skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You missed the story. It was not about whether Facebook was allowed to delete the profile - it was about giving information to family members of the guy who died.

What causes outrage from companies such as Google or (here) FB is not what hey do - but that it is impossible for normal people to get any information about anything! Your Youtube video was deleted - why? No response. My dead partners data disappeared - why? No response. No response to anything. This IS outrageous! Not responding to reasonable requests - and that has nothing to do with "legal" - is one of the worst ways of humans to interact with one another. Try it at home. Their behavior of ignoring you - and again, this has nothing whatsoever to do with what is "legal" - is what gets to people. Psychologically that's just really, really bad, the worst way to treat someone. Which raises the issue to another level: How arrogant as well as stupid are this mega-companies that they think they can do that, that there will be no long-term repercussions? This can't go on forever, people don't accept that, so wouldn't it make business sense to treat your "data-providers" (if not customers) just a bit better? How mighty do they already think they are that they don't have to answer very reasonable questions of people impacted by things they do? Nobody says they can't do it, we just want to TALK! Give me a human, not a bot response!

What makes it especially bad is that the requests are tiny! They could be handled easily (yes yes - needs actual humans, i.e. "expensive", oh the horror for those mega-companies who don't know what to do with all their money - but it's easy).
So in this analogy opting out of ads is for who, exactly? Videos nobody watches anyways?
> what stops QT from taking over all multi-platform targeted applications

The fact that Electron is much better. I know this in a highly unpopular opinion here. I've programmed in them all (MFC/wxWidgets/QT/WinForms/WPF) and HTML/CSS/JS is just so much easier.
YouTube takes a cut of advertising profits, but gets no direct revenue from ad-free videos, I believe.
Or, you could actually make it harder to pass the driving license test which is a joke compared to many other countries, pass laws making it mandatory to insert speed control software into all vehicles and alcohol test machines (and also dramatically reduce the limit). And of course, create safer roads. But hey, why not kill a few people instead of these unpopular but proven options (compare with Sweden for example).
Seeing how we live in an age of decadence and self-indulgence - perhaps just driven by instinct to pursue pleasure/curiosity - I'm sure that this is a possible future development: chemically-enhanced augmented reality experiences. "Augmented" in more than one sense of the word.
What if you have power of attorney? Even if you were family, Facebook should not be help responsible for having to provide you with a name. The person who made the request has a right to their privacy and if Facebook acted in good-faith (which is questionable, I know) and validated the person making the request had the right to do so then I don't see any issue with Facebook's actions so far.
Free Trials from Apple’s Perspective
I'm not doing math at all, except to say that all the people saying "fatalities per mile" and pointing to the Uber accident are misusing math.

I don't believe the Uber accident applies, because it was caused by human error, not the driving automation. The emergency braking was deliberately disabled (it would have prevented the accident), the detection system was not programmed to inform the driver, and the driver was not paying attention. If the Uber accident is disregarded, then we're at 0 fatalities, or infinitely perfect automated driving. Which is, of course, BS. But it's as rational as the argument others are making.

Given the inadequate data set, I'm relying on inference, not experience.
144-240? This sounds like a Placebo effect. While I'm sure people out there can distinguish between 60 and 120[0], it seems you must be incredibly attuned to visual sensory input (an outlier). It seems you aren't alone, either[1], part of me wants to think this is one big marketing gimmick, but surely people wouldn't buy 240Hz monitors if they couldn't tell a difference? Or is it just a pissing contest for self satisfaction? If I had a few million in the bank, maybe I would also buy a 240Hz monitor -- because why not?

[0] https://www.pcgamer.com/how-many-frames-per-second-can-the-h...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/5mhqh...
> CDR's never match perfectly

With a blockchain based system, what happens if two telcos send CDRs that don't match?
He talked about equirectangular projection. I wonder how he is achieving that, with what kind of shader, I asked the question once, and it seems you cannot do that with a vertex shader, but maybe a geometry shader?

