's a philosophical question.
I witnessed once a guy drowning in the sea. There were signs all over the beach that it was very dangerous to swim there at that time of the year. The sea was a bit rough but the waves weren't that impressive. Nonetheless, a guy went for a dip although not very far in the sea, maybe waist-level. Eventually, he realized he wasn't able to go back to the beach, got carried by the current and called for help. Fortunately, he was rescued by a surfer.

I certainly wouldn't have gone in the sea considering all the warnings, but at the same time, I didn't really think the guy was in danger while being so close to the beach. I think it was a good lesson.
You really don't need a lot of money to use something like YNAB. I have been using YNAB for nearly 5 years now, and it has in fact made me feel a lot richer! It puts you in full control over the money you actually have, and gets you into the habit of saving for the expenses you will have before they are actually due. That way spending the money doesn't feel like a burden and has no noticeable impact on your ability to pay for other things. Highly recommend checking it out irrespective of how much money you are making!
In this case the advise is spot on (i.e. don't get within arms reach of someone who is drowning unless you know what you're doing). I think warning people that the situation is more dangerous than it appears is consistent with your advice that you should rely on experts when possible.

At the risk of "claiming credentials", I'm a paramedic with swift-water rescue training.
Then we should just completely remove regs, obviously /s
It might be abusive in the sense that it's nonfree but at least it's functional.

Year of the Linux desktop jokes aside, I've just lately got sick of how broken Linux is on most laptops, even ThinkPads which are supposed to be the gold standard.

My ThinkPad never had working suspend resume, for example, which is just basic stuff that Linux can't seem to get right.

I'm not 24 and childfree any more. I don't have time to fiddle with acpi or systemd.
That's all talk, most companies will let it slide as long as it isn't something big.
Python web scraping of IPL point table and graph plotting using python libraries
> Emacs

A car with a steam engine inside!
I understand why they did it, but I am not at all a fan of it either. Still using YNAB4 (classic), and will continue using it until it stops working.

Personally I don't transaction import capabilities (nor could I have used it to be honest as they don't have support for German banks). Tracking my expenses as I make them is half the benefit of YNAB for me. Makes me acutely aware of how much I am spending and how much money I have left.
Well that page is scary. I don't want to admit how much I had to rewatch the first video until I figured someone bonked themself with a damn floating donut and almost drowned. And even then I was at like 3 of 8-10.
An explanation about grounding in our electricity system came to be. It went through the evolution of just having positive and negative to various ways of adding grounding until we get to the grounding we have today. I seem to remember it being a Reddit comment or something similar.
It used to be possible to write "shadow-piercing" CSS selectors, but this capability was removed for making it too easy to violate the encapsulation. (And indeed, I saw it frequently used to accommodate misuse of the Shadow DOM API.)

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/10/remove-sha...

It sounds like "Shadow Parts" will let you target subcomponents in some Shadow DOMs, once it's implemented, but I'm afraid that's probably not going to help you with misbehaving websites.
If you don't like the symbols then there are J and K/Q which are ASCII based but retain many of APLs other characteristics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)
“Free” Internet Content: Web 1.0,  Web 2.0, and the Sources of  Economic Growt [pdf]
I use uBlock Origin, uMatrix and Decentraleyes Firefox addons and had no trouble viewing it...
You’re right, I might be overly sensitive to people incorrectly making this claim directly.
If you can afford it, grab a copy of "Go Web Programming" [0]. It's an excellent place to start. From there you can ready more advanced blog articles for more insight into particular ways to solve certain challenges you might encounter. If you can't afford the book then sign up for "Safari books online" [1], you'll get a 10 day account which should be enough time to go through the book.

The reason I'm suggesting a book (and this one in particular) is because blogs tend to give you a bird's eye view of the subject matter or go into depth on a subsection. The above mentioned book will go into enough depth for you to understand the nuances when doing web development with Go. If you've had any experience with Flask then you should look into a framework like Echo [2] as mentioned in other comments. There's nothing as polished as Django at the moment so you'll have to pick the libraries yourself to make up your own framework however a few worth mentioning are:

1. Revel
2. Buffalo
3. Beego

You can also take a gander at "Awesome Go" [3] which lists some popular libraries and frameworks used by the community.

Good luck

[0] https://www.manning.com/books/go-web-programming
[1] https://www.safaribooksonline.com/
[2] https://echo.labstack.com/
[3] https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go
Still the only way to run Linux on your laptop and remain sane is to run it full-screen inside VirtualBox on OSX or Windows.

I have been trying to do this for nearly 20 years now...
Getting heavy industry off the earth soon may be a matter of survival. Not to mention the best extinction protection program we could reasonably hope for that might save other species as well.

I agree that we should take far better care of our cradle: but by now there's a mountain of evidence that we won't.

Do you think colonizing North America was a complete boondoogle?

Ben Franklin's reply is best, since he got the same kinds of criticism for spending money exploring the phenomenon of electricity: "Of what use is a new-born babe?"
If you can't understand what it's doing from the source code, maybe read the documentation?

I'm not a huge fan of Styled Components, but it's a way to write properly encapsulated styles for just that moment - You write 'regular CSS' that's scoped to exactly that component, so it can't leak out and affect other parts of your site.
You don’t even need to go that far, somebody has already studied where the garbage comes from: https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/blogs...

Summary: China and India.

We can and should curb our plastic use in the West, but there are 2 billion+ people on the other side of the world that don’t give a flying fuck. (Yeah yeah, we polluted when we were developing too. But we barely had 100 million people when that was happening. And no plastics)
People who have had their rights infringed shouldn't be asked to invest more of their time and/or money in procedural wrangling with diminishing probabilities of restitution for their original injury. there are strong correlations between biased enforcement and biased litigation outcomes, and that doctrine of qualified immunity virtually guarantees litigation will be highly asymmetrical from the outset.
That's surprisingly cheap for a lot of coins with a reasonable coin cap!
Regarding the 1st book, Manning is offering a 50% discount today on all offerings.
A friend of mine is an experienced sailor and kayak driver. As he put it: A bad current moves several tons of water per minute. That small wave has more weight than you do, even on a small space. Doesn't matter if you're 300 pound muscle or 400 pound fat, you go where the current goes.
When the blackout happened, my parents were driving home from another city hours away. They stopped for gas to refill, and discovered that all gas stations everywhere were out of power, and therefore could not pump gas.

My mother told me later how suddenly terrifying the situation became.

There is no power. Your car may not have enough fuel to get home to your kids. We do not know when there will be power again. It may be in an hour, or next week. You are 100 miles from home- a distance that used to be an inconvenience but suddenly might be an impossibility. The phone system may not be working either, or may not for very much longer. You have whatever money you're holding in cash right now to pay for your needs.

We are dependent on our technology in ways we cannot even see.

(They pulled into the driving running on the last fumes in the tank, fortunately)
That we know of
Only if you're a owner-operator. If you're a company driver you'll only pay for living expenses.

Either way, most are paid by the ( loaded ) mile which makes them some weird bizarro version of Uber drivers.
It was Murphy Finn, author of this book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35025680-the-long-haul

Here's an HN discussion of the book:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310849

A passage from the introduction on the hierarchy of truckers that probably has some relevance here:

To the casual observer all trucks probably look similar, and I suppose people figure all truckers do pretty much the same job. Neither is true. There’s a strict hierarchy of drivers, depending on what they haul and how they’re paid. The most common are the freighthaulers. They’re the guys who pull box trailers with any kind of commodity inside. We movers are called bedbuggers, and our trucks are called roach coaches. Other specialties are the car haulers (parking lot attendants), flatbedders (skateboarders), animal transporters (chicken chokers), refrigerated food haulers (reefers), chemical haulers (thermos bottle holders), and hazmat haulers (suicide jockeys). Bedbuggers are shunned by other truckers. We will generally not be included in conversations around the truckstop coffee counter or in the driver’s lounge. In fact, I pointedly avoid coffee counters, when there is one, mainly because I don’t have time to waste, but also because I don’t buy into the trucker myth that most drivers espouse. I don’t wear a cowboy hat, Tony Lama snakeskin boots, or a belt buckle doing free advertising for Peterbilt or Harley-Davidson. My driving uniform is a three-button company polo shirt, lightweight black cotton pants, black sneakers, black socks, and a cloth belt. My moving uniform is a black cotton jumpsuit.