I already read articles about the pannini projection, which is quite cool, but I guess occulus is facing the same issues and has similar solutions...
IMHO its www.parkmycloud.com

The single biggest optimization / cost saver in the cloud is to get your non-production instances onto schedules as almost universally they do not need to be running 24/7. There is nothing which will deliver bigger savings on your non-prod infrastructure.
A PaaS solution (like App Engine) would be far more appropriate for what you want to do. Unless your goal is to learn Kubernetes - in which case minikube works just fine.

W.r.t. to the GCP console and tools - I guess it's a preference thing - but I vastly prefer them over the AWS tools. They work fine for me. I like the feature in the GUI where it shows you the equivalent gcloud command line.
Loopla is hiring for multiple roles
As a Redux maintainer, I'd be really interested to know what approaches they used, and what sorts of difficulties they had.

(I'll throw out my obligatory comment that you are always welcome to use as much or as little abstraction as you want on top of Redux, and there's plenty of options available to trim down "boilerplate" depending on your situation.)
> Well, there's nothing stopping other frameworks from being ported to wasm as well.

I for one am excited to see Electron to get ported to wasm so we can complete the circle
Have you considered taking a break from worrying for a short period of time?

Set a timer for 1 minute and give yourself a vacation from the world. A total permission to drop worrying about anything, with the reassurance that no negative consequence will result from that 60-second interruption.

During this minute, notice any impulse to engage in fixing, improving, changing things in any way, and drop it. It’s helpful to visualize yourself dropping the thought off the edge of a cliff.

At the end of the 60 seconds look around and note that there are no disasters. Feel the sensations in your fingers and toes and notice that you’re safe from immediate danger.

This is a very practical approach of retraining the mind’s habit.

When this is easy, increase to 5 minutes. The timer is important as your mind needs the reassurance.

This is one practical way you can get out of anxiety loops. Attempt it and see what happens.

Worked for me. Now I am capable of dropping the worry at will.
One of the first games to do real time texture mapping on fairly arbitrary 3D surfaces, back in 1993 when you had to do it all on the CPU because 3D graphics cards didn’t exist except as super-expensive prototypes found in military flight simulators and the like. Full of clever tricks to make this something you could do in real time on a 486.

It was influential enough that for many years, the genre we now call “first person shooters” was known as “Doom clones”.
I'm hopeful that as everything on the internet becomes illegal in Europe, it will be the equivalent of nothing being illegal. It seems like companies could just play the stall in court game forever with all of the claims that can be made
GDPR request over some embarrassing information, perhaps? Facebook probably can't win here. Presumably they have a policy that compels deletion in some cases and they don't want to argue about individual cases
Gastric bypass is literally blocking off / cutting out 80% of your stomach. So yes, it is a very extreme solution to the problem - one with a high probability of introducing many other issues into your life.
Yes Amazon is a startup, and startups dominate the list of largest companies today (startups in italics)

- Top 10 companies in 2018: Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Tencent, Berkshire Hathaway, Alibaba, Facebook, JP Morgan Chase, Johnson and Johnson

- Top 10 companies in 2008: Exxon, PetroChina, GE, Gazprom, China Mobile, ICBC, Microsoft, AT&T, Royal Dutch Shell, Procter and Gamble

Maybe Microsoft is no longer a startup. But the others, startups for sure. They are qualitatively different from normal companies.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by...
you can exchange the HQCoin to dollars, there are already cryptocurrency debit cards, HQ Trivia can mint HQCoins cheaper than they can get dollars
It's funny you mention this, I'm 37 and just visited Las Vegas for the first time recently ... as a Floridian, I never fathomed that air could be _that dry_.
Yes. I appreciate that he released it as a PDF, but that book is one of the old, dense, academic books I described. I should try it again, but it's very different from the step-by-step books posted above, or the partial book by Stephen Diehl.
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2016/03/profroy...

"In this new study, 30 volunteers with Type 2 diabetes embarked on the same diet of 600 to 700 calories a day. Participants lost on average 14 kilograms - just over 2 stone. Over the next 6 months they did not regain any weight.

The group included many people with longer duration diabetes, defined as more than 8 years and ranging up to 23 years.

Overall, 12 patients who had had diabetes for less than 10 years reversed their condition. 6 months later they remained diabetes free. In fact, after 6 months a thirteenth patient had reversed their diabetes.

Though the volunteers lost weight they remained overweight or obese but they had lost enough weight to remove the fat out of the pancreas and allow normal insulin production."
Believe me, I empathize with your comment.

However, I think maybe you're missing one thing that is being proposed as a real thing - and that is, that blockchain has become like a distributed database - I mean, there are people proposing that they can be considered as the same kind of technology, or blockchain tech can be seen as an evolution supporting database technology.

I am still on the fence if I completely believe it, which is probably why I won't get rich building blockchain-based database technology or implementing it. But I think it is a valid consideration and we as technologists should look into what this model (blockchain as a kind of database technology) really represents.

It's another arrow in the architect's quiver, perhaps.
Do you know many dead people who suffer from type 2 diabetes? Didn’t think so... :)
Do cars actually live stream everything?
If not did Tesla and Uber extracted the data and did any improvement? I did not read anything about that, just blaming the driver and obfuscating the truth.

I am not against the self driving car idea, I can't drive because of my eyes and my son also has bad eyes(not as bad as me ) and epilepsy so he probably will not be able to drive a car, I am disappointed because the startups fucked this up by pretending that they can solve the problem with the crap weak hardware and software they have, as long as you can't detect the exact object position and use image recognition to correctly tag all objects and compute all speed vectors this can't be solved and it is clear the current hardware Tesla and Uber use is not enough.

Self driving may the future but is not the present and it is not the near future either.

Imagine an AI doctor,would you feel good if you know is better then a drunk doctor?

Would you send your child with a self driving car that is better then a drunk driver but not then yourself? ,after 1000 kills the ANN would MAYBE adjust some weight somewhere and the changes will increase a bit
Sorry for your pain. I understand this realistic approach bothers you a bit. As it happens, I expect decency from individuals, not corporations. My skepticism is justified in Google's post, since at the end of all the words, absolutely nothing was changed. If Google were truly listening, they would stop working on the project immediately. Therefore, rather than outright contrition, this post reads more like "Sorry, not sorry."

Politicians follow Hotelling's Law. It doesn't actually matter who you vote for as long as you vote. The only thing that changes is the flavour, and that's a matter of personal preference.
> Most of the CPU's and GPU's that could have been used frankly weren't much better than what they'd replace

Agree about CPUs, disagree about GPUs. GPUs have been making very good progress all these years.

E.g. nVidia’s 1080 Ti (2017) is almost twice as fast as the similarly priced 980 Ti (2015). The 780 Ti (2013) is about the same as 980Ti but 680 (2012) is again about 2x slower than 980 Ti.
I identify with much of what you say. For a long time I did not have the skills to deal with these feelings. Now I do, but it's always hard. A lot of this I got from about 18 months of cognitive behavioral therapy.

Here are some general tips that work for me:

1. Feelings do not need to drive how I make decisions. I have them, and work on ways to let them pass.

2. To deal with things I worry about, I confront my worries by trying, making mistakes, and learning from the experience.

3. I get better at things I can control myself, practice finding alternative approaches for things I can't control, try to steer clear of stuff that is just gonna be a problem for me, and accept that sometimes I'm gonna have to endure shit that rolls my way

4. It's a lot easier to feel good when I'm actively seeking out things to enjoy, and lately I've found a lot of joy in pole dancing (and I'm 43 y/o overweight male couch potato!)