I’m not from the South and don’t talk as if I were. Most telling, and the other guys can sense this somehow, I do not for a moment think I’m a symbol of some bygone ideal of Wild West American freedom or any other half-mythic, half-menacing nugget of folk nonsense.
Serverless is not a Silver Bullet – But it’s Close
At least you had passengers, truck drivers spend a ton of time alone which is quite terrible from a psychological point of view.
Tell your users what PII you collect about them and why, ask for consent and give an option to opt-out.

There is not "legal threat" if you are open about your business model, keep the collected PII reasonable and safe and don't sell the data without consent. Honoring requests for information or deletion is still a problem for you if you served EU users in the past if you don't delete/anonymize that data - even if you block access. If you're not open about your data processing and handling and don't ask for consent, don't blame the GDPR for a business model that can't be honest to your users.
Apple computers are not well-known for being powerful. Actually, the opposite is true.
That sounds like a rip current. A rip current moves out to sea faster than you can swim, but they typically aren’t very wide. The key is to swim parallel to the shore till you’re out of the current, then you can swim in. It can be scary though and obviously panicking is about the worst thing you can do. People will often try to swim against the current till they tire and then they unfortunately may drown.

You can sometimes identify a rip current from the beach as a stream of bubbles/whitewash moving out to sea by they are often hard to spot.
It’s aliasing. You don’t see it on stuff filmed with most consumer cameras because they have an anti aliasing filter over the sensor. If you want maximum resolution, you remove that filter. They could have removed it in post but again it would reduce the effective resolution.
The article specifically mentions snopes and politifact as sources of truth. They can be, but have also been shown to be less than perfect, and do tend to lean left.

Yesterday, twitter was full of pictures of the immigrant kids that Trump put in cages. This morning, we find out that the pictures were taken in 2014. It's a difficult problem because the retractions are never broadcast/retweeted as prevalently as the original fake news.

This is a difficult area, and the stakes are so high that the arms race will doubtless continue. Because the stakes are so high, you are competing with organizations from allied countries as well as non-allied countries, and from multinational corporations and industry groups, all throwing tens of millions of dollars each on think-tanks and lobbying groups, whose main activities are to publish source material that can be used as supporting "facts" for various news stories.
I think that the belief that confidence and optimism improve health can cause extreme pain even when well intentioned.

An example from my experience is when an oncologist lies about a terminal cancer patient being in remission in the belief that a false confidence will cause them to last longer.
Most smallcaps have tiny volumes and aren't traded on many exchanges. Getting the coins into (and out of) an exchange isn't immediate. Even worse most of the volume is likely to be on a trustworthy exchange that does some basic KYC (and extended KYC for withdrawals). Basically, for most $1M cap coins, you'd be lucky to get $5k out if all goes well.

I mean, I guess it's still viable. It's just street-robbery-viable.
This Scottish Facility Will Treat Your Cryptocurrency Addiction
Evidence of regulatory capture of patent examiners
Two Canadian banks say accounts compromised: CIBC 40,000 and BMO 50,000
You are confirming that all it takes is a little slip up, and your entire life is ruined by legal fees. Or even just the "whiff" of potential slip up, not even a real one, but only a perceived slip up, and your life is over.

I have been in court before, if you have not, perhaps that is why you are ignorant of the horrendous dangers this law puts on everyone.
Can you explain what it means to pollute the CSS namespace and why it matters?

Are you sure you are correct or are you just guessing?
Although, interestingly, they spoke a dialect of French that is different from, for example, Parisian French. And you can tell when a word was borrowed into English from French based on whether it starts with consonant sounds that are from the Norman dialect vs. the Parisian dialect. As an example (IIRC), William is a Norman name, whereas Guillaume is the Parisian version of the same name.

Side note: if that kind of stuff is interesting to you, I can highly recommend The History of English podcast.
I asked him "if", not "to".
The core premise for CSS in JS is to work around CSS's global namespace. It means you can write styles for a component using a 'local namespace' and have to worry a lot less about accidentally affecting the styles of other parts of your site. Every other language has scoping, so why can't CSS?