5. Unsecured debt sucks and always makes me feel like crap & that makes everything I do harder

I believe you can be a confident badass if you want to be. If you wanna vent w/o judgement, hear my story, or chat in general, my email is in my profile.

I wish you success on your journey to less angst & more satisfaction!
"We want Facebook to say exactly what their process is when they receive such a request - behind that profile was a human being and there are lots of people affected, a circle of friends who love that person."
Seems like a legitimate request to facebook. Having transparent policies is a must imho
It does seem like Google has already quietly done this with Android's ELS https://crisisresponse.google/emergencylocationservice/how-i...
Other than using them as loss-leaders, people watch a blender foundation video then deep dive into the multitude of monetized tutorials on the YouTubes.

I'd venture to say most people learning blender will spend a significant time on YouTube, blender isn't the easiest thing to learn by a long shot.
Nothing, but now since WebAssembly is open bytecode format everyone is happy.

The browser is destined to become a general purpose VM, only if our benevolent overloads don't want to fully pursuit this road.
“I’ve Never Thanked My Parents for Anything” (2015)
Microsoft ports Windows 10, Linux to homegrown “E2” CPU design
I'm now picturing a boss telling an employee "Contentment is a state of mind" and that we also need to that hundredth "TPS" report done today
Keras for explaining a basic RNN model? Really? Do it in Numpy and it will be a lot clearer what's going on.
They say he wasn't "obese" but that's misleading. He still was overweight.

Fact is, about 80% of people with Type II diabetes would be asymptomatic if they simply lost weight. That's right: there's a "free", and "natural" cure for many diabetic patients, but it's simply too difficult for many people to eat less food. There's a powerful psychology behind that, I guess, but still there should be more done to incentivize these people to eat less.
No it's not. They're equally correct.
Much respect to making a moral stand! I suppose it's true that others will continue developing the "full potential" (including ethically questionable applications) of the technology, but at least one can make the choice to not contribute to undesired directions.
People who advocate for inhumane confinment should be ignored.
I'll concede to the point of "If the car had a good quality collision detection system, and the jackass did not deliberately disable it". You don't need "no manual input possible" for this. You just need a system smart enough to apply the brakes when the driver doesn't.

I was out car shopping recently, and even affordable midrange cars (Subaru Crossfire and Honda HRV) offer technology that could have done this, as a standard feature.
Strip it back to basics.

What is worry? It is when you're compelled to react to a thought with more thoughts. The response is habitual. You cannot let the thoughts sail by without commenting on them.

So the real question is not how to stop worrying, but how to weaken the habit of reacting to specific thoughts.

I think takes time to find an approach that works -- to discover how to both weaken the habit and how to not strengthen it. It's a lifestyle change. Some trial and error is probably necessary.

I don't think there is a magic solution. Try various things, learn how your current mental life causes you to worry. You'll try something, and your worries might increase. So try something else. And when you notice that some change, after some time, has caused you to worry slightly less, stick with it.
This Programmer Scraped LinkedIn to Find People Who Work at ICE
it goes on forever — and — oh my God! — it's full of guns!
Of course the automation was in error: it was so much in error they have to disable it!

All the arguments about the driver that should have been alerted or reacted are simply not autonomous driving so unrelated.

Again, I'm not saying that automation will never be a good replacement for human drivers, but as of right now, it is not clear at all if its positive aspects counterbalance its shortcomings.
Mmm- no, I don't think that's how this works. You're dodging the question.

(markets have multiple definitions. a bazaar or person to person trade has existed as an independent variable of governance. a stock market ("the market" usually referred to in these sorts of articles) exists today in a wide variety of modern governance, from authoritarian to liberal. Arguably Athens had a liberal democracy, but no stock market)
There are three subcategories of innovation: product, process, and financial innovation. So you could be a water startup if your water is not differentiated but you have either some new way of financing the production of water or some new process for producing said water.
Some of the author's reasoning amounts to arbitrary justifications. They have a section describing the difficulties of integrating contributors patches, suggesting they're unwelcome, which is quite the high-horse stance to take when people are going out of their way to contribute code to your project. The rant against Linux packaging betrays the author's position, in that they would prefer to spam the user with donation/payment links in the most obnoxious way possible.

For example, they claim "[Distributions] do not show who is the real developer of the application in a clear way" and "They do not show buttons/links/a simple way to contribute to the real developer of the program", but in reality all properly documented programs handle this themselves in one or more of their --version/--help output, the manual, and the interface. This is especially true for GUI applications, which typically have an "About", etc menu giving details. If the author neglected to document their program properly, it's no fault of the packagers. I have never had problems finding the upstream source and authors from properly documented packages.

The article also brings up improper association of a package with a given disto. This is partiality true (e.g. users reporting bugs upstream for outdated packages when they should be contacting the packagers), but largely such end-user ignorance has nothing to do with Linux distributions, and is applicable to all OSs.
I've always felt like false assertion of copyright should cause the loss of copyright. Seems like a fair balance for me.

I'd say that a pattern of such behavior should trigger a penalty. It's not a single claim that's the problem. It's patterns of such claims en masse.
CSS3 hackary better than native frameworks?! Not really.

Maybe when I get to see Blend implemented with WebComponents.
Something that bothers me about the whole free trade versus protectionism debate is that in any other context it's generally accepted that taxes harm the economy but that harm is offset by the services that government provides, and the argument is mostly over whether those government services are important enough to be worth the economic harm and whether there is a less harmful way to raise that revenue.

However, we don't seem to talk about tariffs the same way we talk about other taxes. Trade policies are considered good if they're good for the economy and bad if they're bad for the economy. The revenue aspects tend to get swept under the rug.

I wonder if this is just an example of successful marketing by large corporations (who are the ones who bear most of the cost of tariffs and trade barriers); that they've managed to get people who are otherwise fine with taxing corporations to be opposed to taxes when trade is involved.

That said, I agree with Bunnie that imposing tariffs on components but not finished goods is dumb, and will hurt hobbyists and companies that assemble electronics in the United States.
But who is at the source of such a law ? I mean who's interest does it serve ? Who had the idea.

Because afaik movie and music creators are already winning the piracy war right ?
Nope. You have to specifically request that an account be "memorialized", otherwise it stays there just like they've not logged in. I had to do it with my wife's when she passed away.
This is surprising news! TRON was (is?) a cryptocurrency everyone on Reddit loved to hate, now they're going around buying BitTorrent -- actually useful software? What is to come of this? Are they going to try and attempt to blockchain-ize BitTorrent's protocol, like vTorrent[0]?

[0] http://vtorrent.info/
> reverses almost immediately with fasting.

And this effect lasts for eight months?
Similar is true for a Ketogenic diet. Virta Health(https://www.virtahealth.com/) founded by
Sami Inkinen(Trulia) and some well known doctors in the field, is using Ketogenic diet approach for Diabtetes type 2 treatment.

They've also published results from their clinical trials:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13300-018-0373-...
http://diabetes.jmir.org/2017/1/e5/
You might be thinking of a "journal":

Journals and ledgers are where business transactions are recorded in an accounting system. In essence, detail-level information for individual transactions is stored in one of several possible journals, while the information in the journals is then summarized and transferred (or posted) to a ledger. The posting process may take place quite frequently, or could be as infrequent as the end of each reporting period. The information in the ledger is the highest level of information aggregation, from which trial balances and financial statements are produced.

https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/what-is-the-differe...

A ledger can be created from a journal (transaction log), but then again, many other kinds of things can be created from a transaction log (e.g., the "World Computer" idea for Ethereum).
If you look at r/politics in comparison you will notice the very low signal to noise ratio in terms of partisanship and venting. A more regulated, argument and fact driven discussion is rational in comparison.