This is especially helpful as your site and team scales - you don't need to worry as much about stepping on other people's toes, nor do you need to be as aware of the entire (styling) scope of your website. When you do share/cascade/compose/extend styles, it makes it a lot more explicit in the way you do it.

It's basically taking a concept like BEM and baking it into the language, reducing the mental overhead.
This point doesn't seem to make sense. If you have 25 potential attackers, then for there to be an actual 51% attack, more than half of them (13/25) would have to band together to actually reach 51%. Unless the assumption is that the 25 parties buy chips and sit on them indefinitely without contributing to the network hash rate.
> irritated pretty soon and gave it up

I have spent a lot of time using it, still irritated.
I thought an audit was just analysis but it looks like the author is also making changes to the code as well.
> it pigeonholes your internet experience.

it seems like your issue is more with the inefficiency of the various algorithms rather than the use of data per se. And you re right, e.g. right now my supposedly AI youtube is full of the same type of videos.

> seems unfair they don't get a cut

This may ring true on the surface, but people always make money out of other people, by definition. Compensation would not work, it would be like buying a pair of shoes and then expecting to get a partial refund. One issue however is that users in this case do not have a mechanism to affect the price personalized ads so in total it seems unfair.

> and Nazi Germany,

I think you mean cold war germany. in any case it is interesting how the latest EU law completely ignores that aspect of privacy.

> a federal agent followed you a

Good point, being tracked does feel like you re being followed by an annoying salesperson. This IMHO is more annoying than the gathering of private data takes place on the internet. Privacy is not the default mode of life, in fact there are few places where one goes to when he wants to be private. Most of life involves interaction with other people and nonprivacy. One could even claim that this kind of privacy is not violated with things like ad tracking, as it happens behind screens, in safety and with relative control from the user. Of course there need to be limits to when and where this information can be gathered.
I read the source code because I was trying to see how a solved problem needed so much code to implement.
I cannot agree with you. But that is OK. ;)

I give you one of many examples. Transistor. Is cheap to produce, but hard to invent.

Also "just invent something and then rest on your laurels". I don't see single reason why it's bad thing.
Great assessment of EOS Block Producers (please remember csx.io)
Is Prolog really used for medical-system software? It seems to me that it turned out to be the wrong path taken by Japan's Fifth Generation Project.

In the early 80's I experimented with Prolog. Simple ideas were simply coded into programs; it was really very interesting. However, the need to understand the compiler's inner workings to get programs that ran efficiently by manually inserting "cuts" to limit backtracking ruins Prolog's claim to being simple to translate requirements into programs.

An even more serious problem with Prolog is the simplicity of it's model for logic. It is very easy to end up with requirements in the real world that don't easily fit the model. See for example the SHOOT problem in [1], where the concluding sentence is:

> As such, the claim implicit in the development of nonmonotonic logics--that a simple extension to classical logic would result in the power to express an important class of human nondeductive reasoning--is certainly called into question by our result.

Don't get me wrong, I was the Chief Scientist at a company with one Prolog based product. I still thinks its an interesting language, but I predict that it will remain eclipsed by much more general purpose programming languages.

[1] https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1986/AAAI86-054.pdf
No robot or AI can deal with the dispatchers, lumpers and 95% of the loading/unloading sites. Ever!

Humans can barely handle it.
Gitter’s search is also terrible and barely existent. I think this is to do with the way they store logs after a month.
Jaron Lainer - Who Owns the Future is a great read on the topic of owning and monetising ones data.
Why do you think that there should be any correlation between how better they are managed and CEO salary ? There may be there may not be it is irrelevant.
Letting smaller businesses off the hook here is not a good idea, since the larger businesses could just buy data off of the smaller ones, or both could belong to the same umbrella corporation and the data could be shared for nothing.
What are the criteria used to rank journalistic freedom?
Go's "request oriented collector" proposal is a generational GC, and Ruby has had a generational GC since 2.1. Generational GC is about minimizing GC overhead by avoiding re-marking the entire heap.

OOBC is very different. It's trading an increased overhead from collecting more often than necessary for a lower latency experienced by users.
You mean I can attack Dash by giving out 500 euros? for sure your calculations are wrong